The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-09-11
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS
Cotton Markets,

Cotton Markets.
GALVESTON quiet on the 3,st
Middling, &C.; low middling, SIC. gool
ordinary, 7c; net and gross receipts
Law bales; sales, 697 bales; stock, 6, 76;
bales.
NEW ORLEANs.-C dull and easy
middling, l5-l6c. low middlng, s 7.16c.
good ordinary, 72c; net receipts, 1,29
oales; gross receipts, 1884 bales; sales
100 bales; stock, 1882 bales.
Administration quiet: middling, &c.
receipts, u bales; shipments, - bales
stock, 4,OO9bales; sales, $50 bales.
HERE was quarrel in the stone-shop Of
the Maryland penitentiary the other even
ing between two negro convicts named
James Smith and VIM. Madden. Finally
Madden seized large stone and hurled Il
az smith, striking his target at the base Of
cne SKULL Smith died next morning Mad
uen was then put in irons and thrown into
the dungeon. He will be tried for murder
PARRoTTsvILLE, Cooke County, Ca, is in a
Wild state OF excitement over frfghtful
epidemic which has made its appearance
there, The disease which proves in every
case fatal, resembles fux, except that the
victims are attacked with severe pains in
the head simultaneously with the pain in
the abdomen. The Physicians are unable
TO cope with the disease, and those stricken
with it succumb within a short time.
Iwenty-seven deaths occurred within three
days.
DEPUTY SHERIFF ADAIR, who was fright.
fully carved by John Smith, the
other day, while the officer was in pursuit
OF SIX prisoners, who had escaped from the
hunt County (Tex.) Jail, of which Smith
was one, died three days afterward. SEN
tinels mad been stationed for two days in
diHerent parts of Greenville to give the
alarm as soon as Adair should die. One
nour after Adair's death an armed mob
was on the way to the Jail. No resistance
was offered. Smith was taken some dis
lance from the city and hanged. The lynch
ing was without incident,every thing pass
Ing off in an orderly way.
AS the Nashville and Chattanooga nos-
senger train was nearing Chattanoopa
the other night, and while running forty
miles an hour, Mari Rankin, the Kentucky
desperado, who had been captured in
Arkansas, jumped from the train and es.
capped. Rankin was wanted for two mur-
ders, and there was a reward of $500 for his
arrest
AUSTIN GROSS, of Whites Creek. W Va
was Killed at Ashland, KY, few DAYS ago
by railroad engine running over him.
he was forty -seven and married.
The Republicans of the Fourth Virginia
District have nominated State Senator w.
G. Gaines for Congress.
FAT BELL and James Simpson, colored
were hanged at Marion, Ark, for a
murder committed in 1855.
GENERAL B. F. CHEETHAM died at Nash
Vile, Tenn, few days ago.
SAVANNAH, Ga, has policeman who can
sleep soundly while walking. The other
night he slumbered through heavy show
er, and was much surprised when he awoke
and found himself drenched.
KIRBY SMITH, Professor of Mathematics
in the South and Tennessee, and d. H. Hill
late President of the Agricultural School of
Alabama, are two of tho three suryiy-
ing Lieutenant Generals of the Southern
army.
GENERAL WIN. A. QUARLEs, of Clarks.
Vile, Tenn, has been unanimously nomi. |
mated for the State Senate by the Demo-
Gratis OF Montgomery and Stewart counties.
General Quarles was member of tbe
Tennessee Senate in 1875
A DIFFICULTY occurred in Aberdeen
MISS, between Henry Roberts and Ben
fopham, at the corner of Heser's cotton
warehouse the other evening, in which
Roberts was shot four times and Popham
received one shot in the knee. Roberts
died in ten minutes. The cause of the
trouble is not positively known,
THE other night an immense barn be-
longing to Marshall Bate, six miles from
Gailatln, Tenn, caught fire from some I'M
known cause and was burned to the ground.
seven head of horses, 400 bushels of wheat.
10 barrels OF corn, 10000 bundles of oats,
everal COWS, several tons of hay, and all
The farming implements were DESTROYED.
While Mr.. Bate was trying to save his
STOCK the building fell in on him, severely
burning him about the head, arms and legs.
tie barely escaped with his life. No insur
ance.
a GLANCE at the postal Guide" reveals
IN odd collection of names. Georgia has
Sail Ground, Hard Cash, Ty Ty, jug Tav-
I'm, Enigma, Alligator, Pumpkin, Paw Tn.
'napfinger and Hat. In Tennessee we find
sweet Lips, Defeated, Regret, Peanut Quiz
md Tut. West Virginia has Gin, Mud,
sammy and Left Hand. In Florida Sop.
hoppy looms into prominence. A senti
mental place in North Carolina is called
latrimony. Texas tempts fate with a
,yclone' Kentucky proudly claims Rabbit
lash, Jamboree and Cut Shin.
A SINGULAR case has Just been concluded
Forsyth County (Ga,) Superior Court,
which one brother sent the other to the
Some years ago John C.
'ichols and DIR. F. H. Nichols, both men
means, came from New York and set
eu IN that county. In time business
rounies arose between them, when John
' hao the doctor indicted for larceny. After
RAJ OF, which he was convicted. he 70.
elVed as sentence one year in the peniten.
AIRY Both men are gray headed, being
yer sixty years of age.
lHE other morning as Judge J. B. Elan
nd Joseph Nichols were in consultation
the law Office of the former at ST. Y
oseph, La, Colonel V. L. Reeves stepped
the front door and fired the contents Of