The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.

ty bales of cotton yet to be picked.
The wheat crop is reported to be an
entire failure in southern Illinois and
Indiana.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont. will
most likely succeed Justice Ward Hunt
on the supreme bench. He wants to.
Fridays storm played havoc with
the wires in the eastern States. II will
require two weeks time to repair all
the damages.
1t is expected thst Brownsville, Tex
az, will he in direct teleglaphic eenmu \
nfcation with the City of Mexico WITH
in the next thirty days.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
reports the departure Of n considerable
number of carpenters for Pensacola,
Fla, where they expect to SID work
in the rebuilding Of the burnt district.
More than 81 5 900 Irssiscen raised FOR
the endowment of the Coluubis, S. c.,
Theological Seminary. IL is said that
the Seminary now has $4,000 in in
vested funds, and that the outlook is
very encouraging.
Iowa is flooded with babies. There
are, in fact, so many babies in Iowa
that there are not brains enough for
all OF them, and Iowa has, therefore,
no crop of great men. Pas, the pare
goric.
The failure or Welch & Bacon, al
Albany, Ga, is said to be perhaps the
largest single failure that section has
ever known. The gross amesnt of as
sets is reported BY Col. Nelson Tiff, the
assignee, to be $4SS, ,753l7, aud the lia-
abilities s476, ,269.79.
1t is expected that the supply Of
peaches IN the westcrn and southern
markets next season will be exceeding
ly scant. Very few peach buds are like
ly to escape at some points. At seyer-
al places in Arkansas it is feared that
the trees are killed as well 80 tn. buds.
Aspecial from Erie says that Colonel
Robt. G. Ingersoll broke down at the
funeral Of his sister on Saturday and
could not deliver the oration expected.
In appearance he has aged ten years
since Friday.
Mr.. w. W. Corcoran, the Washing
ton banker and philanthropIst, has, it
is said, given away in all 5000. 600 in
public benefactions and 81, 100000 in
private charities, and that this was
about three-fourths Of his fortune.
A tramp, according to the construc-
tion of the legislature of Vermont, is
Ga male person over sixteen years Of
age, (Hot blind person), going about
from place to place, and asking or sub
sisting on charity, or who is without
ascertainable means of legitimate sub
sistence.
Two thirds Of the members Of the
present congress are said to favor the
purchase of all existing lines OF tele-
graph under the rights reserved in
chartering the companies that own
them. BY doing so two good things
would be sccomplished-telegraphy
would be cheapened and the people
would be relieved of the incubus of
crushing monopoly.
Rev. J. II. Campbell, OF Columbus,
Ga, one of the most active philanihro-
pists in the State, writes to the Colum-
bus Times that in all his fifty years
experience among the poor he has neY-
er had an application for charity from
an Israelite. They sometimes give him
money for the poor, but never ask char
ity for themselves. During the recent
cold term, when white and cOlored peo-
pie of all denominations were clamor-
ing for wood, he specially notes the
standing of the Jews, to whom he says
the facts are highly creditablc.
About sl5O,000 is asked for to i'm
prove the Potomac, and it will probe-
bly, be Appropriated. Less than s., 900,
900 is asked for the improvement Of the
great Mississippi river, and the people
Of the valley expect their congressman
to see that the money is promptly ap-
propriated. .-Courier-Journal.
A Swiss colony, recently settled in
North Carolina. are planting largo
numbers OF mulberry trees for the fu-
/ ture production of silk, it having been
/ disco vered that the tree grows luxuri
antly and rapidly in That section.
/ Louisville is in blaze Of enthusiasm
over the discovery OF another Mary
| Anderson, in Miss SPline Felter, who
made her debut; at Macauley's theatre
as "Marian.," in Sheridan KnowIes's
play of The Wifi. Miss Felter is eigh-
teen, very beautiful and very rich,
member of one Of the most istocratic
families in Kentucky, and has pursued
the bent Of her genius and inclination
in going ON the stage. Throughout
the piece she carried the house by storm.
At st. LouisEather O'Reilly, Cath
olic clergyman. of Csrondelet, has sued
the Globe-Democral for libel. claiming
$50, 200 damages for the language used
in all account published fsy days ago
in relation 10 the difficulty between
! the scholars in the public school and
the pupils i'll the parochial schools.
| II is said that General Sherman at
tea ed performance Of king Lear."
at Washington theatre, the other
night and wept. The story that Gen.
Jackson, Hho sits Oh his bronze horse
/ in front of the White House, bas been
seen frequently this winter With tear
/ ful icicle depending from his stalwsrl
nose may not be unfounded.-St Lou
/ ia Republican.
I The Wisconsin Legislature will short
ly grapple with the subjest of female
suffrage. A resolution amending the
constitution SO as 10 allow women TO
vote was passed by the legislature. II
it is passed by the present Legislature.
the people will yote on it, aud 1t Is
believed they are willing to obligo Miss
Susan L. Anthony.-Courisr.Journa
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