Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-09-14
GENERAL BREVITIEs.

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Fus nails Of the right hand grow
faster than those of the ,eft.
Is English marriage notices the
bUivS pet names are put in brackets.
The Chinese claim to have invented
the telephone in the year 96S.
NEARLY every theater in London aud
Paris has been burned down in its turn.
The divorced wife of a Daubury
(tonn) man is the hired nurse of his
second wite's baby.
ADAuGHrER of Brigham Young has
become an actress, under the name Of
Cecile Grey.
In Georgia the young ladies are join.
ing fox clubs and INDUCING In the IA
vorite paStime of Diana.
LIGHTNING struck L telegraph posts.
all ina row, on the Macon and Augusta
Road the other day.
WHILE ickingpeaches on horseback,
Mrs, Miners Raplee, of Slarkey, \. Y ,
pulled the reins slightly, causing the
horse to rear and fall backward upon
her with fatal effect.
Two men hunting a squirrel near Al
toona, Pa, chased it into a tree-trunk,
and found inside the tree several thou.
sand dollars in gold coin, which had
probably been hid there many years ago
by a leading robber Of the vicinity.
IT is only within the past six years
that the japanese have attempted to
make use Of the petroleum wells existing
within their domains. Now several re-
filming establishments are in operation,
and making kerosene oil has become an
important industry.
THE house in which John Knox, the
Scotch reformer, lived and died, i. vet
standing in that part Of Edinburgh
known as the old town. Extending
over the entire front is the inscription in
large Roman letters: "Lule God abufe
all, and Vi nychtbour as vi self
A BIBLICAL curiosity in the English
section of the Paris Exhibition which at.
tracts crowds is the model Of the Taber
nacle as it rested during the wandering.
OF the lsraeliteS in the desert. The ex-
terror and interior are constructed in
strict accordance with the details giyen
in the Old Testament,
VICruR SArxDrps wa, r,,rr;,I J.,
Rockingham, Va, four years ago, and
on the next day killed a man.
He was sent to prison an a
conviction of manslauybter. His wifi"
got a divorce and married another man
but She was a widow when Sanders WA
DISCHARGED, recently. and ON meeting
they remarked.
S~rccgs,rrt Gsbi,a oos, r,bn S,,,1,
editor Of the Somerset PA ! HeyqIJ hi,
life. After securing a s%fring of Soma
30 pounds of fish. Be tied tb9em IN his
wrist and waded in theriycr with 1hem
Falling into a deem hole. tbe wpiobt nf
the fish drew him Under water. and al,
though an eypert swimmer ba was
drowned.
The boiler of two steam ro,nfnq-mo.
chimes exploded a few DAYS ago AT Ces-
con. in Franco ord "'S" ~ ~,
literally cut to pieces, wbjlc fonr others
were injured. The accident is attrihrt.
ed 10 the safefv.yalye b4inr wodrsI nm
as is Frequently done for9 fine SaIe ~
saving fueI by preventing tbn oscono ~
steam,
Mrs. BOYER. m AGED W,+arI,o
GIich.D widow, is So certain President
HAYES is her long lost son. that she has
started for WASHINGTON TO satisfv her,.
self that she is right. Mrs. Boyer's first
husband was a Hayes, and it is his son
who is missing and whom the mother IL
certain she recognized in a picture of
the President she recently saw.
CAPT. RICIIARD s. TrcKrp of Wis.
casset, Me, has invented A round and
saucer.shaped surf-boat. about Il feet
in diameter, whic his ]propelJed Inv an air.
COMPRISING machine in The center #
can be made to travel about six miles
an hour by one man, the motive power
being obtained by driving the air apainst
the water between two parallel keels on
the bottom, and it can carry 20 men rs
well as one.
The Gar has ordered military tribu-
mails to be established throughout his
dOminions for the trial Of political Of
lenses. He found that the iuries of the
regular criminal courts were too @lenient
towards persons accused of revolution.
airy attempts. In several cases prison
erS indicted for murder were pronounce
ca not guilty, if there was any evidence
OF political motives in the assassination.
THE number of changes which may
be rung on a peal of bells is very curl
Gus. The changes on 7 bells are 5000.
on 70, 479,OOl, 600, which. at two
strokes q second, would requires 81
years to complete. The cbqnges on IA
bells could not be rung through at the
same rate in less than l6,575 wears. and
on a they would ]ren1ire moro than
ll7,O0O, goo, OO0, 600 years.
In Rossendale. Eng, the other dav.
the "rights and titles in a wife we're
handed over by her husband, under n
lease, for the sum of Is to another man,
4 stone mason, who had become ena,
mored of the lady. The husband at
100 ~ .