The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-23
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

schools of New Orleans.
Mobile will celebrate Mardi Grss in
brilliant style the 28th proximo.
New Orleans will celebrate Mardi
Gras with all her wonted brillianee.
A large number of New York people
are enligrsting to Texas and FLORIDA.
Gallatin's indebtedness, bonded and
otherwise, was SI1, 1852 on the first OF Jan
usry.
GREEN HAIRED children are sometime
born in Als3ce, but the color disappears
after few months.
A Dallas. Texas, hunting party OF
seven persons killed IS deer in two weeks,
besides great amount of small game.
The cotton business in Augusta is st q
standstill, owing to the differ ence between
factors and buyers.
Atlanta, Ga, buried Sl7 persons last
wear. OF these, 377 were paupers-322
black and 50 white.
A prospective South Carolina immi-
grant writes friend in Liberia, iDquiring II
| there are any cOons in that country.
VIM. Early, q murderer confined IN
the Dallas, Texas, Jail, spends his hours im>
ploring mercy from the spirits Of his victim.
There were eleven contestants for the
Office of keeper of the workhouse in Knox
vile, Tenn, position paying $500 year.
The late Hon. Julian HartriGge, OF
Georgia, hal a paidup policy in the New
York Lille Insurance Company Tor SO 900
Tupelo (31iss.) Journal: The piscatO-
rial commission the other day deposited two
thousand shad in Town creek, just outside
of Tupelo.
There are in Georgia $500 persons
between the ages of ten and eighteen who
cen neither read and write, as compared
with 186, pa in 1874
The Liberisn ship Azor returned 70
! Charleston Friday, ard will probably take
another cargo of dsrkies to feast on roast
monkey without lard.
William Busselman, OF Vicksburg,
shot and killed James LinscOtt in a saloon,
for abusing him when he attempted to re-
monstrate in a quarrel.
It is claimed that the most expensive
and beautiful monument in the Uuited
| States is the monument to the confederate
dead at Augusta, Georgia.
The loss of life by yellow fever in the
sOnth this year is estimated at about fifteen
| thousand, and of money and trade at about
two hundred million dollars.
The convicts of Augusta Ga, were
organized and put 70 work On The roads last
Tuesday, SIS the supreme court had decided
that they could not be hired out.
The Constitution complains that At.
lanta has about one dozsn barrOoms to every |
church, and the saloons make money while !
the churches so into bankruptcy.
Galveston pays her municipal officers
t1S S2O fb-- vaar o7,d will now tbg-, = gyO |
les next year. The mayors salary alone |
will be reduced from $500 to s., 500,
1t is thought that the governor of |
Georgia will commute the sentence of death |
Of George Brown, OF Cobb county, for the |
murder Of A. D. jenkins, to imprisonment
for lie,
The city council CT Richmond, Va, |
does not believe a city worth thirty>niue
millions of dollars should insure its build
ings, and proposes to cancel all policies As
they expire.
The Methodist college building at
Harrison, Arkansas, wSs burned on the 18th |
ultimo, and the citizens of that place offer a
reward of $40 for the apprehension of the
incenuiaries.
Thomas Reed, cashier of the First
National Bank of Galveston, has defsulted
to the amount of 600 and absconded. a
reward of 1000 is offered 70 his apple
hension and delivery.
The Macon (Ga) city council has
passed an ordinance requiring every one
doing business of any kind whatever to
register his or her name in book kept by
the clerk for that purpose.
In the United States Court at New
Orleans, last Tuesday, Myra Clark Gaines
got a Judgment ard execution against a
number of persons for a large amount of
money, with interest at per cent, from
various periods in 1877.
GAINESVILLE (Tenn } Tobacco Lea
Such an ice season as We have had recently
was never witnessed in this country. Ice
was from seven to ten inches thick. Every
body has a full ice house, and some have
filled cellars and other houses.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun Au- {
gusta is the only city OF its size in the world
where the cows are allowed to patrol the | {
town instead of policemen. 1t is said that
one enterprlsing heifer climbs up the bell {
tower aud rOosts there every night.
A Mr.. Muller, from Minnesota, visited
the bureau Of agriculture at Nashville,
few days since. According TO the American ,
he is the general agent OF, and is now wait ,,
ing the arrival of, company of fifty people ,,
from Minnesota, and will go with them to :
their destination-East Tennessee.
Knoxville Chronicle: On Sunday, the
29h ult,, on top of Boalman's Ridge, two {
miles north OF Morristown, Mr.. David Pur- :
keypile was ioined in the DIy bonds OF s
wedlock to Mrs. Polly Helton (hs steps
by E.quire D. S. Noe. As '
David is a sprghtly young mn, about % {
years old, and his fair compaJi n is aged 60, {
he stands frst-rate chance of Outllving her I
aud "scooping in" his great-grand-step- ]
sometime in the future, 3
provided she be living.
In Alexandria, Va, where a cOlored 8
Justice of the peace has Just sentenced a ! J
W ealthy white man TO be v hipped for pet
larceny the sentence would have been car :
ried into effect by a cOlored constable had |
not the case been appealed. The case arises
out of a dispute as TO the ownership OF |
some ice cut from the Alexandria canal one
Of the paIt'es charging tie other with steal. |
ing lot of ice, of the value OF ten cents.
The colored ,stice found the white capitals
st guilty of petty larceny.
New Orleans Times: John L. Gums
MINIS, indicted under section 5,l67 of the
United States statutes for emb, ing letters
articles of value W arraigued
in the United States circuit court on Mon
day morning, and pleaded not guilty. His ,
bond was fixed at $780, and he was re-
manded to await the appearance of his
surety. Cummings was brought from Ken
lucky on a requisition. There are i've
counts against him in the Indictment. He
was a route agent or messenger of tle
po.totfice deparJm Mt between New Orleans
aud Vicksburg.
CONGRESSIONAL.