The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-26

San Xavier within 20, and Santa Rita, WIN
the famous Toltec and Aztec group OF runs
within 80 hours ride, and the Mexican IRON
Tier within the same time.
Senator Thurman declines to be the Dem
ocratie candidate for Governor Of Ohio.
Miss Matte Todd, niece Of Mrs Abra-
ham Lincoln, is an applicant for the POST
Office at Cynthiana, Ky.
The bankfng-house OF c. +. Adae Co,
Cincinnati. suspended on the 18th Liaoili-
ties SIS. OO0, and assets about 100000. Inc
creditors are mostly Germans. The failure
created great excitement, and viii doubtless
canse much financial distress among the
smaller depositors.
An aggravated case Of grave robbery has
reeeutlv occurred at Evansville, Ind, where
Mrs. Frank NJ. Murphy discovered the body
of her husband, which had been buried only
a few days previously, in the college dissect-
ing-room, horribly mutilated, but still re-
cognizable.
At Cape Girardeau, Mo-, on the evening OF
the 18th, Wash Ivers, porter at the Frank
lin House, shot his wife and then himself.
Both shots were instantly fatal. Imtemper-
ance and conjugal unhappiness was the
cause.
At Cleveland, o., on the 18th, DR.. Geo.
w. Angler, well known veterinary SUR
geon. was shot and killed by pistol in the
hands OF John W. Rice. The parties were
intimate friends, and Rice claims that the
shooting was accidental.
The great Illinois and st. Louis Bridge,
built by Captain Eads at a cost OF SI,OOO,OOO,
was sold at auction on the Goth, for 5000
600. The purchaser was Mr.. Anthony D.
Thomas, OF New York, acting as repre-
sentative for the bondholders. A new CON-
pany has been organized, with Scion
Humphreys, of New York, as President.
Ignatus Donnelly, Democrat, will contest
the seat of w. d. Washburn, Republican,
returned TO Congress from the st. Paul,
| Mimi, District.
At Nicholsonyille, KY, on the 21st, Chas.
Campbell stabbed James Hawkins in the
arm and then cut his throat, causing death
in three minutes. Campbell Is negro and
was enraged at Hawkins because Of the lat
ter,s interference in the procurement by
/ Campbell Of license to marry grass-wld
ow. Campbell made his escape.
In ten-pin alley at Crockett, Texas, on
the Dist, w. A. Hall struck James ii. wall
in the head with ten-pin ball, fracturlng
his skull and causing death. The murderer
was arrested and held in 81 900 bail.
John w. Rice, who shot and killed, acci-
dentally, as he claimed, his friend George
W. Angler, in Cleveland, on the 18th, has
been arrested for murder. Angler lived
long enough to make a statement, to the ef-
feet that Rice had been jealous Of his (An-
gier's) attentions to Mrs. Rice,
and that he had on several oeea-
,ions threatened to shoot him.
Stephen ID. Richards, who murdered Mrs
Harrison and her three children in kearney
County, Neb., on Nov. last, and subse-
ouently.po Peter Anderson, neigh
Dor, and then fled the State, was arrested at
Mount Pleasant, o., his former residence,
on the Dist, and has since been sur
rendered to the Nebraska authorities.
Richards lived with Mrs. Harrison on the
Nebraska farm and murdered her and her
children in order to gain possession of her
homestead. He secreted the remains Of his
victims in a haystack, and there being nc
near neighbors the murders were not dis
covered until the 9th of December, upon
which day Richards poisoned Anderson and
made his escape.
At Fort Smith, Ark, on the 2Oth, John
Postoaks, Greek Indian, and James Diggs,
a negro, were hanged on the same gallows
Pestoaks murdered John Ingley, in October
1877, and Digs murdered j. c. Gould in
August, 1873.
The indianapolis Savings Bank has sus-
! ,,onda6 ,,avuent II is claimed that all in
debtedness will ultimately be paid in full.