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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
Race for Life with a Locomotive.

A negro outran locomotive on the
high trestlework over the Chewalla
Greek last Sunday afternoon. He had
started to town by following the rail-
road track, and had walked on the tres
tie distance of about one hundred
yards when he was met by the outgo-
ing train for Montgomery. Instead of
getting down under the stringers, as he
might easily have done and been per-
fectly safe, he became frightened and
sought safety in fight. He had two or
three hundred yards the start of the
train, but he ran his hundred over the
crossties two or three feet apart and
forty feet high, and bounded off the
trestle and track about three feet ahead
of the engine. 1t was an exciting affair
to those who witnessed it.-Eutdula
(ALa.) Ne1CS.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
Female 0pium-Eating.

Celia Logan writes from New YORK
to the San Francisco Call: Among the
many faults which are constantly being
found in my sex is that of opium-eat-
ing. The New York papers, while res
olutely keeping silence on the ever
existing score of mans drunkenness,
are at present raising hue and cry
about opium-eating by women. Such
a habit can hardly have acquired
enough devotees to make it matter OF
alarm. AS regards women men never
seem to hit the right nail on the head.
If now the papers were to say that
arsenic-eating is fearfully prevalent IN
this city it would be nearer the mark
than opium-eatiug. The majority OF
fashionable ladies and scores of act
resses eat arsenic for their complex
ion. A few years ago cosmetics con-
tanning bismuth were in general use,
but were found not only to yellow the
skin until it became tawny, but created
sores and pimples, and were in short
highly dangerous preparations. what
was to be done? The family doctor on
being consulted about the unsightly
and Irritating pimples prescribed arsen-
ical blood-puriiers. The patient was
told to stop using the moment the eye
lids became puffy and she felt bloated;
but use doth breed a habit in a
woman. 1t was. pleasant to the taste, it
rounded out of the form, and beautited
the complexion, therefore the doses
were increased instead of diminished;
and so prevalent now is arsenic-eating
that any one able to recognize the pc
culiar look it gives can pick out its vic
TINS as they pass, and they are not few.
1t is said to create dropsy, and eventual
ly causes death. A very celebrated
actress, well known az Wallack's, is in
a terrible dilemma. A few years ago
she was a creatu with no flesh on her
bones, and an ugly muddy complexion,
both of which facts caused her serious
anxiety, as an actress's stock in trade
is her personal appearance. She ap-
piled to a doctor, who prescribed arsenic
in small quantities. For long time
she ate it without the desired result; at
length, however, her skin cleared, and
she grew plump; delighted, she con-
tinued, her skin finally became brilliant
white, and she-oh, horrors! fat, fatter,
fattestl Now this is her dilemma: She
can not give up the habit of years, nor
can she afford to become unwieldy with
flesh, for lachrymose sentiment and the
obesity suggestive of lager-beer are an
taOonistic.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
The Blessings Of WOman's Society.

All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions, and are stupid,
and have gross tastes, and revolt against
what is pure. Your club swaggerers,
who are sucking the butts of billiard
cues all night, call female society in
sipid. Poetry is as uninspiring to a
yokel; beauty has no charms for a
blind man; music does not please a
poor beast, who does not know one
tune from another; but, as true epi-
cure is hardly ever tired of water,
sauce, and brown bread and butter, l
protest can sit for a whole night talk
ing to a well-regulated, kindly woman
about her daughter Fanny or her boy
Frank, and like the evenings entertain
ment. One of the greatest benefits a
man can derive from woman's society
is that he is bound to be respectful to
her. The habit is of great good to
your morals, men, depend upon it. Our
education makes us the most eminently
selfish men in the world, and the great
est benefit that we have is to think of
somebody to whom we are bound to be
constantly attentive and respectful
ThdckerdY.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
Killed by Worms.

A young man living in the country
went to sleep the other day, just after
his nose had been bleeding, without
washing the blood off it. While he
slept it was bitten by flies, and short
time afterward it was found that screw
worms were devouring him. A skillful
physician from this city was summon
ed. When the physician arrived the
young man begged the family not to
tell what was the matter, but TO no
purpose. The doctor did all in his
power, but the worms had done their
work, and the young man died.-Bel-
tom TezGS) ReUteaC.
A singular demise took place Sunday.
Mr.. John Carter, a well-known hack
man, had been for some week or two
suffering with sub-acute Inflammation Of
the throat, palate and nasal bones.
Death occurred from suffocatios, when
it appeared that the tissu,s were full
Of the common screw-worm. The pa
tient had, before his death, imagined
that his head was full of the worms
mentioned, but his friends refused TO
believe him.-H0uStOn Cor. GGtgsSt0l
Nes0s.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
Three Deaths from Eating Poisonous
Fungi.

In the darkened rest room of Am
brose Cranes house three collins rest
side by side. In an adjoining room a
heart-broken woman walks necessarily
to and fro, moaning and wringing her
hands. The dwelling is a substantial
farmhouse in Connecticut Farms, near
Irvington, Union County, N. j. The
coffins contain the bodies ofMiss Emma
Baker, Miss Louisa Crane, and George
Melville. Miss Baker was most lovely
girl, 20 years of age, and the step
daughter of Mr.. Ira Skinner of Orange.
Miss Crane, SO years of age, was the
daughter of Mr.. Ambrose Crane, and
aunt of Miss Baker George Melville,
16 years old, worked on the place. The
watcher in the other room is the mother
of Miss Baker, and sister of Miss Crane.
Last Friday Mr.. Crane was called to
the West by business. Miss Crane re-
manned in the house with no one except
the boy, so she invited Miss Baker and
Miss Martha Pool of Newark to visit
her. On Monday the boy gathered what
he thought were mushrooms, but which
were in reality tOadstools, and they
were prepared for dinner. AS he had
gathered some a week before, of which
ne whole family had partaken, no
danger was thought of. The party
laughed at Miss Pool for her manifest
dislike of the dainty fungi. She ate a
small piece, but resolutely refused to
take more, though urged to do so. The
others partook plentifully, and after
dinner passed pleasant evening. The
effects of the poison were not felt until
late in the night, and then the boy and
two of the young ladies began to be sick.
No physician was summoned until the
following evening, when the symp-
toms of the illness of all four were of
most alarming nature. There
was in each case severe pain, vomiting
and violent retchings, and in all cases,
except Miss POOLS, swelling of various
portions of the body. On Tuesday
evening all, except Miss Pool, were in
terrible agony, and she, though very
sick herself, was obliged to care for
them, there being no one else in the
house. DR.. Jobs of Springfield applied
antidotes. On Thursday afternoon, at
4 O'Clock, Miss Baker died in the arms
of her mother, who had arrived just in
time to see her breathe her last. Miss
Crane died about midnight, and the boy
yesterday morning. Miss Pool has
been removed to her fathers house in
Newark and is still very i'll, though pro-
nounced by the physicians to be out of
danger.
1t is only within a year that mush-
rooms have been found in this part of
New Jersey, but now they are so plenti-
full that many persons gain livelihood
by gathering them for city markets.
Unfortunately, with the mushrooms
have sprung up poisonous toadstools
and other fungi unknown heretofore to
that region.-NesO York Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19

the following day Mr.. Forster himself
rode over to my fathers house to en-
treat Mr.. Travers, from whom he had
of late been estranged, to accept his
renewed friendship, and to ask for my
hand on behalf of his son. Oswald lost
his passage on board the homeward-
bound steamer that was to touch at
Point de Gale; and when he did visit
Europe, he took with him Ellen Travers
as his wife.
We have long been happily settled
far from tropic jungles and their dan
gerous habitants-but never has my
husband or myself forgotten those few
instants of bitter anguish and alarm
beside the Tank of MinarY. .
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
TIE CANE-BOTToMED CRALR.


bI TuACkERAT.
In the tattered old slippers that toast at the bars
And ragged old Jacket, perfamed with cigars
away from the world and its tolls and ils cares
i've asnug little kingdom up four pairs Of stairs.
To mount to this realm Is A toll, 20 be sure,
But the fire there is bright and the air rather
pure;
And the view behold on a sunsbiny day
Is grand, through ihechimney poise over the way.
This snug little chamber is crammed in all nooks
With worthless old knicknacks and silly old
And foolish old odds and foolish old ends.
Cracked bargains nom brokers'. cheap keep
sakes from friends.
Cd armor. prints, pictures. pipes, china ian
Ola riosety tables and chairs broken backed;
two penny treasury, wondr1us 70 see,
hhht matter: 'us pleasant % you, friend, and
me.
No better divan need the Sultan require.
Than the creat ing old sofa that backs by the fire
Ana us Wonderful, surely. what music YOU get
From The rickety, ramshackle. wheezy spinet.
That praying rug came from Turco name canp
BY Iiber once tsinSlcd Aiat braZen Old lamp;
mameluke tercc yonder cagger has drawn
It's murderous knife to toast mullins upon.
Long. long through The hours, and the night, and
Here We tan q foid books. and old frien Is, and
As We sit in a log made Of rich Latakie,
Ihis chamber is pleasant to You, friend, and me,
But Of all the cheap treasures that garnish nay
nest,
There's one that love and cherish the best;
For the finest 1f couches thats padded with hair
never woaid change thee, my cane bottomed
chair.
lis bandy-legged. high -shouldered. worm
eaten seat.
With creaking old back and twisted old feet,
bless thee and love thee, old cane bottomed
chair.
Ifchairs have butfeeling, IN holding such charms,
A thrill must have passed through your wither-
ing old arms;
looked and ionged I wished in despair;
] wished myself turned 70 n cane -bottomed chair.
II was but a moment she sat in this place;
She'd a scarf on her meek, aud smile on her face;
smile on her face, and rose in her hair,
As she sat there ana blooncd in my cane bot 4
toned chair.
And so have valued my chair ever since,
Like the shrine Of a SAINT or the throne Of a
prince;
Saint Fanny. my patroness, sweet declare, l !
] he queen Of ny heart and nay cane bOttOmed
chair.
When the candles burn low, and the company's |
gone,
In the silence Of night As I sit here alone
cit here alone, bat We yet are pair
My Fanny / see in my cane bottCmed chair.
She comes from the past and revisits my room;
She looks, as she then did, all beauty and bloom;
So smiling and tender, so fresh and 80 fair;
AND yonder she sits IN my cane bottomed chair. I
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19

The Rev. J. B. NJ. Genin, Catho-
lie priest who has for ten years been a
with the Sioux, writes to the
Boston Pilot about Sitting-Bull, whom
he represents as ga quiet, sober, kind
man, but courageous, and always ready
to sacrifice his life for the sake of his
tribe and family" Father Genin de-
fes any body to prove that Sitting-Bull
ever did any mischief to man or beast,
and declares that the killing of Custer
was not a massacre, but an incident of
honorable warfare.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19

THE New York Police Department
now stations policeman at each depot
and ferry landing on purpose to answer
questions propounded by strangers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19
An exchange tells touching story OF

AN exchange tells touching story of
a tramp who, after being supplied with
some 'scold vittles," surprised the lady
of the house by calling for sheet Of
writing-paper, pen and ink. This be-
ing brought to him, he beautifed the
sheet of paper with an elegant design
in ornamental penmanship, and in the
center he inscribed in clear, bold, leg
ible and handsome style, "God Bless
Your Home.n
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-19

and was soon in the saddle, pacing leis-
urely before us on his way to the mosque.
He had on brown mantle, between the
folds of which shUne the rich gold of
his uniform, sparkling with diamonds.
On his head he wore the plainest fez,
without aigrette or any other ornament.
He was barely at two yards distance
from me, and | could note every feature
of his face-a long, narrow head, a
stern, resolute expression, indicative of
energy, intelligence, an earnesa and not
very placaple disposition. seemed 10
me the countenance of a ruler capable
OF much good or much evil, but know
ing his own mind, and determined to
have his own will. Then there was an
, 1876-02-10
LETTER FROM LORD DUNRAyEN.


nHEvoonr NouaE FIFTH AVENUE, New YonK,
Feb. G.-To The Editor Of The W0rtd: by your
laBuo Of Saturday last perceive that spent tho
prcvioua ovoning ht I;ooth's Thoatre, but uucsB
mn grinyonslv lnAtakou - to my own Meutity
and the position Of uY body ia space. was l1s-
tontbg to tho excellent performance OF the Ban
FRANCISCO M,nRtto1B during tho honrB supposed
to hnvo bocu devoted to Julius Crsar," Ac-
posarios. hnyo also. since my arrival in New
York elopol With young lady, danced at achar-
ttg ball, dined out, boon present ut nj evening
reception. and lain concealed somewhere lnys-
wnio at tho sasno timo vas to the best Of nlY
own be'iot. lying i'll In bod 1T the Ercvoort
House,
An Irish membor Of tho l}ritfah IIouse Of Cou,-
mons In said to hnvs ones remarked that a tnAn
could not bo IN two places at ouce, barring l,e
was bird. This occurred Bomo time ago aud
the world moves fast. AZ present Il appears TO-
DO only ncceeBary TO rosdo iiudar tho shallow NJ
:he "ings Of tho American Eaelo to acquire
from that magnauimons bird the faculty OF be-
ink not in two but III many placca a. QUO anu tho
Ban,o time. This gilt Of HbiquiiY mny DO losif-
able. bat It is inconrenlent TIL onn gcts scc''a.
tomed to to it, 3.;tota % are getting rathes ts mixed
shall bc compelled 10 hiro "A man
to tell mo who I nm, whoro I am, md
what particular commandment AN at any
gwen mon,cnt brcahiur. 1twould not 10 easy
place, for he would have 10 bo Intelligent, wolf
informed, religious, aud "rcable;" but no
doubt I might eventually procure such MI ono
from the ranks OF tho news pnrvoyors to tho
publie prcsB Of this city. In the meantime
should bo glad to avail myself Of your columns
10 nssnro my friends aud Aeluaintancns. who
1aaY hayo boeu startled by these reports, that
hayo left uudono ntI those things I havo doue,
and have dono all thoHo things lnvo not done; i;
and also to inform them tbRt an never to b.
found where ntn, Lut may ho successfully
sought Tor wherc Rm not. Your obcdicut sos-
want, DuSnAyEN.
, 1876-02-10
nsne boards at about g Inches with, nhttod
inches apart to nprigi,ta. Three Of tho boards

n!na boards Of about g Inches wilth natlod
inches apart to nprg'ita. Three Of tho boards
nrc bssiot to tho top part of tho transverAo
, brace tn.s prolGcs,' "sor Tho other s'x boards.
Ihs octest Of o., t'.a e. toneca l. to deIleet the
al!pposel always r'acoh In straight lines raral-
inl 70 the track. Int hro fnbgel In AngloA of ny.
ery degree OF I'm creAccnt nhhres. tho board
side facos tie wdl!d. thu snow " driven through
tho openings ir! the fcnco, hnt Immediately falls
to ths grouid tsie force Of tin snow being rom
rlotoly chock eli by The fence. Tho result In,
lingo drifts gradually accumulate. and, what
nrtnarH most singular 10 tflo caauAl obacrvrr,
always on sas wrong nlde Of the fence, that IL,
tho side e!r'satt 10 lo railroad. TEIn fences arc
afott itht tigit eVilon tito drift nearly roact,cs
TITO height nf thu fence II Ia dug np and planted
again. hut f'lis tims on the kpax of tho DRIFT,
winch ~ thls Limo ',Aa probably s)iawod snf-
nro informed by soction.,nan that nlsonity
Rinoo tx commencement Of tho HIofm aotuo uf
tho tcroea have eon rnfhed tllree times. ntl,l 10
fnrth1E added HAT II 1t was not for tho ioncea II
would bo tmpohaibto to keep tho road open.
There aro sometimes an many ~ > Of miles o.
fence In noary parallel iinoe. 40 or 80 toet aphrt.
The two powerful cNginos will, TIN blg sllow-
pios*, dashed asong without cncouh.orn9 arr
Aertous Obstacle 10 their proGrnss.
At WAyltAKEE
THO Bnow waa from 10 feet over the track,
aid two freight tra,na had boon detained horo
n!ready fosty-elght hours. A gang OF Chlnameu
had almost dng them out When tho snow-pluw
came along. Tho Chtuan,an all wuro Arcsica. a
tnnncl-lsncd lndta-rubber oversh0c, nnd had
thoir hea1s bound up 10 woolen muflorB, with
conta and gloves on, and aoma even protected
thoir eyoH from tho suu-ro!lecting crystaiB with
gtcan goggles Whom tue anow-plow plunged
intn o drift. Q cloud Of Hnow, broa1enod by thu
wido-o1 tohdlng wings OF Tho plow, would bo
thrown high lii tho air, tho bulk OF which would
fall IN BratB oa either slo OF tho road, hut tho
onenes gid not escape from receiving their
, 1876-02-10
THE BLACK HILLS.


4kHHtaGVlOENu
Al Old cisizau, Mr. Potter Mckay, is In tho
Black Hills. und gives tho Cheyenne Leader tho
following roault Of an Interview:
Custer City NOW numbers forty houses md
now ones aro daily going up. llillyu. where
tho1c was not 10 much as ; foundation
on Tho 9Th of JanuAty, numbered thilty
finished houses on the I'D mid thore were logss
ready on tho last named dato. Int for tho fact
that larBo numbers OF peo ple nIe waiting for the
arrival ot sawmisls, tho number Of houses "
would DO @uch sfGa.sr. .n ,iiIIs ihere asS f1y lo@
riyais number from twenty-five to
100 FOR day. nearly all from Cheyenne.
Mout OF tho men st0 ID tho immodiata vicinity OF
Custer anil lillyo, Mr. Mckay thinks that these
tho principal town of tho ffifa will evuntuaify bo
built on tho northwest biope. noar the Iron
Crcui; md Lear Lodge districts, which tase not
been prospectct much yet, but gtro indications Of
proving TO b. tho richest district In tie roion.
Alr, Mckhy states that he Las taken pains to
asccrta1u why. With 10 much talk about the ficl.-
noss Of tl,a now ninca. 80 little gold haB bean
tually taken out, aud ho tlsais Il duo to tho
fact that tho n,lle1a now in tho HILLS have baun
rushing hithez and thsher, fairly dazod by tha
daily rucstrug reports Of nav discoveries over
on Inc uoxt creek," aud that tho real work
has not vet begun on this account, allhough
there haS0 boou no poor'paysng rEcspects
reported " yot. Every 1nan ha met was eatia-
tpa aud happy, Ard old gutch minors iroa tho
Pacific slope expressed themselves 70 tho effect
TINT Tho country axs good enough for them, and
that thcy proposed to stay sigLt there. Ho
brought with him very line tamptes Of dust aud
wood aud Wh.tewaod Creeks, which. though
very dark In color, u 1uu, being worth e2i per
Oltcc.
Mckay copsido,s tbe Country tho hnest he
over aaa-a posfcct paradise, 70 use hia own
| lauru1ge-unl proposes returning nj once,
taking hia VITO and family With him. Hs Rts1cs
that thera " no H,,er Lumbar region In tho wl.os
| country, thp treoa hslug ftora to feet ~
diameter, the forests Of vast oxtcnt, anu eAsy ot
| accose for Yaw-milss. Common lumber ran he
! sold a. so per Thousand with big profit to tl's
| snilt-ulal,.
Pleasant weather prevailed Nh 10 Jan. IL
ghen light tnow te!' slnco which tle weather
! tElp In thtae DAYS With horse tsam, and ha<i
| no bad weather until reaching ths North Platte,
| vnap . apysks xipdr2toEm vss u xperiancod.
, 1876-02-10
COAL.
Tho Anthracite Mines stop Work.
Ftf&Y Thousand t1cn Thrown Out Of
Employment.

Tho Anthracite Mines stop Work.
Eif&Y TilDnxnnd 11cn Thrown Out uf
Employment.
Se,c snrt Hn,'d, tsb. :.
Tho coal eompsntoH, ath conference i,el1 ro-
equity In Exchange place. unanimously cnn-
cluded to stop work at the H,l.es throughout the
wlolo anthracite coal rngi0n in lonnsylvania,
aud TO suspend the fuFthor transportation Of
coal until bfaich II. Several of Tho compa-
MICA lad suspended operations en,y In the
wook, wh!lo tho rest tshued thvir orlnrs Hh.ur.
day night In accordance with tho resolution
adopted at tlie conference. Tho reason aaslHned
for tho total BuBpohaion Of mining and sranspor-
tation H. that, In consequence Of the Unusually =
ready iu the marriott 10 supply all the demund
that Ia ltkoly 10 DO made fur tito remainder OF
this month, and almost i.aif through rho nontI,
OF March. President Btoan, OF ths UefnHaro.
Lackawanna Il Westorn Railroad Company. paid
that tho object was not TT aoy scnso L, raso tte
prloe Of coai, a. that was liked for tho present
at lehst, but amply boca,tso tloro was ooough
coal already on hand 10 Eupnly ANY demand likely
to nriae. He said that tho 1cnnsslvansn Comra-
ny had susponded operations nearly q week ago,
Tho different machlne hhops along the lina Of tho
Heading railroad Company and owned by thom
had already stopped work. The Delaware, Lhck-
awannn t. Western Ksitroad Company l,ni hlso
suspended work III all their Stops. aa we'll 81 at
70 do thorcpatrins work for thepaHscnger trains.
Tho chops niong the dtv'hionR Of the Morris It
Essex Ilosd, nt 1Ioboken, Scranton, aud a!sc-
where, bad elao boon ordered to clo8o for
tho rest Of Tho month. At least. Tho Company
OF Which Lo WINS President had their tnlues in
scrautou mud III the Lockawanna Valley gener-
ally. and ho supposed employed about o. COZ men.
Tho suaponsion wou,d infect tho Leligll Valloy,
the Wyoming and schuyldll regIona generally,
whore the Now Jorsey Central, tho Wllkesha1ra
Coal Company, 1.ohigh Conf t. Navigation Com
pauy, tho Philadelphia 4 Reading Coal Com
panv, tto Delaware t. Hudson Canal Company,
tae Ponnsvlvanla Nailsoasl Company, md tho
Heading Company all held urge number Of
ncres and worked many mtnoB. hIr. Hloan
thought that, by this Buspenslon 10, Uoo mon
would bo thrown out Of employment.
SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. C.--To-norrow morning
tho i've weeks Suspension Of labor at the mines,
ordered by tho combined companies at their
recent meeting In New York. takes OBJECT
throughout tho anthracite coal tiolds Of Ponnayl-
vnnia, throwing 10000 men and boys ont Of en-.
ployucot. Tho outlook Is not regarded very
seriously In thia region, as tho short soaaon OF
rost Ia expected to bo followed BY one OF uu-
uHnAl activity. It ia expected tho suspension
will have tho of7act Of clearing sh0 oynr-crowdcd
conl-yarlla at wttcr-tide and making room, for q
good spring trade. There Ia large number Of
tho poor class who will certainty DO plnchcl by
tho five wecks OF onforccd tdloncEs upon which
they enter tomorrow. but no uoriouB couso.
QuenceH arc ApprcheudeJ,
, 1876-02-10

who wAs IN II, nttnost fainslng condition, wedged
noar tho wall hy score OF moro people, gaBIMd
dcspatrtnG1., My baby! my bany!" In m in.
stsns the crowd strreh back firm, her, And nno
Bank t" tho sidewalk s'sl wtt Picked mp by kind
" hands. Az slo waa borno away aoroaa tho
strect she kept rhneS!ng for hor einld. which
had oen torn from l1or arms In the rush Of tho
huhdkeda " offoct 40 entrance tn tho building.
Whnthor aho recovered her infant or not mp 10 o
rcavoment, however furnished \ topic nf gen.
otAl comGlont In tho house boforo the comulsuce-
nuut Ut tIle Bet,icra.