The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.

down for December 8.
The right to gather all the dead
leaves that fall in the public squares
of Paris sells for s17, 900 per annum.
New parties in France are the
Macs" the "Anti-Mass," the MAC
ma-honteaux" and the ''Plonplonites
FIG. Newhnds married 81 900, 900
at San Francisco. The daughter of
Mr. Sharon was the accompanying
rose.
The revolt in Venezuela is confined
to the small state of Coro, where
Gen. Zotina has about four hundred
followers.
The three Cincinnati express robbers
and the negro Nelson Briggs, who stole
their booty, waived an examination,
and have been sent TO jail.
Santanta has been placed in the
penitentiary in Texas for life, to which
his sentence to death was commute1
during Governor Davis Administra-
ton.
Deputy U. S. Marshals Hester and
Randolph have been indicted by the
Sumter county, Ala, grand jury, for
their general villainy during the re-
cent reign of terror.
The students of st. Andrews Uni
versity have rejected the proposal
made by some of their number, recon-.
mending that Ralph Waldo Emerson
be elected Lord Rector. -. ..
A f,rmer living near Claiburne,
Miss, who before the war paid S42
tax on $4,000 worth of. property.
paid This year $3.50 on, not quite s1O,-
900 worth Of property. 81. 8
Through ears are now being run
from Louisville, via Louisville and
Nashville, and Chattanooga and Yves
tern Atlantic roads, to Jacksonville,
Florida, a distance of about 800 miles.
Speaking of the profits of cattle
grazing, an Indiana journal tells Of a
man in Lafayette, in that state, who
has Just sold for $4,000 a herd of
cattle that he gave $40, 900 for last fall.
The Polar Exploring expedition to
be fitted out by the British Govern
ment will consist of two steamers.
Captain Markham, of the Royal Navy,
will C mmand one. The expedition
will start next May.
The city fathers of Canton, Miss,
have passed an ordinance requiring all
persons selling beef to bring the hides
and ears in with the beef. This is a
prccaution to make people particular
as to whose animal they kill.
a meeting of ex-Confederates il to
be held in Atlanta on Wednesday, the
Goth of January, 1875, for the pur-
pose of organizing an association to be
known as the Survivors Association
of Confederate Soldiers for the State
of Georgia. .
Judge Abbott. the Democratic cam
didate for Congress in the Fourth
Congressional District of Massachu-
sets, announces his intention to: con-
test the seat of Frost, his Republican
opponent, ii the Forty-fourth Con
gress. Frost's reported majority is
less than thirty votes.
Thirty-two of the Turks charged~ith
the recent murders of Montenegrins
have been convicted and sentenced
to twenty years, imprisonment. This
punishment is considered too light for
the odcnse, and the leniency of, the
Turkish authorities has produced a
bad impression in Montenegro. -,
The Illinois, State Christian Associ-
alton met in Chicago last week. One
of the main objects of the Association
is the overthrow of secret societies,
and anumher of prominent opponents
of Free MasOns and other secret or.
carnations were III attendance. Adj
dresses were made by President s.. b.
Allen, of Westfeld College, and Pro-
fessor G. A.. Blanchard, of Wheator
The Grand Lodge, /. 0. 0. F., of
Indiana, convened in annual commun-
ication in indianapolis last week. The
report of the grand officers show, an
increase of seventeen new lodges since
the May convocation. The whole
number IF effective lodges are 43S,
and a total membership of "A, 10, and
total resources of lodges of over, nine
hundred thousand dollars. Past
Grand Master Schuyler Colfax, par
ticipated in the rededication of the
Grand Lodge hall, which has been en-
larged and greatly improved.
The grave of Edgar Allen Poe will
soon be marked by the monument it
should have had long ago. OF. the
fifteen hundred dollars desired for the
purpose; six hundred and twenty-five
dollars are already in the hands of the
committee, and five hundred and fifty
dollars more have been promised.
The Baltimore Sun says: A design has
been secured which il chaste and ap-
propriate The panel on each face of
the die-b!ock is designed for suitable
inscriptions, and the face of the cap
will be graced with Tyre, crowned
with the bay Of laurel. One Of the
panels will I've ornamented with anne
dalton of the poet and the others will
contain sentences from his writings. :
The Pennsylvania Railroad, one Of
the best managed roads in the country,
has recently promulgated series of
very sensible rules. in which the COM
fort of travellers is duly considered.
Newsboys Oh the trains of that road
will not bePermitted to individually
importune or annoy passengers, but
may announce, in low voice, at inter-
walls not exceeding four times in each
car. the article offered for. sale. Nor
will they be permitted to deposit their
papers, hooks, DC, on the seats of the
car or in the laps of passengers. Con-
ductors are instructed to seat passen-
gers and see to their comfort and EN-.
joyment as much as possible, and bag
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