The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A Tree lce-WdJeF FOUNTAIN IN opera
ton under the wing of the Post-offiee
New York, during the first week wa,
used by twenty-five thousand people
Already it is reported that the tipping
places in the vicinity have pecuniarily
suffered because of this fountain. This
brief experience comedies with that OF
London in the same matter.
The Rev. DR.. William NJ. Baker
tells in the ChriStidn Intelligencer about
the persecution of a young woman and
belligerantly adds: when / think OF
her story my first and strongest feeling
is not SO much admiration for her as an
almost intense desire to give the man
who so pursued her thrashing. Very
likely myself would be the one thrashed
but Icould atleast enjoy doing my best. "
Fishermen engaged in the Green
land fishery say they never experienced
ANYTHING like the terrific ice blockade
which now extends down to the fifty
second parallel of latitude. The field
of ice living to the eastward of New
foundland, the southern extremity of
which now bears l20 miles distant from
st Johns, is of the heaviest foe de-
scription. Thousands of icebergs are to
be seen.
The MormOns are still pegging
away at their new temple. 1t is now
twenty years since it was commenced;
$4,000, 600 has been expended and it is
one-fourth completed. The building is
being constructed of Utah granite, and
when finished will be the finest church
edilice, if not the finest building of any
kind, in America. 1t will require S28,-
100000 to complete the temple.
Jefferson Davis has presented to the
city of New Orleans, in compliance with
the request of the late Mrs. Sarah A.
Dorsey, who left him her estate, a
painting representing Anne of Austria
exhibiting the portrait of her son, Louis
XIV, to the French people. The artist
was Pierre Mignard, Court painter to
Louis XIV. The State of Louisiana was
named after 4" LIE Grand Monarque."
"A recent decision in the Ohio Su-
preme Court upsets a sale of land in
Cleveland, in 1858, for $500, now worth
fully 500, 000 The lots had been as
signed to two brothers Forseman, in
business at Piqua, for a debt due them
many years ago, and the title remained
undisturbed until after the death of both
of them, when the trustees made a sale,
but by proceedings now declared irregu-
lar. There are now five heirs to divide
the new-found estate.
james Morton got married clan
destinely in Pittsburg, and took his
wife to Detroit, where they had their
first quarrel. In order to brighten her,
he declared that he was going to desert
her, and then went away from the hotel
On the following dag he returned to
find thath his plan had been most effective.
Mrs Morton had swallowed morphine,
and neither his lamentations nor the
DOCTOR efforts could save her life.
The champion rat story of the era
rs told by the San Francisco Examiner.
Ii says: A remarkable occurrence
lately took place on our northern coast.
A fOre-and-aft schooner, while lying in
q safe harbor, as was supposed, and
having no crew on board on account of
the safety of the position, was boarded
by rats in such numbers that they ate
away all her standing rigging. including
head-stays and also the jibs, foresails
and mainsails. All were destroyed be-
yond the possibility of repair
The Home for Old and INDECENT
Actors, to which Edwin Forrest left
nearly the whole of his fortune, is a
handsome country house, with beautiful
surroundings. near Holmesburg, Pa.
There are only five inmates, the number
being restricted by the unproductive-
ness of the Forrest estate; but the trus-
tees have Just come into an income
which will enable them to conduct the
charity in accordance with the plans of
the dead tragedian. The Forrest man.
sion in Philadelphia has been purchased
by the School of Design for Women.
"A notorious desperate, for whose
capture $500 had been offered, was
caught in Oregon by two constables.
They had to convey him a hundred
miles in a wagon, and, knowing his
reckless character they tied him to the
seat. On the way he tried several de-
vices to escape, but in vain, until he hit
upon the desperate one of firing a keg
of powder that was in the vehicle. This
he did by covertly throwing a lighted
match into it. He crouched as low as
possible, and shielded his face, so that
ne WAS uOL SCllOlSly illjulCu. OhC VI
the constables was killed and the other
burned so badly that he could do moth
ing to prevent the prisoner from getting
away.
The woman who made up her mind
to walk from Omaha to San Francisco
has arrived at her journeys end. The
tramp occupied three months. When
asked why she had done it she replied:
- O, | had a husband and two children
cut here and l thought I'd come out"
. Had you no money!" g Yes, money
enough; but | wanted to see if a woman
could do it. | was offered rides on the
trains a good many times but wouldn't
take 'em. A freight train passed me
yesterday but | wouldn't get on, though
they asked me. | wanted to walk all
the way and l did it.