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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
CITY OFFICERS.


}. A. W. Hess, County Surveyor.
A. S. Currey. Superintendent Public Schools.
W. R. Cox, Register.
CITY OFFICERS.
A. Jordan, Mayor and Recorder.
J. L. Williamson, City Attorney.
J. i. Mcdonald, City Marshal.
DrJ. G. Boyd, 81. J.. Baird, Wilson William
son, S. +. Rankin, W. J. House, J. II. Dickin-
son, Aldermen.
CHURCHES.
Baptist-Church street. J. P. Weaver, Pastor
Preaching every Sunday morning and evening
Prayer meeting THURSDAY evening. Sunday
school Ga. m.
Methodist-Nolth Main street, b. F. PEBBLES,
Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and
evening. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening.
Sunday school a. IN.
Methodist-At Friendship, three miles east Of
Milan. J. W. Jones pastor. Preaching fourth
Sunday in each mont, atil .. r..
Old School PrcsLyterian-Dr. J. Z. Brigh;
pastor Services % Sunday in each month.
Cumberland Presty;erian-At Friendship, 3
miles cast Of Milan, J. }. Gray, pastor. Serv-
/: ccs third Saturday and Sabbath in each month.
I.O.0.F.
Milan Lodge. No. 155-J. T. Anderson. n. g.
u. F. Haun. Secretary. Lodge meets every
Wednesday night.
MASONIC.
Milan Lodge, No. lol-Eiects Wednesday 10 a.
m. after each fun neon. W. NJ. Scnter, Mas
Ter. o. Lcwter. Secretary.
Lavinia Chapter No. J6-Mects Friday night
on or before each fall moon. NJ. d. l.. Jordan,
II. p. ". /. Horncr,. Recorder.
Layinia Council, No. 39-Meets Friday night
on or before each full moon. NJ. u. L. Jordan,
T. |. NJ. s. H. Hale, Recorder.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Milan Grange No. 3J-Meets Friday before the
third Sunday, at Odd Fellows HaE. :. II.
Hale, Master. Robert Nesbit. Secretary.
New Hope Grange No. 90-Meets % Saturday
III each month, At Friendship. Il. A. Hurt,
Master. G. 5. Cunningham. Secretary.
walnut Grove Grange. No. f2-Meets Friday
evening before the tdird sunday in each month.
Il. II. Goodman. Master. I. u. II lines. Sec
Rotary.
Friendship Lodge. No. 35l-Mects at Fricad-
rhip, miles cast Of Milan, every lst and q
Saturday, IT p. m. James Lessenberry, W
&. r. j. L. Atkinson. Secretary.
Lasinia Lodge. No. -. Meets every ID and
9Th saturday. at p. m. Banks Adams, W. c.
+. George Frinser, Secretary.
Hope Hin Lodge, 30. 35l-Meets the second
and fourth Saturday nights in each month. W.
Z. Chil1ress W. G. T. John ". Bum, Sec
Rotary.
Walnut Grove Lodge No. -. Meets 10y
Thursday night. W. ii. Goodman, W. CO.
L. F. T.
Milan Council, No. 7l-Meets every Friday
aight at Odd Fellows Hall. W. J, House, W.
y. Il. /. Dickinson. Secretary.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30

Doors, Sash and Blinds. cheaper
than ever before offered in Milan.
HALE, VANIIooK & Co.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30

A. Jordan, Mayor and Recorder.
J. L. Williamson. City Attorney.
J. i. Mcdonald. City Marshal.
Dr. J. G. Boyd, 81. J.. Baird W ilson William
son, s. F. Rankin, W. ]. House. J. II. Dickin-
con Allorrnen
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
NASHVILLE
Union & American,
(THE PEOPLES PAPER.)

The Great News. Family, Commercial, Po-
litical and Agricultural! journal Of the South.
1t Gives telegraphic news from all parts OF
the world as soon as any other paper published
in America.
Ii Gives, BY telegraph. the general news OF
the old world as soon a. any other paper pub
lished in the United States.
Ii Gives by telegraph, the latest market
quotations of ali foreign and domestic msrkets,
day by day and week by week.
IL Gives, by telegraph, every day. the clos
ing quotations of gold, stocks and bonds IN this
city and in New York, Of the day before;
Ii Gives, Daily, Semi-N eekly and " eekl y,
the current market price in the city Of Nash
Vile of every article of produce and trade IN
Tennessee.
1t Gives 10 the mechanic an account CT ev-
cry new inVentioI caicul ated % advance bis In-
terest by lessening his labor.
ID is n financial chronicle. which publish
% to the people every fact IN the finances Of the
State and country calculated tC advance or re-
tard their interests.
Ii Gives all the current political news and
movements of tas day, and The honest opinions
Of its conductors thereon.
1t Gives ali local, State and miscellaneous
news of the day.
1t Gives a good share Of literature ard poet
ry--fresh, carefully chosen and entertaining.
Hts Agricultural nd household eOI1E Es,
by De. DANIEL LEE. who IL alone empioyei
by this paper, and who stands trst among the
scientific and practical sgHeuiturists Of thu
country are fun Of plain talk to Farmers and
Housewives, and advocate their Interests IN al
things.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
TAX COLLECTOR.

TONES.-We are authorized to announce J.
~ I. JONEs rs candidate for Tax Collector
at the August election.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
COUNTY TRUSTEE.

NTCEWEN.-We are authorized to announce
us1 J A q McEwen as a candidate for COun-
- Trustee, at the August election.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30

Milan Council, No. 7l-Meets every Friday
.ight at Odd Fellows Hall. W. J, House, W.
J. II. L. Dickinson, Secretary.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30
supgcaIrnox. u ApvAzeE.

suBscaIFT1oE, ~ ADvAscT.
Daily per anaaans By Mad, $1,000
Semi Weekly per annan1, 400
Weelly per anRarn, 200
Shorter periods in proportion.
AS6ress
UNION ND AMERICAN.
marie Ess--tLs. TZEy.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-30

Blow away you gentle breeZeS-
Away among the leaves and treeses !"
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
Sound Sense on The Centennial Business

In his remarks upon the centennial bill
last Wednesday. Senator Thurman said
IF it went to that committee the un-
derstanding would be that there should be
an appropriation for the celebration, and
this he opposed on the ground that con.
gress had no power under the constitution
to vote money for such a purpose Now
that poor clerks were being turned out OF
departments to save few thousand dol
lars, and he saw them regularly, men and
women, with tears in their eyes, not know.
ing where they were to get their next
meal, it was no time for congress to EN-.
bark in an enterprise like this, which
would afford little show to Philadel
phia.
To eyes unassisted by Pennsylvania and
Philadelphia spectacles, the above looks
like very hard common sense. Congress
has no more right to vote money for this
centennial show than it has to pay the ex.
penses of all the Fourth of July celebra.
tons which may occur in the country
henceforth and forever This principle
was clearly recognized and fully acknowl
edged in the original bill, where it was OK
pressly stipulated that not single dollar
should be drawn from the national treas
ury. The effort now being made is not
only fragrant breach of faith on the part
of the commissioners, but it is a deliber
ate attempt to use the public funds for ar
Legitimate purpose. In short, it is &
theft thinly disguised under the name Of
patriotism.
Senator Frelinghuysen favors the ap.
preparation of sum not exceeding s., 1000
900, to defray the expenses of the Amer
lean Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia. y
If the ring succeeds in securing this
amount, they will have no difficulty in get
ting as much more as they want. The
door will be open for the unlimited en-
largement of an impudent and outrageou:
steal
We are curious to see whether the leg
islature who on the score Of economy, are
turning out poor employees of the govern
ment to beg or starve, will violate coDsti
tutional law, common honesty and com
mon consistency by throwing millions q
dollars into the centennial pool. Ii they
do, il will require mure than Fourth o.
July buncombe and blmbast % save them
from popular contempt.-& Louis Re
publican
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
on the new building their evidence was

on the new building their evidence was
mere hearsay. ~
Mr.. Steinmetz, the experimenting engi-
neer of the Post-ofice, testified to strike
of plumbers against the ten-hour system
some months since, but no stoppage or In
reference was suffered by the work; the
| law of eight hours had been complied with
in all cases by men employed directly by
the Government, who were paid by the
hour at trades union rates In this way ac-
tual working hours only were paid.
Mr.. j. Hulburd, the general superin-
tendent of construction, testified that not
over half dozen plumbers were EMPLOYED
by the government on the work. every
thing possible being let out by contract I;
he had not even heard of the plumbers
strike He was cross-examined by Mr..
Conuelly in relation to the letting out of
contracts, all bids received BY him being
passed over to Superintendent Mullett for
approval or rejection.
| Marshal r. Davidson, a contractor for
the steam fitting of the post Office, was ex-
amined. His men worked ten hours in all
cases; the Eight.hour law, he thought, did
not govern or affect him,
John G. Graham, bricklayer and a
i shoASS- NutOh hou3 was CAhutECu LAC idu
worked ten hours day for two weeks in
April, 1872, receiving "a per day, and was
discharged, as he believed, for agitating
the eight hour demand On cross-exami.
nation he said that large number had
been discharged at the same time with
himself for incompetency. At the con-
clusion of Graham's testimony an adjourn
ment was taken to half past seven O'Clock
P. NJ. to allow time for the production OF
witnesses by the Working mems Council
These witnesses, when brought forward
consisted of Patrick Coyle, plumber, who
had not worked in the building but haG
merely heard of it through his trade or
} ganization, and Michael j. Dady, brick
layer, who had worked on the post Office
April 10, 1872; he was discharged, but
was replaced on June following he, with
four others, had collected a sum of money
amounting to $3.50 to pay the expenses OIL
a committee to go to Washington and ap
peal to the Secretary of the Treasury; the
Committee saw Mr.. Boutwell,. who prom.
Used them his influence Dady further
testified that petitions had been circulated
and consultations held by the workmer
during the hours of labor. No other wit
nesses being ready, the Committee pro
ceeded back to Washington, with the un
Outstanding that the Workingmens Coun
ell should send on such affdavits as they
could procure bearing on the matter unde1
investigation T. World March 7h
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
CLIMAX! CLIMAX :!

Pages Climax Salve, a Family
blessing for 25 cents.
1t heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
Wewarrant il to cure ScrOfula
Sores, Salt Rheum, ChiIbIains,
Sore Breasts or Nipples, Burns,
Scalds, Cuts, and Sprains.
1t has been used over twenty
years, without one f..ilure.
Ithasn parallel-haying per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is a compound of
Arnica with many other Extracts
and Balsams, and putup in large
bOxesf0r thesame price than any
other Ointment.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
FARMERS MEETING IN ROCK ISLAND
s, n. Smith to Speak.

The farmers in every township in this
county should remember that their county
meeting comes off on Thursday next, the
call for which will he found in this paper.
1t is their annual meeting for the choice Of
officers, and they are to have, on that oc-
casion, speech from s. NJ. Smith, Esq,
Secretary of the Illinois State Farmers
Association. Mr.. Smith is one Of the
ablest debaters in the State, and his opin.
ions are well up with the most advanced
opinions of the day. Farmers should re-
member that it is their meeting, and that
on them depends its success or failure.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
go, 900 Tickets, $4,000 Gift:
LIST OF GIFTS.

Total 1000 GIFTS, all Cash, amounting toS1 ,50OOH
Ssss- The concert an di irritation OF gifts WI
p 81 lively anu unequivocaliy taKe plac on the ia
now fixed, whether all the tickets are sold or not
and the 1a,Gco gifts all paid III i,ropo ton to tn
nHmhcr OF tickets sold.
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole Tickets, $50; Halve 81 s; Tenths, or eaci
GU. on IS: Eleven Who'll Tickets for $500; 2.
Tickets for : 600; lib Whole Tickets for S5,000
~ y hoe itkets $iU00U.- No discount on les;
than 500 wo tn of tickets.
The time for the drawing is near at hand, ant
persons intending purchase tickets have titIc
TO lose.
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE,
Ag't Pub Lhr. Ky, and Manager Gift CO ncert,
Public Library Building, Louisville, by.
Tickets al E. Breunert's or Smith Bonney's
Drug sores 2-16d&w1m
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW.
The House Committee Investigating Its AL.
legged Violation During the Progress Of the
Post-0ffice.

Some three months ago the Working
mems Central Council secured the appoint.
ment Of q committee to investigate the
charge made by the Council that on the
government works in this city, and parti-
cularly the Post Office, the hours of labor
had been ten hours per day instead of
eight, as the law stipulates. A sub-com-
mlttee of the House Committee ON Public
Buildings, consisting of james Killenger.
OF Pennsylvania, Chairman Fl. II Short
OF Minnesota; and w P.Sprague, Of Ohio
spent yesterday afternoon in examining wit
nesses TO determine how far the law had
been violated The examination was CON
uneted In the Superintendent's room at
prominent trades-unionists being present
~ the afternoon session. George Blair
ana james Connolly detailed the cnm-
plants that had led to the appointment of
the Committee, but as neither had worked
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-11
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and
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ry Sold by Druggists everywhere.
]. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor.
So Liberty Street, New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08
Uhs Semtimsl-
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5.

Who are the imitation democrats ofIndiana
anv wayY The Cincinnati Enquirer OF wed
nesday morning publishedan interview with
the Hon. JamesB. Ryan in regard to politlc-
al prospects and the ex-treasuser comes out
in this gallant style: 81 regret that the En-
-quirer, a paper always read with so much
sinterest, takes grounds against Mr.. Kerr.
sMr. X. is an honest man. and L do not
~believe he is any more in the interest of
~Wall street bankers than l an. You
<might as well say the same of
Judge Joseph Z. Mcdonald, for they nearly
sapree on finance. McDonald's speech at
tGreepcastle regard as good democracy.
sIf it is .repudiated as such will not know
what to call myself. Major Cravens, can
Ldidate against Kerr, is my personal friend,
sand 4 am his; bat am panied to see him
placed in antagonism to the democratic
lnominee. But it Will all come out right.
%Kerr Will be elected"
This is as it should be.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08

a tax on valuation Of $50 per cent, while
others pay tax on valuation OF 100, 80, or
p per cent. This is cheerful. The people of
Illinois, however. may gather comfort from
the fact that there is hardly another State
in the Union in which the same discrepan-
cies do not exist. In Indf-
ana great expectations are enter1
tanned of the workings of the sys-
tenn of full valuation; although in his last
report the auditor confessed that it had
failed to bring about the reform anticipated.
The fact of the matter is, that we need all
through the country an effective method of
taxation, When Wells, the statistician. set
to work to devise a means of levying
equitable and productive taxes, he sue
ceeded in proving the defects of the means
now employed, but could suggest no better
substitute than the taxation of each man
according to the style of house which he
lives In, which was so palpable an absurdity
that everybody was content to fall back
upon the old style of collecting public
revenues.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08
Lauiaiana.

The protest of the democratic aud con-
sentative central committee of Louisiana is
a calm and dignified paper, which may have
some slight effect in rousing attention to the
disgraceful political condition in which the
Southern people are placed. 1t will not do
much good, however, as there seems to be
deep-seated conviction in the minds of the
Northern people that the Southerners have
no rights which the rest of the nation lis
hold a sort of reserve of power and punish
ment over that section of the country, to be
dealt out as suits the popular will, has
passed away, there is no use in at
tempting to establish popular government
at the South, and the pretense of main
tanning it is becoming absolutely dangerous.
The forms of freedom without any of the
spirit must eventually degrade the national
character. Take, for instance, this miserable
state of Louisiana. After all the conditions
precedent to reconstruction had Deen COM
piled with, the commonwealth regained its
original standing among the sisterhood of
states. 1t had a defective constitution,
manufactured specially to secure the su-
prsmacy of particular clique, and it was
filed with many dangerous elements Of
political strife. Yet once it was launched
out into selfgovernment, there was no rea-
son why its career should not prove prosper
Gus and successful, if it's destiny were left
in the hands of its own people. A few
years before ii had been noted for wealth,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08
Jeff. paws ON the situation.

1t is verv evident that republican politi-
clans have made up their minds to win this
election, as they have all former ones. by
working upon the sympathy of the northern
people for the southern negroes: and the re-
cent riots in Kentucky, Louisiana and Ten
nessee have probably afforded material for
all the arguments that will be required in
justification of the previous misrule in the
South, and in excuse for further federal
tyranny. 1t Is a curious fact that people
never stop to interpret these instances of
the party in power. They lay the blame
upon the Southerners, who are directly
responsible for the violence, and nor upon
the system of reconstruction, which is the
indirect cause of 1t. Viewed with an eve to
political effect, therefore, these riots must be
hailed with gratitude by all good republicans
and men of a cynical disposition, seeing the
advantages which the politicians reap from
Southern outrages, can not help suggesting
that they have some active part in stirring
up these scenes of violence and exsggerating
their horrors when they occur. 1t is won
derful how the cases of shooting, lynching
and robbery multiply Just previous to a
Northern election. Late dispatches from
Washington go so far as to show that South
ern republicans are already pressing into
the capital with petitions urging the presi-
dent to interfere and preserve the South to
the party by intimidation. He will beasked
to issue proclamation, institute prosecu-
tons and make use of military repression in
districts where the white people are regain
ingthe ascendency. That the immediate re-
suit of Southern disorder tends in this direc-
ton of perpetual oppression is manifest to
all reasonable men. and If the people of the
South were not pack of hot-headed fools,
they might have learned by this time that
patience is the bsst policy.
The leaders in the South are fully awake
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08

In letter from Charlottesville, published
in the Sentinel the other day, an account was
given OF man who is still alive and in
sound health at Ill years OF age. 1t is
strange thing to think of the fact that he was
a boy when the first Continental Congress
assembled, 100 years ago, at Philadelphia.
How few OF the men who met in that mem
orable body or watched its proceedings,
ever dreamed of the events of the next
century. Priestly had just discovered oxygen
and created new chemistry. Napoleon and
Wellington were boys of five years old, and
Walter Scott a child of three, while Tally
rand was old enough to figure as Able
de Perigord at the coronation of Louis
the Sixteenth. Goldsmith was just dead,
and Burns was a lad of fifteen, approaching
his first love scrape and his first attempt to
celebrate rustic beauty's charms in verse,
and Goethe In that year drank his full of
fame in the publication of ''The Sorrows OF
werther." Alexander Hamilton, boy of
seventeen, had reused the populace of New
York by his eloquence, and George Wash
ington was still private Virginian gentle
man. Robespierre was yet schoolboy, and
Marie Antoinette had Just entered upon her
course as queen "glittering like the morning
the STAR" Nelson was still midshipman,
Hastings held sway at Calcutta, and Edmund
Burke, unmindful of eastern affairs, was
pleading the cause of the American colonies
Frederick the Great was resting on the
spoils of Poland and Catherine of Russia was
enjoying her triumph over the Turks. There
was no locomotive, no steamboat, no tele-
graph, no great newspapers, no American
flag. How dim and distant such an era looks.
The White river that summer flowed through
wilderness, and the morning sun that now
shines on forest ofspires touched the foliage
of the primevsl woods Yet amid all the
changes of the century with what a perfect
sympathy we can unite with the people OF
that age! How the unity of humanity has
remained unimpaired through the revolu-
tions of a hundred years-as it has since the
beginning.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08

On the 9th of September Prot. Charles F.
Hartt, of Cornell University, the well
known South American explorer, sails v's
Europe for Rio de Janeiro, to continue for a
few mont his his scientific researches in Bra
I'll. His aim is to make reconnaissance of
the gold and diamond region north of Rio,
concerning whose geology and photography
but little is known. He purposes at the
same time to review carefully his observa-
tons on the southern glacial drift, and ex-
anime several new archaeological and pale
ontological localities discovered on
previous expeditions. Prof. Hartt
goes out ! under the auspices
of Cornell University, aided once more by
the generosity of one of its trustees, Col. e.
B. Morgan, of Aurora, N. Y; but he has re-
ceived important contributions from the
Peabody Museum, of Cambridge, Mass. |;
from Prof. O. C. Marsh. OF Yale College, New
Haven; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of
New York, and from Mr.. Hiram Hitchcock,
of Hanover, n. H.. and DIR. j. G. Rodrigues,
editor of o Novo Mundo, New York. The
professor is the bearer of an address to the
emperor of Brazil from the Smithsonian In
stitute of Washington. He carries out ex-
cellent Photographic apparatus for making
dry-plate negatives, intending to make an
extensive series of views illustrating the
country he visits. Mr.. j. G. Branner, stu
dent in Cornell University, accompanies
Prof. HART, as assistant.-New York Times.