Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-05-12

Entered at the Post-otfice at Rugby, Tenn,
as secondclass mail matter.
SATURDAY, Nay u, 1888.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
TIE annexation of New Guinea TO
Queensland has been app goYed by the Aus
tralian Colonial Government.
THE State Auditor OF Iowa has re-
voked the certificates of a number Of Llu-
tual life insurance companies.
THE Iowa Republican State Commit
tee has fixed the date of the State C0nv, IL
ton on June q, at Des Moin"s.
THE death OF Rev. Josiah Hendcr-
son, Mrs. Stoves "Unclo Tom," occurred
at Dresden, Ont, on the 9TH inst
THE New Brunswick Legislature has
protested against an act of the Dominion
Parliament restricting salmon fishing.
A BILL prohibiting tree passes being
granted to any one except railroad employees
and officers has passed the New y ork As
sembly.
A MARRIAGE has been arranged be-
tween the hereditary Prince of Anhalt and
the second daughter of the Crown Prince Of
Germany.
BRITISH troops have been ordered to
Port Said, Egypt, where a committee is in
quiring into the causes of recent disturb
ances there.
The Mexican Government has made
contract for the improvement OF Vera
Cruz Harbor. The work will cost 1,037 900
Mexican silver dollars.
THE movement of stock had begun in
the Indian Territory on the I'd, and the
prospect was that the drive would be large
ly in excess of that of last year.
AN official telegram from Minaliltan,
Mex, announces work has begun ON the
EadsTehuantepec Ship Railway III thepres.
ence of federal and local authorities.
THE President has appointed William
S. Woods District Judge fer the Seventh
District of Indiana in place of Walter O.
Gresham, appointed Postmaster-General.
MINISTER MORTON has presented
President Grevy a souvenir album giver
by the citizens of Providence, r. l., il
honor of the Frenchmen who lell at York
town.
TIE Governor of New York has
signed law providing that County Super
visors must provide intcrment,and suitaol,
lead-boards for deceased soldiers, sailor.
and marines.
THE Treasury Department has de-
cided the Government has no title to certain
lands in Fernandina, Fla, soil .or direc
taxes in 1863. The pro erty in controversy
is valued at II 30 ,0)0.
AT The National Liberal Club ban
Oue5 at London, Eng, the other evl nu.
Mr. CI,dsfobn .sid tne (nv.rn,nnnt bo,
met dangers from al unseen agency, sccre
societies, success ully.
CHIHUAHUA Apachcs say that Charlie
McComas, whose father ana mother wer
massacred near lordsburg, n. NJ, by III
Indians RECENTLY is aliv, and well anon,
the Indians in Mexico.
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IT was reported on the 81 that in con
sequence OF revelations by informers tw
hood had lately left Comfy Armagh. Ire
land, tor parts unknown.
LIE mPetlhg OF hing mum 1ett c
LAZY and emperor Francis JoaepH @ Au'
tria, which was lohaye taken pilce at Be-
tbe 9th Of noxt woyemhar
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AT It's one hundred anu fifteent
annual meeting, on the Sd, the New Yor
Chamber OF Commerce reelected Georg
w. Lane President A memorial sketch {
HE Dublin (lreland) grand jury rt
turned Il large number of indictments o
the 3D., among which were true bills againE
lyman, John Walsh and p. j. Sheridan lc
murder. These three are in America.
The business failures throughout tn
United States and Canada during the sevc
days ended on the 4th numbered l52, g