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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10
FROM sKENz.

Dear Editor, The change | spoke
of in my last has taken place, Mr..
Orlow Babcock now distributing the
mail for this district in the room
of Mr.. Skene, who resides in Wells
vile, N. Y.
Christmas is once again a thing Of
the past, but it will be a long day
before it slips the memories Of those
who came to this village from far
and near. The reason was, we had a
magnificent and heavy-laden Christ
mas tree-quite novel thing to very
many. The day was delightful, and
by l Pm. the house was densely
packed with eager expectants. After
a very appropriate prayer by the
Rev. A. G. Peters. came an hours
entertainment consisting of decla-
nations and dialogues, interspersed
with music. Then came the draw
ing of the curtain showing grand
tree-a mass of glittering presents,
varying from a five cent whistle up
to a $50 sewing machine. The worth
of the contents of the tree was esti-
mated at from SO to 500. Now,
Messrs. Editors, l do not say a sew
ing machine hung on the tree, but
it stood close by ready for the hang
man. 1t is needless to say the sur
prise and JOY of the recipient was
great. When credit is due to one
and all it is hard to name names,
but great praise is due to Mrs.
Macklnlay for a host of ingeniously
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10
When England went into Egynt G,

When England went into Egypt
and so completely laid the dustraised
by Arab Pasha, it was not antici-
pated, except as a remote possibility,
that British troops would shortly be
required there again, and against an
apparently more formidable man
than the exile of Ceylon. But such
seems now. and soon, to be the case,
for Ell Mahdi, the False Prophet, is
having his own way entirely. His
supporters, too, are full of the Wild
est religious enthusiasm, which gives
him an impetus greater than that of
patriotism or promise of plumber.
Cabinet Councils, are frequent in
London, and the press and the peo-
pie are absorbed by this new trouble
to British ascendancy in Egypt.
Preparations are being made for
sending out an expedition, but it is
likely troops from India will be alb
Solutely necessary to meet the enemy
and the climate.
Mr.. Gladstone will have his hands
more than full, and should he be
able to ride out the storm of foreign
war, and at home the equalizing of
the borough and county franchises,
keeping one foot upon Ireland in the
meantime, he will indeed be a Grand
va Man.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10


contrived presents which gladdened
the little ones, also to Mrs. N. D.
Allen, George and Sam Galloway,
William Billiard, Dove Carpenter
and Andy Peters. TO them our
great success was largely due. We
must not, too, forget the kindness of
Mrs. 0. Babcock, who read beauti-
full selection, nor Miss Fannie Bah
cock, who gave very cute little
speech of welcome to our Christmas
tree. G. w. B.
Alderbrook.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10

The placing of Alfred Tennyson
among theBritish peers has naturally
drawn attention to what was but
generally little known-his splendid
ancestry. In his veins runs more
than "the blood of all the Towards, !"
for through them courses that Of
sixteen English kings, several kings
of Scotland, nine French kings, an
.Eycaers,, . ", e
Earls, and gentlemen Of high degree,
and last, ut surely not least, two
Saints. He has, however, with a fine
sense never paraded his ancestry,
but on the contrary says
Trust me-
From YIN blue heavens above us bent
The erahd old gardener and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.
However ft be, it seems to me.
Ills Only noble to be good; y
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10
OUR CLIMATIC ADVANTAGES.

There is q happy mean of climate
in East Tennessee, and in no section
is it more marked than upon .he
these table-lands of the Cumberland
mountains, that is much appreciated
by the residents Of the far North
and far South. One is not burned
up here at one season of the year
and frozen out the next, and the first
three seasons are not all spent in
preparing for the, fourth. Each
season is in perfection, with not too
much of one and not too little Of
the other.
The man or family settling among
the northern SHOWS may buffet for a
time, for years, perhaps, the in
clemency of the weather, but unless
the constitution is an exceptional
one, the health finally breaks down,
and a move must be made to more
genial cline, or the quiet Of the
. srq, ..slrsi'- ss7>'..s,rsA.es-is9
comes from the far South, where,
during a large portion Of the year,
fevers, insects, and heat annoyances
are such as to drive all those who
can move, into higher ATTITUDES. For
instance, the peculiar climate of
Florida is one that requires appren-
|ticing to, and then, not infrequently,
when its character has been APP
parently assimilated by the system,
the constitution breaks down, or be-
comes so enervated as to leave but
little of that yigor characteristic Of
sound health. r
1t does not signify where in the
world u man lives if against the rich
est soil may be placed poor health.
That gone, all is gone. This all pro-
fess to know, but thousands run the
risk for the sake of quicker gains,
and find, too late, their error. Others
far wiser turn aside where the health
lis threatened, whilst those who find
unkindly climates beginning to tell
upon them do the best they can by
moving away while they have power
to do so.
There is now quite steady stream
of families coming South from Can
ada and the border States, glad tc
resign the hard seasons with THEN
uncertain results of farming,-albeit
the soil is excellent,-for the maybe
lighter soils, but the equable climate
of the Middle South.
The Cumberland Plateau offers 8
home to great numbers, and very
many families are availing them
selves of its advantages. Rugby and
the surrounding district have seer
during the past year a large acces-
sion from the North, and it will be
quite safe topredict large increase
for the coming year.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10
PERSONAL.

I'lo =, !, i.ce the last issue of the Plateau
,,s ,sSa -,x r. x ffu nsao ,rasi uU>i nus re-
'sumed editorial care of the paper,
and it will henceforth be conducted
by him. The proprietary and bust
ness management, however, will re-
main as heretofore.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10

There is wide and open field in
the South for some ingenious me-
chanic to invent and build a machine
to clean the cotton notes so as to
make them presentable for CONVEX
sion into paper pulp. Thousands
of tons of this valuable fibre are
thrown away annually.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10

9ITTLE ROCK. ARKANSAS
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Ten thousand men are at work
on the Panama Canal.
Upon the reassemblingof Congress
670 bills were introduced.
A verdict Of mot guilty has been
rendered in the Emma Bond case.
1t is said that 432 gentlemen in
New York City may be classed as
millionaires.
Queen Victoria has published
"More Leaves from a Journal of
Life in the Highlands from 1862 to
1882"
The Indiana State Geologist re-
ports that there is a natural gas, with
strong pressure, underlying Harrison
county.
II .If
Pedestrians are crossing the Mis-
sissippi River on the ice at Alton,
ILL.,, and the people are skating on
it back Of Cairo.
The dam of the Huron Mine, in
the Lake Superior copper district,
burst New Years morning and
drowned six persons.
.IJsnry Willard has resigned tie
PRESIDENCY Of the Northern Pacific,
and made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors.
A tradesman of Paris, with a de-
sire to commit suicide, placed about
his neck a flexible iron tube filled
with an explosive. He was blown
to shreds.
The French Government is said to
contemplate selling the State rail-
ways to the Rothschilds, representing
great syndicate. The price named
is 42O,OOO,OOO francs.
Governor Knott, in his message
to the Kentucky Legislature, indig-
nantly denies that human life is held
in slight regard in that State, as can
be shown by criminal statistics.
The Convent of the Immaculate
Conception, in Belleville, ILL.,, has
been totally destroyed by fire. Of
the sixty pupils and several teachers
in the building, twenty-five young
women and five teachers have per-
ished.
A regular train on the Grand
Trunk railroad collided witha freight
that was running without orders, neal
Montreal, A coach filled with the
employees of the Boland Iron Works
was telescoped. Nineteen of its pas
sengers were killed, and seven more
have since died.
Stock trains have been blockaded
on nearly all the roads leading into
Chicago. Fifty cattle in Wabash
train, which was stalled for two
days, were found dead. One-tentll
of the hogs received at the stock
yards since the storm began have
been found dead. Much of the stock
in transit from the Northwest must
have persisted.
Egypt has notified England that
the present state of things cannot
continue. There must be decision
on the Soudan question. If England
refuses assistance Egypt will aban-
don Eastern Soudan to Turkey and
reduce her tribute to the Porte The
Egyptian Cabinet have resigned. Ell
Mahdi is reported to be gaining
ground, and the revolt is spreading
northward. Councils are frequently
held in London over the situation.
No orders have been given, but it is
known.that twelve thousand soldiers
are held in readiness for embark
alton.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10

There is strong evidence of the
prosperityof the United States in the
simple fact that farmers are lessen
ing their mortgaged Indebtedness,
which, according to the Baltimore
american, has decreased rs per
cent. What volumes this little fact
speaks!
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10

1t is said that emigrants coming
from Europe to Georgia are told
upon their arrival at Castle Garden
that they will be sold into slavery in
the South.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10
OVER THE STATE.

horristowh Will probably have a
WOODEN mill.
Paris has a large demand for
cottages to rent.
Wheat is reported as looking we'll
all over the State.
In Hartsville apples are worth
more than oranges.
ThePresidentappoints twenty-four
postmasters in Tennessee.
A patent roof manufactory is to
be started in Chattanooga.
Large quantities of tan bark are
being shipped from Newport.
The large tannery at johnson City
will soon commence operations.
The Nashville Sunday law has
been declared unconstitutional.
The steamboat P. Dickson is now
plying between Loudon and King
StOn.
johnson City is to have an ex-
tensive spoke and hub factory in the
near future.
Corn is selling at someplaces along
the Tennessee river, in the heap, at
Sl.50 per barrel.
The cranberry crop Of Carter Co.
is larger this'season than has ever
been known before.
The Polk county Msvs is agitating
the erection of railroad to run
through that county.
The cotton ginned in this county
up to Christmas is worth 100000.
-PoM County News.
At Wilson, on Friday evening,
Jordan's Hall was totally Destroyed
by fire. Loss about $50, OQG>
n ; .t.. of ~ K,iitx 4 -
Cheese Factory and Creamery has
been registered at the Secretary of
States office.
DIR. David Morrow, Of Gadsden,
while suffering from temporary in
sanity, drowned himself in the Coosa
river, few days ago.
The Courthouse at Jacksboro.
Campbell county was destroyed by
fire Saturday, Dec. Goth. The loss
will be about $4,000.
Some parties on Chicamauga
creek, near Chattanooga, think they
have found both coal and petroleum
on the flat creek bottom.
The printing Office of the Roane
county Republican, at lockwood,
was burned on Christmas day. Loss,
$4,000; insurance $1,000.
Morristown and Athens have been
made fourth-class Presidential post
offices-the salary of the first fixed
at $1,000 and the latter at $1,000.
Chitwood, in Scott county, close to
the State line, is called the Gfetna
Green of Tennessee. 1t is we'll
patronized by couples having unkind
parents.
The total number of marriage
licenses issued in Roane county
during the year 1888, was l4S. The
total number for the preceding year
was Isl.
An eagle with stecl-trap and
chain attached was captured the
other day at Bald Creek, near the
State line. 1t measured seven feet
from tip 70 tip.
d. NJ. Coffman, publisher of the
lockwood Republican, has organized
a stock company, consolidated his
paper with the Kingston Patriot, and
will issue the Roane County RepuJ-
Iican from Kingston.
Tennessee has school fund of
100000 annually for 100000
population, out of which less than
100000 enroll in the public schools,
while the daily attendance is less
than 100000; only two-ffths of the
children attend school.
Says an East Tennessee exchange:
Wouldn't it be better to use our
Penitentiary convicts in building
turnpikes and railroads rather than
in competing with honest artisans in
3 Mtddta Tapuaccao ond ,.,tL Lx1ll
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-10

A cool, bracing, healthful mountain air.
Woods Astounding in game, VIZ, deer, tur
keys pheasants, quail, squirrels. etc.
ADJUSTMENTS OF all kinds, VIZ, lawn tennis,
croquet, ball games, swings, etc. -a
The elegant Hughes Public Library
Charming walks and views along the river
\ The hotel, having wide double verandahs on
hree sides. is beautifully located in its own
enclosure OF five acres OF or ,ssy lawn, flower
beds, play grounds, pet deer park and native
forest trees.
Pleasant, light, airy rooms completely fnr-
nished and excellent, wholesome. home- like
board at very, reasonable prices.
Round trip tickets from Cincinnati or Chat
tanooga over the Gin. Sou. Railway at low
rates.
For illustrated guide books, maps and further
information please address
ABNER L. ROSS, Jr., PROPRIETOR
q
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-11-01

woke one day to find that youth was
with time, who takes gooG things
and i'll.
To join a vague procession, ever grow
ing.
or ghosts who people dreamiand still:
Those whom the years have rent world
wide asunder,
Old friends once daily looked upon;
No doubt; and do some still regret, |
wonder,
The glad Old days, the good time
gone?
Time rakes away his dust-heap Of dead
roses,
Ofempty cups, of broken vows,
Spent love; and all dim memory dis
closes,
The morning after Youths course;
he shows us shades of unforgotten
faces,
We hear the voices far away,
Of jewellers, who leave us still some
traces
OF songs whose echoes haunt old halt
ing-places,
Where night was often turned to day.
And many rest in sleep by dreams UNI
broken,
BY winds unswept, by stars unseen,
Never to speak again as they have
spoken,
Or know lost joys that might have
been.
When slow-departing summer day yet
fingers,
Between the purpling western bars,
When winds sound faint, as if some
far-off singers
Were touching harps with tired, tremb-
ling fingers,
We see lost eyes smile in the stars.
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The OLD ROUND TOWER
Those who visit Newport, Rhode Is
land, are shown the old round tower
which is one Of the chief attractions
of this place. This was probably
built by the Norsemen early in the
thirteenth century, and was used
by them as a tower in which to flee
for safety when attacked by the
natives. 1t was their tower Of safe
Ity, and ii it could talk what vol
1umes of history it could relate. just
as tower Of safety to the early dis
.coverak of America, SO is PERUNA to
the citizens of our country to-day.
AS it is prepared exclusively from
vegetable compounds, and contains
no poisonous minerals,it is peculiar
ly adapted to all who need tonic
for their worn out systems. Ask all
your druggists for PERUNA, aud for
DR.. S. b. Hartman's treatment on
the ellis of Life" or address DIR. 5.
B. Hartman 81 Co., Columbus, y.
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The Sarcastic Young
Woman.

Insufferable though the giggling,
gushing girl may be, she is angelic
when compared with her sarcastic
sister. The, SARCASTIC girl is, in
some instances, the product Of
hasty or illadvised compliment
paid her by some thoughtless adj
mirer on her making some spite
full criticism, or some rude remark
concerning an acquaintance or
companion.
She has not the ability to dis
tinguish between impudence and
satire, and it is an easy task to
convince her thatill- bred rudeness
of speech is the perfectionof irony,
and that to say spiteful and I'm
pleasant things to everybody she
meets is sure to win her the rep
utation Of being sarcastic. She
eagerly cultivates her fancied tai
emit, not allowing an opportunity
to exercise it to pass unimproved,
and she generally succeeds in max
ing herself heartily disliksd by
those who are unfortunate enough
to be numbered among her nc.
quaintances.
Young men, who are generally
sensitive to ridicu)e avoid her
systematically. She attributes this
to the wholesome fear in which
she is held. The family think her
brilliant when every one else pro
nounces her insulting. Her sar-
casm generally degenerates into
insolence, and she is regarded az
a pest. Without friends, she be-
comes lonely and dissatisfied, but
is still far from guessing the true
reason Of her forlorn state, for she
cannot estimate it's disagreeablt
effect upon others.
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Somerville Journal.

DO you know said an OK.
tremely vivacious young lady to
her excessively bashful sutton, "do
you know, George, that young la
dies like to be told that they are
pretty and attractive, whether so
or not?"
Il would not think of telling
you any such thing said George,
CALAMITY, ''for your looling-glass
tells you better than / could that
You are as handsome as a picture,
really"
"Oh, George ~
"You have the prettiest face and
the smallest waist / ever saw
"1he smallest waist II my
waist is small it is certainly not
because Of having been squeezed,
George"
He tainted.
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No, bat | may try to be as
sistant editor--a little. Indeed
/ think / will be the girl you had
|set your heart on getting
told you the truth when SAID
| had perfected myself in steno
graphy, thanks to papa. lie
said that we girls must be able
to take care of ourselves il he
couldn't take care Of MS. You
may talk as fast as you please
and ! will give you back every
word just as you said it, with
the is crossed and rs dotted,
Try mer'
"I'll take your word for it. III
take your word for everything,
even on April tirst--I say, Hunt /!
Hunt" he called, and his friend
and Kate entered the room. Il
have the best ofthe joke after all.
Ihave secured that stenographerla
sMr. Moore and Mamie exchang-
ed glances of intelligence and the
former said: "You have the proof
of short poem in your pocket,
sit down with your back to the
audience, and don't look around,
on your honor"
Mamie produced from her
pocket a small note book and
pencil. "Now read he conclud-
cd, and Mr.. Hunt read the brief
poem rapidly.
"Now, Mary Rivers, it's your
turn" and Mamie laughingly
read the poem aloud from her
notes.
Hunt looked at the blushing girl
Md his friends excited, happy
ice and said, II congratulate
bul No one ever turned his
First of April experience to bet
til account.-Pouline S. Roe.
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An Iowa CQurtship.

One night a young doctor Of
Newton Centre, Iowa, escorted
the daughter Of prominent and
wealthy citizen to church. The
father Of the girl had forbidden
her to accompany the young man.
When church was out the father
Law in wait behind tree for his
daughters companion and jump
ed out upon him as he passed by.
He seized the young man by the
throat and tore his collar off and
the bosom out of his shirt. The
old gentleman then ran away. The
doctor went on home with the la
dy as though nothing had hap
pened. When she entered the
house her father took her to the
parlor, and, pointing to the doc
tors shirt bosom, which he had
tackled to the wall, said: II in
tend to have it framed" Mon
day the doctor saw the old gen.
tleman passing his office. The
story Of the shirt bosom was al
ready known about the village.
The young man rushed out, drag
ged his Sunday night assailant
into his office and compelled him
to take off his white shirt. At
taching to itthis placard: "A con-
tribution for a coward" he fast
ened the garment to a pole and
hung it out Of his Office window.
Since then the father Of the young
lady has apologized to the doc
tor and invited him to call on his
daughter as often as he pleased.
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The other day the driver Of Il
! Huntingdon Avenue ear saw u
boy slip softly mp on the rear
platform, and he presently called
to him to vacate. The boy re-
piled BY making faces.
II tell yon to GET"
The boy elevated his nose.
The driver seized his whip and
the boy winked at him.
Whip in hand the driver drop
ped off the car to make good his
threat but as he grabbed the rear
railing he missed it and sprawled
in the street, while the horses
logged along at such gait as
made it necessary to run over two
blocks to overtakc the car. The
boy meanwhile INDUCED in grins,
chucklcs, cackles, outlaws and
gyrations, but as the driver got
within ten feet Of the he walk
ed in,deposited his fare in the box
and came out to cody observe:
Elm passenger now, and you
larrup me if you want the COM
pany sued for 10000"
The driver didn't
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Important.

When you Wis, or leave New York
City, save baggal expressage and car
riage hire and stop at the Grand Union
Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot. 81
egant rooms fitted up at 4 cost Of one
million dollars, reduced to ST and up
wards PER day. European plan Eleva-
tor. Restaurant supplied with the best
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad
to all depots Families can live for less
money at the Grand Hotel than at any
other 6rst.slass hotel 10 the city.
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PosIrIvE CURE FoR PILES. TO the peo-
pie Of this County we would say we have
been given the Agency OF DR.. Marchisi's
Italian Pile Ointment emphatically
guaranteed to Cure or money refunded
Internal, External, Blind, Bleeding or
Itching Piles. Price Soc. Box. No
Cure, No Pay. For sale by J. A. G..
Hover, Druggist. June 7.ly.
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Fast Mail and N. Y. Express run daily
from Hagerstown to Harrisburg, and
Southern Mail from Harrisburg to Hag-
erstown.
If BOYD, Superintenden,
FL. B. GERnARDT, Agent.