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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

Every man of honor has loathing
for low thing. - YonkerS Gazette.
Next TO a clear Conscience for solid
kumfort Gums an old shu.-JoSh Bill
tngS.
There are only 5000 professional
burglars in this country. The night
work is very trying to the health, and
their terms of service are very short
in Jail Citizen.
What is the most common relief
used for boilp' The most common
is profanity. Kicking the dog, abusing
your family and getting into a lawsuit
with your neighbor are reliefs also used.
Boston Post.
The school year at Vassar College
began last week, and many of the old
chews of gum left in the rooms last
June are said to have been found in
good order. This will be welcome news
to those parents whose daughters at
tend Vassar. - Chicago Tribune.
Patrick had been talking exctedly
to man, who replied not one word,
but kept his fingers gyrating in fran
tic manner. "Och, stop your finger
wagging, and shpake out loike manr'
he cried at last. "Why, Patrick, that
man is deaf mute" said Brown; "he
can't speak" Cant shpake, is it,"
exclaimed Pat; "thin why didn't the
spalpeen say so at oncew-BoStolS
transcript.
did you hear of that case up ON
Market street," said Barber to Brewer,
when they met at the post-of1ice this
morning. "No; what about it?'' in
quired Brewer, interested. why"
said Barber, "a man lay there in the
house nine days before the family would
bury him. Had the funeral yesterday"
" BY gracious" said Brewer, that s
an outrage. Why didn't they bury him
beforep superstition? "No; not ex-
actly that" and Barber slowly drew
Brewers ear down toward his mouth.
"That wasn't it, He wasn't dead. -
| NelD HQUeH ReQiSteT
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08
A TWO-HEADED FAMILY.

A True Story of What Two BOYS Did.
Everybody talked, of course. when it
was known that Bob TOwne had run
away, and had taken his brother Ned
with him, and everybody said it was a
shame. BY every body | mean all the
people i'll the little Mississippi town in
which Bob's mother lived. They did
not know why Bob had run away, and
they did not know where he had gone;
but they talked about it all the same.
They said it was shame for him to
leave his widowed mother, and worse
still to take his little brother with him,
though not one of them could have sug-
gested any possible way in which Bob
could have helped his mother by stay
inc. Bob was curious" however,
and people never think we'll of persons
whom they do not understand. Bob was
fond of books, for one thing, and because
he read a great deal, and did not "sit
around in the village, they said he
was mOroSe; and so when the news
spread that Bob had gone away in the
night, and had taken his brother with
him, everybody said: a. told you so, ="
in tone which indicated that that was
the very worst thing they could say.
Bob's mother had letter, however,
which convinced her that her boy was
not heartleSs at any rate. She said
nothing about this letter-found in
BOb's room-but she read it over and
over again, and cried over it, and even
kissed it sometimes in secret. The let
ter was brief and simple, 1t said;
my DEAR MOTHER.-Please don't feel bad
ly AT my going away; it is my duty. When
found, after father death, that the estate
was worth SO little, and that you had almo 4
nothing except the house you live in, made
up my mind that must be the head of the
family, although | am only fourteen years
old, After good deal of thinking have hit
uIOl plan 10 make some money, | think
and as Ned wants to Join me, Pm going To
take him with me. Neither of us can earn
anythiu here, but | believe we can where
were going. AT least you won't have us To
feed. We shall work for YOU and for our little
sisters, and il we make any hing, it will ali be
yours. II w don't, we wi | al least have tried
When we succeed Wei let you know where
we are. We nate to 60 away without kissinl
you and little Kat. and Mary ami Susie, bu
we must, else you will never let us go. Good
by, and God bless you, mother"
That was all the trae6 Bob and NeC
left behind them, and nobody coulC
guess where they had gone.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

They have started factory in
Chattanooga, Tenn, for the manufac-
ture of sheep cheese. The manager
comes from Austria, where the product
of the sheep diaries is a favorite article
of food.
-COcoauut growing is becoming an
important industry in Florida. Charles
Maloney has a plantation Of several
thousand trees on Stock Island. j. V.
Harris, of Key West, has about 1000
trees, +. o. Lock, about 10000, aud
Lieutenant. Governor Bethel is having
an extensive grove of cocoanut trees
planted.
Edison has among his exhibits at
the electric show at Paris a one-horse
power engine operating nine improved
lamps, each of which IS to burn nine
months. Edison also proposes to show
his autographs system Of telegraphy.
by which he produces by telegraph fac
SMILES of handwriting.
The great iron bridge that is to be
built over the Kinzua Creek, eighteen
miles south of Bradford, Mexican Coun-
ty, Pa, it is said, will be the largest in
the world when completed. 1t is for
the extension of the Erie Railway into
Elk County, and will be over 800 feet
high and 1000 feet in length.
The big steam hammer which was
made for the Black Diamond Steel
works at Pittsburgh weighs seventeen
tons, and will WORK steel ingots two
feet square. The motive power for
this monster will be furnished by an
engine with forty-inch cylinders, re-
curing eighty pounds of steam.
One of the great trials which the
builder has to endure is the "saltpeter-
ing" of the brick-work, or the white
streaks which too often disfgure the
fronts of brick buildings. 1t is worth
noting that this can usually be prevent
ed by adding oil to the mortar at the
rate of a gallon to the cask of lime.
Linseed oil is generally used, but any
kind will do which does not contain
salt.
The advance sheets of the census
declare that the small portion of the
State of Mississippi called the "Yazoo
bottom" which in 1879 produced only
25S, 900 bales of cotton, is capable, by
the exclusion of the Mississippi over
flow and by improved cultivation, of
producing nearly 5,737, 257 bales annu-
ally of the present production of the
whole country.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08

But there was one woman and there
were three little girls in that town in
whose ewes Bob aud Ned locked like
anything but tramps. Their clothes
were worn, indeed, but they were
Rugged and kissed by their mother and
sisters Just as heartily as il they had
been the best-dressed youths in the
village.
Now you'll stay at home, won't
you, you naughty runaway bOysP said
their proud and happy mother, when
they had fully recounted their fifteen
months experiences. IL want my
boys"
awe can't, mother" said Bob.
We're the two heads of this family,
you know. I'm one head, and Ned has
fairly earned the right to be the otheri
and we've got property interests now.
We stopped at Major Singers on the
way home, and have made new bar
gain with him. We've bought plan
tation."
Then Bob explained that the Major
had agreed that they should mark OFT II
tract of four hundred acres where their
hut stood, and take it at five dollars an
acre-quite all that it would sell for
then, because of the difficulty of getting
labor for clearing land They were to
have their own time in which to pay for
the tract, but they meant to work the
debt of within year or two by hiring
one or two hands for their crop, and
thus increasing their force and their
earnings.
$50 you see, mother" said Bob,
"we've got to go back to our planta-
| ton"
VERY WE'LL" she replied; land we
are going with you. The family
mustn be separated from its head, and
want my boys, and l think my boys
want me too when they are lonely down
there in the swamp"
Indeed we do" exclaimed both
boys "Hurrah for mothern
Three years later, rs | happen to
know, the last dollar of debt was paid.
The boys have built agood house there,
which their mother has made a home
for them. They have now, after a
dozen years work. a gin house, n cot
ton press, twelve mules. good man y
cows, and Bob has baby OF his own,
having found wife on one of his bust
ness trips.
The people of his native village, when
they heard that he had actually bought
the plantation, said again that "BOl
Towne GLlOGyS 1OGS a curious boy.
George Cary EggleSton, in Harper'}
Ioung People.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08
A Horse Attacked by a Weasel.

A remarkable incident occurred re-
Gently upon farm in Scotland. ,
farmer was blowing in one of his fields,
which was nearly completed, and was
passing to within foot or two of the
fence wall, when suddenly, and to the
surprise of the farmer, one of the horses
became FESTIVE and wild, and refused to
proceed in his work. This was an I'M
usual circumstance, and the farmer was
puzzled to make out the cause of it.
Selling the reins in his hands, he walked
toward the horses head, when, to his
astonishment, he found that large
weasel had attacked the horse by spring.
ing upon it and fastening its teeth in
the frightened animal neck. 1t was
moment of excitement and alarm, but
the farmer was equal to the emergency.
With a well-directed stroke of the reins
the weasel was dislodged and killed.
The horse soon recovered from his
fright, and in due course blowing was
resumed. The cause of the daring at
tack upon the horse was explained upon
the return journey, with the pillow
breadth nearer the wall, where at the
place of attack, the stock turned over
nest of young weases, the object OF
anxious solicitude n the parent weasel.
1t was the well grounded fear OF harm
to her young that had inspired the heart
of The parent weasel to perform an act
OF daring that one could almost regret
should have been so disastrous to itself
and progeny.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-10-08

Mayor Grubbs, of indianapolis, has
decided that selling peanuts on Sunday
is not work of charity or of necessity,
and has fined peanut man for the Of
tense.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-22
Be Careful What You Sign.

The american .1gricuhu-ist, which for five
and twenty years has made special fel-
ture of exposing various swindling schemes,
opens its new volume more vigorously than
ever in this line. 1t gives a list of over 200
names and firms to whom the Post Office
Department now refuses to deliver regis
tered letters, or pay money orders. From
other parts OF it's chapter "Sundry Hum
bugs we select the following: 4 young
man traded i poor for a good horse, givin.
his note of 500, payable by agreement, six
months after date, without interest. When
called upon for payment he claimed that it
was not due by any means, and 4 careful
examination showed that it read payable
six months after death" In this case the
father prevailed upon the young man to
pay the note, on the ground that 81 he (the
sony was in 4 fair way to have plenty of
other accounts to settle about the time the
note, as written, would be due" This is
an illustration how easy it is 10 entirely
change the purport of 4 written agreement
so rs not to be noticed by the casual OBJ
IL c,
we wish to impress our former advice upon
every reader, especially farmers, namely,
not to sign any paper for Il stranger. Mil
lions of dollars have been filched from farm
ers who have thoughtlessly, or carelessly,
or ignorantly signed their names. Beguiled
by the promises of large profits, they have
undertaken to act rs "agents" for this,
that, or the other invention, or 4 lot of i'm
PIGMENTS, new patents, spring mattresses,
etc, etc, with the guarantee that all not
sold would be taken back. They give notes
for the payment, with the verbal Cor may
be written) agreement that the note will
not he collectihe if the articles are not
sold. But the seller soon disposes of the
good note at 7 bank or elsewhere and dis
appears. His guarantee amounts to moth
ing. he is ont of reach, and the innocent
buyer of the note collects it. Very often
the victim signs what lie supposes is merely
an order for the articles with his address
for having them correctly forwarded, but
the swindler has adroitly got his signature
to very different document. The only
safety is to not write ones name and not
even make pen mark for any stranger
| whatever, under any circumstances
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-22
" Martha FaIquharson.

Tn following personal tens, relative to
an Ills.on aurh"resS, whu-r graceful pen
has 81 often instructed and entertained
them, will I've received with general interest
by our readers
Miss Martha Finley, Il widely known and
very successful writer of chl,lren'S hooks,
was born in Chillicothe. Ohio, of which
town her paternal grandfather was one of
the early settlers This grandfather was
General Samuel Finley, Il Revolutionary Of
ticer of the Virginia Line. His eldest son
DR.. James b. Finley, was her father. On
her mothers side she is direct descendant,
through the Buffers, of that Duke Of Or
moud who was influential in making the
Treaty of Utrecht, of whom Macanlay
speaks so highly in his history Of England.
The Buffers We're military men. Six of
Miss Finiey's great-unc!es by that name
were in the War of he Revolution. while
their father, being too old to fight, carried
provisions to the army. General Washing
ton upon one occasion gave the toast.
''ThnmaS Butler, the brave old man. and
y
father was Of six brothers who came TO this
country, Of whom one, the Rev. Samuel
Finley, u. D., became one of the early
presidents of Princeton College. Her grand
father Finley received large tracts of land
from the government, III acknowledgment of
his services in the Revolutions; and he laid
out and owned the whole of the town OF
MELVILLE, Pennsylvania.
In the winter of 1853, Miss Finley went
to New York, and there began her literary
career, writing first a short newspaper story
and u little book which was published by
the Baptist Board of Publication. Between
1886 and 1870 she wrote more than twenty
Sunday school books and several series of
juveniles, one containing rs many as twelve
volumes. Casella, u historical story of the
Waldeuses, WAS published by the Lippin-
colts in 1869, and the Peddler of La Grare,
Il few wears later, by the Presbyterian Board.
An Old Fashion Boy followed in 1871. and
its sequel, Our Fred, in 1871. Dodd, Mead
* Co. Her two novels, Wanted-a Pedigree,
and, Signing the Contract, are published by
the latter firm: also the Elsie series, seven
in number, which have won their author so
much popularity; and the Mildred series
of which two volumes have appeared,
Mildred Keith and Mildred at Roseantls
Miss Finley has written short sketches for
magazines, and was ut one time a frequen.
contributor to the Sunday School Times.
For several years past, she has resided in
Elkton, Cecil county, Maryland. She has
been an invalid for large parG of her life,
most of her writings having been done while
lying ON her bel or reclining in an invalid's
chair. She has also been much hndered in
work by defective sight. For years the re-
enumeration OF her work was slight, but she
has nobly battled with all difficulties and
diScouragements, and the results of her
faith and perseverance are not only enuoh-
ling the hearts and identifying the lives of
old and young, but are now yielding her
comfortable income. Her health and sight
of late, have greatly improved, ard she
trusts her best work is yet to be DONE
MARY L. IRELAND, in the Literary World.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-22
Clipping Our Town Names.

The Post Office Department, for the dis
patch of business, of course, but in what
seems to he a very arbitrary, not to say in
artistic fashion, has Gecreed that the tail
shall be cut OFT from the names of our post
office towns PerrymanSville, in this way,
has become 9 Perry and TowSontown
has been locked so as to read "TowSon."
We do not know whether Port Deposit has
been transformed into deposit or " Port
Depos. OF course names should be short
rather than long, euphonic rather than &c
centric, but when they fail to come up to
The ideal WE still cannot understand what
authority the department at Washington
has TO make changes. "TowSon " is GER
tainly not descriptive of TowSontown. a
place of the latter name, which was incor-
porat-d by one Legislature and disiucorpor
iitd by the next, ought to have an abiding
title. The return of u deputy sheriff in
tended for "Towsontown. the county seat
of Baltimore county," might not officially
reach its destination if simply sent 10
. T"wSon, Md, D." and in this way serious
legal complications mig hit arise. The name
OF CheStertown has been changed, we be-
lieve, to that of Chester. Yet this ancient
village had its name before Baltimore was
settled, and there are two other places in
the same county-"ne Che>terville, the other
Head of Chester which might he con-
io'i''' WIN 'hc 'ilplcu
cognUneu.
We endorse the above, cut from our con-
temporary the Baltimore .Sua 1t is certain
that changes in the names of towns are not
always improvements. That of Brick
Meeting House. in this county. to Cal.
vert, is a case in point If the name was
too long why not abbreviate it, to meet the
demand OF the Post Office Department, and
ut the same time preserve enough of the
original name to retain the local identity .
The old Brick Meeting House il Il historical
spot. Around it clusters Interesting and
well cherished associations What have
the descendants of its honored founders
done that it should he despoiletl of its time
honored title, and the clipped and insigniii-
cant name of Calvert ''-signifcant enough
for certain localities, we aimit-uiveutit ?
If the Post Office Department merely desires
a shorter business name, why not use
&c Brick NJ. H., which contains no more
letters than Calvert? The fact was, we
believe, that the Department ordered a
chang" in the name, and the selection was
made 'at home" Butt the necessity of
ordering change We have never yet seen
The next thing Elkton will be abbreviated
to Elk, and Turkeytown suffer the loss OF
its tail
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-22

H., by their next'trend James NJ. Magraw.
filed caret.t to the Circuit Court, obiectinI,
10 it. The Courr, after 4 hearing, set the
will asi lie. Afterwards petition was filed
ny MunnekhuySen, asking the Court I"
grant letters of administration pendeate W"
that is, while suit is pendng-upon the
estate. The reason for which Mr.. Munnck-
huysen asked for the letters of administra-
rion mentioned, is supposed to he step in
he direction IF the revival of the will above
mentioned as other proceedings are dock.
ted, which show that he holds and claims
payment of Il note of the late Mrs. Magraw.
given him for legal services rendered in the
settlement of her husbands estate, and
which could not be collected as matters now
stand. The Court denied the petition and
refused to grant the letters of adminis,ra-
lion prayed for, for the reason that such
action would be Il recognition of the will OF
Mrs. Magraw, which has already been set
aside by the Circuit Court.
On Thursday the counsel for petitioner
petitioned the Court to hear testimony why
they should set aside the will AS prayed.
The Court refused to hear testimony in the
case, on the general ground of want of .juriS-
diction, and dismissed the case. An appeal
was then taken to the Court of Appeals.
The petitioner was represented by Albert
Constable. Esq, of Elkton, T. j. McKaig,
Esq, of Baltimore, and Hon. ii. w. Archer,
of Hartford, and Mr.. Magraw by }. =. Poe,
Esq, of Baltimore, and Hon. Hiram Mccall
Tough and Hon. Alexander Evans, of this
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-22
Contemplated Removals.

AS the Spring approaches, the rumors of
tiply. Quite number of them reported
have been contradicted, the families named
being rather amused, if not astonished, ut
how much more other people know about
their business than they do themselves
This, however, is i way that small towns
have. The following list of removals, we
believe, authentic, as far rs it goes: Major
C. w. Morris has decided to make Atlantic
City his future home, William r. Warbur-
ton, Esq. having rented the premises now
occupied by Major Morris and family. Mr.
H. ID. NJ. Howard will vacate Holly Hall
also, and remove to Philadelphia; Mr.. j.
Il. Newmyer and Mr.. Weeder, both of
Church street, also having decided to locate
in the city of Brotherly Love. Mr.. John
Wilmington or Chester. EX-Sheritf W. II.
Boulder will leave town and reoccupy his
farm. Mrs Thaddeus Smith has decided
to move to Delaware City. Rev. Vaughan
Smith will, upon assignment by the Con-
ference, remove his family.
Dominic McElwee goes back to Philade!-
phia. Mr.. Henry Ninsinser will remove to
the mill property vacated by Mr.. Elwee
Mr.. James Mckinsey and family are think
ing also Of RENE wing 10 Philadelphia where
Mr.. Warner MckiuSey is engaged in bust
; ness
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-01-22
A Volunteer Prisoner

On Wednesday last, a young white man,
about nineteen years of age, giving he name
Of William T. Mote, appeared before Squire
Foard and asked to be committed to the
House of Refuge; not for any crime he had
committed, hut for the sake of the shelter
OF its roof and the food provided its in
mates. He said he had been Knocking
around all Winter without Il home and often
Without food, sleeping in barns or wherever
he could find shelter until he was almost
worn out. He says he is without friends or
relatives and altogether in y sad sort of a
plight. The Squire committed him to the
House of Correction, ut .Jessup's Cut, for
four months. II appears that the same
yonng man was here about a wear ago in
the garb Of and following the occupation of
u tramp, and WAS taken up by Constable
Foard as such, but he begged So hard to be
released that he was given his liberty under
4 promise to leave the STATE. and never re-
turn. He returned this time desiring lust
what he pleaded with all his might TO escape
a year agn-committal I" prison. He avows
his determination, if he can yet over the
Winter, never to tramp again, but hopes TO
learn Il portion at least of some good trade
while at ,Jessup's Cut.
The authorities would prefer sending him
to the Baltimore House of Refuge, az he
would remain there until of age, and will
send him there in cad of to Jessup's, if he
will be received by the directors.