Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-01-30
SOUTHERN NEWS GLRANINos.

REpoR1s from Louisiana say that the re-
cent cold spell was very damaging to the
sugar.growng interests. Stubble cane iK
iberia, Rapides, East Baton Rouge, Iber-
vile. Ascension and St Mary parishes was
more or less affected, in some instances the
damage being great Orange trees in st.
Mary parish are reported as being gener-
ally killed
Ar Sylvania, Ga, Frederick WAYNE Cor
don, negro ninety years of age, was bur.
led few days ago in coffin made out of
lumber which he had worked for and saved
for fifteen years for that purpose. His son
is principal Of the Colored Deaf and Dumb
Institute Of Georgia.
LARGE quantities Of ice, six inches in
thickness and Of splendid quality, has been
cut and housed in Augusta, Ga, by an en-
terprising firm, who expect to reap large
returns 1t is said that this is the first time
in the history of Augusta that natural ice
has been gathered and stored away in the
city At Charlotte, N. c., ice eight inches
in thickness was secured.
JACOB REESE, patentee of the Bessemer
process of steel making, arrived in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, few days ago and is in con-
sultation with the stockholders OF the Roam
Iron Works, the largest iron corporation in
the South, in reference to establishing a
steel-making plant there, Should the con-
ference be successful, it will result in the
erection OF a gigantic steel mill there and
in entirely revolutionizing the iron and
steel making in that district
Hon zESER- L. WISE, Receiver Of the
United States Land Office at Dardanelle.
Ark, appointed by President Arthur has
resigned
SEVERAL Of the churches in Atlanta re-
Gently PRAYED for injunctions against the
city Of Atlanta, Ga, TO restrain said city
from issuing executions against them for
payments due on assessments made for the
laying Of Belgian block on the streets OPP
posite the church property. The other
morning two Of the cases were heard those
Of the First Methodist Episcopal and of st.
Lukes Cathedral In both of these cases
Judge Clark decided against the churches
and denied the injunctions prayed for
WALTER HoUtHENs, employed in the
stone quarries near Wheeling, w. Va,
while at work missed his footing and fell
over a preciplce into the quarry distance
of sixty feet, alighting Oh the stone. He
was badly injured and can not live,
GOVERNOR HuGHEs, of Arkansas has
pardoned thirty cOlored men, known as the
Howard County rioters, who participated
in riot couple OF years ago in that
County, when a white man named Wyatt
was killed while working in field
Another of the rioters had been convicted
of murder and hanged The affair created
! great sensation in Southern Arkansas al
the time and ever since strong effort:
have been made to secure the pardons on
the ground that the wholesale convictions
were unwamanted by the facts, and th'
terms Of the sentences excessive, The sen
tences ranged from five to fifteen years in
each case.
THOMAS }, STAFFORD, q young desperate
of Parkersburg W, Va, fired two revolver
dangerous wound
MEXICAN robbers made a raid into Hidal
60 County Texas. fatally shot two mel
| and plundered a ranch. The robbers ar
| thought to belong to band of outlaw
| commanded by one of the most daring an
| bloody chiefs of the Lower Rio Grande.
BELL Sfrgglys, aged twenty.seven, an,
his young brotherin.law, living in Morgan
County, Tenn We're in the woods near hi
residence fev davssgo engeged in sa "
inp log cross.cnt 4 hinge t,unk of
dead tree. unsettled bv the wind. fell mo,
| MFR Stebbius and killed him instantly h
| brpakinr his neck
| ArparLersh,r, w Va fe,v dave ,o
| AIhar, Dor,sor os poano Co,,,,, ,,Iao5o
gniItv of msil rohhary and yea. senterca
70 ,lreo ,nonth. i, iaii ona .on,a f;noo -
| san, ua h.d ;,., oo,,,,,Io,oa .l,,.oa ,.aa.,
farm for tbs ssn,s offanso
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| Mr. John Rprdette u,ifs and cb;ld d,a
and were all hurried in the same grave.
N.suyr,,r Tpxx ;s greatly e,ci,a
over the finding ~ . bur,on bodv cut in,
nino n,scs. nv an n, in tho suhnrhs Ipo.,
as uuolr, uoIf hcro - Tha rod, ;s ,ha
| NJ Whit man pig;d se.roh t,i,o5 I,
find ,bs ba.d 7, is s,,n,,osaa fro,, la;
inl, MARKS an an arm tbat his ron,a
Martin. and that he was = Mason Odd Fe
low Rod Man and nsnbar Of ,ba q =
The C,ro,sr bod r.co,t borso loc.,a
an RelIeviIle s,raet about twortv.fir
,,ras d;s+,r, from tho scoro brol,a,, ONO
and searched A pair of pantaloons. par
of u deck of cards. tuft of hair and
derby hat were found in a room. Upon
close examination of the right hand of th
dead man was found within the Tight
clinched fingers tuft of hair, which. whe
examined and compared with other hail
proved TO be that of q negro 1t is SUI
posed that the victim had a death gras
on his assailant's head. and was kille
while holding on, and that in his fall b
pulled out a handful of hair.
FORMAL vote was taken in the house ,
the Mssissinpi Leyisla,ure on the lat
for two u : Senators for the r,
m,iuder of the term expirins Marcl
1s,o hsipp the unexnirad fern of Ho,
/, O c. L,mar Hon. E C. Waltball r,
ceirea in tbe senate 4, votes. and Hon
1. Alcom vote. In the House Waltha
rarsivod inI yotaS sixteen merharS hahn