Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-11-06
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANlNGS.

714c; net receipts, 1900 bales; gross, 49,
233 bales; exports to Great Britain l5i
bales to France, G,3I5 bales to the conti-
nent 3,9 6 bales; sales, 5000 bales stock,
l3G, 57j bales
MEMPHfs-Cotton easy; middlng, $40;
receipts 1901 bales shipments, 2,501 bales;
stock, 90 452 bales; sales, ), 500 bales,
THE other morning the dead body OF
Rev. j. g. Kitchen was found near Ster-
| ling, Glynn County, Ga. He had been shot
to death Glynn County has always had a
colored member in the Legislature. At the
late election many negroes bolted the ne
gro candidate, thus electing the white
| man. Rev. J. G. Kitchen was the leader Of
the boilers The negroes threatened that
| he should not live to see the lie gislature
meet. Taylor Coley, leading negro, has
been arrested on suspicion.
THERE was a peculiar case before tho
Holsten conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, Knoxville, Tenn, few days
ago The Rev j, f. Austin was on trial
for baptizing the body of dead woman.
| He claims that it was done at the request
| Of the woman's relatives, but the confer
ehco charges that ne has some cranky nor
tions on the subject The matter was re.
| ferred to a committee.
| COLONEL JAMES, lessee Of the Louisiana
| State Penitentiary, has sold the unexpired
term of his lease to New York capitalists.
The New Workers will organize a company
and utilize the large convict force of the
oIate, averaging from I'VoD 10 I'-oo ab'e-
Do4'ou men, III ouiluing 'e'ees' reueeihlhs
eno o'eiiio"eu anu swamp JANUS oi 'ne
2ta'e' @ anu putting Vueni III tiiiaple cohui'
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Onanuler, MS VINE anu Iour o'hei0 "ei'
seriously burned Inc people hau Ju'' ar
rlVea' anu were warming themselves 's pre-
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to -'oi'nTesT az 'son, - '.i' .i
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SPECIAL from Chattanooga TO the Lou
lsvtlle COUrter-J0HrH4l says; Special
advices from Sulliyan County state that
VIII h. Fam, clerk and master OF that
county, has been requested to resign He
is sal to be several thousand dollars short
in his accounts and Is unable to raise tue
money. Fain Is leading citizen OF that
section The discovery OF the supposed
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lN Franklin county Tenn, TWO young
men named W Ill hocNersniith ana Ar'hIr
Williams mad quarrel over some WORK
hockersmlth was IN the act OF ieaV!hg 'he
premises when Williams drew his revolver
and shot him dead, three bullets piercing
his body.
| Is Oglethorre County, Ga. the people
are aritated over sinking in the earth.
which has since grown INTO an immense
cave. The farm of Jas, Thompson has been
cultivated for generations having in that
time been cleared and worn out three
times. While Mr. Thompson was plowlng,
his mues hind foot slipped and broke the
crust of earth. The ground rapidly gave
way for a space Of about twenty feet
square. 1t was a narrow escape which the
plowman had for his Life. He tried to till
the hole with raiis' ouo 'hey ulSaPpeareu
from slSht fIhal'S ne 'ooA sounuIhs
ana louhu Tue ool'oiii was ouU VI oiu'na'y
reach' by peerlus ih'o '"e ueP,n "'''i
coHlo De seen aV l'' oot'o"' "n'ie Vue iuSn .Ill
OF an Underground stream was ulS'in''S
heard lhe cave Is shapeu ike cI'tern'
THE old Peckatone manor house, built by
Henry Corbin IN 1860 in Westmoreland
County. Va, and near the Potomac river,
was totally destroyed by fire few morn
lngs ago, with all the furniture u con-
tanned. lhls mouse was known rs 'ne on
est colohl"' u"eiI'Hs III 'ie n,'eu o'"s's'
Inc owner MI II, ID, h'Fh"oou' valued II
at No'OVV' on "hich 'heFe was an insurance
OF SocoV'
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