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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13

There are 80 glass -furnaces in Pitts
burg and its vicinity, 90 of which are
now in operation.
A Christmas beef, weighing 5,115
pounds, goes from Kenton County,
Kentucky, to the Cincinnati market.
Henderson, Ky, has Il tobacco
stemmeries that shipped last year,
mostly to Liverpool, 1922 hogsheads.
The pineapple flavor furnished to
ice creams and candies is reported as
produced from butyric ether or acetate
of butyle, both produced from coal tar
"A Stockbridge, Wis, Indian far
mer planted eight quarts of old dent
corn last spring, and harvested crop
of 300 bushels of sound corn from the
same.
"A. Cole, of Oconto, Wis, raised
from l pumpkin seed this year, 90
pumpkins, aggregating 2,150 pounds in
weight, the largest one weighing 210
pounds.
Kangaroo hides are an important
article of export from Australia. They
make the most pliable leather that is
gloves and riding-whips.
The largest number of bushels aver
aged per acre in corn in any county in
Illinois is given to Schuyler, which is
81, while the smallest number is given
to Mason County, and drops down to 20.
The English manufacturers seem to
have given up all hope of ever again be-
ing able to supply the American mar
ket with their goods, and have become
thoroughly Indifferent about our re-
quirements.
A seed-man of San Francisco, who
has just returned from Oregon and
Washington Territories, tells of a new
kind of wheat there which has three or
four heads on a single stalk, and which,
they assert, yields as high as 100 bush
els 10 the acre.
The British Government has con-
tracted with the owners of the Bell tele-
phone for its use as part of the British
Geographic system, and the German
Geographic department is organizing
telephone communication for distances
not exceeding 80 miles.
-Gemmlcan, the faVorlte f0od IN the
coolest parts of British American, is
made of buffalo meat and fat. The
meat is thoroughly dried in thin slices,
and then pounded almost to powder
with clubs or stones. 1t is next PIT in
to bags of buffalo hide, and mixed with
its own weight of boiling fat. This
compound is wonderfully compact, and
a very small quantity is enough for a
meal.
AT the Exposition in Paris next
year a special jury will be appointed to
the several recent electrical
inventions which may be presented for
competition. The most sanguine ex-
pectations are entertained in France of
the complete victory of electric light
over the old-fashioned gas illumination,
which it is predicted will soon be alto
gether abolished and superseded by the
better and cheaper product of modern
science.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Whittier will be 20 next month.
Miss Mary Anderson is going to
France next year, there to study art.
Kate Field has been giving her lee
ture on Charles Dickens in London
with success.
The Harpers paid Longfellow S.
600 for keramos," which is about $40
line.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Elicit was not a
genius, but she made 100000 through
her writings.
The London Society of Compost
tors have library ofIover Z 1000 volumes,
which are circulated among the men,
bers.
Will Carleton, author of Farm
Ballads is lecturing in the Eastern
States, and is fayorably spoken of by
the press of that section.
DIR. Edward Hammond Clarke, the
author of the book " Sex in Education"
died in Boston on the I'd. He was grad
uated from Harvard College in 1871,
was formerly Professor of Materia Med
lea at the Harvard Medical School, and,
at the time of his death, was an over
seer of Harvard College.
DIR. De Villiers, who is preparing
for publication by engraving and pho
Biography fac-simile edition of Guten-
berg's Bible, has discovered in the
course of his researches Gutenberg's
signature on the back of letter of in
diligence dated 1454. An exact fac
smile is being prepared, and it will be
printed with pamphlet tracing its his
tory and giving many particulars in re-
gard to the origin of printing.
Some headlines from paper pub
lished for boys: 81 Free and Easy Ned -
"Tipton Blue, or the Jockeys Mis-
sion;n "Corkey, or the Tricks and
Travels of Supe;'' "Bob Short, or
One of Our Boys - " Detective Dan, or
the Irish Ferret;n "That Boy of Ours,
or Tom on His Muscle;' The Chem
lists Murderer "The Suspicious
Wife," GA Terrible Secret" If the
American boy is not gradually drifting
| into hopeless idiocy, it is from no lack
of enterprise on the part of publishers.
The London Times in an editorial on
Stanley says: at will be remembered
to the honor of the press that the final
discovery of African geography was
made by a newspaper correspondent.
1t is easy for the world at home to avail
itself of the result of the enterprise dis
PLAYED in the descent of the Lualaba,
and to criticise the methods employed,
but we must acknowledge the admira-
BILE courage of the gallant explorer. A
man might as well allow himself to be
dropped from balloon into the mid
die of the Atlantic in order to see where
the winds and currents would carry
him. The undertaking of Mr.. Stanley
was in all respects launch into the
dark. The grand result deserves all the
honor that we can render the man."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13
A New Disinfectant.

Ozone, the newest and the least sta
BILE of the gases, has recently been made
to do good service in the sick-room. It
makes short work of those miasmata
and organic impurities Of vitiated air
which the Italians describe by the ex-
pressive name of malaria, and which
every physician knows to be among the
most baneful influences with which the
conyalescent patient, whose tenure of
life is not quite assured, has to contend.
A mixture should be made of perman-
ganate Of potash, peroxide of magnese,
and oxalic acid, in equal parts, and two
large spoonfuls with some water put in
10 a plate ard placed on the floor of the
Care should be taken,
however, to remove steel tenders and
fire irons, and to cover up brass door
handles, since ozone will rust all metals
meaner than gold or silver
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13
CONGRESS.

The Senate was not in session on the 4th.
1.-The House passed bill eliminating from
the law the statutes which prescribe the TAX
ing of the "iron-c clad OATH as also bill re-
pealing Sec. so of the Revised Statutes, which
provides for the disqualification OF any juror
who has without duress or coercion taken up
arms in defense of any instruction or rebel
lion against the United States, or who has
given aid or comfort thereto.
The Senate was not in session on the 9th.
......In the House the bill to repeal existing
statutes for the renewal of patents and de-
claring it unlawful hereafter for Commission
ers of Patents TO renew or extend any patent
tor any design whatever, passed, after which
the House adjourned.
In the Senate,on the 9th, the House Silver
bill was made the special order for the fol-
lowing Tuesday. Senator Matthews submit
ted a concurrent resolution, reciting various
acts Of Congress authorizing the issue of
bonds, etc, and declaring that all bonds of
the United states under said act are payable
principle and interest, at the option OF the
Government of the United States, in silver
dollars Of 4l2S grains standard silver, and
such payment is not in violation of public
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13
THE EASTERN WAR.

Turkish adviccs Of the 4th were to the eff
feet that Russian attack on Kamarli had
been repulsed with great loss to the assail-
ants. The Turks also claimed to have Sc
cured decided advantages in fight near
Tirnova, in which the Russian loss was esti-
mated at 5000. Their own losses were not
stated. This news came from Constantine
pie direct.
Turkish official dispatches of the 18th state
that Suleiman Pasha has captured Ilgana,
with II guns, 90 ammunition- wagons, and
800 prisoners.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 9th says
One Turkish division has crossed the LON,
taken Popkoi, and is marching in the direc-
ton of Verboca. Another Turkish division
is only three hours march from Tirnova
The Russians admit the capture of Ilgana,
and acknowledge heavy losses, after a stub
born resistance.
Dispatches of the Sth state that lSuleiman
Pasha is making strenuous efforts to relieve
Pleyna, and hopes to force the withdrawal
of enough Russian troops to enable 0sman
Pasha TO getout. In Asia the Turks have
evacuated Batoum, and the fall of Erzeroum
is daily looked for,as achievements can not
now reach Mukhtar Pasha. English inter-
vention in behalf of Turkey is again the cur
rent rumor in London.
A brief telegram from Bucharest, 10th,
announces the fall Of Plevna on the previous
day, sunday. The Turkish garrison, who
were dying of hunger and cold, having
abandoned all hope Of relief, attempted TO
cut their way out in the direction of
Widdin. They were surrounded by
the victorious enemy, but fought bravely
until their commander, Osman Pasha, was
stricken down wounded, when he put an
end TO further slaughter by surrendering
his sword. All accounts award great brave
nv to Osman Pasha and his troops.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13

who graduated in the class of '75 at the
Ohio Wesleyan Woman's College, is
now following a classical course in the
Ohio Wesleyan University, the two in
situations having been united last Sep
TENDER. The Woman'S Journal brags
that Miss White cooks, washes dishes,
makes beds, sews, and scrubs for an en-
tire household, and has no difficulty in
keeping up with her classmates.
The Episcopal prayer-book has
been translated into the Sioux language.
An edition has been printed interleaved
with the English. The Sioux language
is mellifiuous, and well suited to pur-
poses of devotion. The responsive serv.
fee Of the Episcopal Church is we'll re-
ceiyed by those of the Sioux who gather
for worship, although the men do not
very heartily unite in the responses. The
squaws make good the lack of service
of the male Indians, and are heard very
distinctly.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13

Recent returns show that the prac-
tice of cigarette smoking has of late years
increased enormously in France. CT
garettes were first made in the French
Government manufactures in 1878. In
1869 enough tobacco was used to make
100000 cigarettes, and the manufac-
ture was confined to one establishment,
that of Gros-C Gallon. At the present
time cigarettes are made at seven manu-
factories, in Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles,
Morlaix, Nancy, Nantes and Toulouse,
and 1900 workmen are employed in
their fabrication. Altogether, there are
eighteen manufactures of tobacco in
France, S57 depots, and 40,2l0 licensed
shops for its sale. The receipts last
year amounted to 300,000,0OO francs,
Paris alone spending 100000 francs
in this kind OF smoking.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13

THE desperate character of some of
the tramps who infest the rural districts
is shown by dastardly performance by
one of them at Newmarket Junction.
He entered the house of widow, named
Mrs. Charles Bennett, and demanded
food, which was furnished. He then
asked for money to buy tobacco, and
when this was refused be drew pistol,
shot Mrs. Bennett through the thigh,
and then fled. Mrs. Bennett fell to the
floor insensible, but soon revived and
alarmed the neighborhood, and three
tramps were soon arrested, one Of whom
was identified by Mrs. Bennett as her
assailant. He said his name was Richard
Ryan. The popular Indignation was so
hot that, at one time, it looked as though
the scamp would be hung to the nearest
tree, but he was at last safely lodged in
Exeter Jail.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13
A Prophecy of the Pacific Coast.

Twenty years hence nearly all the
breadstuffs for export from the United
States will be produced in the country
west of the Rocky Mountains. The
exception will be the surplus production
of corn in the Mississippi Valley. Ohio
has ceased to be a great wheat-produc-
ing State. This crop is yearly dimin-
ishing in Illinois; in Minnesota, the
production this year was only about as
much as in California, where we had
one of the dryest seasons ever known.
The agriculture of all the vast region
west of the Rocky Mountains is still in
its infancy. Some of the great terrific
ries are not yet producing breadstuifs
enough for home consumption. That
was true of Oregon few years ago.
Now there is large fleet of wheat-laden
ships sailing from her principal port
every year. Utah Territory, with the
exception of little spot about Salt Lake,
made no show of agricultural products.
Now the best potatoes found west of the
Mississippi River are found il Utah, and
sent over to California in large quanti-
ties for consumption. Fruit-cultWe has
been pushed beyond the Sierra. The
great apple-orchards will be far up the
mountains on either slope. The culture
of the grape and'the wine interest will
probably be west of the Sierra, although
it is just possible that we have not yet
found the best soils for the production
of wine grapes. The maximum of
lumber production has already been
reached in the States east of the Mis-
sissippi. The eastern timber belt has
been explored, and most of the lands
reduced TO private possession. The
timber belt of the Pacific coast, north of
Oregon, covers an area clear up to the
north limit of Alaska, or as far as the
climate will permit. No impression has
been made upon the forests of Alaska,
and the timber resources of Washing
ton Territory will last long time
San Francisco Bulletin.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13
Odds and Ends.

OuuS anu
Went off with flea in his ear-The
man who attended the dog-shOw.
-"Oh, mammal" said little one,
"Ieat so much it spoils my appetite"
One of the greatest wonders in this
world is what becomes of all the smart
children.
Where should a lady 90 for hus-
band? To a GeEtleman's Furnishing
Store, Of course.
When a girl begins to take an in
terest in the arrangement of young
mans necktie, it is an infallible sign of
something more serious than sisterly re-
gard.
Take an old jug, knock off tie han
die, spatter with several kinds of paint,
and you have something equal to the
glory of Pompeii and good deal more
convenient. Keramic-kereet. - Free
Press.
Woman consumes SO buttons on
her single pair of kid-gloves, whereas
man buttons his srlspenders with 4
shingle-nail. And yet folks will ask,
"Button, button-who's got the but
ton?n
The Japanese never swear; they
have no word corresponding to our
popular damn; their strongest epithet is
- bacca," which means fool or beast.
We know of some people who wouldn't
survive Il week in Japan.-BoStOR Globe.
Madam is talking with friend
her child listening. Madam-lmagine
my dear, the distress | am in this sum-
mer. | lost my hair. Child (inter-
rupting)-Oh, no! mamma, | know
where the hair is you wear; | saw 1t in
drawer this morning.
A young man hired as a clerk was
told by his employer that all the clerks
slept at the house, and that it WAS
closed punctually st 10 every night.
"Ohl don't apologize" said the youth.
- don't care what time it's closed, II
it's only opened early enough in the
morning"
A San Francisco fOur-year-Old was
observed making queer movements with
his elbow. His aunt asked what he was
doing. "Crooking my elbow" said
precOciOuS. "But what are YOU crook
ING your elbow for, johnny" "Cause
| want to Diet a nice little strawberry on
my nose" "But that won't make q
strawberry, Johnny" eyes it will,
for the cook says papa wouldn't have
the big strawberry on his nose if he
didn't crook his elbow so ofen"
An advertisement in an exchange,
under the heading of % Holiday Goods, -
begins thus: can appropriate Christ
mas present. Give your wife set OF
Jones's Beautiful Artificial Teeth!''
This is suggestive of Il vast increase in
the scope Of appropriate holiday gifts.
Why shouldn't the advertising columns
of newspapers blossom out with such
holiday advertisements as these: Take
your Mother-in-law to Tugg's, and have
her Teeth Pulled at Christmas Prices.
Get YOU Aunt'S COrns EXcavated Cheap
during the Holidays at Digg's. Buy
your Uncle Pair of Squint's Elegant
Glass Eyes. Wooden Legs and Arms
for Holiday Gifts to Relatives at Linn
pey's. Put a box of Pestles's Bowel
Regulating Pills in your Grandmother
Christmas Stockings. And so on,no end.
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Fortunes i'm Oil.

Who has not heard of johnny Steele,
otherwise known as ''Coal-oil J0hnny?''
He awoke ore morning and found that
he had come into possession of a farm
near this city upon which numerous
prolific Oil-wellS had been struck. He
had retired poor teamster-he awOke
a millionaire. He soon became the
greatest spendthrift ever known in this
country. He travelled, bought the ho-
tells where he stopped, gave them to
their previous owners in the morning
in short, disbursed his immense fortune
with lavish and until it was all gone.
He then retired, and is now a contented
farmer in one of our Western States.
His is only one of many very similar
stories told.
As the opposite of Coal-oil Johnny,
the case of Dan Goethe, an oil specula-
tor of this city, is cited. Only a few
years ago he was a boot-black in this
city. He then delivered telegraph mes
sages, and finally engaged in the oil
business. He is now only about 26 wears
old, but in that short time has acquired
fortune of several hundred thousand
NS"hS. Al lIIc LucdullulS 1t mas sup
ported a widowed mother and several
brothers and sisters. He made his
money by buying and selling oil, and is
now one of the most influential men in
the business. Only week before last he
took the bull side of the market, with a
powerful company on the bear side, and
worsted them. One sale of his was of
so, 600 barrels at - 05g. The trade was
made, certificates representing it ex-
for a cheek, within ten min
utes. The amount involved in the trans
action was S165,000. This was only
one of his sales. During the day he
sold nearly 100000 barrels. He is a
short, thick set man, unassuming and
very liberal. His gifts to the poor are
large. He is temperate, and possesses
in an eminent degree that qualification |
termed sand.-OI City (PG.) (
Letter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-12-13

Mary Kyle Dallas, the story writer,
has just been appointed principal of
school at Mianus, Conn.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-08-16
Don't Lose a Minute.

Keep busy. The man who has moth
ing to do is the most miserable oi beings
II you have no'regular work, do chorrs
as farmers do when it rains too hard to
work in the field. In occupation We for
get our troubles, and get respite from
sorrow. The man whose mind and
hands are busy finds no time to weep
and wall. i work is slack. spend thu
time in reading No man ever know too
much. The hardest students in the
world are old men who know the most.
lfyou lack books there are free or very
cheap libraries. at least in cities, at your
command. The man who does not ac
quire some item OF useful information
between day break and bed time must
mourniully say, with the Roman Emper-
or, IL have lost a day"
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THURSDAY. AUGUST Ie. 1877.
Another Reformation Needed in PITTS
burgh.

The following from the Trumpet
temp. rance paper published IN the great
Iron CIty-sIrikps a chord which should
be kept vibrating until the people ar
aroused to n sense OF their duty TO socir
~ on tins gr' at question:
Zone hundred Wholesale liquor dealers
have been licensed in Putsburg. aud
more than thousand retailers W.
suppose the places unlicensed, whei'
liquor is sold. will outbu umber those that
are licensed. Our Mayor elect is mag
nate IN the malt liquor manufacture, and
our drnm-shops aud bt btergsrdens ar'
open seven days in the week. We have
Just passed a great reformation, and Il
seems strange how this liquor business
hourishes so luxuriantly DO these dram
shops and beer-gardens live like the cha
mellon on the ,atmosphrre2 Do they
stock their premises aud support their
keepers ON nothing2 Or, who keeps
them goiug2
"lt is matter Of great rejoicing that
80 many have signed the pledge 10 no
stain from dram. drinking. and that so
many bold fast to their integrity. But
who keeps up these liquor shops2 Can
10 be that cur boys and young men
are being entrapped and entic-d 10y wait
er girls, to their disgrace and ruin? There
is a fearful gull opening at our thresh
olds, right al our firerides. We have
much reason to fear that while the inc
briate has been snatched from the DE-
vouring Gre. a numerous baud OF frrsh
recruits have been enlisted to .tiil up ih'
ranks One of our city CLERGY men re.
marked TO us lately. that he -iuOd oppo
site dram shop Tor few minutes. aud
while be was there twenty s,x y"unl
men entered that den OF wee. Yet II /
legitimate business The people, th'
lsws and some temperance urn s"t
those who entice these young men To ia
in are honorable; but God by the mouth
of his prophet says they are cursed.
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Notice to Contractors.

AUDITORS OFFICE,
JACKSON 10 o., July 30 1877.
The Commissioners of Jackson county, Ohio,
will offer at public sale ON
Friday. August "a. A. D. 1877,
mt o'clDck PM, the building OF "a bridge across
Pigeon Cteek Ia Washington township, near
the reid. nee of T.. n Garrstt.
Said bI tdze 10 consist Or one span seventy
nve ftet long lssveiiIy five i,-et ln the clear Is
twern mason, ~ with one roadway seventeen
feet from Oul To cut, aud to be bulit on smiths
Patent wooden bIldge plan.
Abutments To be- aUouI sixteen feet high and
20 be sDid by the pei ch twenty-five fret).
Plans anu specifications shown On the ground
dny of sale.
The Commissioners reserve the right to reject
any ali bids.
BY order OF Commissioners.
4. W. PATTERSON, Auditor.
nug2-aw
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Farm for Sale.

II WILL sell my farm, on very favorable
Il terms, giving time on "A large portion o. the
purchase money. This farm iS la Il OOinfi-ld
township, some five miles from Centreviile,
and abput the snfne distance from Keystone
and Madi>on Furnaces. IL rs ON the public
rUad ieatiing 10 NintOn. IL Is hall mile from
the Iarkry school House. IL contains 20 acres.
90 of which u under cultivation, aud 20 acres
woodland. There Is c'Stn fOl table residence,
containing four looms. aud out-buildings. The
farm l. well watpretl, gOo6 spring and spring
hOu~e near the rsSiflrnce. There ate plenty of
iruit tees ON the farm.
Any person desiring a farm well located, ca n
purchase his land ON most faNoraDie terms, by
calling upon the undersigned, At hiS rssiftencs,
IN Cen r-viile. HENRY LEWIS.
July 5, 1877. 3m
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Much has been "a d against the &C
cordeon, but the first evening alter n
young man who practIcrd ON one moved
into the second hpor OF u house on Union
street smile lIt up the face OF an aged
citizen who lay IN sickness on thu h'o,
above. lie said he was now rtconciled
to death.
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DR.. Holland says the most precious
possession that ever comes to a man in
this world is a woman's heart. IL would
seem that he has never observed the
tender care with which man handles a
meerschaum pipe that is just beginning
tn have a bilious look around the base OF
the bowl
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A Pennsylvania ball, orist. who, pre-
virus to making his last asc-n-ion, neg
lected to settle his hot-l bill and has not
since been seen. is called by the irate
landlord dirty dog" Wouldn't sky
tarrier be little more spropos2
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The negroes at St. Charles parish. La.
prefer the flesh Of slligators to any other
wild meat. And. on the other hand.
there is nothing that will make an alliga.
tor smile like having his palate oiled
with a good tat pIckaninny. There :
mutual admiration for you.