The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


THE King of Anam is reported to have
been murdered.
THE friends of O'Donnell had, up to
the 18th been able to find only six of the
jurors who convicted him.
On the 18th the ceremony of confer
ring the pallium on Archbishop Elder was
solemnized at Cincinnati
On the 18th the representatives of the
Pacific coast in Congress held another
meeting and considered the various meas
ures to render the anti-Chinese laws more
effective.
IT is the opinion of the Khedive of
Egypt that it would be easier to defeat Ell
Mahdi by allowing him to push down the
Nile to the first cataract.
OK the 18th General Arson G. Nc
Cook was nominated by the Senate Re-
publican caucus for Secretary of the
Senate.
On the afternoon of the 18th j. A.
Thompson, acting Deputy Comptroller of
the Treasury, was stricken with paralysis
while at his desk in the department..
On December % the Missouri Demo-
cratic State Committee will meet to con-
slider, among other things. measures to
bring the National Democratic Convention
to st. Louis. ~
Ii is said the difficulties in the way of
ascertaining the correct mode of entertain
ing the Crown Prince of Germany at Rome
are so great that there is danger the visit
will not result in strengthening cordial re-
lations all around. ,
On the 18th the Senate Committee on
Territories decided to report the bills pro-
yiding civil government for Alaska and
authorizing retired army officers to hold
Office in Territories.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the 18th, DIR.
Robert Z. Douglass was sentenced to four
years. Imprisonment for pension frauds
On the 14th Congressman Robinson,
Governor-elect of Massachusetts, was
granted indefinite leave of absence, took
leave of the House and loft for home.
On the morning of the 10th Congress-
man d. G. Haskell, OF Kansas, died in
Washington.
OK the 10th Baker Pasha was still at
Cairo. His departure for Suakem had been
delayed by financial difficulties.
On the morning of the 18th the Ger
man Crown Prince arrived at Rome. He
was welcomed to Genoa on the 10th with
great pomp and ceremony.
PATRICK O'DoNNELL, the murderer
of James Carey, was hanged at Newgate
Prison, London, at eight O'Clock the morn
ing of the 18th.
On the morning of the 18th Lillian
Lugenbeel, the divorced wife of ex-senator
Christiancy, of Michigan, died suddenly in
New York.
AT Winchester, Ind, a young man
named ]. Morett cut his throat from ear to
ear the morning of the 10Th. 1t was thought
he ould not recover.
FORTY Ogden and forty-seven Nc
Emery delegates were elected in the New
Orleans City primaries.
STRENUOUS efforts are being made by
Chicago to secure the Democratic National
Convention.
IT is said prospects are favorable to
the passage of a bankrupt law at the pres
emit session of Congress.
A BILL has been introduced in Con-
gress by Senator Hale for the construction
of seven steel vessels and two torpedo
boats.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed a
board of officers of the army and navy to
consider the question of relief to Lieuten-
ant Greedy.
OK the morning of the 18th the re-
mains of the late Congressman Haskell left
Washington in charge of a Congressional
committee for Lawrence, Kas.
SENATOR SABIN, Chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, has APP
pointed o. II. Platt Chairman of the sub
committee to take charge of the prelimina.
ny Republican campaign.