The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-01
GENERAL. MEMS.

direction of the north pole hopeless
of satisfactory result, and that reports
of the existence of an open polar sea
are untrue.
The astronomer, Proctor, urges the
adoption in England of our system OF
weather bureau reports. He asserts
that during the recent featuring tour
in this country he caught Old Probs
mapping only twice in three months.
The grasshoppers have gone into
Mississippi TO finish the work of the
carpet-baggers. In Lawrence county
they fly so thick that it is impossible
10 see through them, and they de-
YOUR every green leaf that comes in
their way.
Among the requests Of the late Mrs
Sarah l.. King, of Taunton, Mass, is
$4,000 to Antioch College, at Vel
low Springs, O., and $4,000 for sup
port of preachers in weak Unitarian So
cieties in New England and the " est
ern States.
Gov. Lewis, of Alabama, with a
view to pleasing the negroes, has APP
pointed to the office Of Judge of Dallas
county a negro named Oscar Hunter,
who cannot write, and who signs his
named to the minutes of the court by
cross marx.
The New Free Press says the Sultan
Of Turkey intends to appoint hi. cid
est son to the chief command Of the
army, and that this step is prelimina-
ry to declaring him heir to the throne,
contrary to immemoridl precedent for
the order Of succession.
The Land Department of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
have Just made sale Of land along
the line of their road to a large party
of Russian McHnonites, who have re-
Gently come from Europe. This Is
the largest land sale ever made in the
West to one party.
The existence of a cordial and SYM
pathetic letter from the Gar to Don
Carlos, which has hitherto been de-
MED at Berlin and elsewhere, is ROW
acknowledged. The letter was writ
ten in reply to one from Don Carlos
thanking the Gar for his refusal to
recognize President Serrano.
The Russian Government, on ac-
count of the extensive emigration Of
Mcnnonites, proposes to exempt the
members of that sect from actual mil
itary service, but to hold them liable
to duty as hospital attendants. The
Mennonites Of the Nolga district will
probably accept these conditions.
4 child born recently in Chautau-
qua county, Y. Y, and still living, q
local paper asserts, has It's heart locaJ-
ed on the outside of its .ehcst, and in
plain view: The heart is perfect in
form well proportional, and as firm in
texture as could be expected in so
young a child. When the chill cries
the heart expands to nearly twice lis
ordinary size.
People or Tennessee complain con
tinually of hard times. Other States
seem TO be as unfortunate. 1t i
stated upon good authority that in the
city of Philadelphia there are 40,0G0
men out of employment and 50,000
in The rest Of the State, and this in a
rich State wish splendid ard well de-
vcIoped agricultural, mining and MAJ
ufacturiug interests.
The Odd Fellows afford 4 cn".ri. ..
Gus instance Of the Improvement Of
an English idea h.; american energy.
nc urder 9: iginatcd in England, but
it has been so transformed in thi,
country that American Odd iI.low
cannot recognize TIE members OF rhc
English society, and have spread ti.yiT
OWN improved form Of Odd Fellow
ship all over the world.
\ dispatch from Prescott, Arizona,
says the Indians who murdered a M
Roberts were followed ly a dct.:ch,
ment of troops and Apache Indian
scouts from Verde. They were caught
near Head Greek and a battle ensued.
Fourteen hostile Apachcs were killed
and several captured. The troops lost
one white scout and one Tonic scou;
killed and two wounded.
The new Constitution of lIayti.
adopted a few weeks ago, provides
that no white man cen acquire citizen
ship, but he is subject to all the obi
CATIONS, taxes, ETC., OF citizens. It l.
understood that the object Of this con
stitution, under which white men have
no rights which black men arc bound to
respect, is to drive the whites from
the country. Such are civil right
among the black republicans Of iiayti.
I'm Alabama correspondent write
that the Union white men Of that
State are going to vote with the Con
sentative party this fall for the first
time since 1860, and many negroes
declare that they VIII for the ii. 81
time in their lives vote the ConserIa-
tive ticket. The only hope of the
GRANTEES is Federal interference. The
whole body Of intelligent whites are
anxious that no collision should occur
between whites and blacks.
The French newspapers publish 8.
Petersburg adyices confirming the re-
port Of BiSmark's Overtures to King
Christian, OF Denmark, looking to the
incorporation Of that country in the
German Confederation. Correspond
ents say that Russia is greatly irritat-
ed at the attempt and will never per-
NIT Germany to hold the key to the
Baltic Sea. The same papers say
that the opposition Of Russia to the
German policy in Spain Is due to this
cause.
The Mobile Register says: During
the fight in New Orleans, when the
MetropolitaIs retreated to the third
precinct, where Longstrcet was trying
to concentrate his forces, the newshoyS
charged them and captured one of
their heavy pieces of artillery, while