The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-01-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


won by DIR. Leech, of Waveland.
AN immense slaughter-house is among
the projected industries to be established
at Miles City, Mont.
The British had a skirmish recently
with the rebels in Egypt and came off vic
torious.
ORANGRMEN and Catholics are engaged
in active hostilities again at Conception
Bay, N. f.
A STRIKE is threatened of locomotive en-
gineers on the elevated roads at New
York.
HENRY G.. KRNPER, small grocer Of g.
Cincinnati, o., was found murdered in his
store on the morning Of the 3Oth. A mulat
to was suspected Of the crime.
TIE safe Of the Ipswich (Mass.) Post
Office was blown open the night of the
Goth and 5000 in stamps and some money
stolen. This is the sixth time the same
safe has been burglarized in eight years.
JUsTUs BRowN, farmer near Wilson,
N. Y, was burned to death in his house.
FROM reports received on the 3Oth, it
seemed probable that there would be
shown a slight increase in the public debt
for December.
The Ohio Central Railroad, recently
sold, will be known hereafter as the Kan
awha & Ohio.
A COLLISION on the Michigan Central
Road on the 3)th, near Carrollton, Mich,
killed one man and fatally injured two
others, all residents Of Jackson, Mich.
The Toledo, Cincinnati Sc st. Louis Rail-
road was sold under foreclosure Of mort
gage at indianapolis on the Both, and was
bought by Sylvester H. Kneeland, Of New
York.
The body Of Alfred Thorn was found in
hay loft at Rocky River, near Cleveland,
o., on the 3Oth. Thorn was fifty zone years
old and it is thought was from Syracuse.
N. Y. Suicide was the manner of death.
Contributions are being solicited to aid
those dependent for support upon the
miners entombed in the Nanticoke (Pa.)
coal shaft.
M. DELEssEPs has been assured that a
majority of the French Senate and
Chamber Of Deputies will vote in favor of
his lottery scheme in aid of the Panama
Canal.
THE total number Of hogs packed in Sne
West from November 1st to December 3Oth
was 4,03O, 900 against0, G6j 900 for the same
time last year.
JAMES ELDER, Postmaster at Richmond,
Ind, dropped dead on the 3lst.
PAsrRUR has concluded his treatment of
the four children from Newark, N. j.
JAMES KINKADE was fatally shot by a
burglar at Mahoningtown, Pa, ON the
night of the 3lst.
THE suspension is announced of the
First National Bank of Lake City, MINI.
A ooNsIsToRY for creating Bishops will
be held by the Pope at the end Of jan
uary,
THE actual count Of Vanderbilts securi-
ties showed an aggregate of $305, 100000.
KING LEoPoLD of Belgium received
Lieutenant Taunt, U. 8. NJ, ON the 1st, who
has been exploring the Congo region.
AN American Institute of Hydrophobia
on the Pasteur plan, is to be established in
New York.
T. d. SULLIVAN, the new Lord Mayor OF
Dublin, was installed on the 1st with much
ceremony and great enthusiasm.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED bales of cotton were
burned in the warehouse Of ]. S. Stewart &
Son at Macon, Ca, on the 1st.
ENGLAND cedes to China part Of Upper
Burmah in order to make the Chinese and
Indian frontiers contiguous.
PROF. G. C. GEoRGEsoN, of Texas, ha:
been appointed Professor in the State Col
lege at Toxic, japan.
A RELIGIOUS sect at Palmyra, Wis, art
on the point of starvation in their belief
that they will obtain "power" by fasting
EFFORTS will be made to issue loan Of
$175,OOO,OOO in London, to provide China
with ornaments and railways.
THE proclamation announcing the an
nexation of Burmah to the British Empir
has reached Rangoon.
JOHN TERwELL threw a hatchet at hi
son in Chicago on the Slst, and slightly
wounded his daughter Mortified at wha
he had done he attempted suicide by cut
ting his throat with a razor.
THE presents Of many years have bee,
converted by the Pope into money anC
presented to the College of the Propa
ganda.
DEFINING & WALsH's agricultural ware
house at Edinburg, Ind, burned on the 1st
BISHOP HARRINGTON, engaged in mis-
slonary services in Central Africa, ha
been seized by King Mombasa, ana vii
probably be ut to death.
UNITED STATES CoUNsEL-GRNERA
WALLER gave brilliant New Years re
ception at the rooms of the st. George
Club at London. A great many notable
were among the callers.
AT Sidney, Mob, Jim Reynolds wa
found guilty of murder in the first degre
for the murder of James and John Pink
ston, of Fsirville, Salem County, Mo.
1T is intimated that the British Govern
ment will oppose the revival of the bill TO
the construction of tunnel under tn,
English Channel, between England AM
France.
FITzHUGV LEE was inaugurated on tn
1st as Governor of Virginia with muc
pomp and ceremony.
Miss Elizabeth B. Van Verst lost her lif
in New York on the 1't. by her clothing
taking fire at an open CRATE. She was sixty
five years of age.
c. B. MAURER's Touring mill at Tai
madge, o., was entirely DESTROYED by fiji