The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-03-20

moderate IN tone.
THE imports of general merchandise at
the port of New York for the week ended
the 18th were valued at $5,9S4, 1893, and of
dry goods at $2,912,464.
A MOTION made in the British House of
Commons on the 18th by Mr.. Labouchere,
reducing the grants for maintaining the
royal parks, was carried after lively con-
troversv.
: THE International billiard match between
Schaefer and Vignaux closed in New York
on the night of the 18th with Schaefer
the winner in the six nights by a score of
1900 to 1856.
UNDERSTANDABLE distress has been devel-
oped among the inhabitants of the Arran
Islands, Off Galway, many of whom are
living on moss and sea grass and are with
out clothing or shelter.
AS required by law Secretary Lamar has
submitted to Congress list of about four
thousand and five hundred Indian depre-
dation claims. The total number of claims
call for an amount approximating $15,000,-
900.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL WAL
LER at London declares that the repo
that the United States consuls in his juris-
diction talk of resigning if their salaries
are reduced is mischievous and wholly
without foundation.
MASTER WORKMAN POwDERLY repudi-
ates the statement of an Illinois Knight of
Labor that the knights have formed a
political party. He says that an assem-
bly, attempting to give itsefpolitical char
acter would have its charter revoked.
THE Postmaster General has issued an
order prohibiting the delivery of registered
mail or the payment of money -orders to
Marcus E. Frazier, operating at Des
Moines, Ia, as the Secretary of the Globe
Mutual Life and Assessment Association.
INJUNCTION proceedings have been taken
at st. Louis and at all important points on
the Gould lines, and the railroad officials
say if they can keep the strikers away
from the tracks they can run their trains.
There were no developments of interest on
the nth.
NOTICE has been given the laborers en-
ployed at the Atlanta Iron works at Sharon,
Pa, that their wages have been advanced
to the price paid before the last reduction,
The increase amounts to fifteen cents per
day, and was made by the firm without
solicitation from the workmen.
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Industrial Agricultural exhibition, which
was to have been held at Chemnitz. This
step has been taken because it was believed
the exhibition would have the effect of
weakening the interest in the national ex-
hibiton to be held in Berlin in 1888.
NEARLY eight hundred employees of the
American Hosiery Company, at New Brit
ain, Conn.,, are out on strike, their de-
mand for higher wages having been re-
fused. The company's officers refused to
meet committee of the Knights of Labor
SO effect a settlement by arbitration.
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SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
disallowed two claims of John Roach, one
of S3S, $40 for extra work on the United
States monitor Puritan, and the other of
S2O,274 for watching, care towing and
pilotage of the monitor Roanoke from
March II, 1877, to September q, 1888.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended the 18th numbered for the
United States 2l0, and for Canada %, a
total of 23j, against 245 last week and IS
the week previous Failures are on the
decline in every section of the country, es.
pecially the Eastern and Middle States.
JUDGE GILDERsLEEvE OF the New Y orl
Court Of General Sessions has received a
letter from a member of the late Board o
Aldermen Offering to reveal the inside
history of the Broadway railroad dea
with the aldermen. The letter was re-
ferred to the foreman of the grand jury.
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CIvIL-SERvICE COMMISSIONER EAToN'S
term of service expired on the 9th unde
the terms of his peremptory letter of res
ignation. 1t was positively stated at the
Executive Mansion that the President had
not determined upon his successor, but
would take the matter under consideration
as promptly as possible.