The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Cheyenne Reservation in a month.
A FREErHINKGss' convention began its
sessions at Albany, N Y, on the l1th.
TIE health of Lord Randolph Churchill,
Secretary of State for India, has given
away under the strain of his Official du-
ties and the part he has taken in the par
llamentary campaign. All of his political
en- agements have been cancelled in ac-
cordance with the imperative demands of
his physicians
COLONEL WILLIAM SGRwELL, who COM
manded the Seventy eighth Pennsylvania
Regiment during the late war, died on
the 9th at his residence In Kittanning,
Pa, from cancer of the throat, his symp-
toms being an ex It counterpart of those
of General Grant
A RELIEF fund for cholera sufR er ers has
been started by the Lord Mayor of Lon
don.
THE Commissioner o. Internal Rev enue
reports that the amount of distilled spirits
gone into consumption In the United
States during the fiscal year ended June
80, 1885, is 6o,1569O2 gallons, and the
paid during the same period is 10, lc5, 95]
barrels. The amount of wn3 consumed
in this county during the year 1884 is es-
timated 2O,5OS 34j gallons.
MoLLIE MAGUIRIsM is rampant again
in Pennsylvania.
The imports of dry goods for the week
at the port of New York amounted to
81 5O2 1927.
Ntws concerning the Caroline Islands
affair is again decidedly warlike in tone.
The Swatara took S10,4jO0OO in silver
from the New Orleans Mint to be con-
veyed North.
TIE American steamer Ne1erland, at
Antwerp, had eight feet of water in her
engine rooms on the 18th.
TIE vessel wrecked cG Two Rivers,
WIS, was the scow Milton. Her entire
crew were lost.
THERE was small revolution among
the soldiers in Madrid on the 18th, but 1t
was soon suppressed.
THE international yacht race was again
postponed on the 18th, the wind proving
insufficient to carry the vessels over the
course within the limit of seven hours.
Another start was to be made on the 18th.
THERE has been no personal correspond
ence be ween King Alfonso and Emperor
| William::o n the Carolines affair.
THREE ladies wer9 drowned in Lake
Traverse, near Browns Valley, MINI,
on the 18th by the overturning of row.
boat.
MINISTER Cox had an interview on the
18th with Said Pasha, Grand Vizier OF
Turkey, regarding the tariff laws.
CONGRESSMAN LITTLE, of Ohio, has is
sued an appeal for help for ths Washing
ton Court House cyclone suff ,rers.
THE reported signing of the protocol by
Russia and Germany delimitiny the
Russo Afghan frontier is confirmed.
THREE warehouses Of the Milwaukee
Cement Company, together with their
contents, were destroyed by fire on the
18th.
JOHN G. DURAND, a silk manufacturer
of Hoboken, N. j., was shot and proba'
bly, MORALLY wounded on the 18th by
Claude Stuvale.
MISS CLARA BARTON, of the Red Cross
Society, New York, proposes to vote
this fall, even if she has to take tn,
voters oath.
FRED POFF, German, arrested for dis
orderly conduct at ST. Paul, MINI, on tn
18th, committed suicide in the municipal
courtroom by blowing his brains on
with revolver.
BIG BEAR was tried at Regina on tn
18th, on a charge of felony, an,
found guilty. Sentence deferred.
M. g. ROCKWELL, the ex- banker o
Union, N. Y, and his clerk, D. J. Palmer
were arrested on the 18th, charged wit
larceny in the first degree in misappro
prating $4,000. The complaint is mad
by Mrs Livingston, a deposition
SECRETARY BAYARD was informed b,
cable on the 18th that cholera is increas
ing in Palermo and Sicily generally.
IT is understood that General Sherida
will return to Washington about October
LIST, and that the new members of his stat
will be arranged at once.
INsPEcroR-G GENERAL NELSON H. DAvI
will be placed on the retired list the 2)t
/ inst. His successor, it is understood
, will either be General Roger Jones o
General A Baird. The former is til
senior officer, but the latter is said t
have the more brilliant record an
stronger Endorsement.
In the Holman murder case, at Morgan
field, Ind, on the 18th, after a trial of
week, during which over 23j witness
we're examined, the jury after being OF
six hours, returned a verdict OF mar
slaughter, and fixed Holman's punish
ment at ten years in the Penitentiary
hard labor
Two cases of small -pox were detecte
at the depot at Troy, N Y, on the l i'll
: They were removed to the pest houst
Quite panic was caused among the wall
ing passengers when thu ann u cemel
: was made and they precipitatey fl
rom the depot
AT Fresno Cal, the winery and dist
4 ry OF the Fresno vineyard was burna
, on the l2.h.
, TRADE prospects in England are repor
ed ghter than for some time.