The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-11-28
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at Bayard The engine got so hot that
the boiler was badly burned out and the
wood work consumed. The damage
amounts to $500.
GEORGIA has eight living exGovernors.
JACOB BUTLER (coloredl was hanged at
Yorktown, Va, for the murder of Jas.
Griffin.
A COAL bed twenty feet thick has been
found in Texas.
PRESTON l.. BRIDGES, of North Carolina,
has been appointed U. s. Consul at Monte
videa, Uruguay.
A storm of grasshoppers has occurred at
Helena, Ark, and vicinity, said to exceed
anything ever known in Kansas.
SQUIRE D. L. DAVIS, for many years
Justice Of the Peace az Parkersburg, w.
Va, was adjudged insane, and taken to the
Asylum at Weston.
The tax list of Nashville, Tenn, just
completed, shows real and personal tax
valued at $37 100000, an increase for the
past year of over 100000.
The jury in the case of Willie Beckett,
aged fourteen, on trial at Parkersburg, w.
Va, for the murder of schoolmate, re-
tnrned verdict of not guilty.
ALLISON s. MARTIN, of Marion County,
W. Va, convicted for forging an order for
Sl'5O Oh merchant of Grafton, was SEN
fenced to two years. Imprisonment in the
Penitentiary.
MRS. SARAH ALLEN, of Newport, Tenn,
who has been a member of the Methodist
Church number!.of years, was recently
persuaded to join the Baptist congrega-
tion. Since then deep meditation about
church matters has set the woman crazy,
and she will be taken to the asylum.
COLONEL VIM. Cliff, with a party of
men, is prospecting near Retro, Tenn, on
the line of the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road. They feel satisfied that they have
made valuable fine of silver ore, and will
thoroughly investigate the now fattering
prospects.
Near the three forks of Reedy, in Roane
County, w. Va, lives family named
Drake. The father is an old soldier, who
has had pending for many years an appli-
cation for pension. A few days since it
was allowed, amounting, with back pay, to
$1,000. On the arrival of the Treasury
warrant for the amount, the family fell
into contention as toIthe distribution Of the
money. A general fight followed, in which
all took part The old man, being subject
to acute attacks of heart disease, fell over
fight was going on, before he had handled
adollar of the coveted pension.
The citizens Of Gallatin, Tenn, are max
ing an effort to build water works.
MEETING was!held in Gallatin, Tenn, u
few evenings ago to raise money to build
the Middle and East Tennessee Railroad
through Sumner County. Putnam County
has raised 100000; $1,000 over the amount
required of that county. Smith has raised
$4,000 of her 100000, aud will make laddi-
tional donations. Trouadale has raised
$4,000 of her $50, 1000, and Sumner will CO me
to her, rescue. In all probability the differ
emit amounts will be raise and the road
built.
MARTIN WILSON, an employee at Island
Quarry, near Nashville, Tenn, met with
an accident the other morning that result
ed in his death in the afternoon. A large
block of stone was being lowered, when a
cog in the lever wheel slipped, the beam
flew back and struck Wilson in the side,
hurting him down a bank and into the
river. He was senseless when picked up,
and never spoke. Wilson was stranger
and had no family.
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE
AGENT E. V. DoNELsoN and a party of
Deputy Marshals left Nashville, Tenn, the
other morning for Mckenzie, where a
horseback posse was organized to search
for contraband distilleries. At 10 O'Clock
that night they found the distillery of lobe
Eubanks, in Carroll County, where a large
quantity of material was destroyed and
Eubanks arrested. In Benton County they
seized the distillery Of Jonathan Brewer,
of Sandy Range, in most secluded and
hidden portion Of Benton County. Brewer
was found asleep, with double barrel
shotgun loaded by his side. The still and
fixtures were probably the most valuable
in the State, having capacity of hun.
dred gallons daily. The property as all
destroyed.
A ROAD overseer named James Barnes
and one of his hands, Henry Brooks, quar-.
relied at Burr's store, Claiborne County
Tenn, recently, when Barnes crushed
Brooks head to jelly with hammer and
mutilated his body with knife. The
cause OF the trouble was about road work
The murderer has escaped.
7. E. Brown, of Des Moines, Ia, the
largest creditor of the old city of Memphis.
has compromised his claim of $3.50, 900, to
the satisfaction OF President D. P. MADDEN
and his colleagues of the Funding Board.
This virtually winds up all the outstanding
indebtedness of the old city of Memphis,
which originally amounted to about Sc, 800.
600, and which has been compromised
within the past two years.
AN aged lady named Mrs. John Cappes
walked off the platform of train at Hazen
small station near Little Rock, Ark, anG
was fatally injured.
JAMES HELMIcK, a West Virginia farmer
hunting in the mountains, became lost and
for six days remained without food. When
found his feet were badly frozen, and am.
putativn will be necessary.
WIN. ID. BLoxHAM has been appointed
Surveyor General of Florida.
NEAR Tracy City, Tenn, a masked mob
has been visiting Objectionable parties
whipping them and ordering them to leave
the country.
DUDLEY, son of Ex-Governor Porter. Of
Tennessee, and Miss Clintie, daughter OF
n,ics