Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-07-21
GENERAL NEWS.

ParlS mas u ,UU0 American residents.
Orange Judd, the New York publisher, has
assigned.
A chair makers lockout is imminent in
New York City.
Edward Spencer, journalist and author, of
Baltimore. is dead
There are sixteen surviving officers who took
pant in the battle Of Waterloo.
The Buffalo police force now wear helmet
hats which are anything but pretty.
Queen Victoria, whose health is improving,
will return to Balmoral next month.
The whole eff the $50, 100000 of the Cana
dian Pacific Syndicate stock has been taken.
The business failures in the United States
last week number l3S-a fall off from the pre-
ceeding week.
In violent boiler explosion at Glen Falls,
N. Y, twelve persons were injured, some of
them seriously.
Stanley has been heard from up the Congo
river. Five of the Belgian members of his
party have died,
Our interest bearing debt is now $685.
229, l5O. or but little more than half what it
was at the close of the war.
Twenty five hundred pounds of powder ex-
ploded in Dupont's powder works, Wilmington,
Del. Only two men were killed
Van Wagner, an American lawyer has been
appointed English Commissioner to hear evil
dence in the Alabama Claim cases.
The Count de Chambord continues to i'm.
prove. The doctor now thinks he has iuflam-
nation, not cancer, of the stomach.
M. Washington has been appointed French
ambassador to England in place of NJ. Tissot,
who resigned on account of i'll health
The surviving members Of General John H.
Morgan's cavalry are to have a reunion at
Lexington. KY, Oh July "a, rs and rs.
The Spanish Cabinet has considered favor
ably the project Of France for the construction
OF a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar
The iron men at Wolverhampton, Stafford
shire have agreed to resume work at the re-
duction of wages. against which they struck
1t is stated that one ruby, found in Rabuu
County Georgia, is worth over $50 10, and is
the largest ever found on the American CONT
nent.
The only policeman in a New Hampshire
town was so excited over the arrival of ii G
circus that be got drunk and had to be carried
home.
Sweeney, charged with the murder of Lord
Mountmorris, has been liberated from custody
The police are said to have another clue to the
murderers
The Hanlan- Ross boat race at OgsdenLurg
N. Y, resulted in an easy victory for Hanlan
lie rowed over the four mile course in 27:57i
which is the best time ever made.
malignant type Of measles has broken Out
in st. Marys Industrial School, at Baltimore
occupied by four hundred and fifty boys. There
have been ten deaths since Wednesday.
The Marquis of Lanstlowne will sail from
London ON the steamer Circassan, on October
llth for Canada, to assume the duties OF tn,
J office Of Governor General of the Dominion.
DR.. Robert Ward OF England, has beer
appointed State Veterinarian for Maryland
He comes with an F. R. c. v. S. appended t.
his name and with frst-class recommends
ton.
! In the United tates Court Little Rock, OF
e Wednesday, Boswell the leader of the yiul
gang of counterteiters, and J. A. Powell wer
/ convicted and each sentenced to two years
a Detroit and $500 fine.
The German National Zeitung approves tn
protest Of the English people against the Sue
Canal agreement. and proposes that all mara
time powers buy the canal and place it uude
the control of an international commission.
e During game of lawn tennis at St. Cutll
bert's England, young army officer name
DeVere suddenly drew revolver and she
0 Miss Mckay, beautiful young lady, deat
y He then blew out his own brains. Jealousy
y supposed to have caused the tragedy.
n A company has been incorporated at Char
: lotte, N. c.. with capital of $2OUO,OOO ft
e the purpose Of conducting the gold mimi.
It business in that State on an extensive sea
e The property of the company embraces twenty
II two gold mines, varying in the value of the
J. assays.
II Attention, Young Men.