The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-04-29
GENERAL NEWS.

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GENERAL NEWS.
The Consular Agent of the United
States at Brest is dead.
Alex Stephens says the next Presi-
dent of the United States will be a
journalist.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg re-
ports that Marquis de Caux, the hus-
band of Adelina Patti, has been killed
in duel.
A dangerous counterfeit five dollar
note of the First National Bank of
Paxton, Ill, has been detected at
Washington.
State Treasurer Parker. of South
Carolina, has been committed to Jail
in Columbia in default of giving bail
in the sum of $3.50, 600.
Dispatches from Mackinaw report
extremely cold weather, and ice as
solid as at any time during the winter,
teams crossing on the ice and no water
in sight.
The London papers announce the
death of Rev. VIM. Selwynn, ID. D.,
chaplain of the Queen, aged go, and
Henry w. Pickersgill, the portrait
painter, In his Oath year.
Col. E. M. Yerger, formerly of
Mississippi, but for several years a
resident of Baltimore, died Thursday
night. He was proprietor and editor
of the Baltimore Evening Journal.
The New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad Company has Or
dered all station men and baggage
masters TO uniform themselves on the
first day of May and thereafter, in &C
cordance with the law of the State.
The people of Texas, goaded to des-
peration by the repeated raids of the
Mexican handitti, have determined to
take revenge into their own hands,
and to that end are armihg. Latest
news from Corpus Christi indicates
possible series of repris;lis that may
lead to international complication.
The ex-Federal and ex-Confederate
soldiers of Little Rock, Ark, have
issued a joint call for decorating the
graves of all soldiers who fell in the
late war. Among other ex-Federal
soldiers who sign the call, are Senator
Powell Clayton, United States Mar
shall Terrence and United States Col
lector John Booker.
Mr. Sullivant, the Ford county Qll.)
'Coru King" has one hundred plsws
running already. He intends to plant
ten thousand acres in corn, and has
rented nine thousand acres more to be
planted in corn. He will put twenty
five hundred acres in fax, one thou
sand acres in oats, and expects 70 cut
eight thousand tons Of hay.
The khediye of Egypt has for
some years been organizing court,
something like cur United States SUI
preme Court, under the auspices of
the great civilized powers, and Gen.
Geo. S. Batchelier, Of Saratoga, has
been designated by our Government
as a member of it. The appointment
is for five years. Gen Batcheller has
accepted it.
A carpenter who was. preparing a
barn in Plymouth county, away from
any human habitation, was so unfor-
tunate as to throw his Ladder to the
ground. Being stout man and not
young, he dared not jump; SO he sat
on the rugged edge of that barn the
rest of the day and all the night, until
he was rescued by tramp who, for
once in his life was made useful.
According to returns made to the
Department of Agriculture, it seems
that the real losses of sheep by dogs
amounts to more than .wo per cent.
of the value of sheep throughout the
country, or 81, 900, coo annually. In
the States where sheep are protected
by law, the loss is reduced toless than
one-half of one per cent, but in those
unprotected it ranges from % to ii
per cent of loss.
The Graphic's Washington cores
pendent says President Grant is not a
candidate for reelection for thru
term and never has been. He never
suggested the idea himself, and never
gave anyone the slightest warrant for
supposing that he would take the NOM
nation il, offered, and it is understood
here that If he had ever been asked by
any authoritive body, he would have
declined to be considered a candidate
under the circumstances. a.
Information from Lexington, KY,
the home of John Z. Breckenridge,
reports bis condition as not so favora-
bic as was hoped for with theapproach
of warmer weather. He has been
confined to his room through the win
ter, and bis friends have at times been
anxious as to the result of his disease.
No immediate serious consequences are
feared, but the recent severe weather
has had very unfavorable effect ON
his already enfeebled constitution.
Stories come of terrible series of
outrages in the northern part of South
Carolina. This time it is not the kind
Of outrages that the administration
journals will care to make much of.
The negroes have organized regular
hand of plunderers, and they have
murdered and robbed the farming peo-
pie of the section in style that will
equal any of the frst-class efforts so
eloqaently dwelt upon by the Attorn-
ey Generals outrage department last
fall.
1t is singular but no less true re-
mark, in late work, that jefferson
was horn just eight years after his
predecessor, Adams; Madison eight
years after jefferson Monroe eight
years after Madison /; and John GUM
cy Adams eight years after Monroe.
Another curious fact to I've observed is.
that Adams was just sixty-six old
when he retire jefferson was sixty
six; Madis. u aas sixty-six; Monroe
was sixty.ix and John Quincy