The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-09-06
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Aiilahce VIII soon announce ltS candidates
for President and Vice. President.
AT Weirs, N. H., General Sheridan
briefly addressed his old comrades at the
New Hampshire Veterans Encampment
on the 18th. There were 1900 people
present.
On the 10Th DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes
celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, at
Boston, Mass.
The leading shorthorn stock raiser in
the country, Abram Penick, died near
Winchester, KY, on the Goth, aged eighty
three years.
Ex-PREsIDENT John Sealy of the Gulf,
Colorado 81 Santa Fe Railway, died sud-
denly at Galveston, Tex, on the Goth, of
heart disease.
Miss FRANCIS WILLARD makes the state
ment that 30J speakers are laboring for the
prohibition amendment to be voted for in
Maine September 9Th.
BEN BUTLER addressed the Changers at
Williams Grove Pa, on the 10Th, and told
the farmers how to rear their children.
The Greenbackers decided to make a Wig.
orous campaign in the State.
The Pope has written an encyclical let
;er directed against the action of the
French Government In adopting the new
divorce law. 1t will be promulgated in
few days.
On the 9th Mrs. Henry Clews rendered
President Arthur dinner, to which the
most noted people of Newport were in
vited.
In the libel suit of Blaine VS.. the Indian
apolis Sentinel, the attorneys for Mr..
Shoemaker entered appearance on the
10Th to escape default. The next move
that is in order is from Blaine's attor-
neys.
ADDRESSES were delivered at the Ma
tional Law and Order League Convention
near Chicago on the Goth, by ministers and
others in opposition to prohibition. Among
the Vice-Presidents elected was Senator
Vest, of Missouri
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER CAMP, of Bos-
ton, has been removed on account of irreg-
ularties disclosed by an investigation by
the Department of his management of the
Post-office at Atlanta, Ga, which he held
sfor time as an inspector.
THE RepubliQue Francaise warmly
praises Admiral Courbet's astuteness in
sending gunboats up the Min River the
18th of July, before hostilities began, thus
enabling the, gunboats to occupy position
on the blind side of the formidable forts
on the bank of the river.
A LETTER from General Gordon at Khar
toum states that he is safe, and all at the
garrison are well.
SEXTON and Redmond, who came from
Ireland to attend the Irish National
League, sailed for Ireland on the Both.
A FORCE of five hundred secret police
have gone to Warsaw to see that no one
'blows up" the Gear when he arrives.
IT is rumored that several of the Greedy
survivors have been secured by an enter
prising owner of dime museums and will
be exhibited.
CHAs. A. BAKER of the Minnesota Inter
nal Revenue service has been appointed
receiver of the Second National Bank OF
Livingston, Montana.
The National Committee of the Labor
party decided not to hold conv ention bu
to support Butler.
On the LIST, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
voted for the first time in her life at
school election at Johnstown, N. Y.
s. s. MERRILL, General Manager of thu
Milwaukee & st. Paul Road, it is reported
Is to become President of the company.
RUSSIAN officials are on the lookout TO-
plotters against the life of their ruler il
view of the Cars proposed visit to War
saw.
ON the list the New England Fair opened
at Manchester, N. II. Geo. B. Loring
Commissioner of Agriculture, delivered al
address.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN has aske'
the Governor of Pennsylvania to cause
through the proper sources, the action t.
be withdrawn against the Austrian Consu
at Pittsburgh, as the treaty allows Con
sui certain rights which even city ordi
nance does not restrict, among which
the right to display the colors of the ma
tion he represents.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In q hotel at Minneapolis, Mimi, on tn
18th, d. p. Bloomer, travelling salesman TO
New York house. was murderously as
saulted. His recovery was considers
doubtful.
On the 2sth, while riding in the park q
Berlin, the Emperor of Germany wa
thrown from his horse, but received onl
aliexht In