The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-09-21
GENERAL BRETITIES.

DTltlSn statesmen, enUered upon his
eighty-fifth year on Aug. Is. He has
been a Member of Parliament since
1913.
ROBERT LYTToN, viceroy of India.
rolled the other day with his horse 100
feet down a precipice, at the top of
which the animal SHE'D. He was not
hurt.
A SARATOGA correspondent wants 10
bet that there is more love made TO the
square inch at Saratoga, during the
season, than at any other place in the
country: EAh r#EF nv
GEORGE ADAMS, train wrecker, who
misplaced a rail on the Lake Shore
Road, has been held for the construct
i've murder of William L. Clemens, a
passenger. % ~ 81 OK az -
SISTER MARY LANCE, the first supe-
rioress Of the colored 0blate Sisters of
Providence, in Baltimore, still retains
that position, though over 80 years of
age. She is native OF Cuba ~ ~
JOHN MILLER, of Boston, has some
tough children. One fell on his head,
p feet, the other day, without being
hurt, and now another falls from the
top of four-story house, only break
ing an arm.
THE opium habit is said to be fear
fully on the increase in New York.
The practice is chiefly INDUCED in by
the ladies for the purpose of brighten
ing their eyes and giving ruddy ap-
pearance to their countenances.
JUDGE SARTwELL, of Smethport,
Pa, died recently while his son was en-
gagged in reading to him the details of
the death of Speaker Kerr. Without
any premonitory warning, he suddenly
exclaimed, "I'm going, too, y and sank
away almost instantly. Il
A NOTICEABLE feature of the Grand
Union Hotel at Saratoga is the paint
ing entitled, "The Genius of America, -
by Adolph WON, German. 1t is an
allegorical picture, containing 120
figures, many of which are Iife-size.
1t is said that Stewart paid 500 for
it, and, when he received it, could find
no place to put it except the ball room
of his hotel.
LIGHTNING played curious freak in
Stow, Mass, lately. Entering by the
ceiling aroom u feet square, where six
young women were seated about the
wall, it dropped ON the center of the
floor in a ball, and exploded with
loud report and volumes of sulphurous
smoke, but injuring nobody, not even
burning the carpet.
A SINGULAR gun accident recently
occurred at Pains-hill-houSe, near Cob |
ham, in England. The farm bailif,
Mr.. Heal, laid loaded gun on the top
of eOrn-bin in the stable, and to his
great surprise he heard it some time
afterward 90 off. The gun was fired
by fowl which got onthe trigger, and
the contents entered the face of an aged
man named Coils, who had been EN-
ployed on the estate for upward of sol
years. 81
A WOMAN got into Baltimore street.
car, took seat, and carefully exam |
ined a loaded revolver which she took |
from her pocket. Then she told the |
conductor to let her out at John New
ins's house. A friend of Nevins heard |
the remark, and, getting out of the car
ahead of her, ran into the endangered |
mans residence and warned him to fly. !
The woman was crazy, and she intend
ed to kill Nevins, against whom she |
bore a grudge.
THE proverbially long arm of justice
was felt by merchant of Hull, Eng |
land, who decamped with the pro-
ceeds of a forged note. His descrip- |
ton having been forwarded to all parts |
of the world, and f100 reward offered |
for his capture, Feejee Island detec- |
tive nailed his man, but could not keep |
him in prison for want of evidence. |
lie lodged him from island to island,
however, till the Hull authorities could |
send an officer who identified the officer
and took him to England.
Mr.. CHARLES JACKSON fell dead on |
the steps of his residence in San Fran |
cisco on the 2Sth ult few minutes be- |
fore the hour appointed for the we'd
ding of his daughter. Invited guests |
to the number of !, 1000 had gathered at
Grace Church, and were shocked by |
the sudden announcement of Mr.. Jack |
sons death and the consequent post |
ponement of the ceremony. The af- |
ficted family were well known in fash |
iona5le society. The intended BRIDE |
groom, Mr.. Payne Shafter, is gentle
man of influence and standing in that
community.
AT meeting of the London Aero
nautical Society on July 9Th, several
schemes were propounded for the con-
struction of flying machines, and one
gentleman, who expressed an opinion
that balloon sailing was game not
worth the candle, announced that he
had in preparation a machine to be
worked by thirty-horse power steam
engine, which should travel through
the air at the rate of 200 miles an hour
as safely as railway train. ...
AN item in the papers states the fact
that the Bank of England clips every
light sovereign it receives, and that one
machine weighs 5000 an hour. 1t does
not state the interesting fact that the
machine is an autOmaton, the sovereigns
being put in hopper like grist at a
mill The light ones drop on one side,
the full weight ones drop on the other,
and the machine never makes mis-
take. 1t is very simple. The fall
weight sovereign bears down a balance
so as to drop the coin on one side-the
light weight fails to bear it down, and
it falls on the other side. In 1875 the
bank weighed S22, 100000 worth of
coin, and rejected $4,000.
THE statement made in the English
papers that Joseph Pitman, who died
recently, was the last survivor of the
veterans who had charge of Napoleon
at st. Helena, was erroneous, as two
other survivors have already turned mp
John Ambrose, now 50, who lives in
Damerham Parish, near Salisbury, and
George Brown, now 50, who lives in
Wreeklesham Parish Brown enlisted
in the SiNty-siNth Regiment in 1910,
and was discharged in 1919. The last
two years of his service were passed in
St. Helena He often describes his
only interview with the Emperor, whom
he challenged one night when on sentry
duty at Longwood, in the garden which
the Emperor was crossing TO reach the
house of Marshal Bertrand. /
b. F. PEIXoTTo, the United States
Consul in RouDania, who has Just been
retired by the Congressional retrench-