The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-08-19

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts, Prohibitionists
congratulate their brethren In Kansas and
Iowa and express sympathy with those
struggling in other States. The Indiana
Republicans are In favor OF such sn adjust
ment Of revenue and tariff as will raise no
more money than necessary to pay interest
on the public debt and the expenses OF Gov
eminent.
The remarkable contest in the
Twelfth Illinois District, in which the Dem :
ocratic Convention spent two days at Mount
Sterling and three days at Beardstown,
closed by the nomination OF James NJ.
Riggs, Of Scott County, on the 1,521st bal
lot.
MR.GLADsToNE has declared that the
campaign in Egypt is to protect the inter-
ests of the civilized world; that the Suez
Canal must be kept open, and that the war
is for the purpose of protecting the Egyp-
tians from military tyranny.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and Postmaster
General Howe will visit Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Iowa about the middle of Septem-
Der. During his stay in Milwaukee the
Chief Magistrate will be the guest of Alex
ander Mitchell. .3 r
VIM. CUsACK, a member of the Sars-
field Skirmishing Club, speaking about the
Irish movement to give financial aid to Ara
bi Pasha, announced that at the meeting in
Philadephia the other night every man was
In favor Of helping, both by sending men
and money, and said: 1--WE are in for dy-
Mantle and bullets first, last and all the
time"
The London Times says: "When
the army of Arab Pasha has been dispersed
and its leaders brought to account for their
misdeeds, we shall have to make sure the
difficulty may not recur in q new FORM
Egypt will be on our hands. 1t will not be
open to us to retire from the country and
leave events to take their own course. This
Is the resolve of England, and when it be-
comes necessary to seek the sanction Of 9TH
er powers for this result, the concert Of
Europe will be invoked in sense very diff
ferent from that with which we have lately
been familiar.n ueru.s..f a9ya. ..uaV u
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is in New York.
LITTLE THUNDER, chief of the Chip
pewa Indians, died in a Chicago hospital,
Aug. IA. He was one of the two survivors
Of the Custer massacre. ..... l..
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has arrived at Osborne. 1t Is rumored that
Queen Victoria, at the interview which will
be granted him, will inform him of the de-
cision Of her Government to restore him to
his kingdom. 1t is stated that British
Minister will be appointed to reside at
Ulundi, the Zulu capital, In order to ad-
wise Cetewayo on questions relative to ex-
ternal relations. | I'D ll .l
The Land League of Philadelphia has
decided that 1t would not advance the cause
of Ireland to assist Arab Bey by sending
money or troops to Egypt. I,t DO
On petition of the business men of
Fall River, Mass, President Arthur has
granted pardon to Joseph W. Milne, tel
ter OF the Pocasset National Bank, convict
ed Of embezzling the funds.
AN eminent German surgeon has pub
lished paper In which he attempts to show
that General Garfield might have lived but
for improper medical and surgical treat
ment.
PRESIDENT BARRIos, of Guatemala,
has gone home, finally abandoning all claim
on Socunusco and agreeing to submit the re-
naming question between Guatemala and
Mexico to the President of the United
States.
A SHARP and spirited letter from Dor
sey to Garfield, concerning the formation Of
his Cabinet, is made public. 1t treats with
contempt the suggestion that James and
MacVeagh 60 into the Cabinet. The publi-
cation Of the letter is to show that it ami
mated what Dorsey regards as his persecu-
tions by those officers. iu.