Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-10-25
VOLUME XXIV.

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leaking can. II was With the greatest difficult
ty the man was extracated from the flames
and the car saved from destruction. He died
soon after boing taken from the car.
Anna Garrett, colored, Of Plymouth,
North Carolina, who, becoming angry at her
gTandchild for stealing seventy-Ave cents,
whipped the child to death, then creased it,
and was caught in the ACT of tossing it into a
tire, is to be hanged in December. Further
more, she is eighty years OF age
Memphis Nearly hundred laborers and
u large number Of carts are at work in the in
fected district, under the personal direction Of
Major OBannon, and thorough overhaulng
Of tho almost depopulated First ward is vgo-
rously prosecuted. 1t is probable that the
locality known as Happy Hollow, In the First
ward, will be burned out and most powerful
dlsiRfectants applied to the grounds whore
tho ahantios formerly stood, From the earn
estnees manifested by the new board Of health,
much good is expected to result from their
labors. 1t is now reliably estimated that there
are between 700 and 1000 poor children left
orphans and homeless by the ravages of the
disease, and much anxiety is felt for them
The orphan asylums are full to oyerfowing,
and the relief commissioners are doing all in
their power to provide homes for them. Con-
tributions continue to pour in from every
quarter, and all are disbursed either by the
Howards Of tho Citizens commission, or by
the pastors of the different churches. The
ten thousand rat ons ordered by the president
are consumed at the rate Of one Thousand per
day. Tho applicants in each case bring GER
tifcate from a minister physician, or some
one of the different relief committees.
Scattering reports from the cotton states
mention that much damage has been caused
10 late cotton by drought and worms, especial
ly in Arkansas and Tennessee.
"A quarrel between two negroes at Mound
City, Ark, resulted in the death of Morris, |
who was shot three times by Smith. The lat
ter escaped into Kentucky.
The warehouse OF Lowry Il MCGEE at Full
ton, Arkansas, was burned last week, Loss
90, 900; no insurance.
Columbia, \. Ca son of the colored
secretary of state, Kohn, has been admitted
into the South Carolina University as stu
dent. Three Of the principal professors, Tai
ley Gibbs and Laborde, have resigned in con-
sequence.
--1elegrams received from Key West and
Punta Rosa, Florida, state that most de-
structive cyclone swept over these stations on
the 9Th. At Key West the wind reached We
locty of eighty miles an hour; at Punta Rosa,
OF niuety. At the latter station the sea rose
fourteen feet over mean tide level, overflow
lug land and washing away every movable
thing. The few inhabitants Of Punta Rosa
are entirely without drinking water.
"A committee of Memphis merchants re-
siding in New York, acknowledge $3,5O5 sub
aoriptions during the past two days, for the
yellow fever sufferers in that city. The total
amount received by the committee is " OG9.
New Orleans the sixty-three nurses
and physicians sent by the Howard association
to Shreveport, not one of them have taken the
fever. Fifty-six nurses have been sent by
them to Memphis.
"A Shreveport special to the Pcayune says:
DIR. Bruns says the backbone of the epidemic
is broken, but only ice will destroy it. The
poison is more malignant than he ever met.
Hon. JeT Davis, who has been eXtremlyill
at tho Gait House. Louisville, has partially re-
covered.
The national banks at Augusta, Ga, re-
ported as broken, will continue business.
The Now Orleans National banking associ-
stion, c. Cayorck, president has gone into
liquidation.
At Owensboro, KY, on Saturday, JEFF.
Underwood, gambler, was killed hy Budd
BOTie.