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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12
The Indians and Their Dead.

A girl about II years old had died,
and her relatives had appointed that
evening as the beginning of her funeral.
After death takes place In an Indian
village the weeping and wailing take
place Immediately, and continue among
the relatives in the widest and most
demonstrative manner for many days.
The evening before it had reached its
highest pitch the family of the dead
girl had given away every thing they
had possessed and were then engaged
in pulling down the very lodge that shell
tered them, and cutting the buffalo
robes that composed its sides into small
pieces, while the mother of the girl had
chopped off some of her fingers with a
butcher-knife and was being pounded
by sympathizing friends to keep from
fainting. Every body had their faces
painted black and were moaning as only
grief Indian can. The woods
and fantastic lodgas and weird faces of
the Indians, lit up as they were by the
fiickering glare of large campfire,
formed a picture at once grotesque and
startling. When our party visited
IAc Cdup III lhO AOl ulHS Iuc III >
family, weak from hunger and loss of
sleep, were still keeping up the barbar-
Gus wake, although the corpse had been
placed upon its.burial platform in some
secluded spot on the prairie, where it is
to be hoped the wild flowers and birds
will watch it evermore. Riding out
from the dozen or so tepees that COM
prised the village, Mr.. Hoyt and myself
made short cut across curve in the
trail and discovered a dead Indian on
platform of stakes about ten feet above
the prairie. At first, like all whites out
here, we set out with the determination
to take what trophies might be on the
rack, but upon reading the prayer of
his friends, written in English and
pinned to one of the stakes that he
might not be disturbed, as Yellowface,
the dead man, had always helped the
white man and was friend of all who
passed shat way, we left the grave I'M
The Indian had only been
there since April, and had his gun, TOM
ahawk, knife and beaded ornaments all
upon his person.--MontanG Letter in
UereI1nd Leader.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12
DAHLLAS.

The summer reign OF flowers IS past,
Yet earth had beauty 20 the last
OF Autumn's shortening days;
The pansy droops, the rose Is gone,
But on the borders of the lawn
The stately dshlias blaze.
With what varied wealth of bloom
THESE fairest flowers of Autumn come;
Their velvet petals hold
Deep SHADES OF countless flowers that blow
ne roses crimson, lily's snow,
The sunfioweI's royal gold.
They glow ne If a Summer sun
shone through the heart of every one,
As II summer breeze
Were blowing over all the land,
let Autumn's breath, and Autumn's hand
Make bare the waving trees.
They glad the fresh October morn,
As II with their bright lives we're born
A second Summertime;
As N all beauty of the yea
We're gathered up and lavished here,
80 perfect Is their primel
They come 90 us Mt Summers close,
In beauty stately as the rose
When fun of richest bloom;
They wave with all the roses grace,
But In their splendor lies no trace
OF roses rare perfume.
Our life hath garlands like the year:
The love and trust of children dear
Are Violets blue and white;
The love and trust of ripening days,
YOUTHS passion strong, loves glad amaze
Seem roses of delight;
Fair lilies crown a stainless few.
And some wear roses, some wear rue,
But all have youths perfume;
TO each there comes a later day,
When summer blossom, drop away,
And then the dahlias bloomi
The dahlias bloom, n changeless type
OF task-work finished, harvests ripe,
And 80 LIES Autumn flowers
In their completeness still should hold
The summer bloom, the summer gold
That filed our youthful hours.
And II IN life's late flowers we miss
The roses perfume. youth, wild hiss
We calmly let them &c
And rather bless Coo as we gaze
Upon the dahlias' steadfast blaze.
For LIES glar. Autumn glow
an the Tear Round
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12
History Of the Corset.

The corset had its origin in Italy, and
was introduced from that country into
France by Catherine de Medicis. Mary
Stuart and Diana Poitiers did not, how
ever, follow the fashion, but it was adj
mitted by all the ladies of the French
Court that it was indispensable tot he
beauty of the female figure, and was,
therefore, adopted by them. The cor
set was in those days in its infancy, and
it assumed more of the rough char acteT
of a knights cuirass. The frame was
entirely of iron, and the velvet which
decorated the exterior or hid a fright
full and cumbersome machine. This
state of things, so detrimental to health,
and the cause of so much personal in
convenience, not to say torture, could
not last long, and the artisans of those
days cOntrived to give more pliability
and lightness to the metal, and prepar-
ed the way by degrees for whalebone.
But, as reforms are always slow, the
cold iron continued 20 clasp the warm
hearts of the fair wearers for a long
time in its embrace. The corset found
favor in the eyes of Louis XIV. In the
1AC SOlcSb " do
ed with Punishment from the toilet.
Fashion took rural and simple turn,
and was almost guided by the taste of
Boucher, in whose pictures many of the
Court celebrities figure as shepherds
and shepherdesses. But the painter de-
parted, and fashion returned to the
prim eccentricities of the former times
DDrinp the Revolution the corsets were
again forgotten, and under the Directo-
~ it was completely interdicted by the
fashionable world. The bellies of the
day took a classic turn, the Roman
dress-the tOga, sandal, etc. The En-
pire dethroned the classic fashion, but
without taking the corset in favor.
High waists were in high favor, and la
mode revealed a taste certainly the re-
verse of prudery. With the fall of the
Empire fell also the waist, and then
came also, as necessity, the return to
the corset. London Cfty Journal.
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Misfortunes of a Female Tramp.

A special to the COurier-JOurndL from
Elizabethtown, KY, says: A tramp I'M
der the name of Frank Watson attempt
ed to board running freight-train on
the p. and E. Railroad at Nelson-creek
station yesterday morning, but missed
the footing and fell, getting the right
foot and right hip crushed in the fall.
The paSsenger-train brought him to
this place last night, and he was taken
to the boarding house of w. D. Kennedy
and medical aid summoned. An exam
ination developed also, to the satisfac-
ton of the attending physician, that the
injured person was woman. Your
correspondent, learning this fact, called
on the patient to-day and interviewed
her in regard to her injuries, and how
she came to be travelling in the garb of
man. l was the first to openly charge
her with her right sex, and to the ac-
cusation she hung her head, and for a
long time refused to reply, but finally
told me of herself. She said her right
name was Frances Watson, and that she
was born in Lancaster, Pa. That her
father was killed in the army, and that
oHO CidlulOu 1OlOOO, OHlO, elo ACI uOulO,
where her brother and sister now reside.
She claims to be but 16 years old, and
certainly looks but little older. She is
well developed, manufactured wom-
an, with small hands and feet, but bears
evidence of exposure to all sorts of
weather. She assumes the garb of
man, she says, so that she could make
living. She claims to have worked
for Mr.. Apologize, of Louisville, as a
teamster, and had gone down the Pa
ducah and Elizabethtown Road to find
work, failing in which she was making
her way to this place when hurt. She
will be cared for at this place until she
is able to walk, and then means will be
devised to get her to assume the garb
suited to her sex. Her injuries will con-
fine her to her bed for some weeks.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

Mr.. HALLIKER, of South Hill, sent
his boy to the grocery with quarter
to buy twenty cents worth of cheese,
and the boy came home without the
nickel of change, and smell of gum
drops on his breath. The skate-strap
was produced and explanations de-
manded. Father" exclaimed the
noble boy, "don't whip me. If you
don't want your funds forcibly abstract
ed, don't intrust the combination to q
boy" Huntington Haa0k-Eye.
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stop Drinking vinegar.

How many young women who have inherit
I'd predsposit to erlboRpoint have ruined
their health by drinking vinegar to reduce
their forms to graceful proportions. Allan'i
Anti-Fat is absolutely harmless. IL promote:
digestion, and accomplishes its work simply
by preventing an undue assimilation OF the
fatty ingredients of the food. Excessive fat
ness is a veXatious burden, and there is NJ
longer any excuse for enduring it, since Al
lan's Anti-Fat is an effectual remedy for thi
abnormal cOndi' ion.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. July 18th, 1873.
BOTANIC MEDICINE Co., Buffalo, n. Y:
Ge.tteDet-l lost three pounds while taking
one bot lie of Allan's Anti Fat.
Yours truly. Mrs NJ b. MYERS.
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"To Be orr Not to Be Ut is a questio

"To Be or Not to Be. ut is question
of Importance to all afflicted creatures,
whether they will be cured of disease by
remedies which leave long train OF bad al
ter-effects, or by medicine that strikes at
the cause of the malady and graduates u,
without doing any more harm than that muen
water? CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE, for the
cure of all diseases caused by malaria, is a
palpable, powerful Antiperiodic and Tonic,
and yet never produces headache, noise In
the ears, deafness, or any Of the evils conse-
auent on the use Of Quiniue, Arsenic, ETC.
JIG. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
For sale by all Druggists. 81. LOUIS
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For sale by all Druggists. St.Iouls'

"A 6-months-old child of Everett V.
Wendt, of Holyoke, Mass, was choked
to death by getting the rubber nipple OF
a nursing-bottle in its throat.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

-Wm- Lewis, brother of ex-United
States Senator Lewis of Virginia, was
drowned while fording the Shenandoah
River at Port Republic. His colored
driver and pair of horses were also
drowned. sat
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

Rev. DR.. John P. Gulliver, now of
Binghamton, N. Y, but formerly Of
Boston, New York, Chicago, and other
places, has accepted the new chair of
s. The Relationship of Christianity and
Science, in Andoyer Theological SEM
mary. The professorship was endowed
by a gift of $50, 200, and is believed to
be the first of its kind in this country.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

Lizzie Ripley, aged 5, was fatally
burned at Columbus, O., by her clothes
taking FIRE from a bonfire
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

Dr. BULLS CoUGH SYRUP is particularly
recommended for children. Il cures Coughs,
Colds, Group, Sore Throat and Whooping
Cough. Is pleasant to the taste and acts ike
q charm. Price, IS cents.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

Nothing can exceed the intense af-
lection which a girl deals out to her
father for day or two before the time
when she's going to ask for new dress.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulverrnacher Galvanic Co.. Cincin..O
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-12

By recent reorganization, the Chicago Academy OF
Design has been put In better condition than at any
time since the fire.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-03
A Late chicago story.

This is the latest Chicago story
about Miss Kellogg. ." "Miss Kei-
logg sent word to Behrens, the mu-
sical conductor, that she wanted to
rehearse with him the polonaise in
Mignon. Behrens at once went to
hunt up the music, but found to his
horror that the man who had
charge Of Miss Kellogg's music had
sent it all on to New York. After
falling to find the music in any of
the Chicago music stores a lady
said that a friend Of hers had the
polonaise; and that if Miss Kellogg
had no objection she would write
her note aud ask her to send it
down to the hotel. So a note was
written to the owner, asking her to
send up her polonaise for Miss Kel-
logg's use. Unfortunately, when
the messenger reached the house
the lady was out. The note, how
ever, was opened by her daughter, a
younglady of seventeen or eighteen,
who, after looking through her
mothers room, sent back a note
saying that she didn't know exact
ly which the Mignon polonaise was,
but that her mother had only three,
and no one of them was large
enough to fit Miss Kellogg, who,
she understood, was a little stout"
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ing down church aisle from the
sacrament, the face would not be
remarked as out of place. 1t is
both possible and probable that the
venerable gambler is a deyout and
sincere member of church; such is
the difference between Europe and
America. Tell Europeans they are
socially immoral, and they will
respond that Americans are socially
Puritanical. The men around the
roulette tables represented several
nationalities, but they appeared far
less degraded than the females.
Woman has so much farther to fall
than man that the stamp Of the
change is the more distinct. In the
second hall the little game is with
cards. 1t is called Trente ct Quar-
ante Thirty and Forty), and de-
pends upon certain additions of
spots on the cards which are turned
by the dealer. The same variety of
faces surrounded these latter tables.
Not the slightest dispute occurred
in either hall in two hours, but the
most perfect order and silence pre-
vailed. According to contract with
the prince, the Casino closed at IL
pm. At that hour there was a
general departure for the Monte
Carlo Station, the next to the town
of Monaco, to take the train back
to Nice. ] noticed, too, that every,
body rode first-claSs. And wher
the train arrived at Nice there vas
a long line of hacks in waiting fol
this regular nightly harvest.
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or. Philadelphia Bulletin.l


An evening at Monte Carlo is of
course a part of the tourists bust.
ness while at Nice. Since the
French, German and Italian gov
ernmentS united to suppress gamb-
ling within their realms the associa-
tion which reigned at Baden Baden,
Hamburg and elsewhere looked to
Monaco as an eligible site for a
bank. The little principality, the
smallest monarchy in Europe, is en-
tirely independent of France or
Italy, is ruled by a prince, from
whom the gambling establishment
obtained its license, The Casino,
which contains the Salon de Jeu, is
an elaborate building, situated on a
promitory overlooking the sea, and
surrounded by elegant gardens.
Close by is the Hotel de Paris, where
sumptuous living can be had. In
short the entire vicinity is of rare
attractiveness. On entering the
Casino the reading and the concert
rooms are first seen, both actively
filling their respective spheres. at
the door of the Salon de Jeu we
were requested to step into an office
to register our names and addresses
and reoeive a card of admission. In
a moment after We were standing
where, as poor little Toddie would
say, we could "shee ze wheels
do wound" In the first hall the
game is roulette, Nothing less than
tiVs-franc pieces are allowed on the
table. There is no limit the other
way. French gold and silver and
italian paper arc piled up in
abundance, Doth sexes aad all
ages are represented around the
two tables, The majority of the
females, though very dressy, dis
played that physiognomy which
stamps stranger to modesty
and virtue. They were not all that
way, however. | noticed in par
ticular one very gray-haired old
woman in good quality mourning
dress, who played ! long while with
her head bent toward the table and
concealed by her deep bonnet.
When at last she rose to 60, and |
saw her face, it was no little sur.
! prise. If instead Of FROM the rou.
lette table she had been seen COM
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JRSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 8, 1878.
THE HuMAN RACE.
Bob IngsrsOII Kindly Offers Some
Excuses Tor IL.

/
Now, l have some excuses to offer
for the race to which / belong. II
have two. My first excuse is that
this is not a very good world to
raise folks in any way. [Laughter.l
1t is not very we'll adapted to rails
ingmagnifcent people. There's only
a quarter of it land to start with.
1t is three times better fitted for
raising fish than folks, and in that
one quarter of land there is not
tenth part fit to raise people on.
You can't raise people without a.
good climate. You have to have
the right kind of climate, and you
have got to have certain elements
in the soil, OF you can't raise good
people. Do you know that? There
is onlyahttle striparound the world
within which have been produced
all men of genius. The southern
hemisphere has never produced a
man Of genius, never, and never
will until civilization, fighting the
heat that way and the cold this,
widenS this portion Of the earth
capable Of producing great men
and great women. 1t IS the same
with men that it is with vegetation;
you go into a garden, and find there
flowers growing. And as you go
up the mountain, the birch and the
hemlock and the spruce are to be
found. And as you go toward the
top you find little stunted trees
getting a miserable subsistence out
lot the crevices of the rCJks, and
you 60 on and up, until finally you
find at the top little moss-like
freckles. You might as well try to
raise flowers where these f-eckles
grow as to raise great men and
women where you haven't got the
soil.
The next excuse is, that | think
we came up from the lower animals.
Else how can you account for all
this snake and hyena and jackal in
mani Now when | first heard that
: doctrine | didn't like it. / felt
sorry for people who had nothing
but ancestors to be proud of. It
} touched my heart to think they
would have to 60 back to the Duke
J Orang-outang or the Duchess Chin.
panzee. | was sorry, and l hated
} to believe it. l don't know that il
is the truth now. / am not salts
fed upon that question. l stand
about eight to seven. Laughter.
| thought it over. / read about
, it. read about these rudimentary
{ bones and muscles. l didn't like
, it. | read that everybody had rudi
mentary muscles coming from
, the ear right down here-indicatine
r THAT the most Intellectual people
in the world have got them. | cay
"What are they?" "Rudimentary
= muscles" "Muscles that your an
cestors used to have fully deyel
} oped." "What for?" "To flaT
their ears with" Laughter. Well
D whether We have or not, know o.
lots Of men who ought to have then
o yet. Laughter, And finally
+ said, "Well, | guess we came W
: from the lower animals" l though
! it all over the best could, and
, said, 81 guess we did," And after
! a while l began to like it, and l like
, it now better than l did before.
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Louisville and Great Southern 1. R

1850 pm. Right Expression Saturday
this train runs only to Milan. (-Conneets at
Milan for St. Louis and Chicago; at Nc
Kenzie for Nashville. Chattanooga, Atlanta
and the Southeast; atGuthrie for Hopkins
Vile, Henderson and Evansville; at Louis
Vile for all psints North and East.
1l:00 am, Day Express Connects for St.
Louis and Chicago, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:40 pm. Brownsville Accommodation
Daily except Sunday.
arrival of Trains.
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RAlLRoADs.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

OOHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. IS,
y 1877;
Mail and Express. daily..l1 % Pm 5.b pm
Somerville accem' dat'n
daily lex. Sunday)..... 500 pm S.lS am
Time Twenty Minutes Faster than
City Time.
SOmerVIlle train Will stop at reg
MAR and flag stations.
The II. 80 p IN. Train makes the quick
est time ever made to Chattanooga, Knox
Vile. Lynchburg, Washington, and the East,
and will stop at all Regular StatiOns, and at
Flag Stations when tagged, except Flag Sta
tions between Collierville and Memphis.
Ticket effice 27S Main street and Depot
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A. GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
7. s. DAVANT,
1St Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-03

MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
A.M.PH AN.P.M.
Express daily (excegt
Saturday yl............."....'.- l ~
Mail Train n-..... -.............. 10 ll.lO
Accomm. d MEX. Sunday 40
Depot at head Of Main street.
Ticket office, 2S Maia street. corner Of
Madison.
MEMPHIS AM t..ee1 TON A.R.
Arrives. Ieavss.
- -
An. "a. A.xP.N.
daily..................,,,....,.... 5.45 1l.25
SomerVille accom- datn
Except Sunday)...-.... s.lS 500
Llokat once I7s elsln street.
----------
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE R. R.
Arrives. Leaves.
AMP.M lA.MPN.
N. o. Mail daily ......,.,.. l.(6 800
Sardis accommodation,
daily lex. Sunday).......9 Is ll50
Freight train, daily Tex
Depot gS at foot Of Main street
Ticket Office, 2S7 Main ctreet, corner of
MOdisOn. M. BURKE, Gen. Sup't
AEMPHIs AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
-. --~----
A.M.P.N. L.M.P,M,
Mail Train daily............- 11.3O $50
freight and Aocommoda-
tion daily lex. Sunday 5.2o 100
Sleepig cars on mail train. Ticket Offices,
Louisville Depot, 2s1 Main ioor. Madisonl
and 278 Main street.
W. 3. SMITH. Aot'g Gen'l Sup't.
PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Mail Train arrivss................. ..... e30 am
eaves........,-........ ........... W Pm
The mail train leaves OoVington for Mem.
phis at am. and arrives at Covington al
$3.50 D. nj, Trains leaving Memphis will start
from the Underwriters' Warehouse.
j. w. WILBUR, suB't,
II. n. GIVEN, Asst. Sup't.
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10 p m
,'s'sso 10 H. IN
pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile, and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information, apply at Ticket
Once. 2S7 Main, Northwest corner Madison
JAS. MONTGOMERY, sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
cot
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-03
MEMPHIS q LITTLE ROCK R.R.
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas
TIMEOARDi

Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily.-....,....5.SO pm. 1.3O pm.
Freight train daily tex.
sunday .......... ............7O 90 am. $40 m.
passengers going on this read will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argenta for
points on the Little Rock and Fort Saith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railrosd for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
trains.
Fer tickets and information apply at Ticket
Offices 27S and 2s7 Main street. and at depot
foot Of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
or TO the undersigned.
r. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Ag't, Memphis.
M. ST. JAY. q. p. aYd I. Ag't. Little Rock.
W. K. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
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MISS SSlPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
SCH EDULE:

SCH EDULB
ON and after Wednesday November Ia,
" 1877, trains will run as folisws
Leave. Arrive.
Main Train daily..."...... 800 pm. 1:05 pm
Sardis Accommodation
daily lex. SundaySl,...1l:5O a.m. s;l5 am
Freight r-sin daily lex.
64-t NJ. BURKE, Sup't.
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Twenty Thousand People


old and young. every week. It is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class ss
community.
We desire our business men to make note
Of the sbOvs facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.
We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adysr-
ti'irgi for many good people seeing On sd-
vsrtisement in paper, especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re-
sponsibility. Such confidence should not bs
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore.