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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
ga Substantial Neal"

A few days ago a gentleman was ap-
piled to by a tramp for employment.
The applicant said he could do any
thing, from editing a newspaper to con-
ducting a grand opera. He was also an
accomplished stenographer, and he eN-
hibited letters from various distinguish
ed persons commencing him to the good
offices of all admirers of transcendent
genius. Like most geniuses he was
needy. His paper collar, world too
large, had been so often pin-perforated
that one side refused longer to do duty
and persisted in tickling his left ear.
His pants were badly frayed at the bot
toms, and his shoes could only be call
ed shoes by the furthest stretch of cOur-
tesy. His coat-sleeves were much too
short, and his face bore marks of actual
want.
"Surely,n thought the gentleman,
'' this man is in need" and while he
scanned him furtively, the poor fellow
evidently OWNED his thoughts, and a
blush mounted to the very roots of his
hair.
81 have no employment for you,"
Stliu lHt DcullcHldus Dit Adiit hC hCSA-
tated nervouSly under the appalling look
of the tramp have you had any thing
to eat?n
Tears sprang into his eyes as the unss
fortunate replied:
"Not to-day, sir, nor yesterday, and
| have walked from Chatham to De-
troit," glancing down at his wretched
shoes and soiled and ragged garments.
"Gad's mercy" gasped the other,
"say no more" And seating himself
at his table he wrote the following and
handed it to the fOrlOrn creature:
MESSRS. GILMAN Bros: Please let the
bearer (Mr. y have good substantial
meal, and charge TO my account. --.
He handed the order over and the re-
cipient departed in hot haste. Nothing
more was seen of him, but on Saturday
the gentleman who gave the order hap
pened in at Messrs. Gillman's and asked
for the bill.
The half-dOzen walters who were
standing in the Office grinned sardOnical-
" as the cashier handed out the follow
ing:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
Nothing TO Live For.

a negro planter came to Vicksburg
the other day, sold his cotton, put his
money in his pocket-book and started
down the river. Leaning too far over
the guards, as the boat backed out, he
fell overheard. His porte-monnaie,
which was in his side-pocket, floated
out and rode with his hat on the sur
face of the water, while the current
carried the negro away. The yawl was
lowered, and assistance at once started
towards the drowning man, who, per-
ceiving his treasure floating off, raised
his voice and shouted:
"Save dat pocket-boo6!n
His head went under and he disap-
peared. As he rose up again, he
gaSped:
"Dar'S S11S in dat pocket-bOok!'' ~
Scarcely had he uttered the words
before he sank a second time.
The yawl came within reach just in
time to rescue the drowning African as
he came to the surface for the last time.
As soon as the water was wiped from
his nose and mouth so that he could
see and speak, he asked:
Did-did you save dat pocket
book?"
"No!" was the response.
"Well, den,' said the negro regret
fully, "what de debbil was de use OBJ
savin' me? ?"- FicbSburg Herald.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
Living Thirty Years in Hole in the
Ground.

Polly Bancroft, an eccentric old wO-
man, who was extensively known
through East Windsor, Enfield, Broad
brook and other places on the east side
of the river from the fact that she has
lived a hermit's life for nearly half
century, was found dead the other day
in her hut. For thirty years she lived
in a excavation scoOped out in hill
side, and positively refused to receive
any aid from her relatives or 90 to the
town house.
Finally the town, in annual meeting,
voted to lease a small site and to erect
a hut for her, and shortly afterward she
moved into her new quarters, located
in tract covered with sand and pine
trees, lying few rods back from the
road running from BrOadbrOOk to
Warehouse Point. Here she lived
in comparative comfort, the
town authorities supplying her at
intervals with provisions and fuel.
Visitors from all around the ajOin-
ing country also called upon her as a
curiosity, and many of them gave her
articles of food and money. Up to
within few years she used to journey
around from place to place fantastical-
ly attired, and wearing mems clothing
if that of her sex was scarce, and on
one occasion she was taken in charge
by the police of Hartford to protect her
from crowd of street gamins. The
reason of her partial insanity is not
known, and among those who were ac-
quainted with her she was mainly known
as "Odd" and always harmless. Her
father formerly owned quite large pro-
perty in East Windsor, but on his death
there was little provision left for the
children, three of whom, two brothers
and a sister, now live in the vicinity Of
the old homestead, and are far adj
vanced in years. The deceased sell
dom visited them, and seemed to have
little regard for them except as stran-
gers.
1t is more than probable that death
resulted from old age and wearing out
of the system, as she had not known i'll
ness recently. When preparing the body
for interment by the town it was found
covered with layer upon layer Of rags,
the remnants of clothing she had put on
from time to time and never removed,
and in this mass of rags were foBnd
nearly 100 small bags and pockets tied
up with strings, and in which were
nickel and copper coins and scrip, ag-
gregating S22.11.
None of the coin or scrip were Of re-
cent issue, and it was probably given to
her in the past when she was off on her
begging tours. Deceased was never
married, and was seventy-three years Of
age at the time of her death. Near her
hut was found a grave which she had
dug with stick or other rude imple-
ment. 1t is presumed that she knew
that her death was near, and desired,
eccentric as she was, to prepare her
final resting place. The body, how
ever, was buried in the paupeF lot in
the cemetery.-Hartford Conn Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

wealthy parents. Two suitors sought
her hand-one was fashionable young
man, the other the plumbers appren-
tice, who, while visiting her fathers
lordly mansion to thaw out the water
pipes, saw and loved the beauteous ap-
partition. He preferred his suit in a
blunt, manly style, told her that his time
would soon be out, and showed her how
the bills were made out to meet her OBJ
lection as to his lack of fortune. The
naughty and infatuated girl rejected his
suit, and married the handsome young
man, with whom she set up housekeep-
ing in the costly mansion on Ashland
Avenue. Wonderful are the alternatives
of fortune! The plumber rose steadily
became wealthy, and purchased the
family mansion when the young hus-
band was compelled, through going
short on No. spring at an inopportune
moment, to sell out his property. The
young husband took to drink, and final
ly was buried in pauper's grave, and
last evening his starving widow asked
and received aims on the doorstep of a
house formerly her own from the hands
of her discarded plumber-lover, now its
owner and millionaire. (SlOw cur
tain. .)-Ckica1O Tribune
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
Important Results of Recent Excaya.
tiOns in Rome.

The lovers of antiquity, says the
Rome correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, have constant food for study in
the many relics of ancient Rome which
are almost daily brought to light in the
excavations carried on, not only by the
general and city Governments, but by
private societies and individuals.
Among the latter is Mr.. Parker, at the
head of the English Archaeological So
ciety, who has the reputation of being
thoroughly acquainted with the tOpOg
raphy of old Rome. At his own eX-
pense he carries on excavations in
great many different parts of the city,
and has already expended quite for
tune in this way. Some of his lahors
have been crowned with great success,
and it was he who discovered an en-
trance from the Mamertine prison into
the CatacombS which had for years been
lost sight of.
A private society digging near the
ancient Porta Maggiore has lately made
some most interesting discoveries. In
the last century, one or two colombian
found here already pointed it out as the
site of an old cemetery, but for many
years the work has been discontinued,
and now, taken up again, it is rich, not
only in an archaeological but in an artis-
tic point of view. Altogether, up to the
present time, twelve cOlOmbari have
been discovered, besides quite a number
of skeletons, showing that both meth
Ods of burial were practiced.
rT,,ro of tho aplnn, ha ara Df aznnaial
interest. One of them, from the inscrip-
tions, is shown to have belonged to the
wealthy family Statilia, one of whose
members, at his own expense, construct
ed an amphitheatre in Campus Martius.
The internal walls of the other one are
covered with a series of freScOes, repre-
senting the early NEUROLOGICAL history
of Rome; the arrival of Eneas on the
shore of LaziO; his wars and peace with
the inhabitants; the foundation of the
city of Lavinia; the abandonment in
the Tiber of Romulus and Remus; their
finding and growth. One picture of
Remulus, as a young shepherd leading
his sheep, is very beautiful, and the
whole series has been pronounced by
artists, who have visited them, to be of
very advanced stage of art. They are
considerbly defaced by exposure to
damp air, and as soon as possible they
will be detached from the walls and
transferred to more protected place.
Around the room are shelves, contain
ing earthenware vases, some of them
perfectly fresh and new, with the ashes
OF the dead. The various objects found
in these tombs, consisting of female or
naments, and articles of daily use, lach-
rymal glasses, small cinerary urns and
some busts, had been placed for pro
lection in small house near by, togeth-
er with some skeletons in their stone
sarcophagi. The society is very anx-
ious to sell this collection to the Govern
ment, provided they can get their price
for it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
StOning a Jew 10 Death in Persia.

The details of the recent terrible
murder of a Jew in Hamadan (Ekbat-
ana of the ancients), in Persia, have
been received. A wealthy Persian owed
large sum of money to the Rabbi Cha
jim, who asked the Persian to repay
him one day when they chanced to meet
in baZar A quarrel ensued. and the
crowd which had collected asked the
Persian what the cause of the trouble
was. He determined to get rid Of his
creditor, and, turning to the crowd,
said: If this man had merely insulted
me | should have kept silent, but he has
abused our religion and blasphemed the
prophets. | cannot keep silent" The
crowd fell upon the Rabbi and threat
ened to Kill him. He took refuge in the
neighboring house of rich Persian, to
whom he appealed for protection. The
latter concealed the Jew in an inner
room and barred the doors of the house.
The crowd demanded his surrender
The noble Persian refused, and the
doors were broken down. The laWless
rabble poured in, found the fugitive,
dragged him into the street, and stoned
him to death. The dead body was
dragged about the town with jeers, and
finally brought into the market-place,
where the mouth was filled with pow
der and the head was blown to pieces.
A fire was then kindled and the corpse
was burned up. Four Jews, who had
fallen into the hands of the mob, were
ill-treated and severely wounded. The
dwellings of the Israelites were plum
dered, and a general massacre of all the
Jews-and Christians likewise-would
have followed, had not the authorities
interviewed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
Sunset and Sunrise

The sun sets on some retired mead
ows where no house is visible, with all
the glory it lavishes on the cities, and
perchance, as it has never set before
where there is but solitary marsh hawk
to have his wings gilded by it, or only
a musquash looks out from his cabin,
and there is only some little black VEIN
ed brook in the midst of the marsh,
Just beginning to meander, winding
slowly around decaying stump. We
walked in so pure and bright a light,
gliding the withered grass and leaves,
so soft and serenely bright, | thought |
had never bathed in such golden flood,
without a ripple or murmur init. The
west side of every wood and rising
ground cleaned like the boundary of
elysium, and the sun on our backs
seemed like gentle herdsman driving
us home at evening. SO we saunter
toward the Holy land, till one day the
sun shall shine more brightly than ever
he had done; shall perehance shine IN
to our minds and hearts, and light up
our minds and with a great awakening
light, as warm and serene and golden
as on bankside in summer.-Ihoreau.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
A Convincing Argument.

On an incoming train Saturday on a
Western railroad some passengers were
sitting together in the palace-car and
discussing the Bremerhaven explosion,
whence they naturally digressed to the
carriage of explosives. One man con-
tended that it was impossible to prevent
or detect this-if people weren't allow
ed to ship nitro-glycerine or dynamite
legitimately they'd smuggle it through
in their baggage. This assertion was
contradicted emphatically, and the pas
senger was laughed at, flouted and ig-
ANONYMOUSLY put to scOrn. Rising up in
his wrath he drew a capaciOus leather
valise from under the seat and, slap
ping it emphatically, on the cover said
80, you think they don't Ell? You're
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
And Such Is Life..-in Chicago.

Yesterday evening a pale, thin wO-
man, meanly clad, was seen shivering
on the doorstep of fashionable man
sion on Ashland Avenue. Her whole
appearance betokened poverty and mis-
cry. The master of the house, COM
paratively young man, clad in costly
fur overcoat, ran up the steps at the
same moment and gave the poor crea-
ture a quarter, which she received with
profuse manifestations of gratitude. 1t
seems romantic, but it is a fact, that
eleven years ago that young woman
lived in the same mansion, the beautiful,
accomplished, and idolized daughter Of
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

YOUNG man, this is the year when
your indiscretions, your slips of vanity,
viii come home to roost upon your
empty head. This is the year when the
young women you used to wink at and
smile upon in the street will like sun
beams pass you by, and the ancient or
der of females will appropriate to them
selves the pleasure of coming down
upon YOU in payment for all the an
necessary sweetness you have wasted
on their sex. Do you look out. Look
not upon the female nose when it is red ;
do not suffer yourself to be approached
by bald head covered with millinery
Hereafter carry yourself straight and
don't annoy the girls. Have nothing to
do with any maiden, no matter if she is
your own great-grandmother. In total
abstinence only lies safety. Inter
Ocean.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

playing me for sucker, are you? Don't
carry explosives in ears? What's this ?''
and he gave the valise a resounding
thump. ''Thar's 200 good dynamite
cartridges in that ar valise; 60 pounds
of the deadly material; enough TO blow
this ere train and the whole township
from Cook County to Chimborazo.
Thar's dynamite enough" he eontin-
ued, but he was without an auditor, for
the passengers had fled incontinently,
and he could have sat down on twenty
two seats if he had wanted to- And the
respectful way in which the baggage
men on the outgoing trains in the even
inc handled the trunks and valises was
pleasant and unusual for to see.-Chi-
c11O Tribune
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
A PerilOUS Nightmare.

Last evening, says the San Jose (Cal.)
Patriot, a robust and gentlemanly look
ing stranger arrived at the New York
Exchange. His life has been an event
full one, including many passages at
arms with border ruffians, his business
for many years being that of a thief
taker. Previous to entering the Ex-
change he took couple of drinks Soon
after seating himself near the stove he
dropped off into a troubled sleep. One
by one the guests retired, and yet he
slumbered. 1t being near midnight,
the watchman of the hotel concluded to
awaken the sleeper and show him up to
his room. He stole to the strangers
side, grasped him by the shoulders, and
announced that it was time to 90 to bed.
In a moment the slumberer awoke and
bounded upon him, with the exclama-
ton: 81 will run this ranch!" For
tunately Officer Ferrington entered at
that instant, and joined in the struggle,
which for some minutes was terrific.
They had great difficulty in preventing
the stranger from securing a pistol
which was in his belt. Ferrington final
ly got a chance TO sound his whistle,
bringing officer Pritchard to the scene.
About this time a change came over the
stranger, and looking up, he exclaimed,
as if puzzled: sis it possible that l am
drunk or dreaming? Where am I?"
Then seeming to take it all in at glance,
he asked if those around him were
officers. Being answered in the affirma-
tive he accompanied them without fur
ther resistance. Upon arriving at the
City Hall he gave brief synopsis of
his life, and said that at the time hewas
clapped on the shoulder by the watch
man of the hotel he was in the midst of
a terrible nightmare, in which he fan
cied himself surrounded and attacked in
a Kansas bar-rOom; that he was not
really awake until after the second pO-
hceman arrived. All hands were salts
fed with the truth of the story and con-
graduated themselves that the conse-
quenceS were not more serious.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13
SUNSET on THE BEARCAAP.
BY JOIN G. wHrrrIER

By JOHN G. WHITTIER.
A gold fringe on the purpling hem
OF bills the river runs,
As down its long, green valleys fails
The last Of summers suns.
Along its twany gravel bed
Broad flowing, swift, and still,
As If it, meadow levels feit
The hurry Of the hill.
Noiseless between its banks Of green
From curve to curve II slips;
The drowsy maple shadows rest
Like fingers on its lips.
A waif from Csrroll's widest hills.
Unstoriei and unknown;
The ursine legend OF its name
Prowls on its banks alone
Yet flowers as fair It's slopes adorn
As ever GarrOw knew
Or, under rainy, Irish skies,
BY Spenser's Mulla grew;
Ana through the gaps Of leaning trees
Its mountain cradle shows;
The gold against the amethyst,
The green against the rose.
Touched by a light that hath no name,
\ glory never sung,
AlOft on sky and mountain wall
Are Gods great pictures hung.
How changed the submits vast and old!
No longer granite -brOwed,
They melt in rosy mist: the rock
ls softer than the cloud;
The valley holds its breath; no leaf
Ofall lis elns is twrled:
The silence OF eternity
Seems falling on the world.
The pause before the breaking seals
OF mystery il this
YOn miracle play Of night and day
Makes dumb its witnesses.
What unseen altar crowns the hills
That reach up stair on stair?
What eyes look through, what white wings fal
These purple walls Of air;
What Presence from the heavenly heights
To those Of earth stoops down:
Not vainly Hellas dreamed Of gods
On lda's snowy crown!
Slow fades the vision Of the sky,
The golden water pules,
And over all the valley land
gray inged vapOr sails.
go the common way OF all;
The sunset fires will burn,
The fires will blow, the river flow,
When no more return.
No whisper from the mountain pine
Nor tapping stream shall tell
The stranger, treadlng where | tread,
OF him who loved them we'll.
But beauty seen is never lost,
Gods colors all are fast;
The glory of this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed
a sense Of gladness unconiined
To mortal date or cline,
AS the soul liveth, il shall live
Beyond the years OF time.
Beside the mystic asphodels
Shall bloom the home born flowers.
And new horizons flu,h and glow
With sunset hues Ol ours.
Farewell! These smilng hills must wear
Too soon their wintry frOwn,
And snow cold winds from on them shake
The naples red leaves down.
But shall see a summer sun
still setting broad and low;
The mountain slopes shall blush and bloom
The golden water 1ow.
A lovers claim is mine on all
] see to have and hold
The rose-light Of perpetual hills,
And sunsets never cold!
-AtiaHtic Monthly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

A HANDSOME young lady, whose
mirthfulness in a car on the Cincinnati
train yesterday morning attracted the
attention of friends and elected remark,
stated by way of apology that she was
on her way to attend the funeral of an
aunt whom she dearly loved, and if she
didn't laugh why she'd have to cry
Dayton Democrat.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

"Wen," said the gentleman, "a man
who could accomplish that feat at a sim
gle sitting undoubtedly needed a little
lunch, and with slight but yet per-
ceptible vince here's your money. y
UetrOI Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

How many business men are there in
the world-earnest, plodding, but un-
fortunate fellow-creatures- 90
about their work day after day, without
ever seeming TO know that the Bible
contains the word advertise ~
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-13

II Is A letter that should not travel.
Why? Because you never ought to take
it away from home.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-06-08
No Scarcity of Money-in Banks.

Below we give the amounts of money
now on deposit in the several National
Banks in the Lehigh Valley. This does
not include the Savings Banks, which do
not publish their statements which would
probably swell the total amount to $3,000,
600! As will be seen that the aggregate
amount of money lying idle is very large.
and is the surest indication of dull times :
Al!entowon National Bank $40, ,4l9 50
do. demand certificates Of deposit 406, ,497 81
First National Bank of Allentown, l43, 10 81
do. demand certificates of deposit, $500 so
Second Natl Bank of Allentown, G0,Sl5 II
National Bank of Catasauqua, 1887 81
do demand certificates Of deposit, 100, 1913 2S
Easton National Bank, 42l, ,S07 II
First National Bank of Easton, 335, ,l64 &c
National Bank of Slatington, 22,024 03
do demand certificates of deposit, II, ,968 IS
First Natl Bank Mauch Chunk, 393, ,401 II
Second g q 159, ,929 So
First Natl Bank of Lehighton, 26,lO9 81
Total. $2,692, ,798 81
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-06-08

THE Democratic boomerang, in the hands
of Hester Clymer, is creating rather more
doplorabe results in the ranks of It's own
party gods, than it did among Republicans.
1t did an excellent thing in exposing the
rascality of Secretary Belknap. which would
have been more excellent still if it had not
been handled 50 bungIing as to leave room
for doubt whether the place broker Secretary
will not escape punishment for his misdeeds
It did another excellent thing, not intentional
to be sure, but excellent nevertheless. 1t
brought Gentleman Geo. S. & Pendleton' 5
Treasury grab of a cool $l4O, 900 to the fore,
and more recently a little dive at commits
sion brokerage, on the part Of that sanity
Democratic magnate, Speaker Kerr, and
revealed even his price, which was $3.50 to
secure a 2nd Lieutenancy in the Army We
do not see that our distinguished neighbor
over the way" has made note Of the
boomerang effect on either of these earnestly
Democratic transactions. Supposing he
should, for a time lay aside his speculations
on Cabinet appointments, which amount to
nothing, and give us his notion of Democratic
treasury grabbing aud commission brokerage,
both rs a political virtue and a source Of profit
TO the saints Of the party. Such an essay
on his part could not fail to prove profitable
TO the party and source Of delectation to
the general public.