The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-28
GENERAL NEMS.

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has entered nolle prosequii ii al Suits
growing out of the Bsecher-TiltO
scandal.
Hon. r. F. Davis, s5n Of The late
Senator Garrett Davis, was last
week found dead in his bed at his
home in Paris, Ky.
Frederick Hudson, for several years
managing editor of the New York
Herald, died last week from injuries
received by being thrown from buggy
by 4 railroad train.
Gen. JEFF Thompson is credited
with the prediction that by JANUARY I
the Mississippi will have cit Kew
channel near Vicksburg, leaving that
place two miles inland.
Baron Won Kalchestein and a num-
Der of ex-officers of the Prussian army
are travelling through Georgia pros
pecting for a location for a large colo
ny Of Gerftian artisans.
TIE t5rln'ttee iheestigating the
Montpelier, Va, lottery report that a
glafing fraud has been practiced on
ticket holders, but cannot discover the
responsible guilty parties.
Mr. Isaac Caldwell, highly accom-
plished lawyer Of Louisville, is now
spokeE of as possible successor of the
Honorable John w. Stevenson, as
United States Senator from Kentucky.
The President of tie Western I'm
ion Telegraph Company, in a speech
made before the New York Board of
Trade, stated that for all telegraphic
purposes the English language was
from Is to 80 per cent. cheaper or
more economical than the French or
G rmln, or any other, an that the
economy Of its use had been well es-
tablished by study and investigation.
Summit Miss. } Times: Col. H. S.
McComb, Col. E. ID. Frost, Mr. M.
B. HlIlyard and some of the 'big
men" cf TIE Illinois Central railroad
passed through Ctr tb~n Monday last;
on special. car, for New Orleans:
They were inspecting the rolling stock
and condition of this road. 1t is whis-
pered around by wiseacres that this
road issoon to change hands, and that
the Illinois Central, one of the best
Conducted roads in the United States,
will take it in tow.
In the late fearful storms in France
9g6 stecr we're killed at Belle Boste
by one flash Of lightning. They be-
longed to a flock of 1900 head, the
property ofafarmer.. His loss amounts
to $4,000 francs. About 1000 were
thrown down headlong. Two boys
were just arriving with the shepherds
lunch, and they set to work, with
presence of mind, to disengage the
hsap of earsases. Many others must
have died from sufUcation but for this
help. Some If the iHcideiits iictea
are EariUds. The shepherd had His
abots broken, while one of his CATERS
was struck off, and has not been found.
The man is unhurt, but much shaken.
His dog was lying between his legs
when the bolt fell; it carried the body
twenty yards, and twelve carcascs Of
sheep were. piled above it.
On the FL of August smoke waf
seen rising from the Goals Turning tEC
cargo of the bark Aurelie, bound from
Liverpool to La Plata; and on ali iron
test rod being put between it eanic tT
red hot. The matches *ttG batttitht
dGwH dttd water poured III; buL una
vailingly. The fire burned seven days
during which the crew, fourteen il
number, and the captains wife, were
on the deck, with scanty provisions
amid sitting smoke. At length the!
had to take to their two boats, anC
then commenced FIVE long days ant
nights IF sleeplessness and starvation
The Bdfiihs sHn tt day dRd faii
and cold by night hiad5 tHdurhiit'
wcll-nigh impossible. To add to tn
horrors while thus exposed, the cap
tain's wife gave birth to child. A
length, when at the last extremity, thu
two boats which had kept together
were seen and picked up by the shiI
Moonlight and taken to Barbados.