The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-05-27
GENERAL MEMS.

Tal 1tdN II Itlt.
A queer Kind of.thatcIIing. q man
with hair on the roof of his mouth has
been discovered at Savannah, Ga.
The international Metric Conyen-
ton has been signed by representa-
sives of all the powers participating in
the. reference.
An old illustration Of what's in a
name. An English curate just APP
pointed to a London church, isgazett-
ed as tie Rev. Paschal Lamb e..
Tbs Virginia Changers nave estab-
lshed 4 bank Of their own at Danville
the Border Grange Bank-andit IS
already in successful operation.
\ dispatch from st. Petersburg
SAYS that Russia will await replies 10
It's commun cation in relation to the
conference upon the usages of war.
Hon. Jesse ID. Bright, ex-United
States Senator from Indiana, died at
his residence in Baltimore, Thursday,
of organic disease of the heart. aged
63.
Exen the Washington Chronicle,
Republican,, is responding n some,
degree to the general and increasing
feeling in favor Of sectional reconcilia
ton and peace, b. coming out in IA
vor of general amnesty.
First cousins were married in Otta-
wa county, Kansas, last week. When
the relationship was discovered, the
Judge and minister waited ON the par
ties, read the law to them, and inform
ed them that they must consider them
selves unmarried.
Two vessels loaded with wheat, af-
ter trying a week to find or force an
entrance into Buffalo harbor through
the ice, have returned to Chicago. 1t
Is said the ice is closely packed ten
miles oat from the former port, and it
may be June before any water craft
can enter.
1t is said that Mr. Murat Halstead,
of the Cincinnati Commercial, is seri-
ously contemplating paper in New
York city, and that he is only hesita-
ting between the adyisability of start
ing new one or buying cut an old
one, in order to get the Associated
Press news.
The Illinois Central and Chicago
snd Alton Railroads announce a great
reduction in freight rates to New o.
leans. \ change in passenger rates
from New Orleans to New Yo-k tc
s44 is announced by all'the companies,
which makes the actual fare lower
than it has ever been before by rail
from south 10 east via Chicago.
There comes from Usage story e
the state of desperation 10 which the
people. Of that section of Kansas have
been brongkt b. the grasshopperruiu.
i party of farmers, scorning conceal
ment, boldly entered gristmill and
boldly helped themselves to sixty sacks
of -four, saying that they had neither
food nor money. and that they would
not permit their families to staryc
while food was within reach.
Should the west apprchensions be
realized IN regard to the fruit crop in
the northern sections Of the country,
the prospects still further S91rh are
said t. he remarkably good The
New Orleans Picayune SAYS it is esti-
mated tia: Tie fruit yield this sum.
mcr VIII be quadr6ple that Of last
year. and the largest ever known ?.
tie South, and that in -ti,is abglslanee
Louisiana is to offer 'fhe best fruff crou
she has ever produced. a..
The muskets furnished TO the IL
dams in trade ny the Hudson Bay
Company are Of the flint lock pattern,
the barrels bong so thin that the
owners are often seen Strengthening
them across their knees. Perhaps this
is one reason why the Company
which rules the greater area Of British
America; has no trouble with its In.
dams, while the rascally agents ard
traders who are permitted to regulate
Indian affairs in this country furnish
them with the best Spencer rifles, and
/ the worst rihed whiskey to convert
them into dangerous devils.
| Robert T, Lincoln, son Of The late
Presideat Lincoln, has filed petition
in the courts AT Chicago setting forth
that his mother IS insane, which !:
borne out by the affidavit Of the fami
ly physician that she is a fit subject
for the insane asylum. The court the
otherday gave a verdict sustaining tlit
prayer of the petitioner, and Mrs lin
coin will be renewed tn an 'insan,
asylum. The prayer of the petitioner
recites the fact that Mrs Lincoln ha
property and effects exceeding seventy
FIVE thousand dollars, and being aoa
compos mentis,, is Iot capable Of man
aging her estate.
A Missouri farmer, after l5Sg cal
culation, presents the following fact,
concerning dogs: In thirty-tW3 cnun
ties 10, 500 sheep have been killed by
dogs. He estimates the ngmber o
dogs in thirfy-two counties to be 49,,
GOO; that a hog will thrive on II
food necessary to support an abie-bod
led dog, and at tie end Of the yea
weigh 200 pounds; therefore fifth,
food for these 5000 dogs went t,
the hogs, it would make $4,000, 00t
pounds of pork, worth al q cents :
pound, 5, 30, 0G0@hcarly twice tn
value of all the school houses in tn
State, and morethan twice the amour
used by the State for school purposes
While a number rr4f indian prisoners
belonging to the kiowa and Co
manche tribes, were passing through
/ Nashville the other day, a big chic
named Ouachita watched his oppor
trnity and stabbed his guard, Corpora
Alien, two or three times in the bach
\ private soldier returned the cQrnpl;
meut in behalf Of his corporal, b,
stabbing the Indian twice in theneck