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THE MILAN EXCHANGE. W. A. WADE, IiriUri-r. MILAN. - - - TENNESSEE- NEWS IN BRIEF, Complied from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POUTlCAti. At the National Liberal Club ban quet at London, Eng., the other evening Mr. Gladstone said the Government had net dangers from an unseen agency, secret ocieties, successfully. TnK Pennsylvania Greenback State Committee has announced a State Conven tion at Williamsport, August 80. Charles Ciiacnckt Bukr,wuo nom inated Charles O'Connor for President of the United States in 1872, advocated the cause of the South at the breaking out of the civil war, and owner of the National Democrat, died at Hoboken, N. J., the'other night, aged sixty-eight years. The New Brunswick Legislature has protested against an act of the Dominion Parliament restricting salmon fishing. Chairman CoorER, of the Pennsyl vania Republican State Committee, has is sued a call for a meeting of the Republican State Convention at Hurrisburg, July 11. The New Zealand special Postal Com mission had an Interview with Secretary Frelinghuysen on the 3d Inst, The Iowa Republican State Commit tee has fixed the date of the State Conven tion on June 27, at Dos Moines. The Connecticut Legislature ad journed sine die on the 3d. The New York Legislature adjourned sine die on the 4th Inst. A bill prohibiting free passes being granted to any one except railroad em ployes and officers has passed the New York Assembly. William H. Vandehbilt sailed for 'Europe on the 5th in the steamer Britannic. The Japanese Ambassadors were pre sented at the White House on the 5th inst. The meeting of King Humbert of Italy and Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus tria, which was to have taken place at Ber lin this spring, has been postponed mtil the 9th. of next November. The death of Rev. Josiah Hender son, Mrs. Stowe's " Uncle Tom," occurred at Dresden, Out., on the 5th inst. A makuiage has been arranged be tween the hereditary Prince of Anhalt and the second daughter of the Crown Prince f Germany. A convention of Free-thinkers of the United States and Canada is to be held t Rochester, N. Y., beginning August 20, and continuing five days. The Massachusetts Legislature has adopted a resolution recognizing the abil ity, services and integrity of Oakes Ames, and asking for like recognition on the part cf Congress. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Theke was an explosion of gas in the Torrenee shaft of the Lehigh (Pa.) Coal Company on the 4th, while a number of men were working in the shaft, and Ed Rinker and Henry Baker were almost roast ed alive. . A kike which originated in a lumber yard at Union City, Ind., on the 4th, sup posed to have been ignited by a spark from a passing locomotive, destroyed a territory tot several acres, including a number of (business houses and residences, occasion ing a loss of fully $200,000. Theke was a terrific rain and hail storm, accompanied by thunder and light tiling, throughout the Scranton, Pa., section on the 4th, and an Immense amount of prop erty was damaged. The Wyoming House and other large buildings and factories were struck by lightning and telegraph wires were prostrated. An earthquake was reported on the 6th to have destroyed a great many houses and caused the death of a large number of people In the vicinity of Ta breez, Persia. Six persons were killed the other day ,by an explosion of powder used in filling shells at the Portsmouth Navy-yard, Eng land. Prof. II. E. Parker, of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., had his skull jfractured the other duy by a fall from a ladder while assisting to extinguish a fire. TnE other afternoon a train on the petroit & Lansing Railroad struck a wagon ion a crossing near Howard City, Mich., ,and killed two women and a man named Johnson. Two children burned to death the (other morning in a fire which destroyed five dwellings iu Rondout, N. Y. At Millbury, Mass., a few days ago, jFrank Maim killed Mrs. Mary E. Moore and then committed suicide. Two Americans, supposed to be W. ill. Sinclair and S. B. Halliday, clerks who irobbed their employers, Lang, Robinson & Co., flour merchants, New York, were ar rested at Havana, Cuba, the other day. They would be sent to New York. A quarrel about fifty cents resulted In a murder at Cincinnati, O., on the 6th .Aaron . Scott, colored, stabbed William Crotty, white, to death. William Boundt and Thomas Dre jjarton were killed at the Cbainpiuu Mine, west of Kalamazoo, Mich., on tho M., P. & Q. .Railway, the other night by being knocked from skip iuto a pit by falling ice. Harry. Barrett, fireman at the Mitchell Mine, in the same neighborhood, was buried by a run and it would take three days to recover him. Six buildings In the business part of Tarport, Pa., were burned the other morn ing, and George O'Neil, sleeping in a saloon whore the fire originated, -was burned to death. Robert Bctler, colored, suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Columbia, Caldwell Parish, La., on the 4th for the murder of George Burris. i Two colored children burned to death in a dwelling at the corner of Eighteenth and Clark streets, Chicago, 111., a few days ago. In Winchester, Mass., the other day, John Callahan forced, his three-year-old child to drink whisky till it died iu convul sions. An Incendiary fire at Lexington, Ky., on the 7th destroyed the stable of J. A. Grinstead, containing six throughbred yearlings, all imported, and all the ani mals were consumed. Loss, $10,000. Chief Wade, of the Femberton Square police, Boston, Mass., was shot in two places a few days ago by a crank named Brennan. At Dallas, Tex., on the 7th. Simon Wilson was sentenced to sixty -seven years imprisonment for murder. A number of men were overcome at the Continental Colliery, Ashland, Pa., the other day by gas generated by a small lo comotive in the mine. All work was stop ped. MISCELLANEOUS. The bond of M. T. Polk, the default ing Tennessee State Treasurer, has been increased to $15,000 on information that be contemplated flight. The Boston (Mass.) rubber shoe fac tory has resumed work after two mouths' idleness on account of the high price of rub ber. It employs 2,000 hands. The dynamite plot, it is claimed, was formed in America and was betrayed to the British Consul in New York and all the particulars given to the English police, who watched the conspirators from the moment they landed there. Fritz Andres, cotton merchants, Liverpool, Eng., Manchester, Alexandria and other cities, has failed, with liabilities of 150,000. Five Socialists were sentenced at Hamburg, Germany, the other day, to im prisonment from one to three months for circulating pamphlets slandering Bis marck. At Terre Haute, Ind., some sacrile gious thieves tore the corner-stone out of a colored church the other night and Btole the coins deposited therein. An ofiieial telegram from Minaliltan,' Max., announces work has begun on the Eads' Tehuantepec Ship Railway in the presence of federal and local authorities. Minister Morton has presented President Grevy a souvenir album given by the citizens of Providence, R. I., in honor of the Frenchmen who fell at York town. The foreman of the jury in the star route cases at Washington has called at tention to the fact that he and his associ ates have devoted one-seventieth of the average human lifetime to the trial. He wants to go home. The business failures throughout the United States and Canada during the seven days ended on the 4th numbered 152, as compared with 182 the week previous. For I ty-four failures occurred in the Western States. The Treasury Department has de cided the Government has no title to certain lands iu Fernandina, Fla., sold for direct taxes in 1803. The property in controversy is valued at $1,500,000. One of the most extensive machine shops in Northwestern Pennsylvania, be longing to Foster & McKay, manufacturers of boilers and engines, Titusville, has been closed by the Sheriff, the liabilities being estimated at from $200,000 to $250,000. The Massachusetts Supremo Court has refused to admit to bail Chales. I. Free man, the religious fanatic who killed his child at Pocasset in 1879. The application was made on the ground that he is now sane. The recent gas explosion in the coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa., by which several men were killed, was caused by a stroke of of lightning, which passed down the bell rope in the shaft. The Vice-President of the New York Coffee Exchange has been expelled for vio lating the rules. Phipps, the ex-Almshouse Superin Undent of Philadelphia, Pa., has bean convicted of forgery. CniHUAHUA Apaches say that Charlie McComas, whose father and mother wore massacred near Lordsburg, N. M., by In dians recently, is alive and well among the Indians in Mexico. The Philadelphia and Reading (Pa.) Rolling mill has shut down temporarily. The State Auditor of Iowa has re voked the certificates of a number of mu tual life insurance companies. Fifty members of the Pennsylvania Legislature who served iu the Union army in the war of the rebellion the other day visited the scene of battles before Peters burg, Va. They were welcomed to the city of Petersburg by Senator Mahone. At Chicago, 111., tho other day cer tain heirs contested the payment of a be quest to a priest of the Roman Catholic Church to reimburse him for saying mass for the repose' of the soul of the testator, on the ground that the money was expended for superstitious use. The Circuit Court held the objection could not hold and the bequest was valid under the State statute. The burning of the steamboat Grap pler on Puget Sound was a worse affair than first reported." Later news shows sev enty Chinamen lost their lives. A regular epidemic" pf horse-stealing is reported to have brglcen out in the city at Dallas, Tex.,, and adjoining coun try, upward of a score of animals having been stolen within one week recently. The third trial of Timothy Kelly for participation in the murder of Cavendish and Burke began at Dublin, Ireland, on the 7th. James Carey, the informer, swore that every one of the Invincible except Joe Brady had offered to turn informer. ' Theresa Fair has filed a suit against Senator Fair, the Nevada millionaire, for divorce. ' ; The amount of the recent defalcation of Kerr, the clerk of Freston, Kean & Co., Chicago, 111., was about $52,000 instead of $150,000 as published at the time. Judge Treat, at St. Louis, Mo., on the 7th, sustained a motion In arrest of judgment in the case of J. C. Alleon, con victed of sending forbidden literature through the mails. He also gave the agent of the Society for the Suppression of Vice another lecture. The issue of standard silver dollars for the week ended May 6 was $157.0(0; cor responding period last year $14:1,000. George W. Everett, Millersburg, O., has been disbarred from practicing as an attorney before the Department of the Interior. The United States Supreme Court has declared void the Downton patent on the roller process of making flour. A RECENT dispatch from St. Peters burg, Russia,-says official reports from the Governments of Samaria, Simbrisk and As trakhan state the crops are a total failure and famine is expected. Three Vienna (Austria) newspapers have been confiscated for reporting a meeting in support of the Literals. The Louisiana Supremo Court has decided that municipal bonds can not be taxed. Ex-Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, has given bail in the sum of $35,000 and again been releasod. The Prince of Wales formally opened the School of Music at Kensington, Eng., on the 7th. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and Gladstone were present at the ceremony. Governor Sprague, the famous stal lion owned by J. I. Case, of Racine, Wis., died at Lexington, Kentucky, a few days ago, of pink-eye. Tbe animal's winnings on the turf last year amounted to $10,000. Henry Merrott and Mary Pesun were placed on trial at New York the other day for robbing a jeweler at Paris, France, of 175,000 worth of diamonds. , The Apache ludiaDs have been de feated in an engagement with Mexican troops in the Sierra Madre, with tho loss of twenty-seven killed and thirty-six pris oners. A branch of O'DonavanRossa's Irish Revolutionary League was organized in New York a few days ago, with a member ship of one hundred. Dynamite was the rock upon which tbe society was built. . Three children walking under an umbrella during a slight thunder-storm at Winona, Minn., recently, were struck by lightning, two of them being killed and the third partially paralyzed. James F. Spengman, clerk in the Provident Institution for Savings at Jersey City, N. J., is reported to have gone to Richmond, leaving a deficiency in his cash account. A. A. Tintsman & Co., coke manu facturers, Pittsburgh, Pa., have made an assignment, with liabilities of $316,000, on accouut of the depression in the coke trade. LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the star-route case at Washington on the 8th Bliss closed his seven days' ad dress to the jury, and this was announced as the close of the Government's opening. The Court ruled that the Government would only be allowed one address in closing,and, as a consequence, Attorney-General Brew ster would not take part in the argument. The report came from San Antonio, Tex., on the 8th that the lately reported robbery of United States Paymaster Wasson on a Texas Pacific train turned out to be a $24,000 defalcation fnstead. At Oxford, Miss., S. M. Thompson, editor of the Eaijle, was shot dead on tho 8th while resisting arrest by the City Mar shal. In a terrific affray at Cornishville, Mercer County, Ky., the other day Daniel Shoemaker killed a man named Long, a traveling salesman, aud was himself mor tally wounded. Queen Victoria has returned to Windsor Castle. The assignees of Newberg, Frenkel & Co., clothing dealers, Cincinnati, O., have filed an inventory showing the total ap praised value of assets to be $275,500; lia bilities $382,000. Lord Carlinofokd has again re fused to urge additional legislation against the iinportion of foreign cattle into Eng land, but he says strict inspection will bo euforced to keep out infection. The death sentence passed on Dela uy, who pleaded guilty at Dublin, Ireland, recently to tho charge of complicity iu the Phoanix Park murders, has been commuted by the Lord Lieutenant. Real-Admiral E. R. Calhoun has been placed on the retired list of the Navy, after serving forty-three years, sixteen years being sea service. The Governor of Limerick (Ireland) jail bus bouu rutired from offlce.it is alleged ou account of harsh treatment of suspects. The Spanish municipal elections it is said were marked by flagrant interfer ence at the polls to force the return of Government partisans. In the German Reichstag, on the 8th' inst., Windhorst, the ultramuutaine leader, declared the permanent existence of a re publio iu Europe impossible. .,,., , GALVKiTos, Tex., is now said to be the second cotton port iu the country, the receipts this season reaching 800,000 bales. Three incu were killed aud ono se verely injured while defending the Casta Hunch, iu Sonora, N M., from a recent at tack by Indians. Ir was reported on the 8th that the business part of the town of Forney, in Kaufman County, Tex., was almost entire ly destroyed by an incendiary fire, the lots being estimated at $00,000 SOUTHERN GLEANINGS. . A construction train on the Texas Pacific Railway waa derailed between Canon Spur and Ranger 8tatlnn'the other day, and three laborers were killed and three seriously injured. - . A. S. Dorsey, near Athens, Ga., had dams to two fish-ponds break the other night, sad he lost three thousand pounds Of carp worth $5,000. They will stock streams below, as they were ready to spawn. Governor James S. Koynton, of Geor gia, was married a few days ago at High Shoals, Walton County, to Miss Susie Har ris, of that place. The United States Commissioner of Agriculture has arranged for the distribu tion of forty thousand silk-worm eggs to parties in Kentucky who desire to make ex periments in sericulture. The Kentucky State Central Educa tional Committee met at Louisville the oth er day, Judge W. M. Beckner presiding. Arrangements were perfected for a thor ough organization of the State by the ap pointment of suitable committees for districts and counties. A letter was read from Gen. Eaton, United States Commis sioner of Education, expressing warm in terest in the movement and a desire to co operate in any way best calculated to make It useful and effective. A grand education al demonstration will occur at Louisville during September. The Southern Exposi tion managers will be asked to accord space for the display of educational materials and appliances. Charles Johnson, former Chief Clerk of P. C. Walker, ex-Assessor and Collector, was indicted by the Grand Jury at Houston, Tex., the other day, charged with defraud ing Walker of about $500 by false entries in the Collector's stub books. Walker as serted, during his impeachment triul, that he directly traced that much of his short ago to Johnson. Tho ice factory, three other buildings and a large quantity of beer kegs, the property of C. C. Habeniehel, were de stroyed by fire at Columbia, 8. C, the other afternoon, the loss being about $!0,0)0,with no insurance. A little child of George Ilofer, a gardener living near Louisville, Ky., was burned to death a few days ago by her clothing catching fire from tho flames of burning stubble and straw on her father's garden land. The death of General William M. Brown, President of the Georgia State Ag ricultural College, occurred a few days ago at Athens. A fire which-broke out in II. E. Simp son's store at Rogers, Tex., the other morn ing destroyed the principal business por tion of the town, including the post-office. Loss about $ri,000. The Hoard to prepare the claims of Texas against the United States for frontier defense since the 20th of October, IMu, to April, 182, organized at Austin a few days ago. It will take about two years to com plete the work, as the claims for the eighteen years mentioned will aggregate about $1,200,000. If those claims are put up in proper shape and accepted, it is thought probable the State may be able to secure reimbursement for like expenses in curred from 1845 to 1801. The Yocona (Miss.) mills, from Jan uary 1 to April 22, turned out 95,500 pounds of yarn. Pine lands in Putnam County, Fla., worth eight dollars an acre two years ago, .re now selling for twenty-five dollars. Prestonburg, in Floyd County, al though one of the oldest towns in Ken tucky, has never had a church. A difficulty which grew out of a re cent quarrel between Frank Godfrey and David J. Baird, farmers living a few miles west of HuiTodsburg, Ky., was Bettlod tho other day by Godfrey stabbing Baird, in flicting a mortal wound. Rugby, Tenu., after all its troubles and drawbacks, now shows unmistakable signs of a steady and sound growth. It is said to bo filling up with people who are both willing and able to work. While a party of ladies and gentle men were shooting at a mark, near Tus cumhia, Ala., the other day, a cry for help was heard on the opposite side of a cedar grove, and, rushing to the spot, the young men discovered that a stray shot had hit and mortally wounded Loroy Downs, aged seventy years. At a late meeting of the Board of Re gents of the Texas State University, at Austin, Prof. R. L. Dabney, of . Uampden Sydney College, Virginia, was elected to the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy. The sum of $10,000 was voted for procuring vhemical aud philosophical apparatus, and steps were taken looking to the completion of the University buildings in time for the opening session in September. It was reported the other day that the cattle in certain sections in West Texas were affected with a strange disease which resembled, and was called, hydrophobia, and was proving very futal. M. Franklin, wholesale notions, At lanta, Ga., made an assignment the other day, with liabilities of 40,000; assets nom inally $30,000. : Fraud was alleged and a receiver was appointed. The Wbeaton House, at Henderson, Tex., with its entire contents, was destroyed by fire the other night. Incendiarism was suspected. At the annual session of the Georgia State Sunday-school Association, at 'Au gusta the other day, President Shepard an nounced that Mont Eagle, Tenn., had beta selected for the Southern Chatauqua. Re ports from delegates showed an Increase in Sunday-school work aud number of schol ars. The Convention represents about 100, 000 scholars. The next meeting will be held at Columbus. Some twenty thousand people are ex pected to attend the Lee memorial exer cises at Lexington, Va., in June. Hot Springs, Ark., wauU a library. . nouiea as (anihlrrs. , Chu-ngo has lieen the first place, np rnreiiljy to provide regular accommo dation for tljoso women who gsin their livelihood by speculating on the rise and fall iu the cost of provision. There, if we may trust the reporters, there Is a reg ular place isot nside for flie resort of women so engaged. It is not a Stock Exchange, but a Provision Dealers' Ex change. One lady is said to have made 1.G(H) ntcrling on "the com corner" of January. Another ha planked her bottom dollar" on the May wheat; a third is speculating deeply in pork and in 'futures In ling-products." The reporters say that this occupation ha a curious effect on t ho countenance of the. women who fre quent this Exchange. They lose the mobility of feature and expression which is one of the great charms of women, and don the mask of Impenetra bility peculiar to the man of business, whose great object it is never to but ray for a moment how things are going with, hint. Now, so ar as we know, there is no reason whatever, except the prepos sessions of the existing committees of the various exchanges of Europe and tho West, why women should not bo admitted freely to all these exchanges, and it is pretty certain that, at a time when the restrictions which exclude them from other profession are being tine by one removed, no legal restriction to exclude them from this profession is likely to be imposed. The late Lord Heaconsficld has .old us what he thought of speculative women in the clever little sketch of "Lady licit ie and Uellair," who pre tends to wish to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but is really plunged heart and soul into railroad' speculation, and who faints on hearing that "the narrow gauge has won." Lord Ileaeonslield's verdict, delivered a.s usual through his favorite oracle Sidonia, is: "She pester me with her letters, but I do not like feminine finance"; and perhaps there was more reason for this judgment than there was for most of Mr. Disraeli's epi grammatic and sententious decisions. Undoubtedly, of all careers which are most likely to unsex women, that of staking considerable stakes on the re sults of a complicated series of dubious commercial events seems to us tho most likely to produce that effect. Im personal excitements, which depend for their interest on heavy pecuniary risks, can hardly be really good for any human being at all, certainly they do least harm to those who have the least susceptibility to liner feelings, who arc most impersonal in the whole attitude of their mind, who are nearest to intel lectual engines and furthest removed from the life of tho affections. We have known many men who could run great pecuniary risks with little or no dis turbance of their best personal life and in deprecating these gambling commer cial pursuits as morally dangerous, we must not be understood to express any doubt that the equalization of prices which results from calm and wise specu lation on a pound basis of capital in the upward and downward movements of stocks and commodities, is of great ad vantage to the world but the present writer, at least, has never known a woman to whom it would have been reasonable to urtrRnite the same imper turbability. Nor do we think that if such a woman existed, she could be, in tlie best sense of the term, feminine. A true woman is utterly vulgarized by having her high est excitements and preoccupations not merely removed from the personal to the purely impersonal world, but made dependent on doubtful events contain ing a large clement of chance. That which is best and finest in woman will not stand the wear and tear of this kind of life; and though that is true of most men also, it is not so true, and will never be so true, in their case, as it is in that of women. Tho corruption of the higher type, as was long ago ob served, is almost always a worse cor ruption than the corruption of the lower. Now, women's sensitiveness of percep tion and liveliness of affection, and that delicacy of tact which arises from sensi tive perceptions and lively affections, form unquestionably a much larger pro portional part of their whole nature than the same elements form of men's. And as the excitements of commercial gambling i. c, of speculation on the risks and chances of commerce un doubtedly blunt that sensitiveness and uffectiomiteness and tact, it docs much more harm to women than it does to men. And yet in unsexing them it bo stows upon them nothing of the better masculine life, for we do not count a little addition to the power of wearing a mask through ordinary chances aud changes, ono of the better aspects of masculine life. Just conceive what the turf would become if women, were tho chief managers of all its tricks and ras calities! Imagine what a woman acting as Mr. Trollopo made Major Tufto act in "The Duke's Children" must become! Tlie bare imagination Is almost enough to demonstrate the hopeless ruin which gambling must bring on what is noblest in women. London Spectator. 4 Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes recom mends the planting of trees as monu ments,, "If it is something," lie says, 'to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much more to have been the occasion of tho planting of an oak which bLull defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities.' I I I 0 The farmers near Castroville, Cal., have discovered a gray and bluo bug which is destroying a large acreage of grain. The bug eats tho leaves and kills the stalk. The barley seems to be worked on more than the wheat.