The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


itentiary at London, Ontario, for car
rying stolen property into the Dominion.
THE hide and leather convention will
hold its next meeting in Boston on the
first Wednes lay in September 1886
SALLIG MCDONALD of Boyle County,
Kentucky, is reported to have besn re-
leved of serious spinal complaint by
the prayer cure.
INDICTMENTS against Oklahoma boom
ers who have complied with the Presi-
dents order by vacating are to be
quashed.
AN earthquake shook up things in the
vicinity of Naples on the 18th. ERlA
SAN FRAN CISCO has quarantined against
Pacific Mexican ports, for fevers, and de-
clared certain ports OF China and Japan
to be cholera infected.
FIFTY pounds of powder in an iron
chest exploded at Wilmington, N. e., on
the 18Th. Charles Smith was badly burned
and all the windows in the vicinity were
broken.
SYDNEY RosENFELD has brought suit
aginst D'Oyley Carte for $4,000 damages
in restraining him from bringing out
"The Mlkado." The question has just
been settled in New York that the play is
public property.
In the yacht races at New York on the
18th the Genesta won the Douglas cup
for cutters and sloops, and the Grayling
won the Bennett cup for schooners.
MIAMI UNIVERSITY, at Oxford, o., was
reopened the evening of the 18th, after
having been closed for thirteen years.
The event was celebrated by fireworks, a
procession and public meeting
The British Parliament has been fur
ther prorogued until December 9th.
THERE were ISL new cases of cholera
reported throughout Spain on the 18th.
The death roll numbered 1854.
A MEETING of the Ohio River Commits
sion is called for the 9th OF September at
Pitts burgh, Pa
ANOTHER sawdust swindle has been ex-
posed in New York and runner convict
ed, but the principals escaped.
M. LEssAR, special Russian envoy to
England on the Afghan dispute, has re-
turned to st. Petersburg.
The White House door-ksepsr didn't
know Governor Marmaduke of Missouri
when he called the other day, but recog-
nized his walking stick.
Mr.. GLADSTONE manifesto causes dis
appointment in Dublin, and also among
the Liberals
PETER RUDoLPa NEFF succeeds Colonel
George Ward Nichols as President of the
Cincinnati College of Music.
IMPERIAL silver medals will be confer
red on the Canadian troops engaged in
suppressing the Rel rebellion.
THE Virginia tobacco crop is reported
to be suffering from drought.
Sc. SoMMARUGA, who edits two news
papers in Rome, Italy, after trial last
ing thirteen days on a charge of black
mailing Italian artists, has been found
guilty and sentenced to ten years impris-
onment
JOHN FIrz who has heretofore stood
well among the German citizens of Bal
! timore, Md, and was collector for q
large brewery, has left the city, it is sup
posed, for Canada, with $500 of the
funds OF his employer. He leaves fam
lily, but is said to be accompanied by q
woman
THE Princess OF Wales on the 18th
founded q new English Church in Copen-
hagen, dedicated to ST. Albau. Members
of the Russian Danish and other royal
families were present on the occasion.
The employees of the Woonsocket Or. l.
Rubber Works have been notified that the
works will shut down September Goth for
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the large amounts of goods on hand.
THE Delaware & Hudson freight depot,
two New Jersey Central freight cars and
the warehouse of the Glen's Falls Paper
Mill Company at Glen's Falls, N. Y.
were destroyed by fire the morning of the
18TH. The loss on the freight depot and
cars is $1,000; fully insured. The los:
on the warehouse is $1,000; Insurance,
$1,000.
THE populace of Palermo, Sicily, have
become panic stricken, owing to the prev
alence of cholera there and are fleeing
from the town. There is a great scarcity
of food and the people of Naples are send
ing money and provisions for the relief Of
the sufferers
THE special Grand Jury convened a
Warsaw, N Y, to consider the case OF
the Attica bank robber, found three bills,
one for robbery and two for assault with
intent to kill Cashier Barross aud POST
master Lorish. He pleaded guilty to the
first charge aud Judge Lewis sentenced
him to twenty years on the first bill and
ten years on the second He is twenty
one years old.
THE brig Georgia, of Nassau, which ar
rived in New York on the 18th, sailed
from Aspinwall for Neuvetis, with crew
of nine persons, all told but on account
of sickness put in to Old Providence,
where the Captain, mate and two other
men died and all wers sick except tive
men. She sailed August 23d for New
York with crew of eleven men. Sh,
had four sick men on board and was quar-.
antinel.
EDWARD CAunL, a tramp, was killed by
q Waterman at Waverly, N. ].