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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate on the oath. after the
transaction of some unimportant business,
an executive session was held and an adj
journment taken until January 7..... In
the House a message was received from tle
President transmitting the report of the
Secretary of State and papers relating to
the trial, conviction and execution of the
late Patrick O'Donnell. Laid on the table
for future action. The Speaker announced
the standing and select committees. The
House adjourned until January :.
LAMBORN & GRAY, bankers, Alliance,
o., failed on the oath for big iig RS.
DELEssEPs says the new suez Canal
will remain under French control.
A TRAIN ran into washout near
Salem, Ind, on the 24th, several passen-
gers being killed or seriously hurt.
A STABLE was wrecked in Pittsburgh
ON the 24th and six draught animals killed.
by an explosion of natural gas.
TRAVEL between Cincinnati and
Louisville on the Cairo Short Line X all.
way was interrupted ON the 2ilh by a
landslide.
IRIsH citizens of Toronto, Ont, arc
holding NEE ,ings TO raise funds for pauper
immigrants.
CAPTAIN Balm and five men of the
wrecked ship Regina were rescued II. sea
ter being adrift five days on a ra t.
Two la"ge fires occurred in st.
Louis, Mo-, Christmas evs, in which over
| 5000, 100 worth of property was destroyed
and hree brave iremen lost their lives.
JUDGE TRUAX, of New York, has re-
fused to admit to citizenship Cu.nainan
who had air ally taken out his first pnpers.
AT Petersburg, Ind, Charles Ha yey
was taken RON all ON the n,sht ri the = Il
and lynched ior TIE murder of Henry Gus
tin, Jr., few nights previous.
The Canadian Minister of Finance is
considering a reduction in du, les on wueaJ
from fifteen cents to seven ana one. half
cents per bushel.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the New York,
New Haven a. Hartford Road stuck fast in
a snow-drift and exploded on the 9th, kill
ing the engineer and fireman.
GEORGE f. WILLIAMS has been APP
pointed temporary administrator of tue
Louis G. Hammersley estate, New York,
valued at s5,0J0,000.
A NATIONAL salute was fired in New
York in honor of the centennial OF Wash
ington's resignation as Commander-in
chief. In Philadelphia the bell in hide
penden"e Hall was rung hundred times
TIE Bond case at Hillsboro, H., con
tinues to be IA prolific source of sensational
rumors. 1t is now said that the physicians
will be recalled and expert testimony taken
as TO the mental condition of the prosecut
ing witness.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-29
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

By the curtalment of force in manu-
featuring establishments at New Haven,
Conn.,, several hundred men have been
thrown out of employment.
On the 18th heavy loss was sustained
by fire in the burning of cotton warehouses
at Baltimore, Md.
On the night of the 18th w. j. Little,
of indianapolis, Ind, freight conductor
on the l. s. st. l.. Road, was killed at Terre
Haute.
AT Cheshire, Conn, Peck, Stow &
Wilson's edge tool factory burned on the
10th; loss, $25 900. A large number of men
are thrown out of employment
On the 18th James Weaver, aged
sixty, laborer in Hussey g. Howe's Steel
works at Pittsburgh, Pa, was caught in
the betting and was torn limb from limb
Portions of his body were scattered dis
lance of hundred feet.
THE entire business portion of Med
ford, Mimi, was destroyed by fire on the
10th. Loss very heavy.
OK the goth Edward Duchemin, q
young husband at Cincinnati, supposing
he had killed his wife, got his breakfast
and then went to a police station and gave
himself up, showing the knife he had used.
MAIL clerk Charles A. Willard, on
the Bee Line, was arrested on the 10Th for
stealing letters. He confessed his crime.
PRESIDENT JONES of the defunct De-
pere Bank of Milwaukee, Wis, has been
arrested, charged with having received a
deposit of $50 at four o'clock on the same
day that the insolvency of the bank had
been declared at three O'Clock.
ANOTHER Irish informer named Ker-
rigan, upon whose testimony three men
were hanged in 1882, was shot in County
Mayo, Ireland, on the Goth.
On the goth, Willie Badger, aged -four
years, son of Frederick Badger, of Brad
| ford Pa, fell into boiler of scalding water
at French Creek, N. Y, and was boiled tC
| death.
On the night of the goth masked rob-
bers entered residence in Montgomery
County, Pa, and went for booty with pis
tolls in true highwavman style.
| In Montreal, Can, the night of the
| 22d, fire destroyed $4,000 worth of property
belonging to the Montreal Printing Com
pany.
BY the burning of Jewish Syna
gogue and school at Constantinople on tn,
23d fifteen students lost their lives.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-29

AT Whitestone, L. L., the children of
John d. Lock are contesting his will dispos-
ing of his estate of half million.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS has been Gre
ated by the Pope delegate apostolic to pre-
.side at the Catholic Council, to be held in
Baltimore, Md, next November.
The two Fitzgeralds and Webb, the
indicted pension attorneys of Washington,
have been suspended from practice pending
legal proceedings against them.
CHIEF ENGINEER CHARLES IL. LoR-
ING is to be Chief of the Bureau of Steam En-
gineering, vice Commodore Shock. This
settles the controversy.
In the case of ex-senator Spencer,
Judge Mylie of the Criminal Court at
Washington held that Spencer was not
guilty of contempt, as he had not beer
properly subpenaed to appear as a witness
in the Star-route cases. He was therefore
discharged.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

INQUIRY has been ordered into the re-
cent murder OF Turks in Christian villages
in Crete, which has caused much excite
ment.
The Canadian Pacific and the Grand
Trunk, Railroads are again ut loggerheads.
OK the occasion of the feast of st.
Nicholas King Milan of Servia pardonsd
four hundred peasants.
PITTSBURGH (Pa.) dispatches of the
2ist announce the sale of the franchise of
the Pittsburgh & Atlantic Railroad to Van
derbilt.
The inquiry into the conduct of the
Greedy relief expedition is still progressing
at Washington, aud interesting facts are
being elected.
Ii appears to have been settled in
England that European English subjects
shall be tried by juries composed of ma
1ority of European jurors.
The New York Supreme Court re-
manded the case of the widow and daughter
of Jesse Hoyt, who was denied an allow
ance of $4,000 by the Surrogate, on the
ground of want of jurisdiction.
GREAT excitement exists at L as Vegas,
N NJ, over gold discoveries. The find was
made by workmen excavating for a new
| Courthouse. They immediately staked out
a claim, and now the entire population is
said to be searching for gold.
In the City of Mexico on the 2lst there
was riot requiring the troops to put il
down, in consequence of the refusal to take
nickel money in the markets.
Ok the Dist the indicted pension at
| torneys were bitterly arraigned by District
Attorney Corkhill at Washington for at
tempt to tamper with the Grand Jury.
| On the 2lst the striking engineers al
Winnipeg offered 10 return to work, but
were refused by Superintendent Egan
New engineers from Montreal we're as
saulted.
Ok the 21st Jerry Cox (colored) wa:
hung at Georgetown, S. c., for the murder
of Herbert Rembert, and Jim Taylor, a ne
gro, at Geddings, Tex, for the killing of I
| woman.
In his official report Admiral Courbe
states that three officers and sixty-sevei
men were killed aud ten officers and IL
men wounded before Sontay ON the 14th
Admiral Courbet has been gazetted grant
officer of the Legion of Honor.
On the Dist five of the Glasgow dyn
amiters, on trial at Edinburgh, were founC
guilty of all the charges, and were sever
ally sentenced to life Imprisonment. Tn
other five were found guilty of the frs
charge only, and were each sentenced Il
seven years. penar seryitude.V
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate, on the 10Th, bills we're in
PRODUCED: For the acceptance by the United
States of fhe Illinois & Michigan Canal; re-
opecting artesian wells; TO create a commits
sion 10 investigate railroad transportation; re-
garding judge advocates of the army. A bill
creating new standard time In District of Co
lumbia passed. A resolution respecting railroad
lands was presented. Mr. Mcmillan present.
ed resolutions of the Legislature of Minnesota,
asking erection of sheer boOms at railroad
bridges The new rules were debated at length
without reaching conclusion. The House
resolution respecting holidays was amended.
fixing January as the time for the reas-
Blackburn reported a resolution creating sew
eral special committees. An amendment to
create committee on alcoholic liquor traffic
mittee on the centennial of Washington's sur
render OF his commission. The House con-
Cured in the Senate amendment to the holi-
day adjournment resolution.
In the Senate, ON the Goth, bills were in
troduceo: To authorize the Secretary of War
TO erect a monument to General Warren: to
authorize distillation of fruit without federal
BOARD of railroad commissioners to regulate
Interstate commerce. to be appointed by the
President; TO repeal the law allowing use of
alcoholic vapors in the manufacture of vine
gar, except by duly authorized distillers. A
large number of postmasters were confirmed
Mr.. Van Wycks preamble to inquiry respect
ing railroad land grants amended and
agreed to. The new rules were laid over till
after the holidays. The House resolution re-
speeding the centennial of WashingtOn's sur
render of his commission was agreed TO. ......
In the House joint resolution passed request
ing the President to issue q proclamation tC
secure observance of the surrender by Gen
eral Washington of his commission as Com
mander-in-Chief of the Colonial armies. The
House refused.to create committee on fe
male suffrage. A committee on rivers and har
bOrS was created.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-29

IL Lancashire, Eng, fourteen thou
quence of a strike. One-half the looms in
Blackburn are stopped.
IT is reported that the King of Abys-
sinia is massing troops at Adua and threat
eniug Massowah. 1t is also stated that
about the first of December the Abyssinian
chiefs attacked the intrenched Egyptian
position near Massawah and mastered 800
Egvptipns.
In Limerick, Ireland, the employees of
the gas-works went out on strike on the
22d. Soldiers were put to work in their
places.
OK the 22d two earthquakes shook
things up in pretty lively manner in
Portugal.
AT Des Moines, Ia, five prisoners in
Jail overpowered the jailer on the 23d and
escaped.
ENGLAND has fatty refused to under
take to reconquer the Soudan or to allow
Egypt to attempt it.
In Manitoba a movement is on foot
among Baptists to separate from the
church of Canada and unite with the
American Baptist Church.
The re. ent snow storm which was
widespread turned to rain on the 23l, and
in the Ohio Valley amounted almost to a
deluge. Destructive foods are expected.
IL the coke regions of Connellsville,
Pennsylvania a, war has been inaugurated
on the Hungarian la5orers, modelled on
the plan of the anti-Chinese war on the
Pacific coast.
DURING the last fiscal year the total
expenses of the United States Courts were,
in round numbers. $3,000,000
SPAIN is about to pay oTer to tho
United States f92,000 (about S46O,000), as
in lemnity 10 American citizens Tor losses
sustained during the insurrection.
THE New York Mining and National
Petroleum Exchange and the New York
Petroleum Exchange are to be consoli
dated.
On the 23d the French Chamber Of
Deputies talked about American salted
meats. The result of the days debate vii
be the withdrawal of the decree allowing
their importation.
A LETTER has been received by the
Pension Bureau at Washington IRON al
Ohio man containing the following: "DroI
my name from the pension roll and write
opposite it: Cured by faith in the Lord.''
He will be dropped.
In the case of the Missouri River
Packet Company VS.. the Hannibal & St
Joseph Railroad Company, which the Mis-
souri, Supreme Court decided in favor Of
plaintiff recently, an appeal has been
taken to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
In the Federal Court ct Chicag,
Judge Blodgett on the 22d fined three lot
terry agents 1890 each for using the mail
in the dissemination of lottery literature
These are said to be the first convictions o
that nature in the State of Illinois.
A REPORT has been sent by Indial
Agent Tufts to Washington of the troubl
in the Creek Nation, accompanied wit
statements from the two rival chiefs. H
7 says an outbreak may be averted if tn
Government acts promptly.
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CREAM
BALM

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9 n viable repu-
tation wherever
k n o W n. dis
placing all 9TH
er preparations.
An article of
undoubted mer-
it 1t cures
COLD
IN
HEAD.
Is not a liquid
or snuff.
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s. A PITHY SENTENCE. well
known statesman of this country
once said when summing up the
events of life time: "Youth is a
blunder, manhood astruggle. old age
a regret. He might have added
many morevonders, but they are not
necessary, forhis aphorism expresses
much. Yet it's a we'll known fact
that the above could not be said of
life were all classeA aware what Il
great remedy PERUNA is, and what
wondrous cures it has performed.
For the ills of youth it isa wonder
Gus specific. The worry and tear of
manhood's struggle for existence
enfeeble his system, and he needs
such tonic, and when old age cones
on with its feebleness and regrets
for failures and mistakes, the great
remedy, PERUNA, can still be used
with good effect, aud If given fair
trial will accomplish wonders.
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For the INDEPENDENT.
My own dear Home.

The path has been so rough and steep
That have had no time for rest,
Lest darkest night should find my feet
But halfway to the mountains crest.
| have not dared to stop for breath,
Nor dared to weep, when cruel thorn
Pierced my poor hands with subtle
sting,
Lest tears should leave me more for
lOrn.
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One More Coach.
A PLEA FOR BETTER RAILWAY ACCOM-
NOTATION.

Eds. Independent:
I'm not one of that blatant kind that
believe 'all corporations are soulless.'
rather think that they can occasional
ly be s'moved by our infirmities," il
they are approached in calm, quiet
manner, and not sobbishly howled at
and irratioually importuned. lmay be
mistaken; at any rate, will risk the
effect OF a gentle supplication, and re-
specially ask, through your columns,
that the management of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad company furnish bet
r accteommodation for passengers go
ing East. The Express train leaving
here about noon, is generally made up
OF TWO sleeping cars, one smoking car,
and one general coach. There should,
by all means, be at least two coaches
for general accommodation. One Is not
sufficient: this fact may be substan-
tiated almost every day, as many per-
sons are returning from various resorts
and visiting places. Ladies' are FREE
seats, and many manage in many cases
to obtain a seat by incommoding an
other person. This is unpleasant to all
parties, and the rational escape from
such annoyance is In the hands Of the
railroad management. The escape is
easy and certain. Three little words
suggest the remedy; ONE MORE COACH.
Will the company give its SYPHAx.
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of lie, for after he has paid his SO
or So per week for ordinary
bard, and sustains his extraordi-
laary weekly expenses outside of that,
he discovers the impossibility of
making both ends meet. OF clerks
and book keepers there is and always
has been a surfeit. No more are
wanted, as they are already here IN
sufficient numbers to grow apace
with the country and its business.
There is, however, a great, and ]
might say prayerful demand for a
class Of female help that seems to
fight shy of all newly settled com
munities. The girl or woman who
is capable of doing homework in
large or small families can command
her own price. The Norwegian
emigrant, with no conception of the
English language and no adaptable
ity to American customs or cookery
is thegOod housewives evaporation;
but she is the only available mater,
ials for the performance of house
hold duties here, and she is paid a
higher rate of wages per week than
the man who bores mountains and
spans the valleys for the advent of
the railroad. Good, worthy, reliable
girls who can command the verna-
cular, can also command fabulous
wages.
In my last letter / briefly alluded
to the healthfulness of this portion
Of the country and its advantages to
those who are suffering from pulmo-
nary complaints. While the climate
is equable to degree that we find
nowhere else in this country, the
air has an invigorating quality that
affords remarkable aid in the recup-
GRAFTON of broken down constitu-
tiOnS. This characteristic of the
climate, despite the severe winters,
has induced the settlement in all
parts of the territory of hundreds
and probably thousands who are get
ting a new lease of life in the COM
pulsory process of roughing it in a
new country, and participating in
the general excitement of booming
new towns, a subject which / pro-
pose to treat in my next.
Dom PEDRO.
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/ have suffered for eight years
with Hay Fever, during July, Au-
gust and September. In July l re-
sorted to Ely's Cream Balm and
have been entirely free from the
fever since the first application, |
can recommend it as cure. Ed
ward G. Hillman, at the New Jersey
State Arsenal, Trenton. Not a
LIQUID nor a snuff.
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Rev. Mr.. Burr, of Clarksburg, w.
Va, died on Thursday evening
when near Deer Park. on west
bound express of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The minister, a
young man, was on his way heme
from his charge in Massachusetts
to the home of his parents, near
Clarksburg. His wife and two small
children accompanied him. When
near Deer Park he was seized with
a violent hemorrhage and died.
The scene on the car was very sad.
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Pierced my poor hands with subtle
sting,
Lest tears should leave me more for
lorn.
For day is short if often bright;
And what if night should come-cull-
fast,
And find me still upon my path?
But half the weary distance passed
A night all dark, without a star
To speak of hope or blessedness-
No light by which to see my way,
Or thread the brambly wilderness!
So let me haste: / fain would pause
To watch the fleecy cloudlets sail
Across the blue Of yonder sky;
Or catch, with you, the silver trail
OF waters from the distant lake,
Where glad-eyed youth the echoes
wake
With laughter and with song;
But nightmay come and find me here
l cannot pause for laugh or tear
For see, the path is long.
Yes, long and steep to where upon
The mountains crest, my dear home
lies.
And yet, among the thistles once
| stopped and found fairy prize
A pale pink bud, meadow bloom,
So fresh and sweet l cried: "What
bliss
Upon this rugged, prickly path
To find thing like this."
For flowers that grow in desert spots
Oft concentrate grace unknown
To those that bloom in gay pastures
Where kindred sweets are blown.
And once fair child smiled at me
From passing train of caravan;
And once a sweet-vOiced bird ALT
Anear me, for an instant's space:
A bird with heavens blue ON its wings,
And stains of earth upon its breast;
And as it paused it carolled clear
or Heaven and Home and Rest.
So that my path though steep and long
Has not been altogether drear,
Since that sweet child smiled back at
me,
And that dear bird ALT anear.
And tho the smiling, wide eXpanse
OF my dear home lies still SO far
A line upon the mountains crest
Dim-shining as distant star
Still should | reach il ere the night,
/ think | shall not then regret
NY weary feet, my bleeding hands,
The way with dangers set;
But count them all as nought beside
The perfect rest-the dangers past
That shall find when j shall reach
My own dear home at last.
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Dom PEDRO.

ONE OF THE ELECT.-The Plain
Dealer reports that Hon. Martin A.
Foran, congressman elect from the
Cleveland, Ohio, district, has used
st. Jacobs Oil in his family and has
always found it safe and reliable,
and it afforded him great relief TO a
lame knee,
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Apply by the finger into the nos
trils. IT. will be absorbed, effectually
C eansing the nasal passages OF catarrhal
virus, causing healthy secretions. II al
lays inflammation, protects the membra
nal Innings ct fhe head from additional
colds, completely heals the sores and re-
stores the seps7 o. taste aud smell Rene
ficial results ARE realized BY a few appli-
cations.
A thorough treatment eii Cure.
Unequaled Tor Cold in the Head, Head
ache and Deafness or any kind Of mucous
membranal irritations Send for circu-
lar BY mail prepaid, Soc package
stamps received. Sold by all wholesale
aid retail druggists.
ELY BROTHERS,,
agly ow,g MY.
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The peanut crop will be worth, it
is estimated, So, 100000.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-05-30
The Manning-ChalmerS Con-
test.
Col Manning's Remarks to an II
tervieWer.

WAsHISGToy, May 9.-Ex-Congress.
man Manning, whose claim to a seat in
the next House is disputed by General
Chalmers, was in the city a day or two
ago on some personal business. He ha8
not much affection for General Chal-
mers. The terms in which he speaks of
him and his supporters are anything but
complimentary. "Renegades, '"political
adventures" political outlaws "cor-
ruPtionists, and other like epithets testi-
fy his opinion of Chalmers and those who
support him. Chalmers, he says has for
ieited and lost the respect of every one
in both political parties, except a few
desperate characters in the Republican
party, who think they may yet retain
their hold upon Office by the aid of such
treachery az that of Chalmers.
Does General Chalmers still expect
to press his claim to the seat in the next
'Congrress% your correspondent asked
him." =
II suppose SO; he is stiIl acting as
special assistant District Attorney in his
own ease, appointed for that purpose by
the Attorney General. Pretty state Of
affairs, isn't it, that man should be ap-
pointed District Attorney to draw sal
airy to spend in bolstering up his own
claim to 4 seat in Congress, especially
when that claim is based on fraud en-
couraged and made possible by the Re-
publican leaders? 1t was only by the
use of large sums Of money, which they
sent there, that lac was able to lay claim
to the seat"
What do you think will be the re.
suit as to the position itsclfT"
Il don't think there is much doubt
about my success. If civil service re-
torn means anything it means that the
interference with elections by govern
ment officials, by the use Of money
or otherwise, will not be countenanced
The Republican party processes to be
very anxious to see the civil service re-
form bill law, and tried to take the
credit of it to themselves so far as pos.
'iDlc: Now let them practice its princi-
oles."
General Chalmers is still acting ~
assistant District Attorney in his own
,ase, thenP'
Yes. a remarkable performance
sn't it? And this old-well, the At.
orney General, when questioned about
t, justified the course by the remark
hat this has been the custom in similar
asses.