The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-22
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Madame Rudersdorf, the great kus-
sian prima donna, is reaching singing
in Boston.
Cleveland's new directory contains
$3.50 names. She claims q popula-
ton of over 100000.
Gen. J. Mansfield Lowell, an ex-
Confederate commander, is now a city
surveyor in New York
There are $50 female students in
the college of medicine and surgery Of
the st. Petersburg University.
Lexington, the dead race horse,
was buried in front of his stable, and
will be honored with 2 gravestone.
Gen. f. c. McMackin, the famous
landlord of Vicksburg, died at Hot
Springs, Arkansas, on the 18th inst,
aged 80.
The extra session of the Mississippi
Legislature, called for the 9th of Jul
ly, viii open the political canvass in
good earnest.
a negro highwayman near Lexing-
ton bought revolver of a man for So,
and then used the weapon to rob him
of all his money, including the pur-
chase price.
The Sultan has eight hundred wives,
and devotes to his own and their use
$4,000, 900 out of the 81 900, 900 that
constitute the whole income Of the
Turkish Empire.
There is hole at Warwick, Mass.
four inches in diameter, and running
so deep into the ground that it has
never been fathomed. Hot air con-
stantly comes out of it.
1t is estimated that there are about
$4,000 acres under cultivation in
vineyards in California, comprising
100000 mission or common vines,
and $4,000, 900 imported vines.
New York city claims to have gain
ed considerably in population since
1870, the Tribune putting the est,
mate of her present number of mhab-
itants at one million two hundred thou.
sand.
A terrible riot took place in San
Miguel, San Salvador, South America,
recently, in which many people were
killed and property destroyed to the
value of 100000. 1t is said it was
instigated by priests.
The first cotton bale reached New
Orleans on the 18th frcmSt. Landry
parish. 1t was of good staple and col.
or, classed middling fair to fair, weigh
ed over four hundred pounds and sold
for twenty-five cents.
The Grenada Republican says that
the amount of peaches, pears and ear
ly apples shipped the past week from
central and lower Mississippi to differ
ent northern cities, exceeds that OF
any other year in the history Of the
State.
Chas. Lyon, who is said to have
gone crazy about Spiritualism, and who
wandered about the Arkansas swamps,
some time since, declining to taste
food for more than two weeks, has
been sent to the Kentucky insane
asylum.
An important decision was rendered
by the Supreme Court on the import
ant question: What constitutes public
waters in these United States 1t was
held that navigability is the true test.
All navigable streams are, therefore,
subject to governmental regulations.
Mrs Pratt, Of Smyrna, Del, six
times a widow, has taken her seventh
husband. Her last six husbands were
all widowera, some of them with a
large number Of children. The histo-
tory of these six poor moths would
doubtless be full Of interesting Incl
dents
There are as many beer-shops and
gin-palaces in London .as would, if
their fronts were placed side by side,
reach from Clearinghouse to Ports
mouth, a distance of seventy-three
miles; and thirty ght thousand drunk
ards are annually brought before the
magistrates of the city.
The Pail Mall Gazette says of COM
pulsory education in London: "The
advantages of compulsory education
do not appear to he properly appre-
ciated as yet by the poorer classes, and
the very name of the London School
Board is fast becoming a terror in
stead of "household word"
The Fourth of July is an especial
holiday to the Scandinavians of Amer
lea. July 4, 1925, the first small colo
ny of Scandinavian emigrants set sail
for America, where their followers and
descendants now form an element in
the population of the United States at
once numerous and important.
A special dispatch from st Paul to
the Chicago Times, says that orders
have been sent by Gen. Terry to the
commander at Fort Randall, to ex-
pedite the departure of a cavalry force
at that point, under orders to proceed
direct to the Black Hills, and bring
out all persons found there without
authority.
The President has signed the COM
mission of Frances 3. Stockbridge, of
Michigan, to be minister Resident at
the Hague, and the commission of
Christian w. Weber, of Iowa, to be
Minister Resident In Ecuador. The
commission of Adam Badeau, to be
Minister Of Brussels, has been sent to
the President for signature.
The Gazette Medical, France, says
that by an accident charcoal has been
discovered to be a cure for burns. By
laying piece of cold charcoal upon a
burn, the pain subsidies Immediately.
By leaving the charcoal on one hour,
the wound is healed, as has been de-
monstratei on several occasions. The
remedy is cheap and simple, and de-
serves a trial.
Baltimore has found material for
excited cQmment in an extraordinary
marriage just celebrated in that city.
Tbs bride is a colored woman. and