Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

The st. Louis artesian well has reached
depth Of $500 feet,
There are nine men accused of murder
in the Jail ut Galveston, Texas.
Bostons income from liquor licenses
this wear will amount to S25O,0OO.
They succeeded in excluding liquor
from the Lexington, Kentucky, fair
1t will cost $6l7S9S to improve the
Mississippi river from the Des, s,,MOines Rapids
to st. .Paul. -.
One OF the most interesting objects
DESTROYED in the patent office fire was Whit,
ney's cotton gin, the invention OF whleh
built up the cotton trade of the south
So much graiu has accumulated at
Kingston; Ontario, that Canadian vessels can
moi be found in sufficient numbers TO for
ward it to M0ntresl, andpermission has been
asked from the government to allow Amerl'
can craft to get fOrVarders ont OF tiseir EN-
barrasspent Of riches. !, : a., as "a.
Henry Meigs, whose death in Peru
has been announced, had an extraordinary
career asa business man. He startled Call'
ior1kl smany years ago by failing III HalL
Francisco for more than million, ana was
eompelled to leave to escape the clutches OF
the law, He went TO Peru, and obtained
eoutraots to improve the streets 10 the CITY
of Lima, and also began railroad building
Meigs pushed railroads wherever they
could be- uushed in Peru; completed four at
i cost Of $60,000 900, and at the time oil MS
death had three more on hand. One OF
these was designed to unite the headwaters
N tba Amazon with the Pacific ocean. IL
WAS his intention to construct this road TO
the Cerro de Pasco silver mines, understood
10 he The richest on the globe, and the value
~ whose ore he estimated at $600,OOO,OOO
a nortlon of the road has been finished, 1t
L mid that Meigs paid his California debt
several years ago,
The following despatch from Genera
Miles, dated 0ct Sd, has been received Dy
General Terry: General TINS command
moved rapidly to Snake creek, striking the
fresh trail of the hostile Nez Perces coming
ont of the Bear Paw mountains at O'CLOCK
septemb mber 80, met and surprised the camp,
ana At 8 o'clock captured the large, part oI
iheir herd, about 600 horses, mules ana
honies, The engagement was quite severe,
SUd the enclosed is a list Of our killed ana
Connded THE Indians lost v killed, in'
elndins Locking Glass and Joseph's brotherr'
smJ three other chiefs, and 40 wounded
Iosenh gave me his solemn pledge. yesterday
shst he would surrender, but did not, ana
thsv % are evidently waiting for aid from other
fnj;ans. They say that the Sioux are coming
" their aid. They are closely invested u III
sC,re 5eep1ravines and kept under tre,. 10
take them by assault would cost many ives,
ssmo ! nav wear Them out and compel them 10
tive & M They fight with more desperation
shsn @ p any Indians have ever met, believe
shSro SSr =" are many escaped villains in the vii;
veV Iase VINO % expect q s. hung when caught ,,,I
believe there is combination RoDe DsIwsSn S"sd svsry S
cs.np saI, ~ tnu nrsventa junction. am expecting
snOrs o co"baSleu ~ Win sturgs and will then en-
tES eovor CU ~ send the SECOND cavalry companies
SsdSSl . senton TPrc.nme yOu 40 not wish them
Win r,Sp when surrounding the Nea Sa, re'sFs
rHSns I0iotcnd tosend my wooHo'" '"'''