Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-02-12

good wishes you have been so kind
as to offer to me-.
Very ReSp1y,
L. S. HOSFORD,
THE STATE.
The Corps Of ERgneerS,-Mai.
Minor Merriweather and Capt.
Gloster. Of the corps Of engineers
ot the Selma and Memphis r, h.
Co., were in our city a few days
AGO, on business in connection
with the Selma and Memphis Il.
r. they are now locating the road
from the Alabama line to this city.
In few DAYS they will have
established the line, and at once
the hands Will 20 to work.
Let us all. rich and poor, old
and young, black and white, so to
work and push on 70 an early com
pletion. this great ENTERPRISE
Columbus Sentinel.
Congress- having received the
official result of the Mississippi
election and official notice of the
ratification Of the Fifteenth
amendment, will proceed at once
to frame a bin to admit the State.
J special meeting Of the Recon
Struction Committee OF the House
will be held tomorrow, when
General AmeS. the senate elect
and late military commander, and
Beyels the colored Senator. will
appear before them. The latter
va, on the senate floor to-day for
the first time during the session Of
the Senate. and was warmly vel
coined by most of the Republican
senators. His wife, who is a shade
hIacker, was in the gallery, and
Senator Sumner and Upton went
up and were introduced and sat
besides her for a few moments.
Clad Of H.-Within the past ten
days some twenty or thirty Ger.
mans ard Prusslans have settled
in Corinth and yicinity.-Ncws.
One night last week a negro
man, living near town, met his just
deserts by being kiIlcd--shot, We
balicye-for committing a rape Oh
the person of a colored girl.-lb.
Smaide.-A Mr.. s. b. Den2er
employed as a clerk in the store 0.
! Il. Bodenheim & Co.. shot himsel
trough the heart last hight at tht
city hospital, where he was 70,
treatment. He vas alive at las
accounts, but will die. No caus,
is assigned for the act.-Yicks
burg Herald.
Homicide.-We learn of anOthe
killing affair at Mount ALBION, OF
the railroad, seven miles from
town. \ negro going to his holn0
Sunday, intoxicated, ordered hi
sisterIn-laW to perform some dut,
about the horse, which she reius
ed, whereupon the coIored troope'
nobly seized a gun and shot her
He is to be presented with a goot
fat Office for his courage and sac
rifce.
We have since learned the VIC
man is not yet dead.--lb.
The Natchez Democrat says
We regret to announce the deaf
. of Col. Martin Burke, late Of s.
Louis. Col. Burke, commanded tn
LIST Missouri Regiment, in Bowen
Brigade OF gallant Missourians, {
S. A., so distinguished in til
operations around Nlcksburg,
1868.
The fact that Mr.. T. J. Ellcr
wood reports Beecher's sermon fc
, The Plymouth Pulpit, gave stal
to the following statement, whic
has been travelling for a couple {
months "E,len Wood is the pre-
ty damsel that writes short han
3 for Henry Ward Beecher."-Stat
5 Register.
The Edwards House, Jackson
was sold, last Friday for twent.
!, four thousand, eight hundred dc
lars.
Died In this vicinity, on IL
Both ult., at the residence of NJ
:, r. A.. Hamilton, of typhoid pneu
monia, MIR. ALLEN STEWART,
Mississippi, a student ofthe Sout
ern University.-Ala. Beacon.