The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-05-08
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

The mocklnB-DrdS OF FLORIDA are IaSb
approaching determination at the hands
cf winter tourists. The State has no CANA
laws, and has not needed them up to tho
time when fashion set its stamp upon that
section as the proper resort for escape from
the rigors of the cold months at the North.
But the woods are now secured every win
ter by visitors with shot-guns, and mocking-
birds and cardinals are becoming so scarce
that at Jacksonville it is stated that this
spring there is not one bird to be found in
the city wherSthere were ten year ago,
A GARDENER near Baltimore has sold his
goo seberry crop from thirteen acres in
full bearing for $1,000
DIR. BAREows figures it out that if the
entire population of the globe, estimated
at 1,40O,0 900, were.divided into families
of five, the State of Texas alone could give
each family half an acre of land to live
ubon.
THE other morning, while fishing near
Sewcll, W. Va, John Arbaugh, who is en-
poyed at the Longdale Iron Works, was
drowned by having his boat drawn into the
rapids in New river The river is very
dangerous where Arbaugh was drowned.
Tue two-year-old child of Caroline Liv-
ingston fell in the fire at Lenoir. N. c., ear
ly the other morning and burned to death
ANDERSON SHROPSHIRE near Knoxville,
Tenn, was found in an old we'll, into
which he had fallen by the breaking of a
board, and starved to death
IAMrS Now IvNp eo,r;,n :. &C. .xo,,,-,
sentence in the Moundsville wv. Va.) pen
itentiary for burglary, died there few
days ago, and his remains were taken to-
Parkersburg for burial. He was desper-
ate character, and had served three years
OF his sentence
j. 5. HALDERMAN, of Martinsburg, VIVA,
a prominent lawyer and Republican poll
tician, died at Washington, D. c., very
suddenly, few days since
JOHN PAsE, miner at Dobbin w. Va,
was instantly killed the other night by be-
ing caught between bank car and rib of
the mine
Albert aged six years, son of Matilda
ODaniel, colored, of New Haven, XIV,
who had harrow tooth stuck in his head,
after two days of intense suffering, died
the other morning He attempted to climb
on wagon loaded with harrow and
pulled it off on himself. One tooth entered
his head just back of the ear
FIRE in Baltimore, the other night
starting i'll the store of S. W. Floss a. Co.
burned out number of firms, and causeG
loss estimated at S600,00O
JOHN MCCLURE, laborer at work or
the gravel train near Benham, Tex, was
run over and instantly killed
THE old Moravian town Of Salem, N. c..
has not permitted any liquor to enter the
place for one hundred years.
The Baltimore american has in its career
of lib years been defendant in fifty-thret
libel suits, and in only one has it ever suf
fered verdict for damages, and in tina
one case the damages were trifiing.
ANDREW SANS was killed the other night
in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ward:
at Wheeling, w. Va, by being run over b,
a switch engine, Both legs and one arm
were cut off.
THE Mccormick Industrial University o.
DE Funiak Springs, Fla, was dedicated 6
few daye ago. Bishop Mallen, of Louisi
ana; DR.. A. H. Gillett of Ohio; Dr. Nor
ton, and the Hon. John L. McKinnon, oil
Florida, participated in the impressiv,
dedicatory ceremonies of this important
Southern industrial institution.
FIVE more Mormon Elders arrived a
Chattanooga, Tenn, from Utah, few day
ago. and were sent to different missions il
the South
THE formal opening of the manual train
ing department of the LeMayne Norma
Institute, Memphis, Tenn, (colored) oc
Cured few days ago. Colonel j. NJ
Heating, editor of the Memphis Appeal, de
livered an address on the relation of man
ualtraining to human progress.
On April % Robert Miller, who lived o,
what is known as Robins Fork, in Dodd
ridge County, W. Va, shot and killet
Thomas True because the latter had give
Mrs Miller shelter one night when driver
from home by the cruelty of her husband
A mob at once started in pursuit of tn
murderer, the members swearing to xii
him if they had to follow him hundre
miles A report was received at Parkers
burg, few days ago, that dozen of tn
pursuers came upon the murderer in tn
mountains, fifty miles from the scene @
his crime. He was surrounded in the wood
and summoned to surrender. He refuse
and received volley from his pursuer,
and was instantly killed.
Tuck LEEPER, who recently abducted
daughter of Samuel Russell from her hon
near Parkersburg, W. Va, was followed b
married sister of the abducted girl to
point in the interior of the State, whithe
Leeper had gone The woman, all alon
made desperate effort to rescue her 81
ter, and was just about everpowered b
Leeper when two men came to her assis
ance, and the abducted child was recaptu
ed. Leeper had been keeping the girl
close confinement, and she was almo
starved when found She was taken to h,
fathers home at st. Marys, W. Va.
PHILIP WYGAL, one of the oldest an
most respected farmers of Wood Count
W. Va, met with fearful death on b
farm on Lee creek. Mr.. Wygal had bee
burning brush. A strong breeze sprang u
spreading the flames toward his fences an
outbuildings. In endeavoring to quenC
the flames he became overcome by IL
smoke and fell to the ground, Before he
could reach him the smoke and flames hs
smothered and burnt him to death M
Wygal was eighty-ive years old.
SQUIRE DICKSON, of Clayton, Ga, w,
awakened just after midnight recent
and asked to hurry down and marry
waiting couple. He hurried down al
found that Jephtha Littleton, aged eight