The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A bill calling a constitutional conven
ton has passed both houses Of the Louisiana
legislature.
Rev. VIM. Mack, D. D., an old Pres
| byterisn divine, died in Columbia, S. c., a
few days ago, aged y.
Coyotes, rendered desperate by hunger
| came into Comsnche, Texas, and attacked
the grsves.of the dead.
Texas will not only supply her own
people with bacon this year, but will have
considerable for export.
A bill to ret cal the Mofett liquor law
has been offered in the Virginia legislature
and referred to the finance committee.
Two tramps caught burglarizing a store
in Port Gibson were sentenced to the penis
tertiary within forty-eight hours.
The Jaeger brothers are gathering the
Arkansas wild grape vine and shipping it
TO France t. be used for grating stock.
There is neither doctor nor barroom
in irwin county, Ga, and Glib. Gray died
there the other day over one hundred years
old.
New Orleans proposes to compromise
her debt at forty cents on the dollar, and
bill to that effect is now before the leg. isla-
ture.
The Azlr is advertised to leave
Charleston Tor Liberia, February p, with
175 emigrants and an assorted freight. The
cost OF passage is $3.50.
Albert Pike is row engaged in organ.
iZiug the " Knights of the Cactus" to be
composed of the veterans of the Mexican
war, anu the order to descend to their male
children.
The rice lands of the estate of the late
s. c. Doar, once valued at $4,000, and To-
Gated in Charleston and Georgetown coun-
ties, South Carolina, were sold on Thursday
for 81 900.
1t is positively stated that in 1890
Virginia advanced the United States Gov
ernment $l2e, 900, aud Maryland $40, coo, to
aid in building the federal capitol, and that
both these sums, with interest ire still due
the states named.
Raleigh News: The constitutional con-
vention abolishing annual sessions of the
legislature saved $4,000. Taxes are not
reduced, but there is a deficit, according to
the governors message, of nearly 100000
in the state treasury.
The authorities of Columbus are still
experimenting with kerosene oil as street
lighter in lieu of gas. So far but little dts
ference has been seen in the strength and
brilliancy of the two lights, while the former
will cost put $l2 so per annum and the lat
ter $50.
In 1874 there were four gold mills in
operation in Georgia. There are now over
forty. There were then about forty stamps
at work; there are now over FIVE hundred.
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100000 in gold bullion this year, if not
another stamp is added.
The South Carolina Legislature passed
a law providing that any person convicted
of carrying concealed weapons or arms on
the streets or highways shall be punishable
by fine of not less than 1900 or more than
$1,000, and imprisonment for not less tnan
six months nor more than one year.
The Galveston News warns stock men
that they must make provision to feed stock
IN such cold snaps as the present. The pa
pers of Northern Texas report large mum.
Ders of cattle either dead or severely injured
by the late cold weather ana the want of
food, and even of water, where the streams
and ponds have been frozen.
The citizens of the south are awaken
ing TO the necessity of economy. Saws the
mayor of Atlanta We must run the city
on what We receive, and We must not 20 one
dollar beyond it. The appropriations for
the various departments must be so man.
aged that the receipts will cover them ali.
a. is going to be hard year, but i believe
the council is determined to make it a STE
one.
According to the Fernandina Fila
Express, notwithstanding the fact thai
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for tweDty-fOur hours, and the novelty of
sleigh riding was INDUCED il by the citizens
OF shat city, it mas yet 10 hear of auy injury
done fruit trees. Orange and lemon trees
in the city are looking green and healthy,
and reports from the country state that no
trees were killed or even injured.
O. the Liberian ship Azor the Charles |
ton News and Courier says: Tlis bark still
lies IN the str cam, and it is SAID that the Ex-
odus Association is unable to raise the !
means for paying the slight expense of en-
terlng her at the custom house, probably not |
much, if anything, over 500. What has be- |
come OF all the money wrung from the colN |
ored people? Collections were taken up in |
some Cf the cOlOred churches yesterday for |
the benefit o, the Azor.
The senate of Virginia refused, by
very decided majority, to repeal the whip.
ping post Law. A Richmond correspondents
says: The iuhction of corporal punishment
SINCE the adoption of the law has stved |
very large amount of criminal charges to |
the cOmmOnwe alIh. 1t has proved to be
good law in this city. Formerly the docket |
of our police court vas crowded with petty
llrcei cases; under the new order of Things |
these cases have been Very greatly dimin.
lshei. Petty thieves are afraid Of the lash.
DeDisDn News: Passengers from Fort
Sill who arrived by the ,tage at C,ddo yes
terday report that the Kiowa and C0manche
tribes of Indians had left their reservations
and gone on the war path. They have al
retdy commenced depredating on the Texas
settlements. The fact that six buffalo.
hunters a-e reported killed will cause some
uneasiness, as exMayor VIM and several
other well known DenisonIans are on the
range" About eight hundred United
States soldiers have left Fort Sill and gone
in pursuit of the Indians.
Gov. Vance says of the debt of North
which amounts to nearly Sl7, 000-
600 principal and over $40, 900 900 interest:
1t is out of the question for us to attempt
20 pay il at its face value. Indeed, | do not
that there is any moral obligation
upon us to do So nor do our creditors expect
1t of us. Quite one-half of our property.
upon which the bonds were based, was wan
tOnly destroyed by consent of large ma
jority of those who held them, and no court
of conscience upon the earth would permit
a creditor to destroy one-half of his security
and claim payment out of the remainder
But we can and should pay something.
New Orleans Democrat The Mofett
register has again come up before orr legis.
lature, in the form of bill to repeal this
law and abolish this tax. The Moffett regis
ter law should be repealed at once. 1t has
not, it is true, ever been enforced in this
state, nor is is likely ever to be; but, whether