The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-11-17

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WILLIAM SwNBURNE, locomotive |
builder at Paterson, N. j., died on the 9th. |
THE Marquis of Harrington thinks
the peace of Europe is assured, though the |
Chinese trouble may strain it slightly.
The French Ambassador to China,
Tricou, lays the blame of his Ii Hung
Chang dispatch on the plug operator.
ToBIA BERTINI, prima tenor assoluta,
wants $50, 900 from Colonel Mapleson, who,
he alleges, does not mean to keep con-
tract by which Bertini was to receive So 900
a month for the season.
On the 9TH Hallett Kilbourn got
verdict for 1000 in Washington.
Miss EMMA ABBOTT, the charming
American prima donna, during a recent
visit to st. Louis, Mo-, became the possessor
of q ten and quarter carat diamond, val
ued at &, 800.
IT is asserted by the London Times
that there is no occasion to depart from the
usual rule and allow American counsel to
defend O'Donnell.
PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM of Ger
many is soon to visit King Alfonso.
OK the. Sth General Sherman was the
guest of General Hancock in New York.
ASSURANCE was given by Lord Derby
to West Indian delegation that the Gov
eminent contemplates an entirely new de-
parture in Jamaica.
The majority for General Carr, for
Secretary of State in New York, will reach
nearly 10000.
THE Republican gain in Nebraska,
taking the vote for Judge as a basis, in the
recent election is nearly 10000.
The Virginia election returns, which
came in slowly at first, continue to add to
the Democratic gains, and show the signal
defeat Of the Malone element.
THERE appears to be no doubt that
the Constitution was carried in Dakota.
On the 18th Augusta Koebler COM
mitted suicide at Milwaukee, Wis, by
taking rat poison.
TIE nomination of Edmund McCur-
tain for Chief of the Choctaw Nation is an
nounced.
A RUMoR is current that Bob Ford,
the slayer of Jesse James, has mysteriously
disappeared.
ADJUTANT-G CARNAHAN, OF
Indiana, proposes a National encampment
of State troops at Washington next year.
Two sermons were preached in Gin
cinnati by Mgr. Capel on the 11th on Mar
tin Luther from the Catholic standpoint.
THE President and the Civil-Service
Commission can not agree on scheme tt
regulate promotions in the Civil-Service.
On the 18th Republican demonstra
tion was held in Madrid in honor O
Figueras, the first President of the Spanish
Republic.
IT is reported that w. S. Kirker, thu
absconding teller of the Second Nationa
Bank, of Ironton, o., has returned home
He had been on a prolonged spree.
PROFESSOR JOHN T. SHORT, late in
cumbent of the chair of History ant
Philosophy in the Ohio State University
died the morning of the 18th. He was tn
author of "North Americas Antiquity,
and a member of historical societies in thi
country and Europe.
IT is said that Secretary Teller ha
under consideration plan, Endorsed b.
Commissioner Dudley, to prevent sue
scandals as recently have been brought t
light in the practice of certain pension a
torneys. This suggestion is that only men
bers of the bar, regularly admitted to praC
appear before the department..
Ex-Governor MATT. HEAD, of Ne'
Hampshire, died the night of the 18th.
On the night of the 18th the eminer
tragedian, John Mccullough, was the r.
cipient of an ovation at the hands of h
large circle of friends in St. Louis, Mo-,
the Olympic Theater. General Sherma
was among the audience, which was one
the most brilliant ever seen in the city.
On the evening of the 18th Gener;
Sherman was warmly welcomed home b
a large company of old comrades at S
Louis, Mo.
On the 18th o. M. Chase, Superb
tendent of the Michigan fish hatcherie
was drowned with six others by the capsi
ing of boat between Petoskey and Harb
Springs.
The commanding officer of the FrenC
fleet in the Pacific Ocean, Admiral La
dolfe, died recently at Papetit, Tahati
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany h;
given ], 900 marks toward the Luther ms
tuition for the education of the children
clergymen.
In speaking of a recent tour in Ca
ada, Earl Carnarvon said nobody cou
estimate how great its future would be
the Canadian people persevered with {
same Judgment and moderation that hi
characterized their legislative proceedin
for many years. is-
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Four men were killed and many OF
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