The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1881-06-25
FOREIGN.

Postal telegraph employees in England are
on the eve of a strike.
An Italian exploring party have been
murdered in Abyssinia.
Baron Lothen, millionaire nobleman of
Austria, bias been murdered by his SER
wants.
Advices from Buenos Ayres, dated May
Is, announce that the Chilians are with
drawing from Peru.
The Chinese are pouring into Australia
at the rate of $4,000 year, and measures
are being agitated to stop the emigration.
The London Sportsman admits that Amer
leans have a great deal to be proud of in
securing both the Derby and Grand Prix.
Mr.. Jas. r. Keene's Kentucky horse,
FoxhaIl, won the Paris grand prize by
head, on the 18th inst. The purse was 1OO,-
600 francs.
Bebel, member of the German Reich
stag, says that ''the German people have
now only one want, and that is for money
enough to get to America"
A London writer says: 81 tasted quite
lately some Of the oranges that reached Lon
don from the Southern States OF America.
They sre acknowledgements to those from
SIP. in and Portugal"
A telegram from Constantinople states
that a hundred persons were killed and
sixty injured by the earthquake which re-
Gently devastated number of villages in
the Pashalic of Van, Armenia.
The latest intelligence from Pekin is to the
effect that the youthful Emperor has been
suffering from smallpox for twenty-six
days; he is in critical condition, and the
court physicians have little hope of his re-
coyery. The Empress of the West is ex-
pected to recover. Over 100 nurses have
been employed to feed her with their milk.
Jim Keene takes plate and cup stakes to
the amount OF $4,000 on Foxhall, but had
no money up on outside bets. He tele-
graphed to give the rider $500 and the
trainer a like sum. He claims not to be
surprised at the result of the race, and ex-
ults that American horses have won two
such notable events as the Derby and the
Grand Prix.
The correspondent of the Liverpool Post
says: In consequence of the attempt to blow
up the Town Hall at Liverpool on the night
Of the ninth instant, regulations forbidding
strangers to enter the precincts of the
House of Commons with parcels, which had
lately fallen into obeyance, will be re-en-
forced, and gatherings of strangers in the
lobby will be strictly prohibited.
A dispatch from Belts Cove, New Found
land, states that the schooner, r. J. Hart,
from st. John to Labrador, with fishery sup
plies and a large number of people of both
sexes, was crushed by the ice Tuesday
night, twenty-five miles east, SOUTHEAST Of
Cape John. All hands were rescued and
landed at La Scio, on the French cost. The
women and children were almost naked.
The crew saved nothing, barely escaped with
their lives.
The coroner's jury which has been inves-
tigating the recSnt Victoria steamboat dis
aster, by which more than 200 persons lost
their lives, on rendering a verdict,
find that the capsizing of the boat was due
TO water in the hold, and that the boiler was
not securely fastened, and that the supports
of the promenade and hurricane decks were
not properly braced and were too slender.
They also condemn the engineer, captain
and government inspectors for not report
ing the above defects. At the close of the
inquest Capt. Rankin and manager Geo.
Parrish were quietly arrested in the lobby
of the city hall on the information of Post
master Jones, of London, on the charge of
manslaughter. Bail was accepted for Par
IRISH in $4,000 and one surety of $1,000, and
for Rankin in $1,000 and two sureties in
$1,000 each.