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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30
Down Among the Clover Blossoms.

From the Eddlc Kedtdh I'Oh i:
Down among the clover blossoms in
the play grounds was found crum-
pied bit Of paper, which proved to be
a letter from Miss Heap of Horses, 4
smiling faced Cheyenne maiden, to
Master Big Horse, all Usage boy:
CARLISLE, Pa, May go, 1881.
DEAR LOVING FATHER LOUIS y. Fl. ::
1 am very glad to get you very well
come little letter and now you must
lot get mad at me please l think you
know that little girl she is wait for
you table that is my cousin and sister
she is very kind to you she no that l
write to you and / said to her did you
get to him Louis letter and she said
Oh. Yes he is very laugh. She said
love her because she is my sister and
she love NE too my sister all her friends
are love her because she is a very nice
girl. God be with you. From your
friend. MINERVA CHEYENNE.
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TENNESSEE.

Capt JAS. II. Pepper, well-knOwn
steamboat man Of Memphis, died in
Denver, Colorado, a short time since.
A telegraphers union has been or
gained at Chattanooga. 1t is the
only organization of the kind in the
South.
DR.. d. T. Porter, president of the
Taxing District of Shelby county for
several years, has resigned, and John
I. Overton, Jr., has been appointed
by the Governor to the vacancy.
Impaired health and business matters
of private nature are assigned as
the cause for DR.. Porter's resignation.
The new purchasers of the Sewanee
coal mines and furnaces contemplate
increasing the out put to 20O0 tons per
day and make such other enlarge
ments and extensions so as to make the
interests the most extensive i'll the
South and comparable to the largest
in the United States. The negOtia-
tons involve 100000 cash.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

New ORLEANS Democrat: Bliss,
the physician whs has secured Garfield for
patient, is compelled, like many others,
TO suffer for the glory and notoriety he has
lately gained. The New York Hour un-
fortunately diggs up recollections Of the
past, and wants TO know whether DR.. ID.
w. Bliss is not the DR.. ID. W. Bliss who in
1871 Endorsed Cundurango as a certain and
unfailing cure for cancer, who pretended
10 cure by it the mOther-in-law OF Vice
President Schuyler ColfaX Of that disease
(of which she subsequently died }, and who
persuaded the Federal government to Of
icially indorse Cundurango abroad and
recommend it to the sufferers of other por-
tions OF the globe. The Hour wants to
know if Garfeld's physician is that same
DR.. Bliss, as he was then publicly de-
nounced by his brethren as a humbug and
charlatan.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Summary Of the Most Important Events.
DOMESTIC.


J.H. Dean. a Young banker at Minneap-
oils. Mimi. committed suicide by taking
laudanum. Insanity the cause.
Ella Stephenson, an insane girl, living
near Pittsburg, Pa, kicked her father IN
the stomach, killing him instantly.
notwithstanding Blaine is at
Gloucester, Mass, paying out money re-
ceived from Great Britain on account Of the
unlawful interference with the American
fishing fleet at Newfoundland.
Secretary Blaine announces the release
bv the German authorities on June 18th Of
Young man named Brink, citizen of
Connecticut, recently impressed into the
German military service while temporarily
visiting his fatherland.
The Injunction Of Stewart against Sim
mons q Dickinson, which Chancellor Ed
wards dissolved, has been reinstated by
Judge Hines. Of the Court of Appeals OF
Kentucky. This perpetually enjoins SIM
mons & Dickinson from drawing the Ken
lucky State Lottery; and closes their lottery
business under the laws Of Kentucky.
Lieut.. Raw. Of the United States Signal
Coros. has sailed from San Francisco with
nine companions, in the steamer Golden
Fleece. for Point Barrow, Arctic ocean,
where he will establish a station for mete-
geological observation. \ house ready for
erection, instruments for observation, and
provisions for three years are comprised in
the outfit Of the expedition.
A Swiss immigrant who had lately
bought farm in Eagls Creek Valley, near
winona, Mimi. beeame4 sane through the
faikfre Of the crops and l1meeslckness, On
Sunday morning he'Iyas found dead in the
front room of his house. His wife and two
children were dead in the next room.
Three children were dead in bed up stairs,
and the two oldest boys were in the hay
loft mortalIy wounded. They were all shot
n the head. One boy may recover. a re-
volver was found in the house.
Returns to the department Of agriculture
on July LIST shows an increase in the condi-
ton OF cotton since last reports of June.
The average condition is %, against 100 al
the same time last year. The following are
the reports by States: Thirty-fOur counties
in North Carolina average "a, nineteen
counties in South Carolina average SO,
fifty-seven counties in Georgia average 50,
thirteen counties in Florida average 80,
thirty-twO counties in Alabama average
l02, thirty-nine counties in Mississippi
average "a, eighteen counties in Louisiana
average Sc, siXty-four counties in Texas
average 50, thirty-two counties in Arkan-
sas average % and eighteen counties in
Tennessee average 105.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30
Guiteau's Regret.

"IfI had another opportunity /
would not try to shoot the President
again" said Guiteau to-day. Il
thought had an inspiration to re-
move him, but 1 see 1 must have been
mistaken. think it is ordained by
God that the President shall not be
killed, and for that reason l would
not try it again. If it were not decreed
by God that he should not be killed
how could he be alive now? held the
pistol close to his back and my hand
was as steady as iron. | fired point
blank at him and nothing but divine
interposition could have saved him.
He will not die, am convinced. and
/ am sorry / caused him so much suf-
fering. 1t is no use for any one TO try
to kill him now, for if 1 could not do
1t with the chance 1 had no bullet can
do it Ii is so ordained and We must
abide by the viii of heaven"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30
WASHINGTON.

Assistant Secretary Upton is expected to
resume his duties at the Treasury Depart
ment about the LIST prOXimO. He sailed
for the United States about the 2lst Of July.
DIR. Z. NJ. Thayer, of the Treasury Cattle
Commission has been ordered to Nova
Scotia to investigate what foundation there
for the reports received to the effect that
dangerous cattle disease exists at Hall
fax.
The Treasury Department decides that
journalists can bring certain books for
heir libraries into the United States free
Of duty. 1t is understood that this decision
is based on a clause in the revised statutes
admitting stools of trade" free of duty.
Last year the New Orleans mint dis
tributed over $6,O00,00 silver dollars, and
it is confidently believed that during the
current fiscal year the distribution will
reach $9,OOOOOO. The distril ution of$6,09O,-
600 from New Orleans last year cost the
government only $4,000.
The coiner being a Presidential appoint
ment, Butler is designated to take that
place at the New Orleans mint only tempo
rarily until the President can attend to the
matter. Kellogg and Darrall have taken a
great interest in the little war at the mint,
the cOiner having about sixteen appOints
ments in his gift. Darrall has gone South
and Kellogg to New York.
The Philadelphia mint is expected to
turn out about 100000, New Orleans about
$500 and San Francisco the balance
necessary to make up the amount that can
be produced from S2,0OO,O 900 worth of bull
lion. In estimating how much should be
coined in the aggregate for any month the
mint bureau bases its circulation upon the
price paid for silver bullion for the preced-
ing month.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

Mr.. EDWARD ATKINSON, the statis-
tician, has an article in one Of the maya
zines in which he marshals a strong array
Of statistics TO prove that railway CONSOLE
datiOn has greatly increased the wealth and
lightened the burdens Of the people. He
claims that something over $1,000, 100000
have been saved to the country by the con-
solicitations which have created the through
lines TO the West. Mr.. Atkinson's statist-
-ics are partial and do not tell the whole
truth. He forgets that with the cOnsolida-
ton Of roads come consolidation ofcOmpeti-
ton. The competition that was scattered
became concentrated along a few lines, and
thus became even more potent than before.
But suppose this competition to be removed
by further consolidation. Suppose the
New York Central, the Erie, the Pennsyl-
vaEia and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roads should consolidate, then competition
would cease, and low freights and fares
would cease with them. Consultations,
like other great agencies, are potent for
good and for evil. The natural selfishness
Of men makes the evil preponderate, unless
selfinterest in some form cOunteracts the
evil tendency. But if it be true that con-
solidation is so great blessing, consolidat-
ing them all into the hands of the govern
ment might become a question before the
people. Railroad consultations have low
cred freights, because there was a CONSOLE
dated competition; but how would it be
with consultations that should wipe out
comnefifion;
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out the State this summer, beginning
at Hazlehurst, July 26.
Bonnie Robinson, four year old
child, was bitten by mad dog in
Woodville, Miss, OH the fourteenth of
June and died a horrible death from
hydrophobia on the thirteenth.
1t has been estimated that the acre
age of cotton planted in North Mis-
sissippi is 5 per cent. greater than last
year. Crops in all parts of the State
are reported as looking fine, with
every indication of an abundant har-
vest.
Pascagoula Star: Work on the bar
at the mouth of the river is progress
ing very favorably. The dredge
seems to be working well, and gets
out as much as thousand yards of
mud day when everything goes
right.
Luther White and Sam Robinson
were claimants for the hand of the
same girl in Chickasaw county. Size
favored White, but Robinson lay in
wait for him as he came from church
and beat his brains out with a pine
! knot.
The sawmiIl of T. J. White, near
McComb City, said to be the finest
along the line of the Chicago, st.
Louis and New Orleans railroad, was
completely destroyed last week, to-
gether with 100000 feet of lumber.
Loss 100000; uninsured. Over 20O
men are thrown out Of employment
by the fire.
Enterprise Courier: We do not
suppose there was ever in the State of
Mississippi finer cotton crop pros
pect or as large a yield promised.
There is time enough vet, however,
for worms or wet weather to cut the
cotton crop off to great extent. In
this immediate section cotton and
corn botn promise full crop.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30
GOSSIP FOE THE LADIES.

We don't just see why a woman
should like her mirror better than L
man, for the man will flatter her and
the mirror won't
Some people are compelled to go TO
the Hot Springs of Arkansas, but the
more economical just tread on their
wives train when she is ready for the
ball and get in hot water before they
know it.
A senior, after vainly trying te ex-
plain some scientific theory to his fair
inamorata, said: The question is diff
ticult, and | don't see what can do 10
make it clearer suppose you pop
it?" whispered the blushing damsel.
A little girl at school read thus
"The widow lived on limbacy left
her by a relative" what did you
call that word p asked the teacher
''the word is legacy, not limbacy,"
But" said the little girl, my sister
says L must say limb, not leg
II suppose you are very glad that
your husband is entirely eurtd of his
rheumatism 2" said doctor to fash
ionabIe lady. Yes, l suppose | ought
to be; but from now on we will have
to guess at the weather or buy ba-
rometer, if his bones quit aching before
a damp spell"
A London paper says: "a hun
dred and twenty-seven ladies' riding
in the Row one day last week in pot
hats was counted" 1t is a new fash
ion, we presume, this riding in pot
hats" American girls prefer to ride
iii carriage, or pony phaetOn, OF
something that way.
She would look well-Daughter-
"Well, mother, when [ grow up, /
shall have my boots as tight as want
them" Mother-"Yes, my dear,
suspect when you get older you will
walk yourself into the grave" Daugh-
ter perhaps 1 may, but anyway i
shall look well while I'm walking
there"
Edith-"Papa, is it nice to make re-
marks about peoples dress ?" Papa
''Why, certainly not, darling; what
did you ask that for? ?" Edith-Noth-
ing, papa, only mamma said my dress
was awful shabby, and wondered
why papa hadn't noticed it long ago.
Edith had the goods" for a new one
the very next day.
a young man has just been mar
ried. On the evening of the happy
day he observes his bride carefully re-
storing her bOquet of orange blossoms
within a globe of glass prepared for
the purpose. Much surprised, he in
quires the reason. She, with a charm
ing smile, replies, ''But, LILY dear,
may be able to keep it for the next"
"What," asked Lamby, pausing in
the middle of a mischievOus article on
the annex, sis the difference between
boarding school miss twelve months
before marriage, and the same indi-
vidual twelve months after the cere-
mOny ?" "AbOut two years." said
the Ibes, mournfully viewing the sad
eyed sensor returning from an algebra
examination. May" replied the jes-
ter, cone usbands her bang, the other
bangs her husband"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

The New York Graphic reports
that an old angler, who is vouched for as
being as reliable as any fisherman on the
river, claims to have caught five glimpses
Of a mermaid in the Ohio, near Marietta.
He says that it comes TO the surface, looks
about it and then gradually sinks, leaving
its beautiful long and glossy black hair
floating for moment on the wa er. He
represents IL as shaving the face ola woman,
and says that he didn't shoot the strange
creature because he feared that if he did he
would get into some sort Of a murder trial.
When asked whether the mermaid carried
comb or looking glass, he resisted temp
tation and answered: ''It might have, but
/ didn't see any,"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30
TEXAS.

Cherokee is sadly in need of rain.
There is considerable malarial fever
at Fort Worth.
The drOuth may force Texas to
again draw OH Kansas for corn.
A San Antonio firm offers 800 for
the first bale of new cotton.
The carpenters of Galveston struck
for So 30 per day, and got it.
The wheat cryp in Guadalupe is
said to be the finest ever raised there.
Grasshoppers are doing cOnsidera-
bic damage in Gonzales county.
A quarry of marble of superior
quality has been discovered near
Eastland.
The price of corn at San Antonio
has advanced from 45c to Soc within a
month.
Over 1000 saw mill and timber
hands can now get employment at
and near Beaumont.
There were only seven deaths at
San Antonio last week. One died
Of old age, and two from whisky.
The shipment of the new Tex; S
wheat crop North, to be manufactured
into -four, is progressing rapidly.
The city of Dallas and the water
works company do not agree upon
prices, and the city is without water.
Hands are being employed to open
up and work in the coal mines near
Cisco, on the Texas and Pacific rail-
road.
Austin is about to have two gas
companies, and the old company very
naturally objects to the new one be-
ing started.
Two hundred now hands. skilled
Germans from st. Louis, have been
added to the force of wOrkmen in the
Dixon car works at Marshall.
From almost every portion of
Southwestern and Central Texas
comes the glad tidings of heavy rains
and rejoicings of the farmers.
Fifty. tons of coal per day is the
average take" from the mines at Cor
don, on the Texas and Pacific road,
which will be increased to 20 i'll
short time.
According to the Brazoria hide
pendent the mouth of the BraZOs is be-
coming quite popular summer re-
sort. The bathing is equal to that of
Long Branch.
The corn crop in Colorado county
is fair and the cotton very fine. The
boil worm has made its appearance
in some localities, but Paris green is
being freely used.
AT San Antonio two men are to be
arrested on a charge of stealing water
from the United States government
They tapped water pipe between the
springs and the barracks.
The San Antonio Express reports
that a couple of negro boys caught
about 300 young shad at the mouth of
the San Pedro. They were from five
To six inches long, and were evidently
of last springs spawning.
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The King of TerrOrs Discounted.

II. W. BEECHER: There is no use in
thinking about death, for you can not
tell how you will die. Nine out of
every ten of you will die in perfect
calm, like a snowflake melting In the
palm of the hand. Not. more than
one in million. is raeked with re-
morse at death, as we. Sometimes read
of. That Is all fiufAim aEy. Bad men
die just about as good men die. There
is very little differenee-sSf far a phys
ical death is concerned. 1t is ten
thousand times easier to die than be
born,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

THE Greenback Central Committee
OF Massachusetts decided TO hold their
State Convention at Worcester, August
oath. The members Of the committee were
instructed to draw up resolutions Of SYM
patty with the President, and at the same
time expressing disapproval OF the means
taken to provide a Garfield fund, and to re-
port the same 10 the pUbiic press. Ar
engagements were also made to secure the
services Of Weaver and De La Matyr ON
the stump durfna the fprthcomin9Kc'nn
paign in this State.e ---
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

THE New York Board of Health re-
ports that after strenuous efforts TO drive
out contagious diseases from that city they
have succeeded in getting rid Of smallpox
and typhus fever, but that the scarlet fever
and diphiheria defy all their efforts. In
the meanwhile, however, the warm wealth
er has developed a number Of summer
complaints that are proving much more
fatal than the diseases epidemic throughout
the winter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

GATH, writing from New York city,
SAYS: "The foreign classes are particu-
larry enraptured with Gariield's behavior.
Saturday being market day, went around
my neighborhood and found Germans,
Irish and Jews all Garfield men. The Irish
regarded him something like aational
prize-fghter- sort OF Heenan or Nor
riSsey, who had gone into match with
luIlote
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GuiteaH's Bible Class.

Guiteau, besidet being a member of
the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
from 1867 to 1869, was also a member
of the Bible class taught by Super
intendent Hill at the Bethel. Mr..
Hill says that as soon as he learned
Guiteau had shot the President he
took his picture down from the wall,
where it had hung in the class-
room. Guiteau had borrowed money
from him and did not return it. He
was in nor wise eccentric when Hill
knew him.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-07-30

No cord or cable can draw so forci-
bly,, or bind so fast as love can do
with only a single thread.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-02-04
Worth Reading.

The great improvements in the manufacture
of clothing during the last twenty FIVE years.
has brought the business to the front rsnk OF
commerce. The business to-day has assam
proportions OF the greatest magnitude, and is
surpassed by few if any in extent and capital
employed. In every city are now 10 he seen
magnificent emporiums devoted solely 10 this
elias. Of business, where clothing suitable for
all classes is for sale, al prices hijscr:o gnhe.Ed
Of.
The scarcity of money at present all over the
country makes it necessary tor everyou: to saw.
every cent possible in making their purchases.
You read every advertisement in tins paper Of
business honses both in Baltimore and Wa.h-
ington giving you inducements to purchase
from them (ali trying TO prove toyou that they
can do more than the other). Now If you will
only take pains in considering the few facts |
shall relate, know many will be glad 10 pro-
fit by them. In The lst place, my place Of bu-
siness is in Alexandria, which is more conve-
nient to you all TO visit; End myexp-nses are
less than one-third OF the houses in Baltimore
and Washington, consequently ! can sell al
least from 10 10 30 per cent. cheaper; Bird, my
mode OF doing business cannot fail 10 be adj
mired, havin. strictly four points 10 do bust
ness upon, viz: One price to all, no miSrepre-
sensations, money refund d when not suited,
fair dealing TO all. 4rh, | carry the largest
stock OF clothing both for Men and Boys this
side oil New York, kaowing by SO doing can
suit and please all my customers 9Th and last
but not least, ! shall rake it my main Object
TO make it satisfactory TO all the readers Of this
paper and make it pay them TO give me a call
Please weigh these few facts and when you are
in need OF goods in my line stop at AIexandria
and give me chance of proving what assert
NJ. J. Waterman.
Clo,hier, Halter and Gents. Furnisher,
No. 62 King, cor Fairfax ST.
Alexandria, Va.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-02-04
GLyMoNT, Jan. 81, 1891.


Editor Of tie Times:
l think your correspondent diving in
the vicinity of Glymon'," has given you
rather an exaggerated and dismal account
'of the monotony now prevailing in and
around that isolated burg 1t is true
we are frozen in," but we do not feel the
least bit like congealing. or becoming tor
pid Our lordly Potomac some weeks
ago, donned her coat of glittering mail,
and although hsr armor appears impena-
trable; we know that when Vennor sends
along that thaw, the icy letters will be
broken, and we Will hear tho shrill whis
tie of the steamers and when Summer
comes with flowers our noble river will
again bear proudly upon dancing sunlit
waves, gaily decked floating palaces with
happy faces We have our daily mail,
and would you sometime step into our
cosy sitting room when the day is done"
when the man OF the house is seated be-
fore our ample fireplace with its blazing
logs quietly reading the Sun; when the
boys have brought in plate of nuts, or
basket of apples; and the ladies of the
family are gathered around table COW
cred with paper. and periodicals, includ-
ing Vick's Floral Mtgaziae; you would
surely think the demon Of "ennui" is ban
ished from our domicil. Then we have
the sweet companionship of flowers; not
wi,hstanding the Arctic severity OF the
winter. gathered a few days ago = bo-
quet; some fragrant leaves, fine opening
buds, and spray OF the sweet voiced mi:n-
onetto. ADA.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-02-04

ave a bill to present." said snow
bird, when looking for his breakfast.