The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-08-29
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

Harrison Scott, james Scott, Juienne
Tany, John Webster and Lewis Chapman,
all negroes, were working In a rye field,
when a rain-storm forced them to seek
shelter under mammoth oak tree in the
center of the field. The five negroes had
scarcely gathered around its trunk when a
stroke of lightning struck the tree and
killed the entire party. A negro boy who
was in the field had not reached the oak
tree when the bolt fell, but the shock was
SO great as to render him insensible. After |
the storm he was found and resuscitated, |
and told the story. The boy will probably |
recover.
A GEORGIA lawyer in addressing the |
jury in circumstantial evidence case re- |
Gently, made frequent use of the remark |
that it were better that ninety mine guilty |
men should escape than one innocent man
should suffer. The Judge, in charging the
jury, said that the ninety mine guilty had
long ago escaped.
JACOB GROUP, owner of O mill at Nor
gantown, w. Va, and his wife, were fatal
ly injured by runaway. Two grand
children named Shirk were also injured.
ONE THOUSAND dollars were distracted
from trunks belonging to Ex-Governor
Hamilton's family, on their way from the
White Sulphur Springs to Hagerstown,M Nd.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
Southern Forestry Congress, to assemble
at Defuniak Springs Fla, in December,
with the object of the protection of valu-
able Southern woodlands and the encour-
| agement of tree cultre. The Governors of
all the Southern States will attend this
Congress.
A LOCAL option movement is said to be
gathering strength In Virginia.
WITH the exception of the wheat crop,
Campbell County, Va, has never been
blessed with such crops as they have this
year.
AT O'Brien's Station, near Chattanooga,
Tenn, Lizzie Rineheart, overcome by
grief at the bedside of her dying mother,
fell In swoon. She was about to be
buried by her mothers side when signs
of returning life saved her. She had been
in trance fifteen hours and pronounced
dead.
DICK FOREMAN, wanted at Centerville,
s. c., for the murder of George Marvelles
In 1873, was arrested at Chattanooga,
Tenn, few days since. He is also sus-
pected of murder at Somerset, KY.
DRUGGISTS from various East Tennessee
towns met at Chattanooga, the other day
and organized The East Tennessee Pharm-
aceutical Association. The association was
intended to embrace the whole State, but
no delegates were present from Middle and
West Tennessee, though many letters SYM
pathizing with the object were received.
The officers elected were: President, L.
A. Yeager, of Knoxville; Vice President,
Frank Eastman, of Chattanooga; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, John Rawlings, of
Chattanooga. The President is author
lied to grant credentials and file details to
the National Association which meets at
Pittsburgh, September s.
A NEGRO man and woman were killed by
} lightning the other day on the railroad
bridge that spans the Chattahoochee River
at Eufaula. The Waterman of the bridge
} also received severe shock at the same
time.
JESSE CROOK, the negro who killed his
wife about two months ago in Butler, Ca,
by splitting her head open with an OK, was
captured a few days ago, at Union Springs,
Ala, bya conductor on the Montgomery &
Eufaula Railroad. He was taken to But
! Ter.
, A NEaREss on the plantation of H. B.
, Terrell, near Huntsboro, Ala, gave birth to
, a child which had two fully developed
heads OH two fully developed necks. Both
heads were covered with hair, and each
face presented distinct features. There
a was only one body, but with two entirely
= distinct fronts, both showing it was two
males. 1t had three legs, four arms and
four hands, with one arm having foot on
one side and hand on the other. The child
was still-born, but was fully developed,
and weighed ten or twelve pounds.
: THE wall of the New Haven building at
Vicksburg, Miss, gave way the other even :
Q ing. Four men were more or less injured
D one Frank Sweatman, fatally. During the
/. late fire, which consumed these stores, the
: walls fell, and forty men lost their lives.
a WHILE w. W. Coles Circus was coming
n through very long and crooked tunnel
!. near Cairo, w. Va, on their way to Par
a kersburg, the other night, the roof of the
a tunnel being too low, caught several cages
!. and completely demolished three Of them
4 and a number of monkeys, kangaroos
4 tigers, etc., got loose. The train stopped in
d the tunnel and all was confusion, owing to
!. the darkness. All the animals were finally
n recaptured and Gagged. One kangaroo was
a killed, and Mrs. Richard, wife of the Pres,
q Agent, was injured by striking her head
s against the side of the sleeping car.
IS MARY ELLEN WILLIAMS, :colored, wal
o committed to Jail at Yorkville, SC, charg
y ed with administering poison, "Rough Of
l. Rats" to her family in bread, at breakfast
y Her husband and two step-children died
Q and another child is not expected to re
d cover.
= In one respect the cities and towns o
= Tennessee are sadly deficient and that |
. the requisite amount of shade in the street
u to make them cheerful and cool. Nashvill
, is especially lacking in this particular say
D. the american. q
:; A CURIOUS story is told OF ! man VIII
!, - died at Atlanta, Ca, the other day. Thirt,
a wears ago, when he was an infant, hi
). mother missed needle. The doctors sal
II it had entered the child's body, and woul
- come out some day. An hour before hi