The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Atlanta has $4,000 inhabitants.
Atlanta has a debt of $40O, 600.

county, w. Va.
The cattle disease is spreading il
southern Georgia.
Atlanta proposes to tax her insurance
agents 500 year.
A large number of negroes are leaving
Florida for Louisiana.
An extensive lead mine has been dis
covered near Berne, Texas.
In 1877 Jacksonville had 100 in
habitants; it now has a. 600.
There are at present $4,000 head o.
cattle on the Fort Worth trail.
A man living in Henrietta, Texas
has domesticated four bufaloes. =
The various towns in west Tennessee
are originating boards of health.
The seven-year locusts have appeared
in the woods near Dallas, Texas.
Manatee county, Fla, has produced
coffee which is said to be excellent.
The cut>worm is very destructive to
the corn crop in ali parts of Virginia.
The cornerstone of a colored male
college has been laid at Meridian, Miss.
1t will cost Memphis 81 500 to keep
HcI5ClA ~ 8OON odAAboAy
A galvaaized-iron ice.cream freezer
has poisoned several people In Atlanta.
Out of LOIS convicts in the Texas
penitentiary, 915 can not read or write.
There are no symptoms of the Kansas
fever in the Louisiana sugar parishes.
Another rich silver mine is reported
to have been discovered near Hot Springs.
Bufalo-gnats are killing the horses
and mules along Sulphur river, in Texas.
A citizen of Hood county, Texas, has
enclosed his farm with hedge of cactus.
Pensacola, Fla, is Boosting of ripe
figs seven and half inches in circumference,
A meteor weighing 140 pounds has
recently fallen on Fourche mountain, Ark.
I In the south, since the war, over 200,-
600 negroes have joined the Methodist
church.
Dallas, Texas, farmers are offering
$1.5O day for harvest hands and can not
get them.
One precinct of Waco. Texas, sub
scribed 81, 900 toward the st. Louis and
Texas railroad.
Farmers along the Warrior river, Al.
ALBANIA, are planting more cotton than any
year since the war.
A printing Office now occupies the
room where Crockett and other heroes of
the Alamo fell in defence of Texas indepen-
dence.
1t is proposed in Memphis that men,
bers of Gen. Forests old command contriS
butte to the erection Of monument to his
memory.
The Memphis papers deny unequivo>
cally the statement that there has been a
single case of yellow tever in the city since
the 10th Of last December. s -t - 80
News comes from all parts of Missis-
sippi that the colored people are working
with unusual energy, and that crops are in
most fourishing condition.
Bills will be presented to the next
Georgia legislature levying direct tax on
dogs and whisky, ad 'valorem-all for the
benefit of the public schools.
Gen. Ord has at his headquarters in
San Antonio the handicapped table on
which Gen. Lee wrote the famous capitula>
ton of the confederate armies.
1t is estimated that about $4,000 OF
the 100000 debt of the Southern Methodist
publishing house have been subscribed, and
some are sanguine that the balance can be
secured by the first of January next.
A resolution has been introduced to
the city council of Houston, Texas, to sus'
pend the fire, police and street departments
of that city, since there is no money to pay
their salaries, which amount to $1,000
month.
The board of health of Calcasieu
parish, La, has established quarantine
against vessels from any port I'M the West
India islands and of Mexico, south of Texas.
The Mayor has issued quarantine proeIa.
nation. -.. 81. q. =
The average salary of Methodist min.
listers in fourteen southern conferences is
said to be S572, and the average amount
paid S43S. In northern conferences the sv-
ersge is 500, and the deficiency in payment
about twelve per cent.
A special to the Galveston News
from Plano, Texas, says the average of cot
ton in that part of the state is seventy~fve
per cent. greater than last season, and the
prospect of good crop was never more
fsttering than at present
There is a live sensation among the
colored people in Collin county, Texas. They
see nightly one black and two white horses
coursing athwart the sky, the black one pre-.
saying death and the white ones offering
transportation to the land of the angels.
Texas planters seem to think that the
negro exodus will greatly raise t1e price OF
cotton, and with this impression upon them
have planted largely in cotton. In some in
stances large fields of wheat which we're
poor have been plowed up and put dexn in
cotton.
At the meeting of the Mississippi
stock>breeders' association. IN Aberdeen, q
week since, resolution was adopted wel>
coming emigrsnts from the north and west
to that state, and promising to exert all le-
gitimste influences to induce emigrants TO
seek homes in that state.
The Highland (va.) Recorder tells
the prize sheep story OF the season.. 1t says
that recently pack of dogs one night at.
tackled feofk Of sheep in that county and
killed several OF them; but on a second at
tack, the following night, the sheep got the
better of the dogs, killing six or eight of
them.
The Shorter college, at Rome, Ga,
built by Col Shorter, Of that city, at a cost
Of nearly 500, 600, and donated by him to
the Baptist church, is described as superb
building, and second in its educational ia.
cilities to no similar institution in the soith>
ern states. II is regarded as about the finest
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