Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-04-12
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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Machinery has been put up at Fer.
nando, Fla to work the palmetto fiber.
The sponge trade of Cedar Key-, Fla
since the first Of January amounts to S75,5OO.
A company of capitalists have com
mencsd building a street railroad in Vicks.
burg.
About one hundred and fifty bills
have been passed by the Tennessee legi,la.
| ture.
Florida immigration while not so brisk
as heretofore, is Of more substantial char.
8eter.
There has not been white man con-
fined IN the iail Of Taliaiero county, Ga.
in three years.
Athens Ga has bonded debt Of
$4,000, which bears interest at the rate Of
seven per cent
An Augusta man has sold seven bush
els OF watermelon seed at the rate Of thift,.
two dollars per bushel,
The society for the prevention of cru,
city to animals numbers one hundred and
twenty members in Little Rock, Ark
The 10000 appropriated by the Ala
bama legislature to purchase limbs for
manned soldiers is exhausted already.
North Carolina will employ fifty con.
victs in DIR inng and reclaimiug Angola
bay, an immense body Of swamp land.
Mr.. Joseph jefferson will soon have
1900 acres Of his orange grove plantation
enclosed by hedge of Mccartney roses.
A New Orleans policeman endeay0rcd
to prove to his sweetheart that he knew how
to handle pistol, and accidentally shot her
in the chest
The tennessee legislature has passed
a b q thorizing the state board of heal
to establish quar- ntine whenever and wher.
ever it may deem it advisable to do SO.
The penitentisry feature was stricken
from the tramp act in the Texas senate, and
the penalty made thirty to ninety days i'm.
prisonment at hard work in the county
Appeal; NJ mphis was never bette
governed than she is now she was never
in a better sanitary condition, never had a
better outlook, and never saw the day whtn
her aeople should be more cheerful as to
the future.
Knoxville Tribune Putnam county
has the champion mOonshiner. He is boy
! ten years old. He used tar kegs for beer
tubs an old cof e-pot for still, and an
ederstalk for worm. A good average for
! this miniature mOonShine eslab ishment was
four gallons per week.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: Capt. Hall
has force OF five hundred men tt work,
! has completed nearly fourteen miles Of
grade, aud this week has opened up the
| fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eigh-
teenJh miles on the Weatherford extension
Of the Texas and Pacific.
The Mississippi papers state that y
| fatal disease has broken ont in the counties
| bordering the Alabama line, which is pro
nounced by the physicians as black meas,
| les" aud by the negroes as the "black
plague" 1t is represented to be very con.
tagiOus and usually fatal, not a single case
| having thus far recovered.
Key West Vldette: Reports brought
| by the sponging fleet inform us that IN the
| bay to that sheet Of water extending from
the Tortugas to cape Florida they found
millions Of the ldrgeSt spOnges floating upon
the water, all perfectly putrid, Killed, rs
they believe, by the poisoned water that not
ong since destroyed myriads Of fish.
Scottsboro (Ala) Citizen; We had an
interview with Mr.. Daniel Martin, Of the
B lIe'onte vicinity, last Tuesday. Mr. Mar'
| tin informed us that he is now in his l9,h
wear, and married his present wife, who Is
not vet seventeen, about four years ago.
| She was only twelve years and fifty days Old
| wheu he married her ant he was seyenty-hye.
Arkansas Democrats Enough food is
thrown away every year on worthless dogs
in Arkansas to support five times the nuns
Der Of suffering poor in the state for the
same period. And yet great many people
doubtless mOjority--are opposed to any
Infringement of the saGred aud inalienable
rights Of the dog. We are a queer people.
Albany (Ga) Advertiser: II the Geor,
gia legislature will restore the code of honor
by removing all penalty fro II duelinH and
substitute for the present law an act making
the practice Of carrying concealed weapons
punishable by death, blooashel will de
crease. aud such shocking tragedies a. the
one enacted in the state capitol, last week,
will soon become like angel visits.
Columbus (Ga } Times: This is fast
running world, and the south need ask no
odds Of the north in all branches ol Indus
try. Why, We don't need even their ice any
longer to cool our summer drinks, Tor the
Industrial Ice company Of this city Is now
turning out as fair an article OF that mas
pensahle luxury as can be furnished by the
best of the tar-iamed northern lakes
Dallas (Texas) Commercial: The ne-
GRO emigration from Mississippi has been
disastrous all round. Ia the first pace
many plantations have been almost depo, u
lated of lahorers, aud the planting interest
,priously affected. In the second place, the
emigrants Themselves, having changed re
munefatige etnplOym Mt fo aciu poverty
in many cases, now possess neither lhe
money to complete their journey nor to
returI home.
The citizens of Natchez and Concor
dia parish, La, have held meeting t
call the attention OF congress to the eondl
tiop of the Mississippi between the banks o
Concordia parish aud Adams county, au'
the danger Of its breaking into Lake Con
cordia and changing its course. Inis woulC
seriously damage a number OF LOnislan'
nlanters, ami ut the SINE time cut OF
n tches from the river just as Vlcksburi
has been cut off,
The New Orleans and Texas railroad
IL now completed to point about fou
miles beyond Berwick, The road is wei
graded, and about two miles OF the distanc
II surfaced. he work is being pushed &C
lively forward and rbOut third Of mile Q
track is daily put in running order, the die
t9pcs varying from 1900 to 2l0O feet ever
Twelve hours. II is estimated that by thi
route, whs completed, the run betwee
New Odeans and Houston will be made i
/ fifteen hours.
New Orleans Times The reports iror
the marshes continue to speak in large terra
t oi the exodus of the negroes now IN pro
gress. II is said the enthusiastic welcom
rendered the citizens Of Natchitochss o
s ,beir return after the trial in this city, ba
: caused CONSERVATION in the minds of tn
colored people, aud that, ia spite OF the II
' mored ill.treatment RECEIVED by. the EN-
l. Grants in St. Louis they are moving OUT
- Morehouse, Madison, 0uaehita ana Nalen
} ,oches narishes in vast crowds. Inc negroe