The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-09
SOUTHERN NEWS TTRNS.

A. Arkansas murderer shot a man
"jus; 20 see him kick"
Memphis is 81 years old. and has a
bono "a debt Of 100000.
Atlantis claims to have added 5000 to
her population during the past year.
Turtles are selling at only six cents
pound ia Cedar Key. Mulets two cents a
pound
The Governor of Virginia psrdoned
two conyiots for gallsntry ID fighting the re-
cent IRE in the penitentisry.
If Texas had as many people to the
sousss mile as Massachusetts,, she would
have , population of 72,0O0D00.
Tn foundation of the car-shops of the
Louis Vile, Nashville and Great Southern
railroad mas been laid at Birmingham.
The Alabama Legislature is composed
of II planters, A lawyers, 4 merchants, four
physicians, miller and insurance agent
Tue Legislatures of Tennessee, Arksn-
sss, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina,
Texas and West Virginia meet during the
frs tNo weeks in January.
TIE 800 Georgia convicts are divided
into fourteen camDs. Under he twenty
year ease which begins the first of next
Apr. the number Of camps is to be reduced
to three.
TIE Dallas poor farm contains $50
acres, With no in cultivation. This year the
occupants have raised 720 bushels Of wheat
and 100 bushels OF corn. Only one guard,
at $50 month, is employed.
Montgomery Advertiser: We learn
that JOlOred laborers are making contracts
for he coming year very rapidly. They
have done 50 well this year that most of
then are encouraged to remain as they are
noT.
Tse Enterprise (Miss.) Courier gives
an 5ecOunt Of the unearthing, near that
place, Of an enormous alligator from his
wiater quarters, about thirty feet from the
emit snee and six feet under ground. He
was frswn from his den by a chain placed
round bis neck.
/. is believed that the poisoned water
from the gulf, which recently threated Kew
Wess with q plague, by bringing TO the
shores, Rll along that ueighborhOod, thou
sands Of dead fish, has passed, as the vessels
from the Southern coast along the Gulf re-
porz no more dead fish seen.
Petersburg Index-Appeal: A party OF
tweatv.three BOYS from New York in charge
OF tds agent, Mr.. Il. A. Holt, passed through
Petersburg yesterday on their way to Burke
vile, in Nottoway county. where homes with
the farmers are already provided for them
This is the third company sent to NottOway
county, under the auspices of the New York
ChHjren's Aid Society.
Vim. Grimes experience in sheep
raising in North Carolina. He bought 6 ne
hoOk one or two years ago, and gave them
great care, until one Sunday, while the ne
gr1es we're at church, the dogs made an
eveuing call and slaughtered all but % of
the gentle bleaters. The experiment was
thes abandoned; the % survivors were al.
loved to run on the farm until one solitary
mutton remained to tell the tale.
Little Rock Gazette: Mr.. John Glenn
EMS who lives about six miles east of Des
Arc, on what is known as Surrounded Hill,
killed q few DAYS since the largest panther
eVeC seen in this part Of the State, if any,
where else. Its body alone measured nine
teet ia length. IL had been depredating on
the young cattle and hogs of the neigbbor>
hood for several years, and the panther is an
expensive bOsrder, for it never eats the flesh
of anything 1t kills after the meat becomes
tainted.
Columbia Is. O. Register: There died
Ia Lexington county yesterday a remarkable
and Tel.-kHOWn character to the people of
Columbia. He vas known to the people of
ii 0ity as o d Carolina" and was a BODY.
servant Of Major Thornton, of the British
ArWF, during the wgr of the Revolution, and
there Is not a man hereabOuts that doubts
the cid mans age, which he claimed to be
100 years. He left widow nearly 100 years
Oh, an infant son of nearly so and grand
SOr Il 80 ito mourn his irreparable loss"