The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-07-18
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The Citizens Savings Bank Of Pittsburg,
Pa, has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities
about $50, 200, and assets not over one-half
that amount EFvffH fFTTw
Benjamin Noyes, President Of Che Ma
tional Life Insurance Company Of Wash
ington, -. c., convicted Of conspiracy to
defraud the policy holders OF the New Jers.
sey Mutual, has been sentenced to Is months
Imprisonment at hard labor in the New Jer-
sey Penitentiary and to pay the costs Of the
suit.
Norwich, Conn.,, was greatly excited on
the 10th over the reported death of a woman
by Asiatic cholera.
At Amsterdam, n. Y, on the 10th, a large
broom factory in process OF construction
was blown to the ground by hurricane,
burying nine men in the ruins, three of
whom were fatally injured.
A bricklayer named White was struck by
lightning while working on q church tower
in Forty-seventh Street, New York City, on
the 10th. He fell dead to the pavement,
distance OF 60 feet below.
The accounts OF the late State Treasurer
OF Georgiasj john Jones, are said to show a
deficit OF $3.50 900, for which suit has been
brought against his securities.
At Brooklyn, n. Y, on the11th, Mrs. Mar
garet Wash, aged 80, and her daughter, aged
s, were burned to death by the explosion Of
kerosene lamp, which the mother was
using in pouring oil on a fire in order to
hasten the flames, FA~f
James A Long (coiored), son of ex Com
gresham Long, is under arrest at Macon,
Ca, charged with robbing the mails while
acting as inail-agent. 2 FSs assF
MikeShsw "as hsnged at MiTIedgeviIIe,
Ga, on the 18th, for wife-murder; and Hi
ram Fooks (coloredl WAS on the same day
hanged al vi lmingtpn, Del, for the murder
of John Tyler, also colored.
Henry Wise was hanged at Walterboro, S.
c., on the 18th, for the murder OF Mercer
Brown, his rival in love affair. Et
Thomas Ballard, known as the King of
Counterfeiters," committed suicide in the
Albany IN. " Penitentiary on the 18th, by
stabbing himself with a shoemaker's knife.
GENERAL.
The officials at the Indian Bureau in
Washington discredit the reports regarding
the large number of Indians on the war
path in the Northwest, and say that there
are notreally oyer 200 all told who are en-
gagedin the revolt 80 ~
Gen. Sheridan is to take personal COM
mand OF the forces in the Black Hills cohn-
try.
Mrs. Eliza Pritchard, formerly Pinkston,
il is reported, has been subjected to another
interview and recanted her recent state
ments regarding the killing Of her husband
by negro. -
AT the recent session OF Congress a change
was made in the laws regulating the COM
pensation of POstmasters of the fourth class.
The change makes the salaries depend upon
the amount of stamps cancelled in each office,
not upon that sold. go
The eclipse Of the sun on the 29th inst
win be total from Irkontsk, Siberia, through
the western part Of the British Possessions,
Denver, Colorado, and-noFthern and east
ern Texas, entering the Gulf of Mexico, TO
disappear little southeast of San Domingo.
The exhibition will be visible as partial
eclipse over all the United States, Mexico
and British America that afternoon.
Gen. Sherman has issued general order
OF instruction to Army officers, IN con-
formity with the recent act of Congress for
bidding the use of the Army as posse COM
itatus
jefferson Davis made an address at New
Orleans, on the 10th, the occasion being the
presentation to him OF gold badge and GER
tificate of membership Of the Association OF
the Army of the Tennessee. He reiterated
his mistaken belief in the right Of secession
and the duty Of citizen to battle for the
cause of the State, and charged that !" every
evil which has befallen our institutions is
directly traceabe to. the perTersion Of the !
compact Of the union and the usurpatfon by
the Federal Government of undelegated
powers" ,gfEk9 IEkSti j
The recent excessively hot weather was
productive of numerous fatal cases of sun
stroke in st. Louis, Cincinnati and other
places.