The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-01

prepared, and superior fertilizer made for
home use with capital OF SlOO,O0O.
Thus opens a long editorial in the
New Orleans Times, under the head OF
"Wsh": At the risk of becoming monoto-
nous as well as disagreeable, we take leave
to return to the subject of concealed weap'
ons. We may add that we shall continue 10
return and return and RETURN until the
miserable and disastrous habit becomes so
| unpopular that at least the gentlemen OF the
community will be ashamed to be known as
persons who habitually go about the streets
| loaded with knives and pistols and BRASS
knuckles.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: At last the
long needed and much prayed for Tain has
fallen. Sunday morning about eight o'clock
the sky was filed with dark clouds, and at
nine a fine rain began to fall, which cons
tinued for about one hour. Though it was
not as heavy here as in other places, yet 1t
will do a vast amount of good generally,
although it came too late TO do the wheat
crop at large much good. 1t will greatly
benefit corn and cotton, and bring out the
gardens aud grass. The fall seems to have
covered the whole of north Texas, extend
ing from Denison to Corsicana, ard from
west of Weatherford eastward towards willis
Point.
A lot of prisoners sentenced to hard
labor in Alabama were knocked down to
the highest bidder at the following figures :
Martha jackson, a negro woman, went OF at
IS 10 per month Emma Parker, negro
woman 50 05; an old negro man, William
Moulton, S4 20; Sarah Moulton, his wife,
at "a; Sam Malone, negro man, went to
So; Sam was "hkely fellow " and the bid
ding was quite lively. Jim Graham, negro
boy, brought Sc so; John Fleming, negro
man, was knocked off at Sc SO; james 0di~
orne, white man, brought only twenty-five
cents a month, while another white man,
by the name of Mann, went for the small
sum of five cents. A number of negroes
were among the bidders, and one said he
never expected to live to see the day wheE
niger would be worth more than white
man.
The Galveston News thus sets forth
the current expense problem in Texas: The
various sources of revenue the ensuing fiscal
year will Weld, by the most careful estimate,
81 $50 600 in cash. This sum is reduced by
the appropriation for deficiencies at the
very FIRST 5000, 900, leaving S1,O50,OOO- Next
one.foUrth of the whole amount goes to
public schools out of the first collections.
This reduces the sum available to say $685.
900. Then interest amounting to S4OO,OO0 as
set apart to the exclusion of every other
demand, reducing the available revenue TO
$250,000. The requirements for the judi
ciary about $3.50, 0C0; for the asylums about
100000; for frontier defense, 100000; for
the land oaice, comptroller's, treasurer's,
attorney-general's, governors and secretary
of states offices, $250000 and over; for
quarantine, $4,000; for pensions, $4,000;
for penitentiary, $4,000, and for sinking
fund, 100000; altogether S92OOOO, are to
be met by this residue of S25O,OOO.
The Augusta News says it now seems
as If Georgia is to add another wonder to its
already lengthy and attractive list OF natural
euriosSties. Not content with being the
mothex of the greatest mountain rock on
earth, aot stopping at the many springs
which liz variety and attractiveness are
counted ali over the state, nor hesltatlng
still to act as the rOadbed for the most beau
tiful fall of water on this continent, and even
Boosting of some special attraction on every
acre of its soil, from the lofty peak OF Ball
mountain to the sandy beach OF fybee, the
empire State now comes forward VITA wEst
may be called a natural wonder that has
hitherto been confined to the sandy soil OF
Arkansas or warmed the frozen zone OF Ice
land. Some excitement has been caused IN
upper Georgia by the discovery, near the
Airline road, the neighborhood of the great
falls, of a stream OF boiling water juttlng
out of solid rock and ascending ffty-two
feet in the air. A report of this new discov-
cry comes from Athens, and it proves cor
rect in every particular. Georgia can cer~
tainly claim a great curiosity, and North
Georgia be more than usually popular this
summer.