The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

LORD CHlEF-JUSTICE COLERIDGE or Eng
land some time since expelled his daughter
from his house because she loved bar
rister; and now the barrister is suing the
son of the Lord Chief-Justice, who was the
cause of the whole trouble.
THE Postmaster General answers
charge of National Committeeman Clark
son, relative to orders allowing letter car
riers to take time to vote on election day.
Mr.. Hatton claims he did not order holt
day for the reason that he had no lawful
right to do so.
ALEX. H. DAVIS, a colored minister who
was Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi at
one time, died at Canton, Miss, on tho
Dist.
WEDELL PREsDoRF, Conservative, was
elected President of the German Reichs-
tag.
A TELEGRAM received at Cincinnati, o.,
on the 22d, announced the death of Bishop
j. w. Wiley. Methodist missionary in
China.
THE official vote of Virginia gives Cleve-
land plurality of 7,715.
The Yorkshire Post sayg that Gladstone
will not seek reelection to Parliament,
but VIII accept a peerage after the passage
of the franchise bill.
ADELINA PATTI, will have been on the
stage twenty-five years on Thanksgiving
Day, and her New York friends propose to
celebrate the anniversary.
BLAINE's plurality in California is H.
500; in Iowa, 19,S03; in Michigan, 1916.
THE official vote of Illinois gives Blaine
plurality of 25,119. Oglesby, for Governor,
has plurality of Il 800. Garfeld's plural
ity was 1916.
THE official vote of Ohio was: Blaine,
400,0S2; Cleveland, 36S,2S0; ST. John, II ,269;
Butler, 5,170; scattering, 37S-total, 7S5, 179.
Blaine's plurality, 31,S02.
VICE-P PRESIDENT ELECT HENDRICKS, ac-
companied by Senators German, Jonas,
Camden, and Messrs. Barnum and Thomp-
son, all OF the National Democratic Com
mittee, called on President elect Cleve-
land at Albany on the 22d. A large
number from the business mems clu bs of
New York were also present to pay their
respects
JOHN FIsHBACK, formerly proprietor of
the Indianapolis Sentinel, died on the 23d.
THE condition of De Young, of the San
Francisco Chronicle, was more favorable
on the 23d.
WENEzLER FLICKINGER, o well-known
citizen of indianapolis, Ind, committed sui
eide because of dependency over the fin
ancial outlook.
WHITELAw REID, of the New York Irib-
une declines to be a candidate for United
States Senator.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has invited Presi-
dent ELECT Cleveland to make his home at
the White House during his preparation
for the inauguration.
d. l.. WELLS, the millionaire Milwaukee
railroad contractor, died in that city on
oath. His estate is valued at over 81, 000, 900.
KING HUMBERT and the royal family re-
ceived great ovation on their return to
Rome on the oath.
COLONEL ISAAC S. BUCKALEw, a promi
nent railroad man of New Jersey, died in
Camden N. j., on the oath, aged fifty -six
years.
THE Democratic caucus of the Alabama
Legislature on the oath unanimously re-
nominated J. S. Pugh for United States
Senator.
MILE. NEVADA made her first appear
ance in New York on the night of the oath
in the role of Amina in ''Sonnambula,'
and scored a trump hant success.
THE University of Halle, Germany, ha:
conferred the degree of Doctor of Philoso.
ply upon Henry NJ. Stanley, the African
explorer.
GENERAL WoLsELEY's troops are ar
irving quite rapidly at Dongola.
THE Swain Court-martial adjourned OF
the oath for one week.
OWING to the great pressure of engage
ments, Henry M. Stanley has been obliged
to decline the invitation of the GeogTaph
ical Society of Vienna to deliver in tina
IA, ~ o,,h fri
plorations.
M. j. PHILLIPPI, of Bicknell, Ind, sueC
the Indian Creek Coal Company in tn
Knox Circuit Court for 5000 damages TO
injuries sustained in the coal mines las
summer in which his health was impaired
The jury were out several hours, ant
brought in verdict on the oath assessing
damages for the plaintiff at $275 and costs
A VERDICT was rendered in the Unite,
States Court at Cincinnati, o., on the oath
in favor of the United States gains
David II. Bailey for $50, 800, fees collecte,
by Bailey as Consul at Hong Kong, China
and not accounted for. Bailey made IL
defense.
OFFICIAL returns from the counties 20
West Virginia of the vote for President ar
now complete and result as follows: Blain
Electors, 60, 096; Cleveland, 67,327; st. John
939; Butler, $40. Cleveland's plurality
1921.
The Iowa State Board of Canvasser
completed the canvass of the returns fo
Presidential Electors ON the oath with til
following result: Blaine, 197, OS9; Fusion
177,2S6; Republican plurality, 1s,SO3. 1t
impossible to fix the vote for the st. job
Electors exactly, as there was no unifor
unity, among the ballots throuphout IN