The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-07-15
GENERAL NEWS.

morning, Is a.ine boy weighing 1ok
pounds. y
An etenHnge says that a son 81
Martin Van Bnren was recently sent
to the Insane Asylum at Poughkeep-
sic, New York.
The Augsburger Zeifung says FRAT
Bismarks withdrawal from public af
fairs is an "indication eminenfly IA
verabls 10 Continued peace"
The New Orleans "Press Club" has
rassed resolutions against treating.
This would seem to be a superfuous
precaution. How about beng treated
At a Kentucky Town the other day
minister. presided at the festivities
occasioned by the opening o. a brewe-
~, made a dedicatory prayer and an
eloquent speech.
Colonel Z. Y. Clark, of the Atlanta
Constitution, and Col. r. A. ASTON
of the Atlanta Herald, have signally
failed in an attempt to Eght a duel.
Result: three and half columns Of
cards.
General Henry L. Benning, arroh-
inent citizen Of Columbus, Georgia,
died at Atlanta on the 10th inst. He
served with distinction as a Brigadier
General in Lees army and was a suc>
cessful lawyer.
The Paris Financial Journals writ
ten up by five editors, who send their
copy from their places of residence. In
the number of June 10 the copy Of
each editor respectively, was sent from
a Paris prison. Banking IS not SO free
over there.
The Chicago Tribune tells of a
swarm of grasshoppers which, moving
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour,
occupied sixty hours in passing over
a town in Missouri, and was estimated
to be from thirty TO seventy-fye miles
wide and half a mile deep:
More than a thousand enterprising
persons came to grief under the COM
mon delusion that they could edit
newspapers IN the United States last
year. RGwell's American Newspaper
Directory estimates that at least SSj-
100000 disappeared in the ruins.
( The Atlantic cotton mills, at law
renee, Mass, which gave employment
/ to 1850 operators, shut down for eight
weeks. The suspension may be for a
longer time, if the present stock of
manufactured goods is not marketed.
The operatives viii lose $4,000 or
more in wages by this shut down.
The Avalanche's Forrest City, Ark,
correspondent SAYS on the 4th inst.
Miss Ellen Hamilton, young lady
living with Capt. James Hunter, was
brutally outraged, cut with knife
and left for dead by "a negro named
Davis, who then stole q horse and left.
He was followed by a party to Angus
ia, and was at o1e time arrested by an
old Portuguese living there, brt escap-
ed. A large number citizens are still
in pursuit Of him, and if found will be
sumrhariIy dealt with.
In 1919 Harmon Jones, with fifteen
or twenty citizens Of New Orleans,
Started for California in search of gold.
The vessel they sailed in has never
been heard from. Recently, however,
Mrs Jones attention was called 10 an
account in an English paper Of the dis
covery Of an unknown island in the
Pacific. In the list of persons found
there was the name of Harmon Jones,
from New 0rleaps. The men refused
to leave the island, saying tia! the old
family ties were probably broken, and
they did not propose to furnish a
whole boat load of new EnOch Ardens.
The Comptroller Of Currency has
called upon the National Banks for a
report, showing their condition at the
close Of business Wednesday, JuHe 80.
The Comptroller desires to retire all
circulating notes of denominations OF
/ five dollars of the following banks,
notes OF that denomination having
been successfully counterfeited: First
/ Third, and Traders National Banks of
Chicago, First National Bank of Pax.
ton, Ills, First National Bank Of Can.
ton, Ills. National Banks throughout
the country are requested TO return all
notes Of these banks Of the denomina
ton Of five dollars to the treasury foI
redemption; and 10 additional issues
I of this denomination VIII hereafter be
! issued 10 these banks.
On opening a bale of cotton al the
mill of one Of the LARGEST Liverpool
SINNERS, lie other day; much surprise
was manifested at the discovery within
it Of a box of lucifer matches bearing
the following label: Superior tele
graphic matches; manufactured by
/ Capples & Marstcn; St. Louis; every
box warranted The matches were
Of the ordinary kind, and on enc Of
two of them being tried they werE
found to ignite with the greatest read
mess. The cotton came to LiverpOO
from Mobile, and the most seriou.
consequences might have resulted haC
the least amount Of friction been APP
Piled to the lhciier5 during the toy
age, or even after the cotton haC
reached its destination:
The Mann Boudoir sleeping chr is
driving the Pullman coach off Of Eu
ropGan lines. 1t does not consist o.
one grand saloon like The Pullman
but Il divided into small compartments
which affords all tie comforts Of {
small drawing-room during the day
and well-nigh all the. comforts Of {
private bedroom during the night
This plan Appeals to the love Of seclu
sion that prevails Qmcng Traveller.
across tho water. Each boudoir j,
fitted up for either four or two indlvid
uals. When a passenger is tired of hi
private room, he can strcu up anC
down the corridors, and electric bell
will summon an attendant at any mo
ment. Fifty-one Of these cars are ii
use On the Continent, the price Of :
berth for twenty-four hours being ter