The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-11-02

Parliament has been further pro-
rogued from Oct. 80 to Dec. u.
1t has been decided to turn over the
Main Building at the Centennial Exhibition
to an Association of the citizens Of Phila-
delphia, the building to remain in its pres
cut location and be used for the purpose Of
permanent exhibition.
The engineers and firemen on the
New Jersey Central Railroad struck work
At ~ O'Clock on the night of the 23d.
Wherever the trains happened to he, the
engineers dumped the fires, and the men
left the engines. The consequence was, all
traffic on the road was temporarily stopped,
and many trains en- route were unable to
proceed. r.
Atelegram from Provincetown,M Mass,
| 23d, gives an account Of the loss of the brig
Almira. The crew, five including the cap
tain, took to a raft, and after terrible suf-
ferings the captain and one Of the crew died.
Another became insane and jumped over
board. The remaining two were rescued.
A special to the New Orleans Bulletin
states that w. J. Law was murdered near
Bastrop, La, on the night Of the 21st. Law
was riding out OF town when he was fired
upon and mortally wounded and his horse
| killed. There was no clue to the assassin.
Five men, named Charles Blum,
Herman Knapp, Charles Smith, John
Smith and Mr.. Casso, were drowned while
crossing the Saginaw River at East Saginaw,
| Mich, on the 9th. They were in a small
| skif, which was swarnped by the swell Of
| passing tug.
| Henry Schwamb, convicted of the
murder Of Henry Bette, at Union Hill, n.
j., has been sentenced to be hanged on the
Sth Of December.
An accident occurred to Centennial
! excursion train on the New York Midland
Railroad on the s4th, resulting in the death
| OF one passenger, the serious womding Of
six others, besides number of minor cas-
ualties. The engine and one passenger-carI
were wrecked and two passenger-cars were
| thrown down an embankment 60 feet high.
! Fifteen hundred passengers were on the
train, all belonging to Madison and neigh
boring counties in the State.
The residence of Chief of Police
Biocher, of Little Rock, Ark. was burned
on the night of the 22d. 1t was probably
the work Of incendiaries, and the family
barely escaped with their lives. Loss,
s, COG. .s ..
&" Yellow Jack" Donahue, noted
member Of the Molly Maguires, has been
convicted Of murder at Pottsville, Pa. He
is the tenth member Of the gang who has
been convicted Of murder, and many others
are under arrest but not yet tried,
A horrible domestic tragedy is report
ed from the vicinity Of Nashville, Ind. 1
Chadwick B. Britain, young man from
Paris, Ky, had married the only daughter
Of John Rhodes, FARMER, and, after living
peaceably with the old people nearly a
year, finally demanded possession Of the
farm. Upon their refusal he became
abusive and incorporate, and was ordered
to leave. He did leave for a few days,
but returned on the night of the oath, and,
after an alteration with the old lady, shot
her dead. Mr.. Rhodes, hearing the shot,
fastened to the house, and was fired at, but
the pistol missed fire. Britain then fired
twice into his own body, dying instantly.
Brittain's young wife, now approaching
confinement, is reported nearly insane over
the affair. Britain left letter blaming Mrs.
Rhodes, his mother-in-law, for making
trouble. s..s -s.
There are, as usual, conflicting ac-
counts of the origin of a disturbance at Port
Gibson, Miss, on the DIST, in which several
shots were exchanged between the whites
and blacks. One negro was wounded and
several arrested and lodged in Jail.
Intelligence was received at Paris on
the 18th that the Turkish Consul and wife
at Tifis, in Asiatic Russia, had been assas-
sinated.
a serious accident occurred on the
New Jersey Central Railroad near SOmer
vile, on the night Of the oath, caused by a
misplaced switch. The train went off the
track, the engine was turned upon its side,
two coaches were piled upon the locomo- !
tive, and three other coaches were thrown
from the rails. Three passengers were
taken out Of The wreck dead. Five others
were seriously wounded, and nine slightly. !
It is alleged that some Of the strikers on the !
road purposely misplaced the switch, but
this seems to be merely conjecture.
The Continental Life Insurance Com
pany Of New York has suspended, and ].
j. Anderson has been appointed Receiver. |
The officers of the company attribute the
suspension to the general shrinkage of real !
estate and stocks and bonds. With ju- |
dicious management and curtailed expenses
the officers think the policy holders will not |
lose any thing eventually. -e..4
Henry Scales, cGjored, was hung in
the Illinois District of the Cherokee Nation,
by the Cherokee authorities, on the 2lst
inst, for killing another colored man. This |
was Scales third murder.
An explosion occurred at st. Johns, |
n. B., on the 26sh, in the building occu-
pied by Adam Young as a tinsmith shop. |
The building was set on fire, and several
men working in the fifth story were burned
to death and four probably fatally injured.
Two others were burned severely.
The Jury in the case of Alexander
Sullivan, on trial in Chicago for the murder
of Francis Hanford, were unable to agree |
and were therefore discharged on the 26th. |
1t is said that the jury stood eleven for ac-
Qulttal a0u one ZOE cOnVlCllOn. cullANan I
was subsequently admitted to bail in the
sum Of IS, 600.
At Calhoun Falls, Vt, six miles from
St. Johnsbury, on the 27th, Frank Johnson,
Of Windham, Me-; Charles Putney, of
Concord, n. H.. and Joseph Heon, Of st. |
Johnsbury, were excavating for a paper |
mill, and placed some rend-rock to dry un-
der stove in the basement. While they
we're at work on the first floor the explosive !
ignitcd, blowing the building, which was
90 feet square, into kindling-wood, and
hurting the men skyward u eOn was de-
nuded of his clothing and filled with splin-
tiers, and will probably die. johnson and
Putney will recover.
John Hill and John F. Allen, who
were convicted Of the murder of George c. |
Hislett, near Elwood, n. j., on August 5, |
were hanged,at Nays Landing on the 9th. |
About 800 persons witnessed the execution.
It is reported from St. Adams, Vt,
that secret preparations are going on in
f,r in