Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-10
LATEST NEWS.
From Paris.

ViIIettc and Montrouyo are still
patrolIed day and night.
The prisoners at st. Sulpice en-
deavorod on Sunday to get posses
sion of some arms. The attempt
was discovered and frustrated.
Several soldiers who Allotted the
prisoners were arrested and imne-
diately sent to Versailles.
An unconfrmsd rumor says Felix
Pyat was arrested in Paris to-day.
Federalist Lieut.. Col. Boursicr
committed suicide to-day just AZ he
was arrested.
There was q serious fire in Mont
martre last night, which, il is sus.
pected, was caused by a petroleum
bomb.
Arrests continue in all parts of
the city.
la Liberte has q report that an
attempt has been made to assassin
ate the German Project Of Stras-
bourg, who was fired Mt with a rc.
volvcr and wounded.
PARIS, juno 6.-La Patrie de-
mands vigorous measures for the
suppression of Communist tendon-
cieR in the provinces.
The arscnalS and navy yards are
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directed to employ French instead
of foreign africans.
LoNDoN, May THE Times
special says the postpOnement of
Rochefort's trial is due to %apprchen-
sion of disclosures compromising
the movements of the national de-
defence.
Felix Pyatt is in Switzerland.
Theirs insists on giving the Re
public a fair trial.
VERSAILLES, June Twenty
five persons were killed and fifty
injured by a railroad accident nea;
Paris.
1t is said that Jules Ferry will be
Minister at Washington.
PARIS, June 6.-Scvcral offrcrs
of the Empire have become candi-
dates for the Assembly under the
supplemental elections.
La Veritc thinks all the Ministers
who were members Of the Govern
ment of September "a, should re.
sign, Tho same journal expresses
opposition to the plobiscitc.
The f~ortresses proposed for the
interior of Paris have been located
at Montmartrc and Chaumont. The
engineers have already commenced
work.
Schumacke err, tho murderer OF
Generals Locompto and Clomen
Thomas, has been arrested.
The trial of Rochcfort and Asst is
postponed.
Wires have been discovered in
the sewers, intended to blow up
the city.
Gembetta is still at San Sebastian
VERSAILLES, June 6.-The Con.
stitutional says tho first duty ofthe
Assembly is to fill its own one hun.
bred and twenty seats, next to as
sumo constituent powers, and finally
to order II plebiscite for the deter.
mination of the question Of the tu,
ture from of government.
ROME, Juno 6.-By order Of The
Pope, a solemn high mass was cele,
brated to-day for the assassinatcd
priests.
New ORLEANS, June There is 8
heavy southeast wind With rain or
Lake POntchartrain this evening
The water in the city has fallen
two inchos in tho past twenty foul
hours. 1t il now three inches be-
low high water mark.
The neutral ground on Canal
street is clear Of water nearly tC
Claiborne street.
Besides the police and charity
boats there are hundreds Of small
crafts engaged in the passenger
traffic. They are as thick around
the neutral ground, and all Canal
street, as vehicles at the race course,
and the boatmen are as solicitous
for patronage as depot Cahmen.
The boats are required 10 carry
lights, and after dark the appear.
anco is interesting, Five thousand
lo"ves Of broad anu othOr articles
proPortionatoly, are distributed
daily.
A d~ispgreeable odor arises all
along the border of The %overaowed
district FROM the siagnsnt water and
aAeaEiDg vegetable and animal mat
tPr.
iloNDoN, jane 8.-Julos Mires,
the celebrated French banker, is