The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-11-13
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANiNGS.
Cotton Markets.

1880 bales; exports to Continent, 4799
bales; coastwise, zoos bales sales S,S20
bales; stock, SO, 46S bales.
MEMpHIs-Cotton easy; middling, Sfc.;
receipts, IA, 9O6 bales shipments, 800 bales;
stock, SO 305 bales: sales, 5000 bales
NEW ORLEANs.-C Cotton easy; middling,
S9l6c. low middling, Sl-l6c ; good ordin-
airy, 73-16c net receipts, II, 0H bales; gross,
Is, 346 bales; exports 10 Great Britain, ~ 800
bales; to France, 13,4S5 bales to the conti-
nent' 1922 tales; Sales 1850 bales; stock,
al, $40 bales.
REV. DAVID L. MOODY is holding religious
services at Wheeling, W. Va. Hundreds
are turned away nightly from the rink, be-
ing unable to gain admi lance. Wheeling
never had such a religious awakening In
her history.
THE indications on the 5th were that tho
Second District. North Carolina, had been
carried by the Republicans, Abbott, me-
gro, being elected.
THE Legislature of Florida is overwhelnl-
ingly Democratic, thus insuring the election
of Democratic Senator to succeed Sem
ator Jones.
EMpoRIA, FLA, advertises the want of a
shoemaker, physician, dentist and
blacksm tn. 1t is supposed the necessary
supply Of lawyer, undertaken and photo
| graph-car-man is already on the ground.
IT is now certain that the assassin on
election night Of D. Bolton, a son Of Coun-
ty Commissioner Bolton, a wealthy plant
er Of Courtney, Tex, was a negro named
Polk Hill, who took to the hills after the
murder. Eight negro accessories have
be'n arrested and taken to Brenham. The
excitement Is intense and several lynch
ings of negroes are threatened. A posse
was tracking Hill with bloodhounds on the
9Th.
The boiler Of a locomotive on the Texas
and Pacific railway exploded the other
morning near Davis Station, killing Engi-
neer Geo. DeHaven and a brakeman named
Given. Conductor Charles Norton was
severely injured.
ALBERT W BsTER, farmer living two
m les south of Wheeling, W. Va, was smok-
ing the other day, when he inadvertently
placed the lighted end of his cigar in his
mouth. His tongue became very sore, and
blood poisoning set in, and he died on tho
9Th in great agony.
SEVERAL Arabs joined the Salvation
A my in jackson, Miss. They addressed
crowds on the streets, alt ,oughs they speak
no English. One of the Arabs used city
directory for Bi lie during an adore s.
SQUIRRELS are so numerous and tame in
the Woods Of Concordia, La, that they can
be killed with sticks.
The council of Charleston, W. Va, have
passed an ordinance to light up the city
with gas. This was agreed to owing to he
fact that the Legislature meets there next
January.
JAMES R. TYLER, of Virginia, a grandson
of Ex-President Tyler, has been appointed
Waterman in the Interior Department.
AN old gentleman in Baltimore, Nd,
who was troubled by young men sitting up
with his daughters until a late hour settled
the callers by appearing promptly at eleven
o'clock and giving each of them ticket to
a ten-cent lodging-house,
MARY ANDERsoN's father died in the Con-
federate service and his remains lie in
Magnolia Cemetery, at Charleston, s. c.
CHARLES H. BAKER. of Savannah, visiting
Hinesv!lle Ca, while chewing sugar-cano
, was bitten on the tongue b. yellow
/, Jacket. His tongue and throat have swol-
: : len to such degree therefrom that on tue
9Th be was dying.
The Chickasaw Cooperage Works, Mem
, phis, Tenn, were destroyed by fire few
days ago Loss about 100000 on building
and machinery.
WIN. B. HAzLEToN, a well-known journal
ist at one time managing editor Of the
Baltimore american, died at Baltimore
few days ago of softening of the brain,
aged thirty-three.
.. In six years the number of miles of rail-
8 way in Florida has i creased from six hum
( dred to two thousand.
AT Little Rock, Ark, Francis Hunger
ford and James B. Larkin were con.
victed and sentenced in the United States
4 District Court for making and passing
= spurious coin. Hungerford is sixty years
\ d, with hair as white as snow, and is
), probably the Oldest counterfeiter in the
; world. They were sentenced for long
t term.
% JOIN GRAHAM colored, a magistrate re.
siding fifteen miles southeast of Memphis,
Tenn, was assassinated the other night.
He was shot down by unknown persons as
% he stood in the door Of his dwelling. No
clew to the assassin.
a A WOMAN in Marietta, Ga, drew up a
!. bucket of water recently from her home
l. we'll, and twisted around the rope and
j. bucket were two live snakes. She held to
the windlass and screamed until map
came and killed the reptiles.
, HENRY, mulatto, who murdered the son
a of a wealthy planter, recently, was taken
, out of Jail at Shepherd, Tex, the other
X night, and hanged to a tree by mob.
o A GREAT increase is noticed in the mum
Der of snakes about The lakes and ponds oil
Florida, owing to the reckless killing Of
herons, storks, and other birds
S, HENRY LAKEY, of Cross Roads Church
a. Yadkin County, N. c., endeavored to elop,
10 with the eighteen-year-old daughter Of
q, James Cooley. Cooley pursued the cou lie
and having the faster horse overlook th'
runaways about mile from the minister,
house. Cooley called upon Lakey to g.v'
= up the girl, whereupon the young maj
x drew revolver aud shot the Old m q
g Cooley is dead, and posse g searching TO
the murderer, who fed, leaving the youni
woman standing by the corpse OF be
father IL il thought that Lakey has on