The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-03


States Senate, nor even return to his old
home.
A FAVORABLE report has been made on
the Cairo bridge by the House commerce
committee at Washington, but a low
bridge is forbidden.
A GROUP of Partisan fnanciers have adj
vanced 25,OOO,OO0 francs to the Panama
Canal Company as security for the hy-
pothecation of the recent call.
1t is reported in Berlin that in defer
ence to the wishes Of the Gear of Russia
the name of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria
has been stricken from the German army
list.
NUMEROUS persons were summarily
convicted at Sligo, Ireland, on the 23d, of
participating in the recent riots there.
Others were committed for trial at the AS
sizes.
IT is stated that President Cleveland, in
his recent trip to sea, sets a0ew prece-
dent, no President having ever left United
States territory before during his term of
Office.
THE President has approved the bill re-
imbursing Edwin Stevens, United States
Consul at Ningpo, China, for extraordi-
nary expenses incurred during the Fran
CO. Chinese war.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES on the
25th received from the University of Edin-
burgh the degree Of LII. D. The title
was conferred in the presence of a most
distinguished company.
DESPITE the papal precepts the MOntteur
and other organs of the Vatican vigor-
ously support Mr.. Gladstone's scheme for
granting autonomy to Ireland, and eulo-
gize the British Premier.
THE Radical press of France demands
as a reply to the recent manifesto of the
Comte de Paris the immediate expulsion
of all the Orleanist princes and the seques-
tration of their property.
IT is reasonable to suppose that the end
of this session of Congress is slowly but
surely approaching, but Senator Evarts'
promised grafton on the Silver question
has not yet been delivered
ALBERT H. SCOTT, chief of the accounts
and salaries division of the Post Office
Department, has completed the third an
nual adjustment of the salaries of the
presidential postmasters, to take effect on
the LIST prox.
Of
N. Y, on the 23d, gave birth to a baby boy
which had whiskers half an inch long on
each side of its face 1t died three hours
after being born. Its death was due to
natural causes.
THE collections of internal revenue dur
ing the first eleven months of the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1886, amount to S107,-
104 ,4S5, being an increase of So, 402, 1888 over
the receipts for the corresponding period
of the previous year.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS continues to at.
tract more attention than all the Other
officials combined. He is the best abused
man in the country and is convincing the
people that the land rings are even bigge
than any one had supposed.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER and wife
arrived in Liverpool by the steamship
Etruria on the Goth. He will deliver fifty
1--WE lectures during his stay abroad, anC
will be compelled to decline hundreds o
invitations to extend his programme.
AN American citizen has obtained
noupacSinn IN arapt thaatar in ponop1,
and engages to complete it within on
year. 1t is to accommodate seven hun
bred persons. The government exempt
the theater from all taxation for the peri
cd of six years.
THE President seems inclined to take hi
own time in dealing with the bills sent t
him by Congress, and has intimated tina
he will not go to the Capitol and approx
bills as fast as they are passed by Con
gress, without scrutiny, simply to expe
dite the matter of adjournment.
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EIGHT companies of the Ninth Infantr,
have been for several years stationed a
Fort Russell, Wy. T. They are nov
ordered to Arizona, where General Mile
Indians. Fort Russell will be garrisonet
by the Seventeenth infantry, from Dakots
CAPTAIN Doughty of the Portland fish
ing schooner Ella NJ. Doughty, which wa
seized at Englishtown, Cape Breton, las
month, arrived in Halifax on the 22d froI
the United States. He was on his wa
back to Cape Breton to again take charg
of his vessel, bonds having been given b
her owners.
IT is said that Colonel Lamont intend
shortly to erect a residence near the Pres
ident's country seat. Colonel Lamont
when asked about the matter, said: "Tha
is rather premature. When l decide
build out there I'll let you know" That
just like him.