Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-05-04
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Florida has no asylum for the insane.
The southern Baptist convention will
meet in Nashville May g.
Rev. Benjamin 1hornton,a a prominent
Georgia clergyman, is dead.
The new artesian well in Charleston
has reached depth Of ,S95 feet
Corn is selling in many Mississippi
counties at seyenty.iive cents bushel.
The loss from the burning of the Brown
house, in Macon, Ga, is estimated at 100000.
Since the Inauguration of Gov. Nichols
in Louisiana, nine criminals have been hung.
Senator Jones, OF Nevada, has been in
Atlanta, looking after important financial
interests in the south.
The council of Augusta, Ga, contcm-
plates permitting steamboats, TO ply the
water OF the Augusta canal.
There are 4S4 Mississippians on tho
pension rolls who fought in the Mexican,
Black Hawk and other wars.
Althoughthenex election wilnot take
place in South Carolina until next November,
the campaign is already heated.
Hickox and Gross, express employees,
have been discharged from the service for
non.resistance to the Texas robbers.
The legislature of Virginia at its last
session passed a law making tamisdemeauor
for any one to pay The pol.tax Of another in
order toget his vote.
There are published in Texas, three
Baptist, two Christian, one Presbyterian, one
Methodist, one spiritual and one hundred and
seventy democratic papers.
The Potomac fisheries are this season
almost an utter failure, not only in the shad
and herring catch, but ofrOek, perch aud cat
fish, all of which are bscOming scarce.
The Mckinney (Texas) Enquirer be-
lieves that nine-tenths Of the Texas court
houses burned are destroyed fdr the purpose
of getting public records out of the way.
In the truck farms around Charleston
s. c., about 1000 acres are planted in Irish
potatoes and.225 acres in strawberries. The
potatoes will render a gross income of
100000.
A Wheeling, Va, woman, finding all
means heretofore employed to rid her house
of flies unsuccessful, has determined to
appeal to their reason. She proposes to kill
every fly that enters her house AT the begin
ming of the fly season, thinking the pests will
thereby learn to avoid her.
Capt. Eads in Memphis; There is not
stretch Of the river from st Louis to New
Orleans, fifty miles long, in which have not
stood on some part of the river bottom, be-
meath the shelter of the divingbell. | have
known the river intimately for forty years. |
have made lifetime study Of il, and know
what am talking about.
Dallas Commercial: It's said that the
number of immigrants TO Kansas this year
will reach 100000. This puts Kansas in the
lead of Texas. This is matter which should
be sharply looked after by this state. There
can be no doubt that the reputation for law.
lessness which attaches to the name OF the
state is working against US
In Nelson county, Virginia, hawk was
recently seen to seize large moCcasin snake,
and soar to considerable height with the
serpent writhiug in its claws, when suddenly
the bird caspsd its wings and fell heayily to
the ground, The moccasin had bitten 1t in
the neck, but the talOns of the hawk were so
buried in the vitals Of the serpent that 1t also
died. ,......,, ..a,,-.:s /.
Charleston News and Courier; An old
SLAYER, for such is the Azor, sailing from
Charleston, with emigrants to Africa, and
towed out by the Wade Hampton! This is
what the United States see to-day. Well
may it be hoped that Liberia will be found
what the colonists expect for South Carolina
is no place for those who are discontented
with their lot, or who expect to enjoy the
blessings of freedom without its response
bilities. Whatever comes OF it,Our best wishes
20 with the AEor and oil On board.
The New Orleans Democrat, in COM
mentinc on the train robberies, says thai
Gov, Hubbard's confession that railroad
trains are practically in state OF siege II
his state sounds very strange in civilized
country. hut perhaps ii is no e1aggeratlon O
The truth. Ii thinks his proposal that thu
roads should arm themselves Objectionable
because the state should afford them proteo
tion. Opposition to state police is regarded
as n mere prejudice, which should be laiC
aside until crime is suppressed
The CuIlman colony in north Alabami
has lust celebrated its fifth anniversary, sn'
laid the cornerstone OF a new courthouse
The Nashville Americans correspondent
saws: "Ihe lnnhnldhls VI WIS uVAvhJ q"
almost exclusively German, who have com
here under the auspices of the North am
south railroad, and are hardy and indus
: trious class. Not single idle man eau b
a seen anywhere in the town during the weel
days. Sunday they spend as all others dc
in attending public Worship, They are r'
markably hOspitable, and will make one fee
at home.
D Wilmington IN. C.l Star: On a recen
!, visit to Wilmington, N. C., Gen. Josep
J Johnston was driven out to 0akdale cem'
, tery. and in company with one Of the MOI
q nrominent citizens, himself a distinnguishe
confederate, visited the iuclosdfe where n
q noble women of Wilmington have raised IN
f monument to our confederate dead. Gel
Iohnpton gaSed upon il long and in silence
!. and turned away without a word otht
d naTts mart Of the cemetery were visited and tn
ty partv returned to this most sacred sPotin tn
q pesntiful city CT the dead. Again he gaze
II tor a long time on the lonely soldier VIII
= Eeeps io his perpetual guard in that holy spo
~ "rS oS' turned away with his hands lifted I
1. heaven. and with the simple expression, Al