The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-06-04
GENERAL NEWS.

-A17NihbIN Inst mum tiaN IL hUS hONAu-
ed to locate the publishing house at
Nashville. Tennessee.
John Edgar Thompson, President
of the Pennsylvania Railway Compa-
NY, died last Thursday night after a
protracted illness, at his residence in
Philadelphia.
The Vienna Free Press is advised
that the condition of the Pope is very
precaricus. Much excitement exists at
the Vatican and serious results to his
Holiness are apprehended.
The three County Commissioners
Of Barnwell county, 5. c., convicted
Of corruption, have been sentenced re-
spectively to ten years, nine years, and
thirteen months in the Penitentiary.
The Paris Univers confirms the
announcement of the intended candi-
dacy of a German Prince for the
throne of Spain. 1t is said Don Car
los has sent Gen. Ello to Versailles to
inform the French Government.
a cotton mill in Columbus, Ga,
sold goods last year to the amount of
1914, 439, and realized thereon net
profit of 1921 Its business was
greater than in the previ-
Gus year, and was unaffected by the
panic.
The Roman Catholic pilgrims from
the United States, who landed from
the steamer Peirierre, arrived in Paris
and were received by the
archbishopSr,of Paris, who delivered
the allocution, and gave them his
blessing.
Hon. S. S. Cox lectured last Thurs
day evening in Steinway Hall, New
York, on American Humor. The
proceeds Of the lecture, which amount
ed to over $4,000, will be devoted to
the benefit of the sufferers by the Mis-
sissippi food.
An engineer on the Western North
Carolina railroad shouted to a crowd
of rustics, who had gathered to see the
first train of cars come in, Put down
your umbrellas! You scare the engine
off the track" The umbrellas were
lowered at once.
The San Francisco News Letter de-
scribes a patriarch III years old, who
never saw George Washington, and
it thinks his name should be written
in letters Of fire for his moral courage
in acknowledging it. This worthy
patriarch is a Digger Indian.
The jacksonville, Florida, South
says some idea Of the magnitude of
the live oak business viii lie conveyed
by the statement that during the past
winter 100000 superficial feet have
been cut, and that $500, 900 feet have
been shipped from the port of New
Smyrna.
The negroes in Louisiana have in
many places become 50 dcmoralized
by the issuance Of ratiOns to them
.mce the great food came on them.
hat they now refuse work when it is
offered them, prcferring to be fed by
he Government 10 earning their own
bread by work.
The Post says that George W.
-hilds Of Philadelphia, has taken
measures to erect at his own expense
| suitable monument over the grave
# Edgar Allen Pee. and that the
money already contributed for the
purpose will be kept us a fund to pre-
erve the grave and monument in
proper order.
Anecdotes of great men: When
Napoleon was a small boy he was ask !
d whether he could tell what nation |
lity he was of, and he Indignantly re-
lied, "Of Corsican." When Chang !
nd Eng was a small boy he was ask
d whether he was a native of Siam, |
nd he Indignantly replied, "Of
curse Siam"
An Opelousas (Louisiana) letter
avs: "The man that has a little mon
Y or meat or corn in this parish, is
he man that viii be elected next fall. |
he price Of a vote is one dollar or
tty-siX pounds Of corn meal, or ten
'OundS Of bacon. This amount per
ote will secure + 500 votes, although
ye have but few who can make a
ajse sufficient for such outlay"
II now appears that the Russian
irand Duke, Constantine's son Mich
las, gave the diamonds belonging to
is mother to Miss Fcnix or Phoenix,
beautiful American. The circum-
lance Of the theft, together with the
act that he had deposited large sums
f money with his bankers to make
as he SAYS, against the ne
essities of Old age, led to the belief
hat Nicholas is insane.
The National Convention of Dunk.
rs has been occupied in the discussion
+ various matters relating to church
Obey a&d uSages. The question of
ilutingcOlored brethren with the holy
ISIS was settled by permitting each
hurch to make its own rules on the
IGject, though some brethren thought
rule ought 10 be made forbidding
ny distinction on account Of color in
sculatory saluteS.
The Republic FrancaiSe, a Paris
ewspapcr, considers the arrival of the
.mpcrUr Of Russia in London as a
reat event, and SAYS the motives of
he Cars visit was not simply to see his
aughter again. The Republique be-
ewes his object Is to bring about an
understanding between England and
ussia directed TO the maintenance
peace. Europe, it continues, will
Joice at such q tacit treaty of ALI
ice and protection. 1t will comfort
lose menaced by unbridlcd ambition.
he policy Of a European balance of
over still finds defenders,
Planters just across the Mississippi,
est Of Memphis, say that this last
BOD deposited over the cotton fields
lie richest, thickest layer of alluvium
'er before brought down from the
estern mountains. 1t is a quarter
an inch in thickness, and full of