The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

exhibited at Washington, lnd., on the 22d,
beat John Doane, an old and well -to-do
farmer Of Barr township, out Of $500 at
thimble-rig. Other parties lost smaller
sums at the same game.
FIRE destroyed the Champion ice-works
at Covington, KY, on the 23d.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's next move Is said to
be in the direction Of an attack on the Es-
tablished church.
SENATOR VEST gives up all hopes of be-
ing able to get the st. Louis bridge bill
through the Senate this session.
IT is reported at Chicago that Captain
B. B. Bullwinkle, protector of the police
patrol, was killed by Indians near Flag
staff, Ariz.
THE greetings between Bismarck and
Count Kalnoky on the latter's arrival at
Kissingen were very cordial.
IT is stated that the English Liberal
Unionists positively object to a coalition
with the Conservatives in the way of
new administration.
THE minister and forty others who ate
ice-cream at supper at the North Baptist
Church at Eastport, Me-, on the evening
of the 23d, were taken violently i'll with
| symptoms of poisoning.
COLONEL DEXTER RUSSELL WRIGHT,
one of the best-known lawyers of Connec-
ticut, died at his residence in New Haven
on the 23d.
| GUIssEPINA MoRLACCHI, the famous pre-
miere danseuse, died on the 23d at her
residence at East Billerica,, Mass, at the
age of forty-two years and nine months.
| She was the wife of the noted Texas Jack.
A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated to
establish cotton market at Bremen.
HOG cholera is raging to an alarming
extent in Botetourt and several other
counties in Virginia. Some cases have been
reported of farmers losing one hundred
head in a week.
THE dead body Of B. G.. Plummer, a
prominent and wealthy lumber man of
Wausau, Wis, was found in his room on
the 23d. He had blown the top of his head
off with a shots gun. Heavy losses by re-
cent lumber fires are thought to have been
the cause of the tragedy Deceased was
fifty years of age and unmarried.
A TRAIN conveying number of Colo
NAL Exposition visitors from London to
Portsmouth on the 23d, to witness the
grand naval review at that place, espe-
cially arranged for their entertainment,
was thrown from the track while en- route,
and a dozen prominent members of the
party were seriously injured.
HENRY HAM was killed in a general
fight at a German picnic near Glenwood,
Pa, on the 25th.
Two herders on Coffey's ranch, near An
drew station, Neb., were killed by light
ming on the 2jth.
GENERAL LOGAN has gone to San Fran
cisco to attend the National Encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
THE board of managers of the National
Home for disabled veterans held their
quarterly meeting in New York on the
oath.
A FAVORABLE report on the Fitz-Jo ohm
Porter nominate has been ordered by
the Senate Committee on military affairs.
STEPHEN BRoDIE, who jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge and escaped uninjured,
has been boun@ to court for attempting
suicide. Meanwhile he has an offer to APP
pear at dime museum.
THE National Sengerfest at Milwaukee
closed on the oath. 1t was an artistic sue
cess, but lacked about $4,000 of paying
expenses.
A HALIFAX IN. S. dispatch of the oath
says about forty privates of the Royal
Irish Rifles have deserted since July l.,
and only two of them have been captured.
BROADER GENERAL BEN BARNEY, a
Mexican veteran and ex-president of the
Society of the Army of the Potomac, died
suddenly at his home in San Francisco on
the oath.
REV. WILLIAM j. SHERMAN, a young
Catholic priest, is said to have been clan
destinely married to Miss Title Mccoy,
r of Brooklyn, N. Y, on June IA. The mat
= ter has just been made public.
ST. LOUIS has been selected by the North
: American Saengerbund for its meeting
next year.
e The "Social Democrats" seem to be
: coming to the front as an element in Eng.
a fish politi S.
q A YOUNG girl named Sarah Carr com.
mitted suicide at Keokuk, Ia, on the 25th
by jumping off of the bridge into tn,
Z river.
MADAGASCAR has been notified that its
scheme for raising a loan in London is &
= violation of treaties.
c. D. MCKENZIE, railway book keeper
t Of Ashland, KY, is short $4,000 in his &C
e counts and is missing.
THOMAS ballard, of Mcdonald, Pa.
Q died on the 25th of injuries inflicted by hi
wife, who poured coal oil on him and Sc
. it on fire.
q JULIUS FREDERICKs, one of the Greedy
: expedition survivors, Indignantly contra
K diets recently published stories of Mau
q rice Cornell rejecting on Greedy.
a HINTON R. HELPER, of "Three Amer
"a icas" railway fame, reported dead, show
up alive and exceedingly wide awake il
Buenos Ayres,
l. THE Porte has issued a circular urgin
n enforcement of the Turkish law which for
= bids the recognition of the naturaliEatio
g of Turks abroad.
y ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND init
1t mates, in connection with New York adj