The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-05-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch Of the 10Th says: Col. J. ID. Brady,
native of Virginia, who served in the Union
army, was to-day appointed Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the Second Virginia Dis
trict, in place of George S. Richards, origin
ally of Maine, but who has been holding
Office in Virginia for the last u years. This
is the first appointment of the kind made by
the President, and is supposed to indicate
the policy of preference for native Republic
cans in appointment to Office in the South.
Both the above named gentlemenare Repub-
lcans.
EX-GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN has de-
clined the appointment of Solicitor Of the
Treasury on account Of other engagements
deemed by him more advantageous, both pro-
fessionally and pecuniarily.
THE Attorney-General has decided
that the office of General Appraiser of Mer-
chandise for the South, held by ex-Repre-
sentative Morey, of Louisiana, is not war
ranted by the Revised Statutes, and it has
therefore been abolished.
The st. Louis Daily Times was sold
at auction on the 18th to b. NJ. Chambers,
President of the Buchers' & Drovers' Bank,
for $4,000 cash. There will be no change
in the editorial department at present, ex-
cept the retirement of Mr.. Hutchins as edi-
tor-in-chief
GEN. BEALE, Minister to Austria, has
resigned, and the choice of his successor
lies, it is understood, between eX-Gov. Fen
ton, of New York, and James Russell Low
ell, the poet.
REV. CHESTER HOLCOMBE, one of the
missionaries of the American Board has
been appointed Secretary of Legation at the
Court of Pelin. This is the third mission
airy chosen to the post named. The former
two were the Hon. Peter Parker, now of
Washington, and the Hon. S. Wells Williams,
he author of the English and Chinese die
tiOnary.
LOUIS n. DELASTRO, United States
ViceConsul at Tampico, Mexico, is dead.
The friends of Gideon 5. Pillow are
urging President Hayes to appoint him sue
cessor to the late Circuit Judge Edmonds,
p. w. NORRIS, of Michigan, has been
appointed Superintendent of the Yellow
stone National Park, in place of n. p. Lang
ford.
EX-GOv. EDWARD KENT, of Maine,
died at Bangor on the 18th, aged 70. He was
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
for several years and Minister to Rio Janeiro,
an eminent lawyer and highly respected cit
izen.
ONE of the regulations in the new
civil-service regime at the State Department
is, that no person shall be appointed Consul
who can not speak the language of the com-
try in which his post is situated.
GEN. GRANT is the first eX-President
to go TO foreign parts since the days of
Frank Pierce. OF the 10 Presidents, Wash
ington, Madison, jackson, Harrison, Tyler,
Polk, Taylor, Lincoln and johnson never
crossed the ocean. Those who visited for
eign lands were John Adams, jefferson,
Monroe, Quincy Adams, Van Buren,, Fill
more, Pierce and Buchanan.
A NOTABLE wedding about to come off
(writes Miss Grundy from Washington is
that of Lieut.. Gov. Stockdale, of Texas, &c
years of age, and Miss Schleicher, the IL
year old daughter of the portly Representa-
tive from the 9th District of Texas.
EX-MAYOR EARLE, of Worcester,
Mass, died on the Goth. He served as Indian
Commissioner under President Grant.
w. H. C. HOsMER, the poet, died at
Avon, y. Y, on the 23d.
EX-CoNGREssMAN HENRY O.. PRATT,
of Iowa, member of the FOrty-third and
Forty-fourth Houses, has left politics and
law, which have been his profession, and
entered the ministry Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in Iowa.
The Nebraska Editorial Association
met at Omaha on the 23d, and after their
business session was concluded started on
an excursion to Salt Lake.
THE President has appointed Edward
p. johnson United States Attorney for the
Territory of Wyoming, vice Richard A.
Watts, resigned; and Gabriel C. Wharton
United States Attorney for the District of
Kentucky, rice II. F. Finley, removed.
THE President has appointed James
E. Anderson, of Ohio, United States Consul
at Funchal.
UNITED STATES TREASURER WYMAN
has rendered his resignation on account of
ill-health, and has accepted the position of
Assistant Treasurer. Gilfl. Assistant
Treasurer, has been appointed to succeed
Wyman.
Mr.. p. I. BARNUM has offered re-
4I,,,
Ross, and has promised immunity to the per-
son making the surrender. Mr.. Christian
Ross, the father of the child, has sanctioned
he arrangement.
Hon. GEORGE II. BOXER, United
States Minister to Russia, has resigned.
SIMNs, the fugitive slave who was
by Attorney General Devens,
when he was United States Marshal at Bos-
ton, during Fillmore's Administration, and
under the Fugitive Slave law turned over 10
he authorities at Savannah Ga, has been
appointed messenger in Gen. Devens's De- /
Dartment.
ROBERT f. SMITH, formerly State
Auditor of Alabama, has been appointed I
Collector of Customs at Mobile.
Mrs. THOMPSON, daughter of the late
Rev. Alexander Campbell, is to be appoint
d Postmistress at Louisville, Ky.
GEN. L. b. TAYLOR, who command
d a regiment under Hayes during the war,
; to be appointed Postmaster at Baltimore,
f which city he has fer some time been
esidel1.
REV. j. c. FRAZER, late President of