Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-08-21
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEAklNoS
Cotton Markets.

J 9-16c; good ordinary, el-i6c.; net anu
gross receipts, 16l bales; sales, 40 bales;
stock, z, s6S bales.
NEW ORLEASs.-Cotton firm; middling,
, 3-l6c low middling, $ ll-16c. good ordt
nary, Sic. net and gross receipts, Is balesi
sales, 100 bales; stock, HOP bales.
MEMrnIs-Cotton quiet; mddling, 9Ac.'
receipts, 20 bales; shipments, none; Stock
5,272 bales; sales, 80 bales.
ST. LouIs-Cotton: Receipts, none; ship
ments 26s bales; sales none; stock, l3U5l
bales; market quiet and nominally steadyi
middling, 9l4c.
LOUISVILLE. Cotton quiet; middlingr
&c. Grain and provisions steady and
unchanged.
JOHN FERAN, one of the laborers engaged
in wrecking the New Orleans Exposition
building, fell from the roof of the struc-.
ture to the ground below, distances 0f sew
enty-two feet, few days ago, and was in
stantly killed. Next day the trusses of the
roof gave way and mass Of timbers came
down with crash, buryiDg three work
men beneath them. When the debris was
cleared away it was foand that VIM. Carty
had been killed. Victor Pollok had receiv-
internal injuries which physicians pro-
nounce fatal, and Ftz Schultz was serious
ly hurt about the head, arms and body.
SINCE prohibition went into effect in At
lanta, Ga, a regular trade in empty bottles
has sprung up and the principal collector
and dealer, a colored man, handled 1900
last month, making $50 clear profit. HIS
collections are large enough to require the
use of drays to convey them to ware
room.
ApolPHus PARKER, the sixteen-year-old
train robber, was pardoned by the Governor
of Arkansas.
HoS. W. C. OATES has been unanimously
nominated for Congress from the Third
(Ala.) District.
SIX THOUSAND ex Confederates barbecued
at Senatobia, Miss, recently. The dinner
table was q quarter of mile long. Tho
| speakers, one and all realized that the war
was over
A FARMER named Sewers, near Martins
| burg, W. Va, was attacked by vicious
| boar and terribly lacerated, the tendons of
both legs being torn out. Mr. Sewers CON
| dition at last report was critical.
Mrs. CHARLES WALLER was burned to
death at Meridian Miss, by the explosion
of can of coal-oil with which she was
Lighting fire,
A SYNDICATE has been formed for the
purchase of all the street-car lines i'll
Memphis, Tenn. The property Is held at
| $l,GO0,ODO
THE third day of the Democratic State
Convention at Galveston, Tex, was
stormy one General l.. c. Ross was unani
mously nominated for Governor The
platform declares it to be the duty of the
Government to protect the humblest Amer
lean citizen against the unlawful acts of
any, or all, nations, which referred to the
Cutting case.
NJ, r. kIMBERLING, a prominent citizen
of Winfield, W. Va, dropped dead, few
t days since, of heart disease.
) A son of Hartley Miller, of jackson
e County, W. Va, was fatally injured while
: squirrel hunting, by the limb of tree fall.
, ing on him.
THE Democratic Convention of the Sixth
Is. c. District renominated Congressman
George W Dargen.
r,,,.>,r, s.oro, o,a .os,oos ,,,aro b,,,,,od i,
r,;,,.i-, Nc. I,.. 900 nan
LOUIS I. LATHAM was nominated ior ,oh-
| gress in the First Congressional District
| of North Carolina (Democratic) on the l63d
ballot
, MRS. MARY bRoohs anu Aer uranuuausu'
/ Ter Lizzie oinnihohs' u'eu d. A'lan'a, "a''
from poison MARY hufu' eoioieu' Is az
, cuseu Oh .he eiiile
. ONE OF tue most remarkable stories re-
corded about SNAKES IN TINS country Is 'o'u
by Constable d. M. poty' OF Chattanooga
lehn' members vi HIS lainiiy i,Ne"ise 'e'
lls 'ue '.o t sinoa w.. tha o,cLI;n,
ioooV
=, ~. raor. bo .aol, re an, and crert
stealthly up to the door. Opening it
be saw a monster blacksnake wriggling
about and twisting itself into knot. Seiz
ing club he dispatched it with blow on
. the head. To his surprise he found the
y snaks was fast in a knot hole of the roost,
a half its body being outside. He tried to
/. p,ll it out of the hole, but large lump III
!. is body on the other side Of the knot hole
t would not permit. Taking his knife he cut
/ the snake open. He was astonished to
II find it had swallowed two china nest-eggs
One had been found outside the roost and
: swallowed The snake then stuck its head
;, in the hole and swallowed another, aue
i was unable to extricate itself
e Ar Gravsyille Tenn, on the Cincinnati
. soutbern roilroad n son of Rev. f. NJ
Bandy, Baptist minister, attempted to
II whip John Davis, young man, for visit
l. ing his sister. Davis fatally wounded
Young Bandy Then the ou man took
hand, and in duel with knives he an,
Davis were fatally cut.
Noshv;,,. Robart T. TsvIor WAS non.
l. i,atad for Governor of Tennessee on TIN
18th ballot.
m r, ,.h,u orr;r, ,,ost fricbtfr, acoi
SO ,a,, ~ honnnnoa at ,ho oor,a 81 noraIdsor i
Y. Ca rear Sawell W Va. which resulted i
II, instantly killing Abe Henry, peddler Tn
" cable is a tbree-iach wire, 1850 feet Ion,
m and extends from the ton of Sewell mon,
., tain across New river to the Chesapeake