Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

IenslCOIa, FlOfluaj Hao htu wv
crops of strawberries.
Two thousand women labor dail5
in the harvest fields of Wisconsin.
Florida people are already eating
. sweet potatoes Of this years growth.
The population Of st. Louis in
creased from 47,97i in lS47, to b.
1868 in 1870.
An Illinois farmer has one hnH-
dred acres set out with onions.
= Baltimore is said to have church
: accommodations for 100000 people.
New York last year educated 3d.
I 784 children in the public schools. Nt
a cost Of S2,733G9l.
A Troy editor speaks OF snotloh
as sufficiently well posted 10 edit =
handbill."
Peanuts are said to be classed
among the dessert at Wilmington
| On. CO. hotels.
Daniel Styles, of Prescott, Wiscou-
sin, aged l0G, claims to be the oldest
frecmason.
Willard's hotel, Washington, 50
celebrated during the war, is to be
removed and finer building erected
The sugar crop of Louisiana thi.
year is estimated at l0LSSl hogs
heads, and her rice crop at 1891
barrels.
The Greek and Roman arnie. ate
but once day,
70 healthy persons mineral water
is not wholesome.
Hartford claims to be the richest
city Of its size in the Union.
The wheat harvest in Kansas be
gun on the 10th inst. The crop was
never better.
The books in the library belong.
ing to the British Museum occupy
twelve miles Of shelving.
Three elephants, on an average,
come to this country each year Thoy
cost about 5000 a piece.
1t is estimated that the number of
cattle driven from Texas this season
will reach eight hundred thousand.
In the procession at San Francisco
celebrating the pontifcate Of Plus
TX, General ROsecrans acted ne Mar
shaI.
According to one OF the New York
papers there have been 1900 caHc'
of smallpox in that city since Janu-
ary.
Coppcrhcad snakes are said II
smell like fresh cucumbers, and
Western snake-hunters follow and
despatch them by the scent,
Miss Cordclia Jane IIodgeson, the
late English connection Of BcnjapiH
franklin, died at the age of Is al
Preston, England, the other day.
1t will take sixty years to restore
to France the forests ruthlessly vast.
ed in the military operations OF The
late war.
Brigham Young has recently hade
little steamer built in New York
and shipped West. She is to sail on
Salt Lake, and is called the Lady
of the Lake
No less than three individual, in
different parts Of the country have
recently shot themselves in showing
how Nallandigham killed himself
1t is time the experiment ceased.
Late adviccs from Leheran say that
the famine in one district of Persia
has reached such a state that starving
people have killed and eaten my
children.
a St. Louis iron company conter-
plates erecting blast furnace twenty
five feet in diameter and ono hun
dred feet high. 1t will be the largest
in the United States.
The Rufd Ne" Y0rker RECON-
mends applying ashes to grass lands
by sowing broadcast the fall after
the crop is off. The amount per
acre may be twenty-five to two hun
drcd bushels.
\ correspondent of the London
Times, writing from India, tells of a
recent whirlwind that carried houses,
trees and herbs high into the air, and
dashing them to the ground a mills
or so away, killed everything that
possessed life
Charles Francis Adams will shortly
publish lis 'Memoirs of John Quin.
cy Adams which will include the
statcsman's diary from l795 to 1S4S,
Lippincott ha, it in press.
No less than two hundred and
twenty-foir life insurance companies
have been wound up in Great Bri.
tain wi,hin the last twenty-five years.
This is twice as many as now exist
there
Several Of the AIackcrling fleet
have arrived at Gloucester the past
week, averaging about $50 barrels
each. Prices rule very lew, and the
business will not prove remunera.
tive.
Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren, have been the only men in the
history of this country who have
been Governors OF states, holders of
first class foreign missions, heads of
cabinets, Nicc.Prcsidents, and Prcsi.
dents.
In lis speech in san Francisco
senator Cole expressed the opinion
that the Treaty of Washington will
preclude the possibility Of war be.
tween America and England for per
haps century to come,
The famed mosquitoes of New
Jersey are being eclipsed by the op-
pearancn there Of new bloOd-letter,
called the winged porcupine,"
which has concealed under its wings
number Of fine quilts, and shoots
them al any enc attempting to capture
i. These work into the skin, causis5
paiAlul irritation.
\ story is going the round OF the
Northern press that an Alabamq
planlcr, several years age, becoming
satisfied that the vitality OF the cot
Ton plant was destroyed only by frost.
tried an experiment with single