The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
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In the British Commons on the 9Th
O'Donnell gave notice of motion disap-
proving the appointment. of the Marquis of
Lansdowne as Governor-General of Can
ada. H NlIfitui gHfI
THE Irish members of Parliament
gave a banquet to United States Senator
Jones, of Florida, at Westminster, Eng,
on the Sth tiaI -tNN n ri
ELIPHALET CLARK, the oldest hOmeo-
pathic physician in Maine, died at Port
land on the sth, aged eighry-two years.
He was the founder, with DR.. Gray, of
New York, of the American Institute of
Homeopathy
RI. REV. F. W.DUDLEY, Hon. James
Beck, Hon. John w. Stevenson, Hon. Henry
Watterson, Hon. Charles d. Jacob, Hon.
John G. Carlisle, Hon. Proctor Knott, Mr..
Frank d. Carley, Mr.. John English Green
and Mr.. James Sheridan Fields, repre-
sentatives of the Southern Exposition at
Louisville, KY, were entertained at a
banquet at Delmonico's in New York, the
other night by Messrs C. G.. Baldwin, G.
p. Huntington and Butler Duncan. Gen.
Grant was guest. Hlf al fNi
The recent execution of Suleiman
Daoud in Egypt raised breeze in the Eng
fish Parliament few days ago, some of the
opposition claiming it was a measure to
shelter the Khedive. g..a ..tt...,,,,..
ALBERT G. IVES, late of the New
York Times, has sailed to take charge of a
new American daily to be established in
Paris, France, .-,,t...f u
THE German Reichstag the other day
refused vote for barracks in North Schles-
wig demanded by the Minister of War on
political and military grounds, n, IS,
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies
has passed bin authorizing the President
to settle the national debt. dI -tG
A CONVENTION of the Greenback
Autobiography party held in Louisville,
KY, on the 9th appointed delegates to the
Autobiography Convention at Chicago,
July 4.
The members of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives have voted them
selves an increase of pay from $500 to 500
for the session.
The Massachusetts Board of Chart
ties having elected Superintendent of the
Tewksbury Alms-house, Governor Butler
the other day Notwithstanding their action
was invalid, as the right of Nomination be-
longed to the Executive. b. NIX
FRANCES NJ. SCoYILLE. the sister of
Charles Guiteau, who was divorced from
her husband, George Scoville, last January,
has filed petition in the Circuit Court at
Chicago, H., to have her name changed to
Frances Maria Howe.
A SPECIAL dispatch few days ago to
the Cleveland Herald stated that "Postmas-
ter-General Gresham denies the published
statement that he has decided to exclude
patent insides' from the mails as second
class matter" In view of the law of Con-
gress passed in 1874, providing 'that news
papers, one copy to each actual subscriber,
residing in the county where the same are
printed, in whole. or IN part, and published,
shall go free through the mails" such a de-
cision by the Post.offlce Department as that
limited at would be in violation of law and
of no binding force.
G.. w. BENJAMIN, the newly sppointed
United States Minister to Persia, had ar
rived at Teheran on the 18th and presented
his credentials to the Shah, He was re-
ceived with cordial welcome. r5Ut
ALDERMAN Roe, Liberal, was elected
member of the British Parliament for Der
by on the 18th without opposition, in place
of Bass, Liberal, retired.
The British House of Lords has
passed bill legalizing marriage with a
deceased wife's sister.
A CELEBRATION in honor of John
Bright as representative in Parliament for
Birmingham, Eng, for over a quarter of a
century was begun on the 18th. The pro,
cession was five miles long.