Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-20

IGLAsk1, Tenn, mas OTSdHiZeu lciie'
society to aid the destitute whom the Sc
we're winter has kept from work
MUCH damage was done to last years
apple crop in and around Carthage, Tenn,
by the recent cold weather. One farmer
on Caney fork had five hundred bushels,
and although well housed the larger por-
tion of them froze and were afterwards re-
tailed at ten cents per bushel.
A RICH vein of anthracite coal has been
discovered in the Chillhowee Mountains,
near Maryvile, Tenn.
GILBERT H. GREEN 4 Co., cotton factors,
New Orleans, have failed. The trouble was
caused by the failure of their Liverpool
house.
AT Memphis, Tenn, NJ R Patterson the
young attorney who assaulted Mr.. Newman
Erb the other day was fined 800 and costs
for contempt.
CAPTAIN JAMES D. JOHNSTON, OF Savan-
nah, Ga, commander of the Confederate
gunboat Tennessee in the naval battle at
Mobile in 1864, received the following let
ter
New YORK. Feb 9-To Captain j. D. John
stOt. Sdrdnndh-Dear Sir: | desire to send
YOU the sword Wnicn you so Rul -dnty ustu
August 3, ls64, in Mobile Bay, The sword has
your name on the blade, also &c. 5. Navy. IL
| am correct please tell me where to express
| It, Very truly yours, LOYAL FARRAdur.
The writer is the son of the late Admiral
| who took Johnstons sword after he was a
| prisoner on the United States frigate
Ossipee. Captain Johnston has notified
young Farragut that he will be pleased to
| receive the sword, which was presented him
| as testimonial by friends in Mobile during
| the war
THE safe Off W Birgs, at Brownsville,
| Miss, near Corinth, was blown open tho
other night and $500 in cash and notes to
| the value of 5000 ken.
COLONEL TURNER VAUGHAN noted edu-
Gator and public spirited man. died at his
| home at Laguards, near Gallatin, Tenn, in
his s5th year.
| Isaac SSoppERLY, Of Maynardville,
Tenn, aged seventy-one was thrown by
accident against a circular saw and was
| cut in twain.
WILLIE MILLER, colored boy, shot and
killed Richard Waller on Battle Row,
Brunswick, Ga The killing was the result
of three-cent gambling debt. fhe muir
derer is in Jail.
Miss SWEET, an estimable young lady re-
siding at Arlington, little town twenty
five miles northeast of Memphis, Tenn,
was so severely burned that her life
is despared of. Her clothes caught fire
from the stove in the kitchen and the flames
soon envelopcd her Mrs. Mercer seeing
her danger, pushed her out of doors into
the snow and threw blanket over her,
which extinguished the flames, not before
Miss Sweet was badly burned about the
head and face.
DURING special election at Vicksburg,
Miss the other evening, quarrel arose
between Alfred Strauss and Sam Walters,
strikers for rival candid ties for Alderman,
in the course of which Walters was shot in
the region of the spine and fatally wound
ed Strauss was prevented with difficulty
from shooting Walters a second time The
affair created great indignation among the
people.
On Davis creek near Charleston, W. Va,
the other night, Charles Ailheart and
George Williams became involved in a
quarrel over trivial matter, when Ali
heart struck Williams on the head with a
coal pick, crushing his skull in a frightful
manner, resulting in death next day. ALL
, heart was arrested and lodged in Jail. Tho
parties are negroes, and worked for the
Black Band Coal Company.
GALLArIN, Tenn, has a Poor Relief Asso-
, citation. Provisions, coal, wood, clothing,
etc, are being distributed among the des-
: titute
JoHN X. RANDALL, Librarian Of the Bal
timore Mercantile Library, committed
suicide.
THos. c. CARLocK, President Of the Texas
Oklahoma Homestead Colony, was ar
D rested in Denison, Tex, few days ago
I upon warrant sworn out by U. g. Post
/, office Inspector Morton, charging him with
using the mail for fraudulent purposes
, and in default of bail he was lodged IN Jail.
. EAST TENNEssEE's famous old bear-hun-
! ter, Tiger Whitehead, of Roam Mountain
, has killed six bears this winter This makes
grand total Of 93 that he has killed. He ID
9 now seventy two years OF age, and has de-
8 sire to kill one hundred bsfo % bc passes n
A | ~. nhanks