The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-08-21
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Cotton Markets.

Cotton Markets.
GALvEsToN.-Cotton was quiet on the
10th; middling, 8 Lie; low middling,
s 9-16c.; good ordinary, S1-16c. net and
gross receipts, 16l bales; sales, 10 bales;
stock, 2,S6S bales.
New ORLEANs.-Cotton firm; middling,
Q 316c.; low middling, l1-16c. good ordi-
nary, SIC. net and gross receipts, rs bales;
Sales 100 bales; stock, II ,W2 bales.
MEMPHIs-Cotton quiet; middling, 94c.;
receipts, 20 bales; shipments, none; stock,
5,272 bales; sales, SO bales.
ST. LoUIs-Cotton: Receipts, none; ship
ments, 26S bales; sales, none; stock, 1901
bales; market quiet and nominally steady;
middling, 94c.
LOUISVILLE Cotton quiet; middling,
94c Grain and provisions steady and
unchanged.
| john FERAN, one of the laborers engaged
in wrecking the New Orleans Exposition
building fell from the roof of the struc-
ture to the ground below, distance of sew
enty-two feet, few days ago and was in
stantly killed Next day the trusses of the
roof gave way and mass of tmbers came
down with crash, burying three work
men beneath them. When the debris was
cleared away it was found that VIM. Carly
had been killed. Victor Pollok had receiv-
internal injuries which physicians pro-
nounce fatal, and Fitz Schultz was serious
ly hurt about the head arms and body.
SINCE prohibition went into effect in At
lanta, Ga, regular trade in empty bottles
has sprung up, and the principal collector
and dealer a colored man, handled 1000
last month, making $50 clear profit. His
collections are large enough to require the
use of drays to convey them to ware-
room.
ADoLPHUs PARKER, the sixteen-year-old
train robber, was pardoned by the Governor
of Arkansas.
Hon. w. G. OATES has been unanimously
nominated for Congress from the Third
| (Ala) District.
Six THOUSAND exc onfederates barbecued
at Senatobia, Miss, recently The dinner
table was quarter of mile long. The
speakers, one and all, realized that the war
was over.
A FARMER named Sewers, near Martins
burg, W. Va, was attacked by vicious
boar and terribly lacerated, the tendons of
both legs being torn out. Mr. Sewers con-
dition at last report was critical.
MRS. CHARLES WALKER was burned to
death at Meridian, Miss, by the explosion
of can of coal-oil with which she was
lighting fire,
A SYNDICATE has been formed for the
purchase of all the street-car lines in
Memphis, Tenn. The property is held at
$1,0O0,0OO.
The third day Of the Democratic State
Convention at Galveston, Tex, was
stormy one. General L. c. Ross was unani-
mously nominated for Governor The
platform declares it to be the duty of the
Government to protect the humblest Amer
lean citizen against the unlawful acts of
any, or all, nations, which referred to the
Cutting case.
M. X. kIMBERLING, a prominent citizen
of Winfield, W. Va, dropped dead, a few
days since, of heart disease.
A SON of Hartley Miller, of jackson
County, W. Va, was fatally injured while
squirrel hunting, by the limb of a tree fall
ing on him.
THE Democratic Convention of the Sixth
(S e. District renominated Congressman
George W. Dargen.
TWENTY stores and offices were burned in
Kosciusko, Miss. loss, $4,000.
LOUIS G. LATHAM was nominated for Con-
gress in the First Congressional District
of North Carolina Democratic) on the l63d
ballot.
MRS. MARY BROOKS and her Granddaugh-
ter, Lizzie Simmons, died at Atlanta, Ga,
from poison. Mary Hurd, colored, is &C.
cused of the crime.
ONE of the most remarkable stories re-
corded about snakes in this country is told
by Constable ID. M. Doty, of Chattanooga,
Tenn. Members of his family likewise ver-
ify the story. He was attracted to his hen
roost few evenings since by the cackling
, of the chickens. Surprising some varmnt
, was in his rOOst he took his gun and crept
stealthily up to the door Opening it
he saw monster blacksnake wriggling
about and twisting itself into knot. Seiz-
ing club he dispatched it with blow on
, the head. To his surprise he found the
snake was fast in knot hole of the roost
half its body being outside. He tried to
pull it out of the hole, but large lump in
it's body on the other side of the knot hole
would not permit Taking his knife he cut
, the snake open. He was astonished to
find it had swallowed two china nest-eggs.
One had been found outside the roost and
} swallowed. The snake then stuck its head
in the hole and swallowed another, and
was unable to extricate itself
AT Graysville, Tenn, on the Cincinnati
Southern railroad, a son of Rev. F. M.
+, Bandy, Baptist minister, attempted to
whip John Davis, young man, for visit
a ing his sister. Davis fatally wounded
young Bandy. Then the cd man took a
: hand, and in a duel with knives he and
Davis were fatally cut.
AT Nashville, Robert L. Taylor was nom
|, mated for Governor of Tennessee on the
a 18th ballot.
!. THE other morning most frghtful acct
: dent happened at the cable of Donaldson
: Co., near Sewell, W. Va, which resulted in
instantly killing Abe Henry, peddler The
cable is three.inch wire, 1900 feet long
and extends from the top OF Sewell noun
/. tain across New river to the Chesapeake
n Ohio railroad, and is used for transporting
o lumber. This enterprise is an experiment
q and 1t has been carefully watched by Goa
.. operators, who desired to put in and use {
cable Of like nature for the purpose o