Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-06-28
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS,

on haud.
Rats are damaging crops in southern
Florida.
The negroes of Sherman, Texas, have
the Liberia fever.
There are 300 brandy distilleriea in
middle Tennessee.
The manufacture of coke iron in Ala.
bama has proven success.
The Herald says Vicksburg is in a
wretched sanitary condition.
In Mobile they have lev',l specisl
tax on vehicles kept for pri' se.
Twenty-four policemcy .eserve order
among the $4,000 citizer Memphis.
Charleston, S. 9. one and half
million dollars on deposit in her
banks,
In Macon, Ga, &. nblers are required
to pay license tax Of two hundred dollars
per month.
A colored Methodist church in Abbe,
vile, s. c., gave 81 200 last year to charita.
BILE purposes.
A firm In Petersburg, Va, has shipped
in the last month 10000 pounds Of manu-.
factured tobacco.
They are agitating the removal of the
capital OF Louisiana from New Orleans to
some interior town,
Prohibition is now on trial in 40
communities in Georgia, and those inters
ested appear to like 1t.
Seven hundred men are at work on
the Louisiana western railroad, between
Orange, Texas, and Lake Charles.
From now on" says the Galveston
News, "Texas will compete favorably with
any other state in hanging murderers."
The sanitary committe in Memphis
has done its work so thoroughly that the
city is cleaner than at any time in twenty
years.
A cypress saw-log recently passed
down the Sabine, in Texas, sixty feet long
and seven feet in diameter capable OF
making $4,000 shingles.
"What Is the use of fighting the En-
glish," said Zulu, +" when they can kill a
man and bring him to life again ?"- alluding
to the effect of chloroform upon prisoner
whose leg had been amputated.
The idea of cutting ship canal
thfoueh the isthmus OF Panama is at lleast
three and q naII Centuttes oi,i, pi-;isR N
Of Spain had route carefully surveyed by
some Flemish engineers, but never pushed
the matter.
Dallas (Texas) Commercial: Gold and
silver are said to have been found in large
quantities in the mountains near Williams.
burg, in Throckmorton county. These pre-.
cious metals are becoming so plentiful in
Texas that we will hear OF them growing
on the bushes next.
Dallas Herald Houston, on Friday,
received by Morgan steamers, from New
York, two hundred and fifty barrels of
-four. Funny, isn't it, that New York can
sell -four at rate to find purchasers in
Houston when we have so much wheat and
-four here in north Texas?
The board Of education of Nashville
has decided to recommend to the city couns
Gil the abolition of all foreign languages
from the course OF study In the high school, |
All salaries from fifty to one hundred dol.
lars per month were reduced five per cent, |
and all over one hundred dollars a month |
were reduced ten per cent.
Little Rock Gazette: A Mr.. Harbin,
Just in from Mt. Ida, tells OF rather re>
markable discovery. Several bows were |
bat ling in creek, and one Of them, in at. |
tempting to climb up bank, caught hold |
of shrub. The shrub gave away pulled |
out as though it was weed. The earth
thus torn aside revealed something, and, as
every man, woman and child in that section
is filed with ideas OF silver, the boy again
climbed the bank, and examined the some>
thing that he had Immediately regarded as
a discovery" II proved to be discovery
of the richest OF silver ore, and the news
spread rapidly, and the people gathered
round and unearthed the almost pure metal.
The richest silver now known to the worlds
history was discovered in similar manner.
A young Mexican woman died sud.
denly few days ago in Brownsville, Texas.
Her body was found to be covered with con-
tusions. The Democrat says: One who
seemed to be up in the superstitious lore Of
the Mexicans, and who was on the jury OF
inquest, says the contusions were produced
by the blows OF a wet hair>rope, which he
says were given her for the purpose OF driv..
ing out evil spirits that had possession OF
her, or, as witchery is called in Spanish, les
brujas. The examination showed that the
poor victim Of benighted superstition had
been closely confined in room wherein
was deposited great quantity OF chilpi'
quin, small Mexican pepper, similar to cays
enne in strength, on heated Goals. And
this Tor the purpose OF driving out the
witches in the nineteenth century.
Dallas Herald: The drouth which Is
now 40 much complained OF In north Texas
ia prevailing all over the state. No rains
have fallen since early In May. In the
southeastern counties pretty fair corn
crop will be gathered even II there Ia no
more rain, for the last one found II sufi'
ciently advanced to give II enough immedi-
ate sustenance to mature. In western, mid
die and northern counties, as well as along |
the northeastern boundary line, the corn
prospects are rather blue. But cotton is
doing very well. II Is hardy little plant |
which does not require much moisture The |
chances are our grain crop will be short, |
but there is ample time ahead to make an |
average crop OF cotton. We shall have |
plenty OF old corn on hand, besides Texas
grass lasts all the year round in the greater |
portion OF the state
Atlanta Constitution We think our
people hardly appreciate the amount OF
money that has been made in the south by
the recent furry In cotton, !speculations,
There Ia scarcely village which does not
furnish its man who has made Sb,OOO 70
800 900. Col. Sam Rice, OF Montgomery,
probably leads the list with a cool $20O,OVO;
but there are several, two at least In Sayan-
nah and one in Rome, who are said to have
made from $4,000 10 100000: Albany iur'
nishes modest dealer who picked up @Sz',
500. In Savannah, almost every dealer, Oh
hundreds OF dabblers, made largely. The
Auouata News Is authority for the statement
thai a man who didn't make as much a.
NJ. 600 IA kicked out Of the exchange. We
snow Of one railroad man who cleared
al 600 without knowing he had any sort oil