The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-11-14
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

aedNeS anu DARK sell at twenty live Genus u
pound baled, the enterprise pays better
than cotton.
The working of Parkersburg's wv. Va.)
new water works is an entire success.
JUDGE RoBT. JOHNSTON, of Harrison
burg, Va, is dead He was Auditor of
State, and member of the Confederate
Congress.
JOHN KNELL and family, of Baltimore,
Md, were overcome by escaping gas. One
daughter is dead and another may die. The
others will probably recover.
AT Montgomery, Ala, negro shot ne
gro girl who would not consent to marry
him. He then turned the pistol on himself
and fired four shots, one which, in the neck,
is probably fatal.
THE Importance and value of the tobacco
crop in Virginia is very clearly shown in
the statement Of the Lynchburg Adudnce
that Lynchburg pays more revenue into
the United States Treasury, on the single
article of tobacco, than any one of the
New England States pays on everything
it produces.
SINCE November % inst. was decided on
as the day for holding the proposed harbor
improvement convention in Savannah, Ca,
the President of the United States has
issued his proclamation appointing Thurs
day, the 10Th, as day of general thanks
giving throughout the country. Fearing
that this might somewhat interfere with
the attendance, it has been decided to
nh tba ii Of hnll
from the 25th to Tuesday, the Oath inst,
fact which delegates should bear in mind.
MRS. MARY WILLIAMS, colored, has been
sentenced to be hanged on the 18th of Feb
ruary next, at Yorkville, $. G. She mar
ried widower with three children early
in the spring. She grew tired of the chill
dren, and in August fed them on "Rough
on Rats" from which they died. The
husband also partook of the poison. and
died the same day.
JENKINS WRIGHT was arrested in Law
louisville and lodged in Jail at Spartan
burg, S. c., for the murder of his wife.
He first attacked her with cudgel, beat
ing out her brains. Il He then built brush
fire and threw the dead woman's body
lnGO III, reducing IL to ashes.
DIR. 10 L. MCGEE, a prominent citizen
and deacon in the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian Church, Superintendent of the Sum
day school, and dentist of Humboldt, four
teen miles north of Jackson, Tenn, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
left breast with pistol. He had been in
bad health for long time, and it is sup
posed he was suffering from temporary in
sanity. The weapon that he used was the
same that his father attempted to commit
suicide with several years ago.
ONE hundred feet of the new retaining
wall of the custom house grounds, Mem
phis, fell, causing loss of $500.
BOILER on the Texas Plantation, Pla-
quemine Parish, La, is reported exploded,
and DR.. A. r. Courier killed.
A LETTER written in Galveston and adj
dressed to a firm at palestine, Tex" re-
Gently went all the way to the great Pales-
tine in Asia, and finally was returned from
Jerusalem.
, THERE has been very little wife beating
in Maryland since the whipping post law
went into effect.
A MEMPHIS girl few days ago horse
whipped her prospective father-in law for
trying to induce his son to break up the
match.
EDWARD HALEY, an old and respected
citizen of Brownsville, Ala, was found
drowned in the Chattahoochie River the
other morning. 1t is supposed he fell in
the river.
INGRAM CHAMPION, an amateur bicyclist
of Georgia. carried off the prize for the
other day. Time, 2:07. He also took the
second prize for fancy riding.
REV. Mr.. TENANT is dead at Evansville,
Ark, aged 115. He had preached for ninety
years.
THERE seems to be an impression that
during the past six months the delivery of
Southern pig-iron in the East has fallen
off. Investigation showed that during
1884 Southern furnaces sent over 100000
tons north of the Potomac River A SINH
lar inquiry brings out the fact that the
contracts of Southern iron masters for
Eastern delivery will make the amount
shipped East this year equal to that of 1884.
OVER $4,000 worth of coal in barges was
swept off by sudden rise in the Kanawha
at Charleston, W. Va, the other day, and
points above The bulk of the coal was DIES.
tined for Cincinnati.
THE other day two coaches on est.
bound train on the Texas e. Pacific Rail.
way were thrown from the track near 81 Y
Mile Crossing, La, owing to broken rail
Both cars were turned upside down. AL
though the coaches were filed with pas.
sengers, only two persons were injured.
CALEB SIGINAN, of Newton, N. c., re.
Gently undertook to drink one gallon Of
apple brandy, and died later in great
agony. For some moments after his death
pure brandy ran from his mouth and nos
trls. His last words were to call for more
liquor.
THE Superior Court of Davies County. N
c., has established a valuable precedent il
law. Lee Turner and Abraham Smith were
sent to the penitentiary for two years each
for stealing watermelon. 1t is the first
instance ON record in the law annals of the
State.
MISS MARY LEE, daughter of Gen. Robert
E. Lee, has been over large part of the
world and contemplates further explora-
ton.
A BALTIMORE negro has literally worn two
fingers off in many years of shoveling coal
The case is reported by physician as Gu
riosity. There is no apparent disease, anC