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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30
Digs the Word!

We have it upon the authority of the
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution that 60 doe
tors of medicine and 135 lawyers are
practicing or DESTROYS of practice in that
city. They represent about 1000 per-
sons who are dependent upon them for
support; yet, there are more doctors
than would be needed if peStilence
were raging, and more lawyers than
would be called for if every able-bOdied
citizen of Atlanta were either Il plaintiff
or Il defendant. "Only two of the medi-
cine men, we are told, land barely a
dozen of the disciples of Blackstone,
possess each property to the amount of
$4,000" Business makes business: !:
railways increase travel; but the most
charitable cannot be sick Just to help
along the doctors, or plunge into litiga-
ton Just to encourage the lawyers. We
suppose that what is true of Atlanta is
equally true of the whole country; the
liberal professions, as they are called,
are OvercrOwded; and although there is
always room at the top, mediOcrity must
be the rule with its consequent want of
any marked success, and with a crowd
encouraged by no success at all at the
bottom. The young Bachelors Of Arts
should understand that there are other
resources than law, physic, or divinity;
and that there is almost everywhere an
over-supply of schoOl-teachers. Com
mercial chances are always and every
where so eagerly improved as to leave
little opportunity for newcomers; yet
they offer more numerous grades of
success than the professions. But then
there is the broad bosom of the earth
waiting for plOw and shovel and hoe,
and never asking whether the tiller has
graduated or not. Digs the wOrd!-
NeU York Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

pleasure. If there's no fun in it, don't
want any. CAS- for ugging nine-
pound gun over the fair face of creation,
swannpy swale below and bliStering
July sun above, with a chance perhaps
of getting one woodeock, but more OF =
certainty of getting none, no more OF
that for me.) The man who doesn't like
drinking for its own sake is a fool to get
drunk, and why should one who's not
fond of riding take the risk of a broken
neck, simply because his snext-door
neighbor jOgs round on horseback?
William C. Ralston did not care
enough about money to keep il after it
was made. What welded him to his
work was the excitement attendant up-
on making immense trades and moving
millions. As for keeping the money he
made, that never entered his mind-he
scattered il broadcast on every side. 1t
was as though a man should pump
away for dear life and all the while have
nothing but bottomlesS vessel to hold
his pumpings-yes, as though one
should pump away, with clang and
noise, but have never a valve
in his pump. Men do this
sometimes, for exercise. But exercise
is not work One must have a serious
purpose in view, or even the swinging
of dumb-bells avails not. And if ! had
not resolutely resolved to refrain from
pointing a moral, l would say right here
that the want of a worthy purpose is
Just the hole in which William c. Rails
ton and his bank went under. But |
prefer that each reader should apply the
great ethical blister, which | have so
generously spread, for himself. Place
it where it will do the most good, please.
William G. RalstOn was not bad
man in reality. True, he did very many
things which are commonly esteemed
bad; but / do not think that he put
much heart into them. There was little
of earnestness or vim about any of his
designations; seeing another person do
thing he thought it was the thing to
do, and there must be fun in it. He
never wanted to be counted out on any
thing. In q very similar way he did
much good So did the Bank of Cali
fornia. 1t encouraged many praise
worthy enterprises, developed valuable
industries, lent its shoulder frequently
to public improvements, where bank
ing institution conducted on prudent
principles would not have lent finger
On one occasion it even lent money to
me-is there need to say more? Then
again the Bank of California gave aid
to some schemes most outrageouSly cor
rupt But nature in her own way turns
most malfeasances to good. l do not
know, however, that in such cases a
credit mark goes down in the book to
the account of individual or institution,
unless good was intended" John
| Paul" IN NelC York Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30
SCHEME.
TClass First.
4,S00 Tickets at Two Dollars, $1,000.
Prizes from 81 to $500.
An Extraordinary Catastrophe.

A most distressing affair occurred re-
Gently at a farmhouse in Otoe County,
Nebraska. Mrs Black, going upstairs
in the evening carrying lamp and
small child, was run into by boy COM
inc rapidly downstairs. The lamp was
Knocked from her grasp and exploded,
setting fire to both mother and boy.
The husband ran up, seized his wife,
carried her outdoors, and threw her
in nlud-puddle. then ran back, seized
the child, attempted to carry it down
stairs, but could not hold it with his
burned hands. Another boy who car
ried the child out, had his own clothes
set on fire, and he was badly burned.
Also the boy who run into the lamp
causing the accident. The child died
before morning. The mother and one
boy were so badly burned that life is
almost despaired Of. The other boy
will probably be crippled for life. Mr.
Blacks hands were so badly buried
that he can never use them again. The
house caught fire, but, by the exertiOns
of the neiohbors, was saved in a dam
aged condition. The five persons COM
posed the entire family.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30
/ land q thar ,bere island Don't Star

land of that there island Don't Start,
sir There's only us of the old crew
knows it; and we've had a boat ready
to lower for some days. It's that one
on the port side, next the mizzen-mast.
We mean to lowerthat quickly at night
fall, and let it tow behind and then
| later such as can win get into it, cast
I of, and row for the frigate. If You ike,
sir, YOU had better lie down in the boat
and be lowered with it. Say you want
a quiet read or. sleep or something, if
vou' re seen. There's risk, of course,
but not big one, Lloyd's half-drunk
now, and will be quite after q bit, and
so will most of the others, for now they
have got to the islands they think it's
all right. There's only that Williams. "
al can manage him." said /, and we
parted. -<IEg.1sf #FrF1JtH
WilliamS's wound was painful and his
pulse feverish; so he gladly swallowed
a soporific which would keep him quiet
for some hours.
At the proper time got into the boat
indicated, the only men who could pos
sibly see me being those at the wheel,
who were both old members of the crew,
aud were prepared, when they knew
that Lloyd was quite overpowered by
drink, to alter the course of the ship
and steer for the headland where the
frirate had been SEEN All went easier
than had even been anticipated. When
had been slowed away half an hour
the boat was lowered, and in very lit
tie while three men stole into it, cut the
rope by which we were towing, and
when the ship had forged far enough
ahead to prevent the phosphoreScence
of the oar-dips attracting attention, be-
gan to row in the direction of the head
land.
In two hours time we turned it, and
saw the lights of the frigate, against the
sides of which in an another hour the
boat grated.
"What goes there?" challenged a
"Medical officer escaped from a con-
vict ship which has mutinied."
IwiIl not dwell on the e'joy with which
I stood upon the deck or on the hearth
ness of my reception when | had made
my report. Il-f-L-E...
The frigate weighed and stood out to
sea at once, and in the early morning
came up with the convict ship, boarded,
and took her without resistance.
My evidence sufliced to clear the sea-
men and marines who had been forced
into a pretended compliance with the
projects of the mutineers, as also, sons
months afterwards, to secure the eXecu-
ton of all those who had taken prom
inent part in the murder of my poor
friends, MacNab and Phipps, seventeen
of whom suffered the extreme penalty
of the law at Sydney.-LeoCiS Hough in
CnSSeLNS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30
PUNGESF PARAGRAPHS.
! Al JotsaO } adS5 adfsntisss 10 teach
"yoeal singing

j Al rorSGO } Ial3l adfertisss 10 teach
"voeal singing,
The cheapest of lawyers-keeping
ones own counsel.
tbs alligator who swallowed aeorset
is dead. 1t stayed on bis stomach and
he just wasted away.
CAPT. CARD, New Hampshire's cen
tenariap, has !" shnTI1ed'' Off at last
Boston Post. Waiting for the last trump.
Miss HATcHETr, the Illinois poeteSS,
isbeing ridiculed by the punsters ON
having no handle to her name. What
of it, Her verses are first chop.
A Mr.. BENJAMIN GINNING. some
time since, presented the poor of Liver
pool with 5000. Blobbs says this is
IA good b. Ginning.
CHEAT taste and ingenuity are being
displayed in the getting up OF ladies,
foot gear, and with them a thing OF
bootee is q JOY forever.
A TosfBsroNE in coloradoeemetery
has the following touching ep'taph;
He was young. he was fam.
THE fattest man in Maine is dead.
His name was Hezekiah Leard, and
the "er might have been left out of the
{" Leardr to advantage. He sleeps IN
a coffin 80 inches broad, 20 inches deep
and feet . inches long.
THE popular mode of killing moSqui-
toes by rolling them between the thumb
and forefnger is barharous, rs it only
half kills the insects. aThe proper way
to do it is to tie a cdnnon-baif around
their neeks and then drown them
Xonbers Gazette. .
LET us repeat our former genial in
vitation to strangers in town to come in
and lounge around - few hours, reading
exchanges and asking foolish questions.
We have a beautiful new eXplOdent that
we desire to try, and the family of the
deceased can always have the remains.
Inter Ocean.
JOHN HENRY had a guest at dinner
the other day, and during pause in
the conversation the eRtdnj terrible
spoke up: Il wish was YOU ''DO
YOU. nv little boy; and why do YOU wish
YOU were me?" 4iCos You don't get
YOUR ear pinehed when you eat vittles
with YOUR knife. Cincinnati Times.
Two women have started barber
shop in Titusville. We saw one woman
start a barber-shop once. She came in
with a eowhide in her hand and said
that she was going to horsewhiP the
man who had been talking about her;
and eight men, with towels under their
chins and lather on their faces, hustled
out of the chairs and startedfor the back
door on a run.-CRciHnG Saturday
Nj0bf .aHHHaas
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

In the pouch Of squirrel, shot by a
San Francisco lady, at Calistoga, Cal,
were found 73S grains of wheat slowed
away by that prOvident little creature.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

WATER is dearer than bread in san
Francisco, and four times as dear rs 1t
is in any other city in the country.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30
FOR HIM THAT LOVED NOT NE.

Steal not in through the easement,
Thou rustling, bslmy air,
Touching, as / could never,
With soft cares, his hair.
Lie not with sll YOUR odor
Close to his lifeless breast,
1e dewy snOw-white blossoms,
Where / was ne'er to rest!
Kiss not, thou food Of sunlight,
With all thy golden shine,
The lips that, dead, are smiling.
To which ne'er pressed mine!
Ye loved MIN not as did;
What was ne unto ycf-
The while my heart is bresking
For him that loved not me,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30
An Early Religious Lottery Scheme.

The high repute in which lotteries
were held by our ancestors, says the
Hartford Post, is shown in an advertise
ment in the Commercial COurGm of
Hartford, Monday, October 10, 1901, as
follows:
NORWICH MEETING-HOUSE LOTTERY.
lin two classes.
The Presbyterian Meeting House, in Nor
wich, first society, having been the last win
ter destroyed by an incendiary, the Hon. Leg
islature of this State, in May last, granted
said Society a Lottery to enable it to rebuild
the same.
SCHEME.
TClass First
4,SOO Tickets at Two Dollars, $1,000.
Prizes from 81 to $500.
TClass Second.
4,SO0 Tickets at Three Dollars, S14, 900.
Prizes from a to $500.
mo two blanks to apriZe.
Prizes to be paid in sixty days
and if not demanded in six months, will be
applied to the purposes of the Lottery.
The object of this lottery, and the scheme
to advance it, are such as to engage the at
tentien both of the speculative sdventurer
and those who, from principles of duty and
beneYolence, are disposed to contribute to
the best interest of society, while the former
has fair hope of increasing. his money from
the unusual number of high prizes, and the
multiplication of chances in his favor. The
latter will possess an excellent occasion TO
dispense their aid in a work incalcuably USE
full to a Christian community.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

THE Sutro tunnel in Nevada has been
bored 0,440 feet,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

ALETTER from Ireland the other day
was addressed to Munroe Depot,
Yorkinneary, Yorkindeary Railroad,
State of New Jersey, America"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

-AAACAt4CA AdcA anu IOdI.
which drowned his voice.
sEh, Mr. Glover, lad, . be said. when
the lull came, I" are We there? Ye had
better Just 90 below. Your work is
done, and ours is beginning. There
will be breeze enow to blaw the fever
away presently, and We viii be in the
way"
l had often determined, if there was a
storm, | would remain on deck and see
it; the freshness of the air too was de-
hghtful TO breathe; but fatigue over
came all else, andI was glad to take
MaeNab's advice. Imagine what l had
gone through that week in such a eli
mate, with patients dying by dozens in
my youthful hands, many of whom I
felt could have been saved with better
nursing. and you viii not wonder at nv
prostration.
As l reached the cabin stairs the rain
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-30

!. ,THE. Cheapest OF IaEvyers-keepng
ones own counsel.
The New York herald., 1875-11-23
MR.. WILSON'S SUCCESSOR.
w WAsHINGToN. Nov. %.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 1870
The death Of Vice President Wilson exctes much
qury who would President case the pres
ent incumbent Of the office should die before the
praton of his term and until there should be a new
election The Revised Statutes settles the question as
follows:-
In OF removal, DEATH resignation or inability
States, the President of the Senate if their none
then the Speaker of the House of Representatives
the time being shall act President until the disability
is removed or President elected
Hon. Thomas W. Ferry, OF Michigan, is Presi-
dent pro tenn of the Senate, and at the
Of the next session will be entitled call the Senate
order and continue to preside without the need of
election. This Is because he in
the chair and adjourned the Senate at the
close Of the last session II the Vice President had
occupied the chair at the time of adjournment the
Senate would be obliged to elect presiding officer
instead OF being at liberty to go into election or
not, just as majority OF its members Tor in effect
a majority of the republican caucusj shall decide
Mr.. Ferry the choice of tho last repub-
lican by a majority Of three. There is
provision made by the constitution existing
law for the contingency in regard to tho Presidential
succession which might if the President and Vice
President should both die prior to the organization of
House of Representatives. and the Senate be with
out President pro tenn holding from the pre-
yous session
The New York herald., 1875-11-23
HENRY WILSON'S CAREER.

Henry Wilson was born at Pennington, New Hamp
SHIRE on the 10th of February, 1872; so that at
the time OF his death he in the sixty
fourth year OF his age His father's was
not Wilson, but Goliath; and IL while he
named jeremiah Jones Goliath was enabled by an act
OF the Legislature to become Henry Wilson. No good
reasons have been ascertaned for this seemingly
vain act on tho part OF blunt man who always re-
ioced at being called ''the Natick Cobblcr" II was,
however in those days common occurrence for people
20 have their changed Lists OF names were fre-
ouenty sent 10 the Legislature for alteration General
Jackson had time before paid visit to New Hamp-
shire and man named Wilson had entertained him.
The honor was considered great and Wilson'S name inn
mediately became so popular that young Goliath
assumed It, From that time he has been known
as Henry wilson II has been published that ho took
his employers namo to show gratitude for kind treat
ment This Is untrue. The Colbaths extremely
poor people, and on one occasion wheI
no was taunted by Governor Hammond, o
South Carolina upon being a mudsll and 'hirelin|
manual Iaborern Mr.. Wilson replied that he wa
also the son Of hireling manual laboror. Their
were seven children in the family, Of which Henr
wilson was the only one who arrived any dstincto
/ A brother who adhered to tho Of Goliath was
one time doorkeeper in the hall Of the Massachusetts,
Assembly. but he became such only by the interpd-
ton Of Mr.. wilson Tho family was so poor that 20
father found II a matter Of mpossibiliiy to md 70
ordinary neoessaries OF ifo His mother often sured
for food So that when young Wilson was onlyen
years old he went fOrtb pDon The world " Gai hs an
The New York herald., 1875-11-23
ORDER FROM THE WAR DEPART
MENT

WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1875
In compliance with the order Of the President direct
ing that appropriate military and naval honors be
dered to the memory OF Vice President Wilson the fol-
lowing order was issued by the Secretary of War this
afternoon:-
on the day succeeding the receipt Of this order at
each military station the troops viii be paraded at
O'Clock A. NJ and the order read TO them The national
flag will be displayed at half staI AT dawn OF day
thirteen guns will be fired Commencing at twelve
o'clock NJ seventeen minute guns will be fred and at
The close of the day the national salute Of thirty
ghbl TIE dsdal badge Or hQurllna Y u Rs TQgg hY
officers & the army, and the coors of the several re.
ments will be put in mourning for the period of three
months.
An appropriate order will be issued by the Secretary
OF the Navy tomorrow.
The New York herald., 1875-11-23

ence microscopic examination will be made Of this.
Lungs-Old pleurtic adhesions the left side; cal
careous deposit the size Of pea the middle lobe OF
the right lung; lungs congested hypostatisl
Heart normal except small cacareous deposit in the
aortc value. Percardal Aud normal.
Stomach empty, congested through out, with slight
erosons abrasions several points pyloric portions
normal
Liver congested and somewhat fatty; small cyst on
upper surface; gall bladder full OF bile normal
Kdneys,-Weight eight ounces each, congested, with
two small cyss and cicatrces of similar crysts
Spleen arge dark. otherwise normal other viscera,
ormal
CAUSE DEATH APoPLExY
The following named physicians made the post
mortem examination Surgeon General Barnes, Drs,
Baxter, Ford, Magruder, Ashford and Lamb.
THE MBALMED
Of Mr.. Wilson have been laid in in the Vice Pres
dents room cataalque, which occupies the place
where the writing table stood which he
did all his work The body attired IN
dress suit OF black broadcloth, faces
Rembrant Peale's portrait of Washington and beside
il wreath of roses Japanese caa lillies white
pnks and heeotropes from the wife OF the President
and cross OF white flowers from General Babe ock.
The room is guarded by detail Of the Capitol police
among them coored man who also stood by the bier
OF Senator Sumner
MASSACHUSETTS, AND HER DEAD.
Sergeant Arms French has received the following
telegram from Governor Gaston:-
BosToN Mass Nov % 1875
Your telegram announcing the death OF Vice Presi-
dent Wilson has been received Massachusetts deeply
mourns hs loss but in the midst of her grief she is
public service. WILLIAM GAST0N.
kilograms have also been received announcing that
General Cunningham, of the staff of the Governor Of
Massachusetts, and Messrs Dunn and Turner, repre-
sentng the Boston City Council, start for Washington
tonight and that Senator Boutwell, starts to
morning
WILSON'S BROTHER
was WIN MN IN his last illness lie has been for
Sergeant-at- Arms OF the United States Senate.
DATE OF THE FUNERAL.
The date for the Vice Presidents funeral is not yet
settled III the desire Of OF his friends
II until Congress assemblies but the question Will
probably be determined by his nephew and executor
the subject
The Massachusetts State Republican Association in
this city, held meeting to night. at which eulogies
were pronounced and resolutions adopted commem-
orative Of the Vice Presidents life and character,
WILSON'S ESTATE
Mr.. Wilson is said to have left worth about
So 900, and his place in Natick is valued So 1t
is but short time since he bemoanng the fact OF
his being poor.
During the time he taught school his late wife
among the pupils, and in referring TO il frequently
cited the fact that Mr.. Wilson very upon
her, but she would add, "Isnt It strange that
him after ALP,
The New York herald., 1875-11-23
MEETING OF CITIZENS AT NAT1cK.

NArIcK, Mass Nov. %, 1875.
Here in Natick where tho Vice President had made ia
his home for many years, the sudden announcement
Of his death this morning. cast mantle of gloom and
the whole community.
Next to the intense personal sorrow everybody an
peared TO feel at the sad event. the prevailing sentiment
seemed TO be admiration and pride for the stainless
reputation of their beloved townsman Most of Mr. Will
sons life besides the he spent Washington was
passed in Natck 1t here that his wife and famiy
died and buried. Some of his relations tha
Colbaths, still live here, and IT the hope OF his
friends in this town that he might spend the hodays
among them. His modest dwelling on Central street.
e6n put in gay and comfortable for the re-
cepton OF its master during the week. but this aiter-
noon the kindly hands thus engaged arranging
the desoate dwelling for the reception of his mortal re-
mains 1t was inevtable but the public grief at the
loss Of the distinguished statesman and respected
fellow ownsmen should find popular expression from
the citizens OF Natck and this was had at a public
meeting in Cark's Hall this evening The sorrowfuI
concourse OF citizens was called TO order by Mr II.
Perry, chairman Of the Board of Seectmen and M L.
G. Moore called upon preside and a large num-
ber of other prominent citizens took their places on the
platform vice presidents.
Mr. Moore, in taking the chair said that this was no
time for euogy, and that had met to perform thG
mournul duty Of arranging for the funeral OF ours
distinguished fellow citizen, Henry Wilson. He thcn
invited remarks from various gentlemen present, and
eloquent tributes TO the memory OF the deceased fol-
owed from r. A. Tirrer, Rev. Mr. wheedan, James
McMannus, Edward wacott Newton Moral Colonel
Mutt and others
RESOLUTIONS
The following resolutions then adopted, afteM
which the meellng adjourned:-
We the citizens OF Natick having learned or the
sudden death Of our mucn esteemed and highly hon-3
ored townsman and friend, Henry Wilson, who has
been stricken down In the capital Of the nation amid,
the scehes where so large and important portion OF
his long public life has been spent; therefore,
Resolved That citizens OF Natick, neighbors and
friends of the dead statesman cannot forego thd
privilege Of giving faint expression TO the pro-
found grief that pervades all hearts in view Of tha
melancholy event
Resolved That in the death OF Henry Wilson oup
town has lost a valuable and beloved citizen, End as a
people, without regard 10 sectarian party lines We
uniiediy mourn the loss of whose cnhractcr anf
career have reelected much honor upon the town "a
his adoption
Resolved, That in the death OF tho Vice President tha
nation has lost an able statesmar an incorruptbe oi-
Ger and an honest man.