The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-01
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


There were more divorces than mar
riages in Houston, Texas, last week.
Chattanooga is about to fund her city
debt, which only amounts to $4,000.
There are 4,O00,O 900 acres of land in
Alabama subject to entry or homestead.
Charleston is shipping daily by ex-
press 1880 quarts OF strawberries 70 ne"
York.
The whale driven on the North Caro-
lima coast is said to be worth not less then
$500.
Commissioner Killebrew, of Tennessee,
REPORTS wheat in tine condition and corn
backward.
The cold snap caused great deal of
corn and cotton, even as far south as Fiorlda,
to be plowed up and planted over.
In Louisiana negro had a dog killed
bv a train, and in revenge he ditched a
freight train and wrecked eleven cars.
Jake Sommerville gets ninety-nine
years in the Texas penitentiary, for the MUIR
der of Chas. Roberts, three years ago.
Robbers entered the house of j.
Fisher, stockman, near Dayton, Texas, put
pistols to his wife's head, and made her
hand over $4,000.
The New York holders of Tennessee
bonds have agreed to accept the compro-
mise of fifty cents on the dollar and four
per cent. interest.
In Florida there are seventy cigar
factories, The largest is that Of Sidenberg
& Co, at Key West, where l0,7OS, l70 cigars
were made il 1878.
Courier Journal: In Memphis, last
Monday, eight widows took out licenses to
marry as many widowers.Y elbow fever makes
strange bedfellows.
During the war an old bachelor named
McKissick was killed near Waco, Texas, and
the other asy. while tearing down his
shanty, a negro found $S:065 in gold.
The Lane cotton mill in New Orleans
was established in 1857, now runs IS looms
and 2707 spindles, employees 70 operatives
and makes 1000 yards Osnaburgs day.
The crops in North Carolina have
been somewhat retarded by drouth ard cold.
The open weather has been favorable Tor
work, however, and the farms are IN nne
condition in the main.
The Herald says it hailed in Dallas
Wednesday for one hour and hall. Birds
were killed, fruit knocked off the trees, and
other damage done. Crops are too BACK
ward to be much hurt.
The tornado that destroyed Walter
boro, s. c., killed three white and three col
ored persons outright, and wounded three
whites severely and three colored persons
MORALLY. Seven churches were destroyed.
The Fort Worth Democrat thinks
that should Currie's lawyers get the cow
ardly murderer of on the plea of insanity,
therz will be a general regret throughout
the State that there is no law in Texas to
hang lawyers.
The lsdiea Of Columbus have got the
soldiers monument after fourteen years OF
work. 1t will be unveiled on the 10Th. Ooy'
Colouitt, of Georgia, will deliver the ad-
dress, and Gov. Cobb and Ex.Gov, Watts, OF
Alabama, will be present.
Among the articles placed in the cor
ner stone of the Columbus confederate mon
Ument was piece of the bloody battle nag
of the 18th Georgia regiment, IN carrying
which seven men were killed in the battle
of Sharpsburg, and several Others wounded.
A man IN Taylor county, Fla, says
he has over FIVE hundred One-year- oiG peachh
trees, planted from the seed by himself in
March, 1878. They are now full OF fruit,
which bids fair to be ripe by the 1st of May.
He believes there is more money in early
peaches in Florida than In oranges. -
Under q new enactment of the Texas
legislature, physicians, not permanent, are
taxed $50; each horse entered for less than
a quarter race, $25; over quarter. $40;
each bull-fght, etc., $500; lie insurance
companies, $1,000. The state tax on BARRIERS
was stricken out.
The Savannah city council have re-
solved that the board of education be notis
fed that there are no funds now in the city
treasury to meet the appropriation of &c..
600 TO the board Of education, and that
there is no prospect OF there being any
during the present year.
Virginis's amended Mofett liquor
law will go into effect on the LIST Of May. 1t
seems to be understood that bar-keer ers
will reduce the price of spirituous liquors
from fifteen to ten cents after that time, and
no drawbacks or checks for "a cents, as is
the case now, will be given.
Fifty.eight persons joined the d:e--.-
emf churches of Salisbury, n. c., last Sun.
dav-a part of the fruits OF Miss Painters
revival. Over one hundred have made a
profession OF faith during the meeting, ullu
large number are still at tie al ar: Win
Dolly and nightly accesslons.
The rice fields on the Cape Fesr river,
near Wilmington, which have lain idle and
grown up with weeds since the war, have
been reclaimed and planted this season by
several energetic parties, who expect to
raise at least two hundred thousand bushels
of rice in the next five years.
Galveston News: The proclamation
nv the governor of quarantine against GER
tain ports from whence danger is to be APP
preheuded during the summer will probably
be issded in a few days, and arrangements
W, II be made for the accommodation of pas
sengers who may be so unfortunate as to be
detained at the quarantine station.
Vicksburg Herald Be it enacted, that
anv citizen of Mississippi who makes oath
| that he carries a concealed weapon because
| he fears an attack upon his life, shall be fur
uished with a guard, armed with a musket
TO protect said citizen, etc., End that any
| citizen found with concealed weapon, who
does not make oath that he fears au attack
and who is not entitled TO carry one, shall
be imprisoned in the county jail thirty days
Atlanta Constitution: s nator Cor,
dou's sheep rancho is at 1y.Ty station. i
comprises 10000 acres of good land. The
senator's son, hugh Il. Gordon, is the man
ager of the rancho in his father absence
He is an enthusiastic sheep farmer, snd II
lust starting with flock of 1880. Sever
miles of wall have been put up.
Montgomery (Als.) Advertiser: Tht
rep5rts of the Advertisers state exchanges
concerning the fruit and held crops gener
ally show that the last cold weather de-
stroved nearly all the former, and where an!
of the latter was above ground, it was alsC
! DESTROYED. In some OF the lower counties bu
yery little injury was done, but in the
northern counties the destruction seems t.