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A Polish Wedding in Wisconsin.

When Polish maiden gets married, the
more noise and excitement there is gotten
up for her amusement the better she likes
it. Yesterday a wedding after the Polish
stvle was celebrated in the First ward, at
St. Hedwig's Church. A procession was
formed and marched through the princi-
pal streets of the locality to the tune of ma
tional airs and the firing of guns. First
came the band (which, in some cases, ranks
according to the old gentleman's purse);
second, the bride and groom, followed by
the bridesmaids and grOOmsmen; then the
parents. relatives and invited guests fol-
lowed in couples. A number OF boys
were scattered from the house to the
church, and they kept up continuous
firing of guns and pistols. When the pro-
cession arrived at the church the band
stepped aside and the party entered, and
was seated according to marching order.
The bride and groom then took their
places in front of the altar, attended by the
bridesmaids and groomsmen. The cere-
mony was short, and at the close the young
man put his arms around the young wo-
mans waist and gave her squeeze and
kiss. At that moment some one inside
gave warning to the boys outside, and a
fearful discharge of light artillery ensued
luSb do OIlC hlcS was SSA'Nh. ~
gan to play, and all marched out OF the
church and through the streets to the place
from whence they started, the band play
ing and the boys firing during the march.
All of these weddings are alike. The
bride is generally dressed in white, and II
there is not veil in the family she buys
or borrows one. The men wear long
serge coats, doubtless made during the
rei6n of John Sobieski, and some of the
women wear dresses of the same material.
The young married man, if he is able, has
| a store coat. After dinner the drinking OF
/ beer commences and then dancing ensues.
| On a table in one corner of the room Is a
dish, into which every one who dances
with the bride is expected to deposit
small sum of money, generally twenty
five or fifty cents, which is the brides
dover. The fun is usually kept up until
morning. This was the case with yester-
davis Nitl1nukee Wisconsin,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22
Salmon Fisheries of Oregon.

In his message to the Legislature of
Oregon Gov. Grover says: ''The salmon
fisheries of the Columbia River are assum-
ing such importance that take occasion to
call your attention to the subject. The
product of these fisheries was scarcely no
ticeable four years ago, but last year it ap-
proximated Sl,000,000 in export value, and
for the season of 1874 exceeds 81 800, 900.
This river, bearing to the ocean a volume
of water hardly less than that of the Mis-
sissippi, pure, cool. and generally unob-
strucsed by ice in its lower extent at all
seasons, is doubtless the best salmon pro-
ducing river in the world. We have been
accustomed to think that this fish product
was inexhaustible. But the river fisheries
of all countries, where the laws have not
intervened for their preservation, have one
uniform history-first decimation, then
destruction. The rivers of the northeast
coast of the American continent were, at
an early date in our history, relatively as
well supplied with the imperial fOod-fish
as the rivers of the northwest coast are
now. But through want of public atten-
ton, by everlasting and unreasonable
fishing, and by the obstruction of streams
with mill-dams, having no fish-ladders for
the ascent of the fish, the salmon has be-
SOlhC ohhllO"h III lINClS VI
New England, and totally gonefrom many
of them. At one time the salmon fire.
quented all the rivers of Great Britain, but
have been driven out of many of them by
the turbid, poison waters from the sewers
of manufacturing towns. By the con-
struction of fish-ways and by stringent
regulations of law limiting fishing to GER
tain seasons of the year, days of the week,
and hours of the day, in which it shall be
lawful to take fish, the run of salmon,
once much diminished, has of late years
been increased in several of the rivers of
Scotland and Ireland. The shad of the
Middle States, a fish which. like the sal
mon, makes its annual incursions from the
sea, has been lost to several rivers once
filled with their rowing millions. They
were destroyed by reckless fishing, and
cut off from their spawning grounds by
mill-dams. A lively interest is now
manifested throughout the States border
ing on the Atlantic sea-board, seeking by
fish culture. not only to recover lost fisher
les, but to create new ones, and to introduce
species of fish valuable for food not before
known to those waters. In Oregon we
have, in great abundance, two of the best
river fishes in the world, the salmon and
the trout To preserve these is worthy of
careful legislative enactments."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

of the entire party. The sick man made
but few complaints of being Jared by this
method of transportation. The early part
ofthe return trip was over sage brush and
across large streams, and other impedi-
ments spoken of above, yet five miles was
made the first day, fifteen miles the sec
ond, and the latter part of the journey
twenty-five and thirty miles per day. The
party reached Twin Lakes in safety, the
condition of the young man being much
improved, on the 29th of September last;
and the rapidly recovering man, with his
friends, will probably arrive in Denver to-
morrow. The members of the Hayden
party have become much attached to the
young man, ON account of his industry,
energy and amiable character, and it is
with great pleasure to them, as well as to
the anxious parents, that he was safely
brought from the wilderness.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

A MARRIED woman in Mohawk, n. Y.
was prospective mOther-in-law, and she
wanted to find out exactly what kind OF
chap he was who was eOurting her daugh-
ter. So she dressed herself up in male at
tire and went to a ball where she was GER
tain to meet him. During the evening,
disguised as a fashionable young fop, she
managed to get into quarrel with the
young man himself. Lacking masculine
muscle she was worsted IN a ballroom
scrimmage. Her new plug hat was
smashed down over her face, her nose
stopped a well-meant blow, and her NOUS
tache was accidentally pulled of. Then
the young man suddenly recognized his
prospective mother-in-law, and found too
late that he had been fighting with the
wrong man. The woman was sent home
in carriage, and the young man has not
been round courting her daughter since.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

Afler a day of cloud and wind and rain
Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again
And touching all the darksome woods wi
light,
Smiles on the fields. until they laugh and sing,
Then like Il ruby from the horizon s ring
Drops down into the night.
What see now? The night is fair,
The storm Of grief the clouds OF care,
The wind, the rain, have passed away;
The lamps ure lit, the fire burns bright,
The house is full OF life and light
1t is the Golden Wedding day.
The guests come thronging in once more,
Quick footsteps sound along the floor,
The troopng children crowd the stairs,
And in and out and everywhere
Flashes along the corridor
The sunshine of their golden hair.
On the round table in the hall
Another Ariadne's Crown
out of the sky hath fallen down;
More than one Monarch of the Moon
Is drumming with his silver spoon,
The light of love shines over all.
o fortunate, O happy day!
The people sing, the people say. Z.
The ancient bridegroom and the bride,
Serenely smiling in the scene,
Behold well pleased on every side
Their forms and features multiplied,
AS the reflection of a light
Between two FURNISHED mirrors CLEANS,
Or lamps upon a bridge =: night
Stretch on and on before the sight,
TIL the long vista endless seems. .
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22
L New Invention in Telegraphy.

The F-ankftrter ZeitIng announces that
an official in the Bavarian telegraph ser
vice has succeeded in making an apparatus
which, if found to be practical, may effect
a revolution in the present system of tele-
graphy. The name of this gentleman is
HI. Becker, and the apparatus he has con-
structed, and to which he has given the
name of Z" electromagnetic copying ma
chine" appears to be perfecting and i'm
provement of Cassell's invention. The
proprietorship of the apparatus has already
been purchased by the banking firm of
Messrs. Oppenheim & WE'LL of Frankfort.
Without any assistance from the operator
it gives fac Sinsile of the original manu-
script telegram in whatever language
written, signatures, portraits, music, plans,
ETC., conveyed Geographically to any dis
tance. and in such admirable perfection that
in comparing the original with the copy
scarcely any difference can be discovered.
"We, ourselves" says the above named
! journal, WITNESSED the transfer from the
apparatus to another not only OF The lines
of welcome issued by the committee OF the
musical festival recently held IN this city,
profuselv ornamented with instruments,
/ wreaths of laurel and oak leaves, as well
as symbolical arabesques, but also of bills
Vi eAclange Hlleu up anu oiS iiSH,
patches in cypher, kilograms written in
Greek and Hebrew characters, police no
tices with the portrait of the person want
ed, military maps, such as general might
send to his subordinates to explain the
situation described or mentioned in his
written dispatches or orders, together with
the usual service communications as tele-
graphed from one station to another. All
objects intended for transmission by TINS
apparatus are written or drawn with pre-
pared ink, on silver paper, which Is then
placed on a revolving cylinder, and then
telegraphed off TO its destination, where II
/ is received on clean tissue paper, and
reproduced with most wonderful exact
ness.' s'ta 49, -E-li
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The picture fades; as at a village fair
A showman's views dissolve into the air,
To re-appear transfgured on the screen,
SO in my fancy this; and now once more
In part transhgured, through the open door
Appears the sell-same scene.
Seated see the two again,
But not alone; they entertain
A little angel unaware.
With face as round as is the moon;
A royal guest with faxen hair,
Who, thrOned upon his lofty chair,
Drums on the table with his spoon,
Then drops il careless on the floor,
To grasp at things unseen before.
Are these celestial manners2 These
The ways that win, the arts that please?
All, yes, consider well the guest,
And whatsoe 'er he does seems best;
He ruleth by the right divine
or b. lplessness, so lately born
In purple chambers of the morn,
As sovereign ever thee and thine.
lie speaketh not, and vet there lies
a conversation in his eyes;
The golden silence OF the Greek,
The gravest wisdom of the wise,
Not spoken in language, but in looks
More legible than printed books,
AS if he could but would not speak.
And now, o monarch absolute,
Thy power is put 10 proof; for 10
Restless, fathOmless, and slow,
The nurse comes rustling like the sea,
And pushes back thy chair and thee,
And so good night to King Canute.
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THIS is the way a Georgia paper sums

THIS is the way a Georgia paper sums
up the merits of a candidate for Congress
'''He is well formed and highly impreg-
mated with nervous ganglia; he has mys-
terious sunset ombre about his face; his
ewes have a dreamy sparkliness that en-
chants like amulets, and his entire organl-
zation consists of delicate telegraphlc
network that transmits the nervous nuld
like lightning throughout his whole sys-
tem.n
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And now sit and muse on what may be,
And In my-vision see, or seem to see,
Through floating vapors interfused with light
Shapes indeterninate, that CLEAN and fade,
AS shadows sinking into deeper shade
Sink and elude the sight.
For two alone, there in the hall
Is spread the table round and small;
Upon the polished silver shine .
The evening lamps, but more divine
The light OF love shines over all;
Of love that says not thine and mine.
Ihey want no guests 10 come between
Their tender glances like a screen,
And tell them tales Of land and sea,
AID Whatsoever may betide
The great forgotten world outside;
They want no guests; they needs must be
Each Others own best company.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

The meadow brook, that seemeth to stand still
Quickens its current as it nears the mill;
And so the stream of Time, that lingereth
In level places, and so dull appears,
Runs with 4 swifter current rs II nears
The gloomy mills of death.
And now, like the magician's scroll,
That in the owners keeping shrinks
With every wish he speaks or thinks,
Till the last wish consumes the WHOLE
The table dwindles, and again
see the two alone remain.
The crown of stars is broken in parts;
It's jewels, brighter than the day,
Have one by one been stolen away
To shine in other homes and hearts.
One is a wanderer now afar
In Ceylon or in Zanzibar,
Or sunny regions of Cathay:
And one is in the bOisterous camp
mid clink of arms and horses tramp,
And battles terrible array.
see the patient mother read,
With aching heart, of wrecks that float
Disabled on those seas remote,
Or of some great, heroic deed
On battlefield. where thousands bleed
To lift one hero into fame.
Anxious she bends her graceful head
Above those chronicles OF pain,
And trembles with a secret dread,
Lest there among ehe drowned or slain
She find the one beloved name.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

APAUPER in the Delaware county, n. :,
almshouse is so averse to being buried al
the cOunty's expense that for several
wears he has been making skewers, which
he sold to the neighboring butchers.
From means derived from this source
alone he has purchased burial lot in a
churchyard and a tombstone, with his
name and other lettering complete, save
and except the date of his death, which is
to be filled in at the proper time.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

Again the tossing boughs shut out the scene;
Again the drifting yapors intervene,
And the moons pallid disk is hidden quite
And now see the table wider grown,
As round pebble into water thrown
Dilates ring of light.
see the table wider grown,
1 see it garlanded with guests,
AS If fair Ariadne's crown
out of the sky had fallen down;
MaIdens within whose tender breasts
A thousand restless hopes and fears,
Forth reaching to the coming years,
Flutter a while, then quiet lie,
Like timid birds that fain would fly,
But do not dare 10 leave their nests;-
And youths, who in their strength elate
Challenge the van and front of fate,
Eager as champions to be
In the divine knight errantry
OF youth, that travels sea and land,
Seeking adventures, or pursues
Through cities and through solitudes
Frequented by the lyric Muse,
The phantom with the beckOning hand,
That still allures and still eludes.
o sweet illusions of the brainl
o sudden thrills OF fire and frost!
The world is bright while ye remain,
And dark and dead when you are lOstl
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q a COLUMBIA Is. c. newspaper describe
new style oftumbler recently introduced
into one of the restaurants in that city, the
rim of which is s. SO prepared as to titillate
the lips and add deliciously cooling and
acceptable flavor to the contents"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22

There aIe two guests at table now;
The king, deposed, and older grown,
No longer occupies the throne
The crown is on his SISTERS brow;
A princess from the Fairy Tales,
The very pattern girl of girls,
All covered and embowered in curls,
ROse-tinted from the Isle of Flowers,
And sailing with soft silken sails
From far-Off Dreamland into ours.
Above their bowls with rims of blue
-Four azure eyes Of deeper hue
Are looking, dreamy with delight;
Limpid as planets that emerge
Above the oceans rounded verge,
Soft shining through the summer night.
S,eadlast they gaze, yet nothing see
Beyond the horizon of their bowls;
Nor care they for the world that rolls
With all its freight of troubled souls
Into the days that are TO be.
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THE HANGING OF THE CRANE.
LoScrKLrow's Srw rorx

IPencre Ia creadiifere, to hang the crane, Is q
French expression for house-warIning, or th
first party given in a new house,
7.
The lights are out, and gone are all the guests
That ihr0nging came with merriment ana lesA
To celebrate Tie hanging of the crane
In the new house-into the night are gone;
But still the fire upon the hearth burns on,
And alone remain.
O fortunate, o happy dayl
When a new household finds its place
Among the myriad homes Of earth,
Like new star just sprung .ts birth
And rolled on its harmonious way
Into the bonndless realms of earth
SO said the guests in speech and song,
As IN the chimney, burning bright,
We hung the iron crane tonight,
And merry was the feast and long.
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As one who walking in the forest sees
A lovely landscape through the parting trees,
Then sees it not for boughs that intervene,
Or, as we see the moon sometimes revealed
Through drifting clouds, and then again cor
ceaied,
haheld tho acano
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-04-11
OratOry Superseded by the Press.

Hon. Daniel Dougherty, in recent
lecture on "Orators ana Oratory," at
Washington, d. c., is reported to have
said
Models of American eloquence are
drawn from speeches made by congress;
and though the republic is yet young,
sIA has produced as splendid parlia-
meeltary speeches as can be found IN
the archives of any government. But
the grand days of oratory are gone for
ever 1t is not improbable that the teem-
ing future may give birth to those whose
Asplendent genius will deservedly rank
Aem among the immortals OF the past.
But in these latter days there has arisen
a power mightier than an army of or
ators a power that has destroyed their
influence, dwarfed their genius, and
lowered them to the level of ordinary
mortals a power that can Danish kings,
destroy dynasties, revolutionlze gov
ernments, embroil nations in triumph
ant or disastrous wars, for good or i'll,
and change the aspect of the civilized
world.
The glory of the orator sank when
the printing press arose. The orator
at best can speak to thousands the
press to hundreds of thousands. The
orator speaks rarely-the press, every
day. The speech dies with the sounds
that give it birth ; the press lives for
ever on the imperishable page. Let us
hope that the press may be faithful and
pure, devoted to- truth, right, justice,
| freedom, and virtue, as the orators have
been. If the press gloat in hcentious-
ness if it stoop to strike the private
man if it expose to the public gaze
the sacred privacy of homes; If it vio-
late all decency in thrusting gentle wo-
men to the gossip of the town; if it
catches an idle rumor or envioas tongue
/ to malign the innocent IF it can be
bribed to suppress the truth or circulate
the false if it shield the public wrong
doer or denounce the faithful public
servant if it pander to the base pre-
iudices and passions of the populace-
then we may grieve that this great en-
| gine should work such mischief In SO
ciety.
If, on the other hand, its mission
| be to disseminate intelligence and
truth to educate the masses to be
faithful to their country and just tC
| their fellow-man to expose, with al
Rnsparing hand, to public execration
the corrupt legislator or unjust judge
if it be honestly independent, instead
of timidly neutral, in all that concerns
the citv and state; if it lift up modes
and true worth, and hurl down brazel
iffemy if all its aims be the public
bod, the honor of the nation, and th
glory of God-then we may be recon
ciled that the days of oratory are over
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ESTABLISHED 1855
FOREIGN.

Later news from Hong Kong in re-
gard to the loss Of the steamship Nile on a
voyage from that port to Yokohoma, SAYS that
so persons were drowned.
Reports from the districts affected by
the famine in India, show great Improvement
in the situation. There are no fatal cases OF
staEyation except in Tishoot, and in that dis
tridl pnly few.
dispatch from Melbourne saws
Rochefort and his companions escaped from
New Caledonia by slowing themselves away in
vessels. They have arrived at Sidney. and
viii proceed to Europe direct
A special from India says incendiary
tires are alarningly frequent in the neighbor-
hood of Seetamus. III the Gwalin district
Two large villages were entirely DESTROYED.
From Nepan large numbers of the inhabitants
are emgrating, in consequence of the famine.
The steamer Alaska has arrived at San
Francisco with dates from Yokohama to March
TO- The insurection in Sago wasS brought to
an end on the LIST inst. On Feb. % Sage was in
vested and the rebels abandoned theplace dis
persing in all directions. Intelligence of the
rebel collapse WAS coldly received by foreigners
generally IN Yokohoma, a different result
having been confidently expected by the ma
jority. The United States minister will take
up his permanent residence in Yeddo this
month. The British minister willoIow soon.
The Diario, of Havana, whose editor
was the intendente of that city during the for
mer rule Of Gen. Concha as captain general,
has recently published editorials pointing out,
among special advantages, the general good
to the island that would follow the restoration
of peace. Owing to the relations believed to
exist between the editor and Captain General
Choncha the articles are thought to be inspired
by the Spanish party, and that their object is
to prepare the people of the island for a man
ifesto Of prominent Hispano-CHbans demand
ing an accommodation between the so-called
loyt SITS and insurgents, for temporary ces-
sation of hostilities and followed by a formal
treaty. The basis Of the treaty is made known
and includes pledge that the island shall re-
main united to the crown of Spain that the
people shall elect representatives to the cortes;
that slavery shall only be interfered with by
the consent of owners, and in case emancipa-
ton should be decrsed, then the owners Of |
slaves ale to be Unidentified general par |
don to be granted for all political offenses, |
and all embargoed properties to be restored |
to their original owners.