The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Hon. Garnett Mcmillan, Demo-
cratic Congressman elect from the
Ninth District of Georgia, died at his
residence in GAINESVILLE, on the 18th
inst.
The colored people are agitating the
question of starting a Western Terri
tory Of their own. Why can't they
remove to Colorado? asks the New
York Commercial.
The Uragnayan government has
fallen, and the rebels are in power.
Pedro Varela, President Of the SEN
ate, has been elected provisional
President of the Republic.
There is said to be good authority
for stating that the British Govern
ment has demanded explanation and
apology from Peru for removing pas
sengers from a British steamer at
Callao.
The total miles of railroad open in
the United States January 1, 1879,
was 1926, of which Kentucky had
1873 miles, valued at So, 728,51l.
The investment in these works is at an
average cost Of $4,000 per mile.
The Detroit Free Press keeps boy
who is paid $50 a week to do nothing
but sit in chair and yell. ''Shut the
door" People who come up stairs on
business are thus saved the pain Of
hearing seven or eight men yell out i'll
succession.
Governor Amos proposes scheme
of State police for Mississippi, some
thing like the " National Constabu-
larry" that has bedeviled Ireland. The
machinery for the city of Vicksburg.
with three police commissioners, will
cost sl39, 800 per annum.
"Banditti Punch" is advertised by
the New Orleans saloon keepers, aud
when a gentleman wants a friend to
drink with him his invitation is thus
expressed; "Are you afraid?" The
friend answers, Il am not afraid
and the two proceed to splice the main
brace,
Three Chicago girls are about open
ing Il BARRIERS shop in that city. One
is to do the lathering, another the shaw
ing, while the third, a beautiful
blonde, is to sit on Il sort of throne,
and play on a harp and sing. The
outfit of this establishment, it is said,
will cost $4,000.
The State Grange of Illinois, now
in session, while declaring emph,ti
cal'y against forced loans Of tho -peo-
Pies money, to build private railroads,
aihrms its belief that competition and
the natural laws of trade afford q bet
ter safeguard against extortion than
railway legislation,
A surgeon who lodges over a butch
or shop in Paris, feels much agrieved
at the announcement on the shop
window that killing takes place
daily in this establishment. The
doctor considers that his professional
skill is impugned by the notice, and
resepts it sufficiently to 60 to law
about it.
General Hazen, in an article in the
North American Review, asserts that
the whole amount of available lal.d
for agricultural purposes in the mid
die States of the great West is so
small and the average rain so INSULT
cient that the new States must de-
cline, and the old States prepare for a
considerable Increase of population.
In the Bank of France they have
got brick for which they paid 1000
francs in specie. 1t was taken from
the ruins of burned house, and the
image and figures of a note far 1000
francs are burned on the surface,
transferred by the heat from a real
note. This brick the bank redeemed
on presentation, as if it were note
itself.
From the recent observation of
scientists taken Of the transit Of We
nus, the distance Of the sun from the
earth, in round numbers, is stated to
be S0,000,000 miles, instead of o..
600, 900, as We have hitherto been
taught and been held by astrOno-
mers. If these recent observations
are correct, all former ones were in
error, or else We are very rapidly APP
preaching the source Of heat and
light-the sun.
While Sarah Clark and Julia
Thompson, of Omaha, were engaged
in kickingata marx ina barn the other
day, their feet at the same instant
caught under a board that sprang
away from the beam to which it WAS
nailed, and there they were obliged to
stand until their cries brought help.
The board that held them was five
feet and seven inches from the tlaor,
and old Omaha sports say that not
man in the State could kick higher.
The following satisfies OF the pro-
duction and consumption of paper are
furnished by Vienna journal 1t