The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-01-02
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS,

JAMES MOORE, youth or sixteen, was myS-
teriously shot through the head while out
hunting near Knoxville, Tenn, Christmas.
The wounded boy can not live. The sup.
position is that Moore was shot at from
ambush by an enemy of his.
]. M. WADDELL's Clubhouse and mill at
Society Hill, S. c., were burned few days
ago. John Malloy, colored, persisted in
the press box and two colored boys were
badly burned.
AT Greenville, Ca, Chunk McLenden
shot and killed his father-in-law, Judge
Rufus johnson, while the latter was en-
deavoring to collect rental account Nc
Lenden married Miss johnson year ago,
against her fathers consent. The same
trouble existed when Johnson's other
daughters were married, and as conse-
quence there was much irritation all
around When johnson approached Nc
Lenden he had in his hand revolver. Nc
Lnnden warned him not to approach, which
warning was unheeded, when both men be-
gan firing. johnson fell dead under Nc
Lenden's fire, but not before he had NOR
tally wounded McLenden, who is now dy-
ing.
AT Orlando, Fla, Enoch Carter shot and
killed l.. d. Beasly, policeman
The decision in the Atlanta, Ga, election
case was against the liquor men, who will
appeal.
BENJAMIN LEE (colored), while working
in garden in New Orleans was called out
by James Jackson (colored) and shot to
death. jackson escaped
d. NJ. GRAHAM, of Pulaski, Tenn, prom
lnent and wealthy carriage manufacturer,
committed suicide on train near Hunts
vile, Ala, by shooting himself through the
, head. No cause is known.
WHILE miner named Trent was going
home from his work at the Cabin Creek
mines near Charleston, w. Va, he was
struck on the head with rock by another
miner named Douglas. There was no
quarrel, but Douglas had been drinking and
struck the first man he met. Trent's head
was crushed and there are no hopes of his
recovery.
LUTHER CLAGGETT was arrested some days
ago and lodged in Jail at Rockville, Md,
for attempting an indecent assault upon a
seven-year-old daughter of John Liser, of
Mechanicsville, Montgomery County.
Christmas morning number of residents
OF Mechanicsville met and resolved to lynch
the would-be ravisher. They started for
Rockville, but Sheriff Miller, hearing of
their movements. put Claggett on a train
and took him to Frederick, where he is now
in Jail. The lynching party was greatly
enraged when they found that their victim
had escaped, and swore vengeance, but
finally quieted down and returned to their
homes.
LEE SEWARD and George Foote are in
Jail at Huntsville, Ala, charged with muir
dering old man Philips, at Gurleysville, a
few nights ago, by setting fire to the house
and burning him up. Another man, Dicl
Childress, is said to be implicated in the
affair One of them has made confession
He says that all three Of t hem got cotton
and oil at Clubhouse, stuffed the cotton
saturated with the oil in the cracks at the
house and set fire to it. They deny killing
Phillips before burning the house, but there
is strong evidence that they did so, as a
sledge hammer with blood on it was found
lips begging them not to kill him. George
Foote attempted suicide by cutting his
throat with horse lancet he had in his
pocket. He made four cuts, severing the
windpide and gullet, and is not expected
to live. He confessed when told that h,
could not live, saying Seward and Chill
dress put pistol to his head and made hin
go to the calaboose. There the other
threw matches in and set the place on fire
and told him if he did not say he had heart
Phillips say he intended to set fire to tn,
house they would kill him. Foote says h
did not then know Phillips was in thu
house.
CAPTAIN E. I. JOHNSON, Of Indianapolis
who shot the seducer of his wife neal
Greenville Tenn. last year, and whose tria
and acquittal aroused such widespread in
terest, died at the residence of Colonel R
Nesbit, near Marietta, Ca, few days ago
of congestion Of the lungs. At the time o
his death he was editor-in-chief of the In
dianapolis Sentinel, and in Georgia tenn
porarily on visit to friends. He leave
one son, Griffith, at present attending th
University of Georgia, at Athens.
LARGE numbers of negroes are passin
through Chattanooga, Tenn, from Sout
Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The exc
dus is greater this year than ever befor,
and it is commanding unusual attention
Over one thousand negroes have gon
through Chattanooga in the last few week,
and transportation is being arranged TO
fully four thousand more, who will leav
within sixty days. At a low estimate owe
ten thousand will leave the States name
this season. They say bad crops an
high rents are driving them West. The
80 principally to Arkansas.
A SINGLE locomotive on the Louisvill,
New Orleans and Texas Railway the othe
day pulled into New Orleans a train col
tanning al cars. The total weight of tn
train was over 7,250,00O pounds, and it wa
nearly mile long. The distance traverse
was 121 miles, and the time consumed ]
hours and 46 minutes.
SOUTHERN cotton mills turn out the be.
of coarser fabrics. Their ambition is
compete with New England in fine man,
features. This rivalry is beginning i
earnest
HUGH HARKINs died of paralysis Of IL
brain, aged eighty years, at Bolivar, Tenn
few days ago For more than half a Gel
fury he was dry goods merchant there
THE jail at Curleysville, Ala, fiftee
miles east of Huntsville, was set on fire
daylight the other morning by unknow
parties and burned. man named Phi
lips, who had been arrested and locked l