The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-08-08

MILAN. TENNESSEE
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
THE Peruvian Minister of Justice says
M asonic temple will be perm tied to be
erected at Lima.
COLONEL FRED GRANT has issued a spe-
cIal invitation to members Of his fathers
Cabinet to attend the funeral.
THERE is an Indian scare in Utah and
Wyoming. Repor say the Nor mons are
melting the Indians to bloodshed.
LONDON society is startled by the an
nouncement that Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge is about to marry an American
lady.
THE Provost of Glasgow, Scotland,
saws that a system of corruption of minor
females, similar to that in London, exists
in Glasgow.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has summoned
board of officers to consider the system OF
administration of the business of the nav
al department.
ABOUT 500 boys of tender age were dis
charged from the collieries at Shamokln,
Pa. on the 1st under the law forbldding
their employment
IT Is reported that the house in which
General Grant was born has been sold Tor
ST. 900, and that it will be removed to one
of the New York parks.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent sub
scription of $3.50 to the fund for rebuild
ing Music Hall at Buffalo, N. Y, which
was destroyed by fire in March last.
RIGHT REV. RICHARD PHELAN was con-
secrated coadjutor bishop of the Cath Ollie
diocese of philadelphia, and tutelar
bishop of Phrygia, on the I'd.
o
THE bark Hancock, from Cienfugos,
July 18th, is detained at quarantine at
Philadelphia on account of yellow fever,
but no trouble is anticipated from infec-
tion.
THE Orangemen and English subjects at
Ottawa. Canada, consider RiePs convic-
tion and sentence righteous, while the
French Canadians are indignant and ex-
cited.
THE English holders Of Wabash securi-
ties are convinced that the American
shareholders will not offer any solution OF
the difficulties that will be acceptable 10
the English shareholders.
TIE onlv coinage executed at the Unit
ed States mint in Philadelphia during
July, the first m onth Of the administra-
ton of the new Superintendent, Daniel
M. Fox, 100000 silver dollars.
IT is reported that the alleged looting
11v the volunteers in the Northwest Will
be brought to the notice of the British
Government unless the Dominion author
tiles take some steps in the matter.
THE Svet, the Russian military organ,
saws that the Afghan force on the Russo
Afghan frontier is 10000 men, and that
the Russian force consists of thirty COM
panies stationed between Penjdeh and
Zulfcar
THERE were 1874 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
31st, as compared with 215 the preceding
week. and with 100, 1856 and 1O5 respect
lively in the corresponding weeks of 1881,
1883 and 1882.
A DIARY containing an admission oil
murder and incendiarism in the United
States, found among the effects OF man
arrested in London on a criminal charge,
is ON unpleasant addition to his already
bad predicament.
THE rate of postage on letters sent from
the United States to Australia and New
Zealand via England, Brindisi and the
Suez Canal, has been reduced from fifteen
to twelve cents, making it uniform with
the rate via San Francisco.
GENERAL HAzEN has brought charges
againt Sergeant Michael McGarren, OF the
Signal Corps at Pensacola, Fla, and
asked that he be tried by court-martial
for refusing to receive Private Green (col-
ored), who was semitic assist him.
SECRETARY BAYARD has received dis
patch from the United States Consul al
Marseilles, saying that the recent report
of an outbreak Of cholera in France is I'M
founded. In one small village there has
been a few cases of cholerine, which is
not epidemic
COLONEL T. f. BARR, Judge Advocate
and military secretary of the Secretary OF
War, has asked to be relieved. He has
held his present position for the past five
years. 1t is understood that the vacancy
to be made by Colonel Barr's departure
will not be filed.
CHOLERA has broken out on the Fren ch
frontier. One-fourth of the people Of
Monterguado, in Soria, died of cholera
during the ten days ended the Goth. The
survivors fed, with the exception of one
gendarme, who remained to bury the