The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-27
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

SEVENTY Mormon converts from
Georgia, Alabama, North and South Car
DINA, and East Tennessee, left Chattanoo-
ga. Tenn, the other night for Utah. They
were congregated by the Mormon elders,
who are at work throughout the South, and
will be followed by as many more within
the next two or three weeks, There are now
nearly three hundred elders at work in 1.-The
different Southern States.
BUSINESS failures in the Southern States
and in Canada continue above the av-
erage.
ORANGE trees reported to have been fro
zen to death at Ocala, Fla, are now in
bloom.
j. s. DEvAND has been appointed General
Freight Agent of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad.
THE General Robert E. Lee monument
for which Charles H. Niehaus design was
accepted, will be erected at a cost of $780,.
600 by the State Of Virginia, in one of the
parks of the city of Richmond. 1t will
stand $50 feet above the James river.
The greatest religious revival in the his
tory of Union City, Tenn, is in progress at
the Methodist Church. A large number of
conversions have been made. There are
from fifteen to twenty conversions ever
service, which is held morning and eve.
ming.
GALLATIN, Tenn, by ordinance, has re-
duced the whisky tax from S125 to $780,
GALLATIN, Tenn, has inaugurated meas.
ures looking toward the erection of $lO,-
600 public school building.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Column
bia, Tenn, to the Nashville american says
Judging from the way seed potatoes, oats
onion sets and garden seeds generally are
moving to the country, spring is near at
hand. Farm work has commenced again
in earnest. There has been an influx OF
Northern farmers during the winter, who
have either purchased or rented farms.
immigration is not rapid, but where an
occasional one drops in it paves the way
for many more in the future, for have
never found one dissatisfied with the soil
or climate. There is room and welcome
for all"
The corpses of two unknown negro BOYS,
aged eight and ten years, respectively,
were found tied to the foot of a sapling in
the woods six miles from Savannah,
Ga. The corpses were tied together with
ropes and strings Of muslin, bound about
the hands and feet. The mouths of the lad
were filled with leaves and clay, and each
was gagged. Around the necks were
ropes which were fastened to the sapling
Each of the bodies was lying face up
wards, and only forty yards from
the track Of the railroad. Beyond
few light spots in the neck nc
marks of violence were noticeable
on any part of the corpses. Life had civ
IDENTIFY been extinct two or three days
Three days before, John Graham, an insan,
negro, thirty years of age, who lived in q
cabin at point not far distant from the
spot where the bodies were discovered
disappeared from home. With him lived
his mother, his wife and two children
The mother went out to look for the miss
ing son. She had not gone far when Q
flock of buzzards attracted her attention
Going to the spot over which they were
lowering she discovered the corpses as al
ready. described. Other negroes joined
and continuation of the search ended il
finding the missing lunatic crouching ant
shiyering behind tombstone in grave
yard near at hand. He was taken to hi
home and placed under surveillance. The
coronerA investigation developed the fac
that he had slain the boys while insane a:
sacrifice to God. He is incapable of Civ
ing connected narrative of the killing, bu
says he met the boys and went up t.
Heaven and prayed with them. At God!
bidding he says, he Amounted them witt
water, but when he reaches this point il
his story he invariably plunges into dis
connected and meaningless harangue, shiv
ering as if chilled by the remembrance o
some hideous deed The death of his vi,
tins was accomplished by stranglne
Near their corpses was found tin can cor
tanning part of the water which Grahar
had used in amounting them. The lads ar
believed to be the sons of John Bird, CO
ored.
On the plantation of j. f. Fitzgerald
Russell County, Ala, George Davis follow
ed Arch Reams into the woods and poure
the contents of doube-barreled shot gu
into the unsupported mans back. Tn
failing to kill him quick enough Davi
opening his pocket-knife, plunged it twiC
into Reams' throat and then beat his hea
to a jelly with the gun barrel. Dav W,
last seen going towards Columbus G
The trouble grew out of the seduction
Reams sister by Davis.
JOHN JACKSON, while crossing til
bridge near Oakdale Junction, nee
Chattanooga, Tenn, the other afte
noon, was struck by the south-boun
Cincinnati Southern train. His right IL
was cut off and internal injuries wore SUI
tanned, from which he died a few minut
afterward.
The chain gang, consisting of ten
twelve county convicts, while working {
the Mount Pleasant pike, mile west
Columbia, Tenn, made break for liber
a few days ago, and it is reported all G,
away except two, who were shot by vi
Porter, the guard, and Lewis Marshall,
leading colored politician. The latter I
manned quietly at work on his rock pill
Deputy Sheriff Nelson is in pursuit of Il
convicts, but none have been captured
yet. One report says they made an alta
on the guard and that he shot in self-d
Tense. Another that they simultaneous
broke and run and the guard shot two
them. The convicts were in the employ
Mr.. Horace Rainey, the owner of the pill
A. R. FOSTER, alias John Wilson, arrest
recently for working a cute small cham