The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ScoUTs have discovered Victories
main camp in Corral Depiedras in Mexico.
Various raiding expeditions are being scat
tered over the State Of chihuahua. Gov.
Terras has increased the reward offered for
Victories scalp from 5000 to $1,000.
A PARCEL containing four pounds OF
dynamite, connected with tube filed with
percussion-eaps and gunpowder, was found
recently under the rails on the London and
Northwestern Line, sixteen miles from the
Erston London terminus. 1t is supposed the
express train to Scotland passed over the
mined rail two hours previous to the discov-
cry, but the tube was shaken from the rail
by the motion Of the passing train, or other
wise failed to act. There was no clew to the
perpetrators.
HALL, the defaulting Treasurer Of
Toledo, o., has returned home and assumed
charge Of his business affairs IN the interest
OF his bOndsmen. His assets are thought 20
be sufficient to cover his official deficit.
CAPT. ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, of the
National Line Steamship England, was acci-
dentally drowned during the last trip of that
vessel from Liverpool TO New York.
THE Republicans of the Second Mis-
souri, District have nominated Gustayus Ses-
singhaus for Congress.
A WOMAN named Jolly, of Montreal,
with her two daughters, aged eight and Eve,
and young baby, were drowned by the up
setting of boat.
SUSPICIOUS cases of sickness, pro-
nounced by some physicians mild type Of
yellow fever, have been prevailing in the vi
entity of Quarantine Station, below New
Orleans. The National Board of Health on
the 10th sent commission to investigate the
matter.
THE trial of Virgil and Houston Gull
ly for the murder of John p. Gillmer, in 1877,
terminated at DeKalb, Miss, on the 10th, by
a verdict Of not guilty. The evidence was
fatty contradictory.
THE Republicans of the First Missouri
District have nominated exGov. Thomas C.
Fletcher for Congress.
A NATIONAL Convention of Republi-
can Clubs was held at Indianapolis on the
10Th. A lengthy address was issued, favor
ing the election of the Republican candidates
for President and Vice-President.
HENRY MACKABEE, a prison official
of Mount Sterling, KY, took two cohvicts
with him to a wood about ten miles from the
prison for the purpose of cutting some poles.
The convicts, who were armed with axes,
fell on Mackabee and hacked him TO pieces,
and made their escape. Mackabee's body
was discovered on the following day.
A DUEL between a Ute Indian and a
Navajo recently took place. A few friends
Of both parties were present. The Ute was
killed and the Navajo seriously injured.
Knives were the weapons used. The duel
was caused by both Indians wanting to marry
the same girl.
WAITEsBURG, village of Washington
Territory, has been almost entirely destroy
ed by fire. One Chinaman was burned to
death. The loss is variously estimated be-
tween $4,000 and 500 200.
SEPBNIA WINTERS and his wife, an
aged and respected couple residing just east
of Newark, o., were crossing the railroad
track in a two-horse buggy when the fast
express came along and struck their vehicle,
killing both of them instantly.
FIVE persons were killed and their
bodies blown to atoms by an explosion at
the Union Metallic Cartridge Company's
Works at Bridgeport, Conn, on the
18th. The building in which the
explosion occurred was located some dis
lance west Of the main factory. The build
ing was blown into fragments. Two dis
membered human bodies were found in the
lake near by, but Of the other three there
was no trace.
j. II. NELSON, a Paymaster in the
Army, is defaulter to large amount and
has fled the country. His shortage is said to
be between $4,000 and 500, 200.
SENATOR CoNKLING addressed Re-
publican meeting at the Academy of Music,
New York, on the night Of the 18th.
GEORGE MITCHELL, colored wife,
was hanged at Troy, o., on the
nth.
NINE men were killed by the break
ing of the cable while ascending in the cage
ut the Consolidated Imperial Mine at Vir-
ginia, New, on the night Of the 18th.
WILLIAM MAYER was killed by the
explosion of a cannon at Rockfeld, Carroll
County, Ind, on the night of the 10th, dur /
ng Democratic celebration.