The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-07-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Collector, has taken charge of his office.
He retains all the Republican deputies for
the present.
| COFFIN 81 STANTON, Of New York, were
awarded g, 900, 900 of Cincinnati granite
block-paving bonds at S126 per $1,000
prepium.
AN intimation is given by a member Of
the English Government that the Irish
Crimes Act will not be pressed.
TIE convict labor question is the cause
Of trouble in Johnson County, Arkansas.
The people threaten to libsrate all the
prisoners now at work in the mines.
The naval demonstration against Zan-
zibar by Germany has been countermand-
ed by Bismarck and the little war speck
| has vanished
Two tramps named Patrick Leiford and
James Miller, were struck by the Western
express of the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Pittsburgh on the 1st. Miller was
instantly killed and his companion fatally
hurt.
In Stephens County, Texas a man
named Thompson augurated a campaign
against Archie Freeman bent on taking
his life. Fraeman's cousin came along at
the right time, and ended the campaign
by shooting Thompson. 1t was all about
u woman.
SUIT for $4,000 has been brought
against Lester 81 Co. at Chicago by Sam
uel Berkswitz for money lost on Board OF
Trade contracts. The suit is brought UNI
der the gambling statute.
SIGNoR HoUX, editor of the JoWRdL de
Rome an Ultramontane paper, has re-
signed at the request of the Pope. He will
remove to Paris.
JAMES OGLEsBY, Of Detroit, Mich, fell
from the steamer Alaska at Put Bay,
Lake Erie, on the 1st, and was drowned.
THE Music Teachers National Associa-
ton began its ninth annual meeting in
New York on the 1st. About 500 dele
gates were present. Papers on musical
subjects occupied the day
FIRE in Sloss Bros millinery es-
Establishment at Cleveland, o., on the night
of the 1st, destroyed $4,000 worth of
feathers, flowers, etc. Insured for So 900.
w. G. Bell, jeweler, lost $1,000, and Hull,
dealer in rubber goods, $1,000. Fully
insured.
THE case of Adolph B. S preckels charg-
ed with assault to murder NJ. II. De
Young, proprietor of the San Francisco
Chronicle, on trial for several weeks past,
was given to the jury on the LIST, and a
verdict of mot guilty" was returned.
A NEWS agency will be established at
London by the Conservatives to spread
their doctrines among the people.
DR.. Brown -SEQUARD has been awarded
the prize of 81, 900 by the French Institute
for discoveries in physiology.
TIE Ohio Prohibitionists have put a full
ticket in the field, headed by DR.. A. B.
Leonard.
The Gordon memorial fund now amounts
to E1s,03l
GENERAL WoLsELEY and staff have left
Cairo for England.
FIRE destroyed SIS, 900 worth of property
at Peshtigo, Wis, on the I'd.
The inaugural dinner of the Imperial
and American Club took place in London
on the I'd.
MADAGASCAR is threatened with famine
therice crop having failed.
The English Cabinet is considering the
t question of trade depression.
NO HnOr0 luIlOuBuS Will De dllOWeu III
India until the Afghan questio is settled.
THE League OF American Wheelmen
began its annual convention in Buffalo,
n. Y, on the I'd.
The aggregate miles of railroad built in
the United States this year up to July 1st,
,, is 1,S95.5.
MINISTER ROBERTS had an audience
with the President of Chilli on the ID.
GREAT damage to crops and other prop
erty is reported from Southeastern Kan
, sas, where violent storms have been rag
Q ing.
= A NEW steamship line will be estab-
lshed between Germany, East Africa and
Australia.
MRS. LEWIS STEELE, a newly married
lady, committed suicide at Utica, N. Y,
on the I'd.
A FUND is to be raised for the mainten-
ance of torpedo service for coast defense
in England.
!, MRS. DUDLEY has been committed tc
the asylum for the insane at Middletown
Ny.
Two men have been caught sketchine
the Notifications at Boulogne. They are
. thought to be German spies.
# THE people of Southern Colorado ar,
t greatly alarmed over the threatening at.
Q titude of the Indians.
: JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has presented
6SS volumes of rare books picked VI
abroad to Harvard University.
$ IT is now said that General Stevenson
u of Illinois, will succeed First Assistant
> Postmaster General Hay.
>. WoRKMEN of Wolverhampton, Eng.
complain to Premier Salisbury that they
are in a starving condition
THE Baltimore & Olio Telegraph Com
pany have taken steps to put their wire
under ground in Washington, D. {.
= CHAs. A LIBBY, who disappeared from
/. Chicago some time ago, and whose wifi
:. committed suicide afterward, has turned
# up at Boston. He had been on a protract
/. ed spree.
SERIOUS trouble was expected tn
ID. morninr of the al in Cbico on vvhan n,