Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-08-14
NUMBER 3S.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.
Cotton Markets

quiet middling, 91-16c. low middling
9-l6c.; good ordinary l-lGc.; net and
gross receipts, 26 bales sales, l25 bales;
stock, 407s bales.
New OHLEASs-Cotton quiet: middling,
Q 3-l6c; low middling, 8 ll-l6c.; good ordi-
nary, s15c,; net receipts, 251 bales; gross,
262 bales sales, 400 bales; stock, 1874
bales.
MEMPHIs-Cotton steady, middling 9szc.;
receipts bales shipments, Al bales; stock,
5,6ll bales; sales, 800 bales
LoUIsvILLE.-Cotton steady; middling,
94c.
A COLLISION occurred on the Mineral
railroad, near Birmingham, Ala Engineer
Ben Jones was killed, and both engines and
several cars are a total wreck. The other
engineer and fireman escaped by jumping.
The Democratic Congressional Conven.
vention of the Fourth District, n. c., NOM
mated John W. Graham on the 2llth bal
lot. He is the eldest son Of the late Hon.
VIM. A. Graham, who was Secretary of the
Navy under President Fillmore.
WILL HAWKINS, aged twelve, was drowned
while bathing. His body has not been re-
covered.
The Democrats carried the Tennessee
State election by largely increased ma
jority-a gain of % 900 over two years ago.
II. G, TURNER has been renominated for
Congress in the Second District, Ga.
Ar Milledgeville, Ga, Frank Humphreys
was found guilty of murder and sentenced
to death. Three months ago he induced
by false statements, his sister-in-law and
neice, Mrs. Carrie Raines and Miss Ella
Humphreys, to go home with him. On the
way he shot them dead and outraged their
persons. His wife and three children were
present during the trial Humphreys paid
no attention to them whatever He will
certainly hang.
JUDGE JOSEPH SHIELDS, we'll known men,
Der of the bar, and author of the Life and
Times OF S. S. Prentice" committed sui
eide by strangulatlon, at Natchez, Miss.
The loss of his wife some months ago had
| affected his mind.
THE skeleton of a man was found undera
| bagnio at Atlanta, Ga, supposed to be the
remains Of New York drummer named
Yewell, who disappeared mysteriously
from Atlanta in 1872.
DIR. j. W EDGE, of Macon, Ga, recently
| purchased in Montezuma a pair Of kittens
that may be looked upon as being quite
curious. The heads and fore feet are like
those of an ordinary house cat but here
the cat ends and the rabbit commences,
their hind legs and tails being those of rab-
bits They jump just as all rabbits do, and
there is nothing in their actions to suggest
the cat except the mewing.
AT conventions held at Ocala and
Brooksville, Fla, recently, Mr.. Dougherty
and Mr. Davidson, both sitting members,
were renominated for the Fiftieth Congress.
The present condition of the cotton crop
in the Memphis district is favorable, and
as compared with last year at this time, is
equally promising.
AT Malvern, Ark, John Williams was
found guilty of attempting to wreck a
train on the Iron Mountain railroad, and
was sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary
REV. f. r. RANpLE one of McKenzie's
| (Tenn.) foremost citizens, and for years
postmaster there, is dead
BALTIMORE papers claim that there is
colored man who is l53 years old in that
city
THERE are two brothers in Lincoln Coun-
ty, Ga. who married two sisters both have
large families of children, and the children
of one are all boys and of the other all
girls
HUNTINGTON w. VA boasts of an eigh
teen-year-old colored boy, who, beginning
on lamp chimneys, has progressed so thai
he readily and easily chews up beer bottles,
glasses, etc.
NATHANIEL H. r. DAWSON, of Alabama,
was confirmed as Commissioner OF Educa.
tion by the Senate before its adjournment.
JOSEPH TIBBs and Samuel Rich.
ardson, who reside near Hawks
Nest, W. Va. (white mem,
employed as laborers on the Short-lne
were dangerously injured the other after.
noon. They were working to get a log out
OF the way of the men who are grading on
short-line road, and were standing below
the log, when it started from its position,
and before they could get out of the way
they were caught and dangerously crushed.
LAST December thirteen persons were
killed in an accident on the Georgia Pacific
railroad. seventeen miles from Atlanta,
Ga. Among those killed was J. Woods
Pierce, Texas stock man of wealth. Soon
after the killing a Mrs. j. p. Weaver, who
lives at Indianapolis appeared in Atlanta
and claimed the dead man as her husband.
Mrs. Weaver asserted that her husband had
deserted her and gone to Texas, where he
changed his name to J. W. Pierce. She
followed him to Texas and caused his ar
Mrs. Weaver caused the grave to be opened
and recognized the dead man as her hus-
band, Some of the most reliable people Of
Atlanta who knew Weaver when he was
sailing under the name of Pierce in Texas,
and was near him when his wife caused
his arrest. substantiated Mrs. Weaver's
claim. The body was about to be shipped
to Indianapolis, when Texas lady turned
up and claimed the dead man as J. Woods
Pierce her husband. She was backed by
abundance of testimony. Witnesses swore
they had known the dead man all his life,
and that his name had never been anything
| uut Inv iouy NV
scribed the marks on her husband and tina
marks were on the dead man. The court
granted the Texas lady an injunction, and
the body was reburied in Atlanta. Both
ladies sued the railroad, and just as Mrs.
Weaver was getting ready for her case d
new link in the mystery arose. 1t is the
arrest of man who admits that he is j
7. Weaver. He has the same marks as the
dead man, and has been recognized as the
indianapolis man.
, Jusr outside of Hartwell, Ga, live an
old lady and her two daughters. They had
, a small patch of wheat, When the wheat
was ready for harvesting the two girls
pulled it all up and the old lady cut the
a. roots off with an axe. When ready for
threshing the girls rubbed the grain ou,
with their hands and the old lady famed
D the chatf out with a turkey wing They
made something over four bushels.
ENooH HEDGES, a middle-aged citizen Of
Martinsburg, W. Va, was struck by a
freight engine at that place and fatally in
jured
, In Logan County, Ark, Miss Ollie Baker
: was bitten on the arm by a rattlesnske,