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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-12

Ok the afternoon of the 4th the Tabor
Opera-house at Denver, Col, took fire, but
by prompt work of the fire department it
was saved from destruction, and the per-
formances were not interrupted.
OK the morning of the 9TH the old St.
Nicholas Hotel in st. Louis, No., together
with adjoining property, burned. The
night was one of the coolest ever expert
enced in the city, and the suffering of the
6remen was intense. The loss will foot up
in excess of 100000.
On the 9Th a hotel at Bunker Hill,
ILL.,, and the Courthouse and Jail at Jer-
SEVILLE were sacrificed to the fre-fend.
At the latter place four prisoners were
burned in their cells.
A sTREET-CAR stable burned near the
Union Depot in Indianapolis, Ind, on the
9th, causing an incipient panic, but it
proved not to be very formidable affair.
OK the night of the 9TH st. Louis, Mo-,
was visited by another costly confagration.
The stores of Burrell & Comstock, furniture (;
Merrick, Walsh & Phelps, jewelry; the
Goodyear Rubber Company, and Whitman,
Gray & Kaminski, chinaware, on Fourth
street, were burned out, involving loss of
nearly 100000.
On the 9Th by the burning of the Con-
vent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Con-
ception at Belleville, ILL.,, twenty-three pu-
pills and five of the Sisters persisted. A
number of bodies were recovered from the
ruins on the 9th and nine were identified
Others were unacceptable. The death
list was as follows: Martha Mannel, Ca
rondelet; Mary Bartels, Josephine Ploudre,
Centerville; Lolita Pierson, Susie Welmar,
Emma Stark, Mamie Sealing and Agnes
Scaling, st. Louis; Lizzie Isch, Centerville
Laura Thompson, Chester; Mamie Pulse,
Columbia; Minnie Bailey, Virginia Helm
zelman, Mary Bien and Delphia Schlernit-
zauer, Belleville; Hilda Hummel and Emily
Leonhart, Trenton; Kitty Urban, Wanda
liza; Gertrude Strunck, Germany; Mary
Manning, st. Louis; Sister Superior Mary
Jerome, and Sisters Agnelia, Edwina, Sly
litta and Modvida; Miss Mary Campbell
teacher, East st. Louis.
| OK the 9Th two children were lost in
the burning of dwelling at Mechanics
| town, o.
OK the morning of the 9th the Park
Theater AZ Cleveland, o., burned. 1t wa:
a new building supposed to be fiie-proof.
A NEGREss named Phpbe Brown
more than 100 years old, burned to deatt
the night of the 4th in her cabin at Brook
| Ign, ILL.,
On the 9TH Proctor & CANDLES soaI
factory burned at Cincinnati, o.; loss ovel
100000.
On the 9TH the inquest in the terrible
|
resumed, and resulted in the finding by thu
jury that the victims of the tragedy cam
to their death by the hands of persons un
known. Nothing was disclosed throwing
any light upon the terrible mystery. De
tective skill has thus far been utterl,
paffied.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-12
Why They Didn't Marry.

LEXINGTON, Mo-, Jan. Z.
Miss Clara Hughes, who is one of the
colored bellies of the city, was to have been
married to-day to Charles Talbot, an in
dustrious colored man living few miles
from town. She is Methodist and he is a
Baptist Each wanted minister of their
own denomination to perform the cere-
mony, and neither would yield when the
wedding hour came, SO the nuptial knot
was not tied, and the twain still remain
two people. Guests who had been invited
to attend the wedding lett greatly disap-
pointed. One of them suggested that two
pre- achers perform the ceremony, but the
suggestion was scorned by the principals.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-12

ENGLAND has an army corps ready to
embark for Egypt on short notice.
Ir is now said the French Govern
ment railroads are not TO be sold to the
Rothschilds, but to a new company.
CONSIDERABLE excitement st II exists
over the Bond case at Taylorsville, Ill, The
men recently acquitted keep pretty close
among their own friends.
ACCORDING TO reports from all parts
of the country firemen are earning their
pay. The efforts TO keep houses warm re-
suit in numerous disastrous fires.
THE glass workers strike, at Pitts
burgh, Pa, has lasted five months, and now
it is said an International Union has been
formed to include the leading glass districts
of Europe
The Grand Jury of Cook County,
ILL.,, recommends that detectives be set at
work and reward offered to work up evil
dence of bribery against Chicago Council
men in connection with certain railroad
ordinance.
REPORTS of damage to the peach
crop by frost come from all sections.
THE fire record continues to grow
alarmingly all over the country.
On the 9TH six more bodies were re-
covered from the ruins of the Belleville
! (Ill.) convent.
A NUMBER of large iron works started
work on full time at Easton, Pa, on the eth,
after several weeks of Idleness.
No policy has been argeed upon by
the iron men regarding the tariff. They
are waiting to see what Congress will do.
BRITIsH imports during December
decreased 1,49S,0J0 and imports increased
f799,500, as compared with December. 1882.
The Committee on Public Lands of
the Senate will favor donating part OF the
military reservation at Fort Smith, Ark,
to that city for the use of the schools.
JUDGE BLANDIN, in Cleveland, o.,
has granted an injunction restraining the
Lake Shore Road from allowing freight dis
ordinations in favor of the Standard Oil
Company.
A VERY strong sentiment prevails
among Western Congressman in favor OF
inaugurating retaliatory measures against
Germany and France on account of the ac-
ton of those countries in making war on
the American hog.
The renewal of threats by dynam.
tiers has resulted in the detail of additional
police to guard the Post-ofiice and Other
public buildings in GLASGOW, Scotland.
A WATER famine is threatened at St
Louis, No., the excessive draught on the
supply by reason of the large number o.
fires, and the waste caused by the genera
leaving of hydrants open to prevent freez
ing during the recent cold weather, ha
nearly emptied the reservoir, and the Wa
ter Works are taxed beyond their capacity
For the week ended January the is
sue of standard dollars was $l52, 4AS
against $6l6,000 for the same time last year
AT the Land Office in Washington al
investigation is being made into the truth
of allegations made by the Mescallero In
dams that they were defrauded out of 9,6N
acres of land through false survey. If tn
facts are found as represented, the Indian
will be allowed to retain the land and whit
settlers will be kept out
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-12
OVER AN EMBANKMENT.
A Passenger Train Thrown from the Track
by Broken RaiL-Twenty-fve Persons
injured, but None Fata1ly--List of the
Wounded.
OMAHA, NEB., Jan. :.

OMAHA, NEB., Jan. :.
The passenger train leaving Lincoln for
Omaha this morning over the Republican
Valley Branch of the Union Pacific was
ditched about fifty miles southwest of this
city by broken rail. The baggage, mail
and two passenger coaches were tumbled
down an eight-foot embankment and rolled
out on the prairie forty or fifty feet. The
engine passed over the weak spot in safety
and remained on the rails The coupling
between the tender and the baggage car
snapped off. The only evidence of wreck
ON the track was the missing rail, which
was soon supplied. The scene on the prai-
RE, however, where the fragments of the
cars were strewn about battles description.
two wrecking trains have been sent out to
the scene. Dr. Mercer, chief surgeon of the
Union Pacific, and three assistants went TO
attend the injured.
The following is a list of the injured
Mrs. Day Mills, of Marshall, Ia, exter-
nal injuries on lett side; had three chill
dren with her, one of whom was severely
bruised.
Mrs. Mary Bushnell, David City, Neb.,
bruised about the head.
VIM. j. McCutcheon, traveller for Weber
Wagon Company, residence unknown, left
arm injured.
Rev. j. +. Osborn, Fremont, Neb., head
bruised.
Rev. c. c. Harris, Lincoln, Neb., head
and side bruised.
Book-keeper for Nye & Colson, from Free
mont, Neb., collar-bone broken.
Miss Ayers, Illinois, bruised about the
chest
Rev. John Miller, David City, Neb., shoul
der and hack.
r. S. Rood, Lincoln, Neb., head and face
mashed.
j; NJ. Sierley, Stromsburg, Neb., two ribs
j. NJ. ogers, train conductor, right
shoulder dislocated.
Henry Osborn, brakeman, hand mashed.
j. G. Kimball, Omaha, express messen.
ger, chest and right leg hurt.
Louis Vesperman and wife, Lancaster,
Wis. slightly hurt about the hands.
c. ID. Kaufman, Des Moines, right Shout
der bruised.
John Hommell, Morate, Ia, confusion on
left foot.
Mr.. Orr. Springfield, ILL.,, head and back
slightly bruised.
Marc Antony, left hand bruised
J. II. Armstrong, Peoria, ILL.,, cut over
right eve.
4. w. Smith, Dakota, thigh broken.
The first seven are pretty badly injured,
but it is thought they win recover. The
sufferers have been quartered at Valparai-
so, with the exception Of those able TO,
travel, who were brought to this city.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the 4th at Eastman, Ca, negro
murderer under sentence of death attempt
ed suicide, but was carried to the scaffold
when almost insensible and hanged.
The Insurance Commissioner of
Massachusetts recommends the imposition
OF penalty upon domestic companies for
illegal reinsurance in unauthorized COM
panies.
On the 4th a stock train of twenty cars
was showed in on the Wabash Road eleven
miles south of Chicago, and all attempts to
extricate it failed. 1t was supposed the
stock had all persisted. Trains were blocked
or delayed in every direction.
CONGRESS reassembled on the 9TH.
UPWARD of 1000 applications for
patents are made every year.
ELEVEN ex-Governors hold seats in
the United States Senate.
The Legislature of Maryland begins
balloting for United States Senator on
the 10Th.
The steamer Wisconsin, which left
Milwaukee for Grand Haven, Mich, on the
evening of the Sd was compelled to put
back to Milwaukee, where she arrived after
being exposed for forty hours to a terrific
gale and intense cold. She was covered
with ice three inches thick, and her Captain
says it was the worst weather he ever expe-
rienced, the thermometer indicating twenty
three degrees below zero.
In the United States the brewery
property is valued at Sl50,00o.0)0.
FOR 1888 the State of Wisconsin re-
! ports more marriages than births. There is
something wrong with the statistics or the
customs of that commonwealth.
A MEDIUM hop crop of good quality
was harvested in Germany. The Austrian
crop was not so good.
The recent cold snap, according to
all accounts, was the most severe and wide
] spread of any experienced in the country
since the winter of 1864.
OK the 9th the Fire Department of St.
| Louis, No., was in extremities. Chief
Sexton had been carried home, broken
down and delirious from over-exsrtion
and exposure, the engine houses all looked
very much like hospitals and the Depart.
ment had lost seFiously in apparatus.
Mayor Ewing in the emergency authorized
| the employment of 100 extra men to dig
out hose and ladders from the ice, and as.
sist in restoring things to state of eff
cheney.
SERIOUS delay to railroad traffic has
everywhere resulted from the severe
weather.
THE dry goods trade of the country
shows an improved volume of business.
AT the close of business on the 9th
the New York banks held $S,2ll,90J in ex
cess of legal requirements.
THE Malagassies have concluded to
cede the northern part of Madagascar tC
France.
THE wholesale dry-goods firm of Nc
Clurg & Co., Toronto, Ont, have failed
Liabilities, 100000.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GENERAL SLoCUM proposes to have
Congress vote on a free ship bill
The resignation of Henry Willard was
presented to the Northern Pacific Board on
the 4th and accepted.
PRESIDENT GowEN of the Reading
Road, it is said, will resign to become gen.
erol solicitor of the entire Vanderbilt sys-
tenn.
On the 4th Henry Willard made an
assignment, transferring to William Endi-
colt and Horace White all his property,
including the new house.
IT is now reported that the recent al
legged accident to the Gar of Russia was in
reality an attempt on his life by Nihilists,
who claim that they have given him fair
trial, and that he has failed to introduce
promised reforms.
SPEAKER CARLISLE continues to re-
ceive dispatches from members of the Ken
lucky Legislature urging him to allow his
name to be used as a candidate for the Sem
ate. A good many Kentuckians in Wash
ington believe that the outcome of the con-
test will be Carlisle's election.
THE suits against McGeoch in Mill
waukee, growing out of his failure in the
missed.
On the 9th the anniversary of Gam
betta's funeral was observed in Paris with
formal tributes of respect.
On the 18th inst. Cardinal McCloskey
will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
his ordination as priest.
A BILL will shortly be introduced in
Congress- making additional allowances to
Postmasters of the third class.
JOHN /. NEvIN, editor of the Pitts
burgh Leader, died on the 9TH.
HERR EDWARD LAsKER died of par
alysis in New York on the 9Th.
SINCE the capture of Sontay Marquis
Tseng has had no communication with the
French Government
IT is reported that Admiral Courbet
is finding stronger resistance in China
than he cares to encounter.
On the 18th David H. Bates was elect
ed President of the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph Company.
WILLIAM ANDREWS, convicted of wife
murder three years ago at Harrisburg, Pa,
has been granted new trial.
THE appointment of Archbishop Glib
bons as Apostolic Delegate to preside at
the Catholic Council in Baltimore next year
has been confirmed by the Pope.
by reason of the Treasury reserve OF
one and two dollar notes having become
exhausted, Secretary Folger has asked
Congress for the appropriation of Sl50,00C
to print 100000 ones and 100000 twos
Failing to get the appropriation the Secre
tary declares he will have to suspend oil
decrease their circulation. The appropria
ton for gold and silver notes and large de
nominations is believed to be sufficient
FRANK JAMES, the Missouri outlaw,
still lies at Colonel Ralston's residence
west of Independence, NO., in a very criti
ical condition. His physician states if he
is taken with pneumonia, with which he is
threatened, the verdict will be final, as ht
has but one lung, and is otherwise very
much enfeebled by confinement. He may
yet cheat the law.
MARIE PREsCoTT, the actress, recent
ly secured verdict for $12, 800 against tn,
American News Company for circulating
newspaper containing an alleged libel. Thu
General Term of the Superior Court of New
York reverses the judgment and directs
new trial.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17

+
riage took place clandestinely and Il once
It probably never would, she prevailed
upon him to go through the ceremony
without q moments delay. It is need
less to say more, except perhaps that
iHeadleyIs transgression carried it's pun
1shment along with it. He suffered
bitterly.
AS for the Lathams, Connie is Erskine's
wife now, and Beatrice, after a long
period OF suffering as keen as love was
absorbing, is at length regaining some
thing OF her former self. She is not the
same-no woman who has loved and
been 80 cruelty betrayed can ever be
scar of urforgotten bitterness remains.
the changing interests that enter into
every life, however quiet, have done
their kindly work and blunted the edge
OF painful memory.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17
Keen Dry!

Is an admonition on boxes Of perishable mer.
chandise in transu but 1t is also which should
be carefully observed by those who have tendency
to rheumatism. In addition to avoiding damp and
keeping dry shod, they who are rheumatic should
use Hostetters Stomach Bitters, blood depurent
professionally indorsed and of the highest order Of
merit. By promoting healthfu activity Of the kid
neys and bladder 1t insures the expulsion through
those natural outlets, Of impurities in the blood
which give rise to Brights disease, diabetes, gravel
catarrh Of the bladder and dropsical efuBions. 1t
induces bodily comfort by day and untroubled re-
pose at night conquers dyspepsia, dverts bile from
the blood into its proper channel, relaxes the bow
els gently, but efectualiy, and ia reliable means OF
restoring vigor and hnstening convaleecence. MARI
ners toers in the mine and residents Of unhealthy
localities, find 1t safeguard under conditions un-
favorable to health.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17

timer cherry and plum trees in Russia
planted at an angle of forty five degrees
towards the o'clock sun. He says that
only for short time will trees thus set
have an awkward appearance.
An example for farmers of this yicini-
y: D. i. D. Divinuey, of Wrightsville,
n. D., slaughtered % Duroc.J Jersey hogs,
2 years old. the net weights of which
were $50, 675, $50, ITO, TAO, 735, 75O,
81, 727, 781, S74, $50, 780, 800, SAT,
$50. $50, 832, S55, 9l8, 995, 1, ,O15 and
J, ,050. The twenty-three average sl9
lbs. and fraction. They were two.sea.
son pigs and Of the common Jersey Red
breed. In Burlington County, N. J.,
hogs OF this breed are grown to immense
size every year. The farmers there take
pride in extra heavy weight.
TIE potato possesses the property of
converting very much larger portion
OF the manure ingredients of the soil in
to human food than any of the cereal
grain crops. For instance, to every
bushel of wheat about 100 pounds OF
straw are grown, while the haulm of the
potato when, dry is SO light that in ex-
perlmenting we do not think worth
while to weigh it. These properties,
when combined with suitable climate,
enable the cultivator to produce upon q
given area of ground larger amount of
human food from the potato than from
any of the cereal grain crops.-Cana-
dian Farmer.
FIRST, CLASS potato-growers say that
cutting the potato intended for planting,
allowing two eyes to each piece, some
two or three weeks before planting, and
spreading out on dask barn floor or
any similar floor, where they will have
chance to sprout frcm one to two
inches, will add to their earliness in ma
turing some two weeks. They should
be moistened two or three times week
moderately, with. rather warm water.
In planting out they should be covered
with not over two inches of soil. If q
moderate quality of very early potatoes
Is desired, the potatoes can be cut as
suggested and planted in hot-beds with
very slight covering of soil, and planted
out as recommended.
How to protect harness from rats is
told by the Germantown Telegraph as
follows: Gratis when they are hungry
which they always are-will eat harness.
A correspondent informs us that if af-
ter greasing the harness, it is busted
with cayenne pepper, they will not dis.
turb it. Another correspondent says
that coat of carbolio acid following the
greasing is sure protection. Either or
both may be for all we personally know;
but we have a method that we never
found TO fail, to wit: hang the harness
carefully up and high enough to BE ont
of the reach of this destructive rodent.
and off from anything that may offer as
sistance to get at the harness, and you
need have no fear of injury from them"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17

Two YOUNG ladies of literary taste in
Clifton, were discussing their reading,
when one Of them remarked: "I have
been engaged with delightful work for
a week past" "Indeed, what was it?'
"Anthony Trollope's autobiography" /"
"Who is the author?" Greatly, don't
know. / have looked over the title
page and through the preface, but
can't fiud any reference to the author at
all. Whoever it is is charming writer
and seems to have known the novelist
verv intimatelv.o
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17
THE RUINED DScorrAcr..



By RhAsK c. SMITH
Back from the soaS S6e
In the shade ot8he wood. 81 -
Dut tue porch IL overgrown 80 '' =. = < liz
ny tie myrtle sere and brown
ana ana aii ABOUT the plaza is sad and stiIl.
Years long have passed
- Since ita halls echoed last. -. -
To the chime Of merry voices. dear IN mo.
and my heart iH filled with teara.
As glance along the years.
Fhinking Of the time that ussd to be.
There, high aloof
~, Peers the quaint eabied roof.
Mt its tall arched windows reaching ont.
@ 1ut they scarcely can be seen
NJ through the tangled eglantinc i
Anas nas wrapped It's gracious mantle all about
There is the rill
With Its sad music still, 81. p
''s A'3 sI1 11groVe-snetered banks fair and calm:
Mhere the thrushss chant their song,
IN the shadowH, all day long, "
ana tne rocks repeat tho echo Of their psalm,
All, Us gaze 20 ssa... -. -.
Down the old by-ways 5s.
Where. SO oft, strolied with mother lon
All tho old familiar scenes. e .soi
All my boyhood's brightest dreams. 4
hlse, ike spectcrs, to enhance my lonely woe - -
Oh, that once more "a,
could live the sweet life Der 81 p tl /
Ahat was mine when this ruin was my home.
YET my chastersd spirit cries
MN, For the rest beyond the skies,
IN peace the dear cnes wait for me to come
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-04-17
The "POOr BOx.o
lBoston Commercial sulletin.l


The poor box of the English courts is
great institution, and it would be a
good thing if we had something of the
sort here. Its use is to aid people whom
the law oppressed and the judges, who
in the English courts interfere in way
that would never be tolerated here, seem
to take a deal Of pleasure in drawing on
this poor box in aid of prisoners whose
situation has excited their sympathy.
A little incident Of courtroom life will
illustrate the point have in hand. A
poor servant girl who had been sum-
moned from distant part Of the king
dom to give her testimony in a case
and who had paid her own railway fare,
and the expenses attendant upon her
detention as q witness, found that there
was no money coming from the court to
reimburse her, since the person under
arrest against whom she had testified
had not been convicted discharged
as not guilty. The Judge was indignant
over the situation in which the poor girl
was left by the workings of law and red
tape, and ordered 12s Cd, the amount
justly due her, to be paid out of the
poor box.
AnOGl6r instance OF tne nancy WORK
ings of this poor box comes to my mind,
and with the one have presented will
suffice to show the advantages arising
from its existence.
A poor woman was brought into
court for not sending her son to school
was arrested under the compulsory
education act. On looking into her case
the Judge discovered that she was very
destitute widow, and that she put her
son at some work, when the law required
him to be in school, in order to save
them both from starvation. When these
facts leaked out in the course of the trial,
the kind d-hearted judge growled over the
case, and e1citedly asked the officer
making the arrest why he had not told
him all this before; and he not only gave
her money out of the poor box to meet
the fine which the law forced him to
levy on the woman, but he gave her
more money from the same box to re-
lieve her destitution.
The money in this courtroom poor
box comes from the voluntary contribu-
tions OF generous people who fully rec.
ognize its usefulness, and from deposits
in it OF unclaimed witness fees.
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