The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-18


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FRENCH achievements are being sent
to Madagascar on account of the unsatis-
factory condition of affairs there.
THE North German Gazette says there is
no prospect for the re-enthronement of
Alexander, even if the Sobranje re-elects
him.
PRINCE HENRY of Battenburg, son-in-
law of Queen Victoria, left for Darmstadt
on the 10th to escort Prince Alexander to
Balmoral.
THE anniversary of the defense of the
Castle of Chapultepec, during the Ameri-
can war, was celebrated at the City of
Mexico on the Sth.
A GRAND TIE Deum was sung in all the
churches in Malta on the 18th in gratitude
for the preservation of the island from
the recent earthquake.
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The French are not invited to the in
auguration of Bartholdi's Statue of Lib
erty because the President has no authori-
ty to properly entertain them.
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( PASSES issued to Chinese hereafter who
are merely passing through the country
are to he numbered, so that their holders
may the more readily be kept track of.
J SHIPMENTS Of silver and lead ore from
Mexican mines to Kansas City, Mo-, be-
gan on the 9th, and are to continue at the
rate of two hundred carloads per month
SECRETARY BAYARD shows that he has
sot neglected the Ward and Gaskell cases
(Americans charged with murder in Low
er California;, but is watching them
closely.
+ LONDON shopkeepers say that they have
never done as large business with Amer
leans as during the present season. The
American customs officials have discover
I'D the fact.
! SEVERAL cases of cholera have occurred
in Naples and Genoa. The total number
of cases in Italy since the outbreak of the
disease up to the 10Th was $4,000, and the
total number of deaths $4,000
THE NoUOe Vermya points out that En-
gland alone of all the signers of the Berlin
treaty opposes Russia's Bulgarian policy,
and says PRUSSIA will not be brought to a
stand-still by England's Veto"
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A MEMORIAL has been sent to the En-
glish Government by the conference of
Catholic bishops at Maynooth, Ireland,
urging the adoption of temporary meas
ures to relieve the Irish tenantry.
THE business failures occurring during
the seven days ended the 10th throughout
the country for the United States numb err
149, and for Canada 90, or a total Oils as
compared with total of 100 for the pre-
ceding like period,
A CYCLONE passed from southwest to
northeast through the edge of Burnsides,
Conn, on the evening of the 18th. Its
course, fortunately, was mostly through
woods, where it cut a straight path an
eighth of q mile wide.
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SURPRISE is expressed at st. PETERSBURG
at the statement in Prince Alexander's
proclamation that the Car had promised
to respect the independence and liberty of
DulSuIld' puCu u pl OlhlSo1 ~ 10 uOClolo VI
was not made by the Gear.
THE election in Arkansas resulted in the
success of P. H. Hughes for Governor ant
his associates on the Democratic STATE
ticket by an apparent majority of twenty
thousand. The Agricultural Wheel elect
ed several legislative candidates.
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quake sufferers was added to on the 9tl
by heavy downpour of rain, lasting sew
eral hours. With the exception of thos
housed in army tents the people were lit
orally drenched, and were il a pitiabl
condition indeed.
IT is rumored that the Porte has refused
TO receive Sir William White as the lOcun
teneRS of Sir Edward Thornton, British
Ambassador to Turkey. This action Of
the part of the Porte is attributed to Rus
sian influence, Sir William White beinj
decidedly anti-Russian.
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THE American Horticultural Society il
session at Cleveland, o., elected officers
on the 9th as follows: President, P arke
Earle, Golden, ILL.,; vice-president, E. NJ
Hudson, New Orleans, La; secretary, W
II. Raglan, Greencastle, Ind; treasurer
J. c. Evans, Harlem, Mo.
GENERAL DRUM, acting Secretary o
War, has given instructions that Geroni
mo, Natchez and the other hostiles VIII
surrendered with them, be stopped at Sa
Antonio and kept in prison there until
determination is reached as to what cours
of procedure can be undertaken agains
them.
GENERAL BLACK, Commissioner of Pen
sions, has accepted an invitation to b
present at the meeting of the Society o
the Army Of the Tennessee, to be held q
Rock Island, H., on the 18th instant ant
to respond to the toast, sour Country an'
Flag" at the banquet which closes tn,
meeting.