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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

RAPHAEL SEMMEs, ex-Admiral of the
Confederate States Navy, died at Point
Clear, near Mobile, Ala, on the 3Oth
ult. He was born in Maryland in 1909;
entered the United States Navy in his
18th year; at the outbreak of the civil
war cast his fortunes with the Confeder-
ates and was placed in command of the
Sumter and subsequently, of the Ala
bama, both of which vessels had an ex-
citing and historic career. Since the
war Mr.. Semmes has been engaged in
the practice of law at Mobile.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

BRIGHAM Young died at Salt Lake
City on the 29th ult., after a brief i'll
ness. He was born in Vermont in
1901; removed to Kirkland, Ohio, where
in 1882 he became converted to the doc
trine of the Latter-day Saints, and in
1874, upon the death of Joseph Smith,
was chosen as his successor. In 1876
he, with his followers, left NauvOo, H.,
emigrated to Utah, and founded Salt
Lake City. He leaves some twenty
odd wives and an unknown number of
children.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

State.
IT having been reported from Wash
ington that the President had deterInin-
ed to withhold the call for special SEES
sion of Congress, it is authoritatively
stated that the President and all the
Cabinet officers are unanimous in the
opinion that Congress should meet the
18th of October.
ANOTHER terrible railroad disaster
occurred on the 29th ult., caused by the
washing out of bridge on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, about
seven miles east of Des Moines, Iowa,
precipitating an entire passenger train,
with the exception of one car, into the
stream. The train consisted of
three passenger-coac hes, a sleeper, bag
gage-car and Barnum's advertising-car,
the latter being placed next the tender
and ahead of the baggage-car. The
locomotive and tender went down first
and were imbedded in the mud nearly
out of sight. Barnumis car was totally
demolished, and of thirteen employees
in the car, seven were killed. The
baggage and express-car passed over
Barnum's car and landed nearly on the
opposite bank in tolerably good condi-
ton. None of its inmates were injured,
and even its lamps remained. burning.
The three passenger-coaches were teles-
COPIED together and lay in mass
of ruins. The sleeping-car broke its
connection, fortunately, and did not go
down. The accident occurred at about
half-past in the morning, and violent
Storm was in progress at the time, to
which doubtless may be at
tributed the cause of the disaster.
The work of clearing away the wreck
was begun as soon as possible, and up
to.3 80 p. m. II dead bodies had been
recovered. The injured number from
30 to So. The list of the killed and
missing is given as follows.
Mrs Emily Babcock, Andalusia, III.
John X. Bolt, Boone, Iowa, and his
daughter Alice, aged 8 years; Mrs. ".
L. Grow, Des Moines, Iowa;
VIM. Rakestraw, engineer, Stuart,
Iowa; VIM. Cummings, 7iiFnews-
boy; Geo. Rockwell, John Purcell,
John Breeze, Chas. Thompson, A.
Mack, F. B. Baker, all with Barnum's
advertising-ear. Five other bodies had
not been identified. ~ p
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

Total...-s-. 81 $500. .............. 30
Senator Davis. Of illinois, is classed as
an Independent, although he has been
placed upon the committees as a Repub-
lican. There are three Vacancies-one
from South Carolina, caused by the re-
tirement of Senator Robertson, and tive
from Louisiana, one being the vacancy
caused by the retirement of senator.
West, and the otherbeing ln0Rnlas the
Pinchback vacancy, which has existed
for four or five years past. The apph-
cants for the South Carolina vacancy
are David T. Corbin, Republican, and
NJ. c. Butler, Democrat. The appli-
cants for the two Louisiana vacancies
are William Pitt Kellogg, Republican,
and j. b. Eustis and James Lewis.
Democrats. It Us expected, says the
writer, that these three vacancies will
be filled by Democrats. In that event
the Democrats would have SO members
in the Senate.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

THE Government is informed, by tel
egram from Gen. Miles, that Sitting
Bull has recrossed into Montana, and is
encamped between Milk and Missouri
Rivers, in.the neighborhood of Little
Rocky Mountains, and about 80 miles
southeast of Fort Belknap. He is re-
ported to have 1900 warriors, well pre-
pared to assume hostilities A rumor
is current in Bismarck that Joseph has
succeeded in crossing the mountains
and is moving towards the Yellowstone,
with the probable intention of effecting
a junction with Sitting-Bull
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

THE State Savings Institution of Chi
cago made an assignment on the 2Sth
The bank was one of the oldest in the
city, having been established some 20
years, and had 10000 depositors and
nearly S3,OOQ,000 Of deposits A1arge
proportion of its depOsitors are persons
of small means, upon many of whom
the failure will necessarily fall with
crushing weight.
d. ID. Spencer, President of the
suspended Chicago Savings Institution,
is reported to have absconded, as have
also the Cashier and Assistant Cashier.
Spencer said he was going to New York,
the day previous to the suspension, to
raise funds to keep the concern going.
He has not since been heard from, and
his family are also missing. An exami-
nation of the assets of the bank shows
that many securities are missing, and
that most of those left are worthless or
at present unavailable An investiga-
ton of Spencer's antecedents has
brought to light numerous irregularities
in his former financial operations.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06


CAPT. JAMES B. EADs, assisted by Mr..
A. o. Lambert, has completed plans for
bridge across the BOsphorus, connect
ing Pera-European Constantinople-
with the Asiatic shore. The bridge will
be about 5000 feet long, will have Is
spans, will be 100 feet wide, and, save
the masonry and flooring, viii be built
of iron. The height of the roadway
above the surface OF the water will be
100 feet, thus affording ample passage
ways beneath the arches for
ingoing and outgoing ships. The
greatest feat of engineering will
be the bold central arch, $50 feet span
over an eighth of a mile. This is the
longest span ever contemplated, and its
construction will necessitate the most
careful labor and no small outlay of
money. The two central piers, con-
stituting the backbone of the bridge,
will be 80 feet thick, of solid granite
blocks, locked together with iron braces.
BY an invention of Capt. Eads's new
feature will be introduced, so that
train of ears or any other heavy
burden will not superimpose its
weight at any one point over
which it may be at the moment, but
will be distributed throughout the 5000
feet of the supports, thus practically
making it an easy taskito build an arch
of $50 feet. 1t is estimated that the cost
of construction will not exceed S25,-
100000, and the time to complete it six
years. Mr.. LAMBERT is an engineer who
has been largely connected with great
works ofrailwayIa and bridge construc-
ton both in tlhsscountry and Europe
Capt. Eads's fame as an engineer and
inventor is worldwide.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

Trough Virginia, visiting Richmond
and other prominent cities of that
State.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

THE Iowa Democratic State Conven-
ton was held at Marshalltown on the
goth. John p. Irish was nominated
for Governor, w. G. James for Lieuten-
ant-GovernOr, H. E. j. Boardman for
Supreme Judge, and G. d. Cullison for
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The resolutions declare in favor of
tariff for revenue only, the immediate
repeal of the Resumption act, the
reconciliation of silver, the substitution
of greenbacks for National bank bills,
the equal taxation of every species of
property according to value; and
against the granting of subsidies to any
corporations whatever, and all unneces-
sary legislative interference between
labor and capital. The repeal of the
State Prohibition law is recommended
and the substitution in its stead of a IL
cense law, all money derived from IL
censes to 60 to the common-school fund
of the State ..
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

A MOVEMENT is on foot for conven-
ton, to be held in St. Louis early in Oc-
tober, to take measures to secure the
improvement and permanence of navi-
cation of our great rivers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06

THE Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette (Republican)
gives the political complexion of the new
United States Senate as follows.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11


In the latter days of the Greek domination
Trebizond was the capital of an independent
Empire. Since it was taken by the Turks,
notwithstanding the advantages of its situa-
ton, its growth has been arrested, and it has
sunk from the dignity of political capital to
third-rate town. Whatever commerce it
has is carried on by Greeks and Armenians
and few foreign traders. Under a power
like that of Russia it would become place of
great importance in every respect, and would
soon rival the splendid era of the two hun
dred-year rule of the house of Comnenus.
As long as it belongs to Turkey it will be the
miserable, tumble-down place that it now is
without a sheltered port, and with an open
roadstead only for anchorage, where vessels
lie league from shore exposed to the full
power of the land and sea gales. The Turks
have great power for destruction aud none
for construction. Put them down In any
given place, and let 1t be as rich and prosper
Gus as it may, and in short time they will
let it fall into decay. Ifitis seaport its har-
bor will be choked up with sand, its piers will
crumble to pieces, its trade will dwindle away
and its population will thin off as if 1t had
been swept by a pestilence. The famous
haIbors Of Asia Minor, once thronged by the
galleys of the Phenicians, Egyptians, Greeks,
Romans, and all the trading nations of an
tiquity, are blocked up with mud and mac
cessible. In many places the deposits have
stopped the mouths of rivers, causing them
to overspread the surrounding plains, and
converting them into breeding places of mias-
ma and pestiferous fevers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

IT may not be known to the world in gen.
eral that the moons speed is increasing. AS
tronomers call the phenomenon secular accel-
GRAFTON, and the fact has been considered an
established one ever since astronomy took
rank as science. Ancient observers, like
Ptolemy, fixed the acceleration at ten seconds
in century, and the estimate was considered
accurate by succeeding observers. Modern
astronomers have found reasons for doubling
the accepted estimate, and Prof. Newcomb
has made elaborate researches into the mat
ter. He communicated the result of his Ia
b5rs at the recent meeting of the Academy
of Sciences, and proves by his data that the
rate of increase is only six seconds CEN
tury. AS this is but one six hundredths of a
second in year, we need not borrow uneas-
mess through fear of any disastrous results
during the lifetime of the present inhabi-
tants of the globe.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11
[From the Burlington Hawkeye.l
Advice to Correspondents.

Never write with pen or ink. 1t Is altogether
too plain, and doesn't hold the minds of the
editors and printers closely enough to their
work.
If you are compelled to use ink never use
that vulgarity known as the blotting pad. II
you drop blot of ink on the paper lick it of.
The intelligent compositor loves nothing 30
dearly as to read through the smear this will
make across twenty or thirty words. We have
seen him hang over such piece OF copy half
an hour, swearing like pirate all the time, he
felt that good
Don't punctuate. We prefer to punctuate all
manuscript sent to u.s. And don't use capitals.
Then we can punctuate and capitalize to suit
ourselves, and your article, when you see it in
print, will astonish even if it does not please
yOu
plebeian origin and public-school breeding
Poor writing is an indication Of genius that
great many men possess. Scrswl your article
with your eyes shut and make every word as
Ineligible as you can. We get the same price
for it from the rag man as thought it were COW
cred with copper-plate sentences.
Avoid all painstakiDg with proper names.
We know the full name of every man, woman
and child in the United States, and the merest
hint at the name is sufficient. For instance, it
you write character something like drunken
figure IS, and then draw a wavy line. We will
know at once that you mean Samuel Morrison.
even though you may think you mean "Lemuei
Messenger" 1t is great mistake that proper
names should be written plainly.
Always write on both sides of the paper, and
when you have filled both sides Of every page
trail line up and down every margin, and
back to the top Of the first page, closing your
article by writing the signature just above the
date. How we do love to get hold OF articles
written in this style. And how we would like
to get hold Of the man who sends them. Just
for ten minutes Alone. In the woods, with .
cannon in our hip pocket. Revenge is sweet;
yum, yum, yum.
write; the ugher the ground the better.
Coarse brown wrapping paper Is the best for
writing your articles on. Ii you can tear dewn
an old circus poster and write on the pasty side
of it with pen stick, it will do still better.
When your article is completed, crunch your
paper in your pocket and carry it two sor three
days before sending it. This rubs off the super
fuous pencil marks and makes it lighter to
handle.
If you can think of it, lose one page out of
the middle Of your article. We can easily sup
ply what is missing and we love to do it. We
have nothing else to do.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

Oscar Barron of White River Junction, VI,
has been appointed keeper of the restaurant OF
the United States Senate by Vice-President
Wheeler
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11
The Fortress of BayaziG.

Bayazid, or Bajazd, which has fallen into the
hands Of the Russians, is fortified town in
Turkish Armenia in the extreme eastern cor
ner, close to the Russian and Persian frontiers,
125 miles southeast Of Kars and $50 east-south-
east of Erzeroum. 1t is short distance from
Mt Ararat, which is to the northeast 1t lies
around hull, the brow of which is crowned by
citadel Although 1t boasts of palace, arse
of a saDjak, it is miserable, filthy place and
has been steadily on the decline ever since the
Russian conquest of Georgia. Its population
is estimated at from 5000 to u, 600, the greater
portion being Kurds. These people-the ma
tives of the district known as Kurdstan, which
embraces nearly the whole of the basin of the
Tigrls and extends into Persia are light in
complexion, have an animated phyiognomy,
and sharp but delicate features. They
are famous for their remarkable elegance
of person, while their active habits i'm.
part strength of body that renders them
physically one of the finest people OF Asia.
They are good horsemen, expert in the use of
arms, adventurous and daring, inclined to brig
andage, and hosritable Their costume resem-
bles that of the Turks When conflict was
threatened with Russia last fall, great efforts
were made to induce the Kurds to enter the
Turkish service. They make excellent fight
ing material, but seemed very unwilling to
serve in the ranks of the regular army. and
could only be persuaded to volunteer by the
promise that they would not have to serve in
Europe. Now that one of the most important
towns IN their country has fallen into Russian
nands, they may possibly take more pressing
interest in the war. The capture of Bsyazd,
however, Is important, as it will protect the
ieit hank OF the Russian advance, and open the
way for ian advance upon Van, All important
strategic point LOO miles southwest OF Bayazid.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

THE cotton gin created revolution in the
cost and production of this important fleece.
Recently another invention has been per-
fected which may produce almost as marked
an effect as the cotton gin. 1t is the picker.
1t is wagon-like machine, which is driven
through the ripened fields and picks clean
every scrap of cotton lint, and nothing ex-
cept cotton, and saves the labor of 100 hands.
Where the price of the staple may go to with
this invention in general use it is impossible
to fathom. The machine is North Carolina
affair, and is said to do good work
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

nublished every THURSDAY MORNING 1T $3.50 a
veil if paid in advance at $500 year.
RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch of space, the
length of column, constitutes a square,
$3.50 per square daily first week IS cents per week
after; three insertions, less, S1.00; continuing
every other day after first week, 80 cents.
Halt square, three insertions. less, Is cents; one
week. Sl.00; 80 cents per week AFTER
SPECIAL NOTICES, one third additional.
Under head of 'AMUsEMENTs' and "AUCTIoN
SALEs S2.0 per square per week; three insertions
or less, S1.50.
Advertisements inserted in the "MAINE STATE
PREss" (Which has large circulation in every part
of The State) for $O0 per square tor first insertion,
an cents per square for each subsequent insertion
Address all communications to
PORTLAND PUBLISHING co.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

THE advancement of the work on the new
Trinity College buildings at Hartford leaves
only the elevation Of the central structure
between the two buildings already erected, to
complete the main western line of the large
quadrangle. These buildings. Of dark brown
stone, with their opulence of ornate cream
colored free.stone trimmings, are beautiful
samples of the English style Of architecture,
and the effect Will be very fine.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY II, 1877.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
ncations that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

THE followers of Cummings see in the Eu,
ropean war the ful6llment of prophecies and
the approach of the millennium. That Rus
sia, the King of the North, will conquer Tur-
key, the King of the South, and take possess
sion of Palestine, they hold to be certain, and
that all nations will finally be involved in war
which will only be ended by the appearance
OF Christ upon earth. Other indications
they see in the teachings of science, "fasely
so caIed," and the spread of spiritualism,
predicted, they say, in Revelation and by St.
Paul, as the spirits of devils working mira
cles. The religious preaching which calls to-
gether such crowds to consider the gospel
message they hold as answering to the invita-
ton in the parable of the wedding feast, to
those in the highways to attend the marriage
of the kings sons, after those first hidden had
excused themselves, and that it is the last
call to sinful world.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

@Governor Fairbanks of Vermont visited John
P. Phair at the state prison last Monday, pass
ed some time with him in conversation. and
was very favorably impressed with the bearing
of the condemned man. Phair constantly re-
ceives presents from people in different places
many of whom never heard of him before the
events connected with his reprieve took place.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-11

A CORRESPONDENT OF the Philadelphia
Press, writing from Constantinople, says of
the great fortresses, Shumil, Widin and Rust
chuk, which cover the line of approach to the
Balkans, that they are separated by wide in
tervals of space, are not within easy distance
Of each other, and may be Isolated from in
accommodation by small detachments of
troops. The Russians will take advantage Of
this, and by threatening simultaneously all
these points will confine the garrisons within
the fortified precincts, and bring their masses
to bear against any particular place. The
weakest part of Turkey is Armenia, on the
extreme Asiatic border, and of which Kars,
Erzeroum and Bayazid are the chief defences.
The fall of the last will entail that of the two
others. Ii all the garrisons capitulate sixty
thousand prisoners will fall into the hands of
the Russians. As the whole force in Asatic
Turkey does not amount to much more than
hundred thousand men, the loss of so con-
siderable portion of its numbers will be
equivalent TO a surrender of the whole of Asia
Minor to the Russians. They will, he says,
in such an event organize government in
Armenia, and stretch their Black Sea coast
line to Trebizond, and probably to Sinope.
1t is hardly probable they will consent to any
terms of peace that do not include some such
cession of territory. Trebizond, as the sea-
port of the transit trade to Persia via Erze-
rouni, and beyond to the frontiers of India, is
most important point. Its possession will
give the Russians control of the most ancient
and best route to ans-Mediterranean Asia.
1t was there that the famous retreat of the
ten thousand Greeks debouched on the sea.