The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE French government Will not In
struct Admiral Courbet until after consul
tation with the Chamber of Deputies.
BRADsTREET's weekly trade review
shows the prospects for the fall trade are
growing bright in the West, but in Eastern
cities dizziness is still the rule.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
8 p. m. on the 9Th, twenty -four deaths
from cholera occurred at Marseilles. The
record of the hospitals at Touion On the
9Th was as follows: Admissions nine; dis
charged, eight; deaths, three; under treat
ment, eighty.six. There were two deaths
from cholera at La Seyne.
JAY-EYE-SEE failed in an attempt at
Buffalu, on the sthi to lower the record.
THE acting Secretary of the Interior has
declined to grant motion for reconsider
alton of the decision refusing to order q
survey of Arsenal Island, opposite st.
Louis.
THERE were 256 failures in the United
States reported to Brddstreet's during
the past week as compared with PAL in the
preceding week, and with 1863, % and
l06 respectively in the corresponding
weeks of 1888, 1882 and 1881. Canada had
%, decrease OIL
THE French Government commission,
making experiments similar to those of
NJ. Pasteur in connection with the finding
Of cure for hydrophobia, has reported
that Investigations decisively confirm the
correctness of that SCIENTISTS theory.
The Surgeon-General of the Marine Hos
pital service has advised that the impor.
tation of rags be totally prohibited, for the
L. =.
are companions of filth and disease, no
matter from what quarter of the world
they come, and so are alwaya liable to con-
vey disease.
THE alleged counterfeit ESD Bank of
England notes recently passed at Boston
prove to be genuine.
CHOLERA is gaining ground in Italy.
On the tn severe frosts occui red in vari-
Gus sections of Michigan.
IT is said the area affected by cholera in
France is widening. Intense heat is caus-
ing an increase in the mortality at Mar
settles.
IT is reported that Texas fever has broken
out among cattle in Penns ylvania.
OK the 9th three men wsre arrested and
fined in New York for posting Socialist
proclamations.
THE Bureau of Agriculture report shows
an Improvement in the various crops over
last month.
ENGLISH cholera is reported in several
districts of Lancashire, Engiani. Over
two hundred people were afflicted and five
had died up to the 9th.
SHANGHAI advices of the 9th stated that
five vessels of the French squadron bonn
barded and captured the town of Ketung,
on the Island of Formosa.
BY reason of dizziness in prints nearly
all the cotton mills at Fall River, Mass,
have shut down.
THE Washington monument at the Ma.
tional capital is now $40 feet high.
IT has been decided by Partisan and
Russian capitalists to build railway
from the Caspian Sea to the Buzorcks on
the Persian Cult The Gar and Shah of
Persia will support the scheme.
IRON operatives are fearful of the com
mencement of making steel nails, claim.
ing that five men could then do the work of
a hundred.
AT Marseilles, France, the manager of
an Anarchist paper was sentenced 10 i'm.
prisonment for encouraging demonstra.
tions by mob during the cholera panic,