The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
MILAN EXCHANGE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1884.
OVER THE STATE.

IHiNlS.
\ tgo-boadel negro child was
born in Chntanpcga last Saturday,
but was dead ut birth.
d" 1t is proposed to put $50 600 or
100000 intoa hank in Chattanooga
for loaning money upon realty.
A course of lectures upon comm r.
cial and business law is suggested tor
the Cumberland University at Lob
anon.
A gang ofnegro thieves were ar.
rested in Union City last week.
They had heen stealing for ltwo or
three years, and We're only caught
with the aid of detectives ~ ff.
Knoxville is getting deeply in .lebt.
The Tribune says: The present city
administration has heeIa mort extrav-
agant one. Already all the money
has been spent aud over S37 900 in
scrip issued. This scrip is cohsidera-
bly, below par, aud is to Je paid out
vi the taxes next year.
The peanut crop, says the Huns
phreys County News, is not, us stated
in the American, % per ceut. great
er than last year; the crop in that
section, where the larger part Of the
crop Of the State is grown, is mostly
harvested and will not amount to the
half of 900, 900, the amount named.
Mr.. Charles L. Jungerman, who is
engaged in securing mineral speci-
mems for exhibition at New Orleans,
while in Decatur County, was given
a fine specimen of rock salt about as
large as mans fist, found at Il
depth of four feet under ground. 1t
is thought there are large quantities
in the vicinity.-Nashvilie American.
1t has for some time been charg-
ed that Etheridge is an infdel. Now,
Rev. Mr.. Scott, a minister Of high
standing at Ralston, Tenn, tells the
Dyersburg Gazette that it can be es
tablished by responsible persons that
Etheridge has been often heard to de-
nounce Jesus Christ as bastard.
And yet he asks Christian men to
support him for Congress.
Knoxville Tribune: Judge Houk
and Mr.. B laine do not work harmo>
niously in this campaign. The very
first speech Judge Houk made in the
present Republican headquarters he
said: There is but one issue before
the people in this campaign and that
is the tariff. A man who faunts the
bloody shirt in this contest is neith~
err a statesman nor a patriot" Now
comes Mr.. Blaine in his Fort Wayne
speech.
After summing up, from reliable
information, we will venture the as
sertion that the Hon. p. L. Glass,
for Congress, will not lose half
dozen Democratic votes in the coun.
ty outside of Union City, and not n
dozen including Union City; for
nearly all of the disaffected Demo-
Gratis, after having reconsidered the
matter, have again buckled on the
armor, like true Democrats, Of
which. we are proud to say, our
county ii full, and making strong
war against the enemy.-Union City
Anchor.
There is on exhibition at Dickson
the gauges by which The cannon balls
used by Gen. Jackson's army at the
battle of New Orleans were made.
Ali the cannon balls used in that me
morable fight by Jackson's army were
made at Cumberland furnace, in Dick
son County, and shipped down the
Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi riv-
ers, on fat-boats. These gauges were
made in Pittsburg, a man making the
Scrip after them on horse, back. They
are manufactured of copper, and 10
guage 6, s, II, 16, "a, and S2 pound
balls. They are the property OF
"Uncle' Jim Morley, a colored
preacher living in Dickson, whose