The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1882-04-15
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

Nance murdered his three year old step
daughter by breaking her skull on the
floor, because she was fretful and dis
turbed his rest. -----Governor Hawkins
has commuted, to Imprisonment for life,
the death sentence of White, con-
demned to die at Charlotte, Dickson
Co.--The auditorium of the first
Presbyterian Church was formally re-
opened at Nashville on Easter Sunday;
the Rev. Y. A. Hoyt preached a fine
sermon. Staggers and Pink eye are
sore ly affecting the horses in Smyrna,
Rutherford Co. The Citizens of
Bedford are asking for an asylum for
the poor, on q grand scale.---Dr.
Salmon, of Lynchburg, Moore Co., has
discovered what seems to be success
full remedy for hog cholera.---Mr,
Robert McNelly, of Cleveland, Bradley
CO., is dead. He was editor of the
Banner, and one of the oldest printers
in the State. e.--250 darkies are at
work on the railroad between Covington
and Dyersburg. AT Yorkvi,le, Glib
son Co., Alex Terrell has been acc-
dentally killed by the discharge of q
pistol. We learn that some boys had
gone out for the purpose of whipping
negro when the accident happened.---
) Two fellows fell out about a girl at
Bradford, Gibson Co., on Sunday last,
and one man stabbed the other, it is
thought fatal Pedestrianism has
! been good deal on foot at Nashville
5 this week, ,---On Monday a man was
. fined at Nashville fifty dollars for being
drunk and disorderly. Cattle are
9 exceedingly scarce in Chattanooga. a.----
= Dr. Montgomery's son, at Chattanooga,
was stabbed as he left Church, on Sun
. day, by a boy of the same age The
u wounds are thought to be dangerous.
9 Dynamite cartridges have been
exploded in the Mississippi with the
hope that some of the bodies of those
who were lost in the GolClen Cuy
: would rise. Mrs Rodgers was killed
- by lightning in Claiborne CO. on Sunday.
~ Seventy three tons Of iron are
~ daily put out by the furnace at Cowan,
. Franklin Co.--So far 46 bills have
~ been introduced into the House of
Assembly. The other day a negro
/, girl near Kingston, Roane Co., out
- salad gathering, with some children,
said she was going to commit suicide
. and deliberately walked into the Ten
nessee river, drowning almost withdut q
y struggle. "A negress, aged 10 years,
has just died near Dayton, Rhea Co.
>" "A survey is to be made for the
Kingston and Emory Gap Railroad
20 The Republican State Convention
KS KS will meet at Nashville, April 27th.---
7 A knife, urged on by whiskey, killed Q
h man named Wright, at Pond Creek
IN Cheatham, Co. Murderer's name S. N
Bacon. - There are some 100000
es dogs in this State. 100000 ration,
sh have been issued by the federal govern
ment to the sufferers by the Mississippi
ty overflow The Grand Lodge O
ry Tennessee, Knights of Honour, met Al
Nashville on Wednesday. "A gooc
m deal of building is going on at Tulla
of homa, Coffee Co. Saloon keeper
81 at Winchester. Franklin Co. will not il
:, future open their bars on Sunday, by .
:, mutual agreement. - Chattanoog,
has increased its population 20 per cen
in two years, and now numbers lS,OO(
en- en- people. A black man of Rutherfor,
III County has been arrested on charg
of attempting to drown three whit
en children. Hon. George Massey, @
he this State, has been nominated by tn
President, Minister to Bolivia
of Memphis has debt of 81, ,554 1884
ac There is in the Tennessee Treasur
s632,S4l.52.