Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-09

= 49, A'N. il't'' LAW bNi'N' 7hAliAiH4it9' VA
bales; stock, S957 bales; sales $50 bales,
An Romney, W. Va, John c. Bowen wa.
convicted Of murder in the first gree and
sentenced to imprisonment for life for the
killing of Frank Heatwoe on April 20 last
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geo1ga
tunnel, under Missionary Ridge, near
Chattanooga, which caved in last winter.
has been entirely rebuilt.
KATE RILEY and Ella Kaney, each aged
fifteen years, were arrested at Parkers.
burg W, Va, few days ago They had
left their homes at Wheeling to join a com.
binaton of travelling Indians. They were
returned home
IL North Carolina the spiders spin webs
and embroder words on them One
spun Ind ana war; and all the supersti.
| tlous are scared.
j. f. Busy, of Dawson, Ga, has a chick,
en- that has for some time be II roosting at
night on bis cows back As regular as
night comes the chicken goes to the COW,
| flies upon her back and there remains con
tentedly till next morning.
| An extensive cavern in the river basin
| occurred "A few days ago at Plaquemine,
| 10 miles above New Orleans, on the MissiS
| sippi, which carried into the river more
than four acres of land causing the de
| struction Of property belonging to several
| people. The land has been slipping into
| the river for some time. This is the third
cave which has taken place at Flaquemina
| within the past four weeks, carrying away
the front portion of the town As it has
been inevitable for some time, most Of the
| houses were pulled down or removed in
anticipation of the Cave-in, but the damage
| inflicted on owners of lots aud buildings
lost is considerable. Ten feet from the
bank, and where buildings were standing,
the river is now over fifteen feet deep.
Mrs. WHEAT, the widow of wealthy
merchant, was going into Atlanta, Ga, a
| few days ago, in a wagon drawn by two
| mules. When midway on tho bridge span
ming the Chattahoochee river, the mules
took fright, and backing the rear of the
wagon against the guard rails, broke the
| rail away, mules, wagon and occupant fall.
ing thirty feet into the waters below Mrs.
Wheat's body was recovered down tho
| river.
THE Democrats of the Third Louisiana
| Congressional District nominated Edward
j. Gay, ten times millionaire, the richest
man in Louisiana. The Republican Con-
vention boldly responded by choosing J
S Davidson, fun blooded negro, the only
one ever nominated in Louisiana, and ono
of the few in the South The district is tho
largest and richest country district in the
State and a very close one, usually Repub-
| Hoou.
DR. c. K. DYER, Government Veterinar,
Surgeon, reports that the disease raging
among the cattle in the counties of Loudon,
Fauquer and Prince William, in Virginia,
is Texas fever and not pleuro-pneumonia,
The disease was communicated by cattle
obtained from Chicago
A COMPANY with which General Van Man
ming the ex-Mississippi Congressman, is
associated is about to put on the market a
new cotton gin, which they claim will rev
olutionize the work and add TO the price OF
product by stripping the fiberS entire and
uncut from the seed The saw gin tears
the cotton to pieces, and the roller gin is
regarded as entirely too slow BY the pro-
| gressve planter. The new m chine is au-
tomato, and the principle is simple. 1t
acts upon the seed-cotton simultaneously
in opposite directions, loosenug the fiber
and removing it unimpaired from the seed
and free from nap Satisfactory expert
mentS have been made with the machine
on cotton, and the projectors are sure OF
success. Mr. Morton Toulmin, OF Alabama,
is the inventor
CoolrY MANN has been appointed as Col.
lcctor Of Customs at Vcksburg Miss.
a SAD and horrible story of how three
little children met their death comes from
| CoVington County, Ala, near Audalusia.
| The children Of respectable family, rang
ing from two to six years old, went out the
! other afternoon to play near the house. \
large pine tree had been blown down, and
they were playing around in the hole made
| by the roots OF the tree being torn up The
evening passed and at night the children
were missed. The parents instituted search
and soon found them lying near the roots
of the fallen tree. The two Younger ones
were dead and the eldest was in a dying
condition. Upon investigation it was
found that the children had all been bitten
by rattlesnake which had made its den
under the roots of the tree, Their bodies
We're terribly swollen and looked as If they
had been bitten in several different places
The eldest child died during the night and
the three little lnnocents were buried to
| gether,
ErGur persons at a boarding house in
Montgomery. Ala, were taken violently i'll
with vomiting the other evening. Doctors
were called medicine administered and
the patients are all in fair way to recov-
cry. The cause of the poisoning is mys.
terry. Other persons who ate and drank
the same things at supper as those taken i'll
are unaffected. 1t is supposed, however,
that the poison was in the milk This is the
second time that the same thing has hap
pened at the same boardlng-house wlthin a
few months IL Is also learned that all the
people in another ooardlng-house are SICK
with the same symptoms. All who drank
| milk for supper are Slcks those who dld