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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
TEXAS.

Grayson county is fast filling up
with thrifty immigrants.
The grasshOpper has made his ap-
pearance around Castroville.
The farmers around Bryan complain
of grassy crops and scarcity of labor.
Considerable sickness, principally
pneumonia, is prevailing at Fort
Worth.
The continued rains have already
Injured the strawberry crop in some
part" IF the State.
Migrants are rapidly settling up
the SAntry around Palestine, in An
derspn county.
Wool passing through Uvalde, it is
said, have been damaged considerably
by the recent heavy rains.
Col. Fred Grant proposes to make
Houston his future home. He will
take his family there in the fall.
A disease similar to epizootic is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent among
the horses and mules in Rusk county.
Jake Wise, for killing a man named
Charbula, near La Grange, has been
sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Travellers between Austin and New
Braunfels report crops in good condi-
ton, but terribly choked by grass and
weeds.
The worms reported as eating
the cotton on some farms are said to
hn Tho nrH
serious damage to the staple is apprs-
hended from them
Six more prisoners have escaped
from the Tyler jail. Five of them
were recaptured. One of the prison
ers made KEY out of a French harp
and opened all the cells.
The new cotton factory in Cuero
has commenced operations. Twenty
four hands are employed at present,
and in about one month as many more
will find work in the factory.
There is a disease among the cattle
and horses in Williamson county
called the Spanish itch. 1t causes the
hair to fall of, and, in many instances,
causes the death of the animal.
A single highwayman, masked.
stopped the Fredericksburg stage,
which contained four passengers with
the driver, and rified the mails and
robbed the passengers.
The Southwestern Telephone and
Telegraph Company have determined
to connect Galveston, Houston, Austin,
Waco, Dallas, Sherman, Denison,
Marshall, Fort Worth and San An
tonic by telephone.
Waco Examiner: "While the dar-
kies are picnicing all over the country
the weeds are taking the cotton and
corn. We saw some fine stands of
both crops down on the Brazos COM
pletely overrun with weeds, laborers
being impossible to get"
The Independent Blade says the
wheat crop in Bosque county will be
almost a complete failure. The rust
has attacked the spring wheat, which,
up to few days ago, was doing well.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

Queen Victoria, with Beatrice and
Leopold, received" the pet peacocks,
which Lord Beaconsfield kept at
Hughenden, aud drove to the aviary
To meet them.
In Youngstown, Mass, Swear old
hoy lately cut the throat of baby
with whom he was playing. He was
jealous because so much attention was
lavished upon the child.
A fastidious Ottawa girl wouldn't be
married at the appointed time because
her dress that she had spent a large
amount of time and money ON did not
fit or hang properly. And so the
spirited" husband postponed the
wedding a week for her. It's not hard
to tell who will be master in that
house.
The fact that the Princess Alice died
only few months after a steamer of
that name was run down on the
Thames, near London, England, with
great loss of life, has. il is said, deep
ly disturbed the mind of the Queen
for the "Victoria went down at Lon
don, Canada, with equal or greater
loss of life. She wonders if the re-
semblance between the two casualties
is to go further.
A man in Rhineback, New York,
being unable to support his pretty
wife, sold her for $1,000 to wealthy
bachelor about twelve years ago, the
papers being regularly drawn up by
a lawyer and all right and title to her
transferred to the other man. The ex-
husband then went to live with a
brother whom he has now sued for
the $1,000 which he loaned him, and
for his labor and services to a large
amount.
A friendless Welsh woman in the
steerage of the steamer Germanic, on
which VIM. IL. Vanderbilt came over
last week was lucky enough to give
birth to a child when the ship was
three DAYS out Mr.. Vanderbilt head
ed $500 subscription for her, gave
her an order on the New York Hos
pital and had the pleasure of hearing
the clergyman baptize the child,
MARY Germanic Vanderbilt Phillips"
This birth in the steerage cost Wander
bilt more than his own in the first
cabin.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

airy, eleven batteries Of artillery and twen-
ty-five battaliOns Of infantry.
In consequence of the prevalence Of omi-
TO in Vera Cruz, the Mexican RaiIfaad
Company put on a special train on the days
of the arrival of steamers to take passsn-
gers direct to 0rizaba.
The Berlin correspondent Of the London
Times saws: "a Russian friend sends me
a striking picture of the state of imprison-
ment in which recent events have thrown
the Gar. The palace at Gatchina is filled
with soldiers and police Every one hav-
ing business at the palace is subjected to
rigorous search whenever they have .Occa-
sion TO 90 there. The court will soon re-
move to PeterhOt, which has small port at
the mouth Of the Neva. Four light ships
will be anchored there and no other vessels
will be allowed to approach. Two yachts
will always be ready to convey the Gar to
and from ST. Petersburg, accompanied on
either side by a torpedo boat
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
WASHINGTON.

Secretary Blaine has commenced build
ing a handsome residence, and evidently
desires to remain in this city for years to
come.
There is no foundation for the published
reports that Secretary Blaine is TO exchange
places with Minister Lowell, at London, and
further that Blaine does not expect to 20
abroad nor retire from the Cabinet during
the next four years.
A telegram at the Interior Department,
from Ute-Commissioner Wells, announces
that the desired army escort has been fur
nished, and that the Commissioner will at
ence proceed to look for lands on which to
locate the Uncompagrees.
Speaking of Minister Lowell Assistant
Secretary Hit said to-day: '.He is honored
as man and as a minister. His record in
the diplomatic service is a most enyiable
one" President Garfield is one Of LOwell's
greatest admirers, and an intimation that
he desired to remain at London would be
sufficient to keep him at that post.
Many OF the discharged census clerks
have resumed work, trusting to Congress to
pass deficiency bill next winter to pay for
their services from now on. There will be
an attempt to make this deficiency bill
basis Of inquiry into the manner of the ex-
penditure Of former appropriations for CEN
sus work. An effort was made last winter
to investigate the census affairs and ex-
- - .l,a ro1
that it was instiyated by disappointed per-
sons. Next winter this effort will be re-
newed. and when the bill to make another
appropriation comes up it is said that Con-
gressmen will be found to insist on showing
how the census money has been expended.
General Walkers work seems to give gen.
erll satisfaction.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
COTTON.
Animal Meeting of the New York Ex-
change-Stasistics OF Trade.

Animal Meeting of the New York Ex-
change-stasistics OF Trade.
New York Times, first instant: The
annual meeting of the Cotton Ex-
change was held yesterday. The re-
ports of the Board of Managers for
the year gives the following figures :
Total sales of actual cotton: For ex-
port, 143, 1862 bales; for spinning, 151,-
96l bales for speculation, Il, l33 bales !;
for transit, 3lG0 bales. Total, 3l0,5l6
bales. This is independent of the
shipments direct to mills without the
intervention of brokers, estimated at
1000 bales per week, or $1,000 bales,
bringing the grand total up to 362,-
5l6 bales. The deliveries on contract
were 100000 bales, showing a gross
handling in this city during the year
of SCI ,076 bales. The Warehouse and
Delivery Committee reported that
there was handled during the year UNI
der their rules: Sampled in store, 1872, :
728 bales; delivered, 420,99S bales I;
samples and loose drawn and reported,
374,5l0. The license of two samplers
were cancelled on account of dishon-
esty. On this subject the Board say
that the quantity of cotton drawn
from bales under these rules does not
exceed one-third of that drawn before
the rules went into force. They re-
commend that, owing to the difficult
ty of getting trials in criminal
courts to an issue, the rule
dismissing dishonest samplers should
be more promptly enforced, and that
its application should be extended to
warehousemen, because there is every
reason to believe that cotton is stolen
from warehouses, and that ware
housemen, in many instances, if not
cognizant of that fact, are Indifferent
about it. The board recommended
that the license of every Warehouse
should be promptly revoked from
which cotton can be traced to unau-
thorized parties, OF that has not been
duly stamped or receipted for by the
owner or his representative. During
the year five members died. No MEM
berships were sold, but q were trans
ferred. and % elected. The present
membership number 366. The total
sales for future delivery to May %,
1881, were 26,72l,S00 bales. The re-
port of the treasurer shows: Bal
anee on hand May 81, 1880, $3.50 06 !;
receipts since, $41,544 go; total, $43,-
944 SO; disbursements, $40,672 SO !;
bal8nce on hand, $3322. The estima-
ted lI1Gipts for the coming year are
81 %, and the estimated disburse-
meiits 500, $50, leaving balance 1929,
As, The board recommended that the
Committe on Building be continued,
and that the annual dues for the COM
ing year be fixed at seventy-fve dol
lars. The report was adopted, and a
resolution of thanks to the outgoing
officers was unanimously passed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE.
She Begs and Prays for a Sight of Her
Dead Husbands Face, but With
ont Avail.

Pittsburg special to the Cincinnati
Commercial: A pathetic and excit-
ing incident occurred at a funeral
here Sunday. Robert j. Smith, a
ieweler, died Friday, and among the
carriages which drove to the house
of the dead, yesterday, was one con-
tanning the wife of the deceased. She
had forfeited all claim to be called his
wife by reason of her unfaithfulness.
About six months ago he was divorced
from her. Since the date of the sepa-
ration she has been an attractive in
mate of a disreputable house. As she
was about to enter her former home a
member of the family slammed the
door in her face. The remains were
removed to the church, where the
erring wife was allowed to enter, but
not 20 near the casket. During the
sad services she burst into tears. and
exclaimed frequently, "My husband I.
Oh, nv husband !" There was no one
near her while she wept bitterly, and
was conscious that she was regarded
as an offensive intruder. After the
services the woman moved frantically
toward the coffin and was within a
few feet of it when a brother of the
deceased threw his arms over the
glass face and prevented her froom
looking in, remarking: go back
Keep away! You cannot see him !"
The officiating clergyman motiOned
her to leave, and said: go away !
You have no right to see him, and you
shall not see him."
The woman made desperate effort
to get to the coffin, screaming: ''Oh,
my God L must see my husband {;
stand aside. l will see him in spite of
you l will see himl"
The mother of the deceased ordered
her to leave and her daughter shout
ed, "Stay away; you ruined my broth
er and you cannot look at him."
While the widest confusion prevail
ed in the church the lid was fastened
to its place, and the frantic woman
crowded and showed toward the pulpit.
Her carriage followed at the end of the
cortege, and at the grave in the ceme-
terry she made most touching appeals
to those who superintendent the rites to
allow her just one glance at the face
Of the man she had learned to love,
but to whom, it was claimed, she had
also been the occasion Of so much do
mestic infelicity.
The saddest chapter of the mournful
narrative remains vet to be related.
The impressive ceremonies had been
rendered at the grave, the coffin had
been lowered into the Garth, the min
lister had said, dust to dust and
ashes to ashes" while spadeful of
clods had been dropped on the lid
of the coffin. Friends in their car
riages had deserted the place and the
grave-diggers had begun to fill in the
earth, when the recreant wife ran and
looked in. The tears streamed down
on the rough box, while she pleaded
most earnestly to those about to allow
her to see the dead man. This privi-
lege was once more denied, and as the
carriage which carried her there was
being driven out Of the cemetery her
cries were most hear-rending.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
ARKANSAS

The construction of the new insane
asylum at Little Rock has le;n
awarded to A. I. Carroll, of that city,
for sl39, 300.
Hayes White, the murderer of
Sheriff Beattie, of Crittenden county.
was hung at Marion, the county seat,
on Friday the 10th inst.
Three negroes were lynched in
Sewer county few days ago, for the
murder of an old man named r. H.
Hall. They first robbed him, theE
strangled him to death, tied weights
to the body and threw it into creek.
A terrible tragedy is reported from
Van Buren, county. Lewis Sweden,
a planter living in a section of the
county known as ''Gulf," was assas-
sinated by three mOonshiners, who
disappeared. Since then three men
have been arrested on suspicion OF
being the guilty parties.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

THE cotto1-seed oil manufacture is
now the leading industry at New Or
leans, its six mills employing 1925 per-
sons and producing $2,742,0O0 worth
Of oil annually. There are nine mills
in both Mississippi and Louisiana,
eight in both Tennessee and Texas,
four in Arkansas, two each in Mis-
souri, and Alabama, and one in Geor-
gia. They all crush 1856 tons of seed
daily. The forty-seven mills in the
whole country only crush one-eighth
Of the seed available for oil, their an
Eual product being valued at about
100000.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

gust, asked: Cant that damned noise
be stopped? II is very distasteful to
me. If there is one thing under Gods
heaven / hate more than another, it is
a damned old brass band When Mr..
Conkling came upon the stage TO speak
he found before him low railing COW
cred with flags. Turning to DIR. Kit
chen, he said: Cant thai damned
railing be taken down.? The reply
was that il was very substantial, and
could not be removed without trouble,
10 which the senator responded: why
in he'll don't you build pen round a
man, 80 that he can just see over the
top Of it? If there is anything espe-
cially disgusting TO me, it is TO be
fenced in When Mr.. COnkling was
offered a special car and an escort of
some of the best-known members of
the Business Mems Club, he rejoined ::
Such plan is particularly distasteful
TO me. 1 have no desire to go to Gin
cinnati with a junketing party. l
know what such trips mean. a party
go in a special car and spend the time
drinking, smoking and telling stories.
Ny health is poor, and ! must husband
my strength, and l have no desire to
travel with lot of smoking, drinking
loafers.'"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
TENNESSEE.

A stove factory is to be erected at
Knoxville.
The caterpillar has appeared around
Nashville.
Chattanooga is to have big Fourth
of July celebration this year.
The work of rebuilding the cotton
compress at Jackson has commenced.
The Chattanooga Cadets have re-
cived their guns and cartridge-boxes
for forty men.
The Knoxvillians are enjoying a
walking match by the Amateur Pc
destrian club-go as you please.
The Memphis Criminal Court, on
It'll inst, sentenced Allen Saunders to
five years in the penitentiary for steal
a mule.
Columbia is making an effort to
have the Porter Rifles and Chickasaw
Guards engage i'll competitive drill
at that place.
Work on the custom-hoUse at Mem
phis is again suspended, and may not
be resumed again this summer.
Scarcity of stone is said to be the
trouble.
Samuel Householder, a paralytfc
inmate of the County WorkhOuse at
Knoxville for twenty years, died a
few days ago.
A man named Petty was waylaid,
attacked and shot at by robbers near
Nashville few nights ago. lie re-
turned the fire and escaped.
RistOne & Mays furniture factory
is to be removed from London to
Chattanooga. 1t at present employs
$50 hands, and manufactures furni-
ture of all kinds.
At Memphis, on the Sth inst, Will
liam Moon, a colOred labOrer, was
killed while at work in the bottom of
a deep sewer ditch, by the earth above
caving i'll and hurying him completely
out of sight.
The United States grand jury at
Memphis have found an Indictment
against NJ. j. Waldron, superintendent
of the railway mail service in the
Memphis district, the charge being an
attempt to defraud the government.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

THE Allegan Journal has heard that
Blaine is going to build the largest
private residence in Washington and
says:
1--WE cannot account for this sudden
accumulation of wealth on the part of
Mr.. Blaine. 1t has certainly not been
acquired from his salary as a Senator.
DIR. Conkling went to Washington
about the same time as Mr.. Blaine,
with the same amount of money, and
he retires from Congress poor man,
the owner of no gorgeous mansion or
any other property in Washington.
1t has always puzzled us how some
Congressman become miliionaires, and
the case of Mr.. Blaine is an example
in point.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18
CROP REPORT.
For May, as Compiled by the Memphis
Cotton Exchange.

For MAY, as Compiled by the Memphis
Cotton Exchange.
The following is the cotton report
of the Memphis Cotton Exchange for
Nav it is derived from rs replies to
interrogatOries forwarded to intelli-
gent sources ; replies average the date
of May 3lst.
WEST TENNEssEE-24 RESPONSES.
Acreage-S report an increased
acreage planted in cotton, as compared
with last year; 10 about same, and 8
a decrease; average decrease, 25-lOO
per cent. WcdtheT-3 report the
weather as having been more favOra-
BILE than last year; l about the same,
and 20 less. favorable on account of
too much 3. Stands-l3 report the
stands good; 8 moderately good, and
3 poor. Enhancement Of Cr0P-1 re-
ports the crop earlier than last year;
3 about the same. and 20 later; aver
aging 81 days later. Condition Of
CROP report the crop i'll good con-
ditiOn; s an average condition, and
very grassy and weedy. LGbOr-20
report laborers working az well as
last year, and not 2s well 2 report
an increase in numbers as compared
with last year; Is about same, and 4
a decrease; average decrease | per
cent. FertiIizerS-All report no COM
mercial fertilizers used of any cOnse-
quence.
NORTH MIssIssIPPI-27 RESPONSES.
Acreage-6report an increased acre
age planted in cotton, as compared
with last year; Is about the same, and
5 decrease average increase 59-lOO
per cent. Wedther-l3 report the
weather as having been more favora-
BILE than last year; 8 about the same,
and s less favorable, OH account of too
much rain. StdndS-lS report the
stands good :. moderately good, and
) poor. Advancement Of CrOp-4 re-
port the crop earlier than last year;
4 about the same, and 10 later; aver
age 81 days later. Condition Of Crop
IA report the crop in good condition
9 an average condition, and 4 very
grassy and weedy. La6or-22 report
laborers working az well as last year,
and ) not as well L reports an in
crease in numbers az compared with
last wear; q about the same, and
decrease eyerage decrease, 7S-100 per
cent. Fert1izeTS-A!l report no come
mercal fertilizers used of any cOnse-
quence.
NORTH ARKANsAs-27 RESPONSES.
Acreage-7 report An increased
acreage planted in cotton, as COM
pared with last year; II about same,
and s decrease average, L ll-lOO
per cont. WedtheT-3 report the
weather as having been more favor
able than last year; about same, and
% less favorable on account of too
much rain. St0ndS-14 report the
stands good; s moderately good, and
5 poor. Advancement Of CROP re-
ports the crop earlier than last year;
about same, and % later; averaging
II DAYS later. Condition Of CrOp-4
report the crop in good condition 4
an average condition, and 10 very
grassy and weedy. LabOr-2l report
laborers working as well as last year,
and not as well ) report an increase
in numbers. as compared with last
year; 20 about same, and two de-
crease average increase, 3-10O per
cent. FertiIizers.-All report no COM
mercial fertilizers used of any c0nse-
Quencc.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

ONE applicant for foreign consul
ate says that Blaine is losing the arts
and graces by which he formerly won
men. Since he became Secretary of
State he is reserved, exclusive, inacces-
sible, aristocratic. This unfortunate APP
plicant must have been badly snubbed
at the State Department, for he says
that Blaine "has set between himself
and the public Gordon of sickish snobs
and stupid Turveydrops, who repel
those who would be his friends for the
sake of auld lang syne, with lisped af-
fronts and hair parted in the middle,
and sirs Of supercilious patronage, as
II every man who sought his presence
was an office-seeker, and every gentle
man who rang his bell suspicious
character" The man who got the con-
sulate doubtless thinks Blaine the most
sgrecable and approachable man on
the icotstool.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago
Tribune writes for that paper sug-
getting what he styles barge railway
for the proposed Hennepin canal !;
that is to have a railroad running
along the side of the canal so that the
barges can be slowed" by locomotives
instead of by mules. This, he argues,
will be a great advantage over the old
tow-path system. Such a change has
been suggested for the Erie canal, but
1t has been just as earnestly opposed
there. 1t is, however, operated in
Belgium with great success, the loco
motives a1ording far more pulling
power and rapidity of movement than
mules.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

The sheep interests in that county are
quite prosperous.
Conductor Pat Fannin, Of the con-
.truction and bridge department of
the Houston and Texas Central road,
was caught between two cars at Mil
lars station aud received probably
mortal injuries. He was one of the
lest men on the road and highly es-
jeemed.
Denison, June IA. III. NJ. Munday,
Of North Carolina, and a member OF
the Legislature of that State, and
Mrs. }. A. Johnson, wife of mer-
'hant of WoOdville, n. c., were ar
rested in Kansas and taken to Dallas.
The injured husband is here and will
prosecute the guilty couple.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-18

partv-thati is, they call it ''readjuster'
in the Malone language; in English
it is '.repudiator.' But Conkhng, who
knows what Malone is really doing,
promptly nails this falsehoOd to the
counter by congratulating him upon
his ''eflort for the advancement of the
South, and to make elections real and
fair" When one thinks of this much
maligned Malone, the Moses of his
State, who is trying to bring the peo-
pie out OF bondage to election trick
cry and fraudulent ballot. being eharg-
ed with teaching the people to sneak
out of their debts, Indignation be-
comes too powerful for words.