Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1885-12-26
SOUTHERN NEWS eLEANINos.

Dut has no nose OF IhOutu' Ahc chiau -
living, but refuses any kind of food.
TuE latest one to blow in gun was Gar.
rett Celly, of Worthwhile, Tucker County,
". Va. He thought the gun was empty
and put his foot on the hammer and hie
mouth to the muzzle. Ills foot slipped off
and the gun was fired, the bullet making
fatal wound.
JosnuA TRoUr wealthy farmer, living
in the Clear Spring district OF Washington
County, Md, committed suicide the other
morning by sha9ting himself through tho
head gious excitement is said to have
un settled his mind.
AT Big Laural N G., James Gunter was
shot dead few days ago, by little SON
whose mother be was abusing. Tho boy
murderer is only eight years of age
JACKSON, Tenn, wants the free delivery
system, and it is believed she will get IT,
HENRY SHARPE, an old resident OF Holly
Springs Miss, was found dead in bed .
few days ago.
ALEX. HopDix and two colored men,.
narssl sras,i ard Noah Male, had terrf.'
bleexperteucs , few nj htS since pn Ty-f
CARTS River, in Taylor County, W. Va
They are lumbermen and were on raft'
they were taking down to Grafton. In get
ting over dam the raft ran ON sub
merged rock and in an instant had broken
and thrown the men into the cold ana
swiftly running waters. Hoddix clung to
a log and was carried down the river some
distance. where he succeeded in reaching
the shore completely exhausted. The two
Male boys landed on the rock which had
broken up their raft and remained standing
there up to their knees in water until about
nine o'clock in the morning, when they
were taken off by Bully" Kellar, who
went out in boat. The night was bitter
cold one, the thermometer marking some
where near zero, and those men were COM
pelled to stand for sixteen hours in wet
clothing with no chance to move around
and keep their blood in circulation. The
great wonder is that they did not both per-
ish Frank had his hands frozen and Noah
was at last accounts in a precarious con-
dition.
MISS JESSIE CLARK, sixteen years of age,
of Mckenzie, Tenn, was shot and killed at
that place the other night. She was called
upon by Edward McGhee. The report of a
pistol was heard soon afterward and the
family found Miss Clark lying dead on the
floor, A bullet had entered the back OF
her head, causing instant death. McGhee
was arrested on suspicion Of having fired
the fatal shot, but his friends believe it was
an accident. According to the young
mans statement, Miss Clark playfully took
his pistol took out the cartridges, then
pointed the weapon at his breast, saying
| that she would show him how young ladies'
| sometimes killed their recreant lovers.
| McGhee says that at this time be stopped
| down to regulate the fire, and Miss Clarke
had the pistol on the mantel When he
arose be took up the pistol and told her he
| would show her how young man in Mis-
/ si-sippi once killed his sweetheart by shoot
| ing her in the back of the head, at the same
time telling her to turn her head. She
| turned and the sharp report OF the pistol
| simultaneously rang out on the air, and
the young lady fell forward on her face
corpse Her father in an adjoining room,
heard the shot aud rushed into the parlor,
when McGhee told him that Miss Jessie bad
shot herself In few minutes however,
he admitted that he had done the shooting.
McGhee was released on 81 900 bail.
AN exact duplicate of Vice-President
Hendricks burial casket was received in
Chattanooga, Tenn, the other day, for use
in burying wealthy gentleman.
THE South Tredegar Iron Company,
Chattanooga, Tenn, has closed contract
for y, 900 kegs of railroad spikes for ono
road The order was taken in competition
with strong firms at other manufacturing
centres.
MIS-. ALEXANDER SUMMERS, Of Moatville,
Taylor County, W. Va, committed suicide
a few days since by drowning in small
creek near her home. Her mind had been
affected for some time
OSE quarter CT the live stock of the coun-
try is owned and fed in the South. The
South has 500, $4,000 invested in milch
cows oxen, other cattle sheep, hogs, horses
and mules The South owns one-third OF
the milch cows oxen, other cattle and hogs
of the country, or fully her proportion ac
, cording to population. One quarter Of the
! sheep Of the country are kept in the South
when ten years ago the proportion was only
one-seventh
4 BRIDAL party was drowned on the 18th
while attempting to cross the Chattoogs
+. River near Tallulah, Ga. Ernest Atwood
married Miss Stella Wadsworth in Ander
!. sou. S. C., two days before, and started fol
/ their new home in Rabun County, Ga
. When they reached the stream 1t was fount
. to have swollen considerably. The wagoI
7 wheel struck against some obstacle, throw
e ing the husband into the river With
G shrek the wife jumped after him, sn'
5 locked in each others arms they sank Z
+ the bottom.
/. Two hundred negro men, women an,
= children passed throt Sl Nashville, Tenn
= the other dayvia the Nashville, Chattanoo
D.. "a and st. Louis Railway from South Caro-
7. lima, en- route to Pine Bluff, Ark They ss.
II there will be a large exodus ofnegroes fron
Il South Carolina 20 the Western and South
, western States in the spring, and that the.
b are forerunners OF the proposed genera
/ hesira.
e INSURANCE companies have created quit
Il stir among property owners in the cour
+ ties, cities and towns OF Tennessee by in
5 structing their agents to advance rate
u from ten to twenty-five per cent. in cons'
"A queEee OF the State authorizing counte,
p cities and towns, by enactment of las
"a Legislature, to levy taxes in addition t
!. two and one half per cent. on the gros
It premiums levied by the Commonwealth
20 heretofore, 1t is thought this advance /
9. rates will have the effect to insure the +,
peal of the law.
o TuE other night Dave Hayes was kille
!, by Mr.. Rains near Thomaston, Ga. The
had quarrel over a bottle of whisk,
Il which one claimed was brandy and th
n other said was whisky From words
/. came to pistols, and Hayes was kille,
:, Rains gave himself up to an officer, had
IS commitment trial and was released, as th
" evidence satisfied the court that the KILN
t was in seltdefeuse.
S. Miss Smith, a wealthy old lady who die
at Chapel Hill, n. G., recently, remembers
her old slaves in the distribution Of b,
\. property, willing to each 100 acres OF lar
:, and Sl9j in money.
- MARrN STEVENS, cOlored, attempting
=. escape from Jail at Meridian Miss, vi
=, shot, probably fatally
40 Ar Meridian, Miss, few days ago, d
in prisoners confined in the county Jail mat
~ dash for liberty from the corridors Of n