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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
CREMATION.

Any warm subject is interesting
in theseycld days. The disposal of
the Worn out physical frame when
the vital spark is quenched, has,
since man first discovered he was
mortal, been determined at different
times in various ways. At the
present day civilized peoples bury
their dead, and uncivilized either
bury, burn, preserve or expose their
departed relatives. In Europe, and
upon this side of the Atlantic, also,
the barbarous-for so the idea is
ordinarily associated-custom of
burning or cremating the body has
gotten the thin end of the wedge
into civilized society. Cremation
societies have been formed in several
European countries, and tue process
of emberating, if we may thus term
it, has been SO perfected as to leave
but little to be added. The opera
tion can be carried out effectually,
expeditiously, and without any OBJ
jectionable detail.
In this country there is the United
States Cremation Society, with 5000
live members, pledged to have their
bodies burned. Washington, Pa,
is the only place, at present, where
there is a crematory, but another
will shortly be erected, towards
which fifteen thousand dollars have
been subscribed. The structure
will be very complete, containing be-
sides the furnace, a room for the
resuscitation of persons who would
otherwise be burned or buried alive
another for the keeping of bodies
by refrigeration until the arrival Of
distant mourners, and a third il
which any desired rites may be held
The President of the Society says
the principal opposition to cremation
comes from those who hold a belief
in a future physical reunion of the
elements of the body, rather than il
a spiritual body that for ever leave;
the natural frame at death.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24

Commissioner Thomas says that
at least 80 per cent. Of the appli-
cants for government employment
under the reform system have been
educated in the common schools.
He speaks very hopefully of the
success of the new system, which
has passed beyond the experimental
stage and demonstrated its adapted
ness to the work required of ito
separate the subordinate public po-
sitions from politics, to give all
citizens an equal chance to appoint
ment and to secure the fittest men
for the work.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
A CHANCE FOR ALL.

Every native born American boy
has glorious chance of becoming
the head of his fatherland, and
every mother from Florida to Wash
ington Territory sees in the boy
Growing and gesticulating upon her
knee, the future ruler of his country.
This is a Presidential year, and the
native born are doing their level best
to fulfil the .anticipations of their
mothers. There is scarcely a name
known to politics that has not been
up for President.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
says:
Indiana has, to date, eight resi-
dents who have been named in high
quarters for the Presidency. They
are Democrats: Holman, Hen
bricks, Mcdonald, Voorhees,; (Re-
.publicans) Harrison, Gresham
Brown, Dudley.
Other States are not far behind, anC
the crop generally will get heavier
In the winnowing of the chaff from
the grain let us pray "that ever th'
truth may come uppermost, ant
ever be justice DONE"
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
MANY CHANCES.

The Cumberland Plateau possesses
many undeveloped resources which
offertocapable areopportunities
for building up large and profitable
industries. Its broad acreage of
wild lands, timber, coal, iron, petro-
leum, salt, mineral springs, water
power. mills, railroad, and many
infant villages, afford chances for
men Of enterprise to make their
mark in the world.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
QUITE sol

All will heartily endorse the fol-
lowing, from the Nashville artisan !:
This recent institution of Southern
winter with Northern principles is
very nice as a tribute of respect to
our Northern excursionists, and a
desire to make them feel perfectly
at home, but even hospitality can
be Overdone.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24

People SomersetandDan-
vile, on the Southern road, charge
that they are practically shut out of
the Cincinnati markets, owing to the
fact that lower rates are given to
shippers from Chattanooga than
from the points named, which are
less than half as distant.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24

During the month Of December
the exports of cotton from Norfolk,
Va, to Europe were 53,243 bales,
valued at 81 ,4S4,65
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
OVER THE STATE.

The Taylorsville jail now has five
prisoners, all charged with murder.
The project Of establishing bank
at Kingston is again being agitated.
A large number of new bridges
are to be built in McMinn County.
Rev. H. S. Hamilton has been
elected presiden. Of Hiwassee
College.
A colored woman near Nashville,
recently killed her child by feeding
it upon pins and needles.
John Cardwell, a leading citizen
of Warren county, was killed the
other day by a falling tree.
Farmers throughout lower East
Tennessee are giving more attention
to the raising Of the grasses.
The liabilities of the city of Knox
vile are upwards Of $26o,0OO, and
the resources about $225,OOO.
The citizens of Campbell county
vote February 25th on the removal
Of the county site from Jaksboro.
Fillmore Adams, the wife mur-
derer, Of Bradley county, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for
life.
A three-year-old boy Of Mr.. A.
Harrington, Of Calhoun, was scalded
to death by falling into a kettle of
boiling lard, the other day.
A new courthouse is to be built
at Knoxville, costing $4,000. To
raise the money, a tax has been
levied of twenty cents on the 800.
About$250,OOO worth ofTennessee
money has been received at the State
Capitol. ? New certificates will be
issued in lieu thereof at an early
date.
The County Court of Shelby
county at its last meeting voted $500
to have that county properly repre-
sented at the New Orleans Expo
sition.
An old woman named Jane Thom-
pson, while attempting to cross a
railroad bridge near Abingdon, on
Tuesday, was struck by an engine
and instantly killed.
An election of aldermen for the
corporation of Kingston resulted az
follows: j. A. Muecke, H. Crambliss
G. V. Wilkey, W. A. Furguson. J
A. HARLEY and A. j. Childress.
1 Daniel Mann caught bullet il
his chest at the battle of Murfrees.
; boro twenty-one years ago. He has
just had it removed by DR.. Miller
1t weighed over an ounce and {
half. ..taa
The Pressnell boys, who murdered
John Sharpe, of johnson county
have been arrested by Sheriff More
land and posse and lodged in th'
Taylorsville jail. They resisted, bu
were overpowered.
Colonel Chevis, an eloquent ant
3 thoughtful speaker, Of Louisville
| KY, has been engaged by tn
executive committee of the temper
ance cause in Tennessee to deliver
f series of speeches throughout tn
D State in advocacy of prohibition.
: John Davidson and wife, aged 81
and &c respectively, were fount
frozen to death in bed near New
port, Cooke county. They were to-
e feeble to carry in wood for a fire
and covered up in bed to keep warm
They were found three days afte
death.
The Methodist University to b.
g located at Chattanooga is to b.
{ commenced at once. 1t will be fou
e stories in height, without the base
0 ment, and will have l24 feet front
n age with 81 feet depth. The heigh
e of the main tower will be 1870 feet
The style of architecture is French
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-01-24
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
Cardinal Manning has been sick,
owing to his habit of fasting.

King Alfonso has accepted the
of the Spadish Ministry.
Assassins murdered in his bed
Monsignor Cesare, a Church dignit-
ary in Rome.
It is denied that the orange groves
of Florida and Alabama have been
killed by the cold.
1t is the belief in Rome that
Archbishop Gibbons will be the next
American Cardinal.
Farmers with l60 plows and 800
horses plowed fifty acres Of Parnell's
estate last Thursday.
San Francisco speculators have
secured ninetenths of the California
orange crop, and cornered the mar
ket.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made by ghouls to steal the remains
of the late Rt. Rev. Whelan, Bishop
of Wheeling.
An earthquake shock was felt in
Wilmington, N. G. The jar was
sufficient to shift stove-pipes and
unlatch doors.
A gas explosion in Boston demol-
ished a large building, carrying the
roof across the street. There were
several injured.
Several bankers in Chinese cities
have committed suicide on account
Of the deplorable condition of the
money market.
While ten men and a boy were in
the cage at the Gamaot Colliery, in
Wales, the rope broke, and all were
hurled to the bottom and killed.
! The murcury is reported to have
stood at from twenty to thirty-tw3
degrees below zero, on Monday
morning, at different points in Ohio.
The Patchogue and Suffolk (Long
Island) Bank closed its doors. Loss,
$l5O,O0O. Depositors lose every
thing. Cashier Peck has committed
suicide.
The statement comes by the way
of London that the French Govern
ment will do its utmost to reverse
the recent vote of the Chambers
against the Importation Of American
pork.
A London cablegram says Khar-
toum has been the most important
city of the world to the Gladstone
Government. 1t is added that it's
fate involves the life or death of the
English Ministry.
Mrs. William Astor's ball in New
York, the other night, was brilliant
and stately. The guests numbered
eight hundred. There we've several
distinguished foreigners and digni-
taries from Washington present.
According to the Morning Post,
FIVE packages of dynamite were found
in a railway tunnel, on the London
and North WesternRailway,through
which train carrying the Prince of
Wales was to pass in few moments.
The steamer City of Columbus,
from Boston to Savannah, went
ashore last week on Devils Bridge,
on the Massachusetts coast,and was
soon broken up by the sea. The
boats were all swamped, and many
of the passengers were swept from
the decks. Not woman or child
was saved. The total number lost
was seventy-seven.
The situation in Egypt is very
serious. General (Chinese) Gordon
has been sent out by the British
Government to take supreme COM
mand and much a.isfactio is ex-
pressed at the appointment. He
goes direct to Khartoum, around
which the Arabs are closing. A
massacre is feared unless sufficient
reliable troops can be thrown into
the city very soon.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22
C1TATE OF VERMONT.

- Court of Insolvency, District Of Marlboro.
Notice is hereby given that ALFRED W. TITUS OF
Wilmington in said district insolyent debtoron the
2nd day February A. d. 1884, filed in this court
his petition in insolvency, and that meeting OF his
creditors to prove their debts, and to choose one or
more assignees Of his estate, will be held at the Pro
bate Once In Drateboro, in said District on the lbth
day Of February A. D. 1884, at ten O'Clock IN the lore
noon and that the payment OF any debts and the de-
Hvering of any property belonging TO said debtor 10
him or for his use and the transfer OF any properly
by him. are forbidden by law.
81 E.W. sTODDARD, Register.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22


A letter from Maine informs the write
that North Conway, N. H., is to have rail
road up tho steep summit Of Mount Kear.
sarge. George f. Mansfield, who has already
built throo roads Of two-foot gauge, will con.
struot IT, A charter to build the road was OBJ
tanned last summer from the New Hampshire
legislature An article clipped from the
Hartford Times gives the following informa-
ton 1T is one of these little two.fOot wide
roads that Mr.. Mansfield proposes to build up
Mount Kearsarge from North Conway. It
will afford to tho summer guests at that
charming resort a new attraction and new
entertainment. Tho summit Of Mount Kear-
sarge is 27GO feet above the level Of North
Conway 1t is too steep, probably at one
port Of tho ascent for railroading, even for
oog.wheel raroading, and the projected road
up MI. Kearsarge is to be like an ordinary
traction railroad except it will be but two feet
wide and will wind around and around the
mountain, making a totd journey Of nearly
fifteen miles and gradual rise in this spiral
mt This rise, it is calculated, will be but
200 feet to the mile, which is 100 feet less
to the mile than the last two miles Of the
railroad from the Fabysn House up to the
base Of Mt. Washington, whore passengers
get out and take the cog-wheel road" Mr..
Mansfield writos that he is in hopes that suf-
fciont money will DO raised 80 that he can be-
gin work this spring. The main line will ox-
tend over to Chatham, N. H., or to Maine
state line, distance Of nearly q miles. The
branch from the main line up the summit Of
the mountain will be nine miles long and
will be operated ouy during the summer sea-
son. D. L. NJ.
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STATE AFFAIRS.
DEATH OF GEN. H. H. BAXTER.

DEATH OF GEN. H. II. BAXTER.
Gen. IL. Henry Baxter, a well-known
Vermonter, died at New York Sunday even
ing, February 18TH General Baxter was
born at Bellows Falls in 1878, and began his
connection with railroads az one of the con-
tractors in building the Rutland Il Burling-
ton road between Bellows Falls and Rutland.
During his active business life, which lasted
till ten years ago, he was a prominent rail
road man, and was once president of the
New York Central for year before the
Vanderbilt control He was prominent in
the Emma mine and other of Trenor W.
Parks enterprises. He founded the Baxter
national bank of Rutland, was director of
the Rutland marble quarries, a director of
the Continental bank of New York, and the
owner of a large stock farm near Rutland.
During the war he acted as Adjutant General
of Vermont, having been appointed to that
Office by Gov. Fairbanks. He lived in Rut-
land till 1861, and since then has made New
York city his home, passing his summers in
Rutland. He leaves a widow and one SON.
Hugh Henry Baxter, a young man of %.
His property is estimated at SO, 600, 900. His
funeral took place from his New York resi-
denoe on Tuesday, and the burial from Trim
ity church at Rutland on Wednesday.
The company which has bought the OIL
cult falls water power on the Connecticut,
above White River junction, are vigorously
pushing the work OF development The work
Of building the dam was begun in 1882, and
is well advanced. The canal and tail races
are in process Of completion, the first pulp
mill will be in running order by July l, and
| II ia probable that the year 1884 will see sew
| eral new pulp and paper mills in course OF
construction. Nearly $685. 900 have already
been expended on the work, and 1t is esti-
mated that as much more will be laid out in
developing the property. The water priv
| lege of the Olcott Falls company will furnish
at least 10, 600 horse power, and there is suf
foient land owned by the corporation for sc
| mill Sites all of which are on the Vermont
side of the river.
AN eight-year-old son of Lorenzo P
| WardWell, while in the woodwork shop o.
the Burlington wooden company last Friday
was caught between the frame of planning
machine and the wall of the building, anC
was squeezed into mot much more than TIVE
inches space" so a local item says. No bonel
were broken, but he lies in very critica
condition.
j. W. Cramton, the assignee of j. NJ
Haven, sold Ravens interest in the Bate
House at Rutland at auction last Saturday TO
$500 to DIR. j. A. Mead. The property wal
sold subject TO membranes which bring tn
price up TO about $50, 900. Mead owns tn
stores under the hotel.
Receiver Rich began paying 20 pc
cent. dividend to the depositors of the 81
Adams trust company last Monday, and wi
send out 25O checks day till the job is done
He intimates that future dividends will max
the aggregate about 60 per cent. realized b