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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
HOrnIess Cattle.

In California and elsewhere the
uselessness of horns on cattle in
a dumesticated state is being
urged by some writer's. Mr.. William
Clark, now of Denver, Colorado, but
formerly of Wayne County, N. T., bred
herd of hornless cattle while residing
in the latter locality, and is quite enthu-
siastic on the subject. He predicts that
the time will come when all domestic
cattle will be reared without horns. His
herd was bred from horned cows and
hornless bulls. He claims the following
merits for ''critters" of the new pat
term @ -..
Il. Horns were given to cattle to be
used in fghting-to enable them to de-
fend themselves against dangerous enc
mics. For this purpose they are OF val
ne upon wild cattle. Domestic cattle
have no valuable use for them
9 The horns upon domestic cIttle are
used mostly in goring and injuring each
other All injuries to animals are paid
for in their diminished growth, or di-
minished flesh, or increased amount of
food consumed.
9. Horns are a mere dead weight
upon the heads of the cattle, and the
expense of carrying them about and
warming and supplying their waste is
paid for in the food consumed or the
diminished weight of the animal.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
School and Church.

in 1859 the Catholic Bishops in the
United States held S9,000,000 worth of
property. They now hold $780, 900.
The revival meetings at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, are being carried on in a circus
tent, and with choir of 200 singers and
a band of music. ..1
Bishop Taebbe, of Kentucky, has
issued pastoral letter, in which ne de-
nounces round dancing, and says no
good Catholic will waltz.
r. H. Babcock, who lost his sight
when quite young, mastered the science
of medicine, and was graduated at Chi
cago with high hOnors last week.
In the new edition of his Dictionary
of Americanisms Mr.. Bartlett says that
"Mr. Chase told the writer that he
claimed the honor of adding the term
greenback TO our vocabulary"
&c The girls of our day are very bad
ly educated" said one of the members
of committee on education to the Bish-
Cd of Gloucester. "That can not be
denied" retorted his lordship. Chow
ever, there is one consolation, the boys
will never find it out"
Hon. A. II. Stephens speaks very
hopefully of the educational prospect in
Georgia They have made ample pro-
vision for the education of all the chill
dren, white and colored, which he thinks
was an absolute necessity.
Mr.. Chun Lung, of Hieng Shang,
China, has won one of the prizes in the
Junior class at Yale College, which en-
titles him to be one of ten to speak for
another prize at the Junior exhibition.
He has chosen as his subject: . The In
iuence of Education on Chinese Civil
ization."
The Univerity of London, which has
for some time admitted women to medi-
cal degrees, now votes by large major
ity Gn convocaion) to admit them to
all degrees. 1.-The University, says the
London Times, d" has in this course JUS
titled its reputation for broad and clear
comprehension of liberal principles,
and the consequences of the experiment
will be watched with interest,"
Bishop Bedeil, of Ohio, in reply to
an inquiry as to what is the rule of the
Protestant Episcopal Church relative to
by COMMITMENTS at public
balls and theaters, quotes extensively
from the early Bishops and pastoral let
tiers of the Church, and sums UP the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
Cruelty TO Live Stock.

Before the House Committee on Ag-
riculture, engaged in considering the
bill for the prevention of cruelty to an
imals, Mr.. Prince, of Worcester, Mass,
a professional philanthropiSt, made
some rather sensational statements as
to the eruelties practiced in Chicago.
He denounced the provisions OF the bill
relating TO palace cars, stating that IN n
recent trip to Chicago he convinced
himself of their worthlessness. Dealers
told him that stock sold for % cents a
hundred less for being carried on these
cars. He said:
81 have seen cows that have been 40
hours on the railroad without water at
the Chicago Stock-yards, permitted to
stand six hours longer without being
watered. The owners stated that they
would not water the cattle until they
found out whether they could sell them,
and John Sherman, in charge OF the
Stoek-yards, whose attention | called
to it, said that it was none of his bust
ness .s- $50
Prince claimed to have Travelled from
Chicago to Boston 80 times over differ
ent routes to study cruelty practIced- up
on cattle. He says they are allowed
but two and half pounds of hay, some
of which is scattered, while ii pounds Is
the ration for an army horse. Some
times they are allowed to 90 without
water for so hours, and are then filed
up suddenly, so that they weigh 100
pounds more. The business of cattle
transportation was mainly in the hands,
he said, of persons who had Ne con
science. The Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Road did its business in hui
name manner. They will not take stock
if they can not get it through in SIX
hours, and have good feeding-yards at
Burlington. Many shippers 90 by the
Northwestern Road because that com
pany promises to rush the stock through
without stopping it. The cattle are
hurried through to Chicago where ex-
travagant prices are charged for food
The New York Central is the most AZ
bitrary road. 1t does not allow owners
to feed their own stock, and charges 81
q car for straw to bed hogs. The ma
nure was often foot deep in some OF the
cars New England shippers send by
/ the Grand Trunk line through Canada,
because they get better treatment.
Prince thought Bergh was dilettante
man, who did not care for dumb ami
mails except horses and cats: Vanderbilt
had always overcome him.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
FOREIGN.

Forty miners were killed by an explosion
in Unity Brook colliery, near Bolton, Eng
land, on the 18th. ..
4 special from Rome says the Pope is
considering the expediency OF appointing
Cardinal Ledschowky, Archbishop of POsen,
to post in the Vatican, to pave the way for
the appointment of an Archbishop of Posen
in agreement with the German Govern
ment
Thirty-six persons who were attending a
fair at Brest, France, on the 14th, were
drowned by the capsizing of barge.
Recent advices from Rome state that the
Pope, notwithstanding violent opposition,
has ordered the italian Bishops to legalize
their positions, giving them liberty to de-
mand an eXequatur from the Government.
This defines the Pope's policy; it means a
tacit acceptance of the loss of temporal
power.
President Baez of San Domingo is fu-
gitive from his native island, being now at
Porto Rico.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Carlyle works only two hours day.
George Eliot has cleared 100000
on " Daniel Deronda."
-Swinburne and Longfellow hit on
the same title for recent poems The
White Gar
Mr. Tennyson has written poem
called "Sir Richard Granville; a Ballad
of the Fleet
John B. Cough gets an average of
1927 lecture. 1t is said that he will
shortly go to England.
Joseph Cookies entire engagements
for the present season are said to be
worth to him $4,000.
Miss Marie Z. Booth, niece of Ed
win Booth, has made her debut at the
Fifth Avenue Theater.
-Janauschek has been nearly q years
on the stage, and has never missed an
engagement from i'll health.
"A London correspondent says that
Mr.. H. NJ. Stanley is ore of the least
popular men in London, because of his
intense egotism.
-Bayard Taylor's appointment to the
German mission necessitates the cancel
ing of numerous lecture engagements.
Marie Roze, while singing in Chi
cago, kissed a child who handed her a
bouquet from a proscenium box. Soon
afterward a man handed her another,
and cry from the gallery, "Why don't
you kiss him?" made the audience
laugh.
-Emerson's voice is so broken that
scarcely 200 persons heard him with dis
tinctness at his recent lecture in Boston,
but his eyes were as sharp on his audi
ence as ever, and are but little dimmed
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson has found leis
ure in the intervals OF his theatrical work
to paint three pictures for the spring ex'
hibitions abroad. They have just de
parted-one for the Paris Salon, one fol
the Royal Academy, and one for the
French Gallery in Pail Mall.
Caleb Gushing has just got a fee
that ought to keep him withdrawing
less than 500, 600 for recovering the es
tate of a Cuban which the Spanish Gov
eminent had seized, with a good chance
for a much bigger pile if he wins another
promising claim for 100000 he ha.
now taken up.
The late George Cruikshank haC
made considerable progress with an au-
photography, comprising his recoilec
tions of many literary men, and haC
executed number of illustrations eX
pressly for the work. Arrangement
have been made for its publication, anC
it will appear under the editorship 0
his widow.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
Turks for Florida.

The Rev. j. L. Lyons, of Jackson
vile, Fla, has received a letter from
parties in the Turkish Empire, who,
weary of Turkish tyranny and oppres-
sion, desire to emigrate to the United
States. They are from the ancient city
of Damascus. They represent that they
have a few thousand dollars in gold,
and several thousands in Turkish CON
soils, which, however, they consider
worthless. They want to come to
Florida, as the climate is similar to that
of their own native land. They inquire
about the cost OF land, expense of the
voyage, the probability of securing a
home, etc.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

"A new cotton mill has just been
started in Natchez, Miss, the operatives
going from Georgia.
The spring cattle drive in Texas,
according to the San Antonio Express,
will number 223, 400.
Of the q sugar refneries in the
United States, IL are located in New
York.
The Lehigh coal region is again
idle, the quota allowed by the cOmbina-
ton having been filled.
The copper product Of Michigan for
1877 foots up to 10000 tons, or little
in excess of that of the year before.
The Central Pacific Railroad has
recently employed 400 men at 81 per
day-the lowest price ever paid in that
region.
Tampa, Fla, wants a marmalade
factory. Thousands of oranges and
lemons are allowed to grow and decay
simply for the want of some means to
make them productive
-Ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia,
who has been elected treasurer of cot
ton factory at Atlanta, says that Georgia
is in better condition than any other
Southern State, owing chiefly to its in
ternal Improvements.
M. Fabre has introduced to the no
tice of the French Academy of Sciences
an American vine of the species riparia,
which is not attacked by phylloXera,
gives cuttings readily, can be grated
easily from French species of vines,
thriyes in almost any kind of soil, and
grows rapidly.
The ship Brown Brothers. has
Just arrived in Boston from Port Madi-
son, Washington Territory, with car
20 of Oregon pine, the second of its
kind ever sent from that part of the
country to New England. The timber
resembles the Norway pine and is in
tended for ship-building purposes.
The Governor of Minnesota has re
ceived 5,103 applications for seed grain
from the grasshopper districts of the
State. The amounts to be distributed
are, Isl, $50 bushels of wheat, 50,S34
bushels of oats, and 7S0 bushels of bar
ley. The number of acres to be sown is
estimated at 1913, 226.
German engravers and watchmak-
ers harden their fine tools in sealing
wax, by the following operation; The
tool is heated to whiteness and plunged
into the wax, withdrawn after an in
slant and plunged in again, the process
being repeated until the steel is too cold
to enter the wax. The steel, after this
process, becomes almost rs hard as the
diamond, and, when touched with a
little oil or turpentine, the tools are ex-
cellent for engraving, and also for pierre
ing the hardest metals.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21
WEST And sourHMEsr.

The business men of the Pacific slope are
said to be almost unanimously opposed 10
the proposed abrogation of the trade dollar,
which they claim has obtained firm footing
in China and created demand which can
not otherwise be filed. They are preferred
by the Chinese to the Mexican dollar, and a
suspension Of their coinage would be TO
throw away the business and our prestige
As a silVer-prOducing country.
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ever, insisted on covering the amount
into the Treasury, saying that If there
was any stealing to be done some one
else must do it. n
"A young man in an Austin, New,
,barber-shop was particular about hav-
ing bis moustache nicely perfumed.
'sGoing TO cab on a young lady, sup
posea'' the barber asked. The young
lmail with much dignity replied "See
here, my friend, do you suppose | put
perfume on my moustache because I'm
going TO see man, or boy, or an old
woman, or baby in arms? Do men
gather grapes OF tiOrns or figs Of this
tles?''
They have begun to post circus; bills
on the graye-stones out in the wilds OF
the West. Should the custom become
general, and reach out its arms to en-
brace the civilized world, it will find
men, if death has not changed their dis
position, mean enough to get up and de-
mand complimentary ticket for the
! privilege .-FpItoD Times. 4 -v7.lea
"A young man, recently married,
who has been an enthusiastic collector
I of coins, found that his wife, with the
charming freshness characteristic of
brides, has been drawing on his cabinet
for change, and among other things
had passed out an old penny, for which
he paid $3.50, for cents worth OF
yeast. That yeast " raised" more in
that household than any previous in
vestment of the same amount of money.
Springfield Rep. a,- ls1 .
The new Pope complains that he
doesn't receive the Herald regularly.
We can assure Mr.. Leo that the fault
does not lie at our post-oflice. No doubt
the postmaster at Rome loans it to his
friends, who sometimes forget to return
it. And we have a complaint also from
the Khedive of Egypt. He wants us to
use 4 much heavier and stronger quality
of paper. He says by the time eight
hundred of his wives read the Herald it
is so ragged and illegible that his other
one hundred and fourteen wives are de-
prived of perusing it, and they grunble
awfully about it. Hereafter we shall
print the Khedive's copy on parchment.
.-NorriStO,Cts Herald.
vERNAL WARNINGS. ..f..
Azephyr from he southwark
| Through the open window blows,
Il With its prophecies of jeSsamine,
AIiguOnette and rose,
; But q voice from 1t is calling H n
Don't leave of your winter clothes"
Though the softress of the tropics
In the wings of March is set, ...
! And the bluebirds and the pansies
, Their appointed time forget; .-..
Comes a warning with the blandness-
, " Wear your winter hannels yet" o.
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case thus: "'Gaming,' 'horse-racing,'
public balls and 'theaters have been
declared by the Church to be objection
able, and are forbidden to communi-
cants.n
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Odds and Ends.

"A sick baker is a weak-knead man.
HackenSGcb Republican,. Cd
"A good place for holding the polls:
A barber-sh0p.-Utiea Observer. .ia y
"A Schenectady clergyman is deliv-
ering sermons Oh '.Heaven. =" 1t has
seemed to Us for some time that some
thing ought to be said on that side OF the
subject.--N. Y. Obssrrer. i -7sr1s II
The, Yankee Grams himself with
cake; the Southerner prefers the torture
of hot biscuits Either diet is sufficient
to produce a sectional luminosity that
only blood can allay--v Boston Gio9s-)
"A Nebraska saloon-keeper became
so affected by the temperance agitation
that he promised to reform; so he put
out a sign, lowing to the cause Of re-
form all fifteen cent drinks will here
after be sold for ten cents"
Old Marshal Canrobert was sent to
Rome TO represent the French Republic
at the funeral Of Victor Emanuel The
appropriation for his expenses was &c.
600 OF which he returned $500, to the
surprise Of theA French Department of
Finance, which had never knewn such a
thing to be done. The old soldier, how
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Foreign Notes.

At Grand Rapids, Mich, a little
daughter of Joseph Brown was scalded
to death by falling into a tub of hot
water. VI .r
Mr.. Gladstone was hustled in Fleet
Street the other dav, by mobs who
cried out: "Traitor! Traitor!" The
ex-Premier of Great Britain sought re-
fuge in Coutts's bank.
Plus N had curious habit of writ
inc the clauses of his viii on separate
sheets of paper, just as an idea struck
him. These sheets, eleven in number,
were attached to each other by silk
thread. .....i $685.. t.
The Italian peasants believe that
soon the Pope and King are to be one;
there is a prophecy to that effect. To
this end they believe that Prince Anna
dec is to become priest, be elevated to
the Papacv, and succeed to the Crown
by the death of his brothers and his
next heirs. .e. '..r 's
The Peabody Fund Trustees in Eng
land, in their thirteenth annual report,
state that during the past year they have
received an anonymous donation eX-
ceeding 100000. They have purchased
more property and have just completed
another set of dwellings,. 81 ~ E.-
-Gortschakoff, the real ruler of Rus
STA, is 80 years old; Bismarck, of Ger
many, is IS, Marshal MacMahon, the
President of France, is nearly 20, and
Dufaure, the present head OF the French
ministry, IS. Lord BeacOnsfield, Prime
Minister of England, is in his seventy
third year, and his rival, Mr.. Gladstone,
only four years his junior. ..- Oh. .a.
Old engravings are the present rage
in London, and command fabulous pri-
ces. A collector of engravings, in sell
ing off his stock recently, found that he
received for them as many guineas as
he had paid shillings, and another was
much astonished when one of his prints,
for which he paid only few shillings,
was Knocked down for ESQ, 800.
Mr.. Volta Naprstek, formerly q
Milwaukee bookseller, is now living in
Prague, Bohemia, having come into the
possession of a large estate. Recently
he erected fine exhibition building
costing 100000 hOrins, and donated it
to the city. He has also founded an
American orphan asylum and an Amer
lean Ladies' Club in Prague.
in the Channel island of Jersey,
belonging to England, the use of French
as the legal and official language is
made compulsory by law. This require :
ment is unsatisfactory to the large pro-
portion of the inhabitants who speak
English only; but recent effort to give
members of the local Parliament the OPP
ton to use either language aroused the
fiercest opposition and was unsuccessful.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-21

a Romance in Real Ohio I.ife-A Pair of
Lovers, After a Separation of Thirty
Years, Are RecOnciled, and Become Man
and Wife.
The New York herald., 1878-08-17
MR.. MONTAGUE's FUNERAL.

Tho arrangements for the funeral of the late MI.
Montague are now nearly complete, and little more
remains TO be done beyond receiving the body and
paying the last sad tributes to MS memory In ac
cordunce with his own wish, frequently expressed 10
his executors and his Intimate friends the services
Will BIO Of tho simplest character and conducted with
any ostentatop. Members OF the press have been
requested to request those who're feelings
might prompt them to send flowers not 10 do SO, but
leave everything connected with tho funeral to the
taste and judgment OF Mr. Lester Waiiack, who, as
kind oil foster father OF dead iavore and the rep
resentave OF his mother, best calculated 10 do those
things which the proprietes OF tho occasion demand
As before stated the HERALD the remains Will be IN
TERED IN MI. Wallack's plot at Greenwood. Whether
they will be exposed 10 public view not will depend
upon the verdict oil the physician, but even In ths
event idle curiosity will not be gratifed. Tho
body will PROBABLY arrive IN Chicago this evening or
tomorrow morning IL will be there met by Mr. Louis
Simon. OF the executors (Mr. Arthur Sewell being
prevented from leaving the city by illness IN his own
fnmily( and will probably reach Now York on Non-
day night or Tuesday morning. II is believed that
lack, in Thrtieth street. on Wednesday afternoon,
ana he concluded IN the "Lttie Church Around tho
Cornern Cards OF invitation VIII be issued
10 only the friends OF the deceased. and
thus crush OF spectators will be avoided
The pallbearcrs have been selected
are Messrs Lester Wallack, Dion Boucicnult, John
Mccullough, Harry Beckett, Arthur Sewell Arthur
Walack, Wright Sandiord and Louis Simon. Messrs.
Theodore oss Arthur Wallack and Charles Stevenson
havo boen made committee through whom the
tickets OF invitation viii be distributed
The New York herald., 1878-08-17
WHALEMEN.

Arrived at Honolulu July IL, bark Abm Barker Smith,
NIB TAlcahuaua with iUO bbs OIL and sailed 18Th
Tor the Arctic.
despatch from Francisco states that bark Helen
Mar, Baudry. of NIB, had taken whales Capt Nys Of
bark Mt Waiaston had shipped 200 bbls OF Clcone's
oil by the Syren.
on Western Ground July Is. schr Carrie Clark, Mar
shall of Provncetown, with 24D bbs oil all told 100
since last report Reports same time sehrs Gage Phil
lips Nckerson do. 30 all tod Sparks. Ewe do,
,5 do do Express smith, d., 25 do and 200 do wn. do;
Clara Sparks Sparks do hing since last brigs
u A Small, Curren do DO Heman Smith. Cook. Boston,
do do.
letter from scfr William Grozer, Robert dated July
49, states having 260 bbIs OIL Reports schrs Clara
Clark. Marshall. $50 do do; - Goge Phillips Nicker
Smith Cook, ciean schr Express Smith, 800 wh and -
oil.
seen-Msv 49, lat 81 y. Ion I79 so E. American whale
ship flying private sigual swallow tail flag with blue
white aud red perpendicular stripes
e,AuG l. lat 81 A. lon 73 80 bsrn sarah, Of NIB,
with GO bbls oil takc since leaving Dominica.
Aug lat 81 80 Ion "a 30, schr Oracle Parker, Of
Provscctown with 30 bbis SD oil s'o lat 81 45 Ion 73
80, schr Mary sim MONS with 100 bbls oil
Aug lat 10 IS. Ion "a so, schr Agate Of do, with 20
bbls sp oil.
The New York herald., 1878-08-17

Captain George Wis. of the steamer W A scnottcu,
from Rotterdam thanks for special
ado In connection with the HERALD weather
service.
BALTIMORE GER for Baltimore which left Bre-
AM August returned the day with damage to
machinery, repaired ana sailed again ON the I'd.
anchored sE of the bar below Savannah. She strikes
Stone Horse low Tugs have been her
sstancs.
bourne before reported sndoned struck by hurri-
April making her complete wreck. After being
so the wreck the ade raft. and
land in wcRk and fsmishing state oil the
died The mainder taken by c0asting vcssel
to New Zealand.
ScHR GEoRGK from Rockisud for New YORK; put into
Portland 18th leaking slightly.
scHR LUCY COLLINS. from Jscksorviie for Boston,
which grounded while going down st Johns River Aug
came of and proceeded to sca l2th.
before reported Newport distoss and the portion
OF cargo sold has discharged hcr lumber and gone
Fall River repair II not decided whether the vessel
will go forward with lumber
ScuR WINsLow from Bangor for Boston, passing out
OF tho stream grounded Aug ~ She brsccd up to
prevent he oltng and would remain until
tide
ScuR BLACK arrived at Gloucester last week
Port Gilbert, Ms, with loss Of foremnst
MONTREAL, Aug i6-Mr. Lewis. OF Bufao, who has
schr Maricaibo Boston, which he PASSENGER
wrecked tho night OF the 2Sth ut Isle
The the inhabitants carried everything be
longing the vessel.