The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-07-06
GENERAL BREyIrIEs.

CONNECTICUT only averages hang
ing once in FIVE years.
JERSEY cranberries are nov EXPORTED
all the way to Germany.
DARrrS. Ga, has a colored youth
GodfrsE- Jackson, who threatens civil
procesfiinqs against white barber fol
refusing to shave him ,szl -liii-l
A WISCONSIN farmer says that mex
winter will be a severe one. He say.
that g4epever a heavy crop of hay il
taken from the ground bad winter i,
sure TO follow.
AMISSEsoTA paper advertises a sme.
chanical grasshopper exterminatOr 2
but it does not explain what a mechan,
ical grasshopper is, or why it should be
eXterminated.
HUNG We, All Wo, Chang We and
Sin Wo were expelled from Reno, New,
the other day, by an anti-Chinese soci-
ETY., and IN leaving the town one Wo
did tread upon anOther's heels, SO fast
they followed.
THE surplus of wheat in California
for shipment this season is estimated at
seven hundred and fifty thousand tons,
whichexceeds by two hundred thousand
tons the surplus of the crop of 1875.
A NEW religion has been founded in
Japan. 1t is very simple and has many
followers. All one has TO do is TO pray
to god called Honmen, and any thing
that you want for in this world is at
once obtainable. .rr
A QUARREL interrupted a game of
poker in Carson, New, and while the
players were thus occupied bystanders
stole theS200 that was on the table.
One of the thieves was afterward
caught, and threat to lynch him in
duced return of his part of the plum
der. ..I
NEAR Poughkeepsie, N. Y, is a cot
tonwood or swamp poplar tree, recent
ly felled, which measures 1875 feet in
height, feet and inches in diameter
two feet from the ground, where it was
cut off; 4 feet and inches in diameter
thirty feet from the ground, and each
of its largest limbs was large tree in
itself. Its rings show it to have been
only 60 wears old, and the person by
whom it was transplanted is said to be
now living. -
QUITE a sensation has been caused in
Belgium by the extremity rare occur
renee of fatal duel there. Each of
the cOmbatants was to FIRE two shots /;
Lieutenant M, attached to the War
Office at Brussels, fired his first shot in
the air ! Captain H., of the Fourteenth
Regiments the Line, fired twice and
missed bis antagonist, who thereupon
lodged his second bullet in his adver-
sary's heart, and gave himselfup to the
authorities.
AT Winnebago (Minn.) Agency, q
Jews days ago, some persons who were
exhuming a body that had been buried
some II years before, in attempting to
lift the coffin were surprised at the ex-
traordinary weight, and on opening it
they found that the body, and also the
clothing, were petrifed, and had as
sumed a delicate slate color. The body
was perfect, except a slight crack in
the face, probably made in removing it
from the grave.
The dog casen which has stood for
ayes dS bne SDnOhylH Ol peUllneSS III uJl-
cation must yield precedence hereafter
TO the eat case, a sample whereof has
Just been tried in San Francisco. The
complaint charged the defendant with
keeping, harboring and otherwise main
tanning 4 ferocious and mischievous
cat, and alleged that the complainant
by said cat had been attacked, bitten
and clawed to the extent of $50 in surgi-
cal and medical attendance and $1,000
in lacerated feelings. The jury has not
yet reported.
THE Morgan City Oa.) Register
gives an account of the capture of a
shark by Mr.. Hamilton, assistant keep
er of Ship Shoal light, the contents of
the stomach of which were miscellane
Gus and interesting. On cutting it open,
there was found in its stomach, among
other articles, a watch, two metal but
tons, and a buckle, which had evident
" come from a pair of pantaloOns.
The monster had probably made meal
of some poor unfortunate. The watch
is full jeweled, patent lever, gilded,
and numbered S5.53S.