The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-31
TELEGRAPHuC NOTES.

cent snoollHg aHalf IN Iilat diStrlct resulted
in the shooting OF four illicit distillers and
one citizen, and not five United States
officers, as was at first reported.
The steamer j. Don Cameron, with
80 tons Of Government freight and 20
passengers, struck a snag and sunk in IS
feet Of water, 40 miles below Sioux City,
Iowa, on the 18th. No lives lost.
narrowing accounts of suffering and
destitution come from the burnt districts in
Clinton County, n. Y. A large tract of rich
farming country was swept clear of build
ings, fences, trees and stock. Crops put in
the ground were destroyed and the people
are utterly destitute, helpless and without
resources.
Charles Tommey, colored, was hanged
at Americas, Ga, on the 18th, for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Caraway, white lady.
An excursion train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ran into a
wash-out near Ellinwood, about 20 miles
west of Topeka, on the evening of the 18th,
killing one passenger, named Miller, of Fond
du Lac, Wis, and injuring six or eight
others.
The Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia has decided adversely upon the
claims of Admiral Porter and the officers
and men of the North Atlantic squadron to
S3,OO0,0O0 in prize money, made ON account
of the squadron's share in the capture of
Richmond.
The Catholic Church in course of
erection at st. Hypolite, Quebec, was blown
down by tornado on the 18th, killing the
contractor, Benjamin Boilleau, and MORALLY
wounding his son. A number of other build
ings were RACED and several persons injured.
Goldsmith Maid trotted mile in
2:14 1-2 at San Francisco on the 1Sth-the
fastest time on record.
Information has been received at the
Department of State, from the Consul Cen
eral at Calcutta, that Captain Henry Smith,
his sister, Chief Officer Dyer and three sea-
men of the American bark Edmond Phinney,
died suddenly of cholera at Akyab on the
25th of last March. The cholera has PEE
vailed to an alarming extent in the district
about Chittagong and on the islands along
the coast which were inundated by the great
storm wave on the 31st of October, 1876.
More than $1,000 deaths have been reported
from the cholera alone, and in addition to
these there have been large numbers from
pestilential fevers attributed to the same
general cause.-the infection of the air and
water by the decomposition of the multi
| tudes of human beings and cattle which per-
ished at that time. This state of things is
likely to continue till the heavy rains carry
off the remaining impurities.
The New York Assembly Chamber
was invaded by a large crowd of working
men, on the evening of the 18th, on which
occasion there was an attempt made to pass
! over the Governors veto the bill appropri-
ating 81 ,0O0,0 900 for the completion of the new
| Capitol. The requisite two-thirds being
wanting, scene of great confusion and dis
order in the galleries ensued, and as some
/ obnoxious members appeared outside they
were set upon by the crowd and driven back
and escaped personal violence only by the
| interpositiOn of the police. 1t was deemed
necessary to put a guard around the Gov
/ ernOr's house for fear of anticipated viO-
! lence.
"A most destructive storm passed over
a portion of Grant County, Ind, on Sunday
| the Goth. A brick church, nine miles north
of Marion, was demolished, while filled with
| people attending divine service. The ROOT
was uplifted and the walls fell in, buryine
the inmates. The scene that followed was
| terrible. One young man was killed, and 1C
or ID persons were seriously injured.
The town of Creswell, Washington
County, n. c., was totally destroyed by fire
on the night of the 18th. There was but lit
tie insurance held by property holders, and
the greatest distress prevails.
During the Whitmonday amusements
at Hull, England, balloon about to ascend
was blown against gas jet and exploded.
Eighty-siX Of the spectators were injured,
six dangerously.
On the first of June mail service
will be begun between Paddock, Neb., and
Custer City, Dakota, making the sixth mail
route into the Black Hills country.
Levi Pyle, the negro who attempted
to outrage the person of Mrs. C. r. Pyle, the
wife of his employer, near Blandsville, Ky.,
was taken from the Jail by mob and hang
ed on the night of the Goth.
At the launching of the Saratoga, a
large iron steamship, at ROach's ship-yard,
Chester, Pa, on the 22d, seven employees
were killed and several others injured by be-
ing crushed under the blocks. The slperin-
tendent says that the men killed either did
not hear or heed the oder to get out from
under the vessel, which was given full five
minutes before the ship started.
Austin Humphreys was hanged at
Windsor, Ont, on the I'D, for the murder
of his employer, Frederick Affel, in Janua-
ry last.
Thirty persons were recently drowned
by the sinking of coasting vessel off the
coast of Australia.
Gloversville, Fulton County, N Y,
was visited by destructive fire on the night
of the DIST.
James Laws, colored, a prominent
Republican politician of East Feliciana,
Louisiana, was called to his door by party
of men, a few days ago, and shot down in
cold blood. The New Orleans Republican
says that the murderers were white men,
and that Laws's offense was purely political.
The PjcGyuRe says that, according to the
tN iuNhNC bNlblC tut NolollOl SlNtH ny
Laws's mother, the assassin was negro, and
supposed to be paramour of the murdered
mans wife, who is charged with instigating
the murder.
Ten Brock ran mile against time at
Louisville on the oath, making 1:39 3-4-2
seconds faster than any mile heat previously
on record.
Four inches of snow fell in Berkshire
County, Mass, an the oath.
Reports from Central and Eastern
Iowa state that late rains and cold weather
had rotted much Of the first corn planted
and that replanting had begun. The fruit
crop will be almost total failure.
In Wisconsin the spring wheat is in
good condition, but the chinch-b bug has APP
peared in a number of localities. The acre
age is only an average. There promises to
be a large yield Of corn, oats, rye and barley.
The Republican Life Insurance Com
pany of Chicago, which has been winding up
its business for the last three years, has been
put into the hands of Receiver by the Aud
itor of the State.