The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-22


mission Of Spain to establish colony on the
Island OF Fernando Pc. The request is re-
ceiying the consideration of the Spanish
Government.
CHRISTIAN PECK, a young merchant
of Littleport, Clayton County, Iowa, blew
out his brains with revolver because his
girl Tilted him and married another man.
THE Texas and st. Louis Railroad is
now open to Tyler, 1916 miles from Texar-
kama. eco.
The Denver and South Park Railroad
is completed to Leadyille, $50 miles from
Denver.
IT was reported from New Orleans on
the 18th that two more sailors Of the bark
Excelsior, at Quarantine Station, had been
taken sick, presumably with yellow fever.
AT S:15 on the night of the 18th a
shock of earthquake was felt in Memphis,
Tenn, its motion vibratoTy, coming from the
northwest, and lasting several seconds.
THE members of the firm of Christy,
Cobb & Co., grain dealers and spectators at
Cincinnati, have been arrested upon charges
preferred by two principal banks, of issuing
forged warehouse receipts which were hy-
pothecated as security. The amount in
volved is $4,000.
BY the upsetting of a stage on Mount
Washington, n. H., containing a party of
Michigan eXcursiOnists, one lady, Mrs. Ira
Chichester, Of Allegan, Mich, was killed.
and several others of the party were badly
bruised. The driver, Lindsey, who is said
to have been drunk, was probably fatally
injured.
PRENTIs NELMs and Tom Konkey,
both colOred, charged with being concerned in
the murder OF Rufus Armistead, near Horn
Lake, Miss, about two months ago, were
being conveyed from Austin to fernando.
on the 10th, when body ofmasked men took
them from the officers having them in charge
and cut their Threats from ear to ear, besides
mutilating their bodies in a most shocking
m inner. The citizens Of Austin held a
meeting and passed resolutions denouncing
the atrocious act and appointed a committee
of whites and blacks to ferret out the muir
derers.
A SINGULAR and horrible accident
occurred on the Long Island Railroad on the
18th. A gravel train with thirty-five italian
labOrers on board ran under a heavy wire
rope by which the derrick near the track
was sustained, sweeping the cars and knock
ing off the men. Many were manned in
shocking manner, and several had their
skulls fractured. Six of the number were
not expected to live.
Hon. w. H. WHITTHORNE has been
renominated for Congress in the Seventh
Tennessee District.
THE Commissioner of the General
Land office has issued his regulations under
the act, approved June 10, for the relief of
certain settlers on public lands, and to pro-
vide forrepayment Of fees, purchase money,
and commissions paid on void entries of
public lands. This act is Of especial inter
est to soldiers and sailors, as it provides that
in all cases where it shall appear that innO-
cent parties have paid fees and commits
sions and made excess Of payments
required upon location Of claims, under the
act enabling soldiers and sailors to acquire
homesteads on public lands, which claims
were, after location, found to be fraudulent
and void and the entries cancelled, the Sec
rotary of the Interior is authorized to repay
to such innocent parties fees and commits
sionS and excess Of payments made by them,
upon the surrender OF receipts issued there
for by the receivers Of public moneys, out
Of any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated, and shall be
payable out of the appropriation
to refund purchase money on lands
enormously sold by the United States. In all
cases whore homestead or timber cutters or
desert land entries or other entries of public
lands have heretofore or shall hereafter be
Cancelled for conflict, or where, from any
cause, entry has been enormously allowed
and can not be confirmed, the Secretary o.
the Interior shall cause to he repaid to the
person who made such entry, or to his heirs
or assigns, all fees and commissions and the
purchase money paid upon the same, up
on surrender of the duplicate receipt and eX-
ecutiOn of a paper Of REIMBURSEMENT Of al
claims to said lands, whenever such entry
shall have been duly cancelled by the Com
missioner Of the General Land office; and
in all cases where parties have paid double
the minimum price for land which has after
ward been found not to be within the limits
of railroad land grant, the excess Of S1.2J
per acre shall in like manner be repaid to the
purchaser thereof or to his heirs or assigns
The appropriations for these repayments are
Immediately available.