The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-11
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

aged seventy years.
A HORRIBLE murder and house, burn
ing occurred q few days ago near
Citra, Fla. About three p. m. o
dense smoke was seen from Citra In
the direction of j. o. Matthew'S dwelling.
A party of citizens went out and found that
the house was nearly burned down. Three
bodies were seen in the flames, and col
ored girl ten years old was lying near with
her skull crushed, but able to speak little.
She says party came to the house and
killed Martha Lewis, Oracle Lewis and the
baby, and tried to kill her and then set the
house on fire. Mr.. Matthews went north,
leaving the house in charge of the Lewis
family. The victims are all colored, and
were honest, reliable people.
DETECTIVE II. H. REYNOLDS, of Charles
ton, w. Va, was fatally shot by ''moon-
sinner" named Brown, who has fed to the
mountains.
TENNESSEE cotton mills are closing up
for the summer.
IT is now proposed to make Mr.. George
M. Pullman President and Mr.. A. 7. Cos
horn Director General of the revived New
Orleans Exposition.
E. S. WILSON, Of jackson, the editor of
the Ne,o MiSsissippian, has been appointed
Receiver of Public Moneys at Evanston,
Miss.
THE growing demand for Southern iron
out West, says the Savannah Ne,os, great
ly encourages the producers of Alabama
and Tennessee. There has been no mater.
ial advance in price, but there is better
feeling in the market, and the furnaces are
rapidly selling their surplus stock. Much
Southern iron is being shipped to Chicago,
where it comes into direct competition
with Lake Superior iron. The Pennsylvania
iron men are rejoiced to know that the at
tention of their Southern competitors is
being diverted to tho West. A good deal
of Southern iron, however, still goes East
on old contracts, and probably tho greater
part of the Virginia output is sold in the
Eastern market.
THE Custom house, at Memphis, Tenn,
which has been in course of erection for
more than eight years, is nearly completed,
and will be ready for occupancy about Sep
TENDER 1. All the Federal Courts and Gov
eminent offices, including the post-office,
will be located in the new building.
THE large crop of peanuts produced last
year and the general depression in trade
have served to keep prices below a remu-
nerative point for planters, and this seems
to have the effect of materially reducing
A. - l., 30, ;a ;a
year. The Norfolk Public Ledger, in re-
captivating the returns from Virginia,
says: "Replies from 269 peanut raisers
shows Southampton County not included)
that 1890 1-2 acres have been planted this
year, against ISL IL acres last year, and
in Southampton County the acreage is
about 80 per cent. of what it was last year. v
This is only part of the acreage in that
State, but it shows the general drift of the
policy pursued by the farmers.
THREE sons and two daughters of Gener.
al Lee survive him. His sons Iare farmers
in Virginia, and the daughters are bott
great travellers, the elder having explored
Australia, Japan, China, India and Egypt
in addition to the European circuit o.
sights.
S. M. BLAIR, aged thirty-five years, wa
accidently killed by falling out of the third
story window at his boarding house il
Baltimore.
THE war on the Mother Hubbards, which
was so vigorously waged last summer II
various parts of the country, is being re-
| newed in Dawson, Ca, where an ordinance
has just been passed imposing fine of S
on persons wearing the Objectionable gar
| ment on the street.
s. r. FoRTMAN, of New Orleans, fell ove1
| the cliff below Turner's Point, Ca, a few
evenings ago, while on his way to thu
| depot. No one saw him fall, but he beine
| missing, party went in search of him
| Torches and horns were procured. Tht
horns were blown at intervals and larg,
fambeaux flashed their lurid light in tn,
dark caverns of terrible. Tallulah. TIL,
| shouts re-echoed through cliffs and crev
| ices, but no answer was returned. AL
night these men marched up and down
not crown their efforts until next morn
ing, when the lifeless body, as was sup
| posed, was seen lying down on the cliff be
| low Turner's Point. Immediately prepa
rations were made to reach the dying man
When reached he was found to be alive
but in dying condition. The hunters ha,
passed within twenty feet of him the nigh
before, but owing to his condition he coul'
not make himself heard. He got on
large table-rock at Turner's Point, and a
the rock was wet, his foot slipped, and h
was precipitated $50 feet below, where h
lay the greater part of the day and a
night until he was discovered.
GENERAL A. B. UPsHAw, of Tennessee
has been appointed Chief Clerk of tn
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
THE case brought by Charity Wiggin
and the widow of the late John Bethun
for the possession of Blind Tom, the plan
list, was heard by Judge E. M. Spillman
of Fauquier County (Va.) Court, the othe
day. Messrs. Murdoch and Moore appeared
for Virgins and General William H
Payne and Eph Huntington, jr., for Gen
eral James N. Bethune. The Court re
manded Tom to the care of General Be
thu Inc. II is understood the ase'will
appealed to a higher Court.
CHARLES MOORE and his wife lived g
Clear Creek, near. Concord, N. G. Both ha
hasty tempers, and innumerable quarre
was the result. The other day they wei
in the garden and a quarrel took place. tt
wife hit her husband over the head with
small garden hoe she had in her hand, tt
sharp blade penetrating his skull, KILN
him instantly. She Immediately becam
Mortified at her deed and, threw herself Q
the dead body and in endearing languae
besought him to open his eyes. She ht