Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-03-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

A'1 W ~ - AuADs
The Virginia penitentiary is to be
lei,
The Nashville gas company sends to
Alabama for coal.
Cullman has the only sauif factory in
the state of Alabcma.
The Chattanooga steel rail works win
be in operation June Ist
Memphis desires to hear Capt. Eads
on the subject OF river improvement.
A new cotton mill has Just been started
IN Natchez, Miss, the operatives going from
Georgia.
About five hundred colored men of
Tennessee propose emigrating to Arkansas
next month,
The contract to improve the harbor of
Jacksonville, Florida will probably be given
to Capt. Eads.
Gov. Holiday, of Virginia, has offered
rewards for the apprehension of the lynchers
of Charlotte Harris
Certain lands on the st, Johns river
Florida, sold the other day for four hundred
dollars per acre. a.
Mr.. Caswell Bell, aged seventy, shot
himself in Ataseosu county, Texas because
widow wouldn't marry him,
The sheriff of Denton county, Texas
recently passed through Dallas, tscorting
four murderers end two horse thieves.
A Selma, Ala, man has patented a
machine for distributing poison on cotton
plants, and thinks he will he a millionaire
shortly,
Three persons in the parish of Assump-
hon, in Louisiana, killed nine thousand alji.
gators, and sold their hides for seventyfive
cents apiece.
The expenses Of the recent session of
the Louisiana legislature were two hundred
thousand dollars less than for any year since
reconstruction.
The results Of artificial propagation of
fish IN Virginia are beginning to be exhibit,
ed in the large number Of shad and behring's
in the streams.
Richmond Dispatch There is a seri
GUS falling off in the revenues Of the Mofett
register. This is not at all an indication of
fault in the register itself, but OF dishonesty
in some liquor sellers.
Shreveport Times; A resident of San
Pedro, Texas, killed his wife with a hatchet
because she would not get 0ul Of bed first to
make the Gre. A corone1s Jury brought in
e verdict of "Ded from natural causes"
Dallas, Texas, Commercial: First
Murderer-The right Of trial by jury is the
cornerstone Of American ibHrto. Second
Murderer You bet II is And then they
loaded their pistols and went to look for a
new victim.
Nashville American Collector Wood
cook says that he has received information
from the persons coming from the counties
mentioned, to the effect that the Illicit dis.
tillcrs are making an organized effort at
resistance, and that very bitter feeling
exists among them.
Savannah News A comparatively new
and prospeoti9uly profitable use is made by
nr. Moragne, on the st. Johns river, of the
millions Of orange blossoms which annually
drop from the trees and are left to decay.
He distils from then orange flower water,
which ladies pronounce superior TO the
generality Of toilet perfumes.
The coroner's jury holding an inquest
at New Orleans over the bodies of the st.
Pierre family, drowned in consequence of
the collision between the tug5Oat HOPE and
the steamer Texas, has returned a verdict
that the acciden. could have been avoided
mad proper care been taken by the officers
ot the Texas.
West Virginia has the largest and most
valuable body of timber of any state in the
union. Prof. Fontaine estimates that the
area still covered by forests is between nine
and ten million 8rres, and that the value of
the surplus e.pOrtablc timber is fully seven.
ty,hre million dollars as it stands in the
forests. The oak, walnut, cherry. ash, pop.
lar, maple, elm, sycamore ami locust attain
a Size there not surpassed on the American
continent,
New Orleans Times. We have learned
with regret that it is very probable New Or
leans will not send to the Paris exposition
respectable sample of cotton, and, indeed,
| il any cotton is sent there at all from here it
will only be bale or two put up by some in
| dividual, to exhibit the power Of some press
or for some other purpose altogether foreign
to cotton as a grand national product. And
| it is also said that even our cotton exchange
will content itself with sending a mailbox
containing few pounds of this great staple.
New Orleans Democrat; 1t would
seem that some years must elapse before
Cuba can recover from the exhaustion of a
nrotracted war, when its fields have been
worn bv overcropping TO furnish revenues
for the government, its finances depleted, its
! labor partially unsettled, and reconstructed
government to be established, During these
necessary years of recuperatlOn, sugar pro
duction will not be driven out OF Louisiana
by compulsory labor in Cuba. Before this
can be accomplished an edict of emancipa'
tion will at least commence to remove the
cause of competition, and Louisiana will be
given fair chance to resume her natural
0lace as the producer Of the greater part OF
The sugar consumed in the United States.
New Orleans Democrat: AT the pres
ent time there are in the port o. New Orleans
twenty.one steamships, forty ships forty
two barks four brigs and fifteen schooners
making an aggregate Of 1872 vessels against
ninetystwo last wear at this date. The Brit
;sh steamer Texas has cleared for Liverpool
with 26. 1879 bushels of corn in bulk, and th(
steamer Ithuriel, for the same port, VIII
AZ 900 bushels of wheat in bulk. thus, l
will be seen, our export trade in gram goe
nrayely on. The exports of corn from New
Orleans thus far foot up 3,757,S ,SS7 bushels
while last wear at this date they amounted
N 0S2 635 bushels. The receipts Of coffee
az this mort from Rio JaneirO to date have
heen 15O.635 bags, while last year for thu
same period they were 10i,4SS bags, mos
gratifying increase.
Edge6eld. South Carolina, correspond
enoe Of the Charleston News and Courier
On Monday last one OF the most extraordln
orv spectacles ever witnessed in court o
;ust;ce was presented to the Edgefeld pup
Iic-six little children, and two Of them girls
tried for their lives on charge OF MURDER
Of g the prisoners at the bar" the younges
is nine wears old, and the eldest not thlrteel
t;lI next August, -Four of these uniortunat
i;ttle creatures are the children OF Ii. fics
new Fallaw. The remaining two. Wm' Eli
ana Mary Dufie, are orphans, and the Waru
of NJ Fallaw. The deceased was co
ored youth about fourteen years oil aS'
According to evidence, he was a bad boy
and under worse influences than usual II
S Sod % been warned and commanded not t
come into the fields Of Mr.. Fallaw. But o
the day of the fatal Tencognter tnls % ~
walked up boldly to the place where "a tn
Fallaw children were picking cotton an
J asserted that he could whip the crowd. "A "A
extended fight ensued. The negro began j, IN
ARRAY by knocking down VIM. Ellis Wltn
s,;cE @ rock afterwards hurled q u
negro negro by little Ellis inflicted 2 dead 81
wound Such is brief outline OF the ev