The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-09-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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is indignant because the Governor |
General of the Dominion sighted |
them by going away without taking
part in their deg feast.
According to the Boston Post a lit
tie less than SO has been collected in
Massachusetts to aid the Greenback-
ers of the second Maine district in
their congressional contest.
The production of canned fruits and
vegetables fur the State, OF. Maryland
during the year 1870 amounted to ST.
5S7. $50. while in 1880, for the city of
Baltimore alone, the amount was $9,-
POI. 26S. 1
The Pullman Car Company employs
1000 men: pays them $1,000 per
month, and provides schools, gymnas-
iums, reading rooms and churches for
the employees, but no saloons VIII be
permitted in the town.
The Austrians are obtaining good
sale for their cotton goods along the
lower Danube, driving out the Eng
lish made goods The new articles
are f0isted off as being of American
manufacture.
The Richmond doctors contend that
the healthiest men are those who hab-
itually work in the sewers, and that
the high rate OF mortality in Southern
cities is due to the presence and thrift
IesSness of the colored people.
The drouth in the vicinity ofIudia-
napolis arouses the liveliest appre-
hension in regard to fire. There have
been several instances where farmers
have seen their barns and crops burn
ed by sparks from locomotives.
Liquor has turned the whole earth
into vast charnel house, opened the
gates to lost world, letting the vic
tins until the doors swing no more
upon their hinges, but day and night
stand wide open to let in the long pro-
cesSion of ruined men.
A rumseller was once asked what
his business was good for before he
could reply, topper who was waiting
/ for drink shouted: at fattens grave
yards" Yes, and leaves. no stone to
mark the unhOnored spot. Do you
want to be one of those who help do
the fattening?.
An American cheese bore away the
prize of silver medal at the late
| great cattle and dairy show at Biz
/ mingham, England. The prize cheese
was one of the largest ever made,
weighing three fourths of ton. 1t
came from Iowa.
There is an attempt to create a pre-
iudice against GOV. Roberts, of Texas,
a man 60years old, because he smokes
a corn-cob pipe. Few who have en-
loved that luxury of Andrew Jackson IS
| will think the worse of the venerable
] Roberts for his indulgence.-ButlalO
Express.
Postmaster-G James has been
under the painful necessity" of tell
inc the Canadian authorities that
there will be no need of special In
ternational mail bag if they will
promptly return them, aud expresses
regret that the United States mail
bags are still being used in Canada.
sAir baths' rae the names they
give the excursions for the poor
and sick children of New York,
There are score of charitable
associations in the city that have
taken these excursions in hand, and
the children of the metropolis are
reaping the benefits. All of them
have at least one of these excursions a
month
The New York Sun estimates thai
the vote in n. Y. this fall will be 250,-
900 less than at the Presidential cleo
ton. If the quarrel between the Stall
warts and Half-breeds is keep up the
Sun believes there is only one thing
that can prevent the overwhelming
defeat of the Republicans, and that is
''thc stupidity and quarrels of the
| Democracy"
| Concerning the coming panic which
Mr.. John TOmphson, President Of the
= First National Bank of New York
predicted, there seems to be a pretty
general opinion that there is nc
immediate danger, and one paper, the
Missouri RepubicdR, says we ought
not to have another panic before sever
, wears. II also takes hope from the fact
that the farmers are either out of debI
orfast getting out.