The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-01-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

rapidly concentrating their FORCES, one Dat
TALON having marched 800 miles.
AWARlon emigrant business has been
.fnapgurated by the New York trunk lines,
which prOIRisesto materially swell the tide Of
emigration to the West.
" THE st. Louis & San francisco Rail-
road, which now terminates at Yinita, is.
hurrying forward rails and ties into the In
dian Territory and expects TO put thousand
men at work at an early date.
SUBSCRIPTIONS have been opened
in New York for $4,000, 600 in stock
and bonds of the Mexican National Railway,
designed to connect Laredo with the City Of
Mexico.
A sLEIGHTNG party of six, crossing
the railway track on the London, Huron
and Bruce Railway, near Claudeboy Station,
Ont, Christmas night, were struck by a
train at full speed. James McGrath, his
wife, and brother Matthew, and Ellen Blake,
a cousin, were instantly killed. McGrath's
child, IS months old, was dangerously hurt.
but may recover. Annie McGrath saved
herself by jumping. $50. r....,,..s.
THERE are reports of great destitu-
tion and suffering among the Irish eolonists
recently settled in Big Stone County, Mimi,
under the supervision of Bishop Ireland.
Provisions and supplies have peen sent from
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
A BERLIN dispatch reports that many
Jewish families are preparing to emigrate to
Belgium, France or England.
MIR. LIE Due, Commissioner of Agri-
a,,t4,,,a - ag+oblf.bf,,c, IN eax-parin,antal foe
farm twenty miles from Charleston, on the
line Of the South Carolina Railroad.
JOHN ]. MEcHI, the well-known En-
glish agriculturist, is dead.
JOSEPH L. PIKE prominent stock
man Of Onaway City, Iowa, committed sui
eide on account Of financial reverses.
THE boilers in Dodge & Co.'s shoe
factory at Newburyport, Mass, exploded at
noon on the 9th, killing instantly John Har
rington, engineer, and John II. Basley, fire.
man, and fatally injuring John Teel and Os-
car Satkins, all Ct whom were in the
boiler-room at the time of the eXplo-
sion. The disaster occurred, fortunately,
during the dinner hour, or the loss of
life among the 800 operatives must have been
was blown to atoms and the debris scattered
an all directions, while one Of the boilers was
landed 200 yards away, crushing everything
in its path. The cause of the explosion is
not known, as the boilers are said to have
been nearly new and Of the best quality.
JUDGE PERCY WALKER, ex-Repre-
sentative in Congress from Alabama, is dead.
A MOVEMENT is making in Northern
Dakota to have the Territory divided into
two parts.
RAILWAY employees in Great Britain
have begun a movement for a reduction of
working hours. .." +e.......-...
A COLLISION of trains on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad occurred on the morning
Of the 26th at the State line, sixty three miles
from Mobile, causing the death of both en-
gineers and firemen and the injury ofseveral
other employees as well as passengers. The
names of the killed are Savage, Heuchey and
Moody, one not being given.
The annual session of the Western
Commercial Travellers Association was held
at St. Louis on the 2Sth.
THE steamer City of Peking from
China brings an account Of the burning of a
theater in NOmhoitner, Province of Yuchun,
on the afternoon of December IL. Some
1000 spectators were in the theater at the
time, and a great panic ensued. There was
wild rush for the doors, and many were
mangled and killed by beirg trodden on.
/ Several hundred were burned to. death,
among whom were number Of actors. o.
/ JACOB GoGLE and wife, residing four
miles from Bethlehem, Pa, on the morning
of the 9th were found dead in bed, their
heads nearly severed from their bodies. .
bloody AK was found in the apartment and
the walls were splashed with blood. Joseph
Snyder, miner, who boarded with the
Goggles, was believed to be the murderer.
He was caught by an infuriated mob soon
after the discovery of the crime, forced to
confess his guilt, and hanged to the nearest
tree. The Goggles leave three children.
PHILIP WHIsNANT, Charles Sellers,
and three colored men, riding in q eaboose
on the Airline Railroad, North Corolina,
were killed by a collision, nine miles from
Charlotte, on the Goth. g.. i.9-l
THE lawyers of Missouri met in State
Convention at Kansas City, on the 18th, for
the purpose of suggesting some remedy for
relieving the Supreme Court Of the present
overplus of business. .i..... ....
AT Martha's Vineyard, Mass, the
wife of Edwin S. Baker went TO the rescue
of her son, who had broken through the ice
on a pond, and both were drowned.
/ THE recent nominations by President
Hayes of Mr.. Daniels for Collector at Buffalo
and Mr. Haskell for Postmaster at Albany.
n. Y, both strong anti-Conkling men, are
creating no little talk in political circles, es-
pecially in connection with the rumor, which
1t by no means verified, however, that both
appointments were made wi b the concur
renee of President-elec Garfield.
The dead body of a negro, in a fair
state of preservation, was found in a hogs
head OF molasSes recently opened at Ok
bridge, Mass. He is supposed to have been
murdered and The body thus disposed of to
conceal the evidence of the crime. Steps
will be taken to ferret out the mystery.
n. B. HAYWOOD, the well-known St.
Paul dry-goods merchant, who recently
4 went into bankruptcy, has absrondrd. His
/ creditors are generally of the opinion that
, HE failure was a swindle. His assets will
/ not pay over p cents on the dollar. 3
THE recent severe cold snap, which
eliminated on the % ult., extended gener-
ally throughout the coun ry. At Chicago the
mercury ranged from 20 to % deg. below
zero. and at ST. Louis 10 deg. below, which
was about the average range throughout the
Northwest. In the East there was heavy
fall Of snow, and at New Orleans there was
| good skating. a @. -
In York County, Va, Howard Dunn,
white man, Shot and killed three negroes