Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-05-30
VOLUME XIV.

pointed committees looking towa,d the in
peachment OF those state officers who sur
ported the pretensions Of Mr.. Brooks an
the governor has modified the conditions q
martial law 70 far as to permit the G. ecutoI
OF civil arrests
Samuel Berman has sued Capt. Rees,
Prltchard, commander of the steamer Clarks
vile, for 100000 damages for hanging lin
up on that boat to extort confession in re
gard to stealing iowolry from feildw.passon
ger, with which he was charged. Capt Pritch
ard was not On board at the time Of the
hanging.
The mayor of New Orleans, in letter
to a gentlemen in Washington, SAYS unless
the resources for relief be increased to one
million dollars, many families mutt perish by
famine Even that sum will not more than
suffice to save the lives Of The ihuntGtea til
the food subsidies and the oyerfowed lands
are again tillable
A dispatch received from Helena says
that Capt, Tom Bbmy, formerly steamboat
commander in the Memphis aud Little Rock
trade, but for several years past engaged in
planting at Walnut Bend, Ark, was shot and
killed there last week by Il man named Marks
in difficulty growing out OF lawsuit Marks
escaped in the skiff OF his victim.
1t is said that great deal of destitu-
ton prevails in and around Chicot, Ark, on
account of the food, Tile largE plmter8 are
suffering equally with the small farmers
Everything in the shape of chatte property
and provisions have been swept away, and UNI
I less mid reaches them soon there will be sacri-
flee Of life from starvation,
A fatal afray occurred at Cherry
Greek, Pontotoc county, Miss, last Thursday
The parties engaged were Wm. Garner, Sim
Mccoy, Sam leoder, Mccoy, Sr,, Mark Miriam
and Geo. Mccoy. Firearms were freely used
and Wm. Garner was shot and Miram was shot
three times, each wound, however proving to
be slight. Vim Mccoy, ST., had his arm
broken, and Sim Mccoy was slightly bruised.
All the combatants had, before this terrible
fact were all related. No other cause is as
signed for the unfortunate ard deadly COLI
sion than that the parties were drunk at the
time.
On addressing a recent meeting of the
Galveston, Texas, chamber OF commerce. Col.
Van Horne of Kansas City, said the delega-
ton had two objects in view One was to in
Quire if the Galveston merchants were able
and willing to handle the grain Of their sec
ton the other, TO secure proper competition
tariff Of rates from the railroad lines. They
would otum home satisfied we could handle
their grain, and would report to their board of
trade that the merchants of Galveston will do
their part, and united effort will be made to
induce the railroads to comply. By this means
trans Mississippi commerce will be built up
which will rival that Of the east
Hon. Frank Morey, of New Orleans,
asks by telegraph from Washington, when is it
estimated the present supply Of food or funds
will be exhausted at the present rate Of dis
tribution. Gov Kellogg replies The relief
committee for Louisiana receive from the
government eight thousand rations daily and
distribute from thirty to forty thousand. The
funds from private contributions will be ex-
hausted in fifteen days. Every effort is being
made by sending cotton seed, corn and rice to
the flowed districts to afford relief in the
shape of work and to discourage idleness
but the necessities for help will last much
longer than the present resources.
The committee on transportation of
the agricultural congress, in session at Allan |
ia, reported resolutions in favor of water
transportation, by artificial highways. and
against the regulation of railroad traffic by
congress, which were adopted. The commit
tee on the tax on tobacco recommended that /
the government reduce tho tax to a uniform /.
rate Of twelve cents por pound, and that ar
ticles used in the manufacture OF tobacco come |
duty free. Adopted. Gen. Jackson was re- |.
elected president and c. W. Greene secretary, |
]. s. Grinnel was elected yice-presidcnt c. |
w. Greene secretary, resigned and Geo. i. /
Morrow, editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, was !
elected in his place. Tho next meeting Of the .
congress will be held at Cincinnati the second |
Wednesday in September, 1875.
A Denver, Texas, dispatch tays the
wheat crop of this region is now out of dam
ger, and will bo the largest ever raised in
northern Texas. New wheat will be in market |
here by the lat Of June A large breadth of
land is planted in cotton, and looks finely.
Business is revivng all through Texas, and all
the railroads are crowded with immigrants,
while the prairie roads are lined with people .
in wagons seeking new homes The Texas
and Atlantic refrigerator company has added |
yariousimproyements to its slaughteringworks |
here, and is now killing one hundred beeyes |
daily and will soon slaughter five hundred.
It owns one hundred cars, built to transport |
fresh beef to St. Louis, Chicago, New York
and Baltimore, aud will send a train-load daily !
to these cities during the season.