West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-07-30
SOUTHERN NEWS GLeANINGs.
Cotton Markets.

GALVESTON. Cotton was quiet on tho
Goth. The following was the ruling prices
Middlmg, elite. low middling, 0-lGc.,
good ordinary, l-l6c.; net and gross re-
ccipts Ia bales stock, t,3S0 bales.
NEW OurANs. Cotton quiet; mid.
ding, @ 3l6c., low middlug, 5 II l6c good
ordinary, Size; net aud gross receipts, UO3
bales sales loo bales; stock. 2LO65 tales.
MrNuuis Cotton steady middlusoiic
'ccclpts, 5l halcs shipments, W3 bales;
stock, ll,ib bales; sale, 800 bales,
ST Loris Cotton; receipts, none;
shipments, 2al halc, sales 2lOhalcs stock,
lN,N@ bales mnrLct dul but finn, mid
ding, gac
Lous,ulr Cotton quiet m,ddlins,
osc
Is Newton County. Miss. n baud of law.
less mon hnVo engaged m maltrcatug col.
orcd people, aud, u is alleged have COM
mltted several murders. Governor Lowry
has ordered Sheriff Harper TO summon tho
entire body of tho cou9ty, II necessary, To
bring the scoundrcls To- Justice. and, II that
Ice not sufficient, hc will order out the mill.
iary force, of th, State.
AUDITOR SroNt, OF Mississupi. publisbos
an itcmizcd statement of the amount of
the soml annual distribution of the com
mon-school fund paid each county. Total
amount paid F,GO5l3l, uf which amount
all but S3iOi was received from liquor
license. The number OF distributes ~
iia3lN the amount for the benefit of each
one being II ccnts
joins JoNts, son of tho superintendent OF
tho inclined railroad, now being con
structod up Lookout Mountain, Tennessee,
was killed few days ago. Hc wns coming
with rock, aud IL became unmanageable
and flew down the steep side Of the noun
tain with frightful velocity Young
Jones was thrown twenty feot i'm front OF
the lying car whore his body was crushed
into shapcless mass.
HESW HIIi, OF New York. son of Barton
Hill, the actor, died at Chattanooga, Tcnn.,
fow days ago OF dyscntery. lie was
Southern correspondent of the Now York
WOrd
lHE crop reports for the State of Ten
nessec make "A good showing
NEAR Rohlcy in Crawford County, Ga,
as Mr.. William Miller and wife were re-
turning home, Mr. Miller saw a large snake
crawling out from under the seat OF tho
buggy Not wishing tu alarm his wife, he
waited few minutes and thon requested
her TO get out of the buggy with him Ho
then despatched the snake with tho butt
end Of the whip The snake measured
eight feet long, aud had eleven rattles and
button
TIE Republicans OF Arkansas declare in
favor of prohibition and public schools,
and against competition OF convict with
free labor
Hoo cholera is raging to an alarming ex-
tent IN Botctort and several othor counties
of Virginia Some cases have bccn re.
ported Of farmers losing ohe hundred head
in n week
AT the Dayton, Tenn, coal mines $50
miners went out on strike, on tho 23d.
and the furnace was banked The strike
grew out of the dismissal of six working,
men. =
Ben. c. JELLEY a. Co, commission and
brokerage merchants OF Memphis, Tenn,
announced their suspension the other even
ing
GEo. w. KARR and Mrs Julin T.. Everett
were married at Atlanta Ga. n few doVs
ago. The groom is seventy y-ono and tbe
tho bride sixty i've This is Mr. Karr,s
third venture
JAMES HOPKINS, aged sixty-nine years,
prominently identified with gulf coast
steamship traffic died at Mobile, Ala. a
few days ago.
HoiLEu in the Columbia g. C) Water.
works exploded, killing colored HromAn.
fatally woundnR another colored man
aud seriously injuring five others, among
them the superintendent Of the works and
Alderman w. -. Lowrnnce
FAMILIES are fleeing from starvation by
drouth IN the western counties Of Texas
An 1eaguc Station Madison County,
Tenn IA man named Savage took forty-
five grains ofstrychnine by mistake. think
ing IL was quinine. When tho physician
reached him his veins stood out like great
ridges, his cycs were set, and all hope Of
life seemed vain Epecac and whisky we're
administered. and vigorous rubbing begun.
The emetic caused "a great portion Of the
poison 10 be thrown up Croton oil was
also given, and in few hours the danger
was passed. u is most remarkable case.
FHANK McDoSALp, aged fifteen, and Esgio
ONcal. aged thirteen, both Of Knoxville,
Tenn. were married nt late hour the
other night The parents Of both objected
f." the match. and the ceremony was per.
formed under tree in the suburbs of the
city by "a magistrate
a rtrtL fight occurred at Jellico. on the
state line botWorn Kentucky and Tonnes.
.no. thc other night boo which several white
and colorcd miner. engaged An woro al
ball. WHISKY flowed freely Next morn.
ing cnriy row Droso and sovcrnl shoi4
wore fired. hut nothing more was thought
OF tHr affair until d1y' ght. whom the body
OF wu.t" man banned NoIlcr, was fgnnd
BOO fhr street perforated with bullets a
"oInr,d man raned Anthony bias Just died
from 90 -hul r.r.Isrd Iu tlo brad Three