The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-02-06
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

dred in Florida
A snow-white bnok deer was killed in
Amelia county, Va, last week
Alabama pays thirty cents day for
feeding prisoners. The total thus paid out
last year was 5S,Sl0.S2.
Page county, Virginia, has foTty~three
distilleries Only one makes whisky, ali
the RESI- making appIe-issk.
During the past year there were paid
into the Louisiana treasury 81, S04 ,O3S.O6,
and expended s., 405, S3221.
The debt of Columbia, S. c., is nearly
5000 0, though her charter forbids her
contracting debt of 100000.
The Pratber cotton mills, erected at
Unien Depot Tenn, at cosS OF S50OOO,
were sold last week for $4,000
Knoxville, Tenn, owes S237 ,00O, and
payment is demanded on $4,000 of it, with
no money in the treasury to pay 1t.
A committee has been sent south from
Evnn, Mass to select location for com
pany OF 100 sh0emakeFg and Their families.
Col. r. w. gamison, recently reelected
CITY attorney Of Macon, ga, blew his brains
out, rather thar remsin dyspepsia tortured
victim.
Two hundred and sizty-nine head of
cattle, valued az So, 800, we're recently ship
ped frOm Pensacola on the Spanish steamer
GuiHermo for Havana,
A fatal cattle pestilence is prevailing
in the city of Boston, BoF5ie county, Texas.
One man lost 30 head, and the disease seems
90 be raPidly spreading.
A large mass.meetiRC was held In
Wheeling, w. Va. last Saturday, to adopt
resolutions looking to the adjustment OF
convict lsbor in tkat State.
Austin (Texas) Statesman: Two
months ago corn was thirty cents per bush.
el, now it is seventy. Oats, hay and fodder
have propertionate.y risen ic price.
Pensacola imposes q tax of 81, 600 on
all establishments where Log ors are sold and
theatricalG carried on, and managers prefer
TO abandon their business rather than pay
the tax, thus producing the desired eject,
Alabama has s. 100000 outstanding
obligations bearing per cert, and nom
taxable. The legislature is considering bill
TO substitute per cent. bonds, and thus
save $4,000 in Interest annually.
The town of Hot Springs has, upon the
rec uisite application and showing been de-
ciared by the proper authorities a city of
the first class. She new ranks second TO
Little Rock-they being the only cities of
the FIRST class liz the state.
Floyd (Va. Reporter AS an evidence
of the hard times and scarcity of money in
this county, we would state that on Tuesday
last three young mules, taTO two gears old
and enc three, were sold On the streets I'M
der execution, RRd the thgee brought only
S72.
Miss Emma Strickland, daugf ter of
Mr.. 6. A Strickland, of Bell county, Texas,
committed suicide recently by taking strych-
nine. Her parents objected TO her marriage
with Mr.. ThUs. Blackstone, and desired her
TO discard him, which she did, aud iEme.
diately after took the fatal dose.
Piedmont Virginjsn: During the re-
cent cold spell the fish commissi oners were
Transporting about btty thousand young
salmon over the Midland road. 1t was so
cold that the fsh began actually to freeze 81
Rspidan station, and in order TO save them,
the whole cargo bad to be turned cut in the
river al that point.
The Rev. Edmund Withers, distin.
guished, piGus and jealous minister of the
Episcopal church, died at his residence at
Norwood, in Nelson county, Virginia, last
Saturday. The deceased was sxty>One
years of age, and was well known through.
out the diocese of Virginia, where he has
thirty eight years.
North Carolina has Ill ,099 dogs
about one dog to every three sheep. Twenty
eight thousand and eighJy-one sheep were |
destroyed last year by these faithful guar |
dams OF mems interests, and the commits |
siOner OF agriculture wants TO know il a man |
can keep a species of property by which the |
value and existence Of his neighbours prop |
erty is constantly imperiled.
A white man named Milton CLAYTON |
and a negro had loaded drill preparatory /
to blasting in a well at Atlanta, Ga, and 4
were making another near by, when the |
hammer accidentally struck a steel drill /
near the loaded hole and ignited the pow
der. A fearful explosion followed, burning
the Hegro's eyes and frscturing his skull,
and SO seriously wounding Clayton that his
life is despsired of.
In the recent cOnRagrstion at Mande-
vile, s. c., persisted the bsttle-fag of Col.
Keitt's regiment, twentieth South Carolina
volunteers. 1t was the Southern Cross"
and showed the effects of honorable service,
being rent by shot and shell, and its starry
cross dim with the smoke of battle Col.
Keitt's portrait, in full confederate uniform,
was fortunately saved, but many historic
relics of the confsdsracy were lost.
New Orleans opposes national quarsn.
tine because it viii affect her trade, but
here's the way the country papers talk: We
can readily appreciate the situation in New
Orleans, But there is only choice OF two
eyils-either to quarantine the fever ont of
New Orleans snd retain the trade OF the in
terror, or permit it to be brought in and
lose it. The people in the country have
made up their minds on the subject, and
they can make quarantine very effective
with shot guns,
Chicot cuunty circuit court, Arkansas
has indicted one James G. Carlton for OBJ
tanning religion under false pretenses. The
bill OF Indictment saws Carlton pIofesSed a I
change of heart, and the members of the
Il iptIst church, being cre1Ulous. admitted
him TO the fold. About last Novembe he
began to snow "a rcprObacy Of mind and
OF his obligations to the church
t. the statute in such case made
and provided against the peace and dignity
Of the Bapaist church"
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, par
1Oned Lewis Well the other day, the only
Hebrew in the penitentiary. He was con
yicted of msnslsughter, and sentenced to
ten wears imprisonment. The governor, on
psrdoning HIM, Endorsed the following on
the paper: 8 take pleasure in saving that
sign the pardon IN part recognition of the
good and law-abiding character of our Jew
sn citizens this being the FIRST serious case
.ver brought TO nav notice on the part of any
Il that people"
A petition to the legislature is in cir. !
,Rlation in Galveston, and being numerous
y signed, asking for the appointment of a ,
-ecsiver TO wind up toe affairs of the CITY
IL says that notwithstanding that title II
If the charter iorbids the authorities To I
.reste for the city larger indebtedness {
han one million two hundred thousand dol. =
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