The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-04-29


A Paris paper speaks of Sir James
Gordon Bennett, the American no
bleman.
The Texas and Pacific extension
has reached point beyond the Colo
RADIO river.
Rev. Robert Matlock, fanatical
preacher ard murderer, was hung by
mob in Arkansas.
Strikes of mechanics and laborers
are the prevailing fashions In all
northern and western cities.
Large;numbefs of strangers arrive
daily at Fort Worth with intent to
secure homes in northwest Texas.
Two hundred Georgians are about
to start to Texas and establish a
Georgia colony west of Fort Worth.
The trustees of the Cincinnati
Southern railway have subscribed
$4,000 to the Atlanta cotton exPosi-
ton.
Ice is to be sold to private parties
in New York city, this season. at
thirty cents a hundred. Butchers Will
pay fifteen cents.
1t was positively announced IN
Washington on Saturday night that
Ex- Congressman Moore, of Ohio, is
10 be appointed minister to Brazil.
At Aberdeen, Miss, last week,
Spratt 4 French's bank made an as
signment, in consequence Of the fail
urs of commission houses at Mobile.
Thos. J. Brady, of Star mail-ser-
vice notoriety, has resigned, and 4.
A. Elmer has been nominated for
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
The saving of some waggish csntri'
butor to the Courier-Journal that
both paths (allopath and homeopathy
end in the same place-the grave
appears to have been verified in the
case of Beacons6eld.
Queen Isabella is reported to be
property-owner in Washington.
Her possessions there are thirty acres
ON Capitol Hill and q row Of brick
houses. The purchase was made
through a Philadelphia firm.
According to the New York Iler.
aid the death rate for the first three
months OF 1880 was 6SO2, and for
the corresponding period in 1881
91O5, and increase of 1908, a fright
full mortality, due largely. if not al
together, to the filthy streets.
Some of Shakespeare's plays are to be
performed in London without scenery,
as in the olden time, the imagination
of the audience being started in the
right direction by such placards on
the plain wall as "A Room in Mac
beth's Castle" and "Wooded Dell"
A postal agent writes to the Inter
Ocean requesting people not to use
"blue envelopes" He says: "lf
those who use them knew what a
bother it is to distribute them, espe-
cially by lamplight, they would for
ever Danish them from their cores
pondence."
1t has been ascertained that forty
seven of the ninety.nine most prof.
table star routes were raised from
s422, 900 to s, /, 1890 The names
of the contractors were J. B. Price.
J. n. Peck. j. r. Minor, J. w. Dor
sey, o. J. Salisbury, T. A. McDevitt,
IT. Chidester and C. w. Foster.
Last week at Dio Frio, Texas, Mr..
Gillespie was on horseback herding
at night. While riding round the
cattle he and his horse fell into well
eighty feet deep. The horse was
killed and Gillespie was slightly in
jured. He alarmed his friends
by firing his pistol while at the bot,
tom of the well, and he was hauled
out.
In a letter to nm Englishman gen.
tleman. Mr.. Gladstone reiterates,
with additional emphasis, what he
said in public wheE candidate for
parliament, that England's invasion
of the Transvaal was crime, and.
while he laments as much as any Eng
lishmen the gallant men who fell in
that war, he proposes publicly TO
avow the folly Of bis country, and
make the only atOnement in his pow
or.
Longfellow recently remarked of
Hawthorne "He was a shy man,
and exceedingly refined. If any one
thought he wrote with ease he should
have seen him as have, seated at
table with pen and paper before
him, perfectly still, not writing a
word. On one, occasion he told me
he had been sitting so for hours, watt
ing FOR an inspiration to write, mean
while filled with gloom and an
almost apathetic despair.
At the Northern New York con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church. PIN Oswego, Bishop Foster, Of
Boston, came out very strongly
against religious revivals. Address
ing the candidates for admission TO
the conference, he admonished them
that continued growth is bet
ter than an avalanche of re-
vivalE and declared that getting up
revivals' is an odious practice and u
fact. He avowed himself
tired of christians who have to he
coaxed..
In addition to never acknowledging
any of his own blood or kindred in
social life, Lord Beaeonsfeld was
never known to extend a hand of
kindness or encouragement to any
rising or struggling literary man,
though he has been sometimes applied
to in moments Of sore need. Any
act of apparent kindness, and even
such were few, was calculated. In
social life it was his intense delight to
surround himself on the occasions of
his rare gatherings with a host Of
Dukes and Earls. The incest women
of England (and they are the trssst
judges of such matters). even those
who politically favored him, pro-
nonneed him in private a thorough
snob.-[Sdn.
The cold winds Of the past winter
passed through the whole Of Mexico,
and the effects of one Of them were