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

old caring for large brood of little chick
ems of her own Matching.
A CoLoRED woman only thirty seven
inches high, though twenty seven years
old, lives on a Florida plantation. She
claims never to have been sick.
NORTH CAROLINA is receiving the benefit |
of steady flow of immigration.
GOLD bullion reaches an annual product
of 100000 in Georgia.
CHARLES TOWNSEND, colored was hanged
at Huntsville, Ala, for the murder of
Nathan Freeman in December last.
HENRY BURNETT, eighteen years old,
colored, was hanged at Lonoke, Ark, for
the murder of Nelson Anderson, also
colored, in February last.
THE revised estimate of the losses by the
storm at Charleston, S. c., is 81 500, 900, in
Guiding $4,000 along the wharves and
S550,00O of private property. The remain
der includeslosses on shipping, 100000; on
Sullivan's Island, 100000; cotton presses,
$4,000; and city property, churche rail-
roads and phosphate mills, $4,000 eacn land
| miscellaneous, $1,000 The work of rep
| offering is fully accommodated, andIin the
| next ten days the facilities will be as good
as ever. Fourteen lives were lost by the
wreck of the three Beaufort pilot boats, the
| F. w. Schoper, Walter Smith and John
Stoddard, in the storm. Their bodies have
not yet been recovered.
| VIM. FoRMAN, of New Orleans, went to
l (io Il T,ll,
lah Falls for medical treatment. He tells
a most wonderful story, all of which has
been substantiated. While climbing up
the rocks at the side of the falls, his foot
slipped and he fell, rolling down an incline
of 400 feet, and then fell over a precipice Of
$40 feet. He fell into soft marsh. For
more than thirty hours he remained where
| he fell, unable to move and almost too
weak to call for assistance. At one time he
saw members of a rescuing party within
thirty yards of him, but was unable to
make himself heard. Fortunately he fell
near small stream, and managed to OBJ
tain water by dipping his handkerchief
into the water and sucking it. He also
spread the handkerchief over his face to
shut out the rays of the sun. With his
teeth he tore off pieces of the alpaca coat
which.he wore and made a sort of pad
for his head to rest upon. The distance he
fell has been measured, and all his state
ments have been fully proved.
SEVERE drought is said to prevail in
the bright tobacco region of Virginia and
North Carolina, east of the mountains, ey
cept in a few localities where rain has
fallen. 1t is stated that very little rain
has fallen since May in that portion of the
country south of the Dan River. 1t is
feared that unless rain con- es soon the to-
bacco crop will prove failure over a con-
siderable area of Middle Virginia.
A THREATENED duel between editor Larry
CAN'T, of the Athens (Ga.,) Banner Wdtch-
man, and Hon. X. H. Cornell, member of
the Legislature from Decatur County, was
averted by the award of Board of Arbi-
traton.
A TRAIN on the e. T., V. and G.. r. R.,
was wrecked by running through an open
switch near Rome, Tenn. A section hand
was killed and three men injured.
ATiPiney Hill Rutherford County, N. c.,
the Northern Methodist (colored) Camp
. meeting was attacked by the Zion Method
lists, an opposing faction. The Zion Meth
odist crswd opened fire upon the Northern
] Methodists, and the latter, preacher and
l ALL fled. The invaders then collected the
effects of the vanquislled, piled them uf
: and applied the match and made bonfire
: of them. During the melee seven negroes
were wounded by bullets, one probably
; fatally.
y BILL MCGAUGHEY, colored, at Monroe,
Ga, was found guilty of numbering his
wife. His sentence has not yet been pro-
! nounced.
Ina game of cards in Heard County
= Ga, John and Charles James, uncle ant
nephew, quarreled over the result. Johr
eveled shotgun at Charles, but the latter
Knocked the gun below the origins ain
:, and himself received the contents ia the
:, groin. He then fred pistol ball through
y his unce's throat, killing him instantly
> and couple of hours later died from hi
own wound.
r GOVERNOR LowREY, of Mississippi, hal
Il committed to Imprisonment for life thu
% death sentence of which was to have been
o executed on the 25th upon Andrew Rounds
Is at Natchez, and VIM. B, Martin, at Ellis
"a vile.
l. JOHN HERTIG died suddenly near Cleve
n land, Tenn, the other day. Inhis last mo
n ments he requested that his death be KEEP
h a secret, that his family and friends nigh
IS not learn of it, Twenty five hundred dol
70 lars in cash and bonds were found in hi
!. trunk.
IS JOHN PHILLIPS, who lives near Cleve
$, land, Tenn, went fishingIa few days ago. No
N returning, his friends hunted for and fount
is him dead on the creek bank, his neck wedg
n ed in between two willow pushed. He wa
W subject to fits, and is supposed to have fall
d len in one, caught his neck in the bushe
N and strangled.
d A FORCE of hands began work on tn
r; long talked-of railroad up Lookout Noun
re- tain few days ago. For years this mat
~ ter has been agitated, and year ago
" was supposed Col. Cole,of Nashville, woul
l. build the road, but his project fell through
in and it left the enterprise in the hands of
S. company headed by Major King, Unte
S. States Engineer in charge of the Tennes
" see and Cumberland River improvement
N For years he has been perfecting mode
~ and completed it several months ago. TIL
1t company has proceeded quietly to work
OF The entire right of way is secured, an
n, every detail is arranged. The force bega
ly the work of grading, and the work will g
a. ahead until finished. 1t will be an inclip
ir road, with the engine in the center. TIL
in engine will be located Immediately unde