The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1876-06-08
GENERAL NEWS.

pressed that financially it viii be a
success. Fl
A House Committee intend investi-
eating the charge that corruption
fund of $500, 600 was used to force the
Hawaiian treaty through the House.
The New York Express counted
175 delegate votes for Hendricks TO
III votes Cor Tilden. Since then
over 40 votesh have beeG added TO Hen
bricks vote.
Dispatches received at the head>
quarters of Gen. Sheridan indicate
that the reports of the massacre of
the Cincinnatiparty to the Black Hills
was canard.
An old lady at Attica. Ind, just to
show what she could do, filed n COB
let with rich cream, and with n tea
spoon churned butter enough for
breakfast for a family OF six.
Ben Butler says: 81 always think
of the cat story when hear of fights
IN the Democatic party. Cat fights
simply result in more cats. | have
no faith in these party discussions"
Osgood and Drew, speaker and a
singer, have formed a oopartnership
for temperance revivalism on the
Moody and Sankey plan. They have
started out successfully i'll Massachu-
sets.
The Indians and Mexicans are
plundering houses and running off
stock in the vicinity of Campo, Ari-
iona, where families are collecting for
protection. The prospects are good
for general outbreak on the border.
The American residents in Paris
have started Il subscription to raise
funds for the celebration Of the Gems
tennial Fourth of July, and for place
ing marble slab with a commemora>
tive inscription on the tomb of Lafay-
cite.
1t is now claimed by Mulligan that
one of the letters taken from him by
Blaine showed that the man from Maine
received, while in congress during the
war, $50, 900 for securing q contract
for the of Spencer rifles to the Gov
eminent.
The Right Worthy Grand Lodge
of Good Templars, in session at Louis
vile recently had a split on the negro
question. One faction was in favor
Of admitting him into full fellowship
in the order, and the other Was ops
posed to it.
Thursday the grand parade of the
Knights Templar took place at Phila>
delphia. 1t is stated that q more bril-
liant event has not occurred in that
city for years, and probably finer and
more imposing demonstration of the
kind has never been seen in this coun-
try.
A dispatch from St. Louis announ-
ccs that Gov. Tilden will arrive in
that city on the 18th, and "quietly es-
tablishing his headquarters at the
Southern Hotel, remain until the con-
vention is over, meantime developing
his strength among the delegates
throughout the west"
a New Orleans correspondent in
forms us that in one parish in Louisi-
ana there are thirteen negro schools
supported by taxes paid almost eXclu-
siycly by the whites, and no white
school, because no one neighborhOOd
can furnish twenty-five white scholars,
the number required by law.
Sexton, the billiardist, made a run
of 287 points, French caroms, at the
Philadelphia tournament last week,
which, the telegraph informed us, was
the largest on record; but foreign pa
pers state thai recently Prof. Bataile,
Of Montepelier, France, made a run
Of 1900 points, and cnly stopped
on account Of exhaustion.
Courier-Journal: Mrs Myra Clark
/ Gaines is about to reopen her suits tc
recover the ownership Of the New
Orleans property for which she ha:
been fighting fifty years. When il
/ Washington recently, she was Offered
/ S250,000 cash and one-ftth of the
property in dispute, if she would as
sign her interest TO some New York
spectators. The venerable lady vii
not be caught by such chat as that,
as she proposes to have the whole
property or none.
/ Some Chinese miners, EN-
ployed near Gold Hill, had attended
Christian meeting, and thereby gain,
ed a conception of the orthodox he'll
/ One day they were at work in a shat
/ which passed through layers Of sui
phur. \ stroke Of pick released ;
quantity Of sulphur gas, which ignit
ed and sent fame up the shaft. 1hC
smell of burning sulphur, the heat, anC
the glare convinced the ChinameI
/ that they had broken into hell, anC
they made haste to escape.
Vermont newspapers tell OF Bur
lington woman who, when her hus
baud came homo drunk, waited till h,
went TO sleep, then took his only pal
of pants from him and made then
over into "A pair for their twelve>yea
old boy, working nearly all night t,
finish them. The husband awoke
about the middle of the forenoon
ready to eat breakfast and start out 70
another drink, but when last seen wa
wrapped in an old skirt, and haC
promised 20 join the Reformed Men
Club.
Tie new Emperor of Turkey i
spoken Of in the AlmaHdch de Goth,
as "Suitan Mehemed Maurad etEendi.
He was born on the Dist Of Septem
Der, 1910. His father was the prede
cessor upon the throne Of the deth.on
ed Emperor Abdul Aziz. BY thelaV
ofsuccession in Turkey the crown fall
1 to the senior male descendant of 9th
man, the progenitor Of the presen
family Of Sultans; so Maurad cOul,
/ not succeed his father to the thron
while his uncle, Abdul, WAS living
During Abdups reign the latter fire
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