The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-01-20
GENERAL NEWS.

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d present to the Pope Of ten thousand
pounds.
Treasurer Bork of Buffalo, who
stole $3.50, 900, belonged to fifteen reli-
gidus and charitable associations.
After all the talk about woman suf
frage in Wyoming, the legislatures are
now endeavoring to repeal the act.
The italian government is to levy
a tax upon the incomes of the cardi-
mails and all persUiis attached to the
Papal Court.
The National Temperance Society
has issued call for an international
temperance conference III Philadelphia
OH tuhe 18th:
The Oakland (Cali1 Gas Company
has been petitioHed to paint the street
lamp posts white, so that they may be
f6tnd readily on dark nights.
The Peaks of Otter, near Lynch
burg, Va, long supposed to be an ex-
tinct volcano, have recently give nun
mistakable evidences of action.
The death of Vice President Wilson
will be announced il the Senate to-
morrow by Senator Boutwell, Speech.
es will also be made by others.
After forty-fve years of widowhood,
a Newbern, N. c., woman, aged one
hundred years, has married Revo-
lutionary veteran, who is only ninety
six.
Many of the houses in Virginia
City are protected against avalancbes
by v-shaped structures, intended to
divide and turn aside the descending
snow.
A New Hampshire man sends foir.
teen of his children to one school, and
when they combine against the teach
ct he knows he can safely bet on the
result.
Cruz Lopez, a bandit whose outra-
ges on the Mexican border have been
invested with considerable romance,
WITS formerlya peanut vender in San
Francisco.
A Santa Fe, New Mexico, dispatch
announces the death of Gen. Gordon
Granger. About 8 p. m. of the 18th
inst, he was stricken with apoplexy,
and died at 7 o'clock.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania has
passed a resolution requesting the
Senators and Representatives from
Pennsylvania to vote for the 81, $780,
600 Centennial appropriation.
A colossal fortune in England has
fallen to tile descendants of the Earl
of Durham. Henry Waterson, of the
Courier Journal, and Ex-Prest. JEFF.
Davis are among the number.
Cairo is in danger of being left on
all island. The Mississippi river is
about to cut across two miles above
the city, and the citizens and railroad
companies are very Uneasy about 1t.
The Hon. William WEIGH of Madi-
son, Wis, proposes to give each man
.twenty-one years old one vote, each
man Of forty-two years two votes, and
each man sixty-three years old three
votes.
Lord Lytton, who succeeds Lord
Northbrooke as governor general OF
India, is Edward Robert Bulwer, son
Of the great novelist of that name. He
is well known as the author of that
beautiful novelin verse Lucille" and
other fine poems.
Judge Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
thinks that Gen. Sherman will be
the next Republican candidate for
President land that the power which
proposes to nominate him would re-
create tie office of General 1T the
Army and place Grant in II fur life:
The Chicago Tribune SAYS the re-
cent mild weather has been very bad
for the corn in cribs in the Country:
A good deal of it is spelling, ard will
never make merchantable corn; whilt
hot alittle OF it is rotting so badly that
it cannot even be used for feed Oh the
farm.
Emma Britton; a hevisburg, Pa,
girl, weighs 40 pouhdsI tatt iatip fiji
teen feet on skates, ruin 100 yards Id
thirteen seconds, drink, smoke and
talk horse. She is a coed shot and g
quot pitcher; can easily swim half &
mile ard Jump the highest fence. She
will not HAIRY, which is good-for th'
man. 80 :. ',-~
In the Milan cefiietefy Il pavilion
has been put up for the cremation o
bodies, which, being placed uii an altar
are subjected 70 the action IL twt hun
bred gas burners giving a heat of 1000
degrees. Thus body is consumed Il
ashes in one hour. On January Il
Chevalier Albert Keller is to be burn
the preparations having been made b!
direction of his will.
A Paducah, (Ky.,) younglady VIII
had a passion for pretty babies, met
little four year old angel who has
bran rev sister: II say, bub, won