The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-20
EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.

AT recent concert III IlOuStOll
Texas, for the benefit of Gen. Hood
children, $4,000 was realized.
On a capital of 100000, the cot
ton mills of Augusta, Ga, pay divi
dend of twenty-eight per cent.
A series of lawsuits about an iror
bolt, valued at ten cents, has already
cost the litigants 5000, at Plain City
Ohio.
Governor Croswell has appointed
Fernando G.. Beaman United States
Senator, to fill the unexpired term Of
Zack Chandler, decd.
1t is said that michigan Uuniver-
sicY gives degrees to men who cannot
write a page of ordinary English that
is not measled with mis-spelling."
Mr.. A. S. Abel, proprietor of the
Baltimore Sun and q. w. Childs, of
the Philadelphia Ledger, have given
$500 each to the fund for the orphans
OF Gen Hood.
The Central Pacific railroad compa-
ny, on the 18th inst, made the first
payment, unGer the Thurman bill,
total payment in cash and transporta-
ton services amounting to 1886, ,291,- :
80.
Gov. Drew, of Florida, will con-
vene the legislature in extra session,
to grant charter to a company for
the purpose Of constructing canal
across the state. To pay the expenses
of the session, the company has depos-
tied $4,000.
Signor Dario Mazzei, stenographer
to the Italian senate, has invented
machine which claims to reproduce
speech in the ordinary printed charac-
ters as rapidly as it is spoken, a word
of several syllables being recorded byIa
single touch of the keys.
Norfolk, Va, did an export busi,
ness last year of $4,000, 600, and
with her cotton returns now ranks as
the second cotton exporting port in
the United States. 1t Is the first pea
nut port in the worlI, receiving the
entire crop of Virginia, which is much
larger than the growths Of Tennessee
and North Carolina.
According to an interview in the
Inter-O Ocean, General Grant, in sur
veying the political field, thus express
ed himself as to leading Democratic
candidates for the Presidency: "Of
Thurman there is no hope; he is dead,
and deserved political death. OfTil-
den: o, l guess he will he nominated,
won't he? OF Bayard: l always liked
Bayard, not because | think him a
man of extraordinary ability, but be-
cause | think him a true man. Of
Hancock: he would be astronger than
Tilden; but Laughing poor Hancock
would be assailed by the Catholics for
hanging the sainted Mrs Surratt, when
he was really no more responsible for
it than you were"
The Chicago Tribune says OF Cen
Grant, "He is out of office, without
occupation and by etiquette',lmost ex-
cluded from private employment, un-
less it may beto spend theremiander of
his days in the seclusion of a farmers
life, and in comparatively impecuni-
Gus condition. Can the American
people do less for him, who has done
SO much for them than to make his
remainidg days at least free from any
pecuniary anxiety as to the future of
himself and family? Are General
Grants admirers as devoted as were
some of Henry Clay's, of Kentucky?
The illustrious statesman at one peri
Cd Of his life, if we rightly remember,
became involved by security, and his
notes were in bank for collection; when !
he visited the institution in order to /,
seei about the payment OF these
security notes, he was informed that
they were cancelled. Some of his ar
dent admirers had with great delicacy
settled the debt without his know
ing of their intention, in apprecia-
ton of his worth as a patriot and