Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-27
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS,

Will DG followed by as many moTe "Ithih
the next two or three weeks. There are now
nearly three hundred elders at work in lthe
different Southern States.
BUSINESS failures IL the Southern States
and in Canada continue above the av-
erage.
ORANGE trees reported to have been fro
zen to death at Ocala, Fla, are now in
bloom
J. S. DEvAND has been appointed General
Freight Agent Of the East Tennessee, Nir-
ginia and Georgia railroad
The General Robert E. Lee monument,
for which Charles H. Niehaus' design was
accepted, will be erected at a cost of $780,
900 by the State of Virginia, in one of the
parks of the city of Richmond. 1t will
stand 80 feet above the James river.
THE greatest religious revival in the his
tory Of Union City, Tenn, is in progress at
the Methodist Church. A large number Of
conversions have been made. There are
from fifteen to twenty conversions ever
service, which is held morning and eve
ming,
GALLATIN, Tenn, by ordinance, has re-
duced the whisky tax from sl25 to $50,
GALLATIS, Tenn, has inaugurated meas
ures looking toward the erection Of a Sl0,-
600 public school building.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Colum.
bia, Tenn, to the Nashville american, says:
Judging from the way seed potatoes, oats,
onion sets and garden seeds generally are
moving to the country, spring is near at
hand. Farm work has commenced again
in earnest. There has been an influx of
Northern farmers during the winter who
have either purchased or rented farms.
immigration is not rapid, but where an
occasional one drops in it paves the way
for many more in the future, for have
never found one dissatisfied with the soil
or climate. There is room and welcome
for ALL
The corpses of two unknown negro boys,
aged eight and ten years, respectively,
were found tied to the foot of sapling in
the woods six miles from Savannah,
| Ga The corpses were tied together with
ropes and strings of muslin, bound about
| the hands and feet. The mouths of the lads
were filled with leaves and clay, and each
was gagged Around the necks were
ropes, which were fastened to the sapling
Each of the bodies was lying face up
I the track of the railroad Beyond
few light spots in the neck no
| marks of violence were noticeable
on any part of the corpses. Life had civ
| IDENTIFY been extinct two or three days.
Three days before, John Graham, an insane
negro, thirty years of age, who lived in a
| cabin at point not far distant from the
spot where the bodies were discovered
disappeared from home. With him lived
his mother, his wife and two children.
The mother went out to look for the miss
ing son. She had not gone far when a
! flock of buzzards attracted her attention.
Going to the spot over which they We're
lowering she discovered the corpses as al
ready described. Other negroes joined,
and continuation of the search ended in
finding the missing lunatic crouchng ant
shivering behind a tombstone in a grave
yard near at hand. He was taken to his
home and placed under surveillance. The
coroner's investigation developed the fact
that be had slain the boys while insane as
a sacrifice to God. He is incapable of CIV.
ing connected narrative of the killing, but
SAYS he met the boys and went up &c
Heaven and prayed with them. At God S
bidding. he says, he anuointed them with
water, but when he reaches this point in
his story he invariably plunges into a dis
connected and meaningless harangue, shv
erng as if chilled by the remembrance ot
some hideous deed. The death of his vic
tins was accomplished by strangling
Near their corpses was found tin can con
tanning part of tho water which Graham
had used in amounting ,hem. The lads arr
believed to be the sons of John Bird, col
ored.
ON the plantation of J. z. Fitzgerald
Russell County, Ala, George Davis follow
ed Arch Reams into the woods and poured
the contents of double-barreled SHOT gur
into the unsuspected mans back Thi
failing to kill him quick enough Davis
opening his pocket-knfe, plunged ii twic
into Reams throat and then beat his hea
to a Jelly with the gun barrel Dav wa
last seen going towards Columbus, Ga
The trouble grew ont of the seduction u
Reams sister by Davis,
JONI JACKSON, while crossing tht
bridge near Oakdale junction, nea
Chattanooga, Tenn, the other after
noon, was struck by the south-boun
Cincinnati Southern train. His right le
was cut off and internal injuries We're sus
Gained, from which he died few minute
} ,.tterward
THE chain gang, consisting of ten q
twelve county convicts, while working o
: the Mount Pleasant pike, a mile west o
Columbia. Tenn. made break for libert
a few DAYS ago, and it is reported all 60
away except two. who were shot by Wi
Porter, the guard, and Lewis Marshall,
leading colored politician The latter T.,
, NAMED quietly at work on his rock pill,
Deputy Sheriff Nelson is in pursuit of tn
convcts but none have been captured {
vet One report says they made an attac
on the guard and that he shot in self-d
fense. Another that they Simultaneous
broke and run and the guard shot two
them. The convicts were in the employ
: Mr. Horace Rainey, the owner of the pix
A A. Il. FOSTER, alias John Wilson, arrestt
4 recently for working a cute small chang
swapping Swinde, escaped from the ci,
prison at Birmingham, Ala, the 9th
morning by extraordinary dexterity al
strength. With the help of n rope, viii,
n he made of his underclothes and piece
: chain, he managed to make a small hole
his cage and worked his way through.
A NEGRO named Geo. Gray, concealt
himself by the side of road leading o,
from Pine Bluff, Ark, along which
knew an old man named Vincent wou
, soon pass. When Vincent came o
posite the ambush, the negro jumped o,
! and beat the old man to death with clu
and then robbed him, Vincent's son, wi
!, : witnessed the murder, gave the alarm. al
, a posse soon had the murderer in Jail, whit
er a large crowd of infuriated citizens floc
ed, and demanded the life of the prisone
The mob was soon quieted, however, al
, there are no fears now that Gray will
lynched
, Fish COMMISSIONER HUsKE will soon
D tablisha German carp hatchery at Georg
I town, Ga.
} A MAN in Richmond, Va, has built
house by most singular mode of industr