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

Northampton, Mass, lost nine bridges
iAly new by the mill dam flood
Henri Rochefort, who was a passen.
!H on the MikadO from Australia, has arrived
It San Francisco
4Ohleago packing house was burned
Mweek, consuming 500 live hogs and OOO,
g0pounds Of dead-loss $4,000, distributed
lnong 40 companies.
The bulkhead of Grassner Dam, in
upper Wolf river, Wisconsin, gave way last
week while nno men were engaged raising
p'es, -Four mon were instantly killed and
ahers badly injured
Forty crusading ladies were arrested
md taken before the mayor of Pttsburg, Pa
M week, who dismissed them with threat
punishment if arrested again. They sang
aeDng metre doxology and departed.
Accounts from the southwestern
paris Of Minnesota represent that the ground
literally alive with young grasshoppers
Which have already commenced eating yegeta-
ton. If they remain tho prospects Of the
crops are hopeless
Northampton, Mass, dispatch SAYS
there are now in Mil River valley twelve
llndred destitute and homeless people to
feed and clothe, not for one day only, but
un'lI their future is decided upon, and must
liye at least ono hundred thousand dollars
GInmedate use. The women as usnnl OK
au more tortltude than the men, and in
'eai Of ylelling to their sorrows put forth
pa'eWoTihy eifor to improve their &c eral
condition
At meeting of the United States
Centennial commission at PAiladelplia. A
llsaCIaI statement was made showing the
total subscription to be 81, 4O5 200: total ey-
P'n'e' to May /, including plans and worl, on
yonnds, ?l4,7l2;aud estimate of total cost Of
Y~lInS7 according to designs IS $50, ,OOO
iAeIeport of the executive committee says:
without the government aid which has been
'lpe'ted ii will be impossible to rendet the
a.'oatlon crelitabIe to the nation and worthy
the occasion. Tho responsibility, there
~e Tor success for the centennial exhibition
l'R clearly rests with congress-"
Vle OF the most r markablc sales of
'ollei stock ever held in this country took
EDeAier Park, Chicago, last week. being that
lecslebratcd Lmdell herd of shorthorns,
HnSnS to Hon. W. G.. King, of Mime
FoI' Eitty-eight cows.and twenty-one balls
we're sold, the former aggrega'ing slOl. .6l5,
fl tho latter s2j,375 being an average of
'|"- each for the bulls, Buyers were pre-
"i from every part of the United States,
'n Canada, and one, Mr.. Robbins, from
iaSImd, who made the most notable pur-
1So Of the day, that of tho bull Duke of
alhuIst, for which he paid Sl4OOO. A large
.lnOer Of the finest animals sold went to
%" York, Kentucky, Iowa, Illinois and Mis-
r0i,
Na recent meeting of workingmen
lO'umbus, Ohio, resolutions we're adopted
N''r ngln favor Of the substitution Of all
'0ol for strikes by law which ensures
A'ce both to employer and employee; favor
Sme enactment of an equitable apprentice
-'i lor the enactment Of law to compel
1,"efed corporations to pay their employees
%Nsl once month in full, and for law
s'nS mechanics aud laborers fret lien on
1''' works recognizing in the ballot box the
s'A' agency through which their wrongs can
'ccare'sed, and the abrogation of all laws
''' 10 not bear equally upon capital and la
announcing Supervising Architect Mul-
! 'Or extending the contract of parties who
"O' observe the eight hour law, aud de-
''uCnS the system of convict labor; favor
y, y we establishment of cooperative shoIs
'u res s'ores by the industrial classes donounc-
N ~ OolnagoSues favoring emitting lsose from
pVa'lca' workingmen, and fayoring a pro-
", ,"'O 'aTli which will better protect the iron