The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

? Georgia coal is largely sold in South
Carolina.
Two buckets of water sell for nickel
in Burnet, Texas.
There are but two republican newspa
pers in Arhsnsss.A ~ 81
Property in Galveston county, Texas,
is assessed at,s17 100000,
3 Natchez, Mississippi, is preparing to
build smother large cotton factory.
The cotton mills Of columbus con,
sumo annually ae, $50 bales of the staple.
Prospects of good crops in some por-
tions of South Carolina are gloomy. Drouth
The acreage of the Arkansas cotton
crop will be foEr per cent. larger than last
year.
San Diego, Texas, is excited. 1t is tc
have q new court housesthirty by fifty feet
in sire. sbSlAsss w
Owing to the drouth, it is thought
that the corn crop in southern Texas will
be failure.
Miss Owens, eff Wilcox county, Ga,
sheareG thirty sheep in thirty.nine minutes
by the watch the other day.
Commissioner Killebrew reports that
the Tennessee hog crop will be small in
comPariseH with previous years q
The once powerful tribe Of Seminole
Indians have dwindled away to about 40G
ypersons, located insoutk Florida.E 4"
AN agricultural Interests in Louisians
are sheaithy Condition, and It is said the
farmers were never more prosperous.
Life-saving stations are to be erected
in Texas at Sabine pass, Galveston island,
pass Caysllo, Arkansas and Brazos Santiago,
The Episcopal council of Arkansas
jtablisha cathedral church in Little Rock,
3 President Chopin, of the New Or,
leans board of health, states the health of
the city to be excellent. ard the rate of
mortality very low.
Only $1,000 of the required $4,000
are yet to be raised to erect the monument
to the unknown dead in Stopewan GENE.
terry, Winchester, Va.
Ninety-six thousand dollars of the
first mortgage bonds of the Selma, Meridian
and Memphis railroad were sold at auction
The, otneF day for 1890:
\ Drouth and caterpillsrs are threaten
ing destruction to crops around Glsnville,
Ala. The corn crop about Hampstead,
Texas, is ruined, and the cotton poor.
Memphis Appeal: Nearly $50, 900 will
be saved to the people of Memphis during
the current fiscal year by the taxing district
government. Nearly $S5,000 have been
saved by reduction of expenses in the pc.
lice and fire departments.
Galveston News: The schooner NJ.
Clark has arrived from Boston with load
of furniture. The vessel is of 100 tons bur.
den, and is fitted up with machinery for
refrigerating fresh meats. 1t is intended to
load the vessel here with fresh meat for
northern port. w
Memphis Appeal: Adams and Mon
roe streets are to be paved the former with
tie Telford and the latter with the Belgian
pavement. Under the old city government
such gratifying progress could not have been
hoped for in % years. 1t speaks volumes
for the taxing district commissioners.
New Orleans Democrat: The Kansas
excitement has not yet subsidized in the par
ish Of East Baton Rouge. Last Sunday
morning between twentyland thirty negroes
left to put in their claim for" de hundred
and sixty acres, de mule de lumber for
q house, wid de carpenter to buiP it"
ALLA1td ODAoblbuttOu 4uc CDHlAfu Id
ton Of James Affords sentence to imprison>
ment for life is another nail in the coffin of
capital punishment. By this act of clems
ency the new law is made practically retro.
active, and hanging IN Georgia, in the words
of New York murderer, is nearly "plsyed
OUT
- Aberdeen Miss Weekly: Many prai
RE farmers estimate that the black belt will
not average more than half corn crop.
This gives to the sandy land farmers timely
warning to husband their forage crops care
fully, and to make preparations for winter
pasturage for cattle, horses and hogs-~,O
Palstka {Fla y Hersld We received
q turtle the other day which had marked on
his back the date Of 100, and also the Span.
ishA coat of arm, fndicstinS that this old
resident hssheen In existence179 years. A
few words in Spanish entheshelf were trans.
lated, which says: Caught in 100 by Her.
manda Gomez, in the st. Sebastian, and was
carried to Matanzas by Indians; from there
to the Great Wekivs" (Which is now the st.
Johns Riverl,