The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-15
OVER THE STATE.

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A Miss Blackwell was burned to
death in Dyer county last week by
her clothes taking fire.
The present outlook for good
wheat crop in this county, this season,
is very discouraging. -[Csmden
Herald.
Circuit Judge Clark has decided
that the tax Of 1925, imposed on the
retail liquor dealers by the corpora
ton of Gallatin is not unreasonable
or oppressive.
The Supreme Conrt of the State
has decided that the Referee Court
has merely ministerial functions; that
it cannot decide case or deliver judg-
ment, and that whatever it does is re-
garded by the Supreme Judges as
merely another argument.
The great revival is still in progress.
Over one hundred persons have been
converted, and the interest appears
undated. 1t is one of the most sues
cessful.meetings of the kind that has
ever taken place in Boownsville.
+ Brownsville States and Bee.
Two good citizens. one from Michi-
gan, Mr.. j. B. Mcleod, and the
other Mr.. Joseph E. Wagner, from
Ohio, purchased farm each in Me-
MINI county day or two since
one farm of 239 acres. and the 9TH
sr $50 acres.- Knoxville Tribune.
The Agricultural Society at Chatta-
nooga, i. corresponding with the rail-
ways to get lever rates for their fruits
this season. Experiments are also
being made Of other varieties of fruits
by the organization. The society at
present numbers over sixty members.
AS an evidence of moral power,
the four mile law has been success
fully executed in this section. AS a
further evidence ofthe same power, no
man can he elected to any Office of
prominence in this district who dare
openly oppose i'll Hartsville Sen
tinel.
There were shipped last year from
this city about 100000 pounds of
fruits, and the following estimates are
made for this season: Strawberries,
1925, 900; peaches, pears and plums,
100000: grapes, 100000; blackbsr-
ries and raspberries, 125, 200; beans
and peas, 125, 900; tomatoes, 225, 900.
Total. 100000 pounds Ohatta-
,oga Democrat.
A very remarkable freak of nature
is the horned mare of Wilson county,
owned by a cOlored man named Ran
dali Horton: she is a sorrell, about six
years old, and was foaled the proper
ty of w. r. Davis, Of the 10Th dis
trict. The mare has distinct horn
about two inches long coming out OF
the head at the burr of the left ear.
L Lebanon Register.
In one of the marble quarries in
Hawkins county, near twenty feet be-
low the surface of the earth, human
bones we're found. From every APP
pearance the remains had been placed
there ages ago. The bones were sent
TO the Smithsonian Institute at Wash.
ington, and in due time we may hear
something from the wise men there of
the extinct race of people to whom
these bones Belonged Morristown
Gazette.
Glenn w. Williams, an old resident
of Williamson county, lives one mile
from Nolensvile. The other day,
while he was working in the cedars,
he found vessel containing large
sum of gold money. The purse was
secured in dry place between some
large boulders. and consequently was
we'll preserved. Faom memoranda
in it Mr.. Williams learned that the
money was the property of a federal
soldier, killed near his house during
the war, and he is now holding it in