The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-06
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

dgeu IHlTuy -uNc, Will d large idmlly, was
run over by a freight train at Bristol,
Tenn, and killed.
Two MORMON missionaries attempted to
held services in colored church at Gum
town, Z. Tenn, when the congregation as
sailed them with stones and sticks and ran
them out of the neighborhood, one of them
receiving severe wounds
ARCHIE thirteen-year- son of Mrs r.
Lackey, fell from a freight train while
stealing ride at Newmarket, Tenn, and
was crushed to death.
AT the sixth annual commencement ex-
ercses of the Memphis Hospital Medical
College, there were thirty-eight graduates.
SENATOR HARRIS introduced bill to in
crease the limit of the appropriation for
erection of public building at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to s25O,OOO
VIM WEATHERFoRD lost his life in Rock
wood mines near Chattanooga, Tenn, by
fall of slate crushing him.
GEORGE j. WILLIAMS of Nicholas County,
w. Va, who served a year and quarter
in Jail for mail-robbng and pension
frauds, being in bad health, has been re-
leased from Jail and banished forever from
the State by order of U. S. District Judge
Jackson.
A REAL romance was unraveled at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on the 26th in which there
are three characters-a mother and two
sons. The former lives at Louisville, and
her name is Mrs. Brown. One son, Henry,
is clothier in Chattanooga. The second
son, Charles, is a planter in Louisiana.
Twenty-eight years ago this family Of
Browns lived in Cincinnati. The husband
and father was then living, and the sons
were young men. The father chastised
Charles pretty severely, and the lad, then
nineteen years old, ran away from home.
That was in 1858. He never wrote home to
his kindred nor returned. Years afterward
the boys father died, and the mother, with
her son Henry, removed to Louisville. The
war came on, and in the strife which laid
waste the South Charles was supposed to
have been killed, and his mother and remain
ing brother mourned him for dead. Years
passed. Henry married, raised a family and
moved to Chattanooga, where he opened a
clothing house. About two weeks
ago a lady from Atlanta, while
passing his store, thought she recog.
nized in him the features of Charles Brown,
whom she had known as boy in Cincin-
natl, and whom she accidentally met in
Southern Louisiana fifteen years ago. She
approached Mr. Brown and asked if his
name was not Charles Brown. He answered
her it was not, but that dead brother of
his bore that name. She then explained
that Charles was not dead, but living on q
plantation in Louisiana, where he was a
wealthy planter and had large family.
Henry Brown was rejoiced that his brother
was alive and Immediately telegraphed
him. He received a reply from Charles
that he would come to Chattanooga i'm
mediately. The news was sent to friend
at Louisville and broken to the aged
mother. Charles arrived in Chattanooga
on the Goth, and there is great rejoicing by
the united brothers. The mother had not
yet arrived.
A REPORT is current that syndicate of
New York and Boston capitalists have op-
tions on all the coal fields between Knox
two mines and now control over 10000
acres of coal lands. They contemplate
building a railroad from the Cincinnati
Southernrailroad to tap the Knoxville and
Ohio at Clinton.
A FIRE in the Rusk (Tex.) pententiary
a few days ago, did $4,000 damage. The
convicts worked manfully in aiding to
subdue the flames, and made no effort to
escape
PNEUMONIA has become epidemic at Bled
son, on the Chesapeake Il Nashville rail
road, north of Gallatin, Tenn.
AT the recent session of the National
Editorial Association, held at Cincinnati
c. H. Jones, Of Florida, was elected presi
dent
THE City Council of Nashville Tenn
passed on its first reading the bill giving
the Cumberland Natural Gas Company the
exclusive right for twenty years to supply
natural gas for heating purposes New
York, Pittsburgh and Wheeling w. Va.
capitalists are interested in the enterprise
together with home capitalists, and every
confidence is expressed that gas will b,
found in abundance.
AT Red Hill, near Parkersburg, w. Va.
a fire broke out the other morning in thu
residence of Mr.. John Waller The house
a fine, large frame, with most of the furni
ture, was destroyed, entailing an uninsured
loss of $4,000 Mrs Ed. Waller and newl,
born infant we're with difficulty rescued b,
Mr.. Ed. Waller, who, in doing so, was ter
rible burned about the face, head, hand
and body. His life is considered in danger
from internal burning. Mr. John Waller
an aged man, seemed crazed by the sight
and was taken out only by main force
Mr.. Ed. Waller is still in precarious con
dition.
THE other evening, while two juvenil
toughs were shooting at mark short dis
tance from Parkersburg, W. Va, Anthem,
McNicholas shot and almost Instant,
killed his companion, Hugh Pendley, age,
seventeen. They had been shooting som
time when McNicholas raised his weapon
a self-operating 32-caliber revolver, to hi
head, supposing all the cartridges to b
discharged. 1t went off, striking Pendle,
behind the left ear with the above resul,
McNicholas was arrested, but discharge,
on the finding of verdict of Academia
shooting by the coroner's jury.
A THOROUGH investigation is being mad
on the convict farms in Tallapoosa Coun
ty, Ala, and much suffering exists, owinj
to insufficient clothing and cruel treatmen
of the convicts by contractors. Durin,
the recent cold spell many of them had n
shoes and stockings and were terribly frost
bitten. This matter is creating great eS