The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-10-17

THE MILAN EXCHANGE.
w. A. WADE, Publisher.
MILAN. TENNESSEE.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
HENRY WARD BEECHER paid handsome
tribute to Cardinal McCloskey in his SER
mon on the 18th.
The Porte in another circular to the
powers has requested decision on the
Roumelian question.
DYNAMTERs blew up the residences of
a police magistrate and constable at
Orangeville, Ontario, on the night of the
9th.
DANIEL MANNING says he is going home
to Albany to vote, and thinks the Presi-
dent will 60 to Buffalo for the same pur:
pose.
FRANCE has asked for the postponement
of the date for the conference of the Latin
Monetary Union. 1t was set for October
18th.
THE American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will begin its seventeenth annual
convention at Minneapolis, Mimi, October
18th.
CINCINNATI claims, according to the
present registration, a population in
GLIDING the "Over the Rhine" district, of
100000.
LORD SALISBURY made a notable speech
at Newport, Eng, on the 7th, outlining the
policy of the Conservative party of
England.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has issued
an address to his constituents, in which he
denounces the Liberal party in the sever
est terms.
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der the Civil Rights law hotel.keepers are
not obliged to admit negroes to the COM
mon dining-room.
THE police Of Cork, Ireland, on the Sth,
discovered and seized a large number OF
rifles which were buried in field about
five miles from the city.
FIGHTING is reported near Kassala be-
tween dervishes and the Abyssinia expe.
dition sent TO the relief of the garrison.
The dervishes were defeated.
THE impression is increasing in Europe
that diplomacy has failed to arrange the
Roumelian question, owing to the warlike
attitude of Servia and Greece.
THE Massachusetts Democrats nomin.
ated Frederick o. Prince, of Boston, for
Governor and Fl. H. Gilmore, Of Cam
bridge, for Northumberland.
THE National Miners Union has sent
out circulars to every coal company in the
United States, asking them not to furnish
coal to the Union Pacific Company.
ulence at Montreal. forty three deaths
having been reported on the 7th. The
scourge has made its appearance at OF
tawa.
PLACARDs have been posted in Philip
popolis by order of the Mayor, announc.
ing that the Sultan has accepted the union
of Bulgaria and Roumelia under the rule
of Prince Alexander.
BISHOP TAYLoR's missionary enter
prise in Africa has proven a failure,
and the band of Methodists who went out
to evangelize the Dark Continent are de-
pendent upon charity.
AN ukase has been issued by the Rus
sian Government ordering all Governors
and other officers throughout the Prov
inces to use the Russian language exclu
sively in their off cial duties.
AT Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, mysterious
assailants are amusing themselves by
making targets of policemen for pistol
practice, but thus far without developing
any great skill in Workmanship.
A
THE Northwestern Railway Company's
bridge across the Mississippi at st. Paul,
Mimi, is completed 1t is of iron, 1926 feet
long, with a draw span of 412 feet, the
largest and heaviest in the world. Only
ten months have been occupied in its con-
Struction, and its cost was $35O,OOO.
AT a conference of glass manufacturers
and workers at Syracuse, N. Y, on the
9th, it was decided to start up the factories
substantially on the Pittsburgh plan,
which is a reduction of ten per cent. in
wages on the present selling prices, wages
to be advanced in proportion to the ad-
vance in selling prices.
The Trades pageant in st. Louis on the
night of the Sth was one of the most nota-
BILE features of carnival week in that city,