Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-08

MI EDIToR:--l have seen and read
IN IAe Beacon correspondence from
u'uerrlit parts Of our county. but have
seeh nothing from this neck of the
"oouS' vas might say and as this is n
post office of late date, and many of
our county people are not acquainted
WIN lis where aboutS, | have thought
1t would not be amiss to sketch Won n
iew lines giving your readers an idea
oi what our people are doing in this
community.
Inns post Office is on Macon and
Louisville road, six miles west of Ma.
con- at j. II. fIamby's store, place
known as Mahan place. We have a
ihlckly settled white neighborhood,
Ilieen white families within one and
nan miles of said office, also a large
number of blacks, and working and
STRIVING to make an honest living
IlYihg at home and boarding at the
same place striving to have our corn
cri6s and smoke houses at home.
we have an excellent range for stock
OF all kinds, as we are bordered on the
southwest by Il large scope of unoccu-
plcd lands, save by :he deer and tur-
Key, and known as the fiat woods.
We have a school OF forty-fve pupils
at Salem church and taught by Miss
N"',ie Boswell, who is an excellent
'eacicr. The intention is TO keep the
ssclool gong at least nine months dur
ing year, although our county officers
VIII not let us have but the four
months public school and that to be
'aheh IN Tour successive months, but
we lnlnk that each of our children is
entitled TO four months tuition, taken
any time during the nine. months
sciool. That. we think, is the spirit of
,he lazy, If not the wording of the sta.
'uie, ior our constitution saws every
chlId shall have the benefit of public
school for at least four months per
year.
we have two churches, the Salem
Methodist on Louisville road, an old
established church but now n new
house, built last year. 1t has this
year as pastor, j r. u. King, of Cooks
vile, one OF Noxubec's preachers, and
ms congregation arc well pleased with
him.
Concord, a Baptist church is on Dc.
Ralb road, one mile south of Conner
place, at forks of road. 1t is a new
church, built up and organized 8 years
ago by Rev. j. j. jackson, one of Nox.
nDec's sons and preachers, who is vet
pastor, Each church has now an in.
tcrcstlng sabbath school, both church.
es cooperating with each other IN
church aud sabbath school work and
III building up the Lords cause. Sc
we Hattie" ourselves we have good so.
cle'y. We have room for more Blu,
are not begging immigration, howev.
cr, we will welcome all who may come
in our midst, bearing q good report
and who Will join us in our work
We will show them good land to set,
tie on, but they must expect to pa,
for it..
We are backward in our farming
owing to wet weather and all are stir
ring late and early, Some are dont
planting and now working out corn
all will be planted this week. Will
two weeks fair weather, cycryihin.
will get strait.
Rev. j. j. Jackson preached IN ablC
and iorciblc sermon last sabbath a
Concord to Il large congregation
Subject-'hc life Of Daniel. He hel,
up Daniels life aud character to TIT
young men Of our land, and puinteC
out his zeal and energy in behalf o
his country and people and his faith
f~llncss to his God, and then Gods re
wards TO him. He made an carncs
appeal to the young men Of NoXubc,
to pattern after the Young man Daniel
to initiate especially Daniels courag,
and bravery in resisting the wine .
hislmastcr. the king. lie earnestly ap
pcalcd TO men, both young and old, I,
look not upon the wine when it is red
for it bitcth like a serpent and sting
eth like an adder. When we saw tn
effect Of his sermon on the fathers
mothers, sons and.daughters, we coul,
but think and feel encouraged that W
had a prohibition congregation, an,
and prohibition would be n success, a
least in NoXubec. After the service
were over, we could hear il whisperc,
around that though he was a littl
man, we had a big preacher.
CITIZEN.