The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-02-28
SOUTHERN NEWS GLENAlNGS.

child, of New York. After staying two
weeks the couple departed suddenly with
out paying their board, and left the girl be-
hind. Since that time she has been here,
Mr.. Houreman, well-to-do citizen, TAX
ing care of her. She says that so far as
she knows she is the child of the couple,
who have left her in town this way before
and sent for her afterward. A postal
signed Walter, and addressed to h. }.
Beebe, Portsmouth, was found in the va
Gated room, and reads as follows: 81 have
found the negative of the card of the two
children that you left me. have their
names, their mothers name and address.
This think will fully identify the gentle-
man who disappeared mysteriously." De-
tectives have tried in vain to clear up the
mystery. In the mean time the beauty
and brightness of the child is much COM
mented upon. 81
REPORTS from Kentucky, Tennessee and
Southern Missouri say no damage has been
done to winter wheat in those States.
AT Vernon, Texas, Heck Garrison was
shot and killed by John Davidson, both
IT is estimated that 100000 in currency
was destroyed in the railway wreck on the
Virginia Midland Road, the other night
One hundred thousand dollars was in tho
postal car and 500, 900 in the express safe.
Rev. ROBERT RAYMAND, Quitman, Ca,
was fatally shot by one of his members.
Cause not known. amal T.Ls8 'TO1 n
THE Pensacola, Fla, City Government,
abolished by legislative action, refused to
give way and the Mayor and Marshal were
arr ested. The provisional officers took
charge of the city without disturbance.
THE jury at Knoxville, Tenn,
has Just found Alfred and Am
brose Hoard and Robert Rite guilty of
murder in the first degree for the murder of
Mrs. Carrie Hunter, at Lick Creek, Green
County, last spring.
DALLAS, TEXAS, is all agog over the
question of the rights of negroes to sit on
| juries. 1t is pro and con.
THE Petersburg, Va, City Council voted
$500 for the relief of the distress caused by
the shutting down of the mills.
JOHN MANNING. a ranchman, shot and
killed Tom Green near Monheim Station,
Texas. On, February II, Green stole q
| team from Manning and wagon from Mr..
Cuney That night Green caught Man
ning's twelve-year-old daughter, gagged
her, tied her to the bottom of the wagon,
and fed to the hills, making Tor Carffdrnia.
Manning returned home on the 18th inst,
and with three friends started in pursuit,
overtaking Green on the 20th. He found
his daughter still tied to the bottom Of the
wagon. Green, when approached showed
| fight and was shot by Manning.
| A STATEMENT from John Chaffe & Sons,
| New Orleans cotton factors, shows their
net assets to be $,070,S2S. They offer to
pay their debts in three installments, and
have asked the Court for respite from the
opportunities of their creditors. .....
EMORY SPEER has been confirmed U. s..
eJudge for the Southern District of Georgia
He was opposed on account of his bold
prosecution of Ku-Klux and moonshiners.
THE steamers Ida Darragh and City Of
Helena, and the Anchor Line wharfboat, at
Memphis, were burned a few days ago,
together with considerable freight, entail
| ing loss of over 100000. No lives lost.
THE gold and silver excitement at Chat
tanooga has reached Cleveland, Tenn,
twenty eight miles from that city, Par
ties testing a recent silver find there have
made the startling discovery that in the
same locality are large deposits of gold.
Several large quartz nuggets were taken
out, one piece weighing nearly pound.
This, is perfectly reliable, and great ex-
citement prevails among the best citizens,
who are astonished at the immense hidden
wealth in their midst.
A FEW days ago in Hawkins County
Tenn, James Reynolds put kerosene oil on
the tops of the heads of his three little
children, aged two, four and six years, foI
the purpose of killing vermin. Two of the
children died in two hours. A physician
saved the other. .Hr
In addition to the horrors already giveI
of convict life at Coal Creek by Tennessee
papers rumor is current that convicts have
been eating rats for subsistence owing te
the supply of proper food.
A ST. LOUIS paper prints a portrait Of
Patti at eight, in a plaid dress, pantalet'
and smooth hair, and having the expression
of the country maid that she was, livint
then at Columbia, Tenn. Patti is making
her farewell tour.
The Florida Legislature has adjourned
MISSISSIPPI has been passed over by tn,
trustees of the Peabody fund for neglect
ing provision for liquidatng or paying in
terest on the bonds held as a part of tn,
fund.
CAPT. SAMUEL Fl. BUCK has been elected
Director General of the New Orleans Ex
position pre- tem., in place of Gen. Burke.
MOBILE is boasting of water melon tina
has just ripened in the open air.
A GEORGIA paper regrets the change tina
has made st. Valentines Day an anniver
sary of low libel and senseless caricaturt
SHEEHAN's cotton warehouse, Eufaula
Ala, burned, with eighteen hundred bale
of cotton. Loss, 100000.
PATRICK BoYLEs, ,peddler, fired Housto
(Tex.) police station twice in one night
claiming to have accomplished it wit
phosphorus carried in his mouth.
BUD WOODS and Neal Boyette, despera
does, are IN jail ab SWeebWEUer, IIeXdi
charged with the assassination of Detectiv
Warren, on account of which much excite
ment has existed there.
MRS. SINNERS, aged seventy five, wa
, burned to death at her home in Dala!
Texas. Her clothes canght fire from {
! stove.
THE trustees of the defunct Planters an
Mechanics Bank of Petersburg, Va, hay
/ Md danositors a Dividend of % ner cent.