The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL

THE leaders of the Greenbackers think
that Butler would poll a heavy vote in
Ohio on a ticket indorsing Greenback
views.
MAN who drowned himself inlthe bay
ut Erie, Pa, is now thought to have been
Ed. Sperry, the 500, 600 defaulter of Cha.
tauqua County, N. Y.
The wife of tho late DR.. Pavy has gone
East for the remains of her husband, one
of the dead of the Greedy party, and will
bury them in st. Louis, Mo.
AT Burlington, N. j., Annie Bennett has
been for some days suffering in manner
which leads people to think she is af-
fected with hydrophobia, although it is
not known that she was ever bitten by a
mad dog.
1T is reported that Lieutenant Schwatka,
the Arctic explorer, has resigned from the
navy to take position, it is understood,
under some foreign power.
THE Lyceum Theatre at London is closed
in consequence of the illness of Miss Helen
Terry She was vaccinated recently and
took cold in her arm.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has suspended
Judge Advocate General Swain from duty
pending his trial by court-martial
On the Goth Frank Hutchins, the San
Francisco mechanic who strangled his
mistress few days ago, was found guilty
of murder in the first degree.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and Cabinet are all
out of Washington, and subordinat es are
running the machine.
THE Greedy relief squadron will be roy
ally received on their arrival at Ports
mouth, N. H., about August 9.
1T is said that Charles Z. Morton, the
missing Assistant Postmaster of Brooklyn,
N. Y, is insane and is in the hands of
friends.
AS a result of fatigue caused by his re-
cent visit to Toulon, the Duke de Charities
has been attacked with fever.
ALBANY, N. Y, has been invaded by the
Salvation Army.
ADvICEs from Rome have been received
to the effect that the brief transferring
Archbishop Ryan TO the See of Philadel-
phia is on its way to st. Louis.
CAPTAIN PAYNE and Others of the fill
clustering party have been ordered to
move out of Oklahoma. Officers will have
to destroy all improvements on Cherokee
lands. Captain Bennett will have charge.
PROHIBIrIoNIsT estimate that st. John
Sc
Woman's Temperance Union and Prohi-
bitionists generally are enthusiastic over
his nomination.
STANLEY, the African explorer, has ar
rived in London.
On the Goth Governor Cleveland was
formally notified of his nomination at AL
bany, N. Y.
SPECIAL session of the Virginia Legis-
Iature has been called by the Governor for
August Is.
ON the 2Sth the mother of Rugg, the
Long Island murderer, died of broken
heart at New York.
NAVAL officials estimate that the aggre-
gate cost of the Greedy relief expedition
was about 100000.
The wife of Lieutenant Greedy, the Arc
tic explorer, went East on the 2Sth, to join
her husband.
On the 2Sth Emily S. Chase and George
Clifford had single scull race of mile
and a half at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Chase
winning in ten minutes and twenty sec.
onds.
The New York Board of Aldermen
adopted resolutions on the 2sth that APP
propriate honors be paid the remains of J.
H. McGahan, the war correspondent, upon
their arrival there.
IN the suit for exemp lary damages by
Mrs. Weldon against Mr.. Semple, an
English physician, who pronounced her as
of unsound mind, the jury decided in her
favor, assessing Ell 900 dana ges. She con-
Quoted her own case.
On the 2Sth Oliver Ames applied to the
United States Circuit Court at Phila.
delphia to be relieved of the receivership
of the Credit Mobilier of America. The
reason for the action was that he could
not attend to that and his duties as Lieu.
tenant-Governor of Massachusetts. Sam
uel r. Shipley was appointed the sue
cessor of Ames.