The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-07-17

8; net and gross receipts, "A bales; sales,
295 bales: stock, 6,053 bales.
New ORLEANs.-Cotsrn quiet; middling,
~; low middling So; good ordinary, So;
net and gross receipts, 1862 bales; sales, 300
bales; stock, 26,40S bales.
Administration steady; middling, 9L;
receipts, IA bales; shipments, 1862 bales;
stock, 170S6 bales; Sales 800 bales.
ST. LoUIs.-Cotton; receipts, 26 bales;
shipments, 762 bales; sales, none; stock,
1920 bales, market firm; middling, 9S.
Cotton; middling S%.
WHILE at work in the Sewell mines,
near Charleston, w. Va, Robert Watson,
miner, was caught in slate fall and
was frightfully mangled. He will die.
HENRY MYERS, an aged shoemaker at
Baltimore Md, quarreled with his son,
Henry, jr., over small amount of money.
The son struck his father, and the latter
picked up knife and stabbed his son, kill
ing him. The father gave himself up.
WIN. j. McDERMoTT, well known mechanic
and engineer, of Memphis, Tenn, was IA
tally crushed while experimenting the
erection of heavy iron girder. Henry
Williams, colored, was seriously injured by
the same accident.
STRIKE in the Augusta (Ga.) cotton
factory closes the establishment and throws
over three hundred hands out of employ
ment.
JACK LAMBERT, painter by trade, was
executed at Charleston, N. c., in the pres
ence Of several thousand people for the
murder of Dick Wilson, twenty months
ago, in Jackson County He left state
ment protesting his innocence and charg-
ing another person with the murder.
WHEN the retail liquor licenses expired
in Fulton County, Ca, June 30, several
wholesale licenses were in force, some to
run three months The Kimball House
Company, Atlanta, secured an interest in
one and opened a room for the sale of
liquors and beer by the quart One other
firm did likewise. A few days ago the po-
lice closed these places up, and great ex-
element was created. A thousand men
congregated about the Kimball House to
discuss the matter. Application was made
for an injunction restraining the police,
and temporary order was granted for a
hearing on the 18th. Meantime the selling
was resumed.
THE Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th. During the session
about four hundred bills were introduced,
of which number about two hundred be-
came laws.
One of the saddest sequels to mischiev-
Gus sport happened about seven miles
south of Lewisville, Ark, OH Red river,
that has ever occurred in that vicinity.
IA party of three young men were bathing
in the river, one of whom was poor
swimmer, and consequently kept close to
shore, while his companions, more fearless
than he, ventured further out into the
river. At last desiring to have some sport,
they caught their companion and carried
him out into deep water, but finding it re-
quired all their efforts to take care OF
themselves left their unfortunate com
panion to battle with the swift current
which was too much for him, and bore him
to watery grave The citizens are very
indignant over the occurrence, and grave
fears are entertained of lynching.
AT Meridian, Miss, the seven-y ear-old
son of Sam Howell, colored, ran away be
cause of his fathers cruel treatment. The
boy was taken back that night, and Howell
then beat him to death with piece of rub
Der hose. Howell escaped.
THE Central Iron Works at Helena, some
twenty miles below Birmingham, Ala.
have shut down on account Of the change!
of machinery necessary for the manufac
ture of nails from steel instead Of iron.
some time since, at Fort Gaines, Ga.
Mrs Roney, her son, Willis Hudson, ant
daughter, Miss Isabella Hudson, settled /,
difficulty with neighbor named Milleon
by beating a young man to death. Mrs
.Roney has since died; Hudson will b
hanged August T. and Miss Roney wa
taken to the State prison to serve out lif
sentence few days ago.
HALF million wild ducks are annual.
killed in Southern Louisiana and sent t.
the New Orleans market
KIssIMME, FLA, boasts of a cucumbe
nineteen inches long, weighing five pound
and half.
The Senola (Ga.) Sentinel says that
man in Campbell County had thirty-si
boys old enough to fight in the last wal
and twenty three of them were killed III
has been married nine times.
AN ovarian tumor, weighing twelv
pounds, was successfully removed from tn
itwo-year-old daughter of R. H. Hurst, Q
Delta County, Tex, by Drs. Hook an
Rush The child, for the past six months
has been treated for dropsy, with no sig
of Improvement The patient is in fai
way to recovery. The only similar cas-
spoken of in medical works is that pei
formed upon child four years old of 81
Spencer Wells, in London.
JAMES ANDERSON, aged twenty -fou
years. clerking at DR.. M. H. Knox's dru
store, in the northern portion of Memphis
Tenn, committed suicide by shooting hin
self through the head. The deceased cam
from Oxford, Miss, and was considered
steady and reliable employee. On his pc
son was found note addressed to D.
Knox, telling his father if he wanted til
body to send for it, and, if not, to throw
in the bayou, or do as he wished; and,
any one asked the reason for this act, {
tell them it was none of their business.
A TERRIBLE gale occurred at Apalach
cola, Fla, uprooting trees, unroofin
houses and causing a loss of $4,000. Tt
telegraph wires were blown down and 81
persons, four white and two colored, VIII
were caught in the bay during the storm