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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Grace Greenwood's daughter has
gone on the Londen stage.
Mrs. Rose Lathrop, daughter of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a contributor
to her husbands paper, the Boston
Courier. She is also good painter.
Mr.. George G. Hill announces his
retirement from the chief editorship of
the Boston Post, after Is years service.
1t is reported that he is to become editor
of the Boston Economist.
Matthew Arnold has face some
what spare of flesh, with large features.
His chin, lips, and nose are large; he
wears mutton-chop whiskers, is near
sighted, and his somewhat wavy hair is
parted in the middle.
-Wilkie Collins, the great producer
of detective literature-the literature of
countless plots and counterplots-say
that he has made $4,000 in honest toll
with the pen. He spends much time
now in investigating lawsuits and in
studying chemistry and medicine.
Victor Hugo is said to know little or
nothing of America Although for 10
years a resident of the Island of Guern-
sey in the British Channel, he under
stands hardly word of English. When
the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson was
mentioned to him, he looked puzzled
"Mr Emerson" said he, giving a
French accent to the name. "Who is
he? | never heard of him."
Mr.. Tennyson, while he greatly adj
mires ladies, has an invincible repug-
nance to hearing them recite his poetry.
| He went to an afternoon tea in London,
last season, at which certain fair lady,
who wished to do him honor, arose and
began to recite one of his poems. The
venerable and irascible poet endured it
as long as he could; then he stopped the
poor woman with an imperious gesture,
and Immediately proceeded to deliver
the poem himself in his own orotund
way.
OF all the poets who do not look like
poets, Robert Browning may be said to
look least like master of verse. He is
stout, comfortable, prosaic, fine looking
in figure and face; he looks, in short,
exactly like country squire of moder-
ate fortune. Mr.. Browning is a sturdy
believer in the doctrine of work He
goes every morning regularly to his
study and there writes till noon, being
in this like Bulwer. He has no patience,
he has been heard to say, with writers
who are obliged to "wait for inspira-
ton"
Mr.. Rossetti, the poet, since the
death of his wife, has lived life of al
most complete seclusion, scarcely ever
going into society. Mrs. Rossetti was &
beautiful and sweet-natured woman, and
since her death the habit of reserve has
grown upon him. When she died he
was so wretched that he felt his own in
tellectual life was at an end, and in her
grave he buried all the sonnets he had
written, and which, by-the-way, were
addressed to her. His friends, resolved
that the poems should not be lost,
opened the grave and rescued them
and after a time revealing to the poet
that they were in existence, persuaded
him to print them.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-15
school and Church.

H
The Alabama Conference of the M
E. Church South embraces IA minis
tiers. r.,,
Compulsory education of all chill
dren between the ages of 6 and 10 has
been ordered in Cuba.
The Bethel Mission at Cincinnati
is said tn be the largest Sunday School
in the United States, its membership
numbering about 5000. ta 'Fa-
/ Professor David Swing has refused,
it is reported, to have his salary raised
from 81, coo to $4,000, and has asked
that the offered addition be used for
charity. ..f ll
OF the $500 Protestant Episcopal
clergymen in the United States only
2. 600 are rectors of churches, and 525
are without any ministerial employ
ment, except as they are invited to
preach here and there as opportunity.
offers. r. i lfau a.oaI .ir
Statistics have been prepared which
show that the growth of Roman Ca
tholicism in New England during the
last thirty years has been large. In 30
wears there has been an increase of 4 d.
oceses, bishops, 524 priests, 525
churches and chapels, 20 academies,
107 parochial schools and 761, 900 pop
ulation. au 81 f7l
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-15

A young lady in PARIS visits her
milliner to order new hat, and the
artist shows her some startling and at
tractive combinations, none of which,
however, suit the lady, who says: 81
want something more simple than that
something in better taste" Milliner
with a naughty sneer): "Oh, you want
something to wear when you are out
walking with your husband. Here,
Jane Ito youngest. apprentice), show
this person something cheap and viz
tuous.'
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-15

found, and the presumption is that his
death was a painless ole. The de-
ceased inherited property from his IA
ther and brothers valued at s., 900 goo, which
has since nearly doubled in value, so
that he was considered oneof the richest men
in the State. He was a bachelor and very &C.
centric, especially in his benefacsions, which
were frequently large and peculiar in their
character. He had been in i'll health all his
life, and it is supposed preferred to make a
painless exit from the world rather than to
drag out what at best would be only few
more days of pain. He died leaving no will,
and his vast estate will go to some so or 10
cousins living in different parts of the eoun-
try, but mainly in Southwestern Illinois.
Mrs. Daniel Haskins and her three chill
dren, Annie, aged 10; Eddy, aged A; and an
infant, were burned to death in their resi-
dence on Union Street, San Francisco, on the
morning of the 9th.
General Garfield received the unanimous
nominationfor United States Senator by the
Ohio Republican, Senatorial Caucus.
The buildings SS3-3s9 Main Street,
Memphis, were burned on the night Of the
9th. Peter Mete, fireman, was killed by
falling walls, and several others were in
jured.
Mrs. Kate Anderson, aged %, was fatally
burned by coal-oiLeXplosion in Chicago on
the evening of the 9Th. She undertook TO
hurry up the fire for supper by pouring oil
upon it from can. She lived only about
three hours afteIward.
A Washington special Of the 9TH reported
that extensive revenue frauds in Louisiana
had recently been discovered, the facts Of
which would soon be given to the public.
0uray and the other Ute hostages, II in
number, in charge of Lieut.. Taylor, took the
cars at Pueblo on the eth, en- route to Wash
ington. There was much animosity exhib-
tied by the citizens at their presence, and
cries of " Hang the red devilsi' "Shootthe
numbering fiends!" etc., were freely heard.
Marcos Salazar, Mexican horsetbief,
was hanged by the vigilantes at Alamosa,
Colo., on the night Of the 9th.
A terrible snow-storm prevailed in the
Sierra Nevadas on the Sth to 10th, complete
ly blocking traffic on the Central Pacific
Railroad. Several snow-sheds were
crushed and buried beneath the immense
drifts.
John F. Phillips, Democrat, has been
elected to Congress from the Seventh Mis-
souri, District to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Of Hon. Alfred NJ. Lay.
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- = roRE1aS.

Detailed reports of Russian military
preparations which come from various
points on the Austrian and German frontiers
are beginning to excite attention Throughout
Europe. An anonymous German pamphlet,
recently published and circulated at Berlin,
holds that Germany's eastern frontier is suf-
ficiently defended and that there need be no
fears of Russian invasion.
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th reported that
Bismarck's condition was rapidly growing
worse and his death was considered immi-
nent. -i-FTT y TfiT mr. 81
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Unlve. rsity makes a statement in
refe.re to the students of that institu-
ton that is probably Unprecedented in
the annals of any collegiate institution
in the world, viz, that during the three
years past there has not been an occasion
to reprimand or censure a single student;
and that it has never been his good for
tune to live among a more earnest,
diligent, and enthusiastic company of
Young men than those who are there as
sembled. "a AZ fs 8-4t
A meeting of Methodists in Boston
has decided 10 petition the General Con-
ference to make rule providing that
Presiding Elders shall be appointed by
the Bishops on the nomination of a
majority of the Conference that if the
Bishop has other views, he may COM
municate them and the Conference act
upon them, and if the Conference does
not nominate, he may appoint, as now.
A demand for the introduction of lay
representation into the annual Confer
ences was also agreed upon.
Speaking of the influence of charity
kindergartens on children who have
been utterly neglected at home, the
Ne1o Education says: % The first few
days the kindergarten is like a menagerie
of little wild beasts, tearing and pound
ing each other, talking profane and foul
language, rebellious and selfish-ah the
vices being displayed in miniature. In
a weeks time order has dawned, for
delightful occupations have chained
attention; beautiful sights and sounds,
and lovely sentiments set to music, have
charmed eye and ear and heart; har-
monious and dramatic plays have been
organized; kind words and caresses have
walked a new sense of enjoyment, and
in less than month it is a little, orderly,
docile, and compliant company, in
which all are agreeable to each other,
forming little friendships and making
sacrifices" tttr. .t,-l.4t
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Science and Industry.

All the American mills are full of
orders for rails.
"A vessel carried to London lately
5000 cases of canned salmon.
Over 1000 cheese factories are OPP
Grated in the State Of New York.
Seven machines in Pittsburg pro-
duced last year 1,063,54 kegs of nails.
There is tea plantation in George
town, S. c., which is paying its owner
a profit.
The production of anthracite coal
this year viii reach 100000 tons
more than ever before
Milwaukee made 752, 900 barrels of
flour last year, being an increase Of POO
600 barrels over 1878.
Since March last one of the Lewis
town pa mills has made $4,000 pounds
of wool into yarn and stockings.
The lead mines of Chester County,
Pa, that have been idle for 20 years,
are soon to be put in operation.
The Is car manufacturing establish
ments of the United States turned out
last year 1880 pieces of rolling stock,
There are more men now employed
at the Remington armory at lion, n.
Y, than at any time in the past five
years. .......... .........
Iron ore in the Ottawa district is
being taken to Ohio to be smelted, the
so cents per ton duty on coal being fatal
to smelling in Canada.
Mr.. John Morrison, of Pennington,
Me-, who has harvested sugar beets at
the rate of 40 tons per acre, says he can
make money by raising this crop and
hauling four miles at 81 the ton.
"A company of citizens of Allegheny
County, Pa, are arranging for the cree
ton of large hoe factory at Mononga-
hela City. They will employ about
1000 hands and expect to turn out 200
hoes per day. -' .i'. ''''.'
There are five cotton factories in and
near Petersburg, Va, which employ { 10
operatives. During the past year they
consumed 5000 bales of cotton, and
manufactured II, 105,00 yards of cloth,
which brought from to cents yard,
and was purchased chiefly by Northern
iobbers. -'HH 81
The Crossley modification of
Huguse's microphone, which has been
successfully used as transmitter for
telephones, so that church services are
enjoyed by invalids at home, is a very
simple contrivance.. 1t consists of four
short rods of carbon, jointed loosely in
to four blocks of carbon, so that the
whole forms a square. H -iii.i
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GENERAL.

: 1t is reportedst that two Young Americans,
George Green of Texas and Frank Senfer Of
Boston, were in a imail,coach, near Guara-
anto, Mexico, when it was attacked by a
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-23

But admit that Indiana will go for
Garfield still there are Connecticut and
New Jersey, both regarded as Democratic
states, and having together 10 votes.
Connections 6 and New Jersey y, Ii
Hancock shall carry them he will still DO
elected by a majority of 8 votes. even
though he lose Indiana. Or. it he shall
carry Pennsylvania with its 29 votes ne
will be elected by majority of IL, though
he lose Indiana, Connecticut and New
Jersey. Or. If he lose Pennsylvanla,
Indiana and Connecticut and carry New
Jersey 70 votes), and Nevada and Oregon
(3 votes each), he will still be elected by a
majority of 8 votes, And even this does
NOT exhaust his chances of bis election.
The Repu blicans themselves set down
California, with its 6 votes, as doubtful
state. New York. New Jersey and
California, therefore. may give Hancock
enough votes in addition to the 1873 counted
certain for him to elect him by votes.
But Maine. too. is regarded as very
doubtful since the Fusionists carried it in
September, and will probably carry it
again in November, This would not elect
Hancock, it is true. but it would defeat
Garfield, and probably throw the election
into the house. How strong the case is
against Garfield may be seen By rejecting
that he must carry all the states set down
as doubtful-Indisua. Maine, New Jersey,
Connecticut. California, Oregon and
Nevada-to give him the requisite majority
of 1855 votes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-23
JeweliSs Reply.

The reply Of Chairman Jewell, of the
Republican committee. to the circular of
Mr.. Barnum, is q very weak attempt to
explain away the charge that Republican
frauds are intended in Florida and
elsewhere. The effort of jewels to shift
the matter is ridicuiously weak. The idea
of the Democratic managers importing
voters into state which is absolutely
certain for Hancock, is so absurd that
the people will readily see the trick in
JewelI's so called explanation. So far as
the Republican party is concerned, Mr..
Jewell had better left the matter
unexplained. as by his attempted reply
he establishes a foundation fer the
charge. That fraud is contemplated
in the south and elsewhere for
that matter.i is well known by Nh. Barnum,
and he will see that Mr.. JEWELS schemes
are frustrated. The zabsurdity of Mr..
JEWELS reply lies in the fact that Demo
Gratis would be foolish to send recruits
south. IF the thing were reversed, Mr.
Jewells's explanation. though untenable
would have at least the appearance Of
plausibIlity even If false, As the case
stands, however, j ewell has put his foot in
it big-has made stupid blunder. In
this case Barnum has got the evidence be-
yond question that. frauds are to be
com mitted in the coming election by the
Republicans. Mr.. Jewell Processes to be
very indignant.b il won't avail. Why
should he be indignant. does he imagine the
people do not know that the state
OF Indiana was carried by the Republican
through gross fraud-that millions of
dollars were expended by the Republicans
to pay repeaters-that without repeaters
the state could never have been carried by
the Republicans. Ii Mr.. Jewell imagine
that the people are blind enough not to
see through the trick, he insults their
intelligence, He willhave to make better
explanation than he has in the circular
just issued. to acquit him and theiRepub-
managers of fraud. The idea of Demo
Gratis OF the north. when every vote is
required at home, going south to stuff
ballot boxes, in certain Democratic states
is too absurd for consideration. Mr.
JeVells reply is silly, illogical and dis
ingenious, 1t is too thin Cor even Republi
cans to believe.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-23
Political II otes,

The Democrats party with Gen. Han
cock at its head cannot be beaten. A
check is not defeat. 1t should inspire to
new exertion, and it will in this instance.
il is the last blow that tells, and that blow
cannot be delivered until the I'd OF Novem-
Der. Let no democrat make a mistake.
The result IN November will be more
glorious for the temporary embarrassment
that now exists. -Etnaird Free Press.
John I. Davenport wants ''proteotion'
in his infamous work of failing citizens for
the crime of voting the democratic ticket,
Marshall Jewell wants protection" in his
scheme of assessing the wages paid by the
people to their servants, for the purpose
of beating the people. John Sherman
wants protection" for the First National
bank OF New York. which he elloved to
make 81, 600.0 900 out of the four per cents,
before they were placed on the market,
and which contributed $500, 00G last month
to the Garfield corruption fund. Thomas
Brady wants protection" Tor his Star
Route contracts, By which millions are
openly stolen from the public. Grant and
term, and the empire back OF it. The
professional politicians running tie party
want 'protecuen" for the fraud of 1876,
and all the past present and intended ras-
caEities and crimes of radicaism. This is
the serpent whichslurks, ready-fauged and
veuomous, under the plausible chatter
about the tariff Union Observer.
The sectional and destructive policy Of
the republicans still adhered to. appeals
with tremendous force to our business men
TO give to it death blow in November.
unless they wish to part company With
their southern friends aud lose principal
market upon which their profits depend,
| We do not believe in appeals to cupldIty,
but when self interest and patriotic septi-
ments combine to indicate the path OF
duty, the argument in favor OF the demo-
cratic ticket was never stronger titan now.
Boston Post.
| The democratic platform was little too
curt in calling for "a tsrif for revenue
only" and General Hancock did not repair
the breach in his letter of acceptance,
| With his present position, namely, that We
must have tariff. that the present tariff
must be revised in Justice to all our in
terests and people" and that commission
offers the best method OF conducting this
revision, there is absolutely no fault to be
found Why the democrats have not
boldly discussed and urged revenue reform
in this shape is not clear. Senator Eaton
is almost alone in making it an issue of the
campaign-Sprin9teld Republican, Gar
field Organ
| All sorts of refuse will try to float in on
the new tidal wave, and even ex- Congress-
man Steve Kellogg of Waterbury. CT.
forwarded his congratulations to Garfield
I-Springfeld Republican,.
The workingmen are not told that the
real object of this cry il to obtain ''nrotec
ton" tor the hundred Thousand ofacehol
ders who wish to run the country foul
years more for their own benefit. Thai
is what the talk about protection really
means Uticd Observer
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-23
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-23
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-23
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