Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-07-10
NUMBER 33.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANIkGS.
Cotton Markets.

good ordinary lo-lOc, heV an" N'N''
ceipts 60 bales; exports coast"ise, %f
bales; sales, s6S bales; stock, lO,osl bales
New ORLEAHs.-Cotton quiet and steady;
middling SIC; low middling s$sc; good orr
dinary re net receipts, 295 bales; gross
s62 bales exports coastwise, ia oales'
sales, 600 bales; stock, AZ, ,Sy9 bales.
MEMPHIs.-Cotton steady; middllng,
SIC; receipts, 1872 bales; shipments, 59f
bales; stock, q, 635 bales; sales, 335 bales.
LoUIsvrLLE.-Cottonqu quiet; middling, sac.
WHILE Mrs Grumpy, living five miles
east of Wheeling, W. Va, was attempting
to drive her COW OFF the b. d q. track, the
other evening, she was struck by an engine
and killed. She was seventy-hve years
old
WIsGs & Co, of Memphis, Tenn, dealers
in cotton seed, oil etc, made an assign
ment. Liabilities, 9164; assets nomlnally'
sl3267.
THERE is a cave about four miles from
Houston, Tex, about 100 feet long, 90 feet
broad, and from 4 to IS feet in height,
where numberless bats roost by day. 1t is
sald 'haV 'here are 81 many 'n''
| them nearly an hour to get into the cave
each nholhine' anu Ill 'ao i.'n
are killed. 1t is proposed to form a COM
| pany " coiieoV anu u'iiiA' ''''A''''
THE wife of John Wits, Chattanooga,
Tenn, took laudanum the other night with
| suicldal intent oharlle d.iioi' "u'
aroused the huspahds jealousy was VI
dered from the house, whereupoh Mis-
Wits picked up bottle Oh iauuahuii' III
tauntlng manner ana s"aiio"eu 'he 'on'
tents
The families OF Geo. NJ Guiiett and Mr.
Barlow live III the same mouse, hVe liiieS
sou'h oi ocooo'' honipei Souns,' ,
nc "on "o'o fa'S'- c,,,,att toiI aslaa,,,
"niio ,osoins " noom, ta...oau parto,,,
All ai'e'ca'ion u''uI.Iu oeV"J.h ,'.a. 49,,
anu HIS WIZ anu ''i o "u,Ao'o' 1l,,
uuNe.s' ". Aiu - -, Looa, crrs-
- a"s aar.i,,o, +hat be had wanted 70 kill
hisn Gov soma time and would do it right
Than saying a gun at the same time. Gul.
,a,t snrann, 10 hrreau drawer for n nistol
and shot portow in the peck While he
was in the act of firing Barlow dropped
the gun and ran to fence Gullett picked
M the gun and shot him dead Turning.
he discovered Bartows wife in the act of
killing his wife with an axe wnereupon NO
fired the remaining charge al MIS- barto",
killing her instantly. uuiieto surrehuereo
to the authorities
ETA KINGSLEY, young woman VINO mas
been on trial IN hltcnle oounVS' W. 'a''
, chargeu WIN ohe ihuruer vi nei iio''o' :
MIS- haraesty, was acqu''teu vue o'"oi
highL Inc case Is SVlii ii'oi'eu III mn
etrapie mystery, anu VINO Vhe iiuiue ei
was 1t Is Impossible 10 ma out, IL Will ~
down IN history as a areiharhapie Cast
DR.. AMOS n. BELLINGER, who killed
Stephen Reilly, prominent colored Dem
ocrat, in Charleston, sc, in October, 1885
was acquitted of the charge of murder a
few days ago, after second trial. contmW
: ing three days
A BOY twelve years old, whose nam'
could not be learned, was accidentally rur
over near Weston, Va, by wagon, driver
I by F. NJ. Mckinley, and fatally injured
c His shoulder-blade was crushed to Jelly
Ar Nashville, Tenn, men were engaged
0 in raising an old dwelling, when it collapsed
, killing Abe Tucker, and fatally injurinG
Charles RANSOM both colored.
PAUL JUSTIN and his wife, who kept a
Q small grocery three miles out from Mem
: phis, Tenn, were found dead, murdered b.
. unknown parties.
THE platform adopted by the Democrati
State Convention at Little Rock indorse
the National Administration, commend
= the efforts of the Arkansas delegation il
Congress in support of the Morrison bill
for revision of the tariff, reailirms adhe
renee to the time-honored Democratic doc
i. trine of tariff for revenue only, favors un
l. limited coming ofsilver, and demands tina
l. the coin of the United States, both gol'
. and silver, be paid out on Governmen
s debts without discriminating agains
silver.
1,,rs " R,srvopr and his SON Ston
Basemore, quarreled at Plymouth, N. {
e The son fired both barrels of a shotgu
/ loaded with backshot into his father
i body. He then broke open a safe, too
a therefrom $500 and fled. The father wi
II die.
<. CAPTAIN w. F. BALLENrIyE, brother c
IL CONGRESSMAN Ballentine, suddenly droppe
y dead in the Judicial Convention a
=, Wavnesburv. Tenn, after placing cand
date in pomination.
rs oo,,h,. rornr ~,
WI ro,,ut,, ., oo,,n,;,te
,iaiIa udors oro hy cnttinc his tbro,
:. sus oar,nd then hIowing out h
70 ,ioii '"' W -, Jo ,r.s on,.o,,a :
:, - =, I,,i,, .oo Me- Prsbford bu,
y few days before gay young lightningro
e. man named Watkins, while passin
ie A., through that section, met the young lad,
II was n case of love at first sight and,
consequence, her aitianced husband W,
Tilted and she promised to marry the di
nenser of electricity. When Tompkii
10 learned his fate, he deliberately ended h
,h life Miss Rushford became ravif
~ maniac when she learned OF her form'
AZ lover's death.
no A SERIOUS accident occurred near Ma
"a tiusburg, W. Va, on the Baltimore & Oh
railroad, the other morning. The Pit
burgb express collided with freight trai
and VIM. H. Bowers, conductor of t
as freight, was instantly killed; the train W
h. torn up, anu 'uieo co"Fh'PP'is "i.'h