The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-09-12
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

QUINTAR WALKER, of Reidsville, N. G.,
left the house the other night, saying he
was going to get drink of whisky. Next
morning he was found lying in the yard,
with his coat rolled under his head, ap-
parently asleep. When his wife went to
rouse him she found he was dead. 1t was
developed at the inquest that he had
bought quart bottle of whisky, all OF
which he had drank at once, as the bottle
was in his pocket empty. Walker has
relatives standing high in society in New
York and Cincinnati. II
THE other night an armed mob broke into
the Lafayette (Ark.) County Jail and
hanged George Crenshaw, the negro who
murdered Harry Paup, white man, in
cotton field.
JOHN PETERS and James Morgan, cons
victs, few days ago escaped from tht
Maryland Penitentiary, but were recap
tured after hot chase.
SISTER MARY JOSEPH, of the Visitation
Nuns, died at the Convent Monte Maria,
in Richmond, Va, a few days ago. The
worldly name of the deceased was Miss
Nora Kelley, and she was the younger sis
ter of Hon. A. M. Kelley, U. S. Minister to
Austria.
INSPECTOR HENDERSON, of the Post office
Department, has arrested two boys neal
Salisbury, N. c., on charge of ri6ing the
mails.
HAGER FLOUR MILL, near Hagerstown,
Md, was almost destroyed by fire the other
night. 1t had been in operation over hun
bred years.
SAM DARLING, colored, aged ten, il,
lodged in Jail at Farmerville, La, on tn.
charge of numbering Isaac Thompson,
colored, aged six.
A Two-YEAR-oLD daughter of VIM. f.
Clark, of Grafton, W. Va, was drowned
| few days ago. The little one was playing
| in tub of water, and, losing her balance,
| fell in and was drowned before she could be
| rescued.
Ina quarrel between two colored men.
Richard Salisbury and George Washing
ton, at Clarksburg, w. Va, Salisbury shot
| Washington in the breast, inficting serious
wounds. Salisbury escaped.
JOHN r. EAKIN, Associate Judge of the
Supreme Court of Arkansas, died at Mar
shall, Mo-, few days since.
ONE of the murderers of Edward Names,
of Cowan, McClung & Co., Knoxville,
Tenn, has confessed.
THE Shelbyville (Tenn.) Savings Bank
has made an assignment.
HENRY NICHOLS and four accomplice,
were arrested in Summers County, Va, Oh
charge of robbing farmer named Wells
MRS. PARKER, of Montgomery, Ala, is
the possessor of the carriage in which JEFF
ferson Davis and his Cabinet rode on their
way to take the oath of office.
GEORGE HUGHES, colored centenarian
with curious history, died at Elberton
Ga. He'was 115 years of age; worked OF
the Richmond canal eighty years ago, al
which time he was the father of ten chill
dren. He was beardess and of small
stature This enabled his master, fifty -fiv,
years ago, to sell him to Alexander
Hughes for a boy of fifteen.
THE fine saw mill of S. M. Winchester
twenty miles from Newport, Tenn, wa
wrecked the other day, by the explosion o
the boiler. The report was heard for
miles, Two men were killed and severa
wounded. One man was blown fort,
yards.
AN unknown white tramp, aged abou
fifty years, was walking the railroad tract
at Chattanooga, Tenn, in drunken con
dition. An incoming passenger trail
struck him and he was instantly killed.
JAMES BoLLE, an aged carpenter, o
Memphis, Tenn, committed suicide tn
other day, by shooting himself throug
the head. Domestic trouble is said to b
the cause.
THE other day during heavy storm o
wind and rain, George Thomas, a laborer a
Lock 6, on Kanawha River, at Charleston
W. Va, attempted to swim across the rivel
but before getting across he became ex
hausted and sank. Owing to the storm n
assistance could be given him and b
drowned.
, UNTIL few months ago there were tw
} towns called Whittaker'S in North Carroll
ma, one in the eastern section and one i
, Cleveland County. This fact was til
cause of continual mixing up of freigh
, and mail, and at last it was decided tha
, one Whittaker's had to go. 1t happene
} that though Cleveland County's Whit
} takers was in North Carolina, the post
Office was in South Carolina, the town be
3 ing located on the State line and the post
8 office being on South Carolina ground. TIL
Legislature was petitioned, and the nam
< of Cleveland's Whittaker's was change
I to Grover, and post-office called Grove
established in town. This new post-offic
as well as the old one, is now in operation
and this is one instance where town ha
two post-offices. If citizen of Grove