The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-21
GENERAL NEWS.

political neld again as leauer.
Italy will be represented at the
American Centennial by royal COM
missioner.
The Boston Post says that a son Of
Brigham, Voting is studying polyg-
amy in Paris.
St. Louis desires to eclipse San
Francisco by twelyesstory hotel for
the entertainment of man and beast.
BY direction of the trustees of the
British Museum Mr.. Georgs Smith
will start for the East this month to
resume his excavations al Ninevah.
A New Orleans telegram reports
frost Friday night on the jackson rail-
road fifty miles from the city. In the
city fires were necessary for comfort.
Two Thousand and fifty-seven per-
sons live at Hammerfest, Norway, in
latitude 70 deg, 9 hin. 3 sec. This
town. is the most northern in the
world.
The Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of Massachusetts de-
cided ito place the name of John
Quincy Adams upon the ticket as cam
didate for Lieutenant Governor, vice
General Bartlett, declined.
The news from Mississippi encour-
aging. The best citizens of the State
are exerting themselves in the interest
| of law and order, and even Gov Amos
is disposed to help on the ira of good
feeling, by disbanding his militia.
+ A1ewiston Me- man boasts that
he traded horses hins times one day,
-and-at night he had the same horse he
started with in the morning, s45 in
money, a watch worth $50, a double
.barreHed shot gun, and four bushels
of potatoes.
F" Clark Edmondson, the negro that
was charged with raping a white wo-
man in Fayette county, Ga, was tax
en- out of Jail at Atlanta, by 200 or
800 people, early Sunday morning,
and hanged Oh the gallows that his
brother was hanged on week before.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has just perfected another of its long
cherished schemes. To-day its direct
ors meet at Cincinnati to perfect the
consolidation of the Ohio and Missis>
sippi railroad with its main route,
giving it a line of road from Balti-
more to St. Louis as it already has to
Chicago.
Russian railroad MANAGERS are ex-
perimenting with tie electric light as
.a,headlight for locomotives. Success
full results were obtained on the line
from Moscow to Kursk. The appar-
atus consisted Of battery connected
with. the front axle, the revolution of
which set it in operation, and the
track. was illuminated a distance of
1900 Gett.
1t now seems generally understood
that the President BIAS rendered the
appointment Of Secretary Of the Int
rior to ex-senator Chandler, of Mich.
igan, who has the matter under adj
visement. Mr. Chandler is ID Wash
ington, and yesterday morning had an
interview with several members of the
Cabinet, who all decline to give any
information on the subject.
While a carriage containing Presi-
dent Grant was making its way through
the crowd in Dubuque, Iowa, burly
six-footer shouted in stent0rian tones:
"Hurrah for the hero of Shiloh" Just
as the huzzas were about to break forth
the same voice was heard completing
the sentence: General Sidney John
son, | mean" The crowd did not ap-
preciate this little joke, and the cheers
were not given.
Carlyle declines with scorn the de-
gree of LID, conferred by Harvard
University. American universities, he
says, are "semblances;" their degrees
the "sifliest sham feathers" and that
he should be asked to 'join in heading
your long line of DDS and LID
"a line of pompous little fellows hob
bling down to posterity on the crutches
of two or three letters Of the alphabet.
passing on into the oblivion of all uni
versiitiies and small potatoes SIS msre
than he can bear.
A day or two since the train on the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad
was stopped.by monkey wilhelm rap
id motion. 1t seems that the train was
bowling along at the rate of twenty
fves miles per hour, when suddenly
clown brakes" was sounded, the engine
bell ringing vigorously at the same
time, and the locomotive came to a
stop as the brakemen sprang to their
posts. The conductor was rather mys-
/ titled, and at once proceeded to inves-
tigate the matter. 1t was discovered
that a monkey, which was confined in
the baggage car, had broken loose and