The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Orth declined.
Ex-Licutenant Governor Muller, Of
Ohio, Who was elected on the same tick
ct with Hayes, when the latter war
elected the second time, has declared
for Tilden and Hendricks. Next
The head of the Republican ticket
in Indiana, Godlove S. Orth, has been
forced to abandon the field, because
why, he had been prominently idcn-
tilted with corrupt job in Congress,
known as the Venezuela claim. This
forced resignation must badly demor-
alize the Indiana Republicans, and
there smoothing at all more probable
now than a Democratic victory in
that State.
New York Sun: Zach Chandler,
Chairman of the Hayes National Com
mittee, is leyying assessments on the
office-holders for the benefit Of Hayes
with the appreciation of Grant, Secor
Robertson, Boss Shepherd, Measurer
Babcock, and the rest of the White
House Ting. If Hayes is elected, do
Schurz, Fenton, and that set suppose
he will dare to go back on the men
who ran the White House machine
for his benefit?
An incident at a murder trial in
Glasgow is recalled by the London
World. a medical expert was asked
whether there was a poison that would
kill without leaving a trace, and he
replied that he could mention several;
but he refused to name them, and the
presiding Judge sustained him. He
afterward received over a hundred
letters asking for information on the
subject, some of them, he thought,
from persons who intended to use the
knowledge criminally.
1t has now been proved beyond dis
pute that Gen Custer was not scalped,
that his body was not in any way
and that bis uniform was
not stripped off by the Sioux. But it
is a fact that Buffalo Bill, white man
and killer Of Indians, has just sent to
his friends in Rochester the scalp
which he cut from the head Of the
Cheyenne brave Yellow Hand, after
be had killed him, and the blanket,
head dress, and girdle which he took !
from the body Of Yellow Hand after
heath.
The Kansas City Times says:
There was no preaching in this town
asst Sunday, and all in consequence of
! practical joke perpetrated by a live
Y young girl. The young girl, in
lired by the world, the flesh, and a
title devil mixed, sat down late on |
saturday evening, and sent a note to
.ach Of the pastors. The missives
we're on tinted paper, and written nice
y. They each contained these words:
Al is discovered-fy.' Nine Of the
PREACHERS fed to St. Louis, and three
vent West"
4 Kansas city special says the OF
crville train robbers have been trac~
d to Cherokee, Crawford county, /
Kansas, and Charles Pitts has Just
cen captured on the Spring river.
lie had $500 on his person and a
ackagc of letters, consisting Of cor
between members of the
and in regard to the robbery of the
Iiyscuri Pacific railroad train, which
,ere secured. These letters implicate
number men in Cherokee county,
no have been heretofore considered
bove suspicion.
\ gentleman in Danbury, Conn.,,
as long been annoyed by his neigh,
or's hens, which made a daily prac>
&c Of rowing through his front garden
nd back yard. And what did this
orthy gentleman do? He just went
atiently and put some old hats aad
ny under his steps and in the barn,
nd when those hens came on their
larauding expeditions those that
me TO scratch remained to lay. He
as had all the fresh eggs he wanted
lis spring, and has sold $500 worth
, the man that owns the hens.
Sherman lTexas) Register: The
exas Legislature recently passed a
Ill which makes it misdemeanor,
unstable by fine of one hundred
ollars, for person to use profane
nguage within the hearing of any
-iyate dwelling. The MorristOwn
.eruld SAYS that mans mule got
lulky in Texas town the other day, &
I'd the man got angry. The beast {
ould start off suddenly, run about
renty yards and then stop fifteen :
iuutes to survey the ncighborhood,
i'd before the man got out of town
, owed the authorities eighty thou l
nd dollars.