The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-06-12
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS

NJ hctupulo Ou UuC fUu c/8i TO
ceipts, 300 bales; shipments, 1877 bales;
stock on hand 142,76 bales; sales, 1000
bales.
The cotton market at New Orleans on the
4th was quiet. Middling, She. low do, sac;
good ordinary, re; net receipts, 1889
bales; gross, 1888 bales; Sales 1000 bales;
stock, 9O,SS1 bales.
GALVESTON CoTToN MARKET.-On the 4th
the following prices ranged: Middling,
8 1876. low middling, 5-l6c.; good ordi-
nary, 71sc. net and gross receipts, 10 bales;
exports coastwise, 229 bales; stock, 16,OS9
bales.
jim BAXTER was hanged at Lebanon,
Tenn, for killing an old woman, Mrs. Lane,
LOCOMOTIVE engineers of the Queen and
Crescent route have been in consultation
with officials of the road with the view of
better adjustment of wages throughout
the line.
Two colored men, named Honesty and
Banks, we're hanged at Winchester, Va,
for numbering youth named Joseph Nc
Faul.
CALFRED TAYLOR, colored, aged twenty
two, was hanged at Opelousas, La, for
assaulting white woman in February last.
He protested his innocence to the last.
THOMAS A. tGRAHAM, while swimming in
the Tennessee, at Chattanooga was car
ried by the swift current under scow and
drowned. The body was recovered. His
f,,o I. To- Nd
GUss DARR, a carpenter, while carrying
bundle of shingles up to the top of a
building, at Chattanooga, Tenn, fell, and
was impaled on the fence. A picket en-
tered his side, breaking three ribs and
penetrating the lungs. He can not live.
In Baldwin County, Ca, George Speights
and John Jackson got into dispute over a
fifty-cent coin which was the forfeit in a
gambling speculation. jackson refused to
surrender the coin, when Speights suddenly
placed his self-cocking pistol at Jackson's
temple and blew. his brains out.
WHILE two boys were returning from
hunting, near Wheeling, WA, one Of
them named Wagner, in handling thetife,
caused an accidental discharge. The ball
struck daughter of Joseph Fenley, who
was with her mother on the porch of their
home, inficting wound from which she
died in few hours.
A CREOLE paper is to be started in New
Orleans, where an association has been
formed by those of Creole birth to encour-
age paternal feelings and giving themselves
power in affairs.
Gus STEEL, a negro at Lawrenceville,
Ca, took strange notion few days ago
to run himself to death He started, and
after running rapidly for some time drop.
ped to the ground and died.
A CITIZEN of Aurora, Tex, carries
around with him as a curiosity finger
which was cut from his hand when he was
four years old-sixty years ago. The nail
on the finger looks quite natural, but the
fleshy portion looks like piece of dark ma
hogany.
WATER was selling at fifty cents barrel
in Galveston, Tex, few days ago, and was
! very scarce, on account of the long
drought
CHAs RUNNER, wealthy citizen, living
near Grafton, W. Va, was walking along
the track of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, near his homie, when seeing freight
train coming he stepped to another track
Immediately the fast line came down the
track to which he had stepped, striking hin
and killing him instantly His body wa!
terribly mangled.
THE plumbers strike at Wheeling, VIVA.
was settled at conference the other night
the employers conceding fifty cents ad
vance per day, and accepting the stipula
tion that apprentices must serve four years
County, Ark, has been removed from Office
This was done by District Attorney W. B
Burlington, who filed bill for information
(Which takes the place of an indictment)
charging Haskins with defalcations il
office. The motion for the removal pend
ing trial was resisted by Sheriff Haskins
but Special Judge T. P McGovern sustain
ed the motion and appointed c. O. Faber
a prominent Democrat and responsible
citizen, to hold the office of sheriff unit
Haskins is tried or during the unexpiret
term which will end in October next.
AT an election held in Jackson County
W. Va, $3l 900 was voted for the'Ravens
wood, Spencer and Glenville road, pro
posed feeder for the Ohio River railroad
West Virginia is enjoying railroad boom
AT an election held in Calhoun County
W. Va, to vote on proposition subscrit
ing 1875, 900 to the Black Diamond railroad
the proposition was carried by large ma
jority.
THERE is dog in Woodstock, Ca, whic
followed the children of his master regu
larly to school until they stopped fe,
weeks since. The dog, however, continue
to go as regularly as before, and remain
until half-past four, when school is out.
A FAMILY by the name of johnson re
Gently moved to Chattanooga from Sout
Carolina. A child ten years of age is
phenomenon. When born the child coul
be hid in quart cup. Now it is but te
inches in length and weighs but five pounds
The body of the child is regularly formed
excepting its head, which is out of proper
ton with the body. The childs parents ar
both of ordinary size and medium height
and none of the other children are in an
way malformed. This dwarf is an lido
and requires the closest attention. Th
statement as to its age seems incredible
but it can be verified. This is supposed t
be the smallest dwarf in existence II
name is George Washington Jefferson Lii
coin Grant Johnson.
The manufacture of wine from orange
is developing into very extensive indui
try in Florida Wine made from this frui
is said to have formed large proportio