The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15
GENERAL NEWS.


da, in consequence of dull trade.
The Republicans of the fifth Wis
consin district have nominated for
Congress the Master of the State
Grange.
Thomas J. Martin his been elected
Prc-ilent of the Louisville and NASH
vile railroad, and L. d. Standit
Vice President.
James Gardner, for many years edi-
tor and proprietor of the Augusta Con
stitutionalist, died AT his residence near
Augusta, LIST Wednesday, aged 90.
Wednesday night Il mob of forty
negroes took James Perkins and VIM.
iavcnswood from the Holy SpiHgs,
Miss, ilil, and shot them dead, thereby
avencing the death of Mack Hill.
The Navy Department has issued a
general order relative to the death of
Commodore llel,ncthon b. Woolsey,
who died Of yellow fever in comm nj
Of the Pensacela navy yard on the
22nd ult.
So far as heard from only three
counties in Georgia, Liberty, Newton
and Glynn, have gone Republican.
The indications are that the entire dele
CATION from Georgi;; in the next Con-
gress will I've Democratic.
In regard to the recent Sherman
wedding, and the presents, about
which such a fuss was made, an ex-
change thinks the certificate of the
marriage should begin in the lai-
guage Of lcg,l transfers Of real estate,
"know III men hy these presents"
They have singular way Of exhib-
iting piety among the Mexicans. Re
Gently the prisoners in the jill 1t Hian-
ilpln broke out Of their impris nment
and marched of shYuiing Viva Ia rcli-
gion," and fol thwith proceeded to
plumber several adj cent hiciendas and
ranches.
At the regular annual meeting Of
the stockholders of the Louisville "
Nashville Railroad, held ut Louisville
list Wednesday, T.. u. -tandiforj. IL.
V. Ncwcomb and w. b. Caldwell
were elected Directors The ST. ~ OF
| the President WAS reduced to $500,
and that Of the Vice Presileut abol-
ishcd.
The Glasg W Town Council has de-
ci.led to pc ition the Government to
extend t. Scotland the power Of pun
is!.iag bv the Ia.h The crime Of roh'
hery from the person with violence,
wifc-heating, attacks with the knife
and professional theft. This action Is
prom ted hy the desira to suppress
violent assaults. which hive increased
to IN alarming extent in Glasgow ia
ring the last year.
The aged poet Runeberg, the great
est skalI thtt Sweden has ever had,
has been in extremely week health lol
many years past. 1t appears th2t Is
he has lain on his sitk bed at Hel-ins
fors, in Finland, he has occupied hun
self bv close observation Of the habit.
of birds, and especially with regard to
the causes of migration, and he has al
last put forth a singularly beautiful
Theory on the letter point. He be
!ievcs. in fact, thAtit Is the longing after
ligh', and that Il ore, tn draws the
birds southwark.
\ shoal Of norpoisaS got imprisoned
within the dyke at Proyincetown,
Mass., the other day, ard an exci,itie
scene OF carnage followed. The loca
journal say: We hear of Il man get
ting into the iloody waters, selling ;
small porpoise, and lifting him alive
iato his boat The men became St
excited that they waded waist deep ii
the water, and two or three were oh
served seated astridc the MIN le beau
ties, enjoying a wet and novel ride
The massacre was general, and hut few
fish escaped death.
Many rice and vegetable fields have
been laid waste by a volcano near IL
amura, which HIS been actively engag
ed in vomiting forth fire and smok,
high into the .ir. Ole hundred ans
eight houses were buried by fdllin:
sand. For II period Of ten days tin
| III charge of ashes continued with una
bated fury. Three mountains r.s'
from a plin, one covering IN crel o
2! square miles, and 500 feet high
\ tract of Land rose fro II the ocean |,
I 800 hy 4S0 miles square, and. cor
meets with the coast.
There are now in Louisville owe
FIVE hundred manufacturing eStablla!.
mcnts, representing 3ZO, 600 600 c;'pl
| tai, annually producing wares valut'
1T S5G, 600, 0GO. employing ten thou
sand persons, and expanding each yea
for labor IS, 0D0, 900. As a result o
all this, Louisville Is making r&rit
progress in p pulation, we@lth ART
business. Railroads are good things
steamboats, are good thing; cotton
good thing; hut, after al, manufac
lures are necessary to make cit.
great and prosperous.
Father Hyacinthe and Victor llu
20 have joined Mr. Di,racli and tn
Iope in prophcsying the approach o
ii Tremendous war, which shall rag
Il over Europe and elsewhere. NJ
D'sr, ell; r. c d tn t The war woul
b rcligiou, re, Inl that it wUul,
convuEc the gloJe. The Pope desclil
ed the impending struggle as one be
tween the armies Of the Archange
Michael and the hosts Of Satan. 40
cor,liog to the piognOsticftlon OF III
ther tiyacinthc, the coming war WI
re threciuld, and vii iaclude n fearful
col fIict Letwcen Popular rights All
the power of capital, in which til
combatants will tear each other I
pieces. According to the vaticinatio
OF Victor Hugo, the great and inevita
ble encounter is to I've "between NV
p:incii les, Republic and Empire"