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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
Value of Advertising.

A gentleman in this city, who had
more rooms in his house than he wished
to occupy, recently inserted an adver-
tisement announcing rooms to rent.
Last Saturday gentleman, about sixty
years of age and respectfully dressed,
called at the house and asked to be
shown the rooms. Being suited, he
wished to occupy one of them, and upon
being informed that the room could not
be put in readiness for two or three
days, be asked if he could not be &C
commodated in another room until that
time. Arrangements to that effect were
made, and the caller took possession.
He subsequently informed his landlord
that he was travelling for hardware
house, was very tired, and if he once
went to sleep he could not tell when he
should wake up. He retired early in
the evening, but about 10 o'clock sent
word down stairs that he was not well
and would like a cup of tea. This was
furnished him, with some crackers, the
lady in charge of the house making the
tea by the furnace fire, the kitchen fire
having gone out. The new ledger also
left word that when the gentleman of
whom he had hired the room came
home he would like to see him. The
gentleman not returning until late did
not disturb the new conner, but visited
his room the next morning. He then
complained of not being well, and sug-
geSted that little hot whisky would do
him good. The hot whisky was not
furnished, but cup of coffee and some
more crackers were sent up, which
were quickly disposed of. Sunday
night the man was still in bed, and
Monday noon found him still in the
same place. Monday afternoon the lady
of the house came down the street, and,
upon returning, found the room vacant,
the sick man having recovered and
quietly taken his departure. The en-
bryo landlord kept the matter quiet I'M
til last evening, but considers the man
ner in which he was taken in too good Il
joke to withhold. He does not think
his guest increased in flesh during his
stay, but is fully satisfied that he got
fully rested, as he did not leave his
room or have his clothes on from Sat
urday evening until Monday afternoon.
Worcester SDV.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
Chicago's Suicides---Only One for Love.

The Coroner of Cook County, H., in
his annual report gives the following
interesting facts:oy1 -,---
"In the 60 cases of suicide, 6 of the
persons cut their threats with razOrs, Il
committed suicide by hanging, % by
poisoning, Il by shooting, and 8 by
drowning; 45 of the suicides were men,
? bows, and the remainder women.
Among them &c were Germans, II
Americans, and the remainder were dis
tributed among number OF other ma
tionalities, with prepOnderance OF Bo-
hemians. 1t would lead me too far away
from the legitimate purpose of this re-
view if | should undertake to explain
these suicides from q psychological
standpoint, or investigate the curious
fact that here, as well as almost every
where, the Germans furnish the largest
of suicides. 1t does seem
that the 'thymos' (see Plato) is partic-
ularly developed in Germans, and that
they readily fall victims to psychOmachy.
One fact, however, viii be of especial
interest to the amiable lady readers, to-
wit: that, among 40 male suicides, only
one could be found of whom it was actu-
allv demonstrated that it was love-dis-
Tilted love-which impelled
him to end his miserable existence.
Verify, the times of Hero and Leander,
OF Juliet and Romeo, have gone by; I'M
fortunate enthusiasts who die for lOve's
sake have become as rare as comets
among the lights of the armament, and
when the do appear, alas! derisiOn is
what they meet with more frequently
than admiration and poetical glorifGa-
lion -
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
What Shall We Dot

IT is no wonder that we hear this question
on every corner. So many are dying sud
denly Of diseases Of the brain in these days
that everyone is alarmed, and is asking:
" What shall we do?' There is alarm on ac-
count of dizziness OF the head, Whirling
sensation when rising up suddenly, bad,
" all gone sensation at the pit of the stom-
aeh, like the gnawing Of an ulcer, with
feeling like a load after eating, pains in the
back, sides and chest, at times, with costive
bowels, scanty, high-colorcd urine, some
times voidcd with pain, appetite poor, and
when food is eaten it oftentimcs distresses;
the skin, after a time, becomes dark, cold
and clammy, eyes suhken and tinged with
yellow, spirits detected, with evil iorebod-
ings. When any Of these symptoms are
present no time should be lost in using =
proper remedy. The one that We have
known to operate with the most certainty J.,
the SHAKER EXTRACT OF ROOTS OR CURA-
TIVE SYRUP mot a patent medicine), sold by
Druggists and A. j. White, 3l9 Pearl street,
New York.
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Fashionable Tricks With the Hair.


The round Greek coil is already out
of fashion, and, in its stead, the hair is
arranged in long cbatelain loop hang
ing low behind, to which finger pulfs
are sometimes added on the side. The
front hair is parted in the middle, or
slightly on one side, and is arranged i'll
loose waves close to the head, with
creve-cmur locks turned forward from
the ears; sometimes there are as many
as three of these side-locks on each
side, curving toward the face, instead
of from it, as was lately the fashion.
The poke-bonnets display all the front
hair, and, as ladies have crimped and
burned away so much OF their hair,
they resort to false . scalpettesn to give
the appearance of abundant hair thick
" set. These scalpettes are false
fronts, made of invisible hair-net, in
which luXuriant tresses are fastened.
They are worn quite low in front, IN
order to give the appearance of low,
broad forehead, They cost SO. Nets
for the front hair are now shown to
keep the hair from blowing about, and
thus a vail is dispensed with. Five long
curls, reaching to the waste behind,
make up fashionable full-dress colt
fure. A great many flowers are used
for trimming the hair; dowager-like
feathers have lost favor. There is,
however, no one stereotyped style of
couture at present. 1t is the fashion for
each lady to have fashion Of her own,
and to arrange her hair in way most
becoming. The water-scallops that
look pasted to the face are still worn,
Dut are not as popular as they were last
winter. TONES that strengthen the
hair, cleanse the scalp, and are without
odl, are used in preference to cosmetics
and bandoline. Harper's Bazar.
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From the Toledo Blade.l
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success Is never achieved without merit.
A man may make poor article and sell IL
once, and, there being 10000, coo people in
the United States, the sale TO each one would
be enough to make decent fortune. But
an article that holds the field year after year,
and the sales OF which increase regularly and
rapidly must have absolute merit
- DR.. r. V. Pierce, Of Buffalo, N. Y. oeeu-
pies our entire eighth page to-day with his
various articles. We admit 1t because we
know the doctor, and know Of his articles.
We know him to be q regularly educated
of his Office, and we know that he has asso-
ciated with him several Of the most eminent
practitioners in the country. We know that
parties consult him, by mail and in person,
from all the States in the Union every day,
and that they are fairly and honestly dealt
with. .4
This grand result has been accomplished
by two agencies-good, reliable articles
articles which, once introduced, work easily
their own way-and splendid business man
agement They have succeeded because
they ought to have succeeded"
Ifyou would patronize Medicines scientific
ally prepared by skilled physician and chem
ist, use DIR. Pierce's Family Medicines. Gold
en- Medical Discovery is nutritious, tonic,
Alternative and blood cleansing, and an une-
qualed Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purgative
Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard seeds,
constitute an agreeable and reliable physlci
Favorite Prescription, a remedy for debih-
tated femaLes; Extract Of Smart-weed,
magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Complaints,
and an unequaled Liniment for both human
and horse-1esh; while his DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy is known the world over as the
greatest specific for Catarrh and Cold in the
Head" ever given to the public. They are
sold by druggists. -.
TWENTY YEARS A sUFFERER-CURED BY THE
GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
DR.. R. V. PIERCE:
Dear Su-Twenty years ago l was ship
wrecked on the Atlantic Ocean, and the cold
and exposure caused large abscess to form
on each leg, which kept continually dis
charging. Twas attended by doctors in Liv-
erpool, Havre, New Orleans, New York, and
at the hospital on Staten Island (where the
doctors wanted to take one leg Off. Finally,
after spending hundreds of dollars, l was
persuaded to try your " Golden Medical Dis
covery,n and now, in less than three months
after taking the first bottle, ! am thankful
to say / am completely cured, and for the
first time in ten years can put my left heel to
the ground. l am at home nearly every
evening, and shall be glad to satisfy any per-
son of the truth Of this information. am,
sir, yours, respectfully,
WILLIAM RYDER,
81 Jeferson Street Ruffslo n Y
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Rising in the World.

Experience continually contradicts
the notion that poor young man can
not rise. If we look over the list of rich
men, we find that nearly all of them
began life worth little or nothing. To
any person familiar with the million
aires of the United States, a score of
examples will occur. On the other
hand, the sons of rich men, who began
life with the capital which so many
poor young men covet, frequently die
beggars. 1t would probably not be go
ing too far to say that a large ma ority
of such moneyed individuals either fail
outright or gradually eat up the capital
with which they commenced their
career.
And the reason is plain. Brought up
in expensive habits, they spend entirely
too much Educated with high no.
tons of personal Importance, they will
not, as they phrase it, stoop to hard
work. Is it astonishing, therefore, that
they are passed in the race of life by
others with less capital originally, but
more energy, thrift, and industry? For
these virtues, after all, are worth more
than money. They make money, in
fact. Nay, after it is made, they ena-
BILE the pOssessor to keep it, which most
rich men pronounce to be more difficult
than the making. The young man who
begins life with a resolution always
to lay by part of his income is sure,
without extraordinary ability, grad
ually to acquire a Sufficiency, especially
as habits of economy, which the reso-
luton renders necessary, will make that
a competence for him which would be
quite insufficient for an eXtravagant
person. 1t is really what we save, more
than what we make, which leads us to
fortune. He who enlarges his expenses
as fast as his earnings increase must al
ways be poor, no matter what his abili-
ties. And content may be had on COM
paratively little. 1t is not in luxurious
living that men find real happiness
Scientific american.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
An Old Bachelors View.

George A. Dowd entered the state of
matrimony last week. We suppose it's
nice to have somebody sew on buttons,
call fellow kinder softly to grub, and
come spooning around him evenings.
But it'll grow squally after while; his
hair'l smell of soothing-sirup and his
handkerchief of paregoric, and he'll
have to get up nights and tack round
the room in his light sails, and there
won't be any use in smoking if he's got
to freeze to the stone steps every time ;
besides he can't "smile" with another
fellow unless he screws one eye so far
around to the back of his head that it
will take him a week afterwards to find
out which way he's going. The fellows
that used to step round with us grew
bald-headed darned fast after they got
married, and now most of them wear
wigs with half the hair out of them.
We congratulate you, George, in your
felicity, and if the blessing of an old
gray-haired man Will avail you. it is
freely offered. At our time of life we
shall not prObably enter any other state
except old Connecticut.-NeW HaUen
Register.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
More About Thomas, the "Dynamite
Fiend."

The Berlin correspondent of the New
York Herald writes:
From his papers and researches made
it seems the deceased murderer's real
name was William King Alexander.
According to the assertions of German
newspapers he is connected with New
York house, the principal of which is
owner of a line of steamers running be-
tween New York and Havana. But this
cannot be stated for certainty. Even his
wife, towhom he was married / years, had
no idea of his true character or the muir
derouS plans he had been connecting for
mOnths-even years. The name by
which she knew him was William King
Thomas. Great sympathy is every
where expressed for the wife and her
four little children. The hopes of the
authorities to discover some trace of aC-
completes have not been realized. 1t APP
pears be must have devised and exc
cUted the deed alone. The detective
sent to Southampton, under plea of tax
ing possession of the insured property,
to extract information relative to abet-
tors, has also failed in his endeavors.
Many developments have, however,
transplred respecting the life OF Alex
ander, alias Thomas, during bis long
stay in Germany. The basis of his
-squandered by profuse waste
fulness-SeemS to have been
laid some ten years ago, during
the American war, by transporting a
cargo of weapons from Bermuda to
Charleston, in exchange for cotton,
thereby making a gain of $4,000. !
These profits he doubled and tripled
by speculation in stocks and gold. OF
further transactions than these, which |
he himself repeatedly related, nothing |
is known.
From the small balance in his favor
found at his bankers in London, it may |
be plainly conceived that his principal |
motive in accomplishing the crime was
the acquisition of money. All persons
who ever had any knowledge of Alex
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
Troubles of a Newly Welded Pair.

The Troy Press tells an amusing story
of the vexatious disappointments which
befell a recently married pair. 1t reads
thus; George w. Pratt, of Pittsford,
Monroe County, and his wife were made
one just before Christmas, and, like
most people, started on a wedding trip.
Port Henry was their destination, and
they reached Saratoga in safety. Here
the groom found it necessary to see a
man. just opposite the depot, and he
left his blooming bride IN the car. He
would be hack in a minute but while
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27
Official Call for the National Republic
can Convention.

The next Union Republican Convention for
the nomination of candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President Of the United
States viii be held in the city of Cincinnati,
on Wednesday, the 18th day of June, 1876,
a u O'Clock, noon.
1t will consist of delegates from each State
equal TO twice the number of its Senators
and Representatives in Congress, and of
two delegates from each organized Terri
tory and District of Columbia. In calling
conventions for election of delegates the
committees of the several States are recon-
mended to invite all Republican electors and
all other voters, without regard to past po-
litical differences or previous party atiiila-
ton, who are opposed to reviving sectional
issues and desire to promote friendly feel
ing and permanent harmony throughout the
country by maintaining and enforcing all
constitutional rights of every citizen, IN
Guiding the full and free exercise of the right
of suffrage without intimidation and with
out fraud; who are is favor of continued
prosecution and punishment of all official
dishonesty, and of an economical admins
tratiOn of the Government by honest, faith
full and capable officers; who are in favor of
making such reforms in the Government as
experience may from time to time suggest;
who are opposed TO impairing the credit OF
the Nation by depreciating any of its obi
cations, and in favor of sustaining in
every way National faltny ana nhancldl
honor; who hold that the common school
system is the nursery of American liberty,
and should be maintained absolutely free
from sectarian control; who believe that for
the promotion of these ends the direction of
the Government should continue to be con-
tided to those who adhere to the principles
of 1776, support them as Incorporated in the
Constitution and laws, and who are IN favor
of recognizing and strengthening the frmda-
mental principle of National unity in this
Centennial Anniversary Of the birth of the
Republic.
(Signed) h. ID. MORGAN,
Chairman Republican National Convention.
VIM. f. CHANDLER, Secretary.
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ScHENcK's PULNoNIc SYRUP, SEA WEED Tonic
AND MANDRAKE PILLs-These deservedlv cele-
brated and popular medicines have effected a rev.
OlutiOn in the healing art, and proved the falacy
of several maxims which have for many wears OBJ
structed the progress Of medical science The
false suppositon that " Consumption Is incurable"
deferred physicians from attempting to find rene
dies for that disease, and patients afflicted with il
reConCied themselves TO death without masking an
effort 10 escape from doom which they supposed
to be unavoidable. II is now proved. however.
that Consumption can be cured, and that il has
been cured in a very great number Of cases lsome
of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's
Pulmouic Syrup alone; and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both ac-
cording to the requirements OF the case.
Dr.. Schenck himself, who MOVED uninterrupted
good health for more than forty years, was sup
posed. at time. 10 be at the very gate Of death
his physicians having pronounced his case hope
less, and abandoned him to his fate. lie was
cured by the aforesaid medicines, and, since his
recovery. many thousands similarly affected have
used DR.. Schenck's preparations with the same re-
maFkable sHcCess.
Full directions accompany each, making it not
absolutely necessary to personally see Dr. Schenck
unless patients wish their lungs examined. and
for this purpose be is professionally at his prnci-
pal office, corner s eth and Arch streets Phladei-
phia. every Monday, where all letters for advice
must be addressed. Schencks medicines are
sold by all druggists,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-27

A PAUPER inmate of Horsham Work
house, England, died in the union on
Christmas Day from the effects of glut-
tony. He attacked his Christmas din
ner so ravenously that in few minutes
he was chOked.
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WONDERFUL STCCESS, s? 5s:

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