The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-03-27
OVER THE STATE.

ON'OA"A N""o "OiO hhiOu "hOh ~
is alleged had genuine hydrophOhia
10 Newber last week.
Hogs are dying by the hundred
in Henry county. No one is able to
tell what the disease is.
Madison county has a kitten with
only three legs, one ear and no tail;
so says the jackson Wing.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee,
Knights of Honor, will hold their an.
nual meeting at Nashville, April Is.
Joseph Hagerty, carriage maker,
was fatally stabbed Saturday in Nash.
vile, by PeterHTallman, who had
been discharged.
Col. D. W. Chambers, long known
as the editor of the Union City Her
aid, died at his home in Union City
several days ago.
Galloway Lovells, residing near
Wartrace, was struck by a falling
limb Saturday while cutting tree.
His back was broken and he died soon
afterward.
Union City Anchor: Hon. Rice A.
A. Pierce was converted at our great
Methodist church union revival, and
is now working member of the
Methodist church. Rice is a whole
souled fellow and never does things by
halves.
A funnel>shaped cloud shot down
from Lookout mountain in the vicini-
ty of Blowing Springs last Saturday,
catching up fences, trees and houses
and whirled them like straw through
the,air, and demolished the out houses
on Robt. Schoz's farm. No lives lost.
Lexington Progress: County Regis.
ter T. A. Smith, says that SO years
ago, his father, when first moving in
to Henderson county, passing through
Lexington, gave ten cents for quart
of whisky in the old Campbell gro
Gerry house which has just been torn
down.
Alamo Sentinel: A colored woman
by the name of Donaldson, living on
j. II. Thompson's farm, in district
No. 7, gave birth to twins one night
last week, and the two children are
blessed with forty.six toes and fingers.
We suppose it was intended that they
should scratch for living.
Winchester Home-Journal: w. H.
Pylant, of the 10Th district, recently
found pumpkin in his barn which
had been covered up since last fall
with corn and fodder. Mice had eaten
hole in the pumpkin, taken out the
insides and made nest, in which
there were thirty>one mice of differ.
ent sizes. 1 ga
Jackson Wing: jackson society
circles were all excite nent Tuesday,
when it became known that Gretna
Green marriage was about to occur.
The event took place at the residence
of Mr., P. d. w. COnger. about three
o'clock in the afternoon. The happy
couple were Mr.. r. S. Hester, late of
Louisville, and Miss Rosa F. Mann,
daughter of Capt. j. G. Mann, of this
city.
The leading tax payers of Ander>
son county, in East Tennessee, asked
the state comptroller Monday to send
an expert to examine the books Of
their County Trustee, A. j. Hicks.
He has held that position for a mum.
Der of years, and for several months a
suspicion has been prevalent that
there is shortage. 1t is currently
rumored that the shortage will reach
$4,000.
The Lebanon Register favOrs a
clean sweep and new bench out and
out. 1t says mot on account Of
anything personal or any prejudice
against the present judges, but as 4
matter of principle and because it il
right, let the cry go from all parts Of
the state for clean sweep, and lei
as have the best aud most active law
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