The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


DIR. OTTO WILHELM STRUvE, Direc-
tor of the Imperial Observatory Of Pulzo-
wa, Russia, was in Boston, Mass, the
other day to test the object glass made to
order for the Russian Government, the
largest ever constructed thirty inches in
diameter.
The Jeanette Board of Inquiry con-
vened at Washington on the GOTH, and
three of the late arrivals of the crew APP
peared before it. They had no complaints
to make.
GERMAN artists have petitioned their
Government to intercede with the United
States Government regarding the increased
duty on objects of art.
The failure of Antonio Lewis, Schultz
& Co., general merchants and cigar inn
porters, London, Eng, with liabilities of
$4,000, has been announced.
LIEUTENANT VEsY, United States
Navy, and other members of the expedition
sent by the American Government to Pata-
gonia to take observations of the transit of
Venus, arrived at Liverpool, Eng, on the
10Th on their way home.
The Secretary of State has authorized
Minister West to say to the Canadian au-
thorites that this Government has no OBJ
lection to such a change of Canadian GUS
toms regulations as would admit of the inn
portation of bonded whisky into Canada
from the United States in packages of less
than one hundred gallons.
The business failures in the United
States and Canada for the seven days
ended March 80 numbered 1872, as against
| 1876 for the week previous, distributed as fol-
lows: Western States, So; New England,
IA; Southern States, 80; Middle States, 90
Pacific States and Territories, 10; New
| York City, 0; Canada, 80. The number of
failures for three months were 2,s06, against
2,l27 for the same period last year.
| CONSIDERABLE uneasiness has been
reported among the people of Lorraine, who
nourish hitter anti-German feeling.
THREE hundred and fifty emigrants
left Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland, the
other day for America. An immense throng
of people witnessed the departure.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad earned over 100000 in divi-
bends last year and carried $750,OOO to re-
serve fund.
The Illinois Supreme Court has rem
dered a decision declaring the Pullman
| Palace Car Company common carrier.
ADvICEs on the LIST regarding the
winter wheat crop, all sections considered,
were reported not encouraging. The p ros
1 pect varied greatly with locality, but as a
whole was unfavOrable.
REPORTS that the whites were organ
izing to exterminate the male Apaches on
San Carlos reservation were said to be
given credence in the Southwest.
THERE was promise of trouble in
Memphis, Tenn, the other day over the
Dissertation of the Catholic Cemetery by. the
original proprietor of the ground, who
claimed that part of the purchase money
had never been paid.
A COMMITTEE of examiners was on
the LIST engaged in counting the cash in the
United States Treasury.
THERE came near being another dis
aster at the Braidwood (nl.) mine on the
LIST. A party of six men had gone into the
mine to bring out bodies which had beer
discovered, and when they started bach
found their way cut Off by fall of stone in
the roadway. After much hard work the
men were rescued, but one of them was SC
overcome by the sickening stencil he had
been obliged to breathe that he had to be
carried home on a stretcher. After this ad
venture other miners refused TO enter the
mine, and it was thought the search foi
hodies would have to be abandoned