The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-11-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

1HE pOpuldtlOH Vi 1cAdS, dS OOhlp hOu
from unofficial sources, is Log, 433, gain of
TAG, S44 since 1870.
The schooner Norway, from Bucks
Island, foundered during the recent storm
on Lake Ontario, and all on board, eight in
number, were drowned.
FIVE men were killed by the explosion
Of boiler in an oil mill at Bryan, Texas.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
9Th says the river Volga is frozen over and
navigation stopped, many grain-laden YES
sells being caught in transitu.
THE dead and partially decomposed
body Of woman known as Dora Clarence
was found in closet in q disreputable lodg-
ing-house in Chicago, on the 9th. Her muir
derer turned out to be a notorious woman
named Eva Lloyd, who had occupied the
same room with her, and who confessed hav-
ing killed her companion in drunken quar-
rel. The murdered girl is said to have come
from Bloomington, Ill.
The New York Democratic State
Committee have prepared and forwarded TO
the various election officers throughout the
State protests against the counting OF the
Electoral vote at the late election, to be
signed by the precinct officers, il in their
judgment the evidences Of fraudulent voting
in such precinct are sufficient to warrant
them in doing so.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 9th says ::
An earthquake was felt to-day throughout
Southern Austria from Vienna to the Adri-
attic and to the frontiers of Bosnia. At Ag-
ramin, Crotia, the shock was so violent that
every house in town was injured. Several
persons were killed and thirty injured. Many
buildings will have to be pulled down. A
large number of inhabitants fled to the fields.
GEN. GARFIELD has sent to Gov. Eos
ter his resignation as Member Of Congress
from the Nineteenth Ohio District, and an
election will be ordered for Nov. 80 to fill the
vacancy.
THREE thousand Jews have left Rou-
mania for America, via Bremen.
GEN. JOHN B. CLARK, JR-, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Eleventh Mis-
souri, District, was married to Mrs. Cornelia
We'll at Washington, ID. c., ON the 10th.
AT Buffalo, n. Z, Mr.. Russell Dart,
a prominent and wealthy resident, shot and
probably fatally wounded Emil Siefert, a
well known music teacher, for the alleged
reason that the latter had availed himself Of
his opportunities as instructor to become
too intimate with the formers daughter,
young lady of II. Siefert is man about 30
years of age. His wife has recently pro-
cured divorce from him. He makes coun-
r-charge that an improper intimacy existed
between Dart and his wife.
Cot. E. L. DRAKE, who drilled the
first oil-well at Titusville, Pa, and who for
several years past has received a pension
from the State of Pennsylvania on account of
his labors in developing the oil industry in
that State, has just died. A statue to his
is TO be erected on the new Oil EX-
change now building at Titusville or atsome
other prominent point in that city.
THE Arkansas Division of the St.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad is COM
pleted TO Seligman, IS miles south of Pierce
City, Mo-, and within IS miles of Eureka
Springs, Ark.
Four men were suffocsted in a mine
At Bodie, CAL, the hosting works having
taken fire and cut off their escape.
In New York City, on the 10th, An
drew Gillen, young lawyer Of dissipated
habits, shot and instantly killed, in the pres
enee of her mother, Mary Sigerson, young
lady to whom he had been paying his ad-
dresses, but who refused to marry him.
TIE President and members of the
Cabinet witnessed the naval review in
Hampton Roads on he 10th.
LEONARD HEFFNER's residence, in
he town Of Ellenhoro, Wis, burned on the
til. and his two children, aged three and
i've years, persisted in the flames. Mrs.
aeffner was badly burned, though it was
hought not fatally.
A NUMBER of arrests have been made
n South Carolina by United States officers
II parties charged with violation Of the Elec-
ion laws.
THE town of Keatchie, in De Soto
Parish. La, was almost entirely demolished
" a tornado on the night Of the 10Th.
Among the bull iings destroyed are the Bap- 4
list Church and the Baptist Feanale College.
he principal personal casualties are: Prof.
reynolds killed; the Rev. Mr.. Tucker badly
Injured, also his son; Mrs. Fannie Thomas
sdly hurt. Many others received minor
ljuries.
TIE National Congregational Corver-
ION met in St. Louis on the 1lth. Some 90
elegstss were in attendance.