Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-02-08
IOIrHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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ow.wbite bnck deer was killed in
county, Va, last week
anna pavs thirty cents a day for
nrisopers. The total thus paid out
was 45SslO 92
c,nnty, Virginia, has fortysthree
iss Only one makes whisky, all
making appIe-jock'
he tn past year there were paid
j Leu simp treasury $1,S04, ,033.06,
Blended S2,4O5,S322 2L
debt of Columbia, S. c., is nearly
though her charter iorbids her
linz debt Of 5000 600.
pather cotton mills, erected at
nepot. Tenn, at a cost OF $30,0OU,
ll ast week for SlO,5OO,
yyilIe, Tenn, owes S207 600, and
il demanded on 100000 of it, with
levin the treasury to pay 1t,
Ammittee has been sent south from
Ab,, to select location for d com
100 shoemakers and their families.
w. Jlmison, recently reelected
lourv Of Macon, Ga, blew his brains
sierthan remain dyspepsia's tortured
hundred and sixty-nine head of
.y.ugI at $1,5OO, were recently ship
bm Pensacola on the Spanish steamer
Suo for iaytna,
Hal cslrIe pesyiIence is prevailing
leIy Of Boston, Bowie county, Texas
nau 10 80 head aud tie diseaIe seems
sbpidly Spreading.
hrg4 mas meeting was held in
b., W. Va, last Saturday, to adopt
bons looking t. the abolishmeut Of
LABOR in lha! State
ntil (Texa) Statesman: Two
b sgo corn was thirty cents per bush.
81 Hseyenty. Oals, hay and fodder
.eopor,ioua,ely risen in price.
d ,coNa imposes q tax OF 81 600 on
ab.hdmeDt, where liquors areso.d and
.has carried On, ayd managers prefer
'niOu their business rather than pay
b thus producing the desired effect,
hbama bias 81 100000 outstanding
lions bearisg s per cent, and non.
u The legislature is considering a bill
Hktjuie 6 per cent bonds, and thus
10000 in i-terest annually,
MtOwnof Hot Springs has, upon the
ID application and showiug been de.
by the proper authorities a city of
IA class She now ranks second TO
HRock-they being the ouly cities Of
~ class in the State.
Bgi va } Reporter: As an evidence
atari times and scarcity of money in
lp1.E We would stale chat on Tuesday
pee young mules, two two years old
70 three, were sold on the streets un.
@cuIou, and the three brought only
y Emma Strickland, daugf ter of
~ Strickland, Of Bell county, Texas,
ailtd suicide recently by taking strych.
her parent, objected TO her marriage
y IhOs. Blackstone, and desired her
pr him, which she did, and imme.
n alter took the fatal dose,
Amont Virginian; During the re.
lqll spell the fish commissioners were
aeHlac about fifty thousand young
4 over the Midland road. 1t was so
lAal the fish began actually to freeze at
N station, and in order to save them,
|ApIe cargo had to be turned out in the
i that point.
4 Rev Edmund Withers, a distin.
y pous and jealous minister of the
pa church, died at his residence at
~ IN Nelson county, Virginia, last
The deceased was sixtysOne
q age, and was well known through.
diocese Of Virginia, where he has
n the cause Of Christ for the past
sight years.
] ne recent condagration at Mande-
4 " persisted the battle flag of Col.
fgIment twentieth South Carolina
F'rs' 1t was the Southern Cross"
sO"ed the effects OF honorable service,
ieni by shot and shell, and its starry
plm with the smoke of battle. Col.
portrait, in full confederate uniform,
ef'ahately saved, but many historic
\ 'he eonlederacy were lost.
Y Odeans opposes national quaran.
etcanse 1t will affect her trade, but
] '9e ne way the country papers talk: We
4uliy appreciate the situation in New
T. But there is only choice of two
atiIher to quarantine the fever ont of
7HeauS and retain the trade OF the in.
lF permit It to be brought in and
Inc people in the country have
.up lheIT minds on the subject, and
~ make quarantine very effective
got county circuit court, Arkansas
tle'td one James c. Carlton for OBJ
/ teligl under false pretenses. The
nsle ment says Carlton professed a
VI he m, aOd the members of the
GaNcb, being credulous, admitted
Ias told. About lust November he
" show ia rcprobacy of mind and
rlp' OF hls Obligations to the church,
I, the statute in such case mace
IT,l1ro AGAINST the peace and dignity
0dpast church"
|, Vince, Of North Carolina, par
Ls"is Wei the other day, the only
u u the Penitentiary. He WAS con,
y; manslaughter, and sentenced to
MN inpfsonm Mt, The governor, ON
lug nm, endorsed the following on
'pel' take pleasure in saying that
n1 a9 parton IN part recognition Of the
uu law,abiding character of our Jew.
Ilphs' this being the first serious case
\ tpush5 na 70 my notlcs on the part of any
rIition to the legislature is in cir.
~ pa III y weston, and being numerous
DO' y. asking for the appointment of a
~ 10 wind up tae affairs of the city
lhat Notwithstanding that title II
tlrler tgl0rler iorbids the authorities to
n.y. ior the city larger indebtedness
'ue y, hl ion two hundred thousand dol
Stoy " publication in the city's official
WI WI december, 1873, the indebtedness
WI WI 10 ne l5S,S75.4S above the allowed
", D'.a o a considerable floating debt fol
lg gexpenses.
,vlie proposes to follow in the foot
y, W. memphis, and abolish her city gov
NY y 70 settle her debts. For this pur
- i act mas been prepared and presented
legislature Of Alabama creating &
T.. Ta commissioners of eight, to hold Office
'%ua'ly until the affairs OF the c ty car
,,,, I"ul17a upon a permanent basis l
.o au Is to be adopted taxation for city
az dutlng the next two years WI no
,i', dS1 tenths Of one per cent, an thu
,S'fston of the city affairs will b'
y ,''ed upon II basis Of $100,00e pc
o'ptember 80 there were ga con
~ y ! iaIab ima. During the year ther,
Nv Nv Yea hs, and II escaped The ne
y sS' Tor the year were $50, ,649,92 TIT
VT VT, SAWS the contract system OF vorklnI
N.Y. a outside OF the walls is nov becom
uvlent .i,t and effective, and j. a larg
IVY OIL CAana nnhnr The mill nnh hu