The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-14
GENERAL BREyfTrEs.


A REJEcTEp negro lover in Virginia
City blew up the woman's house with
dynamite. .TEIF Tfrr .Tr
NEARLY all the steam lines and large
essels trading TO New Orleans are now
making their passages through the Jet
ties. -
CAPT. JOHN soCFHgoRfH, of DuS-
bury, Mass, IS years old, was baptized
and taken into the Methodist Church. a
few Sundays ago.
THEyGermau Government in Alsace
has relaxed its rigor so far as 10 allow
the engagement of a French company
for the Strasbourg Theater.
A HORSE that was being shod in
Poughkeepsie, reared suddenly, and
struck his head against beam with
such force that his neck was broken.
A SwEDE has invented dress, com
posed Of two sections of canvas filed
with water, which enables 4 man to
plunge for several minutes into flames
of fire. tE- - ---ls NJ
Ex-MAYoR ]. V. c. SMITH, of Bos-
ton, rather poetical person of an eccen-
trio turn, is building an open-front
tomb, with seats and a table, IN the
beer garden style -~-7 .---.--r
PROF! NVEsTBRooK,t temperance
speaker well known throughout Ohio,
got drunk after delivering a lecture at
and was killed.
SAN FRANCISCO now claims a popu-
lation of 272, 900, an increase the past
year Of about $4,000. This estimate
gives San Francisco rank with New
Orleans, Gineipnaii, Bsltimore and Bos-
ton.
THE statae'ef the Prince Consort, the
work of the late MIR. Foley, has. arrived
in Cambridge, England. It is of white
marble, and represents the Prince in his
robes as Chancellor Of the University.
A MAN. who tried to drown himself
by jumping from an excursion steamer
in Boston haFbor, Oh Friday, was so fat
that he couldn't sink, and The boat sent
for him found him floating like cork.
The society for the protection of life
from fire commenced its labors in Lon
don with only six escapes forty years
ago. 1t has now 136 escapes, and saved
al lives during the last ten years.
AN old apple tree at York, Maine,
which was Brought over from England
in a tub in 1929, was cut down theOther
day by its owner, because the people
trampled down his grass in going to
see it.
THE hair of a woman, nearly 80 years
of age, who died on Martha's Vine
yard, was wholly woven in with false
hair which had not been removed for
over 80 years, and was held in place
by $50 PIN. One article of her dress
was held together by sos pins, though
her bureaus contained 50 new dress
patterns, of all kinds and qualities,
some Of them being bought Ga years
ago, and one elegant brocade silk
could be traced back 200 years.
THE man who has sisters, says the
Edinburgh ladies yoarRGl, has a bet
ter opportunity of selecting wife than
the man who has none, but he is in nine
cases out of ten much more difficult TO
please. In daily contact with members
of the other sex, who display all their
little foibles before him, he is apt to
Judge his sisters friends by the same
standard wherewith he daily judges his
sisters-not a very logical method Of
procedure, but think not an unnat-
ural one. ~ .
A CURIOUS case of hereditary
birth-marks is reported in Kentucky.
For several generations the ancestors
of Mr.. Alfred McCrockin, of Spencer
County, have marked their hogs with a
cross and a slit in the ear. The same
stock has remained in the family
through the lapse of all these years,
and now the ear marks appear at the
birth of the piglings belonging to Mr..
McCrocklin. This saves him the trou-
bic of re-marking his hogs.
Mr.. RUsKIN, in recent number OF
Tors CldUigerd, gives his young Lady
readers some sensible advice respect
ing dress. Among other suggestions,
he says: "Your walking should
not touch the ground at ali. have
lost much of the faith l once had in the
common-sense and even in the person.
al delicacy of the present race of aver
AGE Englishwomen, by seeing how they
will allow their dresses to sweep the
streets, as it is the fashion TO be scav'
engers.n
MATTE STRICKLAND daughter o.
ex-Oongressman Strickland, of Mich
gam and Leo Miller, whose marriage
by an original rite attracted atten
ton year ago, send the following
communication TO the Chicago news
papers: edwin Miller-Strickland il
the name given to a son born to Lee
Miller and Matte Strickland, at Cast,
Rock, MINI. The new social Ordel
proposes to compound the terminating
surnames of the parents in their chill
dren, and perpetuate the name of tn,
mother Instead of the father. Ever
child would thus bear its fathers ant
mothers name, but in the next genera
tiont the fathef's name would b.
dropped. This arrangement is in har
mony with nature, and far more jus
than the present system