The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-09-06
CHAR1Es A. MrNN1E. a colored how.

CHARLES A. MINNIE, a colored boy,
entered the list of competitors for the APP
pointment as Cadet in Congressman Muller's
district, New York, and carried off the prize.
John Morrissey presented him with so to
procure his outfit.
A BULL regulating the procedure to
be observed by the Conelaye of Cardinals on
the death of the Pope has been completed at
the Vatican. 1t empowers the Cardinal
Camerlengo TO either summon the conclave
Immediately, or await the arrival OF foreign
Cardinals.
GEN. Mcneil, of st. Louis, and Gen.
F. A. Walker, of Yale College, who were
successfully rendered the appointment of
Commissioner to Sitting-Bull in conjunction
with Gen. Terry, have respectfully declined,
and it is intimated that the project Of send
ing a civil commissioner will be abandoned
AT reunion of the Selden family, at
Fenwick Grove, Conn, on the 22d, Chief
Justice Wait presided, and another of the
notabilities present was Lyman Trumbull,
of Illinois, whose grandmother was Selden.
THE Pope was reported on the 28th
to be suffering great prostration and unable
to attend TO any business.
THE Grand Jury at Columbus, s. c.,
on the 18th, returned true bills against ex-
Lieutenant Governor Gleayes, ex- Treasures
Parker and Cardozo, exComptrollers Dunn
and Hoge, ex-Speaker Lee, Clerks of Gen
eral Assembly Woodruff and Jones, ex-State
Senator Owens and others, on various
charges Of fraud in connection with the dis
charge of their official duties.
THE Governors of several States met
in Philadelphia on the 2Sth and were ten
dered public reception, after which they
visited the Exhibition.
A MILWAUKEE divorce suit, in which
the wife of Hon. John i. Mitchell figures as
plaintiff, is the most exciting social event
that has ever occurred in the cream-colored
city. According to the evidence, both par
ties to the suit have been habitually guilty
of gross intoxication, lewd conduct, and
other misdemeanOrs which betray horrible
condition of affairs in the private life of some
of Milwaukee's most aristocratic people.
The defendant is a son Of Hon. Alex.
Mitchell, the great railroad magnate.
= REV. THOMAS L. MUMFoRD, editor
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the 29th Illt.
f. NJ. STANTON, son of the late Sec
rotary Stanton, died in Washington on the
Doth ult.
JUDGE A. B. SLoANAKER, of Louisi-
ana, has been appointed special agent in the
Internal Revenue Office.
EX-Gov. WILSON SHANNON, of Kan
sas, died at Lawrence on the Doth ult. -.
D A. B. HAYNES, Grand Master of the
Tennessee State Grange, and a leading
farmer, died on his plantation, near Mem
phis, on the 29th ult.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT was rendered
the freedom of the City of Edinburgh, Scot
land, on the 30th, by the Lord Provost, Sir
James Falshaw, in the Free Assembly Hall
Gen. Grant made brief reply to the adj
dress. E- .-.i.
EDWARD CUNARD, second son of the
late Edward Cunard, principal proprietor
of the Cunard line of steamers, was killed
in England while playing game of polo, on
the 30th. -r
THE Iowa State Prohibition Conven-
ton nominated Hon. Elias Jossup, of Oska-
lOosa, for Governor. No other nominations
were made.
MAJOR A. F. GARRISON, United States
Vice-Consul at Guaymas, Mexico, died on
the Goth ult., aged 50. He was a former
resident of Missouri, and at one time a
member of the General Assembly.
JUDGE JOHN L. MINER, formerly of
the Superior Court of Ohio, fell dead on the
street in Cincinnati on the Both.