The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-15

blown down. The Columbia Penitentiary
building WAS badly damaged and i've Of tins
inmates lady injured
THBEE young boys, named John
Hayes.Theodore Routt and Willie Sheldon,
while bathing in MeCann's pond, a short
distance from Gibson City, Ford County,
I H., got into deep water, and not being able
to swim were drowned.
/ CENTRAL Iowa suffered, from q tor-
nado on the night of the Tn. AT Buffalo,
Scott County, four houses and a mill were
blown down ard one man was killed.-ain
Des Moines County a. number Of buildings
were likewise demolished. ' ' %.
( THE Comptroller of the Currency re-
ports the total number of national banks or
ganized during the fiscal year at 81, with a
capital Of s., 80, go; total number OF banks
which have gone into voluntary liquidation
/ in the same period, 90, with capital of 81
/ COL 900, included among which are three
gold banks in California, with capital of
100000, which went into voluntary liquida-
/ tion and organized as currency banks, No
national banks failed from July %, 1879, un-
| til June 8. 1880, since which time three
banks have failed with a capital Of 100000,
all of which, it is believed, will pay creditors
7 in full. .Ia HEl ..
FOLLOWING is statement of the OPP
erations of the National Bank Redemption
Agency for the fiscal year ended June 30:
National bank notes disposed of-notes for
circulation assorted and returned to banks
of issue, S24, $50 800; notes unfit for circula-
10 a loI;, 4 - ~,
! Ter of the Currency for destruction and re-
placement with new notes, $40, S4l, 700; notes
of failed, liquidating and reducing banks
deposited in the Treasury, SG,500,0O0. Total,
sol .343, 900. Total for 1879, Sl60, S9S, $50; de-
| crease, sos, 555, $50.
THE weekly purchases of bonds by
the United States Treasury has been discon-
tinued for the present on account Of de-
mands on the cash in the Treasury for other
purposes. .I
; THE Kentucky Court of Appeals, on a
motion to set aside an indictment against a
negro on the ground that the Grand Jury
was composed exclusively OF white persons,
holds ''that so much of our statutes as eX
cludes all persons other than white men
from service on juries is unconstitutional,
and that no person can be lawfully excluded
from any jury on account of his race or
color" Do -. .l..'. @ ....
The Postmaster-Gener has COM
pleted negotiations with the New York Cen
trail and Hudson River and Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroads whereby bene-
fits derived from fast mail in operation on
those roads IN 1875 and 1876 will be again
given to almost the whole territory of the
West The arrangement went into effect
Monday, July 3. b.. .a..
The closing of accounts of disburse-
ments of the Navy Department for the fiscal
year shows that the expenditures for that
period have been S426,S7S less than for the
previous year, and that there is on hand
June so, 1880, an uneXpended balance Of
81, 461, 1SS of the amount available for the
year, exclusive of balances in the hands of
pay officers of the Navy. .| .E..# ..
THE two hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of St. Anthony's Falls by
Father Hennepin was celebrated at Mime
apolis on the Sd. Gen. Sherman, Secretary
Ramsey and other notable men were present.
IT is reported from FL Paso that Vic
torio's Apaches are committing depredations
in chihuahua, Mexico. A large number of
horses have been run off and several muir
ders committed. Gov. Terrasas with about
300 Mexican soldiers and large body of vol
unteers is on their trail. Victories band
being remounted may be expected any mod
ment back into New Mexico. Troops are
being rapidly moved forward, and every eX-
posed point in Grant, Donna, Lincoln and
SOcorro Counties will soon have detachments
of protection The Mescalero Agency has
been placed under military control and two
companies of cavalry and one of infantry sta
toned there, Two companies of cavalry are
now marching to Fort Wingate, the NavajoS
being considered unsafe, and a new post
will also be established in La Plata County,
Southwestern Colorado, to keep watch over
the Southern Utes. -. ...r. "a.
THERE has been a fallingoff Of Sc, 291,-
800 in the revenue of Great Britain and Ire
land for the fiscal year ending the 3)th Of
June. During the same time the revenue Of
the United States shows an increase of about
S11 900. ID. 7"
A REVISED list of the dead of the Sea-
wanahaka disaster shows that thirty-five
bodies have been recovered, nearly all OF
which have been identified. II all the miss
ing persons be added to the list Of lost the
total will reach sixty. .s