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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
A sharp shock of earthquake wa

A sharp shock of earthquake was
experienced in the counties Of Essex
and Suffolk, on the southeast coast
of England, at $50, on Tuesday
morning. The towns most seriously
visited were Colchester, Chelmsford,
Maldon, Ipswich, Southend and
'Shoebufyness. the concussion at
Colchester lasted nearly 80 seconds,
throwing down factory chlmneys,
weakening walls, and destroying a
spire, $50. feet in height, of one OF
the finest churches. The other
places named suffered violent sway
Jugs of the houses, and throwing
about of household goods. The con-
sternation of the people was botf
very great and impressive, In Lon
don the earthquake was very per.
ceptible, and was distinctly felt IL
Cheapside and Fleet street.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

The French in Tonquin find their
enemy but poor soldiers, a long way
inferior to the men England has to
contend with in Egypt. One little
victory after another is gained; which
in the end will mount up to sufficient
to make a show of compile conquest.
The last news was from Hung Hoa,
announcing a total rout of Chinese
and Annamites, and the destruction
of several citadels.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

( Members of the House of Lords
and British syndicates have in the
aggregate 20,94l,6G6 acres OF
American real estate, a greater
acreage than all Ireland, 100000
of acres more than Scotland can
boast, and over half as much land
as there is in England and Wales,
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
The qabald { !. .I.ll]n,' =.
"A DELIGHTFUL HEALTH RESORT
"up in the Mountains"
AT'RUGBY, TENNESSEE.

A cool, bracing, healthful mountain air.
Woods aboundng in game, VIZ, deer, tur-
keys phcasauts, quail, squirrels. etc.
Amuscments Of all kinds, VIZ, lawn tennis,
croquet, ball games, swings. etc.
The elegant Hughes Public liibrary--free.
Charming walks and views along the river.
The hotel, having wide double verandahs on
hree sides, is beautifully located in its owl
enclosure Of FIVE acres OF grassy lawn, flower
beds, play grounds, pet deer park and native
for, st trees.
Pleasant, light, airy rooms. completely fnr-
nished and excellent, wholesome. home-lke
board at very reasonable prices.
Round trip tickets from Cincinnati or Chat
tanooga over the Gin. Sou. Railway at low
rates.
ABNER L. ROSS, Jr. Proprietor
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

Meetings are being held in England
in support of the French Protestant
movement for the erection of a
monument to the memory Of Ad-
miral Coligney, who fell a victim in
the massacre on st. BartholOmew's
day, 1872. '3rs 'as'T E sh
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

There is said to be a man now
living in Wilcox county, Ca, who
had thirty-six nephews in the late
war, all of whom, except three,
we're killed in battle. Fifteen of
them belonged to the same company.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

The Republican State Convention
has unanimously nominated for
Governor of Tennessee, Judge Frank
4. Reid, of Nashville, He was a
soldier in the Confederate army, but
is a "repentant rebel," and a very
popular man. r.a'e 'hfyh b.. ''
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

The Queen of Tahiti, while visit
ing lately a Paris institution for
deaf mutes, said that in her island
the in6rmity was unknown.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

A single cattle ranch in Texas,
at the head of Red River, is said to
contain nearly $4,000 acres more
than the entire State Of Rhode Is
land contains in territory. ~
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

The exodus of French Canadians
to the States continues, and large
numbers are leaving from all the
country districts, principally for the
New England manufacturing CEN
tres. The Rev. Father Malo has
left Montreal with large party for
Turtle Mountain, Dakota, where a
considerable French Canadian settle
ment has already been formed. 1t
is said that the Roman Catholic
Bishops will soon issue pastorates
urging their focks to stay at home
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
United States Methodist Ministers

are said to chew less tobacco than
any other clergymen. i
1t is stated that the most power
full sovereign in Western Africa has
placed all his States in Congo under
the protection of France.
Sixteen ships from which more
than 10000 immigrants have been
landed, have arrived at the port of
New York since Saturday,
| Herr Most, the Socialist, is in
Cincinnati, to deliver his sanguinafy
addresses. on "The Coming Crisis
and the Social Revolution" .lnna
The Duchess of Edinburgh has
been delivered of a daughter. Both
mother and child are doing we'll,
and the father is Just making a
living. IA ,.,,-,,n .r.tar M -,
Mrs. Gill, wife of the inspector
of the Canadian Bank Of Commerce,
Toronto, was riding with her hus-
band, when her horse fell, crushing
her to death. a' ~ " haa
Three hundred and eighteen
Mormons, half Scandinavians, have
reached New York and gone on to
Utah, under the care of seventeen
missionaries. a.@ ai1.
The steamer Oregon of the Guion
line has arrived at New York after
|, the fastest passage yet made. The
time from Queenstown was 6 days
10 hours and 10 minutes. ss
!, There is great excitement around
Marietta and Macksburg, Ohio, over
the great flow of petroleum in those
districts. Spectators are leasing
the land for miles around.
Three hundred feet of snow shed
on the Central Pacific Railroad fell,
covering a working train, Six China
! men have been taken out dead and
five others seriously wounded.
The Governor-Gene Of Cuba
telegraphs that Aguero's band has
been surrounded at Cienaga, and
: that there will be no more trouble
5 He says that the island is tranquil
Cholera is becoming very serious
in India, and it is the opinion Of
. the German Cholera Commission
L which has reached Alexandria from
l., n that country, that there will be al
| outbreak of cholera in Egypt thi'
: year. ,b ' a n.pl .a.a +.
A heavy snow storm in Kansas
: last week blocked the Central brancl
', of the Union Pacific road, and di'
s. great injury to cattle and sheep.
y The rumvr of an Indian rising il
! the Northwest Territory is contra
dicted by the Dominion Government
e For writing "Sarah Barnum
Us Marie Columbier has been jailed i
S Paris.
= - During a circus performance i
= Bucharest, the roof fell in, KILN
five people and wounding over on
w hundred.
!. 1t is in contemplation to drain 0
: the waters of the Lake of San Pee
" rito, Mexico, as it is supposed to
"l the annual cause of yellow fever.
re Finland is suffering from sever
he religious sectarianism. A self al
r. pointed Pope is selling indulgence
&c and an emissary Of his was recent
-. murdered while engaged in pros
,os lyting work.
= The entire business portion Of Ire
"A ton, La, has been destroyed by fire.
as It is estimated that $4,000 peop
it have settled in Florida during the pa
it year.
>. 1t is asserted that gold has been !
NY Gently found near Pixies Peak, IS mil
5. from Denver, Col, and in Oceana G
ed Mich.
~ Fifteen hundred gypsies are encam
ns ed around Dayton, o. Their quet
ho who died in Tennessee in March, "
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

'Strawberrypicking will soon be in
full blast at Chattanooga. a.,insaa., j.
70 The Wagner Concert at Memphis,
the first week in June, promises to
be grand success.
Fruit in the Knoxville district is
seriously injured by frost, but apples
promise a large crop.
State authorizes are said to, be
very remiss as to the registry of
marriages and deaths. f, a.
The Democratic State Committee
have resolved to hold a State Con-
vention at Nashville, on June Is.
The trial of Frank James in the
Muscle Shoals robbery case, is in !,
progress at Huntsville, Alabama.
Cumberland county Jail has been
built some twelve years and for the
last five has not held criminal.
Two boys quaraled over game
Of marbles at Nashville, and ended
in one shooting and killing the
other. @
Considerable interest is being
manifestedin the lead and zinc
mines near, White Pine, East Ten
nessee. - - t 49,
A Jew peddler. named Meyer
Friedman, was stabbed 1and killed
recently as he was entering his house
| in Nashville. ''- n 81 y
| Ike Fain, the negro who murdered
Curran, near Emory Gap recently,
! has been sentenced to be hanged on
/ the 18th Of June. Pm es1 d
I The Touring mill at .Sweetwater,
is being enlarged to manufacture
about one hundred and fifty barrels
of -four per day. H' 4
Three Nashville boys were ar
restedin Cincinnati, trying to sell re-
volvers. One boy had stolen $40
from his mother.
According to Bradstreet's reports
there was but one business failure
in Tennessee week before last, and
! that a small one. ''' '7t
The two men, Woody and brother,
recently charged with murder at
Whitesburg, escaped from Hamblen
County Jail, on Friday evening.
) Frank Bailey, we'll known citizen
, , of Roane County, has been arrested
on the charge of robbing the mails
between lockwood and Rock Creek.
At a Wild West entertainment in
Memphis, the grand stand contain
ing some 1900 people, fell, killing
no one, but bruiSing quite a number.
w. j. Owings has about completed
arrangements and will start up his
d woolen mills at Post Oak Springs,
9 Roane county, Tennessee, in a week
{ or two. -
There are about GOO hands en-
u ployed by the company, they have
: two furnaces in blast, scores of coke
e ovens, and coal is mined at the rate
of $4,000 bushels a day. lockwood
q is busy place. la M
J. An old woman named Kate Max
s, field, and a man named VIM. Rey-
y nolds, both bad characters, have
; been arrested near Morristown, on
the charge of numbering an Irish
= pedlar, last October.
Two hotel touts at Spring City
le quarreled over patron, at the STA
st ton, on Friday night, which ended
during the evening in the Sprin.
City Hotel man fatally shooting tlt
. employee of the Brookman House
D., Several school buildings will bt
erected this season at Monteaglo
a hundred new cottages are beln.
r built, and a large number of we!
- arranged tents will be pitched il
- convenient places, for use durin.
70 the Sunday School Assembly Meet
ing.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

An English lady has offered $780,
700 for the rescue of General
Gordon. .n taI 1u.i pl
The fire at Rangoon ragged two
lays and destroyed forty-one houses.
The loss is 81, 100000. .19 4es
In 1882 the emigrants from Eng
land to the Australasian Colonies
we're $4,000, in 1888, 1000.
1t is feared that a return of En-
peror Williams illness may prove
fatal, owing to his. great age.
The Governorof fKansastelegraphs
to Washington that true foot and
mouth disease has developed there.
Rev. A. F. Vedder of Saratoga
county, N. Y, is convicted of NAL
practice and sentenced to three
years in prison. fd' '3' ~
Mr. Henry Watterson's Newspaper
Copyright bill has been reported
adversely by the committee which
had it in charge. q .aagall a.
Large numbers of indictments are
being returned in Texas for fence
cutting and other crimes connected
with the enclosed lands.
Zebehr Pasha refuses to accepI
the post of Assistant Governor o.
the Soudan, to which Gen. Gordor
recently appointed him.
Henry Watterson, editor of thu
Louisville Courier-Journal, decline,
to serve as a delegate to the Dem
ocratic National Convention.
The reported uprising of Mexi
cans, and attack upon American
residents. ,7hmilas South Of Ell Paso
is Incorrect in every particular.
The Rev. Father Sanchez, the las
of the pioneer Franciscan mission
aries who arrived in Santa Barbara
Cal. in lS4l, is dead, aged II.
At Naples a a'drunkSn soldier fire
at a number of comrades roomin
in the same dormitory with him,kill
ing FIVE of them and wounding three
Thousands Of pounds of dynamit
are carted through the streets {
Chicago every day. The man j
charge of the factory says the stu
is not so dangerous as ordinary gur
powder. -.q XII.
Thomas Gold Appleton, a brot
her-in-law to tie poet Longfello,
and the author of a number of book
and a recent donator of $4,000
the Harvard Annex for young won
en-, is dead. .atal rl ao'
Secretary Chandler, in accordan'
with the resolution of Congress, hi
offered $4,000 reward for the di
covery and rescue, or satisfacto,
information as to the fate of Il
Greedy party.
It is calculated that there are nc
residing in the United States near
a thousand japanese and of tt
J, number it is said that not one h
ever been convicted of any Grimm
l offence in an American court.
Three thousand persons we
present at the tercentenary of It
foundation of Edinburgh Univt
, sity, last week, and 100 degrees
hon0riS caatsa were conferred. Amo
: the distinguished receivers "
James Russell Lowell.
n The Paris Figaro remarks:
hundred years ago America v
almost nothing: fifty years age
= began to be something, and now
v amounts to a great deal, and the
q is every reason to fear that in fl
q years it will be almost everythin
h Mr.. Henry George has arri,
it from England. He reports a "
t. successful land question lectur
|, tour he took in Great Britain; d
e prophecies that the restoration
n land will soon be the burning top
in that country.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24

Hon. Peter Staub, of Knoxville,
Swiss Consul and Trustee Of the
Swiss colony in Grundy county, on
the Plateau, paid the colony an
official visit last week. He states
that he made a thorough examina-
tion, and was gratified to find the
colony in better condition than he
had anticipated. There are between
400 aid 500 in the c'lony. They
made wonderful progress in the past
few years and are constantly recelv-
| ing new accessions. On all hands
are seen beautiful two story houses,
snowy white, with trailing vines
almost enveloping them, other neatly
finished grounds and substantial out
houses Indicate thrift and prosper
ity. The leading avocatioh is farm
ing. They produce potatoes and
apples principally, and also pay
attention to cattle raising. They
have been particularly successful in
potato raising. and their product \
sought after at all markets. Some
wine is also made, and the fruit
interests are now being developed
The colony was established ffteel
years ago. The settlers own thei
own land, and are entirely out o
debt. Several have already acquired
a good competence; they are prosper
GUS, active, progressive, and happy
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
OVER THE STATE.

A new bank has been organized
at Gallatin.
Mohave County miner., 1884-04-27
MININd IN MOdAVE.
WHAT OUR MINERS ARE DOIEG IN THE DIFFERENT DISTR TCTS OF THIS
 COUNTY.

James Carr has five IS mule teams at work hauling orc from the McCrackin mine to the mill at Signal.
 James Jackman is working OH the Todd mine for \ A>,EIl9Xis. B. Moses has two men at work on the Starke and Ewing mine near town and vii shortly increase the number. P.F. Collins was in town last week. He
 8 working on the old Dayton nina in San Francisco district. Messrs. Ewing and Delavan have coi u menced work on the Flores mine at Cerbat, recently purchased by w. U. Parsons. The initial steps toward patenting this claim have already been taken. Charley Sherman has O. out pile of about five tons of good looking ore from the Independence mine at Chloride.
 What the Prescott Courier's correspond ent don't know about Mohave county mines would fill a big book.
 w. F. Grounds has sold the Tommanotta and Ellen Jane mines to the Music Noun h@in Gold lining Company, represented by W. w. Danenhower. lie will at once com menNce working on these mines, in fact, has already put six men at work.
 The mining outlook in this county is de- cidedlv better.
 w. H. Hardy has barGained for J. K. Maokenzie's interest in the "Infalhble'' min, at St t'ckt4n Hill fir S5 c0).
Mohave County miner., 1884-04-27

at 9 oil lok tfls mo ming an1 buried the caboose, two flats and the front part of the engine of wreck train. The men are un- willing to go into the cut until morning. II is impossible to tell vixen the track will be c lear. l. is ming slightly.
 The Boston Transcript says that the A. lantic and P cif1 road is to be continued to the western coast, and will be paralfeIed un. less Mr. c. P. Huntington will sell his branch at reason tbie price.
 A railway crossing the Gulf of Finland s to be constructed between the Russian is- land fortress of Cronstadt and Oranien- baum, on the mainland. The cost of the undertaking IS estimated at I6,OOOOCO ropbles. The bridge will be on arches rest ing on iron raissons, the bridge part being of cemented granite, and seven and one half Versts in len ,th. It will have two lines of rails and two covered footwAys. It will be lighted by the electric light.
 The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is hay ing an extremely lively season trying 10 get way through Baltimore city. The plan is to build an elevated road along Pratt street for nearly le, and then dug a short tunnel to get out to the eastern city limits, to connect the western and Washing tor lines with the road to Philadelphia now being constructed, and to have large depot near the middle of the town. The Punns ylvania railroad, which spent a great deal of money for right of way through the city and made a tunnel at cost of $5.- 100000, opposes this, and so do property owners on Pratt street. which is an inlpor- tant thorou Shfare, and good many others
 Commencing on the 18th of the present month the Central Pacific railroad company will run fast mail between San Francisco and Ogden, covering the distance in 39 h. urs. This will complete fast mai service between New York and San Fran cisco, saving 24 hours between these points.
Mohave County miner., 1884-04-27
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS.
Selections Of Presidential Dele
 gates at the East.

Utica, N. Y., April 23.-The Repatl lean State Convention met to-day. The Art UT and Edmunds delegates, having forred q combination, nominated Nathaniel C. Boynton for temporary Chairman, Edmuno l.. Pitts being the candidate of the Blame men. Boynton was elected by vote oi 251 to 2+0. Boynton, the temporary Chair man, was made permanent Chairman. He then ordered that the roll of delegates b called and that each delegate rise in hi rlace and name his choice for four delegate at large from the State to the National R. publican Convention at Chicago. At tine conclusion of the reading of the platform the tellers announced the result of the bal lot for delegates at large as follows: TheC- dore Roosevelt, 472; Andrew D. White, 407 John F. Gilbert, 342; Edwin Packard, 256 Warner Miller, 243; Alonzo B. Cornell, 226 The Chairman declared the first four gen tlemen duly elected. The nominations were then made unanimous, but there were a few dissenting votes. After speeches by Roosevelt. Gilbert and Miller, the conven- ton adjourned.
 Hartford, Conn.,, April 23-The Republl- tan State Convention net here to-day, with large attendance present. Hon. Samuel Fessenden was chosen both temp )rary and permanent Chairman. The convention se- lected as delegates at large John l.. Hous- ton, Samuel L. Merwin, IT,, Augustus Brandegee and Frederick Mills. The dis trict delegates elected were: First district Valentine B. Chant erlain and Ralph P. Gilbert; Second-L. J. Munson and John G. Edmunds; Tbird-Ira G. Briggs and Flu gene $. Boss i; Fourth-O. R. Fyler and G Hill. The delegates were not instructed but it was resolved that, if in their jude- ment an occasion occurred, thev were to present the name of Joseph R. Hawley as a candidate for President.
 Cleveland, April 23.-The Ohio Republi- can Convention was called to order this af- ternoon by the Hon. J. 0. Converse, Chair man of the State Central Committee. Gen. eral Charles Il. Grosvenor, temporary Pres ident, on taking the chair, spoke half an hour. He contended that Ohio would prove the deciding State in the next national Gun vaSs. The remainder of the session was oc- cupied in organizing preliminaries. To- morrow the work of nominating the State ticket a9d electing dele 5ates to the Chicago convention will be done,
 The district delegates to Chicago were officially announced as follows: Blaine 26 sherman, IA; unknown, ?. This does not include the delegates at large, who have not been appointed yet.
 Huron. D lk., April 23.-It was 4 o'clock this morning before the matt r of contest ing delegations had been disposed of in tho convention. After a couple of hours wrangling, a permanent organ zation was effected, when Hummer, of Fargo, Wal made permanent Chairman. N. E. Ne,son of Pembina, and Col. j. L. Jolly, of Clay