The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-06-05
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANiNGS

once or twice before i'm the Immediate
vicinity OF his house. Being good shot,
the gentleman crippled the king of birds
WIN rifle charge. 1t was beautiful
specimen of its kind Its wings when spread
measured six feet four and one-half inches
from tip to tip, and its talons measured
nearly six inches in width
SALlLE ODELL, a young woman of twenty.
Two years, committed suicide at Chatta
pooga, Tenn, by taking laudanum. She
came to that city from Knoxville.
THE house of Isaac Klncaid, at Fellow
snip, Marion County, Fla, burned Three
children, aged six, four and two years,
persisted in the flames. Kincaid is under
arrest for criminal negligence.
A PLAGUE of some sort is killing the fish
in the Upper Red River Valley. Advices
from TeXarkana, Tex, state that countless
millions of dead fish line the banks of that
stream and it's tributaries and fears are
entertained for the health of people living
along or adjacent to the waters thus af-
fected
TAMPA, Fla, has cabbage two feet
across.
A HAGERsTowN Md lady disIocated her
jaw while chewing gum.
A WOMAN with beard ten inches long is
curiosity at Union Point, Ga.
IL the whole of North Carolina it seems
there is not single savings bank.
A HOTEL is talked of in Florida on the
ot' Sebastian river, which, with its
grounds, will C )st sl000O00O.
"A MAIL-cARRIER has been indicted in
North Carolina for throwing Congressional
documents into the river. He claimed
they were so heavy they interfered with
quick delivery.
GEORGIA family sold a piece of sup
posed worthless land for ten dollars to a
stranger, who proceeded to develop a gold
mine thereon. 1t would take first-cl ass
thunderstorm to do justice to that fam
ily's feelings.
AT Berryville, Ark, Lizzie Robinson, in
jail FOR the murder of her two-year-old lille
gltlmate child, made her escape few DAYS
ago by DOMINIC male attire Governor
hughes has offered a reward for her cap
ture
JOHN HoFFORD, a switchman on the
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas railroad,
was killed while attempting to board a
moving train at Memphis, Tenn.
JOHN EDELHEiM grain broker of New
Orleans, committed suicide, few DAYS
ago. On the desk in his office was found a
telegram just received from Chicago, an
nouncing decline in June wheat. He had
speculated his all on it and lost.
JOSEPH PAUL was pardoned by Governor
Wilson, of West Virginia, few DAYS ago.
and was Immediately re-arrested ON a
charge OF murder committed Twenty-Five
years ago i'll Writ County. Paul kent
saloon in Volcano, W. Va, some wears
ago, and Reuben Marquis was his bar
keeper, who worked himself into the good
graces OF PauPs wife, and they became too
intimate which caused talk One day the
husband surprised them together in room,
and Marquis, on compromises left the
place and went to Parkersbure.
where the ex-barkeeper boosted of his
intrigue at Volcano, and threatened to
shoot Paul on sight. The wife left her hus-
band and joined Marquis Paul went to
farkerSburg, and almost the first man be
saw on alighting from the train was the
destroyer of his happiness. The outraged
husband pulled his revolver and shot him
In the back. Marquis lived couple of DAYS
and confessed his guilt, begging that his
former employer be released from Gus
tody, and not prosecuted, as he had only
done what any other man would have
done under the circumstances Paul,
however, was tried and convicted
OF murder in the first degree. A
new trial was awarded when Paul, broken
in health, discouraged and careless of life,
plead guilty to murder in the second de-
gree, for which he was sentenced to sixteen
years in the penitentiary, from which he has
just been pardoned, Paul had many enc
mics in Wood and Writ Counties, and dur
ing the exciting trials which followed the
shooting of Marquis an old alleged crime,
that of the killing of William Houtchin, at
Burning Springs, in Writ County, was re-
Vived and he was indicted in that county
wJnty-tive years after the commission of
the act. 1t is thought that nothing will
come of this, as Paul has lived for quar-
ter Of century within few miles of the
scene, and nothing had been done during
that time to bring him to justice if guilty.
The other evening waterspOut struck
the residence of David Whitaker, on Gas.
per creek, Washington County, Va, de-
stroying the dwelling and tobacco barn
and drowning Mrs, Jennie Mongle, who
had just stepped in out of the rain Whit
aker had his jaw bone broken by falling
timbers. Two horses and three mules were
drowned. The body of the young lady was
found half mile below the house next
day.
WILLIAM E. STONE, who shot aud killed
his wife and attempted suicide, on Novem-
Der IA last was placed on trial at Balti-
more few days ago. The only witnesses
examined were five of the nine children of
the prisoner. The two boys, aged fourteen
and thirteen years, testified in manner
that led the listener to believe that they
were trying to shield their unhappy father
as much as possible, but the three girls,
aged eighteen, seventeen and ten years,
were quite bitter against him. Little Bir-
die, who is only ten years of age, created a
sensation by swearing that she entertained
very unkindly feelings for her father, and
that she would like to see him hanged. The
prisoner shuddered as he heard the child
utter the words.
j. A. JACKSON and Owen Allen disagree
ing over the candidates for the probate
judgeship, in Tallapoosa County, Ala,
closed in on each other with knives, For
FIVE minutes bloody slashng progressed,