The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-04-10
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The sponge trade of Cedar Keys. Fla
since the FIRST of January amounts to SIS, 800.
A company of capitalists have COM
menced building a street railroad in Vicks-
burg.
About one hundred and fifty bills
have been passed by the Tennessee lsgisla-
| ture-
Florida immigration, while not 30 brisk
| as heretofore, is of more substantial char
seter.
There has not been white man con-
fined IN the Jail OF Taliaferro county, Ga,
in three years.
Athens Ga, mas g bonded debt OF
| Sl25,000, which bears interest at the rate Of
seven per cent.
An Augusta man has sold seven bush
els Of watermelon seed at the rate Of Thirty.
tEo dollars per bushel,
The society for the prevention Of cru
city to animals numbers one hundred and
. twenty members in Little Rock, Ark.
The $4,000 appropriated by the Ala
bama legislature to purchase limbs for
manned soldiers is exhausted already.
North Carolina will employ fifty con-
victs in draining and retaining Angola
bay, an immense body Of swamp LAID.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson will soon have
1900 acres Of his orange grove plantation
enclosed by a hedge Of Mccartney roses.
a New Orleans policeman endesvored
TO prove to his sweetheart that he knew how
TO handle pistol, and accidentally shot her
in the chest.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
a bi thorizing the state board of health
to establish quarantine whenever and wher-
ever it may deem it advisable to do SO.
A correspondent OF the Augusta Sem
tinel is of the opinion that Georgia society
will not be what it should be until the prac.
tice of carrying concealed cOrkscrews is en-.
tirely done away with.
The penitentiary feature was stricken
from the tramp act in the Texas senate, and
the penalty made thirty to ninety days i'm
prisOnment at hard work in the county.
Appeal: Memphis was never bette
governed than she is now; she was never
in a better sanitary condition, never had q
better outlook, and never saw the day when
her people should be more cheerful as to
The future.
Knoxville Tribune: Putnam county
has the champion mOonshiner. He is a boy
ten years old. He used tar kegs for beer
tubs, an old c0ffse-pot for a still, and an
elderstslk for a worm. A good average for
this miniature mOonshine establishment was
four gallons per week.
Dallas (Texss) Herald: Capt. Hall
has a force of FIVE hundred men ct work,
has completed nearly fourteen miles of
grade, and this week has opened up the
fifteenth, sixteenth. seventeenth and eighs
teenJh miles on the WeatherfOrd extension
Of the Texas and Pacific.
TIE Mississippi papers state that a
fatal disease has broken out 10 the counties
bordering the Alabama line, which is pro
nOunced by the physicians as black meas
les" and by the negroes as the "black
plague" II is represented to be very con-
tagious and usually fatal, not single case
having thus far recovered.
Key West Vidette: Reports brought
by the spOnging feet inform US that In the
bay to that sheet of water extending from
the Tortugas to cape Florida they found
millions of the largest spOnges floating upon
the water, all perfectly putrid, killed, as
they believe, by the poisoned water that not
long since destroyed myriads Of fish.
Scottsboro Gala J Citizen: We had an
interview with Mr.. Daniel Martin, of the
Belle olte vicinity, last Tuesday. Mr.. Mar
I
year, and married his present wife, who is |
not yet seveDteen, shout four years ago. |
she was only twelve years and fifty days old |
wheu he married her anC he was seventy-6ve. |
ArSansss Democrat: Enough food is |
thrown away every year on worthless dogs |
in Arkansas to support five times the nuns
Der OF suffering poor in the state for the !
same period. And vet great many people |
infringement of the sacred aud inalienable |
rights of the dog. We are a queer people. |
Albany (Gs } Advertiser: If the Geor,
gia legislature will restore the code of honor |
by iemOy ng all penalty fro dueling, and |
substitute foT the present law an act making |
the practice of carrying concealed pons
punishable by death, bloodshei Will de
crease, and such shocking tragedies a the
one enac Ell in the state capitol, last week,
will soon become ike angel visits.
Columbus (Ga Times This is q fast.
running world, and the south need ask no
odds of the north in all branches OF indus.
try. Why, we don't need even their ice any
longer 10 cool our summer drinks, for the
Industrial Ice company Of this city is now
turning out as fair article or that indIs-
pensable luxury as can be furnished by the
best of the far-famed northern lakes.
Dallas (Texss) Commercial: The ne
gro emigration from Mississippi has been
disastrous al round. In the first place
many plan tations have been almost depopu-
lated Of iahorers, and the planting interest
seriously Effected. In the second place. the
emigcanis Themselves, having changed re.
muue atlge employment foi &C u i poverty
in many eases, now possess neither the
money to complete their journey nor to
retGr4 home.
The citizens of Natchez and Concor-
dia parish, La, have held meeting to
call the attention of congress TO the c0ndi'
ton of the Mississippi between the banks of
CoDcOrdia parish and Adams county, and
the danger If its breaking into Lake Con-
cord q aud changing its course. 1lis would
seriously damage a number of Louisiana
planters, ami at the same time cut off
\ tchez rom the river just as NIcksburg
has been cut OF.
The New Orleans and Texas railro8d
is now completed to a point about four
miles beyond Berwick, The road is well
graded, and about two miles OF the distance
Is surfaced. he work is being pushed &C.
lively forward and about a third OF mile Of
track is daily put in running order, the dis
tlnce varying from 1900 to 2l00 feet every
twelve hours. It is estimated that by this
route, when 0moleted, the run between
New o leans and Houston will be made in
fifteen hours.
New Orleans Times: The rspo IT'S from
the parishes continue to speak in large terms
Of the exodus of the negroes now in pro.
gress. 1t is said the enthusiastic welcome
rendered the citizens Of Natchitoches on
heir return after the trial in this citv has
caused a CONSERVATION in the minds of the
colored PEOPLE, and that, il spite of the ru.
mored ill-treatmeut received by the emf
grants in St. Louis theg are moving out of