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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-09-10


BARNEY LILLARD, of Oakley, Arkan-
sas County, Arkansas, takes exceptions to
the estimate of the Atlanta Constitution
that the present cotton crop will reach g.
100000 bales, and especially to remark Of
that paper TO the effect that the crop in
Arkansas is in fine condition. Regarding
this last statement, he thus writes to the
editors Of that paper under date of the
10Th inst. "In this you are mistaken. In
all the southern half of Arkansas and
North Louisiana no rain has fallen to do
any good for seventy-fiye days, and know
Of six counties lying contiguous that will
not make more than one-feurth of a crop, and
from what l can hear the balance of the
State not much better. l saw this week
bolls Of cotton not as large as a pigeons
egg that had opened, and all upland cotton
will be opened by September LIST. Texas
can't make one half the cotton that was
made last year. The fact of cotton opening
so early is a sure sign of bad crop.
never hear any shortage in cotton until the
crop is sold and out of the planters hand,
and it is singularly strange that the plant
ers do not have crop reports Of their own
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Women Of the South.

st. Louis Republican: The ques-
ton is, not whether women in the
South shall be made to work, but
whether they shall be allowed to
work. There is no compulsion about
il. Southern women are not averse
TO labor any. further than the tradi
tons and practices of the past. make
them so. The bereayements and mis-
fortunes of the war have. produced
all over the South shining examples
of women who, by their intelligence,
industry and enterprise, have rescued
themselves and their families from
poverty and dependence, and become
conspicuous in a quiet way in the task
of founding a new economy for their
section; and when the false old idea
that women ought not to be permitted
to work for their living shall be COM
-pletely abandoned, the South, while
producing a race of women no less
noble and virtuous than their mothers
and grandmothers, viii brighten with
the Increased wealth and comfort
produced by these women's hands.
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Southern Prospects and Southern Man.
hood.

Bonner's n. Y. Ledger, Aug. y ::
Capitalists, it appears, begin to I'M
derstaud what a big bonanza the
south is, and are spending some of
their odd millions in making it ac-
cessible by lines of railroads. The
South, with its population of more
than twenty millions, look 10 the eve
of traveller like a thinlv settled
wilderness. 1t has fertile soil enough
to support the population of North
America. and sends besides few bar
rels of flour to exc out bad harvest
in Europe. The excellence of the
climate Is proved by the magnificent
men that are reared there, and the re-
markabIe AVERAGE of longevity en-
loved by families of virtuOus habits.
whisky and tobacco will DESTROY
men at the, South as well as at
the North; and:Rrobably the warmth
of the climate renders those pOisons
more rapidly destructive at the South
than in more temperate climates. But
there are no finer specimens of our
race TO be found in the word than in
portions of the South where the peo-
pie are generally temperate and
moral. Accustomed to the saddle
and the gun from bOyhoOd, and not
elamped b5 excessive early schooling,
many OF them attain blended vigOr
and grace of manhood that are no.
where excelled. For the Southern
States the long night of adversely, we
believe, has passed. The dawn OF a
better and brighter day than they
have ever known has come.
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-EDKEIGN.

The Rev. Geo. Granville Bradley, master
of University College, Oxford, has been APP
pointed Dean of Westminster Abbey, vice
+ Dean Stanley deceased.
I A Madrid special says that of 1l6 per-
SONS imprisoned for causing incendiary
fires in various parts Of the country, A
confess guilt.
A new Russian paper entitled the Free
World has been started in Geneva, Switzer-
f1hd. 1t advocates constitutional govern
jment, and is equally opposed to revolution
and reaction.
2 Gustav Richter, the German painter, and
a professor in the Berlin Academy of Art,
is dead.
Twentv-thrse members Of the British
House of Lords have reached the age of four
score years.
The Russian government has decided not
to send officers TO witness the German
autumn military maneuyer, because their
.pressnceHould not be welcome.
At the wool sales at Liverpool, 10000
bales Of New South Wales, Queensland,
Victoria, New Zealand and Tasmanian
were sold. a fair price was obtained
Minister Zamacoma says that Gen. Grant
is so popular in Mexico that the people
there would be glad to have him reside per-
mansntly in their midst. He says also that
Grants railroad scheme is fayorably re-
garded.
King George of Greece has sent letter
TO Dr. John Hill, of the Episcopal Church,
congratulating him on having spent fifty
years in Athens engaged in the work of fe-
male education and heartily commencing
the results of his labors.
Midhat Pasha's place of punishment, it is
said, is considered by the Arabs as the most
ancient place In the world. They say it is
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Imnrorement of tIle Mississippi.

Louisville COH9ieT-.J Journal The
revival of interest in the improve
ment of the Mississippi river and its
great tributaries, like the Ohio and
Missouri, is due to the pressing de-
mand for cheaper. transportation con-
seGuiait upon the enormous agricul-
tural development of the great interior,
In no other civilized country on the
globe would the Red river, for in
Stance, have been allowed to shOal as
it has in places; nor would such a
caying have taken place. III the bend
.oppt site Natchez as that which now
threatens to leave that important old
town some miles east of the river
rchannel. Catastrophes like these
should have been prevented. That
.tIrev will be prevented in the futufe
we have no doubt, Iai%the 9eople are
awakening to. the vast importance OF
tile great waier.highwass. The West
and Southwest arg .keeobiin& too
,strong for Eastern opposi ion 10. river
Improvement. 1t NAV be remember
ed that New England opposed the
purchase of Louisiana Territory from
France in 1909, because she dreaded
the development of great North
west, which might prove rival to
her trade, for the then Territory Of
louisiana stretched far to the north
ward. This Eastern hostility to the
West has continued ever since, and
the opposition to. the improvement OF
the Mississippi is visible in Congress
from New England members at every
session. The west and South are
strong enough now to secure liberal
appropriations for the great national
work.
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THE GREAT REVOLUTION.
PROGRESS OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE
WHAT is BEING DONE IN OTHER
- STATES

PROGRESS OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE
WHAT is BEING DONE IN OTHER
STATES.
The Sixteenth Annual report of the
National Temperance Society says
that4he past year has been'one of the
most successful and prosperous in the
history and progress of the temper
ancc-reform movement. After show
ing the increased activity and success
in other aspects, it says:
mo one phase of this question has
made such rapid strides the past
twelve months as the effort for the
prohibition of the liquor traffic. The
crime of liquor-sellir1g and the sin of
Drunkenness have been so revealed to
the people as to stand out as the cry
Inc evil of, the age. The selling of
intoxicating drink. has beer stripped
of its gloss and pretended merit, and
has been exposed in all its infamy,
and shown to be the gigantic crime of
crimes of the nineteeth century. The
fulness of time. seems to. have come
when this deadly foe of humanity
viii be smitten by the sword of
destruction. There is no installing
the clare, -well-defined conviction of
the great mass of temperance men,
that this traffic is contrary to the
genius and spirit of the age. destroy
ing the home, running the best inter
ests of the; Government and must
eventually 90 down before an aroused
and indignant public opinion. Dur
ing the year Kansas and North. Caro-
lima have adopted strong prohibitery
laws, and in large number of other
States the laws have been made more
stringent and prohibitory in their
provisions"
We condense the following from
the report of the Legislative action of
the several States:
i Nearly every State Legislature in
the. Union which has been in session
the past wear has had bills under con-
sideration. relating to the liquor traf-
fie. The efforts for a constitutional
amendment, forever prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of all intoXi-
eating liquors as a beverage have
been made in the Legislature in six
teen different States. AZ it requires a
two-thirds or three-fifths vote of both
houses to submit it to the people, it
failed in nearly every instance, gener-
ally. however, receiving majority.
The following States have. adopted
absolute prohibitory laws:
Maine.-A constitutional amend-
ment passed the Senate-l9 to g.; but
was, defeated iu the House-67 to 53-
many friends of prohibition claiming
that they had all the law now that
was necessary.
Vermont f'Nuisanee act and a
..Rumsellers' Pension bill' were
adopted, which viii greatly assist in
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Put His Money fnthe Wrong Box.

The papers are circulating a funny
story about a man who was found
sitting upon curb-stone late at night
and shouting, "Drive on, drive on, old
coachmaup
"What's the matter?" asked po-
liceman, who was attracted by the
noice. and raised the man to his feet
by his cOat-collar,
whats the II AFTER" repeated the
fellow, who was stupid drunk, why,
this is the matter. | took a seat in
this stage, and put my fare in the box,
and here [ have been waiting this
half-hour for the old coach to drive
on-that's what's the matter
The man had mistaken the sidewalk
fora coach and the lamp-pOst letter
box. for the till for the money, and
after putting in his fare sat there ON
the curbstOne, satisfied that he was
homeward bound.
We may smile at this drunkards
mistake; but he is not the only man
that has taken the wrong seat, and
put his money in the wrong box.
Hundreds do it every day, and they
are not all drunkards either; not yet,
though they may possibly reach that
condition. The man who spends his
time. or any part of it, in drinking
saloon, and pays his money for alco-
holic drinks, takes a wron& seat and
puts his money in the wrong box
When YOU see young men, red IN
ewes, saucy in looks, seedy in clothes
hanging round rum-shops and beer
saloons, and looking as though they
were pinched for. food, and grim pow
ertv stares them in the face, you can
conclude that they took the wrong
seat, spent their hours i'll the wrong
place, and put their money in the
wrong box. Not long since gentle
man of this city, who has retired from
business with a liberal competency,
was called upon by an old school
fellow and business acquaintance for
little help in the shape of money to
help through the winter. The relief
was cordially given, together with a
few words of kindly advice.
Here were two men, of equal age
and brought up under similar circun-
stances, learning the same business,
and pursuing it for time alike sue
cessfully but now one is independent
and the other dependent. Why the
difference ?
The first man spent his leisure
hours at home with his family, or
with them enjoyed the refined social
circle and Christian exercises and
companionship ; what money he ac-
cHmuIatcd above his necessary eX-
.pcnses he put at interest for future
use, and now he is enjoying the re-
suits OF his investments. He took
the right seat and placed his money
in the right box.
The second man lived sumptuously
in his youth, drank champagne in
fashionable tnOons, found the chair
of his club-roOm more attractive than
the stool in his counting room, and
put his money into the rum-sellers
till instead of his own stronghold. He
took the wrong seat and put his money
in the wrong box.
|. Reader, pause and consider whether
you are taking the right seat and put
ting your money in the right box
Ec.
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TEXAS.

The cry is, Gotten is opening
rapidly.
The public schools of San Antonio
opened September lst.
The cotton crop prospects in West
ern Texas are gloomy.
Large quantities of walnut wood
are being shipped from Galveston TO
Europe.
The drouth in North Texas con-
tinues. No rain has fallen since the
first of July.
The Texas and Pacific has crossed
the Pecos and is now on the last
quarter-stretch for Ell PasO.
Theodore Eggart, a German shoe
maker living in Houston, committed
suicide by hanging himself in a shed
in his back yard.
A company has been formed at San
Antonio to build a new hotel. The
| building will be put under contract
within a few weeks.
The cotton press men of Galveston
have under consideration schedule
of tariffs for the COMPRISING of cot
ton for the coming season.
Jacob Laux, Jr., of San Antonio
committed suicide by taking strych.
nine. He leaves a young wife ano
child.
Near Bryan, Frank Butcher, colOred
was stabbed and mortaily wounded
by another negro named Driven. Dri
ven is now iHjail.
Seventy car loads of iron have
been received at Dallas in the last tel
DAYS for the Texas Trunk and for thu
Chicago, Texas and Mexican Contra
roads.
Owing to the high price of all kind
of grain in San Antonio, and tn,
continued drOuth, the stock men ar
buying up all the cotton seed the!
can get and paying top prices for TIN
same.
There is standing provision of tn
constitution of Texas granting 10 sec
tions of public land to every new
mile of railway track laid down
This provision is the groundwork 70
the development of the State, tn
foundation upon which every rOa'
has been built.
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Where COcoanuts Come From.

Philadelphia Press: COcoanuts
come i'm great quantities to this mar
ket. and, like bananas, they are sold
at one-half the price they brought
few years since, bring about $50 per
thousand The cocoanut tree Is one
the palm family, and grows best i'll
sandy soil near the sea. y cOcOanut
stuck into the sand beach just above
high water mark win terminate and
thrive quite as well as anywhere else.
The tree reaches a height of 100 feet
without leaf or branch, except the
tuft Of pinnated leaves at the top.
There nestles the fruit, which drops
when dead ripe, but for eating and
shipping it is gathered while the husk
is green and the meat not too hard.
The tree begins to bear when eight
wears old, dropping fifteen or twenty
nuts the first year, but in a few years
after it reaches full bearing, the pro-
duct then averaging 100 nuts to the
tree. A "'cocoanut walk" or grove, 10
magnificent source Of income, oc-
cupving often land of no use for any
other purpose, and requiring abso-
lutelv no care beyond the original
planting. The West India growers
get $3.50 per hundred for the nuts just
as they come from the tree, the buyer
paving for husking and transporta-
ton. Cocoanuts do extremely well
in thick groves. No rule of distance
need be observed in planting them.
Most of the cocoanuts in this market
come from the West Indies and Cen
| trail America.
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TIE ELEeTiON OF 1876.
HOW THE AFFIDAYITs FOR THE LOUIS
lana RETURNING BOARD WERE
PPFPARFD.

PREPARED.
Z. L. White is giving some of his
"reminiscences about the Louisiana
election of 1876, at which time Nr.
White was correspondent for the New
York Tribune and writing in the in
terest of the Republicans. In a recent
letter to the Providence Star he tells
how the Republicans got large
number of their affidavits of intimi-
dation from negroes. Mr.. White says:
Il had a curiosity to see how the
notaries public succeeded in getting
the sfidavits which they were pre-
pairing. The process was something
like this: A colored man was called
up TO the desk, where the chairman
of the Republican committee Of the
parish in which the witness resided,
or Republican candidate for the
Legislature from the same locality,
sat with the notary. The former,
after giving the name of the man to
be examined, would begin:
"'You live on the Judge James
place, don't your"
"Yis, sah."
'"Then the notary would s%rite
down: Julius Caesar (colored), being
duly sworn, deposes and says: That
he is a resident of East Baton Rouge
parish, and lives on the Judge James
place"
Republican Manager-'You vote
at the cross-road store i'll the Post
Oak swamp, don't you !?
'Wi ness-'Yis, sah.'
NOTARY, writing-'That he is citi-
zen and voter, and that he registered
and voted in the election held on the
seventh day of November, 1876, at
| the polls held in the crOss-road store
| in the Posi- Oak swamp
in this manner the entire story
would be told, the prompter repeating
it sentence by sentence and the wit
ness simply asserting to 1t. When
The testimony had all been written out
it was read rapidly to the witness
who swore to if and affixed his mark
"What were such afidavits as thess
worth? Well, it would have beer
much more satisfactory to me if il
had been of different character.
don't mean to say that l think those
colored people would deliberately ant
unbl ushingly lie about events which
tbev had witnessed. / think tina
the Republican managers felt that the
election of HAYES depended upon hi
getting the ELECTORAL vote Of Louis
lana, and they know that he could no
have it unless the integrity Of TIN
election in some of the parishes wa
impeached and overthrown. Tn
colored people knew that they haC
been brought to New Orleans Il
furnish evidence that would save TIL
State to the Republicans, and the.
were determined to do it."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-09-10

JUDGE LAWRENCE, first comptroller
Of the treasury, recently rendered a
decision in which he maintains that if
a contract withthe government is sold
by the contracting party the contract
itselfis annulled, and that any person
or party selling such a contract. runs
the risk of obtaining no pay. The
opinion is based on the ground that
: the original contractor in such an
event does not perform the service,
and that the purchaser of tie contract
violates the existing law. ~
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-09-10

LARGE numbers of letters have been
received at the office OF the United States.
Treasury containing applications for the
August quarterly interest on per cent.
registered bonds, which have not been con-
tinued under the terms OF the 10th call
which was issued judy LIST. Notice was
given that the 5 per cent registered bonds
issued under acts ofJuIy IA and January
20, 1871, outstanding and unsettled, would
be paid at the United States Treasury DC
tober LIST, with interest accrued thereon
from May LIST, 1881, and that interest on
said bonds would cease October LIST. The
circular also provides that holders of such
bonds might present them for redemption
at any time prior to October list, receiving
accrued interest from May 1st TO date OF
presentation. In consequence of this call
the August interest is waived by the de-
partment and the bonds with accrued inter
est will be paid at any time they are pre-
scented for redemption.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-09-10

AN.incident similar to that at the
battle of Waterloo-whent the Duke of
Wellington asked: Els Private Maho-
new PRESENT." present, sir.p ''Then
let the battle begin" said the Duke
occurred during the battle of Spots
sylvania Court House. AT the hight
of the battle General Grant received a
note from a lady.who was taking care
of sick sister in the cellar of her
house, which read as follows: "Grant
General. Sir: desire that you stop
this nasty fighting. There is sick
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-09-10

HARPER's WEEKLY prints a letter
from Mr.. George Ticknor Curtis upon
the provisions of the Constitution re-
lating TO the inability of the Presi-
dent" in which he takes occasion to
suggest that Congress pass a law "'pre-
scribing the method in which inaBili-
ty is TO be determined; and the Presi-
dent may be able to sign a proclama-
ton summoning Congress, and able
to sign the bill itself, without necessa-
Uly being able TO fulfill all the Exec
utive duties" ssstt
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fps That Touch Liquor Must Never
Touch Mine.
a Doussin GIrrs lEosso. !,


SELECTED BY J.F.H.
You are coming to WOO me, but not As Of yore,
When l fastened t. welcome your ring at the
door.
For trusted that he who stood waiting me then,
Was The brightest, the traes,, the noblest Of
Your lips my own when they printed " tare-
we'll"
Had n been soed by the ..beverage OF he'll;
But they come 60 me now with BacchauISl sign,
And the lips that touch liquor can never touch
mine.
I think Of that night in the garden alone,
When in whispers You told me your heart was
myown;
That vour love in the future should faithful be
Unshared by another, Kept only for me-
Oh! Sweet to my soul is the memory still,
OF the lips that met mine, when they murmurcd.
81 will"
But now to their pressure no more they incline,
For the lips that touch liquor can never touch
mine.
oh, John how itcrushed me, when first in your
face
The pen Of the ''Rum Fiend" had written eds
grace
And turned me in silence and tears from that
breath
All poisoned and foul from the chalice Of death.
| Il shattered the hopes had treasured to last;
/ II darkencd the future and clouGed the past;
/ 1t shattered my idol and ruined the shrine,
/ FIR the lips that touch liquor can never touch
| mine.
! I loved vou--oh dearer thau language can tell,
And you saw it, you proved it, you knew It too
/ well.
/ But the man of my love was far other than he,
But now from the tap-room comes kneeiins
to me,
In manhood and honor so noble and right
His heart was 30 true and his genius so bright
Aud his soul unstained, unpouuted by wine
But the lips that touch liquor can never touch
mine.
| You promised reform, but trusted in vain;
Your pledge was msle but To be- broken again;
And the lover 50 false to his promise now,
win not, a husband. be true tn his vow.
The words must be spoken that bids you depart
Though the effort to speak it should shaiter my
heart;
Though in silence, with blighted affection pine,
Yet the lips that touch liquor can never touch
mine
IL ore spark, in your bosom, of virtue remain,
Go fan it with prayer till it kiudle again
Resolve. with .'God helping" in future 10 he
From wine and its fOllies unshackled and free
And when YOU have conquered this foe Of your
soul
In manhood and honor beyond his CONTROL
This heart will again beat responsive to thine,
And the lips free from liquor be welcome to
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The News and Courier finds that
Charleston has been the worst city in the
world for women 10 seek employment in,
aud consequently halls with delight the
call Of the new cotton mill company for
female hands. There is a large excess q
women in that city and yet there is not
single large industry in which they can Sc
cure employment. Il this respect Charles
ton is behind Columbus, Augusta, and q
dozen other smaller towns. The Ne,oS and
Courier is convinced that the girls of
Charleston will work if they can get a
chance TO do so, and calls ON the capitalists
of the city 10 start other manufactures and
industries to provide work for the idle
women of South Carolina.