The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-04
GENERAL >Ewx.

served under the first Napoieondurlng
ali his campaigns, died recently in the
Bourbon county, Ky, poor-house.
Hon. Charles w. Jones, the new
Florida senator, is said to be carpen-
ter by trade, a lawyer by profession,
and a gentleman and statesman by ma
ture.
On the plains of Texas is found a
little flower called the Compass flow
err which in all changes of wind and
weather points its leaves invariably to
the north.
The North Carolina House of Rep
resentatives is considering the question
Of expelling J. w. Thornc, the Repre-
sentative from Warren county. because
of the non-belief in the existence of
God.
A Troy fool got a heafs heart. put
a golden arrow worth S75 through it,
and sent it TO a Try young woman
for a v>lentine. The fair creature
gave :hc heart to her poodle, but will
keep the arrow.
G. q. Webb, and wife, parents of
Ann Elizl Young, BFighsm's rehelli-
GUS wife, have just been excommuni-
Gated by the Mormon High Council
from the Church.of Latter Day saints.
Reason, spostacy.
The number of bales Of cotton seized
in the South under orders from the
Treasury Department after the close Of
The war WAS 1858; gross proceeds,
81 .650,676; total expenses, $780,
43l; proceeds released, S603, $40; pro-
cee'is in the Treasury, SI,6S6,672.
Waynesboro, Ga, cl inns Il lady who
gave birth to five children in one year
-triplets in January and twins in
December. Her mother had pre-
yiously given birth to tliplets, her
sister is the mother of twins, and
each of her two daughters hiss si,.n
birth to tripiets.
Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth
wife of Brigham Young, now a CON
vert to Christianity, is drawing large
houses to hear her lecture exposing
the polygamaus life in Utah She says
Brigham is governed absolutely ly
Amelia Folsom, his fayolite wife.
He supports his numerous wives and
thiyty--ix children on paltry Income
OF $40, 900 per month.
Col. Meacham, of Mo,loc m 's,icre
fame, i, to travel through the country
rs Interpreter f'r a troupe of MoiJc
Indians. Mr. Redpath, the Boston
lecture manager, is the owner of the
show, having secured from the Presi-
deaf an order that the Indians shah
not leave their reservation under any
cody else's control. The proposed di.
vision Of profits il not described.
The North Carolina Senate has
passed a bill Oh It's third reading t.
adjust the State debt. 1t provides fol
the funiing of the debt, as follows
For old debt and registered certi6
Gates, forty cents on the dolllr; fol-
funded internal improvement bonds
/ twenty Eve cents GA the dollar. Il
does not include construction and spe
cial tax bonds. The following inter
est is to be paid For the first tw'
wears, two per cent; next FIVE, f'u
Per cent, next twenty Eve per cent
Notice is given that a Supplemental
, Ill viii be introduced to fund speci&
TAX bonds.
4 letter from Annapolis says an
o!her cadet has been dismissed frOiE
! he Naval Academy on account Of tn
,olored cadet. During last weoi
Gurdon Claude, of Annapolis, cade
engineer, was ordered to fence viii
the negro milshipmaD, which he re
fused TO do. lie was then told to re
ign. lie would not do that, though
le disliied to ,iisobey orders. III
gas then informed that he sh uld con
uit with bis parents. This he did
when his father, DR.. Abram Claude
I'D he would not advise lin, leaving
| i to the Young mans judgment. DR.
laude, however, went to the SGperln
rnieEt and told him his son Wa
ai.ed Sogtherper, and not un soci-
quality with the negro, aud he wonl'
ut advise him to d. what he wou!,
not do himself. "a this, Claude vi,
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