The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-06-14
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

HORACE F. SMITH, General Freight
Agent of the Memphis Division of the Lou
isville, Nashville and Great Southern Rail-
road, was drowned in the river at Memphis
on the night of the 9Oth ult.
GEN. Comfy, editor of the Ohio State
journal, is to be appointed Minister to the
Sandwich Islands.
EX-GOV. WARMOTH, of Louisiana,
was married at Newark, n. j., on the 29th
ult., to Miss Sallie Durand, daughter of a
prominent citizen of that city.
REV. j. B. REED, Chancellor in the
Catholic diocese of Hartford, CT, died on
the 1st.
Z. II. TAYLOR, of Frankfort, Ky, one
Of the largest distillers in the State, has fail
ed for half a million dollars, with assets of
about half that amount. Taylor has disap-
peared, and an investigation Of his affairs
shows that he has borrowed large sums of
money upon fraudulent warehouse recei pts
SOPHIA FREDERIKA MATILDA, Queen
of Holland, died on the Sd, aged 50.
THE Postmasters at Clinton, in East
Feliciana Parish, and at st. Francisyille, in
West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, both col
ored men, have reported to the Department
that they are unable to take possession of
their offices on account of the hostility of the
white citizens, and special agent has been
sent there to investigate the matter.
AMONG the recent arrivals at San
Francisco from Honolulu is Mrs. Likelike
Kapiolani Cleghorn Younger, sister of King
Kalakaua.
REV JOHN NJ. FoRDAY, pastor of the
Lutheran Church at Harper's Ferry, Va. was
drowned on the LIST.
ANTHONY GARDNER has been elected
President of Liberis.
Mrs. ELIZABETH F. ELLETT, the au-
thoress, died on the Sd at New York.
Mr.. L. BRENTANO, of Chicago, has
declined the appointment Of Minister to
Switzerland.
AMONG the Postmasters recently com
missioned by the President are the follow
ing: Edwin w. Phelps, Oak Park, Ill. !;
Mrs. Jane Eastman, Plano, H.; ORION H.
Benson, haywood, H.; Albert Parker, Sc
dalia, Mo-; Edward r. Shipley, Springfield,
Mo-; Ezra A. Hadley, Little Rock, Ark. ;
Alphonso L. Darnall, Sherman, Texas.
SENATORS Morton, Salisbury and
Mcmillan, the Senate Committee appointed
TO investigate the Oregon election, have
gone to that State to take testimony in the
matter.
EDWARD TROwBRIDGE, formerly
United States Consul at Barbados, died on
the 18th ult. from hydrophobia, caused by
the bite of pet dog.
THE Ohio State Greenback Conven-
ton was held at Columbus on the 9th.
A State ticket was nominated, headed by
stephen johnson, of Miami County, for Gov
ernor.
TIE suit against Peter B. Sweeney,
ex-member of the New York Tammany
Ring, to recover S7,OOO,OOO alleged to have
been stolen from the city, has been COM
promised by an agreement on the part of
Sweeney's friends to pay 100000.
GEN. j. NJ. Comfy, the newly APP
pointed Minister to the Sandwich Islands, is
an old army comrade and intimate friend of
the President. He went out as Major of the
23d Ohio, of which President Hayes was
Colonel, rose to the command of the regi-
ment and to Brigadier's brevet, and at the
close of the war bought the Ohio State
Journal and settled down to editorship at
the State capital.
NJ. BONNET DUvERDIER, President of
the Paris Municipal Assembly, who was re-
Gently arrested, charged with insulting Pres
ident Mcmahon and melting war and assas-
sination, has been sentenced to 10 months
Imprisonment and to pay 1000 francs fine.
Other participants of the meeting at St.Denis
incurred lesser but severe sentences.
A GRAND farewell reception to ex-
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, was given at
Masonic Hall, indianapolis, on the evening
of the Sth, prior to his departure for Eu-
rope.
TWENTY persons were removed from
the Treasury Department recently on ac-
count of the order of the Secretary forbid
ding the employment of several members of
the same family in the Department.
THE receipts of the Vatican from the
Pope's jubilee was six and half millions
lire in gold, exclusive of valuable presents.
THE President has appointed A. D.
Hazel, of Pennsylvania, Third Assistant
Postmaster General, rice Is. w. Bar
Der, of Michigan, resigned, to take effect
June 80.