The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-13
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGs.

w Va, on the Pittsburgh Division OF the
b. 4 o. road, went out into the woods to
hunt' Not returning at dark his friends
became alarmed and search party was
organized and at 3 o'clock next morning
his body was found frozen stiff ia the
woods. He had slipped and fallen and his
gun was discharged, almost celebrating all
signs of his face
CHARLES PAYNE, workman at Snod.
grass sawmill, Chattanooga, Tenn, was
walking up the log tramway leading from
the river to the mill, when the wire rope
drawing the carriage in front of him broke.
the carriage ran backward, struck Pay ne
and knocked him over the tramway, q dis
lance OF thirty feet He struck beam
with his head, crushing the jaw, face and
breaking his arms.
SCORES of colored people are leaving
North Carolina for the cotton-ficlds of Mis-
Sissippi, much against the wishes OF the
white citizens of that State
JOIN MANN, on horseback, attempted to
few miles south of Chattanooga. Tenn,
when the train killed the horse. Mann
mraculously escaped unh urt
TIE thermometer registered Is degrees
below zero on the morning OF the 9th at
Staunton, Va.
REWARDS to the extent OF $4,000 have
been offered by the State of Tennessee for
the capture of fugitives from justice during
the past five years.
THE Superior Court at Baltimore de-
cided the ten libel suits brought 10y certain
employees of the post-office against the
CdtoHsche VOlkszejtung, a German re-
ligious newspaper of the city, wherein they
cl imed damages aggregating tNWo, III
favor of defendant.
PARTICULARS of crime committed on
the Roy place, seven miles south OF Forest
City, Ark, have been received at Little
Rock. A negro named johnson recently
married mulatto woman, who had a little
four-year d daughter. The child he con
sdered to be in the way and deliberately
held her in front of an open fireplace until
life was extinct. The officers Of that
county are in pursuit of the inhuman mon
ster and it is safe to say if he is captured
he will be lynched.
JAMES SPENCE, treasurer of Milton
County, Ga. disappeared from home the
other night and was found several hours
later hanging from rope thrown over one
of the joists of his barn. Life was not yet
extinct, but all efforts to resuscitate him
failed, and he died in the morning. 1t is
said that he was driven to the act by the
discovery that his sons had been tamperins
with the funds.
TIE Wells Carriage works at Montgoln
cry, Ala, burned few days ago. Il. 3.
Hort on, of Richmond, Ind, persisted in the
flames.
AT Greenvile S. G., few nights ago
fire destroyed the stores and stocks of L.
Rothschild,. R. G. Mcpherson, Mullane 4
Co and NJ E. Rossenthal g. Sons. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
J.P. BULLOCK, merchant and postm ster
at Arbloe, Crawford County, Ark, was
found dead in his bed the other morning
his skull having been crushed with an axe
jerry Biswell, his brother-in-law, with
had murdered him while asleep, and flet
across the line into the Chosktaw Nation.
NEAR Tribadoux, La, James Baptist'
and Mary Dupe stood at the marriage alta
really to assume the vow which would unit
their lives Suddenly the lights were ex
tinguished, screams Of pain were heard
and when the room was again lighted, thu
groom Law on the floor with three fata
wounds in his back He had been stabbed
bv Kesiab Collins, his former mistress, whs
escaped.
THE movement to erect a tabernacle il
Chattanooga, Tenn, is being rapidly pushed
forward. A committee will confer with Rev
D. l.. Moody on the requirements Of sue
building, and steps will be at once taken
1t is proposed to erect brick structure wit
seating capacity of 5000 TO 600.
ACCORDING to the Chicago Taaes en-
quarter of the live stock of the Unite
States is owned and fed in the South. Tn
South has S6OO,000,0 900 invested in mile
COWS, oxen, other cattle, sheep, hogs, horse
and mules. The South owns One-third o
the mich cows, or n, other cattle an
hogs of the country, or fully her proper
ton according to population. One-quarte
of the sheep of the country are Kept in th
South, when ten years ago the proportio
was only one-seventh. The negroes Ow
very little live stock, unless dogs are il
cluded under this stock.
The other morning three of the cOlore
prisoners confined in the Crittenden Count
Jail at Marion, Ark, knocked the pegl
jailor down and made their escape. Th
Tailor soon recovered himself, and, seizin
a shotgun, fired on the running prisoner
desperately wounding Charles Anderso,
who was quickly recaptured. A poss
started in pursuit of the Others and the
were soon caught and returned to the
prison home. Anderson, who was shot, W:
charged with larceny. The other two al
to he tried for murder.
The other night three men attempted
burglarze the store of s. Hanh,y, at Gle
Mary, Tenn, They were detected /
Handy, and twenty shots were exchange
between the store-keeper and the burglar
but no one was wounded. Hamby and
posse followed the burglars next mornr
to Knoxville Junction, on the Cincinna
Southern road They were commanded I
surrender, and when they refused the pos,
fired, killing two of the burglars iustantl
The third escaped Nothing was found @
the persons of the dead men that won
lead to their naturalization.
MORMON missionaries are making 70
IN SOuth Carolina nv attamntinr to On
vert and carry to Utah a number of Il
maidens of that State. The young m,
who expect to enjoy tue young ladies' s