The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-01-19


lower rooms, but all was saved without
loss. Damage to building about 500. The
buildings and contents were insured for
$1,000. '' N' SOC
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The discussion of the Mississippi i'm
proyement. Senator Plumb believes, will
| finally result in the building of levees, and
| il leyees are built they can only bemain-
! tainedin one way, namely, traversing them
by railroad 1t Is capable of demonstra-
ton that a railroad can be built along the
bank of the river, and he believed this
method would prove the only, practicable
one for keeping the levees in repair - Thei
railroad would at the same time greatly i'm
crease the transportation facilities of the
| Mississippi Valley. ~ 5a-s.s -. 1, - y
The State University Regents of. New
| York have refused a charter 10 the United
States College of Medicine and Surgery in
New York City. -. =. =, . $50,
AT Montreal, Cam, the preparations
for the Winter Carnival are progressing on
a scale of magnificence eclipsing all former
efforts in that direction. 49,.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office, upon reports of special agents
showing fraud in the entries, has neld for
cancellation three entries in California,
4 thirty-six in Colorado, nine in Dakota,
thirty-two in New Mexico. and one in Min
jEnesota. t4 i%eH r,
On the 18th a call for ten million three
/ per cents. was issued.
EGYPT has adopted the British plans
for sanitary reform in Alexandria. Y
in Russia efforts are to be made to
abrogate the anti Jewish laws.
IT has been decided blythe Board of
Directors of the Philadelphia Geological
Society not to accept the gift of $4,000 Of.
fered by Joseph E. Temple on thecondi-
ton that the garden beqopened free to the
public one day in each week.
/ The people of France and Germany
! are taking the alarm over the threatened
reprisal legislation in the United States in
u retaliation for the prohibitory policy of
their respective governments in regard to
american hog products.
( The seamen and stokers''s strike al
Marseilles, France, is apparently spread
ing. gfE0DyN UEEFgET
GOVERNMENT officials seized two tugs
4 in San Francisco on the 18th for smuggling
y brandy.
} In Texas sstoekmen's profits on the
free range are estimated at SI0,t0J,000 1
glyear. 4'
In Southern China Catholic mission.
! aries have recently been efieyously mal
treated. ssN 49, .. ,fa .s 3,
~ IF is said that Brooklyn, N. Y, i:
81 figuring ON further increase of 100000
gallons in her daily water supply.
!, h In Dakota the peopleSseem very mucl
in earnest ABOUT having the sioq * reserva
ton openeda w - ~ ~ -
a NEw WORKERS are discussing the,ad
!. visibility Of the passage of an ordinance Il
limit the height of buildings.
OEshe 18th Minnie Haucks eoncer
company was snowedsin near Dunkirls, N
Y, the traiuIbeing buried in the drift sew
: en- hburs. !" n ~
y TaE charge of monopolzipg the Con
: gd tradelis Gepeled by Rorth gai,, who a
! sefts thatit is free to an.the world. ~
IN pS the, 18th a large meeting of unem
: plpye d people was heldin PARIS. som
IL sipldnt mefnk we're proposed. ---
~ Ar Canton the Chinese are vigorousl
t preparing for lwar.a,
I'LL IN the case of the victims of the, Belle
lt+vihe kIll.) convent fire the Coroner's jur
5 rehdsred verdict in accordance with th
J. \ general faqssof the disaster, laying stress
"a howeVer, Hpon the inadequate means a
Ill fbfded fof escape froln the building and til
4 lfaSt that no watchman was employed, an
N rcppds mnthe practice of rooming Student
n ID tht -stofN. dorniitories. They say'als
thst Aetnsy,sn did all they couh With a
=. HSart sathhaa. Hs,fR
81 iris fepprted that The Egyptiaris hay
IA mao arrsuge ments with the hostilS tribe
3 on the Befber route whereby ths kwitl
lDtdrA al of Egyptian troop s IRON llzZsa ftogl
usluwll be greatly fac llt&teJ N -
. d& rHE Ohio Railr Dad @ olnmissiop Ii 1
III Annual report, shows that the earnfng
4, trafie and profits of the railroads of TIN
4 sttts areajqst sebPut an average Tor il
tsbE trlis pseommehded w the G%el
81 board that he ,reiief expediticni DO 'fittt
IL but exclusively by the Navyap epsrhheh
1t. Gehefsl Hazep is'nof to pc apqyedsvsn
+ III, IA! MI BIs sS ~ Is
Isl captive by III AiAhdl, VINO demands s2!p
III ra1som for them. The Austrian Consul
"a. Cairo IL asking the merchants to subscril