The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-07
GENERAL NEWS.

FLORIDA guaranteed I,UUu,VUU pine
apples this season.
The Changers in this country are a
million and half strong.
Chicago complains that she is get
ting all of Pittsburg's paupers.
A bridge 2,1OO feet long is being
built across Bear river, in northern
Utah.
In Germany every railway station is
supplied with surgical and medical ap-
paratus.
Detective Pinkerton has EXTENDED
$4,000 trying to find Charlie Ross,
ond still he is at it.
The English mails for Australia
now pass across the United States to
San Francisco, The lime is twelve to
fifteen days shorter than by the old
route.
The floods in Ireland have been
very disastrous to the crops in several
counties. a number of tet5ons are
reported drowned in the neighborhood
of Cork.
Willard Carpenter, of Evansville,
Ind, has conveyed $500, 600 ~orth of
property in that city TO q college
founded by him and called Willard
College.
They are very much blessed with
snakes in Dallas county, Texas, In
one bedchamber there, since last
spring, they have killed one rattle
snake of five feet, three tarantulas, and
one long fellow described as a serpent.
1t is reported that Mr. Sharon has
rendered to Mrs Ralston, wife of the
drowned banker Of San Francisco, a
suite of seven rooms in the Palace
Hotel, with private strvants, aha a
private eHach and coachmen, 50 long
rs she may see fit to use them.
The Commissioner of Agriculture of
Georgia reports the cotton crop of that
State at but little more than two-thirds
Of full crop, and deficiency of 2,
000,0 900 bushels Of SGfh; which t'iust
he purchased from other States, unless
it can lie supplemented by fall plant
ing for pasturage.
The Texas Constitutional Conven>
ton proposes tvs amendments to the
United States CouStitution-one for
bidding Congress TO tass any bill, ex-
cept appropriation bills, embracing
more than one general subject tiatter,
! to be expressed in its title; and the
other permitting the President to APP
/ pr6v5 s}mc items Of an appropriation
bill and veto others if it seem best to
hihi.
HydrophoJia communicated. by a
pastcboard dog is the latest medical
novelty. Two months ago d HAD dog
was killed IN h house after having bit
ten at neirlf everything in the room.
One of the things in which he buried
his teeth was little boys toy dog
made of pasteboard. Subsequently a
man used this pasteboard dog to stop
the blood from cut in his hahd, and
50 the virus vent into his &Ghnd and
te died.
VIM Watkins, an old colored man
living al Kansas City, Wis F5rmerly
one of Jefferson Davis slaves. When
Mr. Davis was in Missouri he was ad-
mitted to az audience; aid when he
came intB the presence of Ms former
master bent on his knees ann exclaim-
ed, How do you do, old massa +? and
kissed the hand of the venerable ex-
chief with as much feeling as if he
had met a near and dear friend lust
resurrected from the grave.
One Of the remarkable men of the
Alabama Constitutional Convention is
Col Bethea: He is a lawyer but has
had only one case in his life. 1t was
his first and last. The case involved
a large amount of property, and his
fee depended upon his success. He
won; his fee was $4,000, and with
this he gracefully retired from the
bar. A legal career so brief and so
brilliant has probably been the lot of
no other nan since litigation began,