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GEORGIA.

A fire at Talbotton destroyed all the
portion of the town west of the pub
lie square, laying in ashes ten stores
and three offices. Loss $4,000.
A company has been organized at
Atlanta for the purpose of extending
the Northwestern railroad from Ath-
ems to Knoxville to connect with the
Cincinnati Southern.
Messrs. Hill and Thompson, as
signees of the Citizens Bank, have
made report showing the liabilities
to be $4,000 in excess of the assets,
which are composed largely of value
less paper.
A few days ago a party of twenty
five or thirty men went to Morgan
ton, Fannin county, while the Supe-
rior court was in session, broke in the
wall of the Jail and released the pris-
oners charged with violation of the
Internal Revenue laws and burning
Stewards property. Warrants have
been issued for their arrest.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

THE States of the Union which have
more women than men are Alabama,
Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, New York, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia. The greatest excess Of females
is in New York where it is II 900, and
the least in Louisiana where it Is 5000.
The total excess of women in these
fifteen States is 100000.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

CHICAGO Times: The patronage OF
the customhouse of New York is
greatly to be desired by an ambitious
politician. The collector has 953 APP
pointments, the aggregate of the sala-
ries being $l,400OO0. The patronage
includes l assistant collector, 10 depu-
ty collectors, 40 messengers, p labor
ers, weighers and gaugers, s foremen
and janitors, 81 assistant weighers,
2S6 inspectors at 81 a day, A Long
Island coast inspectors, 100 night
watchmen, 9 inspectresses, and other
employees. Four of the employees have
been in the customhouse for more
than twenty-one years, and 160 more
than twelve years. The new collector
appoints his deputies on taking his
office. The term of collector is for
four years, and the salary is $4,000 a
year. He receives about $1,000 adj
ditional in fees.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

THE Democratic State Executive
Committee of Arkansas have issued
an address TO The people of that State,
setting forth the points in dispute be-
tween the members of the party on
questions of the States Indebtedness.
The address urges harmony in the
party and united front to the enemy
in the next campaign; urges that the
debt question must not be made test
of party fealty; recommends that a
constitutional amendment be submit
ted by the next Legislature to the peo-
pie declaring what part of the debt
shall or shall not be paid.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

". ]. SUn: Correspondents are
notified that the sentence "This sad
event has cast a gloom over the entire
community" is kept standing in this
Office, so that it will be unnecessary to
include ii in reports concerning the de-
mise of agI-iculturalists who fall from
the mowers or carelessly feed them
selves into threshing machines.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
summary Of the Most Important Events.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Charles F. keyng mas been sentenced at
st. Louis to be hanged on July 10.
Register Bruce has taken charge of his
Office. He viii make no changes at present.
Ex-secretary Carl schurz has assumed
editorial direction Of the New York Evening
Post.
Gen A. J. Williamson, Commissioner of
the General Land Office at Washington, has
resigned.
In Marlboro county, n. c., Tony Scott
shot his brother Oliver dead, in quarrel
about woman.
Judge NJ. II. Golfer, Chief Justice of the
Kentucky Court of Appeals, died in Louis
vile on the oath inst.
Boston proposes to see what can be done
in the matter Of inaugurating a Worlds
Fair in that city in 1885.
The Simpson Methodist Episcopal church
at Brooklyn has raised $4,000 towards
liquidating a $4,000 debt.
General Grant and ,Captain Eads left the
City of Mexico on the Goth inst. for New
Orleans.
In the rifle tournament at Milwaukee be-
tween the Chicago, Minneapolis and Mil
waukee teams, the last named won at 800,
900 and 1000 yards. Average 712.
The safe in the ticket office of the Detroit,
Lansing and Northern railroad, at Sheri-
dan, Mich, was blown open and robbed OF
its contents, fortunately only small sum.
The steamship line for the past three
years operated by John Roach, of Philadel-
phia, between New York and Brazilian
ports, has been discontinued. The enter
prise lost money from the first.
Near Hickman, KY, David Eewsom
(white) was killed by Ben Newsom (color-
ed with an ak. The latter was the tenant
of the former. The murderer went to DAN
ceyviile, Tenn, and gave himself up.
A recent number Of the Benton Mon
t2na) Weekly Record announces the mar
riage at that place of Mr.. Spraggins to Miss
Enquire-for-B Buffalo. The groom is scout
and guide, and the bride daughter of the
Peigan chef, Enquire-for-Bnffalo.
Fires in grain fields in California are
doing serious damage. One field of several
hundred acres near MERGED was destroyed.
A fire in San Joaquin county, burned over
five miles square, principally wheat fields.
The fire started from lighted cigar thrown
from railroad car.
At St. Louis, John Tighe and Morris Fitz-
gerald fell from the third story of board
ing house to the stone pavement below.
Both received injuries from which they
died soon after. Fitzgerald was drunk
and Tighe was assisting him to his room by
the way of an outside porch.
AtSt. Joseph, No., an explosion of fifteen
barrels of Danforth's fluid took place in a
saloon OF a colored man. A number of col
ored men were in the saloon at the time, all
of whom lost their lives. Five bodies have
been recovered. The total number is
variousIy estimated at from fifteen to forty
five.
Afght occurred in Pickens county, South
Carolina, between Revenue officers Garry
and Cooper and two illicit distillers named
Alexander, father and son. Young Alex
ander was fired upon by Cooper with a shot
gun and perhaps fatally wounded. The
officers destroyed 1S6 gallons Of distilled
whisky and about 100 gallons of mash and
hppr
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Louisiana.

Excessive rains have injured the
crops in several parts of the State.
Towns and depots are being located
along the line of the New Orleans
Pacific railroad, by Major w. r. De-
voc.
The New Orleans Pacific road has
purchased land at Gretna, opposite
New Orleans, on which they will erect
shops, and freight and a passenger
depot.
That crops are easily raised il
Avoyelles receives further proof. The
Bulletin says gentleman living near
Marksville wanted to plant his rice
pond, and as it was full of water, he
just threw the rice seed into the pond
and the rice has come up and is grow
ing finely.
AT Floyd, on the 24th inst, a diff.
Guilty took place between E. L. Sage
and III. r. Lott, Jr., son of Colonel
Lott, in which Lott was instantly kill
ed. Immediately after his brother
I. j. Lott became engaged in the
difficulty and was shot, probably ia
tally.
The Donaldsonville Chief says
We are informed that a duel was
fought on the st. Webre place, in the
parish of st. James, on Thursday last
by Messrs. j. E. Pouche and A. &
Roman, the former a brother of Judge
f. p. Pouche, of the Supreme Court
and the latter, editor of the st. James
LOuisidnGiS. The weapons used
were Smith & WessOn improved re-
volvers, the distance ten PAGES, and
three shots were fired without effect.
The Marksville Bulletin says: Last
year Miss G. Smith, of Echo Landing,
purchased a thousand silk worm eggs.
They nearly all produced healthy
worms, which, in due time, produced
cocoons of beautiful silk. From this
small beginning Miss Smith has great
ly enlarged her operations, and this
year she will have CT p of silk wei
worthy of attention. The rapidity
with which the worms increase
wonderful, and the eggs being cheap
one dollar per 1000, the poorest may
easily begin the silk culture.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
KANSAS

Rev. DIR. r. w. Trimble, for twenty
one years Rector of Trinity church at
Pine Bluff, has rendered his resigna-
ton, on account of continued i'll
health.
Three prisoners escaped from the
Arkansas City Jail on the night of the
10th, by cutting hole through the
flour; and on Sundny night two others
escaped, one of whom was under
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
TEXAS.


Track laying on the Missouri Pa
cific extension from Fort Worth to-
ward Waco, begun OH the 23rd inst.
A new town on the Texas and st.
Louis road has been named Hubbard,
in honor ofan Ex-Governor of the Lone
Star State.
The President has made the follow
ing appointments of Collectors Of In
ternal Revenue: NJ. III. Sinclair, first
district; B. G.. Ludlow, third district !;
William Umbnerstock, fourth district.
Big Springs, Howard county, $40
miles west of Dallas, was reached by
track layers on the Texas Pacific road
Saturday night and trains sent over
the line on the 23rd. Big Springs gives
promise of being the most important
town on the road, as the Texas and
Pacific have determined to erect large
machine shops, stock pens, etc, there,
instead of at Colorado City, as was
first contemplated. The reason as
signed is that Big Spring furnishes an
inexhaustible supply Of fresh water,
while the water of the Colorado is so
salty that it cannot be used in boilers
and machinery. Track-laying toward
the Pecos is progressing at the rate Of
two miles per day.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

begging the Sheriff p say nothing
aoont 1t. During the gay seven citi-
zcns of st. Louis callSa on Manning
aud paid him moneyo for citizens of
Deadwood, believing the Sheriff had
reference to them in Nhis notice. and
afterhe had gone away another citizen
called and asked the clerk for Man
ming. but ne said tie other fellows had
all been there and paid up, and the
man had better keep his money. The
Sheriff said he always thought adver-
Using paid, but he never had it DEM
onstrated to his satisfaction before.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

Memphis Appeal: The Hampton
Normal school, at Hampton, Virginia,
has very interesting history. IT was
opened in the spring of 1868 with fif-
teen pupils and one teacher. 1t now
has 800 boarding students and a corps
of twenty-eight officers and teachers
nine gentlemen and nineteen ladies'
The senior class numbers As: tlie mid
die class, 70 ; the junior class, l0l, aud
the preparatory class SO. In the night
class, all of the members Of which
work during the day, there are 50 sta.
dents. In the Indian classes there are
so seniors and 16 juniors. The total
number, 3Sl, represent twenty-foI.r
Territories and States, the majority
being from Virginia and North Car
DINA. There are 200 colored boys, 100
colored girls, go Indian boys and 81
Indian girls. This success, Unparalleled
in the annals of the schools and colleges
of the country is due to the intelligent
efforts of General 5. G.. Armstrong
who brought to his work an exps-
rience gathere din missionary work in
various parts Ofthe world. The Ham,
ton school is conducted on very much,
the same plan as has been found so
successful in the management Of the
LeMoyne school in this city.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

The highest point which our nation
al debt at any time reached was on
the lst day of September, 1865, when
it stood, less cash in the Treasury, 50,
757,6S9,57I. On the first day of the
present month the debt, less cash in
the Treasury, was 81, S64O72, 693, which
is a net reduction, as shown by the
Treasurer's statement, of nearly $780,
100000 in less than sixteen years.
The absolute reduction is, however,
considerably greater through the pay
ments of war claims directly from the
Treasury.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

THE New York Herald says that
sFby far the strongest temperance lee
ture of the season is the statement
made by the keeper Of the morgue in
that city, that four-ffths of the five
thousand bodies that reached the city
dead house in a year are sent there by
drunkenness"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

A BILL has passed the Legislature of
Michigan vesting all church property
In boards of trustees. The author OF
the bill, a Roman Catholic himself, in
a debate upon it, cited the case of the
Roman Catholic bishop of the upper
peninsula, who died intestate, and left
church property, to which he had the
sole title, to be Irrigated by his heirs.
A worse condition of affairs arose in
Canada in consequence of the miscon-
duct of a Roman Catholic bishop there.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

THE opium-eating habit is growing
to an alarming extent in this country,
as shown by the increase of importa-
tion. Four years ago the American
opinm-eaters were believed to number
100000, but since then their numbers
have doubled, and It is now calculated
that they consume 100000 grains
per annum. In Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Kentucky there is said to be three
opium-eaters to every 100 of popula-
fion
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

SENATOR JONES, of Nevada says that
he voted for Stanley Matthews, not be-
cause he was a representative Of rail-
road corporations, but because Mat
thews is a Greenbacker and win carry
his financial ideas into the Supreme
Court
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

THE Galveston Nescs gives the fol-
lowing account of the New York and
Texas Land Company, that has just
been organized and chartered: In
the first place the company win pur-
chase large tracts of land, agents be-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04
MISSISSIPPI.

John Hester, of Winona, has return
ed from Washington City with 500 carp
fish for large new pond near Winona.
Captain Cole, of Mississippi City,
has been sentenced to seven years i'm
prisonment in the State penitentiary.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-04

the rear OF the procession. These III
tinctions OF rank and position must I'd
kept up even in sewe-.
Ten minutes were occupied in get.
ting the crowd seated in the ears
Then we were rolled off one behind
the other. Overhead were enormous
black iron pipes. Underneath Wa
silent current of blacknesS. The mes
notonous rumble of the vehicles of
the street above sounded confirms.
ally. The Europeans talked. TE{
Cinnamon looked serious. The ORR
entails were quiet and stoical. At ev-
cry lateral opening was heard tlse
splash and dash of fluid. Sometimes
IN these passages we caught SIGHT 81
/ the blue-bl0used wOrkmen. watchino..
our passage. Then we moved ON. ~
naUght was seen save the olirnp,er n
the light in the car ahead or behiff i
and long. straight, silent streant
which might well be wrap;,ed m
gloom, when it contrasted its former
/ condition as it leaped and suuo, arnoror
the green hills OF France with its pres
ent awful mission.
PLUToNIAN PASSAGES.
Our fleet numbered five or six oop-
d0las. Each one carried LARGE aloI,-
uIsf lantern. So we sailed along INTO
the dim, dark passage. Save an occa-
sional stationary light, il was dark
ahead, dark behind, dark below. on
damp and obscure above. The baroek
at times rocked little, but not agree
ably. The motion was not exciting.
1t seemed that which might come ON
a sea of molasses. in slight agitation.
The current of the Rue Royale seemed
much more rapid than that of the Rue
Rivoli. The only objects | could dis
Germ upon the surface Of the waters
were straws and cOrks. COrks on the
water ways of Paris above or under
ground are ubiquitous The mission.
of superannuated cork is to float for
ever. They seem to have a nice time.
too, after resting from their labors.
In every eddy and wash of the Seine
you will see fleet of corks; 90 to the
seaside, and the speciality of wave
washed debris is the cork; go to the
sewer, and the cork is there.
ABOVE GRoUND-sMELLs
An hour and quarter in the sew
ers of Paris is enough. You can al
ways recollect the taste and smell af-
forward. When we emerged from
these artificial bowels of Paris and
the earth, we doubly appreciated air
and sunlight.
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pressed by the last five years of bad
trade and gloomy political and finan-
cial prospects, are winding ap their
AFFAIR.", preparatory to migrating with
their capital to England"
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Pennsylvania is now making sewing
machines to be sent to China.
An earthquake occurred at Agram,
Austria, on Wednesday, and was the Sc
verest since the catastrophe of 1880.
The finances of Kentucky are not in a
bad state. She has Of outstanding bonds
$lSO,394, and resources $7O8, 1892.
An extra police force is again stationed
in Downing street to protect Mr. Glad
stones residence during his temporary
sojourn there.
Senator Anthony sent every member
of the United States Senate, AS well as
every living ex-member of that body, a
Thanksgiving turkey.
The Railwaymen's Mutual Aid Associa-
tions of Chicago mas increased it's initia-
ton fee to five dollars and limited the
amount of insurance to $4,000.
The Harrisburg Independent very truth
fully says Hon. G. A. Grow as the Re-
publican candidate for Governor next
year would sweep the State like an ava
lanch.
President Arthur's life was recently in
sured in Chicago company for O,OOO,
and the application elicited the informa-
ton that there are $50 900 already insur-
ed in other companies.
A beautiful young woman named Flor
ence Williams, from Binghamton, n. Y.
who went to Easton shert time since
and entered house of ill-fame there,
has become IA raving maniac.
The Supreme Court of Indiana, in in
terpreting the Sunday law, has held that
an innkeeper may not legally sell cigar
to guest on Sunday for the reason that
cigar is not Il necessity to the most in
veterate smoker.
A marble tablet has been placed in the
ladies waiting room Of the Baltimore &
Potomac depot in Washington to mark
the spot where Garfield was shot The
inscription is, "James Abram Garfield,
President of the United States, July 2nd,
1881"
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General Committee of 251, corresponding
with the number of the senator's and rep
resentatives from the several districts,
who will initiate the work of OrganiZa-
tion. And then will come the appeal to
the people.
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OMETHING NEW.
G.. ~. WOOD 6 90

are up to the times in making new STYLES
of Pictures. The latest is a small Ca d
Photograph, called MINETTS which are
very pretty a%d take well, Price only
per dozen.
Their Tintypes are also made at a
time. made very quickly and sell Tor 30
cents, card size.
BE- Remember the place, Patton 8
Block, corner Bridge and Main Streets.
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PATENTS

We continue to act as Solicitors for Patents Caveats
Canada, cuba, England, France, Germany, etc. We
have had thirty.five years. experience.
Patents obtained through us are noticed In the SCI
ENTIrIC AMERICAN. This large and splendid illus
trated weekypaper 90 40 year shows the Progress
of Science Is very interesting, and has an enormous
circulation. Address MUM CO., Patent SOllcf
tors, Pubs of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, " PARK ROW.
New York. Hand book about Patents free.
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T LOOK HERE!

change of weather means a eh ,nge ofCLOTHES !
Anybody III need ofOvercoats, Business and Dress
Suits, Boots, Ladies and Childrens Shoes, will find
the CHEAPEST PLACE at the BOSTON CLOTn-
ING HOUSE, just oponed in Means Block, Main
street, Towauda, Pa.
M. L. SCHNEEBERG
Oct. IL. 1881.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-11-03

NO. ~. p
= eco acres) aIfin cultivation, 200 acres in cultiva-
ton, balance in blue grass and timothy, large
buggy houre and all necessary improvements,
three good orchards, running water through the
farm, good coal bank 80 inch vein. A splendid
farm OF number one land. Price low.
No. 70.
bered pasture 20 acres good meadow % acres
pasture balance In cultivation plenty OftlmDer
for hom8 gseF. creek runs through farm ;;goOd
dwelling in good repair outbuildings fair. The
land is firSJ-eiass Situated four and a hall
mlles northeast ofIMexico, Missouri. Price, $40
PC "i" t...h No. IS.
Farm of 30 ocres all well fenced, good one story
frame dwelling house OF four rooms. Kitchen de-
taehed. coed frame barn Xxi feet. and other
small fruit, 40 acres in cultivation balance tim
bered pasture, situgte 21-2 miles west OF Mexico.
Price $500. terms easy.
NO. LOG.
1sO acres under fence, 20 acres timber de-
tached. Farm divided into 3 fields, Is acres
timber, 60 acres blue grass, balance in cultiva-
ton. This is rich rolling prairie land good =
story frame house, 4 rooms good barn sled' al
chard five varieties of fruit-shade and orna-
mental trees 2 good ~cisterns good stock water /;
s sshSS1 d9 , m1les e sonsie az la Of M kSGe nt asd one
mile south of Benton City. Price $500 per
acre, one half cash. balance to suit purchaser.
- mo. IOs.
500 acres. 8 miles southwest Of Mexice Al
fenced with hedge and rails, save 20 acres TIM
Der detached: $40 acres blue grass and timo ~.
house of S rooms. good frame barn 4ox4o, good
buggy house; good gfa ana ynorG xou ma q 1Unn,ns
rolling. Price $50 per acre, one-third cash,
balance to suit purchaser. 4
Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-11-03
Not.

. x g = 49, a. #- g.
1865 acres in farm. 100 acres timbered land
watered by YOung's creek, l2U acres grass land
Gncluding SO acres meadow balance III cultlFa-
tlon. Young orchard just beginning to bear;
plenty small fruit. two-story frame house OF 6
rooms. tenant house Of 2 rooms, ice-house,
smoke house and other out buildings: Frame
barn 5SX4t feet, good double corn crib, living
stream of water runs throuhh farm, two good
ponds, schoolhsase within 1 mile and 2 eiiurehes
within . mile. 81
EQ18. v
24o acres, fronting half mile OH public road.
100 acres In meadow, orchard OF 10 acres. balance
number one tillable land, large ~twosstory mousse
handsomely finished. all necessary out build
lngs. Situated 21-2 miles south OF Mexico.
Price $40 per acre. >'-H o..
100 acres all well fenced and nicely S .b-divid-
ed. q acres good timothy meadow, 20 acres good
pasture, balance in cultivation ami timber, good
orchard, good 1 1-2 story frame house fNe ooonls,
good stable and other out buildings. high rolling
land as hood as any in the county. Price 5000
per acre. r.
40 acres. All under hedge and rail fence.
16O acres acres of which is in meadow and culti-
vatIOn, 10 acres Of timber detached, good or
chard-well watered by artificial ponds and
| hhuse of 8 rooms, moderate barn situated Z
| miles north of Mexico. near church and school.
Price, s2l.OO per acre, $1,000, balance to sun
purchaser
NO. l26.
100 acres. All well fenced with hedge and
IA fields good ohesand a half story frame dwell
ing with i rooms and cellar good stable and
corn crib. Orchard of $50 trees. Living well at
dwelling Artificial ponds. and living water for
stock good S6al bank, of 30incll yein, and good
quality of coal. Situated 10 miles northeast OF
| school and CHURCH. Price ,s22. so per acre, one
half cash, Balance in 1 and 2 years, az 8 pei
cent.