The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-02-21
SOUTHEh NEWS GLENAINGS.

A freight train that unexpectedly crossed
the bridge in advance of tho passenger
train was wrecked.
A QUARREL at a dance near Fort Smith,
Ark, resulted in general fight and the
killing of a number of the company and
the woundmg of many more.
U. S. MARsHALs have captured a MUIR
derous moonshiner named Prater, at Chat
tanooga.
SEVEN witnesses in the Ford Murphy
trial at New Orleans have been indicted
for perjury.
Ex-Governor MoUToN. Louisiana, old
est q. S. Senator, and noted politician, is
dead, aged eighty-two.
w. r. HARVEY, a civil engineer in Mis-
sissippi, shot and instantly killed Ed.
Nancy, foreman, who was threatening
him.
A CoLoRED prisoner in Dallas, Texas,
raised a commotion there by demanding a
jury of her own race Half of her request
was granted.
ARATHER serious accident occurred to a
young daughter of e. H. Harris, Esq, OF
Lauckport, W. Va, the other night. She
was standing on the bridge and while at
play accidentally fell off, striking her
head against the rocks below. The fall
was heavy one, and when she was picked
up was insensibe. Her brains were oozing
out of her head. Medical aid was sum-
moned, but there is no hope of her recov-
cry.
JACK NAPLES, of Cleveland, Tenn, was
shot by his son-n-law, who ran off with
the old mans daughter.
THE Arkansas Legislature has passed
bill given artificial limbs to all Confederate
soldiers manned in the late war.
MISS MARY Cox, a well known young
lady of Springfield, w. Va, died from an
overdose of morphine administered in mis-
take. The night following her burial per-
sistent bowling of dogs at her grave at
tracted attention. The next day the grave
was opened, and to the horror of all it was
found that the girl had been buried alive.
The lining was torn from the sides of the
casket, and the pillow was in threads. The
poor girl had literally stripped the cloth
ing from her bodI Her hands .s,es a IA Ia 40. a.
were torn and bieeding. Her lips were
bitten through and handfuls of hair were
torn from her head. She had come to
life, and had evidently made fearful
struggle to escape. The awful affair fills
the community with horror.
AT Spring Hill, W. Va, station on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, a fourteen
year-old son of Mr.. VIM. Dangerfeld, in
attemptingt to get on freight train while
shifting the other day, fell and was run
over by car, breaking a leg and causing
other injuries, from which he will die.
f THE other day, at Poplarville, Miss, on
the Northeastern railroad, in fight be-
tween two citizens named Boone and San
ders, both were killed. Boone was town
marshal, and the difficulty is supposed to
have originated in an attempted arrest.
THE matter of admitting colored men to
practice at the Maryland bar is receiving
much attention in Baltimore.
DICK MULLIGAN, while drunk, Columbia,
S. c., threw a chair at his wife, which
killed his little daughter. Mulligan, So
bered by remorse, cut his throat.
A HORRIBLE story is told of a colored
undertaken of Memphis, Tenn, who the
other day buried the child Of respectable
colored woman residing on Alabama street.
The charges for the burial in the colored
cemetery were all paid excepting ~. A
day or two after the undertaken called on
the woman and demanded the balance
due him. This deficiency she promised to
send him in a few days. The undertaken
rejected her promise, and proceeding to
the graveyard dug up the body, took it out
of the coffin, returned it to the house, laid
it on a board and told the frantic mother
when the ~ balance was paid he would
again bury her child and not before. The
neighborhood where the colored woman
resided was aroused with indignation at
the inhuman act of the undertaken, and the
white neighbors in the locality imn'ediate-
ly subscribed sufficient to have the remains
decently inferred.
BEVERLY TUCKER, of Virginia, expects
to have his volume of "reminiscences ready
for publication in November.
THE business of canning fruits ami veg
people.
Mr.. j. II. MILLIKEN, Travelling passen-
ger Agent of the l.. and N. road: s. j.
Gates, of the st. Louis Airline, and r. II.
Fowler, of the Chicago and Alton Railroad,
arrived at Jellico, Tenn, the other morn
ing on the Louisville train. After rrocur-
ing mules they started from that place, and
the route they took was across Pine Noun
tain, to secure colony of people who in
tend going West over their respective lines.
When about six miles from Jellico they
were surprised to meet large bear, which
suddenly sprang in their path. Mcssrs.
Milliken and Yates mules became fright
ened and started down the mountain at
break meek speed. The mule on which Mr..
Fowler was riding refused to bulge.
Mr. Fowler had hardly time to dis
mount and start for the nearest nee,
when the bear followed close upon his
heels. He then made desperate attempt
TO climb the tree, but the bear followed him
so closely that he left the seat of his trous-
ers in the bears claws. Messrs. Milliken
and Gates went to Jellico and gave the
alarm, and posse of citizens, armed with
rifles, started to rescue the man up tree.
They found him safely lodged in the top
most branch of a large pine. The bear was
| killed Mr.. Fowler was rescued, greatly
| frightened, but not badly hurt, though he
will be unable to sit down for some time.
owing to the injury to the lower part of
his anatomy caused by the sharp claws of
the bear. Mr.. Fowler walked backward
/ from the hotel 10 the danot causlng much