Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-09-04
NUMBER Al.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

MOTlnJn cnllureH III JIdn.
The Government loses one million
dollars year in the smuggling of
opium.
A Preston Conn., man has cat
whose fayorite tidbit is nice fat grass
hopper, which she captures for herself.
-Haryord Post.
A merchant at Wallingford, Vt,
recently reduced to ashes book that
had ten thousand dollars OF bad ac-
counts on its pages.
In 1850, it is asserted by court
prophets, the entire House of Lords
will be bossed by American heresses,
provided it lives as long. Washington
Hatchet
No jury will ever convict man Of
stealing an umbrella. Every Juror has
once or twice in his life been caught
out in the rain and-but this is getting
personal -Phtiadeiphia cal.
Lady philosophers are printing up
for Concord. Question for solid dis
cussion: "Are caramels whcrewithals
Of the wherefore, or whereofs of the
whereabouts?"-N Y Journal
London engineers say that, as a
matter of theory, it is possible to make
steamers to run forty knots an hour
and cross the Atlantic in three DAYS.
But the vessel could only carry passen-
gers.
Very little of the New Orleans mo-
lasses finds its way into Utah. and for
| tlpt M n a ri pf tb,
West and Northwest The sirups
mostly consumed in that locality are
made in San Francisco. - Chtca9o Times.
AT Philadelphia recently the United
States attorney brought suit against
William Brown, manager of a concert
park, to recover one thousand dollars
| penalty for the importation of foreign
musical talent into this country under
contract, which is violation of the
law
The Indian agent at the Rosebud
Agency refused to give the Indians
their agricultural implements unless
they used them where he designated.
WhereupOn, says the Nebraska State
journal, the Indians organized strike,
| NIIICu NbN ~ SNNCtsNlul llldJ lLb dgtuL
not only turned over the implements,
but 'set up three barrels of sugar and
a lot OF fancy groceries.
OF the thousand or more prisoners
discharged from Sing Sing Prison dur
ing the last year and half there was
not one who was not able to sign his
name. Many had learned this while at
penal service. More than one who has
entered the prison ignorant has been
able on coming out to make new
start in life with the education he OBJ
tained within prison walls.-Iroy IN.
| T. ! Times.
The German army is arranging
celebration in honor of the forthcom-
ing ninetieth birthday of the EN-
peror, which is intended to be fully
worthy of the occasion. 1t is proposed
then to form a union of the officers
of the entire army corps and found a
philanthropic military institution in
honor of the Emperor. The Emperor
will be ninety years old if he lives
till March %, 1897.
"A man appeared at the police sta
ton in Merden. Conn. recently and
asked to be taken in, The iailer in
quired for reason for putting him in
the cell, aud the man replied: You
see, my wife is on the war-path again,
and there is always the devil to pay at
home on occasions of this kind You
had better take me in now. for you will
surely have to do so before morning
Hartford COUrdm.
"A quarrel recently arose between
Joe Shearer and John Bird at Forrest
City, Ark, over the ownership of ten
cents, The lie was given and returned,
and both seized their guns Joe Sc
cured his first, but instead of using it
on his adversary shot and killed the
lattcr'S son, an eighteen-year-old lad
who was standing near, but had taken
no hand in the trouble. Shearer was
in Jail awaiting trial.
1t is estimated that the annual
revenue from the two-cent tax on oleo-
margarine will amount to one million
dollars. This is on the basis of home
consumption of fifty million pounds,
and is low estimate. The exports of
oleomargarine last year amounted to
nearly thirty-eight million pounds.
The total production of butter in the
United States in 1880 was T7,25O.jS7
pounds. Washington Post.
1t is among the curiositieS of Nor
monism that its protector, Smith, was
born in Vermont; that the second spir-
itual and worldly high priest of the
system, Brigham Young, was originally
from Vermont; that EdmundS. the
framer of the Edmunds law, was and is
Il Vermont Senator. and that the Re-
publican commissioner selected from
Iowa was born in the same Green
Mountain Chicago Herald.
Miss Woodford the famous stake
winner, is one of the pets of Long
Branch. Her owners pay the strictest
attention TO her needs, and see that she
is provided with the best of wardrobes.
Her raiment when in public consists of
a pannier worn with broad girth. a
narrow band under her chin and a
silyered front piece to hold her bangs
in place. She is invariably accompa-
MED by little man in knee breeches
and Il parti-colored cap.-N T. Nal.
Jacob Noveck, Polish peddler. of
New York, went to the police head
quarters and asked when the first bal
loon started for Hamburg. He had
been told that balloon line was to
connect Mulberry street with Hamburg
and he was anxious to 20. as he under
stood the first passengers were to get a
free trip and five hundred dollars. He
would risk it for that The police au-
thorites informed him that the balloons
would not start for some time yet
~ Y. Sun
The Philadelphia post-ofiice has
been notified of the establishment OF
the following post-oflices throughout
the country: Nankipoo, Lauderdale
County, Tenn; Wake-ma. King Will
liam County, Va; Fodder, S. c.;
lIorsehv. Colo; Tornado, W. Va;
Pray. Wis; Chestnut and Soapstone.
Ala. Sweetland, w. Va; Stiff, Tex.
Joy, Ark; Shad, Ga; Honesty, Ky.
Mikado, Mich; Sandwich, Neb.; st.
Patrick, Ill.,; Zips, Fla, and Mucky-
muck, Tex. x.-hiiadeiphia Record.
AT Bodega, CAL. short time since
a man lassoed wild COW, and was
trying to drive her before him, he