The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Snsll-pox is spreading in San Ante
Mo-
Jacksonville, Fla, is building water
works.
The mussels in the Llano river, Texas
are psasi-besring.
Atlants's cotton-factory is at last pro
claimed TO be e success,
In Beaufort, 8. O., there are ten ne
groes to every white person. E .bE
Knoxville by handsome majority hs'
decided 10 build itself water-works.
In Richmond county, Ga, it costs &
| man $fes to be found wearing pistol.
The pineapple crop of Key West, Fla.
will dosble that of any former year.
Memphis seems to be progressive. She
is setting about to repair her streets.
A large number of the negroes who
went from Mississippi to Kansas have re-
t~rned.
The Legislative council in Mem
phis has passed an ordinance prohibiting
opium>smoking. . -.
Columbus, Ga, claims to have mere
capital invested in manufactures than any
other city in the south.
The corn crop along Red river, Louis
lana, is failure, and tie farmers are al
ready cutting it down for fodder.
A Memphis clergyman takes the po
sition that there is a future state for all the
beasts of the field and fowls of the air:
The drouth is unprecedented in Rus
sell county, Va. Farmers have been com
PEELED to drive their stock to other coun
ties.
Willows are growing on the bar In
the Mississippi at Viclzsburg, and it will
soon be dry land where the river once
flowed,
The Tennessee legislature appropriated
only $500 to keep the capitol in order for 6
year, and the money has already been ex'
pended.
Montgomery, Alabama, wants another
route to the Atlantic, and contemplates 6
road to Troy or some other point in southern
Alabama. BE
Gen. G.. W. Curtis Lee hiss rendered
his resignation as g1fesident of Washington
and Lee college, and it will probably be
accepted. II kE ~
Two illicit stills recently captured in
Alabama were the property of Rev. Albert
ESmOuy WHO CsCIpcI Tue REVENUE Ou1CtTs DN
taking to the woods.
Hugh and Nathan Estill, children,
while playing about sandbank, in Muir
freesboro, were buried alive, and when exc
treated were dead.
The gateway for the national ceme-
terry at Vicksburg, erected by the United
States government, is to be Of Tennessee
marble and to cost $1,000.
The New Orleans Times says that next
year the Louisiana jockey club will be one
of the most fourishing and substantial or.
CARNATIONS IN the country.
Mrs. Sears sued the Texas Central
railroad for s, 500 damages for killing her
son. The jury returned a verdict in her
favor and awarded her $500.
Agricultural Commissioner Killebrew,
of Tennessee, is in Massachusetts,, arranging
a mammoth excursion from the Old Bay
state of people interested in Tennessee col
oniZstion.
Shreveport, La, derived its name
from II. q. S. >Snreve, of Louisville, KY,
who first cleaned out the great raft in Red
river, and vas one of the original settlers OF
the town.
The academy of science in Atlanta,
future prosperity of that place is due more
to its reputation for healthfulness than any
other cause.
Waco, Texas, adventures, are search
ing after Treasure alleged to have been left
concealed il that town by Alexander Nc
Goughey, wealthy old man who died there
several yeare ago.
Gen. Richard Anderson, corps com.
J. Al IL
Virginia, diedin Beaufort, s, c., on the 26th
alt. Gen. Lee once referred to him as "a
most noble soldier"
The training ship Wachusett is lying
ct anchor opposite Vicksburg. The vessel
draws sixteen feet of water. and it is doubt
full whether she will be able to reach st.
Louis for some time. D.
In Buchanan county, Ga, q ten~year
old son of Squire Vance committed suicide
by hanging. As he was in the best of spir>
ats few hours before, and child of good
mind, the motive that prompted him to seek
his death can not be understood.
New Orleans Times: Texas seems to
be haxizg her,han5s full and jails too, Just
now. In the state there are between thirty
the hands of the law. Nine of them will be
executed, some of tie rest are being tried,
and still some others have carried their
death sentences to the cour. of appeals.
The question of the destruction of
the. aianthEs tree in Atlanta, Georgia,
has been agitating the community for some
time. The doctors have been called upon
to decide as to the baleful effects of the
tree upon the general health aud they are
wide apart in their notions. Meantime the
authorities are in Guan5ary. = q
Atlanta Constitution: Henry NJ. Tur-
ner, the negro preacher, who is peddling
lies at the north, says that in Georgia the
whites refuse TO sell land to the colored
people except for the purpose of building
churches. The fact that the colored people
of Georgia own nearly six pillion dollars
worth of land doesn't seem to impress this
eminent mulatto rascsl. EEfh %
The Nashville Banner, in the course
of long article reciGRg the progress of the
city, says: Amy one who takes a walk
through the city cannot fail to note the nu.
merous new buildings gelng up, and, at the
same time, to note the substantial character
of the same. Vacant lots are rapidly disap.
pearing from sight, and improvements may
be seen on all hands, This.eertainly indi-
cases revival of interest in real estate, and
marks the beginning of q better era in the
real estate market.
MNHY EE 4