The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-05-09
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

NJ Y. HARRIS, who was expelled from
hot Springs, Ark, by the citizens commit
Tee during the gamblers troubles last year
has brought suit in the United States court
for 100000.
AARON BRYANT was murdered by John
Workman and Matthew Reid, at York.
vile, s. G.
REV. JESSE Cook, of Butler, Ca,
knocked out his wife's brains with an AK,
killing her. He fed, pursued by posse.
Two futile attempts have been made to
burn the home of Richard Howard, in
Chattanooga. He was awakened the other
night by cracking noise and found pile
of shavings under the house burning fierce
ly. The building was barely saved, and
there is no clue.
THE University of the South, at Sewanee,
has recently received magnificent collec-
ton of books from England, including in
all nearly two hundred and fifty folio vol
umes of the best Benedictine editions of
the fathers of the Christian Church. Many
Of the sets are very rare and beautiful,
bound in vellum and full calf, gilt, with
exquisite engravings, portraits and num-
srous plates of coin. Besides the we'll
known authors such as Augustine, Chrysos-
tum, Terance and some twenty five others,
there are very fine editions of Baronius,
Saurez, Du Gauge, Calmet, Mabillon and
9allaudius. Galladius' Bibliotheca Patrum
and the works of S. Cyril (Alex.) are very
scarce and can hardly be procured any
where in Europe, and the edition of Baron
us, fifty folios in fine vellum, is made COM
olete by the combinations of Raynaldus,
Laderchius, Theiner and Tornielli together
with the criticisms of Ottius and the vindi-
cato of Reding (the rare edition of 1850
from the press of the Einriedel monastery
n Switzerland.) There is also very fine
copy of the Corpus Juris Canvuic
in three volumes, Dutch Vellum, Taurin,
1920, and a beautiful folio edition in the
original of Thomas Kempis' Limitation
Of Christ" One of the foremost Greek
scholars in this country has said that an
acquaintance with the writings of the
Christian fathers is indispensable to a
proper knowledge of Greek and Latin lit
erature, and this handsome addition to the
library of one of our Southern universities
must be- justly considered as matter of
both literary and theological interest.
THE other morning while the sun was
shining brightly DR.. j. M. King and his
wife were in their sitting-room at Bristol,
Tenn, and had the bay window thrown
open, letting in q food of sunlight. A
glass pitcher, filled with water, was sitting
in the window, and just opposite the pitch
Or, at the further side of the room was a
mirror. On looking up at the ceiling the
Doctor saw beautiful rainbow, as clearly
defined, he says, as he ever saw, forming
IN arc of from five to six feet from end to
end. Can any of our scientific men explain
the phenomenon?
ISAAC N. GOODWIN, who waylaid, shot
and killed his father, farmer of Lafayette
County, Miss, in December, 1880, and fled
was captured on the Goth, in Spartanburg
County, s. c., where he has been living for
two years and where he recently married
He was taken back to Mississippi
A TERRIBLE tale of suffering comes from
Mrs. Joe Kays', eight miles from Aufaula
Ala. She was reported burned to death
some weeks ago, but survived, burned al
most to a crisp from her waist to her feet
and being in sparsely settled section, has
had little attention. A gentleman says
the terrible screams of the suffering woman
can be heard quarter of a mile from thu
house; that she has no physician, and tina
the flesh is dropping from her bones from
decay and neglect. She has two months
old infant and two other small children, al
Of whom were found with scarcely any
food. Notice of her condition being brough
10 the citizens of Eufaula, they contributed
TO her relief and sent physician and othe
necessaries.
A MAIL-cARRIER, named McKoskel, wa
convicted at Jackson, Tenn, of robbinI
the mail of $500, and was sent up for tire
years.
w. S. ROBERTS, President of the defunC
bank of Augusta, Ga, was arrested in New
York on a requisition and was taken t
Augusta for trial.
DR.. MULLANE, Division Superintendent
of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, a
Chattanooga, was chloroformed Will
asleep and robbed of $500.
THE two sons of B. F. Carbon, of Jones
boro, Ga, while blowing, turned up
quantity of roots that resembled parsnips
Of which they ate. 1t proved to be re
angelic, deadly poison. When discovere
one was dead and the other dying.
s. A. DURHAM & Co., cotton factors {
Charleston, s. c., made an assignment til
other day. Their estimate liabilities
S125,OO0, mostly in Charleston.
AT Palestine, Tex, Mary Conner obtain
ed judgement against the Missouri Pacif
Railway for $12 900 for the killing of her nus
band in an accident six years ago. Defend
ant will appeal. This is the second tin
plaintiff has gained the case.
A NICELY dressed young man name
Elijah 2. Pierce, on his way from Johr
ston's Creek, N. ", to Live Oak, Fla, con
mitted suicide on board Louisville an
Nashville train the other morning when I'll
train was five miles above Birmingham
Ala. He shot himself through the brai
with 32-caliber pistol. When the trai
arrived there he was still breathing, b,
died shortly afterwards. 1t is suppose
that ill health prompted the act. One hui
dred and sixty dollars were found on h
person.
w. w. AND JOHN B. FoRDNER, brother
we're arrested few days ago in Jackso
County, Ala, for fraudulent use of IL
mails. Their offense consisted in advel
Using to sell one hundred dollars of coul
terfeit money for five dollars. Parties senC
ing money never received the counterfe
greenbacks. Over fifteen hundred lette