The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-02
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4 Du I iiAAdf.. lHSN WIZ NNAoSAON0 -
the last term o. the Federal Court for
murder. *
ST. Louis now proposes to pay oil
the N4tionaL debt lat the expense OF
the dogs, WHICH are said to represent
waste Offset, COO, 900 a year.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has accepted an
invitstion 10 deliver an address at. the
Kansas City Fair. He was invited by
both Democrats and Radicals. Eat,
Twenty-Five thousand cubic .fass OF
cedar lumber, cut in Wilcox and But
Ter counties, Alabama, haye been ship
ped to New York TO be rcade into lead
pencils. ="
A special cable. from London states
that ttwf fa5 been received there Of
the resignation Of the Grand Vizier of
Turke9. who will probably bcsucceed-
ed by tIahomet Ali.
The Japanese are shipping bricks
to California, and sell then cheaper
than hose made in that State, not
withstapding that there IS an ad val
orem Gi1ty of 20 per cent on them.
Capt Webb has succeeded in his
second attempt IN swimming from
Dover to Calais without float or life
saving apparatus. The passage from
Dover occupied 81 hours and 10 mi
nutes.
Sixteen Chinese women meEs 0fd
at auction in California the other. day,
only Chinese beirg allowed, to bid.
Eight dollars vas the brightest price,
and one sold tpr. sixty,fve cents, her
nose being oft Of plumb
TIE rains which haye bees raining
nearly az oyer the world during a
month past Have overlooked onespot.
Wye Island, Wyeriye Queen Anne's
county, ~Marylapd,., has. NOT been
Touchsafed drop CT rain since corn
planting time.
The. celebrated boiling spring of
Pagosa at Del Norte, Rio Grande
county, Colorado, is an immense caul-
dron of water 80 by so. The water is
remarkably clear. and of unknown
depth. 1t is probably the largest
spring in. the world. -.
Rice ig becoming 4 favorite crop Ii
some sections Of the South. 1t costs
$50. 40 to cultivate and send to market
an acre of rice, yielding 1000 pounds
of clear grain, which sells for SS4.
The profit IS about s47.60 per acre,
and the crop is not a difficult one to
grow.
TIE English Earl of Dunraven has
bought a large piece of land in Estes
Pax, Colorado, and designs to pre-
serve the game there for sporting .pur7
poses. The neighbor'hg se!nars 10 rof,
approve of this, and his lordship will
probably have to eiaploy a large force
Of gamekeepers, 90,
4 miscreant has Zen ,arre7ted in
Detroit for keeping. a gambling room
for small boys. He gsed to Instruct
his young Patrons in the different
games Of hazard, and win from them
their pocket money, making a COM
Portable living out of the aggregate of
small sums thus obtained.
The telegraphie announcement that
O'Baldwin, the giant pugilist, is dying
Of consumption recalls the fact that
Tom Sayers, join c. Hcenan, Aaron
Jones, and othEr noted chieftains Of
the ring died from the same dread dis
ease. Pounding. on the chest is not
healthful, and dissipation finishes the
work. e..
Senior P. C. Armiio, Of New Next,
co, sold over 200 900 pounds Of wool
last wear. With his father and bus
mess partner heowns nearly ,, 900, 600
head OF. sheep, .sGattered over a range
Of country ,nors, than 800 miles
square. He has lad two losses by
Indian raids, one cf $4,000 Head and
other Of $4,000, "but," he says; I
hardly missed them" H.
Mr. Davis declines to accept the gift
of a homestead in Texas. He writes
TO a Texas gentleman: at is enough
Cor me to know that your people, who
have suffered by our common disaster
instead of blaT'tfg me fo','te'r rai9for-
tune, have been willing to share the
remnant of their fortunes with me-"
The plan was to buy farm by dollar
subscriptions. How very Ike Grant,
ehl 49,.
InformatiSn has been received from
prominent officers on the Rio Grande
to the effect that cattle stealing and
murders Of peaceful American citizens
are still perpetrated by the Mexican
mnrauders, and in all probability tfey
wiz continue in spite Of the force VIC
can sshd there, unless we can break
up the. bands of assassins and thieves
on eithcv side of the river, and as far
in the interior of Mexico as may be
found necessary.