The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-17

Nashville ,B-nner: Mr.. Christopher
/ Brandon, Of Stewart county, the father o.
| Col Ns5f an Brandon. senator from Stewart
and Montgomery. presents remarkable
Gaze OF vitality. de is lightweight years
| old. aud is apparently as active and sprighay
now rs at any time of his life. he has mar
/ ried four times and is the father of twenty
seven children. They rance all-the way
| from one year old TO sixtysthree years.
Savannah News: The number OF little
negro children cremsted in the interior OF
| the state through carelessness is really start
| ling. On last Monday evening Dick Walker,
colored, living on the place OF Mr.. Z. ID,
| Walker, seven miles from Ddblin. lett his
three little children in the house in charge
OF their older sister, about twelve years OF
age. Soon afterward the house took fire,
and the girl ran out, leaving the children IN
the house, where they were burned up,
Assumption ia Pioneer: The crop
prospects throughout the entire length and
| breadth of this parish are very fsttering.
On nearly every sugar plantation the cane
both plant and stubble, is springing up
handsomely in response to the caresslng
spring weather, and occasional opportune
rainfalls. The season was unusually fsvora-
| BILE for planting the well-preserved seed~
cane, and at present writing, for cultivation,
the earth is in splendid condition. Labor
seems to be plentiful.
Houston Telegram Every day MUIR
! derers are turned loose or condemned TO
nominal imprisonment in the already over
crowded penitentiaries, and on all hands are
| heard complaints of the expense of MAIN
tanning thousands of criminals in prison.
So violently has the fever of economy in
| spending money on the punishment OF GRIM
inals taken hold of our authorities in Texas
that it is considered perfect godsend If
prisoners Will only take the trouble to escape
and keep out of sight OF the law officers.
Such murders as those of Aston and
of Elliott are not without their good effects.
| The grand jury in Atlanta returned seventy
| five true bills in a jiffy, and demanded Of
the county's representatives in both branch>
es of the general assembly an effort to pass
| law that shall put an effectnal blockade and
stop to the = buying, selling, owning, pos
sessing, loaring, borrowing, or bringing into
the state, any pistol or pistols, or in buying
or selling any pistol cartridges" Among
! those indicted for carrying concealed deadly
weapons are two women.
The act recently passed by the Tens
nessee legislature regulating the sale OF PTS
tolls, makes it a misdemeanor to bring into
giving away or otherwise disposing of any
belt or pocket pistol except army and navy
pistols. ANY person guilty OF violation Of
this law shall pay a fine of not less than
twenty-five nor more than one hundred
dollars, and may be imprisoned at the dis
erection of the court. Grand jurors are re-
quired to present persons charged with
violation OF this law, and they may be pres
scented without prosecutor.
Court proceedings at Rio Grsnde City,
Texas: During the trial of one party, in
dicted for murder, his honor became some,
what excited, and dismissed the district at
torney, ining him $50. He had a verdict
written odt of not guilty and asked the
Jury il that Wss their verdict. Eleven ans
swered in the affirmative, one answered 10.
He thereupon ordered the sheriff to release
the remaining prisoners in Jail. The sheriff
refused to obey the oroer, and his honor had
court adjourned until afternoon. On its
reassembling be had the district attorney
called, and falling to answer, after being
called four times, he was fined 800 in addI-
ton to the S25. The only reasonable sOlu-
ton of this action of his honor is that he
had been imbibing too freely or the limpid
waters of the Rio Grande.
The Virginia legislature passed the
Mofiett register bill (amendatorY to the
present law. The principal amendments
are First, that the registers are required to
be placed on the counters; one painted IN
red and the other in black; tax on the alec
holic drinks reduced from two and a-halt
to one and a half cents, and mat drinks
a half cent drink. On spirituous liquor
sold by the gallon at retail, "a cents for the
first gallon, and for all above that quantity
20 cents; the record OF sales to be kept IL
book furnished by the auditor, and paid for
bv the dealer. Monthly returns 10 be veriN
fed by the dealer upon his oath. The bill
came back to the senate Saturday, and that
body cOncurred in the house amendments.
The bill goes to the governor. The Changes
IN the law will reduce the revenue TO one
half what it was for the past year.