The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-29
OVER THE STATE.

night.
A large party of New England
journalists will visit Nashville on the
18th of May.
The drug store of DR.. r. j. Will
liams was burned in Gadsden on
Wednesday night of last week.
1t is said, upon good authority,
that there are three sheritfs in Ten,
neosee who cannot write their names.
Villas Barbee, of Robertson coun.
ty,had 1000 apple trees ruined by rab
bits during the deep snow in January.
Bob Petty committed suicide at
eNewbern last Wednesday oy cutting
his throat with knife Il Dyersburg
Gazette.
There are one hundred saloons in
Nashville, and thirty'6ve schools of
all grades. aud sixty.6ve churches of
all denominations.
There are but two societies of the
New Church (Swsdenborgisn) in
Tennessee, namely, at Nashville, and
at Crossvile, in Cum berland county.
We will probably not issue any
, supplement this spring in order to
make room for the large and numer-
Gus advertisements of our enterprising
merchants. Generally our advertise.
ments are headed "Sheriff's Sales"
-[Dresden Era.
The first appointment from Ten
nessee under the civil service law
was that of Miss Birdie Walker of
Knoxville, recently appointed in one
of the departments. So says the
Washington Critic. She is young,
able and energetic.
Corn meal seems to he getting
scarce in this market and is re-
failing at eighty cents per bushel.
Some of our farmers who raised
surplus of corn last year can now get
a fair price for their labor by having
their corn converted into neal
Jackson Dispatch.
Robert Tanner, of Obion county,
was killed by passenger train No. A
on tho 1. G road at Fulton last Mon.
day. He was standing near the
track with 4 gun on his shoulder,
wheu the engine struck the gun barr
rel, knocking it against his head with
fsrce enough to kill him.
Information has just been received
at this Office of the discovery of
large silver mine in the 10Th district
, of this county. The people in that
section are, we learn, very much ex
ercised over the supposed discovery.
We will keep our readers posted as to
future misrepresentation Post.
Col. John l.. Poston died at his
residence in this county last Sunday
night about s o'clock, of dropsy of
the heart. Col. Poston was one of
the most prominent citizens of this
county. He was at one time County
Court Clerk of Haywood county, was
possessed Of remarkable energy and
public enterprise, and was always
successful in business Alamo Sen
tinel.
The people of Trimble Station, in
this county, have, in public meeting,
determined unanimously to get rid of
uhiskey, and for this purpose will
have their school Incorporated. We
bid them God speed on their road to
prosperity; for, as between the school
house and whiskey shop, the State
Gazette is decidedly for the school,
house, by big maority.-[Dyers>
burg Gazette.
Alamo has FIVE grocery houses, fosr
drug stores, two dry goods establish>
ments, two broom manufactures, two
saloons, one hotel, one livery stable,
one picture gallery, one blacksmith
shop, one b,rber shop, one steam
sAouring mill and cotton gin, eight
lawyers, four physicians, free school,
Thompson's classical school, post
Office AMI printing office, besides the
Court house and jail.-[Alamo Sen