Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1870-10-22
SUNDRIES.

! Elihu Bulrllt fcaus llle IdOIC !"
different languages.
The eldest son Of President Tyler Is
an editor at Memphis.
Cut-Throat Depot is the name Of
new town in California.
The official census returns gives Bo'-
ton population Of 253,333.
It is considered very vulgar for ladie-
to use very strong perfumes in public.
The women question-who is to set
the fashions, now that Eugene IS de-
throned2
Pennsylvania has produced 8,OOO,O00
barrels Of petroleum in the past ten
years.
Georgias rice crop this season is lar"
ger and finer than it has been Tor sew
eral years.
Russia has manuscript Of the first
copy of the Koran, drawn up by the
Caliph Omar.
/ st. Anthony Mimi saw mills have
turned out 10000, 900 feet OF lumber thls
season.
In New York city six music teachers
have been appointed for the public
schools at s., 800 each.
The population OF New Orleans, un-
der the new census, is lS4,68S an in-
crease Of l9, 900 since 1860.
William Cullen Bryant is the richest
poet in the United States, his last years
income being $4,000.
An exchange says that ~ deaths
have occurred in North Carolina, from
6 lightning, since the first of June.
Tucson the capital of Arizona, with
population of 1900, has neither
school, church, nor minister
An accurate estimate shows that
I each Indian in the United States costs
the Government 1850 annually.
p The reason there are so many mutt
ton-heads in existence is because so
many children are "perfect lambs"
A farmer in Pinewood, Hickman
county, Tenn, has been made raving
maniac by the bite Of rattlesnakc'
n Edward A. Ives, Troy merchant,
was stricken blind three years ago, and
!, the aftliCtion has made him insane.
Corrected census returns Of New
n Hampshire show the population of the
n. State to be 1875; net loss, 6,O79 i'll ~
h years.
d Mrs. Partington says that since the
invention Of the needle-gun, there Is
n no reason why women shouldn't fight
i as we'll as men.
t. A veteran housekeepern writes that
Il the scarcity of good servants is largely
attributable to the scarcity of good mis-
/ tresses
~ A perfect petrified seal was eXhumed
IA from a mine near Wadsworth, Nevada,
~ at a point 5000 above the level of the
- Pacific.
~ The waves brought intelligence to
,o Boston of the recent terrible storm at
~ y sea- four days before it was heard Of
80 ~ from any other quarter.
II Mr.. Collins, of Mystic, Mass, pOked
~ a tomato worm with short stick, and
"a the worm turned and stung him with
i ~ fatal effect.
", 4 Maine woman was so much affect
ns ed by her husband clipping the other
"' day, that she got drunk and drowned a
litter of nine pigs.
oil \ correspondent writes from Sedan
Io that the morning after the last battle,
~ ~ when the bugles sounded, 600 riderless
wy horses galloped to rendezvous.
w The State of Maine has q lake to
Ia each 90 square miles of territory, and
ID" one square mile of lake to each II and
-, three-tenths square miles of territory.
~ Next year will be the thousandth an.
:, niversary of the English throne by AL
Il! fred the Great, and the English are al,
ready planning celebrations of the
eu event,
49,, Miss Lydia Armstrong, of Gram
n9 county, Indiana, advertises for hus
hu band. Money" she says, is no oh
ject, but he must be healthy and vii
lp- ling to work.
ny Eighteen million suns are said to be
long TO our armament. More than /,
e, 900 such ornaments are visible
on and every increase of telescope powe
add to the number.
out \ Paris letter says that the manuiac
ore ture of American flags has now be
come quite speciality there. On
or large firm is almost exclusively devot
kes ed to the business.
be The New York Express says that OH
of the best ways of decreasing Grim
re, will be to destroy the belief so unfortl
lOt, littNClN plCNdlClll Illdl IL lS vulgar
)e.7 work for living.
the The total value of the oysters sol
ext annually at wholesale in the New Yor
uck market is estimated at 5000, 900.
About Sl,OOO,00O worth is consumed
New York and neighboring cities, an
IL, the balance sent to the interior.
''oH The Oriental believes that every ev
,ith that atllicts the human race had its OF
,aJ- gin in woman. Ee make the perioC
the of publication twice as long aft
oIJ- the birth of q female child as aft
me that of male, and he buys his bride
tbo her father.
,iest y telegram from Tours says: "The
o it, is considerable iDsubordination in II
nan French army. The officers are ann
rently unable to prevent disorder n,
violence among the raw and undisci
r., lined soldiers. Several examples ha,
~ " been made.'
tary The population OF Brooklyn, lD6, On
ring shows it it to be the third citv i'm n
tier, Union, while 80 years since il was h
lone seventh. The proportionate growth
inst much more rapid than New York, al
This il may yet exceed that city in popul
the ton. ....
the Nob,rol;sts anil o,o.,. ~,
the r,ooSeJ ~ Ioorn ." eo'ugis's VIII
''e" skeletons, of antediluvian animals ha
been discovered on the bank of the ri
er Fray Bentos, IN Chilli They are
du- large that it will be necessary to devi
was some special means of removing theI
Iimc "A correspondent of the Musical Sta
emf dard calls attention to the curious "a
h;., llidC NeTN MANY oil Ollf greatest anna =,