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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-17

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leg.
Read the resolutions of the Gibson
county bar, adopted at Humboldt last
week in reference to Chancellor
Somers.
Bill Bates and Will Holland, both
colored, INDUCED in fsticuff about
a dusky damsel. They appropriated
a neat little sum to the city treasury,
Maj. Blanton is conducting great
revival in large tent at Birming>
ham, Ala. So far, over two hundred
conversions, and the interest increas-
ing.
A match game of hall was played
here last Saturday between the Tren-
ton and Milan colOred baseball clubs.
The score standing IS to q in favor
of Milan.
Some one attempted to enter DR..
Harris grocery store last Monday
night. The key was broken in at
tempting tn unlock the door, and left
in the lock by the thief
Several Of the young boys were out
serenading this week, and waile at
certain house, boot,jacks, old boots,
tin pans, etc., were hurled at them.
Wise thought they were cats.
Mr.. John w. Dickinson, jr., of
Arkansaw City, who is well known
here, was honorably acquitted before
the committing court for killing ne
gro desperate in that city few days
since.
The Baptist Sunday-school gave
moonlight picnic at Mrs. Fawcett's
grove on Thursday night. The other
Sunday schools joiner in, and the lit"
tie children had a happy time and
plenty to eat.
An elegant barbecue will be given
by the colored people at Bluff Springs
next Saturday, for the benefit of
their church. Dinner 35 cts. They
wish to make their last payment this
month, and deserve patronage.
The college committee examined
the building and premises this week,
and found all sadly in need of repair.
They will Immediately take steps to
have them repaired, land then tress-
passers will do well to keep off the
grounds.
Several ofour citizens complain of
the playing of ball upon the streets
and commons, especially of negro boys
on Sunday, and unless it is stopped,
they will urge the rigid enforcement
of the city law against playing ball in
corporate limits.
The district conference at Paris was
largely attended, and full of interest
and religious feeling. , resolution
requesting the annual conference to
change the name of the district from
Mckenzie back to Paris, was adopted
by an overwhelming majority.
Mr.. John Shepherd gave a barbe-
cue to the tenants on his farm, five
miles east of town yesterday. He in
vited the Juvenile missionary society
of the Methodist church and his rela'
tives to participate. They all re
ported a pleasant time ana an elegah'
dinner.
We are in receipt of petition, got
ten up and signed by democrats a
Bradford, requesting that the chair
men of the various county committee
call primary elections to elect dele
gates to the congressional convention
The petition was so long that it ~a'
crowded out this week.
Rev. r. P. Crawford, D. D., vii
preach at the Baptist church sunda.
morning and evening de has oeel
missionary to China for man.
years. Public are invited. No col
lection for Missions wi! be taken up
He win probably give three lecture
on Races of Men" beginning Mon
day night. Lectures will be free.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-17

County Warrants taken in pay
ment for goods at DicksOn's.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-17
Wanted.

5000 lbs Tub Washed Wool at
Dicksun's.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
The Servian King.

LONDON, December 26.-The Post pub
fishes letter from its Belgrade correspond
ent revealing a lamentable state of affairs
in the Servan army. 1t seems that there
is almost total absence of military disci-
pline. 1T is difficult" the correspondent
says, ITO say where most of the blame is to
be laid, whether upon tine inefficiency of the
officers, or upon the natural insubordina-
ton and unteachableneSS of the men. King
Milan's life is being constantly threatened
and several attempts to assassinate him
have actually been made. The King
bravely disrecards them and strug-
gles manfully to bring order ont Uf
chaos and to get his forces into better
shape in view of the possible re0pening of
hostilities after the armistice. 1t is well
known in Belgrade, says tie correspondent,
that Milan was deceived in regard to the
effective strength of his army in the same
way that Napoleon Ill. was before the
opening of the Franco-Prussian war.
a ring of corrupt officials in the capital
are responsible for the weakness dis
played in the field and for the humiliating
position in which Servia now finds herself.
Under the vigorous hand of General HOr-
vatOvitch, vino was recalled from foreign
mission as the one man capable of redeem
ing the Kings shattered forces there has
been marked improvement in the cOndi-
ton and management of the troops, but at
best Servia will be heavily handicapped in
any military movement that may be under
taken in the near future.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
THE APACHES.

Indian Depredations Causing Alarm In New
Mexico.
Ell PAso, Ten, December 2a.-Addi-
tional particulars of the fight between the
regular troops and Apaches in the vicinity
of Silver City, n. NJ, were brought to Ell
PasO to-day by the train from :ae West.
1t is now believed that in addition to the
physician and three privates which were
killed more than half dozen citizens met
death at the hands of the savages. Every
body is leaving the country, even the cow
boys and ranchmen, and desOlatiOn and de-
population are met everywhere. The large
rancheEs are left at the mercy of the Indians.
who are well provided with ammunition and
seem determined to carry the war through
the winter. Several families have reached
Ell PaSO from the infested district. and
dozens of women and children have been
sent to the other towns for safety. The
troops massacred were part of Lieutenant
Fountains command and we're securing the
territory in which a late bloody fight had
taken place. They were shot at by savages
from behind rocks, and were killed in a few
moments. Other portions of the command,
which consisted, all tod, of thirty-five men,
met dead bodies in numerous places, the
result of the work of the Indians several
days previous. General Crook is now
known to be in favor of employing blood
hounds as auxiliaries to the army in hunting
down the savages
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
A Bank Dividend.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, December 23.-The
Shackamoxon bank failed last summer be-
cause of an overdraft of $4,000 said to
have been made by its President Yester.
day c. p. Miligan. the paying teller, told
on oath how the directors divided up the
money OH the day of the suspension. He
said: 1.-THE directors held meeting at the
bank on the morning of the suspension
and reassembied at about three p. IN.
/ closed the doors of the bank about
three p. m. Mr.. Galbert left check fur
$4,000 before he went to the meeting of
the directors. The watchman put the
money in bag MI. Galbert got his money
after tine meeting. He handed back the
check for $4,000 and gave me one for
$4,000. He would not carry the money out
the front way, but directed me to tell the
watchman to take it out the back way over
10 Front street. Mr.. Galbert and Mr.. Whis-
tier went out the front way. Mr.. McCart.
ney gave me his check at about Six p. m.
l gave him his money in silver. He di-
rected the watchman to take it to his
(the watchman's) house, saying that he
(McCartney) would call for it next morn
ing. Mr.. Judge gave me his check before
going up stairs to the meeting. Mr..
Rose gave me his check after the board ad-
jOurned from the afternoon meeting. Mr..
Peters gave me his cheek about
eight or nine o'clock on the Thurs
day before the suspension. Mr..
Rose asked me to come over
to the honse at nine a. H.. saying that the
directors were To hold a meeting there. Mr..
Peters gave his check for $4,000 in his
store.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL.
Terrible Scene as Christmas Eatsrtain
ment In Chicago.

Terrible Scene ae . Christmas Entsrtaln.
meat in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Ill, December 26.-Ye Yesterday
afternoon about four o'clock all the patients
in the county hospital who were able to be
moved, all the nurses and doctors and .
number Of visitors assembled in the clinical
amphitheater Of the hospital to witness
Christmas exercises for the children. The
room b very small about thirty feet long
and filed with seats reaching almost to the
ceiling. In the center was an immenss
Christmas tree laden with toys and saily
Illuminated with tapers. About forty chill
dren were grouped about the tree singing .
Christmas carol to open the exercises. As
Santa Claus entered the room the upper
portion Of the tree took fire and in
moment the entire tree was ablaze. When
the 6re was At its height, most Of the chill
dren were marched out of the room by the
lower door and the remaining people in the
room, nearly three hundred in number, be-
came panic-stricken. The heat and flames
cut off exit by the lower door. There was
rush for the upper door, the only remain
ing exit, and few escaped through it but
the passage was soon blocked. Volumes of
dense black smoke coon collected in the
upper part of the room, where the mass of
humanity was crOwding and screaming
first from fright and then from agony-fOr
the heat was terrible. A scene of inde-
scribable terror ensued. The heat blistered
the faces and hands of the victims. and one
mans beard took fire. Great suffering was
caused by inhaling the heated atmosphere.
The fire burned until the Christmas tree
was stripped. Order was finally restored.
No one in the room escaped injury and
about fifty persons were badly burned,
among them two reporters. At six o'clock
the doctors, themselves badly singed, had
cared for the wounded and the excitement
had subslded. Cries Of fire had gone
through all the wards of the hospital, and
for time there was CONSERVATION among
the patients. A later survey Of the situa-
tiOn shows that at least one hundred per-
sons were injured, the greater part receiv-
ing bruises by being trampled upon by their
panic-stricken neighbOrs. A number of
children patients had been brought into the
chapel in their cots. Before they could be
removed several suffered from the smoke
and fright, and one or two were slightly
burned. The excitement was intense and
but for the GOODNESS of Warden McGarrigie
and some attaches of the hospital lives
would certainly have been lost.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
THE LATEST,

TWENTY persons were injured at Liner
ick, Ireland, recently, in a faction fight
over the possession of house.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
December a6 showed an average increase of
HI compared with the corresponding week
of last year. In New York the increase
was 55.9.1
AT San Francisco on the Goth United
States Circuit Judge Sawyer rendereda de-
cision in favor OF the plaintiff in the suit of
Sharon VS.. Hill, brought to declare void the
alleged marriage contract. The signature
of Sharon on the contract was declared to
be a forgery.
REc,TEs were depressed on the Paris
Bourse on the e6th owing to the report that
the Government intended to effect public
loan or to issue treasury bonds The pub
lie disapproves the results of the colonial
policy of the Government.
DURING heavy gale on the night of the
26th the schooners Salera E. Killam, of
Nova Scotia, Adelia Hardwell, of Glouces-
ter, and Gazelle, of Grand Manan, went
ashore on Northhead, near Portland, Me-
The Captain of the Killam was frozen to
death.
ROBERT GIRDwooD, a wool broker Of
Edinburg, Scotland, suspended payment
recently. His liabilities were reported to
amount to el50,00O. Girdwood fed to
Spain.
SERvIAN troops on the 9th made an at
tack upon a Bulgarian frontier village and
were repulsed. Three Bulgarian soldiers
were wounded in the engagement. The
Bulgarian Government protests against
Servia's violation of the treaty of armis-
tice.
FRANK VAUGHN, of Argentine, was muir
dered by his wife's cousin, a mile east Of
Kansas City on the 9th, being shot from
behind while riding in a covered wagon.
Nave, on being pursued, committed sui
eide. The cause of the crime was jealousy.
Vaughn had only been married two days
previously.
E. P. KIDDER & Co., dry goods mer-
chants of Grand Rapids, Mich, have made
an assignment. Liabilities about sS5,OOO;
assets, $4,000.
DYNAMITE was recently found concealed
on Judge Lambert Trees fine residence in
Chicago. 1t was exploded by the police on
Lake Front. The attempted outrage was
generally credited to Socialists. Judge Tree
is at present acting as United States Min
lister at Brussels, and his home in Chicago
was occupied by General A. C. McClurg.
A CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.) special says: A
fire destroyed eight stores, a large amount
Of cotton and the depot of the Alabama &
Great Southern Railway at Collinsville,
Ala; loss heavy, but not estimated.
The men employed in the St John coal
mines, Du CuOin, ILL.,, struck recently for
shorter hours. They had been working
eleven honrs and half per day.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
THE PENSION OFFICE.

Clerks Not to be Discharged-Another De.
cisiOn.
WASHINGTON, December 24.-It was re-
ported to-day that four hundred clerks and
examiners in the Pension Office we're to be
dismissed January l. The Chief Clerk
denies the statement and says that the re-
port probably grew out of the fact that they
are systematizing and lcssening the work of
the Office. They can not, however, get
along with any smaller force, as all the
time and labor saved must be put upon the
accumulated work.
General Black, Commissioner Of PEN
si0ns. has rendered a decision upon the ap-
plication for pensions of an eX-s0ldier who
left his command when it was approaching
the enemy. for which act be was dishOnOr-
ably discharged, but subsequently re-en-
tered the service as a Captain, and while in
line of duty received the injury for which he
claims pension. The Commissioner holds
that the execution of the sentence Of his
dismissal from the first service was the
completion of the punishment of the of
tense charged and does not destroy his
claim to a pension for injury received dur.
ing the second service.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
CREAM ERIES. :
The Relations of the Factory-iIan to the
Farmer.

The Relations OF the Factory IIan to the
Until such time at least as everybody
who keeps cows shall become perfectly
familiar with the art of making a SUI
perior article of butter the creamery
will be benefit to the community.
We do not say that it will not be after
wards. But it is sufficient for our pres
ent purpose to say that it will be until
then. Perhaps. however, it would be
more proper to say, that it can be. For
various reasons the factory has not
proved a benefit to patrons in some in
dividual instances. or at least not as
mucn benefit as it might have proved.
Sometimes this has been caused by inn
proper management of the factory, and
sometimes it has been caused by the
patrons themselves. There is COM
munity of interest between the factory
man and the patron. This will be
readily acknowledged. and yet it is q
fact that is not always acted upon.
Factorymen have not always been
liberal and honest in their dealings
with patrons. They have wanted the
lions share, and this has given
dissatisfaction. Naturally it would.
And it has not been calculated
to inspire confidence in the creamery
system, to find, rs sometimes has been
the case, that subsequent cooperative
management of private factory has
demonstrated beyond the shadow of
doubt that the factoryman has been
misrepresenting matters to patrons for
years.
On the other hand, patrons have often
been the ones who have demanded the
lions share. They have not shown 4
willingness to share equitably with the
man who was making the butter, and
if opportunity offered for them to
cramp him they have done so, but
usually to their own detriment finally.
1t has not been many years since there
was a case of this kind in section not
thousand miles from where We write.
A factory was opened and the prices
offered to patrons was far in excess OF
what they could get from other facto-
ries. 1t was thought that a grand har-
vest time had come to the milk pro-
ducer. But the harvest time had come
to the man who was offering
such high prices. He got his
supplies, but he never paid for
them. 1t would have been far better
for the patrons in this instance to have
considered that no one can pay extrav-
agant prices and live. Somebody must
suffer, under such circumstances, and
of course it will not be the man who
owes for his cream. At least he will
not suffer as much rs the patrons will.
Live and let live is the motto that
should be adopted by both factOryman
an.l patron. The factory is engaged in
the work of turning our milk and
cream into the best products that can
be made. and if we can not do that our
selves, it is to our interest to have
somebody else 90 it, if they will share
the profits with us. There is therefore
a community of interest that should
never be lost sight of--Westers Rural.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
IMPORTANT DECISION.

Bonds for . Marrow Gauge Railroad Can
Not BE Absorbed by Standard Gauge.
KANSAS CITY, December pa special
from Kingman announces that Judge
Wall. of the District Court of that county,
has rendered lengthy opinion in the case
of the State of Kansas against the Denver,
Memphis & Atlantic Railway, the Board of
County Commissioners of Kingman County
and the Bank of Kingman, granting a tenn
p0rary injunction against the delivery of
one hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars of bonds voted by Kingman County
to the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Rail.
way. The case was fully argued on Tues
day and Wednesday last by Hon. F. E.
Gilett, of Kingman. and James Hager-
man, ESQ.,, of Topeka, for the State, and
Hon. B.. S. Henderson, of Chautauqua
County. and Hon. Rudolph Hatfield, of
Wichita, for the defendants. The Court
decided that the Denver, Memphis &
Atlantic Railway was chartered as a mar.
row gauge railway and had no power to
build and operate standard gauge, and
that its contract with the county to build
and operate standard gauge was ultra
wires, and that the bonds issued and i'm es.
crow with the Bank of Kingman were null
and void. This decision, if sustained. will
overthrow all the bonds issued to the Den.
ver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway in this
State by various cities, townships and cOun-
ties, amounting in the aggregate to about
million dollars.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
CONSUL MUELLER.

Ills Report Not an Unusual One-Pollcy in
4allOwins Consuls to Express Their Free
Opinions.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-The recent
report of Consul General Mueller. which
has caused so much comment, was not seen
by Secretary Bayard until he read it in the
newspapers. He was interested in it as an
iteIi of information and news, but officially
he did not concern himself about it "Mr.
Mueller is a very competent and efficient
official" said Governor Porter, Assistant
Secretary of State. 'Since his appoint
ment in May last lie has answered very
ably and very satisfactorily all the calls
made upon him. There was nothing un-
usual in the matter OF his reports. He
took no unwarrantable liberties and vio-
lated no principle of diplomacy. 1t is EOt
only his right but his duty ro discuss and
report everything that may affect the COM
merce Of this country, as far as his OBJ
servations extend. and he is an Observant
man, far-seeing and of keen insight. Be-
yOnd question, the COnsul's comments will
be reproduced in the newspapers of Frank
fort-On-the-Main. 1t is easy to understand
that some of the people of that city will
not be favorably impressed with them. The
Ilcu Will WHO'LL uc cOulcS III COutdct tucIc
may thus be led to turn the cold shoulder
on him; but beyond little So
cial GOODNESS. the publication can
not operate to his prejudice. 1t is
not understood by Governments to be the
duty of consul to eulogize the Government
of the country in which he is stationed;
neither is it his duty to withhold his free
opinions. A German consul in this country
may criticise our protective tariff or any of
the principles OF our Government as Sc
verely as he chooses, and this Government
will not take Offense or seek to suppress
linn. We may not agree with his opinions,
and may not like them. but we will
not deny his right to hold and ex-
press them. 1t is not to be expected that all
the consular reports sent to foreign Govern
ments by agents in this country are
couched in terms of praise and admiration
and unbounded friendship for our interests
and Our ways. Ihave no doubt that some Ger
man cOnsuls in this country indulge in criti-
cism rs free as that of Mr.. Mueller. The
relations between this country and Germany
were never more friendly than now, and it
is idle TO talk of rupture of diplomatic
relations because of anything contained in
Mr.. MueIler'S report"
The Iola register., 1886-01-01

THOMAS A. HnL, Water Register ct Wo.
burn, Mass, has been held to the Grand
Jury for forging the name Of James Ma
guire, Chairman Of the Board Of Select
men, TO his bond.
Tn Grant monument fund has reached
Q total Of t11l,72S.
THREE children Of Patrick DriscoI, One
Hundred and sixty-sixth street and Tenth
avenue, New York, were burned to death
recently by the house catching fire.
B1rwEHN eleven and twelve O'Clock the
other night hre broke out at ~ Water
street, New York, in the three story build
ing owned and occupied BY n. Fink as .
factory Of whale and fish oils. Tho fre
caused an estimated damage Of $4,000;
partly insured.
The steamer Persian Monarch, which ar
rived in New York recently from London,
experienced heavy gale which did much
damage to the ship and cargo.
The Iola register., 1886-01-01
wAsMINGTON NOTES.

THE President has recognized John Stuart
Mcdonald as Consul of Peru, at Portland,
Ore, and Antoin Borel, Consul of the
Swiss Confederation at San Francisco, for
the States of California and Nevada.
The Government Chief Of Engineers re-
ports that the celebrated long bridge over
the Potomac is an obstruction to naviga
tion and ought to be removed.
IT is said at the White House that with
two or three exceptions all of the recess ap-
pointments have now been sent to the SEN
ate for confirmation.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Joseph Stealey, Of Indiana, to be
Inspector OF hulls of steam vessels for the
district Of Louisville, KY.
TIE Department of State is greatly ex-
ercised over the fact that the report of Uni
ted States Consul General Mueller, on Ger
many, found its way to the press dis
patches. In some manner unknown to the
officials the report in question was sent out
without having undergone the diplomatic
pruning.
SENATOR MULLER, of California, is still
confined to his house in Washington. His
physicians, who have been treating him for
chronic malaria, made a fearful mistake,
as he is suffering from Brights disease.
De. MARY WALKER was among the call
ers to wish President Cleveland a merry
Christmas. She asked for special inter-
view.
Mr.. RAINE, the American Consul at Ber-
lin, in his annual report to the State De-
partment, speaks very flatteringly of Bis
marck and the success of his colonial and
other politics.