The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS

Atlanta has cotton exchange.
In Charleston they call waits anony-
nous infants.
Wheat is improving in portions OF
Virginia and North Carolina.
The various towns in West Tennessee
are organizing boards of health.
Louisville, Jefferson county, Ga, is
building a railroad to the outside world.
Recent overfows damaged the Texas
and New Orleans railroad 100000.
The next series of Georgia four per
cent, bonds will be issued in 1880, to the
amount of 100000.
Seven years ago shat were planted in
the Ouachita river, near Hot Springs, and
now the river is swarming with them,
On account of the tax imposed upon
them, the Pullman car company threaten to
withdraw all their property from Texas.
Texas owes 100000. The legisla-
ture is to meet in extra session June 10 to
wrestle with the debt and school question.
F. F. Hopp will survey the 9,O50,00O
acres of land set apart to build the state
capitol in Texas, and receive therefor $4,000.
Judge Eve, of Augusta, without fear
or favor, fines everybody 500 who is brought
before him charged with carrying concealed
weapons.
Cotton in southwest Georgia is small
but is rapidly coming out under the influence
of the warm weather. The small grain crops
are good.
The drummers travelling in Texas
propose to have convention and organize
to fight the tax levied on them by the re>
cent tax bill.
A Texas paper says: The demand for
madstones is such, since the legislature re-
pealed the dog law, that $500 is offered for
one of unquestioned virtue in Gainesville.
The Swiss colony on the Cumberland
river, in East Tennessee, numbers 500 per.
sons, and it is very prosperous. They are
engaged mostly in Horticulture and wines
making.
The latest evidence of patriotism is
afforded by a Georgia emlgrant in Texas,
who left seven dollars and halt in his will
to pay for the publication Of his obituary in
a Georgia newspaper.
The Fort Worth Democrat says that
up to date there has been a total OF $3.50
head of cattle reported at Fort Worth, and
have crossed the Trinity, going north to
Kansas and Wyoming.
There has not been a bill of indict-
ment found against a citizen, nor has there
been a man arrested, charged with an of
fence against the state, in Holly township,
Fender county, n. c., since the war.
The Tarboro Southerner says a COLI
ored defendant in Edgecombe court OBJ
jected to several red-headed men who had
been summoned as Jurors, on thu ground
that "'fore God it would never do to let a
man try niger for stealing"
The Augusta News says there is an
old grey mule in Macon whish acted in the
capacity of shifting engine on the Monroe
railroad about forty years ago. The animal
is now forty-seven years of age, and is doing
good service at the central depot in pulling
a dumpscart.
A Boston emigration company, headed
by a number of leading citizens, has pur-
chased $4,000 acres of land in Tennessee, on
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, forty miles
from the Kentucky line, and will lay out
city and populate it and surroundings with
colonization.
A religious paper in Georgia says:
Recently during night services at Morganton
a screech-owl stole noiselessly up the aisle
and perched himself compl icently upon the
bald head Of good brother sitting on the
front bench Just facing the preacher. The
surprised look of the man and the Solomon
look of this Romsn-nose bird presented the
funniest sort of contrast.
A hail-storm passed over Cuthbert,
Ga, and the Appeal says the woods were
entirely stripped of every vestige of leaves,
while the branches of trees, and all under
growth were barked by the pelting hail. All
crops in the path of the storm were COM
pletely ruined. A week after bushels of
hailstones could be gathered from the fields
and woodland in the track of the storm.
Lumpkin (Ga.) Independent: Some
young man stealing the silver from dead
mans eyes. 1t has not been S Y months. bu.
now he lies in the silent TOMB, victim OF
consumption, and died so poor that he had
to be buried at the expense OF tue county.
Before his death he said he had never passed
a peaceful moment since the act was CONF
mitted.
Sherman (Texas) Courier: Mr.. 7. G.
Dunbar, late of Kentucky, but now a tens
ant on the farm of 7. B. Newell, SIX miles
north of Sherman, has Is acres of corn that
he plowed through four times and laid it by.
A large portion of it is up to mans Shout
der, and it looks black and thrifty. The
corn fields of the county will not average a
growth Of more than u inches. This field
was planted the last week in February, and
the result shows what early planting and
good farming will do.