Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1886-10-07
NUMBER 81.
SOUTHERN NEWS oLEANINos.
Cotton Markets.

NHw ORLE,Ns.--Cotton steady; middling,
eNc.; low npddling, sikc good ordinary,
SC. net receipts. s.ssss bales; gross receipts,
SOS bales; sales, 80 bales; stock ~. sol
bales
MEMPHIS Cotton steady; middling.
Pie; rcceipts i.4s6 bales: shipments, GO3
bales stock, saS7 bales, sales, so bales.
Ar Romncy W. Wa, John e. Bowen wn-
convicted ~ murder IN the first gree aud
sentenced 90 imprisonment for lifc for tho
killing of Frank Hsatvole ON April ~ last.
rHE East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
tunnel, under Missionary Ridge. near
Chattanooga, which cavcd in last winter,
has been entirely rebuilt
K,rs Rurr aud Ella Keney. eacn aged
tiftecn years, were arrested at parkers-
burg. W Va, few days ago They had
left their homes AZ Wheeling Go Join com
bination OF travelling Indians. They were
returned home.
IL North Carolina the spiders spin webs
aud cnbroider words on them. Ono
spun Indiana war aud all the supersti-
tiou- are SCARED
j. T. Brs-N, OF Dawson Ca has a chick-
en that has for some time lac n roosting mt
night ON bis COWS back. As regular ma
night comes the chicken goes 10 thu COW,
flies upon her back and there remains con
tcntedly tll next morning.
AK extensive cave ia In the river haS sin
occurred few days ngo at Plauuemine,
no miles above New Orleans, on the Missis
! sippi, which carried into the river move
than four acres OF land. causing thn de-
struction 81 property belonging To several
people. Tho land has been slipping into
tho river Tor some time This ~ tho third
cave which has taken place az Fladuetnino
within thc past four wccks carry ing away
| the front portion Of the town A. ID hna
been Inevitable Tor some time. most of tho
\ houses were pulled down or removed ia
| anticipation Of the cave-in, but the damage
inflicted ON owners OF lots aud buildings
| lost In considerable. Ten feet from the
bank, aud whore buildings we're standing,
the river II now over aftcen feet deep
| Mas. WnEAr, the widow OF a wealthy
merchant was going into Atlanta, Ga, a
| Few days ago, iu wagon drawn by two
mules. When midway on the bridge span-
ming the Chattahoochec river, the mules
| took fright, and backing the rear OF tho
wagon ngRinst the guard rails, broke tho
| rail away, mules, waRonand occupant fall
| ing thirty feet into the waters below Mrs
Wheats body was recovered down tho
river.
Tng Democrats OF the Third Louisiana
| Congressional District nominated Edward
J. Gay, ten tinios millionaire, tho richest
man IN Louisiana. The Republican Com
| yention boldly responded by choosing J.
= Davidson, full b'ooded negro the only
one ever nominated Ia Louisiana. and ono
| OF The few in the South The district Is ths
| largest aud richest country district ia tho
| state, and very close one, usually Rcpui,-
iicsn
DH G. K DTER, Government Veterinary
Surgeon. reports that the disease rag Dg
among the cattle in the counties or L0udon,
Fsuquier and Prince William, In Virginia,
~ Texas fever aud not plcuro pncumonia
| phe disease was communicated by cattle
obtained from Chicago.
A ooaPANr With which Goueral Van Man.
ming, the OK Mississippi Cougfpssmnn. 4,
associated II about 20 put on she market a
| new cotton gin, which they claim viii rev
| 0lutiOnize the work aud adj ~ tbs price Of
| product by stripping the fbers entire and
uncut from tho seed The NV gin tears
the cotton 20 pieces, aud the roller gin Is
| regarded a. entirely too slow by the pro.
| gressiys planter. The now 10 schine Is an.
tomato and Tho principle q. simple. it
acts upon che seed cotton simultaneously
in opposite directions, i00scniug The hhsr
aud removing it unimpair.d fr0m tie ss,.i
and free from nap Satisfactory expert
meDts hnve boen made with the machine
on cotton and the projectors are sire u
success Nc Morton Toulmin ~ Alabama,
T. The Inventor
CuOiEr Msxv has been apnoint,.l ~ col
hector - Customs az vick.buri. Mas
a san aud horrible story of hou thrc.
1 little cbiisiren met their death roinss from
| Covingtcn County. Ala. near ABdaluais
| The children n respectable family. rang
Sng fron two isfsls ysars Old. went out ths
other sfterueon 20 play near the house. 4
/ iarge pine tfee had been blown down. aud
they we're playing around in the hoif fnaas
/ by Tho root. of the tree being tefmupr Tha
/ evening passed aHd "a night the children
1 were missed. The parents inst 'tuted teareh
I and soon found them lying near fhe roots
\ 81 the fsiieu tree The two Younger ones
| were dead 8ud The eldest was in "a DIVING
condition. Upon investieation it ,sas
l found that tha ohiidfeu bad ali been bitten
/ by ra,tlcsnake Which bad made ifi den
/ under the roots ~ the tree Their bodlos
i were terribly swOilaf and looked ~ n they
/ bad been bitten In several diH iHereHt places
/ The eldest child died during ihe uight and
tho three htiie nnocents were buried ~
| gether
/ Ef0nr persons ~ boarding house in
montgomery. Ala were taken violently si
Il rith vuuiang Che ofher evening Doctors
/ we're called medicine administered anf
I she pafients ars aIl boz fair way to rccov
i efr. The cause ~ Che poisoning b. - fuFe-
i terry Other persons who ate aid dlant
tie same things at sapper sstb0se taken iIl
are pnHdoeied is m supposed. hoeeger.
I that Coo poison was ln fae mills, This IS tle
I second time that tbe same thing has hap
I pcned at che same boarding bouse within a
few month"; it s also learned chat al tbs
! people iu another boarding house are sick
/ Witb tbe same symptome AI who drank
nnhz ior supper arc s.ck those eho ia
/ upt are unaffected several bad "a very
| nsrro~ e-rape ffom Death Tho esme mike
man serves Doth houses
A coVvef bon the jail a. Athens Ca,
l stripped ihe iron hoops from bis cell tia.
l nslc fhem into sfee blades. sawed fbroueh
an irgil bar An iuch s,Iusre. making q hols
I in the euaoU fourteen inches square.
sospcd his naked BODY and thus snpptd
tbfougl it and Was taen detected by tie
I sheriff
Ins Republicans of the Tenth Tauuasss,