The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-09
SuUTHLRN NEWS ITEMS.

Chattanooga is TO be Signal Service
station.
The city of San Antonio and the cnun-
ty owe over 100000.
The Picayune says it is settled that
New Orleans will celebrate Mardi Gras-
After q year or more in darkness the
streets Of VIcks burg are again to be lighted.
New Orleans has a debt of $50 000~
COO, and the mayor favors scaling it 81 per
cent.
Foriy-nine turtles, weighing 3,2f6
pounds from Indian river; arrived at Jack
sonville, Fla.
The assay Office at Charlotte. n. c., is
now receiving gold at the rate Of about one
thousand dollars per week.
BY the burning on Monday of the Fee
male Orphan Asylum in Savannah, forty
children were deprived of s home.
The Lee Monument Association is
making arrangements to canvass every house
in Virginia on the 18th of January, the an
niversary of Lees death.
At auction, in Savannah, q cargo of
white pine of 10000 feet was sold to j. A.
Roberts d CO., for export TO the West Indies
for $2.a5 per thousand feet.
Galveston paws her municipal officers
S18 $50 this year, and will pay them So 900
less next year. The Mayors salary alone
will be cut down from $1,000 to $500.
The Dallas Herald saws if Texas have
IN. B.-Mr Printer, not hdsl a fair count in
the next census, she will be entitled to four
teen more Congressmen-twentY in all.
jackson, Miss, had 400 cases of yellow
fever and 81 deaths. She received a little
over $4,000, and the average cost of pa
tients was $27. Quarantine cost the city
$1s0S4.
Texas has LOO cnnvicts, five or six
hundred of whom are kept within the walls
and the rest are hired out to work on rail
roads and farms. One is said to be hired to
his wife and lives comfortably at home.
Farmerville (Ls.) Gazette: We are
gratifed to learn that the corn crop Of this
parish is amply sufficient to meet the demand
of home consumption, and many planters,
who in former times came to Farmerville to
purchase their bacon and lard, now bring
these necessaries to town to sell.
A man in Lexington, Va, mailed a
letter to a fictitious name in japan, with a
request that 1t be returned If not called for,
and started it by way of the Atlantic. His
object was to see how long it would be in
going around the world. 1t came back by
way of San Francisco in lust one hundred
days.
Concord IN. C) Sun: Three negro
men living in the lower part Of the county
left their families last week and ran away,
each taking a white woman with him. We
don't know which to Pity, but feel that the
negro men are the worst of for the swap.
Send us a good missionary, or two more, if
convenient,
That awful Mrs. Gaines is still getting
in her work in New Orleans. Saws the Pic
ayune: On yesterday the case of Mrs. Gaines
VS.. Brown, administrative, involving tile to
plantation in the pa ish of Ascension. hav-
ing a front of 1 ,S72 arpents on the Missis-
sippi river, came up for hearing, Mr.. Mills
for Mrs. Gaines, Messrs. Charles s. Kellogg,
Singleton & Browne and Elmore & King for
defendants. Judgment was rendered in
favor of Mrs. Gaines against Mrs. Brown.
Charleston News and Courier: The
present low price of Gotten Is attracting it
to many quarters not usual hitherto, and in
very large quantities. This was particularly
exhibited yesterday by the extraordinary
clearance from this city of the superior Brit,
ISL steamship Euxine by KnOop. Hanemsne
Co., direct for Sehasta ,sol, Russia. She
has on board $40 bales, which is the first
cargo the leading Southern staple to that
great Russian stroL ghold on the Black sea.