The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-04-25
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINCS.

dy county, Va, is charged with
decorating the back of his hired
nurse girl, eleven years of age, with
whip and sending her to bed when it was
bitter cold a few nights since. Seven Of
her toes have to be amputated. He was ar
rested.
A SEVERE cyclone passed over ono Sec
tion of North Carolina, few days ago,
between Charlotte and Lumberton. near
Hamlet, blowing down trees, fences and
houses, and doing great damage. No lives
lost so far as heard from.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas proposes
to institute reform in the matter of post
Office names. That Of Buzzard's Roost, Ga,
he has changed to Westlake.
On Sunfower River, 100 miles south Of st.
Clarksdale, Miss, the other day, Joseph
House, formerly Of Petersburg, Va, was
shot dead by Steele, Marshal Of the town.
House was brakeman on a gravel train,
and was on spree, having been paid off.
Meeting the Marshal, he said: "You are
the man Pm looking for" and Iopened fire
with revolver, firing three shots, the first
passing through Steele's clothing; the Sec
ond missed, and the third wounded Steel
in the arm. The latter then returned the
fire, employing his pistol. He then drew
second weapon and sent ball into House
the latter falling dead in his tracks. Eleven
shots were fired in all, and Steel escaped
with only slight wound. The latter has
a family; the dead man none, as far as
heard. Both men were game throughout,
and stood up without flinching until House
was killed. The people of the town were
greatly excited, but agree that Steel acted
only in self -defense. 49,
REV. THOMAS SPENCER, colored Bap-
fist minister of Norfolk, Va, was convicted
in the Hastings Court, in Petersburg, the
other day. of housebreaking. He pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to five years. i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. Spencer
is widely known.
REPORT comes from the back counties of
Southwest Virginia that terrible famine
is raging there. The people are out of food,
as last years crops were almost complete
failures. The only thing people are living
on now is cruel made from beans ground
in coffee mills. If the present condition of
things continues, the State or Government
must furnish aid or people will die by the
hundreds.
THE Woman's Home Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ohio
of which Mrs. Hayes, wife of ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, is President, have purchased q
large brick building on Anderson street
Savannah, Ca, formerly the property OF
the late Louis Demontmolin, and will con-
vert the same into an industrial home for
colored girls, with view of teaching them
sewing, housekeeping, etc. The school
will be in overwhelmingly. '
d, Mr.. j. L. SMITH, of Pike County, Ca,
while visiting Macon four years ago, went
through the Orphans Home. There he saw
two bright little children whose ways sc
Impressed him that he begged the author.
tiles to let him have them, as he was child.
less. 1t has just developed that the
orphans, who have grown thoroughly at.
tached to their foster father, have faller
heirs to $4,000 apiece through the death Of
distant relative.
DIR. BRAszU, charged with killing a young
man named Bowling, near Logan CoRr
House, w. Va, two years ago, was arrested
at Catlettsburg, KY.
ANDREW MEADERs, of Nashville, Tenn.
defeated A. H. Bogardus in a shooting
match by score of 1874 to 175 out of tive
hundred single clay, pigeons at eighteen
yards. '''
FRANK A. MONTGOMERY and James Bell
charged with the murder of Judge Taylo
Rucks, in Greenville, Miss, were acquitted
k,Gov. PERRY, of Florida, announces thai
the scrip of that State is at par, and sh
is prepared to pay all her debts, dollar TO
dollar.
THE Eutaw Wing says: "Mr. Bob Barte
caught out of the Warrior River 25S
pounds of fish out of two nets; the frs
haul he canght 1903 fish which average
twenty pounds to the fish, the second
thirty five, which averaged fifteen pound
to the fish.
REPORTS to the Fruit Association stat
that peaches and Strawberries in Tennessee
have sustained no injury from the recen
frosts.
In Union County, near Fredonia, Miss
and nine miles southwest of New Albany
the county seat, is situated group G
thirteen mounds, of various heights an
circumference. The largest is twenty
seven and half feet high, 760 around an
$50 feet across the top. Many theories hav
been advanced as to their formation. 1t
said the Indians acknowledge their exist
ence as far back as their traditions extent
but how far that was no one could tel
Mr.. Charles M. Smith, Assistant Ethnol
ogist for the Government, has been yer
busily engaged for some weeks in examin
ing these "bumps of nature" as they hav
been called. With the exception of the larg
est one he has honeycombed them in ever
direction. He has now packed and shippe
to Washington $50 pounds of his "finds.
1t is an interesting old curiosity shop
Perhaps some portion of everything th
Indians ever nodded from clay or cut fror
rocks is here to be found-spear head
hatchets, pipes, paint rocks, beads, spades
ornaments, etc. But the most interestin
as to who built them and how long since
are a bit of glass, the iron of saddle tree
case knife and piece of alloy contain
ing the Spanish coat of arms. Some hav
been used as dwellings, as Goals and asht
and distinct forms of fire-places are to b
seen in the excavations. Others were use
as cemeteries. AS many as thirteen skele
tons were found in one. They were burie
in a circle, their heads being the cente
The largest mound has been dwellin
place, and also one of defense. There his
been but one approach to,the top, and tht
was bya narrow, winding path on til
north.