The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-10
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

Aouuu BuiJy Oh Uuruer IN the nrSt degree
PosT-oFFIcEs have been established at
Dryland, Morgan County, and at Thomp-
son, Marshall County, W. Va.
AT Augusta, Ga, during ball. Tom Rice
cut w. I. Archer seven times, seriously
woundng him. Returning to the ball
room shots were exchanged without eff
feet.
JUDGE JOHN BAXTER, of Knoxville, Tenn.
died at Hot Springs, Ark, after an illness
OF only few hours. He was sixty-seven
years old, and was appointed by President
Hayes in 1877, to succeed Judge H. FL. EN-
mons.
THREE negro children were burned in
cabin on the farm of A. Bedell, four miles
from Plano, Tex, during the absence of
their parents, It is supposed that bundle
Of clothes near the fire became ignited and
set the building on fire.
In Bell County, Tex, near Youngstown,
Tom Purl had been paying his addresses
for some time to the daughter of man
named Lawler. He is accused of leading
her astray. Purl and Lawler met at
dance the other night. The men exchanged
shots, and Lawler fell dead.
A COLUMBIA, Is. c. lady keeps penny
box on her dinner-table, and when mem
beers of the family speak III of any person
she requires them to contribute to the box
EMMA NORMAN, the country girl, who
shot Henry Arnold, her betrayer, was &C
quilted in Memphis court. The legal
proceeding is severely criticised.
A WOMAN in Walton County, Ga, has a
rolling-pin that has been in constant use
for ITO years, and is still as good as new.
AT Henrietta, Tex, Valentine Sanford, a
fourteen-year-old boy, was found guilty of
numbering his mother, and will be sent to
the penitentiary for life,
REPORTS from all parts of Arkansas show
that the fruit was not seriously affected by
the recent cold weather. Growers expect
an average yield. Cotton and compliant
ing is progressing rapidly. An increased
acreage is reported in cotton-growing.
A COMPANY with a capital of s5OO,OO0 has
been organized at Wheeling for the pur-
pose of piping natural gas from Washing
ton County, Pa, Bridgeport and Martins
Ferry, W. Va, and Bellaire, O. The work
is to be completed by August next.
AN Illicit distillery near GAINESVILLE, Ga,
which for six years has escaped detection,
has been discovered and raided. The pro-
prietor damned small creek, ostensibly
to make fish. pond, and under the dam he
placed his distillery, with tunnels for in
gress and egress The smoke was convey
ed to his house, and passed out through the
kitchen chimney.
A LITTLE boy in Macon, Ga, has a beau
tiful white rabbit the mate of which was
killed. The rabbit has taken up with q
half-grown kitten, and now they are in
separable
WASH WASHINGTON, colored, was hanged
thousand people for the murder of Willie
burden. He confessed his crime on the
gallows, saying that he did it at the in
stance of Eph burden, the murdered mans
brother. Eph was Immediately arrested.
AL. BENNETT, of Memphis, Tenn, agent
for Cincinnati safe mandatory, was
shot and killed by his mistress, Laura May
Porter, formerly of Cincinnati, who also
fatally shot herself.
GEORGE MARKS, fireman on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad was seriously hurt by
cars near Martinsburg, W. Va.
NEAR Caperton, Fayette County, West
Virginia, lived W. T. Oney, farmer J.
s. Hanley and a daughter Of Oney were
engaged against the fathers wish. In at
tempting an elopement in buggy, they
had not gone far when Oney overlook them.
Hanley got out of the buggy and Oney dis.
mounted, picking up large rock and adj
vancing upon the former, who reiterated
at the same time drawing pistol and tell
ing Oney not to follow OF
he would shoot him. Oney
disregarded this and continued to ad
vance. Hanley retreated until he reached
a wall, when, raising his pistol, he fired,
the ball striking Oney in the forehead, pro
ducing wound from which he died
three hours later. After the shooting,
Hanley drove the girl home, summoned
medical assistance for her father and gave
himself up. All the parties stand we'll in
the county.
GENERAL WADE HAMPTON recently killed
on his plantation, in Washington County,
Miss, buck which, when dressed, weighed
as pounds.
A FEW days ago, j. H. Justis, trustee Of
Granger County, Tenn, went to his house
about ten miles from Rutledge, the county
seat, and left a package containing 50, 0O(
of public funds with his wife, saying that
he would be absent from home severa
days on business, and charging hel
not to allow any one to stay at the house
while he was away. About dusk young
Irish peddler who had been in the habit
of putting up at Justis' mansion, came
along, and Mrs. Justis, knowing him to be
trustworthy, extended him the usual hospi
tality. About midnight the peddler wa.
aroused by the presence of some one in tn,
house. In the moonlight he discerned tn,
face Of large, burly negro. He proceeded
at once to drive the intruder out, and wa.
finally compelled to shoot him in self-de
fence The neighborhood was aroused, ant
it was discovered that the dead man wa
none other than Justis himself, in tn,
guise of q negro. Justis was we'll known
and had the confidence of all his constitu
ents. The affair has created genuine sen
sation.
Two large three-story brick dwellings OIL
Main street, Natchez, Miss, collapsed tn
other night, burying number of person
in the ruins and killing several of them
The buildings are occupied as dwellings
and all except the lower story were occu
pied. There we're altogether twenty. tire
persons in the building at the time.
PAPER has been started in Henderson
& C. with A woman at it's head and Z.