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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-19
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Later returns from the Maine election in
dictate quite cOnclusiyely that while Con-
nor, Republican, has decided plurality Of
the vote for Governor, he lacks the MAORI
ty necessary TO elect, and in consequence
the choice OF Governor and other State Of
ticials will fall upon the tive Houses-the
Lower House designating two names from
which the Upper House must choose the
Governor. As the Democrats and Green
hackers will have a majority in the Lower
House, they will of course send up the
names of their respective candidates, Gar
celon and Smith, and it is intimated that the
former will be selected by the Senate as
Governor.
The New Hampshire Republican State
Convention nominated Nathan Head for
Governor and adopted a hardmoney plat
form.
The Boston Democrats have chosen But
Ter delegates to their State Convention.
The Massachusetts State Convention of
the Independent Greenback party met on
the 18th and nominated Gen. B. +. Butler
for Governor by reclamation. The platform
adopted denounces both the old parties as
responsible for the present alleged prOstra-
tion of American industries, and recon-
mends, as measures of relief, the immediate
repeal of the Resumption act; the issue Of
an absolute money by the Government, the
volume thereof to be maintained at a fixed
rate per capita; equal taxation Of land,
whether cultivated of not; the reservation
Of our public lands for actual settlers, to be
assisted by the Government and protected
by just laws, etc.
The Massachusetts, Prohibitionists have
nominated the Rev. DIR. Miner for Governor.
L The New Hampshire Democrats have
nominated Frank A. McKeon for Governor.
The financial plank of the platform favors
" a stable currency, just payment Of the pub
lie debt, and but one currency for the Gov
eminent and the people, the laborer and the
Office holder, the pensioner and soldier, the
producer and bondholder."
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Massachusetts have decided that under the
call for State Convention no person known
to be in favor Of nominating, through the
Democratic Convention, as candidate for
Governor or for any State officer, person
who is not a recognized member of the
Democratic party should be entitled to sit
This action is intended to exclude the But
Ter delegates.
Great damage was occasioned by heavy
rains throughout Ohio and Western Penn
sylvania on the 18th and 18th.
Near Bradford, Penn, on the 18th, a mag
azine containing 20 pounds of glycerine and
100 pounds of dynamite exploded, and U.
b. Pulyer j. t. Rurkholder Andrew p
Higgins and Charley Page were blown into
fragments.
Charles p. Stickney, President of the
MassasOit National Bank and Of the Manu-
facturers' Gas Company, is the last promi-
nent defaulter unearthed at Fall River,
Mass. His irregularities" are variously
estimated at from 600 to 500, OOO-prob-
ably nearer the latter amount than the
former. He was associated with Chaee and
Hathaway in many Of their transactions,
and his failure will ruin several reputable
firms with whom he was connected.
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GENERAL.

September returns to the Department of
Agriculture give the average condition of
the corn crop at % against 96 in August. 1t
is slightly above the condition reported in
September, 1877, which was 81. The crop
held its own in the northern portion of the
Atlantic slope and on the Pacific coast. 1t
slightly improved in States north of the Ohio.
but fell off 10 per cent. in States west of
the Mississippi. The Southern States as a
whole fell off about 3 per cent. September
returns indicate an average Of 81 in the con-
|dition of the wheat crop, against 92 in Sep
TENDER, ~. The reduction is mostly due
to disasters to the spring wheat crop in the
Northwest. A preliminary examination of
acreage indicates that the breadth sown in
1873 was about One-siXth greater than in
1877. This will more than compensate the
loss from decline in condition, and may
probably bring up the yield TO the popular
estimate Of 100000 bushels.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

"A scrap-book, compiled by Thomas
Jefferson while he was President, has
recently been added to the collection of
the Virginia Historical Society.
Lady Caroline Norton left $500 by
her will to "the good cause of woman
suffrage" and Mrs. George Cakes, anA
other Englishwoman, has lately contrib
uted s., 800 to the same cause. i
1t is reported that the Western
Union Telegraph Company has made
contract with mr.. Edison to paw him
$1,000 a year for 81 years, on condition
that he will give the company all right,
title and interest in his Geographic in
ventions.
Prof Skeat has undertaken an ety.
mological dictionary of the English
language, illustrated by a few selected
quotations approximately illustrating
the period of introduction of the vari-
Gus words into the language. 1t will
take about three more years to complete
the work.
Mr.. Edison's peculiarities were
strikingly illustrated recently as plas-
ter cast of his head was being taken.
While the work was in progress he en-
ployed his tine in experimenting as to
the sound conductiyity of the wet and
dry plaster, and in communicating with
those about him by a telegraphic instru-
ment which he could not see.
Henry NJ SANKEY'S real name, ao-
cording to the Baltimore Ecery Sdtur
dag, is Henry NJ. Eastway, and he was
born in New York. His father was sea
captain. The family went to Europe
when Henry was very young, and soon
afterward the Captain died. Henry
quarreled with his mother at the age OF
16, and went away TO seek his fortune.
Other accounts make Stanley Welsh
man, by name Rowland.
"A discussion of the question, "What
is InspirationP" appears in the Septem-
ber-October number of the North Amer
ican heuieoo. The writers are the Rev
DR.. F. H. Hedge (Unitarian), the Rev
DR.. f. A Washburn (Episcopalian) the
Rev. Chauncey Giles (Swedenborgianl
the Rev. DR.. j. p. Newman (Methodist)
Most Rev. DIR. James Gibbons, Arch
bishop of Baltimore (Roman Catholic)
and John Fiske independently.
In appearing as Juli1, in the play
of the Hunchback," Mary Anderson
wears first simple white muslin dress
fiounced nearly to the waist. The sec
ond dress is pale pink satin, the from
of which is a. solid mass of silver EN-
broidery. The third dress is robe dc
chambre of pink cashmere. The fourtl
dress is violet velvet, trimmed with am
ethyst silk; and the fifth bridal rob,
of white satin, profusely onramente,
with Brussels lace and orange blossoms
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The Emperor's speech, read at the open
ing Of the Reichstag, refers to the attempts
made upon the Emperor's life and say 5
" The Federal Government think now, as
formerly, that extraordinary measures are
required to prevent further extension Of
| the already widespread evil Socialism !
and TO pave the way for its extinction, and
that such measures should preserve the lib
erty Of citizens in general, and only prevent
abuses Of liberty bywhich pernicious Social
list agitators threaten the foundation OF life
and all culture" The speech expresses
confident hope that the Deputies will not
refuse the means OF giving the Empire the
same security from internal as il already en-
JOYS from external attack. The Liberals are
not much pleased with the speech, which
they regard as partly an indictment against
themselves.
Modelling, who attempted to assassinate
the Emperor William, is dead from his
wounds.
Another horrible colliery explosion occur
red at Abercorne, near Newport, Mon
mouthshire, Wales, on the 18th, by which
some POS lives were lost out of 81 men en-
gagged in the mine.
Minister Noyes has opened public SUBJ
scription in Paris for the yellow fever suf-
ferers.
Gen. PhillipoYiteh has been forced by the
exigencies of the campaign in Bosnia to
transfer his headquarters from Serannieva
to Brod, retrogade movement which has
excited great and unfayorable comment in
Vienna.
The editor Of the Bonapartist Journal, Le
Pays, has been fined 500 and imprisoned
three months for insulting President Mac
Mahon.
The Grand Council bf SyifzeTlfnd has
granted amnesty TO % catholic priests de-
prived OF their livings, in 1873, for refusing
TO comply with the requirements of the !
State.
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Science and Industry.

The Great Eastern, it is said, has
been bought by company for use as a
cattle boat to carry Texas meat to
England. Her capacity will be 1900
head of cattle and $500 sheep. -.
--Sylvanus Morris, of Ellington,
Conn, is raising about 25, ZOO cabbages
for the city market. He claims that
the crop is fully as profitable as tobacco,
and less of drain on the land.
The hair of the deer, it has been
discovered, is five times lighter than
cork, and a, Government commission
reports that pound of hair will sup
port weight of 10 pounds for three
days. Within the last two years deers'
hair has been extensively used in the
construction of life-preservers, cush-
ions, etc.
Emerson, Corville & Co., owners of
salmon-canning factory in Collins
vile, and reputed owners of the can
merry at Sacramento Cal, which estab-
lishments have been for two months
putting up salmon for expectation, in
violation of the law, have been arrested.
Over $4,000 seed-salmon, on their way
to the spawning grounds, are believed to
have been destroyed by canneries since
Aug. /, and the State has thereby lost
not less than million of dollars.
East Liverpool, Ohio, has the larg-
est. potteries devoted entirely to iron
stone china and decorated ware in Amer
lea. Firms that formerly gave employ
ment to &C and 20 hands now have work
for 200 and upward, and the whole num-
Der employed in the potteries is now
over 1900 men, women and children.
The shipment of crockery from that
place from January 1, 1873, to June 4
were 29,419 packages.
The Augusta (Ga.) cotton factory
shows very satisfactory sort Of a bal
ance sheet. 1t has been making cotton
goods for l9 years, during which time
it has omitted only one quarterly div
idend, and its profits have ranged from
20 to s per cent. year. Its present
capital is 100000, its surplus S256, coo,
aud it made about Is, 000,0 900 yards of
cloth last year, while a factory in New
Hampshire, having more looms, made
only 100000. 81. .-''-
-Quinine has advanced in price, I'M
til it is higher than it has before been in
this country since the rebellion. This
is attributed not only to the spread of
malarial disease, but to the falling off
of the supply of bark, owing to troubles
among the South American tribes of
Indians, who are the principal gather
crs: They have shipped no bark for
eight or nine months.
1t is not generally known that the
Chinese make very fine razors, and that
for long period no European shaving
knife could compare with theirs in
keenness and durability. A fine edge
is necessity with them, since they reg
ularly shave their heads-carefully
emitting the pigtail-without using soap
or any other emollient. They only
moistcn the scalp with little warm
water.
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Odds and Ends.

From the Cincinnati Breakfast Tablet
The man who has no heaven in
him would sigh amid the joys of Para
disc
The road to prosperity is always q
heavy upgrade to the man with soiled
shirt-front. F --s..-.g5 -.i ~
The Turks are the most courteous
people on earth, and never take the
wrong hat off the hat-rack.
A mule will behave himself eleven
years and six months just to get one off
hand shot at middle shirt-stud. .,
Patience and gentleness are potent
and powerful, but they can not turn
mill-wheel nor break up setting hen.
When young man asked an old
joker the other day what was the safest
business, he advised him to be miser.
Hired girls in Minnesota get a dol
lar day, but they marry the first 25-
cent fellow that asks them all the same.
There is tide in the affairs of man
that taken at the food leads on to for
tune, but it is not the tide that floats q
schooner.
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School and Church.

Oakland, Cal, has Chinese Pres
byterian Church with 80 members.
The Methodist Conference in
France, after a generation of labor, has
80 churches.
Fifty young Sioux are being educat-
ed to useful labor in the Virginia Agri-
cultural Institute. They are said to
learn fast, and to be reasonably indus
trious. ft 20
The "Spanish Christian Church ~
is the name taken by the Protestants of
Spain. The Church is Presbyterian,
having q Presbytery at Madrid, where
the first assembly was held, and another
at Andalusia.
An African Methodist congregation
of Norwalk, Conn, has been received
into the First Congregational Church of
that town, and constituted mission
church. The congregation has become
weak and dissatisfied with the itin
erancy.
The S25, 900 given anonymously to
Andover Theological Seminary will be
appropriated to the enlargement of the
old chapel. Announcement is also made
of a pledge of s25, 600 for the endow-
ment of chair of theology in Oberlin
by a Massachusetts, lady. -iir|
An important experiment is being
tried in the Boston public schools, where
books have been excluded from the
primary departments, and oral exer-
cises and object-lessons substituted.
The young pupils are especially taught
to express ideas in their own language
The teachers lecture, or talk, daily about
such knowledge as little children may
best acquire. 50
Two thousand delegates attended
the International Conference of Young
Mems Christian Associations in Geneva
August IA. The United States, Canada,
Nova Scotia, Sweden Denmark, all of
Central Europe, and England were rep
resented. The whole number of Young
Mems Christian Associations in the
world was reported 10 be 1000; of this /
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-09-19
Haps and NIishaps.

"A young son of Charles Fritzer, of
Laporte, Ind, fell into boiler of scald-
ing water, and died from the effects in
a few minutes.
AT Buchanan, Mich, child of Mr..
Simmons, aged five years, was choked
to death by getting a watermelon seed
in its windpipe.
p. w. Fauntleroy, a prominent cit
izen and farmer of Essex County, Va,
was found dead in his orchard with q
load of shot in his side from his own
gun, r-s s... ..-
"A lad named Mack McCrystal was
fatally burned at Leavenworth, Kansas,
by the explosion of a cal oil lamp,
caused by blowing down the chimney TO
extingulsh It,
William Beers, of Mishawaka, Ind,
farmer, aged about 20, endeavored to
pull ramrod from loaded rifle, when
the weapon was discharged, blowing the
rod through his body and killing him in
an hour.
"A man named Anderson was out
hunting near Grayson, Ky, and at
tempted to draw his gun through a
fence. The hammer caught on a rail,
discharging the contents into his arm
and side, causing lockjaw, from which
he died in few hours. ...... .......
The boiler of threshing engine
exploded about nine miles north of
Rochester, Ind, fatally scalding Louis
Strong, engineer, and seriously injuring
a boy named Albert Highway. Several
others were slightly injured. The cause
was defect in the boiler. ..,, .
H. J. Bosworth, manager of the
telegraph at Muscatine, Iowa, drank Il
glass of water from a pail in which
some of the boys had spilled a quantity
of blue vitriol. His life was saved by
the liberal use of raw eggs.
AT Winchester, Va, Mrs Edwin
Lewis, a beautiful young widow, and
her two young children, were poisoned
by eating toad-stools, which they mis-
took for mushrooms. She had gathered
the supposed mushrooms for fine din
ner for her pastor, who was expected
but was detained by railroad accident.
Her two children died in few hours,
and Mrs. Lewis was lying at the point
of death.
Rev. j. A. Carr, Methodist minis
ter stationed at Scioto, o., was drowned
while fording Pine Creek on horseback
with his young child before him on the
| saddle. 1t is not known in what man.
ner the accident occurred, but shortly
after, parties going to the creek saw the
horse upon the bank, and the infant,
upheld by its clothes, floating upon the
water. 1t was brought out, and, al
though life was apparently extinct, it
was finally resuscitated. Search was
made for the body of Mr.. Carr, and it
was recovered about three-quarters of
! an hour after in 10 feet of water.
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Miles on Miles of Clouds of Winged
ii iH Ants. ii'3'ii'- 'i--'

On the afternoon of Aug. 80 specta-
Gle was witnessed by DansvilIians re-
isembling one of four years ago in char
acter but greatly exceeding it in magni-
tude. Clouds of small winged ants
blackened the atmosphere in perpendic-
ular streaks, extending north and south
an apparent distance of five or six
miles, and perpendicularly from near
the earth about q mile upward, and
moved rapidly from east to west with
the wind from O'Clock until it was too
dark to see them, so that the vast insect
flock must have been over 70 miles in
length. Many of them settled down in
the village, very thickly in spots, but
not nearly so thickly as in 1874. The
most of them we're very small, bat many
were as large as large ant, and some
of those large ones were without wings,
the wings probably having dropped of.
Occasionally one of the clouds, few
feet in thickness. would be seen NOV
ing rapidly downward as wei as west
ward, while others would keep right on.
We have found no Dansyillian who
recollects any phenomena of the kind
except the one of 1874, which occurred
SeptsS of that year, early in the even
ing--Dans0iLIe IN. ~ Advertiser. -
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THE GYPSY QUEEN.
Burial of Matilda Stanley, Queen of the
American Tribes, at Dayton, Ohio.
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Burial of Matilda Stanley, Queen of the
American Tribes, at Dayton, Ohio.
Especial to the Chicago Tribune.l
CINCINNATI, o., September 15.-The
funeral of Matilda Stanley, late Queen
of the Gypsies in the United States, took
place at Dayton to-day in presence of
over 10000 people. The programme Of
services did not differ essentially from
any Christian burial. If any exercises
of peculiar character took place, they
were apart from the public demonstra-
ton. There was a long line of cat
riages, and services in the cemetery
were conducted by the Rev.sDaniel
Bergher, of the United Brethren's
Church, of Dayton, assisted by quar-
tette from the church choir of the city.
The Gypsy Queen died in Vicksburg last
February, and her body was embalmed
In such manner that it still retains the
natural appearance of life. 1t was
placed in vault in the cemetery, and
every day members of the late Queen's
family have come with fresh flowers to
strev over her. To-day there were q
dozen Chiefs and their tribes in the city
from different sections Of the United
States to pay their last tribute to the
dead Queen. The deceased was a
plain, hardy-lookihs old woman,
with touch of Meg MeTTiiteS IL sp-
pearance, and q manner indicative of
strong and pronounced character. There
are stories told of her wonderful facul-
ties of telling fortunes when she pleased,
and her remarkable power as q mes
metist, both of these qualities being ac-
counted for by the fact that they were
handed down to her as the eldest
daughter in the Stanley family, and
were secrets possessed by her alone.
She possessed singular influence over
her people that has not entirely ceased
with her death. Her subjects came to
America in 1856, and shortly after Sc
lected Dayton as their headquarters fol-
the summer months, and it became the
center for the Gypsies of the country
They are good Observation-Disclosures
and thrlfty--sontrary to the usually
conceived idea. They have se7era
large farms near the city. In the win
ter they pack up for the South to specu
late and trade, leaving one or two o.
the tribe to look after their property a
home They are reverent church PEG
pie, and the reigning King, Levi Stan
| ley, and his son and heir, known as
"Sugar Stanley" IRE members of the
l. o. O. +. in good standing. The
grave of the Queen, in which the coffir
will rest, is box made of stone slabs
two feet deep and ten by fonr in dimen
sions. Over the grave will be raised
in the form of monument
huge bowlder eight feet il
diameter, surmounted by life
size figure of the Queenin white marble
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Foreign Notes.

Father Hyacinthe has decided to
open a church in Paris.
"A Paris paper says Christine Nils
son has lost 100000 by American in
vestments.
Seventy eight more Communists
have been pardoned or had their SEN
fences committed.
The ex-Empress Eugene is so af-
tlicted with the govt that she has to
lean heavily upon cane while walking.
"A hundred students suspected of
Nihilism have been arrested and expell-
ed from the universities of st. Peters
burg and Kief. ~
"A dispatch to the London Times
from Calcutta says it is universally re-
cognized that the present is one of the
most critical epochs in the history of
India. A single false move in the con
duct of the mission to Afghanistan may
involve not only a costly frontier war,
but wider complications. The mission
forms single step in an extensive con-
certed scheme for the protection of In
dia.
&C. C.. Fulton, of the Baltimore
american, testifies that English women
still wear the dawdiest bonnets in the
world. "The present STYLE" he says,
sis an oval or square top hat, large
enough to come down to their eyebrows,
and mostly covering the upper part of
their ears. Around the crown, and al
of ostrich feathers and lace trim
mings." ...
The very day of the attack on Gen.
Mesentzoff, an agent of the secret po-
lice was stabbed at Boetoff, the chief of
the gendarmerie at Gharkoff, the chief
of the secret police at Taganrog, and a
Colonel of gendarmerie at Pottava. All
these funetionaries had previously re-
ceived by post a warning that the pen
atty of death had been pronounced
against them by the secret societies.
Panic overpowers the police in view of
these assassinations. Order does not
seem to reign in Warsaw.
According to military writer in
the Cologne Gazette the soldiers in the
French army are better fed than
in the German army, each horse receiv-
ing in the light cavalry regiments two
pounds, and in the cuirassiers artillery
four pounds more forage than in the
corresponding arms in the German SER
vice while the French soldier is given
a far more substantial ration of meat
than the German. He receives also half
a litre of sound country wine daily, and |
a sufficient amount of well baked wheat.
en- bread-every man getting two good
hot meals day, of each of which a
thick, palatable soup forms the prin-
cipal part. ,,-.s. f-s .r. 4
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CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Gen. James Longstreet has been appoint
ed Revenue Agent for the district Of Geor-
gia and Florida.
The War Department has prepared long
argument in favor Of the transfer Of the In
dian Bureau 10 the War Department. Sec
Rotary Schurz, on behalf Of the Interior De-
partment, is having prepared an argument
against the transfer. These arguments are
10 be submitted to the Congressional Com
mission which is to meet in St. Louis on the
18th Of this month.
f. L. CORDOBA, formerly State Treasurer
Of South Carolina, has been appointed to q
$1,000 clerkship in the Treasury Department
at Washington.
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A Circus-Tent i'm Flames.

The Canton (Ohio) Repository of
Sept. says: "We are Informed by a
gentleman who came from Canal Dover
this morning, that during . violent
storm which visited that place last even
ing, the pavilion of the Sells Brothers
Circus, which was performing there,
was blown over, and being ignited by
the lamps, wss partially consumed by
fire, and that the band-wagon was Sc
riously damaged by the flames. The
scene of terror and confusion which fol-
lowed is represented as beyond the pow
er OF description, though, fortunately,
no lives were lost and no serious injury
was inflicted upon any member of the
large assemblage.n