The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1883-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

luctantly consented to return home. The
colored man, 1t was said, would be prose-
cuted for stealing the team with which they
drove off.
THOMAS SCOTT, theatrical employee,
was killed and both engines were wrecked
in collision at Norris, Iowa.
THE other day Chief Engineer Edwin
Wells, of the United States Navy, was found
guilty Of assaultng an enlisted man in the
navy by the Court Martial which convened
at the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard. He
was sentenced to be publicly reprimanded
in general orders by the Secretary Of the
Navy.
A VERDICT for the largest amount
ever given in breach OF -promise case was
that given by the Jury in the Livingstone
Fleming case in New York City recently,
the plaintiff being awarded 49, 900 dam
ages.
The Anchor Line steamer City of
Greenville colided on the morning Of the
18th near Bayou Goula, ninety-six miles
| above New Orleans, La, with the Grand
Ecore packet Laura Lee. The City of
Greenvile sunk, leaving only portion of
her texas and pilot-house above water. The
Laura Lee took off the passengers and crew
of the sunken steamer and took them TO
New Orleans. 1t was believed the boat and
cargo would prove total loss. No cause
was given for the collision. The value of
the boat and cargo was estimated at $780,, :
600.
IT was reported that severe earth
quake shock was felt throughout Southern
Missouri, Illinois and Northern Tennessee
on the morning Of the 18th.
IT was said that owing to the small
poX epidemic in Baltimore the other day
health inspectors were placed at the depots
and passengers were closely scruinized,
while each turnpike leading int o the city was
watched by policemen. Two thousand cases
were said to exist in Baltimore, and of these
only 800 had been reported to the Health
Department.
"A STORM at Vera Cruz, Mex, the
other day, was very destructive. The
American steamer James A. Gary, the
schooner Theresa G. and Mexican bark
were a complete loss. The crews were
saved. The roofs of railroad warehouses
were carried away, works for harbor i'm
provements were completely destroyed and
many lighters and small craft were wrecked
AT the Milwaukee, Wis, fire the loss
Of life was on the 18th estimated at about
seventy. Several bodies were recovered OF
that day.
A FEW days ago the brig Goldfndel
was towed into Delaware breakwater, fou1
of her crew being frozen to death and Others
disabled.
PROPERTY to the value of 100000
was destroyed by fire at Des Moines, Iowa
on the morning OF the 10Th.
THERE were 262 business failures II
the United States during the seven day
ended on the 18th, an increase of thirty
eight as compared with the previous sever
days.
IT was reported the other day tina
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer hat
reached Congo with 8, 1000 tons of goods.
AN explosion of barrel of benzlne il
the color department of the paint works a
Pittsburgh, Pa. the other night fatal
burned Joseph Inglesby and slightly in
jured Thomas Inglesby and Daniel Greer
The building caught fire, but the flame
! were put out with loss of $4,000.
A PACKAGE containing dynamite wa
posted at the Limerick, Ireland, Post.offic
the other day. Not being addressed, it for
tunately escaped being stamped, whereby
terrific explosion was avoided. The polio
'. were inquiring into the affair.
AT Oak Harbor, O., the jail took fir
a day or two ago, and man locked up th
light before for being drunk was burned
q death.
A DAY or two since it was reporte
that there had been 125 arrests at Rome
I Italy, on account Of the Overdank bushes;
k Some of the prisoners were to be tried fC
= treason.
/. In the New Hampshire Penitentiar
6 a convict named Cook died few days ag
o leaving confession that the testimony Q
which he sent a man to the gallows tw
: years ago was false.
n The British ship Wild Deer, frol
q Glasgow, Scotland, to New Zealand, wit
: coast day or two since and it was sal
4 would become total wreck. The passel
;, gers were saved.
WHILE crossing the track at Cohoe
N. Y, in a sleigh the other day three boy
/, were struck by locomotive and killed.
d IT was said that Patrick Higgins col
= victed of the Hubby murders, in Irelan
r must hang. The Lord Lieutenant havir
n refused to interfere.
); SToUGnToN, Wis.,, eighteen mil,
q from Madison, reported 500, 200 fire a fe
days ago. The carriage works of F. G. Mar
were destroyed.
AT Fall River and Somerset, Mass
:. general strike of IRON workers was threa
70 ened on the 10th, when fifteen per cen
! reduction of wages would take effect.
lie FIRE destroyed one hundred and fiji
re thousand dollars worth of property in Il
business heart OF Menah, Wis, the 9th
day. Several business establishments,
re national bank and the Russell Hotel we
is burned.
t. In the Planters House at st. Loui
ne Mo-, on the morning of the 14th fire caus
er tremendous excitement among the CUES
as and employees, and three of the latter-Car
I'd Ribali, Dennis Raponti and Henry Blaney
lost their lives and Mary Kerns, laundres
jumped from second.story window al
! broke her leg. The loss to the hotel was e
Ill timated at S25 200.
es nj, -: 49, L.