The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-12-11
RUGBY MORGAN COUNTY, DECEMBER H. 1885, VIII
CURRENT TOPICS,

CURRENT TOPICS.
Mr. ARTnuR's last words were "Good
night"
MUCH of the pork in Oregon IL fattened
On wheat.
CUTTING Is actually executing his threat
to lecture
QUEEN VICTORIA has now thirty living
| grandchildren.
The street cars Of Pensacola are TO bs
run by electricity.
The cotton crop this year In Arkansas
will reach 75O, 900 bales
The Farmers Alliance is said to have
half million members.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has rent-roll and land
income Of $40, ,0OO year.
OLD-FAsHIoNED Yule cakes for Christmas
are to be offered by caterers.
(HURcHrLL is now called Brushing Ran
dy" by irreverent Englishmen.
A DUBUQUE girl tried to hang herself be.
cause she was called "Tomboy."
MR.. STURGEON and his enemy, the gout,
have gone to the South of France.
HERMAN GoLDrNo, of Beverly, N. j., has
died from the effects Of hornets sting.
The photographs of Mrs. Cleveland arc
In active demand in the City Of Mexico
LORD WoLsrLEY, as Adjutant. General of
the British army, gets only $ls,5OO a year.
The Legislature of Alabama has elected,
Z woman for enrolling and engrossing
clerk.
The Vermont Legislature has passed a,
law prohibiting dancing bears In the
streets.
Cook County, ILL.,, in which Is Chicago,
has one insane person to every 800 of the
population.
| Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR, it is said, was tho
first member of the New York Thirteen
Cub to die.
ALABAMA is prospering The increase in
the value OF property in the last four years
is s35 900 GOO.
By way of sharp contrasts in fashion,
we now have black velvet bonnets With
white strings.
OYSTER plates are square, and have places
for i've bivalves Enough is considered as
good as feast.
1T is said that Cape Cod is slowly wash
ing and blowing away, losing some two
feet every year.
1T Is estimated that the Violet Cameron
venture in this country cost young Lord
Lonsdale $4,000.
1 PEANUT vines in Kearney County, Kan,
are said to have yielded thi,ty bushels to
the acre this year.
DEER We're never before SO numerous in
the mountain regions Of West Virginia ss
they are this fall. ---@as '--As
THERE are 5000 women on the pension
rolls as widows, dependent or relatives of
deceased soldiers.
DURING the present year there have been
seven cmbezzements in Boston, which ag-
gregate sl2Ss 400.
AN elderly New York lady bought seat
in street-car from a young man by pay.
ing him one dollar.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway
Company is planting walnut groves along
its line In Michigan.
The telegraph reports the case of boy
who is held in Pennsylvania as security for
the payment Of board bill.
The man who dug the grave for three
1 husbands of Mrs. Foster, of Green Bay, be.
came her fourth husband this summer.
MINNEAPOLIS saw-mills cut 81, 900, 900 feet
less of lumber, 20,0OO,OOO less OF shingles
and 8,oOo,oo0 less of lath this year than
last.
CHINESE woman has become noted in
New York merely because she was the first
OF her age and nationality to die in that
city.
CITIZEN Of Salamanca has a United
States six-dollar bill dated l774 On its
back are the words, 1T is death to counter.
felt"
NINE. BoULTCouT, of Paris, has given q
pension fund of2l 900 000 which is available
for all who have been in her service twenty
years.
THE Territory Of Montana wants to be
admitted to the Union Of States, and will
send a committee to Washington to plead
for her.
I'VE have socialism in our midst and
socialism is nothing but monarchy in dis
guise," said Henry Ward Beecher in a re-
cent sermon.
In Tolt precinct, King County, W. T.,
Mrs Mile Templeton was electe consta-
BILE and her husband was defeated for JUS.
tice of the peace.
THE Thanksgiving turkey-bone having
been picked, thoughts of the youngsters
have been turned toward Christmas with
tender yearning
The Pope has invited the editors of Cath
o!ic papers throughout the world to send
their publications regularly to the press
Office Of the Vatican.
Mn. BRANDENBERG, of Philadelphia, owns
the largest dog in America. Koloss is a
| Danish hound of noble ancestry, is nine
feet long and five feet high.
Tue mausoleum prepared by the Empress
Eugenia, at Marlborough, is now almost
rea ~ for the reception OF the bodies of the
late Emperor and Prince Imperial
JonN SNYDER the Hoosier whose only re-
lief from the effects of O strange disease is
in almost continual walking, shaves as he
walks and takes bis meals on the go.
II FoUR elephants belonging to Coles circus
were sold at New Orleans Ior s7,l5O Three
lions brought S4i2 each hippopotamus
went for Sl,500 and two-horned rhinoc-
erous for $4,000
A VERY amusing incident in connection
with the drama recently in New York
was ths displacement of one-half OF Mr.
Booths moustache and its adherence to the
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