The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-24
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS,

on rats" in the soup, as she says, because
Of an uncomfortable impulse, and twenty
five persons were made seriously sick
thereby. VI
WIN. MCGoUGHEY, colored, was hanged
at noon on the 10th, in Monroe, Walton
County, Ca, for the murder of his wife.
The Georgia Legislature has adjourned
after summer session lasting 100 days.
and passing general local option law.
Ina fight between farmers and horse.
thieves in Sharp County, Ark, two of the
latter were shot dead and three escaped.
JOHN WALSH shot Night Clerk w. H.
Dawson in a Savannah hotel because the
latter refused to give him the number Of
the room belonging to a guest whom he
wanted to shoot. Dawson died In an hour.
In its quarterly statement of the indus
trial growth of the South, the Baltimore
Manufacturers Board statistics are given,
showing the amount of capital invested in
turing and mining enterprises during the
first nine months of the present year. The
| figures show that the amount of capital,
| including capital stock of incorporated Or
CARNATIONS represented by the new manu-.
featuring and mining enterprises organized
since January 1, and the amount expended
in the enlargement of old plants and the
rebulding'of mills after being destroyed
| by fire, aggregates $52,3S6,00O, divided
among the States as follows: Alabama,
1854 900; Arkansas, 100000; Florida,
ST 1887 900; Georgia, 2,052,0OO; Kentucky,
$1.40O,O00; Louisiana, 1885, 900; Maryland,
$780, 800; Mississippi $57l 800; North Car.
DINA, $2,543,OOO; South Carolina, 1902 900;
Tennessee, $2,3O0,O00 Texas, $2,0S0,000;
Virginia, $2,735,0OO; West Virginia, 1904
600.
II is proposed in Georgia to tax the base
ball players.
A NEW town in Florida has been named
Bayard.
FROZEN cream cheese is popular in New
Orleans.
A SINGLE street car company in New Or.
leans shot $4,000 worth of mules fe.-
days ago on account of CHAMBERS.
NEAR Towersville, Ala, Wesley Hopper
and James Edmonson quarreled about
land. The former cut the latter's throat.
ROBERT TooMBs is believed to be worth
half million dollars, nearly all made bv
his practice and since the civil war.
A SHOWER of fish fell at Palatka, Fla,
recently. Some of the fish have been kept
in water jars to show the increduous, but
the cloud from which they fell has passed
by.
GEORGE E. HILL, grocer, seventy years
old, was struck by train at Chattanooga
few days ago, and instantly killed.
AN l.. Il N. FREIGHT train ran over ne
gro man, eighteen miles north of Birming.
ham. Ala, the other day. The engineer
said he was lying across the track dead be-
fore the train reached him, and another
negro living in the neighborhood was ar.
rested on the charge of killing him. The
prisoner had blood on his clothes, and &C
knowledged that he had had fight with
the other man, but says he did not kill
him. He was locked up.
A SPECIAL from Athens, Tenn, dated the
10Th, says: "Newton Sexton, who had just
re urned from this city, where he had beer
serving on the Federal Grand Jury, wa
found yesterday near Springtown, Poll
County, dead, with his throat cut from cal
to ear. The body was found lying near
church, in very thickly settled neighbor
hood, and it is thought he was murdered il
day time. The affair is shrouded in mys
terry.
REV. FRANK BELL, Of Acworth, Ga.
performed singular marriage ceremony
with some thrilling features, the othe
night. S. M. Mooners, who lives nea
Rome, was the successful sutton for tn
hand of Matilda Moody. His further visit
were forbidden by the lady's parents
: During the night in question Mooners drov
up to the lady's no Sc, and quickly seating
her by him, gave whip to the horse an
drove off. When the family discovere
the girls absence several armed men o.
horseback set out in pursuit. The eloper
: were chased all day and into the night
when they only eluded capture by seekin
refuge in an old graveyard. The gil
, waited on tombstone while Mooners wen
), to Acworth, and securing the minister
, took him out to the ghostly spot, where tn
. couple were married.
A SINGULAR story of brutality come
from Mount Pleasant, Monroe County
sixty miles northeast of Mobile, Ala. Bi
Ogburn, a noted desperate while drunk
l disembowled negro named Lew Spencer
= A physician was called to care for tn
a wounded man, but Ogburn, knife in hanC
forced the doctor to leave, and the negr
died from neglect. Ogburn stabbed an
J shot off the nose of the negro while tn
: latter was under the influence of chlorc
Q form.
s CHATTANOOGA elected the Republica
| ticket by small majority on the 18th.
A REIGN of terror exists in Bienvil
8 Parish, La, where two men have bee
: killed lately and several others beate
a nearly to death. The trouble comes frol
l. an old feud.
Y EARLY the other morning VIM. Sapp, {
l Glennville, Ca, called his granddaughter
d about twelve years of age, to get up an
: make fire in an adjoining room. The gil
= got up and went to the Fireplace. 500
8 afterward there was an explosion of a pi:
l. tol about the replace, which was not no
|, ticed particularly by Sapp or his famil,
O Upon examination it was discovered this
O the girl had put into the Fireplace in son
J, way parts of pistol, which had fired, ar
it the bullet striking her in the eye, hs
!. killed her.
d CHARLES WRIGHT, son of Hon. Attire
| Wright, of Clark County Ark, fought
n duel with knives, with a man named Jasp,