The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-02-20
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

There are eight murdersrs in the Little
Rock Jail.
Only seventy one deaths in Nashville
in January,
The wheat crop is seriously injured il
Virginia and Alabama.
Negroes abont Vicksburg are prepar
ing for general emigration.
Nashville's debt lie $l,712, 600, and il
was increased last year 100000.
Texas is going to sell enough wild
lands 10 build a new state house.
Virginia has not dollar in her tress
ury, and legislature in session.
North Carolina has sent man to the
penitentisry for stealing horseshoe.
In South Carolina there are 30,s2S
whites and 235, 064 blacks who cannot read,
Some one says whisky drinking is like
sitting down on hornets discriminating
but not nourishing.
Isaac Brown. an octogeDsrian Of JEFF
fersOn county, Ala, has plowed the same
field for sixty.twO successive years.
In two years the governor of Texas
| pardoned Toe convicts. OF the number 45
were murderers, and 80 horse thieves.
The Atlanta Constitution estimates
| that during the past two seasons the farmers
of Georgia have paid out 5000 600 for
males.
Ii the Louisiana legislature, the house
| voted to repeal the Nofett register law, and
J in Alabama The house has indefinitely posts
poned the consideration OF The GOfett bill.
Farmers in Georgia, South and North
| Carolina and other southern states are b nd>
| ing together TO resist the encroschnents of
| dealers in fertilizers.
All over the south farmers continue to
| hypothecste their crops in advance, which
shows thst they are running at least one
wear ahead of their means. 80 Ezs4s
| Pope county, Minnesota, has not q sa-
loon of any kind within its limits, and its
| last term of court, besides dispensing with
grand ju y, only lasted half day.
At temperance celebration at News
market, little lad appeares in the process
sion, b caring Dag on which was inscribed
the following: "Alrs right when daddy's
sober"
L. Frank Jonas, louisiana new senaN
! tor, is Hebrew, and is said to be the Sec
ond ever elected TO the United States sem
ate. The other was Judah n. Benjamin,
also sent from Louisiana. ..--.-s. - ~
At Denison. Texas, Buffalo Jack shot
| Ben Grant, aad was in turn shot through the
heart by an officer. At Isscogee, ]. T.,
! Wild Bill shot one Brows through the heart
and another man through the leg.
There arc one Thousand two hundred
| and seYeuty-t wo postC{a cei in Tennessee, out
OF thirty nine thousand six bbnSred and
seventy-Eine in the forty>nins states snd
territories, OF these, tevepiy. eight are
money, der offices.
Stray item; There is 8 colony some
where in North Carolina Of nine hundred
negroes. tt ~ are engaged in working 3
quarry. They have organized local sell
governme Mt and the whiPpipg-Post is the
principal peral institution.
The New Orleans mint is likely to meet
with an unexpected obstacle to its buIlnes
prospects. 1t is month since the depart
ment began to advertise for bids for silver
| bullion ID be delivered NJ the New Orleans
mint, but as yet there have been DO offers.
Terrebonnc claims to be the banner
sugar ps rish oi Louisiana. The crop for the
wear 1873 is estimated at about 600 hOCs-
| heads, the SAGE amount Of hOgsheads pros
! duceG in 1S6l-less enough uncultivated
! lard luncul6 waited in 1861 TO produce q
surplus of 10000 hogsheads.
The Great National Dog Fight will
not take place IN Louisiana. The Iegisis-
| ture passed bill tHat puts n liue OF 500
| and three months imprisonment on the lad
vance agents" OF the twenty-one trained
bulldogs sent down by the advanced civili-
cation Of New York. Mr. Bergh's letter
did the buslnes'I -.
Nashville BaaDeI: lpls>s, remarkauie
fact that during the present term OF the
criminal court more lawyers have been adj
! mitced to the bar than there were criminals
convicted. n ,shville is full of old and yOuu z
lawyers, and how they sill man age to make a
living is one OF those things (Which nobody
can correctly ascertain. s.. Eas -.
Some years ago one Cannon hired a
man in Texas to murder AN enemy. The
| man who did the murder was condemned u
die, but the night before the day set for eI-
ecutic his wife brought him poison ID hei
mouth, an both were dead wneu found the
next morning. Cannon has just been cap
tured, and will probably hang.
Charlotte Observer: Information has
been received at the assay Office at q mug
get of gold, in the pure state, was recently
found in Csbsrrus county, near the Pioneer
mills, which weighed over thirteen ounces
ornesrly one pound. 1t 10 y weh.kEewu
act that the largest lump OF gold IN the
United States was picked up in Csbsrru,
county many years go.
Hon. .Jonn A. Cobb, OF Georgis. hs,
$4,000 bushels OF corn on his plantation O
asst years crop, and all of this corn is ye
on the cob. He has q steam corn>sheller
that can shell one hundred and twent,
bushels per day. This gentleman is ore Z"
the progressive farmers OF the country. Il,
l - L 81, 49, a l..
Of cotton, and keeps his stock in the hes
order.
Geo. Gustsve : Rossesu, who grsdu
,ted at West Point in 1873. and served Us
volunteer in the Mexican war, dropped deaC
as he was driving along the road III his bugg,
in Ascension parish, la. Inc on Twin;
graduate of West Point from Louisiana, VIII,
9-aduated before General Rosseau, is ex
1 Governor Joshua Be- ker. whose date OF grad
marion Is 1919. Governor Baker is at pres
emit a planter 90 the Teche-
Lsst Sunday Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard
Iii, of Thomas Leonard, died in Granite
v,Ile : C. Al the venerable age of 10
lars She WAS born in Buckingham county
" IN The 18th of D ecember. l7Il, ant
.n,iyrated 10 South Carolina when she wa
seventeen yesrs OF age, and llVed nea
Ninety.six. She raised twenty-five orphan
orsrdchildren. Al the funeral was her oni,
Surviving son, over eighty years OF age
Around her grave stood this son, grand
, ctiId fifty six wears Old, several great grand
, children over forty years OF age, greatgrea'
|r.r6cb;ldren twenty-five years old, snd
,nn,her of great neutrality-suspicious.
80 generations ia slI. There are living a
,r.ssrI eighty Of her descc1 dsnts, and tw'
n,ndr-d and ten have died, making alto
2 gether nearly three hundred.