The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-01-27

THE RUGBEIAN,|
AND DISTRICT REPORTER,
Entered at the Post-office at Rugby, Tenn,
as second-c class mail matter.
SATURDAY, january 9th, 1888.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
THE Quebec, Cana, Legislature
opened its session on he 18Th.
s
PIP. PICKARp, of Perry County, has
been elected Comptroller OF the Tennessee
Treasury.
THE President has signed the Pendle-
ton Civl.service bill and it is now law
Of the land.
SENATOR HoAR was reelected United
States Senator by the Massachusetts Legis-
lature on the 18th.
THE fifteenth annual meeting of the
Women's Board of Missions was held at
Boston on the 18th.
TWENTY-FIVE earthquake shocks were
reported to have occurred in Murcia,
Spain, on the 18th.
The Italian Financial Commission
lately decided that specie payment should
be commenced in April.
OVER $4,000 had been subscribed at
Providence, r. l., recently for an equestrian
statue of General Burnside.
THERE were 277 business failures in
the United States during the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 262 for the pre-
yious seven days.
IT was reported at Gloucester City,
N. j., few days ago that the Ancona Prin
Works were about to resume work. They
employ 300 hands.
A PROSPECTING expedition which
went to the upper waters Of the Yukor
River in Alaska recently discovered grave
deposits averaging 81. so to the pan.
THE Illinois Legislature elected Shelby
M. Cullom United States Senator on tn,
18th and the North Carolina Legislature
re -elected Senator Ransom on, the same
day.
IT was reported that smallpox hat
developed in the lumber camps near Ra
Portage, Manitoba, the other day, and tn
Government had sent out physicians ant
nurses.
THE Supreme Court at Providence
r. l.. recently decreed that the holders o
trust notes against the Sprague estate wer
to have dividend Of ten per cent, the frs
in eight years.
GEORGE DARWIN, son of the lat
Charles r. Darwin, the evolutionist, ha
been elected Professor of Astronomy ant
Experimental Philosophy in Cambridg
University, England.
TIE rubber manufacturers of thu
United States, recently reported as about t
form combination, met at New York tn
other day but failed to unite on plan t
control the gum trade.
The Oxford Iron Works at Belvidere
N. j.. which had been idle for some tim
past, were the other day reopened by new
company. The works, it was said, employe,
several hundred hands.
THE Comptroller of the Currency a
Washington has authorized the old Nations
Bank Of Cambridge, O., to commence bust
ness with capital Of $1,000, 900 to succee
the First National Bank.
IT was said lately that Japan wa
about to adopt the American system of rail
road building, and had organized unto
steamship company, with capital {
$4,000, 200, to develop the trade of the En-
pire.
IT was said lately that there was
proposition for the State Of New York
purchase some 5000 acres Of land in Il
Adirondack region and make public par
of it, on the same plan as the Yellowstol
project.
A TELEGRAM from Cairo, Egypt, o
the 18th, stated that fight had occurre
between body of 800 Egyptian troops al
the forces Of the False Prophet. Two hu,
bred and forty Of the former were killed ar
the remainder taken prisoners.
THE Marquis of Harrington, IL
British War Secretary, in recent speech
London, Eng, declared that home ru
could never he permitted in Ireland, al
secuted the idea that the Government shou
find funds to establish peasant propri
tary.
A MANIFESTO issued by Prince Nap
leon was published by the Paris (Franc
Figaro the other day and also placarded
the streets. The Prince was arrested al
the newspaper seized. The Prince said
issued the proclamation because everythil
was going wrong in France.
In the case of Engineer Melville,