The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-04-24
SOUTHERN NEWS GIL EANlNGS.


IN which one man was killed and two
Others seriously wounded, one of whom
VIII die The scene was the open prairie,
about mile south Of town, John and Tom
Ellison on the one hand and w. G. Hardin
on the other. Tom Ellison was shot through |
the breast by bullet from Hardins pistol. |
he expired in few minutes. John Ellison
and Hardin perforated each other with |
bullets, Hardin can not live, and John
Ellison is seriously wounded.
The cars of the Capital City street rail |
road, Montgomery, Ala, commenced run
ming the other day by electricity. The
trips are regularly made, and every thing
works perfectly.
AT his residence, in Rearne Tex, DR..
bassett became involved in quarrel with
man named Hughes. The latter grabbed
the Doctors pistol with the intention of
shooting him. Mrs. Bassett seeing her
husbands danger hastily secured a rifle
and commanded Hughes to drop the pistol
Hughes refused to obey the command and
continued to advance threateningly upon
Dr. Bassett, whereupon Mrs Bassett fired,
mortally wounding him.
H. V. BEAzLEY, of Charlottesville, Ca,
has killed over 200 partr.dges during the
last season.
MAJOR BALLARD, of Madison, Ca, killed
white crow amid flock of black mates
1t was perfectly white, with the exception
of its head, which was as black as those
of the other crows.
Miss JENNIE NICHoLL, of Nashville,
Tenn. caught strange bird near that city
| the other day which is supposed to be a
species of wild guinea hen. Its body is
gray, and its head is jet black It's feet
| are partly webbed, and it has long ivory
colored bill with a jet black tip.
THE execution of Morris, at Clark yille,
Ca, set for the 10Th, was postponed, he
having made application for new trial,
GOVERNOR BATES, of Tennessee, has APP
pointed Hon W. C. Whitthorne to succeed
Howell E. jackson as United States Sena-
tor.
JOHN CALDWELL is in Jail at Wilkesboro,
N. c., charged with the ruin of his own
daughter and the murder of her child The
girl is but fourteen, and at last accounts
was said to be dying.
A NEGRO, residing in the vicinity of
Faulkners Gap, Nhite County, Ark, went
to the house of Thomas Aldrch, and, find
ing little twelve-year-old son of that gen
tleman at home, captured the boy and took
him into the kitchen, where hot fire was
burning, and toasted the boy alive over the
flames. The child's piteous cries caused
the dogs in the yard to set up howl, and
/ ha 4 1Dft -
boy is reported as being in critical condi-
ton, the flesh on his body and legs being
cooked to a crisp.
THE old Moravian town of Salem, N. C
has not permitted any quor to enter the
place for one hundred years. 1t is the ban
ner temperance town of the country.
A GEORGIA gentleman, who makes liv.
ing poisoning rats and tanning dogs hides
advertises for wife. He frankly describes
bald head and cork leg. As he has an in.
come of only from So to IS per week he
must be a student of Edward Atkinson's
system of domestic economics
AN Atlanta COW fell into a deep well a
few days ago and her owner was unable to
hoist her out, so he brought many loadS OF
shavings from neighboring planning mill
and dumped them into the we'll As fast
as they fell the COW tramped them under
her feet, and thus came to the surface and
walked away.
SUITS have been begun at Raleigh N. G..
against the Governor and Auditor pl
State, with the object of forcing end levy
. ing a collection of the special taxes i'm
posed in several acts of the North Caro-
lima Assembly of 1860, under which tn,
special tax bonds of North Carolina wer,
, issued. These bonds aggregate Sll 600
!, and the special taxes imposed were sufli
cient to meet the annual interest, Subse
quent legislation forbade the State officer
to collect these special taxes, and al
amendment to the Constitution forbids tn
Legislature to pay any thing, either on the
interest or principal, without submitting
the matter to the people. Before this suit
have been brought in the Federal court
: without avail TO enforce the rights of tn
s auditors.
4 In connection with the visit of Jefferso
p, Davis to Montgomery the fact is recalle
t that in the Capitol at Montgomery, Ala, i
;, religiously preserved large Bible, printe
e by the American Bible Society in 1851, AM
Q bearing upon the liy-leaf this sentence
i 1.-THE oath of office, as first President of tn
. Provisional Government of the Confedel
G ate States of America was administered t.
f Jefferson Davis upon this Bible by Howe
Il Cobb, President of the Provisional Coz
o gress, at the front portico of the Capitol i
@ Montgomery on the 18th day of February
It A. D. 1861" The book, it may be added,
q still used in swearing in governors of tn
: State.
!. MORGAN COUNTY, Ga, was anxious t
!. have an election on prohibition, but thei
!, appears to be hitch in the way In I'll
a enumeration of counties in the registr,
i ton bill the name of Morgan is omittet
J. though it appears in the head notes II
n comptroller general has replied to enqui
: les to the effect that there is no registratio
!, law for Morgan. As registration is nece
q sary in an election under the local optic
- BILL the county will have to remain w
!; until relieved by legislative action.
On the Elberton road, eighteen mil
from Washington, Ga, lies the magnificel
farm of Mr.. Henry j. Hill, which contain
$500 acres, 1900 upland and 600 river DO
y toms. 1900 acres of this is under GUILTY.
ton this year. This farm is cultivated b
n 80 hands, both on the tenant and wage sv
=. tenn. The product last year was: Cotto
19S bales; corn, $500 bushels; wheat, {
bushels; oats, 5000 bushels; peas, 300 bus
"a els; ground peas, $50 bushels; sweet al
Irish potatoes, go bushels; provender of q
"a kinds, 10000 pounds.
r. CHARLES GRAY was found insensble fro
loss of blood on the street at Troy, AL,
with several fatal knife-thrusts in his bod