The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE President appointed E. J. Hale, of
North Carolina, Consul to Manchester,
England.
On the 1st the Ohio Legislature passed
the registration law for Cincinnati and
Cleveland.
GEO. w. PORTER and J. ]. Hanna, St.
Louis, (Mo) Post Office inspectors, have
been removed.
The Queen of England has war ship
called the Bull Frog, which arrived at
Halifax, N. S., on the 1st.
The King of Denmark it is thought pro-
bable will be selected to mediate between
England and Russia.
COLONEL SwTTzLER, of Missouri. has
been appointed Secretary of the Bureau of
Statistics in the Treasury Department.
On the 1st Captain John La Barge,
well.known steamboat man, dropped dead
in the pilot-house of boat in Bismarck.
Oak.
JUDGE WIN. M. MERRIcK, of Maryland,
received the appointment of Associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, vice Judge Wylie, re-
signed.
NAVAL CADET WIN. c. CALLAGHAN, of
Ohio, member of the third class, has re-
signed from the Naval Academy, at An
napols.
The Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Civil Service Association has voted
to hold the next annual meeting in New
port, r. l., in August Mr. George Will
liam Curtis will preside and deliver the
address.
The Postmaster General has forbidden
the delivery of registered letters and
money orders to f. Ridd 81 Co. of Du-
buque, Ia, on evidence that they were
conducting fraudulent business through
the mails.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY of Illinois on the
LIST ordered that four companies of the
Fourth Regiment State militia be sent to
Joliet at once to quell the riots among the
quarrymen at that place Adjutant- Cen
eral Vance and Captain Bell left at once
for Joliet. The Sheriff of Will County
stated that threats were being made to
burn Joliet.
MINISTER LOWELL will be given fare
well banquet at London.
Hon. GEORGE H. PENDLEToN, Minister
to Germany, sailed for Bremen on the I'd
QUEEN VICTORIA and Princess Beatric ice
have returned to England.
j. ERNEST METERS, of Colorado, has
been appointed Consul to Nagasaki,
Japan.
EDMUND YATES, the London editor, is
to be given great banquet as a consola-
tion for his recent Imprisonment for libel.
EARL GRANVILLE thinks the trouble be :
tween England and Russia will be peace
fully settled
GENERAL GRANTS condition is rep orted
better than it has been since he was taken
sick. He has been smoking cigars occa
sionally within the past two weeks.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered that the
approaching marriage of Princess Beatrice
be sdemnized without any ostentation.
DIR. WIN. CLENDENIN, one of the oldes
and best-known physicians of Cincinnati,
o., died of pneumonia on the I'd.
REV. DR.. BURCHARD, of "R. r. r." fame,
preached his farewell sermon as pastor Of
the Murray Hill Presbyterian Church,
New York, on the Sd.
THE Czarina, whose influence is nearly
absolute over the Gar, is actively assist
ing in peace negotiations.
GENERAL GRANT spent the day on the
4th working on his book.
The late Commodore Vanderb It's wild.
ow died of pneumonia at New York on the
4th.
The funeral obsequies of the late Com.
modore Garrison took place at New Yorl
on the 4th.
On the 4th the Prince of Wales opened
the International Inventors Exposition
London.
AYoUB KHAN, the former Ameer of At
ghanistan, is closely guarded in Persia.
PRINCE ALEXANDER KARAGEoRGEwIrz
claimant to the throne of Servia, is dead
On the 4th the President and party wen
to Gettysburg, Pa, to take part in tn,
veterans meeting there.
THE well-known physician, DR.. Tanner
of Cork, Ireland, has been expelled from
the Cork County Club because he Kissed
the Prince of Wales
WHEN the train bearing the Presiden
and party was returning to Washington
from Gettysburg on the evening of the 4th
some one fired three pistol shots. 1t was
not believed that they were fired at tn
President, but merely as a mark of en-
thusiasm bY q "crankO