The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-08-04
MISCELLANEOUS.


presence of five thousand persons, Hanlan,
Hosmer and Lee rowed three-mile race,
coming in one second apart, Hanlan win
ming.
SUITS have been begun against the
patrons of private letter express in New
York under the United States postal laws.
THE bank of Leadville (Colo.) has
failed disastrously, the assets being stated
at sos, 45O, with liabilities of $40, 100.
Fears were entertained for the solvency of
the other banks there on the 9th, as they
had labored under heavy runs in conse-
quence of the panic among depositors.
ABOUT thirty thousand persons at
tended the Grand Army reunion at Column
bus, o. The principal feature on the 27th
the closing day, was the grand parade,
which was participated in by representa-
tives of the wars of 1916, 1872 Seminole,
Mexican and rebellion.
BETWEEN 1900 and 100 cases were
made by the police in st. Louis, NO., on the
29th against violators of the Sunday law,
mainly saloon-keepers.
The annual report of Captain w. H.
Haner on the progress of the work of the
sissippi River indicates that the channel
at the mouth of the Mississippi is now bet
ter than ever before.
THERE were 1922 deaths from cholera
at Cairo, Egypt, on the 2Sth, including
three British soldiers, seventeen at Zifteh,
seventeen at Barraze, eighty-four at Mehal-
la, eighty-one at Shirbin, forty-six at
Tantah, fifty-one at Ghizeh, twenty-five at
Mitzamu, fourteen at Zagazig, and thirty
nine at eleven other widely scattered
places.
MEMBERS of the Brotherhood of Tel
egraphers at Washington, d. C. presented
to the President of the United States "bill
of grievances" on the 10Th, setting forth
the great injury resulting to the national
Government from the obstinate attitude"
assumed by the telegraph companies.
A YELLOw-FEvER stricken steamship
passed the health authorities at the mouth
of Chesapeake Bay without detection the
other day, but was quarantined at Balti-
more, Nd.
THE body of Captain Webb. the fa-
nous swimmer who lost his life in an at
tempt to breast the Rapids of the Niagara
River, has been recovered.
A BOTTLE picked up in the Gulf of
Mexico few days ago contained note sig
nifying that the ship Cape of Good Hope
was helpless wreck near the coast of
Cuba.
A CONSOLIDATION of the New Eng
land Telephone Exchanges has been ar
ranged. The Bell Company has a majority
TO the stock.
A DESPERATE attempt was made to
rob bank cashier of $4,000 on street
car at Hoboken, N. Y, the other day by
three villains who struck him over the head
with lead pipe, but the attempt was frus-
trated and the rascals captured.
a STATEMENT of the condition of the
United States Treasury on the 2Sth showed
gold coin and bullion, $201, $3.50, 55F; silver
dollars and bullion, $117, 1S6, 449; fractional
silver coin, $2S,OS2, 1874. United States
notes, $54S, 5S6,372; total, $401 ,947 1877; gold
$50, IA, OSO; silver, $73,536,34l currency,
81, 635, 900.
The mail-boat Casino, which recently
sailed from Liverpool, Eng, for the west
coast of Africa, took three thousand car
bines for Henry M. Stanley.
THERE were eight deaths from yellow
fever at Havana, Cuba, during the seven
days ended ON the 2Sth.
| A CADET has been summarily dis
missed from the Naval Academy at Annap-
oils for hazing.
A MAN named Terry safely crossed
the English Channel the other day ON a
floating tricycle.. Ir,
EIGHT men dug under the walls of
the Jail at Berrien Springs, Mich, the other
night and rejoined the world. Five of
them were speedily recaptured.
! AT a recent meeting of the South
Caroline Grange, Senator Butler argued
that negro labor grows more worthless
each year; that 100000 black hands could
be safely spared, and that Chinese ought to
\ be imported to cultivate the cotton-felds.
I A CABLEGRAM from Alexandria,
Egypt, on the 3oth ult. said an analysis
had been made Of the waters of the river
| Nile, which showed that it was infected
with putrid matter to above the cataracts.
There were $50 deaths from cholera at
Cairo on the 10Th and 443 at twenty other
places between Minyeh and the Meditera-
| mean.
IT was reported on the S0th that
James Carey, the informer in the Phoenix
Park murders at Dublin, Ireland, had been
murdered on the steamship Melrose be.
tween Cape Town and Port Elizabeth by q
] fellow-passenger.