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

range matters between themselves, to
make their race independent of the
press and without announcing their
names. Let the press take care that
their names are not seen in print. If
they can got along without the press
the press should have the courtesy to
let them do so. BY all means, let
them paddle their own canoes!
At Alamo Sunday night Dan
Guthrie, respectable white farmer,
was killed by Weakley Ridley, col
ored. Ridley and others were quar-
reling in front of Watkins saloon,
when Guthrie came up and simply
asked what was the matter. Ridley
Immediately struck him over the head
with heavy stick and beat out his
brains. There was strong talk Of
lynching, and Ridley was taken to
Trenton and put in Jail there. 1t is
feared he may never reach the court
room.
The report accompanying the bill
fixing the salaries for marshals and
district attorneys, instead of fees, says
that the net fees collected in the east
ern Tennessee district in the past ten
years by district attorneys have been
SCI, l67, or an average of Sc, ll6 per
year; in the western district, S43, 575,
in the middle district, S54,646. The
bill cuts down the compensation of
each to $4,000. The net marshaI's
fees have been in the eastern district,
S50, 1886; in the western district, S33,.
SAB; in the middle district, S54, 7S9.
The salary fixed for the marshal in
each district is $4,000.
A correspondent of the Paris POST
lntelligencer, from the 18th district,
Henry county, says: eve are never
behind our sisters, save in one thing,
religion. We have marriages, money,
men, morals and means; but, we blush
to say, that within an area of sixty,
four square miles there is not church
to be found. Religion is running low,
almost gone to the mOIes and bats.
We seldom have any preaching, and
when we do the minister takes his
text over in the book 'larnin' about
the 144th verse of the 69th chapter
of Saint Ichabod's 18th epistle to the
Simpletons, which reads as follows:
so when opened my mouth, it shut
no more Can't you send us a mis-
slonary!'
The celebrated suit of Miss Talitha
Stevens against Elder Goodloe Woods,
of Fayetteville, which has been on
trial for ten days, terminated Monday,
the plaintiff being awarded a iudg>
ment for $4,000. Miss Stevens, who
charged Mr.. Woods with seduction,
asked for five times the amount
named. Woods, who is possessed of
considerable wealth, is 60 years old,
and man of family. Miss Stevens
is "a yevrs of age, and good looking.
Woods had not only been prominent
minister Of the gospel, but had also
served as president of the First Ma
tional bank of Fayetteville. When
the case came, up for trial both sides
were represented by the ablest coun.
sci In that section, and public opinion
was divided.
Chattanooga Commercial: A few
days ago child was born to a negro
woman named Underwood, at Fort
Wood, and its head Is not larger than
the bottom of a tumbler. The entire
length of its body is not more than
ten inches. The arms are not as
long as the ordinary index finger of
an adult. They are not real arms,
but stubs, having no hands and end
ing in a protuberance resembling
thumbs except that there is no ap,
pearance whatever of the nail. The
legs are of similar length, but on one
foot there are only four toes, and
these are fastened together like the
toes of a ducks foot, with flmy web.