The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

LEWIS MEIER 4. IEkANs bnt hldh
who as Governor Of Vera Cruz bad a
number Of Masons brutally shot, has been
made a Major-General.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has recently been
seriously i'll with bronchitis, but was con-
sidered outof danger on the 10th.
THE wife of General AbsalOm Baird
died suddenly at Washington, d. c., the
other evening from q stroke Of apoplexy.
She was a native of New York, and niece
of the late Garrett Smith, the AboIitionist.
CHARLES f. KRING, who killed Dora
Broemser at st. Louis, Mo-, for which he
spent eight years in jail, was FIVE times
tried for his life and was twice sentenced
to death, died at st. Johns Hospital in that
city on the 18th, Of consumption. 49,,
THE Sultan has agreed to conyoke
the Turkish Parliament, which will rescni-
BILE the Assembly of 1876. It will be conn
posed of representatives of all religions,
and will meet in October.
THE Kentucky Democratic State Con
vention on the 18th nominated j. Proctor
Knott for Governor and Captain James r.
Hindman for Lieutenant-G Governor.
DISPATCHES received from Wheeling
on the 18th indicated that il would take an
official count TO decide the contest between
Brown and Snyder for Congress from the
Third West Virginia District. The formers
election was claimed by Republicans by
fifty majority.
The death of Bishop Jesse T. Peck, at
Syracuse, N. Y, has been announced.
The Kentucky State Democratic Con-
vention closed its session at Louisville on
the 18th, after nominating the present in
cumbents, General Fayette Hewett, for
Auditor; James w. Tate, for Treasurer; j.
Desh, for Superintendent of Public In
struction, and P. w. Hardin for Attorney
General. J, C. Cecil was nominated for
Register of the Land Office.
The prohibition amendment has been
finally defeated in the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature. aua r
LYDIA PNKHAM, of proprietary,
medicine fame died in Lynn, Mass, few
days ago at the age of sixty.four years.
She spent SlSO,OOO a year in advertising
and secured altrade netting 100000 year
profit.
THE Gar and Czarina arrived at
Moscow, Russia on the Goth. The city was
full of people to see the coronation, and
crowds were arriving daily.
TREvELYAN, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, informed the Commons on the Dist
that the Office of special Resident Magis
trate in Ireland was to be abolished.
Hon. WALTER EVANS, of Louisville,
Ky.,was on the 2lst appointed Commission
er of Internal Revenue. He was the RepuD
lican candidate for Governor of Kentucky
four years ago. General Samuel w. Fer
guson, of Mississippi, has been appointed
TO fill the vacancy in the Mississippi River
Commission.
IT is reported from LoDdon that tn,
Governor-Generalshtp 81 Canada, in sue
cession to the Marquis of Lorne, has beef
offered to the Marquis of Landsdowne, VIII
has accepted. ANh
THE Marquis of OroVic, leader of tn
Conservative party in the Spanish Senate
died at Madrid, few days ago.
CHARLES AVERY, who was Professo
of Chemistry in Hamilton College, NeY
York, for thirty-fv years, from 1884 t
1869, died the other day at the age Of eighty
seven years.
The Rev. DIR. Hornblower, of tn
Western Theological Seminary, wa
stricken with paralysis while preaching
few days ago in Pittsburgh, Pa.