The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-23
GENERAL. MEMS.

Prince Adelhert, uncle OF the Hing
of Bavaria, is dead.
The Kentucky Legislature viii be
urged-t6p prohibit lotteries.
Belgium sells annually $4,000, Geo
worth of Valenciennes lace.
Six-inch alligators are worth fifty
cents apiece in New Orleans.
Ten thousand horses in New York
are down with a new epizootic.
The Duke and Duchess Of SAKE
Meinitgeh are excellent actors.
Cotton planting is to be attempted
in Turkistan and the Caucasus.
A scheme for establishing a Ger
man colony in Abyssinia has failed.
The American sculptors and Eaint-
crs are going to do their best fer the
Centennial. .
Reinforcements to the number Of
1900 will go to Cuba by the 10Th of
November next.
Two willows, Mrs Forsythe, an
American, and Mrs Mcfarland, an
English lady, lead society at Samoa.
Pitlsburg is again talking Of send
ing refined oil to the Delaware through
pipe 900 miles long that win cost
100000.
The Ceylon Government is trying
to prevent the capture OF elephants,
and the price of fine animals has gone
up to $1,000 gold. &C.,
The grasshoppers visited fwanty-
eight counties and 204 towns in Min
nesota, and destroyed or damaged
$40, Al acres IF wheat.
Miss Agnes Oldshue WAS recently
married at Pittsburg. They threw
one or t:ro Of her little brothers and
sisters after her as she started cut Oh
her bridal tour.
1t costs Canada only 50 to care for
each Indian. 1t costs the United
States more than 800 per Indian. But,
then. We have our moneys worth in
ha:ing Indian rings.
About 400 feet Of the track of the
st. L5'iis narrow gauge railroad, at
Cairo, went into the Mississippi river
Thursday night by the caving. of the
bank, about mile a above tn, levee
coFth of The city.
A dog in Indianapolis is wrestling
with genuine fever and ague. He has
chiIls promptly at ten o'clock every
morning, and several physicians are
watching the progress Of the disease
upon the canine patient.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston has re,
turned to his home in Savannah. The
Advertiser says that he received,
about six years ago, an offer from the
Khedive, and "of course it was not ac-
copied" He has received no other
offer from the khedive, and does not
expect or want one. "Not for Joe"
Referring to the fact that Mr. Blaine
distinguished himself last year by
taking the stump in no less than six
Congress districts in three different
States in favor of candidates every
one of whom was defeated while his
recent Oratorical efforts in Maine have
been followed by political disaster, the
Portland Argus nnkindly suE- ests that
if tie Democrats in Pennsylvania and
Ohio have any donhts about the result
of the coming elections they should
prevail on the Republican State Com
mittees to put Blaine on the stump.
In commenting upon tiB imPuta-
tons cast upon jefferson Davis, in
connectied with the Andersonvillc
prison, the Macon Telegraph publish
cs. the following result of an investiga-
ton made in 1868: ON reply to a res
olution of the House of Representa-
tivcs, calling upon the Secretary Of
War for the number 81 prisoners
of either side held, and that
died during the war, he makes the
following report: Number Of Union
prisoners South, 2C0,940; died, o.
595. Number of Confederate prison
ers North. 100000; died, 24,415."