The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-04

bridge, $4,000; the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railway, loss Of track and bridge,
$4,000; cotton presses, $500; uncom-
pleted buildings in the city, $500; bath
houses on the beach, $500; twenty small
schooners eapsized, loss S, 900; private build
ings and property, $4,000.
The last steamer from Samoa to San
Francisco brought intelligence of another
instruction in that island. The Steinberger
party is now the dominant faction.
The estimated damage in and around
Galveston by the recent cyclone, is over
$4,000. aG
The First National Bank of Cortland,
Y. Y, was recently robbed Of package
containing bonds and other securities valued
at 100000, belonging to private individuals.
No clew to the thief.
Anderson Shiffiet was hanged at Har-
risonburg, Rockingham County, Va, on the
18th, for the murder of David G. Lawson, in
March, 1870. The evidence upon which
ShifIlet was convicted implicated sew
eral Others in the crime, the insti-
gator of which was Lawson's wife. She
was also convicted and is sentenced to be
hanged on Oct. 80. Silas Morris, Mrs. Law
sons brother, who employed Shiffiet TO do
the killing, was also convicted and sentenced
to be hanged on the same day as Shiffiet,
but was respited by the Governor for one
month.
A Wilkesbarre pa dispatch of the
18th says that the striking miners have final
" agreed to accept the compromise offered
by the mine owners and work will probably
be resumed Immediately throughout all
that region.
The sixth annual convention of the
National Agricultural Congress met at Chi
cago on the 18th.
The schooner Ocean Wave, from New
Orleans to Galveston, laden with coal, foun-
dered on the 10th, and all on board-Capt
McIntire and seven men-were lost.
Near Roseville, o., on the morning Of
the 2Gth, the dead bodies of Abner james
and his wife were found by the roadside
locked in each others arms, the wife tightly
grasping revolver in her left
hand. The husband had bullet
hole in his breast and the wife one il
the temple and one in the back. James was
an undertaken, doing business in GAINESVILLE
After considerable domestic trouble, it is
supposed that Mrs. James finally left hel
husband to go home to her mothers, who
lives near Roseville. The husband apparent
" followed her, and when within short
distance of her mothers house the fata
tragedy was enacted. 1t is supposed thai
James first shot his wife in the back and
then shot himself in the breast; and thai
Mrs. James, not dying Immediately, sue
eeeded in getting hold of the pistol and end
ing her sufferings by another shot through
the brain.
The Indians have murdered all tho
white inhabitants, 50 in number, in Cooks
! CANYON and on Whites ranch, between Sill
yer City and Fort Yuma.
The South Pacific coast has beer
shaken up by another earthquake.
Aparty of cattle thieves, II in number,
who had run off large herd Of cattle from
! the range in Western Colorado, were over
taken in Northwestern Kansas by party o
! - rangers and every one of them killed
| This was on the DIST of August. On the 14tl
of September the unburied bodies of the l:
men were discovered by some passers-by
which was the first intimatiOn given to thu
public of the tragic affair.
THE late officers of the Protection
Life Insurance Company of Chicago havt
! been indicted by the Grand jury for misap
preparation of funds. President billiard ant
| Secretary Edwards were released on $2O,OO
bail, but Cashier Sawyer was unable t
obtain bondsman and so went to Jail.
Nat Pierce, who was implicated il
killing Story and Fitzpatrick, in Picken
! County, Ala, last August, was taken from
Carrolton Jail on the night of the Goth, b!
about 20 masked men, and hanged.
The St. Elmo (Ill) assassin ha.
finally been captured, and fully identified
His name is Frank Nichols, and his home
was at Lovington, Moultrie County, wher,
he was captured. He was taken to the Jai
at Vandalia.
Providence, II. l., was visited by de
structiye fire on the night of the 9th, whicl
swept away several valuable business blocks
Losses about $4,000, mostly insured.
By the explosion of a locomotive OF
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, a
Rocky Hill Station, Warren County, KY, OF
the Goth, Chas. Wilson, engineer, Thos. Nc
Rae, fireman, and Mccormick, brakeman
were instantly killed and number of Others
injured. There were number Of valuable
horses on the train, two of which were kill
ed and the rest injured. One of the horses
killed was Sazerac. ..-
The new management of the Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company find that il
order to keep the concern going it will bt
necessary for policy -holders to release A
per cent. of the reserve liabilities; otherwise
it will be placed in the hands Of receiver
Gen. Grant was rendered a banquet
by the Mayor and Corporation of Sheffield
England, on the evening of the2lth. On the
following day he visited Shakspeare's birth
place and tomb at Stratford- Avon
where he was also received with distinguish
ed honors.
A fire occurred at farmhouse in st.
Gregoire, p. O., the night of the 9th, by
which eight children lost their lives. Five
were burned to death and three suffocated
Alice Richards, servant, aged II,
was fatally burned at Bridgeport, o., while
kindling the fire with Kerosene.
aa WAR NEWS.
A Vienna correspondent says: The
encounter mar PiaIo on tho ~ ST il said IN