The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

GENERAL, NEWS.

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Mr. ". Kean, proprietor IF the
Louisville Hotel, one of the best known
hotel Keepers in the country, died last
Saturday. - :.
According to published statements,
the summer just ended has been cooler
by FIVE degrees than the average sea-
son for eighty-hve years.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch says that the
Chambers of Deputies have sanctioned
the proposed visit of the Emperor to
Europe and the United States.
! The Board of Trade of Baltimore
is about to petition the Legislature of
Maryland to enact q law by which
breaches of trust shall be punished as
lareenies. l..
1t is estimated that the United
States loses by confagraitifolnHs six times
as much per annum, en- an average,
as either England, France, italy Ct
Germany,
The oil springs Of. Pennsylvania
were, known to the whites as early as
| 1929, but the full uses and value Of
petroleum were not known for 200
years afterward.
A gentleman in Neuces county,
Texas, has a field of sixty thousand
acres within one fence. He Recently
filled an order by TELEGRAPH 5or tWenty-
six thousand beeves.
AWeaverville, Cal, butcher, while
dissecting a beef's liver few days ago,
found an Indian arrow head in we'll
preserved State, that had toah appear
ances been imbedded in the liver for
long time.
The proprietors Of. the Atlanta Con-
stitution are organizing an expedition
for the thorough exploration of the
great Okefnokee Swamp in that State
something that has never before
been attempted. .r
Secretary Delano, previous 70 che
departure of the President from Long
Branch t or lie 1esst, placed in his
hands letter resigning the Secretary
ship of the Interior, to take effect on
the list of October.
A man seventy years old is to be
hanged at Cleburne, Texas, ON the
first Friday in October. Determined
to make the most of his opportunity,
he has asked for three hours in which
to deliver a speech on the sallows.
The California wine crop is increas-
ing every year. This year it is ex-
pecfed to exceed 100000 gallons.
IN a few years large number of vines
Will come into bearing, increasing the
present. production almost one-half.
A Piermont, n. H., man named
Getting vas awakened by tramp,
who, with cooked pistol, demanded
money. Getting directed the tramp
to g bureau containing 500. The
tramp laid down the pistol to search
when Getting seized the pistol and
shot him dad.
The Republican learns that a party
of Boston capitalists contemplate build
ing a mammoth hotel, to be a y story
fiat, 800 feet square, 10 feet high
ard contain 1000 rooms, capable of
accommodating $500 people. 1t will
be built Oh the Edinburgh model for
such establishments.
The approaching marriage of Rt.
Rev. RiShep Hare, of Niobrara, and
Miss Kitty Wolfe, is announced. The
bride elect is credited with being the
richest woman in America her afinG-
al income being estimated at over ST.
100000. TIE lady is the grand
daughter of the celebrated Peter LORI
Hard.
Jeff Davis proyeda good Investment
in Missouri. He Iatted the Galloway
County fair 81, 900, and if the Winnie
bago Changers had been content to
listen to him, instead of importing
Doolittle to talk about babyhood suf-
frage, they might have an oppOrtuni-
ty to contemplate a like beauteous
balance SHEET.
A NGirristown man has invented
she'll which deserves the immediate
attention of Secretary Robson. 1t
is filed with small shells, and when it
bursts atifbhg ten thousand soldiers
these smaller shells are scattered II all
directions, and, bursting in tutn' send
out still smaller Shells, 1Ahich travel
around recklessly, and by the time the
miniature shells, contained i'll the
third size, explode, the army is nearly
wiped cut, and the few remaining want
to 90 hsme,
Gen. Wm. r. Miles, in a recent
speech in Mississippi, madea moststrik-
ing allusion TO taxation in that state at
presents as compared with former
years. BY way of illustration, he
showed by his tax receipts that before
the war, when he owned 240 slaves,
vailed at $1,000 each; and the same