The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-10-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
Two convicts were whipped at Newcas
tie, Del, on the Goth in the presence of 200
spectators.
A GERMAN officer named Stricken has
been appointed chief of staff of the Turk
tsh army corps at Adrianople.
HoP-PIcKERs on the estate of the Duke
of Edinburgh, County of Kent, England,
struck on the 25th and carried their point
THE Farmers ReUieU of Chicago esti-
mates the present corn crop at 1,436,g3G,-
900 bushels, an increase of 1874 $40, 900 bush
els.
JUDGE FORAKER, Republican candidate
for Governor Of Ohio, issues another chal-
leuge to Governor Hoadly, and valves oil
objections to DR.. Leonard.
THE New England Veterans, 2O) in
number. en- route from Winchester, w.
Va, called upon President Cleveland at
the White House on the odd
THE British Wings and Tories are dis
turbed over the American plan for rails
ing q fund to pay the salaries Of Home
Rule members Of Parliament
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IL In bn Arn1
abduction case at London including
Editor Stead OF the Pull Nall Gazette,
have been committed for trial
IT is stated emphatically at st. Peters"
burg that Russia will sustain Bulgaria in
the union with Roumelia, even to the eX-
tent of going to war with Turkey.
THE Governor and Supreme Court of
Ohio have both refused to interfere with
the sentence of Patrick Hartnett, to be
hanged on the 30th for wife murder.
ADvlcEs received at Evanston, Wy, on
the Goth, and believed to be official, stated
that there would be no strike ordered on
the Union Pacific by the Knights of La
bor
RDR. JOHN CHAPMAN, of Paris, claims to
have made a remarkable discovery con-
corning the cause and cure Of cholera. he
advances some theories that will startle
the medical world.
COLA STONE, the famous st. Louis BIZ
cyciist, died little before midnight on
che Goth. He was sick only few hours.
The doctors pronounced his trouble con-
gestion of the stomach.
Mr.. GLADSTONE declines to name a
date for the delivery of his address to his
Midlothian constituents, and his refusal
is attributed by some persons to his phys
cal inability to speak in public.
TROUBLE appears to be brewing in Ind ia
over the Franco Burmese treaty, and the
various chambers of commerce are pro-
testing against it, alleging thai it Sc
riously affects British interests.
IT is und erstood that the President has
decided not to make a change in the Office
of Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pital service, and accordingly will not ac-
cept DIR. Hamilton's resignation.
S. s. MANN, chemist for the Standard
Oil Company, was found dead in his bed
at Cleveland, O., on the morning of the
22d. His family lives at Jersey City.
Death was caused by heart disease.
THE United States vessels Swatara and
Yantic, engaged in transporting silver
from the New Orleans Mint to the Treas
ury in Washington, arrived at the Wash
ington Navy Yard the night of the 18th.
SIMULTANEOUS with the publication of
an order at Panama announcing peace
throughout the republic, riot occurred
between rebels and the police, in which
one policeman was killed and several reb'
els were wounded.
CAPTAIN LEE, the agent of the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indian Reservation
has telegraphed Commissioner Atkins
that only %, 900 head of cattle remain oil
the reservation, and that these will b.
removed by the end of the month.
THE Captain of the Dauntless does not
take his defeat with as much equanimity
as the commander of the Genesta, but ex.
cuses his defeat and boasts that he car
beat anything ahoat, the Genesta pre-
ferred, on trip across the Atlantic fol
ducats.
A ST. JOHN, N F., dispatch of the 25tt
says: An unusual portent appeared il
the sky in the northwest region last
night. huge red meteoric body ros
over Conception Bay and within sever
minutes traversed an area of between
thirty and forty degrees.
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LIEUTENANT GEo. M. STOREY, com
manding the expedition to Alaska, re
ports to the Secretary of the Navy, unde
date of July 18th, his arrival at Hothan
Inlet on July 18th. He was to start o.
the day of writing with the larger part O
his stores for the head waters of Putnam
River.
A CRANK signing himself "Henry n
Kerp, President elect of the U. S. Phil
Dr., NJ. D., Professor Of Military Juris
prudenca. National Military Home, Vir