Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-09-18

A PARTY of Southern gentlemen arrived
i'll Aberdeen, Oak, few days ago, with
the remains of C. Hooper Phillips, ex-
mayor of Nashville, Tenn. He was acci.
dentally shot by James Rains, at Nine
Mile Lake, North of Britton, OAK while
duck hunting.
a CATHOLIC priest named JOSEPH p.
Palmer, dropped dead of apoplexy the
other day, on the corner Of North and Bath
streets, Baltimore, Nd.
WILLIAM STEELE, colored has confessed
to the murder of Nelson Potter, wealthy
colored man, at jackson, Miss. Steele'5
object was robbery.
WARsARsHA, a Sioux Chief, was killed
with a tomahawk by Grequoqua, an
Apache Chief, at Dickson. Tenn, the other
night. The Indians belonged to "Wid
West show, managed by Captain Stubbs,
The murderer was of a sullen disposition,
while his victim was inolfensive
A SINGULAR effect of the recent earth
quake was made manifest at a planning mill
in Macon, Ga, a few days since. The en-
tire works had to shut down on account of
the insIirator failing to supply the boiler
with water, which it has always done from
u large we'll near by sunk for that especial
purpose. 1t was at first thought that tho
inspirator was defective and working
badly, but on a closer examination the
fact was discovered that the temperature
of the water in the well had become so
,Va hat ba yph la
with cold water only, refused entirely to
perform its duties. The temperature of the
water was found to almost reach the boil
ing point.
MR, A. ENGELKE, merchant of Lulu, Ga,
has large collection of live rats, birds,
snakes and bugs The other day he con
cluded to feed his snakes on some of the
white rats He put rat into each of the
cases of the rattle and bull snakes who
soon disposed of their game, but in the case
of the king there was war, The rat was
only half grown, but fought desperately,
killing the snake, which was large one,
and dining upon it The fight was wit
messed by many
WHILE at work in the mine Johnson Lor-
ing, at the Campbell'S Creek Coal Com
pany, near Charleston, Va, was caught by
falling slate and crushed so badly across
the spine that he can not recover.
OF 3Ol responses to interrogations sent
out by cotton firm in Memphis, 226 re-
port the cotton crop in what is known as
the Memphis district, as in better con-
dition than at the corresponding time last
year. which is deemed fair index of the
bright prospects for full average yield
within the district
AT Horse Pasture, Henry County, Va,
J. T. Darlington, editor of the Henry Ne,cs,
shot and killed man named Bansman,
who was engaged in a difficulty with his
son.
A NOTABLE native American district is
the Eighth North Carolina, represented by
the Hon VIM. Henry Harr son CowleS. Its
ten counties have population of l!l6o3,
consisting of l20 AZ native born, and lj3
foreign born. Indeed North Carolina is at
the foot of the list of States, both in respect
to the number of foreign-born people aud
their percentage of the total population.
AT DAYTON, Tenu. a large building was
recently erected for a foundry and machine
shop On the completion OF the build ng
there was some hitch in the business of
stocking it with machinery, and the Struc-
ture is now used as church.
Tue manufacturing industries of Nash
ville Tenn, are unusually active, and
there is hardly an idle machine in the city.
Various new industrial establishments are
in contemplation there.
ONE of the queer results of the recent dis
tu1hances at Augusta, Ga, is the change
in the topography OF the country. Many
houses on the sand-hills the aristocratic
part of the city which before could not be
seen from the city, are now in full view,
while other landmarks have disappeared.
The changes were noticed the other day
for the first time, and attracted much at
tenton. In taking a birds eye view of tho
city from any point these remarkable
changes will at once be recognized, and go
to prove that there has been a considerable
settling of the earth.
FROM Charlotte, n. c., comes the story
that citizen of that place lately visited
u nest where goose was busily engaged
in Matching ont eggs, and was just in time
to kill blacksnake which was coiling
itself aroung the bird. His snakeshp had
swallowed the eggs He was cut open and
the eggs, being found unbroken, were
placed under the goose, which Matched
81, ,,,. nj ha1 Il
eyes and died in four days.
TuE Arkansas State and county elections
went by the usual large Democratic ma
jorties.
On the night of the great earthquake
John Newton, the sixteen year-od son OF
highly respectable parents, Atlanta, Ga.
was thrown into convulsions. He shut
himself next day in his room and violently
resisted all efforts to get near him, He wa,
evidently driven crazy by the shocks, He
has been declared insane and was taken tC
the asylum few days ago
RECENTLY Mrs. May, of Danionega, Ga
was stung on the nose by hornet. The
nose swelled and she had severe pains il
the head. The pain and swelling con
tinued, medical aid was unavailing, and
| she died.
FoR nearly the whole of the past year an
extensive tract of land in Texas has beer
entirely without rain.
A LITTLE newsboy of Orlando, Fla, teins
suddenly told of his fathers death, drop
ped his papers and hurried home A citi
zen, picking them up, sold them through
the town, telling the circumstances, ant
realized $40, some Of them fetching s.
apiece,
NICHOLAS SCurLpBAcK, aged seventy
three years, was found dead in well al
st. Mary's W. Va, few days ago. Hi
mind had been affected for some time,
Opus DAVIS b, 4 ., brakeman, fel
from train at Parkersburg, W. Va, tn,
othsr dsv, and was Instantly killed,