The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-07-24
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS,
Cotton Markets,


receipts, 400 bales; exports coastwise, 1858
bales; sales, 563 bales.
NEW ORLEANS quiet; net re.
ceipts, 1877 bales; gross receipts, l5a baless
sales, 100 bales; stock, %, S95 bales; weekly
net receipts, 3,455 bales; gross receipts,
4, 424 bales exports to Great Britain A. 1855
bales; to the continent, 937 bales; coast
wise, 1915 bales; sales, 1850 bales.
MEMPHIs.-Cotton was quiet ON the 10th,
with the following price ruling: Mddling,
&c; receipts, 3l4 bales; shipments, 932
bales; stock, 1877 bales; sales, $50 bales.
ST. LoUIs.-Cotton: receipts, so bales;
shipments, 1853 bales; sales, 10 bales; stock,
1887 bales; market quiet but firm; mid
ding, 9Ac.
LoUIsvILLE.-Cotton quiet; middling,
999ac
LIGHTNING struck two daughters of j. E.
Dooley, at Buford Springs, Va, causing
instant death.
THE strike at the August (Ga.) factory
was in progress on the 10th. The Enter
prise Mill shut down because of strike in
the card and picker room.
The trial of R. s. Blair of Parkersburg,
w. Va, on the disbarment proceeding, re-
suited in disagreement of the jury.
The waters of the Alabama river have
| not been clear since May, 1884.
A COLoRED laborer named Isaac Knowles
took morphine with suicidal intent at
Knoxville, Tenn, the other day. and died.
Domestic trouble and dependency
COLONEL JUNIUs B. WHEELER, formerly
a professor at the West Point Military
Academy, died at Lenoir, N. c., a few days
ago.
| RICHARD TowNsHEND, colored, who MUIR
dered contractor in Florida, and also
killed Florida sheriff who followed him
to Lowndes County, Ca, to arrest him, was
hanged at Valdosta Ga.
Hon. GEORGE T. BARNES was unani-
mously renominated for Congress by the
Tenth Georgia District Democratic Conven-
ton.
SAMPSON ROWLAND and George Solomon,
both colored, were hanged at Donaldson
vile, La. In February, 1884, Rowland shot
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latter was under the influence of liquor.
The trouble between the two, it is believed,
was caused by a woman. George Solomon
last January stabbed and killed Henry
Smith in an alteration.
THERE was riot among prisoners at the
city Jail in Richmond, Va, few days
since.
GEORGE Brown, a murderer serving a
life sentence in the Dade County ga J
coal mines, was restored to freedom, few
days ago, by Governor Mcdaniel as re-
ward for declining to take part in the re-
cent instruction
JOSEPH SHEARER, q farmer living near
Forest City, Ark, shot and instantly killed
Albert Bird The trouble originated in an
alteration over ten cents.
GEORGE HARRISON colored was hanged
at Shreveport La, for the murder of
George Allen Allen had ordered Harrison
to leave his premises, and he shot Allen
dead while he was standing in his owr
doorway. The prisoner was cool and self
possessed to the last and acknowledged the
murder. He said he was ready and an
nounced his willingness to 60 He said hi
believed he would at once enter heaven.
JACK BRAsswELL, colored, was lynchet
near Flat Ford, Bullock County, Ga
Brasswell had ravised and horribly nal
treated Dolly Woods, little six-year ole
girl while on her way to school. She identi
fed him after his capture and he confessed
, | saying that he would have killed the child
but thought her dead when he left her.
! | crowd of one hundred whites and black
a held conference, and gave Brasswell tn,
+ choice Of being burned or hanging himself
. He choose hanging; climbed tree, fastened
rope around his own neck and limb O
the tree, but then refused to jump off. 4
negro climbed up, tied Brasswell's hand
; and the crowd pushed him off with pole
His body was riddled with bullets TIL
L child is not expected to live.
:. NARoIssA YOUNG, living near Nashville
n Tenn, has a second tongue growing unde
n the natural organ. This case is puzzlinj
v the physician in attendance, as none O
the medical works mention any simia
. case.
o WILLIAM REED, while bathing in Fla
d creek, near Shelbyville, Tenn, few week
It ago, began to feel around under rocks 70
fish. He caught what he thought was
a fish, but upon bringing it to the surfac
t. found it to be a large water moccasin
h The snake bit Mr.. Reed on the thumb, bu
is as it was killed, nothing was thought of
until few days ago, when Mr.. Reeds han
4 began to swell, throwing him into violen
"a fever. He became delirious and wanted t
Ia bite every one who came near his bed
# required the combined strength of severs
,s men to confine him to his bed. Severa
medical men were called in and all thei
r. efforts seemed fruitless, as the symptom
were all similar to those in cases of hydro
"a phobia. The constant attendance and ski
n ofphysicians, however, pulled him through
"a and he is now getting well.
10 JOHN WILLIAMS, a negro, logged th
steps of white woman named Armand
IN Miller, near Boyce, Tenn, the other nigh
a On arriving home Mrs. Miller told he
ID story, whereupon Amos Gardner went OF
w where Williams was and shot him throug
ID the neck. The wounded man will de-
e, STEVE RENFRoE, the desperate, wa
taken to Livingston, Ala, the other da,
20 and jailed That night, at half-past eigh
n. amob surrounded the Jail, overpowered th
in jailer and locked him in his room. The
4. then seized Renfroe, hurried him out of I'll
m jail-yard and hung him.
n, JAMES STEVENS, colored, aged forty, WI
+. arrested in Somerset County, Md, charge
yh with an outrage upon Mrs. Trehern, whit