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Beecher's Money.

Philadelphia Record: One of the
many mysteries of the age is what
Henry Ward Beecher has done with
his money. At one time he was in re-
ceipt of $4,000 from his church,
$4,000 from his newspaper, $4,000
from his lecturing, and $4,000 from
marriage fees, literary work and his
books, making total of $4,000 a
year. Yet Beecher never had any
money to spare. His household was
modest, not expensive; his wife was
apparently not extravagant; he gave
nothing that was known to charity !;
and yet he was always Hnpecunious.
When he wanted to help Tilton he
gave a mortgage upon his house, and
now he has sold his house, furniture
and buildings, and gone to live with
married son. He told me he did this
because the young birds had all grown
up and flown out of the nest; and yet
it was a marvel that in his old age he
should leave his comfortable home
upon the heights of Brooklyn and go
into narrow quarters as boarder. He
spoke with a sigh and very evident
regret at the breaking up of his old
home. This was strange, but the I'M
finished story in regard to his farmer,
Thomas Turner, at Peekskill, is still
more strange. When Turner died Mr..
Beecher took charge of his papers, and
burned large number of them, among
which, it is alleged, were number of
promissory notes. The whole thing
has a queer look, and the question
which agitates the newspaper men is,
whittier has all the money he has made
in the last quarter of century,
amounting to millions, gone?
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An Argument for Prohibition.

Below we append an article clipped
from the Bibb Blade, published at
Centerville, Ala, showing some of the
many good results that flow from the
law prohibiting the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors in Alabama. The article
reads:
The grand Jury Ex-Gov. Z. II. MOren,
foreman. returned sixty indictments. His
report saws: 1--WE have found no very grave
Ofienses against law and good order, and we
heartily congratulate the people upon the
marked improvement in their morals, espe-
ciaily since the sale OF intoxicating drinks
has been prohibited by law; for IL is the
universal testimony Of all observing and
intelligent men who came before us as wit
nesses that the contrast is marked and
striking. No breaches of the peace now
no fighting brawls or blOodshed; and we
confidently believe that when the full effect
of the prohibitOry law can be felt we viii
have but little use for grand juries. True,
we have found largely more than the aver
age number Of bills, but they are of a mi
nor character, and against but few individ-
uals. There are some eYasions and VIOLA
tiOns Of the law among the transient poPu-
lati0n in the mineral regions Of the country,
but none scarcely among the localized in
habitants or the country people. The col
cred people especially, there being no longer
any traps or Sesdfalls for them, are staying
nj home duly sober, labOring faithfully and
living peaceably."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

Mrs. DEACON GROVER, aged 60, was
seated mending her sons stocking in her
house in the town Of Horsehead, New
York, last week, when tramp entered and
asked for something TO eat. The old lady
went to the cellar and when she came back
her gold-rimmed spectacles were gone, She
said TO the tramp: ''You've got my specs. .
He denied it, and, quietly laying down the
plate, she went to bureau, took arevolver
therefrom, pointed ii at the tramp and told
him If he didn't lay those specs on the table
she would shoot him where he stood. 2 he
tramp took the spectacles from his pocket
and mildly laid them down. 'Now," said
she, ''eat what have brought for you and
get" He ate and departed. When her son
Augustus appeared the old lady, again tax
ing the revolver from the bureau, said to
him: Augustus, how do you cock this
weapony'
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MISCELLANEOUS.

General Longstreet will take charge
of the United States MarshalPs office
in Georgia, on July LIST.
In Lee county, last week, Johnnie,
son of DIR. j. d. Trammell, near Gus
seta, Ala, took his gun and dogs and
went hunting. When about mile
from home, a negro heard the report
Of a gun and soon the barking of the
dogs. This aroused suspicion, and,
going in that direction, he was met by
the dogs and prevented from ap-
preaching where the little boy was
lying near a fence. He returned,
mounted his mule and rode back, and
found that Johnnie was dead, having,
in attempting to cross the fence, dis
charged his gun, the load tearing off
the top of his head ana scattering his
brains on the ground. The gun was
found ON the opposite side of the fence,
proving that the little fellow was at
tempting to climb over when the ac-
cident occurred. The dogs guarded
the body for some time, but had not
Tapped up drop of blood, though it
was scattered in quantities all around
them..
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THE SOUTHERN STATES.
ARKANSAS.

Near Mount Vernon last week.
William Shock, his two sons and Will
liam Matthews INDUCED in drunken
spree. during which the Shock boys
beat Matthews in terrible manner,
from the effect of which he died in a
few hours.
Miss Lizzie Bell, highly connected
in Western Arkansas, met her death
in fearful and singular manner at
Talequaha, i. T. She was asleep on a
bed in the third story, and while un-
conscious rolled off the bed out of the
window. She was badly mangled
and soon died.
AT Dolly Springs, near Texarkan2,
Jefferson Lee, farmer and grocery
keeper, got into a fight with some
darkies, during which Lee stabbed
and killed one of the party, but he
himself was terrible cut on the head
and back by colored woman who
carried Ratchet.
Last Sunday a party OF laborers
while engaged in excavating the hill
on the place of Mr.. j. S. Monnier, in
/ w Ccl IltiClid, Stl al udIA
On making further investigation, the
men exhumed piece of the jawbone
of mammoth in which were two
teeth, one of which was brought down
town by Mr.. Monnier and placed on
the scales, when it was found to weigh
seven pounds. The enamel on the
tooth is in perfect state of preserva-
ton. Mr.. Monnier will continue the
excavation, in order to ascertain
whether or not more bones of the man.
moth can be found.
a special from Russelville, says ::
On the 18th inst, between II and l
o'clock an armed crowd of twenty five
men, thought to be from Franklin
county and to be friends of the muir
dered woman, Mrs. Emery, took pos
session of the Dover pope county, Jail
and hung Cal Emery, the murderer,
whose death sentence Gov. Churchill,
a few weeks since, committed to q
years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. Emery resisted and was shot
in the head. 1t is supposed he was
dead when hung. Emery had been
found guilty of the murder of his wife
and sentenced to be hung, but Gov.
Churchill committed his sentence as
above stated.
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LOUISIANA.

There were thirteen cases of sum
stroke at New Orleans on the 10th
inst, seven fatal.
Shreveport Times: The. planters
continue to complain of the grass, and
with good reason.
Ouachita Bulletin: Farmers COM
plain of more grass this year than
within their experience.
East Feliciana Patriot Democrat.
Oats, as a general thing, have ripened,
been cut and harvested.
Cotton and corn never looked more
healthy, were never in finer condition
at this season of the year.
The Baton Rouge Adcocate reports
the cotton caterpillar on the Guy Sam
uel's plantation in East Baton Rouge.
New Iberia Sugar Bowl: The rice
crop is the largest ever planted in
Louisiana, and it has deep green,
vigorous look.
East Feliciana WGtchmda:, The
crops of our parish, barring a smart
sprinkling of grass, are reported in
fine condition.
Richland Beacon: Some of our
planters are getting in the grass but
the weather is very favorable for get
ting clear oft.
New Iberia Sugar BOlc1: The corn
crop is very large, and most of it be-
ing well advanced, the yield is almost
certain to be large.
East Feliciana Patriot Democrat.
Despite the fact that rain is needed
in this section, both cotton and corn
are amazingly well, the dews tending
towards invigorating both of these
crops.
Bossier Banner: From every sec
ton of the parish come the reports of
crops badly in the weeds and grass,
and farmers working manfully. With
few more days of good weather the
farmers will win the fight.
Baton Rouge AdcOcdte: The crops
in the eastern portion of the parish are
reported in good condition and pretty
clear of grass, but wanting rain, while
those in the northern portion have
plenty of rain and some grass.
A planter below Bayou Goula
writes that his corn is generally very
fine, stubble good but plant cane very
poor. He says, "crOps around here
are very poor, and few, even of the
large plantations, will make any crop
to speak Of"
Cotton is as well advanced in Pointe
Coupee as at this time last year, but
little grassy. Corn is backward, and
needs rain. The plant cane is fair, but
the stubble poor, very few persons ex-
pect to make sufficient plant for next
year from their stubble.
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A Female IZaak Walton.

An English writer tells of lady
who had always despised fishing.
What attraction people find in it was
to her incomprehensible; rat catching,
she said, she might bring herself pos
sibly to take an interest in, but never
fishing. AT last, some years ago, she
happened to go to an Irish moor with
her brother; and he, not knowing
what to do for her amusement, sent
her out fly fishing, under the keeper
care. She caught three fish, and also
caught her hook in her thumb and had
to have it cut out; and from that day
the spirit of Isaak Walton entered into
her. She bought a pair Of fishing
stockings, and was to be seen in all
weather perseveringly wading and
fiogging the water, till she became an
expert angler, and is now competent
to discourse learnedly on the relative
merits of flies, fishing rods and all such
topics.
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EcOnomJ iu Shoe. Making.

Boston Herald: A shoe manufac-
tory nowadays, that IS, one of any
considerable capacity, will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000 to equip with
machinery and improved appliances.
The economies in the old times were
necessarily few. Now they are such
that not only are the waste scraps Of
upper leather utilized in extracting
the oil from them, but, after the oil is
extracted they are found to make a
good fuel. At one Massachusetts, fas-
tory about two barrels of this oil are
extracted each day, and used in one OF
the processes of finishing thes hoes. The
scraps of sole leather remaining after
cutting out the soles and uppers are
utilized for making heels, while the
deshings, so called, saved from the
splitting machines where the soles are
turned up, are sold to be made into
leather board.
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it Don't Pay.

The following from the Newark
Daily Adrertiser has some wholesome
truths which it would be well for all
classes of citizens to ponder:
1t don't pay TO have fifty working
men poor and ragged in order to have
one saloeT-keeper dressed in broad
cloth and flush of money.
1t don't pay to have these fifty
workingmen live on bone-soup and
half rations, in order that the saloon
keeper flourish OH roast turkey and
champagne.
1t don't pay to have the mothers and
children of twenty families dressed in
rags and starved into the semblance
of emaciated scarecrows and living in
novels, in order that the saloon-keeper's
wife may dress in satin, and her chill
dren grow fat and hardy, and live i'll
bay window parlor.
1t don't pay to have one citizen in
the county jail because another sold
him liquor.
1t don't pay to have ten smart, ac-
tive boys transformed into hoOdlums
and thieves, to enable one man to lead
an easy life by selling the liquor.
1t don't pay to give one man, for
SlI5 a quarter, a license to sell liquor,
and then spend $4,000 on the trial of
Tim Laughlin for buying that liquor
and then committing murder under
its influence.
1t don't pay to have one Thousand
homes blasted, ruined, defiled and
turned into bells of disorder and mis-
cry, in order that one wholesale IL
quor house may amass large fortune.
1t don't pay to keep six thousand
men in the penitentiaries and hos
pitfalls. and six thousand in the lunatic
asylums, at the expense of the honest,
industrious taxpayers, in order that
few rich capitalists may grow richer
by the manufacture of whisky.
1t never pays to do wrong; your sin
will find You out; whether others find
it out or not, the sin knows where you
are and will always keep you posted
of the fact-it don't pay.
A saloon-keeper sold a drinking
man one pint of new rum, making
fifteen cents clear profit. The man.
under the influence of that pint Of
rum, killed his son-in-law
and his apprehension, confinement in
jail, execution, etc, cost the country
one thousand dollars-which temper
ate men had to earn by the sweat OF
their brows. 1t don't pay.
The loss sustained by society, NOR
ally and financially, the sorrow and
suffering, the misery and dsstitution
produced and augmented, and what is
infinitely a greater consideration than
all else, the destruction of soul and
body, the inevitable results of using
or trafficing in intoxicating liquors
these all attest the truthfulness OF the
verdict-it don't pay.
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WASHINGTON.

W. C. Mcfarland, of Topeka, Kan, is
thought to be the coming man for Commits
sioner of the general land office.
j. A. Bentley rendered his resignation
this afternoon as Commissioner DIMENSIONS.
1t was at once accepted, and W. W. Dud-
lev, United States Marshall of Indiana, APP
pointed to the place.
Gen. Baum has informed the collectors OF
internal revenue that the appropriation for
the payment of gaugers and storekeepers
the current year is so nearly exhausted
that the balance is not sufficient to pay all
these offices in full for the mouth Of June.
They will therefore be paid to June 20, and
Congress will he asked to make an appro-
pirate for the deficiency.
Comptroller Knox desires it TO be an
nounced again that he has on hand large
amount of unclaimed dividends of the
Freedman's bank. Very few pass books of
depositors have been received since last an
nouncement. In answer to question
when he would declare new dividend, he
said not until the Freedman's bank building
was sold or Congress makes an apprOpria-
ton.
The treasury clerks are very busy max
ing out checks for the July interest on the
registered per cents. This class of bonds
are fayorites at the treasury because they
are so much smaller and more easy to ham
die and keep track Of than the coupon As.
They are more widely diffused among small
holders than the public generally is aware
of, and considerable proportion are reg
istered in the name Of women.
Register of the Treasury Bruce expects
to remain in Washington most of his days.
He purchased to-day fine building site,
just opposite that upon which Blaine is
putting up his $4,000 house, in the most
aristocratic quarter. He proposes building
upon it modest, tasteful residence. Bruce
is very well satisfied with his position. He
has to work hard, night and day, upon the
''Windoms,'' but he looks forward to the
months of rest after they are disposed of.
The treasury department is running very
close to the wind just at present, in the
pubsiO oAuCl " bC BiO-
pared for the bonds due July and August
10. The end OF the present fiscal year will,
however, show the government in very
good shane financially.
There is now in the treasury cash bal
ance of SIS, 900 in round numbers. The
usual surplus from revenues each month is
about $1,000, 900, but Of late they have been
running very heavy and Will probably for
this month aggregate $40, 0OO,OOO. This will
close the balance at the end Of the fiscal
year June 90 with about Sl65, 100000.
Sixteen millions Of this sum will be paid
out TO meet the amount of uncOntinued
per cents, which are payable on that date.
On the 18th of August there will come due
the remainder of SIS to be redeemed, and
the treasury department is as yet uncer-
tain how many will be brought in for re-
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

COL. JOHN w. FoRNEY, in an inter-
view recently said; "There are men now
in the Republican ranks, Democrats in
heart as well mind, who are only wait
Ing the opportunity to proclaim their alle-
glance. The nomination of Gen. Hancock
was my opportunity, i seized it, with hun
dreds OF others. The time is not far distant
when the business and beauty of democrat
ic principles will not alone be recognized.
but be embraced by a large majority of the
people Of this country. Harmonious alike
with its spirit and institutions, with the
fading away of sectional prejudice win come
corresponding broadening of popular
ideas. Education and Democracy go hand
in hand. General culture is the forerunner
OF general equality. The age of Thomas
Jefferson was in advance Of this one. We
are getting up to them gradually, and
when we do, there can be but one result
unqualified acceptance"
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ninety-four children; another has nine
wives and Eve nursing babies. which he ex-
hibiis with all the pride ] should take in a
lot Of fine horses. / never realized the in
fernal nature Of the institution nor its effect
upon society as do now. The sooner cur
government brushes it out the better for
humanity. it is blot upon the face Of the
earth; particularly in this lovely valley, so
green and beautiful, with apples, peach,
pear. and plum trees in full blosscm-gr
waving ia the wind, bees humming and
birds singing. Ike our July weather, while
just beyond all this, in the background, are
the mountain tops covered with snow. 1t
is the prettiest sight ever saw, and one
which shall never forget"
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TIlr estimated rerennes OK

Tine estimated revenues of tic Dosta
service for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1882 are $S9,57S, 7s7 45, and the total amount
OF money appropriated by Congress for ex-
penditure by the postoffice department du-
ring the same fiscal year is sac, $50, 1872 show
ing that the amount necessary to be saved
In order to bring the expenditure within the
receipts, and thus place the department on
business basis, is 81 $40, 6I2 50. Reduction
In the expedited star service contracts, etc,
effected from March last to the present
date, amount TO almost exactly S1,0OO,OOO
per annum. This total includes about
500, 900 cut of during the past week, more
than half Of which was effected on Southern
routes
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

The Northwestern Lumberman de-
clares that the South will, within few
years, make great deal Of money over the
sale Of furniture timber. Walnut is becom-
ing SO scarce as to give furniture manufac-
turers in all parts Of the country great
deal Of trouble. The furniture people are
now largely dependent on the South for
their supply. Some Of the shrewder ones
have already sept agents South 10 buy up as
much land timbered with good furniture
timber as possible, but the majority Of them
are hoping that something will turn up 10
get them out of their difficulties. Ii was
thought by some Of them that mahogany
would again assert itself and take the place
of walnut, but this the LWDsbermaR thinks
Improbable, as mahogany is becoming
scarce in Mexico and South America, and
has to be conveyed from points so far in the
irterior that its COSTS too great to allow its
use 20 any large extent in cabinet-making.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

A SPECIAL from Little Rock says
Chief ID. w. Busby, head of the Cherokee
Nation, has issued proclamation for a
general election the first of August. Forty
members of the Nation council, sixteen OF
the grand council, judge, solicitor and clerk
for each division are to be chosen. The con-
test between the two opposing factions
styled ''NatiOnar' and ''Union" is most bit
tor. Several murders have been reported.
The most brutal is that ofD. b. Adair, candi-
date for the solicitorship, who was shot down
by man with whom he was drinking. His
body was tied to a horse and the CHASTITY
burden was born home to his wife and chill
drQu
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

The domes of all the great Russian
churches are plated wild gold quarter Of
and inch thick. The new church Of the Sa-
vior, just dedicated in Moscow, has now a
coat which cost sl5,0OO.0OO, and the Isaac
Cathedral in st. Petersburg represents three
times thatamount. Althoughthese churches
offer to the starving peasantry such fine
chances 10 plumber they are never touched.
The wretches fear Divine vengeance and
would sIarye rather than invoke it.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

1t is estimated that of the one bill
lion of acres of tillable land in the
United States only about los millions
are actually in cultivation, that is, less
than II per cent. of the whole amount.
The aggregate in bushels, of corn,
wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat,
and potatoes, raised last year, amount
ed to 2,586, 46S, 800, and the cultivation
was poor at that. This shows what
an enormous population this country
could sustain,
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TEXAS.

The wool market at Galveston is
active. Fine spring is twenty-five to
twenty-seven cents.
Mrs. Bette N. Burchill has been APP
pointed postmistress at Fort Worth,
vice John p. Alexander, removed. :
The Hebrews of Houston have or
grained a Hebrew Educational As
ISOLATION, the object being to teach and
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25
TENNESSEE.

Chattanooga has four military COM
panies, with membership of 23O
men.
John Walsh, a waiter in Gaston's
Hotel, Memphis, died of sunstroke on
the 18th inst.
Miss Jennie Lamar, youngest
daughter of Hon. l.. @. G. Lamar, is
visiting friends in Memphis.
On the 10Th inst, in Memphis, AL
bert Mccoy shot Horace Hayes in the
eye, infiicting a painful wound. Both
colored. Mccoy escaped.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

GENERAL GRANT said to Chicago
Nescs reporter on Monday. IL accomplished
the purpose for which / went to Mexico,
having obtained all that went for without
any great difficulty, despite the attempts of
certain newspapers and persons here to
create opposition through talk Of annexa-
ton, etc. The road will be in all about 700
miles long, running from the city of Mexico
through Pueblo 10 the Pacific coast, while
another branch must go down to the Gulf.
II will be great benefit TO Mexico i'm de-
veloping the resources Of that country, and
70 the United Stateso
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25

demption. About ST, 900, zoo have been sent
in, but of these S., 600, 900 are waiting legal
decision as to their availability for contin-
uance, owing to certain formalities in the
notices sent in. There is also quite an
amount Of SIS due under the call OF March
.. 1881, which have not yet made their ap-
pearance and which must be provided for.
Altogether the end of the first quarter of
the next fiscal year will find the cash lal-
there will be few bonds bought for the sink
ING fund
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SECRETARY WINDOW lately gave the
St. Paul Pioneer Press some views on
finance. He thinks that I4,3sS, 900 can be
saved annually by refunding our debt in
''windoms," as the new 81 per cent. loan
10 now called. He predicts an annual sur
plus Of $50, 600, 600 in the revenues, and feels
sure that within ten years ali the SIS and 6's
will have been provided for.