The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-21

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
, DIR, LAvELL, of the Riel Medical Com
sion, says If the Government hangs Riel
they will hang lunatic.
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LORD DUFFERIN has ordered the Burmah
expeditienary force to proceed with all
haste tocapture Mandalay.
CHURCH disestablishment has taken
foremost position as a topic of discussion
in the English political campaign.
THE eleventh week Of the strike of 5000
miners in the Monongnhela Valley closed
on the 14th with no signs of settlement.
THE Burmese envoy to Paris has gone to
Berlin to ask Bismarck to arrange with
England for the settlement of the Burmese
dispute.
PRINCE ALEXANDER complains to the
powers that the Servian agent in Bulgaria
withheld for eight'hours Servia's declara-
tion of war. ..lsr ~ t.-.
1T is stated King Theebaw has subsidized
$4,000 dacoits, or robbers, to cross the
frontier at the first sign of war and begin
plundering and numbering.
THE friends of Mr.. Stead, the imprisoned
editor Of the Pail Mall Gazette, are making
preparations for public demonstration
in his honor on his release.
LORD SALISBURY telegraphed to the
British representative at Constantinople to
assure the Porte that England will do her
utmost to preserve the integrity of Turkey.
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The announcement on the 14th of the de- |
claration of war by King Milan of Servia |
against Bulgaria, had stiffening effect |
on speculative grain and provision dealing,
THE American Humane Association has
Issued circulars saying it Withhold its ninth |
annual session at st. Louis, Mo-, COM |
mencing November 18th and lasting three
days.
ALL four of the defendants in the Stead
11lihouOhB VIAL az A4OhoOh WOiO AOuhu
guilty, and Stead, editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette, was sentenced to three months
Imprisonment.
ACCORDING to the laws of Massachu-
sets six months elapse before decree of
divorce becomes operative, and conse-
quently Mr.. Taber is not yet freed from his
matrimonial alliance.
AMONG the late VIM. Sharon's requests
Is one of $4,000 to be applied to the i'm
provemept of Golden Gate Park, San Fran
cisco, and one of $4,000 to be devoted to
public charities of the city.
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH OF BATTENBERG
has resigned his commission as an officer
in the Prussian Foot Guards. His reason
is that he wishes to support his brother,
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria.
IT transpires that Mr.. Charles Foster, Of
indianapolis, Ind, who recently sailed for
Europe as Consul at Elberheld, Germany,
was not a citizen of the United States
when he took the oath of Office.
BARTHoLDI, the French sculptor, who
presented to the United States the colossal
statue Of "Liberty Enlightening the
World" was dined by the Lotus Club at
New York on the evening of the 14th.
SERvIA has a total military establish
ment of 10000 officers and men, 1900 Of
which are cavalry, and AIS guns. The in
fantry are armed with the Mauser rife,
and the artillery with muzzle-loaders and
Krupp guns.
ALL the bureau and department chiefs
at Washington are at work on their re-
reports, and the President has shut his
doors on offlce-seekers and their friends.
Old residents say they never saw Wash
ington SO dull.
BARON De LoRME, who recently arrived
at New York from China, says the En-
peror wants railroads, is favorably dis
posed toward the American system, and
win grant Liberal concessions to Ameri-
can capitalists.
THE Governors of the Northern States
are invited to attend the Southern States
Forestry Congress at De Funiak Springs,
Fla, in December, to participate in the
ceremony of planting and defeating trees
20 all the States.
THE Servian army crossed the Bulgarian
frontier, on the morning of the 14th, in
three divisions, at Tsaribrod, Klessura and
Bregova. The Bulgarians retreated at all
points after some sharp skirmishing, in
which many were killed on both sides.
THE Grand Jury at Galveston, Tex, at
meeting on the t4th, resolved that, in
their opinion, the citizens of Galveston
were unable to provide adequately for the
relief of the victims of the recent FIRE, and
that contributions from every source were
solicited.
THE total value of domestic cattle and
hogs exported from the United States dur
ing the month Of October was $G,SO6,OOS,
and for ten months ended October 3lst,
g-o 500 07A. nvnortS of heef and OOrk prOd =