The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-10-16
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGs
Cotton Markefs.

~ '/Bo'' Ho1 ana gross receipts
4,lo2 bales; exports to Great Britain, Att
oaies, sales, l,34S bales; stock, 90, IA bales
NEW ORLEANs.-Cotton steady middling
&C.; low middling, SIC; good ordinary
'ssc'' net receipts, 140l4 bales; gross, 14,7l(
oaies; sales, 2, $50 bales; stock, "a, 037 bales.
MEMrnIs.-Cotton easy; middling DC.
receipts, 1,4OO bales; shipments, 9s2 bales
scocK, T47 bales; sales, 800 bales.
A cENTURY-PLANT at st. Augustine Fla.
is about to bloom, and has reached height
near forty feet.
AGEoRaIA hermit has his house in tina
branches OF spreading oak tree. It is
small, but quite snug.
Two bulls met in an Arkansas town and
fought so fiercely that no one could sepa-
rate them. The duel lasted one hour and
forty minutes; and then one fell over dead.
A coLoRED boy at Newborn, N. c., was
ul'een oy rattlesnake the other day, and
'nere being no doctor accessible, his com.
panions dug hole in the ground and
placed both legs in it up to the hips, pack
ing the mud securely around him. Tho
poison was extracted and the boy is now
about we'll
JOHN CuLpEPpER, an aged farmer living
alone on Julian's Creek, about four miles
from Norfolk, Va, upon retiring the other
night discovered negro under his bed. He
procured shotgun and fred at the in.
truder, missing him. The negro seized the
muzzle of the gun, and a struggle ensuod
winch resulted in Mr.. Culpepper being hor-
rioly beaten with the weapon, having his
Skull and face crushed, one arm shattered
ana his right ear bitten of. The victim
can not recover. Robbery was the motive.
A LITTLE old man named Harrison II.
Oliver, OF Bolton, Bell County, Tex, is
said 70 be the most remarkable repository
OF cold lead in the country" In the course
OF Acknowledgements life he has been
wounded 101 times, and in a great numher
VI cases The missiles are held in his person.
"A CITIZEN of Valrosia, Fla, wants to send
some OF the big red ants of that region.
called bulldog" ants, to surgeons for use
In fastening wounds of the intestines He
says that II the edges Of two pieces of soft
paper are held together with a bulldog ant
held SO that he will clutch both sides, and
MS head be then quickly twisted of. the
ant becomes fixture in that position. He
says that Spanish surgeons use the bulldog
ants as sutures in that way.
The Journal Of Commerce, of Baltimore
publishes special reports from the tobacco
growing sections of Maryland, Virginia
and North Carolina. Nearly all the re.
ports claim that the yield will be much re-
duced, the estimates running from one.
third to two-thirds of crop, and with the
quality, especially in parts Of North Caro-.
lima and Virginia, very poor. In the great
Durham District the yield is estimated Mt
not over forty per cent. of an average. and
OF very inferior grade.
NATURAL GAS was struck at Paramount
W. Va, few days ago. When the gas was
struck, the force was SO great that all the
tools were blown from the we'll and stone
were blown from 100 to 200 feet high. tear,
ing up part OF the derrick It is said bv
experienced gas men to be the largest gas
well In the country. The noise from the
rush OF the gas can be heard from six to ten
miles,
The last cotton crop report for the Mem.
PMS district says: The light frosts which
fell in portions of the district on the night
OF october l, were not damaging, and the |
tair weather that has since prevailed gives
assurance of favorable conditions which
adds to the bright prospects of the planter. |
and enables him to gather his crop in a
clean and satisfactory manner.
AN unknown burglar broke into the road |
1Ougo the Nation al
W. Va, and was fatally shot by the keeper
AT Yazoo City, Miss, Chas. Mcdonald
shot and probably mortally wounded Mol
lie Lawrence, and then shot and killed him.
SELF The cause was jealousy.
WILL RoNHAM, young negro train
wrecker, was captured and lodged in Jail
at Livingston, Ala, and on the Sth there
was strong probability that he would be
lynched.
PRESIDENT GARRETT will extend tho
Shenandoah railroad to Pensacola PASS
ing Birmingham, Ala, to be completed in
two years
GoTLIED HARTLIEB of Elm Grove, W.
Va, shot dead a stranger whom he found
in his kitchen, and who refused to 90 out
TYPHOID fever is epidemic at Benwood
W. Va, where there are fully fifty cases.
A SMALL boy, living on the line of the
Wheeling wv. Va) Natural Gas Company's
mains, found small leak in a twelve-inch
pipe and applied match to see the gas
burn. He was unable to extinguish the
fire, and by degrees the lead packing of thu
joint melted and ran out and the fire in
creased in volume until the pipe broke
and mass of flame shot fifty feet into the
air with deafening roar. The result was
to cut of the supply OF gas from the citv.
All the mills and factories in Wheeling
Martins Ferry, Etnavile, Bellaire md
Bridgeport, employing in the aggregate
several thousand men, had to close down
until repairs could be made and the gas
turned on.
PARIS green, cheap preparation OF
arsenic, Is favorite antdote for cotton
,aterpillars. When the worms made their
appearance in North Louisiana early in tho !
eason it was used in immense Quantities.
The negroes have always been afraid of it.
md claimed that it endangered their health 8
o pick cotton in fields where it was used.
IN the Foster place, in Bossler Parish. !
where the plants were literally sprinkled s
With Paris green, sickness has broken ont J
mong the negro cotton-pickers, due to the G
olson. Some eight or ten have been made !
lex by it, and two have died. The darkies =
re frightened, and refuse to pick Paris y
reen cotton. Y