The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-18
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

Edwin Willis Major, wife-poisoner,
was hanged at Concord, N. H.. on the 9Th.
The French steamship L'Amerique,
bound from Havre to New York, went
ashore at Seabright, \. j., at 6 o'clock on
the morning OF the 9Th. The passengers
and crew, with the exception Of three of the
latter who attempted to land in one of the
ships boats, were rescued by the life-sav-
ing crew.
The steamer Montgomery, from New
York 70 Havana, was sunk on the It'll, DUR
ing fog, off Cape May, by collision with
the steamer Seminole, Of the Boston and
Savannah line. Thirteen lives were lost.
Miles Ogle, one of the most notorious
counterfeiters in the country, and an accom-
plice, W. r. Johnston, alias Wilson, have
been arrested and safely lodged in the Pitts
burgh JAIL. A humber Of plates, consider
able spurious currency, and s., 200 in coun-
terfeit notes were found on their persons.
They were committed for trial in default of
$50, 900 bail.
1t is now definitely known that Maj.
Randall and his Crow scouts were not mas
sacred by the Sioux, as was reported some
time ago. They had, however, a desper-
ately marrow escape from starvation For
an entire month they were wandering
around in the Big Horn Mountains, with
snow five feet deep, and for more than
week Of the time they were without fire.
Charles j. Brent, the extradited
Louisville fsrger, has finally been brought
home for trial. He is said to be penitent,
and as proof has restored all the money
procured by his forgery.
A dispatch from Constantinople,
10th, says it is rumored there that the
Russian army in Turkestan of 40, 200 strong
has been destroyed by an uprising of in
habitants.
A train on tle Virginia Midland Rail
road was thrown from the track by broken
rail, between Manassas and Bristol, on the
morning Of the 18th. Two sleeping cars
went down an embankment and were over
turned several times in the descent. Sew
eral passengers were seriously injured, and
nearly all the others slightly. The passen-
gers were mostly invalids on their way TO
Florida.
A passenger car on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, on the 18th, jumped the
track near Green Briar River, West Vir-
ginia, AMI plunged down a 40-foOt embank-
ment to the frozen surface Of the river.
The ice was firm and the car did not go
through. Seven persons were hurt; none
fatally.
The Consolidated Virginia Mine
yielded, in 1876, sic, 662, 900 in bullion, and
the superintendent thinks the yield for the
current year will be greatly increased.
A Brownsville telegram of the 18th
says that the Diaz revolution in Mexico is
carrying every thing before it, and but lit
tie more fighting is anticipated.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce has petitioned Congress for the re-
moval of the War tax on banksI and bank
ers.
The extension of the Central Branch
Railroad from WAterville TO Washington,
Kansas, was formally opened on the 18th.
Three Claddagh fishermen, blown off
the coast Of Galway, Ireland, during ter
rlble gale, were picked up in an open smack
on the sixth light out, by passing vessel,
and landed in New York on the 18th. They
had suffered terribly. and two Of their com
rades were drowned.
The steamers Calumet and Andes
were sunk by the breaking of the ice gorge
st Cincinnati, on the 18TH.