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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

The very latest sensation is a let
ter found among Thurlow Weeds
papers, and fathered upon Judah P.
Benjamin. 1t is dated "New York;
August IL, 1861" but has no sig
nature. The writer, however, goes
into a big business, deliberately pro-
posing to his confdant, the British
Consul in New York, the return OF
the South to its old allegiance to
Great Britain. He goes quite fully
into particulars of the scheme, which
he says is so well understood by
Southerners that many of them are
already giving each other aristo-
cratic titles! There is much about
the letter and its production sug-
gestivee, 81 49,! fs~rl somewhere. Il
cana tse re- ppadeAt Mary loi,nsArfsssf's n y
ipdfLltal capital.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

The escape of prisoners from gaols
in Tennessee is a common occur
renee, and there are, we suppose,
few gaolers in the State who can re-
port during the past year no escape
OF condemned men from the punish
ment they were undergoing. Where
does the fault lie, in the buildings
or in the gaolers? We should say
in both; many of the smaller county
prisons are but log cabins, and the
prisoners little less than boarders.
When we occasionally hear of men
escaping from strongly built and
well disciplined gaols, it is not to be
wondered at that desperate men
will and can break out of little less
than shanties, and from guards
whose oversight is, not unfrequently,
little more than friendly detention.
The security Of prisoners is a matter
of first moment, the chances Of es-
cape. at present, being in favor OF
the condemned.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

At Nashville, on Saturday, Judge
Freeman gave the opinion of the
Supreme Court, in two test cases,
declaring the amendment made III
1883 to the act Of 1877, commonly
known as the Four mile law, to be
unconstitutional as applied to taxing
districts of the second class. The
Court re-affirmed the constitu-
tionality Of the law of 1877,
but ruled out its amendment in
Guiding taxing districts, as partial
and not general law, and therefore
unconstitutional. Taxing districts
of the second class must be treated
rs Incorporated towns, which are not
affected by the Four-mile Law.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

The genius of Bartholdi runs to
statuesque freedom. 1t carves in
stone liberty in many guises, but
liberty all round. The artists most
prominent piece Liberty Enlighten-
ing the World" is now ready for
erection, and will be shipped from
Paris to its grand position in New
Y ,rk harbor as soon as the structure
t, receive it is completed. The sister
republic paid up nobly to second its
idea of presenting America with Il
statue of Liberty, and it is a little
surprising the nation so much in
cIebted to the French should be
somewhat slow in paying for the
pedestal. 1t is scarcely because the
love Of liberty or spread-eagleism is
declining.
When the colossal figure with its
torch, the symbol of the light of
freedom, towers above the waters of
the bay, where SO many have an
chored and will yet anchor, it will be
a fitting monument in the right
place, "Holding out a beacon fearless
to the oppressed of aA the world!'
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

"When man marries his troubles
"begin" is an old adage Mr.. Fred
erick Douglass, the eminent leader
of the American Negro, has by this
time found to contain some truth
that is if he pays any attention to
the white and black remarks about
his marriage, last week, to Miss
Pitts, of the Caucasian race. How
ever, as the bridegroom is prett.
tough advocate of his race, and the
bride is a "wOman's advocate" Of
hers, the criticism will not cu1
deeply.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

During Saturday night hurri-
cane ofunprecedentedviolence occur
red in England and Ireland. Among
the damage done may be enumerated
the total destruction of Port Erin
breakwater, Isle of Man, costing
100000; the Australian bark Criet
wrecked off Lands End, with loss of
life; the ship Juno, for Calcutta,
foundered in the Mer>ey, with loss
of twenty-five lives; railroad train
in Ireland overturned, and sixty
yards of railroad embankment swept
away; the ship Nokomiis' and crew
lost; along the south coast much
damage to Shipping and parades; the
glass roof of Westminster Aquarium
demolished; printing office in the
Haymarket un: oofed; a public hall
at Portsmouth destroyed; fall of an
iron chapel at Newcastle, killing
three persons; many houses unroofed
in Newry, Ireland, with other catas-
trophies and loss of life. Altogether,
the storm was the severest Of recent
years, and had tonch Of the sever
ity belonging to winds out West.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

There is enough material upon
this Cumberland Plateau to.furnish
the themes of a dozen good roman
ces. These businesses, till within
quite recent years, were sealed to
the outside world, hut few coming
up from or going down into it, be-
fore the locomotive reared through
the forests. The war illumined it
with its red glare, leaving behind
many a tale untold in print, and
there are Indian legends, hunters
marvellous variations, love pastorals
and tragedies, illicit Installations,
and the thousand virtues and crimes
Of the world, but all unknown to it.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

Sullivan, the great Boston "Slug-
GER" has arrived at San Francisco,
meeting with reception,it is some
what sad to think, no other Boston,
ian could receive there or elsewhere.
Six thousand admirers of the man
of art and muscle, went out to give
him welcome and fully sixteen hun
dred cheering men and boys sur
rounded his carriage to the Palace
Hotel, where he is now besieged by
the worshiprers of his proves.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

American silk culture is best un-
derstoud by a Philadelphia girl OF
sixteen years of age. Her name is
Nellie +. Rossiter. and the book she
has recently published is acknowl-
edged to be the standard authority
upon every detail of the industry
Her silk productions, too, at all the
exhibitions, have taken the highest
premiums.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
The Chinese are showing mucl

The Chinese are showing much
energy of defense but they will
not hold their own against the
French. They may be better pre-
pared than ever before for a con-
test with a Western power, but
when the armies of the Republic
get fairly down to work the French
will do pretty much as they like,
and the Celestials will have to foot
the bill. All this is only supposing
the French will have the whole affair
all to themselves, which. at times,
seems doubtful.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
Fifty-two noblemen and gentle

Fifty-two noblemen and gentle
men, the cable tells us, are to be
prosecuted at the notorious Bow
Street police court, London, for gam
bling in their rooms at the Park Club.
Perhaps it is only right that St.
James should occasionally take pot
luck with St. Giles. The excitement,
too, of baccarat, is much of the
same kind as that of "heads | win,
"tails you lose
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

In the course Of a few years Ten
nessee will hold first rank in the
business of making iron. Its facil-
tiles all point that way. In the Eas,
it costs about SIS to make a ton OF
iron, while ironmasters in this State
say the same quantity can lie turned
out for from SIC to $l2.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
NEWS AND NOTES.

Queen Ranavalona, the new ruler
of Madagascar, is reported to have
said in her coronation speech: 81
"shall prove myself a soldier, ever
"ready to defend the land of oul
ancestors and further, that she
would not yield an inch of territory
to the French. Our sympathy is Of
no use to her, but she has it.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

We sincerely hope Mr.. Gladstone
will pull through, but good fortune
rather than good administration will
smile upon him if he comes squarely
out of the Khartoum and Soudan
muddles.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

The United States came out of the
London Fisheries Exhibition tar a.
head of all other foreign and colonial
Governments arryingof Edwards,
or one-hfth of the entire number a.
warled. OF g,lI medals, 40 were
secured, or more than one fourth
OF the total number. Nothing could
be III re satisfactory or hattering to
the fishing Industries of tne Country.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

A"o 'OoSCio lohucu Will ouSdt
were abandoned off Halifax by the
half frozen crews.
Thos. Reider, a night watchmau
employed on Poplar street, Cincin-
natl, was frozen to death.
Minnesota's butter product for
1883 will reach nearly 100000
pounds, worth S5,3O0,OOO.
While thirteen children we're sid.
ing at Rohr, Pomerania. the ice
broke and all were drowned.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia,
died at his home, in Lexington. He
was in Office during the war.
General Wolseley said at ban
quet that England never had an
army more worthy Of the nation
than now.
A respected citizen of Kendall
Vile, Ind, committed suicide be-
cause OF his averion to testifying III
a murder trial.
The PAGER johnson will be match
ed against Richball for $4,000 y
side. Johnson has made 2:lo.
Richball 2:l2s.
Two twin children, three months
old, Of Isaac Martin, living near
Wabash, Ind, froze to death in their
cradle, Thursday night.
The ship Simla collided in the
English Channel with the City g
Lucknow. The .Stmla sank and there
are twenty men missing.
The New York Hat Store, Spring
field, o., sustained loss Of $4,000
by the bursting Of a water pipe in
the upper story, Saturday.
An explosion in a coal mine, near
Gunn.son, Col, Imprisoned tfty-six
men, who cannot be reached, and
are probably all dead.
The mission CT "Chinese" Gordon
to Egypt is to effect a complete
evacuation of the Soudan, of which
the Khedsve has appointed him
Governor.
An explosion in a colliery in
Rhondda Valley, Wales, killed eleven
miners. A rescuiny party Of three
men, including the manager, were
also killed.
Telesraphic communication with
Khartuum has been re-established.
Several tribes have made submission
to Baker Pasha, and others are ex-
pectel to do 50.
A building in Peru, Ind, occupied
as winter quarters by part of the
Wallace Menagerie, was destroyed
by fire, and lloness, bear, gorilla,
hyeuas and deer persisted.
1t is the opinion Of MIR. Fortune,
editor Of the Globe, the culored org IN
of New York, that Fred. Douglass
will, by his marriage with white
woman, lose influence with the col
ored people.
Ell Mahdi left Ell Obeid nine days
ago. His destination is unknown.
lie has $4,000 men and plenty. of
ammunition and krupp guns. Ell
Mahdi lost only three hundred men
during the engagement with Hicks
Pasha.
The killing of Detective Bloch in
Vienna by an unknown anarchist of
elegant manners and speech, has
caused CONSERVATION among the en-
tire populace. Many prominent
men are SAID to have also been
marked Tor assassination.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31

I. Geo. W, Darnal, President Of the Crook
Coal aud Mining Co.. do hereby certify tina
the fore going Statement is true to the best o
m. knowledge and>belirf.
GEO. W. DARNALL, Pres.
Sworn to before me BY Geo W. Darnall
this 2:st day Of Janda y. 1884.
GEO Is. NINxEAD,
~ Notary Public,
SEAL Fayette County,
w. Kentucky.
Correct-Attest:
}. II. SHROPSHIRE,
X. l.. tULLocK. n;
II. p. ARMER, '"'''''
J. p. SHAW,
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
OVER THE STATE.

The Pioneer Cotton Mills of Mem
phis employ l40 persons.
Nearly three hundred students
are enrolled at the Athens Univer-
sity.
The largest crop of wheat ever
sown in East Tennessee was seeded
last fall.
A Presbyterian church is to be
built at Maryville costing about
$4,000.
Since January, 1888, the bedstead
factory at London has averaged
1000 bedsteads and $500 chairs
monthly.
The Knoxville Relief Association
served 1896 persons during the re-
cent cold spell.
A shipment of $500 pounds of
rabbits was made from Henry coun-
ty few days ago.
A fire at Humboldt, Gibson coun-
ty, last week destroyed $4,000
worth of property.
It is reported a large number Of
Cannon county hogs have recently
died of hydrophobia.
Last week there were over 2,OO(
pounds of venison sold in lockwood
and shipped to Cincinnati.
The steamer Sam Fowler broke
from her moorings at Nashville ant
became a wreck. Loss 1000.
A daily hack line is to be started
between Kingston and lockwood
This will fill much needed want.
Col. A. S. Colyer says the Cowa
furnace, with capital ofSl34, 0OO
ma4le}-las. sv,.r1r7ses4t :, -.
Henry r. Gibson, editor Of the
Knoxville Chronicle, was confirmed
as pension agent by the Senate last
week.
A raft of logs was found lodged
on Clinch river, a few days since
that had been stolen from Furber &
Bro, at Loudon.
Experts have been examining thu
strawberry beds around Chattanooga
and report the plants to be unln
jured by the hard frost.
George Larkin, the slayer Of h
cousin, Arthur Larkln, in Hawkins
in 1881, has been reinstated b,
Marshal Reeves as deputy.
Mr.. Emil George, a we'll know
citizen of Knoxville, crushed hi
arm upon the railroad, and die,
from the effects of amputatlon.
Mrs. Martha Fortune, an age
lady living at South Plttsburs, Wa
fatally burned last Thursday. lie
clothing caught from an open fire.
Since 1880 the manufacturin
capital OF Hamilton county ha
doubled, and the output Of manu-
featured articles more than double
in value.
A raft broke loose at Carthag'
on the Upper Cumberland rive
List week, and was drawn into
whirlpool. 1t is reported nine me
; were drowned.
1t is expected that the case of til
State against Marsh 7. Polk, tn
defaulting Treasurer Of Tennessee
will be heard by the Supreme Coul
within the next two weeks.
During the severe cold last week
at Knoxville, a mulatto girl, age
thirteen years, was found in a sma
tenement house, nearly dead frol
exposure to the weather; her bah
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
stockholders LOAN.

70 he tepai'! from net earnings in
dividends. to the exclusion of
Stockholders refusing to make
the Loan ..........................
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-31
$l2,495.0O

CAPITAL STOCK:
Two Thousand (2.OO0) Shares Of
$4,000 each. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $2Oo,oOo.OO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-19
SPEEDING THE BEAUTIFUL MAUD 5.
pEYING DAY OF TIE NEW. YORK DRIVING CLUB
~nuurr>-c MP


GREETING Mr.. VANDERBILT.
The opening day of the trOtting races at the
New-York Trotting Club enjoyed by an unusually
large number of people. The grand stand had fine
array OF visitors and the grass slope in front OF the
clubhouse was crowded with members. Prominent
among these was William H. Vanderbilt, who seemed
in capital humor and evidently thinking more of
Maud s. than Of Lake Shore and the other stocks which
are supposed he robbng him OF his rest and providing
him with nightmares when nature claims its own and he
falls asleep. Those who had never seen the famous
millionaire were surprised to find tall gentleman,
neither fat nor slim, dressed In black SUIT
with white bone studs in his shirt aud
black pecktie No watch chain visible but only
elk fob ribbon, from which depended seal cut from
fine topaz. ON the little finger OF MS rgDt hanu was
seal ring OF cornelan. lie wore white hat, aud the
weather seemed to agree with him. The members gain,
cred around him with greetings ana ne hau yoI WoIu
for every Some remarked that an errlhg Jour-
nals had robbed HIM Of his whiskers He Laughed ana
he they're here yet" Mr. Watson the secretary OF the
club asked hun II he would allow Maud = 10 De nno tS
Stone let Willie BAR speed her for mile bnt sne Is
moi vet i'm condition, you must not expect too nuch
Around the veIandah and the slope were many gen
tlemen prominently connected with trOtting matters
R RSsiu in DO4 tine judges stand, and his two
nephews we're within tae % cup t t HeCl"t th
happy owner OF American Queen; captain Jake Wander
nit Nat Wheeler Edwin r1orne' Lawrence ZIP T.
c. Eastman william Turnbull, John Harbech william
Harbeck I'd Weeks of Huston. Texas william Campbell,
Warner Captain stone Of Cincinnati o VINO F paes
Work.
class There were three entries Lady MiJOlca, owned
by n Straus of New York Little Lille G, owned by A.
" Cowan Jersey CITY and Duroc Maid the property
OF J. d. Ripley, of NewIOrk Lady MAjOlca, driven by
Murphy in three straight heats In 23l a. 239 and
234 The second for horses OF the 2:2l class
There were nine starters, Guess Not "a W. Klatz n y
Stephen g. william Sargents, GOshen) Lady Ihorne, IT,,
C. H. Martin, \. W, Valley Boy "a.
sguircs, Hartford, Comm. Frank rank, g. sBro99klynl'
IN Straus " ", Harry Mills "a. W. Corvan, Jersey
City) and Revenge, d. b. Harrington. Morisana Whlr-
wind gained the first heat in 2:27l and Harry Mills the
second third and fourth and the in 22Sl4, 227t
and 230l4. Whirlwnd was second, Revenge third
Between the heats Maud :. made mile In 2:lS. A
public announcement made that on Friday she wond
be speeded her best and attempt would be made TO
heal her record.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-19
PLACID HOTEL MEN At DINNER.

Two scores of white hats were grouped around the
clerks desk in the Office of the Hotel Brighton, at
Coney Island, about o'clock last evening. Under
each white hat was hotel man, and the hotel men
were tho guests of the Hotel Brighton. The sixth an
nua banquet of the Hotel Association OF New York was
about to take place, and it had been set down for
hafpasI five o'clock and halfpast six was rapidly APP
preaching, the hotel men hungry, but not cross
This combination due simply to the fact that
they hotel men, from the nature of their call
Ing, apt to look upon delayed meal 5 act of
Providence. unfortunate but inevitable. Secretary
Walter, of the Albemarle rushed about with frenzy In
his handsome eye until finally lie had led the hotel
men through devious ways TO the room prepared TOR
them. When finally he had seated nearly hundred
hotel men and hotel mems friends about two tables
arranged IN L form he sank into chair with an ex-
preston of beatifc satisfaction. The newly elected
president, Hiram Hitchcock, of the Fifth Avenue sat
at the intersection OF the two tables, and his beautiful
beard wagged with sIbdued delight he glanced
round the noble array around him. In front him
hung a hOwery inscription, " Hotel Mems Dinner
while on every side the ensgns of the various
New York hotels, the Fifth Avenue the Union Square
the Albemarle, the Grand Union the Astor House and
Without any superhuous delay, every one
found seat and G.. X. Lansing, the lessee of the
Brighton called attention to the green turtle soup.
Every paid attention. Uriah Welch took two
hepings, and Andrew Dam seconded nim Then
everybody paid attention to the of the dinner upon
equal terms Horace Brockway, of the Ashland House.
w. ID. Garrison, of the Grand UniOn,. who had Just
been appointed secretary, and W. Common, of the st.
James, being prominent among those who did their
duty Then the president made neat speech the sec
rotary read letters from Governor Cleveland Leuen-
an tGOvcrnor H and Others and when the last train
started everyone making a speech at the same
time. The hotel ably assisted in their cee-
bratiOn by Frank l. POmmer and William Ottman,
both of them good men and weighing over 200
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-19
THE INDEPENDENTS COMMITTEE.

George William Curtis, the chairman of the con-
ference held Tuesday evening by the Independent
Republicans, yesterday appointed the following COM
mittee provided for by the resolution passed the
meetings
George William Curtis, CARL Schurz, Stephen p
Nash, Francis c. Barlow, Joseph w. Harper IT.,
Henry A. Oakley Jackson s. Schultz, f. I. Christen-
sen, Edward Solomon, Ethan Allen Doty, George
Haven Putnam, Charles Scribner, George Walton
Green, L. w. Whitudge, Horace +. Deming L. Il.
Borsker, w. A. White, George Hill, S. w. Grerson,
Herman Dowd, Felix Kaufman, Thomas G. Sloan,
Charles MaoVeigh, Percival Knauth, w. @. Sanger,
Arthur NJ Sherwood j. Ii. Van Ammige James
Stokes, Frederick Cromwell and &. Vincent Brown of
this city, and L. ). Burnham and f. s. Waterman of
Brooklyn. The committee will add to its own mum
bers and will meet on Friday afternoon.
OF the visitors who attended the meeting only two
three were to be found In the city yesterday. Ex-
Mayor l.. Pierce, of Boston, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel in the morning, preparing to sail for Europe
the seryia- He will remain abroad all summer He
said that he expected his return TO the Inde-
pendent movement thoroughly organized He Ia 40
companied on his foreign tour by his brother Edward
l. Pierce of Boston, who came over from that city on
Tuesday night and disclosed In conversation at the
Windsor Hotel the fact that he Is strong friend of
Mr. Blaine bis brother IA an opponent Henry
Hitchcock, Of ST. Louis Is still ut tho Fifth Avenue
He said that his connection with the movement was
from principle. " believe" he said, that the move
ment has much deeper seat and wider extent than the
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CHARGES or UNFAIR DEALING.
MEMBERS or THE BOARD OF EDUCATION 1NDUL

MEMBERS or THE BOARD OF EDUCATION INDULGE
IN \ LIVELY DEBATE.
The Board of Education has under consideration the
recommendation of Superintendent Jasper to CONSOLE
date some of the downtown schools. Yesterday re
port on the appointment of several principals afforded
an opportunity 30 develop this policy. Mr.. Hansen
moved that the of William OIrien, appointed to
School No. 10, in the Seventeenth Ward, be changed
to w. c. Hesse, vice-principal of that school Mr..
Perkins, moved that the Of T. Il. Barrnger be sub
stituted for 4. j. Meighan, who appointed to
Grammar School No. 80
Mr.. Tamsen-Mr. Hcsse has been eighteen years a
teacher in School No. 10, and also teacher of
German in tho Evening High School Out Of 400
scholars IN his school over 800 are Germans.
Mir. Wetmore-lf we give way to local prejudices we
can never effect consolidation.
Mr.. Wins proposed a more suitable measure that
Mr. OBrien be appointed to a school in the upper
part of the city, which would permit of Mr. Hesses ap
pontment The changes voted down, and the re-
port of the committee adopted Mr. Beardsley de-
clared that an unfair advantage taken mi
uority in the Board Mr. WINS denounced the action
inconsistent and unjust and said that by unpariament
airy ruling the minority had been forced to vote Mr.
Schmidt who had voted with the majority said
don't see any consistency in the report of the
committee that all the old teachers should be cared for
but wish the scheme of the committee for cOnsOlida
ton would be presented to US, that We could
understaud IL.
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bia still stout-hearted threw herself 1'9 sprs
IN which fortysix strokes were reached for,ysn
GsyrerS,s boat answered quickly to this augmented
impuise' IL drew gracefully half length ahead.
and shot across the line at sixteen minutes ana SIX
teen and one-quarter seconds after ooi sr o.
had been rowed in twenty-four minutes and thirty
one and three-quarter seconds u,,
The time of the winning crew, kept by Harvard
t;nekeeper was as follows Half-mile, 2:4O; one
mite. 600 ; one and a half miles s:43 two mics
1919 two and a half mlles. 1923 three miles,
ISlo; three and n half miles, 21:l5 flour miles,
24:Sis. The officers ofthe race were: Referee Louis
X. Hull, captain of last years Yale crew; Harvard
JUDGE on boat, r. c. Watson;. at flush Arthur
Keith: timekeeper II. +. French; Columbia Judge
Dey; tiInekeeper, II. c. Cornell.