Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-06-01

w., ,he yeritable vessel III |
,'.o,on ,,,.c made his escape from n
Y. ,IorIy decaying wreck Is
l' I ,I IN the sand by the new
,;5 newspaper press direo-
p',,', p,',-sevhibits ! ,744 newspapers
!, T. me- aited Kingdom In
y states in 1917 there were
iDY .,osr, and periodicals OF
l'''I'r I",nsr, l5S are daily while
NV, .,;,,n 7O9 are daily,
nan named Samuel b.
ny. S,, bsen farming in Buenos
ayfve years owns "an n'",s now o0'9o0 1oo
X i,h prairie, 600 CATTLE ,od % 900
reDOo ~, sheep and l,4OO hogs
y. ,,.l $4,000, Last year the
.I.,, or the farm notted 522, 900
'aI, '.J there was a yield Of 300, 900
4 ,,oN; also $40 sheep
,he nine months past, the
value Of exports from the
S,ess has exceeded that Of the
shown by the custom house
4, s,o6,OOOOO0, The cabinet
i nj, fact recently, and became
\ that it demonstrated a salts
onnercisI and financial con-
he return of the British board
m The first quarter of 1878, it
tslt The exports of breadstufd
,ounlry to Great Britain were
oOOin excess Of the amount in
,p,Dding period last year. while
rso cotton decreased 81 $780,
me- same time. The increase in
rgsloOO0OOO; flour, $4,000, ,OO0
100000,
prpoyprYr of the New York
Post, writing from Toxic,
md, the following L" The famine
rth Of China RACES with increas-
sity. and the most dreadful
come from the qiIljcted regions.
oVra aman opened shop for the
msn flesh, and did good busi-
annibslistic Joints and roasts till
Mandarin caused the shop
gbs arrested and beheaded.
atwo years since the Custer
TOOK place, yet the wilderness
itoccuued isnow populated by
Vho are rapidly turning the
inD cultivated country. A
nearly ole thousand inhabitants
where Gen. Miles encamped on
river in 1876 in fact the whole
which Sitting Bull occupied is
inupby hardy pioneers who are
civilization where barbarism
lach short time ago,
TITY Of well executed couu-
'sie dollars has been captured at
lt Iheyare composed of block
lIih, aud pulyerized glass. They
'nlly nearly the standard weight
ethe exact color and the true
heeal dollars, The only means
llng them from the genuine is by
aTeigher, or by pressing them
The teeth, when the glass which
I'in em'ts a cracking sound.
silver vault now in course OF
llon in the sub.treasury, will be
,en'eet in length by twenty-tour
10, and twelve feet high, and
u AOOOO,OOO in silver when
The costOt the iron and steel
y IN its construction was about
including the doors and their
Inc iIoor OF the vault will be of
steel two inches thick, and
'SSl'I be four feet of concrete.
SPENCER BAIRD, who has been
''Cfelary Of the Smithsonian In.
70 hIl the place of Prof. Henry.
'aWidely known as the head of
Commission, which under his
A@ accomplished such a GOOD
exciting a general interest in
ale' Prof. Baird has written
4a'OIe works on natural history.
snlng'on Star says "He is
F''Pr fitted, as Prof. Henry's
% alrect the operations of the
W !, III conformity with its estab>
n'y than any other man in
rs' Washington telegram says
1'eIphla contractors for the
n'il'an railroad are unsuccess.
a,pP''9fing to secure colored
!. 'Doul the capital from the fear
'','a men that they will be sold
w " 'ae Brazilian minister bay-
@i'ed u upon by the colored men,
u 'aat, y. although slavery has not
a. abolished in Brazil, it is in
,Lu aa0ll'lon 40 by gradual emanci,
,,,a. ',,u will make the country free
,ta. nvlv ;. years There is a law in
H., Isl',''OS coIored men from set
'I nI' ISoun'ry, and they can only
v contract under a special
|, m.,,1 W. 'h' cornhill Magazine.
A. Ill'e !, that his wife was out
i 1' :. OloOk' found that brook,
i. make "a the rhyme he wanted
! nal9 ,nousht he would substitute
lbo""1 "olu !. burn" which mean,
p,t"vs, sasu Ourn' does not sound