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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-05-15
OVER THE STATE.


4. N. Wright, trustee Of Madison
county, died Wednesday of last week.
The young ladies of Brownsville
have organized cooking club. SEN
sible girls.
A negro named Hadden was goad>
ed to death last week by Buffalo
gnats in Shelby county.
At Rogersville Junction, John P.
Smith was nominated for chancellor
by the republican convention,
The eleventh annual convention of
the farmers of East Tennessee is set
for May 18th and 18th, at Knoxville.
Will Posion, sou Of Col. j. l..
Poston, died in Crockett county last
week. lie had been married only a
short while.
The first steel rails ever made in
the south from sOuthern>made steel
were cut by the South Tredagar steel
works at Chattanooga.
Brownsville Democrat: 1t is said
more than three hundred head Of
horses and mules have been killed by
the buffalo gnats in this county.
The crops throughout the STAGE have
been damaged considerably by army
worms, cut worms, etc., and in many
instances corn had to be replanted.
The business part Of the town of
Henning, forty miles north of Mem
phis, was burned last Friday morn
ing. Loss, $4,000, insurance, &c..
900.
At the republican judicial conven>
ton at Jonesboro, Andrew j. Brown
was nominated for judge, and Tyler
Campbell, Of Hancock, for attorney
general.
At Union City, Mrs. Dagelly be-
came involved in a quarrel with her
step-mother, Mrs. Wilkerson, about a
potato patch and the latter was killed
by the former with hoe.
The republican judicial convention
at Chattanooga nominated Judge j.
H. Gaut for chancellor, Judge Trew-
HIT for circuit Judge and Foster V,
Brown for attorney general.
Ripley News: DR.. S. R. Spight had
the misfortune to lose his smoke house,
together with his years supplies, by
fire last Friday. 1t caught from q
FIRE kindled near by to smoke the
gnats away.
Jackson Wing; Miss Clayton.
daughter of M. B. 7. Clayton,
while packing Strawberries at MaIesus,
was sun stroke Monday. She was Sc
riously i'll Monday night, but was bet
ter yesterday.
McNairy Independent; Last Sun
day Mrs. H. j. Wilkins, an estimablt
lady near Coffee Landing, while 60
ing to church, fell out Of the wager
and received injuries from which sht
died in forty minutes.
The jury in the celebrated Smalley
case, which was tried at Jackson las
Saturday, failed to agree, and tn,
counsel have compromised the matte
by giving the plaintiff $1,000, thu
taking it out of court.
A fire at Cairo, Crockett county
destroyed Tom Burnetts store and it
contents. Loss $500; no insuranas
A house occupied by the postoffic
and a saddler shop was also burned
TIE fire was accidental.
Dover Courier. Lagrange furnac
has been "fred' after blow out Of
several weeks, and will soon be in full
blast-The wheat prospect in thi
county is very fattering. The acre
age is not large, but the condition o
the crop is fine.
Memphis Avalanche; The old re
liable Louisville and Nashville carrie
the banner train Of the season, leaviu
Memphis Saturday night, Besid
the usual heavy travel over the lin
they carried over 100 race horse me
to Louisville, and notwithstanding
that transfer bad to be made q
Barren river bridge arrived at Louis
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-05-15
4 Positive Written Guarantee

given In every curahe case; when doubtful frankly stated
When Is nconvenent to visit the city for treatment
medicine can be sent Ivy mail or cx press everywhere.
Pamphlet describing above diseases sent free.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
lola NTHE.

From out the rosy land of dreams
A lady comes at early morning,
The dew upon the meadow CLEANS
Fair as BRIDES adorning.
The eastern Sky is all afiame,
As though to one beholden,
The gold and sapphire clouds that came
Were heavens gates unfolding.
But all this glory stands apart,
Nor charms her with its beauty;
For care sits heavy on her heart,
Where falls the line OF duty.
The cows await the milking time,
With soft and patient lowing,
The sturdy farmer in his prime
Must hasten to his moving.
His wife must spread the noon's repasf,
And work with nimble fingers
For farmers all, from first to last
Make hay while sunshine fingers.
And when the meal is DER, the pals
Offoaming milk are waiting.
With fragrance caught from sunny wales
To future joys relating.
The cream lies thick, like cloth of gold,
When shining pans are brimning,
Their riches gathered fold on fold
Are ready for the skimming
Then later, as in olden days.
With much of stir and fiutter,
By weary hands the dasher plays,
And wins the golden butter.
And SO the days go on and on,
No time for rest or pleasure,
"woman's work is never done,"
Is true in fullest measure.
And as the sun sinks in the west,
And day grows into even;
Weary and worn she goes to rest,
And prays and longs for heaven.
A FARMERS WIFE.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
The Wonders of tho Sea.
Electrical Review.1

The sea occupies three fiftlfs or the earth
At the depth of about $500 feet waves are
not felt. The temperature is the same,
varying only trifie from the ice of the
pole to the burning sun of the equator. A
mile down the water has pressure of over
ton to the square inch. If box six feet
deep were filled with sea water and allowed
to eyapOrate under the sun there would be
two inches Of salt left on the bottom. TAX
ing the average depth of the ocean to be
three miles, there would be layer of pure
salt $50 feet thick on the bed of the Allan
tic The water is colder at the bottom
than at the surface. In the many bays on
the coast Of Norway the water often freezes
at the bottom before it does above. Waves
are very deceptive. To look at them in
storm one would think the water travelled.
The water stays in the same place, but the
motion goes. Sometimes in storm these
waves are forty feet high, and travel fifty
miles an hour-more than twice as fast as
the swiftest steamer. The distance from
valley to valley is generally fifteen times
the height, hence a wave five feet high will
extend over seventy-five feet of water. The
force Of the sea dashing on Bell rock is
said to be seventeen tons for each square
yard. Evaporation is wonderful power
in drawing the water from the sea. Every
year layer of the entire sea fourteen feet is
taken up into the clouds. The winds bear
their burden into the land and the water
comes down in rain upon the fields to flow
back at last through rivers. The depth of
the sea presents an interesting problem
If the Atlantic were lowered AGA feet,
the distance from shore to shore would be
half as great, or 1900 miles. If lowered a
little more than three miles, say 18, $50 feet.
there would he a road of dry land from New
Feundland to Ireland. This is the plane on
which the great Atlantic cables were laid.
The Mediterranean is comparatively shall
low. A drying up of six hundred and sixty
feet would leave three different seas, and
Africa would be joined with Italy. The
British channel is more like pond, which ac-
counts for its choppy waves. 1t has been
found difficult to get correct soundings OF
the Atlantic. A mdshipman Of the navy
overcame the difficulty, and shot weigh
ing thirty pounds carries down the line. A
hole is bored through the sinker, through
which rod Of iron is passed, moving easily
back and forth. In the end of the bar a
cup is dug out, and the inside coated with
lard. The is made fast to the line, and q
sling holds the shot on. When the bar
which extends below the ball, touches the
earth, the sling unhoods and the shot slide.
off The lard in the end of the bar holds
some of the sand, or whatever may be on the
bottom, and drop shuts over the cup tt
keep the water from washing the sand out
When the ground is reached shock is fell
as if an electric current had passed through
the line.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
The Scarlet Fever.

1t is as unnecessary for child to die of
scarlet fever as it is that it should be blind
with catacraot. Let us see. At any
time before the body has finished its insf-
fectual struggle we are able to help it, not
by wonderful medicines, but by the knowl-
edge of anatomy, and the application Of
common sense. We consult the sympa-
thetic nerve and do what it commands us
to do. We must give the child salt when it
wants it; we must give it acid when it has
fever and anxiously Graves it-not vinegar,
but lemon juice, because the first eoagu-
lates albumen, and the other does not, on
account of the surplus oxygen which it con-
Gains. To initiate the soothing muous in
the intestines, which is now wanting, and
to give some respiratory food at the same
time, we add some gum arabic. To re-
store and relieve the injured nerve, We ap-
ply moist warmth. In practice we eau
fulfill all this with the following simple
manipulatious Undress the child and
bring it to bed at the very first sign of sick
ness. Give il, if it has already fever, no.
thing but sourish warm lemonade with
some gum arabic in it. Then cover its
abdomen with some dry flannel. Take q
well-folded bed sheet and put in boiling hot
water; wiring it out dry by means of dry
towels, and put his over the flannel on the
child's abdomen. Then cover the whole,
and wait. The hot cloths will, perhaps,
require repeated heat. According to the
severity of the cesc, and its stage of pro-
gress, perspiration will commence In the
child from ten minutes to two hours. The
child is then saved; it soon falls to Sleep =
Soon after the child awakes it shows slight
symptoms of returning inclination for food;
help its bowels, if necessary, with injections
of oil, soap and water, and its recovery will
be as steady as the growth of a greenhouse
plant, if we'll treated. OF course, if the
child was already dying, nothing could
save it, or if it has already effusions in the
lining of the heart or brain, it is much better
it should die. But if the above is applied in
due time, under the eyes and direction of a
competent physician, l will guarantee that
not one in hundred children will ever die Of
scarlet fever. I know this will ssartle some
of my readers, especially those who have
lost children already, but shall go still
| farther. / maintain that child will never
get the scarlet fever if properly treated. II
| a child has correctly mixed blood, it will
not catch the disorder if put in bed with
sick child. This is still more startling but
nothing is easier Of proof. - Coed Health
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
SOMEHOW OR OTHER WE GET
ALONG.

The good wife hustled about the house,
Her face still bright with pleasant smile.
AS broken snatches of happy song
Strengthened her heart aud hand the while.
The good man sat in the chimney nook,
His little clay pipe within his lips,
And all he'd made and all he'd lost
Ready and clear on his finger tips.
"Good wife, I've just been thinking bit,
Nothing has done very well this year:
Money is bound to be hard to get
Everything's bound to be very dear;
How thscattle are going to be fed,
How we're to keep the boys at school.
Is kind of debit and credit sum
1 can t make balance by my rule"
She turned her round from the baking bread,
And she faced him with a cheerful laugh;
why. husband. dear, one would think
That the good, rich wheat was only char.
nd what If the wheat was only chaff,
AS long as we both are well and strong?
m not a woman to worry bit,
Somehow or other we get along.
Into some lives some ram must fall,
Over all lands the storm must beat,
But when the rain and storm are DER,
The after sunshine is twice as sweet.
In every grief we've found a song;
We've had 10 bear and had to wait,
But somehow or other we get along.
For thirty years we have loved each other,
Stood by each other whatever befell,
Six boys have called us father and mother,
And all of them Lying and doing well.
We owe no man a penny. my dear,
We're both of us loving, well, and strong.
Good man, W ish you would smoke again,
And think how well we've got along"
He filled his pipe with pleasant laugh;
He kissed his wife with tender pride;
He said: ''I'll do as you tell me, love;
Tll just count up on the other side."
She left him then with his better thought,
And lifted her work with low, sweet song
A song that followed me many year,
Somehow or other we get along.
Philadelphia Times.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO GIRLs.-Thirty-

nine girls.
In ten years fifteen will have married.
In ten years seven of the fifteen will be
widows, dependent upon their own exer-
tions for bread and meat.
In ten years fifteen of the remaining
twenty-four will be sleeping beneath the
sod. And how far apart they will be sleep
ing! One in Georgia, one in California, one
in Ohio, one in Virginia, another perhaps
in missionsry's grave in China, another
amid the ashes of the ancient Aztecs of
Mexico, another-but only time will tell
where they all will stop.
In ten years, the nine Ihave not yet men
toned will begin to lose their sweetness
and develop something of the sourness sup
posed to be inseparable from women that
are destined to be old maids.
In ten years not one of the thirty-nine
but that will have tasted of the bitterness
that comes in time to all human beings.
Hope will be blighted, loved ones will be
claimed by that same skeleton you beheld
just now, sorrow in hundred forms will be
xperienced-indeed, to every one surfeit
of dead sea fruit will be offered.-Atlanta
Constitution.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
NOVEMBER.
SOPHIA L. scHENCK.

The year is waningl Solemn sounds are heard
Among the branches of each wind-tosse tree !;
Brown looks the grass no floral gems we sec;
Forsaken nests by winds alone are stirr'd,
And not by wing of bird.
The skies look cold-wind-driven clouds scud
by,
While ftful gales whirl sere. dry leaves away;
Fair, once like friends who come to us one day,
Creep to the heart, bring love-light to the eye,
Then droop and fade and die.
Yet, while winds chill and summer Joys de-
part,
A host of other pleasures now doth come:
Brothers and sisters scattered, all come home,
Thanksgiving cheer abounds, while fond
smiles start
AS heart responds to heart
Then, curtains down, around the fire we press.
TO sing and jest, to romp and laugh and play;
But wnile the fun goes round, each heart can
say,
"Npvember brings Thanksgiving. Lord, we
? bless
Thee for our happiness"
Brooklyn Magazine.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
ATarpille SQrgjCd0paadn
A FATAL MISTAKE.

: The Czeuelano (Ohio) Press,
of February 23d, 1883, pub
ished an account of a fatal
surgical operation which caused
a great commotion among med
ical men throughout the whole
country, DR.. Thayer, the most
eminent surgeon in Cleveland,
pronouncing it scandalous. It
appears that a Mrs. King had
been suffering for many years
from some disease of the stom-
ach, which had resisted the
treatment Of all the physicians
in attendance. The disease
commenced with a slight de.
rangement of the digestion,
with a poor appetite, followed
by a peculiar indescribable dis
tress in the stomach, a feeling
that has been described as a
faint "all gone" sensation, a
sticky slime collecting about
the teeth, causing a disagree
able taste. This sensation was
not removed by food, but, on
the contrary, it was increased
After a while the hands and
feet became cold and sticky
a cold perspiration. There
was a constant tired and Ian
guid feeling. Thenfollowed a
dreadful nervousness, with
gloomy forebodings. Finally
the patient was unable to re-
tain any food whatever, and
there was constant pain in the
abdomen. All prescribed rem
edies failing to give relief, a
was held, when it
was decided that the patient
had a cancer in the stomach,
and in order tosave hepatient's
life an operation was justifi-
able. Accordingly, on tie 22d
Of February, 1883, the opera
ton was performed by DIR.
Vance in the presence Of DR..
Tuckerman, DR.. Perl.ier, DR..
Arms, DR.. Gordon, Dr.. Capner,
and DR.. Halliwell Of the Police
Board. The operation consist
ID in laying open the cavity
IF the abdomen and exposing
The stomach and bowels. When
this had been done an examin-
alton Of the organs was made,
but to the horror aid dismay
IF the doctors there was no
cancer to be found. The pa
bient did not have q cancer.
When too late the medical men
discovered that they had made
q terrible mistake; but they
sewed the parts together and
dressed the wound that they
had made, but the poor woman
sank from exhaustion and died
n a few hours. How sad it
must be for the husband of this
Door woman to know that his
wife died from the effects Of a
operation that ought
never to have been performed.
IF this woman had taken the
proper remedy for Dyspepsia
and Nervous Prostitution (for
his was what the disease really
was), she would have been liv-
ng to-day. SHAKER EXTRACT OF
RooTs, or SE1GEL' CURATIVE
SYRUP, a remedy made ex-
pressly for Dyspepsia or Indi-
yestion, has restored many such
cases to perfect health after all
other kinds of treatment have
failed. The evidence of it's
in curing this class Of
cases is too volun;nous to be
published here; but those who
read the published evidence in
favor of tl.is ;j:., :Dtjc remedy
10 not quest;o.. It's convincing
nature, and t}a article has an
sale.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
Important to the Public.
Charles BurSchell

having purchased the stock of WATCHES.
JEWELRY, &C., at Paul A. Mix's old stand,
tas es pleasure in informing his friends and the
the trade anything inthe line of WATCHES,
JEWELRY. SILVER and SILVER-PLATED
WARE. ROGERSS KNIVES, FORKS, and
SPOONS, &C.. &c. l make speciality Of
WATCH AND CLOCK-REpAIRING,
and guarantee the best work in the Valley,
and promptest attention. All goods bought
of me engraved free of charge. Fine MONO
GRAM ENGRAVING specially
CHAS. BURSCHELL,
Mix's Old Stand,
jyI4-n Staunton, Va. ;
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
FURNITURE, SC.

Ever offered to the people of the Valley. This
Furniture has been designed and made with
especial reference to the needs of this marke ct,
and. we are satisfied, will meet the wants of
AL who desire neat, substantial and durable
goods in this line,
We are also manufacturing
Nj ESSES
OF all GescriptiOns-H Hair, Shuck, Cotton top.
and Hair-top-and renovating and renewing
old Mattresses
Chairs Bottomed at the lowest figures, and a
full line Of
OH A RS, PA RLOH SUITS,
and everything else that is handled in that
line, kept on hand.
We warrant all furniture sold by us to be
precisely what it is sold for If not as repre-
sented. the money will be refunded
Respectfully,
sep22 LUSHBAUGH BROS, & co.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17

MARRIED AT A RIPE AGE.-At Hamilton,
Loudoun county, Va, Tuesday, Nov. 2,
Mr.. JAS M. Wallace was married to Mrs.
Mary Ann White. The happy groom is n
years of age, and the bride is IA.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-11-17
Staunton Male Academy,
A PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR
YOUNG MEN AND BOYS.
STA UNION, VA.-

1UON& MEN AND BOES.
Offers superior advantages in thoroughness
its full corps of teachers, in its large and ad-
mirably equipped Chemical and Physical Lab
oratory, in its course of la aboratory work in
and varied Cabinet of Minerals, in the beauty
and healthfulness of its location, in the com.
forts provided for its pupils in sleeping rooms.
nished assembly, recitation, and study rooms,
thoroughly heated by steam and lighted by
gas. in its ample provisions for recreative
sports, of base ball, foot ball, gymnasium,
skating. &c, in q tirm and kind discipline in
and well-served table, in
home influence and excellent reiig-
ious and moral advantages.
Next session opens Wednesday, Sept. Sth.
1886. ST For particulars, send for catalogue.
WIN. 81. KABLE, a. NJ, Principal,
je9 Staunton, Va.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, $50, 900.

We do hereby certif1 that We supervtse the ar
rangen.ents for all the Monthly and Qldr7erty
Drawings of The Loutsiana State Lottery C0nspa-
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all parties, and authorize the Company to use
this certificate, tOith fGc-sinites Of signatures
attached in its ndpertiSenlenkS.u
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
GEO M HARRISON. HENRY ST. GEO. TUCKER.
III ATrOkN NEYS-AT-LAW

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Con rts held IN the City of Staunton and Angus
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