The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-03-07
MILAN EXCHANGE
w. Il. WADE. Publish en-.
OYER THE STATE.

with their orders.
The Nashville cotton mills, at
Nashville, have just put in $50 in'
candescent electric lamps.
The American Button Company,
Maryville, are incl easing their capac-
ity by the erection of new mill.
w. B. Aaron, of Paris, was serious
ly stabbed in the cheek in Il saloon
fight in that city, one day last week.
If the peripatetic stranger fingers
more than one day in Gallatin he is
engaged to break rocks on the street.
According to the Lebanon Register
the pententiary would be paradise
compared with the Wilson county
Jail.
Miss Amelia Cohen, a young Jews
ess, horsewhipped her truant lover,
Mr.. Eugene Levy, in Memphis, Tues
day.
A company in Hickman county is
making alcohol out of wood, and
another makes metallic wool out of
furnace Stag.
The East Tennessee Oil and Min
ing company, of Cleveland, has had
their charter registered and will pro-
coed to bore for oil, coal, gold, silver
and copper.
The strawberry growers in and
about Gadsden are receiving box ma
terial and making arrangements for
early shipments. Gadsden ships more
Strawberries than any town i'll the
state.
A letter in the Clarksville postOf.
flee was addressed as follows: "Mary
Ann Bailey, GAINESVILLE Tennsee in
hast Plas send this to her son as it
com in the Post office she live over
By the Grave yard in South Part"
Gov. Bate has committed the pun>
ishment of Spence from hanging to
imprisonment for life. The Ameri-
can states that it "has good reason TO
believe that the term of imprisonment
will be ultimately fixed at ten years"
Mrs. S. G. Kirby, of Rutherford,
wants to know the whereabouts of her
husband, John Kirby, who is miller,
and left home Christmas, and has not
been heard af since. Any informa.
ton about him will be thank fully re-.
ceived by her.
DR.. J. A. Priest, of the Fifth dis
trict of Obion county, forwarded a re-
port to DR.. Lindsey, secretary of
the state board of health, showing
that since the outbreak of small pox in
that district there had been forty
nine cases, twelve deaths and sixty
one cases vaccinated. The disease is
under control and no further fears of
its spreading are entertained.
Upton Record: Mrs. Francis
Ralph, wife of the late Thos. Ralph
deserves to have her name perpetual.
ed in the history of nations as being
the progenitor ol a numerous of
spring. She is the mother, grand
mother and great>grandmother of lO'
children, about eighty of whom art
living. Mrs. Ralph is still living, i
about eighty years old, and up to the
death of Capt. John Maley, had mad
her home with him, since which tim
she has been living with her son.
Gallatin Examiner: Mr.. j. l.
Smith, of this county, exhibited t
us Monday, an old pistol worn an
eaten with the rust of seventy year
and mora. The barrel is y inche
long, and the words IS. Louisiana
engraven on the wooden stock.
has been in his possession 80 years
His father, Capt. Billy Smith, VIII
died at Wilkerson's Cross Roads, i
1882, used this holster pistol while i
command of battery at the battle {
New Orleans. The relic WIS sent I
the New Orleans Exposition.
VIM, man the first thintr Won a