The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


DURING the last year s63, 1892 let
tiers originating in this country passed
through the United States mails, 276,44G,7lS
postal-cards, Cos, Ia, 624 newspapers, IS, 472,
g76 magazines, and SOC, 81, 40 books, circu-
lars, and miscellaneous printed articles.
A MECHANIC, aged twenty-six years,
condemned TO four years Imprisonment at
Ousano, Italy, starved himself to death in
thirty days.
THE Grand Jury of the United States
Court at New York have made a present.
ment in the case Of the Sewanhaka disaster,
charging criminal earelessness and negli-
gence upon the Government inspectors and
the officers and owners of the vessel. In
dictments were issued against the parties,
and they will be tried for manslaughter.
A MEETING has just been held in Lon
don, under the auspices of Mr.. Thorod
Rogers, a member of Parliament, to consid-
er the formation CT company for the pur-
chase and sale of land i'll the United States,
with view Of furthering emigration of small
families and assisting such emigration by
loans on security Of land sold and occupied.
A committee was formed to promote the un-
dertaking.
THREE boys were drowned while bath
ing at Chillicothe, Mo-, on the 18th. Two
of them were sons of Mr.. C. II. Mason, one
aged nine, the other eleven; the third was a
son of MIR. Henry C. Manning, and aged nine
years.
JOHN G. REUTz, German gardener
residing four miles south of indianapolis.
who had become insane on account Of pc
cuniary losses, locked himself in his house,
set fire to 1T, and was burned to death. He
leaves wife and four grown children.
A FREIGHT train on the St. Paul and
Duluth Railway was wrecked on the 18th by
broken rail. Three boys, living at Mime
apolis, named Peter Martin, John Ervine
and George Adams, who were slowed away
in freight car to steal ride, were killed.
THE Republican Convention for the
Seventh Illinois District nominated William
Cullen, of Ottawa, for Congress.
THE Michigan Democratic State Con-
vention nominated f. NJ. Holloway for Gov
ernor.
The Connecticut Republican State
Convention nominated for Governor Mayor
Bigelow, of New Haven.
EX-GOVERNOR HENDRICKS entered
the Indiana campaign bya speech at Marion,
Grant County, on the 18th.
NEAR New Albany, Ind, on the 18th,
Roger Russell, an old and respected citizen,
shot his son-in-law, John Norman, with
both barrels of a doube-barreled shotgun,
inficting mortal injuries, and soon afterward
took deadly dose Of poison. A family diff
fculty was the cause of the tragedy.
THE National Liberal League will
convene in Chicago, Sept. II, to nominate
candidate for President or indorse one of the
present nominees. There are about two hun
dred auxiliary Leagues, each Of which is en-
titled to five delegates.
A RECENT telegram from Fort Con-
cho says the Indians captured and entirely
destroyed one mail and killed two men and
wounded one passenger on the stage east.
The road between Davis and FL Paso is said
TO be entirely infested with Indians, and
there is no protection to mails running be-
tween Concho and Davis.
ELLERsoN HAMPTON, colored, was
hanged at Hampton, S. c., on the 18th, for
the murder Of his child, a boy ten years old,
by whipping him to death.
By the explosion and sinking of the
Red River steamboat Bonnie Lee, in addition
to the casualties previously reported, six
roustabouts and one cabin boy were drowned.
THE Democrats of the First Kansas
District have nominated Major John C. Tom
linson, of Atchison, for Congress; and in the
Third District, j. Wade Mcdonald, Of Win
field, is the Democratic nominee.
REPORTS received at the Department
Of Agriculture at Washington show that the
condition of the cotton crop throughout the
Southern States is unusually good, and an
unprecedented yield is predicted. The black
rust has appeared, however, in certain sec
lions Of Georgia, and it is believed that the
crop in that State will not reach the averag
GEN. BYRNE, of Fort Worth, Texas
who was wounded four times recently while
travelling east in q coach attacked by Indians,
died at Fort Quitman from the effects Of his
wounds.
CINCINNATI is dissatisfied with its
census returns, and the police will make
new enumeration of three districts in order
to determine what further action shall be