The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
For August, 1888, the value of ex-
ports of petroleum and petroleum products
was $4,229,292 against $780, 40 for the
same time I'M 1882. For eight months end
ed August 81, 1888, $3O,917,782; same time
in 1882, $50, 946,S56.
THE Pinta, on her recent cruise from
Portsmouth to New York, collided with
and sunk brig, for which the Government
will probably be called upon to pay. Navy
officers think it is pity that the Pinta
wasn't sunk instead of the brig.
The Brooklyn newsdealers held
to sell the New York Herald for less than
three cents. .r| 40 t.
4 The Institute of Mining Engineers
closed its autumn meeting ON the 18th in
New York. The next meeting will proba-
bly, be held in Cincinnati, in February. i
ANOTHER telephone combination has
been formed, the Globe Telephone Com
pany, of New York, absorbing the Shaw,
of Chicago. Ite l.i,i.
On the 18th in the Episcopal Conyen-
ton at Philadelphia report was made adj
verse TO the erection of the diocese of West
Tennessee. .. is-t.,g
In New York on the 18th, in the case
of David Paul, to test the constitutionality
of an act against making cigars in tene-
ment houses, writ of habeas corpus was
refused and the prisoner remanded.
THE Evangelical Conference opened
its sessions at Allentown, Pa, on the 18th.
A RUSSIAN was recently arrested in
Germany for sketching the forts at Konigs-
berg. ".
On the 18th at the sale of seats for
the first nights performance in the new
Metropolitan Opera-house, New York, the
highest price obtained for box was $50
and for an orchestra seat $780,. The lowest
price for an orchestra seat was S1450.
On the evening of the 18th the ami
versary of the discovery of America was
celebrated with a splendid banquet in the
Opera-house at Madrid, Spain. The build
ing was brilliantly illuminated and deco
rated with flags and the coats of arms of
Spain and the republics of North and South
America. ......rl ada D.. pt., i..s..
The resignation of the Spanish Am
bassador to France has been rendered, and
STATISTICS show that travel by rail is
as safe in America as in Europe.
THE Senate Labor Committee heard
! Thomas Livermore, agent for the Amos
keag Cotton Mills on the 18th. He testified
that the mills used 10000 bales of cotton
yearly, turned out 55,000,000 to $4,000, 00C
yards of cloth at cost of between 5000.
900 and $4,000, 600. The cost of labor was
about thirty per cent. of the total cost OF
the goods, or about $1,5O0,00O. Amount Of
capital employed in plant building, etc.
about equal to the yearly production
American operatives number one-fifth OF
the employed. They are the best opera
tives. ,.-I .
On the 18th French transport start
ed for Tonquin with 80 men and a guam
tity of war material.
On the 18th in the Catholic Congress
| at Naples letter from the Roman Duke
was read, declaring the 10000 Catholics il
Italy ready to strike for the restoration o.
the temporal power of the Pope.
In Salt Lake City, Utah, the China
men are in an uproar. The City Council
has ordered them to leave their promiscu
|
centrate in suburb by themselves. A,
many of them have long leases on theii
4 premises they propose to resist in tn,
| courts.
On the 18th two deaf mutes were or
dained priests by the Episcopal Church il
Philadelphia. ihi hIl" ni'1l
o. The treatment of her German sub
| jects on the frontier by Russia is contiml
ally growing more severe. .sa{ .o
| THE International Socialist Congress
at Pittsburgh was attended by thirty eight
| delegates.
| WoRKINGNIEN are advised by the Cen
trial Labor Union of New, York TO form
military organizations 30 defend Their
rights. 80
THE Northern Pacific Railroad ha,
gone into the tree-planting business on al
extensive scale as shelter fence to keel
! the snow from drifting upon the tracks.