The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-01-24
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

was fatally burned few mornings ago.
She was using coal-oil to kindle the fire in
a stove, when it caught and exploded, in
flicting injuries which caused the woman's
death.
r The dead body of Parish McAree was
discovered in the woods near Huntsville,
Ala. He had been missing several days,
and when found was pinned to the ground
by limb over his neck. Parish had made
frantic efforts to escape, but evidently died
slowly of starvation and exposure.
ID. WELLDoNE and wife, young couple
from South Carolina, were drowned while
fishing on Lake Mineola, near Altoona, Ala.
The directors of the Worlds Fair at New
Orleans have set apart February % as the
commercial travellers day. A large at
tendance of drummers is expected.
The nineteenth General Assembly Of
Texas have convened.
THE Arkansas Legislature Las convened
and will have to elect United States Sem
ator.
SEVERAL Southern State Legislatures
are being importuned to appropriate funds
in aid of their exhibit at New Orleans.
MRS. GARFIELD says she owns land, but
no gold mines in North Carolina. She is
not going South, as reported.
THE Legislature of Florida ia about to
pass bill appropriating $4,000 for the
purpose of making fuller exhibit at the
Worlds Exposition. Commissioner Sc
bring has addressed both houses in behalf
of the measure.
THE inaugural ceremonies Of Arkansas
State officials elect were held in State
house Capitol few days ago. The new
officials are as follows: Governor, Simon
R. Pughes; E. B. Moore, Secretary of State;
D. w. Jones, Attorney General; A. W.
File, Auditor; W. E. Woodruff, Treasurer.
The Governors address was almost en-
tirely in reference to State matters.
MAJ. BEN. E. CRANE, President of the
Atlanta Chamber Of Commerce, is dead.
c. R. MASON, the well-known Southern
railroad contractor, died at Stanton, Va,
the other night, aged eighty six years.
During the war he was Chief of the Pioneer
Corps under Stonewall Jackson.
THE effort to abolish smoking cars on the
New Orleans street car lines as failed.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire visited the toryn %
Joneshoro,, AK, the other morning, do
stroying the north side of Public Square,
| including seven business houses. The loss
is estimated at $70,0O0
women in all Georgia.
In the case of Thomas J. Davis, at
Petersburg, Va, charged with the murder
of John Dittman last May, the jury brought
in verdict of involuntary manslaughter,
fixing punishment at one minute in Jail and
pay fine of S. f'. a...l 'u
CAPTAIN j. D. BURKE, editor of the Ga
zette, Magnolia, Miss, committed suicide.
No cause assigned.
LAURA SHREWSBURY, a grand niece
and the oldest surviving relative of General
Washington, is dead, aged seventy five, at
Charleston, West Va. .,..t
The official count of the vote for West
Virginia State officers in Octob r last, COM
pleted in the Legislature few days ago,
gives Wilson, Democrat, for Governor,
| $3.50 majority over Maxwell, Republican
and Greenbacker. Large sums of money
were staked on five thousand majority for
Wilson, and all estimates heretofore print
| ed gave him less than five thousand. RAN
dolph County made the change. The re.
turns from that county were delayed until
Governor Jackson sent for Them and their
effect on the general result causes some
dissatisfaction.
A WRITER in Florida paper says that
January there, as elsewhere, should be the
| II.
the olive, fig, pecan, walnut, pear and
peach orchards can be made to rival the
orange groves of the South, and the pas
lures and meadows excel the most favored
regions of the Union.
THE bonded debt of New Orleans amounts
to $16O25,937, bearing total yearly inter-
est of $496,929. a...... ..a.. ..
THE heirs of T. o. Jennings, the con-
ductor killed July, 1883, by train going
through the Mammoth Bayou bridge, at
Jackson, Miss, sued the railroad company
for $4,000. The last term of court resulted
in mistrial, the jury being equally di-
vided. After the trial of the pr sent term,
lasting week, the jury returned verdict
in favor of the plaintiff for one dollar.
MRS. VIM. WARNER, who was shot by
her husband at Grafton, w. Va, died.
THE other night negro, Thomas Peody,
assaulted a white woman near Green
vile, Tex, but was frightened of.
He was captured next morning and jailed.
That night he was taken from the Jail by
two hundred armed men and hanged. He
had made full confession to the jailer.
JOHN ScoTT, colored, convicted several
weeks ago, at Baltimore, of the murder of
his wife by poison, is sentenced to be
hanged. 1865
HARTFORD County, Md, is greatly ex-
cited over the attempted murder by q
tramp of Mrs. Richard Carr. The man cut
her throat severely.
FEARS are entertained by orange grow
ers that the present winter has been almost
too mild for the good of their groves. New
growths are being made, and the trees are
much more likely to be injured in case of q
heavy freeze than they would have been
had the weather been more severe.
A NEW artesian well which has been sunk
jr Montgomery, Ala, $50 feet deep, dis
charges eighty gallons of water per minute
to a height of forty feet above the ground.
By the will of the late Elijah Rudolph, Of
Winchester, Va, Roanoke College, at Sa-
lem, Va, will receive at the death of the
widow property valued at $1,000
ATLANTA's artesian well is now about
LOIS feet down into the earth.