Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-02

PLATEAU GAZETTE.
Entered at the Post-ofice at Rugby, Tenn.
as second-class mail matter.
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Saturday, June 2, 1888.
ONE AND FOREIGN NEWS
THE Swedish Ministry has resigned in
consequence OF the de eat in the Diet of the
Army Organization bill.
The Russian Cars coronation &C.
CURED on the 9th with briilla ceremo-
MES and no interruption.
HE Cuban sugar crop is expected to
foll twenty-five per cent. snort of last
years, on account OF droug t.
UP to the 2.th inst. both the Demo
Gratis and Mahonsites sill claimed the ad
vantage in the late Virginia election.
THE Observation-Disclosures Celebration
of the United Presby erian Church was
held on the Goth inst, at Allegheny City,
Pa.
The publication of the Tralee Gre.
land> Sentinel, which was opped recently
by the authorities, has been resumed, but
the police remain in the establishment.
A MEETING of the Ohio Republican
Committee has been called to consider the
advisabilty OF postponing the State Con
vention till the Supreme Court passes on
the Scott liquor-tax law.
PRIME MINISTER DE PRETEs an
bounced in the Italian Chamber of Depu
ties ON the 22d that the Cabinet had re-
signed and he had been entrusted by the
King with the formation OF another Cabi.
net.
THE international exposition of rail
way appliances at the Exposition Building
in Chicago, opened on the oath. The May
or made speech of welcome, willie the
Hon. E. B. Washburne delivered the ad
dress of the evening.
PATENT COMMISSIONER MARBLE esti.
mates the receipts OF the United States
Patent Office for the current year will bt
$1,000, 900, or $90a, 900 more than last year
After July the force in the office will be
reduced twenty-one clerks.
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A RECENT tabulated statement made
by the Internal Revenue Department ows
there are over two hundred more distiller
les in operation in the United States thar
there were year ago, and the daily ca
pacity is over 25,00J,000 gallons greater
than in May last year.
THE total value of imports into the
United States for the twelve months ended
April 30, 1888, were: si33,l77,441; for tn,
year ended April 80, 1882, $7Js04427, in
crease, $..5,i53,004. Value OF exports o
merchandise for the year ended April 81
1000, tCll,O-l,c LILO pifN'ouo yCdi
S777,S75,SS1; increase, S3},7G1,573.
THE grand national competitive drill
and musical carnival a. Nashville, Tenn.
ended on the Goth. The infantry drill re
suited: Mobile Rifles, Mobile, Ala, frs
prize; Crescent Rifles, New o leans, sec
ond prize; Tredway Rifles, st. Louis, thi I'd
prize. In the artillery contest, Battery c..
Louisiana Field Artillery, captured frs
prize.
THE State Convention of the Ken
lucky Republicans concluded its session a
Lexington on the oath. The followin,
ticket was nominated: Thomas z. Morrow
for Governor; General S. s. Fry, Lieuten
ant-Gevernor; Lewis c. Garrisus, Attor
ney General; Leroy R. Hawthorne, Audi
tor; - Flournoy, Treasurer; j. B. Pink
erton, Superintendent of Public lnstruc
ton, and ]. w. Ashbury, colored, Registe
of the Land Office.
ARGENT decision of the Second Aud
itor of the Treasury that the acceptance Q
positions in the civil service deprives pei
sons on the retired list of the army of tn
latter honor and the accompanying emolu
ments affects General Daniel E. Sickle
equally with Colonel Dadeau, whose cas-
invoked the ruling. General Sickles ha
been drawing $1,000 a year as Brigadiel
General on the retired list since SO, in
Guiding the time he served as Minister
Spain.
AMID the booming of cannon, tn
shrill whistlings of thousands of steamer
and the plaudits of masses OF citizens, tn
great Brooklyn Bridge was formally pre-
Sented to the citizens of New York an
Brooklyn by the trustees on tile N5h, tn
President of the United States and officer
of his Cabinet, the Governor OF the $ ate q
New York and staff, Senators and Repre-
sentatives from many States and Terrific
ries, and the Mayors of both cities bein
approving witnesses of the ceremony.
A SENSATIONAL report reached Tomt
stone, Ariz., the other day, from Sonora,
the effect that General Crook an almost tn
whole of his comm md had been killed b
his Indian scouts, who had uinied, afte
the troops had penetrated The Sierra Mad
Mountains. Information hat had greite
appearance of authenticity than tine or
going has reached the Mexican Consulat
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