The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-09-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
AN unpleasantness has grown up be-
tween Secretary Lincoln aud Mr.. Ingalls,,
Quartermaster- General, with regard to APP
pointments under ingalls,. Mr.. Lincoln
holds he has the right to make appointments
for Ingalls, division. .t
WILLIAM PITT KELLoGG has finally
been persuaded to accept the Republican
nomination in the Third Congressional Dis.
trict Of Louisiana.
Hon. G. A. TUCKER, from New South
Wales, who is inspecting iaiIs and insane
asylums, paid a visit to the mad-house at
Salt Lake, Utah, aud expresses himself as
deeply shocked by the sights he witnessed.
Among the patients are two sane persons,
bound haad and foot.
PRESIDENT .ARTHUR has been iunkety
ing about NEWPORT, RI. He visited Fort
Adams the other day aud reviewed the gar
rlson. after which a battery iriIhtook place.
A reception at the villa OF Edwin D. Nor
gan, where SIC, 200 had been. expended for
flowers, lasted from o'clock until 7, and
was graced BY the presence Of many distin-
S' It'd PPssppisS;sSSitloas 6a.l cons.
ventio on at S6iesse aaohted a splatforrn. de.
mandihg then 9litton ora licensed sale OF
liquors, th9,Abpiition Off olg gsmy, tbs. en-,
franchisemeht Of Yemen, the election of Of,
fcers ythsp ople as faras possible, uni
versaI ssd enforced Education of the youth
Of thecounRD the preservation OF. public
lands for actual settlers. and the abolition
OF all fnonop 2les. ,ol MD 1ot 1r, ,'si-er-i..
OKLAHosIA PAYNE writes to. friends
In Kansas that be Is encamped ON Dry
Creek, in Indisp Territory. and, that his
men are erectiGg buildings. ., %, '''aso
GENERALt SHsRMAN will establish his
home N st. Ieuis before the date for his
retire. nentdsop the artpSsS 80 I"'s bio
IT staaed 4hst General Grant win
decli1s to ssyyS ss q member ofthe commis-
sion ffAmed'tap establish eomrnefefal re,as
tions With Me&ieos Is He cfains that all that
is necessary to be tone Is to lower the. Gus
toms duties IN both countries. Il
THE Democratic Congressional nomi-
nations include fJohn 4 Hancock for the(
Tenth District q Texas, John e, Halselr
for the rtird District OF kentucky, Z. II.
Davis for the Fourteenth District Of Mis-.
souri,, Judge j. H. Reagan In the Second
District Of Texas, and A. NJ, Alexander
for the Second District of Missouri. The
Republicans placed In the field George II.
Craig for the Fourth District of Alabama.
Sixty ballots were taken in the convention
at Adrian, Mich. ), John, X, yBoies leading
with 20 votes to 20 for Sawyer. Hannibal
G. Carter, colored, will oppose General
Chalmers in the Second District of Missis-
sippi.
Ex-Governor KoERNER, of Illinois,
has addressed to Ex-Governor Palmer long
letter on the temperance issue, in which he
takes strong ground against the Maine and
Kansas laws, and such prohibition OF manu-
facture as is involved in the constitutional
amendment adopted in Iowa.
CABLEGRAMs from Constantinople
report the arrest of fifty persons engaged
in enlisting men in behalf of the Khedive.
Osman Pasha is said to have been the In.
termediary. A secret investigation is being
made. b.. OBI r... .t... g.