The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-02-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The proposed sale of property OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company at New
York on the 18th, to satisfy heavy judg-
ment, was postponed by reason of tech
nical flaw in the proceedings.
A SPECIAL agent of the government was
at Mount Pleasant, Pa, on the 10Th, look
ing into charges that some English miners
had been swindled.
GENERAL Crook will adopt very string
emit measures in the spring to keep the
Apaches on their reservation.
ARCHBISHOP ELDER, who brings the
pallium for the Archbishop of New York,
telegraphed from Paris that he will leave
Liverpool for New York on the 20 tn inst
CHARLOTTE SMITH called on the Presi-
dent on the 18th in the interest of the work
ingwomen of the country.
THE scarlet fever epidemic, which began
at Shenandoah, Pa, in December, contin-
ues to rage, and is aggravated by unsea-
sonable weather. Upward of one hundred
children have been carried off by the dis
ease within the last two weeks. and there
are over one hundred cases in town.
IT has become known that Charles H.
McCauley, treasurer of Warren County,
Pa, is defaulter in the sum Of $120,0O0.
His defalcation is attributed to unsuccess-
full speculations.
HON. HENRY WATTERsoN's illness has
developed into complication Of kidney
and nervous diseases. He suffered seri-
GUS relapse on the night of the 18th, and is
| dangerously ill.
THE remains of the late General Han
| cock were removed from Governors Is
land on the morning of the 18th and taken
to New York, from whence, after brief
funeral services, thew were taken to Nor
ristown, Pa, and inferred in the family
vault. The funeral was conducted with
out pomp or ostentation. The usual mill
tary honors were paid by firing salvos of
artillery over the last resting place by a
detachment of United States Artillery.
THE damage by the foods in Providence,
R. l., and throughout the State is almost
unprecedented. Seven hundred dams and
bridges have been swept away, and in
some instances the damage to mill prop
erty is very great. From all sections
comes the same story Of food, inundation,
loss and rescues Of imprisoned families in
boats.
THE sentence of dismissal from the army
pronounced against First Lieutenant Lor-
EMO W. Cook bya general court-martial
at Fort Ellis, Mont, has been set aside by
General Terry.
JOHN w. LAUER has been indicted for
wifs murder at Omaha, Neb.
FRANK CoFFMAN, Brooklyn IN. "
| printer and militiaman, has been arrested
for bigamy.
SIR CHARLES DILKE's friends are urging
him to go into retirment for a while.
CUMMINGS Hotel, st. George, Ont.
burned on the 18th and two guests persisted
in the flames.
THE Methodsts Of England have got into
a quarrel among themselves over the home
rule question.
JAMES MARTIN, of Papillion, Neb., was
run over and killed on the 18th by Mis-
souri, Pacific train.
1T is said King Milan of Servia will sigI
a treaty of peace with Bulgaria, regardless
of any action by Greece.
MRS. HENRY T. KIRK, of Hendricks
County, Ind, committed suicide on the 13tl
by burning herself to death.
SOCIALIST leaders in London are to b.
prosecuted for melting the recent riots, 70
which they are held responsible.
JOHN B. MANNIx, recently assignee o
the Archbishop Purcell estate at Cincin
natl, has been arrested charged with EN-
bezzling $3.50, 900 of the estate.
GEORGE ST. JOHN, engineer, and A. L
Lewis, fireman, were killed and severa
passengers injured in wreck on the On
tario & Western railroad near Liberty, N
Y, on the 136h.
A POLISH journal printed in Posen re
Gently made an attack on Bismarck, and it
editors have been sentenced to six months
imprisonment.
A DUEL was arranged on the 18th be
tween Clemenceau and Buchesne, member
of the French Chamber of Deputies, bu
was averted by the interference of friends
MANY of the mills at Woonsocket, r.
were flooded by from three to six feet o
water on the 18th. The water was thre
feet deep in the streets.
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Sterling, late treasurer Of Rockingham
County, Va, it is now thought will APP
proximate 100000.
THE newspapers of Cracow, Russia, ar
urging the merchants OF that city to breaI
Off their relations with German bushes
houses. The medical society of Cracov
has decided to boycott German medicine
and medical Instruments.
GEORGE r. FOSTER, alias A. c. Bran
well, was arrested at Detroit, Mich, on tn
18th on the charge of forgery and wa
taken to Atchison, Kas., ON a requisitio
by an agent of the Nickel-Plate railroad
That road lost $1,000 by a forged bill c
lading.
RANcHMEN report a favorable winter i
Manitoba, the cattle coming through
prime condition. The snow is fast disar
pearing and the outlook is good.
MRS. GENERAL SHERIDAN, who had bee
quite i'll for several days, was re
ported on the 18th as rapidly regainin
her health and strength.
Mr.. HENRY WATTERsON's disease
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