The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

small gram crops are promising In all
sections Of Georgia.
The colored Baptists of Atlanta are
organizing seminary.
a vein Of pure stone coal has been
discovered in Conecuh county, Ala.
A soldier has arrived in Atlanta under
sentence to be shot for a murder committed
fourteen years ago.
Recently there have been deposited in
the streams of North Carolina 100000
young shad.
On Msy l two tobacco firms in PEI
tersburg, Va, bought, the one 900 and
the other $50, 900 worth of stamps.
The tramps are fleeing Texas, having
got the idea that bill to put them to work
had passed the state legislature.
Danville IVA. } Times: Tobacco plants
plentiful and doing well. In two weeks
2.279, $50 pounds of tobacco were sold In
Danvile. The cash paid for it amounted to
| $242, 1922.
A petition asking that equal political
rights be conferred on women was ,nted
to the Louisiana constitutional convention
Saturday. It is numerously signed by the
| most prominent men and woEen of New
Orleans.
Michael Propst, of North Carolina,
was married to Nancy Angel before he vols
unteered as g soldier in the war of 1872.
They had eleven children, and all are living
to-day. The oldest is seventy-two years Of
age and the youngest fifty.
Register: Fifteen carloads of tobacco
passed through Columbia yesterday, on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad,
on their way to Savannah and other south
ern cities, the cause of the large shipment
being the reduction OF the tobacco tax.
A correspondent of the News and
Courier says an exodus Of negroes from the
other South Carolina counties has begun
into the county of Beaufort, some 500 hav-
ing already arrived. They talk of concene
trating on the coast and forming a sort of
negro republic. They have not grasped the
Kansas idea.
A Raleigh paper says : The revival of
religion begun in this city in the Edentos>
street Methodist church, by Mrs. Moon, still
continues, and so great is the interest that a
meeting was begun last week in the Person
street church, by Mrs. Painter, sister of the
former lady. Both churches are crowded
every night.
Weldon IN. c. News: On Saturday
last several hundred negroes met in town to
discuss the question of gong to Kansas.
| Several speeches were made pro and con,
and q committee was appointed TO ascertain
| particulars and report No definite action
will be taken until more is found out in les
gard to the advisability of emigratlng.
Galveston News: Intelligence has been
received from LynchbUrg and San Jacinto
that the water was FIVE feet higher than
during the overflow from the storm of SepN
| TENDER, 1875. Many families are represented
as having lost everything they were pos.
sessed of, and unless relief be afforded a
great deal Of suffering will be the result.
The Chinese merchants of Augusta,
Ga, pay their liquor and tobacco taxes
promptly and willingly, whereupon the
News remarks that they say the Chinese
must go, but their industry and business way
of conducting affairs is very striking. The
revenue collectors say they are among the
promptest paying, and are always correct in
money dealings.
Charleston News and Courier: G. O.
Leslie, the well known fish merchant, re-
ceived yesterday from one of his smacks q
curiosity in the shape of a monster leather
back or trunk turtle, whose shell measures
six feet, and which weighs about 500 pounds.
1t was caught of Oh Irleston bar, and is the
been caught in these waters.
Rockingham (Va) Register: For
more than a week the mountains east and
west of us have been on fire. We do not
know that we have ever seen such extensive
fires as prevail in the Allegheny and North
mountains. The light at night is grand in
the extreme. For more than sixty miles in
length there was q continuous stream of
fire, sweeping over knobs and down in the
gorges,
The London World says the famous
privateer Shenandoah was, after the war,
bought at auction by Nicol, Fleming & Co.
"a firm that has earned a notoriety in con.
nection with the failure of the City of Glas-
gov bank-fOr the sultan of Zanzibar. After
remaining idly at Zanzibar for some wears
she was sent to Bombay tor repairs, but
foundered off Socotra, ali hands being lost
except one Englishman and a few Lascars.
For the present the " Kansas fever"
among the southern blacks seems to have
subsidized, but the movement will start afresh
and with greater force in the autumn, The
planters are so well convinced of the gen.
eral disposition of the negroes to move
nOrthward, that all of them who are able
are already making arrangements to supply
themselves with Chinese laborers from San
Francisco. Many contracts have already
been made, it is understood, very low rates
of fare being secured for gangs of three
hundred.
An intelligent correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune concludes, from
extensive observations in Mississippi,
that there has not been as yet such
an alarming stampede of negroes as one
would infer from the many newspaper re-
ports. Here and there you can learn of b
few families that have gone, and on close
investigation they are Of clsss who are
behind with their merchants for supplies.
are shiftless and very poor workers, and
scarcely ever accumulated anything. and
hence, from their very character, are OF LII.
tie benefit to any community.
A few days ago the Bazaar market in
New Orleans was taken possession Of and
the court afterwsrd held that the city's
creditors are entitled to four thousand of
wster-works stock, which were seized some
time ago. Noticing these things, the Times
adds that " the younger generation of law,
yers has discovered an elasticity in the law
which was wholly unknown to the older
members of the profession. 1t will not be
surprising, therefore, if the parks, city hall,
court houses and public squares are gath
cred in by the city's creditors, in the same
way that the Bazaar market and the water
works stock were."