The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-11
GENERAL NEWS.

aNdru0Q 10 EMERY u w., tuuCdi.
The Car will meet the Emperor
of Germany about the middle Of June
at Ems. Semi official denial is given
to reports that the candidature of
Prince Hohenzollern, for the crown
of Spain, is to be revived.
A crowd of roughs at Pittsburg
lately tore down John Robinson's cir
Gus tent, and were going through the
ticket wagon, when the elephant was
let loose and went through them, Civ
ing the doctors work for a month.
The overs ofthe Durham collieries
in England are ejecting large numbers
of their tenants who have been and
are engaged in the strikes. Two
hundred and twenty-eight of these
elected families are camping about
in the adjacent fields.
The financial statement of the Gen.
tennial shows the total subscriptions
to be "a, 405, 200; total expenses to
May /, including plans and work on
the grounds, s144,712; and the esti-
mate of the total cost of the building
according to designs, So, 10000
A Galveston News special from
Brownsville, Texas, says: at is stated
that the Mexican ministry have order
ed all ports ofentry on the Rio Grande,
except Matamoras, closed, but the
collectors of customs have postponed
action and written for further instruc-
tons"
A Wisconsin paper says that Fond
du Lac husbands have organized a
crusade, and go about praying with
milliners, begging them not to deal
out to their wives and daughters the
intoxicating spring bonnet and ravish-
ing pork-pie hat with ribbons on a
side dish.
A Washington dispatch announces
that misunderstanding of the Treas
ury Sawyer will tender his resignation
to the President, inasmuch as he wish
es to save Secretary Bristow from any
embarrassment on his account. This
statement is made on the authority of
Sawyer himself.
The American and English CathO-
lies in Rome propose TO give public
reception to the American pilgrims
on their arrival there, and to make
ether demonstrations of sympathy, but
the Pope dsprecates such display, as il
might cause disturbance. The people
generally appear to be Indifferent.
A London letter says that the po-
sition of the Duchess of Edinburgh al
court has been settled. She is to be
called her royal imperial, or imperial
royal highness, and is to rank next tC
the Princess of Wales, except when
the Princess Royal and crown Prin-
cess ofRussia happen to visit England.
At San Francisco, the other day AN
ugly, dirty, ragged and exceedingly
drunk individual was committed to the
city prison. 1t seemed hardly worth
while to search him, but routine re.
quired it; and he "panned OUT to the
tune of s3,2SO-s3,OOO in United
States bonds, and the rest in gold SOS,
1t is estimated there are not less
than one thousand new buildings now
being erected in Galveston, including
large number of fine brick blocks.
new hotel, churches, cotton presses,
stores and warehouses, all the bayous
are being filled; also new system Of
drainage being introduced; on every
hand are evidences of rapid growth
and progress.
South Carolina justices find a cur
ious and significant comment in the
remark of a Judge in Barnwell the
other day. In sentencing some crimi
mails to the Penitentiary for four years
he added: THAT is if you are per
mitted to stay there. j meet persons
on the street a few weeks after
have sent them to the penitentiary.
The Judge was evidently getting dis
couraged.
A subscription in aid of the family Of
Representative Mellish was lately
started in the House by Judge f. K
Hoar. Thesubscripti N was made uni
form at S25 for each member, and il
was at once signed by the entire New
England and New York delegations
Speaker Blaine heads the list, ant
every member of the House who has
had the opportunity so far, has sub
scribed. There are 300 members and
delegates in the House, which at s2j
each, will make 81 500.
At recent meeting of the friend:
of temperance in London, John
Bright made a speech, in which he
said the friends asked for things to be
done by parliament which they knew
and all knew at the present time,
with the present state of public opin
ion, were impossible to be done. II
parliament were to pass such laws as
those proposed by the many friends o.
temperance legislation, the very next
week they would have to repeal them
and the whole city of London would
be in riot, revolt and instruction.
Two colored students recently left
the Conn. Literary Institution at Suf
field, on being informed that they
could no longer eat at the same table
with six white students. They say;
at may be the effort for our removal
from the table originated with the
expressed dislike of the six boys to
sit with us. But to us this looks a
little strange, for We had always beer
upon the most intimate terms with
them all, and with three of them We
had slept repeatedly together in the
same bed; we sometimes in theirs by
invitation, and they again in ours, il
the same way"
A man named Packer, who recently