The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-28
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs.

w. W. DAFEE has entered suit az Bir- |
ningham, Ala, against the Western Union
Telegraph Company for $4,000 damages
for delaying four days a telegram from
Atlanta, announcing the death of his
mother
e. JEFFoRDs,of Issaquena County, Miss,
lately the Representative in Congress of
the "Shoestring district" died suddenly in
Vicksburg, the other morning.
IT is positively stated that Mormons will
build church in Rutherford County, NC.
and that two of their elders will conduct it
while three others work as missionaries in
North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina
and East Tennessee.
HENRY EVERETT and Allen Hubbard
cclored, quarreled at a stone quarry, near
Nashville, whereupon the latter stabbed
and killed the former. Hubbard fed, and
has not been arrested.
OLD DAN TUCKER, colored, the most not
| able character on Chincoteague Island Md.
! died few days ago.He claimed to have had
many hairbreath escapes by field and
| flood He also claimed to be the man that
'the song was writ about" and maintain
ed that ne had drunk enough whisky to
float any vessel that ever traded over
Chinteague bay.
THE boiler in Chambers mill, Newton,
Miss, exploded, killing the fireman, Sam
uel Glass, and badly injuring two other
men
AN explosion of dynamite damaged the
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Va. One side was blown in. and the in
mates seriously injured.
MRS. MCINvALE, in Crawford County,
Georgia, was found dead in her house, her
head, face and body badly burned, her
skull fractured and blood on the hearth.
Her husband was suing for divorce;
hence the suspicion against him.
THE other morning fire broke out in the
James bank building, Atlanta, Ga. Part
OF the block is four stories and part five,
The fire was in the first story end and was
near the elevator. The flames went rapidly
up the elevator and in few minutes the
entire five story end was a sheet of flames.
Parties with sleeping rooms on the upper
floors narrowly escaped with their lives.
One man is believed to have been burned to
death, as in the last moments of the fire a
window was seen raised from the inside,
but no man appeared. The firemen say
they threw water against the window and
raised it. Only the five story end was
destroyed.
A GEORGIA father who has q weakness
for Indian names, named his daughter
"Eufaula." There was CONSERVATION in
the family when it was ascertained that
the Interpretation is "wet dog'--certainly
not very euphonious name for girl.
JAMES GOODMAN started from Charleston
tolAugusta County, Va, to see his mother,
who was dying. At Clifton Forge, in at
tempting to board the train while moving
he fell between the cars, having a leg cut
off and sustaining other injuries which will
result fatally.
9PRoF. W. M. LEE, the rope-walking art
ist while treading the Irvine thirty feet from
terra firma, at Birmingham, Ala. "a few days
ago, missed step and fell, narrowly miss
Ing few men who were gazing at him. He
was not seriously hurt, though somewhat
bruised.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL GEO.
T. NICKEL died at Peterstown, Monroe
County, W. Va, suddenly under suspicious
circumstances. Nothing positive can be
ascertained, but he is supposed to have
been poisoned.
FRANK SMITH and Mat Roberts, convicts,
working in gang on the Central Railway,
near Regain, Falls County, Tex, attempted
to escape the other evening and were fired
upon by guard and instantly killed.
THE first number of the Nashville Union,
new Democratic paper, appeared on the
17th The Union swill have the United
Press telegraph service, and will be an
outspoken, independent Democratic paper
cordially supporting President Cleveland's
administration: and devoted to the de-
: velopment of the new South.
The strike of the engineers on the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad
has ended.
A FIRE at Salisbury, Tenn, destroyed
twelve small houses. Loss, $4,000.
TWELVE inches of snow fell on the morn
ing of the 18th at Spartansburg, s. G.
MISS KATIE WALKER, daughter of Fl
Walker, of Wilcox County, Ga, was ia.
tally burned while resisting fire.
TEE twelve-year- old daughter of w. R.
Mann, of Lawrenceville, Ga, discovering
her clothes on fire, ran through every room
in the house, setting the bedding on fire
and finally died from her injuries
JOHN NUM- and another man, name un.
known, both negroes, fought at Leeds
Ala, on the 18th, on the Georgia Pacific
, Road over game of cards. Num- killed
, his opponent with an ak. He was ar
rested.
A SQUAD of the Fifth Cavalry started ,
few days ago from Matamoras, Texas, t.
convey three prisoners to Victoria Salinas
When about half way they hung the tire,
prisoners to trees, and returned to Mata
moras.
AT Dunlap, Tenn, William B. Elliott
Treasurer of the county, while making
speech before the Grand Jury, became very
much excited, and, while making gesture
dropped dead. He was very wealthy cit
zen.
The valuation of real estate and persona
property in Montgomery, Ala, for the las
year, shows an increase of half million
dollars.
. ROBERT NETHERsCoTT, principal mille
. of Kennedy e. Moorlock's Touring mill
Martin, Tenn, met with horrible anC
: heart-rending death few days ago.
| seems that he went up stairs to adjust tn
machinery and, it is supposed, slipped anC
fell into the gearing below and was liter
ally ground and mangled beyond recogni
ton. He was an excellent young man ,hav