The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-01-30
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS

REPORTS from Louisiana say that the re-
cent cold spell was very damaging to tne
sugar-g owing interests Stubbie cane in
IBERIA, Rapides East Baton Rouge, her
VILE Ascension and st, Mary parishes was
more or less affected, in some instances the
damage being great Orange trees in st,
Mary parish are reported as being gener-
ally killed,
AT Sylvania, Ga, Frederick Wayne Cor
don, negro ninety years of age, was bur
led few days ago in coffin made out of
lumber which he had worked for and saved
for fifteen years for that purpose His son
is principal of the Colored Deaf and Dumb
Institute of Georgia.
LARGE quantities of ice, six inches in
thickness and of splendid quality, has been
cut and housed in Augusta, Ga, by an en-
terprising firm, who expect to reap large
returns. Ut is said that this is the first time
in the history of Augusta that natural ice
has been gathered and stored away in the
city. At Charlotte, n G., ice eight inches
in bickDess was secured.
JACOB REESE, patentee of the Bessemer
process of steel making, arrived in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn few days ago and is in con
sultation with the stockholders of the Roam
Iron Works. the largest iron corporation in
the South, in reference to establishing a
steel-making plant there. Should the con.
ference be successful, it will result in the
erection of a gigantic steel mill there, and
in entirely revolutionizing the iron and
steel making in that district
Hon. ZENERs l.. WISE, Receiver of the
United States Land Office at Dardanelle
Ark, appointed by President Arthur, has
resigned,
SEVERAL of the churches in Atlanta re.
Gently prayed for injunctions against the
city OF Atlanta, Ga, to restrain said city
from issuing executions against them for
payments due on assessments made for the
laying of Belgian block on the streets Op.
posite the church property. The other
morning two of the cases were heard, those
of the First Methodist Episcopal and of St
Luke's Cathedral. In both of these cases
Judge Clark decided against the churches
and denied the injunctions prayed for.
WALTER HoUcHENs, employed in the
stone quarries near Wheeling W, Va,
while at work missed his footing and fell
over precipice into the quarry distance
of sixty feet, alighting on the stone. He
was badly injured and can not live.
GOVERNOR HUGHES. of Arkansas, has
pardoned thirty colored men, known as the
Howard County rioters, who participated
in riot couple of years ago in that
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was killed while working in field
Another of the rioters had been convicted
of murder and hanged. The affair created
great sensation in Southern Arkansas al
the time. and ever since strong efforts
have been made to secure the pardons on
the ground that the Wholesale convictions
were uDwarranted by the facts, and the
terms of the sentences excessive. The SEN
fences ranged from five to fifteen years in
each case.
THOMAS j. STAFFORD, young desperate
of Petersburg, W. Va, fired two revolver
shots at his sister, one of the balls causing
dangerous wound.
MEXICAN robbers made raid into Hidal
go County, Texas, fatally shot two mer
and plundered ranch. The robbers are
thought to belong to band of outlaws
commanded by one of the most daring and
bloody chiefs of the Lower Rio Grande.
BELL SrEBBINs, aged twenty seven, and
his young brother-in-law, living in Morgan
County, Tenn, were in the woods near his
residence, few days ago, engaged in saw
ing log, cross-cut. A huge trunk OF a
dead tree, unsettled by the wind, fell upon
MI. Stebbns and killed him instantly by
breaking his neck.
AT Parkersburg, W. Va, few days ago,
Albert Dawson, of Roane County, pleaded
guilty of mail robbery, and was sentenced
to three months in Jail, and to pay fine OF
$500. He had just completed three years
term for the same offense.
AN epidemic closely resembling pneumo
MIA in its terrible effects is raging on Mud
River, Putnam County, W. Va. Within G
few days upward of fifteen persons died OF
this malady. The disease does its work Sc
rapidly that, in one instance, it is related
Mr., John Burdette, wife and child, died
aud were all buried in the same grave.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, is greatly excited
over the finding of human body, cut intS
nine pieces by an ak, in the suburbs known
as "Hell's Half Acre" The body is thai
of white man. Rigid search failed Il
find the head. 1t is supposed, from Indie
ink marks on an arm, that his name IL
Martin, and that he was a Mason, Odd Eel
low Red Man, and member of the G. A. II
The Coroner had a vacant house, LOCATED
on BeleviIle street. about twenty -fiv
yards distant from the scene, broken opel
and searched. A pair of pantaloons, par
of deck of cards. tuft of hair and
derby hat were found in a room. Upon
close examination of the right hand Of til
dead man was found within the tightl
clinched fingers tuft of hair, which, whel
examined and compared with other haii
proved to be that of negro. 1t is SUP
posed that the victim had death-gras]
on his assailant's head, and was kille
while holding on and that in his fall
pulled out handful of hair.
FORMAL vote was taken in the house q
the Mississippi Legislature ON the 19t
for two U. S. Senators for the n
msinder Of the term expiring Marcel
4, 1889, being the unexpired term of Ho,
L.Q. c. Lamar Hon. E. G. Walthall r,
ceived in the Senate % votes, and Hon. ,
L. Alcom vote. In the House Waltha
received l04 votes, sixteen members bein
absent, For the term beginning March
1887, Hon. J, f. George received In eac
house the same number of votes that wei
cast for Walthall, and Alcorn received or
vote in the Senate.