The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-04-17
OVER THE STAT.

"N"' ANCh NOOu lOT tUe hOdDe iron
Company
A freight train on the l. G. road
was ditched last Saturday at the OIion
river, by running over a COW.
Fayette Maley, Of Covington, died
last week at Heming, by taking an
over dose of morphine through mis-
take for quinine.
The sixth annual convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association
of Middle Tennessee was held at Win
chester last week.
Two prisoners escaped from the
Alamo Jail last week, by rushing pass
the Sheriff and out at the open door.
One was recaptured.
Last Friday at Pulaski Arther
Warren while attempting to board a
moving,train, was so badly bruised that
he died few hours afterwards.
One hundred head of choice Hol>
stein Friesian cattle will he sold at
public sale by the Tennessee HOl,
stein Association at Nashville, on the
Goth of May.
Mrs. Thomas Brown, of Cbatta-
nooga, died last Monday of heart dis
ease, and the shock broke her hus>
bands heart. The two were buried
in one grave.
Two negro boys at Gallatin got inr
to difficulty over game of marbles
on the 18th, in which one Ed Purs-
ley was killed by being struck on the
head with a brickbat.
VIM. Porter, young man of Nash
vile made an unsuccessful attempt to
kill himself on the 18th inst by taking
ten grains of morphine, The attempt
was a result of spree.
A fourteen year old son of Mr.. Ri>
ley Henderson, Jr., of Franklin,
committed suicide by hanging himself
Sunday in his fathers barn. No cause
for the rash act is known.
The barn of DR.. Alex Phelps, of
Bunker Hill, burned by lighting Sun
day night. Four horses and several
hundred dollars worth of feed aud
farming implements were destroyed.
Pulaski Citizen: Tyree Rodes had
the misfortune to lose the largest of
his late purchase of Norman horses.
He died of lung fever. He was sew
enteen hands high and weighed 1850
pounds.
jackson Dispatch: James Harris,
of Hickory Valley, has in possession
one silver spoon and two forks with
the name of Davy Crockett engraved
on them. They were left in his hands
by Mrs. Bayle, after her husband was
killed last July.
Dyersburg Gazette. The steamer
Alf Stevens, which for many years
was a familiar feature to Dyersburg
and the people living along the banks
of the Forked Deer, sunk in the Cum
berland river at Kuttawa, last Mon.
day, loaded with pig iron.
jackson Tribune and Sun, Mrs
Eva D. McClanahan, wife of Chas
E. Mechanism, and daughter of Mrs
M. 7. Gift, died at the Cliff House
Friday the ID inst, after few day;
sickness She had been bride only
few weeks, and was II years of age
Incendaries attempted to set the
town of Murfreesboro on fire las
week. Unknown parties obtained en-
trance by the hack door to the gro
Gerry house of VIM. Mitchell anc
turned the cock in a barrel of Goa
oil and flooded the back part of tn,
store with the oil and set fire to it.
The people of the neighborhood o
Black Center, on the Nolensville Pix
seven miles from Nashville, are beco ID
ing alarmed over peculiar rumbling
proceeding from the earth in that vi
entity. The most intelligent believ
that the section is located above bel
of explosive gas, which may at an,
time explode and engulf the inhabit
ants in the bowels of the earth. Tn
grounds in PLACES are sunken an,
open assures are disclosed 10 view
and the trembling sounds have cause,