The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-05-02
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

The New York Prohibition State Conven-
ton adopted a platform demanding that the
manufacture and sale Of intoxicating liquors
be prohibited by law; protesting against the
enactment of the proposed Mofet bell
punch act; favoring the enfranchisement Of
women; opposing the national banking sys-
TEN, etc. A State ticket was placed in NOM
nation. rr-e
President Hayes, accompanied by his fam
lily and several prominent officials, went to
Philadelphia on the oath, for visit of sew
eral days duration. Many of the public
and private buildings were decorated in
honor of the event, and the distinguished
guests were entertained with great hospi-
tality during their stay.
The Erie Railway was sold in New York
City on the oath, under the foreclosure suit
of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company.
1t was purchased for 100000 by ex-Gov.
Morgan and others, acting as trustees for
English bondholders.
Judge Samuel B. McLin, member of the
Florida State Board OF Canvassers at
the late Presidential election, has made a
sworn statement in reference to certain al
legged frauds practiced in the counting of
the vote in that State, by which, as he AYERS,
from his own knowledge, an aggregate of
1913 votes were wrongfully counted for the
Hayes Electors, thus depriving Mr.. Tilden
of the Electoral vote of that State. In Arch
er Precinct No. 2, Alachua County, 219 Re-
publican votes were surreptitiously added
to the returns by the Inspec-
tor Of the precinct; in Precinct
No. 2, in Leon County, IA Republican
ballots were stuffed into the ballot-box; and
in jefferson County 100 Republican ballots
were illegally added in one precinct. In
making this statement, McLin excuses his
own share in the transaction by saying that
he was carried away by partisan zeal, sup
plemented, as he admits, by a hope Of flu
ture political reward, in which latter par
ticular he seems to have been wofully dis
appointed. Dissatisfaction with the
course Of President Hayes, who is charged
by McLin with "cowardly abandoning and
betraying his Southern Republican friends"
is the principal motive which he says has IN
duced him to make public the facts stated
McLin's statement is supplemented by a
similar one from L. S. Dennis, formerly
President OF the Board of County Canvass
ers Of Alachua County, and Chairman of the
Republican Committee, who swears to the
fraud committed in that county.
Confederate Memorial Day, April 20, was
generally observed throughout the South
with more or less ceremony. At Macon,
Ga, the Confederate monument corner
stone was laid by the Grand Masonic Lodge
OF Georgia. A letter from Jefferson Davis
was read, and an Grafton delivered by Gov.
COlquitt. "a. --e--- ca. Il
Newburyport, Mass, is excited over the
recent discovery of "a fraudulent or forged is
sue of stock Of the Newburyport and Ames-
bury Horse Railroad Company. The
amount Of the fictitious paper in existence,
or when or by whom issued, is not known.
Nathan Matthews, one Of Boston's best
known business men, has gone into bank
ruptcy with liabilities aggregating s, O0O, 900.
II. j. Jewett has been elected President Of
the recognized Erie Railway Company, the
name Of which is to be changed to the New
York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad
Company.
AT Norfolk (Va.) j. B. Weeks, keeper Of a 4
drinking saloon, just before his death few |
days ago, confessed to the murder and rob- |
berry of five persons.
A delegation of Southern Congressmen, |
Senators Gordon, Morgan and |
Jones, and Representatives Carlisle, Ellis, |
Yeates, Whitthorne, Clark, Hooper, Young,
Money and Goode, made visit to Boston, I
onIhe 27th ult., upon invitation of the Bos- |
ton Commercial Club The occasion was !
q very pleasant one to All concerned ~
C,,h TILL
City PAP First National Bank, is !
under arrest charged with embezzling the
funds Of the bank and classifying the ac-
counts. 49, -
Capt. Lucius Trayers, an old aud highly I
resident OF Carroll County, Va,
about eight months ago married handsome
md dashing young woman of %, he being
10. They had some matrimonial differences.
iue mainly, it is believed, to the giddyd
Toung wife's penchant for flirting. with
Younger men. On the night Of the 2Sth Capt. 4
rravess was murdered, his throat being cut
rom ear to ear, and his body thrown into a
:reek which ran near the house, Upon the
violence of a chambermaid, Mrs. Travers
vas arrested. She at first stoutly protested
Ter innocence, but subsequently gave way
nd confessed the murder. After being
'laced in Jail she attempted to commit sui Il
ide by stabbing herself in thesbreast with 4
,air Of scissors.
August and Hannah Grisler,an aged cou-
lie, who lived near Youngsville, Sullivan
,ounty, n. Y, have been found horribly 4
INITIATED and dead in the house Of tina lat r.
er. They had been separated some, time,
nd II is thought August killed his wife and
hen himself.
A special correspondent at st. Petersburg
elegraphs that Is officers and masters Of the ,