The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-08-01
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs.

AT Milledgeville, Ga, Bill Todd was con.
victed of the murder of negro known us
Stree Joe." The murder resulted from
quarrel over q woman. Free Joe was
noted as the original of Uncle Remus, In
Joel Chandler Harris works. .-e
CAPTAIN CHAs. j. BoARDMAN, we'll
known Southern boatman, died at Bay st.
Louis.
A NEGRO committed terrible outrage
the other night ON q highly respectable
young white girl at Douglasville, Ga. She
died next day. The negro was captured
and lynched by n mob composed of leading
citizens of the county.
FRANK p. KEEzE, who embezzled about
$4,000 of the funds of the Rock City Build
ing and Loan Association, of Nashville,
Tenn, is thought to have joined the Cana
dian colony.
THREE coaches on the Memphis and Lit
tie Rock Railroad were dumped into the
river at Memphis, Tenn, the other night
by the breaking of the incline on the Hope
field side. Nobody hurt.
THE first new bale of cotton for the sea-
son of 1885 was received at Memphis on the
Oath from Houston, Texas. 1t was con-
signed to Stewart, Gwynne 81 Co.
CAPTAIN S. s. GARRETT, Supervising In
spector of the Sixth District, died in Mem
phis, of diabetes, aged forty mine years.
w. A. PRINCE, one of the most active
members of the Memphis Cotton Exchange,
died recently after lingering illness.
JEFF DAVIS pays taxes on 1,ls2 acres of
land in the parish of Avoyelles, La.
A NUMBER of institutions in Savannah
bear the name of Telfair. This is after
Miss Mary Telfair, who devotes her for
tune to the Improvement of the city and
the development of the literary and artistic
tasJes of the people. T he latest of her
Densrojtions is the Telfair Hospital for
Females, which is to be opened in the
autumn.
| GENERAL JOSEPH f. JOHNSTON is now
seventy eight years old. His hair and
beard are white as snow, save for ccca-
sional dark threads that withstand tho en-
croachments of time. He dresses in black
and wears bell-crowned hat of light
color. He is about medium height, stands
erect and walks vigorously. To Western
reporter he looked as if he had some sor-
row on his mind, and had the appearance
of unusual reserve.
A CoLoRgD man named Laws got on a
spree at Atlanta, Ga, the other night, and
took possession of q street car and after
severely beating The driver, he drove the
lady passengers off at the point of pistol
and went careening down the. street. A
policeman interferred, but Laws whipped
him, and went on. He finally met young
white man, placed n pistol against his
stomach and threatened to kill him. The
young man struck the negro just as the
pistol exploded, and escaped with seri.
GUS flesh wound. The police then took the
negro in charge. Laws has 5000 in bank,
and said he proposed enjoying himself
The wounded man will appear against him
for attempting murder.
THE extensive wooden mills of Hardwick
81 Parker, at Cleveland, Tenn, were de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss of $4,000
only partially covered by insurance, and
throwing 100 men out of work. Prepare.
tions for rebuilding on much larger scale
are making, and work will begin at once
But for the lack of a fire department in thu
city the mills might have been saved. A,
it was, at least So, 900 worth of jeans in az
adjoining building was spared from th'
wreck.
THE wheat yield in the vicinity of Frank
lin, Tenn, is about half crop or less, bu
one field near town, w. H. Farmers, will
average twenty-five bushels to the acre
Another crop, R. j. Gordon's, average
seventeen bushels. Several others nea
town report fine yields. These are excep
ceptionally good crops.
W. B. BURNETT, the young man who wa
arrested few months ago on the charge o
forgery, made his escape from the Pratt
mines, near Birmingham, Ala, where HI
was working. The other night he wa
captured at Montgomery and has been re
turned to the mines.
THE barn of Vim. N. Morris, at Blowing
Rock, Lenois County, N. c., was struck b,
lightning and destroyed. Edward Morris
aged sixteen, was fatally shocked.
A VETERINARY surgeon, from the Agri
cultural Department in Washington, upo
| examining number of diseased cows, he
longing to the herd of Undertake g. Mas
! lin, of Middletown, Frederick County, Va
.. pronounced the disease genuine pleuro
. l
, quarantined.
BLACKLEG is killing off the cattle of lyle
County, w. Va, by the score. No remed
! effects it.
PApLDING COUNTY, Ga, has sixteen
, | year-old youth who measures seven feet |
height and weighs but ninety pounds.
LoUIs:FosrER.( colored), aged sixteen, c
l Spartansburg, s. c., was bitten by ma
, dog two years ago. The other day be wa
t attacked with hydrophobia and died mex
S night.
AN Independent Southern Associate
5 Press has been formed at Atlanta, Ga
: with B. H. Richardson, of the Savanna
4 Times, as President. 1t embraces the prr
/ ciple daily papers of Georgia, Florida, Ala
i bama, North and kouth Carolina and Vii
ginia. The Western Union. has given th
= new association the same rates as the Ne
s York Associated Press.
= GREAT excitement has been caused {
G Stewards, Va, by the murder of tw
9 white boys named Goddard, aged respect
O lively, fourteen and ten years. 1t appear
that the white boys, in company with