Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-03-22
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

AuiaHla At5 w utttCLlFtS OI ltI ponce
force.
Alabams'S late legislature cost the
state over 100000.
For the Lee monument there. has been
collected this year s1,O455l.
In Texas, when a man sells mortgaged
property they send him to the peniteniary
Yellow and red coons, with hesds
resembling wildcats, are found in Accomack
county, Va,
The Alabama Legislature appropriatea
$4,000 TO thes'ate beard Of health, to be used
AZ their discretion.
An Augusta man has cold seven bush
els of watermelon seed at the rate of thiItys
two dollar O bushel.
Monticello, the Virginia country seat
Of Thomas Jetierso1, will be sold at public
sale on the 2O,h inst,
The Dispatch says since the poisoned
fish appeared along the gulf coast Of Florida
all the bu21ards have left.
The new ice works in Columbus, Ga,
will furnish ice at one cent pound cheaper
than nature can manufacture it,
The governor Of Texas has approved
the bill appropristing six hundred thou5>
and dollars 0 the public schools.
North Carolina will employ fifty con.
victs in draining and reclaming angola bay,
an immense bosy Of swamp land.
James Corning, OF Arkansas, by will,
him and set up five tombstones to his
memo y.
CLARK Mills, the eminent sculptor, is
at Fortress Monroe making casts of the
heads of the Iodisn students attending the
Hampton normal school.
A serious drouth exists in the San
Antonio section Of Texas, Wells have dried
up, and some farmers have to i've their
stock ti7e miles to watar.
An Arkansas legislative bill proposes
to charter the Arkansas insane asylum lo.N
terry association to procure funds to erect
such an institution at Little Rock.
The New Orleans Democrat says the
exodus OF negroes from Madison nnd other
upper parishes to Arkansas continues to
the rapid depletion of the labor supply.
1t ia stated that Gen. G. T. Beaure-
gard has been selected to succeed Hon.
Alex. Stephens, Of Geor. a in the supreme
grand command Of the Grand Consiatory oi
the Sons OF Malta in America.
The Texas legislature is discussing the
question of issuing four per cent boLds OF
small denominations like those OF Georgia,
il being expected that they will 90 into ours
rent circulation and answer the place Of
money.
North Caroliua is about to increase
her tax on liquors, the bill for settling the
state debt having passed. North Carolina
paws $s,dO00OO annually tor liquor $1,000
600 for education, and $2O9,SO0 for religious
purposes.
The North Carolina state senate, by a
vote OF thirty-fve to eight, has adopted q
resolution in8tructing special committee to
incorporate in the bill Tor the sale OF spirits
nous li,luors the principle Of the bell punch
now in use in Virginia.
Donaidsonville Chief: There is 6 nov
ellv here in the way Of a courtNhonse. 1t ls
very small hathoat covered in. Being dis
covered h5 ting down the river, 1t was
puled ashore and is now occupied on court
DAYS by his honor the colored Justice OF the
peace, to settle disputes.
Newberry, S. O., Herald; A yesr ago
the Liberia fever was st it7 height. This
wear it is the Colorado fever The dlrkie1
are much concerned on the subject, or at
least n few Of them are, and are trying t.
sei,ate the question. A coodly number OF
them declare their intention 10 60 10 SOLOS
RADIO.
Brandon. Mics, Republican: We learn
that very fatal disease has broken out in
Scott county, between Hillsboro and the
county line, which is pronounced by the
physicians as black measles, and Oy the neN
rr6es rs the black plague. 1t is very conta
gious and very fatal, not single case haNng
recovered.
In Richmond ]. e, Poindexter at
tamnted TO oowhide c. c. Curtis, Curtis
took a cane, and. gong to Poindexters
Mace Of business, demanded an apoIogy,
and upon its being refused, persisted m ms
attempts to cane him until he was rlddled
with bullets from Poindexters pistol, Four
halls psssed through his breast and one into
his brain, causing his death.
A South Carolina paper says: Cyrus
II. Mccormick, the Chicago mililohalfe,
who owns Dorn's gold mine, IN TINS oouh'
tv. has given $4,000 towards the con-
struotion Of the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad, which is pushing right through to
sure and speedy completion Mr. MeCoF'
mick's muniGcence places the enterprise pe'
yond the possibility OF failure.
Charleston News and Courier: The
a;roct occounts of the condition OF Senator
Hampton are encouraging. Although sui
| foying considerably at intervals, there ap'
nears to be no danger, the trouble being
merely va,i local, and capable Of relet By the
hunting or fishing, still ndulsing in horse.
back exercise, and riding almost as well as
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