Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-30

NEW URLEASS.-Cotton easy; nlddllng,
SIC. low middling, s4c.; good ordinary,
'ssc. net receipts, 2l,9l9 bales; gross, 25,45l
bales; exports to Great Britain, 500 bales;
sales, 1850 bales, stock, los, 9i7 bales.
MEMPnIs-Cotton steady; middling, SIC,
receipts 2,Si0 bales; shipments, 2,J;4 bales
stock, 44,S40 bales; sales, S, 100 boles.
THE boiler of d. Davis saw mill, at Cit
ronvllle, Ala, exploded few days ago,
killing one white man. VIM. Bailey, and
negro, James Roberts, and woundng two
men and boy. The cause was lack Of
water.
WASH McDoNALD, prominent ard in
huential citizen near Clark sburg, w. Va,
committed suicide the other morning by
hanging himself to tree No cause as
signed
The revenue officers the other night made
gu er capture in Pickens County, Ga.
The existence of an Illicit still near Talk
ing Rock became known. The way TO it
lay through a wild mountain pass. The
officers reached the house of Samuel Frick
"hu ipuhu ~ empty "A AlNhOi iA6Ht III
the back lot attracted the atten ton Of the
officers When they noiselessly approached
it they found inside u little house three
women at work on an Illicit still. They
were Mrs. Frick and her two daughters,
Misses Emma and Vallic. They were but
little abashed wien told that they were
prisoners, and submitted to arrest quietly.
OF, pt,AU nd al ItIn
dred ga Ions of whisky were poured out.
ALLIs BRowN, a colored man OF Nash
vile, Tenn, succeeded in stealing enough
furniture to fit up a house. to which the
other day he took his newly-made bride,
The stolen articles, which were afterwald
found in his house by detectives, consisted
of every known household contrivance.
Among them were q handsome set Of sill
verware, four good cl cks, several carpets
and chairs, elegant sets of bedroom and
parlor furniture, and Bible.
THE Sheffield Company, Of Montgomery,
Ala, have contracted for three additional
blast furnaces of four hundred and fifty
tons each. The contract was made with
Cole and associates, of Nashville This
makes five in all. Two are in process OF
erecti n now.
Two WHITE men ars creating great re-
| ligious excitement among ignorant classes
| of Horny County, S, c. All sorts of claims
are made by these men as to their Divine
| inspirations, and they declare that God has
forewarned them of his purpose to send an
awful calamity upon the Atlantic coast in
the shape of the recent earthquake, and
that forty days after this transpired the
day of judgment would arrive. These mer
are strangers, and appear to have some ed
ucation. They refuse to say any thin.
about their past Their mysterious appear
ance in the community, and their peculiar
sayings have made great impression on ig
norant turpentine hands, who are terror
stricken. These men say that unless th'
people mend their ways that whole countr!
is to lie blotted out Of existence.
THREE negroes, charged with arson, wer
taken from the Pickeus County (Ala.) lai
by masked men and hung.
SPECIAL commi tee on the Charleston cot
|
Mason cotton harvester, which they thin'
will revolutioni2e the industry and is a
great an invention as Whitney gin
COLUMBUS, Mss. has an excellent indu,
trial school for girls,
THE oldest college Y NJ. c. A., is that Q
the University of Virginia,
RUGBY school has an excellent attend
ance, though not as large as last year.
A RESIDENT of Vim Parish, La, is notet
there for his remarkable sense of smell. !
is said that, on calm day, or when tn
wind is blowing toward him, he can smel
a deer from thirty to sixty yards he is 4
popular hunting companion with the neigh
bors who know Of his power. While riding
or walking through the woods he will stop
throw up his head very much as doi
does when he strikes a scent and in thi
way he rarely fails to locate the deer if i
is within gunshot distance Of him.
A WOMAN in Atlanta has gourd four fee
six inches long. 1t is shaped like bas
ball bat
| BALTIMORE is to have a crematory. Tw,
years ago there was but one in the country
now there are twelve.
| RUF. BUCKYER, wellknown farmer 0
McMinn County, Tenn, was shot b!
his thirteen-year-od son, few days ago
and died soon afterwards. The boy la
been lodged in jail.
MrCH excitement was caused in Littl
Rock, Ark, few days ago, by rabit
dog, which bit four children before h
could be killed. The dog was a pet in tn
family, and had shown no signs ofmad
ness previous to this. The baby creeping
on the floor was the first victim, and thre
children while trying to s6ve the bab,
were also bitten. One of the smaller chill
dren was bitten through the hand, "a hol
being torn large enough 10 pa-s a pencl
through. Medical aid was procured i'm
medately, but much alarm is felt by IN
parents.
Ar Camilla, Ga, Mrs. Williams, a negr,
woman, died the other night from burn
received few nights before. Before dyin.
she made the horrible confession that he
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by one in the fire until they were roasted
The husband has been arrested for murder
A new prophet has arisen in Hart Coun
ty, Ga. He predicts that the world vii
end up in 1890 and has sold all his earthl
possessions with view to timely settlin
up of his own accounts He claims to b
the spirit of Elijah incarnate.
RopERicK AND ROBERT BADGER, brothers
and colored dentists of Atlanta, Ca, qual
relied on prohibition, when Robert plunge
knife into Roderick's back, innicting a
ugly wound. Robert was jailed
In the rebuilding of Charleston strang
facts regarding the earthquake nro ofte
being discovered. A curious feature wa
the comparatively small damage done t
plate-glass fronts of the stores and Offices
In one business section, out Of Who'll
number of about thirty glass, only thre
were broken.
+. MIDDLETON, OF Richmond, Va. wa
found dead in bed at the Maxwell Houst
nashville, Tenn, few mornings since, !
verdict of heart disease was rendered A
unfinished letter was found in the room a
dressed to his wife at Richmond. 1t wa
written in cheerful strain.
| WIN. KEARNE, of Bethel, Va, who is th
father OF twenty-eight children, reache
his ninety second year few days ago.
TRAMPs are playing sad havoc with t.