The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-10-02
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.
Cotton Markets,

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NEW ORLEANs.--Co firm; middling,
9&c.; low middling, S1sc.; good ordinary,
&C.. netreceipts, 6,35S bales; gross receipts,
1852 bales; exports to Great Britain, 1,125
bales; sales, 900 bales; stock, 1887 bales.
MEMPHIS. = Cotton steady; middling,
9Ac.; receipts, AIS bales; shipments, II
bales; stock, 1858 bales; sales, 400 bales.
SAoRiLIGoUs parties at Knoxville, Tenn,
early the other morning tore away the cor
ner-stone of the new $4,000 Methodist
church, and escaped with the copper boxes
containing valuable documents.
A VEIN of gold has been discovered in
paying quantities on the farm of Major
Smith, near Newport, Cocee County, Tenn.
Scores of people are f1ocking to the place.
JOHN YEAGER, aged twenty-sx years, a
farmer of Braxton County, VIVA, blow in
his gun just before going out to hunt, when
it was accidentally discharged, the load
passing directly through his head, killing
him instantly 3H1s
FRANK s. HUMPHREYS was hanged at Mil
ledgeville, Ga, for murder and rape of two
ladies-Carrie Raines and Ella HUMPHREYS,
his kinswomen, on March f. He confessed
his guilt to the sheriff, but made no state
ment on the scaffold. I'a.
WRIGHT HELDoN, colored, to be hanged
at Edgefeld, s. G., ON the Oath, for the rob-
berry and murder Of wealthy planter
named Logrone, in November, 1884, was re-
prieved till October 8.
ADvIoEs from parishes in which Louisiana
oranges are principally grown report that
the crop is complete failure this year. 1t
usually averages from thirty to fifty mil
lion year, but will not be one million this
year, in consequence of the severe freeze
last winter. M
TERRIFIC boiler explosion occurred at
the Top mill, Wheeling, w. Va, the other
evening, by which the engineer, John EN-
cry, lost his life, and Foreman Hornbrook
and others were injured. Emery was
standing directl.' in front of the boilers
when one Of the flues burst, knocking him
several rods. The escaping steam literally
cooked his body. He lived until next night,
when he died in intense agony. He was an
officer of the First West Virginia Volunteer
Infantry, and was just about to take part
in the reunion at Wheeling a
MIS- G. "A. RuDol.rH. twenty three years
old, bride of fix weeks, shot helSes NJ
times IN the breast, dying shortly a1Ser, az
her home in Baltimore Md No cause as
signed
GEORGE M. EABLER, city marshal of
Longview, at Marshall, Tex, was killed in
difficulty with L. L. and L. W. league,
father and son, of Gregg County
EARLY the other evening A. D. Owen, a
merchant of Cresswell, N. c., while Sleep
sng upstairs in his store, heard some one
breaking in. He came down and saw two
men. He was fired upon, and forty buck
shot took effect in his stomach. He died
in about an hour.
Two PRINTERS, with Kansas City cards in
their pockets, were struck by bridge over
creek eight miles from Memphis, Tenn,
on the L. and N. road, the other morning,
and knocked from the roof of the passenger
car, where they were stealing ride. Both
were killed instantly. Their names were
B. f. Owen and Cohen.
A SPECIAL to the New Orleans Times
Democrat from Lula, Miss, says: George
Hartley, express agent and postmaster at
Lyons, Miss, who absconded several days
ago, turns out to be defaulter to the Post
Office Department All the stamps and
cash are missing, and nine registered let
ters have been rifled of their contents.
NEW YoRK's Chamber Of Commerce has ,
eorf O0n 70 Cba y1acfou
A FEW days ago dog belonging to John
Campbell of Argenta, Ark, showed symp-
toms of hydrophoba. Before it was slain
it bit another dog and calf. The latter
died within twenty-four hours, showing
every sign of madness. White men were
chasing the deg, and the animal ran into
the yard of Colonel W. ]. Duval, and bit
his ten year-old boy on both hands. 1t also
bit a three-year-old girl of Campbell's.
The boy was sent to Beebe and maidstone
applied to his wounds This stone adhered
and he was brought home, be-
lieved to be cured; but on the oath he was
very low, and it is feared that a genuine
case of hydrophobia will develop. ~
MISSISSIPPI is justly proud of her female 4.
industrial college at Columbus.
GENERAL, "RooNEY" LEE was nominated
for Congress in the Eighth Virginia district. .
He is the youngest son of the late General
Robert f. Lee
( AN interesting event took place at tho
Confederate Soldiers Home, Richmond,
Va, few days ago. The Home is just be-
yond the city limits, in a beautiful grove.
Four or five hundred of the leading society
people were gathered there under the oaks
to see Miss Minnie Davis, daughter of the
Elk President of the Confederacy, invested
with the badge of the membership of r. E.
Lee Camp, of which she has recently been
made an honorary member Miss Davis
was born in Richmond in sound of the guns
that Numbered against the Capitol Of the
Confederate States and on this account
she has been called the Daughter of the
Confederacy.n The exercises we're simple
and informal. General Charles j. Ander-
son, of the Volunteer State Infantry, and
Major Thomas II. Brandon, of Confederate
artillery fame, escorted Miss Davis to the
Home. Captain John Maxwell, on behalf Z
of the r. E. Lee Camp, presented her the
badge She accepted it gracefully, making
a response of few wordstn an almost in
audible tone of voice, After visiting the
various cottages and shanking hands with
the old veterans Miss Davis returned to the
city.
RoBEaT EpAysoy, Of Smyrna, Tenn,
drove to church and hitcbed his horse out
side. When be came out the horse had
disappeared. The land under had cavedia
ten feet deep. 9