Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-30

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Saturday, Juue 80, 1884, IA
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HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
REV. JOSEPH RApEMAcKER was con-
secrated Bishop Of Nashville, Tenn, in that
city on the oath. qgt -'g
The French Senate has passed bill
providing FOR direct postal service between
Havre and New York. fJ
The steamer Scandinavia sailed from
Queensland a few days ago for America
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80 THE Pope has requested President
Grevy to use his Influence to prevent a
conflict between church and State in
France. a. eEV b..
The deed transferring to Lieutenant
General Sheridan house in Washington,
d. c., was recorded on the Doth. The price
was $4,000. ~ >,
GENERAL CHARLES EWING, formerly
O. Ohio, died al Washington, D. G., on the
Goth, of pneumo ia. He was lrother.in-
. law of General Sherman, upon whose staff
he served during the war.
A DELEGATION of Land Leagucrs
called on the President at Washington the
other day and presented re olutions re-
garding assisted emf ration. A. M Sulli.
van deliver d an address. ''d
AT a Cabinet Council at Versailles,
France, ON the DIST, it was positively stated
that the Queen OF Madagascar had been
dead six months, and that the military
party had concealed the fact. 4-t5q ,irj
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THE eighth annual citing Of the
American Association of Nurserymen and
Florists opened at 81. Louis, Mo-, on the
10Th, President Norman j. Coleman in the
Chair. There were 143 delegates in attend.
ance. & * IL
THE Irish Times says the Govern.
ment has given James Carey, the in ormer,
the option of proceeding to one Of the
British colonies or being released and al.
lowed to remain in Dublin without police
protection.
The Treasury Department has de-
cided that the new tariff act abolishes ex.
emption from duty of beet sugar machinery,
the section of the statutes allowing the ex.
emption not having been reproduced in the
new tariff.
The Secretary of Wsr haszinformed
Secretary Teller thatthe military have taken
all necessary precautions in regard to- Cap.
tain Payne in the event Of another raid by
his party upon Oklahoma lands ia the In.
dian Territory va IsaAa
Two HuNDREDE and eighty-five of
General Crooks captives arrived on the
Odd at the San Carlos Agency. OF this
number 248 are women and children.
Secretary Teller insisted that they should
not be placed on the agency. = a. ~
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THERE was no abatement OF the floods
in the Mississippi ind Missouri Rivers on
the 21st. The water had passed the highest
point touched in the past twenty five years
at st. Louis, and from every part Of the
Lower Missouri Valley advices indicated .
considerably higher rise. N'AA q - - %
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has authorized the Indian Agent at Fort
Griffin, Tex, to allow him, for an exhibit
ton at the Louisville (Ky.) Exposition, TO
take to that place four or five Tonkana In!
dians, with the understanding that they
shall be properly caredfoF III vi
LOUISE MICHEL, the French Socialist,
has been sentenced to six years. imprison.
ment and ten years. police supervision.
or tn. other prisoners charged with rioting
and pillage, Pouget and Monset got eight
and one years. imprisonment, respectively,
and two others were acquitted.
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing cadets at large to West Point Mill.
tary Academy Manning j. Logan, Illinois,
son of General Logan; Andrew Curtin
Quay, Pennsylvania, and Pierrepont Is.
ham, Illinois, with Robert A. Emmett, New
York, and Samuel D. Hatch, Iowa, alter,
mates. - W.
GENERAL WALLACE, United States
Minister to Turkey, had several affairs OF
diplomacy on his hands on the 22d. He
had declined to accept notice of termina
ton Of the treaty, of commerce and had
called on the Porte for explanations re
garding bad treatment OF three American
citizens.
ADvIcEs of the Gath stated that the
foods in Nebraska extended over the Who'll,
southern country, caused by heavy and con
tinued rains raising the Nemaha River. Sew
eral families were drowned in Pawnee Coun
ty, sixteen persons In all. The damage Il
crops and personal property yves very
great. The foods were subsiding.
THERE were 181 business failures
throughout the United States and Cansd,
during the seven days ended on the 2sd, o.
compared with lS8 during the week previ
Gus. They were distributed as follows
New England, Is; Middle States, %; West
ern, q; Southern,E IS; Pacific States snt
Tarr;tor;as %. Canala "a and Nav, " orb