The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-17
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limb, which broke precipitating him
over fifty feet to the ground. His body
was fearfully lacerated his right leg being
broke in two places, and he can not re.
cover.
AT a meeting of the Tennessee Confer.
ence of the Methodist Church South al
Columbia, Tenn, the other day, the matter
of changing the name of the church so as
to eliminate the word South by using the
plain term Methodist Episcopal Church
came up Unexpectedly, and failed, after
sharp and short debate, by vote of 175 te
%, Dr. Kelly, J. B. McFerrin, DR.. Young
VIM. Green and others debating the ques.
tion from their standpoints, all Of whom
were in the main in opposition to the
change. 1t was then submitted whether
the name should be so changed as to read
methodist Episcopal Church of America
This also met with repuse, and so far as
this conference is concerned this question
is now at rest, and will be so reported at
Richmond Va, general conference. in May
next. Each conference must act on the
question, and the general conference will
decide according tc majority.
CHRIS. PEGUEs, colored, was hanged at
Augusta, Ark, in the presence of over
three thousand persons, for numbering his
paramount, Molie Banks, last December, in
Woodruff County. On the scaffold he
made full confession, that he murdered
her because she refused to marry him, not
having been legally divorced from her hus.
band.
j. E. MORGAN, of Bainbridge, Ca, was
seized the other day with sneezing spell
which, the Columbus Enquirer Sun says,
lasted for eleven hours.
A FARMER named Spinks was shot and
instantly killed by John Patton, one of his
tenants, near Huling, Texas.
A DISPATCH from Rome announces that
Very Rev. d. j. Quigly, Vicar General of
the Diocese of Charleston, S. c., has been
appointed Domestic Prelate, with the title
of Monsignor. This is the first priest in
the South so honored.
TWENTY-FIVE of the accomplices in the
lynching of Culbreath, in Eigefiel Coun-
! ty, s. C.,were lodged in Jail the other day.
! The remlining three are detained tempo.
rarly by sickness.
! THE Supreme Court has graAted a writ
: of error in the famous Cluverus murder
case.
A WIRE attached to pole in the court
huuse yard at Cleveland, Tenn , was cut
| down by the county authorities, pulling
the gable ends off two frame store build
| ings to which the other end was fastened,
and the mass carried wooden awning
with l.. Percy Surguine, small boy, was
| directly under the mass of material, and
narrowly escaped death by being near a
! coal oil tank, which supported it above the
pavement.
! AT Bristol, Tenn, Jere Smith, colored
yard hand, was run over by q switch en-
! CINE Oh the Norfolk e. Western Road. and
his body cut in two.
MISS LILLE Boss, a beautiful girl of
seventeen, was to have married Jacob
w atherington, aged sixty-six, the other
morning, at Valdosta, Ga. The marriage
had been arranged by her parents. An hour
before the hour named Lille fed from home
in her bridal dress and at a neighbours
house met Jesse Hardee, former sweet
heart. They went in carriage to the Of
flee of magistrate and were married. They
then returned to the brides house in time
to meet the guests who had assembled to
see Weatherington's marriage Mr. Wealth
erington took the affair coolly, but declined
to st y to the feast. The girls parents for
| on ya har md oil ic pnw Sarapo
A MOB Of masked men took Mrs. Cross
and two daughters of ill-fame from their
home at Blue Ridge, Blount County, Tenn,
tarred and feathered them, whipped the
woman half to death and burned her house
with all its contents.
THE oher day at the terminus of the
Kansas and Gulf Shore line near Lufkin,
Tex, sixty convicts working on the road
made desperate break for liberty just as
they had finished their supper. With deaf
ening yells they started up in body and
rushed for the neighboring woods. Guards
opened fire on them with deadly effect. The
latest report says that twenty five of them
were killed or wounded. The first ones
were in one large body, and the guards
simply empted their repeating rifles and
small arms into the moving mass.
The other evening, as Herman Guenther
aged forty, and his son Louis, aged six
teen, were crossing the Union Railroad
tracks, near Bay View, Nd, their wagon
was struck. The young man was killed
outright, and the physician pronounces his
fathers case hopeless. ThesGuenthers are
truck gardeners, and reside near Herring
Run, in Baltimore County.
c. 7. SMITH, of Rivesvile, w. Va, fell
from the construction train on the F., NJ. &
P. r. R., on which he was riding, and was ia
tally injured living but a short time after the
accident. He was caught under the wheels
and terribly mangled, leg and both arms
being cut off. He was about forty years Of
age, and leaves family.
No white child has ever been born in
Creighton's Island, which is situated neal
Brunswick Ca, and embraces about ,4O(
acres, though people have lived there fol
the past 100 years or more.
THE Southern Base Ball League for mex,
year will comprise clubs at Nashville, At.
lanta, Augusta, Memphis, Savannah anG
Charleston. Columbus, Macon, Birming.
ham and Chattanooga are dropped, moi
being able to sustain good clubs.
The movement of Northerners on Florida
has begun.
Concord, Mass, was settled before
| any town that does not touch tide