The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-08-14
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS,
Cotton Markets,

Cotton Markets.
LvEsToN.-Cotton, on the Sd, was
quiet; middling, Lice; low middling
s 9-16c. good ordinary, Lice. net and
gross receipts 26 bales; sales, 1875 bales;
stock, 4,O7S bales
New ORLEANs,-Cotton quiet; middling,
Q 3-16c, low middling, Lille ; good ordi-
nary, S1sc.; net receipts, 257 bales; gross,
262 bales sales, 400 bales; stock, 1894
bales.
MEMpHIs-Cotton steady, middling, 99sc.;
receipts, bales; shipments, Al bales; stock,
SOL bales; sales, 800 bales.
LoUIsvILLE.-Cotton steady; middling,
94c.
A COLLISION occurred on the Mineral
railroad, near Birmingham, Ala. Engineer
Ben Jones was killed, and both engines and
several cars are total wreck. The other
engineer and fireman escaped by jumping.
The Democratic Congressional Conven-
vention of the Fourth District, N. c., NOM
mated John W. Graham on the 2l1th bal
lot He is the eldest son of the late Hon.
VIM. A. Graham who was Secretary of the
Navy under President Fillmore.
WILL HAWKINS, aged twelve, was drowned
in the Tennessee river at Chattanooga
while bathing His body has not been re-
covered.
The Democrats carried the Tennessee
State election by a largely increased ma
jorty-a gain of 49, 900 over two years ago.
H. G. TURNER has been renominated for
Congress in the Second District, Ga.
AT Milledgeville, Ga, Frank Humphreys
was found guilty of murder and sentenced
to death. Three months ago he induced,
by false statements, his sister-in-aw and
neice Mrs. Carrie Raines and Miss Ella
Humphreys, to go home with him. On the
way he shot them dead and outraged their
persons. His wife and three children were
present during the trial. Humphreys paid
no attention to them whatever. He will
certainly hang.
JUDGE JOSEPH SHIELDS, we'll known men,
Der of the bar, and author of the "Life and
Times of s. S. Prentice" committed sui
eide by strangulatlon, at Natchez, Miss.
affected his mind.
THE skeleton of man was found under O
bagnio at Atlanta, Ga, supposed to be the
remains of a New York drummer named
Yewell, who disappeared mysteriously
from Atlanta in 1872.
DIR. j. W. EDGE, of Macon, Ga, recently
purchased in Montezuma pair of kittens
| that may be looked upon as being quite
| curious. The heads and fore feet are like
those of an ordinary house cat, but here
the cat ends and the rabbit commences,
their hind legs and tails being those of rab-
| bits. They jump just as all rabbits do, and
there is nothing in their actions to suggest
the cat except the mewing.
AT conventions held at Ocala and
| Brooksville, Fla, recently, Mr.. Dougherty
and Mr.. Davidson, both sitting members,
were renominatedf for the Fiftieth Congress-
THE present condition of the cotton crop
| in the Memphis district is favorable, and
as compared with last year at this time, is
equally promising.
AT Malvern, Ark, John Williams was
found guilty of attempting to wreck a
train on the Iron Mountain railroad and
was sentenced to ten years in the peniten
tiary.
REV. E. r. RANDLE, one of McKenzi@'s
| Tenn foremost citizens, and for year;
postmaster there, is dead.
BALTIMORE papers claim that there is q
colored man who is 1853 years old in that
| city.
THERE are two brothers in Lincoln Coun
ty, Ca, who married two sisters; both have
large families of children, and the children
of one are all boys and of the other al
girls.
HUNTINGTON CIV. VA.) boasts of an eigh
teen-year-old colored boy, who, beginning
on lamp chimneys, has progressed so thai
he readily and easily chews up beer bottles
| glasses, etc.
NATHANIEL II. r. DAWSON, of Alabama
was confirmed as Commissioner of Educa
ton by the Senate before its adjournment
JOSEPH TIBBs and Samuel Rich
ardson, who reside near Hawks
Nest, W. Va. (white men)
employed as laborers ON the Short-line
were dangerously injured the other after
noon. They were working to get a log gu
of the way of the men who are grading OF
short-line road, and were standing below
the log, when it started from its position
and before they could get out of the wa.
they were caught and dangerously crushed
LAST December thirteen persons wer
killed in an accident on the Georgia Pacifi
railroad, seventeen miles from Atlanta
Ga. Among those killed was j. Wood
Pierce, a Texas stock-man of wealth. Sool
after the killing Mrs. j. P. Weaver, VIII
lives at Indianapolis, appeared in Atlant
and claimed the dead man as her husband
Mrs. Weaver asserted that her husband ha'
deserted her and gone to Texas, where b
changed his name to j. W. Pierce. Sh
followed him to Texas and caused his al
rest. He was fined $1,000 and left Texas
Mrs. Weaver caused the grave to be opene,
and recognized the dead man as her hus
band. Some of the most reliable people Q
Atlanta who knew Weaver when he wa
sailing under the name of Pierce in Texas
and was near him when his wife cause
his arrest, substantiated Mrs. Weaver
claim. The body was about to be shippe
to Indianapolis, when Texas lady turne
up and claimed the dead man as j. Wood
Pierce, her husband. She was backed b
abundance of testimony. Witnesses swor
they had known the dead man all his life
and that his name had never been anythin
but Pierce The Indianapolis lady d.
scribed the marks on her husband and th
marks were on the dead man. The coul
granted the Texas lady an injunction, an
| tho bodv xvoc ,-ehuripd in Atlanta Rot