The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-03-27
SOUTHERN MEMS ITEMS.

/ A /, 000-acre plantation near Natchez.
sold Tor 5000.
Memphis now has two receivers and
nothing to give.
Considerable emigration from Virginis
to the West is now gong on.
The entire length of the boundary OF
TEXAS is 4630 miles, including $50 miles OF
Gulf coast.
The Texas legislature has passed Dill
| setting aside one>fourth of the State revenue
for school purposes.
The legislature of Tennessee refused
to pass bill making the marriage OF first
cousins misdemeanOr.
| The little cotton factory st Glrard,
| Ga, has proved so successful that twelve
more looms have been ordered.
The police have taken q CENSUS of
| Knoxville and given her a population OF
| 15,771-an increase Of over 5000 since 1870.
A happy Texas editor SAYS: Our Office
is almost entirely surrounded by cattle, and
the grunt of the pig is heard beneath the
floor,
A New Hampshire manufacturer is
sending machinery to Apopka, Florida, to
AOSI
of the cassavs.
A North Carolinisn has seen and
heard the phonograph, and describes it as a
sausage-mill with a voice like women's-
rights convention.
Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire
has purchased Fort George Island, Florida
1t is intimatod that he expects TO build a
manufacturing city, on the cooperative
plan, on 1t.
The present governor of Alabama,
Rube Cobb, as he was formerly called, is a
fiddler of considerable note. He used to
draw a lively bow away up in st. Clair
county, and long before he ever dreamed of
being governor of the state of Alabama.
The Hot Springs Sentinel states that
neither that town nor county makes any
provision for the burial of paupers. If
pander dies in that locality the citizens
make up "pony purse" and bury him, or
he remains on top of ground, food tor buz.
Yards.
Vicksburg Herald: The exodus OF
plantation negroes continues undated, not.
withstanding the bad luck of those who
have gone before. Quite number OF emf
grants took passage on the Anchor line
steamer, John B. Maude, yesterday, with
their little plumber.
Jefferson Davis is living at Mississippi
City, small station on the Mobile and New
Orleans railroad, near the coast, and is in
circumstances which make him entirely in
dependent of the besefts resulting from the
pension bills and such special legislation.
He is working quietly on his book, with
Major W. T. Walthall, formerly of Virginia,
as his secretary.
Andrew johnson, jr., son of the late
President Johnson, died near Union Depot,
Tenn, a few days ago, and was buried beside
his father in Greenville. The Knoxville
Tribune says: "His many friends, who knew
him years ago as one of the brightest boys
at Georgetown Academy during his fathers
stay in the White House, snd later as a jour.
nalist at Greenville, will be panied to hear
of his sudden death. He was a genial, wholeN
souled gentleman, man of more than or
binary ability and culture, and a true
friend"
Says the Quincy (Florida) Herald A
poor darkey, whose corn-crib had been caps
tured by the sheriff to secure the payment
of his taxes, brought a huge army pistol
and broken rife, and laying them upon
the desk in the tax-collectOr's Office, said:
Mars Morgan, | rather part wild my right
arm den desc wepins, but you mus try to
get the tax Outen 'en. De children mus
hab bread, and dat bread am in de corn.
Please, sab, take de artil'ry an let up on
de corn" This appeal was more than the
kind-hearted revenue man could stand, and
he proceeded forthwith to snake arrange
ments."
According to the Chatham Record,
North Carolina has a remarkable legislature.
"Ihey have been economical even to slim
giness, and yet liberal even to extravaganza.
they have cut down and retrenched almost
to meanress, and yet they have made appro'
priations amounting almost to waste. They
have acted on some measures like children,
swayed by sudden impulses, and like dema>
gogues counting popular favor, and yet they
have enacted laws and carried through
measures that would mark them as patriots
and statesmen deserving the lasting graft
tude OF our people"