The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-03
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINoS.

been disappointed in love.
In accordance with the decision of the |
Convention held in Louisville last summer, |
the colored people of Vcksburg, Miss, cele-
DRAFTED September 90, as Emancipation
Day. 1t was resolved to erect monument
to cost not over $1,000, to perpetually COM
memorate the event.
The surviving ex- Confejerates of Bed
ford County and Lynchbuig, Va, held
grand reunion at Liberty on the 25th.
Three thousand exCon federates were in
line, and much enthusiasm prevailed. Con-
gresham John w. Daniel was tbs speaker
of the day. General Jubal A. EARLY made
patriotic speech, and was loudly cheered.
The cannon, placed on the hills around the
town, doomed all day long, and the troops
marched under the U. S. flag, which was
greeted everywhere with tumutuous APP
plause. Altogether, this was the greatest
gala day that that section of the State
ever experienced.
The undertakers in Macon, Ga, are cut
ting rates, and lively war between them
is going on. The city sexton, who is also
an undertaken, recently reduced the price
of carriage hire from 81 to 50, and the rest
are expected to follow suit.
THOMAS EATON was shot and killed by
John Merriweather near Little Rock, Ark,
the other day. Self-defense. Both colored.
AT Edgefeld, S. c., the Coroner's jury
found that o. T. Culbraith, who was lynch
o1 10 Il IA hn Nd Of
Parkman, and that Wyatt Holmes and
other parties unknown were accessories
thereto. Many arrests will be made.
WIN. MEssIcK, Texas planter, was shot
and killed at GAINESVILLE by Jim Warl.
B. LEFTwIcH, an old colored man, known
throughout the country as Uncle Ben, died
at Halifax G. H., Va, the other morning.
The day before his death he called his son
to his bedside and asked as as a dying re-
quest that he should be carried to his grave
by white men. He named eight of the lead
ing citizens as his pail bearers, aud then
| said to his son: "Let no Republican throw
one single shovel of dirt on my grave" His
| funeral took place, and his request was
carried out. He was carried to the grave
| by white gentlemen, some of them being
sons of his former master. All the ex-
penses were borne by white men, and the
large crowd in attendance was composed
almost entirely of white ladies and gentle
men. The old darkv had ever since the
war supported the Democratic ticket, and
had been ostracised by his race for so do
ing.
HORACE WRIGHT, colored, employed in
| digging a we'll at Atlanta, Ca, made a
blast After putting in a charge of pow
der and adjusting the fuse he lit it. He
then commenced climbing to the surface to
get out of dangers path. When half way
up the side Of the we'll the blast exploded,
blowing the negro out of tho we'll and some
distance up into the air. In falling he fell
back into the we'll. When taken out his
body was found terribly mutilsted, small
pieces of stone being driven into various
portions of his body. His wounds are con-
sidered fatal.
Four moonshiners were arrested in
McNair County, Tenn, few days ago.
A LARGE an enthusiastic conysntion held
at Stanton, Va, the other day, nominated
the first Prohibition Legislative candidate
in the State.
Two years ago Joseph Cradle, of Penn.
sylvania, went into Wetzel County, w
Va, with photographed outfit, and To-
Gated there for while. After he had
transferred the likenesses of all the natives
upon tin he moved away and disappeared
Besides his poor pictures he left behind
him broken heart and a blasted life
Miss Effie Moore, local belle, had "lovet
not wisely but too WE'LL" Under promise
of marriage, the travelling artist had be-
trayed her, Cradle at the time having {
wife and five children in Pennsylvania
The other night he returned with scrip
tural panorama, and engaged church il
the neighborhood in which to display hi
work of high art On the night of the 2ls
he was explaining the beauties of his pic
lures to a crowded audience, when, at thu
very moment he had brought the Madeline
to view, band of masked men entered tn
building and seized him. They led hin
down through the terror stricken audience
and while two men with drawn revolver
! /
: around his neck and he was hung from tn
; | limb of large oak tree which shadowet
, the church. There his body dapgled TO
half an hour, when the red men mounte
, | their horses and rode off, and thus Eff
, Moore's betrayal was avenged.
5 DAN MILLER,a colored youth of abou
l fourteen summers,was arrested at jackson
Tenn, few days ago, for robbing tn
E mails. For the past two months mail mat
Q ter was missing at intervals of two an
:. three days, and the Postmaster was unabl
8 to locate the theft. He had clerk to waite
4 the front office He was rewarded by see
: ing the accused walk in, and after survey
: ing the surroundings, open the deliver
r door, reach in and get handful of letters
v and Just as he was about to leave, arreste
!, him. He was taken before United State
n Commissioner Haynes and committed t
n Jail to await trial in the Federal Court
It OF. CuLBREATH was lynched the othe
: day at Edgefeld Court house, S. c. H
o was charged with killing William Ham
G mond, young man who was guarding th
Is house of Mrs. Culbreath, from whom he
It husband was separated. He was taken b
J. a mob from his lawyers office while b
n was waiting to get bail, and was carrie
n out of town, shot several times, and lei
It for dead. He revived, walked into tow
10 made a statement duplicating sever;
e lynchers and died. He denied his guilt
d the last.
- THE barn of Sam Jones, the revivalist