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A Horrible Story Of the Grave.

Some employees of the Pittsburgh,
Titusville and Buffalo railroad related a
strange and horrible story yesterday.
1t seems that a man died last week at
Triumph, a small place not far from
Tidioute. The body was kept three
days, and at the expiration of that time
buried. Then some curious person re-
membered that sister of the deceased
had lain in death-like trance for sew
eral days. 1t was suggested that per-
haps the man had been prematurely
buried. The suspicion took so strong
hold upon the people that it was resolved
to exhume the body, and the coffin was
disinterred Saturday last, after having
laid three days in the grave. The lid
was wrenched of, when horrible sight
greeted the eyes of the resurrectionists.
Evidently the supposed corpse had re
vived, and the wretched man had
fought desperately for his life. I'm
prints of his finger-nails were visible on
the lining of the coffin, which in some
places was torn into shreds. The coffin
itself was strained and wrenched apart
at the jointings in the death agonies of
the miserable man who was buried alive.
He had turned completely over, and was
found lying upon his breast, his dis
torted eountenance indicating the fright
ful sufferings he had undergone.
(Pd.) DiSDGtch,
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A Wife's Devotion.

The intense devotion of wife to hel
husband was witnessed in the recent
execution of Walter Watson, at New
port, Vermillion county, Ind. Every
body but the poor wife believed the
man guilty of the crime of murder.
She refused to credit the evidence, and
every day during his confinement and
his Trial she ministered to his comfort.
She took her babe in her arms, and
went to indianapolis and made an earn
est appeal to the Governor in his be-
half, and even assembled the scaffold
with him when led to his death. A cor
respondent says: To the clergyman
who would have hindered her from
mounting the scaffold she said, when
I was married, promised to cleave to
my husband, for better or for worse,
and / am going to keep my promise, so
far as God will let me- Holding the
murderer's hand-white, no doubt, in
her aforementioned eye. as if it had
never been stained with blood-she as
cended the ladder amid stiffness that
was painfully audible. Two chairs
were placed over the fatal trap-he sat
in one, she in another. She tenderly
caressed his hand, and then fell, sobbing
on his shoulder. In the
midst of her heart-5reaking grief the
drop fell; she was widow, and she sat
there with staring, stony, fearless, de-
spair;ng eyes, until led away by the
Sheriff"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17
On Public Sheaking.

1t may, perhaps, be of use to those
anxious to become orators to know that
for some cause or other almost all
speakers occasionally not only lose the
thread of their argument, but lose all
knowledge of what they are talking
about. have seen this occur with
many of our most experienced orators.
When it happens they repeat a few
vague concentrations until their
thoughts come back to them, and then
they fell back again into their speech.
Thus their temporary wool-gathering
escapes detection, except by those who
watch them very closely. An inexperi-
enced speaker, instead of doing this,
pauses, gets confused, and sits down in
despair. Another great mistake of bud
ding speakers, and, indeed, of many
who are in full bloom, is to speak too
quickly. A person who wishes to be
heard can hardly speak too slowly. He
should pronounce not only each word,
but every syllable of each word, dis
tinctly. Mr.. Bright once said that
had cost him more trouble than
10 learn to speak slowly. A clear, de-
iberate utterance of every syllable,
With pauses to mark the stops at the end
Of each sentence, does not produce the
effect of tediousness, but the reverse.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17
The Beard.

The custom of shaving the beard was
enforced by Alexander of Macedon, not
for the sake of fashion, but for practi-
cal end. He knew that the soldiers of
India, when they encountered their
foes, had the habit of grasping them by
the beard, and so he ordered his sold
iers to shave. Afterward shaving was
practised in the Macedonian army, and
then among the Greek citizens. The
Romans. initiated the Greeks In the
practice, as they did in many other
things, and spread it to the different Eu.
ropean nations yet barbaric. In the
Middle Ages, at the time of the Renais-
sance, shaving was introduced, and the
habit was retained, though classicism
gave place to romanticism, and that, in
its turn, was replaced by realism. The
beard was a source of trouble to Peter
the Great, who, simultaneously with
the introduction of his great reforms in
Russia, tried to induce his people to
initiate the shaving nations. This in
novation was resisted by his subjects
with the utmost persistence, and they
preferred to pay heavy fine rather
than suffer Disagreement, as they be-
ieved, of the image of God. To the
Russians Of olden times the beard was
a symbol of liberty. In several coun-
tries of Western Europe and in the
United States the beard was restored
to honor only about twenty years ago,
but even yet the majority of men re-
spect the custom introduced by Alex
ander the Great.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17
Ingenious Roeuery.

Ingenious is the American rogue. A
poultry speculator in Warren county,
Pa, buys chickens in the country and
writes out a receipt for the farmer to
sign. The point Of his pencil invaria-
bly, breaks off just before the signature
is reached, and he produces fountain
pen from his pocket. The body of the re-
ceipt is written in pencil and the farm
er's name in ink. When the speculator
goes to town he grasses all the pencil
marks and writes out in ink promis-
sorry note for 800 or $3.50, and has it
discounted by bank.
The Treasurer of Fulton county, Pa,
recently owned q saw-mill, but, when he
went to look for it few days ago, it
was missing. The mill, saws, wrenches,
dogs, crowbars, logs and the whole con-
Germ had been carried off by thieves.
Beinga man who believes in making
the best of every evil to which he may
be exposed, he is now thankful that the
wafer power was left behind. - -
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Cricket in England and America.

Hitherto the one great obstacle to the
popularizing of this sport in America
has been the tedious delays incident to
the way of playing the game customary
with our English resident cricketers.
The adage that 4time is money governs
the Anne rican people in every phase of
their national life, and in nothing so
much as in the character and nature of
their sports and pastimes. In England,
where there is large class of unem-
ployed people, who, with wealth at COM
mand, find time hang heavy on their
hands, the style OF playing the game of
cricket so as to absorb as much of their
surplus of leisure time as possible COM
mends itself as quite an attractive feat
ure. But in this country, where the
drones of society are decidedly in the
minority, end where the busy bees of
the community find but little time to
devote to recreation, that game which
most economies time, of course, will
naturally become popular. The delays
incident to cricket to which we espe-
cially refer do not belong to the game
itself so much as to the loose observance
of its rules, and, therefore, the one thing
necessary to remove this obstacle to the
popularity of cricket is simply to insure
a strict observance of the written laws
of the game. A feature of cricket which
especially commends it as field sport
for gentlemen is, that it can never be
made subservient to the evil influences
of the class of gambling Sports who
have brought such odium of late years
on the national game of ball of Ameri
cans. This, together with the fact that
it can be played with success at much
later period of life than any other game
of ball admits of, gives it an advantage
no other field sport possesses.-Brerl-
td1ao's Aquatic Monthly and Sporting
Gazetteer.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17
ALL SORTS.
GYNrNAsTa are short-li,

GYMNAsTs are short-hved.
PAPER napkins are having a great
sale. -. ~ E
TIE early cucumber hits below the
belt.
The coming man-The man with the
straw hat.
THE doctors of Paris publish daily
OF their own.
LEADv1LLE whisky is 80 degrees above
high-water mark.
Rev. JOSEPH Cook confesses that he
likes to read novels.
KING CETYwAYo wears earrings as
large as snuff-boxes.
GEORGIA oonvicts are aow worked I'M
der twenty-year lease.
THE taking of the census next year
will cost about 100000.
MARRYING woman for her beauty is
like eating q bird for its singing.
The French soldier is to have gray
trousers instead of red hereafter.
THE average business life of Boston
street-car horse is about four years.
GENEVA, Switzerland, is to hold
grand exhibition of watches in 1880.
THE Eighteenth regiment of infantry
has left Atlanta, Ga, for the far West.
A CALIFORNIA hydraulic mining COM
pany is using the electric light in their
claim.
Gov. WALLACE, of New Mexico, re-
ports deplorable lawlessness in that
Territory.
SINCE its foundation in 1895 the pres
ent Paris Mint has coined 1,700,000,000
gold pieces. $50
THERE is heavy demand for steel
rails, and the Pennsylvania mills are
nearly all at work.
The local Indebtedness of Illinois is
$51, 100000, an increase of $14,000,0O0
in the last eight years.
The cattle plague in Bohemia has
spread to 100 villages, which are sur
rounded by military Gordon.
THREE New York typos have won
$1,000 apiece in lottery. They pooled
their funds and will divide the issue.
WELL-BRED fox hounds are very val
liable. At Lord Poltimore's sale, in
1870 forty-three hounds produced over
$4,000.
AN old California miner" CLAIMS to
have discovered gold in Brown and
Monroe counties, Ind, in paying guam
titles.
AT petroleum factory IN Paris it is
noticed that new workmea with bron-
chial or pulmonary diseases soon lose
them.
THERE are 100000 acres of land in
California fit for cultivation, but not
over 100000 are in actual use for that
purpose.
THE Superintendent of Education re-
ports that not less than 1000 children
OF pupil age died in Memphis of yell
low fever.
FRANCE has 100000 people, or 1T
to the square mile. She has only about
four-fifths as much territory as the
State of Texas.
The daily consumption of milk in
New York city approaches 100000 quarts,
| and at least $25,00O,000 is invested by
farmers in this industry.
PENNSYLVANIA manufactured no fewer
than 627, 53S, 1892 cigars during the past
year, and New York alone exceeds her
in the extent of this industry.
Gov. NICHOLS, of Louisiana, has is
sued a proclamation establishing q
quarantine against West Indian, South
American and Mexican ports.
A GIRL in an Iowa seminary cut all
| the hair from the head of her sleeping
roommate in revenge for a slight, and
has been expelled by the faculty.
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SPRING.


When spring is here,
Ano hawthorn boughs are white with blooI1 Of May,
And singing birds make happy music near,
Oh then thousand hearts Keep holiday.
Life Is more sweet;
Youth feFels IN it with an added zest,
BLOW pulse Of age warns TO q quicker beat.
Ano grlef sits lighter In the mourners breHst.
For To- the rain
Is over, and the night is past and gone;
Joy, with the radiant morning, comes again,
And these bright hours as the gracious dawn.
Thank God for gprinQi
Hopes dear and tender throng its pleasant days.
Now that all nature Is awakening,
Wake, too, my soul. in strains o. sratefnl praise.
--SUadQy az Homo. - a 49,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17

A NEW MILFORD (Mass.) man wished
to avoid the scattering Of broken rock
while blasting; SO he piled timbers over
the charge, and, for an additional
weight, placed himself atop. The ex-
plosion threw him high in the air, and
the fall nearly killed him.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17

JOSH BHLNGs is occasionally wiser
than his generation, as witness the fol-
lowing: "Thare IL no good substitute
for wisdum, but silence is the best that
haz been discovered yet"
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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-07-17

IT is now stated that the water
boiled celery is a sure cure for rheuma
tism.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10
A Claim for Damages.

A meeting Of the council committee on
claims was held yesterday afternoon, Alder
man Griggs in the chair. A communication
was read from Mr.. w. d. Cornish, calling at
tention to the claim against the city Of Mr..
g. G. Reisner, for injuries received from
falling through q defective sidewalk on Fort
street, on the 25th of last February. Mr..
Reisner being present, was called upon by
Mr.. Murray to explain the-amount of dam
ages sustained by the accident, to which he
replied that $4OO would barely cover the ex-
pense attending his illness.
DR.. Stamm, the attending physician, testi-
fed to having visited Mr.. Reisner during his
illness, and explained the injuries to have
been Of vascular nature, which disabled the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN,

Although four months will elapse before
the election in Ohio, the campaign has been
opened, practically, by both parties. Mr..
Cox has opened the ball for the Republicans
by speech which. while not remarkable for
eloquence or craftsmanship, was ingenious
in its construction. It lodged all the prom
inent isshes that are likely to come up in the
course of the canvass, and sought to force
others that have no bearing upon the contest
to front place. He refused to obey the lead
of Blaine and Edmunds in planting the
bloody shirt and fighting the battles of the
war over again, but declared those issues
dead forever. For this he is entitled to
credit, for it has become decidedly mo-
notonous to hear the same story repeated year
after year, to have the old threadbare &C
cusations iterated and reiterated through the
newspapers and on the stump. Even the Re-
publicans have wearied of the dull routine, and
we trust they have abandoned that line
finally.
On the Democratic side the serenade to
Gen. Ewing at Washington was an auspi-
cious event. It was spontaneous outburst
of enthusiasm, tribute from all divisions OF
the party to the wisdom that dictated the
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10

WE have an entom illogical commission
maintained at the expense of the govern
ment, whose duty it is to examine into the
habits and general moral character of the
insects that prey upon the crops. This COM
mission has been in existence for several
years, but has thus far failed to stop the raw
ages of the grasshoppers or the cotton worm.
Yet there is hope, for it is announced that a
member of the commission has gone South
for the purpose of looking into the doings
of the army worm that is eating up the cot
ton crop of that section. He will probably
be able to tell the public all about it by the
time the crop is all destroyed, and the cotton
raisers will, as consequence, be profoundly
nratified -----
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10

nominations and to the high moral worth of
the candidates. It showed that there was no
bitterness in any direction succeeding the
convention; that there were no sores to heal,
no scars to hide. The partisans of Bishop,
Rice, Ward and Thurman united as one man
i'll congratulaGng the successful candidate
upon his good fortune, and pledged them
selves to assist in his election by every means
in their power. It has been seldom that
such unanimity has zen manifested in the
Democratic party. Throughout the State
and throughout the country not single
murmur of dissatisfaction has been heard.
Hard money men and soft money
men, radical Democrats and conservative
Democrats have pledged their enthusiastic
support to the whole ticket, a sure augury OF
victory in October.
Gen. Ewing's speech was modest produc.
ton, and very sensible one into the bar
gain. It will have a beneficial effect, not
only upon the voters of Ohio, but ppor
to be able to reproduce it entire.
There is very serious revolt in the Green
back camp. Many of the most prominen
members of the party have openly announced
| their preference for Gen. Ewing over theil
own candidate, and entire counties have
repudiated tho action of their convention il
placing a candidate in the field. The prob
abilities are that before month shall hav'
passed, the candidate of the party will with
draw in favor of the candidate of the Democ
racy, thus giving Ewing clear field and tn
united support of all of the anti Republican
element in the State.
Thus early everything looks promising
and we are safe in predicting an overwhelm
ing victory for the Democratic ticket. Neve
before has the party been as strong in pei
feet unity. They have the necessary votes
and will, if they do their duty, place Ohio il
the phalanx of reliable Democratic States
We shall expect every Democrat to do yeoma
service in the cause between now and tn
day of election, and if we may judge b
appearances, there is no danger of disaE
pOintment
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10
MUTINOUs MEx1CANs.


a Portion of the Garrison at Pietras Negras
Rise in Revolt and Fight Their Way to
American SOFIA Number Killed.
GALVESTON, June 9.-The Ne,os' Eagle Pass
special says: EARLY yesterday morning COM
pany of Mexican infantry at Pietras Negras
mutinied and fought their way through the
guard at the gate. About fifteen crossed to
this side under heavy fire from the loyal
troops, who continued firing after the ,leserters
landed. Many balls struck houses in this
place. The fugitives surrendered their arms
to citizens, which will be returned to Mexico.
A number of the mutineers were killed on the
Mexican side. The cause of the deseltion is,
the troops have been six months without pay
and have had nothing to eat.
Yesterday evening the Mexican troops march
ed outside the city with two captured witnesses
whom they were going to shoot, but q strong
protest from citizens caused the execution to
be abandoned.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10
Meeting of Board Of Public Works.

An adjourned meeting of the board of
public works was held yesterday forenoon,
President Becker in the chair. Present,
Mr.. Harrington and city engineer Sewvall.
The consideration Of the council order rec
ommending the construction of sewers on
Kittson street and other streets in the Fifth
ward, with temporary outlets into Trout
brook, was first taken up and after brief
discussion it was decided that the best inter-
ests Of the city demanded that tho work
should be pushed forward as fast as posi-
BILE. Gen. Becker moved that the council
order be obeyed and that the clerk be in
structed to advertise for bids. Carried.
communication was read from Engineer
Sewau recommending the construction of a
new catch basin at the corner of Third and
Pleasant streets, on the grounds that tie
one at present used was so dilapidated as to
not perform the functions for which it was
intended. The engineer also requested that
the inspector of streets be directed to obey
| the engineer with reference to taking the
necessary care with catch basins. The .mat-
ter of constructing catch basin was re-
ferred to Mr.. Harrington with power to act,
and on motion the inspector was directed to
carry out the instructions of the engineer
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The council order recommending the con-
struction of new sidewalks on Third street
between Wabashaw and Sibley streets was
referred to the clerk with instructions to
advertise for bids. The petition from q
number Of resident property owners on
| Westminster street, protesting against the
construction of sewer on that thoroughfate
on the grounds that the improvement was
not at present demanded, was ordered placed
on file. The petition from Gen. Sibley and
others opposing the construction of sewers
on the streets north of Grove street in the
Fifth Ward was also placed on file.
A conversation ensued concerning thu
points at controversy, regarding the inn.
provements on Decatur and Iglehart streets
when it was finally decided that the member
of the board, in company with the engineer
should visit the locality indicated on Thurs
day, for the purpose of giving the matter
personal supervision. On motion the boart
adjourned until Friday.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-10
MINNEAPOLISNEW
specially Reported for tho Daily Glot
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs

Regular meeting of the Pythian knights
this evening.
The Adventists open a camp meeting next
week at Lake Calhoun.
At the Good Templars' meeting last evening
several degrees were conferred.
Council committees were at work last night
preparing for to-morrow's meeting.
The State convention of Prohibitionists will
meet at the Temperance tabernacle to.mor-
row.
The Nicollet House elevator was put in place
yesterday. The new office will be ready for oc-
cupancy in day or two.
The Lurline Boat Club meet tomorrow even
ing at the Nicollet to consider the subject of
holding a regatta at Minnetonka.
Thomas Lane was arrested, yesterday, for
assault on his step-daughter, Emma Pascal.
He will have an examination this morning.
Elijah Thomas is now locked up at the police
station awaiting the arrival of the officials of
Hassen. Thomas is wanted for malicious mis-
| chief
The gun club was out yesterday afternoon
Charles Wheeler carried off the prize. The St.
Paul club have sent challenge, which will be
| accepted.
John Anderson, at o'clock last night, was
arrested in Carl Larson's saloon for robbing
drunken Swede of $l5 in money. He will have
his hearing this morning,
Holden street bridge is closed and will con-
tinue closed till the squabble between the city
and railroad company is settled. The ques-
| tions are: who shall rebuild the bridge, and
shall similarly narrow, inadequate and
| trumpery kind of thing as the old one be con-
structed, good, substantial one be erected,
of sufficient width to accommodate the large
traffic?
James Pauly, who keeps the United States
hotel, let horse and buggy to an unknown
man on Saturday morning for three hours. As
the horse or buggy did not return the police
were notified and Detective Hoy went to St.
Paul and found that the horse and harness had
been sold at auction by an auctioneer named
Warner for 1857, to a farmer named Herman
GAM, who lives on the Dodd road. The buggy
was sold by Pat Kavanagh for 1926, but as the
money had not been paid over Detective Hoy
gave orders not to pay it. The thief is well
known, and his capture is only question of a
few days.
The Temperance Tabernacle on Second az
enue. which was opened Sunday, did not draw
a very big crowd last night. 1t is true the
heavy rain was cooler even upon the ardor OF
pure water advocates, but if 'Dr. Tracy gets
no greater patronage than last evening hit
, speculation will be something of failure. II
appears that the doctor is running the affair or
his own responsibility and with the intention
of seeing if there is millions in it. he paid
3 he says, $3.50 for the tent, and b,
! pays his orchestra-he ADVERTISE
D full orchestra. He has 400 chairs in the tent
which he lets for SC night, and in this way h'
expects to make his expenses or his fortune
, as the case may be. He intends staying il
, Minneapolis four weeks, if the show draws
= | md ho 1ko font nd fho
pastures in the State. The doctor is not run
ming under the auspices of a temperance o
reform league, but, as above stated, ha
launched his vent ure alone.