Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-07-17
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
Cotton Markets.


81 low middling s5s; good ordinary, 81
net and gross receipts, 3G2 bales; sales, 3V |
bales; stock 26, 4OS bales.
MEMpHIs.-Cotton steady; middlng, ~; |
receipts, IA bales; shipments, 30! bales;
stock, l70S6 bales sales, 500 bales
ST. LouIs.-Cotton: receipts, 26 bales;
shipments, i62 bales; sales, none; stock,
1920 bales market firm; middling, 80
LoUIsyILLE-Cotton, middling So.
WHILE at work in the Sewell mines,
near Charleston, W, Va, Robert Watson,
miner was caught in slate fall and
was flightiully mangled. He will die.
HENRY MYERS, an aged shoemaker at
Baltimore, Md, quarreed with his son,
Henry, jr., over a small amount of money.
The son struck his father and the latt r
picked up a knife and stabbed his son, kill
ing him. The father gave himself up.
WIN j. MCDERMoTT, well known mechanic
and engineer, of Memphis, Tenn, was ia
tally crushed while experimenting the
erection of heavy iron girder. Henry
Williams, colored, was seriously injured by
the same accident.
A STRIKE in the Augusta (Ga) cotton
factory closes the establishment and throws
over three hundred hands out of employ
ment.
JACK LAMBERT, a painter by trade, was
executed at Charlie ton, n. c., in the pres
ence of several thousand people for the
murder of Dick Wilson, twenty months
ago, in jackson County. He left state
ment protesting bis innocence and charg-
| ing another person with the murder.
WnrN the retail liquor licenses expired
| in Fulton County, Ga, June 30, several
! wholesale licenses we're in force some to
| run three months. The Kimball House
! Company, Atlanta, secured an interest in
| one, and opened a room for the sale OF
| liquors and beer by the quart, One other
firm did likewise A few days ago the po-
lice closed these places up, and great ex-
citement was created. a thousand men
congregated about the Kimball House to
discuss the matter Application was made
for an Injunction restraining the police,
and a temporary order was granted for a
hearing on the 11th Meantime the selling
was resumed
TIE Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th During the session
about four hundred bills were introduced,
of which number about two hundred be
came laws.
ONr OF the saddest sequels to mischiev
Gus sport happened about seven miles
south of Lewisville, Ark, on Red river
that has ever occurred in that vicinity
A party of three young men were bathing
in the river, one of whom was pool
swimmer and consequently kept close tC
shore. while his companions, more fearless
than he, ventured further out INTO the
river At last desiriugtO have some sport
they caught their companion and carIle'
him out into deep water, but finding 1t re
ouired all their efforts to take care o
themselves left their unfortunate com
panion to battle with the swift current
which was too much for him, and bore hin
to watcrv grave The citizens are very
indignant over the occurrence, and grave
fears are entertained of lynching
An Meridian. Miss, the seven-year-o oil
son of sam Howell, colored, ran away be
cause of his fathers cruel treatment. Tn
boy was taken back that night, and HoweI
then beat him to death with piece of rut
, ber hose. Howell escaped.
The Central Iron Works at Helena, som
, twenty miles below Birmingham, Ala
have Shut down on account OF the change
of machinery necessary for the manulaC
ture of nails from steel instead of iron.
. SOME time since, at Fort Gaines, Ga
Mrs. Roney, her son, Willis Hudson, an
daughter Miss Isabella Hudson. settled
, difficulty with a ncghbOr named Mlllieon
- bv beating "a young man to death, Mr.
/ Ronev has since died; Hudson will /
I hanged August :, and Miss Roney wa
. taken to the State prison to serve out III
, sentence few days ago.
HALF a million wild ducks are annual
=. killed in Southern Louisiana and sent |
] the New Orleans market
e KlssIMMR, FLA, boasts of a cucumb'
= nineteen inches long, weighing five pounc
+ and a half
+ THE Senola (Gal Sentinel says that
n man in Campbell County had thirty-si
bows old enough to fight in the last wa
and twentv-three of them were killed. /
has been married nine times.
5 AN ovarian tumor, weighing twelN
pounds. was successfully removed from Il
= two-vear-od daughter of r. II. Hurst,
g., Delta County, Tex, by Drs. Hook an
y Rush The child for the past six month
has been treated for dropSy, with no sig
o of Improvement. The patient is in a fla
+ way to recovery, The only similar ca
spoken of in medical works is that pc
"a formed upon a child four years old of 5
l. Spencer Wells, in London.
JAMES ANDERSON, aged twentyfo
It years, erking at Dr. NJ. Ii. knox's drl
s store in the northern portion OF Memph
Tenn, committed suicide by shooting hil
L self through the head. The deceased can
h from oxford, Miss, and was considered
steady and reliable employe. On his p'
/ son was found a note addressed to |
A. Knox, telling his father if he wanted t
n body to send for it, and, if not, to throw
" III Illt nay bu, VI W. as AC "ANh'N' "Ai''
10 any one asked the reason for this act,
y tell them it was none of their business.
A TERRIBLE gale occurred at Apalac
u cola, Fla, uprooting trees, unrooti
= houses and causing "A loss of $4,000. 1
u telegraph wires were blown down and .
persons, four white and two colored, W
we're caught in the bay during the stor
- lost their lives.
BILL, the eighteen-year-old son of j.
IA Smith of Union County, Tenn, drank
Is tablespoonful of oil of cinnamon and di
h instantly. This makes four deaths in Il
* section in the same way during the p'
10 wear. The drug is used as stmuant.
II. j. SNIvELY, travelling insurance mi
re was struck by train at Chicago, ILL.,, a
IL seriously injured. Papers on his pers
show that he had family at Grafton,
Va, and had $4,000 insurance on his Ii
" Miss REBEccA WILLIAMS, a Baltim,
- belle, paid $4,000 for her portrait recen
~, in Paris.
~ A suNFLowER weighing five and a h
'o pounds and measuring thirteen inches
diameter, is on exhibition at Barlow, FL
ro ABOUT the lst of June, in Barnv
apu Couaty 5. c., John Steady was publ
i cowhided 5v W, 7. Connolly and AL
:. for circulating slanderous reports alb