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The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
CoIored Preacher Beats His Son to Death.

MADISON, FLA, October 25.-Rev. Alfred
Coffee, a colored preacher, is in Jail for tho
murder of his -year-old son. The boys
skull was fractured and his head beaten to
a Jelly. The father first used pillow Limo,
then a thick peach tree switch, then
brush broom, winding up with plank four
feet long, which was broken into fragments.
The boy fell dead under the blows. His
screams were heard mile. The father
said he did it to make the child honest.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
The Annexation Of Mexico.

ST. LOUIS, October pa letter to the
Globe Democrat from FL Paso, Mexico,
says there is good deal of private talk
among the intelligent and property own
ing Mexicans in Chihuahua in favor of the
annexation to the United States OF the
northern tier of the Mexican States. No
open movement has yet been made, nor
has the press touched the subject, but the
letter asserts there is strong undercar.
rent running among the class above named
in favor of linking their destiny to that OF
the great Northern Republic.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
Tale Of a Husband, Wife and Hawk.

AIKEN, s. c., October 21.-An immense
fowl hawk few into the yard of Mr.. Robert
Brodie yesterday, and while struggling
with fowl on the ground was seized by
the wings by Mr.. Brodie, when the hawk
let go the prey and tasted his talens into
his legs so that he could not move. The
hawk had Mr.. Brodie by the legs and Mp.
Brodie had the hawk by the wings, but
came in answer to his cries in the person
of his wife, who chopped off the hawks
head with q hatehet, and released her
husband from an embrace that was any
thing but tender and loving. The hawk
was of immense size
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
Maxwell Identified,

ST. LOUIS, October 23.-Chief of Police
Harrigan received letters to-day from the
Chief of Constabulary in Hyde, England,
positively identifying the prisoner known
as w. H. Lennox Maxwell, who is in jail
here awaiting trial for the murder of G.
Arthur Preller &C the Southern Hotel last
April, as Hugh Nathan Brooks, solicitor
who practiced in Hyde some years ago.
The Identification was made on photographs
found in the prisoners trunk, which were
sent to Hyde, and which proved to be pic
lures of Brooks, his mother and sister.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
Elaborate Preparations of a Suicide.

NEWPORT. r. l., October 25.-W alter
Chadwick well.known citizen, who has
been missing from home for many days,
was found drowned near Hammel's wharf
this afternoon. Chadwick had tied string
around his beard and chin 10 prevent MS
shouting for help, tied his legs put on
belt with several bricks inside, put bricks
in his pockets and tied his hands
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
A Weeks Failures.

I NEW YORK, October 23.-The business
failures occurring throughout the country
during the last seven days, as reported to
r. G.. Dun & Co., number for the United
States 163, and for Canada "a, or total of
III, as compared with 166 last week, and POI
the week previous. Failures are still nu-
merous in the Pacific States and Canada,
but in the other sections of the country
they are below the average.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
Onnosition TO Vaccination,

MONTREAL, October 25.-The authorities
are meeting with considerable opposition
in the work of isolating small pox patients.
To-day carter named Trepanicr called
number of his neighbors to his assistance,
and together with the mob drove off
posse Of sanitary police which had come to
remove the carter's children to ,the hos
pital. Trepanier will be summoned before
tho new court which has been established
for the trial of such cases. At another
house to which the officers went for SINH
lar purpose, man drew knife and kept
them at bay until he was reasoned out OF
his fOllv
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
ImbeciIe Husband Guarded Her Corpse.

BROOKLYN, October 23.-Mrs. Mary Ev-
erett, woman about fifty years of age,
residing at 25s Hudson Avenue, was found
dead this afternoon with her imbecile hus-
band, Robert. When the Coroner entered
the room the husband was in a dazed state,
and nothing ineligible could he learned
from him. The people are from New South
Wales, and are said to be well connected
The body of Mrs. Everett was removed to
the morgue, and her husband was sent to
the hospital. The cause of death is sup
posed to have been heart disease. 80
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
A Fathers Awful Crime.

BTNeHAMPToN, N. Y, October 23-Word
has been received in this city to the effect
that John Howell, a farmer near Straucca,
Wayne County, Pa, this afternoon shot
four of his children, ranging in age from
three to eleven years, and then shot him.
self. His wife and eldest daughter were
absent at the time of the tragedy.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
The Hamilton County Returns.

CINCINNATIO., October 22-In the official
count of Hamilton County, the entire
Democratic ticket with one exception is
counted in. but as fraud is alleged in sever
al Cincinnati precincts, the County Clerk
has been enjoined from issuing certificates
to the State Senators. The Republican
candidates petitioned the Circuit Court for
writs of mandamus, and the whole matter
will come up for hearing on Monday, Oc-
tober &c.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
0ilip Minnesota,

BROwN's VALLEY. MIMI, October o.
This neighborhood is considerably excited
over the discovery of oil eight miles north
of here. While digging for water at
depth of eighty five feet oil in small guam
titles was found. Reports say that fabu-
lous prices are now being offered for the
lands.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
The Boilers Work,

PROVIDENCE, R. l., October 23.-This
afternoon the boiler of dredging machiae
in Stonington harbor exploded, instantly
killing Captain Henry Sheffield, of the
steam Yacht FREELY, and injuring Thomas
Colbert, Grove White and Stephen r. Bur-
dick.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
Suicide In Jail.

CLEVELAND, o., October 25'-August
Bienlow, a German about thirty years Oh
age. who was arrested last night by dep.
uty u. S. Marshal for passing a counterfeit
bill, hanged himself in jail before morning
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
Wife Murder and Suicide.

MoRAvIA, n. V, October 23.-This after
noon Henry Dickerson shot and killed his
wife, then shot himself. Jealousy was the
cause. Dickerson can not live,
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
THE CATTLE KINGS.


TFrom the ST. Joseph Gazette.1
No action of president Clcveland's
has attracted more wide spread discus
sion than did his order for the evacua-
tiOn of the Indian lands by the cattle
men Ii there has been anything that
waslmost rema, K able in his career Mt the
head of administrative affairs, il was
the wonderful knowledge that he pos
scssed from the beginning in relation to
this comparatively new but seriously
complicated question. When the rep
resentatives of the cattle kings called
upon him he heard them patiently, and
then proceeded in his blunt but forcible
way to throw more light upon the
subject than the intelligent representa-
tives themselves had ever possessed.
He pointed out that there were consid-
erations of public peace, public security
and the safety of lives that far out
weighed the private interests of the few
individuals associated in the cattle
companies. His action in refusing to
modify the order fo.' the removal of the
cattlemen may not have been thorough
ly considered. In view of the leniency
that has been shown them heretofore,
they may have had the right to expect
an extension of the time But they had
no business there in the first place, and
in this light doubtless the president
viewed it. They had monopolized four
millions of acres of valuable grazing
lands in the Indian territory, under
pretense of leases from the chiefs of
certain tribes, but well knowing that
these leases were not valid. They had
become 80 used to humbugging the In
dians and hoodwinking the officials,
through and by means of the radical
administration, that they had grown
to regard their ring as stronger than
the government. 1t is not the first in
stance of the failure OF this idea.
Knowing that they were trespassers,
and that Notwithstanding the interior de-
partment had tacitly acQuiesced in their
illegal occupancy of the lands they were
liable to notice at any time TO vacate,
they held on in the hope that the new
government would be as easily subsi-
died as the old one They made no
preparations to vacate the lands, but
instead organized a system ofresistance,
beginning with the application for
modification of the orders. They had
become so accustomed to getting every
thing they wanted that they confidently
expected to fool the administration
again and stave off the time of their de-
parture. Cattle raising is great in
dustry, and while the administration
and the people do not wish to cripple
or retard it, it is an accepted theory
that the men engaged in it have no
more right to violate the law than have
the mOOnshiners of Tennessee and Ark
ansas. Had the president shown them
any quarter at all, it might have estab-
lished precedent for other modiiica-
tiOns. While the Gazette has favored
an extentiOn of the time for the removal,
it agrees that ifsuch extension had to
be made at the expense of further mod
ificatiOns, the president acted wisely in
refusing to grant it. Therefore, let the
trespa ssers 90
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
MAXWELL, THE ST. LOUIS MUIR
DERER.

San Francisco, Aug. 10-The steam
er Zealsndia. just reported four miles out
side, will be in at IL O'Clock this morn
ing Maxwell, the St. Louis hotel
murderer, is supposed to be aboard,
Later:-Maxwell, when Questioned.
positively refused to make any state
ment respecting the crime. He is
charged with saying that he had been
strenuously advised by his council be-
fore leaving Auckland not to open his
mouth except to put food into it. He
looks cheerful and says he never felt
better in bis life. The officers were
equally rehcent, declining to discuss the
subject of the crime or Maxwell's sup.
posed connection Herewith. He will
be taken east tomorrow.
On the passage from Auckland, Max.
we'll was manacled at night, and the two
detectives kept six hour watches over
him day and night. He maintained per-
feet ease during the entire trip oftwen-
ty-one days, never giving the detectives
the slightest trouble. Two carriages
were in waiting at the steamers landing
and the detectives with Maxwell were
driven to the city prison where the
prisoner will remain until his departure
tomorrow afternoon. When accosted
in prison he said his name was D'Augier
and that he was Frenchman, a native
of Paris, aged "a. He acknowledged
having known Preller, but beyond this
refused to say more, repeating what he
had previously said. that his attorneys
in New Zealand cautioned him about
saying anything about the CRIME with
which he was charged.
f. 1t is proposed to appoint medical in
speetors at all Cuban consulates to
keep cholera out of the United States.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15

sion on Ridgeway be confined to nine
lamps. Carried.
Mr.. Taubman moved to Law over till
the next meeting, and the city attorney
prepare all opinion rs To whether or
not the city has a right To collect any
gas tax. Lost to 4.
Mr. Homer moved the ordinance he
read third time and become Il law.
Carried, ) to 3.
Mr., Holwell moved to adjourn till
Thursday night. Lost, to 4.
Mr.. Taubman was opposed to special
meetings. The members had wasted
lots OF time, and he was in favor of
staying late, and then adjourning to the
regular time.
Mr.. Russell read an ordinance in re-
lation to fees and salaries, givin" the
members of the Improvement commit
tee 500 year each, and all other
members $75 each. Mr.. Homer said
the members who missed regular
meeting should be dockcd SS, and for
special meetings 81 each. Ordinance
so amended. Mr.. .Winsor did not think
it right to raise their salaries while in
Office. Mr.. Taubman said this wonld
be reduction. They could hold
special meetings as often rs desired,
and 10 extra cost would be created.
Mr.. Homer moved to read Il third time
and that it become law. Carried, )
to ).
Moved to adjourn till Thursday night.
Carried, to 8.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. IL, 1885.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER The spirit
of accommodation manifested by the
secretary of the treasury is some
thing surprising. a telephone has
been placed in the appointment room
OF the department, and persons de-
sirOns of ''serving their country"
may now communicate their modest
requests for appointment from dis
tance, thus avoiding the vexation and
annoyance heretofore experienced in
the crowded ante room while awaiting
interviews. Judging from reports, as
to the success OF those who have
made their wants known in the sold
fashioned way" since the advent of the
present administration, it is probable
that applicants will receive their COM
missions as promptly when ordered by
telephone as under the old arrange
ment.
The records of the house postoffice
shows that there are just twenty-five
members of congress i'll the city. Un-
til the past few days the average has
never fallen below forty five, and most
of the time since the 4th of March there
have been from seventy five to eighty
here.
A public meeting of the citizens was
held early in the week, at which it was
decided to request General Logan to
Introduce joint resolution, when con-
gress assemblies, declaring it to be the
wish of the nation that the body of
General Grant be deposited at the cap
ital, in order that national monument
to his memory may be erected 1t is
proposed that the remains be allowed
to rest in Riverside Park until the COM
pletiOn of grand memorial, which
shall commemorate the restoration of
the union. Upon the passage of the
resolution bill will probably be in
troduced providing for the construction
of tomb i'll a proposed extension of
the east front of the capitol. The ex-
preston of the people throughout the
country is in favor of Washington as
the final resting place, and it is believ-
ed that Mrs. Grant will not resist such
an expression of the nations will.
A little breeze of excitement prevails
in official circles occasioned by the sus-
pension of Prot. Hlgard, chief of the
coast survey bureau, and IA number of
his clerks, pending an investigation of
charges that have been preferred reIa-
tive to the misuse of funds appropria-
ted tor special purposes in that bureau.
An investigation is now in progress.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
TIE NEW SCHOOL LAW.

The last general assembly made ma
terial changes in the. laws governing
public schools. The school year now
begins on July 1st and ends with the
close of the ensuing June, and the re-
ports of the district clerks must en-
brace receipts and disbursements dur
ing this period, the receipts to be class
ifed ss to public and district funds, the
expenditures apportioned to the res
pective departments, accompanied with
q statement Of the balances to the credit
Of the respective districts at the COM
mencement and close of each year.
The presidents are required, precedent
to the payment Of any orders, to re-
cord their names with the county treas
urer, and no interest-bearing or other
orders can issue, without a knowledge
on the part Of the proper officers, that
adequate funds are in the treasury for
the payment of the same. The appor-
tionment Of public funds hitherto made,
of county in February, and of state in
April, will occur, under the provisions
of the present law, in August, and the
distribution of such funds, accruing
since the apportionments OF February
and April last, will be made during the
current month, and will be, for the
state fund, II cents for each enumerated
pupil, and for county fund 3Sa cents
for same, and this will be augmented
by the assignment of any accumulated
interest in such districts as have availa-
BILE funds. 1t will be observed that
after this spportionment is made, 10
further receipts will be derived, from
public sources, until August 1886, and
the districts meanwhile must depend
solely on means derived from district
taxation. The respective school dis
tricts should be governed as to expen-
ditures In accordance with the above
presentation Of facts.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15

The st. Louis Republican OF last
Sunday had an article after our own
heart, entitled "American Dignity vs..
Austrian Insolence." The sentiment
is called forth by the impudence of
Austria in declining to receive Mr..
Kelly as minister from this country.
The, gentleman's offenses consist in
his having some fifteen years ago con-
demned the Italian capture and occu-
patton Of Rome; and in having a
Jewess for a wife. As to his view re-
garding Rome we differ from him; But
what of that? 1t was his opinion, ard
as an American citizen he had right
to hold and to proclaim it, and no auto
crat on the face of the earth should be
permitted to challenge that right. Sup
pose such precedent were set, where
could the American be found who was
not the veriest toady who could
represent our country at any monarch
ical court? Thomas Jefferson was pref
ty plain spoken as to kings and kingly
government, yet at that day when the
fire Of American independence and
freedom was a living, glowing blaze,
no foreign country would have thought
of objecting to him as minister, and
If they had there would have been some
pretty plain talk from this side of the
water. We are not of those who over
estimate our own and underestimate
other countries. We know that all
virtue is not centered in any govern
ment or any people. But we should
hold it as supremely ridiculous in the
government at Washington were it to
tobject to the Russian ambassador be-
cause he was a monarchist, or the
Austrian ambassador because years ago
in q dispute between the United States
and Chill he had held that Chill was in
the right and the United States in the
wrong. If the serious objection shall
prove to be that Mrs. Kelly is Jewess,
it could come to q country like ours at
no more inopportune time than when
men OF ell sects and political opinions
ere dong reverence to the name of the
sage and philanthrophist, Sir Moses
Montefore. 1t may prove republican
rusticity, but it is fact, pregnant with
significance, that at this moment no
contemporaneous Austrian name oc-
ours to US which can be compared with
his. 1fMr. Kelly is gentleman and
his wife lady, in the pure, womanly,
American sense of the term, and we
have no sort Of doubt that they are, we
hope Mr.. Cleveland will prove to have
that respect for American liberty of
speech and conscience, that respect for
American dignity and manhood, that
will suggest to him the propriety of
permitting the embassy at Vienna to
remain vacant.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
Lord Derby reminds those who wee

Lord Derby reminds those who weep
over the decay of British trade that
fifteen years ago the total value of i'm
ports was $3.50, 100000. Now it is
fzS0, 900 900, huge increase. And he
added: although in consequence of
the extreme cheapness which has pre-
vailed of recent years, the apparent
value has diminished, the real volume
of our trade has not diminished, but it
has actually increased"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
COL, FRED GRANT.

New York, Ang. l0.-The World
prints the following special from Sara
toga. 81 was shown dispatch, yeSter-
day, where Colonel Fred Grant has ac-
cepted position of engineer of IA rail-
road company which is backed by the
Baltimore Il Ohio railroad and the Wis
consin Central, for the purpose of max
ing new entrance into Chicago. Col
onel Fred Grant will go to Chicago to
take charge of this new work rs soon as
he has had time to gather together his
fathers papers and loose threads OF his
affairs. Colonel Grant has had very
thorough education as engineer at West
Point and should do very well in rail
road work. There is no doubt prcsi-
dent Cleveland would give him a COM
mission in the army, but Colonel Grant,
it is said, has finally resolved to take
his chances in civil life.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

FURNISHED weekly to the Intelligencer by
Captain j. D. Conner, recorder of deeds Of
Lafayette county, No.
Abstract of the deeds filed in the office of
Recorder Of Deeds from Saturday, Aug. l
to Saturday, Aug. s, A. D., 1885. Only such
as contain covenants of warranty contained
in list.
Mary A. Logan to Austin b. Clay
ton. lots 120 and 1877, Dover. 100 90
II. & F. Winkler to Jas. H. Jen-
nings. sw 81 except 4 acres ;alsO W hf
sc q, and Sc SO % also hf ne "a, 50,
p; 3553 acres .................. 5000 90
b. Grstz, deceased, by administra-
tor, to Jas. and John Lyons,w hf NV
13, hf ne and pit W hf ne IA; also pt
W hf sw 13, and e hf hf sc 4,and ut
hf hf Sc l4,5O,26; 800 acres 900 90
Blackburn Ray. ct al to j. C.CObb,
lots IL. IA, 10, and 81, blk IA, Odessa 3lO 90
JAS H. Bumgsrner to w. Gibbs,
lot 1, blk l, McBurney's add to
Odessa ,.......: 49,. ....... 700 90
G. L. kirkpatrick and wife to Geo.
w. Collier, NV NV, and W hf ne NV,
80, 4S, %; go acres ........... l,O5O 90
No instrument will be filed until fees are
paid. J. d. CONNER. Recorder.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-15
The Lovers.

In all the happy confidence of love,
Hand clasped IN hand, they stroll;
Unnumbered down the stream OF Time
The golden moments roll!
They count them not, the loving twain.
Their Ioye-sun shines so bright;
So dear the time, the rosy hours
Unnotic'd wing their flight!
They tread on air. SO light their steps!
On honey feed, so sweet their talk!
Their hearts In such fond union chime,
In Paradise itself they walk!