The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-06
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Memphis lZO olVErce SUITS.
Memphis is raising S25 Gee by private
subscription to clean the streets.
The A. and NJ. college, to he built at
Meridian, Miss. ths summer, will-cost $780,
900.
And now they say cattle are dying
about cnllman, Ala, with something like
yellow fever.
The legislature of Alabama has appro-
priated money to buy legs for all her citi>
zens who lost them fer the lost cause.
A Texas paper estimates that there
were at least three hundred persons muir
dered in that state last gear. Twelve men
were executed,
The Alabama legislature took recess
in December, and, with the exception of two
members, all charged the state mileagess the
total Being over $4,000.
Nearly every legislature in the south
has wrangled over the Mofie1 register end
whipping post bills, but Virginia continues
to have monopoly of both.
A Georgia darkey, whenshe was told
that dollar wac OUly worth eighty cents,
remarked "This is wusser'n cotton. Must
have been Dustin ersp of money made last
year" Er.
The bodies Of Mrs. Gray and her three
children, all firmly tied together, were
found in the river near Fort Worth, Texas,
few dBys ago. She drowned herself and
three children last June.
The poor farm established near Dallas,
Texas, for the purpose OF taking care of
paupers and working tramps, has cost in
twenty months 5000 more than its receipts.
Beef alone, cheap as it is il Texas, cost
e1210.
The farmers of South Carolina have
lost their heads in the heat of the fight with
fertilizer companies, and at one Of their
meetings discussed the question OF torclbly
resisting the shipment of phosphates out OF
the state.
Eddie Lswhorn, aged twelve, when
convicted of horse.stealing and sentenced TO
Imprisonment for FIVE years in the Texes
peuitentiary, laughingly said Five years
amt long. Why, l can stand on my head
most of the time"
A Young man who has tried everyH
thing else and failed, writes the Vieksburg
Herald to inquire the requisites for good
reporter and gets for answer: " A bottle of
whisky, a lead pencil, a cast-iron constitu~
ton and rhinOceros hide"
An Atlanta manufacturer says to q
Constitution reporter that the factories of
that city must purchase coal for Two dollars
a ton or close up. They pay now from four
to five dollars, while in Chattanooga it can
be purchased for from one dollar fifty cents
to two dollars.
In North Carolina last year three
million nine hundred and two thousand four
hundred young shad, eightynine thousand
California salmon, and over fifteen thousand
landlocked salmon were distributed, under
the management of the fish hatchers at
Avoca and Swannanoa gaps.
According to Adjutant General Jones
report, the aggregate strength OF the state
guard ofNorth Carolina is 1924. More than
fifty thousand dollsrs' worth of ordnance is
now in the hands of the troops Most of the
rifles are of the very latest improved breechr
loading patterns, worth eighteen dollars
apiece.
Richmond (Va.) State: The Rev.
Jasper delivered his sermon: Z" The Sun do
Meve," last night for the instruction and
delight of the members of the legislature
1t is highly proper "Brother Jasper" or
somebody else should tIy to convince them
that the earth, or the sun, or the moon, or
something, does really move. .....#
The Atlanta cotton actory has lain
idle two years. Certain subscribers refused
to pay because Kimball, the originator and
president had subscribed 100000 when he
had 40 property. The courts have decided
in favor of the non-paying subscribers. The
Lowell machine shop has enioined further
proceeding, and the immense establishment
lies idle.
Another appeal is sent forth by Profes.
sor Nenable, of the university Of Virginia,
under instructions from the society OF the
i. Il. IL, d. i
the amount necessary, 500 600, or at least,
$4,000, for the erection of an observatory,
that the gift of the telescope by Mr.. McCor,
mick may be- speedily utilized and the OBJ
seryOr's chair endowed.
Charleston News and Courier A
company Of enterprising northern men are
engaged on the EdiSto river in the business
of catching sturgeon, the flesh Of which is
sent north and converted into canned sal>
mon, while the spawn is sent to the same
place, and, after being prepared and canned,
comes back to us with a foreign trade mark,
ana is sold as Russian caviare.
Columbus Times: We have heard of
good deal Of meanness of late years, among
other things stealing the presidency, stealing
from "UBcle Sans" treasury, salary grabs,
stealing Stewards remains, and stealing
generally Of all sorts and sciptiOns, but
the meanest steal We have ever heard of, was
that of white man (so>called) lately Ia
Russell county, Ala stealing from a negro
his lawful wife. .....- ..
Several important bills have been
passed by the general assembly of Florida,
extending the benefits OF the internal i'm
pravemenl act to numerous canals and rail-
roads. The appropriations for the purpose
will exhaust pretty nuch ali of the public
lands controlled by the state They are
generally vslueiess in their present condi-
ton, and the osiy hope tor ever rendering
them profitable is to bring them into the
market by rURslng thoroughfares through
them.
Speakinr oi the recent railroad horror
near Selma, sc Argus says; Parker, while
living in Shanty as il were, gave anything
and everything he possessed to make conf
Portable those brought to his house, and
StoreT worked msuiully and faithfully from
first TO last to relieve the suffering. Their
skins may he black, but their hearts are
white as snow. and TOR their action in this
instance the recording angelwiIl drop tear
or many a shortcOming.
Knoxville Tribune: Mr. Swany, who
| lost leg during the war, was crossing the
railroad track at Blue Springs, three miles
from Greeuv1rIe. As he stepped upon the
rack he saw the train coming through ne
cut about fifteen feet distant. He turned to
escspe, but there being rocks about the
/ track and he cripple, he fell on the track
! and. was run over He lost one arm and a
I ,na and received severe confusion on the
/ head. At the first trial Swany was awarded
| damages at $500, the second $2250, and the
/ third $1,000.
Savannah News Tallahassee letter
! The tomo OF Charles LouisNspoleon Achille
! Murat. nephew OF Napoleon Bonaparte and
/ oon ~ J achin Murat, *. king Of Naples and
/ the greatest cavalry general the world has
avsr seen, stsniS in he city cemetery. He