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

"NC AAASN NEN0 1IEMS.
Gov. Nichols, Of Louisiana. baa sione(
the Mottett register bill,
Tennessee exchanges report the wheat
suffering from rust all over the state
Two hundred different varieties NJ
Ifuit are grown successfully in Georgia.
Copies Of Jefferson Davis letter read
~ the DEDICATION OF the confederate monu,
ment Macon, Ga, are sold in frames At
ten cents niece. '''''~' Ut
1he Augusta Chronicle saws One
thousand tea>plants have been distrihnteJ
among Warren-county farmers, and Madison
prepares to put the kettle on"
Chattanooga Times The first bar of
steel ever manufactured in the south WAS
rolled Thursday evening at the Tennessee
steel and iron companyS mill here
Augusta lGal Chronicle Messrs
hart Durham and Fluker, tried for forcibly
eelecting negro from the ladies' ear at
Onlon Point, the other day, were bound over
IN boods OF $500 each to appear for trial at
'he United States court in September.
Atlanta Constitution: The tobacco
trade OF New Orleans, which in antc.belIum
tlnles was only secondary to the cotton busi.
ness, promises again to take new start, adj.
wees from the west indicating general de-
slre q to ship an increased portion of the crop
this way.
Austin (Tex.) Statesman: The Sl5,.
100000 recently paid 10 Texas for cattle has
been mainly invested in wire fences, and
then there is 1eal of it idle, waiting to see
what congress will do, and then the holders
nave It III silver, slowed away in banks and
in old stockings. W
Hinds county Miss Gazette: Col.
Hlllyard, on his farm near Hazelhurst, has
over 5000 tomato plants set out and in
Forward condition; also twenty acres in Irish
potatoes also several acres in strawberries. |
Ills purposes is to ship nOrthward-to Louis. |
vile, st. Louis and Chicago.
Every licensed liquor seller in Alabama
has taken this oath al do solemnlv swear
that | will not knowingly sell or give away
any Vln0us or splrituous liquor to any minor |
or person OF unsOund mind without the per
MISSION OF his or her parent or guardian"
ana violation OF this oath is by express
statute declared to be perjury.
Columbus, (Ga) Sun: A Chinaman
was testifying in Richmond county. Judge
Snead asked "John" it he "believed in
God?" Yes" said the Celestial, "me bslieb
eberyting." Do you believe in a hereaf
ler?" a" les, me belieb iu Jesu Christie
here, me belle in Coniueie tConfucius) in
China, alice samee." His testimony was taken.
Miners in the mineral regions of Ala.
lama protest to Gov. Houston against the
employment OF convicts in the mines. Quite
number request their removal from the
eureka coal mines The Mobile Register says
he general assembly to be elected this sum
ner should see to it that convict labor is put
lpon works profitable to the state, and is not {
brown in competition with honest labor.
The GreenvilIe (Tenn. Democrat SAYS
Il the Andrew johnson monument: The ,
who was here during the fall !
uperntending the erection of the johnson
lonument is again in town. In one of the ',
iolent storms of the winter, the covering of
he monument was torn of and carried with =
/, it is supposed, the beak of the eagle sur> y
lounting the obeisk. The gentleman re- g
erred to will place new eagle in the stead :.
the broken one.
Corpus Christi Free Press Gloom
eek. Mourners have wept Tor loved ones
no have fallen victims to relentless, fend.
h foe. The young and the old have not
cen spared murdered, mutilated The
'cent raid stands without parallel in the Of
'uthwest in magnitude and atrocity. Worse Al
ian all, it is an allied force who struck the SC
ow. White men, Mexicans and Indians P
ingled in devilish fraternity. te
Chairman Hodgsen, at the Mobile u
convention; Leaving Brazil, y
1ba and Mexico out of the question, we Nj
I'd that OF the $4,000 0j0 of imports from p'
e gulf countries this great valley consumes p'
s, 10000, and that the six millions OF pi
Ople who inhabit Alabama, Mississippi IN
nnessee, Kentucky and Georgia consume al
arly $4,O00,000 Why should not the h0
gars, tobacco, fruits, woods, drugs and ha
fee which 60 to make up this 81 ,C0Oof an
bound freight be brought directly for dis IN
button to Mobile, New Orleans or Pensa- u ut
la? Em
The Atlanta cotton exchange has hr
en- compelled to protest against the poor Re
ality Of bagging used by planters. The str
says: A set of resolutions in NJ,
'duced and unanimously passed declared 90
1t hereafter one dollar per bale would be ful
lucted from the cash price OF cotton in
S inferior bagging; that circular be sent
all the planters in this section asking that th,
" refrain from using It, and also circu' Nc
to merchants who handle cotton asking col
It they do not receive this bsgging on the for
le terms as that Of first quality. The by
cuars will be sent out at once, bill
Baltimore Gazette Jerry Huckstep, an th1 nn
erly colored mar, living near Liberty Mills, iii
, has met o singular and terrible DEATH off,
show of John Robinson was moving from at
lnge Courthouse to Madison Courthouse, tor
ded by several elephants. The old man in
attracted by the procession, and ap' lea
aching the caravan was attacked by one ant
he elephants and crushed to death. His def
" was shookingly mutilated and death fur
almost instantaneous When overtaken ha,
the vicious beast the old man was on his bilj
to work and had his dinner in his pocket.
supposed the elephant shifted the lunch
attacked and killed the man to get IL, as rep
was offered. thr