Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-10-04

mouth OF Wolf river where, it, first appenred
1t Is impossible to obtain reliable data in re-
gard to the mortality, but evidently there is no
decrease IN the death rate The city autbori-
ties to-day took the first step toward meeting
the eXgencies of the occasion, the whole street
force being put to work distributing and burn
ing coal tar in the infected quarter, while the
cltizons met and reorgani2od the Howard as
sociation with A. D, LangstaG, president
| Tho association will open an office and be pre-
pared to furnish nurses and relief to all who
apply. The exodus from the city continues,
the physicians advising all who can to leave
and the trains in all directions are crowded
The widest reports are circulated throughout
the country in regard to the number dying,
but it ia safe to say that since the disease ap-
peared the number Of deaths from all causes
has not reached 80 in any day, and since the
flight Of the terror-shicken ones there is less
excitement than during the prevalence of the
cholera.
--Br ,wnsyille, Textile Rio Grande has
oyerlowed its banks for the first time since
1869. The upper country is inundated, and
there IL three feet in the main plaza of the
city CanaTgo and an almost unbroken shee
of water from Brownsville to the gulf The
cotton crop is destroyed. The Rio Grande
and Point Isabel railread track is washed away
for over six miles and almost the entire line
submerged and ruined The pole of the tel
egraph companies lines to Brazos are swept
of, mails stopped and stage communication
with the interior suspended
The statician Of the department of agri-
culture, after a careful revision of monthly re-
turns, gi,es the following as the present sta
tus; Thecotton crop indicated in areas, is
little oyerten per cent The condition Of the |
crop Of September last year in Arkansas is he |
same also in Tennessee ana Louisiana in |
each Of the other cotton states the worms have |
been more abundant, yet their rayages have |,
not b2on disastrous or sweeping but in few |
cases, The season has been remarkable for
ita rainfall tending to further depreciation
OF the crop, otherwise the conditions will be |
quite as favorable. Fertilizers have stimu-
'ated the growth and the labor has been stea-
der and more reliable The averages are ar
follows Virginia 9S North Carolina 95,
South Carolina S., Georgia9O, Florida 49, Ala
bama 81, Mississippi IS, Louisiana 50, Texas
%, Arkansas 80, Tennessee %, Missouri 9G.
In September, 1872 the average was Yr-
ginia 81, North Carolina l0 South Carolina
%, Georgia 96, Florida 92, Alabama 49, Mis-
si5sippi SO Louisiana SG, Texas &c. Arkansas
7S, Tennessee 92. The cotton fields in North
orous and fruitful plants, exceptions resulting
mole froma falling of forms and bolIs in con-
sequence Of too abundant rainfall than ]
from the presence Of worms, In South Caro-
nia similar damage from excessive moisture
and the cstapiler occurs.
A Virginia hanging cost 1858 80.
English farmers are settling in Walker
county, Ala
A Wilmington man has the knife and strap !
which belonged to the late Henry Berry Low
ey. |
A Washington special says the congress. ,
ncn Of the Mississippi and Missouri river val
eys have, it is understood, very general j
Igreed to unite thcir efforts to secure appro- {
,rations for st. Phillip canal at the outlet OF ]
he Mississippi river. 1t Is expected that 3l2 a
DO0 600 will be necessary to make a ship canal
which will enable ocean vessos Of the greatest
BURDEN to reach New Orleans withou being d
,bstmc,ed by bars, 1t is claimed that. with Il
he completion Of this canal, ocean-gong a
hips during four months Of the year, can {.
Proceed as far north as Cairo, Some of the @
Western members state that the people of the E,
Mississippi valley seek solution of the
question mainly in that direc- y
ion.
The seconds in the Richmond duel are Il
till under bond of $4,000 each, the surviving ST
uelist McCarty not being well enough for h
rial, although improving e
The yellow fever cases on the Pawnee in :,
ley West harbor, are improving. The sick ~
ess has not attacked the town or other yos- u
ele W