Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A FIRE at Baltimore, Md, the other
night destroyed the phosphate works of
Bowen & Co., with contents, including 1000
tons OF phosphate, ten tons of sulpher and
sixty tons OF acid. The damage was esti-
maie(lat $1SO, 900 on buildings and machin-
cry and $50, 900 on stock Partially insured.
FATHER O'MALLEY, well known
priest OF Oshkosh, Wis, published a card
the other day pronouncing the recent mar
riage OF Mrs. McCourt and Senator Tabor as
null and void.
II was reported lately that the cap
tain of the steamer Yazoo, recently sunk in
the Mississippi River near Bonnet Carrie,
La, involving the loss OF a number of lives,
was acting under an expired license, and
would be prosecuted.
Two boys, aged about sixteen, while
trying to cross the river at Cincinnati, o.,
lately, were carried by the wind and cur
rent under barge and drowned.
AT Hartford, Conn, the house of two
maiden ladies named Judson was burned
the other morning and both ladies' persisted
in the flames.
RECENTLY submitted schedules of the
assignment OF Richard SalemDier, of New
York, importer OF laces, gave the liabilities
as $144, 346; actual assets, S46,424.
IT was said that the names of the four
Arkans as train robb rs were Monroe McDon-
aid, now wounded and in prison, aid Jim
Herndon, jim johnson and Governor john
son, who were still at large ON the 10th.
Two bloodhounds had been pressed into the
service of the hunters
WILLIAM HENRY and Caesar Bright,
coored tenants on the Barbee plantation, in
Mississippi, were in dug-out the other day
en- route to the house Of the owner for sup
plies, when the dug -out capsized and the
former was drowned. Bright chung to the
edge Of the boat and was saved.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, one hundred
and twenty five operatives in Greenlee &
Sons cotton mills struck recently for an ad-
vance in wages, and it was said were intim-
idating men willing to take their places.
w. II. UPSON, of Akron, has been
appointed and qualified Judge OF the Ohio
Supreme Court, vice Chief Justice White,
deceased.
De LFssEPs, the French engineer, has
gone to Tunis to direct surveys for the
flooding Of the desert.
In Uniontown, Pa, the other evening,
the jury which had been trying Dukes for
the killing of A. c. Mutt, returned ver-
dict of acquittal. Citizens of the county
were very indignant.
ALEXANDER JEFFERSON, colored, has
been found guilty Of the murder OF two COL
Ored people in Brooklyn, N. Y. Jefferson
tainted on hearing the verdict.
THE Coroner's Jury in the cases Of
Mrs. and Miss Wakeman, suffocated at the
recent fire in the Cambridge Flats in New
York City, censured the former owner Of
the building and the Inspector who let it
pass when in course Of erection.
THE steamer Dora Cabler collided
with the Enquirer near Lewisport, Ind, on
be Ohio River, the other night. The Cabler
sunk and burned TO the boiler.deck. All
hands were saved
THE Rhode Island Republican State
Convention has nominated A. 0. Bourne for
Governor and o. j. Rathburn, for L!euten-
ant Governor.
THE Maine Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 10Th.
The prohibition against importation
OF American hog products into Germany has
been officially gazetted and made AS sweep
ing as possible.
WILLIAM SPRAGUE has been nomi-
p,ta fnr nf Iulo Inv ho
Independent State Convention.
The circulation of q dangerous coun-
terfeit Of the standard silver dollar In Ohio
and Indiana has been reported. 1t has the
weight and ring of the genuine coin, and
resists the acid test.
THREE THOUSAND weavers in the
Huddersfeld (Eng.) District struck re-
Gently, owing to disagreement with the
masters regarding wages.
GENERAL CROOK has reported fifteen
Indians sick with smallpox near the At.
lautic & Pacific Railroad in Arizona.
THE Garfield Memorial Hospital fund
has received $3.50, through United States
Consul Denny, from Shanghai.
AN engineer was killed and several
, persons were wounded by a collision ninety
miles east Of Knoxville, Tenn, few days
ago.
CUsHMAN, the forger who swindled
the philosophers Of the Concord. Mass.
, school last summer, has been sent to prison
for five years.
JUDGE WILSON G. HOOVER, Associ-
: ate Justice of the Supreme Court OF Ari
IONA, has been suspended under charges o
bribery.
: SPONTANEOUS combustion caused the
I destruction of the Wabasha, MIMI, eleva
tor warehouse snd eight thousand bushels
> of wheat the other night.
. The question of successor to Treas
- urer Gillian has been settled by the pro
motion of Assistant Treasurer A. w. Wy
h man.
" PATRICK EGAN was the recipient o
e marked attentions from Irish sympathizer
n in New York City on the 18th.
: IT was said lately that foreigners con
u victed OF implication in the recent riots wer
u to be expelled from France.
" JAMES MULLETT, the informer, ha
: given information duplicating Patrick Egal
and others in the Dublin Qreland) murde
conspiracy.
= LOUISVILLE (Ky,) cigar-makcr
! threatened strike recently unless thei
. wages were increased one dollar per thou
~ sand.
70 Ii is rumored that the Wabash sys
:. tenn of railroads viii be leased to the Mis-