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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03

as to stagger back again a single mo-
ment before it. But almost immedi-
ateiy he was bounding through it,
throwing open the doors between, and
all at once, as he opened the third one,
a great binding glare fell from above,
and there was the monstrous horror of
flame towering and soaring, ike an
evil spirit that wiped matter from ex-
istence. %
But Roger did not pause to think
what it was like; he only thought that
1t was sweeping through an upper floor,
that in moment the floor must fall,
that he must reach Roses room. The
house had been struck bv lightning in
the storm, and the smouldering spark
had been making headwayin the lonely
upper rooms all the delicious summer
evening, all the time that he had been
leaning on his balcony drinking the
balmy air, all the time that Rose had
been folded in her sweet slumber, all
the time he had been hearing that tiny
crackle, and thinking it was the rain
dripping from the leaves upon the walk.
Another moment and over its dull roar
came cry, "Oh, Roger! Rogerl Oh,
my dearestl my dearesti where are
you? Do you know it?" And Rose,
with a cloak thrown over her, burst
through her door, and was caught in
his arms as he leaped down the stairs
at one vault and bore her out into
safety.
They had barely reached the gate
when the roof fell in, and though the
neighbOrs came thronging round, and
the engines were presently at play, they
stood there with the rest, and saw it
was of no use, and the blaze of the home
of their childhood and their youth was
ascending ike a smoke of sacrifice.
Rose stood folded in the arms of Roger,
hiding her eyes from the dreadful sight,
as a child might stand beside the grave
of a mother while it is filed. LET it
go without tears, dariing-let it go,''
Roger whispered. " 1t is a kindly flame.
The old house is still protecting us; it
has lighted our way to each other
Without it, we should still have been
groping in the dark. l should never
have dared win you; you would never
have known | loved you.''
"You are coming right home with
me, children" said Mrs. Vance, "till
we can turn round and see what's to be
done. Is the house insured? where's
your papers?"
g"They are gone, y said Rose, I" with
every thing else. we are utterly pen
niless ~
1t was Just a fortnight after that,
when Roger entered Mrs Vance's house
one night, Rose ran and clapped bit
of paper before his eyes SO closely that
he could see nothing. When he stepped
back, she was holding it over his lips,
and then half bashfully tiptoeing up
and kissing him through it. "Do you
see what it is?" she said. alt is a
check for twenty-five hundred dollars
from the Safety Insurance Company,
who have taken the circumstances into
account. 1t is the insurance on the
buildings, and the lands are still left.
The old house is taking care of us yet,
Roger. Two thousand for your bust
ness, and the rest," she whispered,
shyly, and blushing like rose indeed,
TO furnish the new house. ."-Harpe,'s s
BdzGT.
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Feminine Drivers.

There were two of them (says the
Minneapolis Tri5uae), both young
ladies, and yesterday they procured an
animal which through courtesy we will
call horse, which was attached to
low, rafting, but substantial open
phaeton. They having been assured
that the horse was as safe and as little
liable to be frolicSOme or shy as the one
which had his eyes picked out g one by
one," they started for pleasure drive
down Fifth Street south. One of the
Young ladies handled the ribbons with
grace that would have done credit to
an elephant at @ German, g" now cluck-
inc like setting hen with one chicken,
and alternating quick, short jerks on
the bit with that peculiar slapping of
the horses back with the lines which
no one but an amateur female driver
can ever hope to attain to. The other
Young lady grasped the cushion firmly
with one hand and the side of the seat
with the other, gathered ready for a
spring at a moments notice, and en-
couraged the fair driver with running
account of all sorts of runaways, both
real and imaginary, directing how the
reins ought to be handled, and inti-
mating how much better she could
drive. Every thing went smoothly till
a COW was observed dying beside the
road about two blocks off, demurely
chewing her cud. The result was de-
tour of four or five blocks to avoid the
bloodthirsty bovine, the fair occupants
of the phaeton cOngratulating
themselves and each other
upon their presence of mind in
avoiding the impending danger. A
stray stone in the road was safely pass
ed, only two of the four wheels running
over it; but, horror of horrors! the
railroad track was only one block ahead,
and both of them could hear train
coming plain as day, there could be no
mistake about that. One of them con-
cluded the safest way would be for her
to get out and walk to the crossing, and
from that point she would signal the
other if there was no danger. The
driver kept her seat about half block
further, and then she, too, got out and
drove the horse, she walking beside the
vehicle, for if any thing should happen
it would be go much safer. A strange
gentleman happening along the street,
and the fair driver assuming as bewitch-
ing smile as her terror at the ordeal
would allow, asked him if he wouldn't
please lead the horse over the track and
she would walk. Of course he would
but an amused grin spread all over hi
face as he gallantly took the animal by
the bit While helping the ladies int
the carriage on the other side of tbs
crossing, be naiveiy remarked: 81
guess the, ii getthe street-cars running
over this Seventh Street track to-mor
row." And these twoyOung ladies nov
stick to it that they knew it was th'
horse-car track all the time, and tina
they only got out to rest. Afraid? Th
idea!
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
Timely Resurrection.


The conductor of one of the Central
Pacific passenger trains, while making
trip recently, was informed that a
man had died in the forward sleeper.
He proceeded to the car, found the
man, and concluded to have him re-
moved to one of the rear cars where
there were but few passengers, feeling
that the presence or death in car
filed with people would cause great
uneasiness, TO say the least. The body
was accordingly transferred TO the 9TH
er car, the conductor saw that it was
properly placed, and went forward to
attend to his duties. Some time after
ward, while going through the rear car,
he was not q little astOnished TO find
the body sitting up, and swearing, in a
manner that any well regulated corpse
would be ashamed of, that he could
whip the conductor and all hands, he
hads.onlY been dead drunk.-SGeTq-
nle1lt0 Record Unio71.
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TOrments Of Il Girl Bitten by Rattle
snake.

A few days since Miss Sarah Goodloe,
daughter of prominent resident of
Portage, Pa, and two little girls named
Jennie Wagner and Laura Webb, went
out in the Wyckoff Mountain to pick
huckleberries. About 10 O'clock the
Webb girl returned crying to the vii
lage, and said that Miss GOodloe had
been bitten by a rattlesnake and was
sick in the woods about a mile away.
The young lady's father, accompanied
by a couple of friends and DR.. Crane,
hastened to the spot, guided by the
girl. On reaching it a fearful sight
presented itself. Miss Goodloe lay in
commissions on the ground, and was
swollen to an enormous size. DR..
Crane at once tore her clothing loose,
and revealed the fact that the flesh had
commenced to turn black. She was
entirely unconscious, and was at once
pronounced beyond all human aid.
The snake had sunk its fangs deep into
the calf of her leg in two places, and
one of them was found hanging to her
stocking. The Doctor administered
such remedies as are used in such cases,
but the unfortunate young woman died
in a few minutes after the arrival of her
father and party. Her limbs swelled
so that the one bitten by the snake
burst the skin. She died in the most
intense agony.
The circumstances attending the case
are related by the little girl as follows ::
They were picking berries near the top
of the ridge and had their pals nearly
filled. Suddenly Miss Goodloe gave a
loud scream, and dropping her pail ran
wildly out of the bushes toward plot
of grass near by, shouting, b" My God,
my God, rattleshake has bitten mel"
she threw herself on the grass and COM
menced rolling and shrieking. The lit
tie Webb girl ran toward her and saw
a portion of snake which seemed to
be still attacking Miss Goodloe. About
half the snake from the rattles up, was
exposed, and it was sounding the latter
in matter denoting the greatest rage.
The little girl, with singular bravery,
seized the reptile by the tail and jerked
it loose from Miss Goodloe and killed it
with club before it got away. She
then told the young lady they had bet
ter start for home at once, and they
started homeward, the two little girls
assisting Miss Goodloe, who continued
to grow i'll from the effects of the bite,
and finally dropped in convulsions at
the spot where the Webb girl left her
and hurried on for aid.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
Hot Weather Mortality.

Close to the morgue yesterday was
pile of thirty-six pine cofins, and near
by was another pile Of similar boxes
for children All were for the pauper
dead, with whom the morgue aud the
dead-house have been filled since the
beginning of the intensely hot weather.
"Busy! l should say so," said Mr..
Fogarty, the assistant keeper. "We
had so many bodies in the dead-house
last night that we had to break over our
Sunday regu alton, and bury them this
morning. That is something we never
do except in emergencies. Twenty
eight or thirty bodies were taken to the
burial grounds to-day, and the place is
filing up again. At a rough estimate l
should think that we have already bur-
led over fifty unknown persons that have
died from the heat since the first of Ju-
h. We have to work until 9 O'Clock at
light. You see that pile of boxes?
They'lls soon be filed, and have to make
room for more. Right there, - pointing
TO a broken wagon, "that cart was fll-
ed so heavily with bodies the other day
that the axle broke ~. 7. Sun. -
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THE FLOOD or YBzRSs
[From nrrant.s New POem.


Sadly turn and look before, where yet
The Flood must pass, and behold p mist -
Where swarm dissolviug forms, the brood Of
Hope. - ,-,---.-.-
Or wander among rainbows. fading soon
And re appearing, haply giving place
To shapes Of grislv aspect, such as rear 4
Molds from the idle air; where serpepts lit
The head 10 strike. and skeletohs stretchforth 4
The bony arm in menace. Further on
A belt Of darkness seems % bar the way,
Long low and distant, where the Life that r.
Touches the Life 10 Come. The Flood Of Years
Rolls towards Il. near and nearer. It must pass
That dismal barrier. VIII { Il thpre bevonds
Hesr what the wise and road have aid Bevond
That belt Of darkness siill the years ron on
More gently, but not with less mighty sweep.
They gather up again and softly bear
All the sweet lives that late were overwhelmed
And lost 20 sight-all that in them was good,
Noble, and truly great and worthy Of love
The lives Of infants and ingenious youths,
SaRes and sanity women who have made
Their households happy-all are raised and borne
BY that great current In ite onward sweep.
wandering and ripping with caress ng waves
Around green islands. fragrant with the breath
Offowors that never wither. SO they paRe,
Prom stage % stage. along the shining course
OF that fair river broadening like a sea.
As its smooth eddies curl along their way,
They bring old friends together; hands ars
ciasped -s-.-rassaa-sas-r1zaal-s
In Soy unsDeakahle; the mothers arms
Againhre folded round the child slie loved =
And lost. Old sOTrows are forgotten now,
Or but remembered % make sweet the hear -.
That overpays them; wounded hearts that bed
Or broke are healed forever. Ia the RON -
or this grief-shadowed Present fhere shall be
A Present in whose reign no grief shall gnaw
The heart. and never shall tanderte u Z
Be broken in whose reign the eternal Change
That waits on growth and action shall proceed
With everlasting Concord hand in hand
-ScTibRer's fOT dugHst.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03

A MAN with large family was COM
planning of the difficulty OF supporting
all of them. 'But," said a friend,
..you have sons big enough to earn
Something" "The difficulty is" said
tae man, ''they are too big to work. :"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03

SEVERAL Baltimore physicians say
that many diseases are caused by soap,
the grease for which is obtained from
unhealthy animals.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03

pit. The Mohawk carried crew of
twelve, and her commander was Capt.
Kenney, formerly sailing master of the
Idler.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
held up the pipe, while they listened to
the words OF the holy man.

held up the pipe, Wnle Iney llSleneu W
the words OF the holy man.
After invoking the forgiveness of the
Great Spirit for the sins of the whole
nation, as individuals and as nation,
and praying that they might be at
peace with themselves as individuals,
with each other, and as nation with
the whole world, he closed with an
earnest exhortation TO each to live
goodly life. After asking the white
men to be covered again, the high
priest proceeded to the conservation OF
the food about to be eaten, the pole, and
the grounds. Enormous pendants as
Jewels, are worn in the ears OF all these
Indians, and the present occasion was
taken advantage Of to have the ears OF
number of children pierced by the
medicine men present. SO, as they
were brought forward, they were placed
upon their backs upon the ground, and
the kneeling medicine men cut s3r
GREAT GAsHEs IN THEIR EARS
with butcher-kuives. The ,devotees
now repaired to the vicinity of the pole,
where, without food, drink, or sleep,
they were to dance for twenty -four
hours. Those not joining in the dance
engaged themselves in fessting on dogs
and otherwise amusing themselves
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03

done, be should 90 home, home to Rose,
fair, joyous, his, by her fire, or looking
out for him, springiug to meet hhn !;
the scene grew so real it seemed to
Roger he could feel her sweet breath on
his face, her warm arms about him; he
held her Just one daring moment in this
waking dream, and then he sat down
upon the step and hid his face in his
hands as if be would hide toothe scald-
ing tears that must haveway. "a
Two thousand dOllars-he might iBst
as well wish for a silver minel Just as
hesaid the words 10 himself, a soft
clear radiance was yelling up over the
dpsky garden, and as he raised his head
again, after awhile, there came the
moon softly floating up above the hori-
zon of the long interval below. 1t
cheered him inexplicably, like an omen,
a promise; he stood up and struck one
one palm into another. ''I viii have
her yeti" he cried, and went in to his
dreams.
" Can you think of any thing, Rose,
where we can economize?" he said, next
!
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1876-04-20
Two Unfortunate Sis ters.

Yesterdays issue of the Boulder Coun-
" Ne'oS gives the particulars of an ac>
cldent that occurred, on Sunday last,
near that town, and which resulted in the
death OF one young lady ana severe inju-
ries to the other. The young ladies re,
forred to are daughters Of Judge W. NJ.
Slaughter, we'll known citizen of Colora>
do and Mayor of Central at an early day.
The details as related by an afflicted
father as follows: Sunday being a de-
lightful day, the daughters improved it to
climb to the top of the high sandstone
cliff, in sight of Boulder, on the north
side of the Cayon, at the entrance into
the mountains. Mary. who is so far re-
covered as to be able to relate the cir,
cumstances, says that Rosa was so full of
the spirit of the romantic adventure, that
she had oft occasion to check her daring
on the dangerous rocks. After walking
awhile on the height of the sharp ridge
they passed around to the steep south,
western face of the cliff, which is broken
by succession of perpendicular preci-
pices and loose rocks. Rosa ventured
ahead, her sister warning her not to go
so fast. AT that time they saw Addie and
Willie nytle coming up the Canyon read,
as they suppose, to visit them. Rosa. in
her exultation leaned forward to signal
them, when she stepped on the loose
stones, which began to roll, and she fell
forward, head foremost. going down the
rocks, from shelf to shelf, for nearly
hundred feet. Her sister screamed for
help, and was heard at house near by
and also by the passerby. She then
tried to get to where her younger sister
had fallen, and remembers no more, only
that all seemed to become dark. Soon
after their fearful descent the sisters were
found unconscious at the foot of the ledge.
Medical assistance was Immediately sum.
moned, but in spite Of its well directed
efforts, Rosa, the younger of the sisters,
died on Tuesday evening The other
sister is slowly recovering.-Col. Trib.
ane.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1876-04-20
A Long Search for a Wife.

In July, 1874, John Pearson miner
of Manor Station, Pennsylvania, sailed
for England, his native country, taking
With him daughter seven years old, aud
intending, after arranging his business
in Eng to send for his wife, Martha.
aud another little daughter who remained
with her mother in Pennsylvania, to meet
him there, but received no reply, and
size did not come. Alarmed, lie then
returned to this country, but found his
house deserted. His former neighbors at
Manor Station told bin that nis wife
vent away about a month after he sailed,
saying that she was going to meet her
husband ' I.
Pearson could fnd no traces of her 10
this country, and he returned to England
and Travelled through England, Scotland
and Wales, in search of his lost wife and
child. Unsuccessful, he sailed again for
this country and searched more carefully
in the towns of Pennsylvania. At
Harrisburg he ascertained that William
kehoe, who bad boarded with him at
Manor Station before he went to England
had met Mrs. Pearson at Jacks hotel in
August, 1874, and gone away with her.
Before making this discovery Pearson
had cntertaded no suspicion that his
wife had eloped. because she had always
lived happily with him. Determined to
find his faithlcss wife and her lover, he
then put the case in the hands of Chief
of Police Hoopcs, of Harrisburg. 1t was
discovered by the detectives that Kehoe
had an aunt living in Hudson, and last,
December, Chief of Police Snyder, of
this city, was furnished with photographs
of Kehoe and Mrs. Pearson, and request.
cd to search for them. He soon got on
track of the guilty couple, and found
that thoy had been living 10 and near
Hudson as husband and wife. Kohoe
had been employed as a quarryman, and,
while living in the suburbs, last Novem-
ber, Mrs. Pearson's daughter, four years
old. was accidently burned to death.
They had afteward come to this city, and
resided in Strawberry alley.
Last Saturday Mr.. Pearson arrived
here, and with the officers he went to
meet his wife, who wGs found washing at
the Waldron House. She was brought
unsuspecting into the hotel parlor, and
confronted With her husband. The wife
sank upon her knees, aud with appraised
hauds, and lips white as snow, feryeptly
begged forgiveness. Their tri6ing diff.
culties we're talked over, t; proper under.
standing was had, and it was there agreed
that the past should never be reviewed.
Mrs. Pearson promised to be faithful
wife, aud agreed to return to her former
home. She rolled down her sleeves, re,
paired to her late place of abode, dcaned
her silk dress, left KehOe to attend to the
chores, aud departed with her child aud
husband by the IL 10 train Saturday
evening for Harrisburg, by way Of New
York, a happier woman than she has been
for two ycars past,-N. Y. Sun. :
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1876-04-20
Sucking it Through the Kay
hole.

In the palmy days of the Bowery The
atre, under the management of John
llamblin, some excellent acting was seen
on these boards, the manager having
spared no pains to make this place of
amusement only second to the old Park.
lie employed some of tho very best
American and foreign talent. An Amer
ican tragedian that always drew immense-
ly, and filed the house to overaowing
when he was sober enough to gil an en-.
gagement, was secured by the manage.
ment, who agreed to give him q liberal
portion of the receipts during weeks
performance if he would abstain from
drinking. This proposition being agreed
to, Hambin, to make assurance doubly
sure, locked him up in the dressing room,
and put the key in bis pocket. Mr..
Actor, becoming exceedingly dry, sum-
moned the call boy to the outside Of his
door and showed bOnk note to him
through the ko ihcle. with instructions to
get soda bottle filed with brandy, and
also purchase clay pipe; ho was to de-
liver the goods as soou as possible aud
keep the balance Of the change. In good
time the boy returned and asked for fur.
ther instructions; he was directed TO in>
sert the stem of the pipe in the keyhole.
then fill the bowl of the pipe with fluid,
saying as he vas bound not to drink, that
he would smoke and take the con;e.
quence. That evening Hamblin was
astonished to see the celebrated actor
more than half seas-over, but as he acted
bis Parts' we'll, he regulated the future
smoking SO as not to materially Interfere
with the engagement.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1876-04-20
A Quaker Trick.

When stranger has climbed four
pairs of stairs aud made half dozen
turns he finds himself at the door of the
chiet editorial room or the Philadelphia
Bulletin. Max Adeler sits Just inside.
and as the stranger enters he is seated at
Adelcr's right hand lie is seated in an
old-fashloncd splint. bottom chair, tho
bottom Of which has gone to look for the
dust of the Pilgrim Fathers, There's
newspapers spread over the vacant spot,
and Mr.. Adeler cheerfully remarks:
"Slt right down-fne day-whon did you
arrivedi'
The man sits down. If he is a small
man he sits on the hocr, his feet slant
toward the ceiling, his knees dig into his
throat and his back is dreadfully bent,
while his hat is jammed over his eyes.
"Fell thr, ugh, chi" inquiries Mr..
Adeler as he looks around. "How do
you like Philadelphia?' .-.
The stranger stugglcs, finds himself
fast, and asks to be extricatcd. He is
politely informed that it is against the
rules of the Office to extricate any one
who falls through the chair in which
Artcmus Ward used to sit, and is in Just
the condition he left it. ....
"poes Philapclphia come up to your
ideas" kindly inquiries Mr.. Adeler us he
opens another exchange.
The stranger sets to work to bust that
chair or break his back. but he can do
neither. lie thinks the joke has been
carried far enough, but is inf formed that
it is not joke-that no man around that
Office was ever more sober in his life.
The victim tries to laugh, aud remarked
that FIVE minutes more will finish his
spinal column.
"Oh, no it WON'T" replied Mr.. Adeler.
"Why, haze known men who were
on the verge of the grave to live in your
position for one hour and sixteen min
utes p
After a quarter Of hour or more Mr..
Adeler calls in three more editovs and
introduces them to the stranger, and they
want to know if he is pleased with Phla-
delphia and if has any hard feeling against
The memory of William, Penn. Five
minutes is then spent in debating whether
the victim can be extricated under q
suspension Of the rule. The vote is tie
and tho city editor. is called in. to cast
a ballot. He makes speech, explaining
his reason for voting "yes," and after
twenty-five minutes have passed away
the stranger is released, photograph of
William Penn given him, and he is told
that any street-car line will,take him to
the centennial grbtnds.