The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-02-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

HOG cholera is prevalent in Middlesex
County, Ont, and large number of hogs
have died. The farmers kept the fact
secret until the disease has spread over
large area. 1t is reported that large
number of hogs are dying in Oxford
County.
THE Assabet Manufacturing Company,
woollen goods manufacturers, at South
birmingham, Mass, who employ about
thousand hands, have given notice that
wages will be advanced ten per cent. on
March 1.
The two thousand men employed in the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad Com.
pany's shops at Reading, Pa, were mott
fed on the 10th that an increase in wages
in all departments would be made on
March /. The ratio of the proposed in
crease was not announced.
THE visible supply Of wheat in the
United States and Canada with the
amount Of wheat ahoat for Europe on the
10Th inst, was 71,125,17O bushels against
1929, S03 bushels one year ago, and of corn
1881 900 against 10,314,O0O bushels last
year.
THE wife and nephew of Peter Higgins,
whose remains were found in a manure
heap on his farm in Antrim County,
Mich, have confessed to having murdered
him.
KENwARD PHILIP, of Morey letter fame
died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, on
the DIST.
SENATOR J. M. Eel SON of Nebraska
died in chair on the steps of his house at
Humboldt, Neb., on the DIST.
Mr.. WATTETsoN continues to improve
gradually.
SENATOR VEST is getting better. He has
had the back of his head shaved and bis
ter ed and a seton inserted.
PARNELL has prepared ascheme to apply
the Irish church surplus to relieving dis
tress in Ireland.
A FIRE in the business portion of VIII
mington, N. c., on the Dist caused loss of
one and half million dollars.
DAVID WILSON shot and killed his wife
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 2lst and fatally
wounded himself with the same weapon.
NINE buildings were burned at st.
Petersburg, Pa, on the Goth. A skating
rink manager named Groves was burne
to death.
IT is said that the Duke de Montpensi er
is at the head Of plot to unite Spain and
Portugal and overthrow the present re-
gency in Spain.
THE late Governor Seymour died q poor
man. He made considerable income, but
| disposed of the most of it in charity.
SECRETARY WHITNEY's wife's brother,
| Colonel Oliver Payne, is said to have given
her 500, 900 to spend on her friends during
the Cleveland administration.
SENATOR FRYE has bill prepared pro-
viding for a congress of American nations
to be held in Washington next October.
THE filibustering steamer City of Mexico
captured by the United States frigate Ca
lena, arrived at Key West, Fla, on the
DIST, in charge of prize crew.
1T is becoming the fashion for govern.
ment pensioners, who do not need the
money, to transfer their pensions tc
wounded and disabled ex-rebels.
ROBBERS entered the house of Mrs
Gracy in Denver, Col, on the night of the
Doth, and robbed her of $500 she had. on bel
bureau. They then fired the house, anC
several inmates who were asleep narrowly
escaped cremation.
THE freight brakemen and yard switch
men of the Evansville & Terre Haute Bel
and Straight Line roads at Evansville
Ind, struck on the Goth for an increase of
wages, and after a ten hours blockade tn,
companies surrendered and conceded tn
mems demands.
Elk MAYOR WIN. SLUMAN MEssERvEY o
Salem, Mass, died on the night of the 1911
after long illness, of paralysis. He wa
for many years identified with the inter
ests of New Mexico, having served as Ter
ritorial Secretary and acting Governor il
the fifties.
THE Socialist leaders in London are at
ter Punch, which has been publishing car
toons and other matter rejecting the loya
public sentiment of the metropolis. The,
want the courts to intervene and punish
Punch.
THE President on the 20th granted
pardon to ex-postmaster Cooke of Union
vile, Conn, who was sentenced to eigh
teen months in Jail for misappropriatini
$4,000.
The Earl of Aberdeen, the new Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, made his stat
entry into Dublin on the Goth. No demon
stration of any account was made.
THE Loyalists of County Tyrone, Ire
land, held meeting on the goth and re
solved to oppose home rule and to main
tain the union.
WHILE four men and a boy were al
tempting to cross the Susquehanna rive
at Harrisburg, Pa, on the Goth, in boa
their craft capsized and the men wer
drowned. The boy chung to the bottom {
the boat and was rescued.
THE Duke of Connaught will shortly G
to India as chief in command of the Brit
ish forces at Madras.
HENRY JOHNSON, a bachelor hermit an
miser, died at East Parkinson, Pa, on ii
18th. He was so penurious that during IL
recent cold weather, for want of fire, h
feet were so badly frozen that the sol,
mortified and dropped off. He left va
liable estate.
THE total exports of specie from II