The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-10-09
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEAN,Nos.
Cotton Markets.

SOUTHERN NEWS oLEANINos.
Cotton Markets.
dALvEsToN.-Cotton firm on the 2sth:
Middling, l-4c.; low middling, S 5-sc. !:
good ordinary, &c.; net and gross re.
ceipts, $3.50 bales; sales, $50 bales; stock,
52,44 bales.
NEW ORLEANs.--Cotton steady; middling,
SSc'; low middling SIC; good ordinary,
&C.; netreceipts, 1855 bales; gross receipts,
S'o65 bales; sales, 1880 bales stock, A, sol
bales.
MEMPHIS. - Cotton steady; middling,
vAc'; receipts, LAG bales; shipments, 6O3
bales; stock, S,957 bales; sales, $50 bales.
AT Romney, W. Va, John c. Bowen was
convicted of murder in the first de- gree and
sentenced to imprisonment for life for the
killing of Frank Heatwole on April 30 last.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
sunnel, under Missionary Ridge, near
Chattanooga, which caved in last winter,
has been entirely rebuilt.
KATE RILEY and Ella Keney, each aged
nfteen years, were arrested at Parkers-
burg, W. Va, few days ago. They had
left their homes at Wheeling to join COM
Dination of travelling Indians. They were
returned home
In North Carolina the spiders spin webs
and embroider words on them One
spun "lndian-a war;" and all the supersti-
tious are scared.
-. +. Busy, Of Dawson, Ca, has a chick.
On that has for some time been roosting at
night ON bis cows back. As regular as
aight comes the chicken goes to the COW,
hies upon her back and there remains con.
tentedly till next morning.
AN extensive cavern in the river basin
occurred few days ago at Plaquemine,
ITO miles above New Orleans, on the Missis-
sppi, which carried into the river more
than four acres Of land, causing the de.
:struction OF property belonging to several
people. The land has been slipping into
the river for some time. This is the third
cave which has taken place at Faquemine
within the past four weeks carrying away
The, front portion of the town. AS il has
been inevitable for some time, most of the
houses were pulled down or removed in
anticipation of the cave-in, but the damage
indicted on owners of lots and buildings
lost is considerable. Ten feet from the
Pank, and where buildings were standing,
Pie river is now over fifteen feet Deep.
i MRS. WHEAT, the widow of wealthy
merchant, was going into Atlanta, Ga, a
few days ago, in wagon drawn by two
mules When midway on the bridge span
ming the Chattahoochee river, the mules
took fright, and backing the rear of the
wagon against the guard rails, broke the
rail away, mules, wagon and occupant fall
ing thirty feet into the waters below Mrs.
Wheat's body was recovered down the
river. III
. The Democrats Of the Third Louisiana
Congressional District nominated Edward
J. Gay, ten times a millionaire, the richest
man in Louisiana. The Republican Con.
vention boldly responded by choosing J.
3. Davidson, full blooded negro, tho only
one ever nominated in Louisiana, and one
Of the few in the South. The district is the
largest and richest country district in the
State, and very close one, usually Repub-
1ican.
DR.. G. K. DYER, Government Veterinary
Surgeon, reports that the disease raging
among the cattle in the counties of Loudon,
Fauquier and Prince William, in Virginia,
is Texas fever and not pneumonia
Fhe disease was communicated by cattle
Obtained from Chicago.
ACCOMPANY with which General Van Man.
ming, the ex-Mississippi Congressman. is
associated is about to put on the market
new cotton gin, which they claim will rev.
plutionize the work and add to the price of
product by stripping the fbers entire and
uncut from the seed. The saw gin tears
the cotton to pieces, and the roller gin is
regarded as entirely too slow by the pro-
i,ressive planter The new m chine is au-
Eomatic, and the principle is simple. 1t
hcts upon the seed-cotton simultaneously
in opposite directions, loosening the fiber
and removing it unimpaired from the seed
Fnd free from nap. Satisfactory expert
ments have been made with the machine
on cotton. and the projectors are sure Of
success. Mr.. Morton Toulmin, of Alabama,
is the inventor.
COOLEY MANN has been appointed as Col
hector Of Customs at Vicksburg, Miss.
A SAD and horrible story of how three
little children met their death comes from
Covington County, Ala, near Andalusia.
The children OF respectable family, rang
ing from two to six years old, went out the
other afternoon to play near the house. A
large pine tree had been blown down, and
they were playing around in the hole made
by the roots of the tree being torn up. The
evening passed and at night the children
were missed. The parents instituted search
and soon found them lying near the roots
Of the fallen tree. The two younger ones
were dead and the eldest was in a dying
condition. Upon investigation it was
found that the children had all been bitten
by a rattlesnake which had made its den |
under the roots of the tree. Their bodies
were terribly swollen and looked as if they
had been bitten in several different places. |
The eldest child died during the night and |
1.-THE three little innocents were buried to- |
gether.
EIGHT persons at clearinghouse in |
Montgomery, Ala, were taken violently ill |
with vomiting the other evening Doctors |
,were called, medicine administered and |
the patients are all in fair way to recov- |
rfy. The cause of the poisoning is mys- |
ttery. Other persons who ate and drank |
the same things at supper as those taken ill |
)nre unaffected. 1t is supposed, however,
that the poison was in the milk This is the |
yecond time that the same thing has hap.
pened at the same boarding house within