The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-09-26

MILAN. TENNESSEE
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
A RUMoR was current at Washington
on the 21st that Dorman B. Elton, OF the
Ciyil-Servics Commission, has resigned.
THE police of ST. Petersburg have been
ordered to renew the measurs OF strln-
gency adopted during the darkest days OF
Nihilism.
REPORTS from Dakota say that prairie
fires are still raging, and that numerous
losses in grain, hay in stacks, and build
ings have occurred.
A COUNCIL. of Turkish Ministers, pre-
sided over by the Sultan, decided to APP
peal to the powers to maintain the rights
of the Porte in Roumelia.
N
w. H. MORRIS and wife. OF Mount
Pleasant, Tex, has sued the Yves tern
Union Telegraph Company for So,OOo Tor
non delivery of message
THOSE who pretend to know say there
will not be general strike along the
Union Pacific, and that Wyoming will
soon be entirely clear of Chinese miners.
A OBLIGATION started from Dallas,
Tex, on the 10Th, to Kokomo, Ind, to re-
turn an old flg captured during the war
from the Fifty seventh Indiana regiment
A STRONG army feeling is being worked
up against Lord Wolseley, and his con-
duct of the Nile campaign will prob
ably be subject of Parliamentary discus
sion.
THE Miners Association aud the
Knights of Labor have arrived at an I'M
derstanding, and the strike in Pennsyl-
vana will be supported by both organl-
cations.
REV. JEREMIAH O'SULLIvAN, pastor OF
St. Peters Catholic Church, Washington,
d. c., was consecrated Bishop OF the do
cese Of Mobile on the Goth, with imposing
ceremonies.
THE people of Philippop lis, capital OF
Eastern Roumelia, have rebelled, seized
the Governor General, deposed the Gov
eminent and declared union of Roumelia
with Bulgaria.
THE Evansville Qnd) Courier dem.
advocates the shelving OF the old politi-
clans, such as Voorhees,, Mcdonald and
Hendricks, and turning the State over
to the young Democracy.
FIFrY-Two active members were pres
ent at the annual session of tho Suprems
Council, thirty third degree, A. A. Scot
fish Rite for the Norther1 jurisdiction of
the United States, held at Boston on the
18th.
THE Director General of the North,
Central and South American Exposi tion
states that the buildings, grounds, etc,
are now ready in every particular for the
reception of exhibits, and exhibitors are
request I'd to forward articles at onca
PRAIRIE fires have ragged in the vicinity
of Bismarck, Oak, with unusual fierce
ness. At least fifty farmers are burned
out of crops and houses. Losses range
from S, 900 to 5000 each. Tho aggre-
gate loss is over $4,000. There has beer
some loss of human life.
THE London morning papers Of the 18th
contained column obituaries lamenting
the death of Jumbo. The Telegraph,
over its report of the death and history o.
the famous elephant displays large head
lines reading "Sad End of Jumbo,
SKILLED by a Collision with a Railroad
Train"
LIEUTENANT GEO. NJ. STOREY, com
manding the expedition to Alaska, re-
ports to the Secretary of the Navy, undel
date of July 18th, his arrival at Hothan
Inlet on July 18th. He was to start Oh
the day of writing with the larger part o
his stores for the head waters of Putnam
River.
AT the Cabinet meeting on the 18th the
policy of the Government in the silve
question was discussed. No definite &C
ton appears to have been taken. 1t
probable that the matter will be further
considered when the absent Cabinet of
fcers, Messrs. Bayard, Endicott aud Gar
land, return.
THE smallpox epidemic continues t.
spread at Montreal, and the number o
cases is so large that the authorities re
fuse to furnish information to the press
The opposition of the French Canadian
citizens to all sanitary precautions
largely responsible for the terrible condi'
ton of affairs
THE second heat of the internationa
yacht race, between the Puritan and Ge
nesta, was sailed on the 10th, and afte
an exciting contest was CALAMITY won b!
the Puritan; and SO the American GU
still remains on the west side of the At
lantic and the superiority of the center
board craft is maintained.