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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Editor Exchange:

Editor Exchange:
Probably some of your readers
would like to hear from Nacodoches
county. The water is said to be
higher than it has been in twelve
years, washing away all the fences on
creeks and rivers, the damage being
unknown.
| have been most all over this
county and find crops very sorry,
corn especially. There has been so
much rain this spring every thing is
backward. Farmers tell me that it
is the most backward spring they ever
had. Fruit is only tolerably good,
add people here take very little inter
est in fruit raising; they go all for
King Cotton. l think they will man
ifest greater interest when the II.
E. d w. 7. r. r. is completed thro'
to hieveport, which is said to be by
January l, 1885.
We have very good stock range,
although nothing to compete with
Western Texas; but cattle will keep
in good order until Christmas.
l like Texas better than expected
when | first ca me out. l think prob
ably l will locate here in the future.
We have good lands and can raise
anything. Plenty of timber for every
thing (and too much). Health good
at present. Plenty school houses
and churches; in fact Texas is a
splendid country, although l never
will forget old Tennessee. l appreci.
ate my Milan Exchange more than
ever, and would not do without it fol
double what it cost. 1 will close fol-
the present. l.. II. ID.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

Senator Vest submitted to the sen-
ate an amendment he proposes to the
Legislative appropriation bill, to pro
vide that no money shall be paid out
of the Treasury or from any public
fund for printing in the Congressional
Record any speech which has not been
actually spoken, or delivered in either
the Senate or the House.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

The St. Louis Globe Democrat is
evidently very much afraid that the
democrats will nominate Bayard. 1t
is continually harping on him and
trying to pick flaws in his record.
But Bayard's chances continue to im>
prove every day.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

The Democratic Convention in
New York Wednesday relegated the
whole question of the tariff to the
Democracy of the Nation in Nation
al Convention at Chicago.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21
A Good Mich Cow
For Sale. Apply to R 0. Crump.
The Memphis Appeal.

Daily and Weekly, is undoubtedly
the best paper for West Tennessee.
The Daily is full of the latest home
and foreign news and the latest mar
ket reports from all parts of the
world. The Weekly is devoted to
the interest of the southern people
and no farmer in Gibson county
should be withoutit. Call on DR.. A.
g. Pearce, next door to p. o., and
subscribe for the Daily at SO. 90 per
year or the Weekly for S1.00
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

Mrs. Mary w. Rivers, wife of Mr..
d. l.. Rivers. died at Bismarck. Mo-,
last Friday. Mr.. Rivers published
papers at Humboldt and other neigh
boring towns few years since.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

1t is stated that Mr.. Jay Gould has
resigned as director of the Louis
vile and Nashville, and has parted
with or unloaded most of his l.. u N.
stock.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

James Knox Polk grand nephew
of President Polk, hiss become insane
and has been placed in an insane asy-
lum in Hartford, Connecticut.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

Frost did much damage in New
England last Saturday. Corn will
have to he repianted.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

There was heavy frost in Sussex
and Warren counties, New Jersey,
Monday morning. Crops were dam.
aged very much.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf is
an able advocate of Bayard.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

The result CT the election has prov
a ed grand success, but not more SO
than Kendalls SPAWN Cure is proved
to be every day. Read advertisement
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-21

CORNER MAIN STREET MTLAS, TENN.
~HAVING. HAIR CUTTING, SHAM
= POOLING, etc. Hair and Whiskers dyed
in the highest style of the art This establish
ment is frst-class in every respect.
NIB. Special attention given to 9hil .ren'c
Hair Cutting.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
One Hundred and FOrty.Fiye.

From the Cincinnati News Journal,l
Situated on the highest point of land
in Clermont County is the little town
OF Mulberry, formerly known as New
berry. The place is three miles east of
Milford, and is one of the Oldest in the
county. Old uncle John" Long (coI-
ored), who for the past twenty years
has lived in Happy Hollow" is re-
garded as the Oldest man in the coun-
try, if not liz the world. His wife.
Mary Long, died in 1879, aged 10
years, and he is thirty years der than
his wife, and is still living, which makes
him las years old. He has a grand
daughter now living at Newberry,
whose name is Mrs. Harriet Tally.
Uncle John" was for 125 years slave,
but always house-servant in wealthy
and prominent families. He was in
Alexandria, Va, at the time Gen. Brad
dock and Washington passed through
on their way to the French and Indian
var, and this was in 1855. He remem-
bers John Randolph and his son Ed
mund, afterward governor of the state
OF Virginia, at his masters house near
Culpepper Courthouse, Va. This was
before the Revolution. He also re-
members distinctly having often seen
Light Horse Harry Lee and Gen.
Lafayette at the hospitable mansion of
his master, Maj. Gabe Long. He
moved TO Christian County, KY, in the
fall of 1896, at the time John Adams
was running on the Federal ticket
against Thomas Jefferson, anti Federal.
He was married to his second wife,
Mary White, in the year 1897, his first
wife having been dead but two years.
He lived with his second wife eighty
years, she dying in June 1879, aged 10
years, and was buried in Green Lawn
Cemetery at this place. She often told
her granddaughter, Harriet Tally, that
when Uncle John" married her she
was only little girl and he was an old
man. Uncle John was in Nashville
Tenn, hired slave, working, when
Gen. Jackson started for New Orleans
in 1841. He was never publicly
whipped, and was sold but once, com
ing down as property from father to
son, from son to grandson, and then to
partners. He has never used tobacco
in his life, and has always taken dram
occasionally of good whisky, but was
never drunk. He has a round, well
balanced head, an excellent disposition
and sleeps in a wel1-ventilated log
house. His diet has been corn bread
and milk. In stature ne is of hercu.
lean mold, and has the courtly man.
ners of the Old Dominion. He has
never been on exhibition but states
that he has accepted a proposition from
Cincinnati to appear i'll museum il
June.
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themselves into a state of suppressed

themselves into a state of suppressed
fury.
"Why to run the compound into the
baby with, SO as not to spill it," con-
tinued the Major calmly. $50 when
the Committee on Pap concluded the
mixture was cool enough, we started to
feed the"
Il wonder it didn't kill you," inter
rupted the bride, looking knowingly at
the Majors companion. "Of course I
can see how it all turned out. You
were the baby, and the Major brought
you up and married you"
Gust wait till I finish" went on the
Major. ust as we started for the bunk
there was terrible crash of firing, fol-
lowed by a yell that would have
| curdled your blood. We were attacked
by the PEACHES. They had surrounded
us on snow shoes. OF course we had to
Jump to our guns, and it was just nip
and tuck all that night to keep them
of. At daylight our repeating rifles
were too much for them, and they finally
| cleared out with heavy loss"
and the baby?" cried the whole
stage, while even the driver put on the
'"Then we thought of the baby" said
| the Major, solemnly, "and we all went
| in to look at it. The bundle still lay on
the bunk, but it was motionless. The
shawl was stained with blood, and we
saw that chance arrow had come
through a loophole and literally trans
| fixed it"
"Oh, you heartless thing" sobbed
the bride, while the mother on the back
seat Rugged her treasure convulsively,
| and burst into tears.
"We had lost private, and two 9th
ers badly wounded" went on the old
soldier softly, "but I can tell you we
all felt like murderers as we stood with
our hats off in that little room, and
tear stole down over more than one
powder begrimed cheek as the old Gen
eral leaned over and gently opened the
little bundle.
"And was it quito dead ?" asked a
mining man, who was pretending not
to cry.
"Quite dead-quite dead But you
see it wasn't baby at all, but the kit
ten that the little emigrant girl had for
gotten" concluded the Major. That's
al, | believe, and-ahem-I think,
daughter, I'll get out and walk to the
top of this hill"
And the Major got out, followed by
some indistinct remark referring to his
eyes on the part of the driver that
seemed to be fully concurred in by the
rest of the passengers.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
Seeding and Propagating.

The most carefully seeded meadow is
the most productive. Grass seed should
be sown with winter grains, because
they grow thinner on the ground than
spring grain; the young plants are less
shaded, and the growth forms with
stronger roots, and is better able to
Withstand the hot sun and dry weather.
After harvesting the grain the seed is
often destroyed, because the roots of
clover and timothy are SO near the sur
face that they dry up. The ground is
crusty for want of cultivation and weight
of snow after the grain is sown. The
remedy is simple but rarely used. The
grain should be narrowed into the
ground after it has settled, and is dry
enough to mellow under the harrow.
Winter grain is improved by narrowing,
atfording lighter soil for the spread
and growth of the roots, covering the
field with stronger growth, consequent
ly increasing the yield. This process
insures the certainty of grass seeding
as seed is expensive, farmers cannot af-
ford its loss or trust to luck" Two
crops cannot grow in the same place
simultaneously. Filling the ground
with all it can support of spring grain,
and sowing grass seed at the same time,
expecting to produce fine meadow
after harvesting the grain the wea
plants shrivel and die. Spring grains
must be sown thinner when sown with
grass, then what is lost in grain is gained
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
Gems of Thought.

De1ect IN manners, is usually the de-
fect OF fine perception. Elegance
comes OF no breeding, but of BIRTH
Emerson.
The sufficiency of thy merit, is to
know that thy merit is It sufficient
[St. Augustine.
As the FREELY only shines when on
the wing, so it is with the human mind
when at rest, it darkens.-T Addison
A mlser grows rich by seeming poor
an extravagant man grows poor by
seeming rich.- Shenstone,
BY struggling with misfortunes we
are sure to receive some wounds in the
conflict; but a sure way to come of
VICTORIOUS is by running away Gold
smith.
There are few, very few, that will
own themselves in mistake, though
all the world deem them to be a down
right nonsense Swift.
Modesty is to merit as ~. .des to
figures i'll picture, giving it strength
and beauty Bruyere.
l think it must somewhere be written
that the virtues of mothers shall, oc-
oaSIOIdIlJ, 10 NlblISu on GHG1f cn1lQr60,
as Well as the sins of fathers. Charles
Dickens.
Good nature is the very air of good
mind, the sign of large and prosper
GUS soul, and the peculiar soil in which
virtue prospers.- Goodman.
Incidence is delightful but distress
ing state; we must be doing something
to be happy. Action is no less neces-
sary than thought to the instinct
i've tendencies of the human frame.
: Hazlitt.
1t is one proof OF a good education
and of true refinement of feeling to re-
spect antiquity. [Sigourney.
Pohteness is like an air cushion.
There may be nothing in it but it eases
our jolts wonderfully Bulwer.
Pride is increased by ignorance
Those assume the most who know the
least Gay.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is
hot, but make it hot by striking
TE,Ixuordc
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
A SRunkO', Outfit
[From the Kansas City STAR

From the Kansas City Start
The genuine bunko game is, of all
the different modes of sure-thing swim
ding by cards or devices, the most Sc
ductive and dangerous. It is on its
face lottery scheme and the system
of numbers is based on combination
Of eight figures.
A cheap bunko "layout," consisting
of a number of figures painted on
cards or in books, few gaudy posters
to hang on the walls extoling the
great schemes OF the HAVANA or Lou
isiana, or Kentucky state lottery, and a
few cheap office fixtures are all the
paraphernalia required. 1t is also adj
visable to have huge pasteboard safe,
painted green and correctly lettered.
this gives an appearance of solldity to
the concern, and few feet off it can
not be told from a heavy iron safe. Its
advantage lies in the fact that, when
the bunko men want to move, as they
do after each same, the safe can be
folded up and carried easily under the
arm to the new quarters. This saves
the trouble and expense of hiring a
transfer wagon and half dozen men
to move the safe.
A good story is told of DIR. Baggs, the
most celebrated bunko man in the
world. When the Black Hills were
first opened, and pilgrims from all parts
of the country were making their way
to the land of gold, DIR. Baggs. with his
usual business foresight, picked on
Deadwood as good place for tenn
porary residence, and soon had his
Kentucky lottery apparatus and bunko
layout properly displayed in a dingy
room in large frame building there.
In one corner stood the huge green
safe, with its brass knobs and heavy
hinges, the wonder of all who came into
the office. It was the first safe eve,
seen in Deadwood, and had very i'm
posing appearance.
One night the building caught fire.
Baggs could not save his effects, but he
hated to see the safe, the repository of
all his wealth, go by the board. With
out waiting to fold it up, he shouldered
the precious article, which did not
weigh more than twenty pounds, and
trotted with it down stairs. He was
ever afterward looked upon with
wonder and admiration, AID ac-
counted the strongest man in Dead
wood.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
THE -FOUR LEAF CLOVER"
BY CARROLL CLEMEN 7


Softly flows the tinkling rill,
The summer air is strangely sui,
Fen the bird has hushed Its tr11l.
The only living thing In view
Is a maid, whose eyes OF liquid blue
Seem borrowed from the sky's deep hue,
Kneeling low the blue-eyed rover
Searches all the garden over
For the mystic ssfour leaf clover"
Slender fingers white as snow,
Gliding swiftly 10 and fro,
Thread the waving grasses through.
Fritz, the little maiden's lover,
Sailed that day the blue seas over,
That is why she seeks the clover.
She cries, ".TwiIl bring him safe to me,
Across the deep and painless sea
If can -four leaf see."
The sun is sinking fast away,
The blue skies change to sombre grey,
Soon Will end the pleasant day.
And although the days in June
Are long; for the maiden ali too soon
Wanes the pleasant afternoon.
Despite her sixteen happy years,
Her wistful eyes soon fill with tears,
And all her hopes are changed to fears.
But as shs weeps a tear drop bright,
Falls, as a star on a darksome night,
And 1rings the long sought leaf to sight.
KneeliDg there the green sward over.
Kisses the maid the flour leaf clover"
That is TO guard her wandering lover.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
A Ruin0us Blockade.

The blockade of the intestinal canal caused by con-
stpation should be broken speedily as possible,
as 1t ruins the general health and bodily comfort
But while relief is most desirable, it should not be
attempted by the of violent purgaives like Gallo
mel, podyphyiln pills. and salts and SIENNA. These
and Ike antiquated cathartcs, which enlightenment
has banished from the domain of rational medica-
ito unduly relax the bowels, while Hostetter's
stomach Bitters not only relieves, but inyigorates
the organs besides regulating the stomach and liver,
OF the bowels is largely dependent. Moreover, as
constipation tends to aggravate or beget other bodily
disorders it is of great moment to overcome them at
the outset Hostetter's Stomach Biters is not only
specially adapted to its permanent removal, but is
an invaluable remedy for rheumatism. kidney ana
bladder complaints, of stamina and loss OF ap-
petite. Residents and visitants of fever and ague
Localities bear testimony, also, to Its preventive and
remedial propertiss
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
The Baby Over the Way.

lno DdOy oVcT TIC
Across in my neighbours window,
With its drapings of satins and lace,
see, meath a crown of ringlets,
A baby's innocent face.
His feet In their wee, red slippers,
Are tapping the polished glass,
And the crowd in the street look upward,
And nod, and smile, as they pass.
Just here in my cottage window;
Catching flies in the sun,
With patch on his faded apron,
Stands my own little one.
His facs is as pure and handsome
As tue baby's over the way,
And he keeps my heart from breaking,
at my toiling, every day.
Sometimes, when the day is ended,
And l sit in the dusk to rest,
With the face of my sleeping darling
Rugged close to my lonely breast,
Ipray that my neighbours baby
May not catch Heavens roses all;
But that some may crown the forehead
OF my loved one, as they fall.
and when 1 draw the stockings
From his tired little feet,
Andakiss the rosy dimples
In his limbs so round and sweet
/ think of the dainty garments
Some little children wear,
And frown that my God withholds them
From nt1ae, so pure and fair.
May God forgive my envy!
1 knew not what | said;
My heart is crushed and humbled,
My neighbours boy is dead !
l saw the little coffiL,
As they carried it out to day;
A mothers heart is breaking
In the mansion over the way.
The light is fair in my window,
The flowers bloom at my door;
My boy is chasing the sunbeams
That dance on the cottage floor.
The roses of health are blushing
On my darling's cheek to-day;
But babJ is gone from the window
Of the sad house over the way.
--ynEnoluu
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
The Art of Drinking Milk.

j
Milk should not be taken in eopious
draughts like beer or any other fluids
which differ from it chemically. If we
consider the use of milk in infancy, the
the physiological ingestion, that is, of
food provided for it, each small mouth
full is secured by effort and slowly pre-
sented to the gastric mucous surface
for the primal digestive stages. 1t is
thus regularly and gradually reduced
to curd, and the stomach is not OPP
pressed with lump of half-coagulated
milk. The same principle should DE
regarded in case of the adult. Milk
should be slowly taken in mouthfuls,
at short intervals, and thus it is rightly
dealt with by the gastric juice. If milk
be taken after other food, it is ain ost
sure to burden the stomach and cause
discomfort and prolonged Indigestion,
and this for the obvious reason that
there is not sufficient digestive agency
to dispose of it, and the better the quail
ty of the milk the more severe the DIS
comfort under these conditions.
Rev. WATKINS, ousted from a STRAIT
ford, Conn, church for believing in
faith cure, will have church of his own
in New York,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21

THE breweries in Germany are I'M
der constant surveillance of revenue
officials, and the beer is frequently
subjected to chemical analysis by
health officers. The retail vender is
compelled to give certain amount of
beer-not foam-when a "glass" of
beer is called for. The receptacle is
large enough to hold foam and beer.
Of the latter glass must contain
three-eighths of a hter-somewhere be-
tween half pint and pint. To en-
able beer-drinker to see whether he
receives the requisite quantity of beer
the public sealer marks every glass at
the height to which the beer, exclusive
of foam, must 90.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21

j. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist, of aus
tin, Tex, writes: II have been handling DR.. VIM
and have found it one OF the most salable med
colds and even consumption, always giving en-
ire satisfaction. Please send me anotEel
1ross.
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in thickness of the clover or grass crop.
Thinly sown grain generally produces
heavier, larger heads and more stems,
consequently the crop is not lessened.
Grass is as important to farmers as
grain, and should not be sacrificed for
the chances on the latter. It should be
made primary crop, for the soil is re-
newed by it while it is exhausted by
grain American Agriculturist.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21
Brief Timely Hints.


The outlets to drains of all kinds
should be seen to. This is rather
wet spring, and if drains are to pay for
the expense of making them, they
must be kept at work. A coarse wire
cloth will keep out the rabbits and
and water animals, or, better still, some
Of the new devices for the purpose may
be purchased for trife-23 or 80 cents
each, and they will last several years.
1t is yet time to prune orchards
Cut out the dead branches and sprouts
that are crowding each other, keep
ing out the sunlight and taking the food
this needed work be sure to clean up
the brush. The largest branches will
furnish excellent wood when dry. The
small brush is best burned in a single
heap, so the ashes may be collected for
garden uses.
Field beans and peas may be put in
at any time now. Many prefer drilling
in rows 30 to 40 inches apart. If in
hills the practice is generally to have
them apart to admit running the horse
cultivator at least one wav better per-
haps both ways. Of late years beans
have been paying crop all over the
world.
The principal part of the cucumber
planting (for pickles) should be de-
ferred little later, but it is time those
for early table use were in. An excel
lent way is to place a headless barrel in
the garden plat; plant a hill on each
side about 30 inches from it. Fill the
barrel with coarse manure and give it q
pailful or two of water each evening
This soaks through and keeps the root
of the cucumber plants moist and vel
fed. In dry season use more water
This is good time to lay in suga,
for the canning and preserving season
GRADUATED is now selling in the Chica
go groceries at from 7 to s cents pei
pound. Sugar men say it may go down
yet that is doubtful. The beet sugar
crop of Europe was enormous last veal
and is having its effect on the markets
of this country. Sandwich Island su
gar Is coming into this country free OF
duty and this also keeps down the price
of Louisiana and Cuban sugars. Blu
no matter what the cause, consumer.
should take advantage of the fact
| Prairie Farmer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-06-21

INDIGESTION, dyspepsia, nervous prostration
aud all forms Of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PEProNIzED BEEF Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing its entire
nutritious properties. 1t contains blood-mak-
ing, force-generating and DEMONSTRATING prop
critics; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions,
whether the result of exhaustion, nervous pros
tration. overwork, or acute disease, particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Cas-
well. Hazard & Co.. proprietors. New York.