Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

week. u
II The great Ring Hotel, in New Yo,
~ on thesite of the late MetronoIltn
will be opened next week. '''''"
10 Florida claims to have better nayt,
If since the war. any Je
The population Of New Mexico
r. IZOlUOO OF whom 81, 200 are Mexica,
ana halt-breeds, and 10000 Indians,
~ Ihe Duluth canal vas opened n
Il Friday. The large steam nronelI'
5 bay. ivy W III
The municipal council Of ParI, II,
] resolved to issue, in the form OF A iot
tery, q three per cent. loan for a larr
Thirty thousand young sbad bav
Oeen safely transported via the Pncifi
Ianroad from the Hudson to the Sac
ramento. Wv '''0
d. Z. Cook, member Of Conpres,
rom the 9th district OF Illinois bo,
rendered his resignation. His succes
Sor Will be elected in November.
The Secretary Of the Treasury /.
aoout 10 issue a stringent circular eau.
uonlng manufacturers against the i'm.
proper use Of trademarks on vatch
works. VA ""'cL
1t Is estimated that the receipis ot
cotton in Memphis, Will amount to
90, 1o0 bales by September |, pIacing
market. 80 ''0 00''on
striped snakes eat potatoe bpgs
Whlch, IN turn, poison the snakes, and
Iue people of Van Buren, coIntv
IOWA. are In high glee at the mutuoI
benefit society. -O'O"'
The cotton growers of South Africa
nad cotton show at King Willism,s
Town, August 10th, tUcill1strate tbs
growth Of their industry. WIG
There is walnut tree in Addison
Nt, five feet and ten inches in circnm
ference, one hundred and twenty tsct
limb. ''i0 n''t
There are already $4,000 coIored 70.
ters registered in Texas, and the Am.
tin journal thinks the number will ho
increased to 10000 before che election.
The hop harvest in Northern Nav
I ork is now in progress. Some twn
hundred girls left Syracuse on one div
crop, s '"o
The California fig-crop is ripe and
some OF the growers win dry cSnsid.
eraoleq equantities. Lastyear one grow.
er sold 1000 pounds of figs from ro
tree. ''01i "'e
Twenty-three thousand of the b,.
ha3?ltants Of Strasburg are said TO have
emlgrated to France and America
since The ceesion Of that city to the Ger
lMinety thousand Immigrants came
British KNITTED States last year frpm
Europeans, but the {Any of these were
nadians. re ="
In Richmond, Va, many birds ara
said to be going blind every day dead
birds are picked up in the streets, hav.
ing been killed in their flight by strik-
ing against buildings and other Oh
structions.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia j.
the modern Utopia. They have 40
lunatics, blind, deaf or dumb, and no
paupers or poor law. There is no tax
alton.
Canada boasts the discovery of an
ancient burial-place containing some
two hundred gigantic skeletons with
the clay Of departed Ripes in their
mouths.
The New York Express thinks the
proper way to start a cholera panic is
to write and talk about it evey day.
and hints that that is just what tie
American people are now somewhat
unnecessarily doing.
Liberia, last season, produced SOO,-
900 pounds Of sugar; $4,000 pounds of
coffee; 10000 pounds Of ginger and 90
tons Of white arrowroot-the latter
being prepared for market.
The california Silk Company'su
factory at South San Francisco, was
started q short time ago, and thou
sands of silk growers are visiting 1t to
see how the machinery works.
An attempt was made Monday by
some unknown parties to explode the
monument to King George w. at
Kingstown, Ireland. Though much
blackened by gunpowder the m Gnu
ment received no real injury.
In San Francisco the salaries of cler-
gymen are being reduced. One Pres
byterian church which formerly gave
$4,000 year now gives but half that
sum another, which once gave the
largest salary in the city, now gives
but $1,000.
Two years experimenting has de-
monstrated that the poppy culture in
California is 8 success. The opium
contains an unusual percentage of
morphia, and is considered far superior
to the ordinary opium of commerce.
There is difference of nearly fifty
per cent. between the male and female
of New Zealand, which
the Colonial authorities endeaver to
counteI-balance by offering free pas
sages in Great Britain to all single
young women of good character.
In st. Petersburg, which contains
about 675,000 Inhabitants, twelve per.
sons were murdered last year, fifty
five committed suicide, las died of in
temperance, ,ninety-eight were drown.
ed, l40 perished by other accidents, be.
sides iitty'three corpes were found, al
though the cause Of death was not as
certained.
A writer on monkeys tells us a sSury
ofone of these female undeveloped spc-
cies OF humanity, who, having lost
her infant, adopted a kitten. One dav
the kitten scratched this affectionate
baboon, who, much astonished at be-
ing scratched, Immediately examined
the kittens feet, and without more
ado bit of the claws.
Prof. Agassiz owes the house owners
Of New Orleans an apology. His al.
ledged prediction that tidal wave
would overflow the coast of the Gulf
of Mexico, is reported to have brought
about o sudden reduction of rents in
that highly favored city. The New
York Commercial Advertiser saws il
would he much obliged to the Profes.
sor if he would figure it up so as tc
stretch that "tidal wave" as far a,
New York.
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Brooks of the New York Exnress
writes Of the drama in Japan: d