Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-09-25
SOUTHERN NEWS GlEANINGS.
Cotton Markets.

GhLvRsTON.-COtton nrm on the litni
middling, &c. low midding, 7l6c. good
ordinary, l3-l6c., net receipts, 3,417
bales; gross, 3,457 bales; sales, Lbs bales;
stock 81, ,953 bales. Weekly: net and gross
receipts, 29,23l bales; exports coastwise,
l2,6l6 bales; sales, 6,G42 bales.
NEW ORLEANs.-Cotton firm; middling,
9Ac.; low middling, s$lc.; good ordinary,
nc. net receipts, 1929 bales gross receipts,
$50 bales; exports to Great Britain, 2,953
bales sales, 800 bales; stock, q, 166 bales.
Weekly: net and gross receipts, l2,9O7
bales; gross, 1854 bales; exports, to Great
Britain, 2,O92 bales; exports coastwise,
5.i45 bales; sales, 800 bales.
MEMPHIs.-Cotton firm; middling &C.;
receipts, go bales, shipments, 81 bales,
stock, 404S bales; sales $50 bales
REy JESSE Cook, colored, was hanged in
But er, Ga, for the murder of his wife last
April, The crowd at the execution was es-
timated at eight thousand. Cook made
full confession.
DEMOCRATS Of the Tenth District, Tenn,
nominated James Phelan, proprietor OF the
Memphis Aralaache, for Congress by ac
Clamaton.
BALD Rock. weighing hundreds Of tons,
tumbed from mountain sine in jackson
County, W. Va, crushing a house and
barn, killing two men, injuring other
persons, and killing several horses and
mules
W f. ROBERTSON has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth
District, La, over A. b. Iron, the present
incumbent.
The total vote of Arkansas in the Sep.
tember election foots up l43000; Demo-
cratic majority, $1,000 The Legislature
stands: House. Democrats, 81; Republ-
cans and Wheelers, % Senate, Democrats,
~; Republicans and Wheelers, 3.
HoS, J. c. ATKINS, Senator in the last
General Assembly from Gibson County,
Tenn. died at his home near Trenton, the
other morning, after a short illness He
was a native of Gibson, and was univer-
sally popular.
TnE Louisville and Nashville has com.
menced work at Woodbine, KY, for new
| line of road to be run to Morristown, a
| distance of sixty-seven miles. The new
| line is to connect with the Richmond and
Danville line at Warm Springs, n. c..
forming a link which will be of great bene
fit to both roads, and passing through {
valuable coal and timber section.
| - ( . a. f,l
District, La, nominated c. Newton FOL
Congress over Mr.. King the present incum
bent.
A DISASTROUS fire at Danville, Va de
stroyed the furniture factory Of the Hei
delbGch Bros, loss $4,000, no insurance
the city electric plant, loss 5000; Wor
shain's box factory, loss Sll000, insuranc
$500. and the city ice-house, loss Sl2,
insured. G. W Midlaugh, of Toledo, O.
was burned to death in the conflagration
AT Memphis the other afternoon, Mrs
Kate Wright attempted suicide by jump
ing into the river at the foot of Beal stree,
but was pulled out in time to save her life
Henry BARNES, colored, was lynched a
Milleu, Ga, for outraging a white lady q
Rogers Station. on the Central railroad
A party of masked men did the lynchin!
Barnes was taken from a train near Mile
and riddled with bullets.
THE new stock company formed in Dl
rant, NJ S., recently, under the style an
name of the Durant Tanning ManufaetuI
ing Company, have completed all their al
raugements and are now putting up builC
ings, and before long the tanning of leathe
will commence by what is known a
Rhymes paragon process. BY tn 5 proces
the best of leather can be made With
from twenty to forty days, the co,
of which will be only one-third Of tn
old plan since it tans the leather withou
bark or vats
TuE other day while Edward White, ,
well-knowu citizen, was walking down th
street at Westernport Nd, he was sho
and instantly killed by David johnson,
man who has been considered Harmless
lunatic for some time past. johnson wa
at once arrested and locked up There wa
no known cause for the act, and 1t create
great excitement. That evening Il part!
of citizens attacked the building wher
johnson was confined. They quietly too
Him out to the bridge across the Potomac
tied rope around his neck and made hir
walk off His neck was broken by the fal
and after allowing hm to hang for te'
moments the rope was cut and the body a
lowed to fall into the river, where the swll
c.urent carried it out of sight in few me
mentS.
| ARTHUR MCNrCHoL was arrested by on
Ger Jacob Watson, of the Wheeling tW
Va police force, for wife beating. Th
prisoner showed signs of running, whe
Watson said: "Non run, and I'll kill you.
Half a square further on McNichol didruu
and Watson kept his word shooting tn
prisoner i'll rhe back, the ball passing clos
to the spine, and nflicting fatal wounc
Watson was at once suspended 10y Chief G
Police Smith, and held in $4,000 bail by
Justice to await the result of McNichol'
wound.
THR smallest fee on record was receive
by one of the Van Buren, (Ark.) attorney
last week A man came to his office an
had some papers drawn up. When th
work was finished he asked what the b
was. The man of lawrepled: Just wha
YOU think IS right To his astonishmen
his client handed him one and two cen
piece. He intends having them mounted
and wearing them AS mementoes of th
smallest fee ever received.
4 GEORGIAN explains how one job
Knight came to reside in that State, ii
father lived in the backwoods of Mort
Carolina, and the first time he ever saw
two-horse wagon he ran after it. He b
} came SO absorbed in the question of ho
long it would run before the big whee
overlook the little ones that he followed
clear to Augusta, Ga, before he gave OF
and had to stop He didn't know the wa
back and had to stay.
TnE "drysn carried every ward in Wi
chester, Va, and their tickets by l&majo
itv The law goes into effect on the LIST
next May and continues for two years.
variety of opinions are expressed as to Il
~ obable effect upon the business interes
of the city.
WM. AND HENRY HoUsINGER, aged twel'
and fifteen years respectively, we
drowned the other day six miles from Lift
Rock, Ark. The younger boy cramp,
while bathing and the elder attempted
} save him. Both perished The moth
witnessed the tragedy and is said to ha'
been driven insane.