Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-07-12
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

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Jacksonville, Fla, is building water
works.
Inc mussels in the Llalao river, Texas
are pearl-bearing.
Atlanta's cotton-factory is at last pro
claimed to be success.
! Knoxville by handsome majority ba
decided to build itself water.works.
In Richmond county, Ga, it costs ,
man $lOO to be found wearing pistol.
The pineapple crop of Key West, Fla.
will double that of any former year.
Memphis seems to be progressive. Shs
is setting about to repair her streets.
A large number of the negroes who
went from Mississippi to Kansas have re-
turned.
The Legislative council in Mem
phis has passed an ordinance prohibiting
opium,smoking.
Columbus, Ga, claims to have more
capital invested in manufactures than any
other city in the south.
The corn crop along Red river, Louis.
lana, is failure, and the farmers are al
ready cutting it down for fodder.
A Memphis clergyman takes the DO.
sition that there is future state for all the
beasts of the field and fowls of the air.
The drouth is unprecedented in Rus,
sell county, Va. Farmers have been com
PEELED to drive their stock to other coun.
ties.
Montgomery, Alabama, wants another
route to the Atlantic, and contemplates a
road to Troy or some other point in southern
Alabama.
Gen. G.. w. Curtis Lee has rendered
his resignation as president of Washington
and Lee college, and it will probably be
accepted.
Two Illicit stills recently captured in
Alabama were the property of Rev. Albert
Esmon, who escaped the revenue officers by
taking to the woods.
Hugh and Nathan Estill, children,
while playing about q sandbank, in Muir,
freesboro, were buried alive, and when exs
tricated were dead.
The gateway for the national ceme-
terry at Vicksburg, erected by the United
States government, is to be of Tennessee
marble and to cost $1,000.
The New Orleans Times says that next
year the Louisiana jockey club will be one
OF the most fourishing and substantial or.
ganizations in the country.
Mrs. Sears sued the Texas Central
railroad for $2,50O damages for killing her
son. The jury returned verdict in her
favor and awarded her $500.
Agricultural Commissioner Killebrew,
OF Tennessee, is in Massachusetts,, arranging
mammoth excursion from the Old Bay
state of people interested in Tennessee col.
onizati0n.
Shreveport, La, derived its name
from II. NJ s. Shreve, of Louisville, KY,
who first cleaned out the great raft in Red
river, and was one Of the original settlers Of
the town.
The academy of science in Atlanta,
Ca, has decided that the past, present and
future prosperity of that place is due more
to its reputation for healthfulness than any
other cause.
Waco, Texas, adventures, are search
ing after treasure alleged to have been left
concealed in that town by Alexander Nc
Goughey, wealthy old man who died there
several years ago.
Gen. Richard Anderson, corps com.
mander in the confederate army of northern
Virginia, died in Beaufort, =. c., on the 26th
ult. Gen. Lee once referred to him az "a
most noble soldier"
The training ship Wachusett is lying
at anchor opposite Vicksburg. The vessel
draws sixteen feet Of water, and it is doubt
full whether she will be able to reach st..
Louis for some time.
In Buchanan county, Ga, a tenSyear.
old son of Squire Vance committed suicide
by hanging. AS he was in the best OF spir>
its few hours before, and q child OF good
mind, the motive that prompted him to seek
his death can not be understood.
New Orleans Times: Texas seems to
be having her hands full and jails too, Just
now. In the state there are between thirty
and thirty.five murderers who are now in
the hands of the law. Nine OF them will be
executed, some of the rest are being tried,
and still some others have carried their
death sentences to the court of appeals.
The question of the destruction of
the ailanthus tree in Atlanta, Georgia,
has been agitating the community for some
time. The doctors have been called upon
to decide as to the baleful effects of the
tree upon the general health aud they are
vide apart in their notions. Meantime the
authorities are in quandary.
Atlanta Constitution Henry M. Tur-
ner, the negro preacher, who is peddling
lies at the north, says that in Georgia the
whites refuse to sell land to the colored
people except for the purpose OF building
churches. The fact that the colored people
of Georgia own nearly six million dollors'
worth OF land doesn't seem to impress this
eminent mulatto rascal.
The Nashville Banner, in the course
Of a long article reciting the progress OF the
city, says: Amy one who takes a walk
through the city cannot fell to note the nu'
merous new buildings going up, and, at the
came time, to note the substantial character
of the same. Vacant lots are rapidly disap'
pearing from sight, and improvements may
be seen on all hands, This certainly indi.
cases revival OF interest in real estate, and
marks the beginning OF better era in the
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