The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-20

PULASKI, Tenn, has organized a relief
society to aid the destitute whom the So
we're winter has kept from work.
apple crop in and around Carthage, Tenn,
by the recent cold weather. One farmer
on Caney fork had five hundred bushels,
and although we'll housed the larger por-
ton of them froze and we're afterwards re-
tailed at ten cents per bushel
A RICH vein OF anthracite coal has been
discovered in the Chillhowee Mountains,
near Maryville, Tenn.
GILBERT II. GREEN & Co., cotton factors,
New Orleans, have failed. The trouble was
caused by the failure Of their Liverpool
house.
AT Memphis, Tenn, M. R. Patterson, the
young attorney who assaulted Mr.. Newman
Erb the other day was fined 500 and costs
for contempt.
CAPTAIN JAMES D. JOHNSTON, Of Savan.
nah, Ca, commander of the Confederate
gunboat Tennessee in the naval battle at
Mobile in 1884, received the following let
ter:
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-To Captain j. d. John
sto1', Sdpdnndh-Dear Sir: I desire to send
August s, 1884, in Mobile Bay The sword has
your name on the blade, also &C. S. Navy" II
] am correct please tell me where to express
It. Very truly yours, LOYAL FARRAGUT.
The writer is the son of the late Admiral
who took Johnston's sword after he was
prisoner on the United States frigate
Ossipee. Captain Johnston has notified
young Farragut that he will be pleased to
receive the sword, which was presented him
as testimonial by friends in Mobile during
the war.
THE safe of. W. Biggs, at Brownsville,
Miss, near Corinth, was blown open 1.-THE
other night and $500 in cash and notes TO
the value of 5000 taken.
COLONEL TURNER VAUGHAN, q noted edu.
Gator and public spirited man, died at his
home at Laguards, near Gallatin, Tenn, in
his S5th year.
ISAAC SNoDDERLY, Of Maynardville,
Tenn, aged seventy -one, was thrown by
accident against circular saw and was
cut in twain.
WILLIE MILLER, a colored boy, shot and
killed Richard Waller on Battle Row
of three-cent gambling debt. the muir.
derer is in Jail.
MISS SWEET, an estimable young lady re-
siding at Arlington, little town twenty.
five miles northeast Of Memphis, Tenn,
was SO severely burned that her life
is despaired Of. Her clothes caught fire
from the stove in the kitchen and the flames
soon enveloped her Mrs Mercer seeing
her danger, pushed her out Of doors into
the snow and threw a blanket over her.
which extinguished the flames, not before
Miss Sweet was badly burned about the
head and face.
DURING a special election at vicksburp
Miss, the other evening, a quarrel arose
between Alfred Strauss and Sam Walters
strikers for rival candid ties for Alderman
in the course Of which Walters was shot in
the region Of the spine and fatally wound
ed. Strauss was prevented with difficulty
from shooting Walters a second time The
affair created great indignation among tn,
people.
On Davis creek, near Charleston, W Va,
the other night, Charles Ailheart and
George Williams became involved in a
quarrel over trivial matter, when ALL
heart struck Williams on the head with a
coal pick, crushing his skull in frightful
manner, resulting in death next day. Ali
heart was arrested and lodged in Jail. The
parties are negroes, and worked for the
Black Band Coal Company.
GKbIArIN, Tenn, has Poor Relief Asso
citation. Provisions, coal, wood, clothing
etc, are being distributed among the dss
titute.
JOIN <. RANDALL, Librarian Of the Bal
timore Mercant.ls Library, committed
suicide