The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-10
OVER THE STATE.

Three inches of snow fell at Gala.
tin last Monday,
The Giles county farmers are to
have fruit show to-day.
A number Of small creameries are
being established all over East Ten
nessee.
There has heen an epidemic of in-
fuenEa in Brownsville and surround
ing country,
johnson county has eighteen Wild
ows, fourteen widowers and bachelors
innumerable.
The little son Of Frank P. Bond,
one of our congressional candidates,
died of congestion Sunday morning,
after brief illness.
Martin Mail: The wheat crop of
this section is looking splendid. If
nothing happens to it the yield in
this section will he good.
At Hicks Bluff, one day last week,
Tom Cole, while sitting on the track
of the L. u N. road, was struck and
killed by "a locomotive. He was lie
toxicated.
Nea, Spring City, on Walden's
Ridge, there is large cave, from
which issues continually hot air and
steam. 1t is quite curiosity aud is
easy of access to visitors.
Z Pulaski Citizena Mr.. Leroy" Lester,
of Testers station, picked up gun
one night last week to- shoot dog
when it was accidentally discharged
and shot his hat of his head.
The store of Capt. W. A. Stoune,
at Newbern, was entered by some I'M
known parties on the night of the LIST
inst, and quite large amount of
clothing and jewelry was carried off.
Martin Mail; At meeting of the
mayor and hoard of aldermen of the
town of Martin, OH the 9th of March,
public horse swapping was declared a
nuisance, against which the laws re.
lating to other nuisances will be en-
forced.
Martin Mail: A Young man by the
name of Collier was recently tried
here for making some slanderOus re,
marks about Miss Ivy. Miss Ivy
sustained the charge in the indictment
getting judgment against Collier for
fifty dollars.
Columbia had great stock parade
on Monday, which it was estimated
would have been mile and half
long had the weather been favorable.
Despite the rain though, there was a
fine exhibit of Maury county'S wealth
in live stock.
A delegation of prominent Tonnes
scans lately had conference with the
officials of the Ohio Valley railway
company as to the probable route Of
the road through this state. The
road will be built southwark, but IFS
course will depend largely upon the aid
subscribed or voted
Thomas Edwards, of Dyer county,
lost his life in singular manner last
Tuesday. He was riding horseback
and on his way home from Dyersburg.
On reaching the bridge over Lewis
creek his horse SHE'D and fell off the
bridge, the accident killing both horse
and rider.
John Ivy, a yOnng man in the
7th district of Madison comfy, while
hunting few days ago, stopped al
the house of neighbor, and as he
was leaving slipped and the hammer
of his gun struck the step, discharg-
ing both loads into his left arm. The
limb was amputated.
A man named Calvin Neis went t.
Pulaski recently, and began to Oper'
ate the gambling device of pitching
rings for prizes, after having secured
state, county aud corporation licenses
The grand jury indicted him, and il
default of bail he was sent to Jail
The incident aroused the sympathy o
the citizens in behalf of the prisoner
as it was considered an imposition fO
the state to license the violation of d