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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

More frogs legs are now eaten in
America than in France.
A Massachusetts, paper alleges that
the farmers turned ont by the state agrieul>
tural college cost SIS, 900 apiece.
A Texas jury arose after the evidence
was in, and requested that the case go to
them without any lawyers speeches." and
ii did.
gaThe United States supreme court will
be $50 cases, or two years, behind when It
adjourns, and things are getting no better
very fast.
No wonder our lawyers are poverty
stricken. One legal gentleman received
only $4,000 fer his services in the Wander
bilt will case.
The three tallest trees in the world
are believed to be a sequoia near Stockton,
Cal, which is S25 feet high, and two euca>
lypti in Victoria, Australia, estimated to be
435 and $50 feet high, respectively.
The longest subterranean construction
is in the mines of Freyburg, in Saxony. A
series of galleries, which were begun in the
welfth century, reached in 1885 length of
1913 miles, and had yielded an immense
quantity of silver. In 1888 a new gallery
was commenced, which was finished q year
ago, and is eight miles long.
The Dutch are at last approaching
the end of their war in Acheen. and have
met no such overwhelming disasters as the
British forces. The leading chief of the
natives has sent in his submission, another
great tribal power has taken to fight and a
number of others have opened up negotia~
tons for peace, The cessation of warfare
comes not moment too soon, as the rains
cable. and the health of the Dutch troops &c
most precarious.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

DIR. CARVER, at a recent exhibition
in England, placed ten glass balls on the
ground fired bullet into the trut i'm.
mediately beneath. The missile tearing
up the soil, threw the balls into the air
and they were broken as they rose. The
doctors greatest feat was performed for
a wager of one hundred pounds sterling
that he would hit an apple upon the end
of knife held by his colored attendant
riding on horseback at full gallep at a
distance of thirty yards. A large apple
was procured and stuck on the end of "a
pruning knife. The negro mounted a
horse, and held the target with his left
hand as far as possible behind his body.
The start was made about one hundred
yards away, and when the rider came
within range, riding at furious gallop,
the doctor fired. The attempt was a
failure, and odds of ten pounds to two
pounds were bet against Carver. The
second time he struck the apple, knock
ing it into half dozen pieces.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15
The YellOw-FeVer Bill.
Cincinnati Gazstfe.

The yellow>fever bill has, for the
present, received its quietus, probably
its deathblow. After nearly week of
desultory debate in the senate to fill the
gap caused by the hitch in the appro,
priation bills, the measure was to-day
recommitted to the committee in which
it originated by a vote of thirty to rine-
teen. One of the chief objections to the
bill which was urged by Senators Conk-
ling, Herman and others, was that it
vested an immense power in the national
board of health to be created by it.
This power would actually enable the
board to entirely override all local regu-
lations with which its regulations might
conflict. Some of the state sanitary
rules, particularly those of New York,
were as good as have ever been devised.
To overthrow them new, just at the be.
ginning of the hot term, might result
disastrously. Senator Harris, of Ten
nessee, who has had charge of the bill,
was bitterly disappointed, and protested
against the recommitment, saying the
committee could do nothing more than
to report the bill back in the same shape,
as they had already done all in their
power to render its provisions unobjec-
tionable,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

JUDGING from the energetic progress
OF the work of redeeming Jerusalem,
reported from the Holy City, one would
say that Daniel Deronda had got down
to real hard work. In ten years the
Jews have bought up all the land they
could in the ancient city, and have built
outside the walls in some cases entire
streets of houses. Synagogues and Jew
ish hospitals have multiplied and the
German Jews have no fewer than sixteen
charity associations and twenty-eight
congregations religieuses." Building is
going on night and day. The new
corners are from all countries, but chiefly
from Russia. Baron Rothschild holds a
mortgage on the whole of Palestine as
security for his lean of zoe, OOO, 900 francs
to the Turkish government. So there is
prospect of better days in store for the
grard old Jewish capital.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

story ne wished her to hear-a story of
wrong-doing thst had met its lust
reward-theD, when she could bear il.
took her to the room where the diving
friend lay.
" | found him alone, utterly slone. and
al" he said, in conclusion of his nara.
tive; there was no one near to care for
h m, and | brought him here to nv
lone. He needs only you now and he
kit her alone in the death-chamber,
She bent over the pillow of the sick
E-an, over the face of the only man she
had loved, and his feeble arms, reachiug
upward, clasped her trembling to his
Bosom. He was true, true to her to the
laGt, and throb of almost overwhelming
joy thrilled through the clinging shroud
of despair numbing her heart at the
Thought. She took her place by the
bedside to wait the coming of that other
vis-tant, whose cold hands were even
nov stretched toward her idol. The
long night vigil was scarcely broken by
words. The sick man could not talk.
There was only murmured prayer OF
forgiveness, which was answered by the
teRGerest, truest assurances of love ;
there were no reproacbes, no unavailing
utterances of repentance, and the wife's
tears of anguish fell in silence.
I" Darling P' he whispered, when the
darkness was giving place to dawn.
She laid her white face on the pillow
beside his.
darling, the moment is at hand.
You will be happier when am gone.
did not know till it was too late to go
back, that l had left the one true love of
my LIE; but l was always unworthy of
you, my darling, and God is merciful to
you and me in letting me die. By and
by, when you forget, you will be hap
pier"
And quietly, with her hand in his, his
last breath on her lips, he died.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

a HAUNTED clock is mystifying the
inhabitants of Huntsville and Falls Wiz
lage, N. II. About midway between
those places lives Mr.. w. Il. Blodgett,
who has two clocks, and while one is in
good running order, the other has not
run or been wound UP in twenty years,
and for few weeks past, Just as the
hands of the running clock point to ten
minutes past seven in the evening, the
old clock strikes one. The family being
somewhat alarmed at the strange phen-
omenon had the works taken out, but still
the sound of one bell is heard in the old
frame at the same hour and minute-ten
minutes past seven in the evening.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

The jewels of Nine. Bonaparte were
appraised, at the request of the execuu
tors, by Joseph Gale, jeweler. Gale ex-
presses the opinion that while the jewels
cost about $4,000, they would not sell
for that. The most expensive article is
q necklace and pendant composed of five
hundred diamonds One of the greatest
curiosities in the lot is a bracelet made
from gold found upon tbear of skel~
eton discovered in the ruins of Pompeii.
The jewels will be reserved in the family.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15
Natural CannOn.BaIls,
St. Nicholas.

My friend, the late Capt. HawIey,
brought to me from that wonder>lsnds
the far west, very curious stone. 1t is
black and perfectly round, as heavy as
iron, and looks exactly like a cannon>
ball. 1t was taken from Cannon ball
river, branch of the upper Mississippi
This aforesaid stream contains great guam
titles of these balls, enough to fight our
battles with for centuries. The geolo-
gists ought to be ashSmed of their ig-
noraDce, but they haven't been able to
tell whether these csnnon-balls were
forged by the wSter-god or the fre-god.
A neighbor of mine informs me that he
has seen some of these balls in the high
clsy-bsnks of the Red river, Louisiana,
and that they were from six to eight
feet in diameter. Some of them are
formed of iron pyrites, though generally
the balls are of clsy-iron stones,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15
The Zulu Weapon.
Public Opinion.

There are two principal kinds of ASA
gals, the throwing and the stabbing, the
latter with a long and straight blade.
To a Kaffir this weapon is really the
STAFF of life. With it he kills his enemy
and his game, slaughters and cuts up his
cattle, trains their horns, shaves his ewn
or his neighbours head, does his carpen-
try and furriery, and countless other
Jobs of various sorts. In its original
form, the assagai was essentially mis-
sile, but the renowned Clarke, among
other military reforms, converted it into
a shorter and heavier stabbing spear,
unfit for throwing, and only to be used
at close quarters. The shaft, with an
average length of nearly five feet, and
diameter equal to mans little finger,
is cut from the assagai tree (curtlsla
iaginea), which ia not unlike mahogany.
The wood is brittle, yet elastic, the lat
ter quality giving the spear that peculiar
vibratory motion on which its accuracy
of fight so much depends. On account
of its brittleness, a novice will break
many shafts before he learns to throw
his asssgai secundum artem. Inaptly
cast, the assagai as soon as it reaches the
ground is apt to whip forward and break
off short above the blsde. The assagai
heads are generally blade>shaped, some
consist of mere spike, and few are
barbed. When the first ape is adopted,
whether with or without the barb, there
is invariably q raised ridge along the
center of the blade, which is concave on
one side and convex on the other. The
reasons assigned for this POPULARITY OF
form are that this blade acts like the
feathers on an arrow, and that, as the
heads are always made of soft iron.
they csn be more easily sharpened when
blunted by use.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

LEADvLLE, the new Eldorsdo in
Colorado, is built exclusively of wood,
and prediction is current in the city
that it will soon be burnt in order to let
the carpenters and lumberers build it
over again. Two attempts have already
been made to burn it; a guest of the
Grand hotel, coming up from dinner,
found some shavings in blaze under his
bed, and lot of boxes and kindling in
the rear of restaurant were alighted,
but extinguished by the cook, who hap,
pened to step out that way. Still new
houses are run up as If by magic.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

LoTTIE FOWLER, Bridgeport spirit,
ualist, preached several years ago that
an explosion would occur in a certain
carriage factory, and the building was
soon shattered. Lately she said that q
boiler in brass foundry was going to
burst, and the female employees have
since refused to work.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

A NEW industry in the United States
is the production of fruit syrups into
competition with French manufactures
which have hitherto had the markets of
the world.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

man market, which is now being monopo-
lized by foreign wares. could be reserved
for native industry. The countries which
were enclosed had become great, and those
which remained open had fallen behind.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

No grimmer satire could ever be
achieved than that perpetrsted by Nine,
Bonaparte. She was defantly proud of
her imperial name during life, and yet
st her death the coffin bore plate read
ing, Elizabeth Patterson" Only that
and nothing more. The dead threw
back the insult upon the family that
had insulted.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

THERE are people in New York whose
sole business is arranging goods in shop
windows.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-15

Firemen's balls are like women's
hair, because they always come off at
night Derrick.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16
A Very Old story RetoId.
from the Boston Transcript


1t is no use for an Eastern man to try to tell
big story when there is a Western man about.
Causeur has tried 1t and got boaten-boaten
clean out of sight. He thought he could spin
yarn that would test any ones credulity, but
he always found that Western man could 20
him one better. when was young man."
said Colonel b., 1--WE lived in Illinois. Tho
farm had been well wooded and the stumps
were pretty thick. But we put the corn in
among them, aud managed to raise fair crop.
The next season did my share of the blowing.
We had 'sulky' pillow, and / sat in the seat
and managed the horses, four as handsome
bays rs ever man drew rein over One day
found stump right in my way. l hated TO
back out, so just said word to the team, and,
if you'd believe II, they just walked that pillow
right through that stump as though it had been
cheese" Not soul expressed surprise. But
Major s., who had been quiet listener, re-
marked quietly, Its curious, but had q
similar experience myself once. Ny mother
always made our clothes in those days as well
as the cloth they were made of. The old lady
was awful proud of her homespun-said IL was
the strongest cloth in the State. Ono day
had just plowed through a white-oal< stump
in the way you speak of, Colonel. But it was
n little too quick for me. 1t came together
before / was out of the way, and nipped the
seat Of my trousers. felt mean, can tell
you, but put the string ON the ponies, and,
If you'll believe it, they just snalScd that
stump out, roots and all. Something had To
give, you know"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16
How an Actress Got Her scroech.

Mile. Antonine is famed for a peculiar shrek.
The way she acquired it is quite an anecdote.
1t was during a rehearsal Of Samuel Brohl I"
at the Paris Odeon. In one part of the piece
she had to utter piercing cry, but after sue
cessive trials could not do it. The manager,
the actor, and the author were equally discon-
tented with her discordant utterance-worst
of all, the people employed in the stage work
raised their hands TO their ears us if they
suffered agonies whenever Mile. Antonine set
up her unnatural yells. There was no ill-wll
in her; she would rest for quarter of an
hour and then try again, but shrek in proper
way she could not At length, one rehearsal
day as above explained, an actor by the name
of Marias, in order to divert his attention
from the fearful walls set up by the beauteous
Antonine, commenced little bodily exercise.
1t consisted in jumping ON and oil light deal
table. All of sudden he came down on it
with such a weight that the top board fell
through and the actor likewise. Mile. Anto-
nine, fancying that he had broken all his limbs.
gave forth the shrek, cry of indefnable
terror. There you have it," said Marias,
looking up from the midst of shattered pieces
of wood. Such shrek as that will bring
the house down and put me on my legs again"
No limbs were broken. Mile. Antonine's
shrek is SO telling that it runs through tho
Odeon, the Senate not far distant, and down
the Luxembourg Gardens
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16

ANYBODY who feeds with his knife, drinks
sibiantly from his Saucer makes q bib or
pocket-handkerchief of his napkin, picks his
teeth at the table, smokes in tho faces of
ladies, or makes himself vulgar with jew
elry, is offensive to people of aesthetic tastes,
whether he be Jew or CONFEDERATION Herald.
A GENTLEMAN in Diapers shop had tho
misfortune to tread on lady's skirt. She
turned round, her face flushed with anger, but
seeing the gentleman was stranger, she
smiled complacently saying: IL beg pardon,
sir; was going to be in a dreadful passion;
L thought it was my husband. French nelcs-
paper.
THE other day ten-year-old boy living on
Montcalm street got two chairs out on the
walk, placed board across them for coun-
ter, and set up "store." Tho stock in trade
consisted of seven empty ink-bottles, broken
nower-pot an old tobacco.box and very short
lead-pencil. He was behind tho stock, ready
to change two-cent piece with promptness
and dispatch, when pedestrian halted and
said just making a start in life, are you p
"Yes," was the reply. you don't seem to
have very valuable stock of goods here y
continued the man. "Well. l dunno about
that" slowly replied the boy; but l think
I've made about as big business spread on
nothing as any boy around here ever has Pm
going to sell awful cheap for cash down.
Detroit Free Press |.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16
GEORG ETOWN NEWS.
by Republican Reporters.

The sale of tho Kennebec Ice Companys real
estate on Water street took place yesterday after
noon. The bidding was not much livelicr than at
the previous auction. 1t was finally disposed of at
$500 to u Mr.. Meyer.
Recent communications from Omaha, received
at Georgetown College, state that while en- route
homo Rev. Father Healy was suddenly stricken
down with Inflammation of the stomach. Father
Heay had entirely recovered his health before this
unfortunate attack.
Yesterday evening tho Potomac Boat Club ten
dered n complimentary entertainment to Captain
Howgate, of the United States Signal Service, at
Potomac Landing, above Georgetown. A double
quartette Of the Masonic choir accompanied the
pleasure party which was Of itself great acquisi.
ton.
The gentlemen appointed by the District Com.
missloners rs II board of inquistion to condemn or
otherwise dispose of Tunlaw street. met yesterday
noon ut the warehouse of j. NJ. u j. g. Waters
commission merchants. Owing TO some infor.
mality In the instructions received from tho Com
missoners, the board took no action in the matter
During the thunder storm Of yesterday evening
n frame house situated on Green street, near Water
was struck by lightning and tho brick chimney
completely demolished. This house Is near or adj
Joining Mr.. Goodwicks residence, No other acct.
dents are reported Rock creek was noticed to UNI
dergo n very sudden rise in short time after the
storm began, which indicates that the rain In the
county up In Maryland must have been quito
severe. The creek overlooked Its banks In very
few minutes.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS,
A'TREE WITH A HISTORY.
The Willow Wand That bridegroom Cut


The Willow Wand That a Bridegroom Cut 10
Serve On His Wedding Journey.
On the principal avenue in a thriving vii
lnge of New Jersey stands very large willow
tree. running stream just at its base has
renewed the trees vigor for nearly half CEN
fury. Now, however, it is dying; many of its
limbs are bare, and its leaves are sere and vel
low. There is an interesting story about
this tree. Nearly fifty years ago a happy
young couple, just welded, started in a wagon
over the billy roads of New Jersey to their
now home. 1t was a days journey, and to
complete 1t before the setting of the sun tho
horse had to be urged to unwonted speed, 80
the bridegroom stopped by the roadside and
cut log wiry willow stick. Using this for
whip, the journey was completed with tho
day, and as the bridegroom alighted from tho
wagon he thrust the willow wand into the
ground by the side Of the stream, where It now
grows 1t soon began to sprout, and as tho
years flew by it became handsome tree. Its
dropping branches have furnished shade for
the couple whom 1t served on their wedding
journey, and for their children. and now, as
the shadows of age are creeping over the bride
and groom of halfa century ago, the willow
Is beginning to droop and decay as if in SYM
patby with them.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16
THE GENERAL MIRRETS.
Baltimore Markets.

Baltimore Markets.
BALTIMORE August Is, 1870.
Cotton quiet but firmer. Mlddllng 1l,i@ii'1c.
Flour quiet and unchanged for medium and low
grades. Howard street and Western superhne, 81 100
5) do extra, SO 1894 so; do family s5@5 49, City
mills superHne, s3a3 81 do extra, 50 1904 80; do
Rio brands, IS 62@5 IS; PntapsCo family, so 20.
Wheat-Southern dull and easier. Western quiet
and steady Southern red t1QDl O5 do amber. 81 OG9
Os; No Maryland, 81 0s,s; MOI Western winter red,
spot and August, 81 VI; September, 81 CsS October,
sl0sys.
Corn-Southern active and steady. Western dull
and lower; Southern white, SC; do yelow.isc; West
ern mixed, spot and August. 400l4GySc: September
f6h6Dl611c: October, i71t6pI7JSc steamer, AK,
Oats dun and easier, Southern s2Gf 8{cs Westor,
white, 3i@32c; do mixed, 2093c; Pennsylvania 3ysCa
&c
Rye quiet at $4,000.
Hay steady. Prime to choice Pennsylvania and
Maryland, sl30g1l.
Provisions firm. Mess pork so %. Bulkmeats-
Loose shoulders, 3c clear RIB sides, isc; packe ed
44@5Sc. Bacon shoulders, 4ls145c; clear rib sides,
5SGiAc Hams, li@ll2c. Lard, refined In terces &c,
Butter steady. Prime TO cnolce Western, packed,
12GDiIc.
Eggs quiet at 1ldl2c.
sugar easier; A soft sIaGs1Sc.
Petroleum dull. Crude nominal; refined, 0lkc,
Coffee frmer. Rio cargoes, li@li1sc.
Whisky quiet at 81 0J!i@l OF.
Freighis TO Liverpool per steam active. Cotton,
5-32d; Hour 2s; grain. sd. |'
Recelpts-ElOur. 3,i32 bbls; wheat 10000 bu; corn
$500 bu. oats, H. i65 bu: rye, GS5 bu.
Shipment9-Wheat. $4,000 bu corn. G,700 blu.
sales-Wheat 3ii,OOO bu; corn 4i,722 bu,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-08-16
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
MoNET.iRY MATTERs IN NEW YORK
And SAN IR1NCISCO.
New York Money Market

New YoRK August 10, 1879.
The imports ofdry goods at the port OF New YORK
for the past week were e., 92,s2j, and the amount
marketed sl5iO,iO1.
Money was active at iD7 per cent, closing easy
at4
Foreign exchange dull Mt lslHG4si'l for long, and
5s3jsCGis3l for demand.
Government bonds strong
State bonds dull,
Railroad bonds generally lower The following
were the changes compared with last sales decline
of211 In Lehigh & Wilkesbarre consols assented, Ia
In Rome Watertown h ogdensburg hrsts consols
dated, per cent in Missouri Kansas q Texas hrsts
consols assented in Erie second new consolidated,
and do refunded hves. u In ST. Paul sinking fund ana
North Western gold sevens and "a In Canada South
nrsts guaranteed Kansas Pacific, Denver div-
sion assented, and Wabash seconds Eek couponsl
Central Pacific gold bonds sold at 10S and Great West
ern seconds lex coupon) Mt Of.
The stock market was again irregular and an up-
settled feeling characterized the dealings until to.
ward the close, when, the money market DO oming
much easier, there were large orders to buy Lake
Shore and the Granger shares, and the final transac.
tons were at material improvements firm tone pro.
vailing. In the early dealings tho general list de-
clined ADlA per cent ST. Paul, Northwest " Lake
Shore leading the decline but at the close prices ad
vanced Ab2 per cent. the latter Lake Shore.
Western Union was noticeaby stong, and advanced
IL per cent. on the day
Total sales 2i7,O00 shares, of which 1900 were
Erie, 1000 were Lake Shore, 5000 Northwest,
5000 were Wabash. 900 Union Pacific 5000 were
Delaware IL Hudson, coo were Delaware, Lacka-
wanna o western. II 900 were New Jersey Central
1901 Michigan Central, 2,OO0were Pacific Mail,
6UC0 were Western Union, G,0O0 were Kansas City
d Northern, 1000 were Louisville & Nashville.
The following arc the closing quotations;