The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-12-25

CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
A LOCOMOTIVES that explodes Is . new
toy.
A MICHIGAN woman kicked lear to
death.
The widow Of General Grant is sixty
years old.
ST. LOUIS is agitating the question Of =
crematory.
john DAY is the name Of river in Wash
ing Territory.
HONEY raising is becoming an important
industry In Nevada.
CHAs. PATTERSON, Of Mason City, Ill.,,
shot eighty rabbits in one day.
The wife of Prince Komatsu, Of Japan,
dresses in the height of fashion.
AT Queen Victoria's table there is always
one servant to every two guests.
ONE of Martha Washington's letters sold
at auction not long since for $l51.
NINE. PATTI was offered 5000 night to
sing in concerts in South America.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY Is in WaShing.
ton 10 bying for woman's suffrage.
CINCINNATI is promised large reduction
in the price of gas in the near future.
ENTERpRIsrNe Kansas City gentlemen are
preparing an elaborate toboggan slide.
A sIsTER-lN-LAw Of Abraham Lincoln 10
postmistress in little Kentucky town.
CHARLES GARDINER, of indianapolis,
dressed ten sheep in thirty.seven minutes.
MRS. BELvA LOCKWOOD declines in ad.
vance denomination for tho Presidency
in 1883.
MARY HARPER, . Cleveland servant girl,
has inherited $25O0O from reiative in
Philadelphia.
DuELIsrs fought lovers quarrel Opus.
ite Trenton, N. ]. Each was wounded in
the shoulder.
Dudes need not fear the decline Of the
standing collar. 1t is as universal as ever
in "Lonnon."
IT takes conservative families q long
time to become reconciled to the square
dim r plates.
FOLLOWING the example Of New York,
Philadelphia has elected woman to it's
Board Of Education.
ST. LOUIS merchants are moving for rapid
mail transit between that city and the
West and Northwest.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-oLD boy of Westfeld,
Mass, rode l3,40S miles on flfty-two-iuch
bicycle the past year.
LIBEL comes cheap in Little Rock. Twsn-
ty-fve dollars was all jury could find in q
case against the Democrat.
A GRANITE monument has been placed
over the grave of John B. Cough in Hops
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
TIE Kentucky blue grass section raises
greater number Of turkeys than any Other
part Of the United States.
LINCOLN COUNTY, N. NJ, Is 100 miles
long 1t contains over M,0O0 square miles,
or about II, 00O, 900 acres.
OMAHA wants to hear Patti, but not 1000
worth, which was the guarantee fund ask
ed. Only 500 was subscribed.
MORE and moro are United States Sena-
tors buying houses in Washington. Sena.
tor Vest is the latest purchaser.
JOHN LUCE, Of ofSchoharie, New York, died,
leaving bequests amounting to $3.50, WOO, but
his sole wealth only footed up $2S.
IT is said that ex-Queen Isabella still
clings to the hope that she will some day
again be seated on the throne of Spain.
PROF. WOODROW, of the Presbyterian
Seminary, Columbus, g. c., has been dis.
missed on account of belief in evolution.
The Germans have managed to reduce by
about seven pounds the weight which each
soldier is compelled to carry in campaign.
One who claims to have counted says
there are in the Bible 1855, ,4S3 letters, 778,
US words, 81, S73 verses, and 1889 chapters.
THERE are 1851 convicts on the chain
gang of Georgia-5l females (l0 colored, II
white), l6l white males, and the rest col.
ored.
ALL children have not become sceptics
A letter, addressed to Santa Claus, Clarion
Pa, has been dropped In the Clarion post
Office.
A AGRENADA, Miss, couple is enjoying th<
mixed sensation OF marriage in fun which
the law unfeelingly regards as marriag<
In earnest.
SUNSET Cox is now serving his twenty
seventh year in Congress, having represent
Cd in bis time the two great States Of Ohit
and New York.
FOURTEEN United States Senators hav,
their sons serving them in the capacity o
committee clerks or private secretaries, .
six dollars per day.
A FRENCH officer has invented q repeat
ing rife which can be loaded with sever
cartridges in ten seconds and completed,
discharged In four.
) II is to be determined by . suit at Law
whether tho death Of fat man incarcsrate,
in the Carlyle, ILL.,, Jail was not hasten"'
by lack Of ventilation.
the Children's Aid Society, Of New Yorl
City, has since its foundation in 1858, place,
5000 Of the outcast and orphan children i
well-chosen country homes
The Government chemist Of New Zes
lano is reported to have proven that til
, dust OF the recent volcano eruption is .
} great value as fertilizer.
IT Is no uncommon thing for the Pres
,, dent to shake hands with twelve brides i
, one day. He never kisses any body unde