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Science and Industry.

The tobacco crop of the Connecticut
Valley is reported greater than any year
since 1861 -.... -
About S10,000,000 of Eastern CAPT
tai has been invested in Utah mining
circles during the present season.
Glass is made iridescent by exposing
it at a high temperature to the fumes of
stannic chloride, to which barium or
strontium nitrate is added when deep
colors are required. -
The South, according to the 70bac-
co Leaf, has raised this year 6,00O,OOO,-
900 pounds of tobacco, which is about
12,000,000 more than she ever raised
before. ..,
The postal-card agency at Holyoke
Mass, sent away over thirty-five million
cards during October, which was the
largest months business ever done by
three million. d. I
An important invention in England
has been announced-that of preserving
butter without salt, in ordinary kegs,
even when freely exposed to the air. 1t
is expected that this invention will COM
pletely destroy the salt butter trade.
Quite an unexpected shipment is
announced of 100000 pounds 1866
bushels) of wheat from Arizona to Liv-
erpool, England. From a land having
the reputation of being made up of rocks
and desert, this announcement will be
decidedly startling, se...
prizes have been offered by
the Royal Agricultural Society OF Eng
land for new varieties of wheat, COM
bining the largest yield of grain and
straw per acre, with smooth and thin
husks, full and white kernels, high
specific gravity in the seed, and with
bright, firm, and stiff straw.
"A recently patented hog-scraping
machine is thought to have possible
of removing the bristles from
6 900 swine in 10 hours--work hitherto
the help of 60 men. Accord
ing to the Cincinnati Enquirer If was
tried the other day in Chicago, when
seven hogs of various sizes were passed
through in 81 seconds, and call came
put clean as whistle
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13
CURRENT d NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

The President has appointed Thursday,
November 81, as a day of National thanks
giving and prayer.
The President has appointed Albert John
son, of Colorado, Surveyor General Of the
United States for Colorado.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections will resume the Investigation Of
the charges Of bribery against Senator In
gals on the 18th of December. The Presi-
dent Of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the managers of the company's Of
fees AZ Topeka, Atchison, Emporia, Wamego
and Kansas City have been subpGnaed to
produce on that day all original kilograms
passing between Senator Ingalls, and certain
other parties named.
President Hayes and some Of the members
of his Cabinet have accepted an invitation to
be present at the opening of the Fair Of the
Seventh Regiment, New York Militia, in aid
of their new armory, on the 18th of Noyem-
her -
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The new postal card issued Nov. 1 can be
sent to all parts of Europe, China, Japan and
Brazil. At the top of the card are the words,
Universal Postal Union," which are re-
fpeated in French in smaller type. Then
come the words, ,ssUnited States of America"
which are also repeated in French. The
stamp is a well designed head of Liberty
having on each side the figure 90" and the
words L" U. S. Postal Card"
80 The propeller Argyle, engaged in the
carving trade between Montreal and Du
| luth, is supposed to have been lost, with all
on board, at some point along the northern
shore of Lake Superior. On October % she
passed up the Sault St. Marie Canal with the
propeller Asia. The latter vessel made the
trip to Duluth and passed back down the
canal on the 4th. No tidings of the Ar
gyle have since been received, and
she is supposed to have foundered
during the severe storm that prevailed about
the time mentioned. The Captain was Hugh
Mclaughlin of Montreal; the Purser, John
nv Graham, son of Graham of st. Cath
crime, the principal owner of the vessel. Be-
sides these there was a crew of 10 men and
number of passengers, all French Canadians,
probably 16 or II, all told.
A delegation of Indians representing the
Sacs and Foxes and Iowa tribes had an in
terview with Secretary Schurz and Indian
Commissioner Hoyt at Washington on the
eth. These tribes, numbering altogether
about 300, occupy a reservation comprising
$4,000 acres in Northern Kansas and South
ern Nebraska. They complain that the
white settlers are crowding upon them,
and they want to be removed to the
Indian Territory, where they can get more
breathing room. The Secretary refused
Their request, telling them that they would
be foolish to abandon their homes and i'm
provements, and that all they needed to rem
der them prosperous and happy was to emu
late their white neighbOrs in thrift and in
dustry and to educate their children in the
Agency schools.
Mai. NJ. A. Reno, who, two years ago, was
court martialed for insulting woman, and
whose sentence was mitigated by President
Hayes, is again in trouble for similar Of
tense, committed while intoxicated, charges
and specifications having been formally pre-
ferred against him by Gen. Sturgis.
The fourth annual meeting of the National
Christian Temperance Union began at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the It'll. Francis Murphy
occupied the chair. Delegates were present
from the United States and Canada.
Congressman Wright of Pennsylvania and
Murch of Maine have been in Boston recent
y, taking evidence for the Congressional
Committee on the Depression of Business.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
-Auerbaeh is writing his memo

-Auerbaeh is writing his memoirs.
-Bronson Howard, the American
playwright, who is now in London, re-
ceives $4,000 year for the use of his
play '.Truth y in the English provinces,
George Augustus Sala, the well
known writer, is about to startfor afour
months tour in America, for the benefit
of his health.
Mr.. Longfellow and Mr.. w. D.
Howells are, it is reported, writing to-
gether for Mr.. Lawrence Barrett play
upon the story of Capt. Miles Standish.
Thomas Carlyle, who has suffered
from dyspepsia ever since he was a boy,
says his father lived and died in blissful
ignorance of that diabolical arrange
ment called the stomach. i
Mr.. Arthur Sullivan, composer, and
Madame Antoinette Sterling, contralto,
have each received over $4,000 already
upon "The Lost Chord" the song
which Mr.. Sullivan wrote for Nine.
Sterling only two years and half ago.
-" Ouida's" name is Rosa de Ia
Rama and she is the daughter Of a
Frenchman. She lives in lovely villa
about two miles from Florence, where
she is surrounded by books, pictures,
and what she prizes more than both of
these, dogs. Every, novel she writes
finds a ready market at $1,000. '
jacob Abbott, whose death was an
nounced recently, was born at Halo
well, Me-, Nov. IA, 1903; graduated at
Bowdoin College, and studied theology
at Andover; for years was tutor and
Professor at Amherst College; travelled
extensively in foreign lands; wrote the
80 Young Christian Series" the "Rolla
Books the "Franconia Stories, etc.
author of the "History of Napoleon
Bonaparte," originally published in
Harper'S Magazine. The titles of his
works exceed 200 in number, including
the historical series, to which his bEoth-
er contributed, and a series of school
books.
"A writer in one of the "society''
papers of London has been down to
Mr.. Tennyson'S country home, and
says, among other things, that the room
in which the poet writes is one which
has more of repose than is common in
q brand-new house. He sits well fenced
in by 4 number of screens, at a writing
table facing the window; clay pipes to
any number cumber his papers, and
general disarray would gain ground
everywhere but for the filial good offices
of his eldest son, Hallam, who makes
him the most faithful and affectionate of
secretaries, copying his manuscripts,
writing his letters, acting as librarian to
his books, and knowing all his poems
by heart. The poets life is contained
in but a small space. He has never
cared for travelling tt
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School and Church.

The public schools of Georgia cost
S40O,00O Il year. - a "a.
The 10000 deaf-mutes in the United
States have for their accommodation 80
places of worship, where services are
conductedm the sign language. They
owe this blessing to the Church Mission
to Deaf-mutes, of which the Rev. Thos.
Gallaudet is the manager. r. 'is..
OF the 854 Young Mems Christian
Associations in the United States, Sc
own buildings which are valued at ST.
924, 40; AZ associations have building
funds collected which amount in the
aggregate to 1924, 1872, and their real es-
tate and other property is valued at 81
800, 900. There are 80 railroad associa-
tions, ia secretaries. and agents; $40
associations have reading rooms, GIG
have an aggregate membership of H.
932, and 46S expend 1916, 240 annually
for current expenses. -u-
"A young school-mistress who peeped
las lost her certificate, and the Supreme
Court of Iowa will give her no redress.
She had applied for a certificate, and
during the examination was caught
glancing over the shoulder of another
applicant and getting answers to ques-
tons propounded in arithmetic. The
Superintendent refused to issue the GER
tificate, and the young lady brought suit
in the Circuit Court to compel him to do
so. She carried her point in the lower
court, but the decision has been reversed
by the Supreme Court.
According to statistics compiled by
the Bureau of Education there were in
the United States, in 1877, 1927, 748
school population and 2,6S9,31 school
population between the ages of 6 and Is
years. There were S,954,47S pupils en-
rolled in public schools, and the average
daily attendance was 4,919,40S. The
total number of teachers employed in
public schools in the States was 257, 454,
and in the Territories, 1872 The an
nual income for the support of public
schools in the States and Territories was
$50 sec, 162, and the annual expenditure
$50, 233,45S. The estimated value of
sites, buildings and all other school
property was S139,217,6 07.
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.


A severe snOw-storm occurred on the 3D.
reaching from Lake Michigan tothe Atlantic.
From 10 to12 inches Of snow had fallen by
night in some portions of New England, and
railway traffic was considerably impeded
thereby. ... ...
All that the promoters of the proposed
Florida Ship Canal now want is a charter
from the Legislature, and as that body does
not meet again until January, 1881, Mr.. As
pinwall, who represents the French capital
lists, asks Gov. Drew to call an extra session
A passenger train on the New York and
Greenwood Lake Railroad ran into an open
draw across the Hackensack River on the
morning of the 4th. The engineer, Ira DeX-
ter, jumped from the engine and was killed,
and the fireman was badly injured. Several
passengers sustained severe injuries and
were badly drenched in the river.
Sullivan and Gilbert, the fathers. of +" Pima
fore, ;" arrived in New York on the 9Th. They
purpose bringing out this and other operas
under their own immediate supervision.
Some important evidence in the case of
Rev. Mr.. Hayden, on trial for the murder
of Mary Stannard, in Connecticut, has been
discovered by the scientists of Yale Medical
College. On the cheek Of the murdered girl,
now preserved in the College, can be seen Il
indentatiOns, which correspond exactly with
the II nails in the heel of Rev. Mr.. Hayden's
left brogan, which he wore on the day of
NIary's murder. 1t is claimed by the prose-
cution that Hayden put his heel on the girl s
face when he cut her throat.
Election day at Leonardtowh, Md, wound
up with a small riot, in which an attempt
was made to pull down the Republican flag
staff. Mr.. A.A. Lawrence, who had Just
been elected County Commissioner on the
Republican ticket, was shot through the
breast, probably fatally, by some person I'M
known. He was very popular gentleman.
highly esteemed by both parties, and the af-
fair is deeply regretted.
The steamship Champion, from New York
for Charleston, was run into by the British
iron ship Lady Octavia,a about 40 miles north
east of Cape May, at daybreak on the morning
Of the eth, and sank within five minutes.
There were 81 persons on board the Cham
piOn, passengers and crew, of whom 50 were
lost and but % saved. The survivors were
picked up by the Lady Octavia's boats and
by passing bark. OF the 16 passengers on
board the Champion, u were drowned, in
Guiding all the women, five in number. The
Captain was among the saved. The cause Of
the disaster is unknown, as the Captain of
each vessel charges the responsibility upon
the other. rr g. ~
The steamer Falcon, from Baltimore for
Charleston, with full cargo and seven pas
sengers, came into collision off Barren Island,
on the Sth, with the schooner S. C. Tryon,
loaded with ice from the Kennebec River,
for Baltimore. The steamer was so badly
injured that She sank within 20 minutes.
Her passengers and crew were rescued by
the Tryon
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13

o. AT Pomeroy, o., VIM Tucker suesl
the Board of Education and recovered
$50 damages for depriving his daughter
of the privileges of the public schools.
The Board had decided that all pupils
should study drawing. Tucker notified
the teacher that bis daughter must not
study that branch, and the Board ex-
PEELED her in consequence. If this de-
cisiOn stands, the studies arranged by
the Board viii not be compulsory upon
the pupils. ..
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13

Opposite the new Central Station,
in Berlin, Germany, colossal hotel is
building. 1t is to contain numerous
and large suites of apartments, besides
500 single bedrooms, theater, two
chapels, and synagogue. Statues of
celebrated travellers are to be found in
the courtyards, and a large garden,
with hothOuses, will be connected with
the building
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By the President:
WIN. N. EvARTs. Secretary of State.

Every Saturday there is a gather
ing at the Office of the Boston Congre-
gational Union of elergymen in quest of
an engagement for the ensuing Sunday.
Many of them come from distance,
particularly in the summer and early
fall, when the city pulpits are generally
not occupied by the pastors. The Con-
gregationdlist, in reporting Monday
morning chat by clergymen in a demon
national bookstore in that city, says:
''One of the company knew of nine min
isterial brethren, without regular work,
who came to the city on the previous
Saturday, hoping to secure "a chance
TO preach Two only succeeded, andin
one case this was gratuitous service.
Another knew of four Others who came
on the same erraBd, only one of whom
obtained a pulpit, and heard of many
others standing, at the eleventh hour.
in the market place, with no man to hire
him."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13

When Bismarck made his first visit
on diplomatic mission to Vienna, in
1852, there was not so much attention
paid to him as on his recent appearance
in that city. A Vienna journal recalls
that he was then wholly unknown to the
world, and only plain Herr Won Bis
marck Schoenhausen, his present rank
being a late acquisition, and that his
royal master, the King of Prussia, to
secure consideration for him, deemed it
necessary to address a special letter to
Kaiser Franz Joseph, saying: Il con-
fide the honorable mission to your Ma
jesty to my representative in the Ger
man Federal Parliament, Herr Won Bis
marck Schoenhausen, whose family, one
of the Oldest, has almost longer pedi-
gree than mine, and whose ancestors
rivaled the Hohenzollerns in bravery and
military exploits This letter su1ficed
to put the obscure diplomat on a friend
ly footing with the naughty AUSTRIAN
ariStocracy. ..a .t
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The pen used by Prince Bismarck
in the hotel at Vienna was sold for $50.
OF course the buyer was a Britisher.
The man who cut the Princes hair is
making a little fortune, the supply, of
course, being inexhaustible.
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Advice to a Whistler.

Somestlmes, my son, you will want to
whistle. Do not entirely repreSS this
desire to aspirate your feelings in Sibbi-
liant strains of wheezy music: merely
modulate and regulate it. Go off into
the woods five or six miles from any
habitation, if the desire comes upon you
| during business hours, and whistle there
until the birds make you ashamed of
your poor accomplishment. Do not
yield to, the temptation too readily, lest
you become addicted to the habit and
become a slave to it, and 90 whistling
around even as man who has lost 4
dog. There are men, my son, who can
whistle unsteady; once in awhile you
find men whose whistle is pleasant to
the ear and soothing to the soul, but you
only find one of these men every three
or four thousand years, and they die
young, son; they die very young. You
will observe that the best whistler is he
who whistles least, and practices in sOli-
tude. The poor whistler, who flats on
the high notes and gasps on. the lower
ones, and wheezes in the middle regis
ter, is the man who whistles at all
times and in all places. Whistle
all you will in solitary places.
son, if it pleases you, whistle in
the night as you 90 home, if you will,
for a CHEEKY whistle in the dark is
pleasant sound unto the listening soulof
the belated passenger, but when you
come into the assemblages and the bust
ness haunts of men, unpucker your mu-
steal lips and shut up Your whistle in
your heart. And if ever the temptation
comes toyou to whistle against the edge
of card, crush it out, of the effort kills
you. Whisting is not lofty nor vet a
useful, although it is a universal, ac-
complishment. Though you practice a
hundred years, and though you whistle
never so whistley, my son, vet the COM
monest switch-engine that ever scared 4
human being deaf, can beat YOU at it.
The great and good were never great
whistlers, son. = George Washington
never sat in a friends office, with his
feet on the window sill, Whistling
Grandfather's Clock" against the edge
of card. Strive to emulate George
Washington, and although you may new
er be first in war, first in peace, and first
in the hearts of your ,countrymen, yet
fame win not forget you if they can
write upon your tombstone that you
never whistled your countrymen into
commissions of Incorporate but fTuitless
profanity Burlette, in the Ha1cEeye.
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Our National Thanksgiving.
A PROCLAMATION.

At no recurrence of the season which
the deyout habit of religious people has
made the occasion for giving thanks to AL
mighty God and humbly invoking
His continued favor has the material
prosperity enjoyed by our whole coun-
try been more conspicuous, more mani
fold, or more universal. During the past
year, also, unbroken peace with all foreign
nations, the general prevalence of domestic
tranquility, the supremacy and security Of
the great institutions of civil and religious
freedom, have gladdened the hearts of our
people and confirmed their attachment
to their Government which the wis
dom and courage of our ancestors so
fitly framed and the wisdom and courage of
their descendants have so firmly maintained
to be the habitation Of liberty and justice to
succeeding generations. ..
Now, therefore, 1, Rutherford B. Hayes,
President of the United States, do appoint
Thursday, the 9th day Of November, in.
slant, as day Of national thanksgiving and
prayer, and l earnestly recommend that,
Withdrawing themselves from secular
cares and labors, the people Of
the United States do meet together on that
day in their respective places of worship,
there to give thanks and praise to Almighty
God for His mercies, and to devoutly beseech
their continuance. 5aH t
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington this Sd
day of November, in the year of our Lord
1879, and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and fourth. .--
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
By the President:
Wu. NJ FvARrs. Secretary of State.
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FOREIGN.

7 The royal Spanish marriage is fixedforthe
LIST Of December. 1t will be conducted with
great magnifoence, foreign courts being
specially represented. Extraordinary fes-
tivities are to follow. Nine. Christine Nils
son has been engaged to sing - times, for
which she is to receive, it is said, $4,000.
The first cargo of American new wheat ar
rived at Cardiff, Wales, on the 9Th, and was
reported in splendid condition.
Bya railroad accident near Arconum, in
British India, 10 persons, including three
Europeans, were killed and 40 wounded.
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GENERAL.

Gen. Sherman has issued general order
announcing the death of Major-General
Joseph Hooker and ordering all officers to
wear the usual badge of mourning for 30
DAYS. Gen. Hooker's remains are to be sent
to Cincinnati for interment.
The American Woman-Suffrage Associa-
ton met in Cincinnati on the 4th. Addresses
were made by Mrs. Hazen, President of the
Association, Lucy Stone and others.
Rear Admiral William Reynolds, Q. S. N,
died on the 9TH at his home in Washington,
n. C. - - .--- '.-se- 's----s
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General Sherman's Annual Report Of
the Operations Of the Army.
MAsnINGroN. Noremh,

WASHINGTON, November1
General Shernlan's annual report to
the Secretary of War was completed
to-day. Itis prefaced with the usual
tabular statements and returns COM
piled by the .Adjutant-General, COM
menting on which General Sherman
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-13

Louise, Victoria and Maud. the
young daughters of the Prince of Wales,
rarely appear in public in any but the
simplest dresses. They are sometimes
seen with their mother at the theater in
plain white linen or cotton sailor dresses,
with little red trimming, and they are
often met riding and driving in neat
sailor dresses of dark blue wooden.
They went with their father and moth
er to the recent French fair in gowns of
plain pink cambria, with sashes of crim-
son harmonizing with the pink. enc
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-25
The Political Outlook.

The next presidential campaign will
have one important feature-It will vir-
tually express the peoples verdict upon
the questions at issue between the lead
ing political parties. For behind
our government, behind our politi-
clans, behind all the legislative
machinery, rings, and petty partizan or
ganizations, is the real ruler and direc-
tor of our government-the sovereign
people. Every official will be brought
before the inquisition of the peoples tri-
bunal, and all proved unworthy will be
ignominiously sent home to tend the farms
and their own business. The people will
endorse nothing whatever, be it q presi-
dent or pill, that has not proved itself
8 genuine article. That the American
people have so long acknowledged, by
both word and patronage, the genuine
ness and value of DR.. Piercc's Family
Remedies, is proof conclusive that their
use fully justifes their discoverers claims
for them. No other proprietary medi-
cines sell so largely The Golden Medi-
cal Discovery is sovereign remedy for all
scrofulous, blood, and skin diseases. 1t
has pretty thoroughly superseded the
old-time sarsaparillas. The Favorite
Prescription has no equal as q remedy
for those chronic weaknesses and painful
affections peculiar to women. Pleasant
Purgative Pellets, sugar coated and
scarcely larger than mustard seeds, are
now the popular laxative and cathartic.
Sold by druggists.