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in Champion Hall, last Tuesday
evening, in honor of guests present
from the Encampments Of Seattle
and Port Townsend, by The ladies of
Washington EncAmpment. II re-
feeted great credit upon those hav-
ing 10 In charge.
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holding court in Walla Waila county;
passed.
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2, for an appropriation of ten thou
sand dollars to remove distractions
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name of Andrew Wilson to Olef
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authouzing and protecting the sale
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ment OF . local option law:
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table. me motion was iost ana the
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lsyed. On arriving in the harbor, the
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ed on Mission flats. Several tugs then
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hold. Six holes were cut into the port
side hold under the cabin floor and
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were 227 bales on board, were on fire,
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BILE she will be pumped out and raised.
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cargo, that sheis not materially injured,
she win be repaired for further service,
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probably be condemned.
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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17

dent would form meal for the strang-
er. The ophidian monster seemed to
think so, foo, for he darted on the un-
willing visitor and caught him by the
neck. Tno- rat, who had hitherto been
running around the cage trying to get
out, gave sharp squeal as he felt the
serpent's fangs, and, twisting himself
about, buried his teeth in the scaly jaw
of the aggressor. The snake writhed
and twisted and ratified sharp notes OF
alarm as the rat kept his sharp incisors
at work, and before the spectators could
fairly comprehend what had happened
the little quadruped had shaken himself
loose and was hopping in alright at the
other end of the cage for a means of
exit. To the surprise of all he showed
no effects of poison, and when the snake
again made grab at him he met his
creeping foe half way and shipped off
piece of his forked tongue. This SEEM
ed rather more than the Floridian had
bargained for, and he dragged himself
into corner, cast down and defeated.
Since that time the rat has flourished in
his strange quarters. He capers over
the body of his whilom enemy, and
avoids the punch of stick by creeping
under the head of the snake. The rat
seems perfectly Indifferent as regards
the reptile, and when the latter, reused
to a high degree of anger by outsiders,
makes strike at him. he hardly takes
the trouble to dodge, and only bites back
when the rattler is unusually offensive.
1t is a singular condition of things, and
the rats immunity from death can not
very easily be accounted for.-Boston
Post
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
A Doubling Heart.

BY ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR
Where are the swallows heds
Frozen and dead. s -
ferchance upon some bleak and stormy shore
o doubling hearti
Far over purple seas,
They wait in sunny ease
Tho balIny southern breeze,
To bring them 70 their northern home once
more.
Why must the flowers die?
Prisoned they lie
In the cold tomb, needless of tears and rain.
. doubling heart
They only sleep below
The soft white ermine snow
While winter winds shall blow,
no breathe and smile upon you soon again.
The sun has hid its rays
These many days;
VIII dreary hours never leave the earth2
o doubling heart
The stormy clouds on high
Veil the same sunny sky.
That soon (for spring is nigh)
Shall wake the summer into golden mirth.
Fair hope is dead, and light
Is quenched in night.
What sound can break the silence of despair
o doubting heart
The sky is overcast,
Yet stars shall rise at last,
Brighter for darkness past,
And angels silver voices stir the air.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
Springtine.


Dear, faded flowers, they bloom again,
Like echoes of the springtime gone;
And messy hillside, shadowy glen,
Break out in beauty like the dawn.
In regal beauty leaf and bud
Bend meath the kisses of the breeze,
And spanish Mixture for the Blood"
Smiles from the fences, rocks and trees.
Dear, smiling spring, what tender hope
Breathes from the life-awaking soil;
How "Bolus' Ambitions hope"
Aud "Dr. Gastric's Castor OIL" E. " {
Bid frightened nature wake and smile;
For springtime blossoms fill us less
With thoughts of pansies than with vile
"Panaceas" for "Biliousness." ~
If TO the wooded nook we stray, r1,.-s.a
Where every swelling germ is huge
With life; each gray browed rock viii say
Use Philogaster's Yermifnge."
If from these silvan bowers we fly,
We fly alas TO other ills;
And farm yard gates and barn doors cry,
"Tallc Ginsengrooter's Liver Pills"
Each blue-eyed violet hides "Pill,"
There's scent of "Rhubarb" in the air;
"Rheumatic Plasters" line each hill.
And "Bitters'f blossom everywhere,
with "Ague Cures" the eyes arc scared,
The air Is thick or thin meant,
For natures face and clothes are smeared
With Universal Liniment."
Burlington HG'rk-eye
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
A RattlesnaIze and Rat on
Terms of Intimacy.

No one who has had experience with
rats-and who hasn't?-need be told
that, vermin as they are, they are not
lacking in courage when cornered, But
the most ardent believer in rats fight
ing abilities would hardly think of pit
ting even the blacklist and bravest of the
Norway persuasion against a healthy,
poison-puffed rattlesnake. True, the
serpent is slow coach at best, and so
long as an opponent keeps out of strik-
ing distance nothing is to be feared.
But once he fastens fang on any living
creature, except it be pig or mum
goose, that creatures days are popu-
larly supposed to be numbered. AS for
rats and mice they are food for even the
mildest of snakes, in the.ordinary course
of nature, and even SO innocent a. con-
strictor as the black snake makes no
furry in lunchingfon full grown squir-
rels. There are exceptions to most
rules, however, and within a small wire
eloth-covered packing-box in the store
of a prominent Boston manufacturing
firm is now being exemplifed one of
the most curious of these eXcep-
tons. A short time since.ohe of the
members of the firm spent few weeks
hunting in Florida, and on his return he
brought with him monster rattlesnake,
the gift of friend. His snakeship
measures about five feet in length, and
has body the size of a MANS arm, the
white, yellow and brown of his cuticle
blending rather beautifully in patches
of various forms. The heavy triangular
head, characteristic of yenomous rep
tiles, has sinister expression, and in
! moments of excitement the five rattles
of his tail keep up nunpleasantly sug-
gestive whirring, while forked tongue
of inky blackness and surprising length
darts angrily from his turtle-like mouth.
He is no sleepy, half-starved fellow, as
may readily be imagined, but wide
awake and ready for an encounter OF
any kind. 1t was into the cage occu-
pied by this snake that three days since
a rather small-sized wharf rat was in
troduced, in the expectation that the ro-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

TARNIsHED GILT FRAMEs.-These
may be made bright and fresh by wash
ing them over with brush dipped in the
white of an egg.
SILVER CAKE.-Whites of s eggs, 2
cupfuls sugar, 1-2 cupful butter, 1-2 cup
full milk, cupfuls flour, spoonful bak-
ing-powder.
GOLD CAKE.-Yelks of eggs, 1 cup
full sugar, 1-2 cupful butter, 1-2 cupful
milk, 2 cupfuls flour, spoonful baking
powder.
FURNITURE POLIsH.-Equal parts of
boiled linseed oil and kerosene oil well
shaken together; applied with piece of
soft flannel and polished with clean
piece.
CLEANING CARPETS, CLOTHES, Etc
3 ounces pulverized sapo CASTLE dissolv-
ed in 1 quart boiling water, 8 ounces
ammonia, ounces ether, 2 ounces
glycerine, 2 ounces alcohol, 8 quarts soft
water; mix well and cover tight.
To CLEAN SILvER.-Mix whiting with
softsoap, until it is the consistency of
cream, adding ammonia; rub thorough
ly, and, when dry, put into clean hot
suds, and wipe each piece as removed
from the water. 1t is quite important
that cloths used should be perfectly clean
and free from grease.
CORN BREAD.-Take l pint of sifted
cOrn-meal and stir into it l teaspoonful
dry saIeratus and 12 teaspoonful salt,
then add well beaten eggs, pint sour
milk, and tablespoonful sour cream;
beat about minutes, and put it about
1-2 an inch deep in the pan to bake; if
you have no cream use about a table,
spoonful butter or lard; bake 35 min
utes.
GOLDFISH WITH CREAM.-Pick up the
fish quite fine, lay in water 1 hour;
pour off the water, add fresh, and bring
to boil; pour this off and fill up with
just milk or cream enough to cover. If
milk, add little butter, little flour,
and pinch of pepper. Beat up 2 or 3
eggs, and stir in after removing from
the fire. Plain boiled potatoes should
always be served with this dish.
LEMON CREAM PIES.-Grate away the
outer yellow coating of 2 large lemons,
taking off the white pith; chip the rest
very fine into teacupfuls boiling water,
which must be boiling on the fire; stir
tablespoonfuls of cOrnstarch, dissolved
in cold water first, and boil it, adding 2
teacups of white sugar, a small pinch of
salt. When cold add the beaten yelks
of eggs; then add the chopped lemon
and grated yellow rind and juice, stir
ring all well together. Make a rich
paste, and bake in only an under-crust.
When cold put on the whites, beaten to
a stiff froth, with 6 tablespoonful of
powdered sugar. This will make 2
good-sized pies.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
A Little GirI's Adventure on the
CatSkills.

A little daughter of Geo. Landt, of
Catskill, aged about 2 l-2 years, strayed
from the house of her grandfather, near
Austin's paper mill, on the Catskill
Creek, Aand, Notwithstanding diligent
search, she was not found until the next
day. The neighbors turned out, and
the creek was dragged, but to no pur-
pose. She was found by three young
ladies-Mira and Maria Saulsbury and
Nettie Jacksonville were searching
rayines along the track of the old Cats
kill and Canajoharie Railroad, between
thepaper mill and Leeds. Hearing a
noise inithe woods they called hernane,
and the little one answered. When
found she was sitting on log, short
distance from where she had made her
',little bed aud slept the night pre-
yious. She had IN her wanderings lost
one shoe and stocking, and her feet were
swollen and face and hands scratched.
She was returned to her parents, who
received her with open arms.-New
York Mercury.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
Arizona and Her Silver Mines.

The rapid approach of the Southern
Pacific Railroad to the borders of Ari-
IONA, thus placing the populous centers
of California within day or two's ride
of that hitherto isolated Territory, is
stimulating immigration thither and
awakening new attention to the abound
inc wealth of silver there. In fact, Ari-
IONA would seem to bid fair to rival the
Black Hills as an objective point for
treasure-hunters, and correspondent OF
the Chicago Tribune says that already
the Territory is overrun by small pros
pecting parties. Thousands of miners
are prospecting on their own hook.
Every train of the Southern Pacific is
bringing in new accessiOns from the old
mining districts, and predict that you
will soon hear of 90 flush times - and big
strikes in Arizona. However, as to the
latter, my prediction is verified before
it is made. Several parties have struck
bonanzas already in the Globe, Castle
Dome and McCracken districts, and it
only remains to be shown that their or
exists in large quantities to make them
the peers of the " bonanza kings " ofthe
Washoe. Prospectors are coming into
Tucson every day and reporting rich
discoveries, in proof of which they show
specimens of astounding richness, and
nuggets of nearly, or quite, pure silver.
One batch of samples from the Silver
Nugget Mine, weighing ten pounds at
the mill, yielded eight pounds OF pure
silver. Another lot of fifteen sacks
Welded over $4,000 to the ton. In the
" Silver King" Mine, which is in the
Globe District, silver is found almost
pure in its crude state. The shaft is
down only some 200 feet at present, and
the quantity of the ore is only conject-
ured, but so confident are its owners OF
its great value that they probably would
not dispose of it at any price. They
paid some 100000 for one-half of the
mine less than two years ago. 1t had
previously been offered for $50, 600 with
ont a taker. Much of the ore from this
mine assays as high as $4,000 to the
ton. The ore will average, it is thought
about $1,000 to the ton. Most OF it L
| shipped to San Francisco.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
Good Clothes and High Ideas.

When a man is going to deal with
high and pure ideas, he should respect
the eternal fitness of things, and put on
good clothes. The audience and the
subject demand of him fair toilet.
Here the preachers in gowns have the
advantage over those who speak in COM
mon tailor shop goods. If the coat OF
the Episcopal brother has become worn
and shiny, the gown hides all and makes
a coat that has survived its glow and
blush of youth, to be just as comfortable
and honorable as wedding garment.
The gown covers these infirmities as
beautifully as the gown of charity hides
from us infirmities of the soul. Taking
it all in all, this external part OF religion
or law or craftsmanship is a good thing,
and blessed be he who has the outer and
inner presence-presence of body and
presence of mind.-Prof. Suing, IN the
Alliance.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-17
Colorado CuriOsities.

On Friday last, says the Colorado
Springs M0untGjneer, we received a call
from Mr.. L. Allen, an elderly gentle
man, from Rochester, n. Y, who came
to Colorado about a year ago. By the
advice of physicians Mr.. Allen was in
structed to keep in the open air as much
as possible, and so has travelled ex-
tensively through Southern Colorado,
prospecting and viewing the country.
He gave us the particulars of strange
discovery he made on one of his trips,
but declines at present to state the eX-
act locality; mentioning only that it was
some distance south from Pueblo. At
the place mentioned several large
mounds or foothills appear rising from
the plains, and situated some distance
from the mountains. Mr.. Allen visited
these, and the first thing peculiar he
noticed was what appeared to be a
petrifed cocoanut. 1t was much larger
than the ordinary fruit of this kind, but
almost perfect in formation. The three
eyes of coeoanut were plainly to be
seen. On breaking open the strange
stone or petrifaction, the shell appeared
perfect, being some half an inch in
thickness, and the inside was composed
of white crystal quartz. Mr.. Allen con-
tinued his investigations and discovered
a number of other specimens similar to
the first also others resembling other
kinds of fruits. Some of these contained
what appeared to be seeds embedded in
quartz. Specimens of petrified wood
in large quantities were also found. The
mounds or hills appeared to. be made up
of loose, sandy soil, and shells were
found in great variety and quantity.
The strangest part of the discovery,
however, was yet to come. In digging
into the side of the hill Mr.. Allen I'M
earthed what seemed to be a perfectly
petrified sea-turtle, and before closing
his Investigations about dozen of these
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us as being almost perfect, and no doubt
appears to remain in his mind but that
they are genuine petrifactions of sea
turtles such as are found in the Pacific
From the numerous specimens of shells
that are found at various places on the
plains, and numbers of which can be
found and are found in this vicinity
many persons are led to believe that the
great plains on which we live were al
one time the bed of an immense ocean
and this discovery would tend to con
firm that theory. Would not thest
mounds mentioned by Mr.. Allen appear
as if they were at one time islands il
this ocean, where trees and fruits haC
grown, and on whose shores sea-turtle
had found home? We learn that sew
eral gentlemen of this city, to whom Mr.
Allen has disclosed his discovery, pro
pose accompanying him in wagon t.
the scene of his explorations and bring
inc with them some of the new-fount
curiosities.