The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-11-06
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS,
Cotton Markets.

ordinary, nc; net and gross receipts,
5,095 bales; exports to Great Britain,
4,175 bale; sales, All sbales; stock, S9,543
bales.
NEW ORLEANs.-Cotton steady; middling,
S5Sc. low middling, S1sc good ordinary,
nc; net receipts, 1900 bales; gross, 49,
233 bales; exports to Great Britain, 8, l54
bales; to France, 6,375 bales; to the conti-
nent, SO bales; sales, 5000 bales; stock,
136, 575 bales.
MEMPHIs-Cotton easy; middling, $780,;
receipts, 1901 bales shipments, 2,5O7 bales;
stock, 50 452 bales; sales, $500 bales.
The Their morning the dead body Of
Rev. J. G. Kitchen was found near Ster-
ling Glynn County, Ga. He had been shot
to death. Glynn County has always had
colored member in the Legislature. At the
late election many negroes bolted the ne
gro candidate, thus electing the white
man. Rev. J. G. Kitchen was the leader Of
the boilers. The negroes threatened that
he should not live to see the Legislature
meet. Taylor Coley, leading negro, has
been arrested on suspicion.
THERE was a peculiar case before the
Holster conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Knoxville, Tenn, few days
ago. The Rev. j. F. Austin was on trial
for baptizing the body Of dead woman.
He claims that it was done at the request
of the woman's relatives, but the confer
ence charges that he has some cranky no
lions on the subject. The matter was To-
ferred to a committee.
COLONEL JAMES, lessee of the Louis ana
State Penitentiary, has sold the unexpired
term of his lease to New York capitalists.
The New Workers will organize a company
and utilize the large convict force of the
State, averaging from 1000 to 1900 able
bodied men, in building levees, redeeming
the overlooked and swamp lands of the
State, and putting them in tillable cOndi
tion. They. expect to recover several mil.
lion acres.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred at Chatta,
nooga, Tenn, the other morning by which
Thos Mcbride, bridge superintendent, was
killed. He was standing on the track ex
aiming it, when an engine of the Belt
Railroad struck him. He was decapitated
THE boiler in the gin house on Fletcher's
plantation near Little Rock, exp oded the
other day, blowing the engine house tc
atoms, and instantly killing Frank Waters
and fatally wounding his wife, George
Chandler, his wife and four others were
seriously burned. The people had just ar.
yiuaI opI fha,,, a1uac
paratory to going to work, when the ex
plosion occurred.
THE other morning fire broke out al
Franklington, N. c., on the Raleigh ant
| CASTOR railway, twenty eight miles nortl
of Raleigh, and burned seventeen stores
nearly all of wood. Loss, $4,000; insur
ance, $500.
GOVERNOR LEE, of Virginia, received 6
number of letters appealing to him tt
commute the death sentence of Thos. j
Cuverius, convicted of the murder Of Liliar
Madison.
A BIG excursion of land emigrants from
| the Northwest at Jackson, Tenn, came
down on the Illinois Central railroad thu
other day, bound for various points in Ten
1essee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
A SPECIAL from Chattanooga to the Lou
isville Courier Journal says "Specia
advices from Sullivan County state tina
| Will H. Fain, clerk and master of tina
county, has been requested to resign. H
is sal to be several thousand dollars shor
| in his accounts and is unable to raise thu
i money Fain is leading citizen of tina
section. The discovery of the supposed
shortage created big sensation"
In Franklin County, Tenn, two youn,
| men named Will Hockersmith and Arthd
| Williams had quarrel over some work
| Hockersmith was in the act of leaving tn
premises when Williams drew his revolve
and shot him dead, three bullets piercing
his body.
In Oglethorpe County, Ga, the peopl
are agitated over sinking in the earth
which has since grown into an immens
cave. The farm of Jas. Thompson has beef
cultivated for generations, having in tina
time been cleared and worn out tire
times. While Mr.. Thompson was blowing
his mu e's hind foot slipped and broke tn
crust of earth. The ground rapidly CAV
way for space of about twenty fee
square. 1t was a narrow escape which tn
plowman had for his life. He tried to fiji
the hole with rails, but they disappeare
from sight Finally he took soundin
and found the bottom was out of ordinar
reach By peering into the depth waite
could be seen at its bottom, while the rus
of an underground stream was distinctl
heard The cave is shaped like cistern.
The old Peckatone manor house, built b
Henry Corbin in 1860 in Westmoreian
County, Va, and near the Potomac river
was totally destroyed by fire few morr
ings ago, with all the furniture it COZ
tanned. This house was known as the ole
est colonial dwelling in the United State.
The owner, Mr.. H. B. Kirkwood, valued
at S15, 900, on which there was an insuranc
of $780,
NINE months ago two cousins, John +
and James Rogers, both well-known cit
zens of Claiborne County, Tenn, fought
the death of the latter, near Compensate
post-office, at a sbooting-match. The tw
families have been mortal enemies eve
since. The other afternoon John F. Roger
was shot dead from ambush near his ow
home. The community is aroused, an
more bloodshed can not be avoided.
A CONTRACT has been let for building tn
first twenty-seven miles of the Georgi
Central railroads extension from Goot
water, Ala, to Birmingham. The compile
ton of this gap, with the Memphis an
Birmingham road now building, and know
as the Kansas City route, which the eng