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

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Portions of Florida are suffering from
drouth.
Tennessee has fattering prospect for
peaches and wheat.
The late frost ibid serious damage to
fruit in Texas.
The Texas murderer now pleads "eme-
tional jim-iams."
They are still talking in Charleston of
raising monument to Calhoun.
Lightning struck a team of six oxen
in Alabama and killed five Of them.
A negro was sent TO the Texas penis
tertiary for two years for stealing ducks.
Wheat is heading in Texas, but on
account of drcuth much of it is very low.
Corn has gone up to ffty-6ve cents at
San Antonio in consequence of the drought.
The sea has thrown up the sponge at
CEDAR Keys, Fla, to the value of $75,5OO
since January l.
A pair of horses in Virginia, aged re-
spectively SO and "a years, still put IN
good days work.
Gov. Hubbard, of Texas, says that
derers have been hanged.
North Carolina has fifty-four cotton
and wooden mills in operation. The capital
invested amounts TO $l,S3S,OOO.
Charlotte Thompson, the actress, owns
one of the finest plantations in the south -
5000 acres near Montgomery, Ala.
In Bullock county, Ala, persons SEN
fenced to hard labor are hired to the highest
bidder, and bring $3.50 per month.
The exports from Norfolk, Va, for
March, aggreg ated 81 ,2ll ,297, against $685.
John Letcher, Virginia's "war gov
ernor," has recovered from long spell of
sickness, caused by fall on the ice.
Work upon the Lee mausoleum at
Lexington is progressing favorably, but 81
600 are still needed for its completion.
Gen. Joseph r. Davis, nephew OF
Jefferson Davis, was married at Missouri
City on the 18th ult. to Mss Margaret Green.
JEFF Downing, an old Georgia fisher
man. was missing. His friends slew two al
Igators, and found him slowed away in their
bellies.
The biggest orange tree in Florida is
eight feet. five inches around the trunk, 81
feet in height, and 81 feet in circumference
at the top.
An Alamo monument association has
been formed in San Antonio, Texas, to erect
monument to the heroes who fell on that
memorable spot.
The Missouri house of representatives
has passed bill making it unlawful for any
dealer to sell to minors pistols, slungshOts
brass knuckles or other dangerous weapons,
A few DAYS ago Prof. F. H. Bradley,
formerly of East Tennessee university, and
assistant geologist OF Georgia, was crushed
to death by the caving of gold mine near
Nacoche, Ga. ....
Clark county, Ark, one of the five
original counties established by the terrific
rial legislature of Missouri, has been abo'r
ished, half going to Dallas and half to
Nevada counties.
The confederate monument to be erect
ed by the ladies will be unveiled at Column
bus, Ga, on the 25th, and Gov. COlquitt will
deliver the address. Muldoon, of Louisville,
made the monument.
William Bollinger, native of Win
chester, Va, died last week IN Monroe
county, West Va, in the 105th year OF his
age. having been born on January 10, no.
He was a soldier OF the war OF 1872.
Texas Jimplecute: In several instances
we hear of corn being plowed over and
cotton planted. The Colorado potato bug
has already made its appearance in small
numbers, and have commenced depOsiting
their eggs.
Vicksburg Herald: If the Kansas
fever has not died out it has taken a lull in
this section. We shall probably hear very
little more of it after those at home have an
opportunity of hearing from those who have
gone before.
North Carolina prides herself on the
completion of a tunnel under the Blue
Ridge mountains. The Western North Car
DINA road has done the work at SwanuanOa,
and it opens up the western part OF the state
about Ashville.
Little Rock Gazette: If the newspa
pers would combine in one common effort
to show that a large cotton crop ought to
and would be planted, we would have more
corn to sell in the south next fall than ever
was heard of before.
A firm in New Orleans say they have
large orders for laborers from the section of
by tho negroes. Many white laborers and
fair proportion of Cinnamon are sent for,
ward almost every day.
Pointe Coupee Pelican: Last year it
was estimated that there were at least one
hundred and fifty casks of dewberry win,
made in this parish. The deMberry crop o.
this year bids fair to be large one, sugar is
cheap, and we trust that the vintage OF this
year will double that of last,
Vicksburg Herald: The exodus OF the
eolored people to Kansas and to other west
ern states has, for the present at least, al
most entirely ceased. The last boats leav'
inc here bound up stream had no more
coIored passengers than customary.
Troy (Ala.) Enquirer; Real estate OF
every kind in the corporate limits OF the
city has advanced since last fall, and lands
in the county command better prices than
for several years. People are generally more
settled and better contented in this section
than at any time within the past decade.
The state~debt meeting in Nashville
appointed the following committee to go to
New York to urge the bondholders TO ae-
cept the fifty cents and four per cent cons
promise: Ex-Gov. Neil ). Brown, ex.Gov.
James d. Porter, Hon. Henry Cooper, State
Treasurer Marsh 7. Polk and Col. James l.
Gaines.
Dallas Herald: And the drouth still
continues. The sixth day of April has
reached us and still no rain. The situation
is all that is disheartening, but still we have
hope that the end is near st hand. All
North Texas is athirst, and prays Tor friend
Iv clouds that will give the absolutely neees~
ssry moisture for our crops, for our gardens,
for stock, and for everything else.
A colored boy from Perry, Ga, re
! Gently arrested for stealing, declared thai