Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1868-04-04

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ever be may do over and above it,
The requisitiOn is a very moderate one,
so that the Industrious have 90 OppOs
lunity Of making little money iOde-
PendeAtly
At night tbOy oil present their tick.
cts. and are paid on the spot for any
extra work From the harvesting
ground we followed the carts dOWR 10
the place where their burden il d'pOS-
tied. On their return from the plan
tution the negroes divide the days
harvest, aud dispose of it 10 little
mounds on the drying ground. When
pretty equally dried. the coffee is spread
out in thin layers over the whole in
closure, where it Is baked for the last
time. 1t i',hsn hulled BY o simple
machine 10 use on almost all faEendas,
and the process is complete.
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THE DRAMA AT SHELBYvILLE. TEN
NESsEE j Wakes B0oth in Aveng'
ing the South AssassinateS Himself
The show business 10 Sbelbyvil!e is
run on a big scale No ordinary con
cern can draw a house there ia vet
weather. A few nights since there
was one for the benefit of q negro
school. and the bills bad announced the
production Of q sensational re presenta'
tiou of the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln by J. Wilkes Booth Ofcourse
there was q tremendous crowd--tre-
mendOuS in various ways-and many
stood up in order that the ladies might
all have seats A heavy looking dar.
key. named Levi Sparrow, took the
part Of Booth, and some other equally
interesting personaPe appeared as
President Lincoln. The great scuSa'
tiOn threw every other part Of tho shO "
into the shade, if that were possible,
and the variegated audience awaited
With breathlrSs suspense the riSi0g Of
the curtain upon the most fearful trag,
edy ever enacted upon the Western
continent. A churchyarda at midnight
would have been noisy compared with
that amusement hall at the moment
when the triangle bade the mysterious
calico to lift itself and reveal the aSsa4'
sin and bis victim. Up it went, with
the grace Asd regularity of a sheet Of
tan bark undergoing similar process.
and the awful spectacle broke upsn the
gaze of that Vastly multitude. The 81
lence was painful The miniature Lin
ccln sat rolling his eyes toward the
awestr uck audience, waiting for B 9th
to shoot, while Booth might have been
taken for Ajax defying the lightning,
az he stood there Ike a carpenters
conf pas. lragically awaiting the Gu mi
mating point. "Sic SempSr Ty raunis'
burned on bis lips Jerking a revolver
from bis pocket, he raised it nervOusIy
Bang bang went the iron Zip
zip". whistlcl the bullets but instead
Of the late motto of Virginia came a
bowl of pain from tue assassin as be has
lily dropped the weapon from his CORY
Gugsrs aud danced about III most un'
tragic way, waking up Lincoln, who
had died rather prsmaturely on bearing
real balls 20 close to hi, head and a.
founding the spectators bsyOnd czprsS
sion. several excirablO colorcd females
we're Ghrown into mysteries or something
akin, and the excitement fer a short
time was unparalleled in the history oi
shows. On order being restored, bow
ever. it was found that Booth, inStead
of flushing the President, had sho'
himself iu The hands and was taksI
home on a shutter. - Nashville Union
and Dispatch.