Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-02-16
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS,

Fort Worth received 100000 buffalo
robes last year,
A very black couple in Columbus. Ga,
have three Albno children
Richmond's bonded debt is $4,471,.
1850; taxable property, $35,'8o0G7.
North Carolina has 33l convicts in
Che penitentiary, and 700 at work on rail.
roads.
The tenderest tropical plantsat Tampa
Florida, were not injured in the least this
winter.
Tennessee has now eleven hundred and
twenty cOnyicts, and expects to have twelve
hundred in two months,
1t is thought that for several years to
come the orange crop OF Florida will double
hat of each preceding year.
Marshall, Texas, Herald Reports from
all parts Of the state represent the wheat
crop as promising an abundant yield.
The Madison (La.) journal says there
are cotton fields in that parish thGt nave
never been touched by cotton pickers.
The Fort Worth Democrat is authority
for the statement that one Of Davy Crockett's
sons was in that town the other daY with a
load of cotton
DiphthcriG mas become so prevalent
and fatal in Tennessee that the state board
of health has issued circular upon its pre-
ventOn and treatment
Governor Hahn has offered a bill in the
Louisiana legislature licensing gambling
houses and prescribing the manner in which
they sh0I, be conducted.
The Eastern Nirginian tells Of twenty
Goldfish being caught fortnight ago off the
coast Of Accommodate first OF the kind ever
known in Nirginian waters
Salisbury Watchman; There is a little
negro girl, two or three years old, living in
town, with three feet and one hand. Her
right arm has perfect foot on it.
II. NJ. Moody has sent to the office Of
the Jacksonville, Florida, Sun and Press
peach, one Of some thirty that are on the
tree which had been in bloom the entire
season.
The Knoxville Tribune says a ven
delta in Hancock county eliminated few
! DAYS ago in the killing of Deputy Sheriff Cobb
and Andy Rhea, and the gounding of Fugall
and Epperson.
A Texan is exhibiting & calf with eight
/ vell.defned sheen horns, eight goat horns
/ and two natural calf horns. He has also n
Berkshire pig with three horns f've legs SIX
/ feet and two tails.
Tallahasse, Florida, Patriot Peach
trees are in bloom, and if the weather con.
tinues as mild as we have had it for the past
two weeks, vegetables wilt 90 heg2ine for
/ the want of buyers.
The governor has appointed Hon. F..
Fontaine, of Columbus, and Colonel John
| A. Speer, of Lagrange, as the TWO honorary
commissioners to represent Georgia at Ire
Paris exposition,
The two cotton factories at West Point
are adding new machinery and will soon
commence running day and night an indl'
cation that Georgia industries are in pros
porous condition.
/ One of the finest bayous in the state OF
Louisiana, which was, twenty years, ago, a
perfect Eden Of beauty and splendor, mas
become swamp fit only for the habitation
of alligators and bulltrogS,
All the states south OF Mason and
Dixon's line were represented at the open
ing of the southern educational convention,
AT Atlanta, except Kentucky, Texas, North
Carolina, Arkansas and Maryland.
In Hampstead. Texas, the grand jury
indicted the gamblers, and the gamblers IN
turn fled informations before the county
attorney against majority OF the grand
iury; also the county attorney himself
Williamson county (Tex, Sun: Corn
is selling freely at % cents bushel oats
scarce and in demand at thirty cents; wheat
at 81 and 81. .25 for seed and immediate SOW
ing, barley scarce at twenty-five cents
There is a family in Madison county,
Florida. of remarkable stature. The recorder
renorts their heights as follows The father
10 seven feet four: the mother is SIX ieet
oigbt, two sons seven feet three, and one
daughter seven feet nine.
Hutchins, the colored lawyer from
South Carolina, who some time since made :
vain effort to obtain admission TO the Heorgia
bar, has at last susceeded in carrying ms
nont, and is now full'hedged georgia
bHrrister.
Gus. johnson will be hanged on the
tstb of March, in Rome, Ga, for the murder
Of a negro. lie will be the first white man
hanged in the south since the war tor tne
murder OF a negro. So says the Atlanta
Constitution.
Tennessee will not only send a large
disnIav of her products to the Paris exposl'
tion bnt will have about 10000 pamphlets
nrinted in French and German, and contain
mo snch information about the state as I'M
migrants will desire.
The Richmond Transcript exhumes
tbe fact that Virginia once had natiVe
African for governor. Governor Alexander
Snottswood, who filed the char IN l'oO
was horn in TaDgier, while his father,
british officer was there on duty
Mrs. Lily Murphy, of Pittsylvania
county. Va, died on Wednesday. During
her. illness, her son, VIM. Murphy, aged y
xears ven declared il his mother died ne would
20 sot,,S too and when she died he cut his throal
Sii Syi,b H. razor. but it is thought be will re
cover.
Eleven dusky hegirists passed through
C,awfordsyille, Ca, last Saturday IN rom
t,TS ~ iberie. They stated that 1t was their in
tunt;on 10 tramp through to Charleston
hsro tensr thew would wait for their ship to come
w wnerS and G taEe them to the happy land flowing
with milk and honey.
The fishermen of Jacksonville, Fla,