The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-26
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

i Rats are damaging crops in southern
Florida.
The negroes of Sherman, Texas, haE'
the Lberia fever.
There are 300 brandy distilleries il
middle Tennessee.
The manufacture of coke iron in Ala
bsma has proven success.
| The Herald says Vicksburg is in s
wretched sanitary condition.
In Mobile they have levied special
tax on vehicles kept for private use.
Twenty-four policemen preserve order
among the 5000 citizens Of Memphis.
Charleston, S. c., has one and hall
million dollars on special DEPOSIT in her
banks.
In Macon, Ga, gamblers are required
to pay a license tax Of two hundred dollars
per month.
A colored Methodist church in Able,
vile, S. c., gave 81 200 last year to cAarita-
BILE purposes. E
A firm in Petersburg, Va, has shipped
in the last month 100000 pounds of manu-
featured tobacco.
They are agitating the removal of the
capital of Louisiana from New Orleans to
some interior town,
Prohibition is now on trial in 40
communities in Georgia, and those inters
ested appear to like it.
Seven hundred men are at work on
the Louisiana western railroad, between
Orange, Texas, and Lake Charles.
From now on" says the Galveston
L
any other state in hanging murderers."
The sanitary committe in Memphis
has done its work so thoroughly that the
city is cleaner than at any time in twenty
years.
A cypress saw-log recently passed
down the Sabine, in Texas, sixty feet long
and seven feet il diameter, capable of
making $4,000 shingles.
The Texas legislature is in extra ses-
ion of thirty days, with more business than
it can attend to in six months at the usual
rate of legislative work.
"What is the use of fighting the En-
glish," said Zulu, when they can kill a
man and bring him to life again "-alluding
to the effect of chlorofOrm upon a prisoner
whose leg had teen amputated.
The idea of cutting q ship canal
through the isthmus of Panama is at least
three and half centuries old. Philip II.
of Spain had route carefully surveyed by
some Flemish engineers, but never pushed
the matter.
Dallas (Texas) Commercial: Gold and
silver are said to have been found in large
quantities in the mountains near Williams.
burg, in Throckmorton county. These pre-
cious metals are becoming so plentiful in
Texas that we will hear of them growing
on the bushes next.
Dallas Herald: Houston, on Friday,
received by Morgan steamers, from New
York, two hundred and fifty barrels of
-four. Funny, isn't it, that New York can
sell -four at a rate TO find purchasers in
Houston when we have so much wheat and
-four here in north Texas?
The board of education of Nashville
has decided to recommend to the city couns
Gil the abolition of all foreign languages
from the course of study in the high school.
All salaries from fifty to one hundred dol.
lars per month were reduced five per cent,
and all over one hundred dollars month
were reduced ten per cent.
Texas has enacted local option bell
punch law. Each county may decide
whether alcoholic. beverages shall be sold
within its borders, and, should the verdict
be in favor of its sale, then the county
authorities may decide upon the number of
places to be licensed and provided with
bell.punches. The Galveston News esti-
mates that 200 counties will adopt the bell
punch system, and that the number of
punches required will be about 1000. It is
a singular fact that, notwithstanding the
presence of violence in Texas, the sale of
liquor is strictly prohibited in many coun>
ties of that state.
Little Rock Gazette: A Mr.. Hardin,
Just in from Mt. Ida, tells of a rather re-
markable discovery. Several bows were
batting in creek, and one of them, in at
tempting to climb up a bank, caught hold
of shrub. The shrub gave away; pulled
odt as though 1t was weed. The earth
thus torn aside revealed something, and, as
every man, woman and child in that section
is filed with ideas of silver the boy again
climbed the bank, and examined the some>
thing that he had Immediately regarded as
a discovery" 1t proved to be discovery
of the richest of silver ore, and the news
spread rapidly, and the people gathered
round and unesrthed the almost pure metal.
The richest silver now known to the worlds
history was discovered in a similar manner.
A young Mexican woman died sud.
denly few days ago in Brownsville, Texas.
Her body was found to be covered with con-
tusions. The Democrat says: Ore who
seemed to be up in the superstitious lore of
the Mexicans, and who was on the jury of
inquest, says the Commissions were produced
by the blows of wet hair>rope, which ne
saws were given her for the purpose of drivS
ing out evil spirits that had possession of
her, or, as witchery is called in Spanish, las
biqtjGS. The examination showed that the
poor victim of benighted superstition had
been closely confined in a room wherein
was deposited a great quantity of chilpi.
quin, small Mexican pepper, similar to cay>
enne in strength, on heated Goals. And
this for the purpose of driving out the
witches in the nineteenth century.
Dallas Herald: The drouth which is
now so much complained of in north Texas
is prevailing all over the state. No rains
have fallen since early in Nav. In the
southeastern counties a pretty fair corn
crop will be gathered even if there is no
more rain, for the last one found it suffi,
GENTLY advanced to give it enough immedi.
ate sustensnce to mature In western, mid
die and northern counties, as well as along
the northeastern boundary line, the corn
prospects are rather blue. But cotton is
doing very well. 1t is hardy little plant
which does not require much moisture. The
chances are our grain crop will be short,
but there is ample time ahead to make an
average crop of cotton. We shall have
plenty of old corn on hand, besides Texas
grass lasts all the year round in the greater
portion of the state.
Atlanta Constitution We think our
people hardly appreciate the amount of
money that has been made in the south by
the recent furry in cotton speculations,
There is scarcely a village which does not
furnish its man who has made $1,000 to