The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-08-03
GENERAL NEWS.

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majority in the State at 10000.
They have got on the track of Char
ley Ross ngain-this time in Boston.
The President has requested the re-
signation of Supervising Architect
Potter.
Kansas folks continue to suffer. Not
long ago it was grasshoppers, and now
they can't handle their enormous
crops.
Somebody has been counting up
and finds that Gov. Hayes has enough
relatives in Ohio alone to fill every
Office within the gift of the President.
The amount of damage done by
the recent inundation along the Ar
kansas river is said to be incalculable.
Corn and cotton were swept away by
hundreds of acres.
A woman and a man in a grocery
at San Antonio, Texas, began by
throwing nuts at each other, then
they used weights, and ended with
pistols. Both were wounded.
A mob threw stones at mouse in
London until every window was bros
ken, because of belief that ghost
was in it, and the police had to arrest
eleven persons to quell the disturb
ance.
Lieut.. Craycroft, the only surviv>
ing member of one of the companies
exterminated with Custer, happened
to be in Kentucky at the time of the
massacre purchasing horses for the
regiment.
Mr. VIM. E. Baker. who has given
farm of fifty acres and $4,000 to
found a college of cookery, holds that
alcohol has slain its thousands, but
fried pork and doughnuts have de-
populated New England.
The Frankfort [Ky.) Woman re-
ports that Gov. Tilden is engaged to
be married to an accomplished and
beautiful lady, a native of Kentucky,
at present residing in Alabama, and
that they will probably fulfltheir en-
gagement before the ides of November
have come and gone.
While FIVE students of the Harvard
summer schoolof geology were explor>
ing an Indian mound in Cumberland
Gap, the earth overhead gave way,
and they were buried. L. II. Chen>
ey of Cape Giradeau, Mo-. was in
stantiy killed, and the Others were I'M
conscious when rescued.
The reason for the proposal to ask
the resignation of the new Sultan is
his prolonged illness. He has lived
in the closest seclusion since his ac-
cession to the throne, and has done
to encourage the hope that he
may inaugurate more vigorous policy
than that promised by his unfortunate
predecessor.
A little girl in Reading, Pa, recent
ly saw a drunken man lying OH
doorstep, the perspiration pouring off
his face, and crowd of children pre-
pairing to make fun of him. She
took her little apron and wiped his
face, and then looked up SO pitifully |
to the rest and made this remark 90,
say, don't hurt him. He's somebody's
grandpa"
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutional
st states that upon a thorough inves-
legation Of the recent troubles at
Hamburg, S. c., it will be proved
hat the colored company was not mi
itia organization, and that the States
guns which they held on that occasion
had been procured by forgery from
he custodian of the arms, and that
hey were held contrary to law and
or violent mobOcratic purposes.
AT base ball game at Eau Claire,
Wis, the other day, ball was knock
d into the Quilted. The object of
he players was ofcourse to get it to
he home plate as promptly as possible
o prevent u tally. The fielder threw
With great force to the young man on
econd base, and the ball passed
through his hands and struck him on
he body. He seized the ball, threw
t home, and dropped over dead.
Augusta Constitutionalist: Mr. w.
}. Gardner, gentleman and an old
confederate soldier, living at Goggins-
lille, Monroe county, says heshot and
aptured Gen. R. B. Hayes at the
attic of the Wilderness or Chancel-
'rsville on the 9th of May, 1864.
lr Gardner was a member of Com
any A, Fourteenth Georgia regiment.
apt. Robert Merritt, commanding
he company, confirms the statement
{ Mr. Gardner.