The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


have now received invitations to the Berlin
Conference. #
The Memphis Cotton Exchanges
crop report for May, from West Tennessee,
North Mississippi and North Arkansas,
shows an increased acreage averaging S.35
per cent; weather favorable; cotton stands
averagingfair; crop generally in fine condi-
ton; labor about the same as last year. The
corn crop is generally in good condition, but
wheatis partial failure.
THE suspected flhbustering expedi-
ton to Cuba which left Montreal few days
ago was overhauled by the Canadian Gus
toms authorities, and the ship on which it
embarked brought back into port.
IT is reported that Victorio's band
has gone to the Blade Range Mountains,
near Hillsboro, n. NJ, to recuperate. Squads
from the force are securing the country,
stealing horses and committing other depre-
dations. No troops in the vicinity.
d. r. RADCLIFFE, Liberal member of
Parliament for Evessham, has been unseated
for bribery.
GEN. BURNSIDE has been renomi-
mated United States Senator from Rhode
Island.
E. R. MORRIS, County Judge of Bay
lor County, Texas, was shot and killed in
the Court house in Seymour, Baylor County,
on the 18th, by W. C. Taylor, saloon keeper
in the town. The parties had quarreled
few days previous. The murderer mounted
his horse and rode leisIIrely out Of town, no
attempt being made TO arrest him. OAR
The report of the Senate select COM
mittee to investigate the removal of North
ern Cheyenne Indians from the Sioux Res
ervation to the Indian Territory afirms that
the Government is not living up to its obli-
cations with the Cheyennes, and that a
policy should be adopted which will show
these Indians that we will do them full
justice. -
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin has tele-
graphed the Mayor of every city in the United
States and Canada as follows: 81 regret to
say funds are still needed for the relief Of
distress in Ireland. In many districts the
pinch is now equal to any previous time.
Distress is much felt by farmers, who dread
Work house reliefs but can get nothing else
until their crops come in. While deeply
grateful for the generous contributions
already received, / can not help asking fur
Their assistance for the Mansion House Fund
Committee during this trying period"
The wholesale drug-house of Arthur
Peter & Co., at Louisville, KY, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning Of the 9th.
Adjacent buildings and stocks were badly
damaged. Total loss about $3.50, 200, fully
insured.
The President dominates John F.
Hartranft Collector of Customs, District Of
Philadelphia; Virgil D. Stockbridge, Dis
trict of Columbia, Assistant Commissioner
of Patents; Robt- G. Dryenfurth, Illinois,
Examiner in Chief Patent-ofice.
In New York City, on the 10th, John
Gimpel, German fresco painter, attempted
to kill his wife, leaving her for dead. He
then set fire to the house and cut his own
throat. Husband and wife had led quar-
relsome life, and she had recently sued him
for abandonment. Her injuries were neces-
sarily fatal.
THREE masked men entered the
house Of Allen Hoyle, wool buyer, at New
ton Falls, O., on the night of the 9th, bound
and gagged the whole family and robbed the
safe of 81 200.
THERE are rumors of civil war in the
Argentine Confederation, growing out Of
the Presidential election.
A GALENA dispatch says that Gen.
Grant was in the Office Of a friend when he |
received the news Of Garfield's nomination. !
His only remark was-"It is all right; am !
satisfied"
w. c. ELAN, editor of the Richmond |.
(Ya.) Wing, was shot and badly wounded
in duel by Col. Thomas Smith, son of ex
Gov. Smith, on the 9Th. The duel resulted |
from an article in the Wing rejecting Sc
verely upon the political course of the ex-
Governor.
JOHN BROUGHAM, the well known 1
died in New York on the It'll.
Hon. WM. M. SPRINGER has been re-
for Congress in the Twelfth Hi
nois District.
The Georgia delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention are reported solid |
for Field, except one for Bayard and onefor /
Tilden.
GEN. GARFIELD had an enthusiastic |
reception at various Ohio cities and towns !
upon his return from the Chicago Conven- I
ton. ...-
The first returns from the Oregon /
State election, held on the It'll, indicate the |
election Of NJ. c. George, Republican, to .
by about 500 majority. Legisla-
ture in doubt. ...... ..I
THE Mississippi Democratic State .
held on the 9th, chose an I'm
instructed delegation to Cincinnati. !
AFRICA, Peru, has been captured by
he Chilians. .............
REV. S. W. FoLGER, Baptist preach
II, hanged himself at Delphi, Ont. .It
A TERRIBLE tornado swept through
he southeastern part Of POttawattamie
County, Iowa, on the night of the 9th, de-
every thing in its path and eaus
ne the deaths Of from fifteen to twenty peo
Die. A partial list of the killed at Wheeler's
Grove, where the greatest damage
vas done, gives the following names:
Jesse Osber, wife and two children; VIM.
Pace, wife and his two children, and another
,hild fatally injured; Alexander Osier, wife
md child, carried in-the air almost $50 feet,
md seriously injured, the child fatally:
hired man employed by the latter, name I'M
Known, killed. Other persons six or eight
II number were carried away and at last ac-
counts had not yet been found.
THE American Steel and Iron Asso-
iation has collected and published the sta
istics Of the steel and iron Industry in this
ountry, from which it appears that the in
rocco in the ,,,,adUetion Of pig-il-on during