Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-08-12
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To attract travel westward the an
nouucemeHt Is made OF the discovery OF
q lake Of sody water on the Iaclitc rail-
road.
Georgia announces that this season,
raising WatermelOus fOt the Northern
market is more profitable than raising
cotton,
Wallace, Congressman Of South Car
olina, sitter saying he dared to &c home
has gone home, and is not molested.
Indeed, he Is let alone severity.
The present harvest In Francs Will
fall below the usual average. The Won
der is that 1t pproNimates TO any aver
age customary in time OF peace.
The Boston CongrcgationalIst thinks
that, IL a church hires a pastor to preach
eleven months and to play one. he ought
to do the latter as ConscientlonSly as
the former.
II has been estimated by Dr. Burke
that an average. brain Is capable OF
holding 3,l5J, 100000 thoughts, and Bal
lOcue has estimated that the cerebral
conyolutions contain l3i,000,0OO cells.
Atlsnta, Ga, has a,,woman shoemaker,
Her husband who fell battling for the
south, left his Kit o ft0OlS only as 4 leg
acy. but hard times coming on she has
taken to the strap and the last, and Is
pegging out an honest livelyhood'
The denomination of DunkerS is
steadily extending. The number OF
churches il said to be not less than 800,
the number of ministers and elders from
500, to 1000, and the membership about
l0n,- 1000. There arc single churches
having as many us COO members
In New York. Monday, a mar struck
his wife on the head with a Ratchet,
She rctaliating stabbed him through the
hin with Il knitc. Both covered
with blood, were taken to the station
house. As usual, Rum was the orig
nal cause OF the difficulty.
By the late Texas election law, any
person in that State making Il bet or
wager upon the result of an election is
dc6arred from the privilege Of casting
n vote. A similar law has long been
In force in other States; but betting on
elections has not been stopped.
Believing it to be well TO keep certain
facts green in the peoples memory, 1t is
said the French Government vii! hear
after print on every taxable bill pre-
scnted to the citizens of the world,
"This tax has been levied to dciray the
indemnity of the Prussian war OF 1871
Il declared by Napoleon III
The geologists who are operating at
Hell Gate to aid in removing the OBJ
srutctlons there are preparing for a 81
gantic explosion. llallett's Rock,
Formidable obstruction is to be under
mined and charged with nitro-glyccr-
| inc and gunpowder, the charge then SET
off by electricity This huge piece Of
fireworks is anticipated with interest
A locomotive whistle can be hcarC
under ordinary circumstances, 3,OV
wards or two miles; the noise OF rail
way train, 1850 yards the bark OF {
dor. or the report of a musket, l,S0O
wards the roll of n drum 1000, yards
and the human voice, LOCO yards. A
dlaner horn in the country is Otter
heard five miles.
The Cincinnati COmmtrridi has beer
moved by the Bowen pardon to pro
pound the following conundrum Arc
we to understand that the truly loyal
have a right to plurality OF wives
Perhaps the writer had better ask In
wife's opinion on the general principle
involved before losing any more SIeel
In attempting to guess it ont
A BOY was recently saved from a teri
bic death at n rope and t"ine factory by
the prOmptness and presence OF mind o
a little girl. The boy was caught in th'
machinery, and was being pulled into /
Il fast as possible, when the little, Sir
ran with a knife, cut the cord and re
leased him.
When Tie first Atlantic cable va
laid, some entcrprising ieweler bo1gh
M a dozen miles or so OF the WIRE an,
cut it up into " charms and watch
guard ornaments. At present a spccu
lativc dealer Is working up fragment
from the NendOme column in like man
ncr. and bits ofthc bronze nicely set ar
to be found in the Broadway stores.
Natives OF the Sandwich Island ar
much pleased with the pretty postag
stamps of one, six and eighteen cent
denomination, which have recently bee
introduced into the islands. Thes
stamps are violet, green and pink i
hue. and are stamped with the heads {
native Hawaiian dignitaries. There
an immense trade in them, as the ia
tives buy them for taIismanS.
In a trial in Washington county, \
Y.last week. a certain deed was prove
to be fraudulent, it being dated, Jan.
, 1872, and paper manufactures testify
/ Ing that such paper as it was write
upon was not in existence until w
! the process by which it was made nc
having been known Until that time.
I There appeared in the obituary co
l umns ofthc Ledger, of last week, NJ
: tees Of the death of nine pCrsOns-or
man and eight wOmCn-whO had live
beyond the advanced age OF eight
years to wit: Elisabeth Built, aged s.
= Margaret Scllall, -; Sarah Orr, s.
Patrick Judge. 81: Mary Rudolph, 81
Elisabeth Walkers; Grace Southwcl
IS; Rachel Blake,M; and Carolir
Makau. %.
= Hartford has secured from the Con
neticut Legislature an appropriation
!, $50O.000 tor a new StatiOn-llous
The city is to give an equal sum #
n the building, hoping to thus secu
4 Hartford MS the sole capitol Ofthc Stat
! But the friends of New Haven are no
moving to secure n similar appropri
tinn