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MIsalssrrrr1 ITEMS. The Macon Beacon Of the

MIssIssIprI ITEMS. = The Macon Beacon of the
18th ult has the following items;
George Welsh, who lived in the neighborhood
Of Wahalak, In Kemper county terminated his
existence. by throwing himself into d well one
hundred feet deep. The we'll was not used, and
had an old wheel about seventy feet below the.
surface, on which he struck, He was not found
until two days after the occurrences when he
was quite dead. Cause Too much Of the arzS
dent
A negro man in the employ of Hibbler & Nc
Nees, contractors on the railroad, came to his.
death by being bitten, on Friday week last. on
the leg and arm by what is called q highland
moccasin. The negro was asleep ON some fodder
when he was first bitten on the leg, be threw
his hand over to where he was bitten, when he
was again wounded on the arm. Drs. Campbell
and Gholson were called in, but he died the fol-
lowing Monday.
APPEARANCES AFTER DEATH.--It frequently
happens that the features of the dead retain
their entire form and individual likeness for
many years after burial. Experience, however,
has proved that on exposure TO the air, for some
minutes, dust returns to dust again. The fol-
lowing circumstances occurred at the disinter-
ment of the body of Robert Burns, the poet,
some time in the year 1916, for the purpose of
tbeing entombed beneath a splendid monument.
Areport having been spread that the princi-
pal coffin was made of oak, q hope was enter
tanned that it would be possible to transport it
from the north to the east corner of St. Michaers
without opening it or disturbing the sacred de-
posit it contained. But this hope proved falla-
cious. On testing the coffin, it was found to be
composed Of the ordinary materials, and ready
to yield to the slightest pressure, and the lid re-
moved, q spectacle was unfolded which, eonsid-
ering the fame of the mighty dead, has rarely
been witnessed BY single human being.
There were the remains Of the great poet, to all
appearances nearly entire, and retaining vari-
Gus traces of vitality, or rather exhibiting the
features of one who had newly sunk into the
sleep of death-the lordly forehead arched high
and the teeth firm and white The scene was
50 imposing that most Of the workmen stood
bare and uncovered, as Doctor Gregory did at
the exhumation of the remains of the il1ustrious
hero of Bannoekburn, and at the same time felt
their frames thrilling with some indefnable
emotion as they gazed on the ashes of him
whose fame is as wide as the world itself. But
the effect was momentary; for when they pro-
ceeded to insert shell or case below the coffin,
the head separated from the trunk, and the
whole body with the exception of the bones,
erumbled into dust.
Lord Nugent, on opening the coffin containing
the body of John Hampden, found it entire, af-
ter a burial of two hundred years! Even his
features were preserved His hair of raven
blackness. came off at the touch of the hand,
and then were discovered an infinite number of
little red worms of great activity playing upon
the Uranium No insects were found in any
part of the body; as if the brain contained
within itself living principle which was engen-
dered by its own corruption.
MURDER AT JoNEsBoRo. A horrible and I'M
provoked murder was perpetrated at Jonesboro,
on last Thursday. by Alfred Stephens The
murdered mans name was Geo. W. Williams
It appears that some difficulty had existed be-
tween the two for some time, and meeting each
other on Thursday the matter in dispute was al
luded to, when Stephens picked up club and
dealt several very severe blows on the head of
Williams, telling him to the ground Stephens
then started off, but seeing his victim attempt
ing to rise, he Immediately returned and gave
him several violent kicks in the side. Williams
never rose or spoke afterwards, but fingered in
speechless agony till the following day, when he
expired A post norton examination showed
that his skull was broken in number of places
Stephens was arrested on the same day but,
strange to say, his bail bond was placed at only
$1,000, in default of which he was committed to
the county jail [Alton tIll.) Record, ed.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING. the heavy