Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-07-03
NUMBER 81.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS'
Cotton Markets.

sJLc.; receipts, IS bales; shipments, 265
bales; stock, a, t45 bales; sales, $50 bales
LoUIsvILLE.-Cotton dull; middling, sac.
Sr. LoUIs,-Cotton; receipts, 20 bales;
shipments, 157 bales; sales 2I bales;
stock, q, ,2O3 bales market quiet and steady;
middling, 5 I-sc
WILL BALrIMER, young miner, was kill
ed at Dayton, Tenn. He was alone in
mine room when three blasts went off in
quick succession.
JosrPu CLARK, John Clark and Tinker
| Woodland were sentenced at I.ynchbnrg.
Marshall County, Tenn, to five years I'M
prisonment for entering the dwelling of
| Thomas Bait in disguise. shooting him and
attempting to rob his house of all its valu-
ables Green Gum turned States evil
dence, was discharged and afterward jailed
for cattle-stealing.
BUCK HARLASD, who shot and killed
Monroe Burton over a game Of cards, in
| February last, was found guilty of murder
| in the first degree in the Circuit Court at
| Charleston, W. Va.
| THE Directors of the Roane Iron Works
have decided to convert the works into a
steel plant and manufacture by the Besse-
mer process. More than Sl0O000O of capi-
tai is invested The works are at Chata-
nooga, Tenn.
CROPS have been ruined by water -spoUts
in parts of Tennessee
Sr. ALBANs, W. VA, was the scene of
romantic marriage the other day. Tho
circumstances are as follows Billy Lee
Miles and Miss Bette Wood, two young
people living near there, were married at
10 O'Clock a. m, by Rev. ", J. Cooke. The
marriage took place on the commons, tho
contracting parties being seated in car
riages, and the attendants grouped around
on horseback. After the ceremony had
been performed, and the young couple
welded according to the prescribed rites Of
the Baptist Church, the party took their
departure for the home of the groom,
where reception was given in honor Of
the event.
SOUTHWEST Virginia reports unusually
bountiful wheat and fruit crops
A YOUNG lady named Owens, living near
Newbern, Tenn committed suicide on ac-
count of her fathers cruel treatment of her
brother. The father, on hearing of her
death, became raving mad, and had to be
hound to prevent his killing himself.
THERE is a woman in Union Point, Ga,
with a beautiful beard nearly foot long.
She is well to do, aud thus escapes the dime
museum,
A TEXAS physician claims to have found
the microbes of dengue fever, and that the
disease can be avoided by vaccinating with
attenuated virus.
A COSTUME adopted by the Fat Mems
Base Ball Club, of Orlando Fla, consists of
Mother Hubbard dress, and it is said to be
}. cool and comfortable, if not an aid to fast
running,
!. Miss TABIrnA A HATToN, the young lady
/, who died recently at her home in Gadkin
County, N, C., was a remarkable character
| and was conscious as having been the only
female lawyer in North Carolina, ond she
} was the first in the South to ask for admis-
sion to the bar. Her request caused great
excitement at the time and met with con
1 siderable opposition. A long dispute arose
e as to whether woman would lie licensed
!, to practice law in North Carolina, and
+ it was only after she employed Judge Al
bion W. Tourgee as her counsel, and fought
r the matter through the courts, that she OBJ
: tanned license Even then she had hard
s road to travel. She belonged to the Order
- of Friends, and continued to the last to
f maintain that she was fighting for the
Q rights of woman. She wrote the following
= on a card Just before dying: Il am dying
e in the true Christian faith, but not super
sttious. am happy; but few understand
X am going to place boundleSs and mag
nificent, Bury me with neat red Bible in
: my hand
ii WM. CARTER, while Telling a large tres
n in the forest near his bone, on Meadow
: Creek, near Charleston, W. Va, was struck
s on the head by a limb from the tree, which
,, resulted in crushing his skull, killing him
r. instantly. The deceased leaves wife aud
,. ell, ven small children, who were dependent
y on him for support.
l. ROBERT DlLLARp and James Emmette,
a both colored, were hanged at Greenville,
Y Miss, for murder, in the presence of legal
= witnesses,
e GEORGE B. DAVIS was hanged at Scale
u Ala, for the murder of VIM. McClelland
alias Archie Reeves, last spring
FRANK RHODES was shot at Nashville
a Tenn, a few days ago, by his son-in-law
John Sinkard Slinkard had been mar.
= ried to Rhodes daughter about six weeks
:. They lived peaceably for awhile and ther
auarreled, the wife going home to hel
% fathers. Slinkhard, on being joked abou
the short honeymoon, by his friends, sai'
# he had ''only taken her on trial. Thi
$ coming 20 the ears of his father-in-law
le angered him, and going to where SlinkarC
d was at work knocked him down, kicket
10 him and walked away, Slinkard FOLLOWED
% him and shot him. Rhodes wounds are no
considered fatal
h THB other morning VIM. Josling, wifi
n and child, were walking along the track o
IN the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, nea
m Hancock, W, Va. Hearing a freight trail
a coming, they stepped to an adjoining track
70 In second Mrs. Josling noticed paSser
rs ger train coming on the track to whic
m they had stepped, and jumped off, but be
husband and child failed to hear it, am
IN were struck by the train and both Instant
c. killed 1t is said the people were gon
from Cincinnati to Baltimore. The remain
n of those killed were buried by parties a
Berkley Springs, W. Va.
Mrs. LEoNA LYLEs, wife of a prominen
business man, of Denton, Tex, had bee
slandered by W. b. Roberts. She met hin
's on the street, and on his refusal to sign
lie rctraction which she presented, drew II
volver aud shot him five times, each sho
70 taking effect, Roberts dying in feS min
K. utes. She snapped her pistol several time
on empty cartridges and then gave herse
l., up to the sheriff.
t GEO. LEWIS, colored, convicted OF rot
berry, and James Dell escaped from Jail a
Martinsburg, W. Va, a few days ago, Tn
I makes the fifth within six months.
THE Governor Of Louisiana has signe
the Sunday law 1t goes into effect the Il
or of January next.
A YOUNG man named Wartman Reede
employed as a clerk in a large grocer
4 store in Clarksburg, w. Va, committe
Of suicide the other evening by taking lauds
lr num- Disappointment in love affair
or the supposed cause, His home was i
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