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

AN Austrian Count, President of the
Court of Cessation, was found murdered at
his residence in Ofen few days ago. He
had been strangled and his tongue had been
cut out. The house was ransacked by the
murderers. A hussar, who was on the
premises, has been arrested.
A FOREST fire was reported raging on
the Blue Mountain, near Lehigh Gap, Pa,
on the 30th ult., and much valuable timber
was being destroyed.
DAVID WHELAN, an informer, was
shot dead at marlborough, Ireland, ON the
10Th. One arrest was made.
THREATS having been made to blow
up the Post-office at Cork, Ireland, that build
ing was being guarded by military on the
Both ult.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in
drugstore at Rushville, Yates County, N.
Y, the other morning, and stole over $780,
900 in notes, bonds and mortgages, and
$1,000 cash.
REPORTS from the Scottish coast on
the 3Oth ult. said terrific and destructive
gale had visited that section. Three vessels
had gone ashore in the vicinity of Aber
deem. A bark was reported ashore at
1Oll1utdu anu lilC NlGW VI luAl -LLl &c
persons drowned.
The towboat Polar Star blew up the
other afternoon near Henderson, KY, and
from fifteen to twenty-five persons were
reported missing.
CAssIUs c. MERKLE, alleged abscond-
ing member of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) paper
manufacturing firm, which recently as
signed by reason of his Withdrawing large
sums of money from the partnership fund,
has been arrested at Cincinnati, o.
THREE men, Featherstone, O'Herlihy
and Carmody, arrested the night before,
were arraigned at Cork, Ireland, on the
Both ult., upon a charge of being members
of a secret society having headquarters at
Cork. The object Of the society was, ac-
cording to the claims made by the authori-
ties, to commit murders whenever it was
believed such course would advance the
interests of their organization, and to blow
up buildings in the principal cities of the
British Isles. Upon preliminary examin-
alton bail was refused, it being strongly
intimated by counsel for prosecution that a
number of witnesses were ready to testify
in support of the charges.
DIR. GEORGE BUCHANAN, of Philadel-
phia, Pa, son of the famous bogus diploma
doctor, John Buchanan, was convicted re-
Gently of having caused the death of Eliza
beth Holstein by criminal surgical opera
ton.
DURING the recent terrific gale off Var
mouth, Eng, six fishing smacks went
down and forty sailors were lost.
In the collision the other night on the
Vandalia Line, near Brazil, Ind, William
Stewart, fireman, was instantly killed, and
William Brannan perhaps fatally hurt.
The loss TO the railroad was large
A BOILER explosion at ST. Dzier,
France, on the 1st killed twenty-six persons
and injured thirty-eight.
Ir was reported on the I'd that the
number killed and injured by the explosion
at st. Dizier, France, was nearly one hun
dred
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cost of making pig iron is put at So "a; at
Central, 81 50; at New River, 81 03. Ala
bama and Tennessee, i! is we'll known can PRO-
duce iron at an average of these totals. the
Chattanooga Ifadesnsan, OF January Las, in an
article on AlabamaIron and Goa, mentioned
the market price of Birmingham, Ais, iron
as being SO ion, which shows how high
tariff brings high profit. The monopolists
are not satisfied, however, for the same Chat
tanooga authority, in an editorial article in
the same number that gives the above mar
kst price, says, "The pig-iron makers OF the
country have made little or no money in
1882. 1t ia not true that makers OF
pig-iron have realized excessive profits.
No great industry in the world hss
sunk more money than the iron business"
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, in comment
ing on the course pursued by those who, for
the purpose of holding up tariff imposts, ex-
aggerate the cost Of producing pig iron, says:
alabama can beat Southwestern Virginia,
and nobody knows it 80 well az the press and
the iron-masters OF Birmingham Yet they
persistently deny that she can make iron as
cheaply as Virginia has demonstrated she
can make it. II the current OF furnace in
yestment should turn to Virgins, Brrmiug-
ham will have herself 10 blame"
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COmmExCIAI pREDICrIONs,

Almost every financial and commercial
Journal We look over just now, aud articles
upon such subjects in other papers, devote
much space TO impress it upon their readers
that, although business has been dull this
spring, so that large amount of stock has
to be held over Tor another year; and al
though prices continue falling month after
month, until no merchant can,tell what his
stock will sell for; and although bankrupt
cies continue to be numerous; and although
the revival Of business that was looked for
at the breaking up of Congress aud the re-
vision of the tariff has never come, yet that
all is sound and prosperous in this best of all
possible worlds. Amid all the soundness
and prosperity the Stock Exchange has been
'as dull as ditch-water," and the stock jour-
mails are striving with all their might
and main to work up public confidence
to the point of buying stocks and
making things lively, for Irregular
operators" do not enjoy buying and
selling 10 each other; they prefer to deal
with the green general public, who will he
"taken in" cordially if they will only
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MARSHAL BAZAINE
AT LAST MAKES Els DEFENSE, AND IN TH
C,nIpaE IN Ii ArrACKs uIa ENENIra

AT LAST MAKES Els DEFENSE, AND IN THE
COURSE OF IT ATTACKS HIS ENEMIFs.
The London Standard publishes extracts
from Marshal Bazsine's long expected book,
which has Just been published at Madrid.
1t was evidently written with a purpose of
which the preliminary accounts and extracts
given of it by the French and Spanish press
failed to convey any sufficient idea. 1t is
most interesting in some of It's parts, inf lted
and wearisome in others; but mans dgitot
moieA and there is q vindictiye and, all
things considered, not unnatural desire 10
retaliate on ihose who have who have stg-
malizsd the marshal as a traitor, By showing
up their incapacity, their narrow minded
egotism, and their disloya atty both 10 their
chief and the men under their command,
The writer deals his blows all round, and
there are few of the actors in the late
war who have survived but will be con-
siderably exercised by the marshaPs tsrdy
retaliation. Even at Berlin it is cal
culated to cause no small sensation, for il
contains an account by Gen. Boyer OF his
interview with Bismarck at Versailles pre-
vious to the capitalization at Metz, now pub
lished for the first time, which ia calculated
to excite more than retrospective interest.
Members of the government of national de-
fence will find the volume most unpleasant
reading, and come portions Of it Magical
Mac NJ anon and Marshal Canrobert can
can hardly leave unanswered.
Marshal Bazsine, in his preface, points out
that the dread of serving ia the army and
having to face the dangers and hardships of
campaigning had become general among the
bourgeois and middle class under the empire,
and ne attributes this unmilitary spirit to the
demoralizlng system of paid substitutes. He
is, perhaps, not aware that now, under the So
called compulsory system of universal service,
precisely the same disinclination exists, and
that the sleek youths of bourgeois families, as
a rule, are'by dint OF intrigue and favor sent
to serve their time with the colors, not IN q
corp, but in the auxiliary services as clerks,
commissaIiat officials and 30 on. He says:
The depreciation of the military spirit was due
to the fact that the intelligent mass of the nation
which found means OF eysdfng the service, placed
II far below any learned profession, or even any
trade soldering was putdown as Ea etdt dc porCs
seuI, ana honest bourgeois have been heard ex-
pressing their sympathy with the army by this sig
nificant phrase, Nous les pdyons pour qa lis diuet
Ie fairs he" Thus many youths beionsine 10
good bourgeois families Were eager to find employ
ment as clerks in the offices of the HEADQUARTERS
staff at Metz, to keep them away from the ranks
and the risks OF shot and shell. Among the young
men employed was NJ. st. Narc-Giirardin ir
who, on his return to France, received the LEGION
soldiers used to call these prudent young gentle
men employees caz Iegumes. They nominaIly were
mobiles
The marshal also irfiicts a singing casti-
CATION on the French press, which in 1863,
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PLAGUE-sTRIGKEN.
Rsvages of the smallpox in Mercer
Csunty-An Appalling Situation.

WHEELING, W. Va, May 9.-Information
has reached the State Board of Health at this
city of an appalling situation in Mercer
county, caused by The ravages of smallpox
Over forty cases have just been developed in
the neighborhood OF Princeton, and Twelve
deaths have already occurred. In the wild
here from the dearest stations for vaccine
matter and nurses, and depict 3 terrible state
of fear among the people.
Some days ago tramp passed through
Mercer county and stopped with 8 man
named Blankinship, Soon aiierward Blan-
kinship sickened with an eruptive disease,
and a physician, through ignorance, pro-
nouced If chickenpox. This physicisn is a
member of the local Board Of Health and
his name is carefully suppressed. Blsnkin,
ship died and the physician took sick, but in
the meantime the latter had, without taking
any precauiion, gone on his rounds and soop
the germs of the disease were scattered broad.
easf.
Two hundred people attended the funeral
of Blankinship and caught the contsgion
which spread with fearful Tapidity. A
special session Of court was called to take
action in the premises and q special fund il
being raised Tor needy sufferers. All Of the
vaccine virus in this section will be sem
down, and Mercer county has been or.
dered TO be qusraB;ined The local aud
State authorities are now doing their utmost
to prevent . further spreading Of the plague
but The people are badly frightened and Are
leaving The infected district. The creates
Indication is felt toward the delInqueI
ola 5sician, whose death is hourly expected.
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PIG IRON-ANExPOsE.

Oh all the herde of monopolists who, not
satisfied with the legitimate profits Of their
business, look to public taxation as means
of increasing their income, the iron interest
has been one of the most persistent and
grssping. One way of supporting their
claims for high prices through taxation has
been TO misrepIesent the cost of producing
iron, putting it beyond the actual amounts
expended. Whatever the cost may be in
Pennsylvania, in the South it is far below
what the iron capitalists have thought it to
their interest to state. 10 Tennessee and
Alabama, Notwithstanding the boldest de.
mails, the Louisville COtIier-Joundl and Of her
papers and authorities have shown that iron
can be made at from S12 TO $15 ton. A
confirmation of this fact comes from Vir-
ginis, where iron-making is in much the
same condition as in Tennessee and Alabama,
The authority for the facts as they exist in
Virginia is from a source that ali the efforts
the monopolists, and of the journals they
own or infusnce, will not be able to gainsay-
Prof. McCreath, the chemical scientist OF the
geological survey of Pennsylvania. This
gentleman 6nds that the Gem Furnace, in
Page county, Va, is now making coke iron
at an expense Of Sl2 So a ton, as follows;
Ore 81 SO, coke S. %, limestone thirty cents,
labor 81 so, incidentals 81; total, Sl2 55.
The Rosnoake Furnace agrees with this, put
ting the cost of ore at "a 79, coke IS SO, lime
stone seventy-6ve cents, labor 81 10, Incl.
dentals 81 25; fetal, So IS. AT Buchanan the
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A Singular SoIcIde.

RocKPoRT, IND May 9.-S w. Fairfield,
committed suicide in Justice James Sum-
mers's Office, early Monday morning, by taking
morphine. The deceased has been, for the last
seven or eight years, slave 10 liquor. 1t
and other troubles prompted the act. He
knew more about the books and working
machinery OF the county ofhc e than any
other man. AT one time he wss auditor OF
Spencer county. Ia 1856 he was the re-
corder of Spencer county. In later years he
was deputy clerk and auditor under the Hon.
B. Britton. He was also deputy auditor OF
Davies county. Mr.. Fairfield served three
years during the rebellion in Company K,
Twenty. fifth Indiana. He also served as
privste secretary to Gen. Vesch. M. Fsir.
field was sixty years OF age. When discov-
cred this morning he was reclining at full
length on the floor, with his head resting on
a hair. Near bis aide were found three let
terp, one addressed TO some newspaper, in
which he declared the cause of his suicide to
be au improbability that al his advanced age
he would be able 10 earn a support; another
addressed to james Summers, in friendly
vein, in which he expressed his best wishes;
and the third addressed 10 whoever might
discover the body, repeating some Of the de-
clsrations oil the FIRST, aud adding ss causes
for the act rheumatism and general debility,
and morphine as the agency. Mr.. Fairfield
leaves wife and four children.
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IN A STATE OF SIEGE
Startling Condition OF Affairs at Dodge
City; Ks.-The Town in the Hands
Of Desperadoes.
The Lives and Property of the Citizens
Threateaed-AR Appeal to the Gov
ernor for Assistance.

ST. LOUIS, May 9.-The Posi- DispcIePs
special from Kansas City says that for the
past ten dsys 4 remarkable and startling
state of affairs has existed at Dodge City,
Ks, and all mention thereof has been kept
quiet. Several prominent Kansas City
attorneys left to-day for Topeka to petition
Gov. Click 10 place the town under martial
law. The difficulty ia the elimination of q
long standing feud between the tive elements
of that city. Dodge City has long enjoyed
the reputation Of being hard place. 1t is
one Of the few points in Kansas where
saloons run openly and gambling is legiii-
nized. 1t lie the headquarters OF the COW
boys and cattle men Of the vicinity. Before
the last city election the MAYOR was man
named Webster, proprietor OF dive, hslf
saloon, hall gamblinghouse and variety hall.
He was a representative of the lower element
or the sporting fraternity. The head OF the
other faction was w. II. Harris. His ele-
ment wss quieter, but there WAS bitter
feeling between the two. AT the election Tor
mayor Harris was beaten and Degue, Web
ster's candidate, elected. Since then it was
concluded that Harris should be driven out.
About len days age man named Short, who
is partner OF Harris, and police officer
had shooting affray, but neither one was
shot. Short was thrown into jail,
alluOugn Tic cNlucuCe bnONCO NC was atru
at first. Later five gamblers were arrested
and jailed. That night vigilance committee
formed, with Tom Nixon, proprietor of one
OF the hardest dance-houses in the West, at
its head. The crowd repaired to the Jail,
aud notified the prisoners that they must
leave town next morning. Meantime the
vigilaDts took possession of the town. Cor
respondents of newspapers were notified that
they must not send kilograms. A body of
armed men watched the arrival of each train
to see that there was no interference. A
lawyer from Lsrned, sent for by one of the
prisoners, YVES met by the vigilantes, who
leveled gun at his head and told him not
to stop. Next morning the FIVE gamblers
were put on the west-bound train, and Short
left for Kansas City, where he is now.
Dodge City is practically in the hands Of
the vigilsntes, aud the situation is more seri.
GUS from the fact that the mayor is acting
with them. 1t was he who notified the
prisoners that they must go. Trains are
still watched and armed men guard the
town. A whole list of others who will be
ordered out has been prepared. Dodge is in
the hands oil the desperadoes, and the lives
and property of the citizens sre not safe.
Sericus troubIe ia apprehended
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a Candidate for the Penitentary.

URBANA, o., May 9.-St. Paris, this coun.
" is again all torn up over the misdeeds oil
one of the McMorran family. This time il
cstches the only son of the Hon. S. T.. Nc
Moran, in the rols of a forger. The case il
about this: Mrs. McMorran had loaned
Chris. CustenbOrder, living at Quincy, large
sum of money, and some time ago Custen.
border died, and one VIM. Ritter wss ap.
pointed administrator, and was settling up
the estate. One day lsst week young McMor-
ran prepared an order with his mothers
name sigoed TO it, and presented it TO Ritter,
calling for $1,000, and in return gave a receipt
for the amount. With this money in his
possession, and in company with Laura
Faulkner, whose reputation for chastity is
not extra good, he left for parts unknown.
Mr.. Ritter went to ST. Paris on Saturday, and
demanded a receipt from Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Moran in full satisfaction for the amount,
and, under threat that he would hunt the
young man up and send him to the peniten-
tisry, they finally sigued the receipt. The
McMorrans are on the lookout for the fugi-
tiyee but can fiud no trace of them
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PULITZEK's PURCHASE.
The New York /" world" Turned Over
10 HIS New Proprietor.

New YORK, May 9.-William Henry
Hurlbert, president Of the Press Publishing
Company, completed to day the transfer 81
the entire property of the World (newspsper)
to Mr.. Joseph Palitzer, of the ST. Louis Post
Dispatch. Mr.. Hurlbert will announce this
in the Rcrld tomorrow morning, and The
FIRST number OF the World under the editorial
charge of Mr.. Pulitzer will be issued en Fri
day morning. 1t will continue Democratic
but Mr.. Pulitzer will extend and modify It's
local features. The price psid by Mr.. Pu.
liter is understood to be about 100000
This does not include the building erected
for the paper under Mr.. Hurlbert's direction
in 1881, which has been leased for term oil
ten years. Mr.. Jay Gould, in thus disposing
of his entire interest in the World, is carry
ing out the policy before ANNOUNCED of cles-
ing out his holdings generally, except in
railway and telegraph properties, prePsra-
Tory 10 his tour around the world.
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"come and be tuck" Their arguments are
often far drawn and appear to be not easily
found. Among them the following from the
Wall street Indicator is peculiar specimen
at is possible that business men grow poor,
or work for nothing, while the country at
large is getting richer. We live in just such
a time. Our capitalists complain, our in
yestors complain, our merchants and traders
complain, our labor complains; and yet the
country grows richer. But who will reap
the harvest of these invisible riches? Nc
body kuows." Whenever this subject is d.
lated upon, however, it is always asserted
that if We have a good harvest in the fall we
shalI come out all right. This has been
iterated and reiterated until people are be-
ginning TO ask-if with all our soundness
and prosperity We are so dependent this year
upon the coming harvest what will happen
if the harvest should turn out bad one?
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Catholic kpfxht. of America.

ST. LOUIS, May 9.-The second days pro.
ceedings of the Catholic Knights Of America
began this morning. Reports Of committees
were received, and discussion arose on the
resolution presented by Father Spaulding, Of
Illinois, that the Supreme Council mad power
to make an amendment to the amendments
of the general constitution presented by
branch councils. The resolution was 6uslly
adopted, and various reports were received
among them that of the secretary showing
the numerical strength OF the order to be
IOOS9, Adjourned until tomorrow.
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America. Female Guardian Society.

NEW YORK, May 9.-The forty-ninth an.
niversary of the American Female Guardian
Society was celebrated to-day. The annual
reports showed receipts of $85,676, and ex-
penses of Ss6,977. A balance from last year
enabled the society TO meet all expenses.
There were 271 adults and 40l children 10
the home during the year.
At the ffty-eighih annual meeting OF the
American Tract Society to-day, the reported
receipts during the year were S39z ,066; ex-
penditures, $3.50, $50.
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FRANCE.
THE FRENCH AT ToNQUIN.

PARIS, May 9.-Conrad to-day informed
the committee of the Chamber of Deputies
on The Tonquin expedition that 1000 Amman
ties, or Chinese iroops, attacked Ha MOI, the
capital of Tonqun,on the 10th Of March, but
were repulsed by the French. He also stated
that Capt. Kergsradec bears letter from
President Grevy, informing the King of An
nam that his inability 10 assure the security
OF Tonquin compels France TO establish her.
self definitely there. The letter advises the
king not to resist, bat invites him to recog-
nize the protectorate of France, and guar
sntees the integrity Of his dominions.
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The Reports Discrsdiied.

CHICAGO, May 9.-The officers at Gen
Sheridan's headquarters in this city do pol
credit the rumors of disaster to Crook's
column. While it is true they have no recent
advices from Crook in person, they are in
the way of receiving quick co nnunics:ionl
from any point in Texas or New Mexico in
case of an engagement, and particularly &C
in case of disaster. Any report which Gen
Crook might make Of operations in or from,
Arizona would go TO headquarters of the De.
partment of the Pacific at San Francisco, and
headquarters here would not be in receipt Of
any official report direct.
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The phil Tbompsou rriaI.

HARRoDsBuEG, KY, May give jury
men have + sen accented in the case of Phil
B. Thompson, jr., on trial upon an indict-
ment for the murder OF Walter H. Davis.
-Four peremptory challenges have been made
by the prosecution, while only two have been
made by the defense. Interest in The case is
80 great that men are anxious 10 become
jurors to be able TO hear everything. This
rs shown by the answers 10 the questions put
TO the panel. Ii lie rot likely that the jury
will be completed until tomorrow.
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Pennsylvania y edicaI Association

NoRRIsTows, Pa, May 9-At the annual
meeting of the Pennsylvsnia Medical Asso-
citation resolutions were unanimously adopted
reaffrming the ASSOCIATIONS approval OF sd-
hesion TO the code of Ethics adopted by the
American Medical Association, declaring
that organized opposition by locsl society
or individual members to the code which vas
thus approved is rebellion sgainst the cou-
stituted authorities. The secretary WAS in
structed TO forward 8 copy of the resolutions
to the Committee of Arrangements al Cleve'
land for presentation 10 the association.
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So prevalent and 50 fatal has consumption
become, that it is everywhere dreaded as the
great scourge of humanity; and yet, in their
formative stages, all pulmonary complaints
may be readily relieved and controlled by
resoriing promptly to Jayne's Expectorant,
curative specially adapted to soothe and
strengthen the bronchial tubes, sllay irfam-
nation, and loosen and remove all obstruc.
tions. Il is certain remedy for asthma,
and also for coughs and Geld.
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CROOKS DANGEK.
Rumors of Disaster 10 His Ceiuns In
SONORA.

Ell PAso, TEX. May 9-Rumors were cir
culated to-day OF disaster to Crook by dis
patch over the Mexican government lines.
Inquiries pushed all day resulted that Crook,
having moved some days earlier than aniici-
pated in Sonora, may not have been able to
receive the full cooperation expected. The
belief is that the Apache force has been
underestimated, and no confidence Is placed
in Crooks scouts. Crooks small force is the
Iargest cause for apprehension.