The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27
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and daughter, to President E. NJ Turner,
of the State University, and wife. Mrs.
Turner's great grandfather was the father
of thirty-two children, among which num-
Der was four pairs of twins
JOSEPH TAYLOR, a prominent citizen Of
Clay County, Tenn, was accidentally
killed by his six-year-old daughter the
| other day. He gave the child his pistol to
| play with and it was discharged while
pointed at him. The ball passed through
his heart
PEAR trees in Florida are being ruined by
spiders, which eat the buds.
CENTRAL Illinois farmers have contract
ed with Tennessee parties to stock the
farms of the former with quail.
A FARMER near Carrollton, Ca, says that
mice have DESTROYED the bees and honey in
his bee-hives, The mice built their nests
in the bottoms of the hives and then made
raids at will upon the contents.
MISS EMMA NORMAN, the young woman
who shot and killed Henry Arnold, her Sc
ducer, at Memphis, Tenn, few days ago,
hos been held for murder, her bail being
fixed at $1,000, which was given.
FOUNTAIN GooDALI, aged 102 years. died
| at kis home in Mason County, W. Va. He
was a soldier of the war of 1912.
| WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, of Ellenboro, W.
Va, was supposed to have suddenly died of
| heart disease. While the undertakers were
| preparing the body for burial Mr.. Cunning
| ham rose up and walked away, and APP
! pears to be in better health than he has
| been for long time.
| JOHN GILLESPIE, the negro who murdered
Mrs. Thomas Gray near Loudon, Tenn,
was hanged by mob of 200 men near the
scene of the crime.
EDWARD KINKEAD, aged fourteen, son Of
A. 3. Kinkead, of Parkersburgh, W. Va,
was drowned in the Ohio river near Ra
venswood, W. Va. He was working about
barge with johnboat, fell in and was in
the water half an hour before his body was
found.
THE other evening the five-year-old son
of Mr.. Milton Beal was over at the house
of Mr., Cumming Lindsey, Irwinton, Ca,
playing with his two children, aged six and
seven. The three went into the lot and
finding wild jessamine vine they started
in eating the buds. Before they could re-
turn to the house they fell deathly sick
Mrs. Lindsey ran and picked up her son,
kissing him on the lips, and in twenty min
utes she too was deathly sick. She called
to her husband in the field, but before he
could get in one of the boys was dead, and
in few minutes later the second died
The third boy and Mrs. Lindsey were still
in critical condition at last account.
j QCoLUMBIA Tenn, is about to erect
school building for coiored children.
AT Atlanta, Ga, VIM. Pinion was killed
by pistol in the hands of white boy,
sixteen years old, named Pat Hickey. The
shooting, it is claimed, was purely acct
dental
BASEBALL has broken out at Nashville.
Savannah and other thawed-out Southern
points.
JUDGE BAXTER has ordered the foreclose-
ure sale of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia road
THE Knoxville (Tenn) Iron Company
of its own accord increased the
wages of it's nailers and feeders Is per
cent, and gave the men in other depart
ments 10 per cent. advance. The mills are
running night and day.
EX-CoUNTY TREASURER T. H. DAVIS, of
Fayette County, Ala, under Indictment for
using the public funds his accounts being
81, 400 short, has gone to parts unknown
Twenty-Five names are ON his appearance
bond of $500. They and the county are Sc
cured by mortgage on Davis property.
The Tennessee State Bureau of Agricul-
ture has applied several times since Janu-
airy to Commissioner Colman, of the Ma
tional Bureau of Agriculture, for seeds to
distribute among the crop reporters for the
State Bureau. Commissioner Colman says
it is impossible to supply the State Bureau,
owing to the demand from Congressman,
who have the prior claim upon the Depart
ment The State Bureau is without funds
to purchase seeds, as no appropriation was
made for that purpose.
POSTMASTER AsBURY at Lulu, Ga, ha
four daughters named Pearl, Diamond,
Ruby and Garnet, Mrs. Asbury must be
able to realize how Cornelia felt
WILD hog in North Alabama has be
come the acknowledged master of large
tract of wooded country. Hunters give the
place wide berth. A few days ago the
animal lacerated pack of hounds so badly
that they will never be of service again.
w. B. GALBREATH q Co., cotton factors,
doing business at II Union street, Memphis,
Tenn, made an assignment the other day.
Their liabilities amount to $4,000; assets,
including two plantations and an interest
in three hundred bales of cotton and book
accounts, Sl0l,0 600
MRS JAMES ILLS, residing sixteen miles
northeast of cambridge, Ga, was found
dead in an old broomsage field belonging
to her husband. She took her own life.
Six months ago little child she had raised,
to whom she had become greatly attached,
was taken from her under a writ of habeas
corpus, over which she grieved until her
mind was affected. Investigation re-
vealed the fact snat she had taken strych-
nine
THE death of VIM. Flowers, at Rockport,
near ParkerburgW. Va, is reported. He
was l04 years old, and the Oldest citizen in
the county. He was of French descent,
and served under the first Napoleon. He
served as soldier in the war of 1872, and
has been pensioner for many years. He
was totally blind, and almost totally deaf
for several years before his death. There
: is no question about his advanced age, as it
matter of record.
OSE of the curiosities of Texas is the
) vampire bat. One of these uncanny