The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

A BREWER and an undertaken fought
a duel with broadswords near Chicago, ILL.,,
the other day, the former being wounded.
ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of
the failure of Henry K. White, dealer in
straw goods, New York, with liabilities of
$4,000; assets, 100000.
CHIEF-JUsTICE BECK, of the Colorado
Supreme Court, has decided the act mop
erative under which Packer, the San Juan
ghoul, and seven other murderers were.
convicted. All would be Immediately re-
leased.
MATTHIAS BRADY has been arrested
for threatening the foreman Of the jury
which convicted his brother in Dublin, Ire
land.
ANDREW j. SMITH, President of the
Manhattan Insurance Company, New
York, has been arrested on charge of
perjury.
THE business failures for the seven
days ended on the 18th numbered 1856 as
compared with 152 last week. The Western
States had forty-fve.
MORE than 3,400 emigrants sailed
from Queenstown for America during the
week ended on the 10th inst.
A DISPATCH from Hermosillo on the
18th indicated that the Mexican troops had
fight with the Apaches in mountain
stronghold, killing eleven and putting the
savages to flight. Five soldiers were killed
and eight wounded.
SECRETARY TELLER has recommend
ed that suit be begun against the Union
Pacific Railroad, to determine the true
meaning of the net earnings clause of the
Thurman act.
PAUL STROBACH, United States Mar
shall for the Southern District of Alabama,
has been indicted at Montgomery for pre-
senting fraudulent accounts.
ALOCKoUT occurred at w. S. Kimball
& Co.'s cigarette factory, at Rochester, N.
Y, few days ago, seven hundred female
employees being refused work. The firm
had thrice refused to advance the twenty
per cent. demanded, and fearing a strike
refused to give the employees work when
they arrived at the factory.
TUsCON (Ariz.) advices indicated on
the 18th that the force of renegade Apaches
in Mexico was considerably larger that
| General Crook bargained for and it may
take six months to subdue them.
TwENTY-FoUR Socialists were sem
fenced to Imprisonment at Lemberg, Ger
many, a few days ago.
THE United States Treasury balance
on the 18th amounted to nearly $3.50, 900 900,
showing a steady increase since the Sd
inst, when the balance was 1922 900 900.
The increase was due to the large receipts
from internal revenue since the LIST.
Ex-Governor SEYMOUR, of New
York, says he would favor law making it
8 crime for any resident within our borders
TO plan or aid in violent measures toward
persons in this or any other country.
In the first four months of 1883 Cana
da received o, 255 immigrants.
THE National Board of Health has
informed the local authorities at Memphis
Tenn, that after June l next they viii have
to bear the expenses of quarantine ON the
Mississippi River between New Orleans and
Memphis.
THE second trial of Adlai II. and
James Proudfit, for the killing of Axtel
Winberg last January, in the Circuit Court
at Memphis, Tenn, has resulted in a YER
dict of not guilty and both defendants have
been discharged.
THE Houston s. Texas Central Rail
road has defaulted in payment of interest
due the State for loans on the Washington
County branch.
THE assistant secretary of the royal
library at Berlin, Germany, has been inn
prisoned for distributing solutions writ
ings. p Gatffa u
SUIT has been begun to recover $780,
427 from the sureties Of ex-Treasurer Poll
Of Tennessee.
A VERY complete report on the spring
wheat crop Of the Northwest indicated OF
the 18th that the prospect was more favor
able than for several years past
NINE eulprits were whipped at the
post at Newcastle, Del, the other morning
for various offenses.