The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-22
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.


CLARENCE KEIFER, a convict employed in
A coal shaft at Birmingham, Ala, escaped
BY cl mbing wire cable one and one-haf
inches in diameter and 204 feet long, ex-
tending from the bottom of the shaft to the
ground.
A BALTIMORE housewife found living
frog in bottle of chow chow the other
day. He was too big to get out through
the neck of the bottle and must have grown
considerably during his confinement in his
alright prison. This story is vouched for
by Baltimore newspaper.
DAVID BELL, of Palleter's Mills, N. c.,
found very small pearl in an oyster seven
years ago He wrapped it in paper and
laid it in a trunk, and the New Berne Jour
nal says that it has grown from the size OF
BIB shot to the size of a small marble.
During the seven years it has not been
wet.
AT Salisbury, n c., Franklin CASTOR, a
colored man convicted of criminal assault
upon lady, has been sentenced to be
hanged on the I'd of July.
Hon. d. T. PATTERSON, son-in-law of eH-
President Johnson, and an ex-U. s. Sen.
ator, has been appointed postmaster at
Home, Green County, Tenn, with salary
of $40 year.
MAS. CARTWRIGHT, who has been crazy on
the subject of religion for some days, shot
and killed his friend Rud Johnson, Wood
berry, Ga, few days since. He declared
that he was commanded by God to do the
deed. He is in Jail at Greenvile.
CHARLES LATAEL shoemaker, killed
John Selb, saddle-maker, by stahbing
him through the heart, at Brandonville,
W. Va The cause of the fray is not known
A BOILER explosion on the McCrum
farm, where C. d. Robbins is drilling for
gas, three miles from Wheeling, W. Va.
blew John Barr 1875 feet, killing him. He
leaves a wife and four children.
Mrs. MARY HEARN, of Walton County,
Ga, has rolling-pin which has been in
constant use for 10 years. 1t is as good as
| new.
Rox1E Cox, of South Carolina, eloped
with her lover, Goldsmith Long, and was
married in a graveyard. Miss Roxie ought
to sing, II want but little here below, but
want that little Long"
A GEORGIA man, who has just died at
ninety-seven, could lift barrel contain
ing thirty gallons of whisky and drink
from the bung-hole, and handle 45O-
pound bale of cotton as if it were baby.
A CAN of dynamite exploded at quarry
near Strawberry Plains, Tenn, fatally in
juring two laborers, Lafayette Smith and
Wesley Moulden
ATLANTA Ga, is the third largest snuff
market in the world. London comes fist,
New York next and atlanta third Loril-
lard sold 30S,000 pounds of snuff in that
city last year, and other makers about
l5O. 900 pounds One house there sold f6, 900
: pounds In Macon Lorillard sold l15,OOO
pounds.
! A YOUNG lady, whose home was destroyed
, by fire during the visit of Sherman's army
, to Columbia, S. c. took a survey of the
!. ruins day or two after the conflagration
, in hope of finding some little relic to re-
!, mind her of the trials through which she
had passed She searched for a long time
in vain among the smoldering debris. At
last her eyes fell upon small piece OF pa
per- which she picked up. 1t proved to be
. a remnant of John Howard Payne's song
!. of "Home, Sweet Home" and the only
!. words untouched by the flames were
d There is no place like home"
;, AUGUST X. KLcHENsTIEN, postmaster at
/, Lavender Hil Baltimore County, Md, was
'. arrested a few days ago and held in $4,000
9 bail. Special Agent Henderson, of the
q post-office department, states that Kitchen
L. stein has been guilty of various irregular
4 4 tiles in the past three or four years, and
ne that his accounts are about ", 100 out OF
p the way.
&c A LITTLE child of James Barker, sever
~ miles from Chattanooga Tenn, was left
tied in its chair before the fireplace while
IN the mother went out to talk with her hus
OF band who was working at the woodpile
IS While there Mrs. Barker heard something
ie fall in the house and said: "Dd the baby
y, falls" They did not hear the child cry
Ir and overlooked the matter. When tn
ng mother returned she was Mortified to flint
err the child overturned and its head all aflam
W. as it lay tied to the chair and its face
of buried in the Goals. The child was actual
ms burning alive. Its hands and face wer
he blackened and charred and it lived only
ter short time after it was extricated from tn
co. flames. The sight was heartrending, an
ho the mother is wild with grief
dh DOG DelonRHR 10 MI n a. NAM
on farmer living near Cabot, near Lift
80. Rock, Ark, went mad recently, and anon
W. the animals which it wounded in its wal
ali. behring's about the farm was a milk COY
lis The COW showed no signs of being atfecte
de- nv the wound and il was thought that H.
use drophobia would not result The 9TH
the day, however, the animal began shown
,on the symptoms of the dreaded disease, al
at the same time the farmers two lit
children, who had been nourished with q
cows milk exhibited similar symptom
Oto and on the 18th we're in critical conditi'
suffering the most terrible agonies. I
her other members of the family were also
but their symptoms are not so alarming
of those of the children, and some hope is G
La pressed that they may recover,
The residence of John Newhart, ne
to Rockport, W, Va, was struck by lightni
'uth the other evening Inc nun ran uo"n
chimney through one end of the hou
tearing the entire end out of the buildi
y W No one was hurt in the dwelling. Her
and Wallace Newhart, sons of John NJ
u0' hart, were close by the house at the til
and were felled to the ground by the sho
1 10 Both young men were badly injured, g
lhee at last accounts were in a dangerous C
esre dition.
A TERRIBLE hail storm occurred
DAYS ago in the northwest part OF ARK
lum sas The damage in Fulton and adJac
alter counties is yer, great and the town OF ga
own, wss hadlv shaken nm No lives, so ia
Inc TronS were deSrrO