Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-08-07
SOUTHERN NEWS aLEANINGS.
Cotton Markets.

9l-l6c; ,ow middling, 9-6c.;
good ordinary, Lie. net and gross re-
,eipts, 6s bales; exports to Great Britain,
80 bales; saels 80 bales; stock, 2,5ol bales
New ORLEANs.-Cotton quiet. but firm;
3-l6c low middlng, $ ll-l6c.;
good ordinary, SIC. met and gross receipts,
,037 bales; sales, 100 bales; stock, 1000
bales.
MEMPHIs-Cotton steady middling, 9sc.;
receipts, 20 bales; Shipments 236 bales;
stock, 1915 bales; sales $50 bales,
LOUISVILLE quiet; middling,
9Hc.
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
a few days ago in grand style. They are
colored people, and the fathers of the con
tracing couple are members Of the Lou
isiana Legislature
The Democrats of the Tenth Virginia
District have nominated James Baumgart-
ner, jr., to succeed J. Randolph Tucker in
Congress.
lN another test 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, a 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 COM
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 a. 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 thirty counties 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.
is dead at the age of one hundred and ten
years. She was born at Petersburg, Va,
in June, l116.
THE boiler Of a sawmill 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.
THE Knoxville Chronicle outfit was sold
few days since at auction to satisfy cred
itors' claims for SlS,OO0. The plant was
bid in by R. W Austin former business
manager, for $500.
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 a few days ago.
WILLIAM MCCAIN suic ded near Wheel
ing, W. Va, by hanging. He formerly
kept hotel in Ohio. He was unmarried,
and claimed to he tired of life.
A LARGE building used as pork packing
house by Schenck q 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 C., in expiation of
the crime of outraging his daughter. On
the scaffod he made brief speech protest
ing his innocence.
THE principal business houses of Thorn.
son, Ga. were burned the other morning;
loss 1000; insurance 10000.
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 $4,000.
THREE hundred and twenty-five hands in
the Sibley Cotton Mills, Augusta, Ga,
were compelled to stop work on account of
the strike of nine strippers. The entire
mill shut down on the 3lst, throwing out
seven hundred hands
A HORRIBLE report comes from the low.
er end of Tatnall County, Ga. negro
woman, engaged to prepare dinner for
colored picnic, murdered young child
which had been left in her charge, cooked
half the remains and served it to the peo-
pie The other half of the remains were
salted down in barrel. The negroes be-
came perfectly frenzy on making the dis
covery, and seized the woman and burned
her at the stake, The report appears to be
authentic.
DISTRESSING accounts continue to come
in from the rice fields along the Santee
river, The whole country for miles on each
side of the river, in Williamsburg, George
town and Berkely Counties, 5. C., is cover
ed with water. The rice in most cases is
totally destroyed. Many planters will be
driven from the business There is some
fear that many of the negroes will die from
starvation.
The Wasson Car Works, OF Chattanooga,
Tenn, have been old to satisfy mort
gage, and were bid in by S. NJ Carpenter,
Of Cleveland, O., for S5i0,U.
JoHN CARpwELL, a white man, who was
to have been hanged at Wilkesborough, n.
c., on the Oth of July, for an outrage upon
his daughter, was rescued by mob Of
friends, who raided the Jail at that place
on the 26th.
Two counties (Barnwell and Aiken of
South Carolina expect to ship to outside
markets this season 2,5O0,OO0 melons, or
two thousand carloads OF l,25O melons
each, the largest crop ever grown there.
ALL the Southern cities are paying more
attention to sanitary affairs this year than
usual
Mrs. ALEX ELLIOTT, of Martinsburg, W.,
Va, was horribly burned by an explosion
of coal oil. She may die.
Ar Chattanooga, Tenn, John Wildsmith,
a yOuup man of twentv-two while intovi