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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IT has been discovered by Congress
sional investigating committee that Paul
Strobridge, deputy United States Marshal
in Alabama, made hundreds of arrests on
frivolous charges in order to get the fees
and use the money in his canvass for Con-
gress. He was defeated and then went to
Washington and contested the seat.
The anxiety for General Gordon's
safety in the Soudan is increased by re-
ports of TIE detection of tribes in his route.
TIE diplomatic correspondence be-
tween England and America, relating to the
sentence of Patrick O'Donnell, was pre-
scented to Parliament on the Sth.
On the evening of the 9Th a meeting
was held in Faneuil Hall, in Boston, com
memorative of Wendell Phillips, number
of prominent people making addresses.
The Irish societies of Boston will abandon
the st. Petrick's Day parade, and, in
stead, attend lecture, the proceedings of
which will go to the erection of a Phillips
statue.
UNITED STATES Minister Hunt is Sc
riously i'll at st. Petersburg.
MARQUIS TsENG is not going to Paris
to resume negotiations.
The French Admiral CALDER has
been recalled from command of the fleet in
Madagascar waters.
KAISER WILLIAM is trying to effect
a reconciliation between Prince Frederick
Charles and his wife.
The French engineer Rondaire is
about to start for Tunis to begin work of
letting the sea into the desert of Sahara.
De Lesseps promises success.
In his report to the Post-otlice De-
partment Special Agent Smith, who was
detailed TO examine the postal systems OF
Europe, recommends important changes
in the present methods in this country
with a view to economy and greater con-
venience.
In New York Michael Buckley and
James Sheehan have been arrested for kill
ing james Young ten years ago.
liz San Francisco ID. w. Knapp, a
Western Union telegraph operator, has
been arrested for divulging the contents OF
cipher messages.
OK the night of the 10th memorial
services in honor of Wendell Phillips were
held in Philadelphia and New York
A PENSION and insurance agent at
Morgantown, w. Va, named Charles Fin
nell is missing, and there is an alleged
shortage in his accounts.
On the 10th religious services were
held in the ITALIA Theater, New York, IN
honor of the actress Gallmeyer, who played
there during her last engagement in this
country.
THos. CHENERY, editor ofthe Londor
Times. died on the 18th.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-16
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

OK the 9TH German farm laborer
near Marengo, Iowa, shot his sweetheart
and then committed suicide.
On the 9TH two Baltimore & Ohio
passenger trains collided near Fallsburg, o..
No one was fatally hurt, but several sus-
tanned ugly bruises.
OK the night of the 9th Samuel Nor
man, of Dayton, o., finding two burglars in
his house, shot one dead and secured the
arrest of the other.
OK the 9TH gang of young ruf1ians
at Minneapolis, Mimi, took lad named
Johnny Nolan to a neighbours barn and
hanged him, where he was struggling in
the death throes when found and cut down.
AT Leipsic, Germany, two letter
pouches containing 81, 900 marks were stolen
from mail cart on the It'll.
On the 9Th VIM. Buchert, bugler of
the United States troop at Cincinnati, was
drowned while trying 10 get into the second
story of the barracks from skiff.
On the 8th series of tank explosions
at the Standard Oil Works at Long Island
of $4,000. Windows were broken ON
DldChWellS ny lu0 lOtCS VI INC tA-
plosions.
AN iceberg wrecked the steamship
Nottinghill on February 3. The crew were
saved by the steamship State of Nebraska.
On the 9Th block of ten buildings
burned at Bridgeport, o., opposite Wheel
ing, W. Va. The fire was caused by an ex-
plosion of chemicals in drug store.
Two desperadoes, Mike Mcdonald
and Ed. Carey, were consumed in the Jail
at Wausau, Wis, when that structure
burned down the morning of the 18th.
OK the 18th eighteen drunken men
boarded coal train at Dayton, o., and
beat the train hands numerically. One
Brakeman will die. The engineer cut the
LOGON olive loose and escaped.
FIRE destroyed an entire block, in
GLIDING the Post office, Odd Fellows Hall
Town Hall and stores, at Albion, Pa, Oh
the 18th.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from London
says Captain Gardner and seven men OF
the bark Champion, from Baltimore fol
Hamburg, were washed overheard. Tho
remainder of the crew were rescued by the
steamer Sirocco after being in the rigging
four days without food and badly frost-pit
ten.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-16
y IA formally announced bv tho

IT Is lOEIntlll dhAOuhOCU W bhO
Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com
pany that they have purchased the lines of
the Pacific Mutual Company, which extend
from ST. Louis TO st. Joseph, Leavenworth,
Kansas City, Atchison and other Western
points.
IN Boston on the 9th the National
Committee of the Sons of Veterans voted
TO hold the National Convention i'm New
York, February -. Departments Of the
order have been formed in Nebraska and
Illinois and applications made for provi.
sional departments in Indiana and Iowa.
TIE heavy rains which continued to
fall in the watershed of the Ohio indicates
that the flood will probably exceed the
worst apprehensions that have hitherto
been INDUCED. The bigh-water mark of
last year at Cincinnati was passed at one
O'Clock on the 18th, and the rise has kept
right on, with big water coming down all
the tributaries. Those who had been most
Indifferent began to grow excited, as the
entirely unprecedented flood carried with
it elements of danger never before encoun-
tered. Factories were stopping in the city
and many neighboring towns were almost
drowned out. At Covington, KY, 6,000
people have been rendered homeless. The
need for relief grows alarmingly pressing
in numerous small places.
REPORTS were current on the 18th of
a wholesale slaughter of Christians in Ton
quin.
IN Reading, Pa, seven furnaces have
started up. after two months idleness.
THE value of the steamer Nottinghill,
recently lost at sea, was 100000, besides a
CARGO worth S1j0,000.
The abolition of the prison contract
system will be recommended by joint
committee OF the Ohio Legislature.
TIE Austrian Reichsrath is in danger
of dissolution, unless it re-enaets the anti
socialist law.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Platte
vile, Wis, on the 18th over the failure of
the Platteville Bank with heavy debts to
depositors and small assets.
SERIOUS resistance has been encoun-
tered by the AngloFrench Commission
engaged in fixing the boundaries in West
Africa, from the natives. French troops
were landed for protection.
SEVERE snow storms and destructive
gales prevailed III une nOlVu u lShBlduu
and Scotland on the 18th.
AT Aldershot, England, circular
was read on the 18th, stating that non-com-
missioned officers might volunteer for serv'
ice in the Egyptian army for a period of
two years. MANY volunteered at once.
THE steamship Republic, which ar
rived in New York on the 18th, brought
Hugh Wallace from County Cavan, Ire
land. He is forty-fve years old, half blind
and totally destitute. He made affidavi
that he was an inmate of a county work
house for twenty-nine years, and until si1
years ago. Then he was imprisoned for si1
years for killing man. On his release three
weeks ago he was told that he could no
| go to the work-house, as he wished, but tina
he must go to the United States. He re
ceived a free passage and ten shillings from
| a Government officer named Dooley. HI
will be sent back to Ireland.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-16
nIISCELLANEOuS.

On the Sth testimony before an in
vestigating committee corroborased ac-
counts of cruelty to inmates and immor-
atty among officers of the Rochester IN.
W House of Refuge.
The locomotive engineers on the
Mexican National Railway threaten to re-
sign in a body because whenever train
kills man the Mexicans send the engineer
to prison for murder.
THE American Carp Culture Associa-
ton, national organization, was founded
ON the Sth at Philadelphia, Pa.
THE Porte leaves it to England to
take the initiative i'll the Egyptian negotia.
tions.
THE laws requiring removal of non
residents from the Indian Territory are to
be enforced and trouble is apprehsnded.
DURING the present session more than
1900 bills have been introduced in the
House of Representatives, and less than
200 have been acted on by committees.
THE opera season by the Mapleson
Company in Cincinnati was postponed on
account of the flood, the troupe remaining
IN Chicago an extra week.
d LIE VI lllt OH StIlOuS IlOG
occurred at San Juan, Argentine Republic.
The Governor and Senator were killed.
THE brewers of the country are inter-
ested in Secretary Folger's decision that
rice meal is only liable to twenty per cent.
ad valorem import duty.
THE bill to establish department of
labor statistics will be reported favorably
to Congress. Also the bills extending the
letter-carrier system and providing for the
speedy delivery of letters.
For every discovery of q new comet
made during 1884 in the United States or
| Canada II. II, Warner, of Rochester, N. Y,
offers $500 prize.
The costumes have arrived and the
floats are ready for the Mardi Gras pa
| geants in New Orleans. The parade is ex-
pected TO be exceptionally striking.
THE American Institute of Mining
Engineers will hold its annual meeting in
Cincinnati February 10 to %. There will
be no postponement on account of the flood.
On the 9Th at meeting of the Port
land (Ore.) Board of Trade, resolutions
were adopted calling on Oregon Senators
and Representatives to oppose the forfeit
ure of the Northern Pacific land grant OF
any part of it.
AT the close of business on the 9th
the New York banks held S2l 100000 in ex.
cess of legal requirements.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-02-16

DAVID JOHN Johnston. Of Cohees, has
been named by the Governor of New York
as Commissioner to the New Orleans Cot
ton Exposition, and Ephraim Chamberlain,
of Utica, as alternate.
THE troops under FL Mahdi have CAP
tuted a post north of Suakem. General
Gordon had reached Berber.
QUEEN VICToRIA's ,long-proInised
book has been given TO the public. It is a
diary of domestic affairs covering a period
of twenty years.
Ok the 18th q nolle prosequi was en-
tered in the Blue Cut robbery case against
Frank James at Kansas City, Mo-, and he
has been turned over to the Federal author
tiles to be tried for the Mussel Shoals rob
berry in Alabama. The case against Char
ley Ford was also dismissed. Three cases
against James at Gallatin were also nolle
prosecuted. The incompetency of Dick
Liddil as a witness brought about this ac-
ton.
On the 18th Bradlaugh again attempt
ed to take his seat in the British House of
Commons, and was again excluded.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-02-18
The Mystic Man.

Taylor, the wizard, gave show in the
theatre at Paso del Norte the other night,
in which he advertised to perform the most
wonderful legerdemain tricks. The MeXi-
cans turned out en- m0Sse to witness the per-
formance The receipts aggregated about
eighty or ninety dollars, and then he walked
upon the stage and addressed the audience
in something like the following style:
Ladies' and gentlemen, appear before you
this evening as one of the most wonderful
men now living. | will show you a trick
tonight that will make you open your eyes.
1t is called The Mystic Man or the Disap-
pemance.'" Here he brought out large
box, placed it on the stage, and then pro-
ceeded 81 will now shut myself up in this
box, and the trick is to find me-" At this
point the wizard entered the box and closed
the lid After waiting some time, the audi
ence became anxious to see the man, and as
he did not appear they proceeded to examine
the box; and 10 and behold there was no
man in it. The box was SO constructed that
the man could escape from the rare, and this
he had done, taking with him, in addition to
the funds he had collected at the door, coat
containing fifteen dollars, belonging to one
Of the men connected with the theatre. That
was the last seen Of him.-A1yonaH.
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still have bit to spare. ''Sce," said the
man, eve have the land and wish as we'll
The farmers wife then suggested that
they had better wish for a cow and a horse.
But the man replied: "Wife, why waste
our wish on such tlihes? The horse and
COW Wen get anyway"
Sure enough, in a years time the money
for the horse and COW had been earned.
Joyfully the man rubbed his hands. '"The
wish is saved again this year, but yet we
have what we desire. How lucky we are y
But no his wife seriously adjured him to
wish for something at last. ''Now that
you have Il wish to be granted" she said,
'you slave and toll, and are content with
everything. You might be king, emperor,
or baron, even a gentleman farmer, with
chests overlooking with gold; but you don't
know what you want
''We are young, and life is long" he
answered. ''There is only one wish in the
ring, and that is easily said. Who knows
but some time we may sorely need this
wish? Are we in want of anything! Have
we not prospered, to all peoples astonish-
ment since we possessed this ring? Be
reasonable and patient for while. In the
meantime, consider what we really ought
to wish for.
And this was the end of the matter.
1t really seemed as if the ring had
brought a blessing into the house. Granalies
and barns were full to OVERLOOKING, and in
the course of a few years the poor farmer
became a rich and portly person, who
worked with his men a field during the day
as if he, too, had to earn his daily bread ;
but after supper he liked to sit in his porch,
contented and comfortable, and return the
kindly greetings of the folk who passed and
wished him respectful good evening.
SO the years went by. Sometimes, when
they were alone, the farmers wife would
remind her husband of the magic ring and
suggest many plans. But as he always
answered that they had pl nty of time and
that the best thoughts come last, she more
and more rarely mentioned the ring, and at
last ceased speaking of it altogether.
| TO be sure. the farmer looked at the ring
and twirled it about as many as twenty
times a day; but he was very careful not to
| wish.
After thirty OF forty years had passed
away, and the farmer and his wife had
grown old and whitehaired, and their wish
was still unasked, then was God very good
to them, and on the same night they dice
peacefully and happily.
Weeping children and grandchildren sur:
rounded the two collins; and as one wished
to remove the ring from the still hand as {
remembrance, the eldest son said, "Let oul
father take his ring into the grave. There
was always a mystery about it; perhaps i
was some dear remembrance.
SO the old farmer was buried with thu
ring, which had been supposed to be wish
ring, and was not yet it brought as mucl
good fortune into the house as heart coulC
desire. Nicholas.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-02-18

A young lady reading a newspaper the
other day, of girl having been made crazy
by sudden kiss, called the attention of her
uncle, who was in the room, to that singular
occurrence, whereupon the old gentleman
gruffiy demanded what the fool had gone
crazy for. ''What did she go crazy for?'
archly returned the ingenious maiden.
"Why, for more, l suppose !"-& r. CaW
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
A Paris Adventure.

One Of the most distinguished physi-
clans in Paris met with a startling ad-
venture the other day. His servant
handed him, at o'clock in the even
ing, letter signed by an unknown
person, asking the doctors immediate
attention for a relative of the person
whose signature appeared at the bot
tom of the letter. This relative did
not, however, live in Paris, but in St.
German, at the cid pavilion built by
Henry ". The address given was
rather singular, but the letter contain
ed 600 francs in crisp, new notes of
the bank of France. The case was rep
resented as urgent; the patient intend
ed leaving for the south of France IN
the morning. Gould the doctor come
at OnceP
1t was furthermore suggested to him
that the train that left Paris at mid
night for St. Gernain-the ''theater
train'-wOuld be the best one to take.
They would expect him at the ''pavil-
ion;" room had been prepared and
he could return to Paris the first thing
in the morning.
The confident tone of the letter and
the snug sum inclosed decided the
doctor. He left home that night in
time to catch the midnight train.
That night dreadful storm burst
over st. German The doctor was
afraid he would lose his way in the
darkness, and secured the services OF
a trustworthy railway porter as pilot
When they arrived at the pavilion he
was informed that mo one OF that
name lived there" that mo do 3tOl
was expected" The door was slammed
in the doctors face, and he spent 9
portion of the night in the peltine
rain, running from house to house tC
| find a shelter.
Was it practical joke, a wager, {
trap to waylay and murder him, o.
was there "a lady in the case?" No
body knows.
The doctor is quiet married man
model of the domestic virtues, anC
has no enemies so far as he is aware
of.
It was reported that stranger call
ed at the pavilion the next day, anC
finding upon inquiry that the docto
had been there, simply remarked:
ooh, it is all right; let him keep tn
money"
And so the doctor did.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
SENATOR'S son AND DUDE.
HOW Freddie Gebhardt Paid the
Gambling Debts of Rspudiator's
Son.

HOW Freddie Gebhardt Paid tho
Gambling Debts of a RspudiatOr's
Son.
The senior Senator from Virginia
has a son named Butler Malone, says
the Washington correspondent of the
Hartford Times. Butler is a young
man about twenty five years old, and
is inclined to be what the boys call
"blood." Since his father became a
United States Senator, Butler has
been IN many scrapes. His latest adj
venture was IN New York City. It
appears that Butler went to New York,
and while there he became acquaint-
ed with Freddie Gebhardt, of Lang
try fame. Gebhardt is a member of
the most fashionable club in that city.
One evening he introduced Butler at
the club as his guest. Gebhardt's as
sociates received Butler cordially and
the latter soon felt himself quite at
home During the evening a game
of poker was proposed. Butler ask d
permission to take a hand. His re-
quest was granted, and he soon lost
all the change he had in his pockets.
amounting to about $50. He played
along until he was about $500 out.
When the game concluded he drew
a note upon his father, and Gebhardt,
who had introduced him, Endorsed the
note. Butler said the money should
be paid as soon as he returned to
Washington. This statement appear
ed satisfactory and Butler came to
Washington.
Gebnardt waited several weeks be-
fore writing to Butler to tell him that
the party who held the note claimed
that he (GebhardD, as the in
dorser, would be held responsible UNI
less the money was Immediately
forthcoming. Butler paid no atten
ton to Gebhardt'S letters, so the latter
addressed a letter to the Senator stat
ing the facts in the case, and request
Tag him to pay the debt contracted
by the son. The Senator replied that
he knew nothing about his sons con-
duct in New York, and, intimated
that Gebhardt was bunkO man or
three card monte player, endeavoring
to blackmail him out Of $500. Gebnardt
showed the Senator's letter to several
members of the club, and a good
laugh was had at the expence of Geb-
hardt.
The party holding the note insisted
upon its payment; so Gebhardt final
ly drew a check for the amount and
took a receipt This he inclosed to
Senator Malone, with the statement
that instead of trying to swindle him
out Of the money, he (GebhardD mad
been obliged to pay Buffers gamb-
ling debts. He denounced this Sena-
tor as a repudiator as well as a read
juster. This story is from we'll
known New York club man, who says
it is current gossip IL the New York
clubs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
Is Bee Culture Profitable.

The following was translated from
''Welt Bote" a Pennsylvania paper,
by John Nobel, for the American Bee
Journal.
This occasionly puzzles some per
sons who live IN favorable locality.
They derive nice profit from bees
that they kept during a good season.
The rumOr of 1t is spread far and
wide, and encourage many others to
commence keeping bees A few per-
sons in the country have succeeded
by their shrewdness to accumulate
considerable wealth. Usually have
they adopted with honey raising the
breeding and selling of imported bees,
and occasionally have sold a few hives
and implements to bee-keepers.
Experience teaches that most of
these persons engaged in the business
loose time and money. The cause
does not likely lay in the business IL
self as much as it does in the men that
manage it. Some are satisfied with a
small profit; they want to accumulate
wealth by it, the same as they have
read that others have done. Many
commencing the business without
any knOWleu9e anu WlLuOuG 1edfllluS
from books or from experienced per
sons. They have heard that bees are
intelligent and industrious insects,
and presuming also that they can
with surety live there alone and gath
er honey and take care of themselves,
trusting to the littl e creatures ability
and wisdom When the weather is
warm the hives are mOlested with
moths, and during the winter the
cold weather seriously injure the in
habitants OF those hives.
At the close Of the first year they
have harvested large amount of ex-
perience, but Is not salable. There
are plenty of books written with sweet
matter from the blessed bees, and
they have done much 20 stimulate
the desire for practical experiments.
Those who want to save the costly
learning of experience, will do better
if they first carefully consider the adj
vice Of some practical bee-keeper, and
then commence with small expert
mentS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
The Medical Value OF Vegetables.

On the authority of the Medical
Record. asparagus is a strong diuretic,
and forms part of the cure for rheu-
matte patients at such health resorts
as AixIes Bains. Sorrel is cooling and
forms the staple of that soup G1tC
herbes which a French lady will or
der for herself after long and firing
tourney. Carrots, as containing a
quantity of sugar, are avoided by
some people, while others complain of
them as indigestible With regard to
latter accusation it may be remarked
in passing that 1t is the yellow core of
the carrot that is difficult IN diges-
tion-the outer, red layer. is tender
enough In Savoy, the peasants have
recourse to an infusion of carrots as a
specific for jaundice. The large,
sweet onion is very rich in those al
kaline elements which counteract the
poison Of rheumatic govt. If slowly
stewed in weak broth and eaten with
a little Nepaul pepper it will be found
TO be an admirable article of diet for
natlents of studious and sedentary
habits. The stalks of caullfiower have
the same sort of value, only too often
the stalk of a caulifiower is SO Ill
boiled and unpalatable that few per
sons would thank you for proposing
to them to make part of their meal
consist of so inviting an article.
ur nips, in the same way, are often