Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-09-03
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show for the consolidated city 10000.
A Trenton young lady Of high family
has just died Of delirium tremens.
The greatest magieians Of the age are
the paper.makers, They transform
the beggar's rags into sheets for editors
to lie on,
Nicholas LOngwOrth once purchased
the business portion of the city Of Gin
cinnati for the value Of O horse.
OF a man who recently died, it is
said, "His name will be remembered
wherever his deeds and mortgages are
known
Fifteen hundred Parsian hackmen
have volunteered for the French army.
They are accustomed to horses, and In
charging cannot be surpassed.
Metz, the headquarters Of the French
army Of the Rhine, is 10 miles from
Paris. Troops can therefore reach it
from the capital, by railroad in about
five hours.
The present crop of Virginia, this
year, is estimated at 100000 bushels,
while Tennessee raises 300, 900 bushels,
and Georgia and Carolinas from 10000
to $4,000.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
The most destructive epidemic that has
ever visited this country is the census
of 1870. 1t has swept off l75,OO in
Chicago.
John Morrissey's gambling house at
Saratoga, is to have apartments for la
dies who nay be ambitious to fight
the tiger.n In this respect Saratoga
will outstrip Baden Baden before long.
A lady who refused to give after
hearing a charity sermon, had her
pocket picked as she was leaving
church. On making the discovery,
she said:
The parsop could not find the way
to my pocket, but the devil did"
Milwaukee is getting up a great beer
festival. The best brewer is to have a
gold medal, and the biggest drinker a
silver-handled coffin.
Wall paper is printed in all colors at
a single operation, and so rapidly that
a single machine will print fourteen
miles of paper per day.
Ii is said the Boston Common is a
splendid place to wander off and die,
there being a superstition among the
BostOnians that n gets from there
right straight to Heaven.
They say an Idaho girl puts on style
because she cleans her teeth with the
butt end Of a backing brush. She says
she was brought up to be neat, and
doesn't car what folks think.
Nathaniel P. Thayer, Of Boston, is
building a hundred thousand dollar
dormitory for the students at Harvard
University. This is only one of his
many be~nefactions to that institution.
A nom German speaking census TAX
er in a Teutonic New York district has
resigned. He found ever family nam
ed Nichtsverstay, and that was all the
information he could gather.
A countryman in a Detroit factory
bet the engineer a dollar that he could
seize the fy-wheel and hold it. He
seized it, and was picked up on a pile
Of bricks outside the building, with a
window sash for a neck tie.
A grizzly bear was killed, recently
in California, that measured from the
tip OF his nose to the top OF his head
Is inches, and weighed over 1000
pounds. 1t is stated that he has des-
troyed more than $1,000 worth of stock
in the last two years.
In the bull-fighting days, a black
smith, who was rearing a bull pup, in
duced his father to 60 on all fours, and
initiate the bull. The canine pupil
pinned the old gentleman by the nose.
The son, disregarding the paternal roar.
ing, exclaimed, "HOld him, GrOwler
boy, hold himi Bear it, father, bear
it!-tV be the making Of the pup"
RrM'S Adrice.- What! Mr.. NJ
said a wedding-guest to q clergyman,
don't you drink wine at a wedding?'i
"No, sir" was the reply; ~ will take
q glass of water. y "But sir" said the of
ticiOus guest, "yOu recollect the advice
of paul to Timothy, to take a little
wine for his infirmity." II have nc
infirmity," was the ~sententiOus reply.
CompositOrs in the New York Tri
dune Office are fined ten cents for eacl
profane word uttered Oh the premises
the money 80 gathered being given t
the poor. One unfortunate chap, Q
new hand, lost nearly q weeks wage.
one night, over a bit of Greeley's manu-.
script. -&cwdrt's Quarterly.
An Irish officer, upon seeing a beau.
tiful picture sketched upon a wall IL
America, exclaimed, ut is a fine
painting, but it was never done il
America" ooh, sir" says his friend
" don't you see 1t Is OH a solid wall
an l therefore must have been done il
this country ?" "Ah," replied he, "]
see that pkin enough, but | only meant
that the man who did it was never il
America"
Several years ago, a noted highway,
man was arrested In the South of Ire.
land, and curiOusly drew numbers &c
the Jail to see the man loaded will
irons who had long been a terror to tn,
county. Among others was O banker
whose notes at that time were no.
held In the highest estimation, who as.
sured the prisoner that he was very
glad to see him there at last. Thu
highwayman, looking up, replied, "Ah
sir, | did not expect that from you
indeed | did not for you know wei
that when all the country refused tC
take your notes, | took them"
General B had been financial
agent to The penitentiary in Texas foI
many years. Warmly opposing Gene.
raj HoustOn's last election as G0vernO,
Of Texas, and not wishing to lose MI
place, he, in due time, presented a no,
tltion asking to he retained, his Ions
and faithful services being urged as d
reason for granting his PRAYER. All
appears from this petition, General, D
said Houston, +" that you have been in
the %penitentiary eight years. 1Yes,