Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-04-20
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


The debt of Virginia is SAL 9O2.1O3.
There are 4, ,949 PresbyterianS in Texas.
Jacksonville, Fla, has population of
14,OO0.
Madstones are for sale in Petersburg,
Virginia.
Oleomargarine is sold in New Orleans
in large quantities.
North Carolina has sixty-four cotton
producing counties.
The North Carolina rivers have just
been stocked with salmon.
Tennessee has 29, ,000, 900 acres of land
with 100000 under cultivation.
South Carolina Will exhibit rice and
sea-sland cotton at the Paris exposition.
Four of the signers OF the Texas de-
claration of independence are still living,
Ice will sci! at from twelve to fifteen
dollars a ton in New Orleans the coming
summer.
Camden county, South Carolina, has
produced this year 100000 worth of turpen'
tine.
ice is to be manufactured by party
of New Workers in Richmond, on an extern
sive scale.
Six thousand live chickens were
shipped through Knoxville the other day for
New York.
VIM. b. Astor, of New York, is build
ing dock and block of business housesin
Jacksonville.
A negro has Just been sentenced to two
years in the Tennessee penitentiary for steal
ing coon skin.
Indians will be taught at the Hampton,
Virginia, normal school. The experiment
will be interesting.
The foundation stone-work for the
Macon monument to the confederate dead
has been completed
The record shows the city of Richmond
has taken tive million drinks within the past
six and half months.
Capt. Eads estimates that the cost OF
the Improvement of the st. John's.river bar,
by means of jetties, will be $l,7l3OOO.
West Virginia has never had a legal
hanging, yet there have been twenty lynch
ings within her borders since she became a
state,
Alabama, it is said, has not a single
presidential Appointment in any department
at Washington. SO much more to the credit
of Alabama.
MANY thousands of oranges are still on
the trees in South Florida, whicha are literally
bending beneath their loads oil Dud ana
bloom, says the Tampa Tribune.
IN some portions of Georgia the ground
ia so hard from lack of rain that stock Can
not stand more than half days plowlng, and
the small grain crop is drying up
Some of the Georgia farmers, taking
into view the strong probability OF Euro
mean war, and wishing to provide Tor al
contingencies, contemplate crossing theii
cotton lands in corn.
The Alexandra IVA. Gazette says the
cvster season, now nearly closed, has peer
unusually disastrous to the oystermen' INT
supply being larger than the demand, an'
the prices very low.
The fruit importers of New Orlean
are complaining Of the quarantine regu!la'
tions. The fumigatOn of their eargoes, IL II
soid. ruins the fruit, which the dealers holt
is not liable to infection.
The ladies of Warrenton, Va, have or
canized society for the payment OF tn
State debt. The idea is to get every womal
in the State to Join, the initiation fee to b.
twenty.fiye cents and monthly contribution
New Orleans is agitated over the mur
der of Sarah Elexson Brown by Emily Arm
sIv The latter sent some cakes poisoned
With arsenic, to Miss Josie Lawl0r, at who's
house Miss Brown was stopping MISS sro"'
ate them, and died. res
North Carolina editor on being can
d;date. We shall not canvass the county a
a candidate and bOOt.lick for votes, ina
wonldn,t suit us. We prefer the place !
seek the man, rather than the man seek tn
nIace. That's our fort, and well hold
until we die.
, The draw-span of the Cincinnati South
ern railroad bridge at Chattanooga IS ~
feet in length, and weighs SsOSV0 pounu'
The bridge proper is i,oUt teos IN lohS'
from center to center OF the anutmehuS' an
the piers and superstrueture COST three hut
dred and ten thousand dollars.
Chattanooga Dispatch: A wholesal
1 Honor dealer told us yesterday that tn
Wnrnhv movement had undoubtedly lessen
"a Ike receipts Of the saloons Of the city
= hnt had largely increased their Jug am
bottle sales, He claims that he now sell
Hyo notifies where he formerly sold one {
people in our city.
1 Chattanooga Dispatch; There are les
3 than five hundred experienced ana comps