The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-22
EAST AND Southeast.

Congressman Smalls and L. Cass Carpen-
ter, of South Carolina, have both been tried
before jury and found guilty of the
charges preferred against them-the former
of bribery and corruption and the latter of
forgery.
Mrs. Eveline T. Stuart, aged q, wife of
Robert Stuart, a wealthy and aristoeratic
New Yorker, committed suicide on the 18th
by taking laudanum. The couple had beCn
married only since April last, and it is be-
lieyed that the unhappy wife was driven to
the fatal act on account of her husband hay-
ing become an habitual drunkard. The
husband is the son of the late Lieut.. Robert
Stuart, Of the United States Army.
Henry Hausman, aged 40, of New York
City, ON the l2th shot his three children, aged
respectively 8, 6 and years, and then shot
himself. The youngest child was killed and
the surgeon thought that the next eldest and
Hausman himself would die. Rum was the
cause.
The official returns of the Pennsylvania
election show that for Supreme Judge the
Democratic candidate received 251 600 votes ;
Republican, pa, 4S0; Greenback 81 $50; Pro-
hibition, 1889. Democratic plurality, 600.
A financial crash was experienced at Read
ing, Pa, on the 10th. The Reading Savings
Bank, with deposits aggregating 81 200, 600,
closed its doors, and this was followed by
the suspension of the banking house of
Bushong & Brother and the Dime Savings
Bank. Other failures are inevitable. The
Reading Savings Bank had been carrying two
large iron manufactures which were unable
say depositors will ultimately be paid in full,
but much suffering to the poorer classes is
inevitable.
T6n Peoples Savings Bank of Newark, n.
j., has suspended.
Borden City Mill, No. 1, at Fail River,
Mass, was burned on the 18th. 1t employed
45O hands and was valued with contents at
$4,000.
Hester Ann Williams (colored) and her
three children were burned to death in a
building near Norfolk, Va, on the 18th.
The Pittsburg Dispatch building was
nearly destroyed by fire and completely
Quilted on the morning Of the 18th.
Gen. James Shields, of Missouri, the Mex
lean veteran, was received at Boston on the
18th by the city militia and escorted through
the principal streets.
During services at the Church of the As
cension at Philadelphia, on sunday, the
18th, Alexander B. Savers walked up the
aisle, drew pistol, and shot his wife, Eliz-
abeth, who occupied pew several feet in
advance Of where Savers had been sitting.
The bullet entered her back, inhicting a
mortal wound. Savers was promptly ar
rested. Both parties were regular attend
ants at church, but have been separated for
two wears. The husband has already served
a term in prison for breaking her arm.
S.R.W Gill, prominent lawyer Of Pitts
burg, mysteriously disappeared from home
about the middle of October, and it now
turns out that some Of his confding clients
are losers by him TO the amount of over
500. 1000, cash and convertible securities en-
trusted to his care.
Conrad Poppenhausen,a an extensive manu-
facturer and heavy stakeholder in Long Is
land railroads, has failed with liabilities OF
SS.52I, $50, and nominal assets amounting TO
over S7,OO0,000-the latter principally rail-
road securities.
The extensive rubber factory of l.. Candee
d Co., at New Haven, CT, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. About 800 men