Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-09-13
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smiths who work for 40 pence per week.
CLEANLINESS is the foe that Stays yell
low jack, cholera and all other allies Of
the grave. f
MONTANA .claims that her miueral
wealth is surpassed only by Nevada and
California. =.
A YOUNG physician in Vienna found
that his salary of $3.50 for attending the
poor reduced him to their level finan-
cially, and committed suicide.
In virtue of the Czar's special ukase,
the Crowns possessions are proclaimed
untaxable, and the taxes due for pre-
yious years are to be taken oil.
BRETHREN, it is our mission TO visit
and comfort the sorrowing, at $2a visit"
said one of the speakers at the Burling-
ton IN. j. Medical Convention.
AT the last Vassar College COM
mencement more than three-fourths Of
the young ladies wore their hair banged.
That was what might well be called a
bang-up affair.
In 1916 divorce was abolished in
France, the law allowing Judicial sepa-
rations. These separations number
$500 annually, and those who oppose
the law claim that they are more de-
moralizing than law that would allow
divorce. An effort to secure the modi-
iication of the law is now being made,
the church party opposing.
LoRILLARD's success with his Ameri-
can horses on the English turf this sea
son has encouraged other Americans to
enter that field. Among the nomina-
tions already made for nextyear's events,
there are thirteen horses from this side
of the Atlantic for the Derby alone, six
of them made by Mr.. Lorillard; while
Americans will also be literally repre-
sented in the st. Leger and the Oaks.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies
has passed the Railway bill by ! vote
of 257 yeas to SO nays. This measure
provides for the construction of 6,020
kilometres 1900 miles) of railways at
the expense of milliard $500, ,000000,
to be provided by special issue OF
bonds-the railways TO be constructed
in ten years. This will double the
number Of miles of railway in Italy
owned by the Government.
Mr.. A. G. ELLITHoRpE, of Chicago,
has invented device by which fatali-
ties from falling elevators promise TO
cease. It is simply to make couple
of feet at the bottom Of the elevate
shaft an air cushion or spring which
breaks the jar of the fall. 1t was ex-
perimented with at the Chamber of
Commerce building in that city with
perfect success, immense weights being
let fall without jar sufficient to break
an egg lying on the floor Of the cab.
Col. CHARLES E. WENDELL, who from
private in the First Michigan infantry
became the head of the regiment, was
killed at the second Bull Run. DR.. w.
d. Chapman, now resident of Woods
Cross Roads, Gloucester county, Va,
found an elegantly-mounted revolver ON
the battlefield bearing Col. Wendell's
name. For the last seventeen years
DIR. Chapman has been seeking some
relative of Col. Wendell's and finding
Mrs. G.. E. Curtis in Detroit, few days
ago, restored the revolver.
Miss Brown, Pennsylvania heiress
is spending the summer at Rye Beach,
N. Fl. Robert G.. Miller, a sailor on
the hotel yacht, saw and loved her, but
didn't dare to tell her so. She got
fish bone in her throat. Miller mount
ed a horse and rode at headlong pace
for doctor. He was thrown on the
way, and sustained broken arm, but
got to the doctors office, told his errand,
and tainted. The doctor arrived at the
hotel Just in time to save Miss Browns
life, and now she is nursing Miller, with
the intention OF marrying him as soon
as he is in fit condition.
The demonstrations of grief exhibit
ed by the Royalists of England over
the grave of the late French Prince
Imperial affords world Of encourage
ment to the Bonapartists of France,
and is, indeed, tanning back to life the
spirit of that invalid faction. The Re-
publicans of France, on the other hand,
are much annoyed by the tears of
Queen Victoria and the Princes OF her
realm, though certainly there is little
reason for fear that these tears will float
back to France the throne which de-
parted on the floods Of the revolution of
1870.
Col. BEE, the Chinese Consul in San
Francisco, explains the increased ar
rivals Of Chinese at that port on the
ground that the belief in China is that
the bill restricting emigration from
that country to the United States had
actually become law, and that subse-
quent to the 4th Of July only fifteen
persons would be allowed to take pas
sage on one steamer. The Chinese,
having learned that the measure had
passed both houses Of Congress, con-
cluded that the question was settled,
and hastened TO start for the golden
shore while there was an opportunity.
FLORIDA now ships 5000 head Of cat
tla monthly 10 Cuba. with prospect -