Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-01-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

#AettNNN " 'AAn'iH9lPpli y" llN hI't VI bt-
cenbOr last, was only 81 1000 GOj22.
Oranges are selling at a cent apiece in
Tampa. In Savannah they bring three cents
apiece by the hundred
The number OF prisoners in the Vir-
ginia Penitentiary has increased in the past
year from 99S to LII.
The court house and all the county
records of Cooke cevnty, Tennessee, were
destroyed by fire Saturday.
Nearly the entire business part of
Crockett, Texas, burned recently. Loss So
900 OF 100000.
Fifteen hundred bufialo-hunters are
rusticating on the northwestern frontier Of
Texas.
Two hunters killed in two weeks, on
he Neuces river Texas, eleven deer, one
bear and enc hundred and forty.two turkeys.
Dennis Williams presented the Oxford
N. C.) orphan asylum with Christmas
ittof sixty pair of shoes and forty.eight
hawls.
A number of counties in Texas have
ecently voted in favor Of prohibition, and
many more will soon take vote under the
Ocal option law.
Mr.. McAdoo was elected speaker of
he Tennessee legislature, Mr. John L.
Ielms, clerk of the senate, and Mrs. Cook,
ngrOssing clerk.
u MIR. j. Citron, Of Shreveport, having
cen burned out of house and home, pumped
be water out Of his wooden cistcrn and
loved in. lie rather likes the change.
Eleven boats, carrying nearly 10000
ales Of cotton, are lying up Red river un.
bic to come out on account of the low
,ater.
t The mayor of Atlanta went out on the
NJ lilEoad and purchased one hundred cords
M wood for gratuituous distribution among
niue poor of that city.
Stanford (Fla.) journal A lemon
ee in DR.. Coldwel's grove produced 5000
M, mons last year. This year the yield will
l u be less than 1900. We have one lemon
10 n the tree which weighs pound.
Captain Eads and Colonel Andrews
cmitve left New Orleans to receive the first
yment OH the iettes. They report clear
C. annel of two hundred feet wide and
ro- enty feet deep fom deep water in the
a- Ter to deep water in the gulf.
he The contest over the United States SEN
u, Orship in Georgia is growing interesting.
NJ nat0r Norwood, the incumbent, Gen. Col
Is, iIitt, governor elect, Col Thos. lIardeman,
"'on. B. Fl. Hill, Ex-Governor IIerschell, V.
hnson, etc, etc, are all spoken Of, and
'eral of them anxious for the honor
el South Florida journal: General San
Oh. ID is going to engage extensively in the
-rr. M. lture Of pine'appes on st. Gertrude place,
con4 mile west Of here; He will plant over
,A e thousand this season, He has Just re.
I ilived an importation Of plants of rare
b rr d superior quality irom Caraecase, Vene.
@ tela.
w The New Orleans city railroad receives
i ma dollars day in counterfeit nickies and
lld ies The "revenue' from this source is
Y, s26 per annum. The annual report of the
4 npany states that "al efforts to arrest
nii punish the makers seems to be aban.
led by both state and federal author.
|rnr i"
y u is stated on good authority that the
are ndard oil company, of Pittsburg, has pur.
mn, sed 10000 acres of land in Tennessee.
wtL r the Kentucky line and propose to de.
oA4' ~ op 1t tor oil. This company is formda.
f1g combina ion, owning as it does the great
portion of the refining capacity cf the
--ntry.
audS he following are the schools statistics
tennessee. White-Male ,lG7 ,3l0 female,
, 0lS; total, 325,32S. Colored-Male, 81, ..
I female, 55,56S total, los, $50; grand to.
5S410S. Increase over scholastic popula.
pLgl Of 1874, ,496. Number of schoo-houses,
,mr,o 6j estimated value of School.houses $685..
pnn "a. Number of teachers employed, L..
Nh Average cost of tuition per pupil per
--lth, S5.6.
ra. trader got the contract for furnish
1.., the government post at San Antonio,
raiE as, with five hundred northern horses at
ra Z per head, and the Herald says of the
,... .0.I k; The horses received by the military
I'd for the use of the cavalry are such
rhra' fine animals that Io, the poor Indian,
r,, q not have much of show to get away
i,'' wy colored scalps, if Slmbo only gets an
yc', start and can hold on.
townsville (TeX.) Democrat: The
Go, uent shooting of cannon and musketry
30 N,n the river, nightly, is getting to be a
(, n class nuisance. 1t is simply disturbing
ogl peace of both sides Of the Rio Grande
na@ ng nothing, making asses Of themselves
withal, becoming the laughingstock o
+ whole world. One thousand cannon
70. |, ten thousand cartridges exploded, ant
- me killed
Ict he New Orleans Times, in an editora
led, "The Jettes Certified as Success,
rpat nd: cat last the official survey has beer
'"" ''' Q, which declares that at least twent,
e vs., Of water for width of two hundred
orul \ throughout the entire length of the jet
Is to be found. A certificate has beer
tar OH. u by General Comstock, United State
i'onp ueer In charge, to Captain Eads in proc
= is fact, and Captain Eads has left TO
every hington to claim his first instalment o
yPllni P,yll.ns hundred thousand do lars"
-1o aInpasas ( Tex. Dispatch For nearl,
crs.niaif years we have not had rain enough t.
|artcWu - ,
oni., N' Iuehly wet the ground, or 20 raise th
,..top,s In the creeks and branches, or to fl
Ihron@,he wells. Unless we have some goo,
.e !" cs this winter, we fear that the crops 70
Q, I.~ nu..-- next year will be exceedingly short
assnsa1 e., ng the last year or So we have had occe
80 GopitaI u, light rains, Just enough to wet tn
,,unti, Gee and make it sufficiently scasonabl
N ve us q reasonable crop. We need
Time 4, oldfashioned, soaking rain, one to fl
tc nn,",, & ne creeks, to saturate the earth, and
=, "a away the trash
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