The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
GENERAL NEWS.

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hat, and in no respect resembles q ze-
bra.
4. T. Stewart has gene to Europe
for the sixteenth time and probably
the last, as he Is now seventy-one years
of age.
4 London telegram announces the
serious illness of Prince Leopold. His
seventy-thonsand dollars annuity re-
Gently granted by parliament has had
bad effect physically.
Algeria papers fear that trouble
with the natives is impending. They
have heard that 10, 600 muskets and
500 cwt of powder are imported
across the Tuniscan frontier weekly.
The County Court of Greene at its
July term, levied a school tax of one
mill on every dollars worth ofproper-
ty, twenty-five cents on polls, and
twenty-five per cent. on all privilege
licenses.
Two we'll known gentlemen, Dun
can Cameron and DIR. Frank Foster,
residing near Benefits Landing, Mis-
sissippi, engaged in an alteration
which resulted in the former receiving
a severe and dangerous cut in the leg
and body.
A terrible landslide occurred at Ala
70, in the province OF Navarro, in
Spain. An overhanging rock fell up
on and utterly destroyed the village.
The disaster was so sudden that few of
the inhabitants escaped. Two hundred
bodies have already been recovered.
The national board Of underwriters
of New York have demanded that
Chicago shall establish and maintain a
fire-patrol of one hundred men, under
penalty of withdrawal Of allagencies.
The Chicago board is looking at" the
proposition, with not much disposition
to comply.
The "local option" law of Mississip-
pi is so effective that it is said few ii
any licenses have been granted in that
State since the passage of the act last
April. 1t requires a majority Of vo-
tiers over u, and females over Is,
residents in the district sign the peti-
ton for license.
Nassau adyices 10 the twentieth
state that the Pacific mail cOmpany's
steamer City Of Guatemala, Captain
Hildreth, from New York for Aspin.
wall, was lost on thenortheast Of Wat.
ling island, of the Bahamas, on Thurs,
day ,thcsixteenth instant, atmidnight
All hands saved.
A London dispatch says that there
is an alarming outbreak Of smallpox
at New Market, upward Of sixty case,
having been reported. The authori
ties have asked the jockey club to per
nit them to convert their grand stand
into a hospital, where the infected
persons MAY be quartered.
Advices from India represent there
are fears the cholera has broken out
among the fifty thousands pilgrims as
sembled in Poor for the Jnggernaut
festival. The floods in the Nortl
have submerged the country. The
southern disuictsare still without rain
Even the little that has fallen in some
sections has done no good.
4 Fort Sill letterof the 10Th states
that on the 4th the wood camp of Nj
Evans, thirteen miles from the fort
was attacked by Indians. \ small
detachment Of United States troops
followed, compelling them TO abandon
about sixty head Of cattle. The body
of white man was found, full of ar,
rows and the head sca!ped.
The entire police force of Jefferson
Texas, was arraigncd before the May,
or, recently, on the charge of vagran.
CIV. The charge was preferred by
the families Of the policemen, who sta
ted that the parties under charge mad
no visible means Of support, as they
had received but twelve dollars from
the city in the last five months.
The coolest man has been discover
ed at Troy, New York. \ funeral
was in progress. Just as the ccfiu
was about to be lowerd into the grave
young man stepped out from the
crowd of mOurners, deliberately open,
ed pen-knife, Clipped Il splinter from
the rough pine box in which the cof
fine was encased, and coolIy proceeded
to white on a tooth-pick.
Advices from Ute creek, New Mcxi
co, July 18th, say that twenty-ont
persons-six Americans and fifteen
Mexicans-were killed by the Indian,
between Fort Bascom and Rattan
mountains up TO the present time, and
that four hundred horses were driver
out of the Territory. A company o.
the eighth cavalry left Fort Union Ju
" 18th for the scene of the Indian
Outrages.
The Bowling Green Democrat says
"The farmers in Warren, Allen, Lo
gan, and Toddc counties are greatly dis
tresscd atthe unfavorable prospect they
have this year for raising tobacco.
The drouth has destroyed well nigh
all the plants they had, and those thai
have leen set out present rather for
bidding appearance. We yet trust
that the failure will not prove to be
as serious as many Of us have beer
led to suppose. The tobacco growers
for the last ten years at least, have
hugged the delusion that leaf tobacco
was Il legal,tender, and that there
was no danger of initiating beyond
Observation-Disclosures; therefore mar
kets have been good. If total failure
should be the result this year, the
farmer who is independent enough car
improve, by rest, his tobacco ground
in such a manner as to enable him tc
raise a superior crop next year.
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
The Turkish Government has init
mated to the United States minister
its determination to adhere to It's re-
cent prohibition Of the sale of Bibles
in Turkey.
Mrs Eunice Ward Beecher describe;
herself as having once been Every