The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-04-12
"'ERE'S TO YER"
Another Substantial Greeting From Kan
to the Ohio Flood Sufferers-Butler
County Sends Train of Twentv-Four
Cars Loaded With Corn and Flour.

sas to the Ohio Flood Sufferers-Butler |
County Sends Train of Twentv-Four
Cars Loaded With Corn and Flour.
Fort SCOTT, KAs, April Z.
The Butler County, train bound for
Cincinnati reached this city on time, at
4;3o p. IN. yesterday. At three O'Clock
Mr.. j. w. Miller, Superintendent of the
Wichita Road, accompanied by Mayor
PearsalI, delegation of citizens and the
Board of Railroad Assessors, who are in
the city, boarded a special train which
had been provided and went out to Union
town, where they met the relief train and
conducted it to the city. All along the
line of the road the people turned out and
received the relief train with a perfect
ovation, and when it reached the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot in this city it was re-
ceived by 1900 people. The committee
who will accompany the train to
Cincinnati are: j. II. Pullimander, chair
man; VIM. Harrison, Walter Holcomb,
j. c. Henrie, j. w. Tucker, Fred Wise,
o. Embrie, T. p. Fulton, j. r. Gardner
and George Gardner. They were enter
tanned in this city last night and left at
go this morning, running to Jefferson
City to-day, and to st. Louis Tuesday.
The train is composed of twenty -four cars
of corn, with 10000 bushels, and one car
of -four, $4,000 pounds, under the charge
of Conductor S. IL. Hayden, of the st.
Louis, TT. Scott and Wichita road. The
entIs, train is handsomely and appropri-
ately decorated, the notices, cartoons and
snniowers, representing distress on the
one hand, and the desire to relieve it on
the other. "Kansas, new, poor, needy
and 'grasshoppered' in 1874; gia mt,
rich, fat and saucy in 1884," is a favor
lite idea. The car donated by Richard
Township represents Kansas in 1884, a
pyramid of corn in the center, wide ex-
tended field covered with an immense
number of large shocks of corn, in the
left IN elegant farm residence with ex-
tenslve and well-kept lawn. A large
barn, wind mill, fat stock and evil
dences of prosperity and ease complete
the scene. The Inscriptions: "Richland
Shares Her Abundance With the Distressed
of Ohio" The inscription on the
car door is Accomplishments of Richland
Township" Motto: "May our Pyramid
OF Corn renew Tour nope OH hlCli'
lands second and third cars is the same
inscriptions as the above. The car donat'
ed by the town of Augusta, Butler Coun'
ty, represents Kansas and Ohio. In the
centre is raging river, the "Ohio." An
extraordinary porker, fat, round, with
twenty kinks in his tail, benevolent ex
preston on his face, and big ear o.
corn in his mouth, is on the left bank O.
the river, labelled KANSAS"
still more extraordinary pig, lean
long and with an expectan
look on his countenance, is on rh'
right bank of the river, labeled "Ohio.'
Beneath all is the title: "Ere's to Yer.
Augusta sends three cars, all with suita
bic inscriptions and notices. These ar,
fair specimens of the decorations, eacl
one of the cars being similarly dressed
The notices and cartoons described arr
painted on canvas and attached to tn
sides of the cars, entirely covering them
rhc whole is magnificent monument o
Kansas plenty, Kansas gratitude, kansa
liberality and enterprise.