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A Triamph of Banking.

France had to pay two hundred and
twenty millions sterling. But what does
this mean? The annual interest of the
indemnity may be taken at ten millions
sterling, and if the war had been closed by
an engagement on the part of France to
pay an annual tribute of ten millions to
the Emperor of Germany, no one would
have thought the newly-impOSed burden
above the powers of the vanquished ma
tion. The taxation under the empire had
been heavy, the losses of capital through
the district cooperation the war had been
considerable. but the resources of French
men were sill capable of bearing an addi-
ton to the national expenditure which
might be established at an eight or ninth
added to the taxation heretofore sustained.
The indemnity was not paid in the form
Of tribute but it will be instructive to
contemplate the way in which Prince Bis
mark might have dealt with such an annu-
ity if he had consented to receive it. He
might have come to the ENglish creditors
who had lent money to Germany during
the war, and have offered to ALLEVIATE TO
them proportional part of the French an
nuity in consideration of their foregoing
their claims. He might have assigned
other portions to German citizens who had
subscribed to war loans in liquidation of
their claims on the imperial treasury.
He might have offered to French citizens
holding the securities of other countries
to exchange for these securities a portion
of the obligations of their own country at
the market rates of equivalent prices. BY
means like these the Prince Chancellor
might have disposed of the greater part ct
the hypothetical annuity of ten millions,
distributing it about the world, without
using a single thaler or franc in coin, to
complete the transaction. And, in truth,
what was done was in its essential features
the process we have described. The
French nation did not grant the German
empire an annuity of ten millions, but it
offered it for sale in the European markets,
the prices to be paid in installments, and
when we follow up the processes by which
the purchase money was collected from
the cyndicate bankers in Paris, London,
Berlin, Amsterdam and Frankfort. and
transferred to the German Treasury, we
find that at least tive-sixths of the whole
was accounted for by series of debit and
credit entries, envolving no actual trans
feI of coin. The feat was triumph OF
banking. 1t showed how the use of money
NAV be ecOnOmiZed, and, as it seems that
this is a truth not as yet appreciated in
place of business like Liverpool, it may be
worth while to dwell upon it; but it is an
entire fallacy to suppose that the French
Government was able to collect two hum
dred and twenty millions, or even a quar-
ter of it, in cOin.-LondOR Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

Five NAKED, armed men bound and gagged
watchman in the American Express Com
pany's Office at Utica, n. Y, on the night OF
the 30th, and then carried off a bag contain
ing the night trains packages. The loss is
believed to be small.
A package was received at the Dead-letter
Office In Washington, q few days ago, con-
tanning half dozen snakes, two dead, the re-
mainder alive; one was q copperhead, five
feet long. The reptiles were in tin box,
addressed to Germany, but had been stopped
at New York on account of insufficient post
age.
The Secretary of War has forwarded to the
House reports Of the Qusrtermaster-Genera
and Commissary-General of Subsistence, CIV
ing in detail the cost to those departments OF
the Modoc war, amounting in the aggregate
to S411 ,0cO.
The Secretary of War has sent to the House
an estimate of Majors Comstock and Weitzel,
Corps of Engineers, of the expense of deepen
ing the navigable channels OF rivers connect
ing Lakes Erie and Huron, to admit the pass
age of vessels drawing twenty-five feet Of Wa
ter. The figures are nearly $4,OO0,00O.
The House Committee on Appropriations
recommend an appropriation of 81, ,45S, ,0GO
for inland mail service next year, a reduc-
tion of S5l4,79e from the estimate.
The Smithsonian Institution has received a
telegram announcing the discovery of a new
planet at Berlin, in the right ascension twen-
ty-three degrees, declination eighteen degrees
twenty-six minutes north, twelfth magnitude.
The Office OF the Adams Express Company
in New York City was recently robbed OF
some $4,000 worth of bond, and other Sc
curities.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

"Yes: an I'd like to know what busi-
ness You had up there, Mr.. Grimp?'
81 came TO see you serve it," said Mr..
Grimp with pereephble tightening OF
| his thin lips.
Well,' said the Squire, rapidly recov-
ering his composure, . If your writ don't
stick better'n you did On that 'ere roof, it
won't amount to nothin', that's all.''
What reply Mr.. Grimp would have
made to this thrust is not known, for just
then the door opened, and Tom Harwood
and the widow, alarmed by the noise,
came out. Both the Squire and MIR.
Grimp would gladly have avoided an in
terview; indeed they turned TO hasten
away, but were too late. The widow rec
ogniZed them at once.
"Why, Mr.. Grimp! and Squire Butter
field, too ~ she exclaimed with the most
charming of smiles. "Why, thought it
was burglars, or horse-thieves, or some
thing, and was so frightened. And why,
Mr.. Grimpl you are real wet, aren't you ?
Is it raining or snowingr And she held
out her little hand to catch the falling
drops.
"No marin, 'taint snowin', or rainin'
either. Ye see, Mr.. Grimp was jest
shOwin' me the acater privileges about the
bar'l would hold" responded the Squire
sarcastically, pointing toward the afore-
said barrel
Brother Butterfield, will you be so
kind as to attend to the business on which
we came ?, said Mr.. Grimp sternly.
''Sartsinly 6 | will. Here, Widow Barney,
is writ from Mr.. Grimp, notifyin' you
to give up these 'ere premises"
g will take charge of that" said young
Harwood rather haughtily. 81 will call
upon you tomorrow, Squire, and settle
the matter. Iwould say. also, Mr.. Grimp,
that the time for redemption not having
expired, the mortgage and costs on this
lady's place have been paid in to the
County Clerk, and you will not be troub-
led in caring for it further"
After that-well, Mr.. Grimp made some
indistinct reply, and the Squire very pro-
fuse and incoherent apologies; then they
took their leave as best they could, feeling
very awkward, mortified and humiliated.
They did not go home together either, nor
ever after speak of the evenings expert
ence to each other. However, month
later, when Tom Harwood married the
widow, the Squire was observed to shake
his head mournfully and murmur:
"If it hadn't been for old Grimp comm
jest as he did that night, things would have
been different. Widow Barney never
would have married that conceited young
Harwood-never J"
AS for Mr.. Grimp, his face and his pray
ers grew longer day by day, and the Sun
day following the marriage he spoke feel
ingly of ''this vale of tears" the 'vanity
of human expectations, and the ''uncer-
tainty of earthly things" and when the
collection was raised for the poor he sadly
gave torn bit of currency his grocer had
refased the day before.-HeG1th and Home.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
The Gospel That is Needed.

Marriage is very matter-of-fact affair.
There is little poetry in it; and all ex-
perience shows that IL is better TO get rid
of nonsense before committing matrE
mOny."
beg to differ. All experience does not
show any such thing. Ii nonsense means
here, as it seems to mean, all those things
that make the poetry of life, say the more
you have of it the better.
A marriage that can properly be styled
q natter-Of-fsct one promises no happiness
for TIE man, and misery unutterable for
the woman, if she has soul.
What! Because thing is real, must ID
be commonplace? The light of love illu-
mines the homeliest duties; and because
there must be eating, and drinking and
sleeping, and earning bread and butter in
its years, marriage need not be a matter
of-fact arrangement--a coarse sort of bar
gain, in which the wife becomes house
keeper, and the husband banker. Better
that there should be no marrying It all /;
for what shall they DO in those hours oil
trouble and pain which come TO all of us.
when every heart Graves sympathy, and
when none can give it so well as the
lover whose love has endured through
many ars?
When two people of opposite sex, tenn
perament and habits resolve to live tOgeth-
er for the rest of their lives, there is need
of sentiment between them. There is ne
cessity for little of that romance that
makes people better and more beautiful
than they really are, if in time they would
not hate each other.
NO-if you have no other part in life
that is not commonplace and matter-et-
fact, forbid that home life should sink to
this. Have a thousand songs without
words" for every day. NOurish your
most delicate sentiments and weave them
with the hours as they glide by. Don't
have all your poetry in the bookcase, and
all your music in the piano.
The woman who is happy wife need
not long to be courted again. There is
no need-she is won nor are many COM
pliments necessary. Mutual-devOtiOn is
an ever-appreciated compliment. Yet do
not forget those old days which drew you
to each other Be lovers alway. Many
people are; and those t0ho to0e are safe.
The meeting and parting kiss. the kind
look, the appreciative word-never forget
these. Never let marriage degenerate into
the commonplace. So surely as you do,
worse will follow; for the husband and
wife who have no tender sentiment
toward each other will become foes
Maru KVle Dallas.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
A RhinOcerOs's Pet.


A Paris correspondent writes: 1.-THE
Garden of Plants is mourning the death
Of one of its Oldest pensioners, the rhinoc-
eros, which melancholy event took place
just at the moment when the explosion
of the petroleum warehouse at St.
Denis started Paris from its morn
ing slumbers. The animal had been
in the establishment twenty-five
years, and will be greatly missed by the
public. He was of an unsociable and iras-
chile temper, and not even his keepers
ventured to take any liberties with him.
One day, however, little lap-dog of the
wife of the director, given her by Queen
Amelia, got into his house by squeezing
in between the bars of the iron-work.
Instead of killing the intruder, as expected,
the rhinoceros allowed the little creature
to play with him, scampering over his
back, biting his neck, and playing off all
manner of sportive tricks. The two be-
came great friends the wee doggie' pas
sing several hours each day with his un-
demonstrative acquaintance, which put up
patiently with all its tcasinIs. One day
the rhinoceros Inadvertently set his foot
on his little pet, killing it instantly. The
poor brute's grief at the catastrophe was
pitiable; for two days it did not eat par
ticle of food"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
How Twenty Ears Of Corn Yielded
Twenty Millions Of Dollars.

Anthracite coal was discovered in Penn
sylvania soon after the settlement OF the
Wyoming Valley, but its first practical use
was by Obadiah Gose in his blacksmith
shop, in the year 176S. In 1871 Philip
Ginter discovered anthracite on the Le-
high. In 1872 Robert Morris, of Philadel-
phia. formed a company and purchased
5000 acres of the property on which Gin
ter discovered the coal. The company was
called the ''Lehigh g Coal Nine" This
company opened the mine and found the
vein 70 be fifty feet thick, and of the very
best quality of coal. The company male
every effort to secure demand 1or the
coal. but without success, and having be-
come thoroughly disgusted with their
speculation, leased the 6,O00 acres OF this
mammoth coal to Messrs. White q Haz-
ard, of Philadelphia, for twenty years, at
an annual rental of one ear Of corn. Messrs.
White & Hazard tried to use the coal in the
blast furnace in 1925. but failed the fur
naces chilled. In 1881 Nelson conceived
the idea of the hot blast for saving fuel,
and i'm 1888 David Thomas adopted the
idea of using the hot blast and anthracite
together. White & Hazard had, previous
to this, formed q company and bought the
property. In 1889 David Thomas made
the use of anthracite for making pig metal
a success, by which the twenty ears OF
corn were transformed into twenty mil
lions of dollars. And this is the early his
tory of the great LehigA Coal mines of the
present day.
remember well the banquet given by
Burd Patterson and Nicholas Biddle. at
Mount Carbon, in 1910, at which time they
paid William Lyman, proprietor Of the
Pioneer furnace, So 900, the premium they
had offered for the first successful use of
anthracite coal as fuel in the blast furnace.
But David Thomas was the lion Of the day !;
it was he who showed them how to do it {;
and hale and hearty to-day. as then, he
stands worthy representative of science.
Long may he live, and peaceful be his
death, and may the memory Of his deeds
never be forgotten by Pennsylvania, He
is a master mechanic, and L should De
much pleased TO see the chair OF Metalurgy
In the Mechanics High schools OF Penn
sylyania marked Themas.-Pfttst'Tq Corr!
nisreiaI,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Gold closed in New York, on Jan. 80, at
113 Is.
The George Washington Bank, of Corning,
n. Y, private institution, and controlled by
George ". Patterson, has been closed by the
Sheriff. The liabilities are 100000. Many
of the depostors are poor persons, and there
is much excitement in the neighborhood.
Charles G. Hager & Sons, bankers Of Water
town, n. Y, have suspended payment.
The President has approved the act to ena-
BILE the Commissioner Of Agriculture to make
special distribution of seeds to portions OF
the country which have suffered from grass
hopper rsyages during last summer.
The Arkansas State Grange met at Little
Rock on the 9th. Every county was repre-
sented.
General Butler has introduced in the House
a bill for postal telegraph system. 1t pro-
vides that all telegraphic lines Of communica-
ton shall be made post roads; prohibits prefer
ence being given to any classes of business,
except Government dispatches when certified
to by proper officer; provides that all tele-
grams shall be privileged communications to
the same extent that sealed letters now are I;
requires rates for special kilograms to news
papers and commercial news associations to
be the same, which rates shall be publicly dis
played, such rates in no case to exceed the
rates charged to the Associated Press and
other press associations on the 1st of January,
1879.
Following is the comparative cotton state
ment for the week ending Jan. %:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
POETRY.
A DOcTOR'S STORY.

MRS. ROGERS lay in her bed,
Randaged and blistered from loot 70 mead,
Bandaged and blistered from head TO toe
Mrs Rogers was very low
Rrtfle and saucer. spoon and cup,
On the table stood bravely up;
uPhvsicOf high and low degree,
iCaloInei. catnip, boneset tea
Every thing a body could bear,
! Excepting light and water and air.
opened the blinds: the day was bright,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some light.
opened the window; the day was fair,
And God gave Mrs. Rogers some air.
B~ttles and blisters, powders and pills,
Capnip, boneset, syrup and squills;
Drugs and medicines, high and lows
threw them as far as j could throw.
What are you DOING" my patient cried,
g Frightening Death, !" cOolly replied,
% You are crazy!" visitor said;
flung bottle at her head.
Deacon Rogers he came 30 me;
Wife " n comm around - said he,
g really think she will worry through;
She scolds me just ne she used TO do,
All the people have poohed and slurred-
All the neighbOrs have had their word;
Twas better 10 perish, some of IN say,
Than be cured In such an irregular way"
a. Your wife, said ], chad Gods good care
And he remedes-light and water and air
Al the doctors beyond a doubt,
Couldn't have cured Mrs. Rogers without"
The deacon smiled and bowed his head;
% Then your bill is nothing" he said
4" Gods be the glory, as you say;
God bless you, doctor, good day good day!
s-If everI doctor that woman again,
I'll give her medicines made by men.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Judge Maunsell B. Field, at one time Sec
retary Of Legation at Paris, and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, under Chase,
Fessenden and McCulloch, died in New York,
on the oath, aged ffty-four years.
General Ambrose Z. Burnside has been
elected United States Senator from Rhode
Island.
Ex-President Andrew johnson has been
elected United States Senator from Tennes-
see.
Theodore F. Phillips (Dem.) has been
chosen United States Senator from New Jer-
sey. His competitor was George NJ. Robe
son, who received 81 votes to Phillips's 40.
Frank Moulton concluded his testimony in
the Beecher-Tilton case on the 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris Nellie Grant) ar
rived at New York on the 9th.
A Charleston, S. c., dispatch of the 10Th is
as follows: Governor Chamberlain, in ac-
cordance with the recommendations of Judge
Msckey, has issued proclamation disarming'
the turbulent colored militia of Edgefeld
County, and disbsnding all military organiza-
tions of every kind in the county. The Gov
ernor also proclaims that he is ready to re-
move county officials, upon reasonable proof
of misconduct in Office, and enjoins all citi-
zens to refrain from all acts tending to pro-
duce excitement. Quiet now prevails in
Edge6ed.
The Minnesota House of Representatives,
with but one dissenting vote, have passed
resolution demanding that William S. King,
Representative-eleet to Congress from the
Third District in that State, present himself
before the Investigating Committee of the
House at Washington and explain the damag-
ing charges made against him in connection
with the Pacific Mail subsidy. Failing there
in, he is requested to place his resignation in
the hands of the Governor.
The Associated Press reports that the Re-
publican Senators were in caucus on the Both
for about five hours on the Louisiana ques-
ton. After much debate, it was concluded to
support the President in what he had already
done relative to affairs in that State, and-
stand by him in future in support of the Kel-
logg Government, in all lawful authority. 1t
is said there were eight Senators who dis
sented from this position of their Republican
associates.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

In the beginning of the present century
notorious counterfeiter named Malbone
Briggs was several times committed to
prison. As soon as his children grew up,
both girls and boys followed their fathers
footsteps, till they, too, became frequent
inmates of almshouses, jails. and peniten-
tiaries. At one time while Briggs was an
occupant of the Massachusetts, State prison
he was told that his son and two of his
daughters were inmates of the same place.
At which he very coolly remarked that it
was very seldom that an old man lived un-
der the same roof with SO many of his
grown-up children.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

AN example of cheap transportation
Freight on thirty-fiye barrels of green aP-
pies from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to New
York, Sl46.27; from New York to Car
luske, Scotland, e l9s. lid.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

BoRDES's condensed milk factory in
Orange County, n. Y, uses fourteen
thousand quarts of milk daily and pays out
twenty-seyen thousand dollars monthly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

"a MAN who fears the Lord and can car
~ home an intoxicated member" is the
kind of Sergeant-at-Arms they want for
the Minnesota Legislature,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

WHY is young bride like a Scotch fish
erman this yearf Because she's got her
ring on hand.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-02-04

AN old lady thinks that good many
modern ''songs". thoroughly deserve TO be
lied STRAINS"
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1875-06-12

no lldu, bida jake dosud nebylo co sv6
syetem stop. Blaze, tfikrate blaze prI
bylo pracovnlmu lidu "a tech zlatych sta
rych casdv nevolnictvi poddanstvi
Tehda prY mel ten d6lnik ten rolnil
svdj majetek Podle feudalniho prays
byl vlastnlkem sice sechtic, ale ten dobry
pan ,,spokoil Sc" pouhymi davkami
desatky robotovanim lidn. Teprv cd
tech dob co pfisla ia nesfastna svoboda q
ty masiny, vede sc lidu zle. Nuzc, masi
ny panovt jestG milostiv6 STRIP, ale tn svo
bodu strp6t nemohou.
Nemohou pon5vadz miluii - lid Tia
svoboda okradla lid chleb, ia svoboda
kleta je pficinou, ze isou m6stech byty
tax drabe, ia svoboda dabelska pfiyadi
ma pofad dalsi tisice a tioice lidu ma ze-
brackou hdl pan6m zrovna srdce puka,
kdyz Sc na to utrpeni lidu mali divat.
Procez pryc Sc svobodou, neien mas, ale
po celem svGtG.
Skoda ien pro pany, ze dnes II mas ma
hodou .ji2 ten nejpo3ledn6jsi dGlnik vi,
kterak We svobodn6 Americe We svobod
mem Svycarsku je nejmGn6 chudinstva a
kterak naproti tomu zemich pod vladou
knezskou panskou, jako We Span6lsku,
V Neapolsku, cirkevnim statu, Polsku
atd, kazdJ sedmy osmy tlovek byl ze-
brakem. Odkud to, panov6? Proslme
"a vysv6leni. A kdyz ia svoboda, jak
pravite, podvraci lidu kfestanstvi. kdyz
Jej mravn6 pustosi hubi, odkud to, ze
zrovna zemich svobody nejvice Sc cini
pro trpici lidstvo, ze tam duch lidsko3ti,
jevi Sc daloko 1cinn6ii nezli zemich ne
evobodnych, kde name pffklady, zo ani
knezi nejsou schopni skutkGv kiest tanske
lasky, ze necht6ji ucinit kroku pouhe
lasky k blznimu, nybrz "a kazd6 to sl1vo
chttii byt zaplaceni.
X 6emu ia cirkev nentla casu po deva
tenacte stoleti, toho chce dovesti dnes:
chce vyhladiti sobectvi a tvrdost re srdci
lidskych = pani aristokrati hierarcho-
We chteji uskntecnit fisi spravedlnosti,
lasky bratrstvi ma zemi
X tomu odpovidame versem latinskym:
;, Risuni teneatis amici !" (Zdrzte Sc smi-
chm, pfatele.)
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1875-06-12
Amerika


Parnik le d ov e kry seroz
kota.
NOvy York, 10. cervna. Dnes sem
pfibyl parnik ,,State of Georgia peti
plavci parolod6 ,,Vickburg," ktera ma
plavbe Montrealu do Liverpoolu utonu-
la. Tito plavci byli dne 5. cervna, tedy
patty den po utonuti lode ,Vicksburg'
polomrtvi vyloven. Nohy jeich byly
TAX slime otekle, ze jim boty ma mich roz-
fezany bJti musely.
Plavec James Crowles vypravuje ma
sledujici: ,Vypluli jsme Quebecu dne
27. kvetna, rano, so plavci, 8 kajutnimi
20 mezipalubnimi pocestnymi; mezi
mimi bylo 7 zenskych. Povetrnost byla
az do 80. kvetna pflzniva; avsak tehoz
dne spatfili Sc obklicenn ohromnymi ledo
vymi kry. Parolod byla az do ranniho
rozbfesku zadrzana, nacez dale plonti mo
hla, nebot led zatim byl zmizel
V pondeli 81 h. ranni velel kapitan,
ably rychle vsecky plachty stazeny byly;
brzo ma to octnula sc LODI nesmlrnenl
mnozstvi ledu. Kapitan cht6ie Sc MIN
prodrati, dal parolodi jizni smer. o II
h. vrazila ma ledovy ker sice tax prud-
ce, ze byla prorazena. SpGsobenou d.
rou valila Sc voda rychle do lode
Vschni lide museli pomahati pf
vyhazoani nakladu lode, tax a
by Sc dale mad vodou udrzela a nepotopl
la Sc. V mezipalubi bylo plno vody;
dolnich lodnich prostorach stale 81 stop.
vody. Kapitan zavolal mne ma maste
a napominal mne, abych mel ma pamel
cluny. Ma to svolal vsecky lidi napo
minal e, ably byli beze strachu, &c nejso
pills cd st. John, ma Novem Fundland
: vzdaleni a ze az tam LODI dostati mdz'
Nez ma nestesti voda stale stoupala d.
stoupla jiz az k vyhni pod kotlem uha
! sila ohen. Kapitan ma to velel, ably clun
do more spousteny hyly, COZ Sc take stall
3 Ureiv plavc1m smer severozapadni, pr
/ vii, ze jsou prave 120 mil cd st. Johr