The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-15
IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND PoLITICAL.

confidently announced by the Democrats
on the basis of their returns showing that
he had carried the State of New York,
thus giving him 219 electoral votes. On
the other hand the Republican managers
continued to claim the State by a small
plurality. The settlement of the mooted
question will undoubtedly have to depend
upon the official count. Meanwhile the
Democrats are celebrating the victory they
claim all over the country, and the Ma
tional Democratic Committee have issued
q manifesto calling upon their partisans to
see that they are not robbed Of its fruits
by repetition of '76. Partisan feeling
was at high pitch in all the principal
cities, and only the most conservative ac-
tion of the cooler heads in both parties has
prevented serious collisions.
THE President has named November 9th
as Thanksgiving Day.
MoNsENoR AZARIAN, Armenian Pa
triarch, died at Constantinople on the 7th.
GEORGE MONTAGUE was elected Presi-
dent of the Second National Bank of New
York ON the eth.
MISS DIyLY, of London, Eng, has been
enjoined from publishing letters in her
possession from Lord Lytton to his wife.
Pittsburgh, Pa, ordered all pool rooms
closed in order to aid in allaying the pop
ular excitement over the election.
THE Emperor William will deliver an adj
dress of welcome to the delegates at the
first sitting of the Congo Conference.
BARFUss, the Austrian anarchist, has
been sentenced to six years hard labor on
the charge of high treason. The principal
count in the charge was posting placards
of an incendiary nature.
AT Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Evans
polypmy trial on the It'll, the mother of
the second wife testified that her daughter
was married to Evans, and the second
wife admitted the marriage. She said it
was without the consent of the first wife,
who was very mad and stoned her win
dows when she first went to live with
Evans. The jury brought in a verdict of
guilty.
UP to the morning of the 10th the pol It'll
cal situation remained unchanged, the final
declaration of the result depending upon
the outcome of the official canvass in New
York. In Obedience to the mandate of the
Democratic National Committee, the cleo
tion of Cleveland and Hendricks was cele-
brated the evening of the Sth at various
points with salutes, speeches, parades, ETC.,
others, however, preferring to await the
final count in the Empire State Def ore CIV
ing vent to their enthusiasm. Meanwhile
there is a pent-up excitement throughout
the country which might, upon small prov
ocation, become dangerous.
On the Sth Brigadier- General Geo. w
Tew died at Newport, R. 1.
MARQUIS DE CAUx, husband of AIDE
lima Patti has received an absolute di
vorce from the songstress.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND issued the usua
Thanksgiving proclamation to the people o
New York on the Sth.
THE widow of the late Wilbur F. Storey
asks the court in Chicago to appoint re
ceiver for the estate of her late husband.
The eminent historical painter, Feli1
Emmanuel Henri Philip Potteaus, died il
Paris.
HENRY IRVING and Ellen Terry arrives
in New York from Montreal on the 9th.
On the 9th His Royal. Highness, tn
Prince of Wales, completed his forty thirt
year.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointe
Thomas Adamson, of Pennsylvania, Unite
States Consul at Panama.
On the 10th Rear-Admiral Murray die
in Washington, d. c., after a short i'll
ness. He participated in the war wit
Mexico and was actively engaged in tn
naval conflicts of the rebellion.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has transmitted hi
report to the Secretary of War for til
period covering the time in which he ha
been in command Of the army.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed GOV
ernor Schuyler Crosby of Montana Fir
Assistant Postmaster General.
THE will of the late Tom Thumb we
probated at Plymouth, Mass, on the 16tl
1t showed balance over all debts
$16,431.
On the 10th a rumor was current tn,
General Sheridan had been ordered to Ne
York, but it was officially denied by IL
Secretary of War.
AsBURY JARRETT, one of the cold d
fenders," died at Baltimore, Md, on Il
10th, aged eighty mine years.
Pope LEO has created nine new card
nails.
A DISPATCH of the 10th from Cairo sa
rumors of the fall of Khartoum and Il
death of General Gordon were arriving |
the way of Massowah.
POSTMASTER GENERAL HArToN in lie
ter to the English Post -office, expresses
regret at the death of Postmaster Gener
Fawcet, of England, and pays a high tri
ute to his public and private virtues.
EX-SENATOR CoNKLING has consented
act as advisory counsel on behalf of t
Democratic managers in any controveri
that may arise in the final count of t
vote of the State of New York.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
BY the fall of a snoke-stack at Robson
Station, Pa, on the 9Th, six men were kill
and several others killed.
on the It'll the steamer Fannie Free
was burned to the waters edge at Mac
son. Ind