The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

nishing official, dead letter and registered
package envelopes and tags. The
action is based upon the recent investiga-
tion made by the Postmaster General him
self, who says he found the envelopes of
inferior quality, and not up to the stand
ard contracted for.
WILLARD z. TIsDELL, Of gainesville, O.,
has been appointed by the President as
agent of the United States to the Congo
Association.
GENERAL LEROY PORE WALKRa, first
Secretary of War under Jefferson Davis,
and who gave orders for firing ON Fort
Sumter, died at Hunts vile, Ala, on the
22d.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph received
Mr.. Taft, American Minister to Vienna,
who is about to leave for his new post at
st. Petersburg, on the 22d.
IT appears that John King, Jr., is elect
ed assistant President of the Erie Rail-
way Company, Mr.. levitt consenting to
remain some time longer under such cir
cumstances.
1T having been stated privately by Com
mander Schley, of the Greedy relief expe-
dition that the remains of the late Edward
Israel, of Kalamazoo, Mich, meteorological
of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition,
were intact, relatives didn't allow them to
be exhumed.
COMMANDER SCHLEY has received in
structions to discharge all enlisted men of
the Greedy relief expedition who are will
ing to leave the service. Vessels COM
posing the feet will remain in commission
at New York until further orders. 1t is
understood Lieutenant EmLry, command
ing the Bear, will be ordered to duty on
the new dispatch boat Dolphin as execu-
tive officer.
OK the 23d Edwin M. Lewis, President of
the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Phila.
delphia, died in that city.
The well-known Italian painter, Signor
benefits, died on the 23d.
MARY ANDERSON opens at the Lyceum
Theater, London, September 9Th.
IT is expected that James G. Blaine will
shortly take up his residence at Deer Park,
Md.
IT is now said Postmaster General Gresh.
am will not resign his present position
to succeed Judge Drummond.
On the 23l Riley, the champion swim
mer of America, defeated Simpson, the
English champion, at Old Orchard, Me.
MANAGER ABBEY has re-engaged Mrs.
opens in January.
THE Emperor of Germany and the Gear
of Russia will meet early in September.
In stumping Illinois Hon. Carter Harri.
son travels in special coach, and is ac-
companied by brass band and deiega-
ton from the Cook County Democratic
Club.
On the 23d James Billar, of Dublin scan.
Il al aNx 20
years. penal servitude.
On the 23d the worlds convention of the
Y. M. c. A. met at Berlin. Rev. Walter
c. Douglass, of st. Louis, NO., was in at
tendance.
JUDGE CHARLES ZANE, the newly APP
pointed Chief Justice of Utah, arrived at
Salt Lake City the evening of the 23d.
THE committee of the Ohio Legislature,
consisting of Assemblymen Ferguson and
Greiner and Senator O'Neill, appointed to
take charge of the body of McGahan, the
late war correspondent, arrived at New
York on the oath. The remains were re-
moved from the Powhattan to the City
Hall and laid in state until the evening o (
the 9th. From thence they go to Colum
bus, o., and will lie in state in the rotunda
of the State-houSe till the % h, when they
will be removed to GAINESVILLE, and there
remain till September IL. They will be
finally inferred at New Lexington, o.
Princess VICTORIA, wife of Prince Will
liam of Germany, is i'll with scarlet fever
CHARLES BRADLAUGH intends making a
lecture tour in the United States during
October and Nov ember.
ODo RUSSELL (Ba ron AmpthilD, Brit
ish Ambassador to Berlin, died in that
city on the 25th.
KATE SMoLsEy, of Fl. Plaine, N. Y, has
reached the l67th day of her fast, and
takes neither food nor nouri shment.
On the 18th the inner safe of the Fir st
National Bank at Albany, N. Y, was
forced and President Warner was found
to have made a clean sweep.
The Spanish Government has its eye on
Senior Gorilla, the radical agitator, who is
reported as trying to raise rebellion.
DAVID PRESTON, of Detroit, will accept
the Prohibition nomination for Governor
of Michigan. He has large following.
IT is announced that Wash Jones will
run as an Independent candidate for Gov
ernor of Texas on the free grass" plat.
form. He will endeavor to get the Repub-
lican and Greenback vote, and in that way
hopes to reduce Ireland's majority.
On the Goth Ex-Governor st. John and
Mr.. William Daniel, candidates of the Pro-
hibition party for President and Vice
President, were formally notified at Cuba,
N. Y, of their nomination. The event &C.
Cured at a place where great temperance
camp-meeting was in progress.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In the Greenback colliery, near Shame.
kin, Pa, nine men were suffocated on
the 2lst, victims of the deadly black
damp.
On the 2lst the Government launch
Daphne exploded her boiler at Memphis,
Tenn. Killing Paymaster Golden and Sc.