The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-02-07
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THE Kansas Senate has forty members,
of whom all but three are lawyers.
MRS. GENERAL DIAz, wife of the Presi-
dent of Mexico, is only twenty-five years
old.
THE Duke of Edinburgh has written a
poem and dedicated it to his royal spouse,
the Duchess.
SENATOR SHERMAN declines to entertain
the subject of nomination for the Ohio
Governorship.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has
decided that no insolvent person can give
any preference.
LIEUT.. Col. BURNABY, killed in the re-
cent battle in Egypt, was 10Th in descent
from Edward |.
THE owl is favorite figure in fancy de-
corative articles, lamps, clocks, andirons
and candle sticks.
SENAToR-ELECr EvART's law practice .
estimated at 100000 a year. As Senator
he will get but 5000.
THE death of the wife of Justice Mat
thews closes one of the most hospitable
houses in Washington.
IT is said that Mr.. John c. Emo intends to
build large hotel on the island of Orleans.
few miles from Quebec.
AN ex-pitcher of the Mutual Club of
Jackson, Mich, away back in the fifties, is
now Judge of the Supreme Court in that
State.
SENATOR j. N. DoLPH, of Oregon, has a
residence in Portland which cost him $780,
600. He is great holder of Northern Pa
cific bonds
IT is intimated that Governor Pattison,
of Pennsylvania, intends to enter the min
lstry of the M. E. Church at the conclusion
d his term of Office.
IT is remarkable fact that in the several
terrific dynamite explosions in London,
with hundreds of people in proximity, NO
one has been killed.
SENATOR CHACE, recently elected from
Rhode Island to serve out the late Senator
Anthony's term, is Quaker, and rich
cotton manufacturer.
MRS. HARRIET SMITH, of Tuckertown,
Fla, has proved that women have soul
above the fashions. She is making money
by running a large sawmill
COLONEL LAMoNT's salary as private
secretary to Governor Cleveland was $4,000
year. AS private secretary to President
Cleveland it will be only $3.50.
A NEW "lightning" train is to begin to
rtt,, A y,,-I 1,,%,, IT,, Ii. O.
Petersburg. 1t willmake the journey from
Paris to st. Petersburg in fifty eight hours.
VoLTAIRE's private correspondence has
just been sold at auction in Paris. The
prices ranged from $40 to $16O per letter.
The manuscript of the tragedy of "Irene"
brought S4S
NADJEzDA STEPANovNA SoKHANsKY,
whose non de plume was "Kokhanovska-
ya," is--rest her names and soul-dead.
She was one of the most popular story
writers in Russia.
In anticipation of cholera this summer
the Commissioner of Highways of Pitts
burgh proposes to 60 energetically at work
to give the streets the most thorough clean
ing in its history.
The Italian Government will propose to
the Chambers to issue bonds, in twelve SER
les, for twelve years, for $2O000,000, bear
ing interest at five per cent. for improving
the sanitary plight of Naples.
DR. HENRY T. HEMBoLD, of Buchu fame,
who for four years has been confined in the
Norristown Insane Hospital, has by his
counsel applied to the Philadelphia courts
| for release. The matter is under consid-
Grafton.
Two pupils in school in Washington
Territory were recently obliged to stay at
home and take care of the baby while their
| mother attended court as juror. The fact
is used as an argument against equal rights
Tor women.
ANNIE B. RALPH, of Pittsburgh, eighteen
years old, had her ears pierced New Years
day. On January erysipelas of most
violent type set in and few days ago
| py@mia set in, and the young lady died
from blood poisoning.
Mr.. FIrz, Mr.. Dritz, Mr.. Fritz, Mr.. Brits
Mr.. Ketz, Mr.. Puetz, Mr.. Wiltz and
Schmidt happened to meet at hotel in
Jacksonville, Fla. ,<ecently-the most as
tonishing conjunction of terminal rs evef
known outside the bailiwick of Bismarck.
LORD SHAFTEsBURY, the well-knowr
head of the Young Mems Christian Asso.
citation movement in England, says the
greatest benefit that could be conferred
upon Great Britain would be the migration
of from 100000 to 5O0,0 900 women.
The Rev. Moses Anderson, of Jackson
| County. Mo-, sent his hired nan to bring
his intended bride to his home for the mar.
riage ceremony. She fell in love with tn,
hired man on the way, and they went to
hotel, sent for minister, and were mar
ried.
EARLY marriages are popular at Ten
nant's Harbor, Me. A girl of thirteen wal
married there recently. Most of the girl
are married between twelve and fifteeI
years of age, and it is said to be nothing
uncommon to find in the same family par
ents and from one to four children drawing
school money.
THE Potters' Association offers prem
ium for machinery that will lessen the los
of crude material. The Committee on Stat
istics showed imports of pottery in 1884 tt
have been S4,6l3,60I, against SS,69S,272, il
1888. Of the goods used in this country
about 40 per cent. is OF home manufacture
AT the wedding of Hiram D. Murdock a
Janesville, Wis, all of the eighteen guest
were searched for $50 in gold, one of tn,
presents of the bride, which had been stolel
from her dresser. The money was not re
covered.
IT is said that 5000 worth o. stree
| tamnI hava haeU hFoken nv phila dalpht,