Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-08-04
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tiloes.
ileh vein of silver ore has been dis
Il I've miles northwest of the town o.
,eas Miss. Good judges say the or,
lns b. per cent. Of silver with enough
q IN all expenses,
. lin channel company of Hous
assures the city that it intend,
Il the bays in nayigable condition, ac
~ ID contract, for the fall trade. 4
Z hayc expended much more than it,
81 ID improvements.
nayer of Tampa, Florida, has
biisd communication, direct or indi
llh the city of Havana,
. hahlth officer OF Savannah report,
lly never more free of sickness thar
There are no epidemics of any kind
ibana denies that the United States
nment owns one.Gfth of the public
of ihat state. Government only own
lghlh
very large establishment for con
n eaDe into pulp for the mannfactur,
nef Il about to be put into operation il
in4|bn, n. G., by the national tibeI
81 beg of Spaniards are in south
IA IQf the purpose of purchasing bee
e Cuban market They are well pro
With money, and are paying libera
em i some talk of abandoning the
school as part of the public schoo
ii Of augusta, Ga. The newspapers O
aie deprecate the step. The working
school has been highly satisfactory
migrants from the north and west
Al Tampa, Florida, by every train, and
ausiRial interests OF that section of the
N1He never in a more prosperous con
y new directory Of Wilmington
caplina, gives that city a population
QI0 "a increase Of 5,97i over the United
BUS of 1870, and an increase Of
he census Of the last directory,
bsacola, Florida, Gazette saws
6g trees in Pensacola known by
l.H to be more than sixty years old
Mbch Older is not known. Sixty
n1fe or a hundred years, may be the
I tHer thrifty lives; but we have no
Ql predicti9n. They still yield pro,
and are in full vigOr.
The press convention of South
na b May last, it was determined that
ort ahOuId be made to raise from each
yin thc state Fifty dollars for the rom.
nOtthe bust and monument to William
Fe himmS, SO mr. nothing has been
ted. Fifteen hundred dollars is
d The bust, made by the artist Ward,
y lerk, is complete. Seven hundred
~ collars was paid, and the like
nt y due on it, The granite for the
sxeAdy but unchiselcd.
eEannah News says four thou
acres Of land, valued Mt $1,000, known
"NiIIage property" ON st. Simon's
y pens bargained for by Mr.. W. j.
me recent purchaser Of Cannon's
fora colony Of twelve Illinois families.
eveport, Louisiana, wants a town
WHOSE strokes can be heard for four or
1eA Such time.piece will be erected
EAnnIng order by November on the
q the Presbyterian church, which
eleTated thirty or forty feet, placing
~ about seventy teet above the
Z. The proposed clock, it is claimed,
lhe second largest in the country.
iouston, Texas, man gets his poplar
IRON Decatur, Ala.
thought ten escaped convicts of
county, Georgia, are in Uchee creek
llstones fell in Clay county, Texas,
Che great storm measuring eight
. circumference.
FOL the country parishes in I ou-
AAss been divided into ten wards, as
a Dy an act of the late legislature.
stated that the United States
iment still owns one.ffth Of all the
4 The state of Alabama.
hpck, North Carolina, is above
the sea 2,lOO feet, nearly / 900
'nan GreenvilIe. Asheville is 2,23O;
head, 5000; Cashiers Valley, 1000,
Mitchell rises to the height of
aa the loitiest peak this side of the
AQP Pntains. These elevations are
4 United States survey.
.'9f Springs commission has taken
~ the summer, every member
AZ pay during the recess, OF course.
" q looking after the survey of the
lnens reservation aud of exercising
factions with reference to the
ny Nhs too much for them. They had
Aen well into their work when they
psa PntiI September, They will re.
year at Hot Springs.
VnMleston IN, CO. Observer says
y y the colonization society of Phil.
has purchased 10000 acres in Tran.
Anp Henderson counties for emf.
aRa That he has made arrangements
.ulleNaI to these lands of sixty>fvc
q people, who expect to come to
'vat the first of September, settle on
- lhere make thsir homes. These
At IRON eight different states Of
at ancluding Maine in the east, and
e. n the northwest, and locating
w n IL turn their attention to farm.
aiSlng, etc. They are practical,
QA4 nen and women.
ewls, of King William county,
w W acres of tomatoes. His hot
4'i' are covered by 1900 paneS
''ome (Ga.) Courier says that the
~ place shipped last week an
$1,000 pounds of -four per day.
'Voo bushels of wheat per day
ftensiye mine of black lead
''scovered in Floyd county, Ga.
soon he Opened. Mr.. FrOmm