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- Dallas (Texas) Herald: There are no
less than fourteen criminals in Texas who
have been found guilty of murder in the
first degree, and who are awaiting the ar
rival Of their DAYS of execution or the de-
ision of the court of sppe as. There willie
be more hsngings in Texas this year than in
any two states in the union.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: The wheat
and oat fields of Dallas county are not as
beautiful to the eye now as erstwhile, for the
reaper and binder have cut them right and
left. So far as heard from no rust has ap-
peared. Corn and cotton are in a very
prosperous and promising condition, the
late hot weather being Just what was
needed TO make these crops grow. Peaches
will be plentiful, while crops generally
promise we'll
Charleston Is. o. News and Courier:
There is considerable complaint of grass,
which in some localities has made much
headway, and will be difficult to eradicate.
The area for cotton is about the same as last
year, but there is an important increase in
the acreage devoted to food crops. The Ia
borers are working well, and, with favorable
weather until harvest, fair returns are an
ticipated. The people are generally in good
spirits, and look hopefully to the future,
The Charleston News speaks hopefully
of the future of the South Carolina low
country, and says that the prospect is that
the general cultivation of rice and long
cotton will be hereafter regularly profitable
and that this will be augmented by the cul-
tivation of jute, and of wheat, oats and hay,
which, it claims, can be made, under the
Ravenel system, to better advantage on the
sandy plains of the South Carolina sea coast
than on the farms of New England or the
prairies of the west.
Cotton, corn and cane are reported
doing finely in Louisiana. Rice is suffering
from low water. A local paper says: The
loss of the rice crop, which naturally follows
a decline of the river in this season of the
year, will prove serious misfortune to the
financial prosperity of the parish of La
fourche. The yield of that cereal in the
parish in 1873 reached 34,44S barrels. The
present crop can not be safely estimated at
over one.third of that amount, and will
more likely fall short of than exceed that
The hitherto despised, neglected and
worthless pine straw has devel-
oped into new industry and an article of
export at Wilmington, North Carolina. Over
eight tons were shipped on one steamer to
New York, last week, and the mandatory
requires fifty tons week. 1t is said that at
the factory where it is consumed it first un,
dergoes a sweating process, by which an
article of spirits is obtained, which is used
Tor medical purposes, and that it is then
manufactured into paper, and then an ar.
ticle for stufing mattresses.
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to close their shops fer want of custom
which the coffee resorts had drawn away
from them. In Bristol, the rum sellers,
hearing of the proposed trial of the plan
there, hired every available location in
their quarter, and at first it seemed that
the reformers were thwarted because Of
their inability to secure available rooms,
it being considered necessary to hsve the
coffee houses in the vicinity of the places
where the lsboring people were won't to
resort for their morning and evening
drinks. The coffee men, however, outs
generated the rummies by sending out a
wagon every morning and evening, and
peddling the hot coffee and tea for q
penny mug. The success was so great
that number of benevolent individuals
have started coffee wagons, and have all
they can do to supply the demands of
the thirsty throngs which morning snd
evening besiege the wagons.
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HURRAH FOE THE NEXT THAT DIES.

The following poem represents the feelings Of
band of British ofcers, cut of from help and hope
in some pestiIential iarter OF the Indies. In
poem is charged to the Iull with spirit Of stern
stoicsl defiance:
We meet beneath the sounding rsfter,
The walls around are bare 49, 49, 80
AS they shout TO our peals OF laughter
1t seems the dead are there;
But stand TO your glasses steady,
We drink TO our comrades eyes;
Quaff cup TO the dead already,
And hurrah for the next that dies.
Not here are the eoblets cleaning,
Not here is the vintage sweet:
lis Geld as our hearts are growing, .ssla
And dark as the doom we meet
But stand TO your glasses steady,
And soon shall our pulses rise;
cup to thedead already,
HurIah for the next that dies.
Not sigh for the fate that darkles,
Not tear Tor the friends who sink;
Wen fall mid the wine cups sparkles,
As mute as the wine we drink.
So stand TO your glasses steady.
Ills that a respite buys;
One cup to the dead already. .H
Hurrah for the next that dies.
Time was when we laughed at others;
We thought we were wiser then.
Ha hal let them think of mothers
Who hope to see them again.
No stand to your glasses steady;
The thoughtless are here the wise.
cup to the dead already
Hurrah for the next thst dies
There's many hand that's shaking,
There's many cheek that's sunk
But soon. though our hearts are breaking,
They'll burn with the wine we've drunk
So stand to your glasses stesdy;
The thoughtless are here the wise
cup to the dead already
Hurrah for the next that dies
There's mist on the glass congesling-
IT'S the hurricanes fiery breath;
And thus does the warmth OF feeling
Turn ice in the grasp Of death.
Hol stand to your glasses steady,
For the mo0ent the vapor flies;
cup 10 the dead already,
And huIrah for the next that dies
Who breads to the dust returning?
Who shrinks from the fatal shore -..
Where the high and naughty yesrning
VI the soul shall sting no more?
No: stand TO your glasses steady,
t.... r. The world is q world Of lies.
A cup to the dead already
Hurrah Tor the next that dies.
Cut or from the land that bore us, sI
Betrayed by the land we find
Where the brightest have gone before us, 30
And the dullest remain behind.
Stand, stand TO your glasses steady,
IT'S all we have left TO prize. ta
cup to the dead already
Hurrah for the next that dies
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A Good Story, Though a Little Profane'

New York Letter.
Next week Mr.. Jerome Hopkins, an
eccentric man, and very poor musician,
proposes to bring out biblical opera
called "Samuel." 1t has been played
once, and was generally laughed at
some years ago. The orgsnist of Trinity
church told me, some days ago, a very
funny story about his first performance
of +" Samuel" which is worth repeating,
although it is a little profane. At the
first performance Hopkins induced some
of the Trinity choir boys to take part,
and the role of the Samuel was taken by
A little fellow of the choir who hsd q
beautiful voice. When the night OF the
opera came, the house wss full of people
ready to laugh. The orchestra tuned
up. and Hopkins sat in the CONDUCTOR
chair, waiting for the signal ready" to
he given from behind the curtain. But
no signal came, and Hopkins got impa.
tient, He bounced on the stage, and
soon found that every one was in placs
except Samuel, who was nowhere to b
found. "T'll find him." says Hopkins
in a rage, dashing behind the scenes
The next thing the very proper Trinity
choir boys heard was Hopkins voic'
shouting out: "Where in h-ll is Sam
ueIY' This beginning of a bibIica
opera rather demoralized the company
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

The English in their csmraign in
Afghsnistsn, employed the mirror as an
instrument of telegraphy. Their mode
of use is very simple. The mirror of the
neliostst is placed 30 as to reflect the
suns image to g distant station, and
when the instrument has once been set
the clock-work arrangements keeps it in
position. The distant station always
sees the dazzling ray reflected from the
mirror, except when purposely obscured.
The appearance, disappearance and dura
ton of the fash constitute the signals.
The ordinary Morse alphabet supplies an
Ineligible code, and no one out of the
line of signals can read or understand the
message. The fash can be seen at diss
lance of twenty miles. Heliostat sta
tions are now established throughout the
Khyber pass,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

The modern Sir John Franklin is DR.
Nordenskjold, of the Swedish polar ex'
petition. Several months ago he left
the coast of northern Siberia, expecting
to reach Behring's straits in short time
and send dispatch home. Since then
not word has been heard from him,
andsthere are grave fears that he may
have been lost, and several expeditions
are about to start out in search of the
missing explorer. The governor of east
Siberis has been ordered to dispatch an
expedition to the north overland. An
other expedition will be provided with
powerful iron screw steamer, the James
Gordon Benefits jeanette, which Is soon
to sail from San Francisco, will take
such course as to aid DR.. Nordenskjold
If he is still alive.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

1T is recorded that jerome Bonaparte
was first presented to the beautiful Betsy
Patterson at the races at Baltimore, and
that the lady wore on that occasion q
very scant buf~colored silk gown, lace
fchu, and huge leghorn bonnet trim
med with pink gsuze ribbon and long
ostrich feathers. Betsy Patterson
mother was a most lovely, gentle, accom-
plished woman. 1t is said that Madame
Bonspsrte few hours before her death
was heard to say in a pleading tone +
II want to go to my mother, my angel
mother"
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Tn. Chief Objectis, t. Chinese.

Pail Mall Gazette, May 10Th There
ia another and deeper reason than those
assigned by the Times in long leading
article this morning for the hostility OK
Americans to Chinese immigration; and
it appliesequally to English colonies and
to the United States. Not only Is the
Chinamsn, as the writer truly says, per-
sonslly Objectionable, but he is protec~
ZIONIST and an absentee of the most yiru'-
lent type at one and at the same time.
No one gets any pull out OF China
man. He buys his clothes from China,
he buys his food from Uhina, and he
deals exclusively through Cinnamon.
Thus whether he is q gold digger or is
working for daily wages, neither Ameri~
cans nor Europeans can make anything
ont of him. When he has made as much
"a he thinks will keep MIN in comfort in
China. of he goes with his savings, and
the state or the colony knows him no
more. But in his place appears another
Chinamsn equally as industrious, equally
penu:ious, equally inclined to take low
wages, whe goes through the same pro-
cess. ana then in like manner disappears.
Thus these thrifty Asiatics, by Keeping
entirely to Their own routes Of trade and
saving money or digging geld simply 70
take It out of the country, seem 70 the
ursophisticated American and equsIy
dali Australian to be by no means 30
useful to the country as q lez industrious,
less penurious and less home~Hck Euro
mean. Whatever effect their method may
80 rr,on tbe wealth of the world at
large. This, at any rate, is the chic
reason why men who are worm arguing
Of the Iabor party in California; and
writers who wish to combat their argu'
ments efectually will have to take
wider view of the subject than they take
at present.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

PROF. WISE seems to be in earnest
in his scheme for crossing the Atlantic in
q balloon, and to be setting about his
preparations in very practical manner,
strikingly in contrast to the daredevil
method of the unfortunate Donaldson o
few years ago. His idea is to thoroughly
test the conditions, both of the natural
air currents and the necessary features
of an slr-ship to meet the varying stmos.
pheric conditions, with the purpose o
devising automatic machinery that will
cause the balloon to regulate itself then
to send trial balloon across without an
occupant, and follow up with Others, il
necessary, until itrshsll seem sale to at.
tempt the aerial voyage himself. Three
scientists viii accompany him, and many
applications for the privilege have al
ready been made. Professor Wise's pre-
liminsry experiments are already being
made on Manhattan beach.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12
Persons Seldom Buried Alive.

The newspapers contain every once in
while sensational accounts OF the ex-
humation of bodies that give what is
called unmistakable evidence of having
been buried alive. Change in position
of the corpse, often asserted to be proof
of premature interment, usually results
from chemical changes, especially from
gases generated by decomposition. Some
of the Pennsylvania journals have lately
published highscolored, horrible nara
tive OF the unquestionsble revival of a
man who had been entombed three days
at a town of that state. Doubt of his
death having been excited, the grave
was opened, and it was shown, according
to the local chroniclers, that he had
fought desperately for his life, imprints
of his nails being visible on the lining
of the coffin, in some places torn to
shreds. This REORGANIZATION. 1t has
in all probability been much exagger'
atel, and warmly hued with imagina>
ton. While such things have happened,
and may still happen, they are of the
rarest occurrence. Winslow, the cele-
brated anstomist, is said to have had
two narrow escapes from burial alive,
and to have published, in consequences,
a treatise on the signs of death. Bous
chut, Michael Levy and other physicians
have also expressed their views on the
subject; but all testimony procurable
establishes the fact that burial alive
hardly ever takes place in these times
In corroboration of this, many German
cities have in their cemeteries mortuary
houses, in which the dead are kept some
DAYS before final interment, tie bell
pull being 30 arranged that the slightest
motion of the body would sound al
alarm. So far these precautions have
been superfuous. In more than forty
wears not one supposed-to-be corpse ha
proved to be anything else.
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THRENODY.

The day is come, and the carnets
are dragged outside the house,
AS man is dragged to the station
at the close of big careuse.
1 see the wife and her landmarks
Wade through the suds and the dust;
And feel as though the pie of my lie
Was nearly all under-crust.
Come, give me a club with handle
AS long as the month Of May;
And will waffle the carpet
rhe whole of the livelong daY.
Do YOU reckon the grand old masters,
The immortal bards sublime,
Sent the echOiDg thuds Of the caTpet-stiek
Own the corridors of timer
oh, like the strains Of martial music,
The endless thrum, iu =, fun 20
Makes me think of the man on dress-parade,
A-pounding the big bass drum.
1 WELD the stick they have brought me,
With flap, and thud, and hiss;
Oh, better year and half Of sleep
Than fifteen minutes Of this.
Perchanee some humber poet
Was driven at rise OF sun,
To face a carpet and collar club, ..t.
But he didn't do 1t for fun,
For carpet has power TO quiet
These dreams of the upper air,
And make man run riot,
And rip and rave and tear.
But pound from dawn to noontide,
And if ever stop from choice;
From the back door nigh on the WINDOW nlSn
hear the good vife's voice.
And the day is so full Of this music
That wish thar some april day,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

The world will never know how much
it owes to science. A scientific" man
who has been investigating the coal-oil
regions of Pennsylvania has come out
with the alarming theory that the oil
comes from the bearing of the earth's
axis, and that the earth will cease to turn
when the fabrication ceases. Therefore
he holds the opinion that the govern
ment ought to interfere at once and put
9 stop to this pumping and boring for
this gudgeon-grease of the universe.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

BENEDICT ARNOLD once wrote letter
begging the aid of the British govern
ment for reason of the sacrifices he had
made for it. This letter was sold for
$50 at an autograph sale in Boston last
week. At the same sale letter from
Bulver brought 1926 one of Byron,
$Sl; one Of Victor Hugo, s7.1S one Of
Samuel johnson, s25, and one of Charles
Lamb, $3.50.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

AMONG the articles found in the
streets of Paris in one week and deposit
ed at the prefecture of police, were a
thousand franc bank note, twelve gold
watches, eight ear pendants, nine brace
lets, fifteen portemonnaies, and number
of snuf-boxes, silver watches and other
articles.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

PROFESSOR LoNGFRLIow has had 8
gift of a pen made from the iron fet-
Iers of Downward, the prisoner of Chill,
ion. The socket is made of gold set
with three rare gems, and the handle is
q piece Of oak from the frigste Constitu-
xiop
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

CLAM not" wrote Mr.. Ralph Waldo
Emerson the other day, in condition
to make visits or to take any part in
conversation. Old age has ruthed upon
me in the last year and tied my tongue,
and hid my memory, and thus made it q
duty to stay at home"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

The idea of reforming the incorporate
by getting up cheap coffee houses in the
neigbborhood Of the rum shops has been
tried with much success in England
30 CREST, in fsct, that they have in many
cases compelled the rum dealers near BY
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-06-12

LUTHER G. RIGGS, of the Meriden,
Conn. Recorder, says he has never kissed
but one girl in his life. For Heavens
sake, young man, come west, and brace
up with the eountry.-[Stillwater Lum-
herman.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
IRI0tzr.

IRIolHr
The zephyr down in the lea
With the violet doth daily,
Aud brings its scent to ne
The zephyr down in the lea
Doth bring right mcrrily
The ycwl Of the cat in me SLEW
The zephyr down IN the lea,
With the violet doth daily.
New York star
The Oldest sort of fire escspeOn record
is the fond husband, who hes sbed morn
ings.
A LADY, describing an ill-nstured
man, says ne never smiles but he feels
ashamed of it. FF r.
IN the Russian language, the ter
minstion which," found in proper
names, means son.
CREMATION, as thus far dealt with,
shows thst woman's jaw-bone holds
out sgainst fire the longest.
WHEN fish nibbles the worm of your
hook, though he does not bite, you may
be sure he has debated the point.
A SIOUX Indian maid is net permitted
to look at reflection OF hJr face. even
In brook, and she never W uld W ant to
more than once.
1T is wonderful how silent a man can
De when ne knows his cause is Just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
WHISKY left in cssk seven years will
lose its fusil oil. And a cask left in a
Kentucky newspaper office seven days
will lose its whisky.
The lawyers in Pittsburg are strug-
Cling with the question, "Can a man
marry his wite's sister ?" Well, we
don't see what there is in that to puzzle
a lawyer. The man can, if he wishes,
but it's bigamy, just the same as though
ne married his wite's neighbor. Ii the
question was raised about his widow
sister, now, it would be quite another
natter Burlington Hawkeye.
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EKowE, In Zululand, is not pronounc-
ed at all--it il sneezed and the savsges
who invested it were up to snuff.
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AJUpoE has decided that q woman is
not an "old maid" until she is thirty
Eva
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
REWARD.

Strayed from Ten Mile Station on Idaho
road, three mare mules, two Of them branded
with circle G on shoulder; the other, mouse
color, with large right fore-foot, and two
mares, one sorrel, branded on left thigh. left
ear cropped; the other, bay mare, branded
ID d on shoulder. All are work animals. They
were last seen on Little Owyhee, near qhree
Forks. The above reward will be paid for he
recovery Of the animals and their deli, ery A
Camp McDermit or Paradise. A propori onate
reward will be paid for one or more OF them
A. ). BURBANK.
Winnomucca, New, Jun, q. 1879. wv
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ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
NuMA MINING COMPANY.

NUMA MINING COMPANY.
Location of principal place of business, San
Francisco, California
Location of works, Humboldt county Nevada.
NOTICE is hereby given, that at meeting
of the Directors, held on the 18th day
OF June, 1879, an assessment No. /, OF Three
Cents per share was levied upon the capital
stock OF the corporation, payable Immediately
II U. s. gold coin to the Secretary, at the office
OF the Company, 1913 Montgomery street, Room
q, San Francisco California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall re-.
main unpaid the 2lst day Of july
1910, VIII be delinquent, and advertised for sale at
public auction and unless payment is make be-
fore, will be sold on MONDAY the ELEVENTH.
Qlth) day of AUGUST, 1879, to pay the
delinquent assessment, together with cost of
advertising and expenses OF sale.
DAVID WILDER, Secretary.
Ofiice;-32S Montgomery street, Room Il +,
San Francisco, California. jel6td y
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ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
To ALEXANDER McGREGoR.

UOU are hereby notified that the under
signed has performed labor on the Con
tinental mine, situated in Gold Run Mining
District, Humboldt county, Nevada, in the
years 1877 and 1873, amounting to one hundred
and fifty (s150) dollars in United States gold
coin, said expenditure being the amount re-
quired to hold the same according to the United
States mining laws, for your interest of seven
hundred and fifty (75o) feet in said mine, and
that unless you pay the said amount within
ninety 800 days after the date Of publication of
this notice your interest in said mine will be-
come the property Of the undersigned.
RICHARD THERIAN,
Gold Run, Humboldt County, Nevada, Apr
81, 1879 80
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HOUSE AND LOT FOR SALE.

house, containing five rooms, situated on
Third street, below n. Levys store, is offered
for sale at bargain. The title to the lot is
from the United States, and the location is one
OF the most desirable in town for a residence.
The house is substantially built and conviently
arranged for residence. For terms apply to
MRS JENNIE TAYLOR.
Winnemucca, June 23, 1879. I'm
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POSTPONEMFNT.

The above sale OF delinquent stock of the Rive
Patch Con. Mil and Mining Company Is most
poned until SATURDAY, the FOURTEENTH
day Of JUNE, 1879 at the same hour and place
by order OF the Board Of Directors
ID. +. VEkDENAL Secretary.
oFFlcE-Rooms and Z, 1877 Pine street, San
Francisco California myl7 IA