The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-12
OVER THE STATE.

Mems Christian Association.
Tobacco growers have commenced
to cut and cure their tobacco. The
amount grown this year In Greene
county is ten times larger than ever
before.
Dyersburg Gazette: A careless
clerk at Gates Station sold colored
man named Eli Backman morphine
for quinine, last week, and the victim
died from the effects of the dose.
At Chattanooga, a niece and son of
Harriet Montgomery, aged Z and II,
were kidnapped last Saturday by
woman named NERVE Morford, who
had a grudge against the mother. No
trace of her has been found.
James H. Freeman, United States
Marshal for this district, telegraphs
from Paris, that he has broken up
several wildcat distilleries in that
neighborhood, and has wagon load
of moonshiners under arrest.
A shoe factory is to be established
in Nashville, and is expected to be in
running order by the 1st of January.
Messrs Halls, Ordway & Mitchell are
the projectors of this enterprise.
Nashville is the best shoe market in the
south, and why shoe factory has not
been established before now is mys-
terry.
Changes are announced IN the
names of two Tennessee postoffices.
Dammit, in Sewer county, has been
discontinued, and Double, a small vii.
lage in Blount county, has the postof-
fee instead. DamphOol, 10 Washing
ton county, has also been discontinued,
and the mail will hereafter be sent tC
Blizzard, in the same county.
At jamestown, Fentress county, in
an alterration Monday between Mari
Owens Lew and Dave Delks and
John Taylor, Owens was stabbed five
times in the back and once in the
throat, his jugular vein being severed
He leaves a wife and ten children
The murderers are all in jail Grea
excitement prevails.
Lee Sellers, who murdered E. A
Names in cold blood at Knoxvill,
last week, was taken from the Jail b,
mob on Friday night, carried to tn
bridge over the river, hung and shot
After this even he escaped ant
climbed to the top of the bridge
where he remained sometime, befor
he fell from weakness over one hun
bred feet, striking rock in the rive
and finishing the work Of the mob.
National Review: There were fou
murders in the state this week as tn
result of baseball disputes. The has
ball game has been run in the ground
so to speak. While many good ant
respectable citizens still engage in
and find it means of pleasant an
healthful recreation, it cannot be de
MED that the professional gambler
and "bums" have pretty well usurpe
the business. 1t has become a dis
gushing nuisance.
The Southern Standard gives tn
way to prevent rabbits from barkin
young fruit trees: Take sulphur l pit
common I've soap two parts, mix, ad
water to the consistency OF paint, al
ply as you would paint; this don
while the weather is dry The su
phur will form shield, and will la
two years, You need not be afrai
of injury to the most delicate tibe
The soap will improve the appearan'
ofthe bark, making it sleek and gloss
Two young men attempted to ste
ride from Nashville to Decatu
Ala, ON the southbound train, craw
ing upon the roof of the coach. o.
of them, j. r. Osborne was found
ing along the track where he had fla
en-. He was taken to the hOspit
where bis injuries were found to /
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