The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-09-16
GENERAL BREvITIEs.

nave accepted the Centennia hiNi'a
The colored sisters Of Jacksonville
Fla. have founded 1.-The RisiRg DaglSh-
tiers Of Sepulclre" Association.
An AGED negress called ON Mr.. Van
Patrick of Griffin, Ga, and offered to
be his slave for her food and clothing
Two dolphinS, the first ever seen in
the vicinity, were caught between New
London Comm and Block Island the
other day.
THE Council of Baltimore proposes
20 insure the firemen for $500 each in
case Of death, and S5per week IN case
Of sickness or accident
In 1874 the United States furnished
five per cent. Of the impOrtaiiOns into
Brazil, and received forty-siX per cent.
of the exportionS from that country.
SAN Francisco will shortly ship to
the Mikado of Japan state carriage
valued at 5000, four horses worth
S25, 200, and harness costing Sl,5OO.
A VISITOR in South Park, Colorado,
has picked mp 4 curious piece of stone
which, on scientific examination, is pro-
nounced TO be a petrihed plug OF to-
bacco.
A DRIHKEN man slid head first into a
fue of church at Pittsfield, Mass, and
two carpenters destroyed hundred
dollars worth of the building in getting
him out.
A TALL, stalwart Indian is often seen
about the streets of Virginia City,
dressed in calico, like squaw. He is
compelled by the Piutes to wear wO-
mems clothes for cowardice shown in
battle several years since.
CALIFORNIA has only 10000 inhabi-
tants, including the Celestials. 1t could
feed, clothe and lodge $4,000, 900 of beef
eaters and silk and cloth weavers, if
they were disposed TO fulfill their part
of the contract.
SPEAKING of the new attempt to raise
money for finishing the Washington
monument, the Providence Press APPLY
suggests that it would be more TO the
purpose TO raise few statesmen on the
Washington model.
BEES have become so numerous and
aggressive in Brownsville, Texas, that
energetic efforts have become necessary
10 rid the place of them. They took
possession of stores where sugar and
molasses were kept, stung every body
who tried TO drive them away, and stay
ed until smoked out.
NEW LONDON is the first to make n
beginning for the suppression of the
tramp-busineSs. Mayor Waller having
issued a proclamation calling public at
tention 10 the new law, tramp was ar
rested, and on his person were found Il
long dirk, heavily loaded " billy" and
Two razOrsi a pleasant customer to
have providing about.
PEOPLE haven't thought much of Aus
tria since Sadowa, but it may be men
toned, As a simple little deadly news
item, that the kropatchek rifle, with
which the Austrian army will probably
be armed. fires fifteen shots in ten see
ondS, and has a mechanism with two
short movements so simple that it can
be set in motion even by fingers numb
ed with cold.
4 NUMBER of Cinnamon went into
their cemetery at Antioch, Cal, to offer
up burnt sacrifice to their gods. Their
burnt offering assumed unexpected pro-
BblNiDAcs iVi NlC 1tdcS Ndhlll8 llts Nlit
flames spread over the whole buryinT
ground, consuming the grave enclos-
urcs, head boards, trees, and shrubbery,
the Celestials themselves escaping only
by an irreverent flight.
A DOG is on the police force of Ale
ghany, Pa. He went TO the police station
AS lOdger last winter, and has lived
there ever since. He goes the rounds
with an officer. and assists in capturing
the raScals, Selling them whenever the
policeman's strength proves inefficient.
He sometimes travels alone, and when
he meets an inebriate, banks for a pO-
iceman to come.
An old Irishman named John Stack
died at Gainesville, Ga. on the centen-
NAL anniversary of O'COnnell's birth.
He was every proud of the fact that he
once drove a carriage in-which O'Con-
nell was taking pardon to a man about
TO be hung. One of the horses STUN
hled and fell TO the ground. O'Conncll
jumped out of the coach and ran on
foot 10 the scene of the hanging, and
Just reached it in time to save the man 5
life-the rope was around his neck"
THERE is man in a neighboring city
who is liable to meet with sudden death
should a certain aged spinster succeed
in catching him. She had had some
trouble with her teeth, and this man re-
commended her to visit a well known
dentist, at the same time offering to
give her note of introduction. The
offer was accepted and the note was
written, but the lady noticed that it was
closely sealed. With a curiosity not
unnatural under the circumstances, she
opened the letter carefully and read as
follows: "DEAR DOCToR-This is the
lady told you about. Make her a set
of teeth so that she can't lie 50 Internal
ly about her neighboTs. She wants to
meet that young man now-just once.
SOMEpeople are never contented with
their lot, let what will happen. Clouds
and darkness are over their head, alike,
whether II rain or shine. Tothem every
incident is an accident, and every acct
dent a calamity. Even when they have
their own way, and, indeed, consider
their most voluntary acts as matters IF
compulsion A child about three wears
old was CRYING because his mother had
shut the parlor door "Poor thing. -
said a neighbor, cOmpassionatelv, "you
have shut the child out ITS all the
same 10 him." said the mother; :" he
would cry if | called him in and thez
shut the door. It's peculiarly of that
boy, that if he is left rather suddenly on
either side of a door ne considers him
self shut out, and rebels accordingly. =
There are older children who take the
same view Of things.
"ShOOt the Man,