The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-09-25
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS
Cotton Marltefa.

SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNos.
Cotton Markets.
GALvEsroN.-Cotton firm on the 18th:
middling, &C.; low middling, 7-lec. good
ordinary l3-l6c.; net receipts, SAT-
oaies; gross 3,457 bales; sales, 1,l35 bales;
Stock 1883 bales. Weekly net and gross
receipts, 29,23l bales; exports coastwise,
E'oio bales; sales, 6,642 bales.
NEW ORLEANs.-C firm; middlinp.
sac'; low middling, $40; good ordinary,
re. ;netreceipts, 1929 bales gross receipts,
100 pales; exports to Great Britain, 2,O93
Dales; sales, 300 bales; stock, 90, 766 bales.
weekly: net and gross receipts, 12,9O7
Daies gross, 1854 bales; exports, to Great
Britain, 1909 bales; exports coastwise,
o'44o bales; sales, 300 bales.
MEMPHIs.-Cotton firm; middling &c.:
receipts, 29O bales; shipments, 81 bales;
STOCK, 4,O4S bales; sales, $50 bales.
hEV. JESSE Cook, colored, was hanged in
But er, Ga, for the murder of his wife last
april The crowd at the execution was es
timated at eight thousand. Cook made a
full confession.
DEMOCRATS of the Tenth District, Tenn.
nominated James Phelan, proprietor of the
Memphis Avalanche, for Congress by &C.
clamation.
BALD Rock, weighing hundreds of tons,
tumbled from mountain side in jackson
county, w. Va, crushing house and
barn, killing two men, injuring other
persons, and killing several horses and
mules.
W. Il. ROBERTSON has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth
District, La, over A. B. Iron, the present
incumbent.
HE total vote of Arkansas in the Sep
TENDER election foots up $4,000; Demo-
cratic majority, $1,000. The Legislature
stands; House, Democrats, g.; Republi-
cans and Wheelers, %. Senate, Democrats.
"a; Republicans and Wheelers, 5.
Hon. J. G. ATKINS, Senator in the last
General Assembly from Gibson County.
Tenn, died at his home near Trenton, the
other morning, after short illness. He
was native Of Gibson, and was uniyer-
sally popular.
The Louisville and Nashville has COM
menced work at Woodbine, KY, for new
line of road to be run to Morristown, a
distance OF sixty-seven miles. The new
line is to connect with the Richmond and
Danville line at Warm Springs, N. c.,
forming link which will be of great bene-
ut to both roads, and passing through a
valuable coal and timber section.
The Democratic Convention of the Fifth
District, La, nominated c. Newton for
Congress over Mr.. King, the present incum-
bent.
A DISASTROUS fire at Danville, Va, de.
stroyed the furniture factory Of the Hell
delbach Bros, loss $4,000, no insurance:
the city electric plant, loss $4,000; Wor-
shains box factory, loss 81, 900, insurance
$500, and the city ice-house, loss $4,000.
insured. G. W. Midl&ugh, of Toledo, O.,
was burned to death in the conflagration.
AT Memphis the other afternoon, Mrs.
Kate Wright attempted suicide by jump
ing into the river at the foot of Beal street.
but was pulled out in time to save her life
HENRY BARNES, colored, was lynched at
Millen, Ca, for outraging white lady at
Rogers Station, on the Central railroad
A party of masked men did the lynching.
Barnes was taken from a train near Millen
and riddled with bullets.
The new stock company formed in Du-
rant, Miss, recently, under the style and
name OF the Durant Tanning Manufacture
ing Company, have completed all their ar
rangements and are now putting up build |
ings, and before long the tanning of leather
will commence by what is known as
Rhymes paragon process. By this process
the best of leather can be made within
from twenty to forty days, the cost |
OF which will be only one-third of the |
old plan, since it tans the leather without
bark or watts.
The other day while Edward White, n
well-known citizen, was walking down the
street at Westernport, Md, he was shot
and instantly killed by David johnson, a
man who has been considered harmless
lunatic for some time past. johnson was
at once arrested and locked up. There was
no known cause for the act, and it created |
great excitement That evening a party |
of citizens attacked the building where |
johnson was confined. They quietly took |
him out to the bridge across the Potomac,
tied rope around his neck and made him |
walk off. His neck was broken by the fall,
and after allowing him to hang for few |
moments the rope was cut and the body al |
lowed to fall into the river, where the swift |
current carried it out of sight in few mo-
ments
ARTHUR MCNICHoL was arrested by on. |
Ger Jacob Watson, Of the Wheeling wv. |
Va.) police force, for wife beating. The
prisoner showed signs of running, when
Watson said: lyon run, and I'll kill YOU"
Halfa square further on McNichol did run,
and Watson kept his word, shooting the
prisoner iu the back, the ball passing close
to the spine, and inficting a fatal wound.
Watson was at once suspended by Chief of
Police Smith, and held in $4,000 bail by a
justice to await the result of McNichol's
wound.
The smallest fee on record was received
by one of the Van Buren, (Ark.) attorneys
last week. A man came to his office and
had some papers drawn up When the
work was finished he asked what the bill
was. The man of lawreplied: "Just whas
you think is right" To his astonishment
his client handed him a one and two cent
piece. He intends having them mounted,
and wearing them as mementoes of tho