The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-09-26
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS

oHoo " MulcnlSou . sVoIo, wilmington, N'
Ca few days ago, severely burning Charles
Smith, boy who was opening it.
The boilers of the larg est saw and plan
ing mill, owned by Nathaniel McGill, Of
Greensburg W. Va, exploded with
terrific force. Mr.. McGill was instantly
killed, and the mill, valued at several thou
sand dollars, was destroyed.
SPECIAL reports to the Lynchburg Ad-
cance, just received from the bright to"
bacco belt of Virginia and North Carolina,
agree with few exceptions that the crop is
a failure. The estimates range from 20 to
40 per cent. less in weight and color. The
plant, owing to drought, is firing badly,
and is being cut to save it from total loss.
In some districts no rain has fallen for a
month or six weeks.
In the railroad accident near Liberty,
Va, few days ago, a colored fireman
named Aleck Hurt and two unknown white
tramps were killed and burned to ashes.
1t is thought that the tramps were men
| who left there with Coles .circus several
| days ago and were stealing ride home
ward. Seventeen cars loaded with cotton,
oil and whisky were totally destroyed by
| fire. Fire engines were sent from Liberty
to the scene of the wreck. A temporary
| track has been built and trains are now
running through on time.
| THE health of the people of Charleston,
S. c., is reported to have undergone mark
ed improvement as result of the introduc.
ton of public supply of artesan well
water.
MRS. Ross, of Volcano, VIVA, died very
suddenly the other day. She was about
the house as usual, but at noon, not feeling
we'll, lay down, Her dinner was brought
to her, and while reaching for pillow to
support her she fell back dead.
JOHN FILz, collector for Bauernschmidt's
brewery, baltimore, has eloped with an
Italian woman, it is alleged, taking several
hundred dollars of his employers money.
NICHOLAS SNowDEN, colored, confined in
Jail at.Ellicott City, Md, on the charge of
having outraged little girl of seven years,
was taken from prison the other might and
hanged.
NAVAL cadet HENRY A. WILEY, of
Texas, member of the second class at the
Annapolis Academy, twas dismissed for
hazing Louis briggs, of South Carolina. a
candidate for naval cadet.
THE Memphis City Railway has been
condemned by the city authorities as a
nuisance and the Attorney was instructed
to institute proceedings to abate the same.
| GOVERNOR HUGHES, of Arkansas, has is
sued proclamation offering reward of
5000 for the apprehension of the men who
burned the Polk boys in the Pike County
jail at Murfreesboro on the night of the
9th. Over fifty men are implicated.
DIPHTHERIA is prevailing in Clarksville,
Tenn, and lis very fatal among children.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, is suffering from q
postal card famine.
Mr.. SToLING NEsBETT has sold his inter.
est in the Clarksyille (Tenn.) Chronicle to
his partner, Mr.. Titus, for $4,000 cash, and
Mr.. Wallace Darlington has been admitted
partner with one third interest. The new
firm is making preparations to commence
the publication of the Daily Chronicle or
October /, with Mr.. Yancey as editor.
MISS MAGGIE Brown, about twenty lone
years of age, from Union County, s. G..
} who was making visit to relatives near
!; Spartanburg, was taken sick and doctor
was called in and proper treatment given
, The other morning, when the family arose
some member approached the bed of thu
) girl to see how she was getting on, but tt
, the surprise of all the. bed was vacant.
7 hurried seach followed, and soon the life
: less form of the poor girl was fount
stretched across some rocks arounC
the spring, which was some distance from
the house, herlhead immersed in the spring
1t is supposed that delirum and thirst sezec
her in the night, and that she quietly aros
and went TO the spring and there tainted
and was drowned, or else from some un
S known cause died suddenly on reaching
, the spring and fell in as she was found.
MISS SARAH LANDREAU, who was ono
the reigning belle of Savannah, Ca, ha
for thirty five years lived hermit life il
a log cabin near Fayetteville, Ga, becaus
o of disappointment in love. She was t.
/, have been married, and the night of tn
e wedding the groom eloped with anothe
woman.
A COLoRED woman asked the Fulto
i (Ga.) Superior Court for divorce at a re
It cent session, on the ground that she ha
n been living with her husband for fiv
g years and was tired of him.
d The controversy between E. B. Murray
l. editor Of the anderson (Ga.) Intelligence,
l. and State Senator Moore, eliminated tn
o other day in a personal rencounter in tn
Il streets of Anderson. Each fired about fiv
q times. Senator Moore was slightly wound
g ed The difficulty originated in difference
of opinion on the prohibition question
l. which led Editor Murray to denounce /
: his paper Senator Moore as liar.
', THE other day Hon. j. A. W. johnson
y one of the best known lawyers of Georgi,
% disappeared. His dead body was found i
his garden in Dalton, next day. johnson
. mind has been failing for long time, an
70 he had recently been released from the in
sane asylum.
DANIEL DORSEY, aged seventy -rou
70 years. proprietor of Barnnm's City Hote
, Baltimore, died the other morning at h
!" country seat in Baltimore County, M
=; Mr.. Dorsey married daughter of Davi
" Barnum, founder of the house, and SUI
ceeded to its charge twenty lone years ag'
Il WIN. HARPER, convicted of the murdt
p of John Sellers, in Randolph County, Ark
r. July 5, 1884, has been sentenced to
/ hanged at Paragoud, October go Harp,
,e was born in Graves County, KY, and
I. thirty two years old. He waylaid ar
m killed Sellers after quarrel concerning tt