The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-05-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

a bounty on exports.
DR.. Do LEWIS, author and reformer,
died at his home at Yonkers, N. Y, on
the 2lst, after an illness of two or three
days from erysipelas.
THE President has approved the bill pro-
viding for the study Of the nature of al
coholic drinks and narcotics, and their eff
fects, in the public schools of the District |
of Columbia, the Territories, etc.
THE worst gale for years passed over |
portions of Maine on the 2lst, from north |
west to southeast, accompanied by ter |
rife hailstorm of brief duration. There |
are reports of damage from all directions.
THE Greek commander has been ordered
! by the government to avoid provoking
hostilities, but to assume the offensive if
the Turks are the aggressors.
GLADSTONE has decided to convene a
m Getting of the Liberal party before the
Home Rule debate is concluded to con-
slider the differences that have arisen.
NJ TRIcoUPIs has formed new Greek
ministry. In an interview he declared the
policy of the new government would be
one of peace
IT is considered certain that the French
Government will prohibit the Comte de
Paris, who is now at Lisbon to attend the
wedding of his daughter to the Crown
Prince of Portugal, from re-entering
France.
The total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the week ended
the 21st were valued at 81 1888, 173, and the
amount thrown on the market at 81 1885,
$40.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PENDLEToN,
and his daughter Mary with ess ed the
parade of the Imperial Guard at Berli n
on the Dist, and on returning to the Ameri-
can legation they were handed telegram
announcing the death of Mrs. Pendleton.
Both were terribly shocked.
i JOSEPH DENTER, a carpenter aged forty,
tired of life, threw himself in the river at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 2lst, but was
fshed out by observers. Family troubles
were the cause of his act
HERMANN MATTHIAS, a partner in the
, firm of. W. Allen g. Co., wholesale and
retail druggists, Atchison, Kas., was
thrown from a horse on the 21st and sus-
tanned injuries which resulted in his death.
|, He was twenty -four years of age and un-
married.
HEAVY freshets are reported throughout
Upper Carolina. The Pedee river on the
Dist was thirty six feet above low water,
, and was still rising. The crops on the
river are total loss. The damage is be-
yond estimate. Considerable injury has
been done to railroads and crops in the
I northern and western parts of the isle.
t WHILE at work in the prison garden at
a Joliet, Ill, ON the DIST, the notorious burg
2 lar and convict "Capper" Shaw made his
escape and reached the woods before an
alarm could be given.
u THE bill amending the act respecting
fishing by foreign vessels in Canadian
) waters was read third time in the Do.
a minion parliament ON the DIST and passed
and will probably become law within q
U few days.
o THE official report of the Canadian
: Minister of Militia was presented to Par.
6 lament on the DIST. 1t shows that the
total cost of the half-breed rebellion was
"a, 100000, and the casualties twenty six
0 men killed and 206 wounded.
i PETER LOUIS OTTo was hanged at Buf.
@ falo, N. Y, for wife murder on the DIST
= James Reynolds, murderer of the Pink
stons, was hanged at Sidney, Neb.; Loui,
n Kilgrave, for the murder of Matte Hen
s derson, paid the extreme penalty at Ra
. leigh, N. c., and Lee Barnes, the murderer
4 of the wheel of fortune man at Plummer
N vile, Ark, last fall, was executed at Do
yer, Ark.
The strike of the journeyman plumber
3 of Buffalo, N, Y, has been declared off
It and the men have returned to work at tn
r old rates.
= JOHN RUNKLER is under arrest at Oma
it ha, Neb., for counterfeiting silver coin.
THE office of the Toronto (Ont) Mai
was damaged by fire on the night of tn
" 22d to the extent Of $4,000; fully insured
20 MISS PENDLEToN has about recovered
n from the effects of her fall at the time he
u mother came to her death in Central Park
ID New York.
j OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is bein
royalty entertained in London.
IT is stated that all the German officer
: travelling in France have been arrested.
- QUEEN VICTORIA attained her sixty
seventh birthday on the oath.
- THE celebrated German historian Leo
- pold Won Ranke is dead.
STUDLEY MILLER was drowned Will
bathing in the river at Hamburg, Ia, o
1g the 23d.
tv MRS. MARY BURGESS, of New Yorl
ed charges her husband and her sister wit
If. attempting to poison her. Burgess ha
nm | been held to answer
fic LOUIS BRAUN, New FORK cigar IN akei
cut his throat because he had no work au
his family were starving, He was
ru veteran soldier, and was one of the Al
OF dersonvilo prisoners. He leaves a wi
ST. and four children.
rs THERE are indications now that The r,
es' volt against Gladstone's Home-Ru
M measure has been considerably everest
IN mated.
VIM. ALEXANDER, asserting mail clel
80 in the Louisville (Ky.) post-ofiice, was q
- re ,ted on the 22d, charged with robhiT