The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-03-23

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mode of salutation is founded on re-
spect7-self-respect and respect for ones
neighbor-and this is ingrained in the
very nature of an Ottoman.
IL The Black Hills Excitement.
The Denver Meas says: Jerry Lewis,
who has resided here for adecade and
half for short intervals of time, is a
late arrival from the Black Hills, hav-
ing left Custer City Saturday, the 18th,
at noon, reached Cheyenne Wednesday
evening, and Denver night before last.
The trip, therefore, was made on quick
lime, and without hitch or accident.
A Ne1cS reporter interviewed Mr.. Lewis
yesterday, and found him very commu-
NEGATIVE, and brim full of enthusiasm
over the newly opened diggings. He
gives more information of kind sought
after Just now than has been obtained
so far from any returned prospector,
and it is reliable. Mr. Lewis spent
about a month in roaming about the
Hill, visiting most of the camps. Gus
ter City and Hill City are the only towns
in the country. The former is Situated
in small, picturesque park, hemmed
in by mountains, Harney's Peak rising
on one side, and near by.
The town site covers $40 acres, and
this area embraces the whole of the
park, so that the size of the town must
be practically limited. The entire site
has been laid off into lots so by $50 feet
in size, which command prices ranging
from S25 to $500 each, according to
desirability of location and the eager
ness of buyers. The principle street is
named after Gen. Crook. 1t is 200 feet
wide The other streets have width
of $50 feet, and the alleys are thirty feet
wide, and all run at about the same an
gle as the streets of Denver. Four hun
| bred buildings have been erected, and
every lot on the town site has the found
alton of some sort of structure laid on
it. There are four regular saloons,
where bad quality of whisky is retail
ed, and six stores, where you can buy
groceries, clothing, canned fruits, gum
boots or whisky. A dance-house is to
be established soon, in Swarenger Hall,
log and frame building 35xS0 feet,
and bevy of eight waiter and dance
girls are now en- route from Cheyenne,
their arrival being eagerly and impa-
tiently awaited. So far, nobody has had
the enterprise or temerity to open
gambling-house, and. as there are only
two or three decks of cards in the dig
gings, poker-playing is a limited amuse-
ment. The five women in Custer City
indeed in the whole cOuntry-are all
respectable. But the advent of women
of bad character is expected daily. A
| few drunken rows, amounting to little
more than boisterous hilarity, have Oc-
Cured in Custer City, but nobody has
been killed or even hurt.
The prominent discoveries are on
French, Spring, Castle, Rabbit, Iron,
Whitewood, and Deadwood Creeks. The
two last named are seventy-five miles
northwest of Custer City. There had
had been a stampede in that direction
for some days prior to Mr.. Lewis's de-
parture for Denver. During one week
! 800 miners passed through Hill City for
the above-named creeks. Very rich
! discoveries were reported to have been
made there, but on those streams the
! bedrock lies near the surface, the depth
ranging from three f6seven feet. These
! and the other creeks on the western
slope are very small, but the fall is
great, and the advantages for sluicing
cOrrespondingly good. On Spring Creek
the bedrock lies deep-frOm twenty
five to forty-five feet; on French Greek,
at Custer City, little nearer the sur
! face, from fifteen to twenty feet. There
is comparatively but little water in
French Creek, and the fall is so slight,
being less that foot to the mile, that
nobody knows yet, to dead certainty,
which way the creek runs.
Sitting Bulls band of redskins has
been raiding the northern camps, and
altogether some seventy or eighty head
of horses have been run off. A good
many of the prospectors are, in conse-
quence, trudging about the country on
foot, packing their tools and provisions
on their backs. One miner, j. S. Nc
l'Call, from Montana, was killed and
scalped last week by this same band.
He was riding along to Hill City after
provisions. Charley Mace, a Denver
boy, belonging to party encamped on
Old Woman's Fork, shot and killed an
Indian, who, with ten or a dozen 9th
ers, was stampeding their stock. This
occurred about ten days ago.
Mr.. Lewis says that during part of
the winter the weather was very cold
and the snow deep, but when he left
i Custer City the air had the mildness of
spring about it, and men were building,
mining, and going about generally in
shirt sleeves. There were no idlers or
! in haI
an important object to accomplish,
and that was to make his fortune, and as
quickly as possible. There are, it is
estimated, 1900 people in the Hills, and
the number is rapidly augmenting. Mr..
Lewis thinks the country is one of in
calculable riches. He doesn't hesitate
to predict that the bars on French Creek
viii equal the famous Alder gulch in
Montana, which Welded its millions. He
will return shortly.
As Mr.. Lewis and his travelling COM
! paniOns. came out to Cheyenne they
found the road lined with soldiers, pros
pectors, and vehicles. They were scarce
| " ever out of sight of parties. On
Monday last, at Running Greek, half
way between Fort Laramie and Custer
City, they met d. Tom Smith, of Den
yer, and $50 others, well armed and
comfortably equipped, and day later
they met Harry Mills, Charlie Wilcox,
Doc Bard, and Dick Darlington, also
of Denver, with a party of thirty or
forty, travelling north at a lively gait.
A Petrifled Woman.
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twenty-five years ago an old lady in