The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-06-07
Personal AND POLITICAL.

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PRESIDENT HAYES has determined, it
is said, that he will accept no private hospi-
talities while he holds his present office.
Secretary Eyarts has also decided TO plead
no more cases in court while he continues to.
act as Secretary Of State, the duties Of which
Office are sufficiently exaetiIg to enaploy all
his time.
THE New York State Woman's Suf-
frage Association held its eleventh annual
convention in New York City on the 25th.
Miss Susan b. Anthony was chosen Presi
dent for the ensuing year.
JOHN G.. TRACY, President, and James
L. Chapman, Cashier, of the Farmers and
Mechanics National Bank of Hartford, Ct,
who pleaded guilty to perjury and embez-
element, have been sentenced, the former to
state-prison for six years and six months at
hard labor, and the latter to State-prison at
hard labor for five years and nominal fine
of 81.
EZEKIEL HOWELL, Chief Engineer of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been sus-
pended on account of shortage of about
$780, 900 discovered in his department.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections in the South Carolina House have
reported adversely upon the claim of the en-
tire Charleston delegation, seventeen in
number, including Speaker Mackey, to seats
in the General Assembly. The ground of
the report is that there was so much fraud
and intimidation in that county as to vitiate
the elections. The evidence on the point, it
is said, was almost wholly derived from the
report of the Congressional subcommittee
which visited Charleston last fall.
IT is announced that on June / Col.
Corbin will be relieved from duty as Secre-
tary at the White House, and that hereafter
during the present Administration no mill
tary officer win be detailed for that or any
similar duty about the Executive mansion.
GEN. LOGAN, it is stated, has been
rendered the appointment of Minister to
Brazil, but declines to accept. The place is
worth 1900 year.
THE Grand Jury of Eldorado County,
Cal, have found a criminal Indictment
against the proprietOrs of the San Francis
co Chronicle, on a complaint of Senator
Sargent and Congressman Page, based on
the publication by that journal of the
Pinney statement rejecting on them and the
Chronicles editorial comments thereon. 1t
is stated that Sargent and Page are to bring
similar complaints against all newspapers in
the State which have published the alleged
libelous statement.
T. Z. HINKLEY, President of the Chi
cago and Paducah Railroad, has been ar
rested upon complaint of one Fischer, a
wealthy English bOndholder, charged with
dispOsing of bonds of the road in England
upon false representations concerning the
financial status of the road at home. Hink-
ley says his arrest is merely Matchmaking
scheme.
THE Grand Jury of Erie County, Pa,
have found II indictments for embezzle-
ment against Jno. S. Farlow, of Boston,
President of the Cincinnati, Sandusky and
Cleveland Railroad. 1t is currently report
ed that he purloined or embezzled great
sums of money from said railroad and APP
propriated such money to his own use.
MATIAs ROMERO, Mexican Minister at
Washington during the Presidency of Jua-
rez, has just been appointed Secretary of the
Treasury, and Trinidad Garcia, Secretary of
the Interior.
FLETCHER HARPER, the last surviving
member of the original firm of Harper
Brothers, publishers, New York, died on the
Doth, in his I'D year.
j. LoTHRoP MOTLEY, the American
historian, died of paralysis, at the residence
of his son-in-law, in London, on the Goth
ult.
MAJOR CHARLES F. POWELL, United
States Consul at Iquique, Peru, died of fever
at that port on the 9th ult.
THE trial of Wilson for the murder of
Swayze, at Topeka, resulted in verdict of
not guilty.
EX-GOv. 0. A. HADLEY has received
the appointment of Postmaster at Little
Rock, Ark, rice Hon. Joseph Brooks, de-
ceased.
Mons. V. A. ALvERGNAT, an instruct
or of French in Hartford Comm school,
was bitten by a mad dog on April 80 and
died on May 81 of hydrOphobia.
GEN. GRANT arrived in London on the
LIST, and on the same day, in company. with
the Prince of Wales, went by special train
to witness the great EPSON races. 1t is an
nounced that Gen. Grant will take dinner
with the Prince of Wales, at Mr.. Pierre
points residence, on the Dist of June, and
will meet the Duke of Cambridge at a sim
liar banquet on June 26.