The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-08-08
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs.

SENATOR GEORGE, of Mississippi, Is I'M
der treatment for chronic Inflammation Of
the eyes.
MRS. SPENCER, wife of ex-senator Spen.
GER, Of Alabama, has just entered the ranks
Of tho bookmakers by the publication,
through Carlton, of novel called "The
Story of Mary"
GEORGE WILSON, Charles Davis and Ma
thilda Jones, all coloredS were hanged at
Plaquemine, La, for the murder of Mrs.
Cole.
LEVI KELLY, a miner of Clay County,
w. Va, committed. suicide by shooting
himself. He was young, industrious
man, but bad whisky and bad woman got
the better of him. The ball passed
through his lungs, causing almost instant
death.
The army worm has appeared in great
numbers upon the cotton plantations in
West Carroll Parish, La, and is doing
considerable damage. Adjacent parishes
report the presence of this pest. Planters
are greatly alarmed.
VA VERY unfortunate and extraordinary
| and double drowning occurred at Hunts.
vile, in Scott County, Tenn, a few days
| ago. Two brothers named Heatan were
in bathing, and the younger was seized
with cramp, and was about to drown,
when he was rescued by gentleman who
witnessed the occurrence. At this juncture
the other brother began to sink, having
lost control of his muscles in the excite.
ment The brother who had just been
rescued sprang to his relief. They were
clasped in each others embrace, and be-
fore assistance could be rendered both were
drowned.
| jim CAsKEY, colored, was taken out from
his home near Douglass Church, Newberry
County, S. c., by party of forty masked
men and given 200 lashes on the bare back,
and ordered to leave the county within
twenty four hours. The party also went
to Lee Clinton's but Lee was absent from
home. These two negroes have been talk
ing disrespectfully about some white ladies
in the neighborhood.
MISS MARTHA Brown, beautiful young
lady, was instantly killed at bali in
Rogersville, Tenn. A revolver accidentally
fell from young mans pocket.
AFTER preliminary trial, Charley Rose
and his alleged accomplices in the recent
Richmond and Danville pay robbery
were discharged.
THE other evening farmear named
Thrailkill, who lives near Evansville
Hardeman County, Tenn, was shot by un'
known parties concealed in the bushes ant
mortally wounded. Thrailkill was at worl
in his field Suspicion rises on man II
the neighborhood with whom he had som,
trouble, but no arrest has been made. TIL,
wounded man will die.
A SOUTHERN Senator, now in Washing
ton, says that he shall introduce a bill mex
session, giving Mrs. Grant pension o
5000 year for life.
THE United States Court at Oxford, Miss.
has rendered its final decision in favor o
Monroe County, in the last of a long serie
of suits to enforce subscription to the CAPT
tai stock of the old Selma, Marion an,
Memphis Railroad Company. The tota
amount involved in the several suits, in
Guiding bonds and interest, was over 500,
900. Litigation has been pending since 1871
MRS. DENNIS SHEA, of Nashville, visit
ing at Franklin, Tenn, gave her nine
months old child dose of carbolic acid b.
, mistake. Death ensued in a short time.
, THE police of Chattanooga are maxim,
war on the lewd negro women and they ar
fleeing from the city. All the white wome
of i'll repute have been driven out of tn
city.
In Fayette County, Ca, recently, Mis-
Puss Banister, daughter of a wealthy citi
zen, ran away from home. Citizens trace
, her footsteps to within one hundred yard
of the creek. Early the other morning
was made known that the voice of som
one was heard in the swamp in great dis
tress. The party found her in a can
3 thicket, tangled in swamp vines and brier
! with her bonnet-string choking her. He
: clothing was saturated with water, bu
! her head dry. She was unconscious. Sh
fingered till midnight, when death re
leved her. 1t is believed that she ha
5 gone crazy.
MATTE MARSH, a woman of the tow
sucided at Chattanooga, Tenn, by takin
: morphine. She is from Middle Tenn, an
was Respondent on account of the feein
; now existing there against women of he
class.
!, LEWIS GLATARD, a Frenchman, who ha
, been employed at the lockwood Furnace
, Chattanooga, Tenn, as laborer, has RI
!. ceived telegram from France announcin
that by the death of all his relatives h
has fallen hefr,to au estate valued at SIC, 90
: He has been in America eighteen year
i but will return to his native land as 500
as arrangements can be completed.
!, A COMMITTEE of the Memphis Cotton E,
t change, representing the commercial ar
t banking interests of Memphis, forwarde
, to Postmaster General Villas nlemoria
). protesting against the proposed discontil
: uance of the river mail service betwee
: Terrene, Miss, and Arkansas City, on DO,
Q sides Of the river, and from Terrene to PHI
q Bluff, Ark, and from Osceola, Ark, to Ne
: Madrid, Mo. The memorial sets forth as
a fact that this discontinuance of the riv
I service and the substitution of horsebat
4 service would cause incalculable damage
2 the commercial interests of this city and
r our neighbors and patrons. Memphis is Il
9 base of supplies for the section named, al
l. to thus cut off the sure, quick mail facliti
J. enjoyed for many years, and to turn 81
d wheels of business progress backward
). an almost forgotten time, is to inflict
a great injury upon this section of Il
!. country, and will prove exceedingly detr
| mental to its business interests md rnonos