The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-05-18

with Gov. Hartranft and the military,
will then appear. After the President
has passed through Memorial Hall the
orchestra will play the grand march
composed especially for the occasion
by Richard Wagner A hymn viii be
sung, as written by John G. Whittier,
te1music by John n. Payne of Hartford,
to be followed by cantata, more
Emusic, and q few short addresses.
Hfhereupon viii follow the unfurling of
flags, booming of artillery, chimes,
bellringing, and Handel's great 6 Hal
lelujah Chorus" by 600voices, and thus
the show will De opened. -
Mr.. Magufin Relates Another Little
re Story. -f
Zone beautiful sunny morning in the
month of June, in the year 1882" said
Mr.. Maguffn, ''John Junkless, an ami
able Young man, who lived IN Eagle
Vile, Arkansas, sat on a stone in the
suburbs of the town tamping charge
of blasting powder into hole in the
rock beneath his feet. He had worked
four years as lineman for telegraph
company, saved $40, married and set
tied down, and now he was blasting for
the cellar of house which he purposed
to build. As he pounded away with the
tamping iron he cheerfully sang that
most beautiful of native ballads, The
Suwanee RIVER somewhat obscuring
many of the words and syllables, but
still keeping rhythmic time with the
blows:
""Jdm down up; jam the jam wee jdm-ver,
Jam, far al jam,
Jam where my J IN is jam ing jana-er
| Jam where the id!
1.-TWO weeks later, Col. Horace Feath-
erstock, the veteran editor of the Eagle
vile Tn Weekly Tondhd1cb and Mirror,
sat in his sanctum calmly smoking a re-
gala cabbago-disinfectoro and
in the intervals when the cloud OF
smoke lifted he scanned the col
umns of his exchanges. He was
surprised, more than that, panied, to
note the startling story of murder that
disfgured every paper. Their columns
seemed to reek with gore, and when he
closed his eyes he found it easy to i'm
agine that they were printed with blood.
No man more than the Colonel had
commended the promptness of his Eel
w-citizens in resenting affrOnt, him.
self had contributed no mean share to
the mortuary statistics of the State
but brutal murder for base plumber or
any other ignoble purpose shocked him.
In every instance the victim seemed to
have been cut to pieces; and in all his
wide experience the Colonel had never
known any of his friends, however
skilled in the use of the bowie, to sc
completely carve up an opponent. In
fact, many of the murders would never
have been discovered but for the APP
parent carelessness of the murderers,
who had left here and there in the
woods, the roads, and the swamps, a
hand, or foot, piece of leg, or an
arm, which they seemed to have been
too reckless to secrete with the rest OF
the body. 5000 1913
"AnOther two weeks later, the citi-
zens of all the counties for many miles
around were in an uproar over theiI
Coroners' bills. All over the country
the Coroners were suddenly growing
rich, and the vigilance committees thai
were hunting the mysterious assassins
were, as the charges for the inquests roll
ed up, almost moved to turn their wrath
from the murderers to the CorOners.
At last the cutlery grew too strong to be
Quoted, and investigation was resolved
upon By common consent Eaglevllle
was the place appointed, and one day
in the month of July a great throng OF
the inhabitants and all the Coroners as
sembled there. Each Coroner brought
with him as proof of the legality of his
; action, the remains upon which his in
quests had been held, and there were
some remarkable exhibits. One enter
prising man had held an inquest on {
foot, and another, whose crimson clari
} on proclaimed his bibulous propensi
ties, had put in a big bill for sitting OF
an ear.
mot many of the Coroners had con-
tributed to the collection when the sur
geon in charge noticed that some of thu
pieces seemed to be counterparts o
others; and as more Coroner.
laid down their fragments, fur
Their similarities served to deeper
, what in his mind promised t
: be an even more startling and wonder
full mystery than the murders them
: selves. When the last piece had com,
in, and all hands had repaired to thu
l taverns to refresh preparatory to the in
; YES igation, the surgeon, with an Hide
fined motive, set to work to match tn
$ odds and ends, and as he progressed i
= was impressed upon him that the muir
dered men must have borne a striking
4 resemblance to each other, for thei
parts seemed interchangeable. As h
-tkept on matching and matching, tn
/ body grew, and the pile of fragment
+ diminished, until at last, when only
d great toe was lacking to complete tn
reconstructed body, there was left Q
: the Coroners' OFFERINGS just one grea
n toe and nothing more; and havin
v stuck this on, the surgeon, with som
+ feeling of pride in his skill, but littl
y knowing that unconsciously he hat
b cleared up the mystery, placidly await
/ ed the return of the investigators an
e they soon came, with Col. Featherstoc
|. marching gravely at their head. Stall
Is ing solemnly in through the open dool
the Colonel took one square look at tn
e body, and then, with that profanit
L which in periods of excitement some
e times married his otherwise classical III
r terance, he burst out: John Junkles:
e by LIZ f ~ go
1T was indeed he Sitting happil
n on stone in the suburbs of Eaglevill
5, a month before, tamping blasting pow
d der into a hole in the rock beneath hi
e feet, he had pounded too hard, tn
l. charge had exploded, and he had bee
blown all over the country in the sma
s fragments upon which the reporters ha
le based their tales of murder and til
II 'Coroners had held their many inquest!
IS Probably no other man was ever S
Q widely distributed. You have heard {
the man that was blown into the midi
d of next week.-Mrs. was the man ths
Ie was blown into the middle of sever;
It adjoining countless H. IT
7, "Of course, +" Mr.. Maguffin concluC
h ed, "this discovery relieved the Co
II oners of any suspicion of corruption
but it also led to the passage of whole
some law which has sAce been substal
It. tally adopted in many States, namely
1. that no Coroner should charge for a
n inquest unless he could produce cel
e tain quantity of corpse. "-Ne1O YOr