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

THE Utah Commissioners have an
pointed their county registration officers
under the Edmunds' bill. The majority are
not mormons, but some of the latter are
given charge Of counties. The Commits
noners appear inclined to avoid offending
the brethren as much as possible, and the
opinions OF leading Mormons are given great
weight.
WASHINGTON gossips say Secretary
Teller will be elected to his old seat In the
Senate, and that he will readily accept it,
GEORGE HoLYoAKE, the English
philanthropist, has arrived in New York,
his object being to induce the Government
to issue trustworthy guide-book for i'm
migrants, giving facts in regard to the re-
sources Of each State.
RECENT Democratic Congressional
conventions resulted in the nomination Of
William II. Morrison for the Eighteenth H.
linois District, j. Randolph Tucker in the
Sixth Virginia, J. Floyd King in the Fifth
Louisiana, Nelson v. Ayers in the Second
Kansas, III. A. Herbert in the Second Ala
bama, Thomas Williams in the Fifth and
Luke Pryor in the Eighth r. p. Bland In
the Eleventh Missouri, and W. A. Reece in
chS ouitu fiIRlhih, htpuDllCunS nave Sc
lected Nathan Golf, Jr., in the First West
Virginia, John r. Lynch, colored, in the
Sixth Mississippi, Colonel c. M. Butt in the
Seventh Wisconsin, Moses A. McCoid In the
First Iowa, and A. j. Holmes in the Tenth;
Godove s. Orth for the Ninth Indiana, and
W. II. Calkins in the Thirteenth. The
Greenbackers placed in the field Colonel
II. C. Hodge Tor the Third District Of Mich
igan. I3
SECRETARY FoLGER has been forced
to the admission that he would accept a
nomination for Governor OF New York and
enter heartily into the canvas. "F
AT a meeting of notables IN Cairo,
Aug. 90, at which the Governor of Ismailia
was present, speeches were made recogniz-
ing Arab Pasha as the sole ruler of Egypt.
The project Of police, on hearing this, de-
clared against Arab Pasha and ordered the
arrest of all present. The Governor of Ell
Arish has declared for Arab, and has in
duenced two tribes OF Bedouins in his favor
ALL the powers, including England,
have replied favorably to the proposition Of
Italy that Holland and Spain be admitted in
the collective protection OF the Suez Canal.
1t is believed, however, that in consequence
collective protection Of the canal will be
without result.
THE New York delegation to the Re-
publican State Convention is nearly unani-
nous in opposition to the denomination of
Governor Cornell.
THE Greenback Convention at Corsi-
sicana, Texas, agreed to support the indie
pendent ticket and Endorsed for Governor
G. Wash Jones; Lieutenant Governor, ID.
Young; Comptroller, j. Kennedy; Attor-
ney-General, &. Burnal. g.
In letter to the auditing board, DR..
ID. w. Bliss asks for $25, 900 for his services
at the bedside of President Garfield, claim
ing direct loss of $751; 900 in practice and by
subsequent il-health.
9. o. b. CowARDIN, of the Richmond
tVa.) Dispatch, charged with being about
to engage In duel with w. G. Elan, edi-
tor Of the Wing, has been arrested.
DE LEssEPs thinks the trouble in
Egypt will last long time. He says Arab
Pasha has the whole nation at his back, with
an army of some thirty thousand at present
and arms for 200, 900 men.
THE Republicans of California have
nominated NJ. M. Estee for Governor, A.
II. Conklin for Lieutenant G Governor, and
John Hunt and S. @. Denison for Justices OF
the Supreme Court. The platform de.
mands congressional legislation In regard to
interstate traffic, and opposes further sub.
sides to railroads.