The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-12-25

IT was considered probable on a review of
the field on the 10th, that the prop osition
to take up the Morrison Tariff bill in the
House for consideration would be defeated
by from three to five votes.
THE Secretary of the Navy and the Pres
ident himself, it is also understood, have
given emphatic indication of their desire
to have the House pass as speedily as pos
sible the bill consolidating the bureaus of
the Navy Department
FRIENDS of the late General W. s. Han
cock have, as token of regard to his men,
DRY, raised sum of money with which
they have purchased a home for his widow.
The committee having the matter in charge,
after consultation with Mrs. Hancock,
have finally decided upon the purchase Of
a home in Washington, which will here
after be her home
On the 10th Hon. Marshall P. Wilder
| died at his residence at Roxbury, Mass.
He had just passed his eighty-eighth birth
day. Mr. Wilder had for many years been
one of the most prominent pomologists
and horticulturists of the country He
was president of the American Pomologic-
al Society and was making active prepara-
| tions for a meeting of that society in Bos.
ton, in 1887, at the time of his death
JUDGE THURMAN's friends say he is out
Of politics forever
JAMES d. WARREN, proprietor of the
Buffalo IN. " Commercial died on the
18th.
JOHN G. WHITTIER's scventy-ninth birth
day occurred on the 18th, and it was APP
propriately celebrated.
MAJOR NATHAIEL f. HURD died at the
home of his grandson, H. G. H. Tarr, Esq,
in Mount Clair, n. j., a few days ago, as
the result of injuries sustained by a fall
nearly year previously Major Hurd
was native of Ohio, and had reached the
ripe age of ninety-seven years. He en-
joyed the distinction of having shaken ly
the hand every President from Franklin
Pierce, for whom he cast his first VOTE to
the present incumbent.
On the 18th Judge Cooley notified Judge
Gresham of his acceptance of the Wabash
receivership.
On the 18th Cardinal Gibbons and Arch
bishops Corrigan and Ryan had confer
ence at Philadelphia, supposedly on the
labor question.
OK the night of the 18th Jake Schaefer
beat Slosson in the billiard match in Chi
cago by score of 800 points to 43O.
HENRY W. GRADY, editor of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Constitution, in an interview at New
York, on the 18th, said that "everything
south of Mason and DiXon's line is for
Grover Cleveland"
GOVERNOR r. A. ALGER of Michigan will
give each of 497 Detroit newsboys a suit OF
clothes for Christmas present The
boys have been measured, and the suits
are to be delivered at their homes Christ
mas evening
THE new War Department order adding
Southern California to General Miles de-
partment, is taken on all sides as evidence
that the policy and course Of General
Miles have been satisfactory to the Presi
dent and his advisors.
MRS. LANDGRAF the boycotted New
York baker, has opened dispensary on 8
I small scale at her house, for the sale Of
J German pills. The boycott ruined hei
bakery business and she since has founC
difficulty in making a living.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FINLEY HoKE, the Peoria Qll) bank de
faulter, will his attorney thinks, not bC
extradited by the Canadian authorities.
. EX-CITY Assessor AND COLLECTOR BoYN
of Dallas, Tex, is said to be short Sl7, 00
in his accounts with the city
. AUGUST DEBDKE beat his wife with 8
hammer, at Cleveland, o.. on the 14th
until he thought she was dead, and thel
, committed suicide by cutting his throat.
: THE steamer j. NJ. White was burned OF
. the Mississippi river at Pointe Coupee, La.
at late hour on the night of the 18th
I'D lot, 70 nf ho
sengers and crew were burned to death O
5 drowned
: CHARLES HoFFERBRTH's saw-mill at
= Evansville, Ind, was wrecked by boiler
: explosion, on the l4th, and Frank Poplil
was killed, several others being wounded
THE principals in the celebrated Robin
q son poisoning case, Sarah Robinson, Dl
@ c. c. Beers and Thomas r. Smith, were al
. raigned at Cambridge, Mass, on the 14th
: The indictments were two in number-on
= for the alleged murder of VIM j. Robin
: son, and the other for the alleged murde
of Lizzie Robinson.
SCHWARTZ, the brakeman who is sus
pected of knowing something about tn
great Rock Island train robbery, was he'll
, to the Chicago Criminal Court on the lat
, in bond of $1,000 on a charge of bigamy
He asserts that the railroad company
pushing the charge of bigamy against hiI
. in order to keep him in custody.
OK the 18th the seed store and agricu
tural warehouse of j. w, Mccullough I
= Co., at Cincinnati, was damaged to the el
80 tent of $4,000 by fire.
r OK the 18th Rev. A. S. Orcutt, a Baptis
!, minister, lost his life in hotel fire &
Pipe Stone, MINI.
. IN York County, s. c., an organize
u band of colored thieves and murderers ha
been discovered and twenty-six arrest
have been made.
- OK the 18th the walls of a building
: process of demolition on the site of III
proposednew Congressional Library builC
A ing in Washington fell, precipitating SCI
y eral workmen to the basement, all {
- whom were more or less seriously injuro
by the falling debris.
y COUNSEL representing eX-Alderman NJ
= Quado, &C New York, the convicted brib,
! takpr will move for n new trial No MOI