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

A REWARD of $3.50 each has been offered
in Arizona for Apache scalps, and many
of the old pioneers are on the trail.
THE Supreme Court of Virginia has
granted writ of error in the Cluverius-
Fanny Madison murder case.
FIVE white men and two Indians, who
made murderous attack on Chinese hop
picl1ers in Squak Valley, Wy. T., recently,
and killed two of their number, were in
dicted by the Grand Jury on the sth for
murder in the first degree.
THE Dominion Government has sent a
steamer loaded with supplies to the Lab
rador coast to alleviate the distress among
the starving fishermen.
The vicinity of Ringtown, Pa, was Wis
tied on the Sth by binding snow storm.
Ice quarter of an inch thick formed in
many places.
CARDINAL McCLosKEY died a little
after one o'clock the morning of the 10th.
THE reward for Indian scalps in Ari-
IONA has been increased to $500 each.
In a fight between the French and Hovas
in Madagascar. recently, the French lost
twenty.one killed and wounded, and the
Hovas 200.
AN investigation is in progress of
charges preferred against the Omaha
Postmaster.
LIMA advices state that the Government
troops are still pursuing General Caceres,
of whose movements very little is known.
THE Attorney. General of Indiana gives
it as his opinion that teachers salaries
can not be garnished.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad will be
opened from Montreal to Kicking Horse
Pass, distance of 1891 miles, on Novem.
Der I'd.
Two men were drowned by the capsiz.
ing of a fishing smack of Frankfort,
Mich, on the 9Th, during gale.
GENERAL STEVENSON, First Assistant
Postmaster. General, was rendered pub
lie reception at Bloomington, Ill.
ALL incoming trains are boarded at
Quebec by a physician, and all persons
refusing to be vaccinated or who can not
show vaccination marks are quarantined.
GEORGE PAXTON was struck on a cross =
ing by Cleveland & Pittsburgh train
near Steubenville, O., on the 9th, and in
stantly killed.
H. TATTENHAM, who left Meadford, On
tario, in a yacht, was pursued by tug to
Lake Huron, where he was captured and
taken back on a charge of forgery.
Pupils in the public and provincial
schools at Buffalo, N. Y, are to be vac
cinsted and other precautions are being
taken against the spread OF smallpox.
AT conference Of glass manufacturers
and workers at Syracuse, N Y, basis of
agreement has been arrived at and work
in the factories will be resumed.
CORRESPONDENTS between the Attorney
General, the President and the Solicitor
General has resulted in the dismissal of
the Bell Telephone Company.
MRS. CLARENCE CLARK, once promi-
nent society belle of Wilkesbarre, Pa, but
latterly a confirmed opium eater and
drunkard, committed suicide at Williams.
port, Pa, on the 9th.
THE Treasury Department on the 9th
purchased 100000 ounces of silver for de.
livery at the Philadelphia mint for coinage
into silver dollars,
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CALEB B. lay
TON, Twentieth Infantry, and Captain
VIM. E. Kingsbury, Eleventh Infantry,
have been placed on the retired list.
THERE were 207 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the 9th, against 1876 the week before
and 1856 the week previous.
The American box and shook factory
and planning mill, owned by Thomas w.
Thompson, of Williamsport, Pa, burned
on the oh, together with large amount
of stock. Loss, nearly $4,000; insurance,
$2S,5O0.
Two warehouses containing $4,000 sacks
of wheat were burned at Durham's Sta
ton, near Chico, Cal, ON the 10th. Loss,
$l25,O0O; partially insured
A ROW BOAT was capsized in Boston har-
Dor on the 9th. Two men were picked up
by the crew of a tug-boat, but both died
in a short time There is said to have been
third man in the boat named NJ. S. Cove,
whose body was not recovered. One of
the dead men is named H. B. Carrier
A CLEVELAND & PITTSBURGH passenger
train, going East, struck a team of horses
anu wagon dJ Alkana CROSSING, near
Seubenville, o., on the 9th, killing both
horses, completely demolishing the wagon
and fatally injuring George Paxton, the
driver of the team.
AT the Luke Fiddler breaker at Shame
kin, Pa, on the 9th, a Polish boy, employ
ed as a slate picker, missed his footing and
fell headloug into box in which were
swiftly revolving pair of 'monkey"
rollers used in preparing the smaller sizes
of coal. Before the machinery could lie
stopped his body was ground to pieces.
THE special delivery system does not
work satisfactorily in many places, tie
limitations for the compensation of the
carriers making their earnings so ridicu-
lousy small that there is no object in re-
tanning their positions.
THE daughter of General Newton who,
when two years Of age, closed the circuit
which fired the mine at Halletps Point
in 1876, performed the same service in the
blowing up of Flood Rock on the 10th.
1T is stated on the authority of Rev. DIR.
O'Reilly, Treasurer Of the National