Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-16

GAZETTE.
Entered at the post-office at Rugby, Tenn.
as second-class mail matter.
Satuday, June 16, 1888.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
THE Mexican Chamber of Deputies
has passed bill authorizing the President
to settle the national debt.
The Irish members of Parliament
gave banquet to United States Senator
Jones, of Florida, at Westminster, Eng, on
the 9Th.
ALBERT c. Ives, late of the New
York Times, has sailed to take charge of
new American daily to be established in
Paris, France.
The members of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives have voted them.
selves an increase of pay from $500 to $3.50
for the session. Gs7 q
THE crop reports received by the
Agricultural Department at Washington
indicate that winter wheat is less promis-
ing than a month ago.
DURING the month of May the British
imports increased, as compared with last
year, by f32l 900; exports for the same
period decreased f54s,OOO.
AFTER the termination Of the Tur-
kish-American treaty next March, the i'm.
portation of American meats, lard, etc.,
into Turkey, is to be prohibited.
MERRIcK closed his argument before
the star-route jury at Washington on the
9Th: The arguments in the case began
April 10, more than seven weeks ago.
A CONVENTION of the Greenback
monopoly party held in Louisville,
KY, on the 9th appointed delegates to the
Autobiography Convention at Chicago,
July4.
The President has appointed William
Thomas, of Maine, Minister Resident to
Sweden and Norway, and David M. Dunn,
of Indiana, United States Minister to Val
paraiso.
The President of the New York Fish
Culture Association protests against the in
PRODUCTION of black bass in the Adirondack
region, fearing that they would extermi
nate the trout.
The recent execution of Suleiman
Daoud in Egypt raised a breeze in the Eng
lish Parliament few days ago, some of the
opposition claiming it was measure tc
shelter the Khedive.
ENCOURAGING reports have been re.
ceived regarding the cotton crop of the
region tributary to Memphis, Tenn. With
good weather from now forward the yield
it is said, will be a good one.
ELIPHALET CLARK, the Oldest homeo-
pathic physician in Maine, died at Port
land on the Sth, aged eigty-two years. He
was the founder, with DR.. Gray, of New
York, of the American Institute of Homeo.
pathy.
The President has designated St.
Vincent, Mimi, as the port from which i'm
ported merchandise may be shipped in
bond in transit through the United States
to and from the British possessions Of
North America.
UNITED STATES SENATOR G. H. VAN
WICK, of Nebraska, the other day ad
dressed letter to the Postmaster-Gener
setting forth an alleged fraud by which thu
mail route from Fort Nebraska to Dead
wood was established.
e
The Massachusetts Board of Chair
ties having elected Superintendent of tn
Tewksbury Alms-house, Governor Butte
the other day notified them that their &C
ton was invalid, as the right of nomination
belonged to the Executive.
ISAAC H. BROMLEY. of Connecticut
George G.. Haven, of New York; Watson
Parish, of Nebraska; Colgate Hoyt, O
New York, and Arthur L. Conger, of Ohio
have been appointed Government Director
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
The Indiana Greenback Stat,
Central Committee and other repre-
sentatives of the party were in session a
indianapolis, Ind, on the It'll, and resolve,
not to vecognize the Chicago Convention
nor join in the anti-monopolistic move
ment
ACCOUNTS received on the 9Th sal,
that sanguinary fighting took place on tn
I'd and Sd inst. in Albania, between Turks
troops under the command of Aysim Pash
and body of Castratis. The Turks wer
reported to have lost 1900 men and tn
Castratis 500.
The Second Auditor of the Treasur
the other day finished auditing the account
of surviving members of the crew Of tn
lost Arctic exploring steamer Jeannettt
and they were not allowed anything &c
their expenses while in Washington a
witnesses. They were limited to their pa
as seamen.
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