The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-10
SOUTHERN. NEWS GLEANINGS.

THERE are only eleven theatres in the en-.
tire State of Old Virginia. 81
IT is estimated that the South last year
spent 100000 on public schools.
STEPHEY RILEY, well-known colored
Democrat, was shot and killed in Charles
ton, S. c., by DR.. A. L. Bellinger.
j. b. LARKIN fell under train at Chat
tanooga the other night and was horribly
crushed, almost beyond recognition, dying
Instantly.
The colored people have decided to pur-
chase the old foundry property, at Athens,
Tenn, on which to locate their University
THE dead body of William Sale, suspect
ed of numbering Deputy Sheriff George
Johnson, in Crawford County, Ark, re-
Gently, was found in the creek near the
residence of the murdered mans brother.
His hat and shoes had been sunk in the.
creek, his throat cut, and one eye gouged
out,
WAYNE BROCK, who lives four miles be-
low Charleston, Tenn, was in Athens a few
days ago, and left town about shutdown,
riding a mule and in drunken condition.
Next morning his body and his mule were
both found dead in the yard of Mr.. Rogers,
at the old Mitchell CASTOR place, two miles
west of Athens. Brock was crossing the
track at the regular crossing, in front of
Mr.. Rogers when the train struck him and
Knocked him and the mule thirty feet
through the fence into Rogers yard, and
killed both instantly.
GTwo YOUNG men in the neighborhood of
Gainesville, Ga, named Thomas and
Roberts had long been counting the
daughter of a well-known farmer. The
girl SO divided her favors that neither
could tell which was the favored sutton.
Finally therivals got to the fighting point
and agreed upon private duel with shot
guns. They retired to q secluded spot
marked off the ground and were about to
fire when Roberts lowered his gun and said :
"Durn it, If you'll give me suit of clothes,
! you can take the girl and be hanged" The
| proposition was accepted at once, and now
| Thomas is in sole possession.
A LAND agent at Rome, Ga, received, a
acres of desirable farm land, in a solid
block, to be intersparsed with timber, but
not all forest. These lands are said to be
for immigrants, and the order comes from
London.
WHEN the sentence to three years. i'm
! prlsonmant was pronounced against ex-
Governor Moses at Boston, he said to po-
lice in pector that he would rather die than
| serve his sentence out, and should take h is
own life at the first opportunity. He is
confined in padded cell and constantly
watched.
ED. CLAYBAUGH, of Helgesville, w. Va,
accidentally shot a little son of Mr.. Joe
Il it's. He was showing an older brother
his rev YER, when the weapon was dis
cnarsed, t1e ball entering his st mach,
passing out at his hip and through his
right hand 1t is feared peritonitis may
occur II 50 tn boy will die.
Mrs. JOSEPH WOLFE, wife of a poor
farmer residing at Seaton Post office,
Bount County, Tenn, has just given birth
to big boy baby weighing twelve pounds
that has neither arms nor legs. The re-
lNa.nder Of the chilifs body iS-~wts7, DE.
veloped. The prodigy bids fair to live,
THE Ettrick and Battersea cotton facto-
ries, near Petersburg, Va, which have
been closed for many months, resumed
operations on the 9th. Hundreds of opera
tives who have been dependent ON public
charity for their support will thus be pro
vided for.
ST KING, the negro ravisher, who hat
been pursued for week by a mob, neal
New London, Mo-, was corraled in corn
field few miles from that town. He wa:
shot twice, but not seriously injured. 1t il
not improbable that an attempt will b'
made to lynch him.
DAY & ALIENS livery stable, at Gala
tin, Tenn, was burned bv incendiaries
Loss, $1,000.
AMERICAN imitators of Englishmen cal
hardly hope to equal the fifty families whit
form the population of Greenwich, Va, 70
they are all from England, and they main
tain their native manners. One resident i
a niece of Dickens Cheeryble Brothers, AM
she has an annuity of their giving.
DAVID ARNOLD, workman engaged il
repairing Lock No. 4, on the Little Kama
wha River, was instantly killed by heav
, wall falling on him.
REPORTS regarding the cotton crop 1
Georgia and Alabama are encouraging
, though a falling off in production is notice
able.
A FEW days ago, about two miles back Q
I Sigler's Landing, in Upton County, an
s forty miles above Memphis, a mulatt
: wood chopper, some thirty years of age
1 named Clay Mason, killed his employer,
e farmer named j. A. Fogle. The men had
. dispute about measuring cord-wood whic
; Mason had cut, and the latter, during tn
. quarrel, drew a pistol fred twice an
Y killed Fogle on the spot. The murdere
FASTENED off. made his way to the river, Sc
d cured a skiff and crossed to the opposit
o shore, thereby escaping capture, and moth
:; ing has been heard from him since tf
4 bloody trouble.
THE Misses Green, of Atlanta, ladies ,
literary and artistic culture, are making
collection of negro songs and setting the
to music.
AN anti-election bribery party has bee
formed at Easton, Md.
VI HUBBARD MITCHELL, colored, fatal
d shot Reuben Blum, white, in row abor
h Mitchell's wife at Houston, Texas.
:, The celebrated trial of Eugene Bee
, charged with the murder of his wife an