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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26
SUMMER EVENING.

Low sinks the sun toward the pearly west.
Hasting to bring his long march to an end,
Upon the pillowy clouds to find rest,
Fro to the lower sphere his labors tend;
Casting meanwhile, upon his broad empire
A bounteous largess of ethereal fire.
Gently the winds creep DER the doing earth,
As II afraid TO break the quiet mood
Which gives 10 passing day so much of worth
When bashful night is by its sweetness
wooed,
And Nature seems most trustfuly to lie
Upon the breast of Loves serenity.
The foliage takes a falrer, brighter hue,
The fields appear more greenly velvet
gowned.
The skys far vista shows richer blue,
The fading hills with deeper purple
crowned;
And every flower of every shade and tone
Now gem-l1ke sparkles on its vernal throne.
More fragrant, too is their respir'd breath
Than when the midday fires, with thirsty
tongues,
Drank at their fount; escaped from scorchlng
death,
odorous praise flows from their native
lungs
In grateful waves of incense unto Him
VINO built the heavens, yet hears earth's
faintest hymn.
The birds are warbling SOFT melodious notes,
AS though they sang requiem for the day;
Upon the Silly air, as DER the bay
a snip, becalmed, moves placidly along,
Or from the hills returns the shepherds
song.
Homeward the rocks in solemn state pro-
ceed
Their noisy morning cav no longer heard;
The cowboys whistle ripples DER the mead
With pace.as idle as his drowsy herd;
And distant voices of the children seem
Like waking echoes of a youthful dream.
The eager mowers with protracted toll,
Still ply their whirring scythes upon the
fields,
fastening to gather what generous soil,
For future need, a fragrant harvest yields;
Yet languidly and slow the strokes are made,
Their strong arms weary of the heavy blade.
The bees, oppressed by lab RS sweet reward,
Now seek again their many-storied hives;
While close ut hand chrper In the sward
To swell the failing chorus bravely strives;
And louder-Voiced the cOrncrake halls the
night,
Or calls Its mate to share in loves delight.
Feebly the cocks last challenge greets the
ear,
Answered from roost to roost; across the
vale
The cuckoos call comes singing full and
clear,
Telling its lonely, undomestic tale;
thousand things numerous vespers raise
joyous anthem of seductive praise.
Does not the spell, thus working it's wide
charm
On all the creatures Of this active world,
Reach Him who rules them with an iron arm
Who over all His banner hath unfurled?
is He alone unmoved by that which moves
Obedient nature in fabbatic grooves2
Go forth, vain man, from out the prosy din
OF narrow streets and busy, selfish marts
Go, look around, and seek that wealth to win
Enriching mind, and elevating hearts;
Go! of thy moiling take little leave,
To join the worship of the summers eve.
Sunday Magazine.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26

mills to investigate. He found out thai
the great belt that communicated the
power from the engine to the pulleys in
every part of the mill had broken in
two. There was big head of steam on,
and the whole power was operating on
the twenty-foot fy-wheel, which, meet
ing with no resistance from the running
machinery, rapidly increased its revolu-
tons until it went so fast that it was
broken to pieces. These pieces, weigh
ing hundreds of pounds each, were sent
flying here and there about the neigh
borhood. One went straight up through
the roof, and never stopped until ii
plunged into the Monongahela River, an
eighth of mile away, and swamped
the two fishermen. Another piece went
through the brick wall of the mill, tore
across an alley, and then dashed through
the brick wall of another building. A
shower of bricks and demolished ma
chinery preceded its course through the
interior of that building, and it was be-
fore individual portions of that shower
that our guide and the group of curious
workmen went down. They were all
badly hurt. Another section of the fly
wheel took forty feet of the wall of the
engine house with it, and entering the
street carried the truckman's team with
it for fifty feet, made splinters Of the
wagon, and scared the teamster into 9
faint. The whole thing was over In
! fifteen seconds, but it lasted me six
weeks. IN Y SIN.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26
TWO CLOSE CALLS.
A Travelling Groceryman's Notes
of Adventures.
A.Runaway Railroad Track and its Singu-
lar Antics-The Idiosyncrasfes of
Dislocated Fly-WheeI-Sx
Minutes of Genuine
Excitement,

"Tve had some narrow escapes DUR
ing my twenty years knocking around
the country" said John Gilbert, the
travelling groceryman, "but l think
about the closest call was the time the
quarter-mile of railroad track ran away
with itself in Oil City. / don't know,
though, after all, whether / had nearer
glimpse of the Great Beyond on that
occasion than l did the day the Dyer
lap-weld mill and portions of the ma
chinery distributed themselves about
Pittsburgh in wonderfully promiscu-
Gus fashion, AS the two calls were only
two days apart, maybe I can lump 'em
and call 'em one.
"Maybe you think it's funny to say
that railroad track ran away with
itself; but if you had been there when the
runaway happened, the funny part of it
wouldn't have been very apparent to
you. Oil City lies between ranges of
lofty hills, and its available building
sites, owing to the rapid growth of the
place, became very scarce and costly
some years ago. A number of specu-
lative gentlemen, not satisfied with the
uncertainties of oil, conceived the bril-
liant idea of utilizing the airy SUBMITS
of the high hills on the west side of the
town for building lots, and purchased a
big track of land on top of the range.
There was no way to get to the pros
pective new addition to the city, and SO
they built railroad from the base OF
the hills to the summit, the car to be
run by stationary engines and cables,
after the manner of the gravity roads in
the coal regions. 1t was good scheme,
but it didn't work. Nobody bought the
breezy lots. and the road was aban.
doued. In the winter of 1880 some coaI
operators of Schuylkill County bought
the railroad, and the day ] struck Oil
City they were to take up the rails and
remove them to their mines. The road
was narrow gauge, and had two
tracks. The rails were fastened to
gether at each end, and formed foul
unbroken lines of track from top to bot
tom of the hill.
81 had friend living in Oil City WHIT
kept good horse. His barn was abou
one hundred yards from the foot of tn,
railroad, and his house was nearly in
line with the barn. He asked me t,
take sleigh ride with him, and | wen
over to his barn to see him hitch up
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26

"A little girl on train up in Wis
consin, was telling stranger about her
home. "Oh, yes, indeed" she ex.
claimed, folks from the city come out
to our place. My ma is keepin' board.
ers. There's the queerest man out there.
He just goes out in the pasture an sits
down on a log, an takes out a piece OF
paper and some pencils and marks all
over it. He had an awful time the other
day when" What was he sketch.
ing?" HE wasn't catching anything,
but our black ram caught him, and that
was where the fun came in, mister. -
Chicago Herald
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26

"A set of Turkish paper money is
among the most valuable possessions of
the Numismatic and Antiquarian So
ciety of Philadelphia. The particular
value of this set arises from the fact that
no bank notes are now used in Turkey,
the many forgeries compelling the gov
eminent to stop their circulation
Philadelphia Record.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26
A HlDEOUS CRIME.

English Parents Who XIII Their Children
to Obtain the Trifiing Sum for Which
They Were Insured.
A generation has passed since Tenny-
son wrote that:
A:Mammonite mother kills her babe for q
burial fee,
And Timour mammon grins on a pile of chill.
dren's bones.
But the hideous work of killing children
for money seems to go on just as
everS IN England. The fashion now is
to insure children's lives and then de-
stroy them, so as to get the insurance.
1t transpires that though the insurance
companies will only insure healthy
children and reject numbers of those
who apply for insurance, yet the aver
age mortality among insured children
is fifty per cent. higher than the NOR
tally among children at large, as pub
lished in the Government reports. The
inference is acknowledgement num-
bers of children must be murdered by
their inhuman parents for the sake of
the trifling sum they were insured for.
What fearful revelation this gives of
the state of society among the poor in
England! How degraded, how lost to
all sense of humanity, a parent must be
when he or she will sacrifice the life of
poor little child for the sake of a few
miserable shillings! What conditions
OF life must be required reproduce such
creatures? 1t shows how long course
OF degradation, living from hand to
mouth, with no comfort in the present
and no hope for the future, will brutify
the human species. There must be an
equilibrium in all societies. If there are
people raised far above the common
level, there must be others depressed far
below it. The great landed proprietor
who counts his income by the thousand
pounds day implies swarms of men
and women to whom a bellyful is rare
occurrence. The crested duke involves
the vile, sordid, scrofulous, squalid
baby poisoner.
Does il not seem grotesque mockerv
for the English to work themselves up
to pitch of fury over the gates of Herat
and the triumph of the Tory Democracy
when their system brings forth such
fruits as wholesale system of baby
murder under their own noses? Where
can such things end? To what must
they lead? The British papers urge the
authorities to take rigorous measures to
suppress this ''new form of crime
They forget that the baby-killers are
merely the outward and visible sign Of
an inward and spiritual rottenness
which has eaten deep into the bone and
fiber and blood and sinew of the pool
people of England. Furnishing a muir
derer here and there will not stop the evil
1t will not cure the cause of the disease
twill not touch the source of the wrong
The father who kills his child for three
or four pounds is, of course, hideou.
criminal, for whom hanging is too kind
But what produces such fathersP Wha
engenders the virus of which baby-kill
ing is an outward symphonic That i
what it concerns English statesmen t.
find out and remedy if they can. Unit
they do, they had better not trouble thei
heads about the delimitation of frontier
in Asia or fallals about Conservative
Cabinets in England. San Francs8c
Chronicle.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26

The New York Sun prints list Of
seventeen women who have become pi.
rates.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05

the Irish dynamite convention said TO have
been held In Paris the ESD ult., has been ar
rested ON the charge OF trying TO shoot the
editor Of La France, who accused him OF
faDr.cating the story.
Commenting on the proposed visit OF
the Prince of Wales TO the Emerald Isle.
United Ireland says that II the Dublin Castle
fiunkies organize mock demonstrations of
enthusiasm they may rest assured there will
be counter displays which win overshadow
any demonstrations Earl Spencer may inan-
gurate.
Col. Strangeways, Commandant of
the Royal School of Gunnery at shoebury.
ness, England, and Col. Lyon, head of the
Government Laboratory at woolwich, died
in consequence OF injuries caused by the ac-
cidental bursting OF shell in the course OF
some experiments Mt shoeburyness. Each
had both legs blown OF. Capt Adams
Sergeant Dakin, and gunner named Under
wood have also died from injuries received
at the same time.
The British House of Lords, by q
vote of 1S9 to 81, adopted Salisbury's motion
TO censure the Government for its course I'm
Egypt. The House of Commons, by SOC TO
2ss, rejected n similar proposition by Sir
Stafford Northcote.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
WASHINGTON.

Gen. Horace E. Capron, ex-Commis-
sioner OF Agriculture, died at the National
Capital from the effects of q cold contracted
while attending the dedication ceremonies at
the Washington Monument.
The findings of the conrt-martial in
the case or Judge Advocate General Swain
and the sentence as formally approved by
President Arthur have been made public.
The court ands Gen. Swain guilty of conduct
prejudicial to good order and military dIscip-
line and sentences him TO suspension from
rank for twelve years on half-pay.
The Senate Committee on Railways
has received letter from Charles Francis
Adams, stating that the Union Pacific would
be seriously injured by the construction of a
railway from Sioux City 20 point west of
the l0t TN meridian, for which charter is
now asked from Congress.
The National Theater at Washington
was entirely destroyed by fire, together with
some small buildings in the rear. The seem
cry, properties and wardrobe OF the wallack
Company were consumed. Manager Rapley
says his loss is sl5O,OOO, upon which there is
$40, 900 insurance.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

p. p. Lespenasse, Of Harverstraw,
N. Y, has just paid an election wager by
carrying a pig and a rooster to Washington.
He expressed himself as being greatly pleased
at the manner i'm which the people treated
him along the route. The fowl and porker
together weighed ninety pounds.
The yacht Atalanta, with Jay Gould
and party on board, has reached Havana.
A marked improvement has taken
place in the coke trade, and 20 per cent Of
the ovens controlled by the Pennsylvania
syndicate are now in operation.
Residents of the City of Mexico have
forwarded $3.50, 900 for the sufferers by earth
quake I'm Spain, and the citizens of Vera
Cruz subscribed 5000.
The electric lighting interests OF the
United States were represented in national
convention at Chicago by over one hundred
delegates.
A letter from Mr.. Parnell urging inn
mediate action on the establishment Of
the parliamentary fund was read at a meet
ing of the Irish National League at New
York.
The failures reported for the past
week in the United States were 2TO, Of which
IS per cent were petty traders.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
Knocked ont bx DIscnso.

The most vigorous physique and adamantine
endurance cannot hold out unaided against eli
matte and other influences prejudicial to health.
No one can persistently breathe vitiated or
miasmatic air, eat unwholesome food. indulge
in excess, or toll INCREASINGLY without eventual
iy falling prey to disease. One of the surest
defensive measures against ID is Hostetters
Stomach Bitters. But potent as this auxiliary
OF health is, II would be prerosterous to expect
1t to maintain sanitary condition Of the sys-
TEN If they who seek its aid willfully abandon
every other precaution against disease, and thus
thwart it's operation. Sobriety, the avoidance
OF exciting cause, are important elements in
health maintenance. A regard being had to
these, a system fortified by the Bitters will be
exempt from malaria, rheumatism. dyspepsia,
consultation and other maladies
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
NEWS CONDENSED
Concise Record of the Week.


In removing some bodies buried
thirty-seven years ago in Sussex County, ~
j.. that OF child named Elmendorf was
found TO be perfectly petrined. but has
changed greatly since its exposure to the
air.
Scouts in the Pennsylvania oil re-
gions who furnish information as TO the dis
covery, or condition OF wells, have organized
an oatn-pound society. the object OF which is
10 control the oil market Tor their especial
benefit.
At recent conference at the resi-
dence OF w. II. Vanderbilt in New York, at
which George ID. Roberts, DIR. Hoetetter and
George NJ. Pullman were present, arrange.
ments were made for harmonious relations
between the Pennsylvania and South Penn
sylvania Roads, and the ultimate acquisition
OF the West Shore Road by the New York
Central.
A special dispatch from New York,
based On what is claimed to be reliable med
ical authority, says:
Notwithstanding the rose-colored report OF
Gen. Grants health recently given in a medical
Journal, the truth is Gen. Grant is a very sick
man. and his death is apparently not far distant
The public have no conception of the shattered
condition Of his physical system. 1t is hoped
the affection OF the tongue may not prove
natal, but there is, as yet, no appearance
OF Its not developing a malignant and
fatal disease. Although somewhat better
now than some weeks ago, the enlarged
ana Inflated tongue continues, making
1t painful to speak or swallow fluids, the only
nourishment he can take. In addition to this
malay Gen. Grant is terrible sufferer from
neuralgia. and 1t seems to have taken possession
OF his whole system. He has had most of his
teeth drawn to lessen the neuralgia torture, and
his injury in the hip, caused by his fall year
ago. is still source Of very great suffering and
forbids physical exercise. 1t is a fact that
should no longer be concealed from the country
that Gen. Grant is rapidly breaking down and
apparently without hope of reaction. and un-
less there should be some unexpected relief, he
will not be long among the living.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
SOUTHERN.

Lionel Levy, q prominent grocer OF
New Orleans was killed on the shore of Lake
Pontchartrain by stumbling upon his gun.
William Hanna, aged 80, was muir
dered near Knoxville, Tenn, and his son is
suspected OF the crime.
Mrs. Frazier, aunt of President Ar
thurs deceased wife, and mother OF Agnes
Herndon, the actress, died at st. Michaels,
nd.
Warehouses at Norfolk, Va, contain
ing 2, $50 bales of cotton, were destroyed by
fire. the losses aggregating $4,000.
Keen q Hagarty, wholesalers at Bal
tlmore of tin and iapanned ware, have made
an assignment, the trustees bond being
placed at 500, 900. The liabilities are placed
at s350OOO.
Before quitting Port Townsend, Mt,
Thomas Navin, the absconding Mayor of
Adrian, Mich, raised small amount of money
by forged check. He had reached San
Francisco before his absence was discovered,
and is supposed to have gone TO South Amer
lea.
DIR. j. H. G.. Rogers, whose death
OCCURRED at Madison, Indiana, raised a com
pany OF volunt ccrs for the Texan war of in
dependence, and fought with them through.
out the struggle.
Near Smiths Mills, Union County,
KY, Nose Cation, aided by his sons, took out
bis wife and hanged her. A posse came "a
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
Good Old New England Life.

That which gave New England such
prominence, such peace and honor In
her early history, over the continent
ap6 6rYRas 5hft,Aeas.. was no. the. GnB tj
much as the character of her homes.
You may say that schools and colleges
make the home, but the truth is homes
with their stanch integrity and un-
faltering fidelity gave birth to these
educational advantages, creating o
necessity for them. Never on the face
of the whole earth was there found a
deeper devotion to principle, loftier
conception of the marriage covenant, a
sublimer vision and confession of mu-
tual relations than in the early homes
of New England. TWAS then that hus-
bands and wives rested in each other I;
then that children grew up in habits of
thrift and virtue, as impossible of es-
cape as memory itself.
We sometimes talk about the forbid
ding features of those times, as if the
homes of our fathers were forlorn,
freezing every affection, checking every
aspiration, holding to sternness and
stoicism. To me, as look back, and
as read history, and as reason from
causes to consequences, the grandeur
of home life in the days of our fathers
hass.ever been equaled, certainly never
surpassed. Those households, which
some sneermgly call Puritan" held in
them the germ of our national great
ness, and dark will be the day when we
despise them.
Two generations ago marriage was q
union so sacred as to receive announce
ment in the church of God on Sunday,
weeks before its contamination. The
family was so sacred that its peculiar
wants we're presented for remembrance
in public prayer. The children had
something more than lodging and
boarding in the home. All the in
mates there, of whatever age or occu-
patton, came together in pleasurable
intercourse and worship. Have You
forgotten the Thanksgiving days, and
the anniversary gatherings of your
fathers, when parents and children
and grandchildren played together
Have you forgotten the churches of
your fathers, when parents and chill
dren and grandchildren sat together
in the old family pew? There were
not parties then for the "old folks, I"
and the ~children," and the "babies. !"
The healthful influence of parents was
felt on children in their sports and
studies, and the exhiarating influence
of youth was felt on age. The home
was never forgotten, whatever the
pleasure or toll. There, by the open
Fireplace, was the center OF love,
cheer, hope, life. The highest joys,
the highest helps, the sweetest rest
we're found at home; and so all par
ties were comparatively safe. Golden
Rule.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
FOREIGN.

Gen. Briere de pIsle is building a
railway from Chu to Langson. Five thou
sand fresh soldiers have Joined bis army.
The French Chamber Of Deputies
has agreed TO increase to francs the duty
on -four imported direct from countries out
side OF Europe.
At the request Of the German Ann
bassador at Paris, the French Government
has ordered tho expulsion of three Socialists
who we're concerned in tho riot at the funeral
OF Jules Wales.
Knubley, an English journalist who
is supposed TO have concocted the reports of
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-03-05
The Sick Elephant.

An Elephant who was Ailing with
Chill and Fever was Recommended by
the Hare to take Calomel. The Fox
Recommended something else, and the
Wolf, the Lamb, the Owl, the Serpent,
and the Turtle oil hastened to an
nounce their Remedies and Importune
the Elephant to try them. The Good
Natured Soul Swallowed One after
Another, and before night he turned
his Toes up to the Daisies. The Hyena,
who had come too late with his
Prescription, warranted to stand in
any Climate, contemplated the Dea
with Sorrow, and Remarked: Moral
My Friends, there is such thing as
getting too much of Something real