The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-08-07
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.
Cotton Markets.

good ordinary Lice; net and gross re-
cejpts, 6S bales; exports to Great Britain,
| 80 bales; saels, 730 bales; stock, 2,5Sl bales.
| New ORLEANs.-Cotton quiet, but firm;
middling 3-16c.; low middling, s 11-l6c.;
good ordinary, S1sc. met and gross receipts,
| 1,O37 bales; sales, 100 bales, stock, 1000
| bales.
! MEMPHIs-Cotton steady: midding, 9ssc.;
receipts, 30 bales; shipments, 236 bales;
stock, 1913 bales; sales $50 bales.
decentralization quiet; middlng,
| 9]sc
| BOB MURPHY, a prominent citizen of
| Cooke County, Tenn, was run over by
train near Bridgeport and instantly killed
while intoxicated
| JAMES BOARD, farmer living near Park
ersburg, W, Va, accidentally shot himself
through the head while hunting, He will
die.
Miss ELoDIE ALLAN and Prof Palmer
ston Landry were married at New Orleans
few days ago in grand style. They are
colored people, and the fathers of the con-
tracing couple are members of the Lou
| lSlana Legislature
THE Democrats of the Tenth Virginia
! District have nominated James Baumgart-
| ner, 'jr, to succeed ]. Randolph Tucker in
Congress.
In another est of granite for paving in
| Cincinnati, the Virginia samples went far
ahead of those from Georgia, Maine and
New Hampshire.
A SPECIAL from Hamlin Lincoln County,
| W. Va, says: jim Dean, witness before
| the June term of the circuit court in several
criminal cases. left for the farm Of John
Block, on which he was employed, in CON-
| pany with two companions, and he has not
not been heard from since. Dean was
known to have a considerable sum Of
money on his person, and as blood has
been found on the road taken by him and
his companions, it is feared they have been
! foully dealt with Great excitement pre-
| vailed.
ABOUT thirtyccounties in Mississippi will
! vote on the question of Prohibition this
| fall.
SOME time ago five professors in the
| University of Mississippi at Oxford, were
dismissed. After advertising far and near
for professors to fill their places, and re-
ceiving nearly four hundred applications
from all over the United States, the board
of trustees met few days ago and rein
stated the old professors.
AUNT NELLIE DEAN of Hart County, Ga,
| is dead at the age of one hundred and ten
years. She was born at Petersburg, Va,
in June, 1116.
THE boiler of saw-mill at Tchula Miss,
belonging to Colonel Graves exploded the
other night, killing six persons and injur-
ing several others. Colonel Graves was
among the injured.
TUE Knoxville Chronicle outfit was sold
| few DAYS since at auction to satisfy cred
tors' claims for $4,000. The plant was
bid in by r. W. Austin, former business
manager, for $1,000.
THE whites of Comanche County, Tex,
have ordered all negroes to leave on penal
ty of death.
LUM MILLER, of Lee County, Ga, was
murdered the other night while sitting on
his doorstep eating watermelon. No clew
to the assassin.
J. A. TATUM, of Mobile, Ala, was found
dead in his bed at hotel in Aberdeen,
Miss, the other day. Heart disease.
HENRY X. MCCAY, Judge of the United
States Court for the Northern District Of
Georgia, died at Atlanta few days ago.
WILLIAM MCCAIN suic.ded near Wheel
ing, w. Va, by hanging. He formerly
| al in Ohio He unmarried
and claimed to be tired of life.
ALARGE building used as a pork packing
house by Schenck a. Son, at Fulton, near
Wheeling, w. Va, fell beneath heavy
load of cured meats and new ice ma
chine. The loss will reach several thousand
dollars.
GEORGE MOORE, colored, was hanged in
the Jail at Charlotte, N. G., in expiatien of
the crime of outraging his daughter On
the scaffold he made brief speech protest
ing his innocence.
The principal business houses of Thom-
son, Ga, were burned the other morning;
loss s30,000 insurance $4,000
THE Touring mills of Buck & Hoff, in
Manchester, Va, burned the other morn
ing, and the Old Dominion Cotton Mills
were partially destroyed Loss $4,000; in
surance sS5,OO0.
, THREE hundred and twenty-five hands in
,, the Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ca,
. were compelled to stop work on account OF
the strike of nine strippers. The entire
/. mill shut down on the 31st throwing out
seven hundred hands
A HORRIBLE report comes from the low
er end of Tatnall County, Ga A negro
woman, engaged to prepare dinner for
colored picnic, murdered young child
G which had been left in her charge, cooked
= ! half the remains and served it to the peo-
e pie. The other half of the remains were
Q salted down in barrel The negroes be-
4 came perfectly frenzy on making the dis
I covery, and seized the woman and burned
y her at the stake. The report appears to be
S authentic
DISTRESSING accounts continue 10 come
, in from the rice fields along the Santee
e river The whole country for miles on each
n side Of the river, in Williamsburg, George
II town and Berkely Counties S, c., is cover.
e ed with water, The rice in most cases is
: totally destroyed. Many planters will be
re driven from the business There is some
y ear that many Of the negroes will die from
a starvation.
= TIE wasson Car Works, OF Chattanooga,
n | Tenn, have been sold to satisfy mort