The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-31
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
The Marquis of Lorne is mentioned as
the next Viceroy of Ireland.
TIE Queen has made a personal appeal
70 Lord Harrington to join Salisbury In
the formation of ministry.
SIR CHARLES dixie has definitely an
nornced his withdrawal from public life
and has retired to the continent.
OVER Eve thousand silver trade dollars
In the treasury at Buffalo, N. Y, were
sold on the 23d for 70 400 cents each.
A STATUE Of Gladstone, to be erected on
College Green, Dublin, by the people of
IRELAND, is suggested by the FreemdH's
Journal.
; THE United Ireland urges the Irish peo-
pie to tender grand ovation to the Earl
of Aberdeen on his departure from the
country.
STEPHEN BRoDIE, bootblack, twenty
three years of age, jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge into the East river on the 23d,
and was fished out uninjured.
A BRITISH troop ship was ordered sud-
denly on the oath to proceed to Oban, Scot
land, with force Of police to maintain
order among the Three crotters.
GOOD rain fell on the 29d In Southwest
ern Kansas, covering large area and in
Guiding some districts which had not been
visited by the preceding showers.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has received
from Prince Bismarck large photograph
of the German Chancellor, framed in oak
and bearing the Princes autograph.
MEXICAN troops are gathering at Paso
del Norte, End affairs are taking on a war
like appearance. Additional United States
troops have been dispatlh he'd to the
border.
ACTING SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has no.
titled the collector of customs at New York
to allow free entry of an original portrait
of General Washington, painted by Thos,
E. Pyne.
THE German Cabinet has forbidden
Prussian officers betting with bookmakers,
riding horses owned by professional
horsemen or figuring in races unless in
uniform.
THE remains of Unitesl States Consul
Rogers, who died at Vera Cruz five years
ago, are to disinterred on the 1st of Au-
gust and brought back to his home in
Nebraska.
THE House naval affairs committee has
decided to add as an amendment to the
Naval Establishment bill the provision for
the building of a dynamite gunboat to
cost $35O,O00.
The sureties of Cashier Thomson of the
Provident Savings Bank, st. Louis, have
made proposition to settle the deficit,
and Receiver Thompson has filed a petit
ton for instructions and advice from the
court
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THE cholera returns in Italy for the oath
We're: Bologna, new cases, deaths
Brindisi, new case, 3 deaths; Latiano,
new cases, 2 deaths; Fontano, 6 new
cases, / death; other points, u new cases
and deaths.
THE business failures throughout the
country during the seven days ended the
23d, as reported by telegraph, number, fol
che United States, 100, and for Canada
"a, total of 1874, as compared with a tota
of 1888 the previous week.
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A PORTION of the Simmons monster
hardware establishment in st. Louis col
lapsed on the night of the 25th, the uppe
floors falling and crushing those below
heavy, but no person was killed or injured
THE Para Rubber Shoe Company a
South birmingham, Mass, posted motto
on the 23rd that its factory would b.
closed on July 81. No limit to the shut
down is announced. During its continu
ance, !, 100 hands will be thrown out o
employment.
WEST ELIZABETH, mining town twenty
miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa, Is sorel,
affected with malarial fever. 1t broke GU
four weeks ago, and on the goth there wer
over sixty cases. Up to that date onl
one death had occurred, but several wer
in a serious condition.
N
Z. c. MONTGOMERY carried the head Q
an Apache into Clifton, Ariz., on tn
evening of the 2lst. Montgomery was at
tackled in the divide between Eagle cree
and Blue river, about forty miles abov
Clifton by three Apaches. Besides tn
one whose head he carried in, he think
he killed or wounded second.
THE Tennessee commissioner Of Agri
culture is preparing the crop reports fC
July. The wheat crop yielded much bet
ter than was anticipated, the crop bein
better than for many years. Corn is yer
promising. Much hay was ost on acconr
of wet weather, but the crop was sti
very large. The oat crop was above tn
average. Cotton looks well and the potat
crop is good.