The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Italian iron -clad Marosini was
launched at Venice on the Both in the
presence of K ng Humbert and crowd
OF dignitaries.
WHILE inquiring into the case of the
mutilated female remains recently found
in the Charles River at Boston, the police
of the city have unearthed another MUIR
der.
RUSSIA fears that the death of Ell Mahdi
and the predominance OF Conservative in
fuence in Egypt may result adversely to
Russian interests.
SENATOR ALONE has issued a circular
to the ousted Virginia Postmasters, con-
tainIng a series of questions to be an
swered by them, which he will use as a
basis for fight in the Senate.
THE subscriptions to the Egyptian loan
Of $i5, 900 900 have been closed. They ag-
| gregated four times the amount OF the
! loan.
The Salvation Army marched to the
Parliament buildings in London on the
Both and presented petition mile and
half long, containing 100000 signatures,
urging the passage of the criminal amend
ment act.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Rebecca
Nourse, who was hanged for wichcraft
July 10, 1852, was dedicated at her old
home in Danvers, Mass, on the SOth.
THE North German Lloyd Steamship
Company are earning much ill-will in
Germany by tricky evasion of the con-
dition that steamers of lines subsidized
by the Government shall be built in Ger
many.
The committee Of the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations has voted that
services In memory of Sir Moses Monte
fore shall be held in all cities of tn , coun-
try on some day to be decided upon.
IT is reported that since Ell MahdPs
death his followers have been continually
fighting among themselves.
AN Indian soldier who recently rebelled
and shot several native officers was
hanged at Gungalore, India, on the 30.h,
in the presence of the British and native
troops.
ASHLAND, Pa, is excited over a water
famine which exists at that place.
THE estimated decrease of the public
debt during the month of July is $780,
900.
REV. JEREMIAH O'SULLIvAN, not Faith er
Byrne, is the new Bishop of Mobile.
AUGUST 9Th, the date of General Grants
funeral, will be legal holiday in Con-
necticut.
A VIOLENT storm at Fargo, D. T., on
the 31st destroyed an iron electric tower
and did other DAMAGE.
RED hats were given the new Cardinals
at public consistory at Rome on the
31st. Great pomp and ceremony marked
the occasion.
BRADsTREET's cotton report for July
shows the condition fully as good as re-
ported for June.
CHARLES l.. SKINNER, of Baltimore,
Md, has been disbarred from practice as
an attorney before the Interior Depart
ment for extorting Illegal fees.
THE total imports of dry goods at New
York during the seven day ended the 3lst,
were valued at Sc, S32, 1897, and the amount
thrown on the market at So, 179, 1871.
THERE were 2,616 new cases of cholera
in the plague stricken districts of Spain
on the Both, and 1,O39 deaths from the
disease for the same time.
1T is reported that Osman Digna was
killed in the Kassala battle. The MahdFs
followers are every where demoralized.
VALENTINE WAGNER was hanged at
Columbus, o., and Matilda Jones, Charles
Davis and George Wilson at Plaquemine,
La, on the 3lst.
JACOB ERB arrested in Chicago on q
charge of drunkenness, died in his cell on
the 31st. A post norton examination
showed that the man was not drunk and
that death was caused by chronic inham
nation of the brain,
THE property and franchises of the
Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com
pany were sold at auction in New Yorl
on the 3lst for 100000 to Edward s
Stokes.
THE police have discovered some of the
missi ng securities of the Munster lire
land) Bank at Farquharson's Dublin
lodgings
A FoUR-YEAR- OLD daughter of Jane:
J Bennett, of New York, summer resident
} of Roslyn, L. l., fell into a bath of ho
water the night of the 3Oth and was
scalded SO terribly that she died imme-
diately.
THREE hundred employees of the Lake
Erie Bolt works, at Cleveland, o., are out
on a strike
ALL the men believed to have been lost
in the fallen mill at Wilmington, DEL,
have been accounted for.
THE indianapolis Post office investga-
ton has been concluded, and the Commits
sioners have gone to Washington to pre-.
pare their report.
A PRIZE fight took place at Pittsburgh
Pa, on the 31st between John Beck anC
Philip Bulger. Eleven rounds were fought
and Bulger was knocked out and terribly
punished.
THERE is a conflict of authority be
tween the Governor of West Virginia ant
{ the judge of the Federal court over tn
payment of Chesapeake and Ohio bac
taxes
The six chiefs of divisions in the Sec
ondIAuditor's Office (Treasury Depart