Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-03-27
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.

of the State University, anu WIG
Turner's great grandfather was tne iatoer
Of thirtv-two children, among which NUM-
Der was four pairs OF Twins
JOSEPH TAYLOR, a prominent citizen OF
CLAY County, Tenn, was accidentaiIy
killed bv his sx-year-old daughter inc
other day He gave the child his plsooi 10
nlav with and it was discharged whiie
nointed at him The ball passed through
his heart.
PEtg trees in Florida are being ruined by
| spiders, which eat the buds.
CENTRAL Illinois farmers have contract
al with Tennessee parties to stock the
| farms of the former with quail
| av,RuER near Carrollton, Ga, says that
mice have DESTROYED the bees and honey IN
his bee-hives The mice built their nes,s
in the bottoms Of the hives and theh h'au'
raids at will upon the contents
MISS EMMA NORMAN the young woman
who shot and killed Henry Arnold her Sc
ducer at Memphis, Tenn, fe" days ago,
has been held for murder ber Dali peihs
fixed at 5000, which was gwen
FOUNTAIN GooDALT, aged lo2 years dieo
at kis home in Mason County, W. Va no
was a soldier of the war of 1ol2
.
Va. was supposed to have suddenly died OIL
baart disease. While the undertakers were
: rrens,itg the body for rburial Mr. Cunning
ham rose up and walked away, and ap-
: rears tn he in better health than he has
been for long time.
! Jouy GILLESPIE, the negro who murdered
, Mrs. Thomas Gray near Loudon' lenn''
E was hanged by a mob OF 200 men near the
: | scene Of the crime
}. EDWARD K1NKgAp, aged fourteen, son OF
r A. S Kinkead, of Parkersburgh, W. va
4 was drowned in the Ohio river near ia
:. senswood W. Va. He was working ABOUT
a barge with iohnboat fell IN ana was ID
q the water hsf an hour before his BODY was
. found
n :, THE other evening the fve-year-old son
i. n, MIR Milton Beall was over at tne mousse
q of Mr. Cumming Lindsey, lr"inton, va,
n nlsying with his two children, agedsix anu
is savan The three went into the ldt anu
p finding wild jessamine vine they starVeo
es in eating the buds Before they cou.h re-
ID turn to the house they fell deathiy SICK
n ao MR., Lindsey ran and picked up her son.
he kissing hihl on the lips, and IN twenty Min
m utes she too was deathlv sick She csiieo
IN to her husband in the field, but pelore he
at could get in one of the boys was oeau' aN
r. in "A few minutes later the SECOND dled
A' The third boy and Mrs. Lindsey were SUN
or in n critical condition at last account
lo ,at -7Cort,MgIA Tenn. is about to erect a.
ro- school building for colored children.
,re Ar Atlanta Ga, VIM. Pinion was killed
nv pistol in the hands Of white boy
on, sixteen wears old, named Pat Hickey lhe
ex. shooting. it is cla1ied was purely acci"
ing dental
B.sr-B,rr. has broken out at Nashville
ed. Savannah and other thawedout Southern
nci- points.
rec rec JrpGr BAXTER has ordered the foreclose~
cen ure sale of the East Tennessee, Virginia
: oi and Georgia road
mis-. THE Knoxville Tenn Iron Company
ana of its own accord increased the
/. ~ u-oqas of its najlers and feeders Is per
for cont and gave the men in other depart :
be norts ia ner cent. advance The mills are
,yes running night and day
or. Ex-CouYTY TREASURER t. II. DAVIS OF
'aeh Favette County Ala, under indictment lor
,n IN, using the public funds, his accounts oeihg
pas ) 400 short, has gone to parts uhhho"h'
: of Twenty-Five names are on his appearance
fea' tond of $500 They and the county are Sc
the cured bv a mortgage ON Davis property
nK Il rur Tennessee State Bureau of Agricul'
0 he tnre has applied several times since Janu
rS OF ary to Commissioner Colman. OF the Ma
,".u on ,ioual Bureau of Agriculture, for seeds te
plete distribute among the crop reporters Tor I'M
ours state bureau Commissioner Colman say
'"' it is impossible to supply the State bureau
ntest owing to the demand from congressman
the who have the prior claim upon the Depar,
roets meut The State Bureau is without fuhd
mple TO purbhase seeds, as no appropriation wa
49, e ,oi made for that purpose.
wage po.rv,sTER AsBURY at Lulu, Ga, hi
le in g,ur daughters named Pearl, Diamond
. in. Rrbv and Garnet. Mrs. Asbury must
rooal able to realize how Cornelia felt,
.goni A WIN hog in North Alabama has b
at he corna the acknowledged master OF lare
FAi"s tract of wooded country. Hunters give u
stbat Mace wide berth a few days ago IL
ppreS' animal lacerated pack of hounds sospaui
,,aU~ that they will never be of service again
mt of W, B. GAIBREATH < Co, cotton factor
"' '"0 doing business at II Union street Mempni
ygests Tenn, made an assignment the other ia
Win Their liabilities amount to s'3,Voui asse'
nj de- including two plantations and an intere
prod IN three hundred bales of cotton ana bo
ya,aiii | accounts, sl0l,oO.
turing MRs. JAMES LILLs, residing sixteen mil
grants northeast of Banbridge, Ga, was toul
S e",i, ne dead in an old broomsage field belongi
poor to her husband. She took her own IL
dollars Sixmonths ago little child she had rals'
!, can TO whom she had become greatly attach'
ting to was taken from her under writ OF hao'
al tne corpus over which she grieved unul
nn tbS mind was affected. Investigation
I on "A | raa iad tho fact that oha L"a talon "'"s
.rnrral nine.
ucy he Tur death of Wm. Flowers, at Rockpo
!, know know, near PsrkerburgW. Va, is reported
,le and was lni years old, and the oldest cltlAeu
'elatINo the county. he was OF French uesce
No.. bro,gS and served under the first Napoleon
hod OF served as soldier in the war OF lslZ'
ry law has been a pensioner for many years
-, ,try. was totally blind. and almost totally
OF the for several years before his death. ln
5 of the is no question about his advanced age a
nate in =" -" -
he peo. matter of record
of the ONE of the curiosites of Texas Is
,erSnlPs yampire hat One of these unca'
hy wise, '"h't''' - ,..,.,,.,,, 80 g,
ent, he creatures iiew lnto Tue "'u ''' "
nizaton Antonio woman the other night, and n
al ea.h " frightened her to death by lighting
he rcgu her
70 iila1- The discovery of natural gas within
others; miles oil hhoA'llIe' ienh' v"uSsS So
adoption citement a company VIII prooaplN
demand f,ol ., sun,lv natural Gas to manu
have rc- IVA "
,nsation turers in that city.
rotts of Ar copperas, Tex, 7, q. Polk was u
profit ,sii-.a H.. ,,,sl,ad man and han
IN indus from MS upine ny 'ua'A'' '
/ ali the Suspected borse-thef
alive TO Tur VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE has voted d
Wv u asrce. nTp proposition making the giving of
TO the way passes to members OF the state
not be ou,,,an, n ,,isdameanor
rms not - - M. b,r;ad
m hold a CANARY blfu was eareiuuS "u'' ""
to the Atlanta Ga. cemetery = few days ago
/, !, m"ral,y in,, n,;, satin lined paper coffin,
les. or re. A FLowER DANeh, va, man ~
r design, coxered a plan by which he can make
h'nks' oy whisky in an ordinary coffee pot.
adapted ApAssySGER train on the Northwe
nd A mply - =, ,....o..,d . ,.,, IN, tho