The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-10
HERE AND THERE.

MOODY has indeed accomplished some
thing in Boston. Bostonians have begun
to receive little notes like this: 81 have
become Christian. Please find en-
closed what / owe you. '-courfer-Jossr-
nal.
INSANITY, once unknown among the
negroes, has become great and in
creasing aflliction. To relieve 1t Nir-
ginia has established aninsane asylum FOR
negroes, said TO be the only one in the
world, where more than 800 of them are
cared for.
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Times reports the death under the bas-
tinado of Turkish military student,
aged %, who had drawn up protest
against the Punishment of Midhat. He
was condemned to 200 blows, but died
after los had been inflicted.
PROF. TAYLOR, of the University OF
Chicago, sailed from Portland, Oregon,
for Sitka on the 9th, under instructions
to make a survey of Mt. st. Elias, and
ascertain the height of the mountain.
The peak is situated $50 miles from
Sitka and has never been assembled.
A BRITISH NJ. p. recently travelling in
this country, examining by the way the
public schools, remarked respectfully
that in no case did he meet with a pupil
who expected to follow the occupation
of his father, if the latter was employed
in a mechanical pursuit.
THE richest woman in New Hamp-
! shire, Mrs. Betsy Whitehouse, died a
few days ago. Most of her money will
go to tho Home Missionary Society. She
was founder Of Dartmouth scholar
ship. She was a member of the famous
Jenness family of Deerfield, people who
had millions of money.
''THE Associated Independent China
men ~ is something new and pulling to
Californians. These original Cinnamon
announce their complete segregation
from all the six societies that hitherto
kept up clanship and opposed utilization
with Americans. They acknowledge
/ that this clanship is just cause of offense.
Hereafter they promise to fall into the
American ways and to adopt our dress
and our customs.
A RAILWAY porter in Cambridge,
England, was recently taken liz with
bronchitis, and was pronounced to be
dead. A coffin was made, into which
the body was placed, and the Coroner
consulted as to an inquest, the surgeon
certifying that death was sudden. To
the alarm of the inmates of the house,
the man, after lying in his coffin two
days, rose up and took his seat in the
room. His mother, it seems, had given
him some sleeping mixture, which
J caused stupor, but not death.
A REMARKABLE proof of the efficacy
of vaccination is shown by report just
issued by the medical officer of the Wat
ford Rural Sanitary Authority in Eng
land Smallpox visited family, nine
in number, residing at Bushey. Three
had been vaccinated, and six had not.
AL six unYaccinated persons took the
disease, and four died, while the three
that had been voecinated escaped alto
gether-one of the three being a child
at the breast, fed by its mother within
two hours of her death.
A PRACTICAL joker advertised in the
\ San Francisco papers for 1000 able
bodied men at a salary of $3.50 day,
and 1000 workingmen assembled oppo-
site the Merchants Exchange on April
s. After they had become convinced
1 that they were the victims of silly
I hoax, they marched to the City Hall and
requested the Mayor to ferret out the
author of the outrage. He was arrested
on the next day after he had paid for an
other advertisement offering reward of
I S25 for information concerning the man
who inserted the first one. 1t is proba-
bly, the only instance on record OF a
mans offering a reward for the arrest of
himself
The proprietor of the st. Charles
Hotel in New Orleans said to a CORE
spondent the other day: Before the
!. war our bills for wine alone would often
foot up $1,000 day. Now if we sell
twenty dollars worth of wine day at
our table we think we are doing very
welly The young hoods always kept
their own exclusive bottles of brandy on
ice in the bar-rooms, French brandy
generally, at ten dollars per bottle. The
planters always settled their bills month
"; they never disputed BILL They
never paid the money, but would give
an order on their factors Neither the
planters, their wives, their sons nor their
daughters carried money about them.
What they wanted they ordered, and
the bills were sent to their factors. The
factors imported dresses and jewelry for
the ladies direct from Europe. There
were several Barrow brothers, who own
ed between them nine sugar plantations,
with thousands of slaves. They, with
their families, would occupy as much as
IA third of the house, with private par
lors, etc., and their ordinary hotel bill
would be $4,000 or $4,000 a month"
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