The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-02

have committed, in many OF Whlch
have been their accomplish, and heard
the rest from their own mouths. have
likewise set down the names oil those
we call our settlers, of the wicked
houses we frequent, and all OF those
who receive and buy orr stolen goods.
] have soiemnly charged TINS lonest
man, and have received ms promise
upon oath that whenever ne hears OF
any rougue to be tried TOR robbery or /
house-breaking he win look into his |
list, and if he finds the name there OF
the thief concerned to send the whole !
paper to the Government. VI this |
here give my companions fair and pub /,
lie warning, and hope they will take /.
it, The Joke was a good one, and /
had at least, as is rarely the case with
practical Jokes, good effect, for street
robberies were for long time sus-
pended.
A MALIGNANT JOKE
was that perpetrated on Partisan lady
whose husband had gone to China on
business. One day she received let
! ter dated from Old China street, Can
ton. MADAM" said the writer, IL
have to announce mOurnful event.
Your husband, taken prisoner by Ma
Law pirates. was burned alive, and his
bones calcned to powder. have been
able to procure but few pinches of
| this powder, which / enclose AS she
opcned the box strange idea came in
TO the head of the distracted widow,
and sending for some snuff, she mixed
the powder with it, piously determined
to inhale all that remained of her lost
spouse. The first pinch, however,
brought on such violent bleeding that p
doctor had to be called in; but the lady
died in few hours-before the arrival
of letter from her husband proving
that the story of the capture by the Ma
Law pirates and calcination of his bones
was the cruel invention of some person
al enemy. or rash venture OF some prac-
teal Joker. At any rate, the story has
peculiarly Partisan piquancy.
FATAL FUN.
If ever there was case illustrating
the wicked folly of practical joking the
following fills the bill. In December,
1879, John M. Waite and M. b Gould,
both prominent and respected business
men of Chicago, thought they would
have a little fun with the colored
ianitor who took care of the
building in which they had rooms.
} Accordingly they disarrauged the
contents of Waite's room and
concealed themselves until the janitor
put in an appearance. The latter, upon
his arrival, alarmed at the condition of
things, thought burglars had been there
sure: so he procured revolver, and
hearing noise in one of the closets
went to it and tried to pull it open.
Failing in this he fired through the door
and hit Mr.. Gould in the head, killing
him instantly--a fate that many will
say he none too richly deserved.
: Another equally foolish case comes
t from Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia. A
young man named Chapman was pass
ing graveyard duri2Lfthe month OF
, December, 1880, when Suddenly two
ghost-like figures rushed out upon him.
: Without being any more suspicious than
3 other people he misrook them for gen
\ uine ghosts, and proceeded at once to
9 90 crazy, and is now in a lunatiC
asylum.
: BILL TAYLOR's FooLsHNEss.
: William Taylor, a railroad engineer
5 on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, was
d standing beside the railroad track one
Q afternoon in June, 1881, in Lawrence
5 vile, Pa. His wife stood beside him
: and when her back was turned the low
/ ing husband fastened railroad torpedo
: on the track, and, jumping ON his en-
d CINE, started off. The wheels passed
L over the torpedo and exploded it, but ;
y portion of the metal entered his wife!
r leg, causing a severe wound from which
IS her death resulted. Thus he paid TO
u his fun.
> FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
g In January, 1882, an able negr,
q shipped from Mozambique, in the bari
II Felix, bound for Marseilles. The sailor
e found that the negro had never been t,
u sea before, and they thought to have
!, little fun by telling him that French
l. men relished eating negroes. 'Now,
l. said they, ''when we reach Marseille
i tsyou will be roasted and eaten" Tn
negro implicitly believed it, and tn
!, story so preyed upon his mind that jus
before the bark sighted Marseilles tn
colored sailor rushed to the bulwarks
Of and before help could reach him, jumps
ID overheard and was drowned. Anothe
sr case was that of young Italian, Pietr
l. Francis, who having Only been in tn
IN country week. procured employment
Of as laborer in New York City at tn
i foot of Sixty-fourth street, He wa
r. quiet and inoffensive, and so his fellow
l. workmen thought to tease him. Hay
n, ing worked hard all one morning, h
e. fell asleep at the noon hour, after hay
Y, ing eaten his noon meal. This was jus
rs the opportunity his devilish companion
a wanted, and they began pelting hir
to with pieces of earth. Not being abb
r to wake the sleeping Italian one of hi
OF companions wheeled hand-truck along
II. side OF him for the purpose of dumpin
rs one of his companions upon him. tn
Id barrow was rolled up toward the labol
a er and the wheel struck his temple, in