The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-09
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL


New York gave a reception at the club
rooms to members of the Democratic
Notification Committee, on their ar
rival from Saratoga. An elaborate cola.
ton was served at midnight. Many
speeches were made and toasts drank
THE Fourth Mississippi District Demo-
Gratis have nominated Fred G. Barry for
Congress.
THE Democrats of the Thirteenth Mis-
souri, District have no minated A. L. Thorn
as for Congress.
THOMAS d. JOHNSON has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Ninth North Carolina District.
MINISTER MORTON has subscribed 1000
francs to the fund for model of the Bar
toldi statue to be presented to Paris by
American artists.
The German poet and ltterateur Henry
Laube, died on the LIST, aged seventy eight
THE Dutch Parliament, on the 1st, by
vote OF sixty-seven to three, named Queen
Emma Regent during the minority of Prin-
cess Wilhelmina.
On the 1st E gan and Daily, the dynami-
ters tried at Warwick, Eng, were SEN
fenced to penal servitude, the latter for
life. Informer Mcdonald was released on
his personal recognizanoe to appear when
called.
A WARRANT has been issued for the ar
rest of Savary, President of the Bank of
Lyons and Loire, France. Deputy Cham
bois fed to America on account of the
frauds. Savary founded the bank. Nor.
and, Secretary, on account of the frauds,
also fed to America.
WARNER 81 MERRITT, of Philadelphia,
owners of the Laura Baker, detained at
Key West, Fla, are convinced that the
Captain was killed by mutineers.
DURING the absence of Sir Stafford
Northcote Lord Randolph Churchill is to
lead the opposition in the British Parlia-
ment.
On the I'd James Moore, a cripple, had
to be carried into court to receive his SEN
tence for murder in the second degree at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
DRs. BRYCE and Cassidy, of Montreal,
Can, have been appointed delegates to
the Sanitary Convention at Washington.
PROMINENT members of both the leading
political parties are busily hunting cam
paign material at Washington.
AN animated contest took place for the
chieftaincy of the Usage Nation between
Black Dog and Straight Axe. The election
took place on the 4th.
GENERAL TREvINo has been appointed
Mexican Secretary of War under Presi-
dent Diaz.
On the Sd Ex-Governor st. John of
Kansas addressed fully 5000 people at the
Silver Lake IN. " camp-meeting.
COLONIAL societies in Germany are ar
ranging to obtain the advice and views of
Henry M. Stanley upon the subject of
German emigration to the Congo country.
A SWISS refugee named Seigne and a
man named Millet, have been arrested in
Paris, charged with completely in the man
ufacture of bombs in the Rue st. Jacques.
LATE advices from Cairo state that Cen
eral Gordon has recently made fierce and
frequent sorties from Khartoum, attacking
the rebels, who had built wall along the
bank of the Nile. The losses in the en-
gagement are reported to have been heavy
on both sides.
CONTROLLER CANNON has authorized
the Peoples National Bank of Greenport,
N. Y, to begin business with capital of
$4,000.
JOHN WALLACE, recently Paymaster's
clerk on the United States receiving ship
st. Louis, at League Island, near Phila-
delphia, disappeared about three weeks
ago, and it is now charged that his &C.
counts were 5000 short. The matter is
undergoing investigation by court of in
qury.
The reception rendered to Greedy and
his companions at Portsmouth, N. H., on
the 4th, was big affair.
WILLIAM BLISS, charged with forgeries
amounting to SOL marks on a firm at
Mannheim, Germany, was arrested at New
York on the 4th.
IT is reported that Ell Mahdi has dis.
patched force to Khartoum to take Cor
don, dead or alive, and has ordered the
wells betw cen Korosho and Berber filed
up.
On the 4th Postmaster-GeneralG Gresham
returned to Washington.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER has been
i'll for some days at his residence in Peeks-
kill. On the night of the 81 his physician
remained ab his bedside until morning.
He was mseA better on the 4th.
In letter written to a friend in New
York Christine Nilsson says she hopes to
see grand National conservatory of vocal
art established in America. She wishes,
as the result of her life's artistic work, to
be at the head of such an enterprise.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A PARTY of masked men with revolvers
on the 31st compelled RhodY Boyle, a
Fo,r,o, nao,. patrolin 70 DIVA nm S12 :