The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

A SUBSTITUTE for the bonded whisky
bill is proposed by Mr.. Morrison, provid.
ing that the bonded period shall be ex-
tended not more than two years from the
date at which the tax would fall due.
For the week ended on the 23d the
failures in the United States and Canada
numbered 246.
AT the close of business on the 23d
the New York banks held $19,OO0,O00 in ex-
cess of legal requirements.
WooL-GRowERs National Conven-
ton is to be held at Chicago May :.
The Department of State has been
notified that the restrictions against inn
portation of pork into Greece are removed.
OK the 23d the House Comm ttee on
Public Lands came to a deadlock on the
Backbone land grant forfeiture bill.
Two gentlemen from Clarinda, Ia,
have been engaged several days in search
ing for the grave of Colonel w. Kinsman,
who fell Mt the battle of the Big Black,
near Vicksburg, Miss, when leading
charge of his regiment, the 23d Iowa In
fantry.
LATEST accounts from Tonquin report
the French naval forces taking positions
with a view to supporting an attack on BAG
Mini.
The Northern negroes will hold q
convention at Pittsburgh, Pa, April 30, to
discuss the condition of the colored race in
| the South.
THE Committee on Territories of the
Senate will recommend the admission as a
! State of that portion of Dakota south of the
forty-sixth parallel.
THE London P0st correspondent at
Suakem, Colonel Burnaby, wants the Gov
eminent to use Indian troops, chastise Os-
man Digna and open communication with
Khartoum.
STILL more breaks are reported in the
levees along the lower Mississippi. The
people are working hard to strengthen the
weaker ones and it is thought there will be
no general inundation.
A TOTAL of IS, 677 has been raised by
the New York Produce Exchange Commit
Mayor Edison has received $1,000 for the
same purpose.
SINCE the close of navigation this
winter grain receipts in Northwestern mar
kets have been larger than for the CORE
spending time in any previous year.
On the oath Jacob Lehman fell dead
in church at Fort Wayne, Ind.
The river and harbor bill will be re-
ported in April, and will probably call for
about S15,OOO,O00.
The new members of the House Of
Representatives have agreed to club togeth
er and prevent any more Saturday recesses
They want a session every day till business
is done.
OK the 29d Mrs. Angenette B. f
Haight, aged sixty-two, ON trial for the
murder of her husband at Deruyter, N. Y.
in February, 1888, was found guilty Of
murder in the first degree. 1t is alleged that
Mrs. Haight was the direct cause of the
death of two former husbands and her ia
tier, all of whom had made wills in hel
favor.
ANDREW KNEIPP and Mrs. Klessl
have been arrested at Mt. Carmel, Pa.
suspected of poisoning Mrs. Klesisk's hus
band.
On the Oath the Grand Lodge OF TIT
Independent Order of Sons of Israel met il
Cincinnati. The President elected wa.
Philip Stein, of Chicago; Vice-Presidents
S. Bacharach, of San Francisco; Ma,
Moses, of New York, and L. j. Loebenthal
of Nashville. Secretary, A. j. Goldsmith
New York. Out of 3 lodges in the Unites
States, each entitled to one delegate, 10t
| delegates were nresant.