Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-23
Personal AND GENERAL

NEV AOnh PiouuCc ucuicIS uTc llil-
porting eggs in large quantities from Eu-
lope, the low prices at which they can be
bought in Denmark and elsewhere, it is
claimed, more than offsetting the greater
cost of transportation.
CERTAIN Mormon polygamists, who
had been disfranchised, under the Edmunds
law, have notified the Utah Commission,
in session at Salt Lake City, that they will
bring suits to test the validity of the law.
NICHOLAS l.. DUKES, who killed Cap
tain A. G. Mutt, Cashier Of the Pennsyl-
vania State Treasury, at Uniontown, Fay
cite County, Pa, on December oath last,
was himself shot and instantly killed on
the 18th, at Uniontown, by J. S. Mutt,
nineteen.year-old son of the deceased Cap
tain Mutt.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has written q
letter to the managers of the Southern FIX
position at Louisville, KY, expressing his
hearty approval of and sympathy with the
enterprise.
The observations by the United
States astronomical expedition at Caroline
Island, in the South Pacific Ocean, of the
total eclipse of the sun, in March last, were
highly success 'ul, although no trace was
found of the planet Vulcan.
The other day a man named Cody,
of Westville, jumped from moving train
near Carrollton, o., to get his hat, which
had fallen off, and dashed his brains out.
The volcano Cotopaxi was in erup-
ton on the 14th. Very severe earthquake
shocks lad occurred recently in Ecuador.
The Continental Guards of New.Or-
leans, La, were being entertained by the
| Lanciers of Boston on the 14th.
AARON Harris, negro, who had muir
dered an Irish peddler near Meridian,
Miss, was taken from Jail at Enterprise
the other night and lyrched.
At East Saginaw, Mich, few days
ago, a woman was fatally injured, together
with child which she was trying to rescue
from locomotive.
ADMIRAL JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER,
who quilted the United States Navy tor the
Confederate service and, at the close
of the war, entered the Peruvian
Navy, dropped dead few days ago at
Petersburg, Va. aged seventy-two years.
A SOCIETY for the removal of in
formers is said to have been organized in
Dublin, Ire land.
The village of Valloires, in the de-
partment OF Savoy, France, was burned a
escaped with their lives. All the live stock,
including 100 head Of oxen, persisted.
AHEAvY frost was reported at many
points in Central Illinois on the l4th.
The death list on the 14th included
Ex-Governor Charles J. Jenkins, at Angus.
ia, Ga; ex'United States Senator Casserly,
ct San Francisco, Cal; Judge William
Lilley, at Washington, D. c., and Zebina
Eastman, at Chicago, Ill. The last named
went to Chicago in 1889, and was a fore
most figure in the agitation for the aboli-
ton of slavery, publishing a paper known
as the Western Citizen to that end.
GEORGE MORRISON, the distributing
clerk in the Post-office at Cleveland, o., has
been arrested on charge of robbing the
mails at various times within year. He
made con ession.
PHILLIP SCHUELLER, of Portsmouth,
O., on returning home late the other night,
was Mortified to find his wife lying on the
floor at the bottom of the stairs dead, with
her neck broken. She had probably fallen
down stairs. .o.N
The president has appointed L. d.
Galligan, of Pennsylvania, United States
Consul at Novores isk, Russia.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire occurred at San
Mateo, Cal, the other morning. The water
gave out and ten buildings were burned.
The yacht Hebe capsized in squall
on Lake Champaign a few days ago and
the Captain and Mate were drowned.
The Indians at San Carlos, AT, pro-
test against the return of Crooks captives
to that reservation, as they think it will
surely lead to trouble. Secretary Teller
has directed that only children be sent
there, and he says the bucks must take care
of the women.
SOLOMON HEWITT and Willie Hardee
were legally hanged at Conway boro, s. c.,
on the 10th for the murder of Jeremiah
Stanley. A large crowd was present, but
the lawful number only were permitted to
see the execution.
The telegraph reported two more
lynchings on the 18th. Five hundred mask.
ed men visited Cheboygen (Mich.) Jail
overpowered the Sheriff and took Til War.
ner, the supposed assaulter of a young girl
named Nettie Lyons, to point outside the
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railroad viaduct. Jordan Corbin, who muir
dered Benjamin Garden and seriously
wounded his wife and son near Rockford
Coosa County, Ala, few days ago, was
taken from Jail and lynched by exasperated
citizens.
By terrific boiler explosion in a saw.
mill near Fortville, Ind, the other afternoon
one man was killed, another fatally scalded
and several others injured by flying debris
l CAPTAIN CLINTON SPENCER, Post.
master at Ypsilanti, Mich, has been sus
pended for deficit of 81 800 in his accounts
Great surprise was felt over the affair, as
he was highly respected. He lost leg al
Gettysburg.
A LARGE portion of the business par
of the town of Sterling, Ont. was destroyed
by recent fire, the loss being estimated al
$4,000.
WILLIAM A. SQUIRE, dry-goods com
} mission merchant at Philadelphia, Pa, dis
appeared the other morning on account o.
J a $50, 900 shortage in his accounts as agen
of the Mount Vernon Mills of Baltimore.
The British House of Commons ha.