The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC EPfT0ME.

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There are a few cases Of smallpox in
the hospital at Macon, Ga.
The roads in Upton county, Tennes-
see, are reported almost impossible.
The negroes of Nashville are holding
meetings to organize for the fall cam
paign.
\ Nashville manufacturer has ship
ped case of saddles to customer in
Brazil.
Sixty-fve thousand troops are opcr-
ating in the north of Spain against the
Carlists.
The Virginia Paper-mill, at Wheel
ing, was destroyed by fire Tuesday af-
| ternoon.
A Berlin telegrom announces to the
world that Emperor William rode out
Tuesday.
Hon. A. II. Stephens is still confined
to bed in Washington and in very
feeble condition.
Seven Or eight houses were burned
at Moberly, Mo-, Monday night. Loss
about $4,000.
Themorocco-dressers of Lynn, Mass,
are contemplating a strike to secure an
increase of wages.
A Baltimore dispatch says the steam
er Edgar Stuart has been sliced upon
for seamen's wages.
A furious snowstorm prevailed in
England Tuesday, in some localities
accompanied by lightning.
Bishop Cummins organized the first
congregation of the Reformed Episco
pal church in New York Monday.
Telegraphic advices from the West
report more snow falling, and much
annoyance is experienced on railway
lines.
1t is minated in LoRdon as possible .
that the queen may formally open par
Lament in person Oh the nineteenth in
slant.
Mr.. Joseph Longworth, Of Cmcin-
natl, has donated $4,000 in govern
ment bonds as an endowment for the .
art department of the Cincinnati Uni !
versity.
a Madrid dispatch says that it is re-
ported that General Concha will prob
ably succeed Juvella as captain-gcneral
of Cuba.
The ladies of San Francisco are ask
ing that the liquor-licenses be increased.
Their petition was referred 70 the iu-
dietary committee.
John Z. Bossioux, president Of the
suspended Richmond dollar savings
bank, was arrested III that city, charged
with criminal mismanagement of that
concern.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has disap-
proved the act "tO preserve unimpaired
the right of trial by jury" which made
juries judges of the law as well as facts
in criminal cases.
a Georgia teachers association will .
meet in Macon in May next, for the .
first time. The number of teachers in
attendance is expected to be about one !
hundred and fifty. /
The postmastershipof Boston IS about
to be given to State Senator Bailey, I
one Of Ben. Buffers most ardent sup /
porters in both his attempts to run for /
governor Of Massachusetts,.
A disp' from Halifax, received
Saturday, says that 10 American mails
have been received in that city for three
days, the storm of Wednesday having
washed away the bridges, preventing
the running of trains. The food Is more
destructive than experienced for twenty
years.
4 dispatch from Brownsville, Texas,
says that band Of twelve Mexicans,
well armed, drove through a thickly-
populated rancho about two hundred
head of cattle on the night OF the fifth.
Depredations Of this sort, since Cor
tina's reign at Matamoras, are becom-
ing more frequent than before. The
United States troops are too few in
number to protect persons and property
1t Is said that the owners Of the New
York Sun newspaper have commenced
an action in the supreme court against
the Tribune association to recover 4
large amount of damages for oncroach-
ing twenty-five inches on the property
OF the Sun in erecting their new build
ing. It is also stated that the counsel
Of the Tribune association have been
granted an extension Of time to prepare
an answer, which will embrace recent
surveys Of the ground.
Interviews by St. Louis Globe cor
with several railroad Off
Gals reveal the fact that ii Is the pretty
general opinion in railroad circles that
the brotherhoodof locomotive engineers
will very soon make formal demand
for a restoration of the rate of wages
prevailing before the panic, and if this
is not acceded to, that P. Arthur, the
new chief of that order, viii at once
declare strike, and require all mem
bers to refuse to work until the railroad