The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-11

a plan for celebrating the centennial of the |
signing of the Federal Constitution.
According to our Monterey Mexico) |
correspondent, bloody civil war is among |
the probabilities for our sister republic.
THE San Francisco mining boom con-
tinues undated, the excitement permeat-
ing all classes. Several failures are re-
ported.
JUDGMENT was rendered at Boston on
the Sd against Ben Butler in favor of the
Soldiers Home for over $4,000 He will
appeal
/ A SENSATION has been created in Peru by
the publication of pamphlet referring to
occurrences within the walls of the MERGED
monastery.
WIN. KNAPP, Of Groveton, Ind, applied
TO the Government for back pay as a SOL
der, and is now locked up as deserter
during the war.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of
Shreveport, La, to begin business with a
capital Of 100000.
A DELEGATION of tobacco men are in
Washington urging the arriving Congress
men to modify the tariff provisions in ref
erence to leaf tobacco.
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GENERAL MILES has left Washington for
Omaha, having received, it is said, hint
that his prospects would be injured by
remaining at the capital.
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MICHAEL j. Hess, labOrer, jumped off
the Brooklyn bridge on the 4th and won a
wager of twenty-five dollars. He escaped
without apparent injury.
IT is rumored at Belgrade that the Bull
garian regency will make overtures to
King Milan to induce him to become can
didate for the Bulgarian throne.
REPORTS from Albany, N Y, are to the
effect that thirteen grain-laden boats en-
route for tidewater are frozen in the canal
between that point and Little Falls.
A PRIVATE government circular has
been issued to the police throughout Ire
land forbidding them to assist in any man.
ner in the enforcement Of evictions.
TURKEY has sent a note to the Powers
asking advice on the solution of the Bull
garian difficulty. The note betrays an en-
tente between the Porte and Russia.
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! THE will of the late President Arthur
was filed for probate in New York on the
9TH. With the exception of few minor
requests, his estate is left to his two child
rem.
HENRY GROVES, Congressman-elect from
Perry County, Ind, was thrown from his
carriage on the 4th, and was so severely
injured that his recovery is very much in
doubt.
THE American Opera Company, Theo-
dore Thomas, president ceased to exist on
the 9th. It's successor is the National OPP
era Company, Theodore Thomas, first vice
president.
THE customs officers at San Francisco on
the I'd seized $4,000 worth of opium on the
steamer Rio Janeiro, recently arrived
from China. The drug was found in the
coal bunkers.
BEN BUTLER has been sued for $4,000 Of
money which was in his hands as treasur-
er Of the National Home for Disabled Sol
diers, and which, it is alleged, he has
never accounted for.
THE Secretary of War, by direction of
the President has ordered Lieutenant A,
w. Greedy to take charge of the Signal
Office during the temporary absence of
General Hazen, the chief signal officer.
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THE total receipts from internal revenue
during the first four months of the present
fiscal year were S29,465,441, a decrease
of 81, 16S, 243, as compared with the receipts
during the corresponding period of last
year.
THE official canvass of Michigan shows
that $50, $50 votes were cast for Governor at
the late election, of which Luce (Rep) re-
ceived 1Sl,474; Yaple (Fusion), 114042;
Dickie (Pro), 5,119; scattering, 100. Luce's
plurality, 1882.
ACCORDING to the report of Treasurer
Jordan, the receipts of the United States
Treasury for the year were 2,149,G,
great ter and the expenditures Sl1, 143,7 9
less than last year-increase in net re
ceipts, $50, 1872, S25.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic at Wilkinson
burg, an eastern suburb of Pittsburgh
Pa. Over two hundred cases have beer
reported, many Of them quite serious. The
cause Of the trouble seems to be a defect
i've system of drainage.
IL the will of James Gordon, wealthy
retired Cincinnati merchant who died re
Gently, which was probated on the Cd
there is a bequest of 5000 to the Home OF
the Friendless, and a like sum to the col
ured Orphan asylum at Cincinnati.
ARNoLD's Touring mill, at ST. Cloud
Mimi, was wrecked and burned by an ex
plosion on the night of the I'd. Loss, $50,
600; insurance, $4,000. Gus Krause, the
night miller, was badly burned, and viii
probably die. Twenty thousand bushels
OF wheat were burned