The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-11-20
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.
Cotton Markets.

middling, SIC; low mddling, &c.; good
ordinary no; net and gross receipts,
1926 bales; sales, 1904 baies; stock, 65, r93
bales.
New ORLEANs.-Cotton easy; middling,
719c.; low middling, S1Sc,; good ordinary,
SIC. net receipts, l6, 7O6 bales; gross, 1924
bales; exports to Great Britain, $3.50 bales;
sales, $500 bales; stock, 1865 bales
MEMpnIs.-Co Cotton steady; middling,
7-l6c; shipments, 232S bales; receipts,
$500 bales; sales, 10000 bales; stock, 12l,-
400 bales.
THE official count in the Seventh Con-
gressiona District, South Carolina, gives
the election to VIM. Elliot, Democrat, over
Smalls, Republican.
W. W. LANGsTAFF, messenger of the Pa
cific Express Company, was accidentally
shot and killed in the company's office in
Texarkana, Tex. He and w. H. English,
another messenger, had just returned from
their usual run, and were employing the
pouches of money packages. English
threw his pisto, on the floor with the
packages, and it exploded, the ball enter
ing Langstaff's thigh. 1t was necessary to
amputate the limb, and Langstaff died
during the operation. He was from Ca
nandaigua, N. Y.
For the first time since South Carolina
seeded, the State sends solid Democratic
delegation to Congress.
MILLER, the proprietor of the hotel in
Pocahontas, Va, which was burned re-
Gently has been arrested for arson, the hotel
being heavily insured 1t was in the burn
ing of this hotel that the young Babers, Of
Kentucky, nephews of George Baber, Esq.,
lost their lives.
The message Of Governor O'Neal, of AL
ALBANIA, to the Legislature, says that the
State devotes more than one-third of its
revenue to the public schools; that the
value of assessed property in tho last few
years has increased S35, ZOO. 600, and that
the whole amount of the tax for the past
fiscal year has been collected except $50.
EIGHT women took their seats as dele
gates in the Knights of Labor Convention
at Richmond, Va.
THE first wrought-iron pipe ever manu-.
at Chattanooga few days ago.
THE North Carolina Legislature stands
as follows: Senate, twenty-seven straight
Democrats, three Independent Democrats
four straight Democrats, nine Independent
Democrats and fifty-seven Republicans. No
labor candidates were elected.
| GENERAL j. R. CHALMERS, who was de-
feated by Judge }. B. Morgan Democrat)
| in the Second Congressional District Of
Mississippi, says he will contest the seat of
| Mr.. Morgan before the Fiftieth Congress.
A WONDERFUL electric pit, recently dis
covered three miles from Sharon, Ga, is
effecting hundreds of cures from rheuma-
tism. A farmer named Hillman was pros
pecting for gold. In little bend of Har-
denis Greek, where the bank rises abruptly,
Mr. Hillman observed some strange discol-
Grafton of the soil. He began digging, and
finally desisted when be could discover no
metallic deposit. A negro who was aiding
Hillman had long been afflicted with rheu-
matism. He noticed that whenever he
handled the oozy clay in the pit, that the
muscles of his hands relaxed, permitting
him to use them with all natural
ease. When Hilman abandoned the pit
disappointed in his search for gold his
employe left it surprised at his freedom
from the rheumatism of years The
story soon spread, and people began
making Sunday visits to the strange
spot. Rheumatics resorted thereto, and
began to confirm the experiences of Hill
mans servant. Mr.. J. P. Moore, a we'll
to-do farmer, who for years had been I'M
able to use his hands, after burying them
twice in the soft mud Of the pit found
them fully restored to usefulness. A
we.-krown white lady from Warren
County, who was badly drawn up, Wis
tied the pit, and walked away declaring
herself cured. Charles Galloway, colored,
who for ten years walked on crutches,
after one visit to the spot, left his crutches
behind him and walked home. The most
wonderful cure related is that of a colored
house servant of General Heard. This
woman was q perfect wreck from rheu-
matism. A year ago she went to bed,
and since has had to be waited upon
llhe CuIu' w ucu Uuc NlIuuco vi uue
pit were first mooted her friends con.
cluded to try it. The woman was car.
ried on her bed to the spot, where she was
rubbed over with the mud twice. The
result was that the woman who had thus
been carried to the spot, took up her bed
and walked home. The spot is in dense
thicket, rendered almost impenetrable by
laurel growth. Hundreds of people are
resortng thither, as matter of curiosity.
The water flows in sufficiently to keep the
clay IN a waxy condition. By applying
this clay to the parts afflicted, it wields
some kind of influence which offers relief
The only theory advanced is that the mud
must be charged with electricity sufficient
to effect the cures mentioned.
{ FFIcIAL returns had been received up tt
the 9th from about seventy Of the seventy
five counties of Arkansas, showing the
Prohibition vote in the election he'd No
vember Q. The total vote was 10000 The
vote for license was about 5000, while the
vote against it is Appropriated at $500
The Prohibitionists carried some thirty
counties. The vote shows large gain fol
that element In 1882 the Prohibitionist'
polled less than 10000. In 1854 they pollet
$4,000, thus showing an increase of ove
21,00c in the last two years.
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