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MILL-BOY OF THE SLASHES. 508 MILLENNIUM. MILL-BOY OF THE SLASHES. A popu- lar nickiiaiia' of Uenry Clay, from a tract of swampy land called the ".Slashes' near his birth- place ill ilaiiuver Count}', 'a. MILL'BURY. A tii«n in Worcester County, Jlass., six miles southeast of Worcester; on the Blackstoiic River, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Albany railroads (Jlaji: Massachusetts, D 3). It has a public library, ami is extensively engaged in the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, edge tools, foundry and machine shop products, loom harness and heddles, linen cloth and thread, hosiery, and lumber ]u-oducts. From 1743 to 1813, when it was incorporated, ilillbury was the North Parish of Sutton. The Lyceum Lecture System is saiii to ^liave originated here about 1820. Population, in 1890, 4428; in 1900, 4460. MIL'LEDGE, .Toiix ( IT.'iT-lSlS) . An Ameri- can soldier aiul slalesman, born in Savannah, Ga. AVhen the Kevolution began he was one of Haber- sham's party which seized Wright, the royal CJovcrnor. ililledge escaped from Savannah ■when it was taUcn by the British in 1778. and he assisted in the unsuccessful siege of the town by the Americans in 1779. In tlie following year be was made Attorney-CJeneral of CJeorgia. After the war he was frequently a member of the State Legislature, and was a Representative in Congress from 1792 to 1798, and again from 1801 to 1802, when he resigned to become Governor. In 1802 he was one of the three commissioners who nego- tiated the cession of Cicorgia's western territory to the United States. From 180C to 1809 he was a United States Senator. Milledge took an active part in establishing the University of Georgia, and gave the institution 700 acres of land, upon which the university and a part of Athens now stand. The town of ililledgeville was named in his honor. MIL'LEDGEVILLE. A city and the county- seat of Baldwin County. Ga., 32 miles northeast of JIaeon ; on the C)conee River, at the head of navigation, and on the Central of fJeorgia and the Georgia railroads (Jlap: Georgia, C 2). It is the seat of the CJeorgia Jlilitary College and the Georgia Normal and Industrial C'ollege for Girls, and of the Georgia State Lunatic Asylum, which aecominodates 2.")00 patients. The "Prison Farm.' three miles northwest of the city, employs some 3.i0 State convicts. The city is the centre of a cotton-growing section and its industrial in- terests arc mainly in the preparation for market of this staple. The government, under a charter of inOO, is administered by a mayor, elected every two years, ami a uniianicral council, of which the mayor is a member, chosen on a general ticket. Jlillcdgeville, named in honor of Gov. .John Mil- ledge of fieorgia, was locateil in 1R03. was char- tered as a city in 1830. and was the capital of the State froin 1807 to 1867. Population, in 1890. 3322; in l!MI(), 1219. MILLENARIANS. See Mii.i.EXXti m. MILLENARY. . period of a th<iusan<l years, specitically the celebration of the one-thou- sandth anniver-ary of any event. The most im- portant millenary was that commemorating the death of .Mfred the Clreat. which was held in Winchester. Kngland, .September 18-21. 1901. which culminated in the unveiling of a large bronze statue of King Alfred by Hamo Thorny- croft. A month later coiiiiiiemorative exercises were also held in New York City. MILLENARY PETITION (Lat. milk- iiurius, containing a thousand, from milleni, a thousand eacli, from iiiillr, thousand). A peti- tion presented by Puritan clergy to King .James I. in April, 1U03, when on his way to London to take his throne. It is so called because it was intended to have 1000 signatures, although as a matter of fact it had only 750. The original of the petition is supposed to be lost, but Fuller gives it in his Church llislort/ (Book x. 27, ed., London, 1837, vol. iii.l. and it is thence re- printed by Gee and llardy, Uociimeiit.i Ilhisiralive of EnffUsh Church History ( London, 1896, pp. 508-;')ll). It sets forth in firm but respectful language those points connected with the Church service (cross in baptism, baptism by women, public reading of the Apocrypbii, unabridged liturgy, etc.), the Church luiiiistry (illiterate ministers, non-residency, clerical celibacy), the Church revenue (commcndams, ])luralities, im- propri;itions ) , and with the Church discipline I excommunications for trilling causes, extor- tionate fees, protracted ecclesiastical suits, fre- quency of marriages witlKuit banns asked), which the Puritan party would se(' removed or modilied. The King's answer was the calling of the Hamp- ton Court Conference in .January. 1004. which resulted in no redress, but rather the confirmation of the abuses complained of. MILLENNIUM (Xeo-Lat.. from Lat. mille, lhoii>aiiil -)- (iiiiiiis, year). A period of one thousand years ineceding the final judgment (q.v.)' during which, according to a wi<lely ac- cepted system of Christian eschatology, the Christ and his saints will reign on the earth. The division of the world's course into ]icrio(|s is found among many peoples. Thus the Hindus divided the history of the world into hulixis of hundreds or thousands of years, and the Incas made four gi-eat periods. (See EsniATOLOcY.) A long national existence and a tradition of cer- tain epoch-making events naturally account for such a partition. The Persians counted twelve periods each of one thousand years. It is likely that this division into twelve parts was derived from the Habylonians. and ultimately goes back to calculations of the sun's course through the twelve signs of the zodiac. It is significant that the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth thousand years are attributed respectively to ('ancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra. Scorpio, and Sagit- tarius in liuuilnhinh 34. The number 1000 may have a difTerent origin, since the great cosmic year would demand a larger figuic. .ccording to the Parsi doctrine, six tlioii-and of the twelve tliiai- sand years are occupied liy the history of man. Zaratliustra appears at the Ix'ginning of the fiuirth and the .'saoshyant will come at the end of the last to raise the dead ami to renew the world. While this doctrine is fully presented only in late Pahlavi writings, such as the Hviirlnhi/ib and the Dinkart, there are indications of a iniicli higher age. as Mani (c.200 a.d.) was familiar with the Zoroastrian doctrine of a cycle of twelve thousand years, ami Herosiis (c.300 n.C.) seems to have rationalized the doctrine of /.mm akariinii. boniidhss time. and its period. It is altogether probable that the con- ception that human history would endure 6000 years before the Messianic Age came into .Jewish