The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-26
HERE AND THERE.

A DRUMMER, travelling Ior a New
York dental house, has been fined $500
in LynchbuEg. Virginia, for selling goods
without sIicense.
WILBRAHAN, Mass, is. afflicted with
an incendiary years old. He fired his
fathers house and then church, ''to
see the blaze"
AT Hawkins Station, Pa, q day or two
ago, ,a dog attempted to pass underia
train, but was not quick enough, and
the tip end of his tail was caught and
cut off. He whirled around to see what
was the matter with his extremity, and
almost instantly had his head cut off.
~ LONDON is, on the whole, the healthi-
est capital in the world, its average an
nual mortality not exceeding "a per
1000, but in some districts the mortali-
ty varies from 40 to 60 per 1000, the
increase being the result of filth, foul
air, and erowding The population in
creases at the rate of 10000 a year. ,ih
IAN eccentric Englishman, Bethel
Walrond, died recently, leaving will
by which his son was disinherited, and
his property, amounting to 5000, 900,
left to an entire stranger. He was be-
lever in the transmigration of souls,
had not seen his wife or son for % years,
kept his house walled in so that the
wife could not enter, and had his rooms
decorated with skulls and other funeral
trappings. The will was declared in
valid, and the estate divided between the
contestants.
THE rumor of negotiations being car
ried on for the cession by the Duke of
Edinburgh of his rights to the Duchy of
Coburg is again in circulation. The
consideration is said to be an annuity,
and throne to be founded in European
Turkey, of which the son of the Queen
of England and the daughter of the En-
peror of Russia are to be the first occu-
pants-the Prince of Saxe-Meiningen to
succeed to the Duchy. t - ' I.'--t-.
? "A CLoUDBURsT may be serious
thing in the Cheyenne region, where the
streams run down from the mountains.
Recently there was, sudden and un-
commonly heavy fall of rain there. Al
most without any warning wave seven
feet high rolled down the Chug- water.
A detachment of the Sd Cavalry en-
camped near the bank was overwhelmed
by the food The dry bed of the creek,
on which no water had flowed for six
years, suddenly became a river fifteen
feet deep.
THE keeper of candy and ice-cream
store in San Francisco discharged a
waiter for fondling the keepers cat in
business hours, and paid him at the rate
of $50 a month, instead of $40, as pre-
viously agreed. The waiter carried his
case into a Justices Court, pleading
that he was not particularly fond OF
cats. but that he consoled the one in
question because the employer had just
chopped off the heads of two of her
progeny. He recovered his rightful
wages, but the Justice decided that he
was lawfully discharged.
SUwARoFF, though too old for active
service, has accompanied the Car to
the Danube. 1t was his grandfather
who headed the forlorn hope that storm
ed Ismail in 1870, raising the war cry,
Brothers, no quarter to-day, for our
bread is scarce!" and who sent to
the Empress Katherine the dispatch
Mother, Ismail is at your feet.'' The
father of the veteran SuwarOff was
drowned in Wallachia when Kutosoff's
army was returning from the seige OF
Rustchuk.
Two gamblers were in. Leavenworth,
KS, several years ago, with about
twenty dollars in their pockets. They
desired to get money enough to 60 to
California. They went to separate hO-
tells. One registered as a physician,
and advertised remedy for cholera.
The other put up large quantity OF
yeast powders into sample packages
with little croton oil in each, and hired
boy to distribute them. Soon family
after family, affected by the crotOn oil,
felt what they believed to be symptoms
of the cholera. The sale of the cholera
remedy was enormous, and the gamblers
were enabled to 90 to California. They
now tell the story through the Virginia
City Enterprise. 'ia ..l..a.
THE Black Hills are not by any means
the new mining field they are supposed
to be. Evidences have been discovered
that years ago the whole country was
prospected and mining carried on by a
party who never regained the outer
world to tell the story of their luck.
Through the Whitewood district are
found hewed pine logs, thirty feet in
length, overgrown by pines and sap
lings, showing by the shots and bullets
that penetrated some of these timbers
that fight tensued, and the probability
is that the party was massacred. Then
sluice-boxes are found, buried from six
to eight feet under the earth, showing,
by stages of decay, that 20 or 80 years
have elapsed since they were built, and
that rains and storms have buried them
beneath the earth's surface. At Golden
Run there is a mine of rich ore, into
which a run had been cut many years
ago. The timbers in the cut show marks
of terrible siege, undoubtedly with the
Indians, assailing the miners while at
work. The timbers show marks OF
many years standing, and in several
places they are perforated with shot and
bullets. These, and many other such
indications, prove conclusively that
Deadwood and vicinity are really an old
mining-camp.
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