The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-20
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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| force.
Alabama's late legislature cost the
state over 100000.
For the Lee monument there, has beer
collected this year 81, 045.5l.
| In Texas, when q man sells mortgageC
property they send him to the penitentiary
Yellow and red coons, with hesd:
resembling wildcats, are found in AccomacB
county, Va.
The Alabama legislature appropriate;
| $4,000 to the state beard OF health. to be used
al their discretion.
An Augusta man has sold seven bush
els of watermelon seed at the rate of thirty
two dollars q bushel.
Monticello, the Virginia country seat
of Thomas Jefferson, will be sold at public
sale on the Goth inst.
The Dispatch says since the poisoned
fish appeared along the gulf coast Of Florids
all the buzzards have lett.
The new ice works in Columbus, Ga,
| will furnish ice at one cent pound; cheaper
| than nature can manufacture II.
The governor of Texas has approved
the bill appropriating six hundred thous>
and dollars TO the public schools.
North Carolina will employ fifty coz
victs in draining and retaining Angola bay,
an immense body of swamp land.
James Corning, of Arkansas, by will,
binds his executors to dig five graves for
him and set up five tOmbstones to his
memory.
Clark Mills, the eminent sculptor, Is
at Fortress Monroe, making casts of the
heads of the Indisn students attending the
Hampton normal school.
A serious drouth exists in the San
Antonio section of Texas. Wells have dried
up, and some farmers have TO dive their
stock FIVE miles to watar.
An Arkansas legislative bill proposes
to charter the Arkansas insane asylum lot
terry association to procure funds TO erect
such an institution at Little Rock.
The New Orleans Democrat says the
exodus Of negroes from Madison and other
upper parishes to Arkansas continues, to
the rapid depletion of the labor supply.
It is stated that Gen. G. T. BeSUre-
gard has been selected to succeed Hon.
Alex. Stephens, Of GEORGIA, in the supreme
grand command Of the Grand consistorY Of
the Sons Of Malta in America,
The Texas legislature is discussing the
question of issuing four per cent. bonds of
small denominations like those of Georgia,
/. being expected that they viii go into cur
rent circulation and answer the place of
money.
North Carolina is about to increase
her tax on liquors, the bill for settling the
state debt having passed. Norm Carolina
paws $S,50O,0O0 annually for liquor, 81 ,0)0,-
0o0 for education, and S209, 500 GCr religious
purposes,
The North Carolina state senate, by
vote OF thirty-6ve to eight, has adopted q
resolution instucting q special committee to
incorporate in the bill for the sale Of spirits
uous liquors the principle of the bell punch
now ia use IN Virginia.
Dolaidsonville Chief: There Is s n0Y.
eltv here in the way Of q courthouse. i is
2 ve,r small fiatboat covered in. Being dis
covered floating down the river, ID was
pu'Iei ashore, and is now occupied Oh court
dsvs by his honor, the colored Justice of the
peace, TO settle disputes.
Newberry, S. c., Herald: a year sgo
the Liberia fever was at its heiEht. THIS
year It is the Colorado fever. The dsrkies
are much concerned on the subject Or a.
least Q few of them are, and are trying t.
agi.ste the question. A gOOdly number Of
them declare their intention to go to Colo,
RADIO.
Brandon, Miss, Republican: We learn
that a very fatal disease has broken out in
Scott county, between HillsborO and the
county line, which is pronounced by the
physicians as black measles, and by the neN
groes IS the black plague. 1t is very conta-
gious and very fatal, not a single case having
recovered.
In Richmond J. z. Poindexter at
tempted to cowhide c. c. Curtis. Curtis
took a cane, and, gong to POindexter's
place OF business, demanded an apology,
and, upon its being refused, persisted in his
attempts to cane him until he was rIddled
with bullets from POindexters pistol, -Four
balls passed through his breast and one into
his brain, causing mis- death.
4 South Carolina paper says: Cyrus
II. Mccormick, tho Chicago millionaire,
who owns Dorn's gold mine, il this coun.
ty, has given $4,000 towards the con-
struction of the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad, which is pushing right through IL
sure and speedy completion. Mr.. McCOr-
mick's munifcence places the enterprise be
yond the possibility of failure.
Charleston News and Courier: The
direct accounts of the condition Of Senator
Hampton are encouraging. Although suf-
fering considerably at intervals, there ap-
pears to be no danger, the trouble being
merely local, and capable of rehet By the
lancet. Almost every fine day he is out
hunting or fishing, still rndulging in horse
back exercise, and riding almost as well as
ever.