The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-02-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

JUDGE MACKEY, of the South Caro-
lima Supreme Court, on the 18th, granted a
preliminary injunction restraining State
Treasurer CardozO and Comptroller-Gen.
Dunn, respectively. from drawing any war
rants or paying out funds from the State
Treasury, under the appropriation bill pass
ed by the Mackey House at its late session,
upon the ground that the body which pre-
tended to originate and pass it was not the
legal House Of Representatives.
GEN. JOHN MCDONALD, chief of the
former St. Louis Whisky Ring, has been
pardoned by the President, on the ground
Of i'll health, and released from confine-
ment.
THE South Carolina Supreme Court,
on the 26th, rendered a decision in the quo
warranto proceedings against the Hayes
Electors, dismissing the case, on the ground
that the proceedings were illegally present
ed on the part OF the State, instead Of the
United States.
THE National Executive Committee
Union League Of America, at a meeting held
in Philadelphia on the 25th, elected Gen.
Daniel Ulman, of New York, Chairman for
the ensuing year, and adjourned to meet in
Washington on the 14th Of February.
w. II. HARDY, the defeated candi-
date for Congressional Delegate from Ari-
IONA, has petitioned the Supreme Court of
that Territory TO compel the Secretary to
recanvass the vote.
PETER WNTERMUTE, who shot and
L faCo Of
two years ago, died of consumption at his
fathers home, in Households, Chemung
County, n. Y, on the 18th ult.
REPREsE NATIVE PIPER, of the First
District, California, who was defeated by
Horace Davis in the last election, has given
notice that he will contest Davis's seat in
the Forty-fifth Congress, on the ground Of
fraudulent voting.
THE Countess Howe, a well known
English lady, on the 3Oth killed herself by
jumping from a window of her mothers
residence in Berkeley Square, London. The
Coroner's Jury rendered a verdict that the
act was committed while the lady was in an
unsound state Of mind caused by grief at
the death of Earl Howe, her husband.
PROF. EDWARD L. SEYMOUR, an hon.
orary member of the Polytechnic School at
Dillenberg, Germany, cut his throat in St.
Louis on the ooh. Cause, poverty.
LIEUT. JOHN WELDON, of the United
States Engineer Corps, committed suicide
at San Francisco on the Goth. Cause not
stated.
j. MADISON WELLS, of the Louisiana
Returning Board, was interviewed by a
New York Herald correspondent, on the
LIST. He pronounced the statement made
by J. II. Maddox before the House Com
mittee, in reference to his (Wells's) pro-
posal to sell out the Electoral vote of Lou
isiana to Tilden, to be san infamous lie,
baseless as it is malicious. " The state
ments Of Littlefield he also denied point
blank, and said the whole evidence was
gotten up to injure the reputation of the
Returning Board before Congress and the
people.
ARUNAH HUNTINGTON, a native of
Vermont, who died recently in Canada, left
by will a fund Of S2O2, 900 for the benefit of
the common schools of Vermont.
JUDGE j. Z. MACKEY has now rem
dered u decision to the effect that Hampton
is the lawful Governor Of South Carolina.
Appealed to the Supreme Court.
INDICTMENTS have been returned
against the principal officers OF the defunct
Security Life Insurance Company Of New
York for ENLIGHTENMENT, grand larceny and
perjury.
J. H. MADDOX. who testified before
the House Committee in reference to Louis
lana affairs, was on the ID dismissed from
his official position in the Internal Revenue
Bureau, by order OF the President.
GEO. NJ. WHEELER, the defaulting
President of the Lacrosse wis National
Bank, has been sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the Wisconsin State Prison.