Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-06-20
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Rains in Georgia have been general
gAe crops are reported as fine.
The Montgomery Advertiser says the
tai crop in Alabama will be much larger
1iOr many years past.
murderer was lynched in Harrison
..ay Ky, below Cincinnati, few nights
.la his clothes soaked in oal oil and the
hyhmed
Tom Norris, who murdered and rob-
kihAIbostman about month ago, was Ia
Irhom Winnsboro, La, Jail, Saturday night,
l1aity disguised men, and hung.
4 The Macon Telegraph reports that
Awn crop in Georgia il doing we'll Cotton
3almsll, and at least one-third less planted
IAst year. A full crop, therefore, IL i'm
ba5s.
IBdce Of the peace Conners and
s.sergeant Chipman were shot in st. Ber-
8Nprish, Pa, last week, by Francis Arctic
r double barrel shot gun loaded with
Aslot. The wounds are dangerous.
I'd Lucas alias Scott, a negro, was ar
Sti near Shreveport, La, for completely in
aELOi murder. While being conducted to
nAe was taken from his captors and hung
trglants, being the third person hung by
Nm for this murder.
lpeCial from Sardis, Miss, says a
pnsmed Nose Gregory becoming incen'
Mt bis wife, attempted to shoot her and
@hi' daughter Emma, aged IS, and killed
~ On being arrested he admitted tho killi
u aging he tried to kill his wife, and would
Ligyet.
ipeclal from Rockport, Texas, says
lbs Hen ascertaned that the murderers OF
hi ml wife we're two MeKicsns. Mrs,
t' was stabbed i'll nineteen places, her
nclt to tke neckbone, and shot in the
N Mr.. Swift was equally butchered, ex-
Nila he was not shot.
Tie New Orleans cotton exchange
sholted revised rules looking to refor-
Aol in the handling Of cotton, the object
'B 10 prevent the peculiarities which have
r'o'ore generally resulted in reducing the
aSl'o OF each passing bale aud adding lO,-
bales annually to the city crop.
!le Charleston Courier says that dur
4hi week more than two thousand pieces
'ial estate in the city OF Charleston have
@lioTieted to the state, for the non-psy-
Aoi state taxes. The owners OF the prop
y we're unable to pay the taxes, and the
''FeIty was offered for sale without finding
4er,
Judge Graham Of Charleston, S. O.,
Rasclded that The action OF Gov. Moses, at
lSed in the indictment for larceny, was Of
aNtlon, and il it WAS a crime it was com.
~*apy him az governor, and ordered the in.
Sueilt' as to Francis T. MSses, Jr., to be
AIMED and the case As to him stricken from
docket.
A'Pecial from Pine Bluff, Ark, state,
MAS Gen. King White was riding on one o.
'nan streets in buggy he was fred upon
man named Derry, and slightly wounded
w. White returned the fire, wounding Derr,
u! Ten or twelve shots were fred. Tn,
1s'ch says Derry is a Brooks man and al
IO!e T,! on Senator Clayton's place.
'le executive committee OF th,
I'@'llle, Tenn. tobacco district council hav
Dp'cu resolutions recommending to tn
'u''' 'he appointment Of competent chem
'lose duty 1t shall be to analyzo the fer
' 4''' now being sold in the district, and sug
aug 'hat each subordinate grange inquir
no fence law
w. Ely Mcclellan, assistant surgeon
@0 United States army, has been dotaie
, ou' the provisions of joint resolu
VI congress, directing the secretary @
W ue'sll medical officer to investigat
h, ''poft upon the epidemic Of cholera Q
Suuet The direction Of the surgeon ger
,,p 4" 'ne army. He is now on a visit to tn
,10in states in the prosecution Of the dut
'u'u MIN, and has arrived in Nashvill
view OF obtaining complete record {
s'es ,, OF the disease which occurred in thi
during last year.
WV Kellogg has sent the folIowin
@Se 70 Gen, Belknap, secretary Of wal
.s"el committee report that the suffe
s,, '"V'n the overflow remains unabated in A
~"'ya' Lafourche and ouachita valley
M. eI ~ tnere Is some abatement on the banl
I'm, '''Sisslppi. The committee are issuir
,ts,, ,Dl'y thousand rations daily, and in son
r,. s'' are compelled to restrict their reli
'Ion ,a1 and children, even where work
n.-' @''"Dle for the able bodied. II Il
w. | eoVernment would order the issuan
h 'u'y ' thousand daily rations from Il
,Pproprlation, it would avert much su
aM,. uie recent meeting OF the cottc
Aop1as ~ convention at Augusta, Ga, NJ
Stos w.t. OF Memphis, read preamble, res
qten auu argument adopted by the Mempt
a,oAS74ange' The paper is very length
b,, iO'srs the whole subject of cotton pr
n, 1un and consumption. 1t recommen
N0r., Io convention petition congress to ma
An,, appropriations sufficient to furnish I
NJ DS,n''ormation :, in reference to tho colt
.p,s tu0 appropriation to be placed with t
M -ent OF agriculture and the signal !
oht., au 70 be used specially for the purpC
A,n" nsinlog information as to the acrea
So,, used planting cotton, the number
es0a,, s employed, the average of ami
@ ,. On In each state, the condition OF {
AIbs,i Sn 'he time Of planting to the III
Am and providing for the publication
s,si.,. .,uurate reports. It also provides
b ~ nS ~ signal stations from North Ca
as,, .,.' .sRaa' to 10 used in the charge Of 90
O0'sF', whose duty II shall bs 10 rep
v dt. -s-.
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