The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-08
GENERAL NEWS.

has collapsed, and its effects have pass
ed into the hands OF a receiver.
1t is stated upon reliable authority
that the entire cotton and wheat in
North Georgia will not exceed half an
average crop.
Mrs Amelia Wright, of Muscatine,
Wisconsin, aged "a, has been taken
to the insane asylum, her insanity, it
is claimed by the doctors, having been
caused by the use of chair restora-
tives."
Yellow fever has appeared at Key
West, Florida, but 50 far there have
been no cases at Mobile, New Orleans
or Galveston, nor is the fever expected
at these points this season.
Advices from the north of Spain
say there are signs of breaking UP
of the Carlist army. Several insur-
gent leaders have surrendered and it
is reported others were shot by order
of Don Carlos for demanding Il cessa-
ton Of hostilities.
An impudent negro school teacher
in Talbotton, Ga, impressed with the
beauties of civil rights, attempted to
spit on a young man in that town, the
other day. The physician says it will
be several days before the bandage
can be safely removed from his head.
Reports received at the Agriculture
al Department show that the wheat
crop will nearly average that of last
year. None of the large corn produc-
ing States reach an average. There
viii be fair crop of oats, potatoes
and hay, but less than half crop of
tobacco.
In reply to a letter asking Informal
ton, 0. II. Kelley, Secretary IF the
National Grange, says the Granger
Mortgage Bank, lately advertised in
New York, is not endorsed by the
National Grange, nor is it recognized
by the Executive Committee in any
shape whatever.
4 letter-writer in the South says
you cannot go on cotton plantation
in Alabama now without hearing the
commands: Senator, start right
smartto your cotton picking" Judge,
you 90 and bring my horse around )"
or, Colonel, have a shoe put on that
mule right along"
jerome Bonaparte, the second son
of the deceased American nephew Of
the first Napoleon, has been recently
admitted to the bar at Baltimore, and
his first plea is pronounced to be an
admirable effort. He is described as
a fine-looking young man of grave as
pect, with an admiralty f,rmed head,
and face full of intellectual express
sion.
The Republican State Central Exc
cutive Committed of louisiana hasrati-
fed the conference agreement with an
amendment that in case of vacancy by
death or any other cause of a Repub-
lican to be selected by the Republican
committee to fill the vacancy. The
same rule to apply to Conservatives.
The Conservative Committee willmeet
on the 18th instant to take action.
Professor Silvestri reports that a
transversal fssure about a mile long
has appeared on the northern side Of
Mount Etna. Twenty fresh craters
situated upon one long line have been
thrown up. The first crater opened
forms a cone seventy-fve feet high.
Professor Silvestri believes that the
force Of the eruption is at present
spent, and that only few slight
earthquake shocks will row be felt.
Mrs Henry Ward Beecher has writ
ten a letter declining to become a con-
tributor to New York literary paper,
in which she says: Until my good,
noble and most pure husband has rest
from these cruel prosecutions, | have
no heart for anything but that little |
am privileged to dpfor him in pro-
tecting him from needless Interrupt
ton, guarding him from those cormo-
rants, the reporters, and doing all the
writing | can save him from doing"
a Madrid letter states that it is well
known in official circles that the Ger
man government has sent note to
the French government that the Ger
man government having made official
investigations along the French from
tier as to the aid France is giving the
Carlists, it results that aid is complete
and Gen; therefore Germany re-
quests France to send $4,000 troops
to the frontier to stop such aid to the
Carlists; otherwise Germany will be
compelled to do so.
The American Agriculturalist, in
its last issue, contains an article upon
a new species Of fungi, lately imported
to this country in the hollyhock, which
have already made depredations upon
that plant of serious nature and
threaten still worse. The writer as
serts that the whole family of plants
to which the hollyhock belongs is in
equal danger, and as this includes cot
ton, this great industrial interest is, we
are told, in imminent danger. As a
remedy florists are urged to import no
more Of this species of plants to the
country, as their destruction has so far
defied all remedies applied.
The largest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the
world is said to be the Janus, now
working on coal-read in Pennsylva-
MIA. 1t was originally designed fer
service on the Union Pacific railroad,
and has four cylinders 10 by % inches,
and twelve drivers, 81 feet in diane
ter, and no other wheels. Its weight,
when tanks and coal-bunkers are full,
is eighty-four tons. The Janus was
built at the Mason Machine Works,
Taunton, Mass. The only worthy
rival to this monster locomotive is one
on the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road, which has two cylinders, 20 bv
26 inches, and twelve driving wheels,
with total weight sixty-four tons. h.
New York Cotton Exchange Rules.
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