The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The Paris police are again search
ing the residencesof Bonapartists, and
Selling documents.
Hon. William CASTOR viii pruba-
bly, be the Democratic nominee for
governor of Massachusetts,.
Advices by telegraph from ST.
Paul, Minnesota, say that the grass
hoppers are rapidly moving eastward.
Gen. A. W. Bishop was installed Presi-
dent of the Arkansas Industrial Uni
versity at 4 late meeting of the trustees.
The appearance of the caterpillar in
the cotton gelds around Selma, Opelika
ard Tuskega is noted with gloomy
forebodings by the farmers of those
sections.
acted in self defence" said a eoro-
ner's jury in Water Valley, Miss, the
other day, when they glanced at the re-
mains of negro whom an ofii,er had
shot for firing upon him and resist
ing arrest.
\ London letter-writer states That
the feeling of sympathy for Chicago in
her misfortuneS, is most universal in
London, and that if Il Chicago sub
scription were started it would reach
an enormous sum.
Eighteen clerks and employees Of the
Philadelphia mint have been dischag-
edfor the purpose ofreducing the force,
1t srumored that a still further re,luc-
ing of the force will take place the
present month. t,5.
At Carthage, Mo-, on the 12ih plt,
two ministers, one Methodist and the
other Baptist, were arrested aud fined
$50 each and cost, for leading crowd
Of crusaders into the street and cr.g1gg-
ing in singing and praying.
Advices from Brussels report thlt
Spanish delegates to the international
congress have been instructed from
Madrid participate in Its delibera-
tions, because the government is yet
unrecognized by the European powers.
Among the individual accounts with
the First national bank Of Washing
ton that were overdrawn ut the clO-
sing up of the concern was that of L.
s. Grant, to the amount of fraction
over two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
Italy's national debt is represented to
be one billion five hundred million dol
lars; her expenditures exceed her anti
al revenue, and all of her church
property is confscated; her paper N IL
ey is worth only seventy-seyen per
cent Of its face value.
The big end Of the horn of plenty
seems to rest il the State of Al,balna
this year. The most pleasing reports
relative to the corn crop outlook come
from many parts of the State. 1t is
believed that two years supply viii
be gathered the coming autumn.
Lord Gordon shot himself Saturday
at his residence at Hclineby, MaIiao-
ba. Two English detectives arrested
him, and he promised to 90 quietly
home with them if they did not como
through the United States. While in
his room preparing for the journey he
blew out his brains.
And now comes the Philadelphia
Ledger and the n. y. Journal Of Com
merce each saving that rumors are
current that the different Railroad
companies intend to combine and do
their own Express bu,ineeS; that i, oii-
~ the package and receive the fan
price themselves, instead Of LET jrg
the profits 90 to Adams Express, derfn-
pdny.
Governor Kellogg, Of LoaiSGn2, Sat
urday, signed the dc;th-warra t, on
dcIing the execution, Oh the twenty
first Of August, in the parish Of A.
sumption, Of five men, vino, in April
last murdered and robbed Elisha
Eastwood, an old tiatboa;man in that
parish, for hi, money. ThemmcS Of
the condemned are: \. Perry, John
Ross, Antoine Mamie, Jas. Williams,
and james Robertson. One i, white;
two are 80 light as to pass for white;
one Is mulatto, and one Is negro.
The White River (Ark.) Journal
has the following: 1--WE are informed
by Capt. j. VI. Barker, who lives in
Arkansas county, near Mt Adams, Of
an indiscrimiuato slaughter of seen
persons near st. Charles, thirty miles
below here on Tuesday last, and the
finding Of their bodies in what is
known as Sticking bay on White !:iy-
er, on the following day. There is 10
clue TO the perpetrators Of this tnui
deed, OF the causes which led To it.
The names Of only two of the victims
are known at present, and they are Is
quire Afford and his sor."
The main reservoir which supplies
Trenton, New Jersey, with wat, rave
way Mondayaftcrnoon, and sent about
thirty million gallons Of water owe. the
city and down Pennington avenue
with q mighty rush, filing the cellars
Of most of the houses for "A quarter IF
Il mile. The breach /: in the south end
Of the reservoir, and is about. twenty
i've feet wide at the tcp. There WIS no
damage done, except AZ 10 the filling
uf cellars and the CARRYING away q
fencing. 1t was caused bv leak &c
from an old pipe which was lett in
beded iii the soil when the new re,er-
voir was built.
The watermelon crop is getting 10 .
be an agricultural feature of c1n<i.ba-..
able Importance in Georgia. Tx, III
turns in the tax receivers Office >llo;,
that there are twelve hundred acre>d,
voted TO the cultivation Of this firiai.
Richmond county alone. \ lon-issc
tour hundred melons to theacre, q vrfy ,
low estimate, and we havea total pro
duct of $50, 600. Onc-htIfof TIL, i.,.-
mense number Is CONSUMED in the
North. At fifteen ccuts APIECE, the
melon crop income Of Richmond eot;n-
~ l. UPWARDS of $50 600 II ,,,,- al