The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-11-21
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

uieu Nv DuTT OTeek, Madison county, ~
c., at the age of 100 years.
JOHNS WooFTER was arrested in Park
ersburg, w. Va, on the charge of burning
his property in Pennsboro to get the insur.
ance.
MAGGIE GALBRAITH (colored) fell in
Poor Valley Creek, Hawkins County, Tenn,
and drowned in the presence of numerous
friends.
NEWS is received of the capture, after
desperate resistance, of Riley Pyle, who
has for sixteen months evaded arrest for
killing U. S. Commissioner Mcdonald in
Pickett County, Tenn.
REPEATED attempts of incendiarism have
alarmed the people of Richie County, W.
Va.
THE other day nine criminals, charged
with various crimes from murder down,
burned their way out of the Jail at Ar
kansas City, Ark, and made their way out
OF the Jail yard over fence fifteen feet
high, surmounted with Lbarb wire, and
made good their escape
JOHN L. HEcKMER, defaulting Treasurer
of the Catholic Knights of America, Twas
tried at Grafton, W. Va, and was found
guilty of forgery Heckmer was charged
with embezzling $4,000 belonging sto the
ORDER in 1888. He disappeared, and the
names Of his sureties were found to be for
geries. He surrendered himself a few
months ago.
In the U. s. Circuit Court at Norfolk,
Va, few days ago, the grand jury pre-
sented bills of indictment for misapplying
the funds Of the suspended Exchange Ma
tional Bank against the following parties:
John B. Whitehead, President; George W.
Balm, jr., cashier; Thomas A. Balm and R.
T. K Balm. Indictments for false entry
were presented against John B. White
head, George W. Balm, ir., Orlando Wind
sor and c. E. jenkins.
THE seventh annual State Fair of the
North Carolina Industrial Association
(colored) was opened at Raleigh the other
day by Governor Scales.
A JUSTICE in Georgia recently und ertooK
to marry two couples at once, and married
both women to one of the men before he
was aware of the fact. He afterward got
the matter Strengthened out to the satisfac-
tion of the contracting parties.
ONE minutes Imprisonment in Jail was
the punishment placed on a man charged
in an Arkansas court with having sold the
products of land for which he had failed to
pay rent. The trial occupied several days.
and upon the verdict being pronounced the
condemned walked across the court
and placed himself in charge of the Sheriff,
who took him to jail, where he served out
one minutes time.
THE Grand Jury at Edgefeld, s. G., has
found true bill against thirty -one of the
Culbrath lynchers, and mo bill" as to the
two others
THE Louisville & Nashville Company
has sold $50, 900 acres of Alabama lands
between Decatur and Birmingham, to a
Cincinnati syndicate for colonization.
WIN. WRENN, a sorrowful looking tramp,
called at w. r. Morrison's, seven miles
from Clarksville, Tenn, poorly clad and
shivering with chill. The kind hearted
people took him and warmed him into life,
nursing and waiting on him six weeks,
charging him nothing. They put good
clothes on him, fed him on good things and
slept him in their best beds. Finally
William said he must go and the
family sorrowed for his leaving.
They followed him to the gate
Mrs. Morrison told William how earnestly
she had prayed for him, and how her
prayers would follow him. About three
hours after Wrenn had gone Mr.. Morrison
had need for some change, and going to
&1a H. III
disappeared, except a few small pieces
with holes in them. William got the
money, $50, and went to town to buy him
self some better clothes He claimed to be
tanner from Florida, but he was rails ID
near Pleasant View, Cheatham County,
and was never away from home before.
He is small man, twenty six years old
and has never been heard of since leaving
GAINESVILLE.
In the case of DR.. A. N. Bellinger, at
Charleston, s. c., charged with the murder
of Stephen w. B. Riley, colored, the jury
failed to agree, eleven being for acquittal
and one for manslaughter.
A MARRIAGE celebrated at Atlanta, Ca.
few days ago, between Miss Nettie Kea-
sey, the daughter of prominent tea mer.
chant of Chicago, and Mr.. M. G. Lyle, a
wealthy merchant of Morristown, Tenn, is
full of romantic incidents. Five years age
Miss Keasey's parents lived in Atlanta
and she was sent to school at Athens to be
educated at female college. There she
met Miss Alice Lyle. The young ladies
soon became fast friends and read each
others correspondence. Finally they botd
graduated and returned to their respective
homes, but kept up an interchange of let.
tiers. Three years ago Miss Kea-
sey's parents left Atlanta for Chi.
cago, and about the same time Miss Lyle
left home to go as missionary to Africa,
but their correspondence continued.
Miss Lyle's letters suddenly ceased, and
thinking that her friend had changed he,
postoffice, Miss Keasey wrote to Mr.. NJ. G.
Lyle asking where his sister could be adj.
dressed About the same time Mr.. Lyle
received the announcement that his sister
was dead, and notified Miss Keasey of the
fact This provoked letter of coincidence
from Miss Keasey, and several weeks a tel
the missionary's trunk was returned from
Africa, in which were found Miss Keasey's
letters to Miss Lyle. OF course the brother
communicated the fact to Miss Keasey and
she answered it. This was the beginning
of a correspondence which resulted in al
interchange of photographs, and finally ar
engagement. Two weeks ago Miss Keasey
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