The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE bond of M. T. Polk, the default
ing Tennessee State Treasurer, has been
increased to $35, 900 on information that he
contemplated flight.
The Boston (Mass.) rubber shoe fac
tory has resumed work after two months
idleness on account of the high price of rub
Der. 1t employs 1900 hands.
THE dynamite plot, it is claimed,
was formed in America and was betrayed
to the British Consul in New York and all
the particulars given to the English police,
who watched the conspirators from the
moment they landed there.
FRITZ ANDRES, cotton merchants,
Liverpool, Eng, Manchester, Alexandria
and other cities, has failed, with liabilities
of f15O,0O0.
FIVE Socialists were sentenced at
Hamburg, Germany, the other day, to inn
prisonment from one to three months for
circulating pamphlets slandering Bis.
marck.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, some sacrile-
gious thieves tore the cornerstone out of a
colored church the other night and stole the
coins deposited therein.
AN official telegram from Minaliltan,
Mex, announces work has begun ON the
Eads' Tehuantepec Ship Railway in the
presence of federal and local authorities.
MINISTER MORTON has presented
President Grevy a souvenir album given
by the citizens of Providence, r. l., in
honor of the Frenchmen who fell at York
town.
THE foreman of the jury in the star
route cases at Washington has called at
tention to the fact that he and his associ-
ates have devoted one-seventieth of the
average human lifetime to the trial. He
wants to go home.
THE business failures throughout the
| United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 4th numbered 152, as
compared with 1872 the week previous. For
| ty-four failures occurred in the Western
States.
THE Treasury Department has de-
cided the Government has no title to certain
lands in Fernandina, Fla, sold for direct
taxes in 1868. The property in controversy
is valued at $1,500,000
ONE of the most extensive machine
shops in Northwestern Pennsylvania, be-
longing to Foster & Mckay, manufacturers
of boilers and engines, Titusville, has been
closed by the Sheriff, the liabilities being
estimated at from 100000 to $25O,0O0.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court
has refused to admit to bail Chales. 1. Free
man, the religious fanatic who killed his
child at Pocasset in 1879. The application
was made on the ground that he is now
sane.
The recent gas explosion in the GOA
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by which several
men were killed, was caused by stroke Of
of lightning, which passed down the bell
rope in the shaft.
THE Vice-President of the New York
Coffee Exchange has been expelled for vic
lating the rules.
PHIPPs, the ex-Almshouse Superin
tendent of Philadelphia, Pa, has beer
convicted of forgery.
CHIHUAHUA Apaches say that Charlie
McComas, whose father and mother were
massacred near Lordsburg, N. M, by In
dams recently, is alive and well among tn,
Indians in Mexico.
THE Philadelphia and Reading (Pa.
Rolling mill has shut down temporarily.
THE State Auditor of Iowa has re
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tual life insurance companies.
FIFTY members of the Pennsylvania
Legislature who served in the Union arm!
in the war of the rebellion the other da,
visited the scene of battles before Peters
, burg, Va. They were welcomed to the cit.
of Petersburg by Senator Malone.
AT Chicago, ILL.,, the other day Ger
, tain heirs contested the payment of be
, quest to a priest of the Roman Catholi
Church to reimburse him for saying mas
for the repose of the soul of the testator, O
the ground that the money was expende
for superstitious use. The Circuit Cour
held the objection could not hold and tn
, bequest was valid under the State statute
THE burning of the steamboat Crap
pier on Puget Sound was worse affai
|, than first reported. Later news shows sey
!. enty Cinnamon lost their lives.
z A REGULAR epidemic of horse-steal
|. ing is reported to have broken out in tn
! city Of Dallas, Tex, and adjoining cour
try, upward of score of animals havin
D been stolen within one week recently.
The third trial of Timothy Kelly 70
participation in the murder of Cavendis
: and Burke began at Dublin, Ireland, on tn
4 It'll. James Carey, the informer, swor
D that every one of the Invincibies excep
Joe Brady had offered TO turn informer.