The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

On the 9Th Norvin Green, G.. M. Fry,
"A. R. Graves, Thomas T. Eckert, John Van
Horne, Augustus Schell, R. H. Rochester,
d. H. Gates and Henry Hertz were elected
Directors of the Southern s. Atlantic Tele-
graph Company.
PROFESSOR WALLET, President of the
faculty of the Texas University, has ac-
cepted chair in the University of Vir
ginia, and will not remain in the Texas in
stitution longer than is necessary to com.
plete its new library.
The Senators and Representatives in
Congress from the Pacific slope are dis
pleased over the mild reference in the
Presidents message relating to Chinese i'm
migration. They are preparing bills,
which they will introduce in the House and
Senate, and which will propose severer re-
strictions upon immigration from China.
The Committee on Rules of the
United States Senate will recommend the
appointment of two new committees, one
on Internal improvements and the other
on Expenditure of Public Money.
The Senators and Representatives
from the Pacific slope held caucus on the
It'll and agreed on course to pursue in re-
gard to bill to remedy defects in the
present Chinese immigration law.
OK the 18th, at the annual dinner of
the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher made a speech advo'
eating the abolition of the tariff laws.
VICE-PREsIDENT WELT, Liberal,
has been elected President of Switzerland,
and Minister of the Interior Schenck,
Radical, Vice-President.
w. S. CHAMBERLAIN, of Cleveland,
o., father of Miss Jennie Chamberlain,
whose beauty has attracted much notice in
Europe, seeing a statement that PROPOSE
tions were making to place photographs of
his daughter on sale in New York, requests
the announcement that no photographer at
home or abroad has his permission to sell
her photographs, and any one found selling
them will be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law.
A FEW days since Mexican was ar
rested at Guerrero having the pistol taken
from Lieutenant Banjel, of the Mexican
Army, when passenger train on the Mex
lean National Road was robbed by masked
desperadoes near Lajarita, recently. I'm
der threats of hanging, the culprit has given
the authorities the names and residences of
each of the robbers.
PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM was
banqueted the evening of the 9th at Seville.
1T is said that Senator ingalls, will
present u bill in Congress to regulate the
wire fence business on the frontier
A PROMINENT feature of the coming
Congressional business will be the extern
sion of the bonded period on spirits.
The Crown Prince of Germany will
shortly make visit to the Pope.
In Congressman Finnerty's Chicago
newspaper predictions of more dynamite
Cor England are made.
On the Sth delegation called on
President Arthur to ask his interference in
behalf of O'Donnell
DIR. JOHN WADswoRTH, American
Consul at Saltillo, Mexico, died the night OF
the sth. He was from New York City.
GEORGE FRANoK, of Orange, N. j.,
has been "shadowed" by detectives on the
hunt for Phebe Paullin's murderer. They
have annoyed him so that he attempted
suicide.
A YOUNG farmer named John Haw.
kins, living near Bedford, Ind, committed
suicide on the 9th by hanging. He leaves
large family. Ill health and reverse OF
fortune is supposed to be the cause.
On the morning of the 9th j. f. Fin.
ley, Colorado ranchman, whose home
was at Deer Trail, on the line of the X. p
Road, committed suicide in his room at O
Denver hotel by cutting his throat with q
razor. Domestic fnfelicity.
the German Minister on Ecclesias-
Rome.