The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-04-12
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

AT w HeellDR W est -, Oh IHe OOOu,
fire destroyed the Grant House, the loss
being about $780, 900. -
On the 30th ult., 5 miles from Dead
wood, d. T., Edward Moran, OF Cheyenne,
who left there with team, was stopped by
two armed men, who tied him to a tree and
stripped him, taking from him$2OO in dust,
some currency and q watch and chain. 1 81
The engineers appointed to examine
the Niagara Falls suspension bridge report
it entirely safe. 7H t.- Hafi p
The first boat of the season, the John
NJ. Chambers, passed Platsmouth, Neb. +,
bound up, on the 30th.
The "Moonshiners," regularly or
ganized band Of depredators, are commit
ting robberies in the mountains Of West
Virginia. On the night OF the 30th ult. !,
near Warrington, 4 family named Stevens
were aroused from sleep by the entrance
into their house Of party Of four masked
"Moonshiners, - who demanded of Mr..
Stevens his money, Of which they probably
knew he had received considerable sum.
Mr.. Stevens objecting to giving it up, one
killed him on the spot, in the presence of
his terrified family, who were threatened,
if they made the least ouicry, with the same
treatment. Securing their money, the viii
lains rode off.
A special from Paris, April I'd, says
A rumor is in circulation that the roof OF
Mount Cents Tunnel has fallen, oyerwhelm-
ing two passenger trains.
A Paris correspondent reports that
Charles Marchal, painter distinguished
for his Alsscian scenes, committed suicide
on account of approaching blindness.
Internal revenue receipts for March,
1877, $, $50, 297, against IS, 29S, 252 for
March, 1876. f- asE-lr .-s ss
More than one-half of the business
portion Of Monroeville, o., was destroyed
by fire the night Of the LIST. Loss, about
$75 200. rI faE- -siar s-.. rs
A special from Berlin says Prince Bis
marck has rendered his resignation Of I'm
perial Chancellorship. The Crown Prince
has epdeayored to induce Bismarck to with
draw his resignation, and the Emperor
William has declined to accept it. The
Emperor has, however, granted Bismarck
a years leave OF absence, Of which the
Prince viii shortly avail himself, to recruit
his health - -Aa-,-~ f-as s%aA
The Peoria and Rock Island Road was
sold, with all appurtenances, at auction, al
Chicago, on the Ah, under decreeof fore
closure of the first mortgage bondholders, to
parties at Rock Island for $4,000, subject to
an incumbrance of $4,000. Consequently
the first bondholders get only 100000, and
the second mortgage realizes nothing. The
road originally in 1870 cost S2,OOO,O 900, and
the amount of the bonds was s., 100000. b.
A supposed Frenchrnan entered "a
house on Twenty-scventh Street, New York
the night of the 81, and, taking Lucy Free
man aside aud upbraiding her becauseo The
life she Misleading, lighted 4 match and set
her clothing on fire. The girl ran into the
parlor, thence TO the street, where a police
man eXtinguished the flames, hut not before
the girl was badly burned. She died soon
after being admitted to the hospital.
The school-house in the Norwegian
village of Elengso has been burned, and 1G
children perlshed. $500 - 81
The Gulf and Western Texas Railway,
of which 80 miles are now in operation be-
tween Indianola and Cuero, was sold at
United States Marshal's sale at Galveston, on
the 4th, to Commodore Charles Morgan for
100000.
Judge Taft's residence at Mount Au-
burn, suburb of Cincinnati, was partially
burned on the morning Of the 4th. Loss,
$4,000.
"A bark has arrived at New York with
the crew Of one vessel and portion of an
other that bad beenin collision of the coast
of England. One sank. Carrying down four
seamen. The other had to be abandoned.
The Post-officef at Jacksonville, Fla,
has been burned. FThe fixtures and other
property. ereesaved. IS The building WAS
the finest in the city, and was used for the
United States Court and other Federal pur-
poses. .FzKwEs HANS .En1 ElxasE q
The Wanderers of the four Cinnamon
IT Chico were indicted, on the 9Th, by the
Grand Jury Its report closes as follows;
''We find that,there has been in existence in
BUR midst al orgaRized.baRd Of incendiaries
and aSsasSinS, whose crimesAmas ~ ceH1-
pared to those of thesworst criminals eyer
brought to justice, and we believe that some
Of them are still al large. We urge upon
those, whose duty it Is, to pursue with re-
Ientless vigor every elew 10 their identity
and punishment. b isasi = = & .s- is
By a collision on the Central Pacific
Road, near Summit, Cad, ON the 4th, be-
tNeeJI an .Spress-train, drawn by two en-
gilIes, sand special freight-srain, George |
Burt, engineer Of the express train, was IN |
stantly killed, John Wright fireman. was
badly scaldedt John Warren, engineer Of
The second express-engine, was severely