The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-05-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GROSS frauds are said to have been dis |
covered in the Thirty fourth Representa-
tive District in Illinois, which will be
looked into before Mr.. Shaw's successor is
seated.
Princess BEATRICE Is to be married
soon to Prince H enry of Battenberg. The
British House of Commons has been in
formed that she expects the usual mar
riage dowry.
AN unknown person attempted to assas-
sinate Deputy United States Marshal At
kinson at Charleston, W. Va, on the 9Th.
The shot was fired through window of
his office.
A. p. SwINEFoRD, Of Marquette, Mich,
editor and proprietor of the Mining Jour
nal, has been appointed by the President
Governor of Alaska.
The publis hers of General Gordon's de
aries have refused $4,000 for the copy
right.
E. B. EWING, of Missouri, is to be Con-
ul-General to Mexico.
A. III. KUHN has been appointed Sur
veyor Of Customs for the port of Indian
apolis.
The President has appointed John H.
Oberly, Of Illinois, as Superintendent of
Indian schools.
COLONEL BURRILL, Chief Of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, has enasked
to resign. E. A. Graves, Assistant Treas
urer, will take the place.
THE resignation of Earl Spencer as Lord
Lieutenant OF Ireland is expected, owing
to differences of opinion on the Irish
crimes act.
PROFESSOR ]. w. SANBoRN, of the Mis-
souri, Agricultural College, is laboring
with Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, with q
fair prospect of having the quarantine
raised.
GENERAL GRANT increases the length of
his walk each day.
REPRESENTATIVE Cox has not yet made
up his mind to accept the Turkish mission.
His friends and constituents arc urging
him to retain his seat in Congress.
DR.. FoRDYcE BARKER, one of Grants
physicians, has gone to Europe. In TAX
ing leave of his distinguished patient, he
''hoped to see him alive when he returned
in the fall"
CONGRESSMAN BAYNE, of Pennsylvania,
says of the administration: ats conserva-
tive tendencies and influences have driven
away feeling of uncertainty and re-
stored confidence"
JAMES BLACKBURN, brother of Senator
Blackburn, of Kentucky, was selected for
revenue collector for the Lexington dis
trict; but the President has learned that
he is unfit for the position and will not
sign his commission.
DE GIERs, Russian Foreign Minister, is
to be succeeded by Prince Lobanoff Ras-
towski, who IS chiefly notable for his dis
like of the English.
GENERAL GRANT took an extended drive
on the 18th, returning home greatly re-
freshed.
OsMAN DIGNA is reported to be at Berber
with only handful Of followers.
HENRY B. JAMES, chief of the customs
division of the Treasury, has resigned by
request.
A REPORT comes that Henry NJ. Stanley
has been appointed Governor of the Congo
State
TIE King and Queen of Italy were en- =
Enthusiastically received by the people of
Naples on the 18th.
IT is the opinion of General Crook that
the half-breed revolt in the Northwest is
liable to spread into general Indian in
surrection.
Elk GOVERNOR GILBERT 9. WALKER OF
Virginia died at his residence in New
York on the 18th.
In runaway at Los Angeles, Cal, on
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considerably shaken up, but not seriously
hurt.
A SON of the late Prince Karageorgoret2
claims the throne of Servia, and is seeking
Russian assistance.
On the 18th, after separation of TWEEN
ty-one years, Fay Hill, a cowboy of the
far West, found his father, who is a po'
hceman in Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE French General Negrier has recov.
cred from his wounds sufficiently to b,
able to take command of the forces in Ton.
quin.
HAROLD B., youngest son OF Lester
Wallack, was married quietly last Novem
Der to Philadelphia heiress. Tho fac
has Just leaked out.
Ex-MAYoR NATHAN P. PAYNE Of Cleve
land, o., son of Senator Payne and broth
er-in-law of Secretary Whitney, died a
his home in Cleveland on the 18th, of hear
disease, aged forty -eight.
OK the 18th the President signed tn
commission of Chas. NJ. Shelley, to b
Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. H,
qualified and assumed his duties on tn
18th.
On the 18th Lieutenant Arnold, Of tn
Washington city police, called at the In
terror Department with warrant for tn,
arrest of Commissioner Sparks, charginy
assault AMI battery on Colonel De'Abna
on the 9th inst.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE murderers Of the King family, nea,
Hickman, KY, have at last been found.
negro with several names has been ar
rested, and made a confession.
PATprcE HARTSET the Cincinnati wifi