The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-14
generic BREyIrIEs.

TWENTY FOUR greyhounds Of choice
breed were recently sold in England for
upward of S7.650.-rv
UTAH yielded sl0,OO0.oOO worth of the
precious metals in 1874, which is double
the value Of all that were mined In 1873.
NJ. MARCH, who was the superintend-
ent of the late prison of Marshal Bazaine.
has been appointed in the same capacity
for the jails at Pau. .-a a.r-iis.
AT recent sale of antiquities in Edin-
burgh two of the bones of Robert Bruce
were sold for e5, and one of the vertebra
OF William the Lion for e5 los.
IT is generally known that among many
trades in Europe no work is done on Mon
days. DIR. Boyd, preaching on behalf OF
the hospitals If Devonshire. in Exeter,
lately, calculated that,the loss to the work.
people engaged In the wooden manufac-
lures, the cotton trade, and the briek-laying
trade, alone. by Idle Monday" amounted
10 e. .3OO.O 600 per annum. a-
A HISTORICAL wine7glass, which is one
of a set owned by John Hancock, was re-
Gently deposited in the Independence Hall
Museum of Philadelphia. Ii bears the
following inscription: A" Success to Wilkes
and Liberty" and has an interesting his
tory. II is one Of dozen presented to
John Wilkes while a prisoner in the
Tower of London, and by him sent to
John Hancock before the Revolution.
In California Chinese medical quacks
are largely paronized by people who
ought TO know better. Marvellous stories
are told of the Ingredients of their medi-
cines and of their cures. w. l.. Lock, a
San Francisco merchant. hurt his leg and
trusted it TO the treatment of Li-po-taI, a
Chinese physician of, note in that city.
The leg was by malpractice so injured as
to make Lock cripple for life, and he has
sued for damages.
A SINGULAR outrage is reported from
Ireland. A party of armed men waylaid
young widow, who, with her father and
mother, was returning home on a cart,
near Tullamore, Kings County. They
threatened to take the young woman's
life, unless she would consent to marry
Grennan, one of the assailants. Fortu-
nately assistance was at hand, and, on an
alarm being raised, five of the gang, in
Guiding Grennan, were arrested.
A NUMBER Of lady gymnasts are in reg
ular practice at the rooms of the Olympic
Club in San Francisco. FThey do their
contortions in slippers, striped stockings,
loose pants, and other thing in which cos
tune they are said to look sweetly pretty.
do lots Of difficult things. The school
marms are given to practice on the trapeze
and horizontal bar, while it is noticed that
the married women mostly devote their
efforts to practise in swinging the heavy
clubs.
The Maine ice dealers now realize fully
the great blunder they made last year, in
going into the business so largely. They
cut about 500, 000 TONS, not more than half
of which has been sold. There was per-
feet fever for ice-cutting, early in the sea-
son, owing TO the failure of the crop in
New York State, and the business was car
ried on not only on. the great rivers, but
on the ponds and little streams. Dealers
who at first asked "a ton would have
been glad to get 81 so later IN the season,
and now they can get nothing.
The Tallahassee Sentinel says that a
fine specimen of the Eucalyptus Globutus
tree may be seen growing in the capitol
grounds, just at the northwest corner OF
the capitol. 1t was obtained from Judge
Westcott, who raised it from seed got
from the Department of Agriculture. OF
six seeds planted all sprang up but one :;
when about foot high four of the plants
persisted, it is supposed by injury from
frost. The specimen in the capitol yard is
about six feet high and attained this height
in six months. The foliage is very pro-
fuse, and is blush color and very
fragrant.
A WORCESTER maiden who had prac-
teal mind and lover without a whole
shirt, made for him garment of that
kind and one Saturday night sent it clean
and glossy to his clearinghouse. She
supposed that on Sunday he would wear
1t while escorting her to church. Yet he
came not, and when she went out to hunt
for him she saw that he was going home
with another girl, enveloped in the gift
shirt. There is a limit pushed beyond
which the mind of women becomes ire
sponsible. This Worcester girl fell furi-
ously upon her faithless lover. and clawed
his face until his blood trickled on the
bosom of the shirt. And in the police
station she said they might put her in the
dark cell if they wanted to, but she was
still glad she did it. 20 B. '-.
The National Association of Short-Horn
Breeders, which recently met at Spring
field, ILL.,, having intrusted Alexander
Charles, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with the
work of procuring complete statistics of
all ShOrt-homs now living in the United
States and CanaGa, for publication in the
report of their proceedings, we would urge
breeding Short-hOrns eitherupon alargeor
small scale to send in prompt and careful
returns, and those who have not received
blanks for that purpose will be furnished
them free Of charge promptly, on applica-
ton to Mr.. Charles. Short-hOrn men will
please give this their very earliest atten-
ton, for by so doing the forthcoming re-
port of the American Association of
Breeders will be made the most valuable
and interesting publication ever issued in
this country.
J. II. KENDRIcK. of Crittenden County,
informs the Paris Rentuckiaz that cousin
of his, Mrs. VIM. Perry, near Dry Creek
Westinghouse, Kenton County, has the
vest worn by General Israel Putnam when
he made his escape from the British sol
diery, in his ride down the stone steps
near Stamford, COnnec icut, in l776, where,
with one hundred and fifty militia, he was
opposing fifteen hundred British under
TryOn. The rebels were forced to retreat.
Putnam staying till the last. being hard
pressed and fired upon, galloped down
steep rock, in which nearly one hundred
steps had been cut for people to ascend
going to church. Mrs. Perry is a grand
niece of General Putnam. and received the
vest from her mother. Mr.. Kendrick has
often seen the vest, and describes it as
long, QuakeT-like garment, with large
pockets, and the material ash-cOlOred mar
seilles. The revolutionary relic is highly
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