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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
The Mysterious Interior OF the Y. NJ. Q.
A. Hall at indianapolis

The indianapolis Journal says: The
workmen employed 10 remodel I. Nj. e..
A. hall have made many strange discov-
cries within the past few days. The build
ing, once known throughout all this sec
ton of the country as the Exchange"
was built, it will be remembered, in flush
war times by Chas w. Hall. The whole
interior was designed exclusively for the
accommodation of the gambling pro1es-
sion, and every appliance and modern i'm
proyement that would be of service to
short-card manipulators was put in. The
ground-floor was used as a livery-stable.
and the second floor was set apart for
general gambling purposes. The rooms
on this floor were free TO all, and were ire
quented by the canGiLLe, who indu' ged in
games of chance promiscuouly, without
stopping to pick their company. The
large room in the rear of the L. NJ. y. A.
reading-rOom could only be entered from
the roof a. the back part of the building,
and was intended mainly as a place of
concealment in the event of police raids.
This apartment will hereafter be used as a
chapel. In tearing out partiti ms, ripping
ND floors and knocking off sections OF
piastering in the suits of smaller rooms in
the. third story, behind the large hall, the
workmen have discovered bewildering
network of wires, speaking-tubes, ETC.,
connecting with each room; and render
ing communication with every hook and
Granny perfectly easy. These upper rooms
were used for select sporting parties and
placed atthe disposition of dishonest gam
blers, who, by means of gnal wires uhder
their feet, could keep themselves informed
OF the strength cf each others hands and
the relative value of the cards held by the
unsuspecting victim. When an outsider
sat down to quiet little game at one of
these tables he was deliberately robbed OF
his money in this manner. The cOntem-
plation of all these cunningly-contrived
devices is an Interesting study to those
unacquainted with the secrets of gambling,
and could furnish food for much whole
some reflection on the part of those who
NAV have become enamored with the inno-
cent delights of some of the apparently y
square games conducted on the recognjz d
principles illustrated by the above describ
ed devices.
Through the outstanding influence OF
the Y. NJ. c.. A, the entire third floor is
being rapidly converted into bathing
rooms and a gymnasium, the latter to oc-
cupy the lecture hall. About $4,000 will
be expended in this direction, and sur
scribers to the enterprise will be enabled
to reap the advantages appertaining there
to after the 1st of July, when the improve
mentS will be completed, and every thing
in readiness for service.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
A Horrible Crime.

The Nashville Tenn Banner gives an
account of the burning by unknown in
cendiaries of Charles Singers large -four
ing mill, near Sebree CITY, KY, a few
nights ago, and adds the following ac-
count of horrible crime which was after
wards committed:
An hour later the Nashville bound train,
on the st Louis and Southern Railroad,
came sweeping along at its accustomed
speed. All at once the locomotive trem-
bled as Ii rolled over something under
meath, and went on, the engineer bellev-
ing the object to be an animal. When be
arrived at the tank, two miles below, how
ever, and commenced to oil his engine, he
was horritied at the sight of human hair
upon the pilot ard blood upon the wheels
of his engine. at this unexpected discOv-
cry, he got upon the locomotive and back
ed the train TO point within one hundred
yards of the burned mill. Here was found
all that had been left of Samuel Scott. His
body was terribly mangled, but the
strangest thing of all was that it was per-
fectly cold, and had the appearance of
havin been so for some little time previ-
Gus. Two physicians examined the re-
mains, and gave it as their opinion that
Scott had first be- killed and his body
laid across the track, TO prevent the eX-
posure ofthe crime. This presumption
was substantiated by the fact that, when
run over, the body of Scott was lying
across the track, his neck across one rail
and his feet hanging over and beyond the
other. AS he was man of temperate
habits, it is not supposed he laid down
upon the track in state of stupefacIion
caused by imbi5ing whisky, and even
then it is thought hardly possible that he
would have taken so much pains to lay
himself down in the peculiar position his
body laid. Is is believed that he witness
ed the incendiaries set fire to the mill, and
that while proceeding to his home, which
was two hundred yards from the mill, he
was overtaken by them half way, and
murdered and placed on the track that
the train might run over his body and so
mangle it as to prevent the exposure oi
the double crime.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
AHETES DAUGHTER.
ri LOUISE cHAxpLER NouLrox.

LOUISE GhAfDAEh AONAA--
THE lingering charm OF dram that has nec,
The echo aflives when the tune is dead,
The suneet glories that follow the sun
The taste that remains when the wine - done,
Every thing tender and every thing fair
Thai xras and is not. and yet te There
/ thIpk N them all when look in these eyes,
And see the old smile To the young lips rise.
remember dc lilacs. all purple and white,
Ard the turf al the feet Of my hearts delight,
Snapgied with daisies and violets sweet
Daintiest floor for the daiBtiest feet
And the face that was fond, and foolish and fair
And the golden grace OF the floating hair,
And the lips where the glad Smiles came and
went,
And the lashes that shaded the eyes content.
] remember the pledge il the red Young Inns.
And The shv. soft touch Of the finger tips,
And the kisses stole. and the words we spoke
And the ring gave, and the coin we broke,
And the love that never should change or fail
Though tie earth stood stin or the stars turned
pale,
And again stand when see sllese eyes,
A glad young fool. in my Paradise.
For the earth and the stars remained as Of old,
But the love that had been so warm grew cold.
Was IL shes Was il I; ] don't remember:
Then il was June-it ie now December.
But again dream the old dream over,
NV Annie Is young, and / am her lover,
w hen LOOK in this Annie's gentle eyes,
And see the old smiletO the young lips rise.
June atlantic.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
AborIgIaes Of New Mexico.

In Bancroft's account of the native races
of the Pscific States the following facts are
given in relation to the Indians of New
Mexico: The disparity in physical appear
ance between some Ofthese nations, which
msy be attribu ed for the most part to diet,
is curious. While those who sllbsist on
mixed vegetables and animal food present
a tall, healthy, and muscular development
hardly excelled by the Caucasian race,
those that live on animal food. excepting,
perhaps, the Comanches, are small in stat
ure, wrinkled, shrivelled, and hideeusly
ugly. All the natives of this family, with
the exception of the Apaehes proper, are
tall, well built, with muscles strongly de-
vtloped, pleasing features, although at
times rather broad faces, high foreheads,
large, clear, dark-colored eyes, possessing
extraordinary powers of vision, black
coarse; hair, and, for wonder, boards.
Taken as whole, they are the most per-
feet specimens of physical manhood that
we have yet encountered. While some,
and particularly females. are of hight
copper color, others again approach near
TO the dark Californian. Women are gen.
orally p'umper, inclining more to obesity
than the men. Some comely girls are
spoken of among them, but they grow
Olu early. Ill COnlIdulollllCllOu W MI tfils,
the Apaches proper, or Apache nation
as We may call them, are slim, ill-devel-
oped. but very agile. Their height is
about five feet four to five inches features
described as ugly, repuisive, emOtionless,
flat, and approaching the Mongol cast,
while the head is covered with an un-
kempt mass ofcoarse. shocky, rusty, black
hair, not unlike bristles. The women are
not all behind the men in ugliness, and
pleasing face is rarity. A feature COM
mon to the family is remarkably small
feet; in connection with which may be
mentioned the popularity which obtains
on the Lower Colorado Ofhaying the large
toe widely separated from the others
which arises probably from wading in
marshy bottoms. All the tribes whose
principal subsistence is meat, and more
particularly those that eat horse and mule
flesh, are said to exhale peculiar scent,
something like the animals themselves
when heated. Among American tribes of
the tropics it would be interesting to as
certain whether there is real foundation
for the accounts of a fair tribe, with light
hair and blue eyes, in Costa Rica, the 80
called GuatusOs, said 70 be descendants of
English mutineers from Sir Francis
Drake,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03

VAR i the form ofau e.oapsd parrot,

II r.
War is the form ofan escaped parrotg
A polly-gone. -
WHAT three words did Adam use when
ne introduced himself to Eve, and which
reast the same backward and forwari2-
Madam. Pm ADAM % E1E
a B&eKwooDs youth came to his father
anu said Dad. they amt knives enht
10 sot the table, Dad. Whar's big
butch, little butch. the case. cob-harItIie,
granny's knife, and the one / handled
yesterday? That's enufT to sOt any gen
tieman's table, without you've lost um."
"WHAr do you do for livingr, asked
a farmer of burly beggar who applied
at his door for cold victuals and old
clothes. 81 don't dc nothing much, but
travel about" was the answer. Are
you good at traveling" asked the farmer.
Yes" replied the beggar. "Then let's
see you travel" said the farmer.
A GENTLEMAN was endeavOring to enjoy
an evening In the company OF young
lady upon whom he called. but found
serious obstacle in the person &C stern
father, who at length ventured vesy plain
ly to Intimate that the hours for retiring
had arrived. 81 think you are correct,
my dear SIR" returned the -unabashed
Young man. "We have been waitingto
have you go to bed for over an hour"
1T is to be observed of regular adver-
tiser that he is a man who is pretty sure 10
be prosperous in business; generally
stands A ] among his neighbors; always
wear clean shirt; never postpones his
pew rent until the last quarter day; and,
when he dies, succeeds in being buried IN
first-class rosewood coffin with satin
Innings and handsome silver door-plate,
without provoking a riot among his heirs.
The inconsistencies in our orthography
are something fearful to contemplate.
Tongue spells tongue" and the man
that first spelled it so should have been
hongue. Ache spells q ache" and that's
all YOU can maehe out of it. Eight
spells eight" no matter how you depre-
ceight the idea; and that aisle should
spell "aisle," and f-e-i-g-n "feign' is
enough to make any body smaisle, if the
effort were not too peignful.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
The California Wheat Ranch.

Probably the wheat-ranch is the best
present representative of the coast. With
crop OF this cereal reaching in 1872 the
great figure Of twenty nine million BUSH
els. California outranks all other wheat
growing States. 1t is, fortunately, no
longer preeminently the Golden State. but
the agricultural as well. or, as Starr King
happily described il. 1.-THE beloved Benja-
min of American States, whose autumn
sack is filled with grain, while the mouth
Of it contains cup of gold" The first
thing that impresses one in this depart
ment is the multifariouS and almeSt hI-
manly conscious machinery, which gives
one man dominion over so many acres,
and has elevated California in twelve years
from an arid waste TO the first wheaU-pro-
ducing State. Down in the San
Joaquin Valley there is a ranch
so vast that the men start in the
morning with their gang plows, travel
on until noon, take dinner at midway
station, then drive on until the going
down of the sun, and return the day fol-
lowing. So Immensely is one mans prof.
liable ownership broadened by machines.
True, the plowing is only skin-deep, and
the average yield per acre has already
fallen of over five bushels in the State !:
but who takes thought for the morrow I!
Then in harvest, the field actually swarms
with machinery. As the cumbrous head
er moves on, with its long guillotine reach
ing far out into the wheat TO be deeapita-
ted, wagon is driven dexterously along
side 10 receive the heads. Every header
thus employs five men. three wagons, and
twelve horses. Sometimes three or four
headers are going at once, each with its
little army, and simultaneously in the
middle Of the field steam thresher. with
It's greater army of men. dark as mu attoes
with tan and dust. working with an amaz-
ing energy, even running at their several
tasks, white the header wagons come and
return on a trot Perhaps aspark from
the thresher ignites the standing grain !:
the farmer leaps on,a reaper and wbiDs
his horses to gallop TO cut swath
around and arrest the progress OF the con-
Migration. The wind sweeps the billswy
flames upon him; he dismounts, slashes
of the traces, besrides horse. and gall
1ops for life, leaving the reaper TO jfs fate
1t might as well be burned as to lie out
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
A Hotel Incident.

A San Francisco paper relates the fol-
lowing incident: A few evenings ago. an
odd-Iooking character entered one of the
leading hotels OF this city. and after scrawl-
ing his name-"John Higgins, Sucker
Fiat'-upon the register, cast down $50
piece upon the counter and asked for
" good room" The obliging clerk dock
eted him 498, somewhere in the attic, and
John Higgins, of Sucker Flat, was shown
into the elevator. For some reason or
other the boy was not at his post, and Hig-
gins, supposing it was the room in which
he was to spend the night, Immediately
began to undress. In few moments the
elevator boy returned, and found higgins
minus every thing but bis undershirt and
drawers. The gentleman from Sucker
Flat was considerably surprised at. wnat
he considered the unceremOniOus iHtru-
sion of the boy, and demanded why he
dared to come into gentleman's room
without knocking. The boy took in the
situation at glance. and seeing party OF
ladi, coming up, with the apparent pur-
pose of ascending in the elevator, con-
cluded that Higgins must be got out OF
the way as soon as possible, and giving
the rope tug, sent the apparatus sky
ward. The moment the thing began 10
ascend Higgins BE- gan to bound about the
confined apartment like Gagged lunatc,
and for while it was hard TO tell which
of the two was the most frightened. Hig-
gins or the boy. At last they reached the
top floor and came to a dead halt. The
Sucker Flat man burst open the door and
rushed out of the elevator, airlly clad IN
a simnle costume of red undersbirt and
white drawers. He was closely followed
by the boy, who was evidently anxious to
oct the guest into room a9S as soon as cir
cumstances would permit. As luck would
have it. however, NUMBER OF enam0er-
maids were just passing the spot. and as
Higgins broke loose in their midst they
filed the upper corridors with unearthly
shrieks and fed in different directions. At
last, by the assistance Of several walters,
Higgins was caught and taken TO MS
room, where his wearing appafel was al
terward brought to him. Higgins now
uses the stairs when he wants 70 go up or
down.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03

AN old lady bade her daughter good-by
In the Rochester depot, saying: :" IL isn't
likely will ever see you az Iin-Tm get
ting so DID," She was starting for her
home in Chicago, and as the train started
She put her head out of the car window to
catch final glimpse of her relative. The
daughter was standing on an adjacent
track waving her handkerchief. A loco
motive dashed in and overrun her, and
the last that the mother saw, as the train
moved out Of the depot, was the mangled
corpse of her daughter. The grief OF the
poor woman was frantically expressed.
At the first station she got out and re-
turned to Rochester.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
Some Good Adyica.

Mr.. Roebuck, who has devoted his life
to the well being of the working classes,
in a recent speech at Sheffield, gave utter
ance to some very sensible remarks upon
the way in which the artisan is in the habit
of spending his leisure time II man,
says Mr. Roebuek, makes his wages the
means merely of eating. drinking, ana
sleeping. he is throwing away the re-
sources at his command. Let the work
ing man, be says. cultivate his intellect J
GOOD books are cheap in these days. ana
few cents laid out on a standard autner
will be repaid over and over again IN the
rich and ennobling. enjoyment afforded Dy
its pages. Many working men find the
evening hours hang heavy on tier hands,
and for want of something else 70 DO take
refuge in the amusements that are rnln-
Gus and degrading. The love of literature
is of course an acquired taste, but science,
history, poetry, or the higher forms OF
fiction -all may be studied BY the work
ing man with the effect of making bis
mind treasury of lofty thoughts and a
chronicle of noble deeds. - i.
THE strongest side Of piece OF timber
;o that xrhiah in itr nQtIlral DOeifiOQ faced
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
VOLUME III.

There " he cried, waving Mr.. Coles
note, and pointing bin out The protect
or ofthe people, II want you 20 rest hins.
He won't pay me my cent"
But no pen could chronicle half his do
ings-his odd attitudes and questions and
independent theories, his theological Opin-
ions, an5 utter freedom from restraint.
suppose his hands are folded now and
he is lying sleeping with his red lips open,
looking so like child of four or five years
that you can scarcely believe his friends
when they tell you he is a perfect Little
Old Man.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03
The Secret Of ElOquence.

The Pail Mall Gazette says: San ad-
mirer of Mr.. Bright writes to Manches-
ter paper that he has discovered the secret
of the power this great speaker possesses
of riyeting the attention of his audience.
This be b. lieves to lie in the fact that he
uses monosyllables very largely. The
grand passage in Mr.. Bright's speech on
The Burials bill, describing Quaker fu-
neral, begins Il will take the case OF
nv own sect" and on counting the words
of that remarkable Grafton, IL Will De
found that out of 100 words. I49, more
than twenty-five per cent, were mono
svllables. On this it is urged that those
in charge of youth should teach them the
use of fnonosyllables. An American jour
nsI lately mentioned school where such
Mains had been taken to instruct the boys
In the art of public speaking that if they
had learned nothing else they had acquired
the greatest contempt for all the devices OF
stump oratory. The course of study pre-
seribed left to the Imagination, but doubt
less includes the translation into mono
syllables of the ponderous verbiage which
passes current in most political assemblies
as genuine elOquence. 1t would, however
he cruel to insist on the Introduction o.
such teaching iRto any Of the standards.
MANY are obliged to speak who have less
to say than Mr.. Bright. and TO them the
sesqGspedaLia uer6a are Indispensable"
The San Francisco RELLstin says that
the first piece of gold found which raised
such a revolution on the Pacific coast il
-stiIl to be seen. Its value is between foul
and five dollars. II resembles piece o
spruce gum just out of the mouth Of ;
school girl, with similar indentations.
could easily be Identified by any one WHIT
had ever seen il. .
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03

LITERARY women in Nevada also 5ase
hand in business. Misses Clapp and Bad
cock, principals of the Sierra seminary
have taken contract to furnish iron ienco nc
ing for Capitol Square at carsonfor s0,0Oo
In gold.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03

SECRETARY BRIsTow's favorite air
" stills, so gently DER me stealing"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-03

THE strongest SIDE OF a piece OF timber
Is that which in its natural position faced
the north.
Arizona citizen., 1875-10-16
Pacific s t a t e $

IN HONOR TO CALIFORNIA! AN A honor 10 American literatnrei \ book for the masses; everybody should have II, particularly everybody on the Facinc Coast IL tells the merchant Of the coun- try and its pnuducfs, and how business was conducied in early times. Il tells the phy- ulcfan Of medicine, the lawyer Of courts and politics the clergyman or religlon, khe mechanic or manufacturers. IL Is the best Of reading for the houSehnld' exceed ingly interesting and instructive Tor young people l. is gOOQ for men Of all classes, for it tells about life in iis various phases and coudiii ms. IL is good for women, Tor n tells how women lived, anu how they were treated in times gone by. IL IS or ln- serest 10 the arch itect, for il tells aud llluS- trates all IbOui the architecture or peo- pie once noted for large cities, huge monu- ments and magnificent palaces. Lovers Of art can here revPl in the descriptions or the mysteries Of the pen and brush, aS yielded by a people long since extinct. Modern musicians can study with delight the lovers sprenades, the festive songs and the religions chants uf these wonder ful people. For the scholar we need mol say that the work has never known an equal, as our own word would be tame compared tO the highly hatiering letters which have been received from the most eminent men Of letters in England and America.
 In conclusion, all classes can find some portion Of the work of particular interest to them, and taken as whole it cannot be spared fiOm the D session Of any who care for a Knowledge Of the past history, present resources and future prospects Of ehs great western coast -our adopted home.
 Interesting in matter, standard In char acter, 1t is a literary monument that will forever reflect honorable credit 10 the coast, as through it's pages the fact will be car ried the entire length and breadth Of the land that although We have wealth un- told, we have those among us who have, As President Gilman said, " that patient industry which is more precious still"
 A. L. BANCROFT & CO, Publishers.
 72l Market street, San Francisco.