The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE Conservative candidates for East
Toxteth, Everton and West Toxteth divs
ions of Liverpool have been elected with
out opposition.
IT was reported on the 1st that the
American fishing schooner City Point bad |
been seized at Shelburne harbor, Nova
Scotia, by Canadian cruiser.
A RECENTLY issued directory of Chicago |
indicates, it is claimed, a population of
100000 for that city, an increase Of about |
$4,000 in the past year.
THE rumor that the Baltimore & Ohio |
and the Western Union Telegraph COM
panies are about to consolidate is denied
by President Bates.
In the case of Schilling, charged with
boycotting at Milwaukee,, the jury dis
agreed and were discharged.
THE Mexican Government has extended
for three years the concessions to the
Texas, Topolohampo & Pacific railroad.
THE imperial revenue of Germany for
the fiscal years 1886 it is estimated will
fall II ,OOOO 900 marks below the estimate.
For the first six months of 1886 the bus
ness failures amount in number to 5,156,
as against 6,OO4 for the first six months Of
1885, The liabilities amount to S50434,OOO
for the first half of 1886 as against SI5,-
722, 900 for the first half of 1885, showing a
decline in the number of failures of S4S,
and in amount of liabilities, $24,2SS,0 600,
THE debt statement issued on the LIST
shows the following: Debt less cash in
treasury, June 1, 1886, 81, 89S, 19S,2S1; debt
less cash in treasury, July l, 1856, $1,3S0,-
1864; reduction of debt in June, S9,O6l,-
S97.
On the 1st everything was quiet in the
Lake Shore yards at Chicago
On the I'd five New York boycotters
recently convicted were sentenced to the
penitentiary.
IRE pension office, Washington, during
the fiscal year just closed, issued Sl,422
certificates.
MUCH dissatisfaction is manifested III
Germany by the new telegraph rules.
THUS far the Irish League has sent from
headquarters at Detroit, Mich $4,000 to
| Ireland to aid in the parliamentary cam
paign.
AN adverse report will be made on Ran
dall's tariff bill by the ways and means
committee at Washington.
SIX births occurred in the steerage of the
steamer Hammonia Germany, which ar
rived at New York on the I'd, during her
voyage from Bremen.
On the ID, at religious anniversary at
Marseilles, two thousand Royalists made
demonstration in favor of the Count of
Paris They carried tricolor flags and
copies of the Counts manifesto.
DURING the week ended the ID the total
imports of dry goods at the port of New
York were valued at $l,007 1856, and the
amount thrown on the market 81 1914.
THE President has approved the Diplo-
matte and Consular Appropriation bill and
the act authorizing the Denison & Wash
tia Valley Railway Company to construct
and operate railway through the Indian
Territory.
SWITZERLAND has decided to expel from
the country all foreign Anarchist work
men who assisted in the strike at Zurich.
The South American exhibition will
open at Berlin in September. The Argen-
tine Republic will exhibit farm products;
Uruguay, meat extracts, and Brazil, woods
and coffee.
On the I'd the Marine Hospital Bureau
received information through the State
Department that six deaths from cholera
occurred at Dune and four cases and two
deaths at Flume, Austria, on that day.
In the er-coIlegiate boat race at New
London, Conn, on the ID, the Yale crew
beat the Harvards by seven lengths in
20:4l IL.
A DECISION has been made by the First
Comptroller of the Treasury that when
ever laborers, workmen or mechanics en-
ployed in any Of the executive depart
ments are required to work more than
| eight hours a day they are entitled to
! compensation for the extra work, unless
Otherwise specified by contract.
DURING the twenty hours ended til G
night of the Sd there were 155 new cases OF
cholera and forty-six deaths in villages
around Brindisi.
HooD1TMs cut off a Chinaman's queue
at Washin gton, and there is q great row
! about it,