The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-08

| sl0ners
The citizens of New Orleans are &C.
tive in putting tie city in good sanitary con-
di1on.
Thirteen hundred cases are before the
supreme court o. Tennessee, representing
five million 6oEass and twenty thousand
litigants.
A negro named johnson Spencer has
been lynched rees Ssarkville, Mississippi,
for barn burning.
The prospect Of the corn and cotton
crop in Mississippi is promising. The plant
ers are busy and hopeful.
The recently planted crops in Alabama
suffered greatly by the heavy rains. Large
areas will have to be zeplsnted.
Gen. Simons, who recently died in
Charleston; was in command OF the southern
forces when Fort Sumter was attacked.
Four hundred illicit distiIlers are to
| be brought before the federal court at Nash
vile, There are eight hundred witnesses.
If the new Indian Territory is opened,
| it will secure Galveston Two new lines of
railroad connecting her with the "new
west"
A mad dog ia Chesterfield county, S.
| c., recently biz Er. Tucker, who in turn bit
two of his children, and the lives of all
three are despaired of.
Houston, Texas, has voted to place
| herself practically Cbder the control of the
Galveston board Of health, so fer as matters
| Of quarantine are concerned.
The Natchez cOtton-mill has been in
| operation less than a year, and SO great has
| been the SUCCESS that the stockholders are
about to increase its facilities.
The white Taxpayers of Selma pay
annually over three thousand dollars to
support hospital and furnish q physician
and medicines for the colored population.
"The remains of the old fort" says
the st. Augustine Press, thrown up by
| Oglethorpe in 1740, when he attacked the
city, are still to be seen on Anastasia island"
Trucking in the eastern part OF North
Carolina is a growing industry. Last week
contracts were made for the delivering Of
5000 bushels Of green peas in northern
markets.
Poindexter, who killed another clerk
in Richmond for remarking upon the SYM
metry of his (P.'s) sweethesrt's ankle, has
been sentenced to two years in the peni.
Tertiary.
Another instance of how people de-
mand quarantine and then don't pay Tor il
The state of Texas owes the city Of Calves
ton twenty odd thousand dollars on the
quarantine account.
The crops of northern Texas are all in
fine order. 1t had been thought that the
wheat crop would be lost by the drouth, but
the recent rains have revived it, and all is
fourishing.
The Knoxville papers announce the
death of Prot. Warren DuPre, president of
Martha Washington college, at Abingdon,
Va. He was an eminent man in The N. E.
church south.
South Carolina can make more money
in wheat, hay and oats than in cotton, and
produce as much grain to the acre as in the
west; so the Agricultural society of that
state affirm in their report.
Three little children near Augusta
ate honeycomb which had been made from
yellow jasmine. One died in fifteen min.
utes, aud the others were made blind TEN,
porarily, and only saved by free use of
sweet oil and milk.
Mississippi is TO have convention at
Vicksburg in May to take into consideration
the present agitation of the labor question.
The planters hope to stop the emigration of
the colored people north, and call upon the
eolored people to send delegates.
The Mississippi St6ckb5etjeys' sssoci,
alton are to hold a CONVEX ton, The purpose
of which is to try ana Il dQte planters to
emancipate themselves TrcIa the thraldon
of king cotton and devote IN l.selves to tus
better paying pursuit Of stock raising
DR.. Pratt, the gentleman wh9 dis
covered and first develo, the immens,
L
Georgia, and says that Georgia has the ma,
terial and Atlanta can Manufacture ferti-
lizers cheaper than any place in the eountry.
Savannah is reported by DR.. LeHardey
in a paper read before the Georgia Medical
association, to be in such a condition that
yellow fever, if imported, could no more
prevail there as an epidemic than could the
seeds of any plant spring up and bear fruit,
if seminated on a barren rock.
Charlotte; vile (Vs) Chronicle: Mr.
Warner Wood, of " Fsrmlngton," lost four.
teen of his best sheep few nights ago
through the bloodthirstIness OF proving
dogs. Some of them were pure Cotswolds, |
one of them a valuable buck. and two of
them ewes, purchased by Mr.. Wood in Ken.
lucky at high figure.
The proclamation of Governor Rob-
erts, establishing quarantine along the coast
of Texas against all vessels from, or that may
touch at, any point south of latitude %
degrees north, to take effect from and after
April %, ! 779, and against any other part or
place at which contagious or epidemic dis
ease may exist, is published in the Galveston
News of the 2Sd inst.
The presidents house st William and
Mary college, Virginia, came near burning
down few days ago. This house was built
in 1892, and was acciden' ally burnt by the
French troops, under Lafayette, on their
wav TO the battle of GOrkto"u n ISL. II
was then rebuilt by Louis WI. out. of MS
private funds, and has survived the fires
which have since then so often destroyed the
college. 1t is the only house in Virginia
built by reigning sovereign.
Nashville American: An amusing in
c:dent is related of deputy-marshal Chap |
man and a noted distiller Of OVerton county. |
Chapman and posse surrounded his house, |
and knew he was in it. After making search |
and failing to find him, he politely requested |
his wife, who was sitting on chest, to rise. |
The good lady obeyed, and the chest proved |
to be locked on the inside. He turned it on |
end, when the man on the inside, having his |
hesd do=nwsrG, called for quarter and sur
rendered.
Atlsnts Constitution There is law |
n Gsorgis. end, We believe, in other south |
ern states, which prohibits the intermsri 4
rage of races. With possibly one or two /