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New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-30

It ia the aim of the Board of Commissiosi1
make it q thorough Exposition Of the Agrea1
and Mechanical Products Of the Southerns
Mexico and Central America, but 1t will 10 N
competitors throughout the country, sai
general premium list will embrace all u
comprehended in the general design Of "
cultural and Industrial Exposition, incl'
special premiums for stricrly Southern proda
The premium list, which is now in coa
publication. will be on liberal scale, al
rules will provide for just and impartial q
Of awards. by competent and disinterestsdid
The Fair Grounds are generally conceded
the handsomest in the United States, comps
100 acres, within fifteen minutes ride by 4
cars from the center Of the city. The ground
shaded by beautiful grove OF live oaks, all
buildings, which are Of recent constructed
amply sufficient to meet all the necessities Y
most extensive exhibition.
The Racing Course. which is used by the
lana Jockey Club at all its meetings, isi
famous throughout the country. and the aco1
dations for stock are unsurpassed.
1t is the first time that such an enterpns|
been insugurated at the South, and being
time when the city of New Orleans is TIM
with thousands Of visitors to participate !
festivities of the Carnival, it affords unusa
ducements to exhibitors from every section
country.
The commissioners earnestly appeal to taI
pie Of the Southern States to lend their "
encouragement to the Exposition. and to ms''
all respects . complete exhibition of Sow
productions, and it is hoped that manufact'
producers and others in every section
country will participate.
Ample arrangements have been perfected y
transportation of goods and visitors from /
section at reduced rates.
For detailed information, address
SAMUEL MULLEN
General Superintendent. No. 90 Camp street
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New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-30

Fernando Wood not make Kerr Speaker.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-30

Lager beer is German to the thought.
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-30

Ths Drawing will positively commence 1t TIN
O'CLOCK on the morning Of SATURDAY, Deoem.
ber as 1875 Of the ACADEMY OF MUSIC, New
Orleans, Louisiana. 1t will be conducted with
New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-30
GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT,

For which the best musical talent available In
the country will be eng aged, and to which every
holder Of COUPON TICKET will bs entitled to
FRBR ADMISSION.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
A Terrible Disclosure.

John Martin, an old Mexican, who lives
few miles below. this place. has a small
garden-ranche, on which is situated fine
spring. A few months since, this spring
not supplying sufficient water to
irrigate his garden, Martin employed some
three or four Indians. and began TO clean
out and enlarge it. After digging down a
short distance he found an immense guam
tity of loose rocks of all sizes, which he
proceeded to remove. After doing so he
found several human skeletons. On
making this discovery, the Indians became
somewhat excited, and expressed a desire
to stop work; but, after much persuasion,
Martin succeeded in getting them to work
again, and in a short time took from the
spring nine skulls and other bones belong
ing to the human frame. The Indians re-
fusing to work any longer, and the water
coming in so fast, he was compelled to
give up work for the time. Martin is con-
fident that there arc several more yet in
the spring, and as soon as possible will
remove them. Those taken out were
buried short distance from the spring.
The skulls are evidently those of white
persons, of all ages and seXes-infants,
children, and adults. Besides, there were
also found glass bottles and other cOnve-
niences used by emigrants in camping :;
also quantity of flint arrow-heads, such
as are used by the Pit River Indians, and
in one of the skulls was found a split ball.
The Indians profess to be wholly ignorant
of the matter, yet all the circumstances
give evidence that an emigrant train was
murdered here many years ago, and that
the Indians are the authors Of it.-ModOc
(CdL) IndepeEde1t
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
The Mountain Meadow Massacre
from the Chicago Tribune, 6th.l

From the Chicago Tribune, 9Th.
We print elsewhere the first authentic
narrative of the awful Mountain Meadow
massacre which has ever been made pub
lie. Seventeen years have elapsed since
this Mormon atrocity was perpetrated,
and in this time the very fact of the mas
sacre has almost faded out of recollection.
To many the narrative will be as fresh as
if the events had happened yesterday,
while those who still remember the terri
bic deed will be shocked to learn that 1t
was planned and instigated by Mormon
whites, and executed by Mormon whites
and Mormon Indians acting in concert.
The recent arrest of j. d. Lee, the leader
in the massacre, who is now in Jail await
ing trial for murder, gives a current inter-
est to the fearful story, which is substan-
TALLY as follows: In 1857, some miners,
who went TO California in 40 and had
prospered, returned to their homes in
Arkansas to take their families to the new
Ell Dorado. They disposed of their home
steads, and made up train of 146 men,
women, and children, and started upon
the return. When they arrived at Salt
Lake City they were told by the Mormons
that it was too late in the season for them
to cross the Sierra Nevadas by the old
emigrant route. and we've advised to take
the Southern Utah reute. They did so,
and on the morning of September 10,
while encamped on the desolate Mountain
Meadows, near Cave Spring, they were sur
prised by an attack of Indians, who killed
seven and wounded fifteen of them at
the first fire. They rallied, however,
threw up barricades with their wagons,
and repulsed their assailants. The news
of the repulse was brought to Cedar City
by courier, and John ID. Lee, the Indian
Agent, at the head of large force of Nor
mon militia, started to the relief of his In
dian allies, with instructions that the
whole party must be massacred. By this
time the emigrants had so securely in
trenched themselves that they sue
cessfully resisted the Mormons for seven
or eight days, during which time, howev-
er, they were cut off from subsistence,
while the Mormons were supplied from
Salt Lake and Cedar City. During the
siege, fifteen of them were Killed.
Couriers, whom they sent out with ap.
peals to white men for relief, they beliey-
ing that their besiegers were Indians,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
The Fate Of Stock Thieves.

On Tuesday morning we were sum-
moned on Coroner's jury by Justice
Kahn, to view the bodies of two men
found hanging to an elm tree short dis
tance from this city, in the direction of
Point Isabel. A ride of twenty minutes
brought US to the spot, about miles from
the city, and few rods from the main
road we found two men, who were recOg-
niZed as Antonio Guerra and Pedro Cara.
The bodies were hanging near together,
one his feet about inches from the ground,
the other about feet. Their clothing had
not been removed, nor their pockets ex-
amined, In one pocket was found 81
cents and two pawnbroker's tickets, given
in Matamoras, and in the other ones a flint
and steel, etc.
Their arms were tied at the elbow with
pieces of hair-rope, and they were hung
with the common rope, found for sale in
every store in the city. Two saddles
and brides, blankets, ETC., were left under
the same tree.
After the inquest the bodies were taken
to the Market square, where they were
viewed by about 1000 people, after which
they were turned over to their friends for
interment.
We have always been on the side of the
stock-raisers against the thieves, but we
cannot indorse such brutal murder, even
of bad dmen.-Bro1nsUiLL (Tsr.) RGnchero.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
Fences.

The question of farm fences is becoming
a serious question in other States as well
as in Iowa. In Maine, where nearly one
half the State is covered by pine forest,
they are figuring up the annual cost of
fences, and inquiring if there is not bet
ter way. Mr.. Prince estimates that there
are 63.956 farms in that State, which aver
age 500 rods of fence on each farm, the re-
pairs of which average ten cents per rod
per year, or S3.397 900. And this is con-
stantly increasing with the advance in the
price of wood and timber, and they con-
tend that soon it will become too burden
some to bear.
Other States are also looking seriously
to this question, and it is evident the day
is not distant when a man will not have to
do with his farm as they did with their
residences in feudal times, make every
house castle. The world is advancing,
and the law compelling man to fence
against his neighbOr's stock will soon be
classed with the law sending a man to
prison for the reason that he was unable
to pay his debts.
In Iowa we believe no county, after try
ing the herd law, has gone back on their
first decision adopting it. In Grundy
County, after having the law legally in
force two years, at the last election they
voted to retain it by vote of only eleven
votes against it out of 500. The sudden
change of the law finds many unprepared
for it, and in those counties where it was
adopted last f I'll for the first time, many
who live along the rivers and have never
dreamed of having pastures for their stock
will find it hardship. No harder, how
ever, than the poor man on the prairie
who owns his eighty CT 160 acres and
could not improve it, owing TO the great
cost of fencing. Soon the people of those
counties just entering upon the new way
of living will have pastures-their stock
will be easily found, their time can be
spent at profitable industry instead of
ranging after cows, and their neighbors'
crops will be safe. 1t would be well for
all farmers this winter to be preparing
fencing for pastures, whether in herd
law county or not. And in those counties
where the law is in force, those who are
able will find it convenient and COM
Portable 10 have their farms fenced in
suitable lots. Some are arranging for a
movable fence, so that advantage can be
taken of pastures for hogs and cattle, as
the crops on the farm change. There are
several kinds of movable fence which can
be manufactured in winter, and miles of
it put out in the spring in a few days.
Des MoineS Register.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
Hufnagle's Ostrich.

Hufnagle, the Snowman of whose ele-
phant | told you the other day, had an
ostrich which he traded for a mule, to a
man named Leech, who owns little place
near New Hope. Leech read somewhere
that ostriches are very valuable on account
of their feathers, aud he intended to try
the experiment of cultivating them, so he
secured this one to begin with. He turned
it loose in the yard, and that night it ate
all the surface gravel off the walks, and 1t
was busy breakfasting on the garden hoe
when Leech came down to look after it.
tie fed it heartily, so as to keep down its
appetite, but that morning it swallowed
four hOrse-shOes that were lying IN cart,
and it disposed of six feet of trace-chaln
belonging TO the subsoil plow. Leech was
somewhat alarmed, but he gave the bird
as much supper as it would eat, and felt
satisfied that its hunger would not rage
during the night. Next morning, how
ever, he was surprised to find that the
ostrich had eaten a hole through the wall
of the smoke-house, and had chewed Off
all the door-knebs on that side OF the
dwelling. When Leech came out the bird
had swallowed the pump-handle and was
making an earnest but Intellectual effort 10
take in the pump. Leech dlssuaded IL,
however. anu leu IL SOlcLuuIJ AWAY 1haI
day it ate nothing of a revolutionary char
acter but set of Mrs. Leech's old hoops,
and when Leech ascertained this, he col
lected all the second hand hoop skirts that
the neighbors had to spare and fed them to
the ostrich. 1t cleaned up the pile in less
than an hour and then it ate six of Fanny
Leech's croquet balls which We're lying in
the grass, and swallowed the baby's toy
drum. That afternoon it protruded its
head through the kitchen window while
the girl was washing the dinner dishes,
and suddenly swallowed three tumblers, a
gravy dish and a broken butter-crock::
When Leech came home that night and
heard the news, he decided TO shoot the
bird the first thing in the morning. he
loaded his gun for the purpose and put II
in the shed outside the kitchen door. Dur
ing the night an explosion was heard, and
when Leech descended with lantern to
ascertain the cause. he perceived the ostrich
lying dead in the shed. 1t had swallowed
the gun. muZZle foremost, and had fired
the weapon while gnawing at the trigger,
Mr.. Leech has given up the idea of cult
waiting the ostrich. The bird is too emf
nently digestive for him.-Ddnb1a-y Nea0s.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
One in a Thousand.

A pair of Wilmingtonians who had
made up their minds and hearts to become
one. went TO Philadelphia lately to have
the everlasting knot tied, which the tier
enjoins no man to break asunder. But
the twain were not made one, according
to contract, and this is how it happened :
They had their eye single to particular
preacher who was called over from Cam
den, n. j., to marry them. Either the
rules of his denomination, or the laws OF
the State, or some other regulation, re-
quired him to obtain and record the ages
of all persons whom he joined in wedlock,
together with other particulars about their
parents aud ancestors. The preacher set
himself to these preliminary duties. he
asked the young man his age. and he re-
piled, ''Twenty-six." He asked the
young woman the same question and she
refused to answer. She was told that pro
ceedings must stop unless she answeres
truly, as she hoped TO be married. She
thought long time and replied, Thirty
one." This was rather stunning to the
bridegroom. He recOnsidered, and finally
resolved 10 go no further in that business.
He explained that his intended mother had
informed him that her daughter was only
twenty-five, and he took her on trust. He
considered the compact broken because OF
the deceit practiced upon him, to which
the young lady was party. She tearfully
granted the justice of the decision. She
was deserving Of better fate, for she is
one maid in thousand who would tell the
truth about her age under any pressure
whatever. The pair returned to Whining,
ton on different trains.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
Disappearance Of the Old Maids.

There is growing up in England a large
class of women, says the Wonsen's 8 Journal,
who do not marry, who do not wish 10
marry, and who apparently wish not TO
marry. They deliberately devote them
selves to literature, to teaching, to some
trade, generally an artistic one, at any rate
to some occupation that gives livelihood
and tends TO culture, and this they choose
for life. The marrying instinct seems
dead, or rather never to have been born in
them. have known at least one such
person in this country. They do not seem
to be thought of as out of place; but on
the contrary they move into fit places in
the great social organism, easily and natu-
rally, and are accepted withoutremark. A
late article in one of the leading papers OF
our country remarked that almost an en-
tire change had taken place in this country
in current speech concerning unmarried
women who are past thirty; that whereas
twenty years ago, and always before, they
were called "old maids" and the phrase
was term of reproach now it is rarely /
ever used. and the reprOach which used tC
be cast upon such persons has almost en-
tirely passed away.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Down, but omfortable-feathers.
THE sacrifice of an Indian on the funeral
pyre Is when the fire burns LO"
NEVER fool with dancing master. If
ne Is not revolver. he Is nothing.
kNowLEDGE is not necessary to carry
on a conversation, for the ignorant talk
most.
IF we are loved by those around us, we
can bear the hostility of all the rest of the
world.
The time to knock at a poor mans door
is when the weather is cold, for then he
needs an outside rapper.
WE hear of sticking closer than a BROTH
er but who ever heard of sticking closer
than a sister? Perhaps there's some
meaning in this.
WHEN Jemima went to school she was
asked why the noun bachelor was singu-
lar. Because" she replied. "it is so
very singular that they don't get mar
ried."
Ir was Owen to Robert Dale that the
people found out what they already knew
about the ghost which was a woman. His
belief was fmmaterial in substance, but it
changed materially.
ENGLISH CoOKIEs-1 cup of brown su-
gar, ] cup butter, egg, 2 table-spoonfuls
sour cream, little soda, cloves, cinnamon,
nutmeg make hard enough with flour to
roll out; cut in thin cakes.
"MA," said little girl, "dOes God
stick the hairs in our heads by the ends?"
81 guess so, child" said the busy mother.
Well, then, how does he get niggers' hair
in when it amt got any ends?"
Mr.. A. BRONSON ALCoTT was once ex-
pounding his theory Of the sin of eating
flesh, and said. "a man who eats pork
becomes little swinish, does he not? and
if he eats mutton he is inclined tn ha
sheepish." perhaps so" replied DIR.
James Walker, "but have noticed that
men who live on vegetables are apt TO be
rather-small-potatees."
A MAN was seen coming out Of Texas
newspaper Office with one eye gOuged
out, his nose spread all over his face like
piece of raw beef, and one of his ears
chawed off. To policeman who inter-
viewed him he replied: " didn't like an
article that 'peared in the paper last week,
an L went in ter see the man who writ it.
He war there, stranger"
A DANBURIAN of pronounced religious
tendencies purchased an SIS Bible the
other day, but on reaching home was sur
prised to find that his mOther-in-law had
anticipated him, producing copy of the
Scriptures as a Christmas present. Now
let another brother speak in praise of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
bury Nel0s.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
THE YEAR's TWELVE CHILDREN.

January, by the way,
Like an old pilgrim worn and gray,
Watches the snow ana shivering sighs
As the wild curlew around him flies;
Or huddled underneath a thorn,
Sits praying for the lingering mora.
February, bluff and cold,
Der furTows striding scorns the cold,
And with his horses two abreast
Making the keen plow do his behest.
Rough March comes clustering down the road
In his wrathy hand the oxen goad;
Or, with rough and angry haste
Scatters the seeds oer the dark waste.
April, a child half tears, half smiles.
Trips full Of little playful wiles;
Ana ianghIng, meath her rainbow hood,
seeks the wild yiolets in the wood.
May, the bright maiden, singing goes
10 where the snowy hawthorn blows
watching the lambs leap in the dells,
Llstning the simple village bells.
June, with the mowers scarlet face,
Moves Ger the clover field apace,
And fast his crescent eeythe sweeps on
Der spots from whence the lark has flown.
July. the farmer, happy fellow,
Laughs TO see the corn grow yellow;
The heavy grain he tOsses up
From his right hand as from a cup.
August, the reaper, cleaves his way
Through golden waves at break of day;
Or on his wagon, piled with corn,
At sunset home is proudly borne.
September, with his baying hound,
Leaps fence and pale at every bound,
And casts into the winds in scorn
All cares and dangers from his horn.
October comes, woodnan old
Fenced with tough leather from the cold;
Round swings his sturdy AK and 10,
A branch falls at every blow.
November covers before the fame,
Blear crone, Forgetting her own name,
watches the blue Smoke curling rise,
And broods upon old memories.
December, fat and ROSY strides
Ills old heart warm, well clothed his sides,
With kindly words for young and old,
'Shecheerier for the bracing cold
Laughing welcome, open fings
His doors, and as he goes he sings.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21
dearest, remember, we stand or fall

dearest, remember, we stand or fall
together
A sudden thought, justified by our dire
extremity. flashed through my brain-it
was at best forlorn hope. Quickly
bent over Eric, snatched the hunting-knife
from his belt, and cut loose the nearest
pony. With an almost human cry of pain
the poor animal galloped of with the
ravenous pack after it. A few strides only
and it was surrounded, overpowered,
down and the last sounds we heard ere
the welcome lights of Stor Aswan came in
sight were our baffled enemies srowling
and fighting - yer the cruel sacrifice: but
necessity knows nolaw, and by it we were
saved.
In after years, as we sat round the fire
at New Years eve, with the storm beating
wildly as now against the easement, and
the wintry twilight closing in, our chill
dren would ask to hear. 'once MORE" the
0ft-told tale of the Salten wolves" or eur
fight " for dear life."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

BUcKwHEAT PANCAKEs.-Pure buck
wheat flour, when baked into cakes, as is
usual, is apt 10 ale heavy on the stom-
ach." To obviate this and improve other
wise, mix Graham -four with the buck
wheat-a little more than two-thirds buck
wheat, with one-third Graham orunbolted
wheat flour. This may be mixed in large
quantity and kept on hand for use. The
Graham will make it ligh, aid digestion
and make it palatable and wholesome. 1t
can be mixed and baked at short notice by
making batter with sour milk from the
churn and raise with soda, or. what is
more generally acceptable, mix and set it
by the stove over night. If the first morn
ing it is not sufficiently light, it will be the
next and thereafter, if not kept too warm.
1t NAV be mixed with water or milk-milk
is best-and in either case a little soda
should be added just before baking; more
when sour milk is used. Give it fair
test.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

BELGIAN artists have been talking about
wonderful ehild-artist, who has unhap-
PLY, by an early death, paid the usual
penalty of precocious talent. His name
was Frederic van de Kerkhove, and al
though he died before he was eleven, he
had already executed more than $50
works,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

THE young ladies of Albany who re-
ceived Christmas presents from Count
Barii, a love of nobleman who has been
breaking hearts in that city, are now re-
turning them to the jewelry-store from
which they were stolen.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

THERE is a man at Hayerhill, Mass, who
claims to have traded horses .thirty-seven
times and cheated the other man every
time, and yet when his wife died the ther
day he promised to meet her in heaven.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

A TRACT of land amounting to forty
thousand acres. lying in Maryland and
West Virginia, is about TO be for the first
time divided. 1t is owned by the heirs of a
grantee under the English Government.
who have heretofore amicably distributed
the revenue arising from it. An old map
of the property bears such names as Fat
Pig, Devil Take 1t, Legs, Last Shift, and
Take All. Coal and iron mines of great
value have just been discovered on the
land.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

The Lowell Courier thinks King Kala-
kaua ought to be.called K's-er. Kerrect.-
Boston Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

EIGHT hundred thousand more women
than men in Engiandi
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-01-21

Two cords of hard weod are about equal
in heat-giving qualities to one ton Of btu
minOus coal.