The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-06-01
GENERAL NEWS.

have over SIS, 100000 invested in
their various enterprises.
President Grant, it is said, expects
to make tour of the world upon the
close of his term of Office.
Almost pure chalk exists in vast
beds in Trego, Kansas, and a house
has been builtof sawed blocks of it.
An Alabama Granger claims to
have grown 221 bushels of corn upon
an acre of ground. Now see what a
Granger can do.
Smallpox has made its appearance
in San Francisco since the arrival of
the Colorado from China. Thirteen
cases are reported.
Prince Frederick, Crown Prince of
Denmark, is i'll, and it is feared that
he and the King of Greece contract-
ed fever at Rome.
The President has nominated Ed
ward T. Beale, of the District of Co.
lumbia, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria.
The Cocheco cotton mills, at Dover,
N. H., will shut down during the
month of August, owing to the large
amount of print cloths on hand and
dull sales.
In Egypt three out of five children
die before reaching the age of two
years. This is about the rate of NOR
tality among Presidential candidates
in the United States this year.
Sixteen hundred young women in
Cleveland are pledged not to associate
with men of tipping habits. Other
cities have large numbers of women
who have made the same VOW.
Although the prosperity of Egypt
almost depends upon the cotton crop,
yet Egyptian cotton that used to sell
at shilling a pound in Liverpool
now only fetches seven pence.
An elegant silver pitcher salver and
two goblets were presented to j. H.
Estill, Esq, President of the Georgia
Press Association, by the members at
the recent session in Savannah.
A telegram from Capt. Eads to Col.
Elliot, secretary of the South Pass Jet
ty Company, says the steamship New
Orleans went to sea through the jet
ties, drawing II feet and 3 inches.
The Nashville American has re-
ceived information of the lynching of
Demp Preacher, colored, by twenty
men, at Eddyville, Ky, at one o'clock
on the Oath, for outraging the person
of Mrs II. G. Stevens.
Official inquiry into the origin of
the Salonica outrage shows that the
American Consul was absent when the
Bulgarian girl arrived, and that his
brother sheltered her one night. The
investigation is still progressing.
The announcement was made Sat-
urday on the New York Produce
Exchange that 26 vessels were charter
ed to take grain to Europe in view of
the approaching war. An advance in
freight is looked for in consequence.
Another prominent candidate for
Governor of North Carolina annOunc-
es himself: II will heare announce my
self as candidate for the Guvenent
election Mex foil d | will give Equel-
right to all yours respectfully Rev.
James Anderson cOlored.'
Nine cadet midshipmen of the Sec
ond and third classes, at Annapolis,
have been required to resign or suffer
expulsion from the academy for theft. |
Samples of gentlemen's FURNISHING
goods were deposited in the room of a |
first class man by a Baltimore drum>
mer and during his absence were taxi
en-.
The grain prospect in Texas, all |
through the region of country ada
cent to the upper Brazos river, ernbrac-
ing the counties of Hill, johnson,
Bosque, Manche, Hamilton and 9th
ers. is splendid, and an immense yield |
is looked forward to. The cotton is
remarkably fine, too, being up every
where, and as clean as sweeps and |
hoes can make it.
A man just from Custer City says
that on the night % the 10Th, that
place was attacked by Indians, who
burned the ammunition house in the
center of the city, which in blowing
up destroyed several. About 1000 |
people live in Custer. Nothing can
be done on account of the Indians. |
Fa man goes mile from camp alone,
he loses his scalp
A negro, very black, and white
girl, very pretty, were recently mar
ried in Cas-, Iowa. The husband is
forty years old, and not only lacks
comeliness OF person, but has 10 men,
tai attractions. The wife is the edu-
Gated daughter of a wealthy farmer,
and aged sixteen. Her father tried
to prevent the marriage by ifnplison-
ing her, and to invalidate it by legal
means, but succeeded in neither at
tempt. The negro, however, has
been driven out of the town bya mob.
The casting of the colossal statue of
Liberty, to be erected by Frcnchmen
in New York harbor, is now going on
near Paris, and We are given an idea
of the great size of the statue by the
statement that the shoulders are over
forty feet broad, and the head twenty
three feet high from chin to crown.
1t is also said that man can easily
conceal himself in some the folds Of
the drapery. The statue is to be COM
memorative of the good will between
France and the United States, but it
is to be utilized as a lighthouse in
New York harbor.
A letter from Il. Mott, one of the
Company of Cincinnatians who left
for the Black Hills some time since,
dated Kearney Junction May q, states
that the Indians are on the warpath,
killing miners at fearful rate. Miners
are returning to the States by the hun
dred. He says that out Of forty-two
men at Deadwood, twenty-seven of
them have been killed by the red dew