The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-04-26


the wells, were DESTROYED. The town OF
Trautman, consisting of hotel, two livery
stables, billiard room and dwelling houses,
was destroyed. A pipe line pump station
and number of other buildings were de-
stroyed The 1900 barrels of oil burned
belonged to the United Pipeline, and will
be paid by pro rata. assessment by that line.
The loss in the town OF T'rautman is esti-
mated at $s0, 900. The loss on the twelve ell
wells is not known. 81 .,niviorc % IA
Eighty-six Irish Canadians arrived at
New York, on the Goth, on their way to
Rome, TO participate in the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the els-episeepaey.-They bear
with them for his Holiness $50, 900.
Iris FrightfuI Sea-MOnster.
80 .L12W nbOa
g To the hide-bound skeptic every thing
is as % fish story" he refuses to put
faith in either the story sof-the natural
list, the geologist or the theologian = his
title is .skeptic; yet, afterall, his creduli-
ty is curious thing. Things not with
in the mental scope or accidental bent Of
mindof such people arecalled .'the fairy
tales of science; nevertheless, of some
things they believe every thing, and Of
other things, Tastlymore than is to their
credit.
The stories are pooh-poohed concern
ing dinotheriums, gigantic armadillos,
plesiosaurus and ichthyosaurus, together
with the pictures of frightful serpents of
strange form swimming in ancient seas !;
of beasts, to which the modern elephant
is a comparative pigmy, browsing from
tall trees, and of huge bats flying about,
which compare with our bats as apost-
age stamp compares with 2 grocer's
awning. If a horse skeleton descend
ed in a slide of snow and ice,
from. mountain altitude of 22,-
600 feet, it conveys no evil
dence to benumbed minds that
either deluge or emergence from sea
levels had any thing to do with its being
up there. Stories wild as "reminiscences
of Arabian Nights are currently accepted
and must not be questioned; but merry
jokes are cracked at the expense of those
who say that it was their misfortune to
behold sea serpent. Snaks-seeing
sailors, next to the marines, are accused
of being liars, and undoubtedly some of
them are, so were many of your fathers,
and many of you are; but the statements
Ilthat come to us from the Chinese seas,
the Brazilian coast, the Indian Ocean,
and many other places, Of marine mon
sters, which, 'e a. ~ ~ ~ 'a
Prone on the flood, extended long and large,
Lay floating many rood,
who shall deny?
Let us laugh at the mariner and ac-
cuse him of mixing too little water with
his grog as we, may, if is not for US to
pretend to know thoroughly all the va
rieties of animal life upon the earth, or
in the seas, what has been, and what
still remains. We live upon the earth's
surface, and know that the earth, the sea
and the ambient air, are, and have been,
prolific of strange forms. of life, and,
probably, the sea themostprolitic of all.
Hence, why be so dogmatic concerning
/ the inhabitants of the sea depths which
covers three-quarters of the globe, of
which we have learned -so<littlep
i3n'NNe have written this much before we
found convenient opportunity for cali
ing attention to remarkable communi-
cation on another page, from the. Sand
wich Islands, which relates to an oc-
eurrence that neither civilized portion
lrof the world has dared successfully to
gainsay-the story of the captain, Off
GERS and crew of the English frigate
Daedalus which at the time Of its re-
cital was treated with great incredibly
lis abundantly corroborated in the mar
ration of Captain Fowler, and the find
ing, two days after, by the French bark
Esperanee, of a dead snake (P) ''forty-
five meters long, How great a boon
would have been conferred upon his
tory, sacred and profane, and as well to
scientific education, had Capt. Lenaire
succeeded in securing the skin of the
monster animal. - ~
The concurrent testimony of so many
has not been without effect upon the
public mind; and TO the most remarka-
bic case--that testified to- by Captain
Drevar, of the English ship Pauline
Richard A ProetoF,s the@astronomer,
sees fit, as a scientific man, TO come for
ward to maintain the probability of In
this instance, the taie'of Captain Drevar.
and his crew, which is staggeringly
strange, is how serpent eight feet in
circumference and OF Indefinite length,
was seen, in combat with three, whales,
around one of which il had thrown two
coils of its7body, and how the snake
finally dragged the Struggling whale
down.-E'rcAala9e. --..-----~------
3 a MILITARYcanlp and settlement call
ed Dominguez,son the trocha line, con-
tanning military neutrality-suspicious.,
barracks for wounded men, bakeries, a.
telegraphic station and cavalry Stables,
has been burned, aaud theloss is said to
be two million dollars. aixnl0 bls uaisI
g. Her indiyiduality,i says q New, York |
paper. :. perlneated with its mixture of
womanly tenderness and .statuesque |
the scenes IN which she was
most interested