The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-12-25
Foreign Notes.

-Calcraft, for fOrty-six years hang
man in England, is dead. se"
Bismarck is at his country house,
suffering much from nervousness. His
physician tells him that his excessive
smoking is aggravating, and possibly is
the main cause of the ailment, and ad-
vises him to stop the use of his pipe al
together, and to confine himself to light
cigars. But the Chancellor defies the
doctor and sticks to his pipe.
During a stormy sitting of the
Spanish Cortes recently, shouts of Long
live the republic! were raised in the
galleries, to the CONSERVATION of MEM
bers and ministers. The people were
then excluded from the chamber, and
military precautions against a rising
were taken in the capital.
"A letter to the Cologne Gazette from
st. Petersburg asserts the reason the po-
lice have so little success in discovering
Nihilists is that the evil is hidden where
the police do not venture to look. The
cOnspiratOrS are to be found in the
drawing-rooms of the rich and noble;
hence police in the employ of Court
within whose very circle these people
carry on their games is powerless against
the Nihilists.
The city of Antwerp has been in a
state of delirium over an immense cele-
bration, in which the whole population
took part, in honor of Gounod, the COM
poser of Faust. An address was pre-
scented to the composer by the widow of
the late Burgomaster of the city that
was printed on parchment in illuminated
letters after the style of 1878, and that is
said to be a work of art. At the same
time Gounod received his portrait, paint
ed by the President of the Antwerp
Academy of Art.
During his triumphant progress to
Edinburgh, and in his speeches there,
Mr.. Gladstone has proved that though
his age be 40 by the almanac, it is not
more than so in point of vigor and en-
durance, and he has abundant mental
and physical ability to enter on fresh
as Premier of a Liberal party. |
At the end of two speeches of three
hours duration, one delivered in the
open air, during which he discussed an
infnity of subjects, his voice betrayed
no tone of faintness, and his nervous
frame was as full of life and fire, as
strong and bright as when he first stood
up.
The Official Messenger contains a
long list of stringent regulations, issued |
by Gen. Gourko, Governor of st. Pc |
tersburg, for the control of public and |
private cOnveyances in the streets for |
the purpose of preserving public order
and safety and tranquility in the capital.
Public and private cOachmen, of all |
kinds of vehicles, are to obey without a /
delay, every injunction of the
police. Coachmen are to keep to the |
right, go quietly, and never get off or
leave their sledges. These rules will
come in force in five days.
The decision of the Tribunal of
annulling the. testament by
which the late eccentric Duke made the
own of Geneva his sole heir, has caused
some excitement in Switzerland. tap
pears that the present branch of the
Dukes of Brunswick is threatened with
extinction upon the death of the now
living Prince. The next heir is the son
If the late King of Hanover The
question is, will Prussia permit the
of the crown to Guelph
If not, it will be Prussia which might
,ne day be called to claim from Geneva
he twenty and odd millions that it has
and spent.