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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09
Our Railroad Prospect.

We have always had an abiding
faith in the future of Dyersburg, and
we expect to live to see it a thriving
and prosperous little city with many
railroad advantages. We have seen
a recent letter from Superintendent
Monsarrat in which he gives hope that
the Paducah 4 Memphis Railroad
will be completed to our town before
winter fairly sets in. In any event,
this road is too important and too near
ly completed to be abandoned, running
as it will through a country rich as
the famous valley Of the Nile. 1t
would be a valuable and indispensa bic
acquisition to the Nashville u St.
Louis road. Col. Cole is always on
the lookout for convenient and profta-
bic connections. Were he to get con-
troll of the P. & NJ. from Paducah
Junction to Memphis he would be
master of the situation and have the
most desirable through line in the
State-giving him an open highway
from Nashville tc the metropolis of
West Tennessee-that would bring to
him the richest of local harvest both
in freight and passenger traffic. A
glance at the map viii prove all we
here say. If the P. d NJ. is not
completed by next September, by an
act of the Tennessee legislature, it is
bound to pass into other hands. Col
Cole and the merchants and business
men of Nashville are vi:ally interested
in getting possession Of it, for it would
throw untold West Tennessee wealth
into the lap of our native city. That
road finished to Dyersburg, the Ten
nessee Central, now being built from
Huntingdon to Trenton via the little
queen city of Milan, could find no
better connection than here. The
Brownsville road, too, will find it to
its decided interest to come to Dyers>
burg at no very distant day. All
this is among the reasonable proba-
bilities Of the future of our town, and
we have thus hurriedly sketched this
picture for the benefit of those most
concerned in it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

withstanding it is so early. (They
usually sell higher later in the season.
1t takes from three to three aid a
half quarts to the pound, owing to
ripeness offruit. If picked as soon as
turn black, it takes about three quarts
to the pound, while if very ripe, three
and half to four quarts. So in this
way when our rasp5erries hereafter
go below seven cents per quart for
fresh fruit, they go into the drying
house. One will see by above figures.
that at seven cents per quart, an acre
will bring from 1925 to $3.50. Now
what crops are there that will do bets
ter, and isn't six to eight cents as good
now as nine to twelve cents per quart
three or four years ago? In these fig
ures we have not referred to two i'm
pOrtant facts-one the supply Of nice
fresh fruit for the growers table, and
the other money coming in at a time
when there is no other crop to sell.
As to red raspberries, the demand for
them at ten to twelve cents per quart
is such that the question of drying
them need not be considered; and an
other important point we would not
overlook. Apples, pears or peaches
can be grown on the same land. In
fact, we have one plot of fifteen acres
on which is 600 apple trees ten years
old, 1,SOO peach (half way between
the apple each way, and blackberries
in and half way between every tree
row. So let the croakers harp away,
for just so long as we can grow these
fruits and get even five cents per
quart in home towns we shall do
SO, and make money at 1t, tOO.-Fi7tit
Recorder.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

At diHner given in Washington,
recently, to Prot. Langston, Minister
to Hayti, there were present James
Wormly, Senator Bruce, DR.. Purvis,
Frederick Douglass and other leading
colored men. There was considerable
informal talk about the exodus from
the South, and some diversity of opin-
ion. Langston favors the exodus to
a moderate extent, but Douglass and
Bruce oppose it, saying the South is
the natural home of the negro, and
there he should remain.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09
Obligations of Common Car
FieFs.

Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
The District of Columbia Supreme
Court made an important decision af-
fecting the liability of express COM
panies. Suit was brought against the
Adams Express Company to recover
the value of three packages of jewell
ry, amounting to a trife over 500.
The Express Company plead a special
contract set forth in the receipt given
for the goods, and by the terms of
which they only agree to become liza
bic to the amount of $50 on packages
not expressly valued. The Court re-
ferred to Lockwood'S case 07lh Wal
lace's Supreme Court Reports, page
$50, and held that common carrier
cannot stipulate for exemption from
responsibility for the negligence of
himself or his servants. The princi-
pies of law forbidding Il common car
rier to bargain for complete ex-
emption from responsibility for a vio>
lation of his duties in particular cases,
also torbids him bargaining for a par
tial exemption that any agreement
which operates to relieve the common
carrier of the duty of proper and care
full handling, and of the good faith
which he owes the public, is void; and
as an agreement that the carriers
negligence shall be cheap must oper-
ate in this way, it falls necessarily
within that principle. The fact that
the shipper fails to advise the carrier
that the actual value of the goods
shipped was greater than its supposed
value does not affect the shippers
rights. This decision is one of very
considerable interest, as every express
receipt, and, in fact, every blank also
upon which a telegraphic message is
written contains stipulations relieving
the carrier and the telegraph company
from certain responsibilities.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

In late letter from Senator Thur
man to friend in Washington he
has no doubt that Gen. Ewing will be
elected by handsome majority, and
that the Legislature will be Democrat
ic on joint ballot. He says his conf,
dence is not based on casual observation,
but on the precise knowledge of work
being done and sentiments expressed
which were for time justly regarded
as doubtful to the Democracy.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

A Richmond (Ky.) paper tells of
mountain preacher whose salary last
year was eighteen dollars and twenty
cents and twenty-seven pairs of socks.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09
Don't Marry a Twin.

A correspondent writes the Cincin-
natl Euquirer's Household Depart
ment" some words of warning about
twins, which illustrate the way the
thing worke with him. He says:
"Let me give some good advice to
boys in love.~My dear boy, for mer-
cy's sake have nothing to do with a
twin. | married a twin. | was a
twin. My father and mother were
twins, and so were the parents of my
wife. Consequence: We have been
married eight years and we have al.
ready four pairs of twins. Young
man! find girl, ifyou can, who new
er heard of twins"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

A Washington dispatch says: "Since
the report that Tilden declared that
Southern lawlessness and reputation
were running the Democratic party
North, he has become more unpopu>
lar that ever with the Southern lead
ers. Southern men in Washington
say he need not trouble himself about
the weakness Of the Democratic party
North, or its wickedness South, for he
will not again be called upon to lead" F"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09
Tracing the Lost Tribes OfIstael

The Lost Israel Identification So
ciety of Brooklyn held a meeting on
Wednesday evening which was at
tended by about two hundred persons.
The theory Of the society is that the
English people are of the tribe of
Ephraim, and the tribe of Manasseh
is represented by the people of the
United States. The Rev. 10. Wild,
at the meeting Wednesday night,
averred that Saxon history grandly
corresponde1 with the prophecies as
to where Israel is to be found in the
latter day, and declared that the the
ories OF the society are beyond con-
troversy.
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OVER THE STATE.

Three thousand three hundred and
seventy arrests were made in Nashville
during the year ending Sept. 80.
81 Carroll county has 5S3 town lots,
valued at s2SS,362 The total valu
alton of all property in the county i:
50, $40, ,325.
The Duck River Valley Railroad
has been leased to the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st. Louis company, and
the road is to be completed at an early
day.
Erin Review: On last Saturday
evening Mrs. A. Dillayhey's barn, on
Yellow creek, was completely destroy
ed by fire. 1t contained about 5000
pounds of tobacco, which was de
stroyed.
The Red Sulphur Springs, in Macon
county, have been sold by their late
owner, Capt. James Bennett, to
White county man, for five thousand
FIVE hundred dollars, says the Harts
vile Sentinel.
Huntingdon Republican: Mrs. Clar
rie Grant died at her home in the
18th district of this county on Tues
day, September 3Oth, 1879. She was
ninetyfve years of age on the 22d Of
September, and was one among the
oldest citizens in the county.
The secretary of State last week
registered the charter of the "Citizens
Relief Academy" Henderson county
NJ. G. Middleton, A. E. Aydelott,
Jones Grigg, A. w. Middleton, Frank
McCollum, Alex Fisher and j. E.
Middleton are the incorporators.
Pulaski Citizen: Several of oul
bachelors and Vidowers are training
for the Jackson Fair, where a young
widow is offered as a premium i'll g
walking match. When you see any
of these old fellows out exercising yOU
may know what they are up to.
Nashville American: Within les
than three years, two Tennessee officer:
of the United States Army have beer
killed while gallantly leading their
commands against the Indians-Maj
T. T. Thornburgh, in Colorado, last
Tuesday, and Lieut.. Jno. A. McKin
ney, of Memphis, in an attack upor
hostile Sioux, in Dakotah, Nov. 25
1876.
Lawrence Press: Mr. Hugh Caroth'
ers, of the 10th dist, owns a calf nint
months old that is now giving each
day a gallon OF milk. 1t still sucks
its mother and has no calf Its teati
were unusually we'll developed, ant
a few weeks ago the negro girl whC
does the milking at Mr.. Carothers
commenced milking it for fun, anC
now tits frst-rate milch COW although
only nine months old and a sucking
calf. This statement was made us by
a reliable gentleman. Who has any
thing to beat this?
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

A Georgia farmer uses a novel fer
tilizer. He kills snakes. lays them in
the furrow, and then plants corn with
them. These snakes are made to pro-
duce coin, which produces whiskey,
which in turn produces snakes again.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-09

For the length of time have been doing business here have with
exampd My endeavOr the people, whom
my lot has been cast has met with great satisfaction and
can confidently the citizens of Gibson and
adjoining counties thatI will offer greater
bargains than Please
look at the following
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30
Suicide by Hanging,

Henry Kinker, cooper, about fifty-three
years of age, who lived at No. 20 Peete
street, committed suicide last evening about
A o'clock by hanging. The suicide had q
wife and six children, who depended on
him for their support. Kinker was~a terri
bly, hard drinker, and the protests of his
wife would invariably lead to bitter wrang
lings.
Often he would beat his wife, and last
week he threatened to kill her. He chased
her around the house with a razor, and said
he would cut his own throat. His threats
of killing himself finally became SO fire.
quent that the neghbors paid no further
attention. Yesterday evening he was
again drunk, and after having some high
words with two of his sons he went into
the yard in Il e rear of the house.
He took a clothes-line, and going into the
clubhouse, locked the door and hung him.
self. He was found shortly afterwards.
Coroner Carrick held an inquest at 10
o'clock this morning, and rendered a YER
dict in accordance with the above facts.
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OUR EXPOSITION.
Exhibits Beginning to Come In.

The exhibits assigned to Power Hall are
beginning to be placed in position, and
mechanics are seen flying around at a
lively rate. The elevator for the purpose
of hosting goods to the second floor will
be completed and in running order by
Tuesday morning. The water connection
is completed, and all the woodwork can be
finished in about one day and half. The
platform is huge affair, having been made
for hosting carriages and buggies. The
large engine that is to drive the machinery
has arrived at the depot and heavy trans
fer wagons and big wheels are busy hauling
the parts to the Exposition Building, where
workmen are engaged setting it. The fly
wheel is an enormous affair, measuring
nrobably ten feet in diameter. The cylin-
der is very large and the workmanship
| frst-class
The fly wheel had TO be shipped in two
sections on account Of its great size and
heavy weight Telephone connections are
bejng made in Music Hall with the differ.
ent departments, and carpenters are busy
putting up wood work for numerous dis
plays The stairs in the south wing leading
10 the second and third floors are all fin
iusbed with the exception of the treads
and plasterers are still working on the
walls and ceiling over the stairway. Ar'
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Police Court Items,

John Mcdonald, riding through Cum
minsville yesterday on a mule, aroused the
suspicion of the police officers, who thought
it worth while to take him in. When
searched a revolver was found upon him,
and charge of carrying concealed weapons
was placed against him.
He failed to give straight account as to
how he came by the mule, and it is sup
posed the animal is stolen. In the Police
Court this morning the case was continued
until next Tuesday.
James O'Reiley Webster, gentleman
from New York, was found upon Vine
street last night in bad state of intoxica
tion. The Judge assessed fine OF 50 ant
costs against him, which he remitted or
condition that Mr.. Webster leave Cincin
natl beer alone in the future.
The charge of grand larceny against Pau
Krull was dismissed at the request of the
prosecuting witness.
The case AGAINST Harry Learup charged
with uttering forged check, was dismissed
The Hospital authorities stated that /
was their opinion that Learup would neve
leave that Institution alive. He has beer
confined there, since his arrest, severa
weeks ago.
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Hall is yet in an unfinished condition, the
plasterers also being at work there.
Horticultural Hall is far behind the rest
of the building in regard to completion.
Work still goes on on the grotto and cas-
cade and it now assumes colossal.form, as
hundreds OF massive rocks are piled upon
one another. 1t will, when finished, be a
beautiful feature. There is raised floor
at either end of the Hall and exhibitors are
making preparations for their goods upon
them. The intermediate span remains in
muddy condition and can not be laid off
in walks until the grotto is completed. The
spans have been divided off to the best ad-
vantage to view the displays and at the
same time form nice arrangement.
The Commissioners seem very confident
that everything will be in readiness for the
onenirC on the 10th of Sentember; if not
delayed by the tardiness of the exhibitors.
but for one to take casual glance over the
buildings and see what an immense amount
of work remains to be done, he will feel
somewhat increduous regarding the posi-
tive assertions of those who are supposed
to know all about such matters. However,
it is to be hoped that all will be well on the
10th Of next month.
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Real Estate Transfers,

The following are the transfers OF real es-
tate from noon yesterday to noon to-day:
Henry E. Willis ct al. to Mary Reile, 40
BY 100 feet, on north side OF East Willow
wenue, $50 feet east from Troy avenue,
Glendale; $500.
Robert NJ. Shoemaker to John Herppbch,
90 by $50 feet, on west side OF Congress ave-
pue. 95 feet south from Sharon avenue,
Glendale; $500.
Sarah L. Cilley to Mount Zion Baptist
Church, IS by 20 feet, on south side of Sluke
syenue, being northwest corner of Lot 1876,
Glendale; $50.
Same to Glendale Board of Education,
She north 100 feet of Lot No. 1876, Glendale,
srcept the premises lastly above described
ESQ.
Michael Goepper and wife to John M.
Mers, Is by 100 feet, on west side of Central
syenue, AK feet north from David street;
t6lOOO
Rose Bussing and Thomas Scanlan to
kstrick Mallon, assignee, 200 by ia feet,
IN south side of Fifth street, extending from
Culvert street to Eggleston avenue; also 20
ky 60 feet on south side of Green street, SO
fest east from Elm street, 81.
Frank Wilson, to the City of Cincinnati
i've years lease of third and fourth floors
sf building known as Geyer's Assembly
Rooms, on northwest corner of Court street
and st. Clair alley, for armory purposes
annual rent SLIPS.
Rachel Cooper ct al. to John Hammel,
scres, being Lot No. 8, subdivision of the
estate of Thomas Cooper, in Section q, Syc
amore Township; $3.50.
Lauretta B. Reakirt to same, years
lease of 1877 acres, being Lots Nos. 3, 6, 8, II
and IL of same subdivision, at an annual
rent of $500, with privilege of purchase al
5000.
Frederick Schmidt to Peter Heintz.
years lease Of No. Az West Third street
monthly rent $35.
Jacob Knauber to Henry Hartke, years
fease of premises on northeast corner o
Elm and Findlay streets; monthly rent
sos.
echroeder, 23h by 80 feet. on west side o
Rice street. 1854 feet north from Mulberry
street; N,15Q.
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Paw Your Rent.

The Landlords Mutual Protection Asso-
ciation held large meeting at Washington
Platform last night Several speeches were
made and the following resolution was
adopted:
"Whereas, 1t would be of vast benefit to
the landlords Of the city of Cincinnati if
every landlord would become a member of
the Landlords Mutual Protection Associa-
ton; therefore be it
Resolved That every landlord is hereby
requested to become amember of the Land
lords Mutual Protection Association, whose
aim it is to protect their interest and the
welfare of the CITY at large"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

A Democratic pole raising takes place at
Sharon this evening"
The Fifteenth Ward Ewing and Rice
Club will hold meeting to night.
Grand rally of the Fourteenth Ward
Democrats tonight at the Bank-street
Enginehouse.
The Democrats of the Thirteenth Ward
organized Ewing and Rice Club at ia
cob BaungardGer's saloon on Lib erty
street last night.
The Twenty-ffth Ward Republicans will
hold a big meeting tonight at Turner Hall,
Cumminsvile. The colored voters of the
Twenty-fifth organized Foster and Hick-
enlooper Club few evenings ago.
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After Secretary Sherman returned from
the excursion over the Southern Road last
evening a delegation from the Cincinnati
Distllers Association waited upon him at
the Gibson House, and asked that the rules
of the Internal Revenue Office be so modi.
fed that distillers will not be obliged to
pay revenue upon the leakage of their ship
ments. The Secretary replied that it was a
matter over which he had no control, but
would be friendly to the measure.
At 1890 the Secretary took the train fol
Washington ID, C,
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That REQUEST Of the Democratic Club.
The Enquirer of this morning says:

The Enquirer OF this morning says:
1.-THE Reported action of the Hamilton
County Democratic Club on Thursday night
as published in the Cincinnati STAR yester
day, is not correct, and has no foundation
in fact"
The reported action of the Club, as pub
lished in yesterdays STAR, is correct. and il
founded on fact The action of the Club
as detailed in the STAR, was not from ar
imaginary brain or disappointed aspirant
as the Enquirer intimates, but was from
Messrs. Sutton and Dorsch themselves LIE,
Sutton and Dorsch be called.
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ASSIGNEE'S SALE.
Assie.nce's Sale.

DURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF THE PRO
L BATE COURT of Hamilton County, Ohio, to
me directed will offer at Public Auction, on the
premises, No. 2i4 West Liberty street, OIL Satur-
day, September the 9Th, 1870 at o'clock in the
afternoon, the following described leasehold
estate:
All that certain lot of land in the city of Gin
cinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio commencing at
point on the north side OF Liberty street, in said
city, eghtysiX (S6 feet east OF the northeast cor
ner of Liberty street and Central avenue thence
east with the north line of Liberty street eighteen
1S feet thence north at right angles with Liberty
street, one hundred aud twenty feet more or less
to Oliver street; thence west, parallel with Lber
ty street eighteen feet: thence south onn hundred
and twenty feet more or less to the place OF be-
ginning, being the same premises leased by Mary
A. Ludlow ct al. to Henry IIorwarth on December
I'd, 1878, for term of fifteen years as per lease
Recorded in book No. 81, rage 9S, Hamilton Coun
ty Records,
Terms cash on day Of safe.
GEORGE R. TOPP,
Assignee of Henry Horwarth.
ED NJ. sPANGENBERG, Attorney ausitF
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

The matter of heating the city with
steam, by the Holly system, mention of
which was made in the STAR several weeks
ago, will come before the Board of City
Commissioners next Monday.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

George Garry, colored, sentenced to be
hanged yesterday at Beaufort s. G., for the
murder OF Cyrus Brown, colored, was re-
spited by the Governor until September
05th
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THE DAILY STAR
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Aug. SO.-For Tennessee
md the Ohio Valley, clear or partly cloudy
weather, light variable winds, nearly sta.
eonary temperature, and barometer.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

II you have bad taste in your mouth, sallow-
ness or yellow color Of the skin, feel stupid and
drowsy, appetite unsteady, frequent headache or
dizziness, you are bilious" and nothing Will
arouse y,,ir liver to action and strengthen up your
system equal to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
coyery. II 10 sold by druggists.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

Harry Gilbert Grafton, aged fourteen,
heir to an English estate, kidnapped in 1869,
discovered in a Boston lodging-house for
tramps.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

To temporize with your health instead Of
promptly using DR., Bulls Baltimore Pills,
is not indicative of much thoughtfulness.
Sold by all druggists.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

Sam. Crosse, Howard County, Mo-, con-
fesses his father murdered Mr.. Jackson
eleven years ago for 800.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

Many ladies misinterpret their sufferings.
Try a box of sellers Liver Pills" Sold
by all druggists.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

Physicians have at last come to the con-
clusion that the best medicine for teething
children is DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-30

"sellers' Liver Pills" are the secret to
perfect health, long life, and absolute hap
piness Sold by all druggists.