The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-09-19
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

shot Aaron War;, colored deacon, while
the latter was kneeling with the congrega-
tion in prayer, near Canton, Miss.
SENATOR VANCE has killed bear during
his holidays and Senator Ransom five
foot rattlesnake, and thus do the honorable
members from North Carolina attain dis
tinction. !
WILLIAM KIRK, of Poca, Va, would have
been success in the ballet If he had been
of the other sex. He is 100 years old and
still loves to dance, and can kick higher
than his head.
AT GAINESVILLE, Tex, the other morning,
Charles A. Taylor, young lawyer, became
involved in difficulty with Henry Vesey,
bartender, which eliminated in a duel
with pistols, resulting in the death of Tay-
lor. Vesey escaped. and posse is hunting
for him.
THE latest returns from the election in
the Third Arkansas District Indicate the
election of Thomas RcRae (Dem.) over e.
c. Mitchell Und.) by a majority of from
one to two thousand.
THE Rev. j. H. Brown, a colored minister,
confined to the County Work-house at
Memphis, and serving a term for bigamy,
succeeded in making bis escape the other
night. He was pursued by three guards,
who ordered him to stop. He paid no heed
to their command, and all three fred at
him. He fell forward dead.
AT GAINESVILLE, Tenn, in the suit of }. s.
Grumbley VS.. Louisville e. Nashville Rail-
road Company, for 5000 damages claimed
by the plaintiff for being illegally put off
train in the night in the woods between
stations, the jury gave verdict for $500.
THE strike at Warrior, Ala, of the War;
rior Coal and Coke Company's miners end
ed few days ago, the strikers agreeing to
restoration of separate entry for the
Italian laborers, whose introduction was the
original cause of the trouble.
THE First Tennessee Regiment will reune
at Murfresboro, October 8.
SEVENTY horses and mules, 100 carriages
and buggies and saloon were burned at
Nashville, Tenn, the other night. Loss,
$4,000.
The county officers have cut port holes in
the Jail at Chattanooga, Tenn, and placed
dozen shot guns inside for the benefit of
the next mob.
TENNESSEE has 203 newspapers, nine
tenths of which are Democratic, if pos
sessed of any political features at all.
| Fifty-t of the number are "Independ.
ents."
RELATIVES of Lucy Williams of Greene
vile, Tenn, the alleged betrayer of Gen
eral John H. Morgan, killed there during
the war, will bring suit against the Atlanta
Constitution and Sam Small for the arti-
Gle the latter recently published, rejecting
upon the Williams woman and her hus.
band.
The Right Rev. Thomas A. Becker, who
1t is said is to be transferred to the tSee Of
Savannah, is the only Roman Catholic
Bishop Wilmington, DEL, has ever had.
The Rev. DR.. John Foley, named as hi:
probable successor, is a brother of the late
Bishop Foley, of Chicago, and for ter
years has been pastor at ST. Martins, Bal.
timore.
MAJOR SUMNER, of Worth County, Ga.
was awakened the other night by tlys- burn
ing of his gin. He saw three negrd incen
diaries escaping. Calling up his men, pur.
suit was made and one of the men rul
down. He resisted arrest to the DEATH be
ing shot through the heart by one of hi
pursuers.
A PROMINENT citizen of Lebanon, Tenn.
says the Herald, received the following
communication from Rev. John Calicot
who is travelling in the North:
LAFAYETTE, IND, September l. 1885,
Dear .yir--* After series of careful
computations and great amount of con
sideration upon a subject that is of vita
Importance to you, to the people of Leb
anon and the world at large, want to in
form you, as an old friend, whose memory
is ever dear to me, of the things that will
occur on the 22nd day of September, 1885
The sun will disappear from the sight o
mortal man at high noon (sharp) on tina
day, and darkness will reign supreme TO
five days and one-half. 1t is necessary, i
you desire to be protected, to procure on,
gallon of good oil, or a sufficient amount o
candles to last you through the comm,
darkness, and to all be at your respectiv
domiciles when the hour of high noon o.
the 22nd of September is at hand. 1t will
be we'll to have the lamps lighted at 1l:3
and place them in a place of security. 1t ha
been 1852 years and three days since tn
death of Christ, and on the Sth of Angus
the Bible fulfilled, and the number tina
Christ was designated by was one hundred
and forty and four thousand, and it wa
necessary that the world stand forty -fou
days after the Bible fulfilled. I give it
you as my unqualified opinion that what
say is true, and if you want to protect you
good body, you had better be hangin
around home on the 22nd inst. You
friend, JOHN CALICoT.
JUDGE ROMAN, of the Criminal Distrio
Court, at New Orleans, ordered the Gran
Jury to investigate the present sanitar
condition of the Parish Prison. He Gale
attention to the fact that large humble
of prisoners confined there had died of
very strange and very fatal disease, an
that others were suffering from it. Tn
disease first showed itself in the form
swollen feet and hands, and is accom-
panied by chills, the victim finally dyin
of congestion of the liver. There have bee
four deaths already from the disease, an
there are now eight cases of it
the prison. 1t is supposed that this is du
to the damp and over-crowded condtio
of the cells. There are now $50 crimina
confined in the prison, and only $50 cubi
feet of fresh air to each. The Grand JURY
together with the Board of Health, will il
vestigate the prison. 1t has been declare
to be in very unsanitary condition fl