The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
All the available property Of the
Great Western telegraph company was
sold at Omaha, Nebraska, last week
hv the sheriff.
The bark Mermaid from New Lon
don for New Orleans, is reported sunk
by collision, and the captain and
FIVE of the crew drowned.
The Chinese government has given
Japan ninety days to withdraw its
troops from Formosa. In the mean
time China is making extensive prepa-
rations for war with Japan. which is
expected.
The Spanish consul in New York
now claims as a fee forty cents on
each package shipped for Spanish
ports, owing to Instructions from his
government. Merchants regard the
claim as a grave oppression.
George Francis Train has been
heard from. He wants to know how
it is that the Associated Press and
all the newspaper peaple are at large.
He was put in the Toombs for print
ing the allegations Of the Beecher
scandal, and now there Is nothing else
in the papers, yet everybody goes free.
He inquiries the mysterious reason Of
this.
T. W. Cardoza, colored, State SUI
perintendent of public instruction of
Mississippi, entered suit in the circuit
court atSt. Louis last week against
the Evening Dispatch for libel, asking
fifty thousand dollars damages for pub
fishing a few day since a paragraph to
the effect that Cardozo had been ar
rested for forging warrants on the
school fund. The offensive paragraph
vas apologized for the day following
It's publication.
The Pennsylvania Railway Compa-
nyare running lightning express trains
between New York and Pittsburg,
4I4 miles in eleven hours. The av-
erage rate on the trip is over forty miles
an hour, as follows: From Pittsburg
to Altoona, III miles, stopping five
minutes: to Harrisburg, 132 miles,
stopping twenty minutes; to Philadel-
phia, 100 miles, stopping five minutes;
thence to New York, so miles. The
locomotives dip up water from side
troughs at the different stations along
the road without stoppage.
Three good recommendations among
others we're made by the recent
United Presbyterian Assembly, name
": that in all cases, when possible,
pastors or church sessions shall eStab-
li.h classes in their congregations for
the training Of teachers for Sunday
school; that every school should be
missionary in its character, and make
special efforts to bring in neglected
children; and that scholars regularly
contribute for such missionary work.
Secure good teachers and earnest class
cs, and the Sunday-school is COM
plete.
Mr. Carp, of Washington, Indiana,
on recent visit to his friend, Il.
Bache, Lawrence county, Illinois, was
shown a silver tankard, on the bottom
of which was the following inscriptions:
''The gift of Nathaniel Ponder to Eliz-
abeth, the wife of John Bunyan, Bed
ford, 1878, England. On the side was
engraved: "The Pilgrims Progress"
An English Bible was also shown pub
lIshed in 1859, under the reign Of Queen
Mary. They are rare and highly
priced relics, and no doubt that John
Bunyan, the immortalized author Of
the Pilgrims Progress, has drank often
from that silver goblet; and a thou
sands times read that old bible.
The Huntingdon Peoples Paper Of
the 18th says: By some means the
prisoners confined in the county Jail
got an auger in the dungeon yester-
day, with which they made an open
ing through the inner door large
enough to admit a mans body. Two
prisoners then got through the open
ing and called to the jailor's wife for
water, waited for her 10 open the door
and rushed by her, making their es-
cape, but were recaptured before they
got out Of town. Their names were
Bob Hancock, charged with resisting
an officer, and Charles Culver, charg-
ed with horse stealing.
The firm of Mcneil d Co., Hunt /
ingdon, have suspended. Mr. William
johnson has been appointed assignee, .