The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-06-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


crime. Prospectors fail to discover a sign
or trail Of Indians in North Park or vicinity.
FURTHER reports of the flood at
Bracket, Texas, are that about fourteen
inches Of water fell in ten hours. The body
Of Prof. Stadler, editor Of the Fl. Clark
NelCs, was found lodged in tree eighteen
miles south of Bracket. 1t hardly known
how many were drowned, though the num-
Der is placed at twenty-five.
Two aged widows, Maria Arvont and
Emily Chilsey, living together by themselves
in house near Avon, Conn.,, were found
murdered on the morning of the 31st. The
motive Of the crime is not known, as there
was no attempt made to rob the house, which
contained considerable silverware and other
valuables.
A DESTRUCTIVE tornado swept over
the southern portion of Washington County,
Ind, on the night of the 31st. A number of
houses and other property were destroyed,
/ but fortunately no person was killed and
only one slightly injured.
GEN. RANDALL r. GIBSON has been
re-nominated for Congress in the First
Louisiana District.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomi
nation Of Horace Maynard as Postmaster
| General; also, of Felix COste as U. S. Mar
! shall, Eastern District of Missouri.
THE weather in ireland is UMPIRE
eedentedly favorable TO the growing crops,
and an abundant harvest is expected.
THERE were ten deaths from yellow
fever and eighteen from smallpox in Ha-
vana during the week ending May %.
THE French Chamber of Deput es are
about to amend the Election law SO as to
secure as far as possible absolute secresy in
voting.
WILSON, a condemned murderer,
committed suicide in the Jail at Upper San
dusky, o., on the I'd, by taking poison. He
was to have been hanged on the 18th.
Col. j. G. AUDENRIED, of Gen.
Sherman's staff, died in Washington on the
Sd. He was buried at West Point.
A DUEL has been fought on the Bel
gian frontier between two Spaniards, the
Marquis Gil de divers and Count de Lardi.
The Count was killed. The Marquis killed
man in a duel last September.
IT is reported that the Navajoes and
Utes recently held pow-wOw in Rio ARA
ba County, Northwestern New Mexico, and
agreed to join forces to make war in common
against the whites.
JOHN G. THOMPSON, JR., of Ohio,
son of the Sergeant at-Arms Of the National
House of Representatives, was shot and
seriously wounded in the abdomen at High
land Falls, n. Y, ON the 4th, Sy Beaumont
r. ID ,I,4o
admission to West Point Military Academy
and were attending a preparatory school.
Buck had been made the victim of mild
form of hazing by the other students and
becoming enraged at some remarks, drew a
revolver and shot Thompson. Buck gave
himself up to Justice Avery and was COM
mitted to the county Jail to await the result
of Thompson's injuries. The bullet passed
through the latter's body.
JORDAN. Captain of the Canadian
Cricket Club, now playing in England, has
been arrested as a deserter from the British
Army. His real name is Tom Dale.
Mr.. S. n. d. NORTH, of the Utica
IN. " Herald, has been appointed special
agent of the census for the collection Of sta
tistics Of the newspaper and publishing in
terests of the United States.
President HAYES has been elected
Vice President of the American Bible So
ciety.
ST. LOUIS and the surrounding coun-
try upon both sides of the Mississippi were
swept by a hurricane on the 4th, causing
good deal of damage to property. One man
was killed in st. Louis by falling walls and .
several others were injured.
THE Ryan-GOss prize-fght finally
came off on the LIST at Golfers Station, West .
Va. Eighty-six rounds were fought, when
Ryan was declared the winner.
The President nominated Eugene .
now Consul General at Rome, to
be Consul General at Bucharest; and Will
liam \. Pethic. now Vice-COnsul at Tien
Tsien, as Secretary Of the Commission to
China.
THE President has nominated Robert
S. Gardner, of West Virginia, to be Indian
Inspector.
j. j. TEMPLER & Co., prominen
grain firm of Kansas City, have failed. Liza
biIities not stated.
THE Leadville miners strike is prac-
resumed work at old prices.
DURING fire at Montreal hotel the
other night two servant girls jumped from
a fourth window. One Of them was
seriously and the other fatally injured.
THE colored seamen of a Norfolk
(Va.) schooner mutinied recently, killed the
Captain and cook, and seriously wounded
Il, 81, Fo,.4 |
hore and hid in the Virginia swamps.
JACOB SMITH, wealthy farmer OF
Lucas County, o., has been arrested on
charge Of having murdered his wife's uncle
fifteen wears ago in order to obtain posses
sion of some $1,000.
THE captain of vessel at Queens
town from Demarara reports that on the
30th Of April, in lat. 80 deg. north, long. 60
deg. west, he passed a raft, apparently made
on board man-of-war or frst-class steam
er, as it was bolted together, and not lashed.
Two DAYS afterward he saw several corpseS
dressed in white. 1t is thought to have been
a relic of the lost training-ship Atalanta.
JUDGE HAGNER of the Washington
Court has granted $50 per month as ali
mony to Mrs. Christiancy pending decision
in the divorce suit instituted by her hus-
band. The Court also allowed $500 for at
torney's fees. The alimony will be paid
from the LIST of May last.
PoSTMASTER-GENERA MAYNARD is
a native of Massachusetts, and his wife is
native of Vermont, daughter of the Rev.
A. Washburne, Congregational clergyman
In Royalton.
A BILL to extend the suffrage has been
into the italian Parliament.