Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-09-04
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.
Cotton Markets.


the following were the ruling prices; Mid
ding, 9sc.; low middling, s9sc; good
ordinary, Sc; net and gross receipts,
ol7 bales; sales, "a bales; stock, APIS bales.
NEW ORLEANs.-Cotton dull and easy,
middling, 9 l-l6c.; low middling 9-l6c.;
good ordinary, : l5-l6c.; net receipts, 2Ol
bales; gross receipts 3Ol bales exports to
Great Britain, 1859 bales; sales, 1000
bales; stock, 2l,570 bales.
MEMPHls.-Cotton quiet middling. 9lEc.;
receipts, 4S bales shipments, - bales;
stock 4,313 bales; sales, 325 bales
ST. LoUIs.-Cotton quiet; middling 9l5c.;
sales, none; receipts, none; shipments, l56
bales; stock, II, 100 bales
LouIsvnLE,-Cott quiet; middling,
94c
MAJOR LEVI LYBRAND, one of the leading
citizens of Edgefeld County, s. C., died
the other morning of hydrophobia, after
twelve hours of the most terrible suffering
Last May be was bitten bya cur which was
instantly killed. The wound soon healed,
but few days ago it broke out afresh
Two young men named John Rainsour
and James G. Gains, of Roane, Carter
County, Tenn, were contestants for the
heart and hand of a lovely young lady in
that county. Gains became intensely ieal-
GUS of his rival and meeting him at the
home OF the young lady, drew pistol and
shot Rains0ur dead
CONSTANT BENoRT, a Swede, aged TWEEN
ty-seven years, was torn to pieces by
terocious boar near Knoxville, Tenn, few
days ago.
BAYOU SARA, Ia, was burned few days
ago; loss, SllS,000
JOHNSON, the ship-burner, who was con,
victed about four years ago and sentenced
TO twenty years in State prison. has been
pardoned by the Governor of louisiana
MRS HARRY HOOKING wife of a mechanic
residing in the western part of Knoxville,
Tenn, fell down flight of steps the other
morning. Internal hemorrage set in, and
the woman died in a few hours. She was
soon to become mother.
The other day, seven miles from San An
tonic Tex, Andrew Martin was strolliug
| along on Hoefing's ranch, when snake
| darted in front of him Martin pursued it,
nearly caught it, reached for it and fell
headlong into a we'll tifty-three feet deep.
he broke both legs, one arm and badly iu-
| jured his head. He will die.
The other night an armed mob went to
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| therefrom John and Leander Nelson col.
ored, charged with the recent murder of a
negro named Collins, and hung them from
a bridge near the town.
SAMUEL E. DAVIS, prominent and sue.
cessful farmer residing near Woodstock,
| Howard County, Md, committed suicide
the other night by shooting himself through
the heart For year past be has been suf'
fering from melancho ia, and recently the
disease took a violeut turn, when he at
tempted to kill his wife and a coored ser
want an hour before he took his own life.
HENRY MOREHoUsE, who works at thu
Nesselroad Mills, Parkersburg, W. Va.
was struck by piece of heavy timber anC
fatally injured
Miss GORRELL, a young woman who re-
sides with Mr. George Davis family, in
Jackson County, W Va, met with a pc
culiar and most probably fatal acc dent a
few days nee. The lady had been troubled
with a cough, for which she had obtained a
remedy from the drug store. While re,
moving the cork of the bottle with her
teeth, She was attacked with fit of cough
ing, and in the inspiration the cork slipped
from her teeth down her windpipe. AL
attempts to extract it were futile, the cork
having gone down into her lungs
THE Mobile and West Alabama Railroad
is to be pushed through to Birmingham as
fast as mcu and money can do the work.
RICHARD A. KENNEDY has received his
! commission as postmaster at Kettle Mills,
Maury County, Tenn.
A FARMER living near Fayette Court.
| house, Ala, named Miles Harris was as
saSsinated a few days ago, He was plow'
ing in his corn field when somebody fired a
load of shot into him from hiding place
across the fence. The assassin got away
without leaving clew.
MARY B. JoHNsoN has been appointed
poStmistress at Clarksyille, Tenn Her
commission signed by the President was for.
warded to the Department from the Adj
rondacks.
Hon. CLIFTON R. BRECKINRIDGE, son OF
the late John c, Breckenridge, has been
unanimously renominated for Congress in
! ,bn Sannnd ArlanSoa Il strict
! JoHS KELcHER, of Washington County,
/ Tenn, a wealthy farmer aged seventy five,
| committed suicide Il few days ago by tax.
/ ing Rough ON Rats" lie left no excuse
! for his rash act.
! HoLMAN's precinct Baldwin County.
| Ala, has probably the oldest voter in the
United States in the person of Thomas Gar.
ret, who is ll9 years old. He cast his first
vote for John Adams for President in 1896
when he was % years of age, having been
born in Maryland in 1867. He is the father
of twenty-one children, and Democrat.
WV. PLuuMER, of Petersburg, Va, and
Mrs, Virginia Edwards, of New York City,
met at Chattanooga, Tenn. for the pur.
pose of getting married, having been en-.
| gagged for many years. When the couple
! had taken their places before the minister,
the lady discovered her intended was
! drunk, whereupon she took the marriage
| license from the minister, threw ii in
| Plummer's face, and shortly after left fol
| New York.
S. H. SUMNER was shot from ambush
near Brentwood, Tenn, and badly wound
| ed in the face He was in buggy, accom-
panied by W H. Ferrell, school superin
tendent The trouble arose over the tria
of colored teacher for some misdemeanor
who was acquitted The parties who die
the shooting have been arrested and Jailed
AN accident caused by the rear coact
| jumping the track, occurred on the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, neal
Lyons, Tex. A Mrs, Lockett is reported
killed and about fifteen others more or les,
injured.
Mrs. J. WRIGHT and daughter, Mrs, C
DELPHI, were riding a mule along publ,
highway in the upper edge of Hancocl
County, Tenn, when the animal becam,
frightened, throwing both to the ground
killing Mrs. Wright instantly and pain
fully wounding Mrs. DELPHI. The latter ha
had the misfortune to see her father on,
brother, and now her mother, killed
Mrs, l., f. TRorTER, OF Holly Grove
Ark, fell into large kettle of boiling pre-
serves and died soon after in great agony
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