Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-03-02
SOuTHERN MEMS ITEMS.

The MofFett-register system was agreed
on by the Mississippi senate by vote of q
to II.
A st. Louis gentleman has paid ten
thousand dollars for gold mine in Cherokee
county, Georgia.
The public school fund of Memphis is
in bad condition, There is a deficit of five
thousand dollars.
Georgia and her industrial and sgri.
cultural products will be well represented at
the Paris exposition.
The Charleston Courier notes the
arrival Of one hundred more emigrantq, and
still no ship in sight.
There are eighteen ships, fifty barks,
twelve brigs and twenty.eight schConers in
the port of Pensacola,
The trade in western horses and mules
is Just now very brisk in Southside, Virginia,
and North Carolina,
Peter Cooper has established and en-
dowed high.grade free school at Limestone
Spring, South Carolina.
The tide of immigration to Florida is
EulNl W huNlhI INV Wv NttoNNl ~ uAlh 0uANh~
eastern portions OF the state,
Gen. Robert Toombs has about one
hundred Thousand dollars invested in prop.
erty and bonds of Atlanta.
The greenbackers of Galveston will be
represented in the coming city elections by
candidates of their choice
An Atlanta man shipped thirty bush
els Of sweet potatoes to Chicago. The sale
lacked 1923 Of paying freight,
The ways and means committee Of the
Louisiana Legislature has reported tavorSbly
on the Moiettregister system of taxation.
Charleston IN. CD Observer We have
thus far this season had five separate and
distinct frcshets, and there are two more
weeks to hear from.
The Louisiana legislature is wrestling
with the question of carrying the capital
back to Baton Rouge. 1t has been moved
from New Orleans twice, and as many times
brought back.
The liquOr.dealers of New Orleans
have met and determined to submit to the
Louisiana legislature protest against the
introduction in that state of the MOhett
liquor register,
Marietta (Ga,) Journal: The people of
Georgia carry off the palm for sending their
children away to educate. Since the war
thev have sent out of the state for this pur'
nose one million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Observer:
Farmers finding now no further need for
their private fences, the stock law being IN
existence, are hauling them to town and
selling them for fire wood.
There is a constant decline in receipts
from the bell.punch in Virginia, either be,
cause the novelty of having drinks registered
has worn of aud fewer are taken, or because
bar.keepers are learning to evade the law
Atlanta has received of the cotton crop
since September l, 1871 ninety'one thousand
nine hundred and seventy>six bales, an IN
crease of seven thousand and Linety one
bales over last year for the corresponding
time.
Charlotte IN. C.) Observer: Yester-
day about thirty negroes, about half OF whom
were children, came down the Statesyllle
railroad, from the southern part OF lredell
county. on their way to Charleston, there TO
take passage on a steamer for Liberia.
Asa father Jumped from a buggy in
Dallas Texas, his pair of high>mettled horses
dashed awnv with his little tensyearold
daughter. None but Texas paper would
venture to tell how she gathered the reins,
and stood 'em up on the ends OF their tails
An Atlanta gentleman proposes a
nohby BANQUET. He will invite ten persons.
There will be ten meat dishes-turkey, goose
ANAL, duck, sheep, hog, beef, chicken. ven
sion and fish, One OF these dishes Will De
nloccd before each guest, who will deliver
ten minutes eulogy on the animal repre-
sented.
The chief difficulty attending the use
~ tbe telephone has been the want oil an
oiorn, IN indicate the transmission of COM
mnnicatiou. Mr.. Redmond, of Dublin, calls
ottention to method which he has found
rsrv effectual. 1t consists in sending the
ovryent of an ordinary magnetoselectrlc
machine through the instrument, whleh pro- pro-
dmcsa n loud hum that is distinctly heard
many yards distant
The Lehman manufacturing company,
,;.rotod one mile above Prattvllle, Alabama,
o., Autoupa creek, runs one hundred looms
md 374 spindles, requiring one hundred
and ten opsratiyes TO keep the machinery
going. The water supply is abundant ana
IN Short time they intend putting in a new
EcIipse turbine water wheel, one hundreI
and twenty-five horsepower, when VIII
greatly facilitate operations
The government is distributing tea
nlants in Georgia. Gen. Toombs SAID 10 ),
ranorter rnr of the Atlanta Constitutions II the
neonle would only learn the process oil cur,
"H he leaf. as good tea can be produced IN
nesoraia Ss 'ni A. in China" "Why," added he,
sg q ten has been planted and grown in ms
stat for the last forty years, neSrly', NSh'
here hare. in few miles OF you are trees Il some
% hody HASN'T cut them down since l saw them
,ost & that were thirty feet high, tea trees, mat
%sre ,~er, planted away back yonder in lS4ST
The Augusta (Ga.) COnstitutiOnaliist Il N u 8.
ssvs the damage by the cyclone IN that Gl,y
says ;,i omount ,m1 10 SO,00O. The storm extended
wiz VIII distance into South Carolina, but us
sou0 souaoss @ were slight compared to what It did
I"'SS !" SSSgust,. Mr.. Henry Hammond's fences
nd ont.houses on his plantation, SIX miles
nT trom here. were blown down, and Dr. burk-
hoIIar's ,rJm dwelling and Outhouses were de'
.lovaS ho,Svs A building was destroyed on MRS
Walters place. Fences and trees were lev
Lied on several other plantations