Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-08-17
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS

A sn0w'white mocking bird has been
captured IN Texas.
savannah is exercising most vigorous
quarantine measures.
The Memphis board of health will Keen
no secrets, but will announce every case nf
yellow fever appearing,
-Four hundred German families are
settling on lo5,00O acres of land in the north.
ern portion of Taylor county, Texas.
The superintendents of the yarious
railroads centering at Macon, Ga, have
agreed to accept Mexican dollars at valua.
ton OF only ninety cents,
-Four companies of u. S. troops
recently qartered in the barracks below New
Orleans, have moved to Holly Springs, Miss.
frightened by Bronze John.
New Orleans has at present popula-
tlon OF only 100000, which, however is
steadily increasing by emigration from
France, Italy, and Germany
A negro named Ephraim Miller, living
IN Johnson county, Texas, fearing that the
eclipse was the beginning of the worlds
end, killed one of his children and then
committed suicide.
The New Orleans board OF health has
adopted a resolution declaring that the
mode oil quarantine adopted by Mobile is
unnecessarllj ! harsh, and the request is made
that the Mobile authorities permit the pass.
age OF through freight and passenger trains
after being Gumigated
Montgomery Advertiser: All through
Alabama crops are very good and the Weld
| promises to be large. An immense amount
OF grain was sowed, and the harvest was
| fine. The rains OF the last few days. il il
| reared, will greatly iniure the cotton in the
| prairie and canebrake portions of the state
as during showery and rainy weather the
worms flourish and multiply Ofone thing
| however, the people are well assured-they
have the biggest corn crop raised in many
| years,
New Orleans Times: The extraordia
nary haste made by many surrounding
towns, little and big, to quarantine against
New Orleans, thereby subjecting their own
| citizens ds well as ours to great and unneees,
sary inconvenience, is n striking illustration
Of the recklesSness and sefshness of fright
ened humanity. 1t has all the evidence of
an irrational panic combined with what an.
pears to be studied effort to make their So.
called precautions as irritating and injurious
as possible.
Atlanta Constitution: The Mobilians
are badly frightened. They see Bronze John
advancing in irresistible power In their
vivid imaginatiOns he rides on every breeze,
and turks in every railroad cnr. Nothing
seems to be free of him, in their eyes, ex-
cept few through mail pouches and there
| is so strong suspi ion against them that
they have to be transferred to a solitary box
car sixty miles west of the city--at lonely
Boloxi, to which port the coast train is per
mitted to come in its eastward journey.
Sanford (Fla.) Journal The young
wife OF Harry Smith, living out on the Pine.
apple Ridge neighborhood, has the true grit
for pioneers wife. A few weeks ago, dur
ing the absence of her husband, she dScov.
cred an alligator after her chickens She
quietly gets her husbands revolver and
empties six loads into his 'gatOlship, making
him squirm every shot; then brings out the
double.barreled shotgun and peppers him
with that, and ends the fight by chopplng
the last spark of life out of the ugly yarmint
with heavy grub hoe The gator measured
six feet and eleven inches long
Galveston News: Capt. kennedy's
pastures in NueceS county now embrace 55O
square miles. His stock consists OF 45VOV
head of cattle, $4,000 head of horses and
mules, and 1000 head of hogs. Mr. kenN
nedy's cattle are rapidly being improved by
breeding with the Durham and Bralnah'
Mr.. Kennedy also owns large interest IN
the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio
Grande railway, which is now completed TO
the Precenos, f0rty.fve miles from the
starting point. Engines and rolling stock
have been sent for to better equip the road
II is not calculated to run the road by san
Diego unless the people subscribe $l5'oo''
Wilmington On, o. Star: A few days
since two or three men were coming down
the river on fiat, and had reached POM
about fourteen miles above this city, when
two small, black clouds came nearly 10,
cether. with the sun shining through the
open space, constituting focus OF the SUI
rays Of such strength and power that q
white man who was steering the fiat at the
time. and who happened to be in position
10 Get the full force of the piercing rays, had
his back and arms blistered to cake, and II
was found necessary to run the hat ashore
with allpossible dispatch, when the man II
| question pFHWltu iubO liO b'e'AS' AA' ~ :
place to cool off.
New Orleans Democrats report OF
meeting of the board Of health; Or, Chop
min took the floor to say that the first locus
Of infection had occurred within Magazine
Chippewa, Thala and Felicity streets; th'
second between Poydras, Magazine and JuIi'
streets and the river, which supplied th'
charity hospital the third, a Limited one
] between st. Joseph and Girod, back t
Franklin street; fourth between IRENE o.
Franklin, Cont, Gravier and Galvez streets
There was also small focus at JOSEPHINE
and Coliseum streets, which seemed to o'
Travelling inward, and another small one oI
Customhouse street, between Royal an'
BOT rbon streets. The new cases arose out
side IJt Of the large focuses-a fact which CAV,
him hope that the fever might be be- 'tGpPPeSa pnt :
still the germ enhs VA an mntiI iI be oyerpowere
L itC or il overpowered him, and the diseas
sbaIl have become epidemic,'