Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-05-11

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The water works of Little Rock hay,
G been completed. "~S
a. Inc ian colored people of Georgia owr
$o4SO,8i4 worth of property. iva
Complaints OF the ravages of tba M
Iat? bug are heard from all sections Of vir
Memphis expects her Fourth of ,Tulv
Gso GGeaeppTa'ion p rival the splendors of Mardi
There are nearly 10000 cases before the
pension bureau al Washington awaiting
The Vine Cultivators association ,,yo.
POSES % 70 buy 5000 acres ,of South Carolina
land to begin with.
a bartender in Richmond, Va. nep.
lected to register glass of ale which he sold
ana mas been tined $49.8l for the omission
:, lhe watchers over a lady in Richmond
! va, were surprised to see her rise M and p ~
cIalm' ' am not dead yet but will die soon,F
Portions of skeleton have .laen found,
neT san AntoRia which indicate that the
height. '''' J."
Ihe French artillery having discarded
hrenze ordnance for steel breech.loaders
England IS the last country left which clnps
10 the bronze mt zzle-loaders.
The reasury department has a number
Oh letter inquiring at what rate the Mexican
SILVER dollars are receivable, and saws, as thew
are not legal tenders in the United States
persons VINO accept them at their nominal |
value do SO at their own risk.
The Connecticut legislature having
offered reward of one dollar each foralI tbe |
dogs killed in that state. an Fast Haddan,
man bought all the female dogs he conIJ
1hu, ana raises pups to kill. This new in.
dnstry beats the wooden nutmeg scheme,
Investigation into the opium eating
hablts OF residents of the Shenandoah valley
reveals the fact that in the town of Staunton
one hundred pounds of the drug are sold
every week: Many young women and ladies'
OF the first families are slaves of the habit
The total cost of investigating the
presidential elections in Louisiana. Soutb
Carolina and Florida last year was $5s.35
distributed as follows; Louisiana committee
S3i,i &; South Carolina committee, S14 $50.
Florida committee, $9643.
The merchants in the south and west
VINO are Issuing advertisements in the form
OF legal'tender notes, are getting themselves
INTO scrape. The practice is illegal. and the
treasury Department. is preparing to prosecut
persons who may hereafter commit the Of
tense. -
Alta public sale of real estate in New
ofN last week, not single bid could be OBJ {
S'heo a "hlcn the auetioneer would consider, t
ror improved property, which paid $1,000 a
,tar ,ta ~. 10 rents no one would offer more than
'lz,ooO' ana experts said that the prices were I
over now by ~ per cent than they were in s
$50 Increased taxation is the cause of this
light. ,'''''o - '''''
The English army has long euioyed
he reputation of being the most extensively
ressed IN Europe. The most costly uniform
that OF staff'sergeant in the Foot guards, 0
. clothe whom entails upon the country
pout SP0 per man per annum, and the b
neSPest man to equip is the negro private of II
ne west India regiments, whose picturesque h
'uaVe costume costs about Sl2 per annum. y,
VI the thirtY-five votes in the house 81
ganst Forts joint resolution, declaring that ~
lefe should be no further retirement of "
nlted States legal tender notes, but that CT
lstead Of eanceling them, the secretary OF
ie treasury should reissue them as fast as bf
'celVed, thirty came from the eastern states. M
loson, OF Louisiana, was the only one from ra
lie south who voted no, while Garfield and ~,
onfoe, OF Ohio, and Williams, Of Oregon. ~
ere the only ones from the west. VI
lhe expectation of forest-tree seeds is W W
Stunning dimensions in this country. Cali. ~" W.
rnla sends $4,000 worth per year. The ,,,,
anclpaI purchases are made for Germany. III
ustria, England, and the colonies in Aus. 81
ALA and New Zealand and at present the
'msnd exceeds the supply. The seeds of at
e oregon pine, known also 2s the yellow | r
, are most in demand. The timber Of that a., Il,
&c is as good as the British oak for shin. vi, I
lildlng, and has been found sound after 81
5hteen years use for this purpose.
Savannah News: Silver Springs w., Io
onda, is one OF the greatest Curiosities in "a. 10y
e south. It bursts forth in the midst OF Coi
e most fertile county in the state. It his
bibles up in basin near one hundred feet AM
ep and about an acre in extent and send. ma
: from it deep stream sixty to one hun. To
ed feet wide, and extending six or eight M,
les to the Oclawaha river. In the spring re it''
eli sixty boats may lie at anchor uuite a W y,
et The spring thus forms natural in thr
ID port, to which three steamers run $2O
'ulary from the St. Johns, making close
lnection with the ocean steamers Mt she
latka. The clearness of the water is truly tbo
nderful. 1t seems even more transparent ''',I =
IN air. You see the bottom eighty feet
ew the bottom of your boat, the exact be
m of the smallest pebble, the outline and 4
or OF the leaf that has sunk, and all the it n
smatic colors OF the rainbow are reh scted. tior
'ge fish swim in 1t, every scale visible and tolC
ry movement distinctly seen. 1t you go "a :,
r the spring in boat you will see the ~
hes upward like an inverted catayact m i''' tive
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