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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
The Centennial Admission Fee.

The price of admission to the exhibi-
ton in Philadelphia will be 80 cents
payable in one note. The receivers at
the recording turnstiles will have moth
ing to do with the notes except to decide
whether they are good or bad, and to
drop them into the boxes, where each
one will register itself. An exchange
office of the Centennial National Bank
will be established near each entrance,
to exchange money for visitors not hay
ing 5O-cent notes. This money changer
will be expected to have no more and
no less money when his work is done
than when he began. The Centennial
Commission, after much inquiry and
careful consideration, concluded that
the whole systenl-absence of season
tickets and all-was cheaper and more
secure against fraud than any other
known. In order that the cash in the
bONmay correspond with the indicators,
a dollar note will not be received at any
gate for the admission of two persons,
nor two twenty-five cent notes for that
of one person. No intelligent visitor,
however, with the facilities afforded,
need get into the "cue," an arrange
ment to keep in single file those about
to enter, unprOvided with the required
note. In the event of the resumption
of specie payments prior to or during
the exhibition the rule will be amended
to meet demands.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
An Aggressive SWOrdlish.

The brig p. NJ. Tinker, Captain Ber-
nard, previously mentioned as having
arrived here from Richmond, leaking,
for repairs, has been hauled upon the
ways at Graves's shipyard. On exam
ination yesterday it was discovered that
the leak was caused by a swOrdfish, the
sword being found broken off forward
the bands, about sixteen feet abaft the
forefoot. The fish, in striking the YES
sci, must have come with great force,
as the sword penetrated the copper
sheathing, fOur-inch birch plank, and
through the timbers about six inches
in all about ten inches. 1t occurred on
the morning of the 23d of December,
when the brig was eighteen days out
from Rio, and in the neighborhOOd Of
Cape st. Rogue. She was pumped
about 1 O'Clock in the morning, and
found free of water. About 8 O'Clock
the same morning she was again
pumped, when water was obtained,
and, on examination, it was found that
she had made ten inches Of water. The
men were kept steady at the pumps
until her arrival at Richmond, and while
there and on her trip here.-NoJob
(Vd.) LGndnlaTb.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
Three Innocent Men.

Three innocent-lOoking men were
waiting at the Central depot the other
evening for a Western train to 90 out.
They were meek aud lowly in general
appearance, and as they walked around
they became known to each other, and,
finding that they had a whole hour to
spare, ,One of them proposed to go across
the street and get some lemonade. While
en- route, second moved to make it
lamer-beer. When they got over, the
third intimated that whisky would suit
him; and all took whisky straight. This
broke the ice, and they decided TO play
little game of cut-throat euchre. At
ter playing a game or two, it was deci-
ded to increase the interest by putting
up little money.
81 can spare that much" said the
first, as he threw down counterfeit 50
note.
"Ill see that and say nothing about
the premium" said the second, as he
took out a bill from a broken Canadian
bank.
"I'll put this Jurgenssen down as Sc
curity," gravely added the third, as he
pulled out the gold-washed cases of a
watch which answered him for tobac-
co-boX.
A peaceful smile stole over each face
as the strangers scrutinized each other.
They went in and got some more bev-
erage, and returned to the depot Won
lering how it was that human nature
was so unreliable.-D Detroit Free Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

at once fled the house, but before he had
passed beyond the light of the fire with
in, the avenger, with the wretch's own
rifle, brought him to the earth in n
struggle with death that lasted but Il
second. As soon as he had fired the
shot, Lambert turned upon the pros
uate murderer, who was about to arise,
and struck him a second time, telling
him to the floor again. He then, with
a rope furnished him by the old woman,
bound the villains hands and legs Sc
curely. In the morning, the avenger
borrowed a horse from the woman,
strapped upon its back the living and
dead murderers, and before nightfall
arrived at Stottlers'S inn. On the fol-
lowing day the living man was publicly
lynched in front of the inn, and the two
bodies were then consigned to an un-
honored grave. Lambert's 5 companions,
craven hearted as they had proven
themselves, were loud in praise of their
daring leader, who, until the day of his
death, was a hero in the humble circle
of life in which he was placed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
A New Version of the Parable Of the
Virgins.

The preacher was a mulatto about
forty years old. He read the 25th chap
ter of Matthew, parable of the virgins,
until as he got near the end OF the para
bic and the foot of the page and went
up to the next page, he found some
thing was wrong. The pages did not
hitch. He studied for a minute and
said: "Brudderin, de ress of de para
BILE am not hvar. But III tell you all
de ress. Dem foolish virgins got de
do shet in dere face, and it sarved dem
right"
Then he took for his text, "Dese
shall 90 into everlasting punishment,
but the righteous into life eternal"
Here are some of his inspirations;
..Why are so many of desc hyar seats
vacant? Where is de brudders and Sis
ters who ought to be settin' hyarP Oh,
some of dem is down on Bay Street
sparkin', and some of dem is in card
houses, and some is in drunken houses,
and some is sittin' at home hekase deyse
too tired. Oh-er! brudderin, when you
true believers gets up to de white frone
dem people will come to you and say.
'Gib us of your oil for our lamps done
gone out and you will say-er, you
can't come dat game on US NO-er,
for de tex says, 'DeSe shall 20 inter eb-
erlastin' punishment, but the righteous
inter life eternal Deyse a great many
people talks 'ligion berry loud down
in Bay Street in de day time, but
where is dey tonight? Why-er deyse
foolin' round expectin' when de bride
l. oil
dat's got mo- But what does de
Scripter say-er? Why it says, Let dem
90 radder to him dat sells it at de stO',
and while dey is gone de do is slammed
shet, for de tex says er, desc shall 90
into Everlasting punishment, but de
righteous into life eternal Now brud-
derin and friends what would you think
of any of you ladies and gentlemen who
would 90 splurging down Bay Street
with a hat, watch, a coat, or dress or
bonnet on what didn't belong to you?
Stickin' up your nose bekase you's so
berry fine, and every body sayin' as you
90 long dem want your own close,
wouldn't you feel cheap? But dey'S
goin' to be fooled, for de tex says-er
desc shall 90 into eberlastin' punish
ment, but de righteous into life eternal
Oh yes-er, my beloved bruddern and
sisters, you can't 90 4 sailin' into heb
ben on borrowed close, as you sails
down Bay Street, for it is written,
'Ebery tub mus stand on its own bot
tom, and ebery knee shall bow and
ebery tongue shall confess dat fire and
birthstone shall be dere potion for eber
and eber,' and de tex says, Desc shall
90 into eberlastin' punishment, but de
righteous into life eternal. -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
Pluck of a Kentucky Woman.

Jailer Horsfall, of Newport, owns a
wife who has several times proved her.
self a heroine, and last night about 8
O'Clock she proved again that, although
she is a woman, she is better than some
men for all that. Mr.. Horsfall was
away from home; his wife heard 4 pc
cular kind of noise in the jail. Suspi-
cioning that something was going crook
ed she seized revolver and went to the
front portion of the building, when she
discovered that prisoners were at work
on the inside of the wall, cutting a hole
through the brick, for the purpose of ef-
fecting an escape. 1t appears that there
were seven of the prisoners at work.
Marshal Locke and Lieutenant Cotting-
ham had gone over to Cincinnati on a
certain affair pertaining to their duty.
The brave woman dispatched a boy for
an officer, and then standing at the place
they were working at, she told the boys
inside she would blow the brains out of
the first one who would dare put his
head through the opening. The boys,
knowing that Mrs. Horsfall meant what
she said, ceased operations, and when
Deputy Marshal Jackson arrived they
both entered and drove the unruly crea-
lures back into their cells. Too much
praise cannot be awarded the brave wo-
man for the fearless part she took in the
affair Had it not been for her those
seven prisoners would doubtless all have
escaped. d.-C Cincinnati Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
A Bermuda Tornado.

The Bermuda papers give the follow
ing particulars of the most shocking in
cident of the destructive tornado which
recently passed over that part of the
island known as fuckers Town. In its
course it lifted a wooden house, with its
inmates-Mr. Daniel Smith, his wife
and four children-bodilv some ten feet
from its foundation, and, after splinter
ing it into pieces, threw the debris into
the water, about 100 yards Off Mrs.
Smith was found on the opposite shore,
across the by, some 500 or 400 yards,
soon after the catastrophe, clinging TO
a plank of the house. Her body was
fearfully laceratod. She expired in
about six hours. The bodies of thefour
children were recovered the next morn
ing-three not far from the shore near
their late home, the other near the Op-
posite shore, where its unfortunate
mother was found. Smith, prior to the
event, was sitting by an open window
his wife had Just put three of the chill
dren to bed, and the Oldest was getting
ready for bed-and, hearing the singu-
lar noise made by the storm, called to
his wife to know if she heard it, and
asked what it was, when the house was
lifted bodily from the foundation AVID
carried off Here his consciousness
left him, and he recollectS nothing
further until he recovered his senses
some little time after, when he found
himself forced in between
oleander trees some twenty feet from
his late residence, doubtless thrown
there through the window as the house
was turned by the wind. Smith likens
the noise made by the approaching
storm to the roaring of Il cataract while
a hundred pieces of heavy ordnance
were being discharged simultaneously.
1t would seem that the whirlwind, with
a fearful rushing noise, struck the shore
from seaward, wrenching stout limbs
from trees in its way, and in some spots
where no wind in a straight course, if
ever so violent, would do harm, this
whirlwind caused much havoc. 1t pass
ed along and up high, projecting cliff
where rocks shelved out, and broke
pieces of the rocks off about ten inches
thick at the base, and weighing between
fifty and sixty pounds each, forced them
up the precipice, and lodged them on
the fiat above, ten feet away. Itwrench-
ed a piece of cedar bough some eight
inches long from tree, and drove it
into the skull of a COW, whence it was
taken, the COW apparently not serious
ly injured. On its course from the south
shore to fuckers Town the storm pass
ed through a garden of cabbages, in
which it made a road, the sides of
which, some forty feet apart, are clear
ly defined.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
A Yankee Woman in the Cuban War.

The Machias (Me.) Union publishes
the following letter received by Miss
Susan L. Brown from her sister, Mrs.
Julia NJ. Garcia:
SAGUA, January 81, 1S76.-Wy Dear
Sister: Now don't be frightened when
You hear what has happened to US, with
thousands of others. We have been Wis
tied by the insurrectS, and our house
and plantation burned, with every thing
we had in our house. We are left with
out a bed to lie upon or dress to put on.
Only about twenty or thirty negroes
came afoot. They had tied Desiderio
and another white man, and made us all
form a line, with guns at our breasts to
kill us if we moved TO save any thing.
First they killed my dog, with shots and
stabs, for he defended himself until the
last moment. Then they stole every
thing they wanted, even taking the rings
from my fingers; then set fire to all the
houses, took my oxen and cows, and
then marched us off among them, with
ID. tied with a rope, and negro hold
of the rope and gun at his breast.
When at last they took us off outside of
the plantation, [ was determined to
save Desiderio, so 1 took hold of
the Captain, negro, and would
not let him GO until he gave me
back d., but the other man they would
not let go; they took him a little way
off and chopped off his head. Oh! my
God! what night of horror! Is there
no one to hear, to see, to save? Make
my case known, and if possible see if
something can not be done. All the
houses, al the plantations, they are
burning. Every one is coming to town,
and famine will follow. We are here,
in Segua. l have S17 to commence life
anew with. All my photographs, all
my books, papers, every thing lost. Do
please send me a Bible when you can.
do not know what to think or do; one
can find no house here; we are in the
house of a friend for a few days, no
more. But nothing can be done-bnt
patience Don't think that we shall
have to suffer hunger, for we can all do
something to gain our living until bet
ter days. But these things ought to be
stopped; this war ought not to last
longer. We are all quite well. After we
get settled l will write again. JULIA.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
Putting New Face on a Man.

A novel operation recently performed
at the Maine General Hospital is thus
described: A patient came there with
a cancerous under-lip, which a quack
had made worse by the use of caustics.
The patient being placed under the in
fuence of ether, the lip was cut down
and removed, the mouth slit far into
the cheeks on both sides, the flesh turn
ed down, and the inner membrane and
bone scraped to remove all traces OF the
cancer. Then the cheeks were brought
forward over the chin and sewn to-
gether to form a new under-lip, new
and handsome mouth was formed by
sewing up the Sits and cutting out tri-
angular notches in the corners, and that
the new lip might not lack the natural
redness, the lining membrane was
brought out over the edge and sewn
down. A new face having thus been
put upon the patient, he went home re-
joicing.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
Superiority Of the Eyes Of Man.

OF all animals, man enjoys the most
perfect and capable eyes. With a large
globe preserved in its form by a dense,
thick resistant coat or tunic, to which
suitable muscles are attached for the
most delicate and extensive movements
with an optical apparatus for collect
ing the rays of light and forming sharp,
distinct images of surrounding objects,
and last and most important, a nerve
membrane of 4 cup shape safely lodged
within, endowed with marvellous and
exclusive power of perceiving light and
and sending to the brain reports from
the vast universe around US, why is this
not the most God-like gift confided to liv-
inc creatures? In this great perfection
the eyes only exist in higher animals. As
we descend in the scale it becomes more
simple and less complete, till we come
to the mere eye dots in the lowest crea-
lures, composed of speck of pigment
and nerve fibre, and capable only of
Distinguishing light from darkness.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A CITIZEN of Leavenworth going to
his barn to milk in the dark of the early
morning, got into the wrong pen and
undertook to milk mule. He don't
remember which side of the barn he
went out at, but expects his bucket
down in few days.
A ST. LOUIS minister has received the
grand bounce from his congregation
for preaching an eloquent sermon from
the text Z" Straight is the gate" If 1t
had been CROOKED as the gate" he
might still have been receiving a prince
ly income.-ChicGgo Tribune.
BRIcK-DUsr.
As Pat I'D the ladder was climbing one day
His hod fned with bricks, the usual way,
A fresh landed brother from over the sea-.
Half seas over. or at least seemed to be.
Called up from the street, with comicalwink.
"a ONE down. We spalpeen, and let's take drink
''Bedad and will ;" says good -natured Pat,
''Then III carry my bricks inside o my hat "
-PrOrideHce Journal.
A CoLoRED expounder of the Scrip
lures recently created quite furry
among some of the female portion of
his congregation by suddenly branching
off in this way: ''Now, | want to say u
word To de sisters. When you has n
washin' to do somewaT, and you gets
done, Just YOU clean up and 60 right
home, and don't stan round lOOkln'
whar you can find little coffee, or u
little sugar, or a little something else to
put into yo' pockets. Go right home
when you's done wild dat washin'. -
CleUelGHd Plain Dealer.
WHEN "Spivins," now of Mounds
vile, w. Va, was city editor OF the
Wheeling Register, he wrote one even
ing: To-day is the anniversary of the
death of Louis Philippe" When the
proof came up the name read "Sam
"Spiv' thought a mere note
of the mistake would be sufficient, and
so he wrote on the margin: "WhO the
. is Sam Phillips?" Next morning
the item came out "To-day is the an
niversary of the death of Sam Phillips!
Who the is Sam Phillips?' ''Spiv'
didn't say word about it to any body.
An English tourist recently visited
Mount Vernon-one of the Dundreary
sort. eyeglasses and all. He paused at
the tomb of the immortal George and
said 9sWas this-aw-this Gen. Wash
officer in your wah?"
:. Yes, he was in our war, said Mr..
Hollingsworth, with inward amuse-
ment, perceiving that the Briton had
reference to our late unpleasantnesS
with the Confederates. "And which
aw-which side was he on?" ''He was
a rebel, sir" said the facetiOus gentle
man, with twinkling eyes. "a Arebel?-
aw-yes." And the Englishman took
out his memorandum book and made
note of it,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

IT is known that there is hardly one
of the Swiss lakes, large or small, which
has not given up traces of the singular
habitations of the lake dwellers; but
nothing was hitherto known as to the
mode of sepulture adopted by the race
that lived in them. During the latter
part of January, however, some work
men excavating the foundations for a
new building close to the lake came
across some huge fiat rocks, placed evi-
IDENTIFY by human hands in a horizontal
position, and lying near each other on a
level which once, in all probability, was
the natural surface. Each block was q
bowlder brought apparently some little
distance, and covered square cavity
carefully lined with slabs of stone, and
filed with earth mixed with light gravel
and sand. One of these square cavities
or graves has been carefully cleared,
and proved to contain fourteen skele-
tons of adults and one of a child, all in
very fair preservation. The form OF the
skulls is said not to be of the very early
type generally identified with the rude
early cave dwellers; and some brass
rings found indicate the use of that
metal, at any rate for ornament. A
stone hatchet was also found, and a
number of bears teeth pierced for
stringing. The remainder of this Gem
etery of an extinct people has yet to be
examined.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

Moreover, / ara engaged to a prince
among men one of those who make
agriculture the royal pursuit It is; nor
would | exchange my destiny for the
highest place in all your hollow city
life. Leave me here to be happy and
go you on your way. You are answer
ed"
And Cleye Fairfax, dispirited and
disappointed, went back to New York,
and lived a bachelor to the end of the
chapter, and all for the love of owls
consin farmers daughter"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

A REPORT has Just been received at
San Francisco of the accidental discov-
cry of deposit of brilliants in the coast
range of San Mateo County. The per-
son who made the discovery picked in
a few minutes from 200 to 800 speci-
mems of the sparkling crystals. The
discoverer further alleges that he show
ed some of the specimens to persons in
the town of San Mateo, who profess to
be precious stone experts, and they
pronounced them to be pure diamonds.
Great excitement prevails among the
neighboring ranchmen, who have left
plow, harrow and seed-machines, and
taken to the hills to prospect for dia-
monds.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

A YOUNG lady wentto a photographer
recently, and wished him to take her
picture with an expression as if compos-
ing poem. 1t came out with the ex-
preston she had when the editor put
the poem in the waste-basket.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

WHILE an Iowa woman was strug-
Cling in the water and likely to drown
her husband yelled out: "New bonnet
swim for life!i and she kicked out
and safely reached the shore.-DetroH
Free Press
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

ELEPHANTS are getting very scarce,
and prudent people will lay in their
next winters supply now instead of
waiting until the demand forces them
up to an exorbitant price.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

THE high price of meat in England
has brought to light the fact that there
is at present less live stock in that coun-
try than in any other in Europe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

The Kansas potato-bugs wear red,
white, and blue stripes this year, out of
respect for the Centennial season, SO
says an exchange.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16

FORT WAYNE, Ind, has under con-
sideration a proposition to purchase
the Wabash and Erie Canal as a means
of securing an adequate water supply.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
ENCHANTBfENT.

The sails we see on the ocean
Are as white as white can be;
But never one in the harbor
As white as the sails at sea.
And the clouds that crown the mountain
With purple and gold delight
Turn 10 cold gray mist and vapor,
Ere ever We reach the height.
Oh Distance, thou dear enchanter,
Still hold in thy magic vail
The glory OF far OF mountains.
The CLEAN Of the far-off saii
Hide in thy robes Of splendor,
Oh! mountain cold and gTayi
ON sail In thy snowy whiteness,
Come not into port, ] prayl
-Cdrlojta Perry, in Home journal
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-16
DEEP IN THE WILEY.

Deep in the valley, afar from every beholder.
IN me May morning my true love came 20 me :
silent we safe, her head upon my shoulder;
Fondly we dreamed Of the days about 20 be-
fondiy we dreamed Of the days so soon 10 be.
Deep in the valley, the rain falls colder and
colder;
Safely she sleeps beneath the church yard tree
let still feel her hand upon my shoulder,
Yet still dream OF the days that could not be;
Yet still weep DER the days that will not be.
Mrs. 1fulOcE- Grail