The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-10-23
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.
Cotton Markets.

GALVESTON. Cotton easy on the 18th;
middling, Sac; low middling, SIZE. good
ordinary 1Ssc., net and gross receipts
s,46' bales; exports to Great Britain, 9,1l3
balesi Sales 73O bales; stock, 6s5S4 bales.
New ORLEANs--Cotton steady middling,
SIC; low middling, sac; good ordinary,
1Ssc.; net receipts, 10, $50 bales; gross 1921
bales; exports to Great Britain, 1900 bales;
sales, 1890 bales; stock, S6S72 bales,
MEMPuis--Cotton steady; mddling, sac;
receipts, 2,Si5 bales; shipments $500 bales;
stock, 30,S6S bales; sales, 1850 bales.
MISS Rosa FENToN, an accomplished
young lady of eighteen, residing in Crit
tenden County, Ark, was bitten on the
forefinger Of her left hand by large cot
ton-mouth snake, So deeply did the venom
Gus reptile drive its poisonous fangs into
the finger of the maiden, that 1t could not
withdraw them, but hung suspended and
writhing by its teeth until Miss Fenton
pulled itioose and flung it away with her
right hand. Knowing thepoisonous nature
of the snake, Miss Fenton, with rare pres
ence of mind seized an axe lying on the
ground nearby, laid her..wounded hand on
block Of wood, and at one blow chopped of
the bitten finger She placed bandage
around her wrist tight enough to stop the
circulation of the blood, and then telling
her mother, who had rushed from the house
to her assistance, to pour whisky down her
throat. tainted. Mrs. Fenton dosed her suf-
fering daughter with whisky, which she
fortunately had on hand, and the young
lady is now out Of danger.
A coLoRED girl in Laurens County,
South Carolina, bears this lovely name:
"Fair Rosy Beauty Spot Temptation Touch
Me Not"
A TERRAPIN has been caught near Ma
pleton, Ca, inscribed 1855. 10th o.
VOL"
A Two-HEADED, earless and eyeless pig
is much-talked- wonder of McHairy,
Tenn.
A NEGRO woman stole some dresses in CO.
lumbus, Ga, and used one Of them as her
baptismal robe
A YOUNG drummer from st. Louis named
Jas. Murdaugh, lost his mind very sudden
ly at Lenoirs Tenn, the other night. He
jumped from the second-story window Of
his hotel after midnight, and, wandering
to the Tennessee river, he plunged into the
water and swan down to the island, and
from thence to the opposite bank, where he
was captured. He Is now in charge Of the
authorities.
r. F. SPEARMAN, lawyer, shot and IA
tally wounded W. B. Howard, editor of the
Chronicle, at Kingston, Tex, on account
of personalities printed in that paper.
Both pulled their revolvers, but Spearman
got the drop on the editor
The Presidentha has granted pardon to
Charles Thomas, colored man, now serv-
ing life sentence in the West Virginia
penitentiary for murder committed in
Arkansas ten years ago.
D. j. PRICE, head brakeman on the
through Cincinnati Southern freight, was
run over at Boyce Station, four miles from
Chattanooga, Tenn, a few mornings ago,
and killed. He was running behind an
engine to make coupling, when his foot
caught in frog. He dropped to the tract;
and called to the engineer to reverse the
engine, but the engine was running too
fast to stop. Price was compelled to await
impending death. He spoke after the acct.
dent, but died within thirty minutes.
THE fsith-cure believers of Georgia were
in session at Milledgeville recently AS a
result they claim one miraculous cure.
Mrs. Sarah Ward, of Eatonton, aged sew
enty, has not been able to walk lor six
years. A dozen brethren and sisters gath
cred around her when verses were read
from the Bible, and all knelt while Mrs.
Wootten prayed that a cure might be per
fected. In minute Mrs. Ward jumped up
and declared that she was cured. She
thereupon walked all about the house, and
later took q walk of half a mile.
THos 0. STEWART, Manager Of the West
ern Union Telegraph Office, at Mobile, Ala
has disappeared. He is 1,40O short in his
accounts. He is forty-four years old.
MATT WASHINGTON, colored, was lynched
at Dyersburg, Tenn, for outraging Mrs
Leach. The negro confessed.
INVESTIGATION into the seismic disturb
ances in Edgefield County, s. c., gives the
following TeSuIb' lhe CeHJer VI Oue
disturbed area is about four miles north o.
Ninety-six, South Carolina, and embraces
a tract ten miles square, known as tn
Cambridge lands" From statements
made by Mr.. Med. Kinard and Mr.. Johr
Williamson, farmer, both living in thu
disturbed district, also by Dr. 7. s. Blake
a local scientists, it appears that dull
booming no ses have been heard off and OF
in this locality for the past year. Th
detonations, as rule, are dead sounds
with little or no reverberation-some o
the shocks being followed by severe vibra
tions Of from few seconds to a hal
minutes duration. Ten shocks occurred il
one night Sunday, October3 causing goo
deal of alarm. A feature of these disturb
ances is that they are not preceded by tn
roaring sound that was felt at Charleston
The, is much speculation as to these Edge
field County shocks, and in some scier
tfic circles they are believed to be of vol
canic origin.
ARTICLES of association have been file
in the Secretary of States office at Lttl
Rock, Ark, by the Arkansas and New Oh
leans Railroad Company. The new roa
begins at Arkansas Post and extends in
southerly direction through tn
counties of Arkansas, Desha, Lin
coin, Drew and Ashley, to tn
south line of Arkansas, a distance of sew
enty miles; thence south in the State Q
Louisiana, through the counties of Ashley
Morehouse and Ouichita to Monroe, dis
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