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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11
TEXAS.

Farm hands III Dallas county re-
ceive 81 80 per day.
A fire at Corsicana on the Both inst.
destroyed a row of five wooden build
ings.
A bed of fine anthracite coal has
been found near Bridgeport, Wise
county.
The business men of Terrell have
subscribed $4,000 to erect cotton
factory at that place.
A severe hail storm on the line of
the Santa Fe railroad, on the Both ult.,
caused serious damage to cotton,
wheat and corn.
Adam Truim, charged with being
an accessory in the Corpus Christi
stage robbery, is in jail at San AntO-
Mo, in default of a $500 bond.
Storms of wind, hail and rain Ofun-
usual severity have recently visited
Northern Texas and done serious dam
age to the crops, especially to cotton.
During a drunken affray on the
oath inst, at Palestine, James Thomp-
son shot and instantly killed William
Ware, both colOred. Thompson was
arrested and jailed.
Near Kyle Station, Billie NJ. Mel
son, alias Billie Bones, alias Charlie
Hart, implicated in several robberies,
was shot dead by Sheriff Martin, liz
an attempt to escape after being ar
rested.
AT GAINESVILLE, John Thompson shot
and killed deputy sheriffs Charles and
Sam Meredith and l.. Krilht, who at
tempted to arrest him on warrant
for carrying concealed weapons.
Thompson escaped in the Indian Ter
ritory.
Texas has 1000 miles of railroad in
course of construction and 5000 pro-
jected. The "Gould combination"
alone has brought 100000 into the
State since April, 1850, and has now
$50 miles of road under construction
The Missouri Pacific extensions thus
far have occasioned an outlay of at
least $2,000,000 The Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fc has over 100 miles to be
built; the Fort Worth and Denver
80, while the Houston and Texas
Central has already built branch to
Red Gap, a distance of ninety-eight
miles, and the East Line and Red Riv-
er extended its road sixty miles.
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A Record of Boiler Explosions.

The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspec-
ton and Insurance company gives a
classified and we presume a tOlerably
complete report of the boiler explos-
ions which occurred in the year 1880.
From this rather gloomy summary of
events we learn that the total number
of such catastrophes for the year
named was 40, and that as result
259 persons were killed and 800 in
jured. The largest number of ex-
plosions in any one month was %, in
December, 1880, and the smallest, 10,
in June. But it happens, singularly
enough, that while the % explosions
in December killed only 50 persons and
injured the same number, the 10 SINH
lar disasters in June killed 30 and in
jured 132, being the most sanguinary
months work of the whole year. 1t
further appears from this unpleasant
chronicle that of the whole number of
explosions for the year, AZ, or more
than one-fourth, were in saving, plan
ing and woodworking mills; 10 in
paper, Touring, pulp and grist mills
and elevators IL in iron works, roll
ing mills, foundries, machine and
boiler shops; 10 in distilleries, Tew-
cries, malt and sugar houses, soap and
chemical works; in mines, oil re-
fneries and oil wells; 80 in railroad
locomotives and fire engines, steam
boats, tugboats or other floating struc-
lures IL portables, holsters, threshers
pile-drivers and cotton gins; and the
remaining q in all other works, mills,
stores, dwellings, public buildings, etc,
of too various a character to admit
Of classification.
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Paper from Common Ora SIS.

Common grass is utilized in paper
making as follows, according to pat
ent process One pound of green
grass yields "a to l-6 of a pound OF
paper. The sap and inorganic matter
must be extracted from the fiber, the
grass having been cut before it began
to bloom. The grass is passed through
rollers of press, which loosens the
fiber and squeezes out most of the sap.
1t is then freed from dirt by being thor
Oughly agitated or washed by other
means i'll large tank of water, in tenn
perature either warm or cold. A per-
forated false bottom i'll the tank con-
tains the grass and allows the dirt to
fall into the compartment below,
where pipe gives egress to the dirt
and wash water. After sufficient
washing the crushed grass is boiled in
an open kettle, or i'll steam kettle
with I've, in a proportion of pound
of caustic soma, or tw0-tenths of a
pound of caustic potash, or six-tenths
of lime, TO loo pounds of grass. With
All open kettle the boiling is continued
from four to five hours; with a steam
Kettle two hours VIII suffice
From the kettle the material goes
into a tiltering trough Of magnesia for
about thirty minutes, then is placed a
second time in a solution of carbonate
of soda, and finally second time in a
solution of sulphuric acid. These
operations may be repeated more or
less, till the pulp is as fine and white
as required, after which it is washed
in clear water.
Another method is to filter the
crushed pulp with water glass, and
bleach it with solution of chloride
of lime or chloride of soda. Still an
other is to bleach the crude pulp in
chlorine gas, and finish with water
glass, after which the pulp is washed
with clean water.
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FOREIGN.

According to the recent census the popu-
lation OF London is 3,S14,571.
Prince Bismark is confined TO his bed by
a painful outbreak of his old ailment.
The dueling mania has broken out in
Paris again. Three meetings took place in
one day, recently.
A bill has been introduced in the Next
can congress authorizing the President of
Mexico to establish national bank at Vera
Cruz.
The cashier and three clerks of large
commercial firm in Paris have been arrest
ed for defalcations amounting to nearly
100000.
A Dublin dispatch says Demsey, far
mer who had taken land from which the
! tenant had been evicted, was fred at from
behind a hedge in Galway county, and
killed.
The steamship Phenician arrived at
Glasgow from Boston on June 2nd, with a
number of cattle which were found to be af-
fected with the foot and mouth disease. They
were killed.
A meeting of the Anti-Slave Trade SOeie-
ty in Madrid, recently, passed a resolution
demanding the abolition OF capital punish
ment and the immediate liberation Of all
slaves in the Antilles.
At GTandenz, a fortified town in Western
Prussia, during the artillery practice, a
shell fell and exploded in the midst of the
marking party. Three captains and two
gunners were killed and three persons
wounded.
A Tunis cablegram says NJ. Seguin, cor
respondent of the Paris Telegraph, was
killed by Arabs at Beja, on May 2sth. He
was felled to the earth by stones and stabbed
| in eight places. The murderers were ar
rested, tried by courtmartial and shot.
The Dublin correspondent of a London
paper says that it is a notorious fact that
all recent disturbances have been in the
richest agricultural districts, where the
farmers are all well of, and to speak of
these people as objects OF compassion, or
down-trodden, rack-rented victims Of land
/ lord cruelty is untrue.
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Ancient Writing-Case and Styles Used
BY Scribes.

"Style is everything" ladies tell
you: but very few know indeed what
the style really was. 1t came as sec
ondary meaning to be applied to the
manner in which writer expressed
his thoughts; and then, as a more re-
mote meaning still, TO convey the idea
of the manner of a painter, or other
artist, and finally of the dress, car
riage and tone of a lady. The style
was, however, primarily a sharp
pointed instrument, with the ancients
wrote for temporary use on waxed
tablets. The diminutiYe of styles
gives US stiletto, and all know what
style that is.
The apcients used these waXen tab
lets for memoranda, rough draughts,
etc. The writing-tablet on which
Zachary wrote was one of these, and
the instrument a style. Where it was
intended to preserve the writing, it
was copied on papyrus. or parchment,
and thus made enduring. Things for
perpetuity, as inscriptions to be en-
closed in buildings whether monu-
ments or edifices, were cut with a
style en- plates of lead, or on clay tab
lets, which were then baked. Thus
Job asked that his words might be
craven on plates of lead.
The case of a regular scribe was
neat and often an ornamental case,
in which he carried styles, tablets and
rolls of parchment for immediate use,
with the reed used in writing, the ink
horn being carried at the girdle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11
An Incident of the New Testament Re-
vision,

Among the numerous changes made
in the revision of the New Testament
was the expunging of the miracle in
reference to the stirring of the pool of
Bethesda. A gentleman residing in
Philadelphia, and claiming to know
tho facts connected with the omission,
explains why it was made. 1t was
done because, from the documents in
the possession of the two committees,
there was reason to believe that the
story was spurious, and had been I'M
warrantably inserted in the transla-
tons of the original. The part omit
ted reads: "For an Angelwent down
at certain season into the pool and
troubled the waters: whatsoever then
first after the troubling of the water
stepped in it was made whole of what
soevcr disease he had" The stirring
of the waters, which in the early days
of the church had been ascribed to
supernatural causes, constantly occurs
at a spring in Kessengsn, Germany,
and is due to natural conditions. The
medical properties of the spring are
strongest when at periodic time the
surface of the water is stirred by a
curious effervesccnce resembling the
action of boiling. 1t is believed thai
from such a spring originated the in
sertion of the alleged miracle in the
New Testament.
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1yaaIih and Meanne.s.


tell YOU that. in nine eases out of
ten, great acquired wealth lifts up in
monumental testimony the meanness
of its possessor. l knew two neigh
hors, old Californians, who had about
equal fortunes. They were both old
settlers, both rich, and both much re-
spected In that fearful year, 1872,
when the diving and destitute lmmi-
grants literally crawled on hands and
knees over the Sierra, trying to reach
the settlements, one of these men drove
all his cattle to the mountains, butch
cred them. and fed tine starving. lie
had his Mcxicans pack all the mules
with fl ur, which at that time cost al
most its weight in gold, and push on
night and day over the mountains To
meet the strangers and feed them, so
that they might have strength TO reach
his house. where they could have shei-
ter and rest. The other man, cold
and cautious, saw his opportunity and
embraced it. He sat at home and sold
his wheat, and mules and meat, and,
with the vast opportunities for turning
money to an account in that new coun-
try, soon became almost prince in
fortune. But his generous neigh bor
died beggar in Idaho, where he had
gone to try and make another fortune.
He literally had not money enough TO
buy a shroud, and, as he died among
strangers by the roadside, he was bu-
ried without even so much as pine
coffin. saw his grave there only last
year. Some one had set up a rough
granite stone at the head. And that
is all. No name-nOt even letter or
date Nothing. But that boulder was
fashioned by the hand of Almighty
God, and in the little seams and dots
and messy scars that cover it He can
read the rubric that chronicles the Sc
cret virtues of this lone dead man on
the snowy mountains of Idaho. The
children of the "prince are in Paris.
Upheld by his colossal wealth, their
lives seem to embrace the universal
world. He is my friend. He buys all
my books, and reads every line L
write. When he comes to this sketch
he will understand, too, that all the
respect, admiration and love which
the new land once gave these two men
gathers around and is buried beneath
that mossgrOwn granite stone, and
that L know, even with all his show
of splendor, that his heart is as cold
and empty as that dead mans hand.
joaquin Miller.
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cleared, this season, 500 per acre on
their crops.
Knoxville has organized turf and
fair association.
The Eceniag Herald, of Nashville,
has suspended publication.
The Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers are very low and falling.
The Shelby County Agricultural
Association are about 800 short on
their recent civilization.
The charter of the Southern car
works, of Knoxville, has been regis
tered with the Secretary of State.
Henry Denies, Waterman of the
transfer steamer, Gen Person, AZ
Memphis fell overheard and was
drowned ON the night of the Both.
The body was found on the lst inst.
John Welch, notorious Illicit dis
tiller in the cumberland mountains,
was captured by United States Rev
eneu officers a few days ago, after be-
ing shot in the sholder and severity
wounded. He was taken to Nash
| vile and placed III jail.
During the Masonic celebration at
Knoxville, commencing June 22nd, the
competitive drill for military compa-
MES for a prize of $1,000 will take place.
Companies from New York, Ohio, In
diana, Missouri, Illinois and Ken
lucky will be present.
The Pugby colony has over 800 set
tiers and is in flourishing condition
Boston Mass, has contributed $1,000
towards the $1,000 fund to build Ii
brary building; and publishers in
New York, Boston and Philadelphia
have given 5000 volumes toward the
library.
On the 30th inst. at Salisbury on
the Memphis and Charleston road, M.
G. Wallis and NJ. f. Dancey were dig
ging sand in cut near the depot, when
the bank caved in upon them. Dan
cey was killed and Wallis buried up
to his neck. He was rescued alive,
but seriously injured.
Charlie. j. McPcake committed sui
eide in bagnio in Memphis on Tues
day night, May 3lst by an overdose
of morphine. He was about twenty
years old, and came from DeSoto
county, Mississippi, where his father
lives. He had been in the employ of
the Memphis Street Railroad COmpa-
ny, and was discharged for dishOn-
sety. He claimed to be innocent.
Several Boston capitalists have made
a proposition to the people of Jackson
to build a cotton mill at that place
provided the citizens will subscribe
one-half the capital stock. They pro-
pose to reerect a mill to cost S500,000
which will run 400 blooms, 10000 spin
dies, employ 300 operatives, and con-
sumo $1,000 bales of cotton per an
mum. The Mayor of Jackson will lay
the matter before the people.
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A Good Recommendations.

'Please, sir, don't you want a cabin
boy?"
Il do want cabin boy, my lad, but
what is that TO you? A little chap
like you amt fit for the berth"
"Oh, sir, I'm real strong; can do a
great deal of work if amt so very
old"
"But where do you come from?
You don't look like town boy. Run
away from home, hey 2"
''Oh, no, indeed sir; my father died
and my mother is very poor, and /
want to do something to help her.
She let me come"
well, my lad, where are your let
tiers of recommendation ? Can't take
any boy without them"
Here was a damper. Willie had
never thought of its being necessary
TO have letters from his minister, or
teachers, or from some proper person,
to prove to strangers that he was an
honest and good boy. Now what
should he do He stood in deep
thought the captain means while
watching the working of his express
sive face. At length he put his hand
into his bosom and drew out his little
Bible, and without one word put it
into the captains hand. The captain
opened at the blank page and read /:
willie Graham presented as a
reward for regular and punctual at
tendance at Sabbath school, ane for
his blameless conduct there and else
where. - From his Sunday-schoel
Teacher
Captain Mcleod was not pious
man, but he could not consider the
cose before him with heart unmoved.
The little fatherless child standing
humbly before him, referring him 10
the testimony of his Sunday school
teacher, as it was given in his little
Bible, touched a tender spot in the
baeast of the noble seaman, and clap
ping Willie heartily on the shoulder,
he said, ,,You are the boy for me ;
you shall sail with me and if you
are as good boy as / think you arc,
your pockets shan't be empty when
you go back to your good mother,
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She Preferred Death.

One of the prettiest of the lady
riders at the Paris Hippodrome has
met with tragic end, Fannie Gylka,
not only real countess, but the wife
of very wealthy gentleman at Blu
charest. The lady was only twenty
four and was at the very zenith of her
beauty. She left her husband and
wandered from circus to circus, refus-
ing every offer TO return home. She
was riding her favorite charger and
the horse backed or SHE'D at hand
kerchief and unseated his rider, whose
foot got fast in the stirrup. She was
dragged for some distance, and when
taken up had TO be conveyed to the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11
Little Johnny on Dogs.

One time there was feller bot
dog of man in market, and the dog
it was bitter. After it had bit the
Teller four or five times he threw a
closeline over its neck and led it back
to the dog man in the market, and he
said to the dog man, the Teller did ::
sole man, dident you use to have this
dog?" The dog man he luked at the
dog, and then he thot while, and
then he said: "Well, yes, had him
about half the time, and the other half
he had me-" Then the Teller he was
fewrious mad, and he said: "Wot
did you sell me sech dog as thisn
for?" And the ole man be spoke up
and said: "For 81 70, lOffle money"
Then the Teller he guessed he wude so
home if the dog was willing.
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"Darn It."

San Francisco Post: They had a
terrible time at wedding up at Pc
! taluma the other day, and which only
goes to show how the smallest draw
back will sometimes take the stifiening
out of the SWEETEST occasion.
1t seems that the ceremony was a
very grand affair indeed. There were
eight bridesmaids, and the church was
crowded from pit TO dome, as the dra-
matte critics would say. But, when
they got to the proper place i'll the
ceremony and the groom began feel
] ing around for the ring, he discov-
cred that it wasn't on hand.
After the minister had scowled at
the miserable wretch for awhile the
latter detected that the magic circlet
! had slipped through hole in his pocket
and worked down into his boot. He
communicated the terrible fact TO the
4 bride, who turned deadly pale, and was
only kept from fainting by the refec-
ton that they would inevitably cut the
strings of her satin corsage in case she
did.
Why don't you produce the ring y
whispered the brides big brother,
hoarsely, and feeling for his pistol,
under the impression that the miser-
able man was about to back out.
Il can't, it's in my boot" explained
the groom under his breath, his very
hair, meanwhile turning red with
modification.
"Try and fish it out somehow-hur-
nv up!' mumbled the minister be-
hind his book.
"I1l try" gasped the victim, who
was rather stout; and he put one foot
on the chancel rail, pulled up his
trowsers leg, and began making spas
modic jabs for the ring with his fore
! finger. The minister motioned to the
organist to squeeze out few notes to
| fill in the time, while a rumOr rapidly
went through the congregation to the
effect that telegram had just arrived
proving that the groom had four
wives living in the East already.
IL can't reach it," groaned the
half married man, in agony. at
won't come"
"Sit down and take your boot off,
you foolw Kissed the brides mother,
while the bride herself mOaned
piteously and wrung her powdered
hands.
There was nothing left, so the suf-
ferer sat down on the floor and began
to wrestle with. his boot, which was
naturally new and tight, while fresh
rumor got under way to the effect
/ that the groom was beastly tight and
insisted on pairing his corns.
As the boot came finally of, its
crushed wearer endeavored, unsuc-
cessfully, to hide trade dollar hole in
the heel of his stocking; noticing
which, the parson, who was humor-
Gus sort of sky-contractor, said
grimly:
"You seem to be getting married
just in time, my young friend" And
the ceremony proceeded with the par
ty of the first part standing on one
leg, trying to hide his well ventilated
foot under the tail of his coat, and ap-
propriately muttering, "Darn it," at
short intervals.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11

Ex-senator Dorsey Is in Washing
ton, completely broken down. The
star route revelations have completely
FRUSTRATED him. He is no longer proud
in spirit. / is alleged that for week
his house has been under detectives
eye, who reports to the AttOrney-Aen
eral all who communicate with -
1t is said there is evidence, not if,1'le
public, which will place Dorsey in a
more embarrassing position than he
is now in. In 1876 Dorsey was active
and instrumental in exposing Blaine's
connection with the Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroad of Arkansas,
which defeated him for the presiden-
tial nomination. Now the scenes have
shifted and Blaine is on top. Those
who stick to it that Blaine will be I'M
covered in the further star route ex-
pOsures say that it was the money of
the "ring," paid out by Steve Elkins,
Dick Mccormick and others, which
made the Territorial delegates at Chi
cago solid for the plumed knight.
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Human Growth.

The relation of growth to the cir
cumstances of life is a subject of very
recent scientific study. 1t is now es-
tablished statistically that poverty,
accompanied as it is by hard and in
ces.ant labor and insufficient nOurish-
ment greatly impedes growth, but it
exerts only light, if any, influence
on the size Of the new born child.
During childhood the difference be-
tween the child of well-to-1o and poor
parents constantly increases, though
poor girls lose at first more than poor
boys; in both sexes, however, the diff
ference ultimately becomes nearly the
same, the poor children weighing
about eighty per cent. of the weight
Of well-to-do children of the same age
and sex. Sufficient and regular ex-
ercise does a great deal to assist
growth. A certain number of boys
in the school of Turin are annually
selected on account of their gymnas-
tic aptitude, and are given three extra
lessons in gymnastics per week. Nine
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11

A shocking and remarkable accident
occurred in Detroit, Mich, on the End
inst. Mrs. Thomas McGraw, highly
respected widow lady, aged forty
years, living on one of the most prom
inent streets, reached home late after
an evenings visit to a friend, and
found herself locked out, the young
children and servants having gone to
bed. With the assistance of neigh
boring servant girl she gained access
to the house through basement win
dow, and undertook to reach the main
floor of the house by means of dumb
waiter. By some strange fatality she
was caught by the neck in the eleva-
tor, and before her screams for help
could bring her assistance she was
strangled to death.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-11

The circulation of the standard sill
yer dollars from the treasury vaults
has practically stopped altogether.
During the fall and early winter there
was quite demand for this coin for
the purpose of moving the crops, but
the demand stopped when the crop
movement was over. Since the LIST of
January last there has been no call for
silver. All of the dollars that have
been coined since that date remain in
the treasury. Further than this the
silver in circulation has found its way
back into the vaults. The amount
outstanding has steadily decreased.
Coinage at the rate of little over 50,
100000 month goes steadily on.