The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-02-20

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
FLORIDA editors announce positively that
the orange crop has not been ruined by the
cold.
NINE dynamiters were arrested at Mad
rid on the 14th and quantity of explosives
and ammunition was captured.
STEPHEN A. WALKER has been appoint
ed United States District Attorney for the
Southern district of New York to succeed
Mr. Dorsheimer.
GEORGE Q. CANNON, the Mormon apostle
and fugitive from justice, who has been in
hiding over a year, has been arrested at
Winnemuccs, New.
THE better classes of London have been
thoroughly aroused to the needs of the UNI
employed, and 100000 had been SUBJ
scribed up to the 18th.
NEWS has been received at Kingston
Ont, of the killing Of six of the mounted
police near Regina, N. w. T., and that a
rebellion is likely to occur in the spring.
NJ. DE LEssRPs expresses himself as sat-
asfied with the progress of work on the
Panama canal. A grand reception is to be
rendered him by the citizens of Panama.
IT is estimated that 40, 900 people thronged
Che streets in the vicinity of the Music
Hall, Cincinnati the night of the 14th, I'M
able to gain admittance to Sam Jones' lee
ture.
. In the French Chamber of Deputies on
The 18th, NJ. Basley, the workingman depu.
by, made a violent speech in defense of the
striking miners who trampled M. Watrain
to death.
A cABLEGRAM received at New York by
Archbishop Corrigan on the 10th announc-
ed that Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore
will be created cardinal at the coming
eonsistory.
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THE Marquis of Lorne has accepted the
position Of honorary commissioner for
Canada at the coming colonial exhibition
and also the presidency Of the Canadian
commission.
COLONEL HARBINGER has been exoner-
Ated by the French military court from all
blame in connection with the disaster to
the French troops at Lang Son during the
Tonquin war.
IT is announced at Cannes that Earl
Cairns, formerly Lord Garmoyle, and the
defendant in the Fortesque breach OF
promise case, is engaged to Miss Grant,
an American lady.
THERE were 275 failures in the United
States and Canada reported during the
seven days ended the 10Th, as compared
with 2S9 for the week before and 2S7 for the
week previous to the last
THE number Of hogs handled by Western
packers during the week ended the 9th wa,
26j,O0O, against $4,000 for the same period
EAST year. The total to date since Novem
Der is 5,795,OOO, against 8, 100000 last ye ar
S
THE United States Treasurer has pre-
pared statement showing that tn,
amount of silver dollars in circulation
July 81, last, was 39,2S4, 433; December
81, $52,541,5 81; February 10, 1886, SOL, 751,
%.
MICHAEL DAvITT, in a speech in Wales
on the 18th, said that unless home rule
was granted for Ireland, Parnell would
retaliate by presenting in Parliament thir
ty bills dealing solely with England, Wales
and Scotland.
THE matter Of the charges against Jud g
White, ex-member of Congress from the
Twenty fifth Pennsylvania district, came
up before Judge William of Tioga County
on the 18th, and Judge White was honor
ably acquitted.
A BILL passed the Kansas Legislator;
on the 9th providing for the consolidation
of Wyandotte, West Kansas and Armour
dale, three towns adjoining Kansas City
on the Kansas side of the line and having
an aggregate population of about TWEEN ty
hVe thousand.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has par
doned Joseph Bosk, ex-city treasurer o
Buffalo, who embezzled over 100000, Oh
the ground that his testimony in the cas-
against Lyon, entities him to clemency, h
having already served considerable por
tion of his term.
THE President gave a state dinner tn
night of the 18th in honor of the Suprem
Court of the United States and the mem
bers of the Senate and House judiciar,
committees. The executive mansion wa
handsomely Illuminated and artisticall,
arranged for the occasion.
AFTER quite long illness, General W
r. Rowley died on the 9th at the residenc
Of his daughter in Chicago. General Row
ley became widely known on account o
his position as secretary to General Gran
with the rank of Brigadier- General durin!
the last years of the war.
A MAN giving his name as John Coke
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