The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
GENERAL NEWS.
Russia has recognized King Alfonso.
Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris have arrived

Russia has recognized King Alfonso.
Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris have arrived
in New York
The Grand Cross Of the Order of
the Bath has been offered to Mr. Car
lyle, and Alfred Tennyson is to be
made Baronet.
Five hun ired and seventy-nine re-
cruits have been ordered for regiments
stationed at New Orleans, Atlanta
and Columbia, S. C. -
Another attempt was made last
week to burn the Navy Department
building. 1t is believed the fire Mon
day was the act Of an incendiary.
Cincinnati is in eminent danger of
an epidemic of small epox. The dis
ease has broken out in several of the
charitable institutions, and at last ac-
counts was rapidly spreading.
The Scientific American deprecates
the practice of promiscuous kissing
among children, which, it urges. is Il
most successful mode of scattering
diphtheria through a community.
The Committee on Naval Affairs
Saturday agreed to report of the |
subcommittee, recommending that
the navy yards at Washington, Phila-
delphia and New London beabolishea ]
The people of Mecklenlinrg COIN.
ty, North Carolina, are bent ON beat
ing Philadelphia, and will celebrate
in due form the Mecklenhurg Dec
laration Of Independence ON Nay
20, 1875.
A Rochester On. " Scientist re-
Gently dined with several friends, in
GLIDING two or three ladies, upon a !
nine-year-old rattlesnake, the flesh of |
which is said to have tasted like that !
of an eel. 2
The machine, car, blacksmith and |
pattern shops of the Memphis end
Little Rock railroad, in Argenta,
were burned at about 2 o'clock Sat:
urday morning: Loss, $4,000. No I
insurance. 'i'
The fastest railroad time on record |
is s;d to have been made not long
since on the New York Central rail
road by special train, which carried
a party Of officials from Rochester to
Syracuse, 81 mics, in 81 minutes.
1t was Henry Clay who said: 81
pray God in hi- goodness to send wars,
pestilenee and famine, any scourge
for the sins of the people, other than
a military chief for a ruler, and
wild, reckless enthusiasm for military
glory"
The Augusta Factory only cost the
$4,000, and yet the
has paid out since the war
81, 122 900 in dividends has spent
half million dollars for machinery
and Improvements, and now has a
property worth million dollars. =.
Tung Che, Emperor EFF China is
dead. He arrived at majority but
short time ago, and was married to
one wife and fonr assistant wives, with
a Score or soof concubines thrownsil. i
His successor is five year old, and
should indite an autograph letter to
of Spain. PM
Tee discovery of natural deposits of
borax in California in an almost pure
state has contributed largely to a re-
luctiOn of price in this salt. Foreign
borax ruled in this market previous
to these discoveries at thirty-ive cents
and upward but the present price is
thirteen to fifteen cents, and declin-
ing.
BY the terms of the late information
Il Postal Convention, held at Berne,
III accounts between this country and
Europe, except France, for interna-
ional correspondence, were abolished,
hus relieving the United States from
IN annual payment of about two hun
ired and fifty thousand dollars pos
age balance.
A skaters game of base ball, on !
he Hudson River, was interrupted,
N Saturday, by the parting of the
ioe, the pitcher, the second base, and
he field going one way, and the
;atcber, and the first and third base
he other. Its the only instance on
'ecord where the game of base ball
vas turned into prayer meeting.
At an examination in one Of the ! !
public schools of Wheeling, West :
Virginia, few days ago, youngster !
vas asked to name the different
orms of government Democracy
md Hypocrisy was the, reply:s.f
Under what form of government tIot
We liver asked the teacher. The f
'oy heSitated moment and then al: )
wered, Hypocrisy" ~
King Kalakaua is claimed BY
sorth Carolina as the descendant Of
Il. 80