The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-08-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
STELLMAcHBR, the Nihilist murderer,
was banged at Vienna on the Sth.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN will be formally well
coined at Philadelphia, Tuesday, August
10Th.
Ex-Governor HUBBARD of Texas ad-
dressed the delegates to the OK. Confederate
reunion at Dallas, on the 9Th.
HOLMES, LAFFERTY &c Co., live stock
dealers, Pittsburgh, Pa, made an assign.
ment on the Sth. Liabilities, 100000
The Cornwall scandal cases were called
at Dublin on the Sth, and all the parties
indicted pleaded not guilty.
THE autumn expedition for the relief of
General Gordon will proceed up the Nile
by way of Dongola.
COMMODORE GARRIsoN's inventory
shows: Liabilities, 81 All ,22S; nominal as
sets, SIT ,6q7 ,92S; actual assets, 1897 ,S1S.
ASSURANCES have been given to Earl
Duffern by the Porte that no restric-
tions are placed on Black Sea traffic pass.
ing through the Dardanelles.
A FUNERAL salute was fired at Gov
ernor's Island on the 9Th on the arrival of
the Greedy expedition ships with the dead
bodies of the party, which were landed
with simple but interesting ceremonies.
TIE Altd Californian has been sued by
Sarah A. Sharon for $4,000 damages, the
trouble growing out of publications in con-
nection with the Frisco divorce case.
BosToN Democrats held monster ratifi-
cation meetings in fremont Temple and
Faneuil Hall the evening of the Sth. Able
addresses were delivered and there was
much enthusiasm for Cleveland aud
Hendricks.
JOHN w. MAcKAY denies the truth of
the statement telegraphed ON the It'll from
Naples of the engagement of his daughter
Eva to a member of the Colonna family.
THE Eighth Ohio Congressional Conven-
ton succeeded on the Sth, after a three
days deadlock and 547 ballots, in nomi-
mating Hon. John Little, of Xenia, Cap
tain Bushnell withdrawing and being
chosen Presidential Elector.
MICHAEL DAvITT says he is not sat war"
with Parnell.
THE well-inown medical writer, Sir
Erasmus Wilson, of London, Eng, died
on the 9th.
THE casket containing the remains of
Lieutenant Lockwood, one of the Greedy
expedition, arrived at Annapolis on the
9th.
THE British Government has decided to
limit the Gordon relief expedition by way
of the Nile to Khartoum to $500 men.
IT is denied by Hugh ]. Jewett that he
intends to resign the Presidency of the
Erie Road.
On the 9th Rev. DR.. J. Pinckney, we'll
known Episcopalian minister of Balti-
more, Md, died suddenly of heart disease.
In recent lecture DR.. Koch stated that
he was convinced the delta of the Ganges
was the real home of cholera and that re-
ligious pilgrims brought the disease to
France.
On the 10th Sergeant David Linn, of the
Greedy party, was buried at Mt. Moriah
Cemetery, Philadelphia.
On the 10th glove fight between John
P. Glow and George A. Morrison, near
Denver, Col, for the championship of Col
orado, resulted in a free fight in which
many heads were thumped.
THE Prince of Wales has given a decla-
ration of principles in the shape of an sin
spired article" in the chief organ of the
workingmen of England. The heir APP
parent to the throne is said to be free
trader, and to "regret the existence of a
protective policy in other countries, on the
ground that hostile tariffs beget other
forms of international hostility"
FRIENDS and admirers of General Butler
propose to give him pubic reception in
New York August 30.
AT La Chatre, France, a statue Of George
Sand was unveiled ON the 18th.
On the 18th Prairie Chicken, Crow In
dian, was shot by the Sheriff at Miles City,
Mont, while attempting to escape from
Jail.
On the 18th a monument to Joseph IL. of
Germany was unveiled at Leitmutz, Bo-
hemia,
ARTHUR ELLIOTT, Liberal member of
Parliament from Scotland, thinks the
British House of Commons needs reforma-
ton as badly as the House of Lords.
REV. DR.. BALL, of Buffalo, who started
the statements about Governor Cleveland,
has sued the Boston Herd Id on account of
an article that appeared in that paper re.
Gently animadverting on the preacher.
AT Amsterdam, N. Y, thousand people
gathered on the 18th to greet General
Logan as he passed on his way TO Her
kimer. He was saluted with cannon.
LIEUTENANT GREELY and his family
have taken possession of a cottage on
Seavy's Island owned by the Government
and included in the limits of the Navy
Yard, where they will pass the autumn.
The other survivors of the expedition are
quartered at the Navy Yard Hospital,
they, as we'll as Lieutenant Greedy, being
under close medical supervision. They are
all making excellent progress toward com
plete recovery.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the oh Samuel H. Drew, ex County
Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton Coun-