The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-05-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

senior Gonzales, were bOth shOJ ana killed at
SparBs's ranch, forty miles east of Trinidad,
Colo, in a quarrel arising out OF some dis
puted sheep. The Sparks brothers, Henry
and Arthur, were the other participants in
the fight. Great excitement prevailed among
the Mexicans on account Of the affair and
further trouble was apprehended.
Two little girls, children of Police
man Calbeals, Of South Bend, Ind, were
playing on the bank Of the river when they
fell in and both were drowned.
A FIGHT occurred at Montreal, on the
18th, between striking stevedOres and the
police in charge of the wharves, in which
several crowns were cracked.
TIE Roman Catholics of Germany
are agitating for a modification Of the Ec-
elesiastical laws, and for a law which will
make Ministers responsible for their acts to
the Reichstag. At a meeting held in West
phalia 20, 600 people were present, and reso-
buttons approving the action Of the Ultra
montana party in the Reichstag were passed
without dissent.
The Cincinnati Musical Festival
opened on the night Of the 18th. The city
was handsomely decorated in honor Of the
event The sales Of seats amounted to nearly
$4,000.
A GANG of malefactors who attempt
ed to wreck train on the Andalusian Rail-
road in Spain have been sentenced, thirteen
to death and thirteen to life Imprisonment.
DIR. GABRIEL KAISER, well known
physician Of Indianapolis, committed sui
eide upon the grave Of his wife at louisville,
where she was buried about six weeks ago.
Since her death his mind had been unset
tied by excessive grief. .E....-.h ID.
HENRY A. RICH, Postmaster at Fort
Ouchita, Chickasaw Nation, was waylaid and
shot the other night by horse-thieVes.
a NUMBER of valuable buildings at
Scranton, Pa, have been ruined by the cav
ing in of the ground upon which they are
built. A large district Of the city is entirely
honeycombed by mines, and the inhabitants
thereof are extremely apprehensive Of fur
Their destruction.
The New Jersey Democratic Conven-
ton elected an uninstructed delegation to
the Cincinnati Convention and declared liz
favor ofthe two-thirds rule.
HoN. VIM. MCKEE Fox, prominent
citizen and politician Of Pulaski County,
KY, was drowned on the night of the 18th
by accidentally falling from skiff in which
he was crossing the river.
IT is reported that the Indians are
raiding the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. A
number Of settlers have been killed and
many are fleeing to Tucson.
THE long expected Hanlan-C Courtney
boat-race came off on the Potomac at Wash
ington on the 10Th, butproved an Uninterest-
ing affair, Courtney virtually abandoning the
contest before he had reached the first flag,
marking one-eighth of mile from the start
ing place. Courtney's friends say that he
was in no condition physically to undertake
the race, but that he felt himself compelled
to out of regard to public opinion.
A PARTY of seven Mexicans recently
crossed the Rio Grande, visited Bishops
store in Starr County, Tex, murdered Bish-
op and brlItally assaulted his wife and serv-
ant-girl. They then plundered the store
and recrossed into Mexico. Gen. Canales
succeeded in arresting five Of the villains.
who will be turned over to the Texas au-
thorities for trial and punishment.
SENATOR JOHN B. GORDON, of Geor-
gia, has rendered his resignation as United
States Senator, and Gov. Colquitt has ap-
pointed ex-Gov. Joseph E. Brown in his
stead. Gen. Gordon is to become attorney
of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, at
a large salary.
1T is reported that a cargo of arms and
ammunition and one hundred men have been
landed in Cuba from an American vessel,
and that the struggle for independence will
now begin anew. Gen. Garcia is in com
mand Of the expeditiOnary forces, and Gen.
Calixto is Commanderin Chief. A regular
provisional Government has been formed,
with Gen. Yniguez as President.
. A LONDON dispatch of the 18th says
that so great is the rush of emigration to
America that the steamship companies can
not nearly supply the demand for accOmmO-
dations, and those companies that have sold
tickets in advance are compelled to return
money to emigrants awaiting their turn.
Twenty-six passenger steamers were dis
from Queenstown in single week.
EX-GOv. FOoTE, Superintendent of
the Mint at New Orleans, died at his home
near Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th.
A CoNsTANTINOPLE dispatch says
that fifty brigands have been killed near Sa-
Ionica, and others captured and their pris-
oners rescued.
THE Acting Agent of the San Carlos
Indians denies that any Of the tribe have
left the Agency except upon peaceful err
rands. ...
RED CLOUD, Spotted Tail and ten
other Sioux chiefs are en- route to Washing
ton for the purpose of discussing the prop
osition to permit the railroads to run through
THE Jackson statue at Nashville,
Tenn, was unveiled with appropriate cere-
on the Goth, in the presence of
large concourse of people, citizens and
strangers. .a#
THE Iowa Greenbaek State Conven-
ton, held at Des Moines on the 18th, elected
delegates to the National Convention and
nominated a full ticket of State officers.
THE Nebraska Republican State Con
yention, held at Columbus on the 10th, elect
ed a solid Blaine delegation to the National
Convention.
THE annual session of the General
Conference of the Methodist Protestant
Church begun at Pittsburg on the DIST One
hundred and nineteen delegates were pres
emit. -
The failure was announced on the
21st of the Reading Coal and Iron Company,
heretofore considered enc of the strongest
in Pennsylvania, and intimately
connected with the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company. The failure caused
, great decline in Reading Railroad stock