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The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Attempt to Burn a Man Alive.

New YORK, July 19.-At 1 o'clock this
morning John Foley, q mechanic, while
doing on the stoop Of his residence, No.
457 West Twenty seventh street, suddenly
awoke to find himself enveloped in flames,
and his clothes on fire from
his head to his ankles. With
the assistance of the police and
some neighbors, the flames wera
with difficulty extinguished, not,
however, before Foley had been badly
burned about the legs aud hands, After
the injured mans burns had been attended
to by physician, it was learned that while
he was asleep on the stoop, some unknown
person poured quantity of kerosene oil;
over his clothes and set them on fire. The
police are searching for the persons that
committed the dastardly act.
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Chicago and the Pail Mall Gazette.

CHICAGO, July 16.-An apparent craze
has developed here over the Pail MaH Ga
set'e's revelations. The orders taken by
newsdealers for copies of the journal are
very large, and an advance premium of
fifty cents copy is being paid. George
Yuder, eighteen years old, was arrested on
the street by the police for selling reprint
from American newspapers OF the Gazette
scandal, He was locked up at the Armory,
and will havea hearing before a Justice.
The arrest was made under the ordinance
prohibiting the distribution of obscene
literature, and test case will be made Of II.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
.Hiah License KilIina Beer Saloons.

ST.. LOUIS, July lit is estimated that
25O wine and beer saloons have been closed
and their proprietors gone out of the bust
ness since July 1, under the high license
law, and that some 400, and about one
quarter of all the saloons in the city, will
be shut up during the month. The liquor
saloons have not been affected yet, and
probably will not be. 1t is only the small
places remote from business centers that
have so far succumbed.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Special Civil Service Rule.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE President
has made the following special civil SER
vice rule: Appointments to the $50 places
in the Peusion Office provided to be filled
by the; act Of March 8, 1886, except so far
as they may be filled by promotions or
transfers, must be separately apportioned
by the appointing power in as near con-
formity to the second section of the act of
January 16, 1888, as the need of filling them
promptly and TIE residence and qualfica-
lions of the applicants will permit" The
section above referred to provides that APP
pointments shall be apportioned among the
States and Territories and the District of
Columbia upon the basis of population as
ascertained at the last preceding census.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Successful Jump from a Bridge.

ST. LOUIS, July 19.-Joseph Kist, of some
repute in local aquatic circles, who was
prevented by the police from jumping of
the bridge a week yesterday, watched o
favorable opportunity between 8 and {
upper roadway to the river below, dis.
tance of over ninety feet. He swan, OF
was carried down stream by the current
to about the foot of Chouteau Avenue.
nearly mile from the bridge, where he eff.
fected O safe landing.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
No Hone for John MCCULLOUGH.

PHILADELPHIA, July 16.-Dr. W. G. Nc
Farland, of New York one of the physi-
clans upon whose certificate John McCul-
Tough, the actor, was recently admitted to
the Bloomingdale Insane ASYLUM, was a
witness in the inquirendo de lundtico pro-
ceedings held in this city to-day, and he
gave it as his opinion that Mr.. McCul-
lough's case was incurable and that he
will probably die or paralysis within six
months,
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Younu LADY Horribly Burned,

LONDON, O., tJuly 16.-M1ss Ora Hockett
of Indiana, who has" BEEN visiting her
brother here for SOME time, met with an
accident yesterday that may prove fatal
She had lighted small fire with some pa.
pers in the tyard at her brothers. resi-
dence for the purpose of "singeing" a
chicken, which she was in the act
of dressing for the family meal, when her
dress took fire from the blaze and COM
pletely enyeloped her in the fame. Before
assistance could come to her relief her
clothing had nearly all burned off, and her
arms and body receives. serious injury
DR.. NJ. Mofiltt was called, and rendered all
possible medical aid Hopes are entertained
of the young lady's recovery.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Riot at Cleveland. O.

CLEVELAND, July 15.-About 4 o'clock
this afternoon a mob, composed of about
one thousand of the striking iron workers,
marched. in procession to the plate
with the intention of forcing the men to
quit work. They were attacked by about
sixty policemen on duty there, and routed,
the officers using their clubs with terrible
effect, thirty five of the rioters being seri-
ously hurt. Six of the policemen were
wounded with stones and clubs.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
An Undertaker's Dirty Work.

New YORK, July 15.-Lewis Russell, a
Brooklyn undertaken, was arrested to-day
upon the presentation to the Board Of
Health of evidence that he has made a
practice of storing in cellar the bodies of
infants intrusted to him for burial, keeping
them on ice until he has sufficient num-
Der on hand to make a load for the dead
wagon. The object of this irregular and
revolving proceeding has been to save the
cost of several trips to the cemetery. The
charge is made that some of the bodies be-
came decomposed, causing stencil, and
endangerinng public health. In one case the
body was kept unburied five months.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Prisoners Revolt for Better Food,

BROOKLYN, NY, July 17.--Eighty of the
one thousand prisoners incarcerated in the
Kings County Pennitentiary refused to
perform the work allotted them this morn
ing, and gathered in the jail-yard. They
protested that the food served to them was
insufficient, and of poor quality. Eighteen
Of the ringleaders were put in dungeons,
and the balance of the strikers put on a
diet of bread and water. 1t is believed
that number of the prison keepers, rec
ognizing the justice of their demands, Sc
cretly aided them in their efforts to OBJ
tain better food.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
A Bad Mans ENDING.

PHILADELPHIA, July 16.-Joseph Taylor,
who, on May 81, 1884, brutality murdered
Keeper Michael F. Doran at the Eastern
Penitentiary by beating in his brains with
wooden bobbin and a bar of iron, was
hanged in the corridor of the County
Prison at 10 o'clock this morning AL
though but twenty -eight years OF age, the
police records show that he stabbed seven
teen persons and shot twepty.eight during
ten years before the murder,
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
A Dyr amt. Scheme Miscarries.

DENVER, COL, July 16.-This forenoon,
as passenger train was being made up in
the Denver g. Rio Grande yards, an empty
chair car ran over package of dynamite,
which exploded with great force, COM
juring the switchman. It is believed the
dynamite was intended for the regular
passenger train, which was due to leave in
a few minutes. The Denver & Rio Grande
officials say they believe it the work of
strikers
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Two Brothers Suffocated.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS, July 16.-In the town
of Pleasant Valley, two Norwegians,
brothers, were digging well, yesterday,
and the one at the bottom, who was drill
ing for blast, was suffocated. When his
fate was discovered, the other brother was
let down to recover the body; but he, too,
was suffocated before he could be drawn
out. A third man was lowered, and had
just time enough to place a moose around
the bodies, when he was nearly overpow-
cred with gas.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
A Sh'p-BuiIder Assigns.

New YORK, July 19.-John Roach, the
ship-builder, made an assignment yester.
day to Geo. w. Quintard, of New York
and Geo. l.. Weed, of Stamford, Conn. Mr.
Roach is seriously i'll at his residence or
Long Island. The immediate cause of the
assignment was the refusal of the Govern.
ment of the new dispatch boat Dolphin anc
consequent financial embarrassment to the
builder. A son of Mr.. Roach states that
his father will be able to pay oil claims al
once, dollar for dollar. His friends assert
that he is worth double the amount he
owes, and that no one will lose penny.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
A Needles Journey.

LIMA, o., July 1S.-About six months
ago little daughter of Mrs. George Camp.
bell swallowed a needle. At the time
everything that could be was done to get
it from her stomach, but in vain. Yester.
day the little child, who was about two
years old, complained to her mother of o
pain in her back, which upon investigation
was found to be caused by some sharp in.
strument underneath the flesh. After
some difficulty, and with medical aid, il
was taken out, and proved to be the long
lost needle after journey of over six
months.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Determined to Die.

RICHMOND, IND, July 15.-The wife of a
well to-do farmer named Harvey, about
seventy six years of age, living over the
Ohio line. near West Florence, attempted
TO drown herself in a rainwater barrel
Yesterday morning, and when foiled in
that. took the rope from an old corded bed
stead and hanged herself in the smoke.
house. From physical infirmity incident
to old age her mind had become weak.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Case Resembling Cholera.

.BR1DGEpoRr, Conn, July 16.-This city
has been considerably excited to-day over
a reported death from cholera which &C.
Cured yesterday, after an illness of thir-
teen hours The deceased, Miss Josephine
Morcelins, aged forty two years, during
her sickness had some symptoms of spo-
radio cholera. Medical Examiner Downs,
who attended her, gave the certificate of
death las resulting from cholera nostria,
which is an aggravated form of cholera
morhus. Every precaution has been taken
by disnfectihg the premises.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
A Weeks Failu' es.

New York, July 17.-The business fail
ures occurring throughout the country
during the last seven days number for the
United States 200, and for Canada rs, or
total of 225 as compared with a total of
1856 last week, and 2O4 the week previous to
the last. There is some increase noted in
the number of assignments in all sections
of the country, except New York city and
Canada, where failures are few and unim-
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Poisoned Pie,

VINcENNEs, IND, July 15,-In Gibson
County, Ind, four children of Mrs. Howell,
who were visiting at the home of Thos.
Lynch, ate some apple cobber, and were
Immediately seized with violent pains.
The doctors found arsenic in the pie. One
of the children died, two are in precari-
GUS condition, and the fourth may recover.
1t is said Lynch threatened to poison his
wife, and he has disappeared.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Heavy Damage by Hail.

ST. PAUL, July 15.-A special to the
Globe from Grand Forks says: "a terrif-
fic hail-storm passed over the section Of
country from Niagara to Reynolds, Dako-
ia, last night, utterly destroying oil grain
in one of the best wheat growing regions
in the Northwest. The loss covers an acre
age of 10000 acres, involving 100000 BUSH
els of grain,n
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Telephone War Ended,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, July 16.-The In
dianapols telephone war is ended, the
Citizens Committee and Telephone Com
pany having reached an agreement. The
company agree to charge FIVE dollars per
month until the constitutionality Of the
law Is tested and TO refund all in excess OF
three dollars Il ths Law 70 sustained. "a
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Newspaper Offices Burned Out.

WASHINGTON, July 16.-Fire tonight
destroyed the offices and equipments of the
Post, Republican, Critic and Sunday Ga
zette. The fire originated in portion of
the building occupied by the U. S. Electric
Light Works. The loss is estimated at
Sl50,000, insured for about $125, 900.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Disastrous liuhtninu Stroke.

DENVER, July 15.-The Tribune Repub-
lican's Trinidad special says: Yesterday
afternoon, at Debusk's rancho, twenty
miles from this place, twelve out of a herd
of eighteen horses in pasture were killed
by lightning. "A hail-storm had driven the
horses against barbed wire fence, which
conducted the lightning through the herd,
with the above result.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
New Works. Death Rate.

New YORK, July 19.-The Health Board
statistics show a record of 20S deaths foi
the twenty -four hours ending at noon. This
is the largest number reported for any time
IN 1885. Coroner Messeler held to-day for.
ty-two inquests on the bodies of the per-
sons who, directly or indirectly, died from
the heat of the last few days.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Terribly Torn by Dogs.

SALEM, o., July 15.-Willie Price, little
five-year nephew of Mrs. James RAM
sey, living on West Main street, was at
tackled by two ferocious dogs this after
noon and was almost torn to pieces. He
had been visiting in this place but a few
days, coming from Bellaire, o. At this
writing he lies in a critical condition.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25
Row-Boat Run Down.

NEwBURG, N. Y, July ia row-boat
containing three young men was run down
near this place Friday night. and John l.
Hasbronck, David McWalker and John T.
Tuttle, oil young men, were drowned
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-25

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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-08-07

And this is the unsupported and un-
known. secret of the failure of thou.
sands of fields of fall-sown grain, the
cause of which is attributed to the
weather, to insects, to poverty of the
soil, and to other unreal and imagin-
ary conditions, instead of to the i'm
perfect preparation of the soil
Then how should the soil be prop
erly prepared for the fall crops !?
This is very important question.
First, it may be replied, it should be
thoroughly well plowed, so that every
portion of the ground is turned over
evenly. regularly and completely.
Then it should be thoroughly well
pulverized and settled and made
compact. And this cannot be done
with any of the common tooth har-
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A TERRIBLE STORM.

| The central pat of this county was swept
by a cyclone on Monday last, which did an
immense amount of damage. a genuine
cyclone of the western stripe, such as the
people of Kansas, Nebrasks and other dwell
lers on the plains west Of the Missouri river
are too familiar with, but which the deni-
zens Of this part of the couctry seldom wit
ness.
The rain commenced in the morning and
was succession of thunder gusts
Sometime between twelve and one o'clocl;
genuine cyclone showed itself in Elk
Neck. The track Of the cyclone was about
a hundred yards wide. 1t Travelled in zig
gag course, its general direction being some
what wes. ofnorth. At Wilma, where the rev
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crosses the
valley of the Little Elk creek, the storm
seems to havebeen of unusual violence. Will
ma belongsto Darl. Harvey, formerly of Bal
timore. The old wilma mansion, now oc.
cupied by his son Daniel. is substantial
stone structure, surrounded by what was un-
I'll tbS iouI vi tue StOIIH Il DedutlJul grove
of old forest trees, not one of which is now
standing. AT the foot of the eminence on
which the mansion house stood was the
grist mill. Arthur Harvey and the miller
heard the storm coming, and took refuge
in the lower story of the mill just in time o
escape, being blown into eternity, for
when the force of the storm abat ed
few minutes afterwards all the upper
stories ofthe mill, which were offrames, were
found to have disappeared, as had also the
barn, a frame structure, which stood not
very far from the mill. Some of the build
ing on the farm of DIR. Justus Dunot close by
wilma were unroofed. A train of six or
seevn cars on the new Baltimore rnd Ohio
Railroad, near Wilma, was blown along the
track for. abont three. -huadred. yards,=iot.
withstanding the brakes were screwed down
IS hard as possible. The hands on the ears
jumped off and grasped the rails on the
track to keep from being blown away.
At Marley, just above wilma, the Ledger
paper mill of G. w. Childs was unroofed
and the smokestack blown down. Three
men working in the mill were injured by
the falling debris. The barn on the Spence
property, northeask of Marley, was blown
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-08-07
Dear Town Lots.

Every little town is afflicted and re
tarded in. its prosperity and growth by
the speculative value which the avarice
of its real estate holding citizens place
upon the lots. A writer in the Whig
last week commenting OH this evil,
suggests that those speculative values
be made the basis of taxation. If John
Smith s lot on the corner sells for ash
900, as soon as the money is paid over
the assessor taxesit for the full amount.
Why should the assessor the day before,
have valued the let at 5000, when Smith
all the time had been rating its cash
value at $1,000? The law says, assesg
properly at its actual cash value. II
the selling or cash price is fixed by the
owner, and is accepted Ly the assessor.
there should be no room for complaint.
This rule, if adopted would lessen the
tax burthens of productive industry,
and increase the revenues from proper.
ty that industry is steadily improving
with no compensation from, or expense
to, the owners.
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waich are abnndantly corroborated
by these experiences, are to be relied
upon. tha this comp act yet naelscaC
and fine puloerulent condition is pro-
daced upon al kinds Of soils By the
sAcMEr Pulverizing Harrow, Clod
Crusher and Leveler.
One word might be added in re-
gard to the profit resulting from q
proper preparation of the soil. And
as one exampleswill 60 farther than
"a grea. many precepts, the case of 9
farmer in Shawnee County, Kansas
may be mentioned He took espec-
ial pains to make the soil compact and
fine over his wheat sown October.
1882. At the harvest in July, 1888.
he threshed out fifty-six bushels and
thirty pounds per acre of wheat.
weighing sixty.one pounds per bush
ell, And no doubt the majority of
farms in the United States are fertile
enough to produce as much as this,
if the crops we're not damaged
through the poor mechanical prepara-
|uions of the ground. against which
manure or natural fertility cannot
prevail. The average yield of wheat
is fifteen bushels to the acre. No
doubt with perfectly prepared soil
/ this yield would be double. What
thei. is the actual value to the farmer
of an implement that is perfectly
adapted to this requisite preparation
of the soil. such as the .sACME" Pull
verizing Harrow, Clod Crusher and
Leveler has proved itselfto be beyond
all question or doubt
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-08-07

down. The cyclone passed near Audora,
on the road leading from this place to Fair
Hill and completely demolished the orch
ard Of Daniel Arbuckle. The.road for as
much as half a mile in some places were llt-
orally covered over With fallen trees. The
growing corn is terribly injured, and in some
cases the oats which were in the shock have
been entirely blown away and destroyed.
The storm was the most terrific ever exptr.
FENCED in this part of the country. II was
accompanied by roaring or hnmming
sound which added much to the terror Of
those who heardit. and lasted for two or
three minutes.
The damage to George w. Child's Marley
paper mills by the cyclone is estimated at
from So, GOO to $4,000 The loss of Daniel
Harvey, whose barn was demolished and
grist mill partly destroyed, is between $6,-
900 and $S S,000 .
The roads are badly. washed in, many
places. and the high wind which aceompan-
led the rain has prostrated many fields of
corn. The barn Of Peter Gillespie, IN Band
box Hollow, about five miles from Port
Deposit, was blown from its foundation and
partly destroyed.
HARTFORD CoUNTY-sToRM--ONE IIUNDREE
THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGE.
The most destructive flood ever known ir
Hartford county occurred on Monday morn.
ing. Nearly every bridge and mill-dam on
Deer creek, Winters run and Little creek
were swept away, hundreds Of acres of corn
were damaged, fences were destroyed and
roads made inpassiIle. The most serious
loss was the destruction of Hanway's woo..-
en- factory on Winters run, six miles from
Belair.
Samuel Harman's blacksmith shop and its
contents were swept off Deer creek rose
above the highest water mark, the food
carving away nearly every bridge from the
Hartford county line to the Susquehanna
river.
The stable at Preston's mill was carried
off and the mill and dam injured.
Every bridge of Little creek is gone and
the lands along tie stream were flooded.
The injuny to the roads by the rain of
sunday night was chiefly confined to the
upper part of the county, but on Monday
afternoon thunderstorm of almost unpre-
ceden,ed severity passed over the centre of
The county, tearing the roads to pieces.
The damage to public and private property
Will amount to at least 100000.