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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Charles Darwin has been made
a Doctor of Civil Laws by Cambridge
University.
-Longfellow's daughter, Edith. is
shortly to be married to X. II. Dana Sd,
the clever and handsome son of r. II.
Dana, Jr., of Boston.
Mrs. Brooks, the artist in butter,
has been molding companion piece to
her Z" Dreaming Iolanthe, - and calls it
1.-The Coming Man"
General Howard has undertaken to
write for the Chicago Adrnnce series
of articles describing his march in pur-
suit of the Nez Perces.
Richard Henry Dana, the Oldest liv-
ING writer in America, attained his goth
years on Nov. 10. His sight is keen,
his health is good, and his mind is as
clear as ever.
Miss Collins, daughter of the late
Mortimer Collins, is about to issue her
first novel. 1t is to be entitled "An In
noeent Sinner" The interest is of Il
psychological nature.
Louis A. Cooley gracefully takes
] y
Book in the last number of the magazine.
He has been connected with it since its
establishment, AZ years ago.
A London publishing house has
published n book entitled General
Grant, His Life and Times" depending
on the interest of Gen. Grants recep-
tons for the sale, but the speculation is
reported as not doing well.
Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge, the tai
ented editor of 81. Nicholas, is quite i'll.
She suffered from typhoid fever in the
summer, and has not recovered from
its effects. Her physician has ordered
her to stop work for year, and she
will probably 60 to Europe.
Col. VIM. p. Johnston has about
completed the biography of his father,
Albert Sidney Johnston. AT present he
is temporarily filling Randolph Tucker
chair in the Law Department of Wash
ington and Lee University.
The New York Lotus Club gave
Mr.. Farjeon, the English novelist, re-
ception and dinner, and in returning
thanks he said: "NOt only in Oratory
is the American superior to the English.
You beat us in oysters, in corn bread,
in sweet potatoes, in canvas-back ducks,
and, venture to say, in kind feelings
and hospitality
The December number of the at
lnntic contains the following verse from
Longfellow to Tennyson
! Poet l come to touch my lance with thine;
| Not as knight, who on the listed field
| OF tourney touched his adversary's shield
! In token of defiance, but in sign
! OF homage to the mastery which is thine
In English song; nor will keep concealed
] And vOicelcSs as Il riVulet frost cOnScalcd
! MY admiration for thy verse divine.
! Not of the bowling derviShcS OF song,
Who craze the brain with their dcliriOus
dance,
! Art thou, 0 sweet historian of the heart
/ Therefore to thee the laurel leaves belong,
To thee our love and our allegiance,
! For thy allegiance to the poets art.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
School and Church.

Bob Ingersoll lectured at Utica, n.
Y, last week, and on Sunday II clergy
men in that city devoted their sermons
to him.
The Council of the British Evangeli-
cal Alliance has appointed the week be-
ginning the 9th of January next as the
Week of Prayer.
The main building of Purdue Uni
versity, the State. Agricultural College,
at Lafayette, Ind, just completed, was
formally dedicated OH the 2lst.
The average length of the pastorate
in the United Presbyterian Church is
eight years There are now 500 unem-
ployed ministers and large number OF
vacant churches.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South, within the State of Mississippi,
has about $4,000 communicates, more
than 200 itinerant preachers, and about
the same number of local.
"A Methodist church in Knoxville,
Tenn, bears the remarkable name Of
:. The Parson Brownlow Church" Its
friends have lately been raising money
for its somewhat exhausted treasury.
The religious societies have had
very good receipts the past year, not
withstanding the dizziness of business.
Fifty-one Bible, missionary and educa-
tional. societies report aggregate re-
ceipts of SS,012,130.
The Dunkards in Pennsylvania have
recently been numbered, and are found
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
Odds and Ends.

ny Burlington Hawkeye Burdette.l
"A good fat cOuntry for the tramps
to emigrate TO, the island of Feed ye.
Times are so good out in Iowa this
fall that you can hardly tell tramp
from a savings bank director.
=" What is dollar?" asks the
Graphic. It's Just the same as graft
tude; something of which we owe more
than we have.
If this Gilman business keeps on, it
won't be long before nobody but COM
mon people will be left outside of the
penitentiary.
There is n woman on North Hill so
fashionable and so stingy that VIXEN she
goes to church she wears six-buttOned
kids and a ten-buttoned poeket-book.
The firm but gentle hornet has shut
up bis summer-cottage and gone into
retirement for the winter. His last
words were, awake me up when the
first picnic starts out next spring"
Because the young man wears a
summer-suit and straw-hat all through
November, and then has the same raj
ments dyed black for December, is no
sign that he is poor or improvident.
He may be rich and eccentric.
When Thanksgiving Day comes this
year, if our gratitude was One-tenth as
large as our harvest, Providence would
be overwhelmed with a shock of aston
ishment that it hasn't experienced since
ungrateful men and abundant harvests
were instituted.
The old, old story. A man went
into a store on West Hill last night and
picked up a gun. OF course, he didn't
know it was loaded. 1t went off. Sc
did the man. And the man who owns,
or rather owned the gun, would give $40
to know where they went.
"A Philadelphia pOetess sings: 81
would not weep because the roses die. -
No, indeedy. That's nothing to cry for.
But when blackjack wood is worth
s. 80 a cord, and the winter promises to
last five months, then you want to lift
up your voice and howl till they can
hear you in Nevada. .. ..
A Burlington man has invented a
device for assisting the victim who is Sc
lected to carve the Thanksgiving turkey.
Two strong iron clamps, set in the ta-
bic, reach up through holes in the plat.
ter and grasp the turkey so firmly that
the man can tear it to tatters in the
usual way, without sliding it off into
somebody's lap.
-Bayard Taylor wanted his girl to
meet him " at MONDAY, sweetheart, in
the billowy fields of grain" Now that
man would run the risk of sun-stroke
and trample down an acre and half of
good wheat and get his shoes full of
pricklv wheat-beards, for a little unsat-
isfactory hugging, when the girl would
a great deal rather meet him in the lee
cream saloon, where the only bill-owe-y
thing in sight would be the man behind
the counter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
Telegraphing without Wires.

Prof. LOomis of Washington, who
has devoted his life to demonstrating
the practicability of his theory of aerial
telegraphing, seems to be on the eve of
success. His system is based on cur
rent of electricity which he has demon
strated exists at different heights and
which transmits communication be.
tween two perpendicular wires reaching
into it, whatever the distance NAV be.
He has already sent messages in this
way for distance of IL miles, using the
Morse battery in connection with one of
his own invention. 1t seems assured
that aerial telegraphing by means of
rods on natural or artificial eminences
can be successfully practiced at all
times, though its great value will be in
long distance telegraphing as from one
side of the ocean to the other. Prof.
LOOMS is now making arrangements for
a series ofeXperiments between peaks of
the Alps and the Rocky Mountains. If
he succeeds of course telegraphing be-
tween the old world and the new will
be cheapened thousand fold, and Prof.
LOOMS is thoroughly convinced that be-
fore many years submarine cables will
be lying abandoned and useless in their
ocean beds.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

James Rosenberg Hawkins, colored, aged
20, was hanged at Towsontown, Md, on
the 23d, FOR committing an atrocious outrage
upon a white girl i'm April last. He made a
fun confession before he died.
Gen. McClellan's majority in New Jersey
is 13,7lO-27l more than Tilden received last
fall.
Moses ii. Grinnell, formerly Collector Of
the Port OF New York, and for many years
a prominent merchant, died on the oath,
aged -.
The Virginia rivers rose so high on the
oath and 18th that great damage resulted in
many parts Of the State. At Richmond the
water was Is inches above the high-water
mark of 1870, all the streets in the lower part
Of the city being inundated. The
gas-wOTks were submerged, the
water-wOrkS badly damaged and large
number Of bridges swept away. The prop
erty loss was estimated at over l,0OO, 600.
AtDanyille, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and
other places in Virginia, as well as at va
rious places in North Carolina, Maryland,
West Virginia, and Western PENNSYLVANIA,
much damage was done by the high water
The Baltimore and Ohio, Virginia Midland,
and other railroads, and the James River
and Kanawha Canal were all seriously dam
aged in various places. The aggregate losses
by the flood will amount to several millions.
\ pasSenger-train on the Charlotte, CO.
Umbia and Augusta Railroad fell through
estie-bridge over the South Fork Creek.
about ten miles south OF Rock Hin, $. g., on
The oath. Two passenger-coaches went TO
the bottom Of the stream and were entirely
submerged. Most of the passengers sue /
ceeded in climbing out of the ear windows, |
although several were drowned and Others /
injured.
Mrs. George II. Thompson, sister Of Sem |
ator Sargent, Of California, committed sui 1
eide at Lowell, Mass, on the oath.
The following are the sentences passed /
upon Ca:doza, Smalls and Carpenter in
South Carolina: Francis l.. CaTdozs, ex-
Treasurer Of south Carolina, for conspiracy
10 defraud the State, two years imprison-
ment in jail and 5000 fine, and one year 5
added if the fine is not paid
at the expiration of two years. Smalls,
Member of Congress, for accepting 5000
while member of the State Senate, three
wears at hard labor in the State Peniten-
tiary. L. Cass Carpenter, formerly proprie-
tor of the Columbia Daily Union, for
forgery in raising amounts for publishing
the laws in his paper, two years in Jail and a
fine of 81 600. Appeals Will be made in all
the cases.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
Science and Industry.

According to awriter in the Kansas
Farmer, the culture of the silk-wOrm
can be made very profitable in Kansas.
Machinery is being made in New
Orleans to be used in manufacturing
hats from the fiber of palmetto leaves at
Orange Park, Fla.
1t is estimated that 100000 cans
of tomatoes, corn, ETC., grown and
packed in Hartford County, Maryland,
will be shipped this season.
Six hundred men are employed in
the granite quarries of Hurricane Island,
Maine, preparing stone for the St.Louis
Post-office and Custom-house.
England has become so fond of
American apples that it is estimated
that she can certainly take an average
of from $4,000 to $1,000 barrels per
week for the whole market-year of nine
months.
The decrease in the sales of high
priced gloves is due to the fact that
American manufacturers have brought
their gloves to the excellence of foreign
makes, at prices low enough to place
them within the reach of all.
The enterprise of shipping fresh
beef from Boston to Europe, which at
one time promised so well that refrigel-
ator-roOms were put into several Gu
narders, has failed, because the beef
did not arrive in good order. Except
for that, a regular business at fair profit
was sure. ........
The pianos and organs used in the
public schools of Boston, as well as
those of many families, are tuned by
blind pupils from the Perkins Institute,
who are found to be capable of peculiar
skill in that occupation. Their lack of
sight makes them more dependent on
hearing, and the latter sense thereby
gains in delicacy.
The competition between the Amer
lean manufacturers of gold-watch cases
has been so sharp that these articles are
sold for the bare value of the gold and
the cost of manufacture. The only
profit is in the spring that throws the
face of the watch open. This is weighed
with the case, and the makers get its
value in gold.
Mr.. NJ. L. Bamberger, a wholesale
wine-dealer of Berlin, has lately pub
lished the component parts of the va
rious brands of German, French and |
Spanish wines on sale in Germany. All |
were analysed and found to contain del |
eteriOus matter. But few were made |.
from grapes, and two were found en-
tirely destitute of any natural product.
An Englishman in India has invent
ed solar battery consisting of 200 small .
mirrors, so arranged that they focused |
the suns rays upon a small copper boil |
er. and generated steam in it in 20 mill
utes. He contends that he could by the
same means generate heat enough to
drive the largest spinning-mill in Bonn
bay. .a
A new wrinkle in adjusting watches:
All the works except the handspring are
placed upon a circular frame, supported
at the center, and by means of geared
rim round the inside of the case; this
frame is turned entirely around once in
two hours. This arrangement gives the
works a circular motion round COM
mon center, Independent of their own
proper movement, and secures a balance
Of all the parts by constantly changing
heir relative positions.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
TIE EASTERN WAR.

The Russian loss at Kars is officially stated
at $500. Gen. Belinsky and Licut-CoI
MelikoG were among the killed. The Rus
sian main army is advancing on Erzeroum,
and Nukhtar Pasha has been summoned to
surrender, but has been ordered by the sui
tai 10 hold out to the last extremity. Gen.
Melikof, the capturer Of Kars, viii command
the besieging forces at Erzeroum.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.

Hon. Geo. II. Williams, late United States
Attorney General, sued Mr.. VIM. Mckee, Of
Of 81. Louis, FOR 500 additional fee for pro-
curing a pardon for him, Mr.. Mckee hav-
ing already paid him $1,000. The Court
Judge Wickham) sustained defendants de-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29

BIRDs'NEsrPUDDING.- Peel and core
as many apples as will stand in dish.
and fill the holes with sugar. Make a
custard Of quart of milk, eggs, and
l pound of sugar. Pour it over the ap-
pies, CRATE a nutmeg over the top, aud
bake one hour.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29

"A school of japanese mobiles was
formally inaugurated October II in To-
kio by the Emperor AID Empress, who
presented, severally, 1,5G0 gems or dol
lars. This Institution is founded by
families of ex-Daimios and Kuges, old
nobility of the imperial capital and
courts of provinces, for the education
chiefly, though not exclusively, of the
higher classes. 1t is largely endowed
and now in full working order.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29

-Scalded skim-milk will go as far as
fresh milk.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29
WHO ARE THE HEIRSg

"A Legal somanee-A Man Dies Declaring
He HIS No Reiatives-They Turn Up by
the score.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-29

A Bucharest dispatch of the 21st saws that
the Roumanians captured Rahova after a
three days engagement, and that the Turks
fled and were pursued towards Widdin.
There was heavy fighting on the LON, on the
18th, in which the Turks seem TO have gain
ed considerable advantage, capturing the
village and heights OF PIergos.
4 special correspondent at Giurgevo sends
the following, under date of the 23d. a"
have been shown a telegram from Russian
headquarters requesting contractors to fur
nish 7O,0O0 bags of biscuit instantly for the be-
sieged in Plevna, as Osman Pasha has opened
negotiations for the surrender of that place.
A Pera dispatch Of the oath says: The
view taken Of Osman Pasha's position is on
the whole Responding, but some maintain
he has. provisions enough to hold out until
Mehemet Ali can organize an army of re-
/ lief. Great efforts are making to accomplish
this end.
| An order has been issued calling out
/ 10000 civic guards in Constantinople and
/ the provinces, TO maintain order during the
/ possible absence Of the regular forces
/ Christians are summoned to participate in
/ this levy. 1t was reported on the 26th that
| the Turks had evacuated Orchanie.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
MARRIAGE FOR SIX.

neatly dressed Italian stepped briskly before the
desk OF Justice Murray, at the Tombs Police Court,
yesterday and in broken English, coupled with much
bowng asked to be united In matrimony TO bashful
young woman by his SIDE.
s'we sometimes do perform q little ecclesiastical
work." remarked the Justice, smiling, ''but the
SONS comparatively Stop mp Miss-Miss--''
s'Mss Mary CclIa' intcrposed the bridegroom, intro
duciEg his alanced. The twain ciasped hands and In
two minutes Giuseppe Fecardi and Mary Celia stepped
down man and WIFE,
This Is the first couple have married In some
timcn observed the Justice AZ he watched the pair
leaving the court ROOM
"0l Your Honor please" said young German, by
name Frank Schoemocrgh, 81 would ike to get mar
Rod 10 Annie Levy, this young woman bore. /"
"Whati" exclaimed the magistrate, "more OF II /
Well, bring them along now that my hand is IN. !"
Again the ceremony was performed and once more q
satisfied couple left the with high appre-
citation OF justice as money saver.
al guess will havo moro of them to-day, Z"
mused tho Judge, calling up few simple DRINKS Tor
disposition
gcant Woodruff handing In modest country youth
and a coy maiden, whose lace was scarlet red
The Justice leaned back in his chair and appeared
mysrned. Then he gazed long and earnestly nj the
calendar on his desk, alter which he heard to
mark soto al see nothing extraordinary In tho
day TO produce such an epidemic But IT'S all right, "
he lead "bring them all in sergeant
Will mark the date as epoch Of matrImony In the
TomDs Police Court" Tbs new couple wore named
Carl Eugene Hcnciscn and Maria Borgcnhardt
Up 10 the adjournment Of court the polce were
busy engaged In looking for other couples xious
BIO united IN wcdlock.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
CONTRASTING CHARITY REQUESTS.

Mary Scott died few days ago at Grcenpont, leav-
ing estate principally personal property, valued at
from $40 900 to $50 00Q She lett husband and three
children, but 1t appears that the husband has for
number OF years been separated from his family
ing nothing common with them She lett Will,
executed on the 9Th Of juno and duly witnessed, in
which the property lett to the three children
follows:-One-th TO her daughter, Jennie Scott
during her life; at ner death the same to 90 to ST
Stephens Home Tor Children, In East Tweniy-eghth
street, New York. ODo-third to her daughter, Mary
Denmon, during her life; at her death TO 20 to st.
yincents Home Tor Boys, at No 10 Pine street, New
York. and No. Poplar street. Brooklyn. One-third
to her son, Robert Scott, during hts lfe at his
death to 20 to St stephens. Homo for Children,
rs in tho OF the bequest OF Jonnie.
The executors named arc Thomas McMakin
and Dr. Zacharah p. Dennler, oil Long Island City,
and all the parties ut present living reside there
though the tcsator at the time OF her death was
resident Of Grccnpon the will Is offered for probate
Ia Kings county. Tho children, through their
counsel Mr.. J. II. Scarborough, propose to move for
setting the provisions directing tho requests TO
the charitable Institutions named the ground or
their unawiulness, thcro being statute prohibiting
the payment OF more than one-half OF an estate to
such institutions when there direct heirs at-aw
In this Is directed that tho entire estate shall
even tually DO so disposed Of
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
DOGS IN YonKvrLLE.

To the EpIroR OF rHE HERALD
The slums Of Constantinope contain fewer dogs
than the streets OF Yorkve. II the Mayor will not
enforce tho law what do about IT. Can tho
citizen be punished for executing and the dog too?
Vagrant proving about the streets in every
direction. They ovcrturn our garbage boxes and
possess themselves OF our areas. few days since a
canine tramp took possession of our vestibulc, with
the door mat for bed. Not wishing TO dispute with
him the family were compelled to the lower door
for exit and entrance The bloctade was maintained
until hunger forced the Withdrawal OF the brute. How
long must these things DO toicratedr You deserve
thanks for your efforts to relieve tho people OF this
much Bergh ed city OF such dangerous pests II tho
ordinance Is not DO enforced will tho authorities
fund the 81 tax paid in good faith by law abiding
citxens2 Please tell mo can l SHOOT THE DOG.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
A QUESTION OF LAW.

A question involving point Of law was argued be-
fore Judge Donohue who gave his decision yesterday
II would seem that in 1868 Samuel Shfier morigaged
certain premises TO Mr.. Hoffman, who conveyed
them to hrs. Anna King, who, in 1872, conveyed them
to Borman iowa. The latter, in 1874 agreed with
Hoffman, unknown to shifer, to extend the time for
payment Of the mortgage several months. When
Holman brought foreclosure SUIT Shifer alone
defended, and the question arose whether
the extension released him from all liability
for any deficiency. The only point 70 be decided was
whether The agreement between Borinan Jova and
Hoffman void, and If So whether Shiiier was SUI
responsible for de1ceuces; for, II valid, under well
settled principles Sniier released, he being tho
position OF surety after he had parted with the prop
erty, and not OF a principal.
Judge Donohue in giving decision holds that the
agreement was valid the plaintiff having received its
fruits way OF interest cannot dispute II, and
ShIcr is not responsible for any declencics though
Mrs King IS, as she put in no answer. The Judgment
OF foreclosure granted does not affect Shfer.