The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-28
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The destruction reported at Atlanta, Ga,
by the tornado was greatly exaggerated.
The Episcopal Church blown down was a
little wooden chapel that cost but 81, 200.
There were but eight persons present when
the storm burst upon them, and no one was
seriously hurt.
The Democrats of Rhode Island have
nominated Isaac Lawrence for Governor.
Joseph and Edgar Hall and John c. Thorp,
white, and Gordon Rollins and Burke
Thomas, colored, were killed by the explO-
sion Of a saw-mill boiler about eight miles
from Richmond, Va, on the 22d. Several
others were injured.
Samuel Chambers and George Collins, col
ored, were hanged at Newcastle, Del, on the
I'D, for the crime Of rape.
The National Bank of TarrytOwn, n. Y,
suspended on the I'D.
The Liberian schooner AZar was conse-
Grated at Charleston, $. c., on the 2lst, by
Bishop Brown of the African NJ. Z. Church
in the presence of 5000 colored people.
The South Carolina General Assembly
have adopted a conciliatory resolution, IA
voring an abandonment of all prosecutions
growing out Of developments made In the
investigation of former State officials.
Five men were drowned while attempting
to cross the James River from Albermarle
County, Va, in a small skiff, on the Goth,
The Bank of Chemung, n. Y, has sus-
pended. 1t was a private institution and
had about $4,000 in deposits. Assets and
liabilities not stated.
Blasius Pistorius, formerly priest in Ger
many, has been convicted of numbering
Isaac Jacquette in Montgomery County, Pa.
The Common Council of Jacksonville, Fla,
have asked Capt. Eads to examine st. Johns
bar and report plan for its improvement,
and have backed the request with an appro-
priation of $1,000.
Hon. j. CLANCY Jones died at his home in
Reading, Pa, on the oath, aged &c. He
served in Congress with only brief inter-
ruption from 1850 to 1858, and was for two
years Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee. He was also Minister to Aus
tria, during President Buchanan's admins
tration. ...
The United States sloop-ef-war Wyoming,
which sailed from New York on the 10th
with goods for the Paris Exhibition, when
800 miles out sprang leak and was forced
TO return for repairs.
BY an explosion of a steam-pipe on board
the Hudson River steamer Magenta, just be-
low Sing Sing, on the 2Sd, four men were in
stantly killed and several others severely
scalded.
The aerophone is the latest wonderful de-
Yelopment of Edison's 'phonograph. The
vibrating diaphragm, instead Of registering
sounds on cylinder or tin-foil, as in the
phonograph proper, is so arranged as TO
open and shut valves in a steam whistle, and
Mr.. Edison says that before long he shall
have the thing so nearly perfected that one
of his machines will utter words distinctly
enough TO be heard miles away.
At Cicero, Onondago County, n. Y, on
the 29d, Mrs. Lucy l.. Day, an old woman,
aged 30, was murdered by her daughter, a
married woman aged 46. She stabbed her
at Il dinner-tabe with knife. The quarrel
was the result of an old feud.
Patrick Hester, Patrick Tully and Peter
McHugh, three notorious members of the
Mollie Mcguire organization, were hanged
at Bloomsbury, Pa, on the 25th, for the
murder Of Alexander W. Rea, a colliery boss,
in 1868.
A severe snow-stOrm occurred along the
Atlantic coast on the oath, extending from
Canada as far south as Baltimore. In Maine
and Vermont Is inches Of snow fell.
A shocking murder was discovered at
AndOver, Mass, on the oath, the victim be-
ing Miss Mary Ann Jones, weak and Grip
pied maiden lady, and the murderer
Mrs. Phoebe Atkinson, an elder sister of the |
murdered woman, with whom the latter |
lived. The inhuman sister beat her victim |
about the head and body with
bottle, and with heavy umbrella |
stick until the unfortunate woman fell in /
sensible upon the floor. There she was al /
owed to lie for two days, bruised, bleeding |
md helpless; and when it was apparent that /
,he was dying, the murderess suddenly left |
own. The sisters owned a little property /
n common, and it is supposed that that was
he cause of the murder.
A fire at Philadelphia, on the night of the
!4th, destroyed the business houses Nos.
09 10 1872 North Fourth Street, and num-
Der Of buildings on Cherry, North Third and
North Second Streets. The total loss is es-
mated at 8, 100000.