The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE st. Louis WestliSche Post of the
18th announces that Carl Schurz has sew
cred his editorial connection with that pa
per, although his proprietary interest re-
mains the same. SER
EDWARD KULIKowsKI, editor of the
Polish weekly paper, the Kurier NorUo-
jorski, printed at Brooklyn, N. Y, COM
mitted suicide on the 8th. He was Go years
old.
Col. II. G. CoRBIN, of the Twenty
fourth Infantry, has been detailed for duty
at the White House, acting in a similar re-
latiOn to the President as that held by Gen.
Babcock to Grant.
MAJOR HAMILTON G. WILLIAMS, who
was President Folks private secretary, has
just diedin Maryland at the age of 20. He
was a TennesseeaD and lawyer.
GEN. DEvENs, the new Attorney
General, is a bachelor.
j. C.. SwAYzE, editor of the Topeka
Blade, was severely beaten the other day
in personal encounter with John Wilson,
formerly editor of the NeaoS.
Mrs. HAYES is a member and regular
attendant of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. President Hayes himself is said
to be very liberal in his religious views,
and was accustomed to attend the churches
of different denominations in Columbus.
THE members of the Supreme Court,
with the exception of Justice Field, who
was absent from the city, paid their re-
spects to the President on the 18th.
GEN. GARFIELD has withdrawn his
name as a candidate for United States SEN
ator from Ohio.
SENATOR DAVIS has for his seat in
the Senate Chamber the chair which was
made expressly for Mr.. Dixon II. Lewis, a
Senator many years ago from Alabama. 1t
measures in the seat 80 by % inches. Lewis
weighed over 400 pounds.
SENATOR CAMERON, of Pennsylvania,
on the 18th rendered his resignation as
United States Senator. Itwas expected
that his son, Don Cameron, late Secre-
tary of War, would be chosen as his
successor by the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has assigned
Mr.. w. X. Upton to duty as Chief Clerk in
the Treasury Department.
The Nichols Legislature of Lcuisi
ana has passed resolutions expressing their
confidence in the policy Of nOn-intervention
announced by President Hayes.
THE Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections, by strict party vote, decid-
ed in favor of reporting resolution for the
admission Of Kellogg as Senator from Lou
isiana.
Mrs. NJ E. BRIGHT, widow of the
late Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Ind, died
in Louisville, KY, on the 18th.
MEssRs. EvARTs and Schurz have
been designated as a Cabinet Commission
to frame a series of Civil Service rules.
CARL SCHURz is the first German
who everfiled Cabinet place, but no less
than four Secretaries of the Treasury have
been Of foreign birth-Albert Gallatin, born
in Switzerland, Alexander j. Dallas and
Alexander j. Hamilton, natives of the
West Indies, and William j. Duane, an
freshman.
Hon II. 2. BELL, the regular Dem
ocratic candidate, has been reelected to
Congress in the Ninth Georgia District, in
place Of Ben Hill. Mr.. Bell was a member
of the 43d Congress, but did not run for the
44th.
MADAME OCTAVIA WALTON LEvERT,
so well known to the people of two hemis-
pheres, died on the 18Th, near Augusta,
Georgia, her native State.
HERR LoE, formerly Secretary of the
German Embassy at Paris. Count Hermann
Won Arnim, and DIR. Gehlsen, editor Of the
Reich'glocke, have been tried and convict
ed in the Municipal Court of Berlin of vio-
lation of the press laws, in publishing GER
tain articles in the ReichSglocke. Hermann,
who is a son of Count Henry Won Arnim,
was sentenced to Imprisonment for three
months, Loe for one year, and Gehlsen for
five years.
Col. ROBERT G. INGERsoLL deliver
ed lecture in New York City on the even
ing Of the 14lh, on "PoliJical Questions and
Answers in which he heartily endorsed
the policy of Cancellation adopted by Presi-
dent Hayes and eulogized the members of
his Cabinet. Iah.# Ittt
Hon. STANLEY MATTHEWS received
the Republican nomination for United
States Senator from Ohio. His principal
Mr.. Garfield having with
drawn, were W. B. Rowland and ex-At-
torRey General Taft. PIT
FREDERICK DOUGLASS (eolored) will,
be appointed Marshal of the District of
the salary and perquisites of the
office being from $40, 600 to SIS, 900 a year.
Ex-Gov. HENDRICKS, of Indiana, has
gone to California on account of the i'm |
paired state of his health.
PETER B. SWEENEY, one of Boss
rweed's partners in the New York Tam
many Ring, has returned home to stand |
rial, being granted immunity, meanwhile,
from arrest. ID -.--r--- rr- --1-