The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-07-07

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE cable announced general scare
throughout Europe on the 10Th over the
cholera in Egypt and its threatened spread.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES INGALLS,,
who has been in the United States service
forty years, has asked to be retired July 1.
IT Hs estimated that the public debt
was reduced S17,5oo,OO0 during June,
making the reduction for the last fiscal year
$137, 900.
SIX HUNDRED and eighty Mormon
converts arrived in New York on the LIST.
They came from England, Denmark,
Sweden, Wales and Norway.
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DENNIS KEARNBY was in Chicago the
other day to attend the anti-monopoly con-
vention. He made the assertion that me-
chanics' wages had doubled in California
since the passage of the anti Chinese bill.
The Interior Department at Wash
ington has decided concerning the pension
law that "total permanent helplessness"
means permanent injury, requiring the
regular personal attendance and aid of
another person." ''
A CONSPIRACY has been discovered,
che purpose of which is to betray German
military secrets. Arrests were being made
n N
Hanover and other cities on the 18th.
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THE President has modified his origi-
nal order recognizing the internal revenue
collection service. The most important
modification concerns Kentucky, that
State being allowed one more district.
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AFTER three years fight in the
courts, the parties who had refused to pay
special tax bills for opening streets in st.
Louis, No., the other day gave it up, and
satisfaction of Judgment was entered in
sixteen cases. -iTa8 ,GG -4
OKLAHOMA PAYNE has applied to the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka,
Kans., for an injunction restraining the
Secretary of the Interior and General Pope
from interfering with his occupation of
lands in the Indian Territory. ~ io
BY the shutting down of the glass
ware manufactures at Wheeling, w. Va,
and vicinity, which occurred on the Goth,
twelve hundred men, two thousand boys
and eight hundred girls were thrown out of
work. The shutdown was for six weeks.
THE Richmond (Va) editors fought
at six O'Clock on the morning of the Both.
near Wayesboro, Va. The weapons were
Colts six-shooters at eight PAGES. At the
first fire neither was hurt, At the second,
Elan fell with bullet in his. right hip.
Beirne was unhurt. ~ . .7v 9,
CHOLERA swept away one hundred
and thirteen persons at Damietta, Egypt,
on the 2Sth. Fatal cases were reported
from Mansurah and Port Said, and Euro
peans were fleeing from Alexandria. A
quarantine against vessels from Egypt
had been ordered at all Turkish ports.
The Post-office Department at Wash
ington has received information that the
Australian colonies have resolved to apply
for admission to the Universal Postal
Union. If the application is successful
Bolivia will be the only country with an
organized postal service not included in the
union.
THE saloon-keepers of Cincinnati, O.,
on learning that the Scott law had been
pronounced constitutional, made haste to
take out certificates. Over 100000 had
been paid in within three days on the 2Sth.
The Board of Public Works was preparing
TO appropriate 100000 of the amount for
street reconstruction.
A RECENT statement prepared in the
Office of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington shows that the
aggregate receipts during May, 1885, were
$346,SlS greater than for the same month
of 1882. There was an increase of $231, 729
from spirits; an increase of S220,527 from
tobacco; an increase Of 4.049 from banks
and bankers, and decrease of $lSS, 1852
from miscellaneous articles.
TERRIBLE hail storm, which lasted
thirty minutes, is reported to have visited
the town of Essex, Iowa, the other night,
breaking nearly every pane of glass in the
village and leaving banks of hail from
four to five feet deep ON the windward side
of the houses. Farmers said that the corn
all through that region was entirely de-
stroyed and wheat was so badly tangled
that it would be difficult to harvest it.
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BOGUS Missouri bonds to the amount
of $7l ,1S5 were sold to Edwin r. Kirk, a
sail maker of New York. After he had
bought the bonds Kirk became suspicious.
and started an investigation that led to the
arrest, the other day, of Isaac A. Briggs,
a broker, and Wesley Lyon, lawyer, both