The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-04-11
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

Vi contractor beDnebJ on tne new II. M.
aud 2. Road, fell from bridge near Fair
mont, W. Va, a few days ago, to the ice
below, distance Of forty feet, and broke
his neck
A PASSENGER train on the Austin and
Northwestern railway was derailed near
Liberty Hill Texas, and several persons
were injured.
v JOSEPH Cook, captain of the train rob-
bers who robbed a train on the Arkansas
Valley railroad, turned States evidence
and received his release.
A PARTY of Savannah capitalists have
purchased Tybee Island, and declare they
they will make it the "Long Branch of the
South"
THOMAS WoRKMEN,' of Laurens, s. c.,
has invented cotton press which packs
a round bale, When the cylinder is run
down the ties are all fastened and the ends
Of the bales closed up. A pair of scales
will be attached, and when the amount of
cotton desired has been put in bell strikes
A patent has been applied for.
A NASHVILLE compilation indicates that
probably twenty five per cent. of the wheat
crop of Tennessee has been ploughed up.
If this is correct, the total damage to the
crop is probably thirty five per cent.
AT Lynchburg, Va, d. A. Black, on
writ of habeas corpus to compel the sur
render of his daughter, aged six years,
who had been adopted in babyhood by an
aunt at the request of the child's dying
a lol o;,c i'm
At farm house three miles west of Pal
estine, Texas, Albert Nichols and Thomas
Lloyd, young farmers, attempted to pick a
quarrel with lack Foster, a popular quiet
young man from town. Foster sent bull
let through Nichols heart and desperately
wounded Lloyd. A stray bullet mortally
wounded Sydney Price, a bystander
WILLIAM WARNER, the young man who
shot and killed his wife January I, last, has
been tried at Grafton, w. Va, found guilty
and sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
They had been married but seven months,
and she had been compelled to leave him on
account of his brutality. At the time OF the
murder she was sitting in the house of
friend near there and was shot through the
head by Warner, who stood outside. Evil
dence against him was purely circumstan-
tial, but after the trial he confessed the
killing, and said it was done on account of
her unfaithfulness.
T. r. CoRKsKADoN, a leading Republican
of Keyser, W. Va, has resigned as men,
Der of the State Committee and joined the
Prohibitionists.
WOLFE AARON, prominent merchant
suicided by shooting himself through the
heart. His wife was in the store with him
at the time. A complication of pending
financial troubles are supposed to be the
cause.
MRS. HENRY Snow, a well-known lady
living near Bridgeport, Ala, was shocking
ly burned few days ago. She was at
work on the farm with her husband burn
ing brush. Her clothes ignited and her
husband, in endeavoring to extinguish
them, was shockingly burned, and his wife
received fatal injuries. The couple are
very popular in their vicinity.
AN aged man, named Abram Farver,
went to church, near Whiteside, Tenn,
and spent the evening in devotions. He
fell asleep near stove and his clothes
caught fire from the sparks. He was
Ifrightfully burned and died next day of his
Injuries. He lived at Benton, Ark.
THE Knoxville Journal says: "A South
lCarolna lady made striking comment,
the other day, on the practice of carrying
lconcealed weapons. A man was on trial
FOR the murder of her husband, and she was
on the witness stand. The defense was
trying to prove that her husband had a
pistol in his hand when shot,
and therefore his murderer acted in self
defense. WAS your husbandfn the habit
of carrying pistolE was the question put
to her. She scornfully replied: No, sir;
my husband was not coward p and burst
into tears"
The Tennessee Senate voted to sell all
but fifty acres of the Hermitage property
and devote at least $4,000 of the funds
arising from the sale to the Randall Cole
Industrial School.
PERKINS PARIS, a prominent young
man living at Wildwood, Ca, was be.
headed ON the Alabama & Great Southern
Railroad the other evening, while wander.
ing on the track under mental alteration
He stood in a stock gap, and the expires:
train In passing cut his head entirely from
his body.
The little way station of Sydney, thirty
miles from Mobile, on the Mobile & Ohio
was struck by cyclone the other afternoon
and considerably damaged. The cyclon,
ranged high, and bounded with long leaps
and full force was not spent upon the set
Element. The spheroid cloud was seen ap
preaching at distance, and the peopl,
were very much frightened and fed from
their houses into the open fields. j. c. Cole
mans house was unroofed; VIM
Barnewall's residence was unshin
gled and the chimneys blown away, ant
Carbine's new dwelling was lifted from it
foundation and carried distance through
through the air, but not injured. Man,
outhouses and fences were blown in all di
rections. Mr.. Byekle lost forty handsom
shade trees The cyclone spent its force O
the pine forest by cutting clean swath on
hundred yards in width and about 81
miles long. 1t seems miraculous that n
human being was injured
A STRIKE has been inaugurated in AT
lanta, Ca, against the employment of con
vict labor. Tailors employed by J. 4
Anderson g. Co. refuse to work because
convict was put in the company's shop,
FRED A. PRENTICE suicided at Guyan
idotte, W. Va, the other morning, b
shooting himself. Financial emharraSs