The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-10-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

= FRANK DAGGRTT, well known edit
or Of Minnesota, died suddenly of apo
plexy, at Litchfeld, In that State, on tht
l4th. Il -............. ...-..l =
FRANK DIsHLER, teller of the Foun
tain National Bank Of Columbus, o., COM
mitted suicide on the 14th.
FRANK STURGEs 81 Co., metal mer.
chants, Chicago, suspended on the 14th.
Liabilities, $500, ZOO; assets, insignificant.
FIVE cadet midshipmen have been
expelled from the Naval Academy at An
napolis, Md. for refusing to give informa-
ton as to the participants in hazing foray.
= GENERAL RUFUS KNEE, formerly
Minister to Rome, died in New York on the
14ths He was at one time editor Of the Mil
waukee. Sentiael. .-.......-............. .-
JOHN A. FERRIS, an actor in Bal
timore theater, was struck with paralysis
ON the night Of the 18th, while on the stage,
and died the following day.
CAPTAIN JAMES HOWARD, the well
known steamboat builder, was accidentally
drowned at Jacksonville, Ind. on the 14th.
His horse baked and backed isto the river
from ferry boat.
Hon. W. w. CoRLETT has been NOM
mated by the Republicans of Wyoming Ter
ritory for Delegate TO Congress.
y THE official count of the vote for
Governor of Arkansas shows total vote Of
los, 604. Miller (Dem.) receiving majority
of 80, 500 over Bishop (Rep.).
TIMRs. JANE NJ. WALKER, the sister
and last surviving member Of the immediate
family ofsx-President JamesK. Polk, died
at Columbia, Tenn, on the 18th, in her
seventy ninth year. Her descendants, in
ending children, grand and great-grand-
children, number precisely one hundred
persons, OF whom upwards Of sixty are now
living. ssFeEE ktt Fl ~
IT was reported on the 18th that a
number of arrests by United States officers
had been made in Aiken and Barnwell
Counties, SIC. ;, of parties charged with
being engaged in recent disturbances. The
prisoners were taken before the United
States Commissioner at Aiken, who admit
ted them to balm the sum Of s., 200 each.
MARTIN f. UPPER, the poet-philoso-
pher, author Of 90 Proverbial Philosophy, ,,
arrived in New y 0rk on the 18th. e. z ~ 90
LIEUT.-COL. OTIS, who has succeed
ed TO the command Of the Seventh Cavalry,
left vacant by the death. of Gen. Custer.
was born in 1880, and graduated at the Mil
itary Academy in 1868. He served through
the War, and has been in the Far West
since 1867.
The Republicans of the Third Dis
trict Of Arkansas have nominated Judge
John Mcclure for Congress. .s +'.-- s.
THE official returns of the Ohio cleo
ton give Barnes (Rep.) for Secretary
of State a majority Of 6,692. & 3
FRANCIS P. BLAIR, the venerable
journalist and politician, died on the 18th,
at his residence, Silver Springs, Nd, aged
81 years. A -E-IV T-lE ~
THE death is announced al Tucson,
Arizona, OF Hon. John Titus, ex- ChiefJus-
tice Of that Territory. He was a native of
Philadelphia. .EHtW ll8
Hon. JAMES G.ITELIAFERRo, Judge
of the Louisiana Supreme Court, died on
the 18th, at his residence at Catahoula, aged
So years. .fAF'H -a- .aF
OSCAR DE LAFAYETTE, Senator of
France, has written sletter to Mayor Wick
ham, thanking the people Of New York, in
the name Of the descendants Of the celebrat-
ed Marquis, for the statue recently unvailed
in that city.
80 49,. f.FEw r--s-~f
% Gov. GROVER, United States Senator
elect from Oregon, is a native of Maine, So
years old, and has been in Oregon Is years.
He was the first Congressman from that
State, and has twice been elected Governor.
MN. COOKE one of the editors of
the Montgomery Ala.) Advertiser, died Of
on the 10th. 10000