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, 1878-04-12

WANTED MORE OF HIM.-Recently
when Detroit boys feet flew up and
seated him in theslush on Congress street
astranger happened to be near and helped
the lad up. Not feeling as if this was
enough, he LED the boy along to peanu,
stand and filled his pockets with a Quart
Of treshroasted. The tears dissppeared
with the peanuts, and as the last handful
was crammed down the boy asked
DO you live here, misterir
"No, bub-I'm a stranger in Detroit" ,"
won't you please git some money and
buy house and live here all the rest of
the time" inquired the boy in be.
sceching voice.
, 1878-04-12

HER "CHARLEY."-A bridal couple at
Wheeling, West Virginia, came, like
Nicodemus, at dead Of night, to
the house of venerable minister,
and rang the door-bcll with tre-
mendous violence. His wife went down
stairs in costume consisting principally
OF shawl, and found a astripIing of twenty
and gaunt creature of forty, and on
learning what was their errand, brought
her husband down stairs.
"Well,' he exclaimed, rather drowsiIy.
The bridegroom could not speak, but
motionCd to the bride.
"Mr. Preacher" she said, nothing 10th,
las I'm the oldest, expect I'd better do
the talking. You see Charley, here, has
a stepmother, and she don't use him
right at all. Now, I'm widow, and !
want to take Charley home with me to-
night, and take care of him. Not that |
want husband; because if did, Ia
get some one nearer my own age; but |
thought | would try and take care OF
Charley. SO we'd like to be married
right away"
There was . hitch aboGt the license,
but in the end she promised to be more
than stepmother to Charley, and carried
him home in triumph.
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The S4,1G4 coorcd voters of Georoio
own ID 1,G39 acres of land, worth ST..
s44' lO4i city property valued at 500
20; personal property worth $iSG 5a3
stock, worth $24l,lOG; agricultural i'm.
Plements, $i25,l ,l2O; cash in bank, 500
CS9' ana other property, not enumerated
81, 100000. ''''
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Grooming Cattle.

Inc question often arises in the mind
OF the farmer or stock raiser whether IL
pays to groom his animals or allow them
u runway Literally supplied with rub
Ding'posts. 1t would appear, if we view
animals in the light of physiology, that
the question, in points Of economy. TO saw
nothing OF the increased comfort of the
animals, had been satisfactorily sett,oJ
In the affirmative years ago. There ia NO.
question in our mind that GROOMING mr.
cArding cattle is as necessary, and even
proiitable rs with horses. A successful
breeder is AZ particular that one sbould
be groomed as the other, and saws that he
knows 1t pays. Keeping the skin clean
ana the pores open must be as beneficial
to the dumb animals as 10 the human
species, and for ourselves we well know
that II we keep the BODY in health il il
necessary to keep the skin clean. The
question has been solved by breeders os
thoroughbrcds and they use this means
to promote the health as well as increase,
the size and weight of their animate
They all take great pains to keep them
clean, aud they are successful in ma<ino
rapid growth. What will apply to thor
oughbreds will apply with equal force n.
cattle OF any or no breed. The practice
Is NOT, as many suppose, an expensive
one. When the skin is once freed from
impurities, two minutes day spent in
currylng Will keep it 50. 1t paws if in
nothing more than keeping the coat slick
and glossy. 0N
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BABY SHOWS are not profitable as a rule
The Philadelphia affair lost $500 and paid
none of the offered premiums. The Bal
timorc imitation came out after the same
ashton. The Boston enterprise in the
same line has been abandoned. Only the
one in New York, the first Of the series,
paid profit.
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little namesa!ze, it is equally at home III
the kitchen, the parlor, the diningroom'
dressing. room, bedroom, and library; M
the poor mans cottage or the mansion OF
the prosperous.
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FORCING AsPARAGUs.-Ac corresnondont
OF the Gdrdn gives his experience in
forcing asparagus. He says: "Asparn-
gus may be obtained month before i
is ready out-of, doors, rs follows: Abopt
the middle of February place some NOV.
able wooden frames over permonent
bed of it, and with few barrow loads of
warm manure and leaves make up a lin.
ing all around the bed, and cover its sur.
face with dry hay, Then put on the
lights and keep them closed for three
weeks, when the heads will begin to an.
pear. The hay should be cleared off. and
a little air given on every favorable on.
portnnity. Under this treatment | have
cuC my first asparagus on March 20. and
since that date [ have cut several hun.
drcds of beautiful heads, and still thew
promise to be sufficiently abundant to
keep good supply until the outdoor
crop is ready BY this plan the bed
which does not experience any disturb,
ance, will last great number of Years
provided its produce is not cut foo Iots'
Cutting should cease and the plas, he re.
moved directly after the outdoor cron ia
ready" '''P 10
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Is there much difference between a pav
lutte and blasted lyre2 Or ia one s y
cympal or the otherf Musical folk will
be able to guitar good idea of the sub;cct
at once Each one iseXpected to answer
accordion to his views as conccrtina caas
ike this is not looked for, but we hope
,ney "!lI not spinet out too long-B6S-
20" Aa'srt''sr. OH give US rest.
, 1878-04-12

So bring up your child that he has but
to act in company Hs he does at home.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
FASHION NOTES.

-Muffs are of medium size.
Sleeves are tighter than ever.
-Repped fabrics are in high favor.
Black dresses are as popular as ever.
All dresses of wooden materials are
cut short.
All the new bonnets are very small
or very large.
Scotch plaid velvet neckties are
among the latest novelties.
1t is fashionable at the moment not
to be fashionable.
The London fall styles for women
are very masculine.
Fairy worsted has taken the place
of Shetland floss for shawls and baby
sacques.
All winter wraps and cloaks are
very long, but very short jackets are al
so worn.
The clan tartan and Scotch plaid
short costumes are the fancy of the pass
ing moment.
Dresses, to be fashionable, must be
very short in front, even when trained
in the back.
The talma is new mantle which is
simply revival of an old style, with the
only difference of tight back.
The newest buttons are bullet
shaped. They are of colored pearl, jet,
brass, steel, crochet, and fine porcelain.
MORE, or watered silk, in stripes, is
the favorite material for combining with
faille or gros-grain silk in costumes or
wraps.
The beefeater hat may be worn with
the brim turned either up or down, and
when down it is an excellent shade for
the eyes.
Silk or spun silk stockings to match
costumes are to be worn with black kid
low shoes, with strap across the instep
and steel buckle, but no bows.
Ladies can modernize their last
years basques which are soiled in front,
by inserting vests of some handsome
material that form a pleasing contrast
of color.
One of the prettiest hats of the sea-
son has the square crown of the COX
fordn hat of summer before last, with
the brim turned up on the left side.
Another variation of the English hat
has narrow brim depressed all around
and curved back on the edge.
The fashion in ladies' coiffures in
Paris is to brush the hair more and
more from the neck, so that the mod.
ern female head looks like q Pompeian
cameo. Powder is coming into use
again. At the races at Longchamps,
there were two ladies, formerly blondes,
who appeared with canary yellow hair.
They were very pretty, and so no one
said any thing.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
Foreign Notes.

Lord Egerton, of Tatton, England,
has just done very muniicent act in
building, at an expense of $50, 900, the
new Church of St. Clement, near Orsal
Park, Manchester, besides giving land
sufficient for parsonage and burial
ground. The church has seats for $50
people, and the sittings are to be en-
tirely free.
1t has been supposed that there
would be grand reunion of pOtentates
in Paris about this time, but present re-
ports indicate that every thing in regard
to this is in q state of uncertainty.
Queen Victoria is no longer intending
to 90, and doubts are expressed con-
corning other sovereigns who were ex-
pected to add brilliancy to the closing
days of the Paris Exhibition.
1t is rumored that the second son of
the Crown Prince of Germany is about
to take voyage around the world on
board German corvette. Prince Henry
holds the rank of a lieutenant in the
navy, but his father mas specially COM
manded that he shall be treated like an
ordinary cadet. His only privilege is
that of having his own apartments,
which have been newly but simply fur
nished.
The engagement of the King of the
Netherlands and Princess Emma of
Waldeck-Pyrmont was sOlemnly an
nounced at the Court of Arolsen on
Sept. 90. The King was born in 1917;
his affinanced bride in 1858. The en-
gagement follows closely upon the mar
liage of Prince Henry of the Neither
lands with Princess Marie of Prussia,
aged respectively 81 and %, whose is
sue, if there should be any, might as
cend the throne, the two sons of the
King not being expected to marry.
Prince Bismarck has been followed
by shoals of threatening letters to Var
Yin, Kissingen, Gastein, and the Will
helm Strasse. Whithersoever his steps
have been bent, in quest of health,
these productions have logged him
with regularity. Nor are the Chancel-
lor's nerves what they formerly were.
Since Kullmann attempted his life at
Kissingen his old scorn of risk and his
tomenace have diminished
When in Berlin he confines himself al
most absolutely to his house and gar
den, which are carefully watched at all
times by policemen in plain clothes; if
compelled by his official duties to visit
the Palace he drives thither and back in
a close carriage, with the windows up,
sitting well back, so as to be invisible
to passers by. Varzin is as carefully
and as difficult to penetrate as
Mecca itself; and at Lauenburg his park
has Just been surrounded with high
wall, shutting it completely in from the
public ken.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
GENERAL.

Hopeful, the well known trotter, has been
sold by its former owner, Alfred Richmond,
to Thomas p. Wallace, a wealthy New
Yorker, the owner of some of the best trot-
ting stock in the country. The price paid is
said to be $4,000.
Right Rev. Sylvester H. Rosecrans, Cath
Ole Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, died on the
2lst, Of hemorrhage of the lungs. He was
a brother of Gen. Rosecrans, U. S. A.
Col. Thomas Hendrickson, veteran army
officer, born in PENNSYLVANIA in 1893, died in
St. Louis on the oath. He participated as a
volunteer in the first Seminole War under
Gen. jackson; was Captain in the Mexi-
can War, and commanded a regiment in the
Army Of the Potomac in the last war, being
wounded at Malvern Hill, after which he
was honorably retired as Brevet Colonel.
Secretary Evarts made political speech
at the Cooper Institute, New York, on the
night Of the oath. He strongly urged the
harmony of the Republican party, and said
it was the duty of al good Republicans to
unite in an effort to regain control Of Con-
! gress.
James Henderson has recanted the essen
tial part of his testimony given before the
| Potter Committee in reference to the Sher-
man letter, so called. He now says that the
! letter was written either by Senator Kellogg
or his former private Secretary, Conquest
! Clark; that Mrs. jerks never saw the letter,
and that it is now in possession Of gentle
man in Philadelphia and can be produced at
any time. The Philadelphia gentleman al
| luded to is supposed to be DR.. Houston, of
the Pennsylvania Republican State Central
| Committee, to whom Anderson has given a
written confession, backed up by a sworn
affidavit Anderson says, in explanation of
his testimony before the Potter Committee,
that he was induced to give it by Sypher, his
cousin and attorney, who got fee of $500
for his influence in the matter. Senator
Kellogg and Conquest Clark both deny that
they had any thing to do with the letter.
The Arctic schooner Florence Tyson, sup
posed to have been lost, has arrived at Pro-
vincetOwn, Mass. Capt. Tyson reports that
the weather experienced in the Northern
ATTITUDES was the coolest known in 80 years,
the thermometer marking at one time 50
degrees below zero. For many days they
drifted helplcssly among icebergs, with death
eVaiilS InOlh III ehO iaOo, Ihci oSnOOhel
spraDg aleak, and, most horrible Of all, their
supply of provisions ran short, and the last
mouthful was consumed before reaching
port.
Thomas A. Edison and Elisha Gray have
both been highly honored at the Paris Ex-
position, the former receiving the Grand
Prize for his photograph and the latter the
Grand Prize for his telephone. In addition,
each has received from the French Govern
ment the title Of Chevalier of the Legion of
Honor.
Robert Harris, late President of the Chi
cago and Ohio Railroad, has been appointed
General Manager of the Erie Railway, with |
salary of S95 00O
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07

which has no knowledge OF any other fugi-
tured in Nebraska.
A severe storm prevailed on the 26th
throughout Northern Illinois and Missouri.
Charles Etheridge, a weliknown insurance
agent and prominent citizen Of St. Paul,
Mimi, has embezzled funds 10 a large
amount and absconded.
The San Francisco papers are severe in
their denunciations OF Col. f. A. Bee, of
that city, who has gone to Washington in
the interest Of the Chinese Companies, and
is charged with asserting that the opposition
10 that race Is almost exclusively confined to
the hoodium class.
Official returns from all but four counties
in Iowa give an estimated majority Of $500
for Hull, Republican, for Secretary Of State.
Gen. Ord has been in consultation with the
Mexican General Trevino as to the best
means Of stopping cattle stealing raids into
Texas from the Mexican side.
Pierre Provost, the suspected murderer
of the Vacelet family near Vincennes, Ind,
hanged himself in his cell on the night Of
the 9th, probably through fear of being
lynched.
The State Normal School building at En-
poria, Kansas, was destroyed by fire, toeeth-
er with its entire contents, on the morning
of the Goth. The fire is supposed to have
originated in large pile of coal stored in
the cellar and broke out with SO great inten-
sity that in a short time the entire building
was in flames. The walls only remain stand
ing, and they are so badly weakened as to
be useless. The building cost Sc, 600, and
was not insured. The school will be con-
tinued in such other quarters as can be Sc
cured in the village.
A shooting affray occurred at Plaque
mine, La, on the 25th, between Charles A.
Brule and State Senator Geo. B. Waites.
The former received flesh wound in the
arm, the latter a serious wound in the side.
Cause, politics.
The official returns Of the Indiana election
show a total Democratic vote of 1874 ,49I
Republican vote, $50, 1855; Greenback vote,
39,44S; Democratic plurality, 13, 1856.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
Science and Industry.

"A bakery of Albany, N. Y, sends
1000 cans of cakes to Bombay, India,
the first of every month.
The California grape crop this
season is the largest ever gathered, and
preparations have been made to cure a
million pounds of raisins.
The price of wheat isso low in Eng
land that an agricultural paper advises
farmers to feed it (wetted and allowed
to ferment) to stock.
Ostrich farming has become very
important industry in South Africa.
Over 81, 500,000 worth of plunes were
exported from Cape Colony last year.
The consumption of cotton by
American manufacturers was greater by
10000 bales in 1873 than in 1877. The
yield of the staple in the United States
exceeds that of any year on record, be-
ing 4,Sl1, 265 bales, of 1,4S0 pounds
gross each, up to Sept. 4.
Three of the great Minneapolis flour
mills, which Suffered from The disas-
trous explosion last May, have been re-
built, the great Washburn mill being on
a much larger scale than before. 1t
will be huge structure, the largest and
finest in the world.
Jamaica is coming to the front as a
producer of tobacco. She finds her
most considerable customer in Ger
many. At Hamburg, probably the most
considerable tobacco market in the
world, Jamaica tobacco is ranked sec
ond only to that of Cuba; and though
buyers At first hand may probably not
be deceived, yet retailers no doubt buy
and sell it as genuine Havana.
The Boston AdUertiser has column
of reports from the manufactures of
New England which show that mills
that have been shut down are every
where starting up, while other mills are
doubling their time aud employing new
hands. The AdUertissr'S reports indi-
cate great revival of manufacturing
industry.
The making of pianoforte in
first-class factory, as traced in the Sci.
entifc AmericaR, begins with the careful
selection and seasoning of many kinds
of wood. After the completion Of the
case comes the important work OF
placing the sounding board in position.
On the proper disposition and grading
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
A Prodigy of Learning.

England has lately lost prodigy of
learning in the person of the Rev.
William Linwood, aged 81, whom
Dr. Kennedy, head master of Shrews-
bury School, himself a famous scholar,
dubbed the best scholar of his age in
England, and probably one of the best
in the world. When he graduated first
class in classics st Oxford ,On being ask
ed what books he brought up for exam
nation, he replied, 4" The whole range
of Greek and Latin literature" and his
pre- eminence was so conspicuous that
the examiners were reported at the time
to have considered whether, departing
from the rule, they ought not to place
his name, conspicuous and alone, at the
head of the first class. Yet this man
never got beyond a curacy-he did not
take priestly orders-and for 81 years
his life was passed in seclusion, devoted
to preparing works in the classics, and
latterly to the study of astrology.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
FOREIGN.

a Vienna dispatch says the most essential
points in the defnitive treaty between Rus
STA and Turkey, namely, the war indemnity
and time for withdrawal of Russian troops,
| are still unsettled, and very bad state of
feeling exists, which may lead to renewed
hostilities.
The anti-Socialist bill, as amended, was
passed by the German Parliament on the
18th. The amendments take away much OF
the severity of the measure. The bill will
only be in operation until 1881; the severe
clauses against incendiary publications,
which the Imperial Government might nave
used against the organs of all parties, were
very materially modified; the term Of BAN
ishment for incendiary utterances was re-
duced to six months, and the structures on
public assemblages were very much weak
ened.
Another Fenian convict, Clanch, who
was sentenced in 1861, has been liberated.
Hostilities with Afghanistan have not vet
begun. The Ameer, evidently confident in
the material support of Russia, seems in
clined to take the initiative, and has col
leeted a force of 5000 men at the fort OF
Ali Musjid, which commands the Khyber
Pass, and is distant some % miles from
TumrOOd, which point Gen. Ross has reach
ed with about 5000 men. The Russians
threaten to advance TO the Afghan frontier
with an army of observation of 10000 men.
They are already established at Kill Arvat,
position considerably in advance Of their
Legitimate frontier, on their road to Merry,
an oasis in the Turkoman desert on which
Russia has long cast covetous eyes, and
which will bring her up almost to the gates
Of Herat
Russia is steadily retreating from her oh
legations under the treaty of Berlin in Eu-
rope. The premature occupation Of Bosnia
by Austria has produced dispute between
that country and the Porte, which Russia
skillfully embitters. The Sultan now re-
fuses to sign any convention which does not
limit the time of the Austrian occupation
The Austrians, having met with resistance
which involved an expenditure Of so much
blood and treasure, refuse TO be bound
down TO term, and plainly
indicate an intention OF annexing
the occupied provinces permanently.
This, Russia maintains, is contrary to the
treaty Of Berlin, and relieves her from the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-11-07
School and Church.

Minnesota, with total population
of 100000, has only 10000, or less than
in 1e, who are 60 evangelical Christ
ians. The Catholic population is 114,-
600, and the Lutheran $4,000.
Anew education law has been adopt
ed by the Chambers and sanctioned by
the King of Holland, which excludes
the Bible and religious teaching from
the primary schools of that country.
The Jews free school, in Bell Lane,
Spitalfields, London, is believed to be
the largest school in England. The av-
erage daily attendance last year was
1,24S boys and $50 girls. The Govern
eminent Inspector speaks very highly
of its efficiency, and advises all inter-
ested in education to visit it.
Lord Rosebery, while making a
speech at the opening recently of a
school of science and art, said that if
the Government would make music
cheap and easy, he believed that would
effect more for the amelioration of the
people than many more ambitious and
specious schemes.
The school connected with the San
Francisco Protestant Church for Chi
nese is mixed affair. A morning ses-
sion in English is conducted by white
woman, who teaches the elements of the
Christian religion. An afternoon ses-
sion in Chinese is conducted by Chi
naman, who teaches the precepts of
Confucius.
There is talk of consolidating two or
three of the Baptist churches of Chica-
go in order to have one of real sOlidity
So numerous have been the changes in
the Baptist pulpit of that city that the
veteran Baptist pastor resident there is
a young man who was settled over one
of the churches about two years ago.
AS novelty in the way of adver-
Using church services, the following
notice is copied from an English paper:
" St. Johns English Episcopal Church,
Lochee Road. The Rev. DR.. Lane will
deliver his annual flower lecture on
Sunday evening next. Gentlemen will
please wear a flower in their button
h lie. Ladies know best where to ar
range them. Subject: lessons from
Flowers Carriages and cabs at S.15."