The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-10-30
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS,
Cotton Markets.

Cotton Markets.
GALvEsToN.-Cotton dull and unchanged |
on the 10Th; net and gross receipts,
I, 44 bales; exports to Great Britain, 5,461
bales; sales, 456 bales; stock, 1876 bales
New ORLEANs.-Cotton easy; middling,
61c.; low middling, SIC; good ordinary,
7ssc.; net receipts, 1919 bales; gross, 25,45l
bales; exports to Great Britain. 5,157 bales;
sales, 1850 bales; stock, 1OS, 947 bales.
MEMpHIs-Cottons steady; middling, sac;
receipts, 2,S40 bales; shipments, 1854 bales;
stock, A,34O bales; sales, $500 bales.
The boiler Of d. Davis saw-mill, at Cit
ronvllle, Ala, exploded few days ago,
killing one white man, VIM. Bailey, and
negro, James Roberts, and wounding two
men and boy. The cause was lack of
water
WASH MCDONALD, prominent and in
huential citizen near Clarksburg, w. Va,
committed suicide the other morning by
hanging himself to tree No cause as
signed.
The revenue officers the other night made
The existence of an illicit still near Talk
ing Rock became known. The way to it
lay through a wild mountain pass. The
officers reached the house of Samuel Prick
and found it empty. A Pickering light in
the back lot attracted the atten ton of the
officers. When they noiselessly approached
it they found inside little house three
women at work on an illicit still. They
were Mrs. Prick and her two daughters,
Misses Emma and Vallie. They were but
little abashed when told that they were
The still was destroyed and several hun
dred ga Ions of whisky were poured out.
ALLIs BROWN, a colored man of Nash
ville, Tenn, succeeded in stealing enough
furniture to fit up house, to which the
other day he took his uewly-made bride.
The stolen articles, which were afterward
found in his house by detectives, consisted
of every known household contrivance.
Among them were handsome set of sill
verware, four good clocks several carpets
and chairs, elegant sets of bedroom and
parlor furniture, and Bible.
The Sheffield Company, of Montgomery,
Ala, have contracted for three additional
blast furnaces of four hundred and fifty
tons each. The contract was made with
Cole and associates Of Nashville This
makes five in all. Two are in process Of
erecti now.
Two WHITE men are creating great re-
ligious excitement among ignorant classes
NJ cnrtc If nj oi,r,u
are made by these men as to their Divine
inspirations, and they declare that God has
forewarned them of his purpose to send an
awful calamity upon the Atlantic coast in
the shape of the recent earthquake, and
that forty days after this transpired the
day of judgment would arrive. These men
are strangers, and appear to have some ed
ucation. They refuse to say any thing
about their past. Their mysterious appear
ance in the community, and their peculiar
sayings have made great impression on ig-
norant turpentine hands, who are terror
stricken. These men say that unless the
people mend their ways that whole country
Is to Le blotted out of existence.
THREE negroes, charged with arson, were
taken from the Pickens County (Ala.) Jail
by masked men and hung.
SPECIAL commi tee on the Charleston cot
ton exchange report favorably on the
Mason cotton harvester, which they think
will revolutionize the industry and is as
great an invention as Whitney's gin.
COLUMBUS, MISS, has an excellent indus
trial school for girls
THE oldest college Y. M. c. A., is that of
the University of Virginia.
RUGBY school has an excellent attend.
Ance, though not as large as last year.
A RESIDENT of Winn Parish La, is noted
there for his remarkable sense of smell. 1t
is said that, on a calm day, or when the
wind is blowing toward him, he can smell
deer from thirty to sixty yards. He is a
popular hunting companion with the neigh
bors who know of his power. While riding
or walking through the woods he will stop,
throw up his head very much as a dog
does when he strikes scent, and in this
way he rarely fails to locate the deer if it
is within gunshot distance of him.
A WOMAN in Atlanta has gourd four feet
six inches long. 1t is shaped like base
ball bat
BALTIMORE is to have a crematory. Two
years ago there was but one in the country
now there are twelve.
RUF. BUCKNER, a well-known farmer of
McMinn County, Tenn, was shot by
his thirteen-year son, few days ago,
and died soon afterwards. The boy has
been lodged in jail.
Much excitement was caused in Little
Rock, Ark, few days ago, by rabid
dog, which bit four children before he
could be killed. The dog was a pet in the
family, and had shown no signs of mad
ness previous to this. The baby creeping
on the floor was the first victim, and three
children while trying to save the baby
were also bitten. One of the smaller chill
dren was bitten through the hand, a hole
being torn large enough to pass a pencil
through. Medical aid was procured i'm
mediately, but much alarm is felt by tn.
parents
AT Camilla, Ca, Mrs. Williams, negro
woman died the other night from burns
received few nights before. Before dying
she made the horrible confession that hel
husband choked her and held her limbs one
by one in the fire until they were roasted
The husband has been arrested for murder
A new prophet has arisen in Hart Coun
ty, Ga. He predicts that the world will
end up in 1890, and has sold all his earthly
possessions with view to timely settling
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