Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-22
NUMBER 26.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANiNGS.

day He was too big to get out through
the neck of the bottle and must have grown
considerably during his confinement in his
air-tight prison. This story is vouched for
by Baltimore newspaper.
DAVID BELL, of Palleter's Mills, N. c.,
found very small pearl in an oyster seven
years ago He wrapped it in paper and
laid it in a trunk, and the New Berne Jour
nal says that it has grown from the size OF
a BIB shot to the size of a small marble.
During the seven years it has nos been
wet
Ar Salisbury n c., Franklin Ga.ton, q
colored man convicted of criminal assault
upon a lady, has been sentenced to be
hanged on the I'd of July.
Hon. b. T. PATTERSON, son-inlaN of ex-
President Johnson, and an ex-U. s. Sen
ator, has been appointed postmaster at
Home, Green County, Tenn, with a salary
of $40 year
Was. CARTWRIGHT, who has been C, azy on
the subject of religion for some days, shot
and killed his friend Rud johnson, Wood
berry Ga, few days since. He declared
that he was commanded by God to do the
deed. He is in Jail at Greenville.
CHARLES LATAEL, shoemaker, killed
John Selb, a saddle-maker. by stalbine
him through the heart, at Brandonville,
W Va The cause of the fray is not known.
A BOILER explosion on the McCrum
farm where c. d, Robbins is drilling for
gas, three miles from Wheeling, W Va,
blew John Barr 1875 feet, killing him. Hd
loa wi 70 ND oh
Mrs MARY HEARN, of Walton County,
Ga, has rolling-pin which has been in
constant use for 40 years. 1t is as good a.
new.
RoxIE Cox, of South Carolina, eloped
with her lover, Goldsmith Long, and was
married in a graveyard, Miss Roxie ought
to sing, 81 want but little here be.ow, but
want that little Long
A GEORGIA man, who has just died al
ninety seven, could lift barrel contain
ing thirty gallons of whisky and drink
| from the bung hole, and handle a 45G
pound bale of cotton as if it were baby.
A CAN of dynamite exploded at a quarry
near Strawberry Plains, Tenn, fatally in
| juring two aborers, Lafayette Smith and
Wesley Moulden.
ATLANTA, Ga, is the third largest snuff
market in the world. London comes first,
| New York next and Atlanta third. Loril'
| lard sold 30S0)0 pounds of snuff in that
| city last year, and other makers about
15!,ooO pounds One house there sold 5000
pounds In Macon Lorillard sold l75,UO
| pounds
A YOUNG lady, whose home was destroyed
| by free during the visit of Shermans army
to Columbia, S, G., took survey of tle
ruins a day or two after the conhagration
in hope of finding some little relic to re-
mind her of the trials through which she
| had passed. She searched for a long time
in vain among the smoldering debris At
last her eyes fell upon small piece of pa
per, which she picked up. 1t proved to be
a remnant of John Howard Payne's song
of Home, Sweet Home and the only
words untouched by the flames were
| There is no place like home,N
AUGUST K. KmCHENsTGEN, postmaster a +
| Lavender Hill, Baltimore County Md, was
arrested few days ago and held III 81, 500
bail. Special Agent Henderson, of the
post-ofiice department states that Kitchen
stein has been guilty of various irregular
tiles in the past three or four years. and
that his accounts are about s., 100 out OF
the way.
A LITTLE child of James Barker, seven
miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. was left
tied in its chair before the fireplace while
the mother went out to talk with her hus-
band who was working at the woodpile
| 1a, P, l.;
fall in the house and said: Did the baby
falll" They did not hear the child cry
and overlooked the matter. When the
mother returned she was Mortified to find
the child overturned and its head all af1ams
as it lay tied to the chair and its face
buried in the Goals, The child was actually
burning alive. Its hands and face were
h,ackencd and Charred, and it lived only a
hort time after it was extricated from the
flames. The sight was heartrending, aud
the mother is wild with grief.
\ poe belonging to Mr.. A. J. Hail. a
farmer living near Cabot, near Little
Rock, Ark, went mad recently, and among
the animals which it wounded in its wan.
deringS about the farm was milk cow.
The COW showed no signs of being affected
by the wound, and it was thought that hy-
drophobia would not result. The other
day, however, the animal began showing
the symptoms of the dreaded disease, anC
at the same time the farmers two little
children, who had been nourished with tbs
cows milk exhibited similar symptoms
and ON the llth were in a critical condition
suffering the most tsrrible agonies. Th'
other members of the family were also i'll
but their symptoms are not so alarming a
those of the children. and some hope is ex
pressed that they may recover
The residence of John Newhart, nea
Rockport, W. Va, was struck by lightning
the other evening The fluid ran down tn,
chimney through one end of the house
tearing the entire end out of the building
No one was hurt in the dwelling. Henry
and Wallace Newhart, sons of John New
, hart, were close by the house at the time
, and were feled to the ground by the shock
Both young men were badly injured, ans
at last accounts were in dangerous con
diton.
A TERRIBLE hail storm occurred a few
days ago in the northwest part of Arkan
sas The damage in Fulton and adjacen
counties is very great and the town of Salen
, was badly shaken up. No lives, SO far a
, known, are lost. Crops . destroye
; and houses fences and fowi 'NTe levele
by the wind, ureS
AT the NJ. +. Conference, in Richmond
Va, a resolution was offered, aud referre
to a special committee, providing for til
3 appointment of committee of seven (
, meet like committee from the Norther
! Methodist Church, looking to reunion c
the two churches.
e The outbuildings and barn of Charlie
Tracewell, at Washington Bottom, nea
Parkersburg, W, Va, We're robbed tn
l. other night Among the articles stole
: were 100 bushels of wheat, large lot c
V meat, etc The tota, amount stolen is e
:, timated at over $50.
h. W. SWIFT, of Keyser, W. Va, wa
drowned while attempting to ford, o
horseback, swollen stream,
A FIRE broke out at O'Clock the othe
!. morning at gainesville, Fla, destroyin
II all the buildings and contents on the sout
!" side of the ety's square The aggregat
l. loss is about $4,000, with little insurance
y Mas. CoLMAR, an aged lady of Pleasant