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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-01
OVER THE STATE.


The telephone at Srnithville has
paid the com pany beyond expecta>
ton.
Typhoid aud malarial fever are
making it interesting in Murfrees-
boro.
Railroad Sunday excursions are
distasteful to the Brownsville State
and Bee.
Two men, while engaged in digging
a well neat Knoxville lastweek, were
killed by foul air.
Sparta hopes to have railroad con.
nection with the outer world some
time during the fall.
The question Of water-works at
jackson will he submitted to vote
of the people Sep. 20.
r. M. Allen, of Marshall county,
has invented car coupler, and says
he has sold half interest in it for
$4,000.
Thomas Allison was thrown from
runaway team making its way across a
bridge near jackson, and falling stun
ned into the stream, was drowned.
Tennessee Is ably represented in
the management ofthe Florida ship
Canal enterprise, ex Gov. John 9.
Brown being the president and Prof.
Lockett, late of the University of Ten
nessee, the chief engineer.
Rugby has completed its canning
establishment. The building is look
20 feet, well filled with modern ma.
chinery and a powerful engine and
boiler. Tomato canning will be the
speciality of the establishment.
A company with a capital stock of
5000 is putting up wagon factory
at McMinnville. Two representa-
tives of the company have been visi~
ting wagon factories in neighboring
States for the purpose of deciding on
the best machinery for use.
In the competitive examination of
applicants for the cadetship at West
Point, Mr.. James Brics, of Troy, was
the successful man. There were
seven applicants for the position, one
from Dyersburg, one from Dresden
and the rest from Obion county.
Maj. King, in charge of the Gov
eminent work on the Cumberland
river, in his annual report just sub
mitted, estimates the grain shipped
on the river last year at 100000
bushels, tobacco l 400 hogsheads, iron
10000 tons, hogs and cattle 10000
head, eggs 100000 dozen, lumber
100000, 900 feet, passengers carried
1875, 900.
The Knoxville Chronicle claims that
Washington county, Tennessee, was
the first named in honor of the hero
of Valley Forge, the county being laid
off in November, 1777, by the North
Carolina legislature, and that the
claim of the people Of Washington
county, Maryland, is not well found
ed. The point made by the Cronicle
is well taken.
A man by the name of Pierce,
went into the Colored Church at this
place, on yesterday evening during
services, and acted in manner that
created great disturbance. The Mar>
she'll was called in, the man arrested.
tried and fined $500 and cost,
which he'was unable to pay so he
was placed in the caIaboSe, The
man was drunk. which was the oause
of it all.-[Mckenzie News,
Nashville American; Comptroll,
er Pickard has. had y consultation
with Attorney General Lea in refer
ence y the sale Of WHISKY by. dug
gists an prescription. Judge lea
holds thai druggists may sell liquor ON
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-01
Attention. Iadiesi

Something every woman should
know. Particulars free by mail Seal
ed.) N. w. MOORE, M. D., 1852
N. College St. Nashville, Tenn.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-01
Music Books.

Peters Burrowe's Primers for sale
at this office, at city prices.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-09-01

Oh, MyBack!
That's a common express
sion and has a world of
meaning. How much suf-
fering is summed up in it.
The singular thing about
it is, that pain in the back
is occasioned by so many
things. May be caused by
kidney disease, liver COM
plant, consumption, cold,
rheumatism, dyspepsia, over
work, nervous debility, &c.
Whatever the cause, don't
neglect it. Something is
wrong and needs prompt
attention. No medicine has
yet been discovered that
will SO quickly and surely
cure such diseases as
Browns IRON BITTERs, and
it does this by commencing
at the foundation, and maxi
ing the blood pure and rich.
VIM. P. Marshall, Of Logans-
port, Indiana, writes; "My wife
has for many years been trou-
bled from pain in her back
and general debility incident
TO her sex, She has taken one
bottle of Browns Iron Bitters,
and can truthfnlly say that
she has been go much benefited
that she pronounGes It the
only remedy of many medi-
cines she has tried"
leading physicians and
elergymen use and recon-
mend Browns IRON BIT
TIERS, 1t has cured others
suffering as you are, and it
will cure you,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Cities Warmer than the Country.

Those who happen to live at a little
distance from the heart of a city. says
Science, must frequently have noticed
a lack of accord between the readings
of their own standard thermometers
and the published observations of the
signal service observer of their locality.
The reason of the discord is plain, viz,
the perturbing action of the heat
which the city emits; and, however
gratifying it may be to the outsider to
find himself superior to the govern
ment observers, it is very little to the
credit of the weather bureau that this
since recognized and avoided. The
remarks of Professor Whitney on this
subject, as applied to observations
made at London, are pertinent and
convincing. He says:
at is a well-known fact that cities
are considerably warmer than the
more thinly-inhabited country, other
wise under similar climatic conditions.
Statistics prove this to be true: and
there could be no doubt that such
would be the effect of an immense ag-
g%regation Of population within a
limited space, even if there were no
statistics bearing on this question.
! Many millions of tons of coal are
burned in and about London during
every year, and the whole mass OF
brick of which the city is built is
heated during the entire winter, and
more or less in the summer, many de-
grees above the natural temperatures
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Insects Visiting Flowers,

Mr.. A. w. Bennett and Mr.. r. NJ.
Christy have been reporting to the
Linnean society Of London the result
of their observations on the visits of
insects to flowers. AS respects pre-
ference for particular colors, Mr.. Ben
nett has noticed among the Lepidoptera
that seventy visits were made to red
or pink flowers, five to blue, fifteen to
yellow and five to white the Diptera
paid nine visits to red or pink, eight
to yellow and twenty to white; Hymen-
optera allghted 1903 times on the red or
pink flowers, 1876 on blue, eleven on
yellow and seventeen on white flowers.
Mr.. Christy records in detail the move
ments of seventy-siX insects, chiefly
bees, when engaged in visiting 2,4O0
flowers. He tabulates the same,
notably the bees, decidedly and with
intent coniine their successive visits to
the same species of flower. According
to him, also, butterflies generally
wander aimlessly in their flight yet
some species, including the Fritillaries,
are fairly metholical in their habit.
He b-lieves that it is not by color alone
that insects are guided from one flower
to another of the same species, and he
suggests that the sense of smell may
be brought into play. Bees, he AYERS,
have but poor sight for long distances,
but see well at short distances. OF
fifty-five humble-bees watched, twenty
six visited blue flowers. OF these,
twelve were methodic il their visits,
nine only irregularly so and five not at
all ; thirteen visited white flowers,
whereof five were methodic and eight
were the reverse eleven visited yellow
flowers, of which five were methodic
and six were not twenty-eight visited
red flowers, Eve appearing methodic,
nine nearly so, while twelve were the
contrary.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Catching Sharks I'm Arctic Seas.

Those old piscatorial pirates, the
sharks, often invade the Arctic, no
doubt tempted by the carcasses of the
whales or seals and walruses left to rot
by white men engaged in their pursuit.
Natives, angling from their skin
canoes in deep water occasionally catch
a sluggish shark who has engulfed the
bait, but there is no use pulling against
such a mountain of flesh and relying
upon sheer strength to bring him up,
and this the Innuit Izaak Walton fully
knows, and overcomes his strength by
sagacity. AT every brisk pull by Mr..
Shark, showing him to be irritated, the
line is lowered to appease him, but
cautiously hauled in again almost i'm
mediately, the shark slowly rising to
this strategic manipulation, until,
" like a finny fool" he rests upon the
surface of the water merely by the aid
of the weakest fishing-line, when, with
along knife, the fisherman d~exterously
dispatches him by a well-directed
thrust through the spinal cord. From
their well-known ~voracity in warmer
climes, it seems singular indeed that
they do not oftener attack the native
fishermen in their little skin canoes,
but there is not a recorded or known
instance of such attacks even on the
west shore of Greenland, where they
are most numerous, and where the
natives catch largenumbers of them
from 10000 to 10000 a year, according
to DR.. Rink, Danish inspector of this
coast for a long number of years. The
most usual method of catching these
fish can hardly be said to be fishing at
all. Near a hole in the ice a lighted
torch is placed, and two natives stand
on opposite sides of the hole with two
sharp hand-hooks, like deck hands of a
steamer at the end of a chute waiting
for merchandise, until the shark sticks
his nose out, when he is treated in
about the same business-like ann as
he is hauled on the ice, where their
~carcasses often accumulate by hun
dreds. as this shark fishery when COM
menced is generally carried o n through
the whole winter. The cartilaginous
bones are the favorite parts for food,
as the raw frozen fish seems to have a
depressing effect when long continued,
and to it is attributed the dog disease
of the North when fed to them, and
which every few years carries off Sc
many of these useful animals .-FOreSt
and St1eIm.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Hunting in a Curious Mask.

n Colorado farmer has invented a
duck-huEting outfit which discounts
the California mans COW. He stripped
the hide from Il bullock and mounted
it on a wire skeleton, which looked as
natural as a living animal. He cut
away the stomach of his wire bullock
for his body, and made two holes
through the shoulders to take sight
through. When he wants a duck
shoot he drops his skeleton over his
head and starts out for the tulies. He
can walk right into a flock of ducks
without startling them, and hes on
ono OF two occasions returned nome
with his hiding-place full of teal caught
with his hands. lie never fails to kill
all he wants.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Alleged Dangers in Canned Food.

For a number of years past it has
not been an uncommon thing to read
in the daily papers accounts more or
less circumstantial of cases of poison
ing, some fatal, some serious and some
comparatively tritiing, which were
called the results of eating canned
food. The impression created by the
first of these stories was weak. The
practice of using articles of diet pre-
served in tin cans had become almost
universal before any such cases were
reported, and as almost everybody in
civilized communities had eaten of
such food without experiencing i'll
effects it was generally doubted that
the poisoning had been correctly traced
to its source. The practice of pre-
serving in tin, therefore, went on, and
increased year by year.
With the increase in the use of the
preserved food, however, there came
also an increase in the number of cases
Of poisoning attributed, whether right
ly or wrongly, to that use, and from
time to time one person after another
became conyinc d that there was dan
ger in the tin cans. Not Il few physi-
clans (perhaps the most conservative
lass of the community in some re-
specs have warned their patients to
| discontinue the use of canned food,
having become convinced hat it was
at least the probable cause Of numer-
III cases of 'lead poisoning"
Accurat statistics of the trade are
not obtainalle, but the canning of sal
mon, oysters. fruits, vegetables, meats,
poultry and game employs many mil
lion dollars Of capital and gives sup
port to many thousands of persons,
and the products are reckoned NY the
millions of cases.-NeW YORK. Herald
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
VI. Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, vi.
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.

In a SOLID GOLD WATCH, aside from
the necessary thickness for engraving and
polishing, a large proportion of metal is
needed only to stifien and hold the engrav-
ed portions in place, and supply strength.
The surplus gold is actually needless. In
James Boss Patent Gold Watch Gases this
WASTE is saved, and soLIDITY and
STRENGTH increased by a simple process,
at one-half the cost. A plate of SOLID
GOLD is soldered on each side of a plate
of hard nickel composition metal, and the
three are then passed between polished
steel rollers. From this the cases, backs.
c%enters, bezels, ETC., are cut and shaped by
dies and formers. The gold is thick
enough to admit of all kinds of chasing
engraving and engine turning. These
cases have been worn perfectly smooth by
use without removing the gold. This Is
the only case made under Thu, process Each
case is accompanied NTH a valid guarantees
signed By the manufacturers ~warranting it to
rear 20 years. 100000 of these Gases
now carried in the United States and
Canada. Largest and Oldest Factory.
Established 1854. Ask your Jeweler.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Tie Cure of Diphtheria.

A California physician writes: Dur
ing a prolonged residence in the in
terror Of China | became acquainted
with the fact that the Chinese place
reliance during epidemics of diphtheria
on the internal use of the fresh juice
of lines, and the fruit itself, which
they consume in enormous quantities,
in every conceivable form-as lemon
ale, with native spirits, cut in slices,
ETC., during attacks of the dreadful
disease, with apparently most uccess
full results, it hardly ever failing to
affect a cure. The Chinese consider it
a specific, and will, in case of need, do
anything to obtain a supply.
Since | have come lack to California,
as also in Louisiana, / have used lines
and their juices in my practice as a
physician with most successful results
in cases of diphtheria, even in the most
desperate cases. AS Don as l take
charge Of a case of diphtheria, l order
lines to be administered as freely as
possible, in any manner the patient
can be prevailed upon to take them,
especially in the form of hot lemonade,
sweetened with white sugar or honey,
or cut in slices with powdered white
sugar. Beside lime juice (Which
suppose acts by imp 'rting an excess of
oxygen to the circulation, and thereby
prevents formation of vibriones, etc,
and 50 has almost Il specific effect on
~disease), l prescribe whatever drug
may be indicated to relieve symptoms
as they develop, and impart strength
by appropriate stimulants and nourish'
ment.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
thumbs into the armholes Of his vest
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thumbs into the armholes Of his vest
and looked proud.
"Oh, l don't know as l smell any
thing, except the faint odor of a horse
blanket. What you gone into, any
way?" and the grocery man put the
wrapping paper under the counter,
and put the red chalk in his pocket, so
the boy couldn't write any sign to hang
up outside.
"You hit it the first time. / have
accepted a situation of teller in alivery
stable" said the boy, as he searched
around for the barrel of cut sugar,
which had been removed.
TELLER in a livery stable Well,
that is a new one on me What is a
teller in a livery stable" and the gro
Gerry man looked pleased, and pointed
the boy to a barrel of seven-cent
sugar.
"Don't you know what a teller is in
q livery stable? 1t is the same as a
teller in a bank. 1 have to grease the
harness, oil the buggies. and curry
off the horses, and when a nan comes
in to hire a horse l have to go down
to the saloon and tell the livery man.
That's what a teller is. L like the
teller part of it, but greasing the har-
ness is a little too rich for my blood,
but the livery man says if | stick to it
L will be governor some day, cause
most all the great men have begun
life taking care of horses. 1t all de-
ponds oil my girl whether 1 stick or
not. If she likes the smell of horses I
shall be u statesman, but if she objects
to it, and sticks up her nose, l shall not
yearn to be governor, at the expense of
my girl. 1t beats all, don't it, that
wimmin settle every great question.
Everybody does everything to please
wimmin. and if they kick on anything
that settles it. But L must go and
umpire that game between pa and the
hired girl and the goat. Say, can't
you come over and see the baby
'Tain't bigger than a small satchel,"
and the boy waited till the grocery
man went to draw some vinegar, when
he slipped out and put up a sign writ
ten on a single with white chalk,
yellow sand wanted for maple sugar"
-Peck'S sun.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27

Many sheriffs of North Carolina re-
ceive less than $500 annually in fees.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27
Powdered Horse.

Powdered horse is new meat prep
aration for the artificial alimentation
of the sick. 1t is made by reducing
to i~mpalpable dust the dried flesh of
the animal. 1t is of a gray hue, and
has the odor of pate de foie gras.
Great nourishment power is claimed
for it, while its ineness hastens assimi-
lation, and as an incentive to action by
the stomach it is said to be unsur-
passed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27

Accordingtothe emigration statistics
of Ireland for last year, S9,l36 natives
of Ireland emigrated during the year.
an increase of l0.S47 over 1881.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-27

A gentleman in Putnam county, Fla,
is growing five or six different varietiei
of olives, as many different kinds OF
American and European prunes, and
s.Atv varieties of grapes.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-22
SIMPLE POLLY.

A church Convention of colored citizens
at the East charges thu responsibility for
the civil rights bill decision upon the Re-
publican party. This is simple folly.
What under the sun the party had to do
with it is more than the ordinary intell-
gence can grasp. Some of the colored
people appear to be going into frenzy
over the matter. There has been done to
them no harm. They have been deprived
of no right. The bill has afforded them
practically no protection. The decision
is simple expression of what unquestion-
ably is the law of the land. Party poll
tics has not the remotest relation to the
matter. If any colored voters propose to
throw themselves into Democratic embraces
because their bread is not buttered in a
particular way, for mercy's sake let them
be in haste about it. The Republican
party can afford the loss of voters who
must be purchased by sacrifice of right
principle. But we do not believe that the
mass of the colored citizens are to be
misled by such hot-tempered individ-
uals as advise them to assail the only party
of Importance that has stood their friends
ell these years.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-22
EXTREME SENsTTIvENEss. :

EXTREME SENsITIvENEss. ss.-1he Eureka
(Nev.) Leader furnishes this:
A few mornings since man went into
one of the many prominentsaloons on Main
street, and asked for and got drink of
whisky. After satiating his throat, he
said to the mixologist: charge this to
me-" Whereupon the dispenser of fluid
was, or pretended to be, awful mad, and
used some pretty harsh language to his
impecunious customer, who, by the way,
is very sensitive being, and he exclaimed:
Well, I've got the drink in me now, but
I'm id if l don't get it out as soon as
possible, for, byh-l, it would do me nogood
after all that securing" So he thereupon
called for a glass of water, which was
given him. He then proceeded to corner
of the saloon, and after several attempts
succeeded in catching three flies alive,
and put them in the water, which he swal-
lowed and then remarked: 81 don't want
to retain on my stomach anything that is
begrudged to me, notwithstanding l have
spent dollars on tops OF dollars over that
bar" The last words were scarcely ut
tered when he rushed for the door, which
he did not gain in time, until the whisky,
flies and water were on the floor. II is
needless to say the bsrkeeper felt very
cheap. if not sorry or ashamed, there being
several persons present at the time.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-22
All EVIDENCE OF EXrRAvAGANcE OF
sTATEMEsT.

In response to the iterated charge
that for three years past the chief
railroads of the State have contributed
"not one cent to the revenues of the State, "
the San Francisco Argonaw gives the fig
ures of actual payments made by the Cen.
traI Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific
Railroad for the three years last past, the
period in which assessments have been
made under the new Constitution. The
little compilation testifes to the extrava-
gance of statement into which partisanship
leads people often, The figures are
For State and county taxes .S6S6,e15 50
For county purposes y.............. 1G6,223 SO
For special, school, municipal, etc.. 4,l50 10
Making total paid for the period of
disputed assessments sof..............S9 1861, $50 81
Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-22
A DRUNKEN LIFE SAVER.

The Captain of the ifesaving crew at
San Francisco was very drunk on Friday
at the exhibition given of the manner of
work engaged in by the crew in putting out
life-lines and in sending service boat "
through the surf. As consequence, the
crew narrowly escaped drowning, the whole
exhibition proved disgraceful affair and
came near being tragedy. Yet we are
certain there are apOlogists who will rise
up for that man, and political agencies will
be put to work to keep him in the service.
Civil service reform inquiries very strictly,
30 far as it now extends in Government de-
partments, into the personal habits of those
who would fill places of trust under the
Government. Had that Captain been
Reform appointee he would have been
an abstainer. The idea of trusting fel-
low TO command hfe.saving crew who
guzzles rum is a reproach to the Superin-
tendent of the Service on this coast, and
he needs to rise and explain.