The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-03
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About seventy-five negroes have lef
New Orleans for Kansas.
West Texas doctors now speak OF thai
section as the health Delt.
The other day there were 10000 sheer
on the San Antonio market.
The ice factory at Sherman, Texas
turns out s. 00o pounds aday.
A San Antonio merchant bought 80,
900 pounds of lwoolinione day, De
There are 4 500 lots and squares in
Galveston to be sold for taxes:
Five thousand New Orleans petition
ers wish Sunday temperance law.
Augusta, Ga, was laid out in 1885
and named in honor of an English princess
The Colorado potato beetle is playing
havoc with the potato crop in the valley OF
Virginia,
Robert Falkner, of Warren county,
North Carolina, is les years old, and has
voted 81 times.
At Sadler's Bend, 1. L., thirteen horse
thieves are said to have been hung III the
past two weeks.
A colored drummer, representing 8
New York house, is doing business in North
Carolina towns.
One hundred barrels eff wstermelons
we're shipped in one day last week from
Gainesville, Fla. sF 4 > K :
The wheat crop in the upper portion
of South Carolina is said to be the finest
made since the war. "a 2
A few nights ago, in Concordis parish,
To mod hill ooped half dozen horses
and mules to death.
It is said the narrow.gusge railroad
can be built anywhere in Texas at cost OF
less than $1,000 mile.
InI1avsca county, Texas, man clip
ped off the ear of hog and was sent to the
penitentiary for two years.
OF the 100000 barrels of beer
brewed in the United States last year,
Georgia brewed only $500.
Two Mormon missionaries are in Ala
bama getting up q big colony to go to the
land of many wives in October.
|. "A widow of a Georgia railroad engi-
neer, who was killed in the discharge of his
duty, has been awarded 5000 damages.
I kDr. Arlington, of Goldsboro, N. c.,
has by experiment satisfied himself OF the
feasibility of silk culture, and will plant 81
or rs acres in mulberry trees.
The first missionary sent to the Indi
ans west of the Mississippi river was Mrs
| Washburn, who has lately died at her home
in Arkansas. She was in her SD year.
In the suburbs of Nashville, Wednes
day, were sold by the commissioner two
paper mills and FIVE acres of ground, cost
ing 100000, to T. s. Weaver for $4,000.
Leonard Collins, of Apling county
Ga, was bit by rsttlesnske while he was
getting lumber to make his mothers coffin
and died after ten days of great suffering.
Two thousand one hundred head Of
cattle are ready for Shipment to Havans
from Tampa. The shipments from all the
Florida ports will amount to 5000 head pei
week,
DIR. Smith, of New Orleans, recently
removed the right kidney from a woman
with every success. 1t was the second sue
cessful operation of the kind ever per
formed in the world.
Rev. E. P, Roe, of Cornwall, the nov,
elist and small fruit.grower, has recently re.
turned from a trip to Virginia. He states
that he there visited one field of strawber.
ries that included about 100 acres of land,
on which were engaged about LOCO negroes
picking the fruit. y sS> y -
At Edwards Depot, Miss, two of Mr..
Charles DilloD's children were bitten by a
rabid dog ten days ago. since which time
one of the children died and the other is
not expected to live. Mr.. John Dillon was
also bitten at the time, but as yet has shown
no signsof hydrophobia.
New Orleans Picayune A property
holder in this city holds real estate assessed
at S66 900. During the last nine months
the amount of taxes paid on this property
was 81, 764 insurance, 1886; repairs, 81 joy
the net returns for the period named reach
the magnificent sum of $40, FsF
| The bark Monrovia sailed from New
York Saturday for LibeRa, carrying fifty
colored people as passengers, embracing all
ages. Most of them come from Arkansas
and the .Carolinas, although other sections
of the country are represented. Mr.. A L
| Stanford, formerly a member of the Arkan
sas senate, was one of the passengers.
The biggest tree in Georgia is syca
more tree on the farm of Mr.. Henry Hill
| in Walker county, which, says the Lafay
cite Messenger, is supposed to be about IN
! feet high, is 50 feet in circumference, anC
49, feet in diameter. 1t is also hollow, anC
contains a returaa door three feet wide ant
seven feet high,
Speaking of pinespples, the Key Wes
Kew says: The crop of this delicious frui
this season will double that of any forme
| wear. Forme " they were raised at KeI
| Largo: now they come from Elliott's anC
| other KEYS in such quantities as to make VI
a large export trade. For weeks past W,
haveFbeen shipping then1 70 Galveston
New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, and al
alongIthe coast.
The annual distributien Of prizes b,
the society fof the prevention ofcrue1ty +
| animals. to drivers who have taken good car
| of their horses or mules during the pas
wear. took place in front of the city hal
Augusta, last week. Forty-seven prize
were distributed as follows; Fifteen t
drivers owning their horses, twenty-seve
to drivers not owning their teams, and nv
to drivers for disseminating the use OF tn
check-rein on horses.
Austin (Texas) Statesman: The post
master.general is augmenting the number G
post routes everywhere in western Texas
This is evidently very necessary. The mai
coach robbers for long time seem to hav
had no occupation. They did rob the ma
pouches on the unoccupied mail coact
seven miles from Menardville, on the 12tt
hui pained nothing. People don't sen
money In western letters in these days {
partial human sanity, and the postmaste
general is doing the country good service.
Atlanta Constitution From the be-
information we can gain of the CROWN
crons il would seem that we are on Il
threshold OF a prosperity more brilliaI
| than that of the past, and likely to be mol
enduring because founded on sound ec
+ nomicsl principles. From all quarters I
- so,th come the glad tidiugs of increase