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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
An AudaciOus Bank-RObbery.

From parties who were in the city
yesterday we gather the particulars of
a daring robbery perpetrated on the
clearinghouse of H. r. Martin IL Co.,
at COmanche, on the 10th inst. At
about O'Clock that morning three
men rode up to the bank, dismOunted,
hitched their horses, and, entering the
building, informed the Cashier, Mr..
Hoy Mason, that they wished to get
some money changed, one of them
handing him n bill of large denomina-
ton. The Cashier turned to the safe
to get the money, and in an instant the
three robbers were over the counter,
and had three revOlveIs leveled on the
Cashier and the bOOK-keeper, no one
else being in the room. While two of
the robbers held pistols drawn on the
two bank officers, the third one 'went
through the safe in quick style, secur-
inc about $500. The thieves then
went out of the room, carrying the
bank with them, to their horses near
the door, mounted, and saying, " Now
squeal if you want to" rode off in hot
haste. So quickly was it all done that
none of the citizens around had any
suspicion of what was going on until
they saw the three robbers dash off. A
posse of men was Immediately organ
lied and started in pursuit, but, up to
the time our informant left COmanche,
the thieves had not been captured
Waco (TeE.) Reporter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
The Cedar Mines of New Jersey.

| Among the strange productions OF
| Cape May, says the Monmouth (N. j. }
Democrat, are the "cedar mines
swamps of dark miry stuff in which are
| buried immense trees of the white ce-
| dar, CypTeSSHs HyOideS of the bOtanistS.
These mines contain enormous trees,
buried to a depth varying from three to
ten feet. The logs lie one across an
other, and there is abundant evidence
that they are the growth of different
| successive forests. Indeed, in these
very swamps forests of the same trees
are now growing. The miners become
very skillful at their work. An ironrod
is thrust into the soft mud, over which
often the water lies. In striking a buri-
ed tree the workman will, by several
soundings, at last tell how it lies, which
is its root end and how thick it is He
then manages to get a chip of the tree,
and by its smell determines at once
whether it is worth the labor of mining,
that is, the workman will tell unerring-
ly whether the tree be a windfall or a
breakdown If breakdown, it was so
because it was decayed when standing {;
if windfall, the tree fell while sound,
and has been preserved ever since by
the antlseptic nature of the peat marsh
in which it was buried. The soft earth
is then removed. This makes pit in
the swamp. Into this the water soon
flows and fills it up. This is rather an
advantage. The saw is now introduced,
and at regular intervals a cut is made
through the tree, when the log floats to
the surface. 1t is curious that the log
of sound tree wall be sure to turn over
when it floats up, the lower side thus
becoming uppermost. Trees in this
way are sometimes obtained which will
yield 10000 shingles, worth $50 per
thousand; thus one tree will yield 5000.
The age of such 4 tree, as the season
rings have been counted, has been made
out from 1000 to 1,200 years, and even
more. A layer of such trees is found
covered by another layer, and these
again by another, and even third,
while living trees may still be growing
over all. 1t is evident, indeed, that
New Jersey has experienced what geolO-
gists call oscillations" Cape May
contains abundant evidence of having
been lifted out of a modern sea. The
recent oyster and clam are found in
natural beds, just as they died in the
ocean, but now in positions many feet
higher than the contiguous oyster-beds;
while buried trees exist at depths lower
than the beds of living mOllusks.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
A Young Adventures.

A Girl, named Barnard, residing at
Anamosa, and only sixteen years of age,
has created considerable excitement
thereabouts of late by a series of bold
thieving operations. She is the daugh-
ter of a washerwoman, but, though
poor, is not content with either the food
or habiliments of poverty, and has not
only transcribed the rules of prOpriety,
but of law, in seeking to elevate her con-
dition. A few months ago she forged
an order on a meat market and obtained
a supply of staunch food for the house
in this way. She also forged an order
on millinery store and thus secured
an outfit, subsequently rObbing dry
good store of four or five dollars worth
of goods to enhance her wardrobe.
Last Saturday evening Miss Barnard
desired to attend a party in her neigh
borhOod, but was forbidden by her moth
er. Nothing daunted, she sailed forth
about O'Clock, and broke into the res
idence of w. G. Benton, lumber-deal-
er, while the family were absent. Here
she rifled the wardrobe of Miss Benton
of several fine dresses and innumerable
little fixes, such as accompany lady'S
toilet. She carried these away, and
subsequently appeared clad in Miss Ben
toms finest, to the wOnderment OF her
associates. The things were all found
and returned, but the young lady was
not prosecuted, no one being willing to
commence proceedings against the un-
fortunate girl, who, though addicted to
this besetting vice, yet has many re-
deeming qualities.-CliHtoH (IaD Her
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
PUNGEST PARAGRAPHS.

A KEEN satirist of our society had de-
scribed typical young lady as looking
ut you with an expression which sad:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
TAKE the world right through, and
three-quarters of the humans do not
earn their bread and clothes. This IS
what makes it so tough for the other
quarter.
WEBSTER CITY rejoiceS in alOcal
novelist who is publishing her earliest eff
forts in the local papers. ''Elfida, be-
hold the mune." "The mune, me
lord?n "Ay, mune: witherfore dostest
thou echoest me?" sGood, me lord, 7
echoest nobody" ''Then, thank heav-
en-, we are saved. Huntington Hack
eye.
A CORRESPONDENT, an ardent admir-
er of Bryant, inquiries of US the mean
inc of sIThanatopsis. 1t is Latin for
death. When Brutus, the first tempo
rarv lunatic, slew Cesar, he remarked
to his sister, 'Jule is deader Than-a-
top-sis,n and this simple simile has since
been used to express that condition IN
which, like an expiring top, man Is un-
able to 90 around.-GraPhic.
HERE is a Centennial contrast. First,
as "Poor Richard'' had it in 1I16:
Farmers at the plow,
Wife milking the COW,
Daughter spinning yarn,
Son thrashing in the barn,
All happy to a charm"
And now for the modern improve
ment in 1876:
''Farmers go to see a show,
Daughter at the piano,
Madam gayly dressed in satin,
All the boys learning Latin,
With mortgage on the farm
MODESTY.
''Kiss me, dear maid, to seal the vow -
of love that you have made"
al have no right to kiss you now"
The modest maiden said.
elf YOU can find il in your heart
MY first wish to refuse,
Perhaps tis best that we should part
Ere we our freedom lose"
although to kiss you demur.
Yet please to recOllect
That If you choose 10 kiss me, sir,
OF course, I-can't object"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
A Negroes Eyentful Life.

A negro named Paul Sebastanini was
recently arrested in Newark, n. j. He
is a native of Tripoli, and when eleven
years of age was sold as a slave to an
English sea captain, with whom he re-
manned until he was twenty-One. He
then took service on board the British
war-ship Chanticleer, from which he
subsequently deserted at Honolulu,
where he enlisted on the United States
corvette MOnOngahela, which was then
in that part looking after Captain
Semmes. At the close of the war he
was discharged, and made his way
to Italy, where he entered the naval ser
vice, and was on board the AffondatOTe
when she was sunk in the Gulf of Lissa
by the Austrian squadron under COM
mand of Admiral Tegethoff. Escaping
from the wreck, he went to Algiers,
where he served the Khedive, profess
ING to have been the servant of General
LOring, an American officer who was in
the Egyptian army. Thence he went to
England, re-entering the naval service,
and was on board the BellerOphOn when
she visited Newport last summer. At
that place he left that vessel, and has
since been wandering about the country.
He was arrested in Newark as a vagrant.
He was suffering from starvation, and
was fed and discharged. He is a giant
in stature, and is about fifty years Of
a
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
Truth Stranger than Fiction.

There was one old fox which for a
period of several years had continually
evaded the feetest and keenest-scented
hounds, the scent invariably being lost
in the vicinity of Il house situated in the
woods and far removed from any habi-
tation, and which was used as a store
house for pelts. At last one day the
hounds started the old fox, and away
he went in the direction of the house,
with pack of young hounds in full cry
after him, out on nearing the house he
disappeared, leaving the hounds and
hunters non-plussed as usual. While
the hunters were gathering in and
around the house discussing the fire.
quent mysterious disappearance of the
fox, an old veteran hound came limp
ing up, and entering the door set up a
vigorous barking, and tried to jump up
on the wall. His singular action at
tracted the attention of the hunters, and
an examination being made, the old fox
was found suspended by his tail to a
nail in the wall, keeping perfectly still,
and looking, unless closely observed,
like the pelts with which the walls were
hung. This plainly showed that the
old fox, when too closely pressed, had
taken refuge in the house and hung him
self up on the nail by his tail, which
was the reason for the dogs always
losing the scent in that particular place.
Reese RiUcr (NeU.) ReUeilie.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
Romantic History Of a Wife.

One of the uptown churches in this
city was well filled by fashionable con-
gregatiOn about a week ago, on the oc-
casiOn of the marriage of a well-knOwn
society girl to the man of her choice-the
scion of popular Philadelphia sugar
merchant. Probably not a dozen per-
sons present knew the most interesting
fact in the history of the bride. She
was a poor, neglected waif twentyyears
ago, and was found one wintry morn
ing upon a doorstep in St. Mark S
place-then a fashionable quarter of the
city. No clew to her parentage was
ever found, but the family (chosen prob
ably with that object), having no child
of their own, took in the waif, and rear
ed the little girl with as much care as il
she had been their own. A few years
after an application was made to Judge
Charles p DAILY, of this city, for a de-
cree awarding legal custody of the
child to its protectors, and henceforth
she took their name. She was educated
thoroughly. and became Il pet of the
family as effectually as if she had been
born into it. In time she was intrOduc-
ed into society as Miss C., and met
her present husband at a family reunion
in Philadelphia. Now she is honored
and petted by society, and promises to
become reigning favorite. Who knows
but somewhere the real mother of this
interesting woman may not be watch
inc the career of her child, and that,
sometime, may make herself known.
Truly, fact is often stranger than fic-
TOM Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
A Bird Dies from SMALLPOX.

A few weeks ago a gentleman of Bal
timore wished to obtain live red bird.
and hearing that one was in the posses
sion of gentleman in this city, visited
the latter and purchased the bird.
While the sale was being made the bird S
owner, who had recently recovered
from an attack of variola, took the bird
from its cage, when it pecked at his
finger. The purchaser took the bird to
Baltimore, and as it was a very hand
some one, took great pride in it. He
was, therefore, much panied to see 1t, a
few days after reaching its new home,
begin to droop, as if i'll. In day OF
two more rash appeared on its body,
displacing the feathers, and the next
day its head became swollen and cover
ed with scab, and it died. At loss to
know what. these peculiar symptoms
meant, the gentleman called in his medi-
cal adviser, a prominent physician OF
Baltimore, who, after examining the
dead bird, pronounced that it had died
OF smallpox. Then the bereaved owner
recalled the fact that the bird had peck
ed at its first owners hand, as stated
above, and it was concluded that it had
contracted variola at that moment
Cumberland (nd.) NeCS,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
CIapping Washington on the Back.

After the Revolutionary War Wash
ington aud many of the army officers,
then liv NO in New York, met frequent
" at each others houses. Ny grandfa-
ther, DR.. John Cochrane (Surgeon and
Director General of the Military Hos
pital of the Army, attending at one of
these had directed his son, my uncle,
then a lad, to come in the evening and
escort him home.
As the son of the doctor, he was ad-
mitted to the dining-room, where, in the
midst of their hilarity, he saw Gouver-
neur Morris, who was talking, turn sud-
denly toward Washington, next to whom
he was seated, and clapping him on the
back, heard him cry out: ''Wasn't it
so, old boy?"
Washington, nay uncle said, sat un-
moved, and a death-like silence fell up
on the whole company, which soon af-
ter quietly broke up.
1t was understood that the scene was
occasioned by a wager that a liberty
could be taken with WaShington.-John
COchrdRe IN the NeIC York San.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
Centennial Tree-Planting.

The custom of planting trees to COM
memorate any unusual event is of very
ancient origin. 1t was the custom of
the ancient Roman to plant trees in
commemoration of great victories; in
England, on the birth of children. In
colleges, to plant "Class Trees has
been for centuries a universal custom.
The great centennial year of this ma
ton, 1876, will be thus cOmmemorated
by thousands all over the land. The
children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren may view, as years roll
On Visiting the old hearth-stone) the
centennial trees planted by their IA
theirs. The ceremony of planting the
tree (or tree for each child in the
family will generally be about as fol-
lows. The Centennial Committee re-
commend the following:
PROGRAMME.
The family relatives and neighbOrs being
invited, the party assemble on the ground
where the trees are to be planted.
1st. The father digs the hole and pre-
pares the ground, or supe intends the work.
Each tree should have attached to the top a
small United States flag, and be laid by the
hole, ready to raise.
ID. The party arrange themselves in a
circle and sing "Hail, Columbia
Sd. Reading selections from the 'Declar-
alton of Independence, - and washing
toms Farewell Address,
4th. Planting the tree.
9Th. The party join hands around the
tree, and sing 1.-The Star Spangled Ban
ner.'
9th. Short address on planting memorial
trees; also on Revolutionary topics: the
part taken by ancestors of the family in the
Revolutionary struggle; or on national topics
generally.
7th. Sing the Doxology: ''Praise God
from Whom all Blessings Flow
Sth. Refreshments served on the lawn; :;
Revolutionary refreshments, such rs dough-
nuts and cider, pumpkin pie, etc, or mod
ern refreshments.
Of course, lawn games can beplayed,
and the services can be altered and ar
ranged to suit circumstances.
The trees selected are mostly trees
that will live q century, although any
fine, long lived, handsome, ornamental
tree will answer. The following are
all beautiful and appropriate for the oc-
casion:
Cut Leaved Weeping Birch, Weeping
Mountain Ash, American Tulip Tree,
New American Weeping Willow, Kill
marnOck Weeping Willow, Norway Ma
pie, European Mountain Ash, Gold
Barked American Ash, European Horse
Chestnut, Norway Spruce, Scotch and
American Pine.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
PARSON KELLY.
BY MARION DOUGLAS.


Old Parson Eellv's fair young wife Irene
Died when but three months wed.
And no new love has ever come between
His true heart and the dead,
Though BOW for sixty years the grass has grow
Upon her grave, and on its simple stone
And yellow lichens creep her name across.
Outside the door. in the warm summer air.
The old man site for hOurs,
The idle wind. that stirs his silver hair,
Is sweet with june first flowers;
But dull his mind, and clouded with the haze
Ofltfe's last weary, gray November days;
And dim
The past and present look alike TO him.
The sunny scene around, confused and blurred
The twiiter OF the birds
BLEND IN his mind with voices long since heard
Glad childhood's careless words,
Old hymns and Scripture texts; while indistinct
let strong one thought with all fair things il
The bride
OF his lost youth is ever by his side.
BY its sweet weight Of snowy blossoms bowed,
The rose tree branch hangs low,
And in the sunshine like 1eecy cloud,
Sways slowly 10 aRd frO.
"Oh is it YOU" the Old man asks; ''IreneI"
And smiles, and fancies that her face he's seen
beneath
The opening roses Of a bridal wreathi
Down from the gambrel roof white dove nts.
The sunshine on it, wings,
And light ng close 10 where the dreamer sits
a vision with II brings
golden CLEAN from some long vanished day,
Dear love, +" he calls; then, "Why viii you not
STAY :"
He signs.
For, at his voice, the bird looks up and Giesl
Oh, constant heartl whose failing thoughts cling
fast
To one long laid in dust,
still seeing turned 10 thine as in the past
Her lock Of perfect trust,
II soft voice hearing IN the south winds breath
Dream on Love pure as thine shall outliVe
deata,
And when
The gates unfold, her eyes meet thine againi
-GaiaTy for February.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
How They Fixed 1t.

\ New Yorker, while journeying the
other day, was recognized by another
citizen doing business near the BOwery,
he being also away from home on busi-
ness, and after a little preliminary con-
versation the first remarked:
"Wen, hear that you had to make
an assignment.
e." Yes, dat is drew" replied the other.
'And your brother over on Chatham
Street; he assigned, too, didn't he?"
sYou zee it was just like dis" said
the BOwery man; 81 was owing a
goot deal. l makes over my stock to
Jacob and Jacob makes his stock over
to me, and 1 do his peesness and he does
my peesness, and dem vellers What was
after money dOan get sonnet"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03

King of Grenada He fellin Andalusia,
in battle. just before his death, he
threw the silver casket into the thickest
of the fight, eXclaiming: "Heart OF
Bruce, follow thee or dieln
His dead body was found beside the
casket, and the heart of Bruce, was
brought back to Scotland and de-
posted in the ivy-clad Abbey Of Mel
rose.
Douglas was a real hero, and few
things more engaging than his exploits
were ever told under the holly and mis-
tletoe, or in the warm Christmas light
of the old Scottish Yule-logs.-iSt.
Nicholas for February.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03

The Elkton (Kentucky) Witness says
Mr.. James wilkins, of this county, is
the father of daughter who is only
three years old and weighs 104 pounds.
For several weeks after her birth she
weighed only seven pounds, and for
three months or more was very Sickly
and generally unhealthy. About that
time her health underwent a radical
change, and she has never known days
sickness since. She is now stout and
healthy and continues growing at a rate
which justifies US in predicting that she
will soon overShadow the celebrated
Irish gianteSS, Mrs. MaXby.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03

Mrs. HORACE EVERETT, of Angelica,
New York, whose husband served for
several terms as a Representative IN
Congress from Vermont, has the orig
inal commission given by General Bur
goyne to Colonel Baum in 1777, order
inc him to proceed to Bennington, YER
mont, to take charge of the stores of
goods there; q strategic movement
which led to the battle at that place.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
Hush ye,
Hush ye,
Do not fret ye;
The Black Douglas
Shall not get ye!"

1t is never well to be too sure, you know.
Douglas had caused his picked men
to approach the castle by walking on
their hands and knees, with long black
cloaks thrown over their bodies, and
their ladders and weapons concealed
under their cloaks. The men thus pre-
sented very nearly the appearance of a
herd of cattle in the deep shadows, and
completely deceived the sentinel, who
was probably thinking more of the
music and dancing below than of the
watchful enemy ywho had been haunting
the gloomy woods of Jedburgh.
The Black Douglas, or "GOod James,
Lord Douglas" as he was called by the
Scots, fought, as l have already said,
with King Robert Bruce at Bannock-
burn. One lovely June day, in the far
gone year of 1929, King Robert lay dy-
inc. He called Douglas to his bedside,
and told him that it had been one of the
dearest wishes of his heart to 90 to the
Holy Land and recover Jerusalem from
the Infdels; but since he could not 90,
he wished him to embalm his heart af-
ter his death, and carry it to the Holy
City and deposit it in the Holy Sepulch.
er.
Douglas had the heart of Bruce EN-.
balmed and inclosed in a silver case
and wore it on a silver chain about hi:
neck. He set out for Jerusalem, but
resolved first to visit Spain and engage
in the war waged against the Moorish
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-02-03
JosHUA's FIRST ROMANCE.

During the first forty years of his life
Joshua seems to have ignored entirely
the sentimental side of his nature, if he
had such 4 side.
As he grew prosperous and develop
ed from plain ''Josh' into Mr.. Sears in
commercial circles, he began to be
looked upon with some interest by the
female sex, which has always been a
pretty strong element in Boston society.
But all feminine Establishments bestow-
ed on Josh. Sears fell upon barren
ground, and by degrees he came into
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-07-04
STATE NEWS.

Cowen, who is in Jail at Bangor, for completely
IN the outrage upon the old man Curtis, who Sc
duced his wife, denies any connection with the
assault.
In sixty. seven criminal cases for violation of
the Maine liquor law, brought up in the law
court at Bangor, on demurrer to indictments and
executions, the exceptions were overrued, and
judgments ordered TO be entered up for the State.
Hon. c. p. Patterson, superintendent of U. S.
standard weights and measures, of Washington,
ID. c., has furnished to Hon. S. { fT't'i, Tea
urer of State, set Of metiic 81. ndi It, for tIe
State of Maine.
The following are recent business changes
Brunswick-Fisher & Patterson, gro. dis; now
Patterson and Holbrook.
Gardiner-Tasker & White, livery, dis.
Saco - Noyes & Co., printers, dis. now W.
Noyes.
Webster-Dennison and Crockett, gen. store,
dis, now Il. +. Dennison.
The 18th anniversary of the formation of the
First Baptist church: Portland, will be observed
Sunday, the 231 inst when the pastor will deliver
an historic discourse.
Fish Commissioner Stillwell states that parties
who now go out perch fishing will meet with lit
tie success, as they do not come in till about the
middle of July; ditto black bass.
The Portland Press says that 1t is hardly posi-
BILE that the union of Maine soldiers and sail
ors of the late war; which is to come off in that
city August 9th, can be other than great success.
The Committee of the Association met Saturday
for the purpose Of further perfectng arrangements.
They report that several regimental organizations
have signifed their purpose of making special eff
forts to get out full attendance. Information
respecting the arrangements may be obtained OF
Edward lie Prohon, Secretary OF the Committee,
Portland.