The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-07-13
GENERAL NEWS.

Gen. Santa Anna died June 18th,
aged "a.
Castle Garden, New York, burned
on the 9th.
Gen. Gorilla has died from the eff
fects of his wounds.
Uncle Sam is sixty-two, and he will
beat them like sixty, too.
Within six Yeas Tilden's average
weight has increased from ITO to $50
pounds.
A strong effort is being made to re-
instate Mullett as Supervising Arch
itect of the Treasury.
The Blaine Investigation has been
indefinitely postponed on account of
the new Senator's illness.
Morril was Friday qualified as Sec
rotary of the Treasury, and Wyman
assumed the duties of Treasurer.
The latest rumor about Tweed pla>
ces him in retirement among the
mountains of Southwestern Arkansas
A Massachusetts, jury has decided
that dog-Owner shall pay $500 to
the father of a boy who was bitten.
General Farnsworth, of Illinois, one
of the most prominent Republicans of
that State, has declared for Tilden and
Hendricks.
Some fifty or sixty people died of
sun stroke in New York Tuesday.
The heat was terrible in other cities,
and many deaths are reported.
Gen. 6. T. Beauregard writes a let
ter in which he accuses the Count of
Paris of cowardice at Harrison's Land
ing, Virginia, under Mcclellan.
The Hoosier Patron says that FIVE
hundred grange halls have been built
by the Patrons of Indiana and thinks
this indicates permanent existence of
the order.
Even Helper, the author of the
Impending Crisis" book that cre-
ated such profound sensation about
the year 1856, is out for Tilden and
Hendricks.
Advices have been received of the
loss of the Dutch steamer "Froegen,"
in the Straits of Sunday, in the Indian
Ocean. Two hundred and fifty per-
sons were drowned.
The American residents in Rome,
Lisbon, Geneva, and other cities of
Europe celebrated the fourth with
private entertainments. The Amer
lean colors were literally displayed.
Since the days of jackson, the New
Haven Register declares, no nomina>
ton has met with such acceptance in
Connecticut as that of Tilden, and he
will carry that State by at least 8, 900
majority.
1t was announced at meeting of
the independent Labor Party" Fri
day evening in New York, that Peter
Cooper was determined to run for
President, come what will" and the
announcement was received with en-
thusiasm.
Three cheers for Reform; three
cheers for Miss Tilden Jones, who
made her first appearance at the
house of the editor of this paper on
the evening of Tilden's nomination !"
shouts the editor of the Winona, Mis-
sissippi, Democrat.
The calamity which visited the lit
tie town of Rockdale, near Dubuque,
the other day, proves to have been
fully as terrible as the reports iudica>
ted. More than forty lives are known
to be lost, and the search for the bod
les of the dead is still continued.
The diamond necklace and earrings
sent by the Khedive to Mrs Minnie
Sherman Fitch, have been taken from
the vaults of the Treasury and sent to
the Acting Secretary of the Treasury
at Washington, who will deliver them
to Gen. Sherman, in accordance with
a resolution of Congress.
Louisiana Democrats are pleased
with the nomination of Marshal Pack
ard for Governor, because he can be
easily beaten. The New Orleans
Picayune SAYS the ticket is not satis>
factory to the Republicans, many of
whom are tired of the system of Fed
eral interference which Packard rep
resents.
President Grant has struck cut
new line of policy for himself. He
says that henceforward, during the
days of his Presidential
term, he shall follow his own opinion
about all appointments or removals,
md shall not tolerate any more inter-
ference. This new view of stubborn
ness has been brought out by the row
raised over Yaryan's removal.
In the st. Louis Convention there
we're four delegates who have attend
I'd every Democratic National Con-
vention since 1874. They were
Hendrick b. Wright, of Pennsylva-
MIA, who presided at the Baltimore
Convention which nominated Polk