Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-16
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANiNGS.

4 lo2 bales; exports to Great Britain, 4 ~
bales; sales l,34S bales; stock, 63, IA bales.
NEW ORLEANs-Cotton steady; middling,
&C.; low midding, Slzc.; good ordinary,
nc. net receipts, l4,0l4 bales; gross l4,7lo |
bales; sales, ., $50 bales; stock, 6A,O31 bales.
MEMPHIs.-Co easy; middling, &c !
receipts, l,400 bales; shipments, 9s2 bales; !
stock, i7,0i7 bales; sales, 8, 100 bales.
A cENTURY-PLANT at st. Augustine, Fla,
is about to bloom, and has reached height
near forty feet,
A GEORGIA hermit has his house in tbs
branches of a spreading oak tree. 1t is
small, but quite snug.
Two bulls met in an Arkansas town and
fought so fiercely that no one could sepa-
rate them. The duel lasted one hour and
forty minutes, and then one fell over dead.
A coLoRED boy at Newbern, N. G., was
bitten by rattesnake the other day, and
there being no doctor accessible, his con-
panions dug a hole in the ground and
placed both legs in it up to the hips, pack
ing the mud securely around him. The
poison was extracted and the boy is now
about well.
JOHN CULPEPPER an aged farmer, living
alone on Julian's Creek, about four miles
from Norfolk, Va, upon retiring the other
night discovered negro under his bod He
procured a shotgun and fired at the in
truder, missing him. The negro seized the
muzzle of the gun, and a struggle ensued,
which resulted in Mr.. Culpepper being hor'
ribly beaten with the weapon, having his
skull and face crushed, one arm shattered
and his right ear bitten Off. The victim
can not recover Robbery was the motive.
A LITTLE old man named Harrison II.
Oliver of Bolton, Bell County, Tex, is
said to be "the most remarkable repository
of cold lead in the country" In the course
of highly belligerent life he has been
wounded 10l times, and in great number
of cases the missiles are held in his person.
A CITIZEN of Valrosia, Fla, wants TO send
some Of the big red ants Of that region,
called bulldog ants, to surgeons for use
in fastening wounds of the intestines. He
says that if the edges of two pieces of soft
paper are held together with bulldog ant
held so that he will clutch both sides, and
his head be then quickly twisted off, the
ant becomes a fixture in that position. He
says that Spanish surgeons use the bulldog
ants as sutures in that way.
THE Journal Of Commerce, of Baltimore,
publishes special reports from the tobacco
growing sections of Maryland, Virginia
and North Carolina. Nearly all the re-
| ports claim that the yield will be much re-
| duced, the estimates running from one
| third TO two-thirds of a crop, and with the
| quality, especially in parts of North Caro-
| lima and Virginia, very poor. In the great
| Durham District the yield is estimated at
not over forty per cent. of an average, and
of very inferior grade.
| NATURAL GAS was struck at Fairmount
| w Va, few days ago When the gas was
| struck, the force was so great that all the
tools were blown from the well and stone
were blown from 100 to 2OO feet high, tear
ing up part of the derrick, Ii is said b,
experienced gas men to be the largest ga
well in the country. The noise from th'
| rush of the gas can be heard from six to tel
| miles
The last cotton crop report for the Mem
! phis district says: The light frostS whicl
fell in portions of the district on the n gh
| of October /, we're not damaging, and thc
fair weather that has since prevailed give
assurance of favorable conditions whici
adds to the bright prospects of the planter
and enables him to gather his crop in {
clean and satisfactory manner.
An unknown burglar broke into the road
house on the National pike, near Wheeling
| w. Va, and was fatally shot by the keeper
Ar Yazoo City, Miss, Chas. McDonnal
shot and probably mortally wounded Mel
lie Lawrence, and then shot and killed him
self The cause was Jealousy.
WILL BoNHAM, young negro train
wreckor, was captured and lodged in jai
at Livingston, Ala, and on the Sth there
was strong probability that he would bt
lynched.
President GARRETT will extend the
Shenandoah railroad to Pensacola, pass
ing Birmingham, Ala, to be completed IL
two years
GorIIrB HlRTrIEB, of Elm Grove. W
| Va, shot dead a stranger whom he tounC
in his kitchen, and who refused to go out
TYPHOID fever is epidemic at Benwood
W. Va, where there are fully fifty cases.
A SNAIL boy, living on the line of th'
Wheeling Nv. Va.) Natural Gas Company
mains, found small leak in twelve-incl
pipe and applied match to see the ga
burn. He was unable to extinguish tht
fire and by degrees the lead packing of thu
Joint melted and ran out and the fire in
creased in volume until the pipe brok'
and mass of flame shot fifty feet into tn,
air with deafening roar The result wa
to cut off the supply of gas from the city
All the mills and factories in Wheeling
Martins Ferry, Etnaville, Bellaire an'
Bridgeport, employing in the aggregat
several thousand men, had to close dow
until repairs could be made and the ga
turned on,
PARIS green, cheap preparation o
arsenic, is favorite antidote for cotton
caterpillars. When the worms made thei
appearance in North Louisiana early in th
season it was used in immense quantities
The negroes have always been afraid OF il
and claimed that it endangered their healt
to pick cotton in fields where it was used
On the Foster place, in Bossler Parish
where the plants were literally sprinkle
with Paris green, a sickness has broken GU
among the negro cotton-pickers, due to tn
poison Some eight or ten have been mad
sick by it, and two have died. The darkie
are frightened, aud refuse to pick Pari
green cotton.
THERE are not one hundred saloons |
South Carolina outside Of Charleston.
@WuLIAM HENRY Flrz LEE, who has bee
nominated for Congress in Virginia, is
son of General Robert f. Lee, He was
Confederate soldier, and being taken pri
oner, was selected, with other prisoner
for execution, in case the Confederates ca
ried out their threats of killing some co
orcd soldiers whom they had taken prison
ers The negroes were not hanged.
In Dublin lives rich Quakeress who
coming over to pass the winter anon
some colored people in Tennessee. The,
coored people have lately become Friend
and they wear the broadbrim.
A FUND has been started to erect mon,
ment over the grave Of Father Ryan, Il
poet priest, at Mobile Ala.
Ex.JupeE JOHN WALKER, a prominer