The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-23
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY ea, 1854.
OVER THE STATE.

The East Tennessee Sunday school
convention meets in Greenville, May
9Th.
The Morristown Gazette says the
Florida fever is prevailing as an cpl
demic in that section
Col. I. B. Miles, of Murfreesborc,
IS 10 years old, ami has never worn
All overcoat or undershirt.
The Union Stock Yard Company,
OF Memphis, sometimes handles as
many as 1920 cattle per day.
The Union City anufacturing
Company, Of Union City, have cash
capital of SIC, 900 to start their furnl.
ture factory.
High waters in Cinch river have
prevented the mails from being car.
ried from Morristown, Tenn, to Taze-
well for over Two weeks.
The marble pedestal for the statue
of Andrew jackson ON the capitol
grounds in Nashville has been finish
ed. The pedestal Cost $4,000.
In twenty four counties in this state
iron is found, and yet the iron folks
say they cannot make a living by
their business, and must be partly
maintained out of the taxes.
MIR. j. Berrien Lindsey, of Nash.
vile, will issue the first volume of
his history of Tennessee in May. 1t
will be devoted to the Military annals
of see-1S12-lS65.
Athens Post: Wheat has shed it's
frost bitten blades, and now presents
a. beautiful appearance. There has
been decided improvement in the
stand within the past two weeks.
Tullahoma Guardian: An item we
get from the County Court may be
valuable to the tax payers of the
county as an illustration of the benign
blessings that flow from our present
system. A few years ago it cost from
So to 81 to assess the property in
district-now it costs from $25 to $50.
M. B. Chitwood, a merchant of
Chitwood, on the Cincinnati South.
ern railway, closed out his stock of
goods at a bargain, and departed,
without leaving his future address
with his friends. He took with him
his wife's neice and left his wife and
children and his creditors in the lurch.
Athens Post: There has been a
good deal of flap doodle in the papers
lately about a candi late for Govern.
or. So far as our section is concerned,
we believe the Democrats, without an
exception, expect Gen. Bate to be
nominated and reelected, unless he
should positively decline To accept
another race.
"Your people complain of taxes
suggested Mr.. Coffin, the Iowa farm,
err at jackson, "but this is the main
objection We have to Tennessee, for
we have learned from experience that
where taxes are high shsre the people
have good schools and capable teach
ers. If your taxes were higher we
would move down more expeditiously.
Nashville Banner: Nature abounds
in the marvellous. An illustration OF
this fact was brought to the attention
of a Banner representative to-day.
Wills. Williams, of the Methodist
Publishing House, has an ash stick
that ia attracting much attention. Ii
ia about four feet in length. From
the but end there projects lint
which re.enters the body of the stick
about one foot above. This limb II
AS Large where it re-enters or is grated
upon the stick, as where it projects
II has no outward evidence of having
been grated, and this is the only the
ory vet advanced to explain the mys
tery. A we'll known nurseryman O.
Davidson county remarked few
dsys since that in all of bis expert
ance and observation he had never be
e,ra seen such freak The stitch
crew in this county aud will be pre-
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