The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-11
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The German Federal Council has
empowered Prince Bismarck to con
clude an extradition treaty with the
United States.
1t is whispered that christening
may occur at the VI bite House III tie
spring, which hasn't happened since
Tyler was President
The deficit in the Postofiice Depart
ment for the present fiscal year will
DE seven million dollars, fully million
greater than that Of last year.
Great Britain has declined to send
a representative to the St. Petersburg
international Code Conference, alltg-
ing that no PRACTICAL result can be ex-
pected.
The Postmaster General, in letting
contracts for the delivery Of mails
dong the Mississippi river, will treat
,nly With those interested in boats,
nj not with middle men,
The National Brotherhood of Loco.
motive Engineers have resolved TO eN.
pei from the organization all engineers
who drink Intoxicating liquors while
on duty. This is highly to be COM
mended.
The North American Review pro-
fessed once that it wanted to do Justice
to Edgar Poe, but dared not; where
upon Poe presented it this motto from
Sterne: CAS- We rode along We saw a
herd Of asses; how they viewed and
reviewed us!
A musical journal of Milnn gi' e a
list of the new operas brought cut i'll
Italy during 1874. The number is
thirty-fve, being an increase on the
preceding year, when it was only
twenty-four, while in 1872 forty-two
we're produced.
Gen. Hazen remarks Of New Next
co: at costs many millions for its ad-
ministration, yet, take away the army
its hangers-on, and the transient
miners, and the remaining American
population could sit in the shade Of a
good-sized apple tree.
The Senate Committee on Civil
Service hos reported bill providing
that for two years from the 1st Of
July next, all salaries exceeding ST.
200 per year, in all branches of the
government service, civil and military,
shall be reduced ten per GEN..
The bank cashiers disease has bro
ken out in st. Louis. Il took off Mr.
Wuerpel, the cashier Of the Peoples
Savings Bank in that city, and with
him $40, 600 cash, leaving the bank to
settle some $50, 900 of claims. The
whereabouts of the defaulter have not
yet been discovered.
Persons who can live at all in Bra
I'll live great while. They have a
man who Jameson his knee his grand
ciildren's grandchildren. At Ceara,
in that country, there is a woman in
prison who was sentenced for life Nov.
&, 1915. She was then sixty years
cd. She is therefore -119 years old
now.
At dancing party in Western
Kentucky, the other night, TO whi>h
several women came with their babies,
some young men changed the clothes
of the infants while their parents
were dancing, and mixed them up
generally. The following day there
was a great row, and as the fimiiies
lived miles apart, it took several d; Us
to unmix the children.
The dishrag plant is one of the
many products Of the fertile soil of
Texas, and is used by the housewives
of that remote region for domest;,.
purposes. It grows to considerable
size, and its shape is that Of the Gu
cum5er. When dry the outside COW
ering is removed, and the heart, which
has certain properties of thesponge, is
used as above mentioned.
A eonsumptive individual writes
from Colorado: 1--WE sit comfortably
out of doors in the sunshine ia NJ ID
winter, though all summer we slept
under blankets. There is a sort of
radiance in the atmosphere which l
have never witnessed in any other
country, probably from the purity and
dryness thereof. At night the moon
and stars seem to come down and l.
most twinkle and glow hear ont S
eyes"
A chap was seen flying down Il e
streets of Granoury (Texas) a ft "
days ago, lis coat tail streaming in the
wind, and Justify yelling /" Pclic,' !!
police !" At his heels was man vi h
a huge bowie knife, lunging at him at
a fearful rate. As the pursuer would
make a pass with the knife, the pur-
sued would yell out, "Police ~ The
only policeman in the town was the
one with the bowie knife. The chap
had the police" nearer than lie
wanted.
A dispatch from Harrisburg says
disrraceful scene occurred in the