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The Republican journal., 1879-01-23

pipe from ms mouth.
"po you mnd the pipe ne asked.
loIIy looked up u surprise none OF the
lafn ha,'dS had ever consulted htL on INC
SUBJECT before; tIe!- Mr. hoIhIeI hlnlSeIl
smoked ana smoked without dream 81
asking hcr PERMISSION mat IS, whenever
Mss ttnnah was not near |" rePIoacA
hm with turning their substance into
smoke. Everybody declared that Miss
iIannah was the close one, hut that Mr..
iaorhIeH himself was "m!5hty nlEh.
Aey useu y telt no" Miss hannah nag
gone 70 the dotlor once upon tllne, g
nave an dtnIh- hloIdr extracted, ana
how her htart had tailed her when he
produced the instrument OF torture.
come, now, Il give Nou quarter -
nave i uut aMd dohe WIN, Tree oi charge
ana MISS Hannah plucked up courage
amt consented, and returned home a
quarter the rleher,
M lnd the pipe returned Polly. mo 3;
! lihe Il better tnan Mr.. lhornIe\ =
hrIt 4 dllleFtncr ~ tobacco lnl-
", not beng posted m the merits Of the
staple, dropped the subject, and the frogs
il!Ied the interval with mcIodlous pipn-s.
I" nat are You thinking about 4 asked
Baxter as She delayed her needle and
ucstltdtcd
II Vas thinking that Mr. Ihorn-
ley 5 hand would make two Of yours. You
were not cut oat for hard labor Mr.. BAX-
teri"
"I|u. the hard labor WAS clt out fiji
HE. rh It's 4 mighty liue might, Mis-,
Polly Wouldn't you like 10 walk down
ny the brooks and find some vloets ?"
"Ncs but Miss Hannah may want me. "
"NI~s Hannah has put on her specta-
clcs ANA Lnnc to borrow mi Lhbor Hook
cr's newspaper. and Thornley, il stealing
smoke IN the orchard Its a. good As
a play to see him tuck his pipe into his
pocket. at the risk of setting himself on
Ar-, Whenever he hears d tootstep .Aul
tne tNo young people stroIel LIT ,o TIL
Brook ull listened Ia 4 whip-poor-niI
making pcuSiye music in tile edge ot the
woods. and watched the rveuIur star
pa~h the liLmy clouds aside and step
iotil.
"un7 Baxter had been on the lhorl-
ley larm about month ol So. He hap
pened one day to huuck at the door and
asked tor nights lodging; he had q
Slldll bi- SUNG across BIS SAoulbtI. aAi
aanburned countenance, which quick
ened Miss llannah's pulses. " \ tramp =
sad She. Good gracious, Polly, shut
the door quick 80, no, We don't take
dodgers Wen be murdered in our beds
-dnl the spoons, my grandfather left
mr h.in't tell yon to Shut the door,
Polly ~, we don't take folks in You II
lind Communications further down the road,
At Iloohers. or But just then Mr..
Ihouley came up, cautiously knocked
the mud of his boots and said
"A tramp, Polly p
1--WE been trampin5 some distance, "
said the stranger, with a frank smile,
''and III Ike to put up for the night
somewhere However, if your faInly's
uncomfortable at the idea, maybe Youth
The Republican journal., 1879-01-23

The Jews in Jerusalem count among
the signs Of their repossession Of their old
abode the tulflmcnt Of one Of the prophe-
sizes by the concessions the Turkish govern
ment has just made to an English compa-
ny for the Euphrates valley railway, and
to a French company from Jatfa to Jeru
salem. The Euphrates railway is to in
tersect the former provinces of Assyria
and Babylonia, and have stations at Mo-
sui and HIillel, near which are Assyrian
and Babylonian ruins. 1t is expected
that eventually a junction will be effect
ed between the Euphrates line and the
Egyptian Railways, which would confirm
Isaiah xix. %; "In that day there shall
be highway out of Egypt to Assyria,
and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt
and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the
Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians"
The Republican journal., 1879-01-23

Dr. Brunton, an eminent physician,
says that "the effect of alcohol upon the
nervous system may be described as one
of progressive paralysis"
The Republican journal., 1879-01-23

At Detroit, Mich, Robert II. Murphy
laid in wait in his store for suspected
burglar and had desperate struggle with
thief named Ellis whom he felled to the
floor with an iron wedge The burglar
regained his feet and choked Murphy in
sensible, and escaping went to the police
station to have his wounds dressed, saying
he had been waylaid and beaten. In the
meantime Murphy revived and going to
the same station to report the facts iden-
tilted Ellis, who, it is thought, cannot re-
cover.
The Republican journal., 1879-01-23

We should do good to an enemy and make him
our friend.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
A Grand Scheme.

General Fremont, now governor of
Arizona, proposes to advocate personally
before the proper authorities in WASH
ington his plan for bringing the waters
of the gulf of California back to what is
supposed to be their old basin in south.
ern California. This basin, which is
now a dry and sandy desert, is two
hundred miles long, fifty miles wide and
i'm its centrsl part is three hundred and
fifty feet below the level of the sea. 1t
lies between southern California and
Arizona, and is unfit for the sustenance
of man or beast. Between the upper
end of the gulf of California and the
basin or valley in question ridge of
land interposes. Through this it is
proposed by General Fremont's plan to
cut canal for distance of ten miles to
a lake about twenty miles long, and at
the other end of the lake continue the
canal some fifteen miles more. The cost
might be Sl,OOO,OO and the time necesS
ssry for the work perhaps six months,
but the General contends that the bene>
fits 70 the two states of California and
Arizona would be incalculable. The
great wants of Arizona are water and
moisture. On the eastern slope Of the
low range of mountains that separate
this basin from Arizona all is dry and
barren as in the basin itself. The heat
is intolerable and no vegetation is possi>
bic. The introduction of this great
body of water would change the whole
face of things. In short, it would make
the whole surrounding country to BIOS
som like the rose. In the opinion of the
governor the canal should he made deep
and wide enough to admit such vessels
and steamers as sail the Pacific.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
Not Any Kansas.
st. Louis Pos..Dispstch.

st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Forty-eight negroes start south to
their old homes on the James Howard
this afternoon. They are looking
wretched and miserable, and declare
with one voice that there never was a
greater mistake than their journey
northward. They say that it is impos-
sible for the negro to do otherwise than
starve in Kansas, and that at the south,
at any rate, they have at all times plenty
to eat and plenty to wear. One signifi-
cant fact in their return is, that although
Meszrs. Sells & Company have offered
them transportation to any part of the
valley they may wish to reach, they in
sist on going to their old homes or no
where. Bulldozing will, they think, be
a delightful change from the open
hearted reception they enjoyed In Kan
sas. Their statements about the amount
of disease and death among them are
hardly credible, but the fact remains
that they are coming back in no such
condition as they went north. The way
they travel into cheese, crackers and
dried beef. with which they have been
furnished, is a serious obstacle to CONVEX
sation. They are too busy. Us
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
Bees on the Wing.

When swarm leaves for the woods
they are of before you iairly know it
They drift away from the hive il a
widespread and apparently aimless con-
course, they suddenly gather up their
skirts, oraw together their forces, and
away they go, humming, flying vor>
tex of bees, the queen apparently in the
center and the mass revolving about her
as pivot, over orchards and meadows,
across creeks and swamps, or woods and
deep valleys, straight for the appointed
tree, slow at first so that you can keep
up with them, but presently with a
speed that would tire fox-hound. In
this fight the individual bees do not
move in their right lines. or straight
forward like fock of birds, but round
and round like chaff in a whirlwind ::
unitedly they form whirling, revolving,
nebulous mass fifteen or twenty feet
across, that g5es as straight as a projec-
tile to its mark. They are not partial
as to the kind of tree-pine, hemlock,
elm, birch, maple, hickory any tree
with a good cavity high up or low
down. A swarm of mine ran away from
the new patent hive l gave them and
took up their quarters in the hollow
trunk of an old apple tree across an ad-
joining field. The entrance was mouse
hole near the ground. Another swarm
in the neighborhood deserted their
keeper and went into the cornice OF all
clubhouse that stood amid evergreens in
the rear of large mansion. But there
is no accounting for the taste of bees, as
Samson found when he discovered the
swarm in the carcass Cor more probably
the skeleton) of the lion he had slain
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
Confessions Concerning the Ex-
Odus.

The New York Tribune continues its
interesting and instructive confessions
concerning the exodus. This is the lat
est: " This weeks reports show US that
the negro emigration into Kansas is set.
Ting down precisely as any rational OBJ
server could have foretold at the outset
There is much suffering among the ennis
grants, and there will be much more
when next winter, with q climate and
plivations of which they know nothing,
is upon them. There is scant welcome
for them in any of the towns naturally
no struggling community wishes to be
drowned in food of pauperism. There
is a great deal of windy sympathy for
them among the people who make it a
point of conscience TO indorse the negro,
right or wrong, but so far very little
money or practical help has been cent
from this class. \ All southern.
ers are not Legrees. There are kind,
Just, christian employers IN MISSISSIPPI
as in Kansas, and these working people,
if they know any such, should have
stayed where they were or go back as
soon as possible. As for the political
association in Boston which now claims
to have been the motive power in send
ing these hordes away from their oppres.
sors, what is it doing to feed and cIothe
them now that it has set them adrift ?
Money was always forthcoming when
needed to food the south with agents
and circulars, but now that these help
less creatures are starving and dying of
disease, we have not heard of dollar
contributed from that source"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

in the east have greatly confirmed the
bible. The snslogies to which you refer
between Christianity and other ancient
religions, instead of tending to weaken
may serve to strengthen belief in the
divine nature of the former. I main.
tain it is more reasonable to suppose
that these various Oriental religions
derived these msxims that have been
spplsuded, 1t seems to me rather extrav-
agantly, from an ORIGINAL revelation, at
very early period in mans history,
than that they represent degrees of evo-
luton" ...f... ...
"There are those who exhibit a good
deal of anxiety on account of Roman
Catholicism in this country" at is for
the most part simply shifting Of popu~
lation from the old world to this"
"Do you feel hopeful, doctor, In re-
gard to the church, the future of Christ
ianity ?" "Most certainly 1 do. 1t is
spreading in heather lands. Look at
Australia and many such countries !;
compare them to-day with what they
were one hundred years ago. Christs
ianity is really stronger to-day than it
ever was"
You think, then, the church will
eventually subdue all to itself. Will it
be the triumph of single sect-your
own, for example-or OF Christianity in
general?" In general, l think. In
these days many persons have allowed
themselves to drift away from the high
and holy influences of religion. They
have lived SO long apart from it that
they have lost the power of spiritual
discernment and of understanding such
things. 1t is said that IF any man
will do the will of God he shall know of
the doctrine'-which is truer than some
are apt to suppose"
You would, then, commend religion
and worship as the great specific for
skepticism and unbelief?" yes"
The entrance here of visitors brought
the interview TO close, and the doctor
accompanied the reporter to the door
with friendly parting.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
South American Arrow Poison.

At the LAST meeting of the Boston
microscopical society, DR.. A. n. Blodgett
read an interesting paper on curare, the
South American arrow poison, which is
now used to render lower animals I'M
conscious during surgical operations
1t has been found, DR. Blodgett asserted,
that curare produces insensibility to life,
and supplies need that the medical
profession have long felt, in that it does
not require watching when administered
as do ether and chloroform. The exact
derivation OF curare does not seem to be
definitely known, but it is said to be
prepared by scraping the young bark of
two plants belonging to the same species
as that from which strychnine and cOcu.
lus indicus are derived. The bark is ex-
hausted in water, mixed with other
vegetable substances, and evsporated till
it forms thick paste. 1t is more ener-
gectic in its action on some classes of
animals than on others. Birds are more
profoundly affected than quadrupeds,
and reptiles are poisoned for much
longer time than birds. 1t is generally
administered hypodermically, in exceed.
ingly minute doses.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

Of the Madonna and of Lucy, that he
determined to discover the truth, and
wrote the following billet to the young
girl: t,t..s ..s
Tell me if you are indeed an angel, if you
do not wish to deprive OF his senses the poor
artist to whom you have consented to ap
pear this night, tell me if you are virgin
or q mortal. Ir-
1t was part of the duty of the dowager
duchess to open the billets addressed to
the young ladies' confded to her charge.
What was her establishment at reading
this epistlel
Horror !'' cried she. "a child Of
high family to violate her duty in seek
ing painter at midnightp t
She rang and sent for the guilty one,
but her rage redoubled when Lucy, with
her customary gentleness, denied all
knowledge of the cause of her reprosches
The duchess, who expected to witness in
her great confusion or a candid avowal
would listen to nothing. The alarm
was given in the palace and it was de.
cided that Lucy, disgrsced, should be
sent home to her father. lid
Fer prayers were OF no avail single
night of respite was alone accorded to
her, and she was compelled to sleep in
the apartment of the duchess to avoid
further scandal.
At midnight, Lucy rose'as before; the
duchess wss aroused from her unquiet
sleep, and called all the ladies to witness
the confirmation of her suspicious. With
q lighted fsmbeaux, the duchess, at.
tended by a numerous suite, followed
Lucy, who trsversed again the long hall
and numerous passages and arrived at
the door of the monastery. Her culps-
bility could no longer be doubted: but
they followed her even to the painting
room, where she was already seated
before the easel. The noise around her
and the brilliancy of the lights swoke
her in fright. She was somnambul-
ist. ....
Thus unconsciously had she served as
a model to the srtist, who fully repaid
in love what she had given him in re.
nown. He obtained the prize and was
loaded down at the court with honors
and riches, .... ..... .....
A few days afterward, there was celes
brated at st. PsuPs, the union of Van
Dyck and Lucy, the daughter of the
noble Count Ruthven.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
Peninsular Virginia.

the soil of peninsular Virginia Is
rather kindly than rich. Certainly it
has not that richness of virgin land Of
which it is said, ''Tickle it with a hoe,
and it laughs in harvest" but light
manuring produces quick return snd
ample crops, snd that considerably ear
Her than in other places north OF Nor
folk. There is still remnant of the old
style Of farming to be seen, of which il
was said that there were only three crops
raised in Virginia-corn, hogs and mig
gers, of which the hogs ate all the corn
and the niggers devoured all the hogs.
One of these crops" however, is re-
moved from the list.
"The poor white" is poor-very poor.
This small farmers of the north cannot
compare with these in absolute .destitu-
ton of money.
4" Doctor" said one of them, who had
slowly recovered consciousness after
being terribly injured by an exploding
grindstone-" doctor. l reckon I'm pretty
badly bruck up, amt I?'
eyes, my man you are hurt just
about as badly, to stand a chance OF
recovery, as any man l ever saw"
"Thet's so. thet's SO. Ws'al, doctor,
do you know, thet ez poor ez am and
ez much ez 1 need money, 1 wouldn't a.
he'd this happen 10 me ter-fer twenty
five dollars ~
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
Selected os.]} o. sr5.
MANS A NAN ron A, raAT.


Is there, Tor honest poverty,
cha hangs his head, and a thstf ttf
The oovsrd-siava, We pass BIN oyi
We dare be poor for q that q p, fg.e 81 a
For,a' that, and q thai, 4Aa3 49, 40 q
Our tolls obscure and a. that.
The rank is but the guinea stamp,
The mans the gowd for a. that.
Whist tho on namely fare we dine,
Uess holden gray, and a. that. M
liie fools their silks and knaves their wine,
a mans a man FOR a that. r. q. t..,r 2
u For a tbst, and a. that, q sft-
heir rnsel snow, and a. that
The honest man, though e'er sac poor,
Is king O. men for a that.
You see yon birkie cad lord.
wha struts Rnd stsres, and a. that
Though hundreds Worship at his word,
He's bat a coof for a. that. M
Forg that, and a. that
His ribapd star, ana a. that
The man Of Independent mind,
He looks and laughs At a that.
A prince can max belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a. that : 3O0
But an honest mans aboon his might,
Guild faith be mauna IA that
For a. that, and a. that,
m A Their .dignitiss and a. that
The pfth o. sense and pride o. worth
Are higher ranks than a. that.
Then let us pray that come IT may,
As come II will, for a that, r.-r
That sense and Eor h, er a the earth, A.
May bear the gee. ana g that,
For a. that, and a. that,
It's coming yet for a. that,
When man to man, the warld DER,
Shall brothers be, for a. that.
a- Robert Burns
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
Sure Signs.

To meet a funeral is sign of death.
To dissipste to-day is sign your hair
will pull tomorrow.
To kiss pretty girl against her will
is sign you'll get your face scratched.
To take home piece of beefsteak is 8
sign there viii be broil in the family.
To see dog fly at farmers leg is a
sign a misfortune is going to betall the
calves.
To see q man losfng around bar.
room is 8 sign he'll drink-if you ask
him to. 1907 Ea ari rf#
To see your sweetheart kiss another
fellow is zign you viii be disappointed
in love affair
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
9fflaaiht. A2aa 1i1hin..
Excuse haste and r bad pun.

Excuse haste and bad pun.
In spring .time charity begins to
hum.
The weigh of the transgressor is
fifteen ounces to the pound.
..Buckskin gloves are dear because
deer is the bucks skin.
AN umbrella can't get ahead of
cod fish in keeping a person dry. But
then it would sound funny to have your
neighbor come over in thunder shower
and ask to borrow your Goldfish.
jefferson said: eve seldom re-
pent of having eaten too little" He
never went out to fish all day without
taking breakfast before starting.-CN.
o. Picsyune.
-" Pride in woman destroys all sym
metry and grace" says a prsverb. If
this is so, it occurs to us there's lots of
symmetry and grace demolished every
time a new spring bonnet CONES up 8
church aisle.
"A western paper wants to know
"where the next worlds fair will be
held? ?" 1 don't profess to know much
about the next world, but in these dig
gings Sunday night is the fsvorite tim
for holding this worlds fair.
."Stop sending to ME your jernel
emmy more, ass you didn't motifs the bigg
hogg me husband butchered sunday,
and it don't fit my pantry shelves emmy.
how" The husb-no, the "hogg" weighed
3S7.
CHE is poor and friendless and there
no chance of saving him % are the
words found in a dispatch announcing
the conviction of Felix Mccain for
murder. What a satire on justice are
these two lines - [TerIe Haute Mail.
"A worthy Baptist minister in the
west gently rebuking his flock for their
extravaganza in dress, used the word
garbage" supposing it to be more
elegant form of 'gsrb." Wild hilarity
in the choir and horrible CONSERVATION
among the devout portion of the flock.
.."Did you hear her in that beautiful
cantsta f' said an enthusiastic sdmirer
of one of our prima donna. "Phat's
that ?" exclaimed Mr.. Terrence Magilli>
cuddy. "Phat's that? Can't ate her,
is it? Fax, an 1 cud do that same,
the dsrlintT
Christianity is the only true and per-
feet religion, and that in proportion as
mankind adopt its principle and obey
its precepts, they will be wise and hap
py. And better knowledge of this
religion is to be acquired by reading the
bible than in any other way Benja-
min Rush. -.. -
The Bradford Era recommends, in
order to get rid of your old fruit cans
that have accumulated during the
winter, instead of throwing them into
your neighbor's back yard, te tie them
together, attach q clothes-pin and snap
them on the tail of some cur. Hew
be sure to take them out of the neigh
borhood on a csn-csn gallop. d .sf
There appeared to be some irresis-
tible force endesvoring to impede his
progress as he would shskily advance a
step or two, and then execute retro
grade movement, bringing up at the
starting point. He was undoubtedly as
drunk as lord. and the ground appeared
to roll bent ath him like unto the oceans
restless waves. all at once he was seen
to reel, endeavering to catch himself
and then sink heavily into heap on the
and when the bystanders ran
to his assistance, he said: "Atsh che
verest shock fan earth quake ever speri-
enshed, n I've bin on ish coast since 80.
Mutsh damage done, y reckon Pr Cali
fornis taper.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

Arms have they, but they hug not
--windmills. = Yonkers Gazette. Ears
have they, but they hear not--cornstslks
Detroit Free Press. Heads have they,
but they understand not--cabbages.--
Oil City Derrick. Eyes have they, but
they see not--potstoes = Boston Tran
script. Teeth have they, but they do
not have the toothache-buzz SAWS
New York Commercial. "a
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
The following testimonials of a ce

The following testimonials Of a cer-
tain patent medicine speaks for itself /:
Dear sir-Two months ago my wife
could scarcely speak. She hss taken two
bottles of your Life Remover, and now
she can't speak st all. Please send me
two more bottles. 1 wouldn't be with,
out it."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

odd topers recognize that just as the
elbow is bent the appetite is inclined.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

In the olden times it was customary
for lovers only to imprint kisses ION the
eyes.