The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-24

GEN. HAwLEY, President. 4. T. Gosh
orn, General Director, ard Meyer Asche,
Assistant Secretary Of the Centennial Com
mission, have been created by the King of
Holland Knights Of the Order Of the Golden
Lion Of the Netherlands.
RgY +. L. BAIRD, absconding Secre-
.ary Of the Presbyterian Committee of Pub
LEGATION for the Southern States, has been in
dicted on a charge Of embezzlement.
THE Marchioness of Lothian, one of
the distinguished pilgrims to Rome, died
suddenly on the 18th. She had rented-a hotel
and was holding a series of brilliant recep-
tions, at one Of which she took very severe
cold, resulting in her death.
President HAYES, Secretaries Eyarts
and Schurz, Gems. Sherman, Hancock and
other distinguished gentlemen participated
in the 109th annual banquet Of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, given on the
evening Of the 14th.
Hon. H. II. EMMoNs, Judge of the
Sixth Judicial Circuit United States Court,
died at his residence, in Detroit, Mich, on
the 18th, after long and painful illness.
THE reply of the State Department TO
the formal notification by Turkey of the ex-
istence of a state of war between that power
and Russia is to the effect that the United
States will occupy a strictly neutral position
toward the belligerents. A similar reply has
been furnished the Russians.
TENNIE c.. CLAFLIN has presented to
VIM. II. Vanderbilt a claim for over 100000,
the proceeds, she alleges, of $4,000 deposited
by her with Commodore Vanderbilt in 1871
for speculative operations. VIM. III. Van
derbilt pronounces the claim ridiculous, but
Tennie threatens, unless it is paid, to make
public some very curious facts regarding the
late Commodore.
THE golden jubilee of his Holiness
Pope Plus TX. was celebrated by Catholics
of New Orleans on the 18th by grand mill
tary and civic procession and mass meeting.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, in recent
lecture in Baltimore, said some unpleasant
things about the resident population of the
District Of Columbia, and now large num-
Der of citizens have united in a petition to
have him removed from the Marshalship of
the District.
LIEUT.. w. w. FLEMING, of the
Twelfth United States Infantry, Quarter
master and Commissary at Alcatraz, Cal,
recently absconded with the prison fund,
after having obtained all the cash loans he
could in other quarters. Hewas overhauled
at Laramie, on his way East, and taken back
under arrest.
THE statue of the poet Fitz Greene
Halleck in the New York Central Park was
unveiled on the 18th by President Hayes.
REV. E. T. BAIRD, absconding Secre-
tary of the Presbyterian Committee of Pub
lication for the Southern States, has been
indicted on the charge of embezzleInent.
THE Marchioness of Lothian, one of
the distinguished pilgrims 20 Rome, died
suddenly on the 18th. She had rented a ho
tel and was holding a series of brilliant re-
ceptions, at one of which she took a very Sc
we're cold, resulting in her DEATH
PRESIDENT HAYES, Secretaries Evarts
and Schurz, Gems. Sherman, Hancock and
other distinguished gentlemen participated
in the 109th annual banquet of the New York
Chamber of Commerce, given on the evening
of the 18th. -q.
Hon. H. II. EMMoNs, Judge of the
Sixth Judicial Circuit United States Court,
died at his residence, in Detroit, Mich, on
the 14th, after a long and painful illness.
EX-SENATOR CARPENTER has left
Wisconsin and will hereafter reside in
Washington.
GEN. G. B. CoMsToCK, of the En-
gineer Corps, has been granted leave of alb
sence for one year, with permission to visit
Europe, and, if permitted by the belligerent
Governments, the seat of war in the East.
JUDGE CHARLES III. BRYAN, formerly
of the California Supreme Court, was choked
to death by piece of meat while at dinner,
at Carson, New, on the 18th.
THE South Carolina Legislature, on
the 10Th, elected Associate Justice A. w.
Willard to the Chief Justiceship.
MAJOR CHARLES BLACKBURN, a
prominent Cincinnati lawyer, has suddenly
absented himself under somewhat deroga-
tory circumstances. Rumor ascTibes his
downfall to gambling and loose associations.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT, wife and son,
Jesse R. Grant, sailed for Europe on the 18th,
in the steamer Indiana from Philadelphia.
COMMODORE EDWARD CARPENTER,
of the United States Navy, died at Shrews-
bury, n. j., on the 10th, aged 81.
A WASHINGTON telegram asserts that
personal friend of Senator Morton has re-
ceived letter from him. in which he states
positively that he intends standing by the
Administration, and will support the Presi-
dents Southern policy.
A SPECIAL from Washington, 18th,
says the President has rendered the Office of
Solicitor of the Treasury to ex-Gov. Cham
berlain, of South Carolina. 1t was decided
month ago to appoint Representative
Wells, of Mississippi, but the President sub
sequently changed his mind.