The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-09-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
THE Washington Star is authority for
the statement that Secretary Manning is
to have the Austrian mission.
A MEMORIAL arch in honor of the SOL
1lers and sailors of the war was dedicated
ut Hartford, Conn, on the 18th.
The recent call by the Government for
voluntary surrender of $1O,OOO,OOO three
per cent. bonds has been indefinitely ex-
tended.
THREE officers belonging to the Spanish
army at Barcelona have been arrested and
imprisoned for leading band of soldiers
to join the Carlists.
Mr.. ARTHUR SEDGwIcK, United States
special agent to Mexico, arrived at New
York on the 18th and left for Washing ton
on the night of the 10Th.
SIR CHARLES dixie has returned to
London, and it is announced that he will
re-enter public life as the proprietor and
editor of London daily newspaper.
A TELEGRAM from London, published at
Paris on the 10Th, says England meditates
a grand coup d'etat, and will probably
proclaim Egypt British possession.
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from Gastein, on the 18th, furnished with
the rudiments of an entente cordiale be-
tween the three Emperors on the Bulga-
rian question.
A RUMoR was current in London on the
18th that plot had beeen discovered to
assassinate Prince Alexander, and that
two men have been found who were paid
to commit the crime.
A BRIDGE over the OstraWitz a riverin
the town of Ostraw, Moravia, collapsed
on the 18th while squadron of U hlans
were riding across and seven persons
were instantly killed.
THE Mexican Minister to France cele-
brated the anniversary of Mexican ind e.
pendence on the 18th, by a reception,
which was attended by United States
Minister McLane and other diplomates.
PIERRE LoRTLLARD has decided to sell
out the whole of his race stock at Ranco-
cas-, and stations, mares and youngsters
will all be disposed of in New York by
auction about the middle of next month.
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THE Russian agent at Sofia has officially
threatened to suspend relations with Bull
garia if the government yields to the
Sobranje's demand for the punishment of
the authors of the revolutionary conspir-
acy.
OFFICIAL election returns from 472 towns
in Maine are as follows: Bodwell (Rep.)
for Governor, 6S,115; Edwards (Dem.) 3d.
764; Clark (Prohib.), 1889; scattering,
1872. Bodwelps plurality, 1851; major
ity, 9,493
THE payment of the new n-dollar sill
yer certificates began simultaneously at
the.treasury and allthe subj treasury offices
on the 10Th, the notes having been shipped
to the different cities during the proceed
ing week.
AN anti-Jewish riot broke out at Kra.
iowa in Roumania on the 10th. A mol
plundered and destroyed a number o.
houses belonging to Jews. Several riot
ers were wounded and hundred arrests
were made.
The Russian sugar manufacturers have
succeeded in inducing the Government t.
continue the granting of bounties as hith
erto to Russian traders, and have there
fore abandoned their intentions of reduc
ing the output.
AN alleged mulatto, who denied that h
was colored, arrested in Washington, D
c., a short time ago for attempting t,
marry Virginia white girl, has been sen
fenced by Virginia court to six years il
the penitentiary for the ofense.
IN the sculling race for the champion
ship of the world between Beach, of Aus
tralia, and Jake Gaudaur, of st. Louis, Of
the Thames at London on the 18th, Beacl
was victorious by two and half lengths
Gaudaur made him pull for all there wa
in him.
EMMA NEVADA will not sing this seas on
Her managers lost heavily on her il
America last season, but her contract wa
so favorable to herself that she mad
quite handsome sum. She is just nov
engaged in taking care Of young bah,
in Paris.
THE st. Louis Exposition is enjoying
degree Of success unprecedented for tn
beginning of its season, and with tn
arrival of Gilmore's band on the Goth tn
attendance was expected to almost double
as every one was on the qlR UiUe to .wel
come them.
Two serious riots occurred in Liverpool
on the 10Th. One resulted from an en-
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