The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

"A dispatch from Dliilalo, new 1 oTk'
SAYS that ex-President Fillmore is in a
precarious condition from paralysis.
The general Baptist Association of
I Tennessee and North Alabama con-
venes at Lebanon, Tennessee, to-day.
A Jefferson county, Arkansas, rattle
snake, having one hundred and eighty
rattles on its tail, was recently killed.
This Is a rafting tale.
Tom Tuggle, a well-known colored
man of Lebanon, Tennessee, was re-
Gently killed by Bill. johnson, colored.
Cause, domestic trouble.
The American bark Everett, from
Matanzas, reports that on February
18th, off Havana, she was boarded by
Spanish soldiers and searched.
NJ. de Lesseps has had the good for
tune to secure a decree from the Gar,
sanctioning his scheme for the construc-
ton of Central Asian railway.
The fortune left by the late Baron
Meyer de Rothschild, though not 90
large as was expected, is likely to OK
coed fifteen million dollars in gold.
Milledge Daniels, a colored man,
from Bolivar, in this State, few days
since had his lip bitten off by feroci-
Gus negro at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
The latest rumorab6ut newspaper en-
terprise Is that the New York Tribune
is to be bought and conducted as the
personal organ of Senator Conkling.
a dispatch received at the Indian
Office, in London, states that over a
million people are starving to death in
the famine-stricken districts Of India.
4 PENNSYLVANIA man tried TO work Il
pass out of Tom Scott by writing him
that he used to know him when he,
Scott, peddlcd apples, but the pass
didn't come.
The following astonishing piece Of
philoIogy is travelling through the news
papers: THE word husband is com
posed of two Anglo-Saxon words, has
and bonds, meaning a do,tse-Loor!
The ODonoghue having been elected
in Tralee, Ireland, by a majority o.
three over the home-rule candidate, part
Of the town was drapcd in mourning,
and the local newspaper appeared with
Lack border.
The Carlist junta, at Baynne, have
received 4 dispatch stating that Bilboa
has surrendered to Don Carlos, and
that one church, several banks, and
seventeen private housoswcrc destroyed
by the bombardmcnt.
President Eliot, ii is reported, has not
gone to Europe 50 much to find a sue
cessDr to Agassiz as to he present at the
annual examinations in Oxford and
Cambridge, and to gather thence hints
for the benefit of Harvard.
\ most unusual case Of modest gen
croyitv has come to light in Boston. y
gentleman who ob>tinately refuses to
have his name published has given
property valued at one hundred thou
sand dollars TO the Boston University.
Rev. DIR. Osgood SAYS that Agassiz,
not long before his death, declared that
he felt as never before the importance
of the movement in behalf Of the ply
steal education Of women. lie WAS
understood to be in sympathy with the
views in Dr. Clarkc's book on Sex IN
Education.
Mr.. Emerson, at the last meeting Of
the ovcrSccrs Of Harvard College, de-
clared in favor Of continuing the com
pulsorv attcndancecf students on chapci
prayers. He argued that prayer is the
highest act Of the human mind, and
that it WAS not right to take away from
or to LET yomg men deprive themselves
Of the benefit OF that act.
\ Paris letter, referring TO the ap-
preach of March 18th, when the prince
imperial comes Of age 70 govern, saws:
Fer scveral months past the postofIicc
has been showcring millions upon mil
iioEsGf Bua.ar:i>t tracts, hurdiiiIsaud
SONGS over the country. Provincial!
electors, both III town and country,
have received vi,iling cards bearing the
prince imperialS photographs, and un-
dcrneath tic words, "l6 Mars, 1874;
appel au people" And oae cannot
travel twenty miles out of Paris without
hearing Of BonapartiSt rgcntz at work,
in every village, as patiently and ten
aciouSly as new world pioneers. "
The Trey Times SAYS thata ttw days
.iace a gentleman from Chicago enter
cd the store Of Il Troy merchant, and
while there Was aecostcd l'y promi-
mont Rivcr-strect business man, Who re-
marked, Il think tbs must be Nr.
NJ. with whom / attended school
in 1916" And sure enough it proved
10 be M. 1t was ROW the turn Of
Tie Chicagoan to Try his powers Of
memory, and he said, Il remember a
schoylmate of mine named X, ard
should certainly think YOU were he, hrt
| believe he lives Il Wisconsin," 1t
was K, who after leaving school