Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-08-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

Joe jefferson has wholly recovered
his sight,
Much damage has been done by
overflow Of the rivers in Ilaho,
Shreveport, Texas, has been plac-
ell on the list of first. class post
Offices.
California farmers find it difficult
to get farm hands at $50 per month.
The Signal Service will take ob'er-
vahons from tho top Of Pixies Peak
during the summer.
A national convention of short
horn cattle breeders will bo held in
indianapolis on the 20th Of Novem.
ber.'
Father Becky, the "Gcncral' of
the Society Of Jesus, will visit this
country next August.
The Prcsbytcrians of Philadelphia
lately opened ono Of the best furnish
ed hospitals in the country,
Gen. Warren has been selected by
the War Department to select the
site for the bridging Of the Mississip-
pi at LII Crosse.
In and around Biddeford, Maine,
there is a colony of 2 800 Canadians,
and more arc constantly arriving
there.
The value Of improvements in
Portland aud East Portland, Oregon,
this year will exceed $3,O00,O0O.
1t is uncontradictod that for wheat
Nebraska is the banner State, and
will bo the banner State Tor wool
and mutton,
The Secretary of the Iowa State
Agricultural Society estimates the
number Of dogs in that State Nt no.
25G.
Tom SCOTS company has invest
ed $4,000 in saw mills at A9ala-
chiola, Florida, to saw out cross-ties
for the Southern Pacific Road.
DR.. Thomas Foster, the veteran
editor, has leased the Duluth Nin-
ncSsoiigD to 7. II. Pressnoll, and re-
tires upon fortune made in Duluth
real estate.
A Lawrence, Massachusetts, ma
chine for making wall paper, pro-
duaes seventy-nlno miles of paper
daily, being run twenty-three hours
ont of twonty-four.
The permit Of the new Liudoll
Hotel, at st. Louis, specifics q front
OF one hundred and eighty feet on
Washington Avenue, and building
six stories high, to cost S500,000
The Kentucky Register says Rener-
al Williams is wearing this summer
a pair Of linen pants which have
feacAGsl tnelr lutt -hlneii } v"I' lucy
were made by Billy Peacock, in this
place, in April, 1924.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company have recently bought out
the interest of the Columbia River
Steamboat Company, including all
the boats plying on the upper waters
Of the Columbia.
st. Louis is constructing works for
reducing silver and gold ores, and
refining bullion. They will be in
operation by the first Of August, and
the company is now purchasing ores
and bullion,
A rich vein Of lead orc has recent
ly been found near Smithland, on the
Cumberland river, at the depth of
1873 feet below the surface The vein
is 13 feet wido, and the assaying
yields about 10 per cent, pure lead.
This is the penalty of disorder.
Within the past few years Paris has
lost four hundred thousand Of its
resident inhabitants. The number
of vacant apartments exceeds forty
thousand. Rents have fallen in q
proportion which ranges from one
eighth to one-lourth. The doprecia-
ton in the value of land and house
property is estimated at twenty per
cont.
A leading wine firm of San Fran,
cisco give it as their opinion, that it
is almost certain that the vintage Of
the resent year, though somewhat
reduced by frosts in some localities.
will foot up greater than that of tho
year previous. They estimate that
100000 gallons of wine will be
made, besides the large quantity of
grapes manufactured into brandy.
1t is stated i'll q lottor from Prague,
that tho damage done by the floods
in Bohemia, is estimated at nearly
3G, 100000 of llorins, one of the most
fertile districts in the country having
been devastated, The water rose SO
rapidly that the people, most Of
whom were in their bods, had no
time to escape, and about seven
hundred persisted, Hundreds of
houses, too, were carried away, and
railway bridges and embankments
destroyed.