Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-04-07
Personal AND GENERAL

2otn, ana were sentenced TO Ten years In
the Penitentiary.
TwENTY-oNE of the twenty-six per-
sons arrested at Balinrobe, Ireland, re-
Gently for completely in the murder of Fec
rick In June, 1880, have been released.
ASA 2. LEOPOLD, Treasurer Of the
Town Board of Crystal Falls, Mich. charged
with having left that town recently with
5000 Of the town funds and $1,000 short on
an old account, was arrested the other night
in Chicago, Ill.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
an act making gambling felony.
The Edison Electric Illuminating
Company has been organised; capital
$1,000,0O0. Ex-Governor Rice, of Massa-
chusetts, is President.
AN earthquake in the neighborhood
of Miskalez, Hungary, the other day, dur.
ing performance in theater, caused
panic, in which many persons were in
jured.
JOSEPH TYsowsKI, of Washington,
has been appoin, ID Chief of the Mineral
Division of the General Land-office, vice
Sickles, resigned.
The annual reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac will be held in
Washington, D. c., May 16 and II.
SEVERAL important rivers in Hun
gary had overhowed their banks on the
Goth, and number Of villages were threat.
ened.
The stockholders of the Philadelphia
(Pa.) Permanent Exhibition Company have
resolved to wind up the affairs of the com.
pany.
The death of General N. B. Buford
occurred at Chicago, ILL.,, few nights ago.
He graduated at West Point in 1927 and held
during the war of the rebellion. He was
born in Kentucky in 1907
In order to appease the demands of
the working people of Paris for cheaper
rents, the French Government has awarded
contract for the erection of large mum.
Der of dwellings.
The will of the late Gustavus s. Ben
son, of Philadelphia, Pa, disposes of prop.
erty amounting to 100000. He bequeaths
$4,000 to various Presbyterian institutions.
The enforcement of the Right-Rev.
Edward w. Benson as Archbishop of Can
terbury took place at Canterbury, Eng, on
the 10Th with appropriate ceremonies.
A BRIDGE of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company at Second street, Philadel-
phia, Pa, was torn down the other night by
laborers supposed to be in the employ of
the Newton Company.
The British Home Secretary, in re-
ply to questions asked by Captain o'Shea,
Member for Clare, said the inquiry by the
Police into the alleged attack upon Lady
Florence Dixie had been futile. He con.
firmed the statement that man, carrying
a box containing explosives, had been
arrested at Liverpool.
LOUISE MICHEL has been arrested
at Paris, France, charged with taking part
with mob in plundering bakery.
The death of Rev. Derment Cole
ridge, son of the celebrated poet, occurred
at London, Eng, few days ago.
COMPTROLLER LAWRENCE has rem
dered decision that the salary of Con.
gresham Ochiltree, of Texas, must be paid
to himself, Notwithstanding his indebted.
ness to the United States, on the grounds
that his Office is constitutional one, and
that if his salary was withheld he would be
deprived-of tie means of support, and his
constituents Of representation.
THREE men, FeatherstOne, O'Herlihy
tod <hn ;crb% haf,
were arraigned at Cork, Ireland, on the
30th ult., upon charge of being members
of a secret society having headquarters at
Cork. The object of the society was, &C.
cordi lg to the claims made by the authori.
ties, to commit murders whenever it was
believed such course would advance the
interests of their organization, and to blow
up buildings in the, principal cities of the
British Isles. Upon preliminary examin
alton bail was refused, it being strongly in
tirhated by counsel for prosecution that q
number of witnesses were ready to testify
in support of the charges. NJ
\ "A pAbGHfER Of 'ex-Secretary Harnil
ton Fish is to marry son Of Sir Stafford
u Northcote. In ~ =
The President has appointed E. o
Graves Assistant Treasurer of the Unitet
States, to fill the place of A. U. Wyman
promoted.
I CONSIDERA BILE, uneasiness has beer
reported among the people of Lorraine, VIII,
nourish bitter anti-German feeling.
"A DAUGHTER of ex-Secretary Hamil
ton Fish is to marry a son of Sir Staffort
Northcote. ,.
AT Greenfield, Mass, Conductor E
L. Hasley, of the New Haven & Northamp
ton Railroad, has been found guilty o
manslaughter, he disobeying the orders AM
causing a collision on the State Road las
September, in which three persons wer
killed and others wounded.
CAssIUs G. MERkLE, alleged abscond
/ ing member of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) pape
q manufacturing firm, which recently assignee
! byreason ofhis withdrawing large sums o
!, money from the partnership fund, has bee
arrested at Cincinnati, o.
8 The President has appointed E. O
!. Graves Assistant Treasurer of the Unite
e States to fill the place of A. U. Wymar
). promoted. s4 49, sr.-
Q THREE hundred and fifty emigrant
d left Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland, tn
4 other day for America. An immense thron
0 of people witnessed the departure.
LOUISE MICHEL has been arreste
at Paris, France, charged with taking pa,
with mob in plundering bakery.