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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

The cattle kings of Texas are
charged with appropriating extern
sive tracts of Government lands
without paying for them. They
purchase strips of land mile wide,
which extend around enormous cen
trail squares of public property.
The Gland grabber" puts a fence
only on the outside boundary of his
strip, but grazes on the whole of it,
to the exclusion of other settlers.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

No country is complete without
fruit, and a country in which fruit
can not be successfully raised is not
desirable. This is not true of East
Tennessee. 1t is adapted to all the
fruits, such as apples, peaches, pears
and the smaller fruits. Grapes grow
to perfection and ripen we'll. Straw
berries come to the finest perfection
and ripen early. Peaches are large
and luscious and in the greatest
abundance, The early summer, fall
and winter apples come on in their
respective seasons. The revenue
from this source is very large.
Thousands of bushels of dried fruit
are thrown into the market and will
approximate the value Of the wheat
crop. And yet the fruit business is
in its infancy: Comparatively few
otour agric{ dtafists have planted
extensive orchards. The great body
Of them are content with small Or
chards and these they pay no special
attention to. The opening, there
fore, in this branch of industry is
encouraging. -KaorviM Chronicle.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

The first white elephant that ever
was SO far west, was landed at New
York last Thursday. The animal
is six years old, four feet eight in
ches high, and of a color little
lighter than the ash of cigar. 1t
is the property of Mr.. Adam Fore
paugh, and will first be exhibited at
Philadelphia. There was much
trouble in procuring white ele-
plant, but energy and $4,000 at
last were successful; Mr.. Barnum,
however, is little taken aback by
his position as second in the process
sion.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
A New York Senate Committee

A New York Senate Committee
has been diving into the mysteries
of butter, with the resulting revela-
ton that the dead hog is powerful
competitor of the live cow. Among
the adulterants were fonnd tallow,
bone oil and lard IL, and in an
amount equal to half the production
of pure butter. 1t is estimated that
forty million pounds of the bogus
article are sold annually in New
York State, with a commercial effect
ruinous to the legitimate trade. The
bulk of the adulterated article comes
from the West, where we picture the
innocent farmer busily maintaining
the honesty and purity of country
butter"
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

The English Radicals keep stead
lily to their work Of worrying any
old institution that does not, in their
opinion, look we'll in the light of the
modern world, and gradually are
they closing with the preservers of
ancient landmarks, and in the Par
liamentary divisions getting minori-
ties up close along with the MAORI
ties. A House of Commons vote on
Friday to exclude Bishops from
seats in the Lords by right of office
was only lost by dozen nays.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

Arthur has made a good Presi-
dent, and will go down to posterity
with a favorable historical remem-
brance. His conduct has, perhaps,
been more negative than positive,
with a condition of things not de-
manding a very striking and orig
inal policy. We would not give
him a second term-but we would,
if he we're an Englishman, like to
see him rewarded with seat in the
House of Lords. Would it be con-
trary to the Republican fitness OF
things to found an ex-Presidential
Valhalla?
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

General Gordon drew upon him
self the attention of the world by
his gallant march to the rescue of
Khartoum, but another march must
be made now, and speedily, unless
fortune should again favor the
brave, to. deliver Khartoum, and
General Gordon, too, from the up
rising of. tribes, proven to be by
spirit-and steel no unworthy foe Of
the hated Christian.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

A bill has been introduced in the
House to prevent the Importation
and sale of opium. More than
29S, l52 pounds of the drug had
been imported and sold in the Uni
ted States in one year. 1t is
thought that the passage of such
a bill will force a large per cent. Of
the Chinese now in this country to
leave.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

Commissioner Lor;ng has re-
ceived a telegram from Professor
Salmon, Veterinarian of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, stating that
after a thorough investigation -0f
the disease at Neosho Falls, Kan
sas, he has concluded that it is not
the genuine foot and mouth disease,
but is due to local conditions, and
there is no danger of it spreading
to other sections. The Commits
sioner accepts this conclusion as
final.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

Monteagle, in Grundy county, at
the southern end of the Plateau, is
making a great effort to far eclipse
the Assembly week of last year,
which was in every way SO success
full. Immense crowds of visitors
went to the little village, with its
beautiful surroundings and inter-
esting exercises, and it will not be
many years, probably, before the
Cumberland Plateau will yearly
have among its Businesses the leaven
of Southern refinement and intelli-
gence.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
The Berner murder trial in Gin

The Berner murder trial in Gin
cinnati ended with verdict of man
slaughter, to the great surprise of
the public, and, it is said, of the
Judge. The public verdict on the
case, which was not only surrounded
by the plainest circumstantial evil
dence, but was confessed to by the
prisoner, is one of murder in the
first degree. There is a strong
feeling against the jury.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

Cremation has been gaining
ground IN England ever since JUS
tice Stephens ruled that it was law
full. The London city authorities
have resolved to establish crema-
forum at Ilford, a suburb of the
East End, on the Recommendation
of the medical officers that crema-
ton is the least Objectionable of all
known methods of disposiny of the
dead.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

The Treasury Department is in
formed that foreign brokers are
making heavy purchases in the
United States of the silver trade
dollars at a discount of 10 per cent,
or more. The Department is also
informed that the purpose of the
foreign spectators is to dispose of
the coin to immigrants about to sail
to this country as American coin
worth their nominal value.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
Co-Partnership Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the partnership
between Thomas J. Dave and Ernest NJ.
Berry, of Rugby, Morgan Co., Tennessee,
under the firm name of Davie & Berry, was this
day dissolved by mutual consent. Ernest M
Berry only is authorized TO settle all debts due
to and by the firm.
TuoMAs JAMES DAVE.
ERNEST NJ. BERRY.
Witness, THOMAS PARDON.
Dated, March "a, 1884. 1t.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
The Knoxville Public Library is

luC AuOANlllC l. uUlIO AAOA &" 40
fortunate. Col. McGhee, of that
city has determined to richly endow
the institution by the presentation
of fine building, devoted on the
first floor to business premises, on
the second to the library, and on the
third to public hall. The bust
ness houses on the first floor will
yield the Library $4,000 per annum.
This, with the Library conveniences,
and the hall, will give the institu-
ton an opportunity of becoming
one of the best Libraries in the
State.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

Prince Napoleon is posing as a
tribune of the people, and claiming
for them a voice in all matters con-
corning the masses. "They are our
masters" he declares. All which is
very, delightful and original in a
Bonaparte.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27

Minister Wallace has had an
audience with the Sultan, in which
he complained of the Grand Vizier's
conduct in refusing recently to see
him.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
Tabard Hotel, Rugby, Tenn.

PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
/ until April for leasing the Tabard at
Rugby, the flourishing colony, of Morgan
County, Tenn, to be kept as trst-class hotel
for which there are facilities and competent
support. House is furnished and in good
order, with livery stable in same proprietor
ship. Address
ROBERT WALTON.
Rugby, Tenn. fe23-5t.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
OVER THE STATE.

A fire at Mason, Thursday morn
ing, destroyed $4,000 worth of
property.
Ed. Gothard, a blacksmith, of
Powell, DeKalb county, Tenn, COM
mitted suicide Tuesday.
The Mozart Club, of Knoxville,
are going to build an opera house
this summer to cost $4,000.
A colored woman named johnson
committed suicide at Chattanooga
by taking twenty-five grains of NOR
phine.
Tom Nelson, the last of the gang
Of negro robbers that infested Hum
phreys county, Tenn, has been
caught and Gagged.
About 500 convict laborers are
employed in the mines at Tracy
city, and more arriving daily, crowd
out the free workmen.
The supreme court of Tennessee
will meet in jackson on the second
Monday in April. There are over
1900 cases on the docket.
1t is reported that Mr.. A. H.
Bernathy has taken $4,000 in gold
nuggets from a mine he discovered
in cave near Erin, Tenn.
Robert Harle. prosperous far
mer and trader, lost a boat and 800
to 1000 bushels of corn in the
Nolachucky river, near Leadvale,
last week.
E. Sullivan, living near Spring
City, in a state of intoxication,
jumped from a train on the Nash
vile & Chattanooga line, and was
instantly killed.
= An Injunction has been issued
against the Nashville american, re-
straining it from advocating pro-
tective tariff, and opposing a rail
road commission.
The effect of cutting freights from
New York City to the South, bene-
fitted Chattanooga to the extent of
about $4,000. The old rates were
restored on Monday.
Monday evening last week T. j.
Denton, section boss on the railroad
was shot and killed by D. R. Magill,
son of the well-known keeper of the
Mouse Greek eating house.
A probably fatal accident hap
pened to Miss Rose Gillian, aged II
years, occasioned by being dragged
some distance by runaway horses
over a rough road on Mission Ridge.
Friday last.
Hon. Miles Kehoe, of Chicago,
revenue agent, who has been assign
ed to the second district of Tennes-
see, with headquarters at Knoxville,
is making canvass Of upper East
Tennessee.
The Roane County claim of $l4,-
692.S5 for back taxes against the
Cincinnati Southern r. R. Trustees,
after more than two years of litiga-
ton, has resulted in verdict for
,, the defendants.
While the jailor at Erin, Knox
| County, was giving supper to the
: prisoners on the 10th inst, one of
them held him while two fellow
, prisoners escaped. The prisoner
who was holding the jailor then
threw him to the floor and also es-
+ capped.
Near Charleston, Bradley County,
5 one day last week, Miss Roark ON
v her way from Church called in at
o Mr.. Bowers to chat awhile, when
e young Jno. Bowers took up a pistol
s and playfully pointing 1t at the
: younglady said "now you surrender"
) She laughingly exclaimed 81 never
q surrender" Bowers pulled the
N trigger and Miss Roark fell dead.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

DER case pronounced Carpenter not
guilty.
Advices from the Creek Nation
point to the possibility of war be-
tween the rival factions.
The Maori King will sail from
Auckland for England by the way
of San Francisco, April l.
Twenty-seven Nihilists have been
arrested in st. Petersburg. Among
them were four artillery officers.
The bill abolishing convict con-
tract labor as fast as contracts ex-
pire became a law in Ohio last week.
China has ordered ten more Cat
ling guns from the factory at Hart
ford, to be delivered in sixty days.
Reports received by the Agricul-
tural Bureau show a general falling
off in the wool production of the
country.
The French Government is debat-
ing the Chinese indemnity question.
The lowest figure proposed is $780,
100000 francs.
The Court of Common Pleas in
Philadelphia has refused to permit
Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore to practise
law in that court.
The number of Post-offices in the
United States, on March 20, was
48,993, an increase of 1875 in less
than nine months.
In a wrestling match at Wheeling
W. Va, Alex Gardner, colored anna
teur, defeated Bill Clark, of Buffalo
a white professional.
A Georgia nurseryman is said tt
have realized already this season
$4,000 from the sale of fruit trees
grown on one acre of land.
Ten levees are reported broken
between Vicksburg and New Orleans,
and the most productive sugar and
cotton lands are overhowed.
A General fight took place at an
entertainment at aschool- house near
Shreve, o., in which Sheridan Faltz
was struck on the neck with a club
and killed.
Mrs. John Smith of Jackson county
Ca, filled a pot with water, put il
on the fire, and when the water be-
gan to boil she plunged her head
into it, and died.
Ed. Dowse, negro, residing
near Mclean, Ca, killed his five
children because he doubted theil
paternity, and to get rid of sup
porting them.
A patient in the Insane Asylum
at Columbus, Ohio, crawled through
the bars of window on the fifth
story, and leaped to the ground
dying in a few minutes.
The committee to arrange TO-
the National Republican Convention
: at Chicago have decided to use tn
Exposition Building, which vii
accommodate eight thousandpeople
General Grant took occasion il
, an interview to say that Genera
Logan was his favorite for President
and that the stories about he AN,
Conkling being for Blaine were un
> true.
The prospectus of the Irish Lam
Company, popularity known as MI
Parnell's Migration Company, ha
appeared. The capital is fixed a
100000. The first issue of stoc
will be 100000. Mr.. Parnell
Chairman of the Board of Directors
y Preparations are in progress t
n drill holes through the top of th
: mountain into the burning chamber
of the Pocahontas Coal Mine, Nj
Dowell County, W. Va, and Intro
n duce streams of water until the fl
h is extinguished. This is the mil
S in which the mysterious explosic
'e recently took place, by which Il
miners lost their lives.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-03-27
The Ta0alQ Zll,'
A DELIGHTFUL HEALTH RESORT
"up in the Mountains"
AT RUGBY, TENNESSEE.

A cool. bracing, healthful mountain air.
Woods Astounding in game, VIZ, deer, tur-
keys phrasants, quail, squirrels. etc.
Amusemehts Of all kinds, VIZ, lawn tennis,
croquet, ball games, swings, etc.
The elegant Hughes Public Library-free.
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 grassy lawn, flower
beds, play grounds, pet deer park and native
forest trees.
Pleasant, light. airy rooms. completely fur
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
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-11
A Quaarup,. Murder in Nsbr..ka.

Omaha Meb.) Special: A letter was 70.
ceived here Friday night from Fullerton, Nance
county, bringing in a brief account of a start
ling tragedy thirteen miles west Of Fuller
ton, the victims being H. G. Percival,
wife and child, and Hugh Myer, all
English people. They were murdered on
Monday night or early Tuesday morning,
and their bodies were not discovered until
last night: Percival, wife and child were
shot, and Myer was smothered. They were
all in Fullerton Monday. Percival was a
well-to-do farmer and we'll known citizen
of Nance county. Mrs. Percival was the
daughter of Rev. G. Q. Tanner of Owatonna,
Mimi, county superintendent of schools.
The object of this dreadful murder is un-
known, and there is no clue to the murder
ers. Two more men living in the same vicini-
ty are missing, and search is being made fol-
their bodies, on the supposition that they, too,
have been murdered. Coroner Smith and q
posse of citizens have gone from Fullerton to
the scene of the murder, which has created
intense excitement.
Itseems that on Monday last Perciv val while in
Fullerton with his wife and child and Mr.; More.
10 do some trading and other business, had in
possession a check for $1,000, which he depos-
tied in a bank and drew $500 on it He also
bought some rope The rope was found lying
by his side, and signs were that afteI
putting up his team he was about to start fol
his home with More, when they were assault.
ed, killed and robbed, after which the murder
or OF murderers went to the house and killed
Mrs. Percival and child. 1t is said More was
choked to death or smothered SOM way.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-11

Bigamy is q crime very much more
common among men than among wom-
en-, but, occasionally there is o female
bigamist with a long record of matrimo-
NAL experiences. A late trial in New
York has attracted a good deal of at
tention. A woman who now calls her.
self Annie q. Whetmore, was arrested
some time ago for bigany in marrying
o mai named Halves, whom she was be-
Iieved to know was already married.
Her trial tasted several days, and
though Halves turned states evidence
she was triumphantly acquitted. In
She course of the trial it came out that
Clio woman, who is not old by any
means, had at various times in her Gu
reer and at various places compris-
ing about half of the states of the Union,
been Mrs. Gentles. Mrs. Wallingford,
Mrs. Collier, Mrs. Tiffany, Mrs. Red.
heffer, Mrs. Baukert, Mrs. Hooper.
Mrs. Peacock, and finally Mrs. Halves.
From all Of these varied marital obliga-
tions, except the last, she had been
freed by divorce, usually applied TO,
and obtained within q few months after
the ceremony of marriage. She always
managed to have a good case, and her
husbands do not appear to have thrown
any impeachment in the way of he,
fullest liberty.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-11
Changes in Barroom Styles.

The New York Sun thinks we are
living in a go-ahead age, and Instances
the changes in barroom styles. Twelve
years ago the floor was BANDED, pictures
of Flora Temple, PEI tona and Fashion
hung upon the wills, chairs and tables
were wooden cad primitive, the ceiling
was dingy, chandeliers were rusty and
Hy-tracked, chopped pigs feet were
served as lunch, and whisky and brandy
were poured from the bottle. Now all
is changed. The barrooms are hooks of
luxury. Turkish rugs cover the floors,
expensive paintings adorn the walls.
handicapped tables andrichly uphol-
stored chairs await occupants, ceilings
are frescoed and ezquisitely succeed,
blue enameling, refined bronzed chan
deliers, choice salmon is the staple fea-
ture in free lunches, and LIQUORS are
poured from delicate decanters of cut
glass.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-11

The savings banks of New Hampshire,
with aggregate deposits of $40 ,O91, 596,
have over SIC, O0O 900 loaned to farm,
ers at the west and secured by mort.
cages. These investments are scattered
through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Ne.
braska, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota and
Dakota, and are in addition to loans or
city property in Chicago, st. Louis,
Minneapolis and st. Paul. The average
rate Of interest on the farm mortgages
is 81 per cent; the depositors at hom.
receive 4 and Al per cent. The New
Hampshire Bank Commissioners, hav.
ing examined these western investments
carefully. report that they are amply
secured, that the interest is invariabl,
paid when due, and that they have been
unable to discover any loss whatever te
the investing banks on account of thei,
principal d. interest. Nevertheless,
the conservative financiers question
the wisdom of locking up so great a pro.
portion of the assets of the New Hamp.
shire banks so far from home, when the
recovery of the money must depend il
some measure on the uncertain contin.
gency of crop successes. Hence til,
commissioners have cautioned the in
situations under their charge agains'
n further extension ofthis line of invest
manha.
The Dickinson press., 1884-10-11
Miscellaneous Telegram,

Near Irving, Or, Miss Bond, eighteen years
old, daughter Of William Bond, a prominent
farmer, was fatally injured by being run over
with a harrow.
Capt. Dave Kenyon, acting fire marshal OF
Chicago, was fatally injured Ply being thrown
out of hia buggy while on his way to a fire.
An engine and the marshals buggy collided,
and Kenyon was thrown over the dashboard
and run over by a heavy engine.
A crowd in Brussels escorted to the depot
Ditre, the French editor of the Rationale, who
was expelled the country. There were loud
shouts Of ''vive La Republlque." Troops
were necessary to guard the railway. The
mob made a demonstration in front of the
palace and before the Office Of the Patriot
The will of the late Private Charles B. Henry
of the Greedy EXPEDITION, who was shot for
stealing provisions, was filed for probate in
Chicago. 1t is written in pencil on . scrap Of
paper about tho size ofa postal card, torn from
q blank used in the navy, is dated at Camp
Clay, Ellesmeras, May 9, 1884, and is as fol-
lows: I, Charles b. Henry, being of sound
mind and health, do hereby declare this to be
my last will and testament. All my property,
pay due and that may become due, / bequeath
to my parents, brother and sisters now alive,
to be equally divided among them. William
Helmes Of No. 20 South Water street. Chicago,
l appoint as my executor.
CHARLES B. HENRY.
Private Fifth Cavalry, United States Army.