The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-19
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

unusually large Inls year
San Antonio, Texas, has two miles of
brand~new street railway.
The last session of the legislature cost
the State of Texas 100000, ~.
Mobile by her present form of govern
mentsaves 1000 monthly. ~.
jefferson Davis was seventy-One years
Of age the third day Of june
4 The Macon Telegraph recommends the
destruction of ailanthus trees.
Charleston, S. c., has just shipped
600 barrels of potatoes north.
Memphis is going to have the biggest
sort of fourth of July celebration.
Captain Eads is eighteen months
ahead of his contract on the jetties.
An English geologist puts down the
age of the rocks in Texas at 100000 900 years.
David Mayberry, of Murfreesboro,
Tenn, has Just died at the age of 106 years
The sanitary committee o. New Or
cans is distributing disinfectants Q dtui-
tously.
Savannah has successfully funded two
millions of her seven per cent. bonds at ti'v e
per cent.
Indians on the Texas frontier ne
numbering women and children andsteali ng
property.
The " baby bonds" of Georgia are orr
namented with the portrait of darling
little cherub. = ~ -
Forty bushels of wheat to the acre is
about the average of the present splendid
crop in Georgia.
TLo,o nm ,oxy four+aar ,ourJn,arS -,
Texas who have been found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
The Charleston Is c. custcm-house
cost the government S4,000,O00, and was
twenty years building.
The business of sheep-rsising is in
creasing in Texas. Half a million will be
shipped from Waco alone.
Cage Banks, colored, late OF Brandon,
Miss, writes to say that he had rather live
in the Mississippi penitentiary than in
Kansas.
The farm known as Lammermoor, in
Essex county, Va, which before the war
sold for $4,000 was sold Monday last at
auction for $3.50.
The confederate monument at Thorn
asville, Ga, will be unveiled June 10. 1t is
twenty-five feet high, and was made by
Muldoon, Karins Co, OF Louisville, Ky.
The Austin Statesman SAYS Currie's
execution would be attended with keener
satisfaction than that of any red-handed
villain in that blood-stained commonwealth.
There are seventy cigar factories in
Florida all making imported Havana cigars,
which are considered very fine by smokers,
who think they are getting a struggled ar.
ticle.
Austin (Texas) Statesman Western
rivers and streams of all descriptions no
longer furnish beverage to men or cattle, and
there is great suffering in many places on
the plains Of Texas.
Mdme. Valentine Vredenburg, of New
Orleans, has Just been awarded $4,000, as
damages sustained by her in the loss of a
husband, who was torn in pieces several
months ago by bear in one of the public
parks.
: The board OF health of New Orleans
has adopted resolution requesting the gov
ernor TO modify his quarantine proclamation
against certain parts, so astto make the
period of detention 240 hours instead of
twenty days. @ h So
Miss Telfair recently died in Augusta,
Ga =, and bequeathed property to the amount
of $65,000 to charitable Institutions The
natural heirs have Just been defeated in the
lower courts, and will carry the case to the
supreme court.
The death-sentence of Rsndlin, who
old man Maddox al San AntoS |
MO and threw his body into the river, has |
been affirmed. This makes five nurderers
in Jail there whose death sentences have |
been affirmed.
Galveston News: Fears are enters |
tanned that the corn crop in western Texas, 1
owing to the drouth. viii not be sufficient to |
prevent suffering among the Rocky Nouns |
tain locusts, should they visit that section
on excursions. - 20 q
Galveston News: The last one of the
Fort Worth stage robbers has been killed |
while resisting arrest, ami the rest of them |
are either dead or in jail. 1t seems there ]
are drawbacks to complete success in every |
department Of human industry.
Within the past two years Natchez
has built cotton factory, every dollar of
the stock in which is owned by her own
citizens, and which is yielding the very
handsome return of nearly twenty per cent
on the investment.
Judge Billings, of the United States
court at new Oflcnus, udS ucClutu IlhL the
legislature could not repeal the vested
rights of the Louisiana lottery, and granted
an Injunction restraining the state authori
ties ana the police from interfering with the
lottery company. F n e.
Vanderbilt university at Nashville has
conferred upon Miss Lupton the degree of
master of arts, because" as the president
said, /" she won it in mastery manner; she
passed most satisfactorily all the eIamlna-
tons which the young men were subjected
to, and won it fairly and squsrely."
Between the ages of eight and four
teen there are of Texas children twenty in
every hundred who can not read or write,
and, of the colored population sixty out OF
every hundred. OF Texas white children.
between the ages mentioned, there are thirty
thousand who can not read.
The Galveston News says: The fact ia
admitted al around that immigration TO
Texas, II not coming 70 sn abrupt close, is
greatly on the wane. immigration agents
on the railroads are all discouraged. Real
estate in Texas has deprecated IN value
the last two years fully eight per cent.
The san Antonio Express says gentle
men from BIO Grsnde border towns report
that Mexican soldiers are DESERVING to the
Texas side OF the river in numbers. A
SQUAD of sixteen vsdsd the river at Eagle
pass. 1t is estimated that three hundred
men have escaped during the past TWO
months.
Little Rock Gazette: a gentleman
inst from Mount Ida saws thst the silver SEN
sstion is so intense there that great many
Of the farmers have neglected their farms
snd turned their attention to the develops
ment of mines, Many people are coming