Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-04-19
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

peaches and wheat.
The late frost did serious damage to
fruit in Texas.
The Texas murderer now pleads "emo.
tional jim-jams." .lal.l X
They are still talking in Charleston of
raising monument to Calhoun.
Lightning struck team of six oxen
in Alabama and killed five of them.
A negro was sent TO the Texas peni.
tcntiary for two years for stealing ducks.
Wheat is heading in Texas, but ON
account of drcuth much Of it is very low.
Corn has gone up to ftty.fve cents at
San Antonio in consequence of the drought.
The sea has thrown up the sponge at
Cedar Keys, Fla, to the value Of $75,5OO
since January /.
A pair Of horses III Virginia, aged re-
spectively 80 and 5i years still put in a
good days work
Gov. Hubbard, OF Texas, says that
during his administration twentyone muir.
derers have been hanged,
North Carolina has ffty.four cotton
and woolen mills in operation. The capital
| invested amounts to 81 l,s3S,00O
G, arlotte Thompson, the actress, owns
1 one OF the finest plantations in the south -
5000 acres near Montgomery, Ala.
In Bullock county, Ala, persons sem
4 fenced to hard labor are hired to the highest
bidder, and bring $3.50 per month.
The exports from Norfolk, Va, for
/ March, aggreg ated $l,2ll,29 against $780,.
100 in 1879, an increase of S679lO6
John Letcher, Virginia's war gov
ernor," has recovered from long smell Of
sickness, caused by a fall on the ice.
Work upon the Lee mausoeum at
Lexington is progressing fayorably, but $9,-
600 are still needed for its completion.
Gen. Joseph r. Davis, a nephew Of
Jefferson Davis, was married at Missouri
City on the 18th ult. to Mss Margaret Green
jeff Downing, an old Georgia fisher
man, was missing. His friends slew two al
hgators, and found him slowed away in their
bellies. :
The biggest orange tree in Florida is
eight feet. five inches around the trunk, 81
feet in height, ana 81 feet in circumference
at the top,
An Alamo monument association has
been formed in San Antonio Texas, to erect
o monument to the heroes who fell on that
memorable spot
The Missouri house, OF representatives
has passed a bill making it unlawful Tor any
dealer to sell to minors pistols, slungshots
brass knuckles or other dangerous weapons
A few DAYS ago Prot F. H Bradley,
formerly Of East Tennessee university, and
assistant geologist OF Georgia. was crushed
to death by the caying OF gold mine near
Nacoche, Ga.
Clark county, AK, one Of the FIVE
original counties established by the terrific.
rial legislature of Nissu has been ahol>
ishei, half going to Dallas and half to
Nevada counties.
The confederate m0numentto be erect
ed hv the ladies' will lie unveiled at Colum.
bus. Ga, on the 2jth, and Gov. Colquitt will
deliver the address, Muldoon, Of Louisville,
made the monument.
William Bollinger, native Of Win.
chester, Va, died last week in Monroe
county, West Va. in the l05th year of his
age, having been born on January 10, l775.
lie was soldier of the war OF 1872.
Texas Jimplecute In several instances
we hear of corn being ploNed over and
cotton planted. The Colorado potato bug
has already made its appearance in small
numbers, and have commenced deposlting
their eggs.
NIcksburg Herald: If the Kansas
fever has not died out it has taken lull in
this section. We shall probably hear very
little more Of il after those at home have an
opportunity of hearing from those who have
gone before.
North Carolina prides herself on the
completion OF q tunnel under the Blue
Ridge mountains. The Western North Car
olina road has done the work at Swannanoa,
and it opens up the western part Of the ttite
about Ashville.
Little Rock Gazette; ii the newspa'
pers would combine in one common effort
TO show that large cotton crop ought TO
and would be planted, we would have more
corn to sell in the south next fall than ever
was heard Of before
A firm in New Orleans say they have
large orders for labOrers from the section OF
Louisiana and Mississippi lately abandoned
by tho negroes Many white laborers and O
fair proportion Of Cinnamon are sent for
. ward almost every day.
Pointe Coupee Pelican Last year 1t
was estimated that there were at least one
hundred and fifty casks Of dewberry wine
, made in this parish. The dewberry crop OF
this year bids fair TO be large one, sugar is
, CHEAP, and we trust that the vintage OF TINS
year will double that Of last,
Vicksburg Herald: The exodus OF the
, colored people to Kansas and to other west
ern states has, for the present at least, al
) most entirely ceased. The last boats leav'
. ing here bound up stream had no more
coIored passengers than customary
q Troy (Ala.) Enquirer; Real estate Of
every kind in the corporate limits OF the
8 city has advanced since last fall, and lands
, IN the county command better prices than
for severalyears. People are generally more
3 settIed and better oontented in this section
. than at any time within the past decade.
D The state.debt meeting in Nashville
r appointed the following committee to so tc
New York to urge the bondholders to ac
E cant the fifty cents and four per cent COM
' promise Ex.Gov. Neil S. Brown, ez,Gov
James D. Porter, Hon. Henry Cooper, State
: Treasurer Marsh T. Polk and Col, James l.
: Gaines.
j. Dallas Herald: And the drouth still
continues. The sixth day Of April ha'
reached us and still no rain. The situation
+ is all that is disheartening, but still we have
hone that the end is near at hand, Al
h North Texas is athirst, aud prays Tor friend
II " clouds that will give the absolutely nece5
= ssry moisture for our crops, for our gardens
|, for stock, and for everything else
"a A colored boy from Perry, Ga, re
gently arrested for stealing, declared tha
l. he derived his kleptomauiacal prOuensitie
W from wearing pair OF old shoes which ha(
); helongsd 10 A convict, and that the salC
VI ooIonssIL -. - a d snall D ON him. He iu