The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
Personal AND GENERAL.

Brownsville has a company of
''HOme Talent Minstrels" who give
creditable performances.
Mr.. Sturgeon in company with a
lot of Tabernacle deacOns, is about to
make trip up the Nile for his health.
John Browns widow has already
received $4,000, which sum was con-
tributed entirely through the news
papers.
Postmaster-GeneralJ James is endeav-
oring TO stop the issue of bogus news
papers sent as sample copies by adj
vertising schemers.
New Orleans Picdyuns: The man
who can see Sermons in running brooks
is most apt to go and look for them on
Sundays when trout are biting.
The South Pueblo Banner says the
Ute Indians are continually being sup
piled with arms and ammunition by
the secret agents of the post traders.
The emigration agents of Norway
and Sweden have contracted with the
Hull steamship line TO bring over So
600 emigrants to the United States this
summer.
An undertaken in New York lays
out his window as burial plot, with
black-robed dolls grouped about a
monument, with handkerchiefs to
their eyes.
The New York Times and Hartford
Post are quarreling over their victuals.
The Times accuses New England of
living on pie, and the Post accuses
New York of living on free lunches.
A government engineer, having
made survey of the HOlston river,
reports that it can be made navigable
for light draught steamers from Knox
vile to Kingsport at cost of 1907 ,675.
Partial records of the live stock in
terests of Texas show yearly Weld of
something over 100000 head of cattle.
Eight dollars per head is about the
average market price at San Antonio.
Senator Logan states that Gen.
Grant recently remarked to him, in
the most emphatic manner, that he
would never again appear before the
American people as candidate for
Office.
London dispatches say that Mrs.
Edwin Booth whose condition was
materially better after the arrival of
her father, has suddenly become worse
and she lies in very critical condi-
ton.
The high school girls in Augusta,
Ga, will wear ginghams at their COM
mencement exercises. AS the new
ginghams look like silk and make up
as pretty, the girls know what they
are about.
A New York judge Is quoted as say
ing, while on the bench, that there is
a certain sociability in going off with
an umbrella from the house of friend,
but to steal one from the hat-room of
a theater is different thing.
A New York reporter teaches an
evening school, delivers sermons, has
a class in drawing, and pays his board
by giving piano lessons. A reporter
who can't handle five or six irons at
once is no man at all.
The Cleveland Plaindea1er SAYS that
the demonstrating man in the whole
State of Ohio has been appointed State
Librarian. AT Elyria, year ago, he
sat and stared at dog until the ami
NAL dsGsAped dead.
Cou people pity the denizens of
a city wfio4have to use lake or river
water, but when an Ohio farmer
cleaned out his well last week he fished
out two cats, paint keg, two old
brooms, an old hat, boot and dozen
shingles.
The statute of Wisconsin makes in
durable insanity of five years stand
ing, on the part of either husband o.
wife, a proper ground for divorce, but
it must be Enthusiastically proven that
the party is insane, before a di-
vorce can be granted.
The enterprising boys in Cincinnati
go to entertainments in the parks for
nothing, and make money at that.
They climb the fences, go inside, get
return checks, sell them outside, and
then climb over again to repeat the
same performance.
Boston Post: A cigar contains
acetic, formic, butyric, valerie and
proprionic acids, prussic acid, creosote,
carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphurated
hydrogen, pyridine, virodine, picoline
and rubedine, and boy just after
having smoked his first one, will
think there's some more and worse
things in it besides.