The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-13
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

to convicts, was called upon to baptize
Little Atlanta, colored child that was
born In the county JAIL its mother being
the murdress, Mrs. Mayes. Brother Joseph
called on Brother Sewell, colored deacon
in Baptist Church, to assist which he did.
1t is against the creed of the Baptist
Church to bapti.e little children, and now
Brother Sewel is in hot water. The men,
bers OF his church have served him with no.
tlces to explain his irreligous conduct, and
the Methodist colored brethren have raj
lied to the Baptist deacon's support.
j. B. SMITH assistant postmaster at Nash
vile, Ark, was arrested, charged with en-
bezzling $1,000
THE Mississippi Senate rejected the bill
which passed the Lower House, repeating
the law making it misdemeanor, punish
able by imprisonment, for Legislators to
accept railroad passes.
LEoNoRA MARITIME, proprietress of the
Hotel Espanoli, in Pass Del Norte, Texas,
recently administered poison to her
twelve-year cid daughter and then to her.
self. The lady was pure Castilian, very
beautiful and much esteemed. No reason
is assigned for her act
REV. J. G. ARMSTRONG, rector of st.
Philips Episcopal church, Atlanta, Ca,
charged with immoral conduct in Cincin-
natl last fall, has been sentenced by Bishop
Beckwith to five years suspension from the
pulpit.
HENRY NORRIS Drained George Elliott
with hoe while working road at Bre-
men, Ga. Elliott had thrown away a
chew of tobacco given him by Norris
AT Lagrange, Ca, CASTOR Mccartney a
well-to-do farmer, while driving home his
cattle, became enraged at refractory COW.
He drew bead upon the animal with his
rifle, fired and shot, instead of the COW, his
nine!year-old son, who was in range on the
other side. The boy died instantly.
SINCE the eviction of the Chinese from
ing like rats into the South and East,
where the antagonism is not so strong.
Mrs. JOHN P. SAMPSON and her daughter,
Miss Bertha, were fatally burned in Man
chester, near Richmond, Va. The young
lady's clothing caught fire from the stove
and her mother came to her assistance.
ANDERSON HUGHES, well-to-do negro of
Columbia, Tenn, was arrested few days
ago, charged with appropriating his EN-
ployer's goods.
ALFRED THOMAS, a colored butcher of
Columbus Ga, while ascending the stairs
fell, stabbing himself in the lung seriously
with large butcher knife which he carrie d
in his hand.
THE Peoples Line of boats have carried
1928 bales Of cotton from Columbus, Ca,
since the first of September. The cotton is
delivered by the boats at cambridge, Ca,
to the Savannah, Florida & Western rail-
road and are distributed by this line to
steamers to the North and foreign ports.
The Peoples Line boats is controlled by the
Savannah, Florida q Western railway and
they are making bitter fight against the
Central railroad, of Georgia. Another re-
duction of ten per cent by the Savannah,
Florida q Western was announced the
other day on the freight between Columbus
and Savannah
SAMUEL MosLEY one of the Oldest inhabit-
ants of Memphis, Tenn, and formerly one
of the leading merchants, is dead.
DAVID H. WHEELER, wealthy citizen Of
Lexington County, s. c., was shot by
George McNairy. Wheeler had been at
Newberry attending the public sales and
was on his way home when he was fired
upon twice from the roadside, the second
charge taking effect in his arms. McNairy
used double-barrel shotgun, loaded with
buckshot. He and Wheeler had an alterca-
ton, day or two before, because Wheeler
had seized the property of one of his friends
under distress warrant, and the next
morning he announced his intention to
shoot Wheeler. McNairy was arrested and
bound over to court
BY the burning of the Alabama ware
house, at Montgomery, property to the
value of $4,000 was destroyed.
AGENTS who have been thoroughly can
wasting North and South Carolina for col
ored emigrants say that the colored exodus
from the Southern States to the extreme
West has only fairly begun. AT least three
thousand are reported to be now making
arrangements to leave during the present
season, fully as many having already gone.
They state they are going because they are
offered regular wages as farm hands, and
are becoming impoverished in the South by
high rents and small margins.
The singular charge of stealing the
records of his church has been brought
against the Rev. j. T. Sawyer, pastor of, a
Baptist church at Bank, Blount County, E.
Tenn, and he has been held to answer in
the courts.
JOHN SIMMONS of Forsyth, Ca, in sud
den fit Of insanity, thinking he was pur
sued by enemies, jumped into the Ocmulgee
river, and remained there, with the water
up to his neck, until discovered by ducE
hunter, twenty-four hours later He
seems to suffer little Inconvenience from
his bath.
CAPTAIN Tom GREGORY, of Winchester
Tenn, has unique pair of gloves. They
we're made by Miss Mamie Phillips, who
shared lot of rabbits, carded and spur
their fur as IL it were wool, and from the
yarn knit the gloves She decorated the
back of each glove with the ear of full
grown rabbit
GEORGE LEIB, colored carpenter of Sa
vannah, Ga, fell backward from thirt
story scaffolding the other day, turned &
complete somersault, struck squarly on biz
feet, looked around to see if any one was
hurt, and quietly climbed back to hi
work
A NEW road is proposed from Memphis
via Nashville to Stanton, Va, running
through Powells Valley, East Tennessee.
TuERE is some talk Of the Georgia Cen