Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-05-09
SOUTH.

The strike on the Louisville and Gin
.arai short line is over,
A fire in Gadsaen, Ala, on the 22l
t.t. destroyed about $4,000 worth OF prop,
M.
The stockholders OF the st. Louis aud
lion Mountain road have voted to consolidate
With the Cairo and Fulton.
1t is estimated that not less than
n.OO0OO worth Of cotton has passed through
Nashville since September /.
The stockholders of the Memphis
md Charleston railroad have, by unanimous
vote. decided to take back the road
The federal troops at Humboldt,
lmn, have been ordered to Little Rock to
keep Baxter and Brooks from fighting,
North Georgia papers continue to ex-
pes apprehensions Of rust in wheat, and
those Of southern Georgia to report rust in
as
The total rain fall Rt' Nashville, com
nen,ng January !, 1874, and ending April 27
/ 1874 Is thrty-oue inches and thirty-four hun
hel.As
Five million acres of cotton, sugar
nlothor cyoa producing land in Louisiana
are said to have been submerged by the pres
at Auda.iou,
Uncle Frank Preston, one of the
hai Of pioneer hunters, which hsd made
Kentucky famous, died last week at Lis home
lar MaysviIlo, Ky.
Wheat in the southern states is fine,
aorshit has sustained some injury by the
Ms.mt rains which have fallen recently.
a@ are damaged with rust.
A AaaiboatmGu named Eastwood was
murdered On his boat, twelve miles above New
Orleans, On bayou Lafourohe, Saturday morn
nS%thec negroes, who made their escape.
Both houses of the Texas legislature
llye passed a joint resolution instmctng
senator's and representatives. in congress- to
support Col, Tom Sootl's Texas Pacific rail
Z Nsd bill.
Among contributions for overflow suf-
S'" are From Washington city, $1,000;
Manchester n. H.. $1,000; Bath, Maine, 81
@ The distributing committee are working
@of8eacally in getting off supplies to all ac-
T''1e points in the oyerllOwed districts,
'l'e assistance is required,
Shepherd & DeWolf, of New Orleans,
Da7enade a proposition to st. Louis mcr-
a'his that if sufficient freight is guaranteed
F'lem to Justify the venture, they will put
"s aao aao OF steamships between Nsw Orleans
1' Mo Janeiro, touching at all important
u's'lneaate points. They also propose to
-'AV advances on shipments and arrange for
I1'estmont of the proceeds in coffee or 9TH
4Woauct' of that country if desired.
= Aeen was killed in Kentucky, above
V'uO' on the 9th, by J. Hawes. Both are
''aa5 @eh OF about eighteen, and have lived
ss Mo'1oFS Tor some years. The origin of the
,l,' l,,'u''y was that Keen on last Thursday, was
l''lS down The river in a skiff, he lying
"'n' and Hawes thinking the skiff without
lO''"pant attempted its capture, when Keen
o' up and laughed at him. Hawes vowed
'45''nce' ,+ and their meeting since resulted
"ru' n tragedy Hawes is under arrest.
''s'e Senator Alexander Il. Barber
t' t'a bradford R. Davis, both colored have
Al, S'' suits against the Louisiana Jockey
V'vn claiming five thousand dollars
~ 'SU'' because, as petitioners aver, said clul
,,' ,,'''u 70 sell them quarter badges during the
''u' races on account of their color
h,5 '''ls OF African descent that such re.
n~ "'' exclusion were not only in violation
n @ principles of natural justice, but alsc
s,,s, % ll8hts guaranteed to them by the
Io ,,0''oli and statutes of the state.
br 10eoFgia exchange expatiates as fol
n,. "'o sold outlook in that state: "Tht
b,s, 'ie being developed in more pystemat
tn,, 0IeIBetlc manner than heretofore. Tht
4, s,s ,t"opefations are on the Chestatee riv
ht. I''a vi rises IN tho Appalachian mountains
Nan "uph'n coonty, and flows southwark t,
sb,,, SOul'y' where it emptios into tho Chat
n1ID I'lee' Both these rivers traverse thC
sM. o','' ~, mostly at right auglos to the strat,
5a.l.y' yo'a veins, and rich deposits are fount
at, @ l Dea'' The Chostatee from its moutl
nl.a Junction with the Tesnatee has not beer
hrpl, excepting at tho shoals, which yiel,
npn,,,, Two companies arc now engaged ii
inm ,,"',00S u, to work the bed of the riyer-on,
nIns yu'O' u which is cutting canal and tun
Rr0o : ,,n through ridge 80 as to make availabl,
pIsal Iue' OF gold deposits; the other con
ap,os.y, " D. H. Bartlett, of Boston, who hai
esoms s.u nearly ten miles of the river. 9th
ans Wv, pa''es are preparing to operate in thl