The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-02-26
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
The California Legislature has passed a
/ bill providing for the enforcement of that
1 clause of the new Constitution which for
bids the employment of Chinese labor by
corporations organized and doing business
under the laws CT the State, and the Gov
ernor has affixed his signature to the same.
There is considerable opposition to this law
on the part of some of the large corpora
lions, however, who propose to test its con-
stitutionality by bringing it before the Su-
preme Court of the United States as soon as
test case can be made.
The Directors of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe and the St. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railways have agreed upon plan, it is
reported, for the building of the thirty-fifth
parallel route to the Pacific coast. The new
line will be known as the Atlantic and Pa
cifc.
Military officers upon the frontier antici-
pate active hostilities with the Utes as soon
as warm weather sets in. Large quantities
Of military stores and munitions are being
shipped to Fort Garland, and the garrison
there is being reinforced.
At Brule City, Dakota Ter, recently, Jim
Somers, known from Yankton to Bismarck
as lawless and dangerous man, had an
alteration with his uncle, NJ. Somers, which
resulted in both being shot dead.
A State Convention of colored people, held
at Dallas, Tex, on the 10th, to consider the
exodus question, was largely attended. Res
olutions were adopted, declaring that there
is no necessity for the exodus OF colored peo-
pie from Texas, whatever may be the
condition Of affairs east Of the Mis-
sissippi, and emigrants from other
States are invited to come TO Northwest
Texas, with the assurance that all men there
are treated accordingto their merits. An
association was formed, to be Incorporated
under the laws of the State, and known as
the Texas Farmers Association, to assist
members in the purchase and improvement
of homesteads.
Chief Jack has succeeded in securing three
of the prisoners demanded by the Govern
ment, and on the 18th delivered them up TO
Gen. Adams at Los Pinos Agency. They
are Douglas, Thomas, and Tim johnson.
Jack says it will take at least three weeks
more to capture the remaining nine demand
diately to Washington.
BY the explosion Of a bsiler in Barton &
Babcock's distillery at Peoria, Ill.,, on the
18th, John Sill, fireman, and an unknown
man who had just come in to inquire for
work, were instantly killed; Benz. Babcock,
one of the proprietors, and John Richard
son, an employee, were fatally injured, and
three others were badly hurt. The explosion
was caused by pumping cold water into the
boiler, which had been allowed to get nearly
dry.
Owing TO the remarkable increase in the
price Of printing paper, the proprietors of
the newspapers in New Orleans have adopt
ed a resolution requesting the Representa-
tives of Louisiana in Congress to use their
influence to have the duty on printing paper,
chemicals, and materials used in the manu-
factJlre thereof removed or materially re-
duced. ava
The Kansas Republican State Convention
will be held at Topeka on the 31st of March.
The officers and members of the Terrific
rial Legislature of New Mexico made a
pleasure excursion over the newly completed
Atehison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad TO
Kansas. They were publicly entertained at
Atchison, Topeka and Leavenworth.
Notwithstanding the Presidents proc
lamation, it is said that an organized inva-
sion of the Indian Territory from Southern
Kansas will be made at an early day. -
Hall and Smith, both colored, who muir
dered Major Henry S. Pugh in May last,
were hanged at Murfreesboro, Tenn, on the
10th, in the presence of an immense crowd
of spectators.
A passenger train on the Bellaire and
Southwestern Railroad ran off trestle thir-
ty-fve feet high, nine miles southwestern
Bellaire, o., on the evening of the 10Th.
Some twenty passengers were injured, sew
eral fatally, as supposed, and most of the
others severely.
F. II. Bowen, a newspaper writer well
known in Iowa, committed suicide at his
home at Sand Springs, Delaware County, on
the night of the 18th. He was partially in
sane, the result of financial losses and i'll
health.
A shooting ARRAY took place near Prince
ton, M, on the 10Th, causing the death of
two pessons. A. d. Garyin, an ex-soldier
of unsavory reputation, having trouble with
his sister, Mrs. Kessick, agreed for money
consideration to leave the country. He
returned shortly after and attempted to kill
Mrs. Kessick, but was prevented by daugh-
ter, who received the bullet in her own body,
causing instant death. Garvin then shot
himself through the head, inficting a wound
from which he died the next day.
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