The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-07-29

HE Empress Eugene dlSemoaTh5u
DIT St. Helena on her return from Africa
and visited the former residence Of Napo-
leon /.
GEN. GRANT had an elaborate and
enthusiastic reception at Lesdyille on the
22d. The CitE spent $4,000 on his recep-
ton.
The Democrats of the Indianapolis
District have nominated Charles Byield for
Congress. An attempt to secure the indorse-
ment by the Convention Of Mr.. De La Matyr,
the Greenbaclc candidate for reelection, was
unsuccessful.
Ex-GoV. b. GRAFT BROWN has an
nounced himself as candidate for United
States Senator from Missouri.
Hon. Z. b. WAsHBURNE has gone to
Europe for his health. He will return in
October.
A SMALL party of Usage Indians re-
Gently raided a herd Of horses on MIR. Dris-
colPs ranch, on the Cimmaron River, about
forty-five miles south Of Dodge City, kans.
They ran off five horses, returning to the In
dian Territory. Cattle men are arming to
defend their stock, and a party of soldiers
from Il ON DOuSc nave bOSh OiNOANA W VIZ
locality.
GEORGE BENNETT, alias Dickson, who
murdered Hon. George Brown, prominent
citizen of Toronto, Canada, was hanged on
the 23d.
A BOLD robbery is reported from the
vicinity Of GRANVILLE, White County, Ill. The
family of Edward Kershaw went out on
visit, leaving a little girl alone in the house.
Three men entered, and while one of them
held the child on the bed, sitting her cries
with a pillow, his partners ransacked the
house. One thousand dollars, belonging to
Kershaw's mother, was taken from bureau
drawer, but another 81 200, belonging to
Kershaw, was overlooked. The thieves ,es-
capped.
CHARLES NORTON shot Policeman
O'Neil at Kokomo, Colo, on the 23d. Nor
ton was intoxicated and raising a disturb
ance. The policeman attempted to arrest
him and was shot dead. Norton was taken
to Jail and placed under guard. A crowd
soon gathered and overpOwered the guard
and lynched the prisoner. He is said to have
confessed having committed other murders,
and admitted he ought to have been hung
| long ago.
A RECENT storm in Monroe County,
Mich, destroyed many vineyards filled with
| the choicest grapes and also ruined grain OF
all kinds. The aggregate loss is 100000.
A sAw-MILL boiler exploded near
Gettysburg, Darke County, o., blowing the
mill to tatters and instantly killing William
Reid, the fireman, and seriously injuring six
other persons.
S. C. PETERS, A. w. Davis and H.
Marks, proprietors, together with fifty 9TH
ers, attaches OF Boyd g. Peters Circus, were
arrested at GreensbUrg, Pa, charged with
abducting Miss Salome Burkett, aged IA,
from her home in Somerset County. The
girls story Of her treatment was almost toe
horrible for belief. Great excitement pre-
vailed at Somerset and Greensburg on ac-
count of the outrage and mob law was
feared.
TROUBLE is reported between the In
dams and whites in Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory, owing as alleged tC
the encroachments of settlers.
THE project of erecting a statue to
the late Prince Napoleon in Westminster
Abbey, which had the cOuntenance of the
Queen, has been declared by the House o.
Commons (161 to 141) to be inconsistent
with the national character of the edifice.'
CICERO SIMoNs was hanged at Fail
Play, Colorado, on the 23d, for the murder
of John johnson in April last.
JUSTIN HOFFMAN, a shoemaker living
near Pittston, Pa, while crazed by drinl
shot and fatally wounded his wife and youn!
child, and seriously wounded another Chile
named Hooke, who was standing by. He wa
locked up just in time to save his beint
lynched by an Infatuated mob.
THE House of Commons on the 2Otl
passed the Irish Relief Bill.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at thu
Hudson River Tunnel, Jersey City, at al
early hour on the morning OF the 21st, b,
which twenty men were killed, while eigh
others had an almost miraculous escape
The accident was caused by the escap
of compressed air, which was relied upol
to help sustain the roof. The falling o
the roof closed the air-lock into the tun
mel. and the water rising rapidly cut off tn
escape Of the twenty men who were at wor
in the shaft at a depth of sixty feet. IN
eight who escaped were in the afro hambe
when the water began to rush in, and jus
saved themselves by running up the ladder
A LATER report regarding the resul
Of the election in Mexico says that Gen
Gonzales has been elected President by
, large majority. While the President-eleC
was on a balcony at Guanajato receiving a
: ovation, some person shot at him from tn
street. The bullet missed its intended vic
tim, wOunding two other persons in tn
party.
A NEGRO named John Houston wa
, lvncbed near Shelbyville, Tenn, on the nigh
= of the DIST. for committing an assault upO
the six-year-old daughter Of white man.
A BOLD robbery was committed at tn
private bank of Fisher, Preston & Co., i
Detroit, on the 22d. While the clerk, Fred
I d. Clifford, was alone, stranger appeare
at the opening of the wire screen in tn
counter and expressed a desire to buy som
Government bonds. As Clifford was abOU
to reply the stranger suddenly reache
! through the aperture and struck him on tn
temple with a slungshot. The blow felle
him TO the floor and temporarily rendere
him insensible. When he recovered it wa
ascertained that between 81, 900 and 500
in currency, lying on top of the couRter, ha
, disappeared.
The report of Clare Sewen Read an
Albert Pell, sent by the loyal Agricsitur'
Commission to the United States and C&nad
to inquire into the state Of agriculture,
published. They say while many prevail
ing conditions are favorable in America
the contest for agricultural supremacy, std
= drawbacks exist which tell in favor of Eng