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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
THE NASHVILLE UNION.

iAAiS NhSll lLLi1 ONADA''
The editorial aud business staff of
The Union will be composed Of trained
journalists who have heeu connected
with the American for many years,
and who have withdrawn from that
paper on account of it passing into the
hands OF the parties who now own
and control the Nashville World.
The same principles they have advo,
Gated in the American they will cons
time to advocate in The Union.
The purpose of she publishers of
The Union will be to make it
A Live, Progressive Exponent Of
Democratic Sentiment.
Opposed to Machine Politics and
the Rule Of Political Bosses.
Devoted to the Building.up and
Industrial Prosperity Of the New
South.
Earnest in Advocacy of Tennessee's
Commercial, Agricultural, Manufac-
turing and Mineral Development.
Keeping Fully Abreast of the
Times on all the Leading Questions
of the Day.
Above Everything, it will he a
Good Newspaper, Complete in all
the Departments of Telegraphic,
General, Local and Market IntelIi.
gence.
1t will be seen that the Su hscrip.
ton has been made as low as the ac>
tual cost Of publishing frst>class
journal will permit.
We ask the support of all who de-
sire that an Honest, Out-spoken, An.
ti.machine Democratic Paper should
he published and sustained in this
city.
The terms of The Union are:
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08

HEn for working people, Send 10
RI III, Rcents postage. and we will mail
IA AAA you free roval. valuable sa mpic
box of goods that will put you i'm
the way of making more money in n few days
than you ever thought possible ut any bust
ness. Capital not requ ired. Nou can live mt
home and work in spare time only, or all the
time. All Of both sexes. OF all ages. grandly
suceessful so cents to Is easily earned every
evening That all who want to work m ay
test the business, We make this unparalleled
offer: To all who are not well sa tished we will
send 81 to pay tor the trouble of writing us,
Full PARTICULARS, directions, ETC.. sent free
Immense pay al solUtely sure for al who start
at once. Don't delay. Address STTNSON n
Co, Portland. Maize,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
IMPORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York City.
save Baggage, Expressage and Carriage Hire
and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite
Grand Central Depot.
Elegant rooms, fitted up at cost of 81 600.
600, reduced to 81 and upwards per day. Euro
pean plan Elevator. Restaurant supplied
with the best Horse cars. stages and elevated
railroad 20 all depots Families can live better
for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than
at any other frst-class hotel in the city.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
OVER THE STATE.

in Madison county.
Polk Taylor, negro preacher at
Brownsville, struck Maria Garrett
with an ak, infi9ting fatal wounds.
Augustus Andrill, workman on
the new bridge at Nashville, fell to
the river 100 feet beneath and was
killed.
The greater portion of Montgomery
county is badly in need Of rain. The
corn crop is materially damaged by
the drOuth.
John Gregory, aged 81, while bath
ing in Cumberland river Sunday,
near Cairo, cramped and drowned.
He resided in Wilson county.
About 5000 colored people .ceebrat-
ed Emancipation day in brownsville
last Saturday. They were all orderly
and enjoyed themselves finely.
Newt Burnsides knocked negro
in the head with club at Newbern,
Saturday. The negro had his skull
crushed and died. Burnsides escaped.
The silver mines recently discovered
in Polk county will be stocked at
100000. A competent analysis
shows the ore to be worth 1920 per
ton.
H. w. Brown killed himself by
ticking belladonna and cutting his
throat with razor, at Chattanooga,
Monday. Business troubles was the
cause.
Miss MOllie Majors, while fooling
with didn' ACKNOWLEDGEMENT aded-pis-
toll in Nashville last Saturday, dam
gerously wounded Mss Emma Kizer
il the neck.
Alamo Sentinel A great many
horses and mules have died in this
county during the past two months
from some unknown disease. Judge
Powell lost mule last Monday.
Henry Vandervetz, a German,
tried to commit suicide Monday, at
Nashville, by leaping from the susN
pension bridge into the Cumberland.
He was drunk and was hurt but lit
tie.
West Tennessee Farmer and Hor>
ticultural Gazette: The Carroll coun-
ty Poultry Association will hold its
first annual exhibition Of poultry at
Huntingdon on the 18th and 18th of
November next.
VIM. Cannon, one of the most suc>
cessful farmers in Loudon county,
threshed this season $3.50 bushels of
wheat from 80 acres harvested, which
is an average of about 26 bushels to
the acre. One field of Is acres made
yield of 4O3 bushels to the acre,
Jackson Dispatch; Last Sunday
evening a colored girl on the farm of
Mr.. s. G. Bell, near Mifflin, Chester
county, gave birth to triplets, al Of
which were living at last accounts.
On the same farm a COW, Monday
night, gave birth to twin calves. 1t
appears to be a very fruitful farm.
The Ninth Congressional district is
entitled to Peabody Scholarship,
worth S25 a month, to the State Nor,
NAL College lat Nashville. A cons
petitive examination will be held at
Dyersburg on the 29th of this month.
Applicants can be posted as to their
requirements by writing to the State
Gazette, Dyersburg, Tenn.
A correspondent from Claiborne
county, writes: The Mormons are
creating considerable stir in the low.
er part of this county, Some of
their missionaries have been working
in that section quite zealously for
time, and have succeeded in making a
number of converts. A well>to,do
Baptist minister of that section has
been denouncing them very bitterly
for some time, and, being two coward.
ly to meet him in a discussion or 9th,
erwise answer his singing arguments
AGAINST them. they. the other night.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
Wall PAPER.

Go to Henderson IL Martins for
rare bargains in Wall Paper.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
A Positive written Guarantee
MARRIAGE Guide,
$50 PAGEs-FINE PLATES.

$50 PAGEs-FINE PLATES.
Over fifty wonderful Pen otures The whole story true
life Articles the following subjects. who may marry,
who not Why manhood womanhood physical decay effects
OF cebaoy and eXes how lite and happiness may be In
creased the physiology ofreTroducon and many more
Those married oouten plating marriage should read It,
ought be read by NIL adut PERSONS then Kept under
lock and key Sent scaled Postpaid 70 any address, for
Is cents in money or stamps Address, DIR. jacques,
7Oj Chestnut ST., st. Louis, MO.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
NASHVILLE'S NEW DAILY.
The First Number of the Union to be
Issued March 17--Whatit will
be and What it will
Advocate.

On the 18th of the present month,
the undersigned will in this city issue
the first Number Of new Democratic
daily journal, to appear every morn.
ing, and to lie entitled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
Jay Gould's Daughter Nellie.

Jay Gould's daughter Nellie is en-
gagged to her fathers bachelor partner,
Washington E. Connor. The story
runs something like this: At first the
report was received with incredulity
the young woman's youth, the fact
that she had not made her debut in So
ciety, and that Mr.. Connor was almost
twenty-five years her senior and had
withstood several of New York most
famous bellies, all tended to throw an
air of doubt around the report. But
the story that Mr.. Conner was to for
sake his elegant apartments at Il East
Forty-ffth street and become a Bene-
dick, with Miss Gould as his Beatrice,
gained force with every repetition. Mr..
Conner himself refused to confirm or
deny the statement. A Broad street
broker comments: ''Miss Gould is one
of the brightest and sweetest little
ladies in the city. She has been finely
educated and is highly accomplished.
She is an artist of no mean ability, and
her collection of bric-a-brac, which
has been adorned by her pencil and
brush, has been greatly admired. She
dresses plainly but richly, and when in
town can De seen any afternoon driving
through the park with her brother
George. She is probably the richest
heiress in America, and on her father S
death will come in for $4,000, 900 or
$4,000, 000."
Mr.. Connor has been Jay Could S
partner since 1876. He is said to be
the owner of the steam yacht Ottowan
ma, and is a member of the American
Steam Yacht Club. He was born in
Spring street and is thorough New
Yorker. Abstemious in his habits, he
is rarely seen in society. He is said to
be worth 100000, and to owe his
fortune not to Gould, but to his own
ability.-BOSt071 Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
The Age OF Decoration.

A young man called at the box office
Of the Baldwin Theater the other day
and handed the treasurer suspicious
looking roll of paper
please hand that to the manager,
said he.
The treasurer looked at it obviously
IN give it to him, if you like" he
remarked; ''but L might as well tell
you that he's got more manuscripts
now than he can shake stick at, and
he swore the other day that if / took
in any more plays he'd"-
''Play!' said the young man, with a
snort; ''play!-why, what do you take
me for, young Teller? Do you think
I'm a play-Writer? No, sir! I'm sales
man in a paper-hanging house, am,
and them is samples of our new lines
of papers. Play Well, that is GALL"
The treasurer apologized, : San
Francisco -4rgondut.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
MistreateG Him.

One day, several years ago, while
Addison was sitting in his ''garrety"
room, revising his Cato, he received the
following note from Dick Steele: "My
darling Addison: [ am in that cavity
profanely known as Gehenna's eXcava-
ton. My morning hours are disturbed
by collectors and my evening moments
are made harsh by the footsteps of the
man [ owe Addison, we have always
been good friends. [ am a wing and
you are whig, in this kingdom by the
sea-as Edgar Poe will in the future
express it-but can't you help me out
of this fix?''
Addison had but little money. In
fact he owed the grocer, the barber and
the candlestick manipulation, but he
pawned his gold spurs, his richly orna-
mented sword, his silver tea-pot-his
all, and raising hundred pounds, sent
the sum to his distressed friend. Sew
eral days afterwards, when Addison
found himself in Steele's neighborhOod,
be decided to 90 up and see if there
were any other way in which he could
help his poor friend. As he approach
ed the door leading into Steele's room,
he heard music and dancing and sounds
only BETTING the abode of those who
felt the weight of many nickels, but
hating not, he showed open the door
and entered Steele, dressed in a suit
Of tawdry clothes, stood in the middle
of the room. On the sofa sat young wo-
man with a discolored eye; beside her
reclined a woman with bad teeth; while
4ho .io,a+ ctr rhc 3o+
grand-motherly in appearance. Dan
dies and hilarious bucks stood around,
and upon the whole, the scene was one
of fashion and excessive refinement.
When Addison entered, Steele, who had
been turning the crank of musical in
strument, arose and said:
"Hah. here is Mr.. Addison. We are
all glad to see him. Addison, how do
you find yourself?"
Addison was d;sgusted He looked
at the table, loaded with ham sand
witches and said:
q thought, sir, that my donation
was intended to keep you from pris-
opp
Correct you are, Gully" exclaimed
Steele, 'sbut now that / am out, we
should enjoy ourselves. Henry" adj
dressing boy, "bring Mr.. Addison
glass of beer. All, my dear essayist,
you do not seem to be enjoying your
self. Had to soak your household goods
to keep me out, eh? Glad to hear it.
Fine thing to have friends, Addy-fine
thing. Hadn't been for you, | would
have been in jail. As it is, | am giving
a dinner. Say, can't you lend me sew
enty-fve cents?"
These are historical facts, yet there
are literary historians who say that
Addison mistreated Dick Steele. dr.
kanSaU Traveller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
Put Yourself in the Horses Place.

1t is worry and not work that kills.
Let every owner of a horse think when
he brings his team to the stable at
night how much vital force has been
expended in work and how much in
worry, and then strike balance. And,
let him consider himself to be put in
the horses place, so that he may bet
ter know how it is himself. AS thus:
A man goes out to work in the morn
ing after having all night fought flies
of the most pestilent kind, breathed
hot, foul air, reeked in the sweat and
dust of the previous days work, eaten
breakfast in haste, without any suf-
ficicnt cleansing of his skin, and with
boots and clothing ill-fitting and calling
the tenderest spots upon his person.
He is then, from the filthiness of his
body, exposed all day to the venomous
attacks of flies, which he fights with
hands and feet, but which, from the
drive off for the slightest moment, after
which a cloud of them settle upon his
face and exposed parts and sting him
severely.
He works on from hour to hour in
the brOiling sun without water to moist
en- his mouth or to quench his raging
thirst until midday, when he rushes
home, swallows a drink Of dirty water
and hastily eats dinner in the foulest-
smelling and worst ventilated part OF
his premises.
The afternoon is like the forenoon,
and after this has been occupied in the
same way, the man, all foul with gath
cred dust and sweat, eats his evening
meal as he dined, and lies down to rest
CD, if he can, on a filthy floor, in an
apartment that is hot, close and swarm
ing with flies, which he vainly fights as
he catches an odd wink or so of sleep.
And so, again from day to day, he
fights it out on this line all summer.
Then how much of the resulting wear
and tear is due to the worry and how
little of it to the work?
Something like this is the weary con-
dition of the average farm horse. No
note is taken of the cruel lashings, the
over-worl1ing, the injudicious feeding
and watering, the torment of check
relns, the h:ndrance of binders, the
bad treatment of the feet by the black
smith, and other mistakes which pro-
duce actual disease, nor of the truly
horrible nostrums and poisonous stuff
which are made use of as remedies"
for these complaints.
Thinking of all these things, who can
wonder that the average farm horse,
whose useful life is naturally twenty
five to thirty years, gets into hole in
the corner of the farm and is consumed
by proving dogs in less than half his
allotted term of life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
Only One Suspender.

About 4 week ago stranger erter-
ed clothing store on Michigan avenue
and asked for one secondhand sus-
pender. The dealer looked at him fol-
something less than half an hour and
then broke out with:
What blaze do you dake me for?
Oof keep some secondhand suspend
ers do YOU pose l cut EN- apart?"
''Isn' / it your object to oblige the
public?" asked the man.
Il likes to sell goots, of course, but
nobody comes III here and asks me for
one pant leg. "
Certainly not but this is different
case. Some men wear two suspenders
some one. | belong to the one-sus-
pender class of humanity. SO did
Shakespeare, lIiltop, Byron, Dickens
and others. Is itright for you to cater
to one. class and exclude the other?"
Il sells you one pair Of suspenders at
cost"
Il never buy what I don't want. l
want one suspender, and I'll not take 4
pair.
'Vhell, I don't sell 'em dot vhay."
Il will give you time to think over
it, said the stranger. There Is no
occasion for haste, as [ am now wear
ing Il clothes line around my waist.
Give the matter due thought and seri-
Gus reflection"
Its no use-no use. l don't sell
coat-tails mitout der coat, nor some
west mitout back"
The next day the man returned and
renewed his application, and his list of
one suspender men bore the names of
Washington and Napoleon.
''Do L sells coat mitout any
sleeves?" Indignantly exclaimed the
clothier; and the placid stranger piac-
idly replied:
Take another day to think over It.
View the subject from all sides. 1t
never pays to move rashly."
Every day he returned on his errand,
and yesterday policeman was athand
to give him the collar, walk him around
the corner, and say:
''Now, then, I'll give you a chance
to keep out of the cooler. If you come
here again you are good for thirty
days"
;'Oh, I'll go. of course" replied the
man. ''Does he exclude the one-sus-
pender CLASP"
He does"
''And has made up his mind to cater
TO the other?"
Il presume he has"
VERY well, then. [ have never
worn but single suspender, and I'll
be hanged if [ can be bulldozed into
buying any clothing to pack away in
the garnet! My motto is: One suspen-
der or dcathn and 1 never 90 back on
a motto. What is good huff for the
crowned heads of Europe will fit me,
even if they put single nails in place
of buttons. Good-by, old buttons-one
suspender or a grave in the valleyn'-
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
The Beauty of Coal.

Lyeli, in his experiments with coal,
remarks ''that after cutting a slice so
thin that it should transmit light, it
was found that in many parts of the
pure and solid coal, in which biologists
had no suspicion that they should be
able to detect any vegetable structure,
not only were annular rings of the
growth of several kinds of trees beau
tifully distinct, but even the medulary
rays, and, what is still more remarka-
bic, IN some cases even the spiral yes
sells, could be discerned. Again, in
another place, ''the high state of pres
erTation in which many of the objects
occur, the perfect condition of tho
leaves, and other parts of many of the
ferns, the preservation in which many
OF the sharp angles Of numerous stems
and plants known to be of soft and
juicy nature, with the surfaces of a
sagillari@, especially marked with
lines, streaks, and Fittings so delicate
that the mere drifting of day would
have inevitably destroyed them, togeth-
er with the occurrence of certain fruits
which ale found in heaps and clusters,
together with many other facts Of like
nature leading to similar conclusions,
convince us that these objects have
never been subjected to drift, but were
and hourished. We quote these evil
dences of the perfect preservation of
fragile plants and of fruits of remote
age as an important reason why further
inquiry as to its cause should be made.
II these plants were suddenly miners
ed in fluid which excluded light and
air and preserved them while becom-
ing solid, it is analogous to the preser-
walton of plants and insects in gum
copal, and does not require unusual ar
guments to obtain relief The presence
of trees standing upright where they
grew and imbedded in coal suggested a
probability of immersion in the same
way. The recent discoveries of i'm
mense deposits of petroleum in subter-
ranean cavities or streams suggests the
theory which is here offered-that this
mineral oil, as it was first called,
may be the origin of coal and not its
product. Note the thickness of many
strata of coal-some are sixty feet
thick and are of uniform structure
with slate of limestone floors and roofs;
and coal also has qualification closely
resembling stratitied rocks which de-
serves attention. Petroleum, bitumen
and asphaltum are classed together as
of a similar nature, although the first
is liquid and the last-named solid.
We find great difficulty in believing
petroleum to be vegetable product.
Ii any species of vegetation yielded
more resinous or oily products in form
er ages than those of to-day, these
products were either drawn from the
earth, water or air to supply the vege-
tation that held them. 1t also seems
unreasonable to have so much vegeta-
ton derived from the vegetable fiber,
when the entire growth of vegetation of
any soil or climate appears inadequate
to represent uniform body. of coal
sixty feet thick.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
She Had Him There.

Mr.. r. W. Glider, editor of the Gen.
tu7y, was at dinner next to a charm
ing girl, whom he knew slightly as a
clever young woman with somewhat
decided ideas, which she spent a good
deal of energy in carrying out.
''What are you doing now?" he
asked interestedly of his bright neigh
Dor.
Nothing, really nothing in particu-
lar just now" was the reply; Except,
perhaps, some verses [ have been
writing"
''Oh, my dear child, don't do that, .
cried the editor, in a tone of Mortified
regret. ''Why, do you know, you are
really wasting your time? People
can't get % cents for 5000 verses to-
day"
'.Can't they?" she continued, ''for
received S24 for some | wrote last
month"
My goodnessr' exclaimed Mr.. Gil
der in mild amazement, ''who paid you
that?"
"Why, You didn' cried the merry
girl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21
She Hit Him Hard.

1t was late and she had been yawn-
ing for half an hour, but he did not
take the hint
81 see." he said, ''that TenHyson in
his drama speaks of men as Gods trees
and women as Gods flowers. 1t is
natural that he should compare women
to flowers, but l cannot see why he
should compare men to trees?"
81 can" she said.
''You camp
Yes; this is winter, amt it?''
1T is
''Wen," she said, with another yawn
as she glanced toward the clock, 1.-The
reason he compared men to trees is
that trees don't leave till spring"
He was on his way home minute
later.-B0St0n BUDGET
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

Mary was a buxom country lass, and
her father was an upright deacon in a
Connecticut village. Mary's plan of
joining the boys and girls in nutting
party was frustrated by the unexpected
arrival of number of the 'brethren"
on their way to conference, and Mary
had to stay at home and get dinner for
her fathers clerical guests. Her al
ready rufied temper was increased by
the reverend visitors themselves, who
sat about the stove and in the way.
One of the good ministers noticed her
wrathful Impotence, and, desiring to
rebuke the sinful manifestations, said
sternly: '.Mary, what do you think
will be your occupation in help"
''Pretty much the same as it is on
earth, she replied; ''cooking for min
isters.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

One of the most curious cases on
record is that of a man in Memphis
who can't live without a noise. 81
Ience nearly dement's him. His mania
at one time was rather expensive, as
he was constantly travelling on steam
boats, going into sawmills, visiting
boiler repairing shops and the like.
But his friends will be pleased to hear
that he is on the point of getting mar
ried, and will stay at home from now
on.-Memphis (I'enn.) Avolanche.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

A German microscopic detected in
the incrustations of silver coins in or
binary use bacteria in active motion
and bacilG in great numbers. 1t is as
serted that these active agents of con-
tagious diseases may probably be
found on all coins in current use.
Many years ago the cid copper coins in
insect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

In the Providence high school re-
Gently young man in reading his Lat
in exercise came to dead halt on the
word cgcuS. ''Well," said the instruc-
tor, 'swhat does cgcuS mean?" Idon't
know replied the youth, '.unless it is
bad sailor mo, no. retorted the
instructor, "a bad sailor would be a
nGatticus. Order was restored in five
minutes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-21

A rather venerable lady Countess
married a man who did not belong to
the nobility. Glow did she come to
marry him? She has title and he has
not remarked one gentleman to an
other. Il don't know for certain, but
expect she preferred to have a hus-
band without title than to have a til
tie without a husband. - e1os Sitt-
i2qS.