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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-25

Col. VALENTINE BAKER, who was
in England for an ugly as
sault on a lady in railroad carriage, is
the Baker Pasha who distinguished him.
self in the Russo-Turkish war He is
now the central figure in the Anglo
Asiatic question.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-25

AN African rroverb says the idle are
a peculiar kind of dead who can not be.
buried
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-25
A Wonderful Parrot.

,4fIa lJIq #TBts I'll
Among the many interesting accounts
of smart, educated pam OTIS, allow me to
tell you of a bird that is an honor and an
ornament to the State of Vermont. She
Is the most prominent member in the
household of Oscar Dix, of Dummerstop.
As far as beauty is concerned, neither
she nor | have any thing to say. A
strange, unfortunate habit which she
has OF pulling out her own feathers gives
her the appearance of having come off
defeated in some hen fight. Her re-
naming plumage is of the usual parrot
green, but in this case it is not emblem
attic of their intelligent possessor. The
charm of her talking lies in her clear,
distinct enuneiation; and the veriest
stranger could understand what she
says. She sings several songs; "Shoo
Fly" "Little Brown Jug" both sings
and whistles the tune of :. Yankee Doc
de- and executes with great spirit that
old time ''round": IA
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-25

THERE are 80 people in this country
for every carriage on wheels.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
1--WE Characters.

Paul de Cassagnac Is erect In fg.
ure, tall, broad-shouldered, high :
headed, his crown surmcunted by
a close, heavy crop of black hair,
his eyes dark, full, steady and
piercing, his moustache perfection,
the lines of his mouth pnd chin
hard and firm, his hands small and
his wrists, they say, wrought Of the
toughest steel. Ii is said again
there is one man in Paris of whom
Cassagnac has the most careful
consideration. He is a young doc.
tor of medicine, an extreme radi.
cal, an ambitious fellow who spent
some time in America, married
rich wife here, and now lives In o
modest sort of style in the Mont.
martre District of Paris, from
which he Is returned by the popu-
lace to the Chamber of Deputies.
He Is a man OF excellent parts
cool headed, pale and thin.faced,
cold-eyed, and q most remarkab Q
left-hauded swordsman. His name
Is Clemenceau, and he is leader OF
the Extreme Left.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
Marine News-Dsmapd fur Brisish
Columbia Coal, Eie.

VICTORIA, June 24th.-The ship
jeremiah Thompson arrived in
Royal Roads on Sunday morning,
having on board 1900 tons of Van
couver Coal Company's coal. She
will receive the rest on Thursday or
Friday next and will then proceed
to sea, boaund for CaIlao. The ship
Levi G. Wade is loading with Van-
couver Company's coal at Nanai-
mo and will be ready for sea on
saturday. She Is bound for San
Francisco.
The steamship Dakota arrived at
Esquimalt. Shs left San Francisco
on Friday last and experienced
stormy north west winds aud q
rough sea during the entire passage.
The South American war has
created o demand for British Co.
lumbia coal, which is required for
the belllgerent war vessels in their
manouvering, as well as by the
British and American war ships,
which are there to protect the inv
terests of the citizens of their re-.
spective countries.
A seizure of valuable silk hand
kerchiefs packed inside of a lot of
cotton and wool, and imported in
the bark Thomas Fletcher from
Hongkong, has been made by the
Customs officers.
The owners of the Anthracite
Coal Mines, on Queen Charlotte
Island, having received q favorable
report from Mr.. Dawson, geologist,
are about to examine their ground
on the opposite side of the bay to
the late working.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

THERE is no reason that we can
see, outside of Republican sputter
and splatterdash, which is mere
sound and fury signifying nothing,
why the Democratic party should
not carry the next Presidential
election by a memorable majority.
A foolish Republican administra.
ton clings, with the grasp of grim
death, to tyrannical laws which
have enabled it to "bull-doze Z"
elections in the South and to cur
tail the tremendous Democratic
majorities of New York. Instead
of sympathizing with degenerate
administration which has fore.
sworn all the old Republican pro.
fession of devotion to free States
and free men, the people are resent
full at this Republican recreancy.
They perceive, as never before, how
needful IL is that this arrogance
should be rebuked. They realize
that the one need of the country is
that the Republican party should
be taught that it can be put out of
office. That party has been postum
ixing as If the possession of office
were really one of its inalienable,
prescriptive rights - something
equivalent, with modern varia.
tions, to "the right divine of
Kings"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

DENIS KEARNEY at the Sand
Lots last Sunday INDUCED in his
usual oratorical pyrotechnics. The
proposition that there should be a
union between the Workingmen
and the "H. BIS" sticks In his
craw. He can't swallow 1t; and. in
fact, don't try to. During the
course of his harangue he paid his
respects to our distinguished fellow
citizen, Ex-Governor Downey, a
burning and shining light in the
III. B." camp, In the follow wing
smphatic way:
The State of California TODAY ia
divided into two parts. On the one
side we have the traitors, and on
the other we have the patriots. IA
voice-"Good boy."] The w. p.
Q. Is the party of the people, and
represents the honesty, virtue and
morality of the State. 1t also rep
resents the ind ustrial nd producing
classes OF California. On the other
tide We have plundsrers, monopo-
|fHfG. iecher0ue fiends and criminal
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

and coming to the front under the
name OF Democrats, Republicans
and Honorable Bilks. The w. p.
g. is the New Constitution Party.
Why? Because they made the
new Constitution, advocated II and
adopted it. 1 have noticed in the
Los Angeles papers an account Of
an Honorable Blk combination
called to order by John g. Downey.
1 am going to prove to you by the
personnel of that Convention that
it was a Convention of Honorable
Bilks and not Of the producing
classes. John G. Downey is a mo-
nopolist and owns $4,000 acres OF
land. He is also a banker, money
broker and usurer. Who sustalns
this man who has made a BUSH
ness OF squeezing out OF men such
land titles as they might possess :?
I want no such association.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
English Skies.
BY RICHARD GRANT WHITE.

One effect of the climate of Eng
land Git must, l think, be the eli
mattel is the mellowiug Of all sights,
and particularly of all sounds.
Life there seems softer, richer,
sweeter, than it Is with us. Even
in London on Sunday their sound
is not obtrusive. Indeed, the only
bell sound in the great city OF
which have distinct memory is
Big Ben's delicious, mellow boom.
In country walks on Sunday the
distant chimes from the little an
tique spires or towers float to you
like silver voices heard through he
still air. Your own voice is hushed
by them if you are with q compan-
ion, and you walk on in sweet and
silent sadness. 1 shall never for.
get the gentle, soothing charm of
the Rolney chime in Sussex, which,
as the sun was leaving the world to
that long, delicious twilight
through which day lapses into
night in England, | heard in COM
pany with one whose sagacious
lips, then hushed for q moment,
are now silent forever. These Eng-
fish country chimes are very differ
ent from those that stun our ears
from Broadway steep!es. They are
simple, and yet they are not form
less jangie; but the performers do
not undertake to play opera airs
oFetuoso and con erpressione with
ropes and iron hammers upon hol-
low tons OF metal.
Whether l was favored by the
English climate / do not know,
but in addition to this soft, sweet
charm which the air seemed to
give to everything that was to be
seen or heard, I found late autumn
there as verdant and as variously
beautiful rs early summer is with
US, and without the heat from
which we suffer. In Sussex the
gardens were all abloom, wild
flowers in the woods, black berries
ripening in the hedges, the birds
singing, and everything was fresh
and fragrant. Among the birds, !
observed the thrush aud the robin
redbreast; the latter not the tawny.
oACootC1 variety Vi VIC oibH ihS
thrush which Is here called q robin,
but u little bird about half as
large, with a thin, pointed bill, a
breast Of crimson, aud note
which is like loud prolonged CHR
rup. 1t would he charming If we
could have this man-trusting little
frathered fellow with us; but fear
he could not bearour winters. In
Warwickshire, found roses bloom,
ing-bloomlng in great masses
halfway up the sides of a twO-story
cottage on the road from Stanford
on-Avon to Kenilworth; and this
Was In the very last days of Octo-
her. True, I had only few days
before shivered through a rainy
drive in Essex, when the chill
dampness seemed to strike into my
very heart; but on the whole 1
found myself under English skies
healthy, happy, and the eDjoyer OF
q succession of new delights, which
yet seemed to nae mine by birth
right.-July atlantic.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

THERE have been two blows to
the hopes Of the imperialists late
ly. One is the death OF the gallant
young Prince Imperial and the
other the marked subsistence OF the
"Grant BOOM" Somehow or other
the lackeys who have been pre-
pairing to give Grant sort of i'm.
psrial and triumphal progress on
his return from Asia don't seem to
receive much encouragement from
the people. They appear to look
upon these incitatlons to fiunkey
display as in bad taste and
conceived in q poor spirit of
patriotism. Gen. Grant has
done his country signal service
anc no one is disposed to dis
pute the fact. But, to insure the
full need of welcome to which he
IL entitled. he must return to the
United States like q modest citizen
and must give every evidence that
unpatriotic third term crotchets
have found no lodgment in his
brain. Instead Of retrograding to-
wards Imperialism the world has
taken up a steady line of march to-
wards the republican idea. Social
ism and nihilism are the crude
German and Russian methods of
denoting the universal prevalence
Of this profound instinct of the hui
man heart.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

man loupged that way, gave the
man look over, and asked:
"Sleep In there last night?"
"Yaas, kinder" was the reply.
Choking for work?'
"N.n-o, not exactly
"You'll be run in If you hang
around In this way" remarked the
officer.
"The man put his hands on top
of a snubbing post, laid his chin on
his hands, and after long look at
Canada, he turned and said:
II dunno exactly what Pm goin'
to do. 1 did live out here about
eight miles, but I've separated
from the old woman. Yes, sepa-
rated last night"
"Wbars the trouble?"
"Waal, size was my second and
was her second, and we never got
along any too sweet. We both OF
us think we know 1t all, and
neither feels like giving in. We
came in to see the circus"
"Ah! you did?"
"And that's where the separa.
ton took place-right in front of
the sacred hyenas from Japan. You
know where they advertised an
electric light thsre?u
YES"
"Weil, we'd never seen one.
When we got into the menager g
there stood the elel liant. Then
came the cames. Then we came
to darned old bear. Further on
were the lions aud tigers and mon
keys, but no electric light. We
walked three times around that old
tent without coming to his cage;
and got mad. Says l to one OF
the chaps over the rope: 'Wha' in
thunder is the cage with the cleo
trio light in? We want to see him
or have our money back The fel.
low he grinned all over, and lots of
folks LATED right out, and my wife
she flew up and said i'd made a fool
of myself. 'How?' says 1. 'Why,
the electric light is not an animal
at all, says she, but it has some
thing TO do with the clown We
had big jaw right there. She
caved my nat in, and 1 broke her
parasol, and then we separated"
"And you won't make up?"
"Make up! Never! She can
take the electric light aud bake
and eat him, but Pm a man who
never crawls! I'm going down to
Toledo, 1 am, aud by this time to-
morrow l'll be drunkern horsep
"Aud you DIDN'T see the electric
light after all ?"
mo! I don't believe they had
any! Maybe they thought they
could work that there rhinoceros
off on the public by another name,
but tumbled in minnit. Pm an
old rhinos myself, and my wife il
another, and when I think Of how
| stond there and let her call me a
fool afore all the people, Pm mad
huff to walk clear home and pizen
her half Of the yoke of oxenW-De-
troit Free Press.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
Strange Accidents.


Strange mischances, with fatal
results, are daily happening here
and there. A Boston butcher ran
against a knife that lay on q block,
severed an artery and bled to death.
A Denver woman caught her foot
In a railroad frog and could not get
loose before a train ran over her.
A Vermont farmer snetzed with a
straw In his mouth, drew it into
his lungs and died choking. A
horse kicked a Michigan boy into a
deep we'll where he was drowned.
The shoe flew off the foot of kick
ing mule, in Nashville, and frac-
tured the skull of baby. An Ore
gon girl swallowed her engagement
ring and lived only a week after
ward. While sta ndIng on his head,
on the top of a high fence-post, an
Iowa man lost his balance, fell into
n tub Of hot water, and was fatally
scalded.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

The wheat crop of Los Angeles
county this year is notably good.
This remark holds not only with
regard to the San Fernando valley
but all sections of the county. The
wheat at Spadra is very fine.
Without doubt large areas hereto
fore devoted to barley will be found
to be admirably adapted to wheat.
A pleasant feature Of the harvest
this year is that all kinds Of grain
are of excellent quality. Last year
the barley was of such an inferior
description that full prices, such as
they were, were not realized. A
profitable discrimination can be
exercised by our farmers as to the
kinds of seed sown by them. By
careful selection they can guaran.
tee crops of barley available for
brewing purposes, which, Of course,
always command q relatively high
figure. Chevalier barley has been
found to be the best for this pur-
pose. Though the yield is smaller
than of the usual varieties the quail
ity is always good and the price
corresponds. The Odessa, Aus
tralian bearded and Egyptian
wheat are found to be best in this
region, being attended by no draw
backs of rust or smut. The fact
cannot be too soon taken to heart
that barley Is a drug In the mar
ket, very often, from over produc-
ton. II should be the aim of our
farmers to diversity their crops, so
that if one thing should fail its
place might be made good by other
crops. Graded cattle, hog and
chicken raising, also, should be
recognized as the surest way in
which the farmer can make both
ends meet. A study of the way in
which an Eastern agriculturist
ekes out comfortable living would
be profitable to all our rural popu-
lation.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
CALCULATIONS which represent

CALCULATIONS which represent
The New Constitution and Work.
ingmen's parties as polling a very
formidable vote are good as mere
exercises Of the fancy. The exquis-
ite absurdity of the New Constitu.
tIon party-a political bantling
which owes its origin to mere
sslfish greed of office-wiii strike
homo to most of the few who are
now engaged in the abortive enter
prise, and they will infallibly crop
back to the party from which they
came. The Workingmen's party,
it II true, has considerable strength
Ia portions of California, but there
are other large sections in which 1t
will fail to secure bakers dozen
OF votes. The Chronicle, which has
had special facilities for estimating
the strength of the Kearneyites in
San Francisco, insists upon 1000 or
5000 - the maximum Of the vote
they will poll at the election in
that city next Fall. This we re-
gard - an understatement, but it
requires q sanguine man indeed to
place the vote Of that organization
In the State at large at much over
twenty thousand. AS for the New
Constitution party, its strength
mainly consists Of figures on paper,
paraded In the columns of the
San Francisco Chronicle. The DEM
ocratic party has been amazingly
strengthened by the injudicious
nominations of the Republicans.
Without q doubt, should the De-
mocracy nominate an acceptable
ticket, one pronounced in favor of
carrying out in good faith the new
Constitution and pledged to regu-
late corporations, thousands Of Re.
publicans will give it their support
In preference to acting with either
the New Constituencies or Work
iDgmen. AS for the latter, at the
rate at which Withdrawals from 1t
have taken place during the last
ten days, it Is still a question as to
whether there will be a Working
mems State ticket to vote for. Four
Of the candidates nominated for Su-
preme Judge, together with the
candidates for State Treasurer and
State School Superintendent, have
declined. Four other lawyers OF
reputation, to whom the vacant
Judgeships were rendered, also
begged to be excused. A steady
process of disintegration of both
these Mushroom organizations has
already set in Of which the Democ.
racy will be by far the largest bene-
ficiary. National Issues of excep-
tionaI magnitude call upon
Democrats and Republicans
alike to frown down PROPOSE.
lions to set up "Boss" on the Pa
cihc Coast either in the person of
Denis Kearney or the San Fran els.
co Chronicle. The Democratic
party Is known to be faithful to all
the essential rights of the masses,
1t has q magnificent and invincible
organization throughout the whole
United States, and it needs but q
ringing platform and capable lead
ers to insure California's being
placed in the galaxy of Democratic
States.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

THERE is nothing SO we'll as a
multiplicity of candidates which
shows the popular drift. 1t is
worthy Of remark the number of
gentlemen who think it worth
while to announce themselves as
Democratic candidates this year.
The fact Is that the Democracy was
never more determined to win than
now. All that is needed to insure
success is good ticket. With the
right men success is assured.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

A few days ago, says the White
hall IN. ~ Times, a party of gen.
tlemen were together. One Of
them, O joker, stepped up to a
member OF the party and, holding
u long hair before his eyes, said:
"See here. old fellow, this looks
suspicious. Where did this long
hair come from?" "Why, that's
from my wife's head" "Are you
sure OF It?" "Sure of IL? OF course
am" ~ am sorry you are SO
sure 1t Is your wife's hair, for just
picked 1t off the coat of this gen.
tleman,' pointing t. O friend near
by.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
FOR EIcN.

The Priaee's Desth-Remarks In
the House Of LORDS.
LONDON, June 25th.-In the
House Of Lords this afternoon, in
presence of an unusually full
House, the Duke of Cambridge
arose 70 express the deep sorrow
with which he, as Commander of
Her Majesty's army and member
of the royal household, had re.
ceiynd The poWa Of the death Of thu
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
Herald Steam Printing House.

B rho Herald Steam Printing House Is
= u surpassed By any Job Printing office
- the Pacific Coast. outside of San Fran.
oleoo. in facilities for doing job work.
ow prices, good work and expedition
NY be relied upon at this Office.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
EVENING sTREETs-5.21 p. M.

Eureka, 1917 b; Con Dorado, Ito b, IA
& ea;li s1lian g. i M%ao kssh S 10
~ s; Tioga, 5h b, 81 a; b & B. TX 5. IS
a; Con Va, 50 b; Caledonia, 50 b, 90 81
Alta. 81 $: benton. Az s; = Nevada, 43b
s; Ophir. 1874 s.; Overman, l01S b; Union.
IS b; Bodie, 2Oh b, 81 a; Jacket, i6t4 b, II
q; Mexican, 25h s; Confidence. 1917 b, u
a; Justice, s b. 805 a; Imperial, 1.i0 b, ~
a; Savage, ~ 5; H q N, l5N s; Point, o
b: Beicher, "a b, 65sa.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
EAST e r N.


WASHINGTON, June 25th.-The
House Com mittee on Elections
have agreed to postpone further
consideration OF the Indiana con-
tested election case, McCabe
against Orth, until December next.
The Senate Committee on Elec-
tiuns have decided to commence
the ingalls, investigation In Kan.
sas, by subcommittee of five, to
proceed to that State next Septem-
Der; and to prosecute the Kellogg
Spofford inquiry in New Orleans,
in next November, by a sub.com-
mittee of three. Senator Salisbury
is to be Chairman of the Kansas
subcommittee, and Senator Hill
will probably be placed at the head
of the sub-com mittee for New Or
leans.
LeadviiIe's silver Yield.
NEW YORK, June 25th.-A 7ri.
bune correspondent at Leadville
writes: Exaggerated reports have
been sent broadcast about the pres.
ent yield and future prospects of
the Leadville mines. Probably the
export from Leadville this year
will not exceed $40, 900, 900 in silver,
and from the State not more than
S25, 100000.
The Bohemian PIcsIe Riot.
CHICAGO, June 25th.-The 30.
hemian Communist Sharpshooters,
who were arrested for firing on a
were in the Justices Court
yesterday, but pending tie result
of the injuries of DonAhue the case
was continued, and they were re-
manded without bail.
The Currie.Porier Murder Trisl-
First Acs Of she Farce.
GALVESTON, June 24th.-A News
special from Marshal says: In the
case of the State VS.. James Currle,
indicted for the murder of the
actor, P. G. Porter, the State an
nouuces that 1t is ready for trial
with most of the witnes es present,
Barrymore. The defense
presented affidavits of five witness
es, by whom it is expected to prove
that Currie was provoked to the as
sault in self.defense. These wit.
nesses being absent, it asked to
have the case continued. Iu reply
to the motion for continuance, the
State filed full answer, with the
affidavits Of six witnesses, includ
Ing the restaurant keeper where.
the killing occurred, that at the
time of the killing the only persons
present were Barrymore, Porter,
Miss Cummins, Currie and the pro.
prietOr. The motion to strike out
the counter atfidavits of the State
was sustained, and a continuance
granted.
Tho CotorsdO Railroad War.
DENVER, June 25th.-In the
United States District Court to-day
Judge Hallet ordered that notice be
served on the Denver and RloI
Railroad Company to turn
over that road to the lessee, the
Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company. Judge Miller,
)f the United States Supreme
Court, was present, and stated his
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26

The "Pseudolusr OF Plautus has
been revived at the Teatro Vale,
In Rome, after an interval Of about
1000 years. New scenery aud ef-
fects were used, the old properties
being somewhat the worse for wear.
The author was called for, but the
manager spologised for him, say
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-26
A Tragedy Of the Circus.

About s o'clock yesterday fore
noon, man whose form was full OF
wrinkles and kinks and twists,
crawled out OF q coal-shed on the
wharf, and began yawning and
rubbing his eyes like one who had
put In = heavy night. A police