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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
Death of Three Brave Men in the
WiIdS OF Africa.

The Pail Mall G0zette says: Letters
from Zanzibar up to the 9TH ult give
particulars of the deaths of Capt
Crespel and NJ. Macs, the Be gian Afri-
can eXpeditiOnary party, of which news
was received week or two ago. The
former is said to have died of - sort of
apopleXy of the lungs" and the other of
sunstroke. The saddest loss TO us,
however," writes our correspondent,
SIS the death of poor Elton, of sun
stroke, at Seshebe, in Ugogo, just as he
had finished the new survey, and was on
the old path which 81 many have passed
of late years in going inland from Fan
Zibar. He died on the 18th of Deem
Der, and his companions reached the
coast in the beginning of this month,
and were brought over by one of the
ships of war sent to await their arrival.
The party, it appears, arrived safely at
the north end of the lake, and landed at
avillage up a river, which the steamer
Ilala entered. TIE delay and difficulty,
however, in get ing up the first part
made it impossible to think of waiting
to bring up a second detachment of
men. The result was that much bag
gage had to he aba doned and reduced,
some was sent back to the Ilala, and Il
good deal left before setting out, and on
the subsequent journey luggage was still
further reduced. The country at the
northwest of the lake is marshy, but
further south, or southwest, high hills
come to the waters edge. On the east
side the lofty mountains come down
to the lake. The north end has level,
rising plain, which extends to the
mountain district, about twenty-five
miles; then comes an ascent of passes of
from six thousand to eight thousand
feet; but the mountain ridges are from
twelve thousand to fourteen thousand
feet high. The country is either cult
waited or in pasture. Once the ridge is
passed you enter the country of Uvovi,
governed by a chief named Meveve, not
however, the old Meveve, who held per-
manent sway of a vast extent of coun-
try, and variety of races. The pres
ent chief, like the last, has an agent of
the Zanzibar Sultan residing with him,
and the Sultan's flag used to be hoisted
on the flagstaff. At the time of Elton's
visit, however, the country had been in
vaded, and the chief town DESTROYED.
The King, the Arab Liwaii, and his men
were in the stOckade, and therein Elton
was shut up until the siege was raised
and the Machings moved off The IA
tive war made it impossible to follow a
direct route down or even across the
Rufigi. Accordingly the watershed was
taken on a course due north to Ugago,
where Elton died. Game was album
dant, and the party had to subsist by
their guns for much of the way. I'm
mense credit is due to Elton for getting
the party; without him none of the 9TH
erS could have succeeded. His diaries
are sent home. They are full and com
plete, as is also his map, and it is to be
hoped that the result will be given to .
the public
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
Odds and Ends.

Although marked with George
Washingtol reminder, hatchet-faced
people are not always truthful.
If money could be borrowed as easy
as trouble. how round-shouldered some
men would soon become. Breakfast
Tab e.
The mule Is usually represented as
an exceedingly obdurate and emotion
less creature, yet he weeps. Who, in
deed, that has not heard of muleteers?
-CdtSkiN Recorder.
The moon, it is claimed, has gained
an inch in rapidity of motion within the
last hundred years. At that rate it
would soon oyertake boy on an En-
rand.
Well, well, we have been expecting
it. and now it has come. We learn,
from private sources, that Prof. Darwin
is desirous of remonkeytizing man.
Horrible tail.
-Whenever a female friend begins to
backbite an acquaintance, run your hand
behind your coat collar, and scratch
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
School and Church.

The Catholic parochial schools of
St. Louis are to be closed soon, and their
pupils will attend the public institu-
tons.
The School Board of Cincinnati has
appropriated $4,000 to defray the ex-
penses of their public school exhibit at
Paris.
Not many ministers hold mort
gage on their meeting houses. But the
Rev. w. H. CudwOrth, the minister of
the Unitarian Church in East Boston,
does upon his, the amount being S18,-
600.
The Irish Episcopal Church has
benefited financially by disestablish-
ment. In its ordinary parOchial con-
tributions there has been a steady in
crease. Last year the contributions to
the Sustentation Fund were increased
by $50, 600, and over IS, 600, 600 has been
received for the fund since 1879.
The Rev. David Keppel writes for
the Northern Christian AdUOcGte, one of
the official organs of the Methodist de-
nomination, an article, entitled "The
Morals of He'll" in which he argues
that hell is ga well regulated prison, in
morality only second to heaven" He
saws that no sin can be committed be-
yond the grave, and that therefore hell
is necessarily free from it.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
Extension and Loan Fund has reached
an aggregate in cash of 100000. About
800, 900 of this sum has been used twice
in loans to churches. In addition to the
cash fund, subscriptions and legacies
have been received sufficient to make
a total of S750,000. The Church EX-
tension Board has thus far aided 2,100
churches.
Bishop Merrill has been holding the
annual meeting of the Methodist Mis-
sion in the CITY of Mexico. Twenty-six
preachers were present. The Bishop
called upon President Diaz, who ex-
pressed the belief that freedom of wor-
ship was essential to true religion, and |
he thought competition among churches
was as salutary rs competition in poll
tics or trade.
The Rt.-Rev. Samuel Allen Me
Coskry, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of |
Michigan, has resigned the Bishopric,
has advanced age being the cause of his |
retirement He ranked second in point |
of seniority among the Bishops of the
United States, having been cOnsecrated
at St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, July
:, 1886; while Bishop Smith, of Ken
lucky, was consecrated four years prior
to that time.
The Universalist clergymen of Bos-
ton, after six months discussion of the
hell question, have by a nearly unani-
nous vote resolved that sin is accom-
panied and followed by misery; that,
until the acquisitions of divine justice
are obeyed, God administers such dis
cipline, including both chastisement and
instruction, and for as long a period as
NAV be necessary to secure obedience,
and that repentance and salvation are
not limited to this life. The following
was also agreed to: Whatever differ
ences in regard to the future may exist
among us, none of us believe that the
horizon of eternity will be relatively,
either largely or for a long time, over
cast by the clouds of sin or punishment,
and in coming into the enjoyment of
salvation, whenever that may be, all the
elements of penitence, forgiveness, and
are involved"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
Foreign Notes,

Lord Derby-once the most popu-
lar of British noblemen-is now
said to share with Mr.. Gladstone-once
"the peoples William''-the honor OF
being the most unpopular men in En-
glish society.
The Exhibition building on the Tro-
cadero, at Paris, is now completed, and
ready for the reception of goods. 1t
is a very handsome addition to the main
structure on the Champs de Mars, and
visited by throngs of curious Parisians
daily.
The Queen is going to pay $780,
600 for an addition to her private es-
tate, Balm0ral, which every year be-
comes more valuable. She can dispose
of it to whOmsOever she wishes, as it
does not belong to the nation.
The heart of the Pope has been de-
posted in the crypt of St. Peters. The
custom of placing it in the Church at
the Acqua Trevi has been dispensed
with, on the ground that the usual cere-
monial is impossible in the present con-
dition of Rome.
King Albert of Saxony is said to be
by no means idolized by his subjects,
who say he is not a statesman, a gener-
al, or any thing else of any importance
in particular-merely a king, living
more for himself than his people; and
many look forward with pleasure to the
time when SaxOny will be absorbed in
Prussia, in accordance with the absorb
ton policy which Prussia is said to be
carrying out in her relations with the
other members of the German fedora
ton. ....
M. Paul de Cassagnac writing to
lie PAS on the occasion of the p ince
Imperial's birthday, expresses belief in
the speedy restoration of the empire.
He declares the ImpcTialists are ready,
and will be vigilant and resolute when
occasion presents itself. The Prince
neither intrigues nor observes a rurely
contemplative attitude, but admits, like
his father, the doctrine of providential
Intervention. ..
1t has always been the custom when
the Acting Secretary of State presents a
newly elected Pope with the white skull
cap, in the conclave where the election
occurs, for the Pontiff to proclaim that
official always monsignOr) Cardi
nal by placing his own red skull-cap
upon the Secretary's head. Monsignor
Lasagni, however, was disappointed at
the election of Leo XIII, for the new
Pope on receiving the white cap put the
red one into his pocket.
Prince Henry ", elder brother of
the German Ambassador at COnstino- |
pie, has assembled the throne of the Ger /
man principally, Reuss Schleiz-KOes-
tritz, after the demise of his relative,
Prince Henry LXIX., who lived to the /
green old age of 81, and was the last of /
his line All the Reusses of the five ex-
isting lines of the house have been call
ed Henry for centuries, and have been 1
solely by numbers attach I
ed to their names. When the sum total !
Of the numbers conferred reaches hun
lred, they make a period and begin
again at No. / d; so that as in the pres
ent instance, a Henry ", may succeed
a Henry LXIX.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
Science and Industry.

A gold brick, worth $4,000, was
shipped from Black Hawk to Denver a
few days ago
Scales that viii give the weight Of
a grain of dust are used in the Phila-
delphia mint.
-Lynchburg, Va, has nearly 100 to-
bacco factories, giving not less than
5000 persons employment.
M. W. A. MINISTER, of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, is erecting hatching-
house and ponds, and intends to engage
in the culture of fish.
The raising of the blockade in the
Black Sea mas given an enormous impe-
tus to the sugar refining business in
Marseilles-a very important element
in the trade of that great port. e
The telephone has passed with ex-
traordinary rapidity through its period
of curious experiment, and is now quite
q common instrument for practical use.
In Congress the two houses are to be
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
Haps and NIiskaps.

Mrs. Ralph Moody, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, was fatally burned by the
tipping over of a kerosene lamp Just as
she was going to bed.
w. X. Shaft, of Geneva, Wis, had
a tooth drawn the other dav, land the flow
of blood was SO great that he died in
few minutes.
"A boy named Roman, of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, took dose of strychnine
a few days ago in mistake for salts, and
died in great agony in few hours.
Harry Armentrout, a druggist, of
Denver, Ind, was mixing some horse
medicine, when the compound explod-
ed, burning him very seriously.
Mrs. Cynthia George, a stitcher in a
North Adams (Mass) shoe-shop, died
from the effects of arsenic poisoning,
contracted from the brightly dyed
leather upon which she worked. Two
theories are advanced as to the cause of
the poisoning-one that poison was in
hailed by constantly working over the
leather, another that it was from rub
bling her face with her hands after
handling it.
George Kiplezr, of Delta Township,
Eaton County, Mich, accidentally killed
himself by the premature discharge of
his gun.-Elmer Grant, aged Is, of
Oshkosh, Wis, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of an old army mus
ket while drawing it towards him by the
muzzle. The charge struck him
squarely in the face, completely obliter-
ating every feature.
Mrs. A. r. Newell, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, shot herself through the head
with revolver, having previously made
an Intellectual attempt to take her life by
poison. She was only 10 years of age.
Her husband was absent at the time,
and she died grasping in one hand the
photograph of another man.-John M.
Larkins, a well known business man of
Columbia, Tenn, shot himself on &C
count of financial troubles. He left a
note saying: 81 do this terrible deed
from remOrse. l have been the cause of
running a good man and family. God
forgive me- | can not face the world
again" The man referred to was his
pau lLCis anu IHC ldJlCI says IHdb l<dl
kin's only fault was injudicious man
agement of the business of the
firm, by which they were forced
into NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Putsch, a
| jeweler of WinOna, Mimi, shot himself
while laboring under great religious
excitement.-Joseph Walker, widow
er, aged 81, who lived at Mansfield,
seven miles from Pittsburg, Pa, lost
/ $4,000 by the raseality of Gill, the alb
sconding Pittsburg lawyer. The other
day his dead body was found hanging
by the heck to bed-post, he having
/ stabbed himself once and shot himself
twice.-Caswell Bell, aged 20, shot
himself in Atascosu County, Texas, be.
cause a widow wouldn't marry him.
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liar attack was made upon Collins's Tavern,
the policemen clearing the streets with their
batons. There was fighting in various quar-
tiers OF the city all during the night, the
number Of casualties reported being % per-
sons wounded. 1t is said that Rosa was
secretly driven out Of the city by his friends
Immediately after the lecture.
The marriage Of the Earl of Rosebery to
Miss Hannah De Rothschild, only daughter
Of Baron Meyer De Rothschild, was cele-
brated in London on the Goth.
Gen. Grant and party arrived in Rome,
Italy, on the Goth.
The United States will have 625 exhibit
ors at Paris, exclusive of the Agricultural
Department exhibits. More than one-half
of the exhitors are from PENNSYLVANIA and
New York.
Dispatches from Rome say the ConsistOry
will be held on the 18th inst. No eneycical
will be issued, the Pope not wishing to COM
NIT himself TO any definite policy in the
present complication of European affairs.
His Holiness will only deliver an allocution,
avoiding all political illusions. The head
Jesuits recently proposed TO return TO Rome,
but the Pope received the proposition cold
ly. The Jesuits are, therefore, opposing the
Pope's general policy.
The British naval trainings ship Eurydice,
with over 800 men on board, capsized on
the south coast of the Isle Of Wight, during
a severe squall on the afternoon of the oath,
and all on board were drowned with the ex-
ception of five persons who were picked up
by passing schooner. Three of the latter
subsequently died.
The great international pedestrian contest
in London, lasting from Monday, the 18th,
at l a. M, to Saturday, the 23d at s p. m,
was won by O'Leary, the American, who
made distance of 500 miles, winning the
champions belt and a handsome purse,
Vaughn made 500 miles and Brown 4TS
miles, when they abandoned the contest as
hopeless. Weston was ill and did not enter
the lists.
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connected by telephone, and wire run
from each house to the Government
printing-office.
To break glass bottle or jar across
its circumference: Place the bottle in
a vessel of water to the height where
it is designed to break it; also fill the
bottle to the same level. Now pour coal
oil inside and out on the water; cut q
ring of paper fitting the bottle. Satur-
ate with alcohol or benzine, so that it
touches the oil Pour, also, some in
side the bottle. Set on fire; the cold
water prevents the glass from heating
below its surface, while the expansion
caused by the heat will break the vessel
on the water line.
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Yaecinating With Wax.

Some years ago, as the story goes,
there was a great furore raised in the
neighborhOod in which the physician
resided about smallpox, which was then
raging fearfully at San Francisco, and
perhaps other places IN the State. Ev-
cry body desired to be vaccinated that
had not gone through with the opera
ton, and those who had children were
DESTROYS to have them vaccinated also.
People applied to the physi-
clan in question, and he sent
to San Francisco for a quantity of vac
cine matter. In the course of time it
came to him inclOsed in wax. He COM
menced vaccinating, and in a short time
hundreds had undergone the operation.
Finally the vaccine matter was reached,
and then the physician discovered why
it was it had not taken on any of his sub
iects. He looked at the mater and
smelled it, and then said: "COnfound
it, the matter is rotten; know now
why it didn't take" He threw it away.
He had vaccinated all his subjects with
wax.-San jun (CGl0 Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28

THE ETNA LIFE INSURANCE CON-
PANY, Of Hartford, Conn, with its as
sets of S24, al, 1920 and its clean sur
plus of nearly four and quarter mill
ions of dollars, and its well-knOwn eco
nomical management, has recently re-
ceived well-merited indorsementfr from
the Special Commission appointed by
the Legislature of Connecticut year
ago. to investigate all the Life Insur-
ance Companies of that State. The
Commission say of the Etna that it is
"not only solvent, but financially sound.
and under the management of officers
and Directors of large experience,
sound Judgment and unblemished char
acter, and entitled TO the entire conf
dence of policy-holders and the public"
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FOREIGN.

tured in st. Patrick's Hall, Toronto, on the
night of the 18th. Trouble being appre-
hended, the hall was guarded by nine COM
panies Of troops and a large force of police
men. A mob Of 1000 gathered in the vicin-
ity of the hall, but the lecture was conclud-
ed without interruption. During the night
the mob attacked Cosgrove's Tav-
ern, where it was believed Ros-
"A was stopping, and considerable
lighting took place in which several men
were shot All the windows in the hotel were
broken and the furniture smashed. A SIM
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28

Out of SO samples of beer, and of
materials used in the brewing of beer,
examined last year by the British In
land Revenue authorities, 81 were either
adulterated, or of illegal ingredients.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28

Steamed LoGt.-2 cups Indian meal,
l cup flour, cup molasses, salt, cup
sweet milk, l of sour, l teaspoon soda.
Steam from ) to hours.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-02
THE EASTERN METROPOLIS.
A Few Of the Events that Excited the
GOthamites Yesterday.

New York, April 3o.-Mrs Newell. plain
tiff in the Newell divorce suit, does not APP
pear to be satisfied with the disagreement Of
the jury, and purposes it Is said. To institute
another suit for divorce.
The condition of Mr.. Allen ". Evarts. eldest
son Of Secretary Evarts. was still very cri-
tical last evening, but his father said he was
glad to say his son was not in Immediate
danger Of death. Mr.. and Mrs. Evarts ar
rived in town yesterday and will remain until
the crisis in their sons illness is past.
Tho police central office came very near
being the theatre OF double tragedy by a
prisoner attempting to shoot q man who
caused his arrest, and the detective who took
him into custody. The would-be murderer is
none other than Joseph Gutenberg. q notorious
thief, who was arrested by Detective Adams
for having on January 25, 1876, robbed the
Brookl YIN. as well as the residence Of VIM. st.
John, of this city, on the twenty-fourth Of
last December. Gutenberg will be tried in
Brooklyn tomorrow. He has been several
times arrested and imprisoned as leader of
series of robberies, but on each occasion
succeededin making good his escape.
For the first time since the war the sub
treasury began to-day silver payments for
David T. Kennedy has failed, with liabiU-
ties of $4,000.
An examination has been begun in the case
of the Canada Southern Railroad stolen
papers.
fhe steamship Rotterdam reports five
deaths from mysterious diseases. No physi-
clans were on board.
letter from Germany says the dcfauIting
German counselor w g. Gand, Counselor Of
War of the Grand Duchy OF Hesse Darn
stadt, who had langushed for several months
in the Ludlow Street Jail of this city has
been found guilty by the Darmstadt asszes.
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THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT THURSDAY. MAY q 1878

lost. than never to have fought at all" Let
posterity learn by this monument that you
comm ernorate men who fought In a defensive
war; that they did not, as has been idly stated,
submit TO the arbitrament of arms the ques-
| tions at issue-questions which involved the
inalienable rights inherited from their ances
tors and held In trust for their pOsterity, but
that they strove to maintain the state SOY,
ereignty which their fathers left them, ana
which It was their duty, il possible, to trans
Away then with such feeble excuse Tor the
abandonment of principles, which may be
crushed for while, but which, possessing
the eternal vitality of truth must in It's own
good time prevail over perishable error.
Let this monument teach that heroism de-
rives its Iustre from the justice of tho cause
In which 1t is displayed. and let u mark the
difference between war waged for the rob
repel invasion to defend n peoples hearths,
and alters, and to maintain their laws ana
liberties. Such was the war i'm which our
heroes fell, and theirs is tho crown which
sparkles with the gems Of patriotism and
righteousness. with glory undimmed by
iDtict ruin on others. We present them to
postcrity as examples to be followed. and
wait securely for the verdict OF mankind
when knowledge shall have dspeled mis-
representation and delusion Is it lnreason-
able to hope that mature reflection and
closer study Of a political history Of the
Union may yet restore the rights Frustrated
by the passions developed in our long and
bloody war; IT, however, 1t should be other
wise, then from our heroes graves shall come
in mournful tones the
Answer fit:
And If our children must obey,
They must but thinking our day,
II will less debase them to submit
Yours, faithfully.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
During the reading, almost as each sentence
would fall. the applause of the assembled
multitude would rise upon the air.
Never will those who heard it forget this
letter. But stored away in the treasury OF
memory it will remain diamond never to
tarnish, sealed with the signet Of immortality.
The reader too. who SO eloquently gave ut
terance to the words Of the absent patriot will
not be forgotten by those for whom he once
offered his life as q sacrifice
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

ST. JAMES HOTEL.-J Wallace, Chicago: w
Spears, J W Brown G Felsenhail. T W Lockett,
$ G Neel, Arkansas: Boggs, West Virginia
PP Boyd. Arkansas: Chas Decker Indiana W
F s Strout Ocaan Springs; -Chas Pray, W, G
Pray. Boston: 1 K Barber. Jr. city.
CITY HOTEL-Mrs VIM Won Phu!. H c
\ Ellis. S T Rogers Hazlehurst; Benz Hunt
Mobile: W Denny Pasragoula JOS r Davis
Mississippi City; VIM Burt. Cleyelapd: Jetfer-
non, Yazoo City: JAS Butler. wife and child
Pierce Butler. Louisiana; John Lazarus. Ar
and wife. Mississfppi; L Martin, st Louis:
Hart jack on: s W Caldwell. Monticello: J
Crooks. Fulton, Ark; z Fontaine. city: VIM
Chambers. 3 v Bowen. Texas; Mrs E Kaye and
child, city; L F Murphy. Iowa.