Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-09-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tho sayanah consus says 2S.OOO.

The Savannah census says $4,000.
All sorts of thieves are plying their
vacations at Yicksburg, Miss.
The census gives MuriroesbOro,
Tennessee, a population of 1882.
The first bale of Gotten received Of
Yazoo, Mississippi, this season, was
sold for twenty cents a pound.
Aho Alabama river is in better
boating order thanit has been for tif'
teen years at this season.
Mrs, NJ. L. II. Mitchell, has been
tried and found guilty at Natchez,
Miss, of the murder of her husband.
J. j. Mitchell.
The three deaths from yellow fever
in New Orleans, last week, are accep-
ted by the Mobile Register as q warn
ing to that city to prepare for tlIc ap'
peAance of the disease there.
A correspondent of the Hazlehurst
Miss Cobiapan urges the establish
mcnt the c of a five hundred dollar
steam laundry, to be placed under the
management of some poor Confcder'
ate widow.
The Talbotton, Ga, Standard re,
ports one of the most remarkable
things we ever heard of: An oak tree
was cut down many years ago, left .
stump about eighteen inches high ant
twelve inches in diameter. Strange
to say, the bark las completely healed
over the stump, and it is as green a.
the day the tree was cut down. Tho
stump is clear Of sprouts or twigs.
Says the Norfolk V~irginian "Iu
our issue of yesterday we announced
that the editor of the Christian Sun
had received q peach measuring l0l4
inches in circumference. We can see
that and go q quarter Of an inch bet.
ter, A peach grown on the farm o.
NJ, w. Il. I. Williams, at Shell Land
ing, on the Roanoke river, in North
Carolina, measured l0is inches, II
was of the Georgia press variety.
We are informed that the people Of
Princess Anne county, Virginia, arc
forming immigration societies in ev.
cry township, and are determined to
revive their old county and put hel
upon the high road to prosperity
Other counties throughout the State
should do likewise, and soon the old
Commonwealth would be flooded
with the industrious classes of the
Old World, and in her r~cjuvenated
and prosperous future the oldest in
habitant" would fail to recognize the
land in which he had spent his life.
One of the most daring highway
robberics that have been committed
in New Orleans for months, was per-
pctratcd on Royal street, at about
twenty minutes past 10 o'clock Mon
day night, DR.. Palmer, a prominent
planter, being the victim, The doctor
reached the city Monday morning
from his plantation, near Jefferson
College, and, calling at the Bank of
New Orleans, drew six hundred and
fifty dollars, for the purpose of pay
ing some bills for ice and other stores.
On making his way home he was gag
ged and knocked down, and every ar
ticlc of value taken from his person.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis
by the Mississippi and Tennessee rail
road, during the last commercial year,
show an increase of 1882 bales over
those of last. The receipts of 1869
were j,2ll bales more than in 1868.
Increase for two years 1896 bales.
The cotton received by this road is
nearly all raised north of Grenada,
Mississippi, one hundred miles from
Memphis. The increase Is a crafty
ing indication of the improving con-
ditioD Of the country.