davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
DOMINO.
COLORADO, A. D. 1865.

FOUR at a table sat them down
At the quiet inn of doing town,
Thirsty, weary and travel stained
Glasses were filed and quickly drained.
Three were CAV gallants, young and strong,
Who seasoned the drink with rOistring song
The fourth, a man of sOrrowed air,
His sWart face furrowed with lines of care.
The host, to drive the time away,
Brought dOminoes and bade them play
A trivial game for the bearded man
Who has diced with death since life began.
Met by chance, they were strangers all,
But liquor loosed their tongues from thrau,
Save he who seemed no longer young,
And neither jested, played nor sung.
One, tall, slender and twentytw
With an eve to dare, hand to do,
Yet with iewd, vile tongue and rakish air
Vaunted of conquest 'mongst damsels fair.
He spoke of one, ruined, betrayed, undone
In distant land, meath warmer sun
+" A peerless maiden, tall and 1.-the,
Dark ewes of love and spirits blithe.
90 Sweet summer bird-she sang like one
And now, ha ha, she's dead and gone....
Tray six, double -four, double five, ace....
I'll drink to her narrow resting place.
3" Her mother died, twas said, of grief
For her darling's blight, and so relief
Came to this sentimental fool,
Who clung to virtue as golden rule.
{" There's a son; of course he made some stir,
Though he has, by this, forgotten her;
An episode like that, we know,
Passes away as melts the snow"
The Silent is up, and with hurried start,
Drives dagger keen through LOthario's heart
Then bowling to all, as he turns to go,
&c l have made the game, and call Dominop
indianapolis Herald.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

rain and wind and all the extremes of heat
and cold. and the wear and tear of mental
anxiety he has constantly to undergo, and
which reaches a climax when snow and
fog. his great enemies, obstruct' his out
look, the work of the engine driveris truly
astounding as to its extent and amount.
The average distance Travelled over by the
drivers of passenger trains on our smaller
lines. as representative of which the South
Eastern may be taken, is 800 miles week,
or about 40, 900 miles a year; but this av-
erage is far surpassed by the drivers Of the
great express trains on the lines north OF
the Thames. A careful calculation OF the
distances Travelled by the Great Western
driver, whose time bill has been analyZed,
shows that, in the course of one year,
commencing November 4, 1873, and end
ing November 3, 1874, he hauled his trains,
often at express speed, over 65,323 miles
of ground, being an average of ,256 miles
per week. 1t seems terrible work; stlll
the veteran here referred to, upwards OF
TWENTY-FIVE wears in the service Of the
Great Western, testities, with many 9th
ers, to the fact that the eXertions gone
through, great as they are, do not only
not affect the health of a strong man With
good nerves, but fortify his constitulont
so as to harden it against age
and disease. 1t is certain that engine
drivers, as class, look extremely florid
and healthy, and mostly younger than
they really are. No doubt they get
abundance of ozone into their lungs; and
if they will only stave off the enemy
rheumatism by good flannel armor and
te temperance-the latter universal among
the best drivers, not few OF whom are
teetotalers-they have as much chance OF
living to the age of Methusaleh as any OF
the more favored classes of the commune
ty, including country parsons. Besides
great as are the physical hardships which
the engine driver has to undergo. there Is
some compensation for it, as for mos'
things. in corresponding feeling of Ella
ton, which no habit can altogether de
stroy. from flying through space with
enormous, swiffness. IfDr. Samuel John.
son held it the greatest joy of human life
O travel in a post coach with four horses
at the rate of twelve miles an hour, the
man who rides the Flying Dutchman mus
surely feel at times, if not always, JOY
of superhuman intensity by getting
through space five times as fast-at 8
greater rate of velocity, indeed, than any
thing that ever moved on the face OF the
earth, except a cannon ball. There are
men of birth and education who, proper
ly trained, act occasionally as engine driv
ers-a we'll known instance of the kiht
exists on one of our southern lines-anC
they confess that there is an exciterhen
and charm. that nothing can excel, il
the riding Of a fire horse. 1t may be salt
of the engine driver, as of no other morta
man: "He hath his way in the whirlwinC
and in the storm, ,''-London RGttt1sl
| Nel0s.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
How a Celestial Saved Wife.

Justice Knox yesterday afternoon made
a Chinese couple man and wife. 1t ap-
pears that the bridegroom some time since
purchased the woman, paying Tor her
$3.50. gold coin. Another Celestial, IN
whose ewes there was not little specuia-
ton, saw his neighbor's purchase ana de-
termined to make the property his own
With this object in view he yesterday
went to the office of the county clerk ana
procured a marriage license, his intention
being to steal the woman away TO the once
of the nearest Justice of the peace ana oe
married to her, Mclean fashion. Had ne
succeeded in doing this our laws would
have protected him in the possession OIL
his property, and his neighbor, the pur-
chaser. might have whistled for Dotn
money and woman. Soon after tfe Hrst
Chinaman had obtained his marriage IL
cense a second rushed into the Office OF the
clerk and procured license to marry the
same woman, Emma by name. Thls was
the man who had paid his good S59O IN
gold for the woman, and he now Iouhu
himself so cornered that in order to save
and hold her he must be united TO ner 10
the ''holy bonds of matrim0ny. III;
| friends at home kept watch OF the INTENDED
bride until the license was procured, Wnen
he trotted her off up to the office OF Judge
| Knex and made sure of her, While tht
other coyetous, pig-eyed rascal was ou
| the price of a marriage license. The mar
riage was considered a company triumph
and after the knot was tied the company
| TO which the bridegroom belongs stoo'
| treat for all who happened to be ABOUT III
courtroom. Indeed, the company $
rejoiced over its victory that It wanleq U
bHv several baskets of champagne. Ha'
the other man succeeded in his matrimonia
designs, the property" would hav
passed over to another company, and tina
company would have rejoiced and woul
have offered to treat to champagne
Neither of the men wanted a wife. bu
both wanted woman worth S65o.-Vt'
ginia Neuada) Enterprise.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

charge of the house, and attending to her
official duties as well.
BEAUTY DRAWS HIM WITH A SINGLE HAIR.
Among the guests accommodated at
Mrs. Webb's house In Georgetown was
certain legationist, Baron Won liayre by
name. He passed through the Depart
ments one day on an inspecting tour,
along with party of friends, and was
arrested by the sight of fair sweet face
crowned with golden glory, bending in
dustriously over some pieGs OF writing.
He looked so long that his companions
chaffed him upon his sudden smite. He
returned after few hours spent with his
friends, aud inquired about the beautiful
girl, and was soon afterwards an inmate
of her house on the Heights. The half
sister, who dressed well, visited, and did
nothing. laid claim to the nObleman's at
tention, and the mother did all she could
to assist her daughter, but the Baron had
ewes and thoughts for the neglected maid
en-, who rose so early in the morning and
marketed, and made her pretty, simple
dresses with her own nimble fingers, and
went patiently through summer heat and
winters snow to her desk in the Govern
ment Office. So, he offered her his hand,
his heart, and his fortune of $4,000 per
annum, and she became the lovely Drlue OF
nobleman in every sense of the word.
remember how beautiful she looked III her
filmy white dress with silken light sheen
ing through its lacey meshes, and pearls,
whose years numbered as many as the
beads which formed the necklace. L saw
picture of her, taken from an oil paint
ing, after she had lived as happy bride
and beautiful mother in far-of Germany.
She sat in half-covered arbor, with half
wreath of flowers falling carelessly from
her lap to the ground. Her arms and neck
are both bare and perfectly free from or
nament, yet so exquisitely nodded that
jewelry would merely take away, from
them their beauty. Her beautiful hair is
parted-'' one moonbeam from the fore
head to the crown"-and combed smooth
lv back from her lovely face. She is the
| idol of her husband, and the admired of
all the mobiles in the country round about.
| OUIsEL.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
A Parasite of the HOuse-Fly.

Prof. Liedy reports the observation OF a
threadworm i'm the proboscis of the COM
mon house-iy. The parasite is from a
line To the tenth of an inch in length.
From one to three were found, on an ay-
ersge. in one fly out of five. MIR. II. ).
Carter first discovered this parasite in tne
house-fiy of India, and described it under
tbe name of FTGaTid nluscR. From two TO
twenty were found, by the observer, In
one fiy out of three. DIR. Diesing has re-
ferred the parasite to a new genus, with
the name of H1bronsn1G nlusc8. IL mas
been suggested by Mr.. Carter that It may
be the source of the Guinea worm Fttartd
r1sdinensis) in man.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
Marriage and Longevity.

In the recent published "Study of So
ciology,n Mr.. Herbert Spencer assails
theory that has long been current with
regard to marriage and longevity. That
married life is favorable to longevity has
generally been regarded as satisfactorily
proved by numerous statistics, showing,
almost without exception, greater Ion
gevity on the part of the married. When
the ratio of deaths in the two classes
stands at ten to four, and even twenty to
four, there would appear to be little room
for doubt. But to this astute social scien-
tist the evidence, strong as it seems, fur
nishes ne warrant for the current belief.
He regards the case as substitution OF
cause for effect in other words, greater
longevity is not the consequence OF mar
riage; on the contrary, marriages are
clearly traceable to influences favorlng
longevity. The principles of natural Sc
lectien work so strongly in deciding be-
tween the Benedicks and the bachelors,
| that the long livers are drawn to the for
mer and the short livers TO the latter.
4 Marriage, Mr.. Spencer holds, is regulated
/ by the ability TO meet its responsibilities.
/ The qualities which give the advantage
here are intellectual and bodily vigOr,
prudence, and self control; these, too, are
the qualities which determine a prolonged
life or premature death. An even more
direct relation is to be found in the in
stincts which lead most strongly to mar
riage. The reproductive instincts and
emotions are strong in proportion as the
sur lus vital energy is great, and this II
turn implies an organization likely TO last
$50 that, in fact, the superiority OF phy'
sique, which is accompanied by strength
of the instincts and emotions causing mar
riage, is d superiority of physique also con
ducive to longevity" Another inhuenc:'
tells in the same direction. Marriage l.
determined by the preference OF womer
as well as the desires of men, and, othel
things being equal, women are attracted
towards men OF physical and intellectual
power, refusing the uniformed, diseased
4 and ill-developed types. In the opera
ton of those three elements Mr.. Spence
i finds all that is needed TO account for th'
striking difference of longevity betweeI
the classes, and declares that "the figure
given afford no proof that marriage anC
a longevity are cause and consequence; bu
they simply verify the inference which
might he drawn a priori-that marriage
and longevity are eOncomitant results o
the same cause. London Medical Record
IT's an i'll wind that blows no bod!
good. The same gale that sent the wal
topping down on church full of worship
ers. blew the stranded steamships Q9eel
E ov,1 France afiOat auaiO
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

CoRSEp BEEF.-The Scientific american
informs the ladies that if they would have
corned beef juicy after ii IS cold, and not as
dry as chip, they should put it into Doll,
ing water when they put it on to cook, and
thew should not take it out OF the pot when
done until cold.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

A PROMINENT speculator in whisky
named w. H. Shipman has recently ao-
seconded from Lawrenceburg. KY, leaving
small house and lot and few barrels OF
whisky, TO satisfy liabilities amounting TO
about 500 900. His wife, who has for
tune of her own, is his creditor for $lO,0OO.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

A MATTER-oF-FAcT philosopher asserts
that - love is to domestic life what butter
Is to bread-it possesses little nourishment
in itself but gives substantials grand rel
ish, without which they would be hard to
swallow"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18
THE THRONE OF ATEzLA.


(Tenfce, 1s74.)
wRINKLED lion Of st. Mark,
Sailing through thine thousand isles
Some sunny summer yesterdays,
Bvunknoun boats through unknown bays
Whose sad sweet beauty still beguiles
NV somber, silent, hearse- like bark
M hark OF crossed and yellow sail
And PROV in steely coat OF mall
Tselo,r In. Tyrol's peaks of snow
And grass grown causeways well below,
Did touch Torcello.
lonce a-land,
I took a seal shell in my hand,
And blew like any trumpeter.
Nv gondOlier leaned on his oar,
Looked up amazed, but did not stir,
Back from further island shore
Came rolling on in echoes clear,
Mine own wild note, but nothing more
Was heard OF seen IN all the land.
Yet here stood Venice once and here
Attila came with sword and fame,
And set his throne of followed stone
In her high mart.
And itremains.
The crowned city, cruel King,
Has long since passed; yet all alone
There sits That massive, empty throne.
turned me down the grassy lanes,
BY cattle paths grass grown and dim,
And through the lone wood silent walked.
A bent, old beggar, white, like one
For better frnitage blossoming,
Came on. And as he came he talked
Unto himself, for there were none
In al that isle 20 answer him.
climbed and sat that throne OF stone,
Alas for prophecy Alone,
In silent mockery of this,
II stands in wild sweet grasses set;
Aye, girdled deep in long strong grass
And Spanish clover, such as has
Usurped the Occident and grows
On Sacramcnto's gundown hills,
And all the verdant valley fills
With fragrance sweet and delicate
As wooing breath Of woman is.
What prophecy was hist He said
No grass shall grow where my steed treads :
o King thy very throne to-day
is hid and sunk in waving grass.
Sometimes the careless gypsies pass,
And wonder at this followed stone.
Betimes some pilgrim steers this way,
And wearied sits him here alone,
And contempiatcs the rise and fall
OF proud and puny man.
You hear
The sometime song Of gondolier
Afar and faint. Then fishermen
Sometimes draw boats upon this shore,
When sudden Storms blow sharp, and then
Sometimes the Celt or turbaned Turk,
Half pirate, has some midnight work
To dOhenein, but that is all
A grass grown throne and nothing more.
Some snails had climbed the throne and writ
Their silver monograms on 1t
In unknown tongue. / sat thereon
And blew again my loud sea shell;
Blew loud, and strong, and long, and well;
Then rested waiting for reply.
Some cows that fed in lanes close by
Looked up. a cow herd came
From out the grass in hairy skin,
Half clad. nor yet half tame,
And wildly stared; then turned and fed,
The gay old beggar barred his head,
My only subject, brave and true,
Then spoke-and asked me for sou.
joaquin Muller, in ScribneT'S for March.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

THE man who was "filled with emo
ton hadn't roem for his dinner,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-03-18

IT's an Ill wind that blows no body
good. The same gale that sent the wal
topping down on church full of worship
ers, blew the stranded steamships QaeeI
and France afioat again.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-10
THE MINERS.
The Fire ia The Mine.

The Fire ia The Mine.
HAZLETON, April 9-The fire in the mine
at Stockton is gaining headway. The dam
age will cost months of labor and thou
sands Of dollars.
How the Militia was Received.
The soldiers we're received with ,jeers.
Detachments of troops were moved to sew
eral points. There are 1900 soldiers mere.
The Strike Gaining Ground.
The indications now ars that the strike
will ex.end until it covers the entire an
thracite coal region.
Incendiary Fire.
An incendiary fire occurred yesterday.
The Troops.
Troops arrive by every train.
The Strike mt Scranton.
SCRANTON, April 9.-At a meeting last
night it was resolved that all the miuers
quit work to-day, and ut coon a vote will
be taken by ballot OH strike. The result
will be reported to the meeting to night,
when the matter will be definitely settled.
Quiet Restored.
WILKEsBARRE, April Everything
qniet. I5 is expected the men will resume
work next week.
Strike Mt Shamokin.
PoTTsvILLE, Pa April 9.-rhe miners in
the region about ShanOkin have struck.
The Troops to he Withdrawn.
HARRISBURG. April ga committee of
citizens from Hazleton. and several miners
from that vicinity representing the Miners
Benevolent and other associations, to day
had an interview with Governor Hartranft
and protested against the occupation of
Hazleton and adjacent townships by the
military on the ground that there were no
disturbances there and no apprehension
that any would occur. An investigation
has been ordered, and upon assurances that
peace will be preserved Governor Hartranft
will withdraw his soldiers, who are accused
of excesses from drunkenness.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-10
WHOLE NUMBER 2462.

riced-Fort Gibson and Mary Boyd from Arkansas
river Departed-Kittie Hegler for Cincinnati;
Augusta for White river; Illinois for vicksburg :
Peytona and barges for New orleans; st. Genevieve
for St. Louis.
PlrrsBrRG. April 9-River nine feet eight inches
and falling Weather warm
EVANSVILLE, April 9-Rained till near mldni cht;
clear aud cooler to day. River has risen Elk inc .e
Un-BOdnlann at midnight.
LOUISVILLE. April 9-River falling, with eight
feet steam boat water on the falls Weather clear
and cool. Down-Experter. from Cincinnati to
New Orleans.
CINCINNATI. April 9-River thirty.two feet and
FALLING. weather clear and cooler. Departed
Thompson Dean for New Orleans.
ST. LOUIS. April 9-Arrived-Julia, from Vicks-
burg. No departures The river is falling slowly.
Weather clear and cooler.
CAIRO, April Observation-Disclosures, from New
Orleans. at eleven o'clock last night; Helena, from
ST. Louis. at P. NJ. Departed-Cherokee, for Gin
cinnati. at A. NJ; Helena. for vicksburg at ! P.
NJ. River forty feet one inch and stationary.
Weather clear. Mercury Goo.
Cotton.
NEW YORK. April s.-The following is the com
paratve statement Of cotton for the week ending
today:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-10

IMPROVED REAL ESTATE, ALL THE RIGHT,
TITLE AND INTEREST IN AND TO A SUIT, AND
Four STATE WARRANTS, BY AUCTION, BY
THE SHERIFF.-We are requested to call the
attention of the public to the sales by auc-
tion to be made to-day at noon at the Mer-
chants and Auctioneers' Exchange, Royal
street, by the civil sheriff of the parish of
Orleans. Said sales comprise:
l. A certain lot of ground, with the
buildings and improvements thereon, in
the First District of this city, fronting on
Euterpe street, between Baronne and Ca
rondelet streets.
2. All that certain lot of ground, with the
buildings and improvements thereon, in the
First District, fronting on Carondelet street,
streets.
3. All that certain lot Of ground, with the
buildings and improvements thereon, in the
came square and district, fronting on
Euterpe street, between Carondelet and
Baronne streets.
buildings and improvements thereon, in the
First District of this city, fronting on Girod
street, between New Levee and Commerce
streets.
s. A certain lot of ground, with the
buildings and improvements thereon, in the
Second District of this city, fronting on St.
Philip street, between Rampant and Bur.
gundy streets.
G. A certain lot of ground, with the
buildings and improvements thereon. in the
Second District of this city. forming the
corner of Royal and ST. Philip streets.
7. Another portion OF ground, in the same
square. etc.
s. Eight certain lots of ground, with the
buildings and improvements thereon, in the
Third District of this city, forming the
corner of Castiglione and Rosiere streets.
9. Four State warrants, dated respective
ly April IL, July 6, October and October
l6, 1872, each for $3.50.
10. All the right, title and interest of Mrs.
Ann Maria Heller in and to the suit of Mrs.
Ann Maria Heller VS.. Philip Schen, No.
43 30 of the docket of the Fourth District
Court.
For full particulars and terms see adver
tisements.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-10
NEW YORK,


New YORK, April 9.-Notice Of action
was filed against William NJ. Tweed yester
day in the Office OF the county clerk. The
list of property attached embraces every
thing known to have been in the possession
of Tweed at the time OF his exposure, and
which he passed into the hands Of other
parties.
Presbyterian Conference.
A conference OF Presbyterians was held
here last evening in the interest of the pro-
posed Presbyterian confederation. Plans
for the purpose were submitted on July "a.
Representatives Of all Presbyterian bodies
in the world designing to take part in the
movement will meet In London to draft q
constitution for the confederation and to fix
the time and place for the holding of the
first council Of the united body.
The Mitchell Parade Abandoned.
The Mitchell parade has been abandoned.
A meeting will be held, when funeral
Grafton will be delivered.
The L0ngsh0remen's Strike.
The strike Of the longshoremen is gen.
eral
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-10
The Reaction Against Rome.


We shall be greatly mistaken if the Cath
oilcs OF this country do not discover before
Elk months that they have pushed their On
cr0achments too fast and tar, and will re-
ceive such backset as will make the driy-
eilng old man in the Vatican grind his teeth
with disappointment and rage. We have
recently made some quotations to show how
the Geghan bill is regarded by the press in
this State. In New York they have under
consideration proposition, pushed by the
CatnOilc priesthood, to Join the Catholic
ana common schools under the support of
the public fund. In other words, it is pro-
posed that the State shall pay for the main
tenance OF the Catholic schools a. part of
the public educational system. Is it not
almost Incredible that such monstrous
proposition as this should be boldly made in
a State like New York; But it is made clear
Iy and explicitly, and what is more might
succeed but for the prompt and un ~averinp
opposition OF the secular press. Even the
New YUrk X World, the leading Democratic
paper, stands aghast at such proposition
and denOhnces it as IAN attempt to prose,
lyte children at public expense" Here ia a
significant basis for a comparison. The
New YORK World, chief organ of the Democ
racy, printed in city where the Catbnl;cs
nave Tor years received fifteen sixteenths
OF all tht public money appropriated for
parocnlal schools, stands back and refuses
TO DOW 70 the papal decree as The Dem.
ocratic politicians Of Ohio have done. Dem
ocratlc as it is, the World is still American.
ana not!ye ready for an open alliance Of
tne state with the Jesuit Church. Even the
New York Herald, which has bugled con.
ssantiy Ior three years TO get cardinals
nat Tor Archbishop McCloskey, denounces
the attempt to fssten the Catholic schools
upon the treasury of the State. There mn.t
come Q reaction after all this arrogant and
reckless aggression. The State Of Oh;o !.
agood held to begin it ill., Clerelaad Leads-,