The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-10-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

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Admiral ]. NJ. B.. Clitz, U, s.. N, to be.
placed on the retired list under the forty-'
years'-service provision.
LORD LASDsnowNE,- the new Cow
ernor-General Of Canada, and wife have
sailed for Canada.
IT is reported that Senior Sagasta Is
fully satisfied with thelast dispatch from the
Spanish Ambassador, in which he explains
the friendly assurances and cordial expla-
nations rendered by Prime Minister Kerry.
The Alfonso incidentisn therefore, eonsid.
cred at an end. ~
WHEN General shenAaii retiress' No
vember l, 1883, itish understood that Gen..
Hancock VIII succeed Uieut..Gen. Sheri1
dan in command Of the Division OF the
Missouri. Maj.-Geps Pope will succeed
Gen. Hancock in command Of the Division
of the East, and Maj. Gen. Schofieid will
remain in command of the Division OF the
Pacific. 'f t'F7'f ttt'
II is the opinion of Judge Advocate
Swain that the President will soon pardon
Sergeant Mason for shooting at the assassin
Guiteau. The records of the war Depart
ment show that-the applications for
Mason's release form the. largest petition
ever presented on any subject in the history
of the United States, the signatures, which
are from every State and Territory, aggre-
eating more than 900, 900 names.se
On the 18th the members of the Co
rean Embassy called at the White House
in full court dress and took formal leave of
the President, attended by all members of
the Cabinet. The presentation was made
by Secretary Frelinghuysen.
TIE distinguished scientist, Prof. J.
Lawrence Smith, died at his residence in
Louisville, KY, on the 18th, 'of diabetes.
He was native of Charleston, S. c., born
in 1S4S and graduated at the University of
Virginia.
Ii is reported THAT the Prohibition
amendment in Ohio was defeated by nearly
10000 votes. .sr.rr rGa st7.. ....
On the 14th Rev. ID. B. Knickerbock-
er, of Gethsemane p. E. Church, Minneapo-
lis, was consecrated Bishop of Indiana at
Philadelphia. Hai tic
COMMODORE n. W. KITTSoN, of St.
Paul. Mimi, has bought the PAGER j ohnston
for $25 600. The horse. lately paced a mile
in 2:10 on the Chicago track. o,-...la Cd
The commander of the Danish Arctic
cruiser Dijmphna, Lieut.. Hovgaard, is the
man who so accurately predicted where the
Jeanette would be abandoned and where
her crew would land.
On the night of the 18th Mrs. Fanny
Sprague, mother of Ex-Governor Sprague
of Rhode Island, died at Groten, Conn,
aged eighty-four. +dlt'
On the evening of the 18th Mrs.
Langtry arrived in New York by the steam
er Oregon. ,f r r.
In Boston, on the 18th, Albert Meyer
and Theodore Laline were each fined $25(
for sending lottery circulars. through the
mails.
j. H. HAvERLY has assumed control
of the Lyceum Theater, Philadelphia, be
longing to John S. Clarke, the comedian.
Oh the 10Th Thomas Taylor, ARRESTED
on a charge of absconding from Chicago
with funds of the Bricllayers'~U OF
which he was Secretary, was turned ovei
in New York to Chicago officers.
FRANK r. SHERwIN, of New York
arrested in Chicago in proceedings growing
out of the defslcation in the State Treasur
er's Office of New York, has submitted t.
the custody OF the Court of Albany. q
THE mind reader, Irving Bishor
broke down completely in Dublin recently
and has congestion of the brain.
THE failure of Hyams Bros, whole
sale clothiers, New Y ork and San Francisco
is announced. Liabilities, S250,0O0.
IT is announced that the new Spanish
Minister of War will not displace any Gen
erals, but that vacancies will be filed by
friends of Marshal Serrano.
On the 18th the Supreme Court of tn,
United States rendered a decision, deliv
cred by Justice Bradley, declaring tn
Civil Rights law passed in 1870 unconstitu
tional. Justice Harlan dissented. Tn
cases in point involved the right of colore'
persons to equal accommodations in no
tells, in ladies' cars, In railway trains an,
in the dress circle in theaters.