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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-12-28
LAST Winter

So'u ny AL druggists. 81; six for IS. Prepared only
Oy HOOD & Co, Apothccaries. Lowell Masa.
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Curbing the Mics Yagaries.

Egypt is very anxious at present over
the vagaries of the Nile, which has never
bsansa lewsatS this time of year. since
record began to be kept Of the water
supply. The Nile usually keeps falling
till June, and, if it were possible for the
process to continue at the present rate,
the river would become dry. The con-
dition of the Nile at low water for two
successive seasons has been calculated to
bring into favorable notice the great
project of the American engineer, Mr..
Cope Whitehouse, for storing the surplus
water during the inundation in the
Raiyah basin, alittle southwest of Cairo,
to be used during the low Nile period.
He eitimates that reservoir can be
made at q cost Of $2, 500, 600 that will
supply the Nile ut low water with fifty
million cubic metres of water day. His
plans have been approved by engineers
and by the Egyptian Government, but
the money to carry them out is not yet
forthcoming. 1t is noteworthy fact
that his scheme contemplates little more
than a restoration of the reservoir. dikes,
and canals that are believed to have
been used for many centuries to equalize
the Nile flood, and whose ruins can be
seen TO this day. .--1SSsb Ydf1 Sun.
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|A Faltkfnf peatherec Pet.

The keenndss OF vision and the per-
ceptive faculties of the carrier pigeon
have been nos&d in song and prose, but
1t is doubtful whether the, most fanciful
writer ever fuggeste1 the probability
that the s'angSls Of the air" could find
their way t9 their homes after an
absence Of nike months. This has hap
pened, fho~eSeL and . bifsowned in
Pittsburg by Mr.. Hermann Haupt, of
Sarah street, south side, is entitled to
the YdistinctioR that belongs to the
featf The Dispatek of Fittsburg, says
that one day in June Of last year Mr..
Haupt and several of his south side
friends, who are pigeon fanciers, sent q
large number OF carrier pigeons to Rich
mono, Ind, on o trial trip. They were
all excellent flyers, and had been away
en- a good many excursions of almost
that distance, Among others Haupt
sent the one which only returned the
other day. s
The pigeon is named Favorite, and it
has very good record rs o fast and sure
racer. Haupt was much astonished,
therefore, that Favorite did not return
the next day, but he was even moro
astonished when he saw the bird alight
and walk into its own coop the other
day. Haupt thinks that somebody
caught the pigeon and locked it up, with
view of keeping it, and he values
Favorite now more than ever.
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Vivid Writinr.

A little descriptive piece entitled "0yer
tho Guns" from the Detroit Free Fress, Of
which we give paragraph, reminds US that
great advertisers, IKE II. II. Warner q CO.,
propristorso Of Warmers celebrated Safe Cure,
might get q hint from it.
{ Here Is the paragraph;
! Shoot to tho right or left. over the guns
or under them. Strike where You, will, but
Strike 10 destroy. Now the he'll surges down,
oven TO the windows of the old farmhouse
now back under the apple trees and beyond
them. Dead men are under the ponderous
wheels Of the guns, mad devils are slashing
and shooting across the barrels. No one
seems TO know friend from foe. Shoot, slash,
kill and -
''But the hell is dissolved. The smoke is
lifting, shricks and screams grow fainter,
and twenty or thirty living men pull the
dead bodies away from the guns. Three
hundred dead and wounded on the single
acre. They tell of war and glory. Look
over this hell's acre and find the latter" And
in just rs deadly q strife, though noiseless,
are men falling at our right and left to-day.
Is IL war. Yes, war OF the blood. Blood
loaded with poison through imperfect kid
this awful slaughters Yes, Warmers Safe
Cure, a tried specific, O panacea that has
brought life and hope to hundreds OF thou
, sands of dying men and women.
Be enlisted, therefore, in the great army
| Of living men and women who have beer
rescued from disease and premature death
| and be eternally grateful that the means oi
! life can so easily be yours.
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Mnanshiner Miners.

Some of the rugged moonshiners who
are brought down to Atlanta from the
mountains of North Georgia and jailed,
whose lawlessness consisted in making q
little contraband whisky, know some
thing of crude metal. In their search for
hidden places to screen their operations
from the keen eye of the revenue agent,
in the mountain gulches and the beds of
shallow streams they often find glitteriug
particles of gold, and sometimes nuggets
large enough to be of considerable value.
While they live ffrom hand to mouth,
these little pieces of gold are treasured
and frequently carried about for years in
the pocket of the finder. Sometimes in
the Fulton County Jail, when they have
fallen victims to Uncle Ssp's vigilance,
their own wants or thoughts of the help.
less ones at home bring out the little
treasured pieces of gold and the jewellers
get them. The United States Deputy
Marshals act as the middlemen in these
Transactions as the relation between the
deputies and the prisoners here is often
quite friendly. - Times D. mocrat.
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APRIL THANKSGIVING.
The President Recommends ReliS-
ious Services on Centennial Day.
The following proclamation has been issued

The President Recommends Relig-
ious Services on Centennial Day.
The following proclamation has been issued
by the President:
a hundred years have passed since the
Government which our forefathers founded
was formally organized At noon, on the
Both day OF April, seventeen hundred and
eighty-ninc, in the city of New York, and in
the presence of an asscmblage of the heroic
men whose patriotic devotion had lal the
colonies to victory and independence, George
Washington took the oath of Office as Chief
Magistrate of the newborn Republic. This
impressive act was preceded at nine o'clock
in the morning, in all the churches of the
city, by prayer for Gods blessing on tho
Government and its first President
The centennial Of this illustrious event in
our history has been declared a general holi-
day by act of Congress, to the end that the
people OF the whole country may join in COM
meinoratlve exercises appropriate to the day.
In order that the joy of the occasion may
be associated with deep thanlfulness in the
minds OF the people for all our blessings in
the past, and devout supplcation to God
Tor their gracious continuance in the future,
the representatives of the religious creeds,
both Christian and Hebrew have memorial
lied the Government TO designate an hour for
prayer and thanksgiving on that day.
NOW, therefore, j, Benjamin Harrison,
PRESIDENT of the United States of America,
In response to this pious and reasonable re-
quest, do recommend that on Tuesday, April
80, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning.
the people of the entire country repair to
their respective places of divine worship to
impiore the favor of God that the blessings
Of liberty. prosperity and peace may abide
with us as people, and that His hand may
lead us in the paths of Righteousness and good
deeds.
In witness whereof have hereunto set NV
hand and caused the seal of the United States
of America to be affixed.
ID, Rone 81. M in the city of Washington this
one Thousand, eIEnU nundred an ana eigntysnifie. MY %
and OF the independence of the United States
the one hundred and thirteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BY the President.-James G. Blaine. Secrs-
tary of State.
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EiRel Tower Elevators.

The Eiffel Tower, at the Paris Expo
,ition, has enough elevators to take 1850
persons up to the first story and T50
persons to the top in an hour, and count
ing all the stairs five thousand visitors
san be admitted to the tower every sixty
minutes. BY means of the two elevators
,ne can reach the apex in five minutes.
As to the means required for that result
it is estimated at four hundred horse
power. There is consequently installed
1t the foot of the tower a pump of four
hundred horse power, which will send
10 the upper reservoirs all the water re-
,uired. So, you see, the going up 'as
high as the sky" not to mention the
coming down again, will not be tho
east interesting of the many industrial
Incidents of which the Champ de Mars
will soon afford us the spectacle San
bra7cis,o Chronicle.
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DuRIxo March 1905 fourth Glass postmas'
ters were appointed by the new Postmascor-
General; 420 were appointed to succeed post
masters who had resigned, and tS4 TO tske
the places of Others suspended or removed
The new Assistant Secretaries OF the
Treasury, Messrs. Tichenor and Batchsller,
took the oath Of Office, and began at once tue
discharge Of their new duties.
THE White HOUSE was a scene Of brilliancy
at the reception given to the Prince and
Princess Takihilo, Of Japan. Tho Marine
Band rendered choice selections OF American
dent and Mrs. Harrison were assisted In no.
ceiving visitors by all the ladies OF tho Cabinet
except Mrs. Blaine.
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE has re-
ceived information of the sale, by the
Colonial Government to- an American
syndicate, Of tho entire Jamaica railway
system.
COLONEL w. O. BRADLEY, OF Kentucky,
has decliped the Corean mission, to which ne
was nominated few days ago by President
| Harrison.
THE contract for the construction of the
machinery of the United States armored
| cruiser Maine has been awarded to y. +.
Palmer & Co., of New York, at $7SS,0Oo.
JAMES A. vosE, of Maine, who for four
teen years prior to the incoming of the last
| Administration was appointment clerk OF the
Post Office Departments has been reappointed
| to his old place.
THE State Department. is officially notified
| py Chill of her acceptance of the Invitation
to attend the conference of the American
| States at Washington in October. Chilis &c
ceptance is expected to bring in all the others
doN ROBERT T. LINCOLN called upon th'
President and Secretary Blaine, and formal,
accepted the English mission. He Will sal
for England about May Is.
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FIRE IN SAVANNAH,
Fifty Buiidings Burned, Causing n
Loss of Sl 100000,

The fire which recently swept number of
business houses and dwellings at Savannah,
Ca, out of existence, was the most extensive
in the history Of the city. The loss is un-
doubtedly over 81, 800, 900.
The fire broke out during the evening and
rapidly assumed proportions of a conf1agra-
tion The local fire department was made
quate to cope with the flames, and the Mayor
or Atlanta was asked by telegraph to send
all the fircmen he could spare.
That half of Savannah was not swept from
the face of the earth is little short of miracu-
lous. The halt of the contlagration after it
had burned out the Independent Presby-
tcrian Church and its chapel to-
9ethor with three adjoining dwellings, was
not due to human efforts, because at that
point not n single engine or stream Of water
was available against the destruction
The total number of buildings burned is esti-
mated at fifty.
The Independent Presbyterian Church, q
fouI-story brick building, and the new brick
arsenal of the Savannah Guards Battalion,
were destroyed.
The fire also swept along the north side of
South Broad, from Whitaker street to with
in one house of Bull street, the structure left
boing large brick residence owned by DIR.
Daniel Hops.
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Slaughter of Seals by Marauders.

"Unless the laws prohibiting the kill.
ing of seals by marauders are faithfully
enforced" said Representative Dingley,
of Maine, recently, ''it will not be five
years before the valuable seal rookeries
on the Alaskan seal islands, which now
yield the United States Government au
annual revenue of over $500, 600 Ito be
probably increased to half mlIlion),
will be destroyed, as all the South Sea
rookeries have been. The fur seals re-
sort to the Alaskan seal islands five
months in the year to bring forth and
rear their young, the females leaving
their young upon the sheres and going
out into the waters of the Behring Sea
daily for food. If marauders are allowed
to pursue and kill the females while
they are searching for food, not only do
the females perish, but also their young.
More than that, not more than one ont
of seven females killed in the water is
reeoyared. so. that 90, 600 sealskjns Obj.
6oS ' iemSie seals destroyed, aud the young
in addition while the regular and au.
thorized killing on the land by authority
of the Government is confined to the nom
breeding male seals, thus preserving seal
life ~
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A Strange Piece OF Artillery.

One of the strangest pieces of artillery
in Europe is at Metz, Germany, and is
known by the name of the "Grifiin, I"
from the figure OF the fabulous animal
which is to be found among the orna-
mental portion of its Workmanship. The
gun was cast in 1929 at + fhrenbreitstein,
near Coblentz. It is seventeen feet in
length and three in diameter. The bore
IS ten and one. half inches; weight, 3d.
500 pounds. Its carriage is twenty four
feet in length, and the weight of the
ball which it carries is 1877 pounds.
Forty-two pounds of powder is required
for the charge: Napoleon intended it
arI-so1 sstIs,, esaIiyt
difficulty in transporting it.
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ForeIgn.

Foreign.
JOHN HENRY POPE, Canadian Minister OF
Railways, is dead
A LETTER from Henry M. Stanley, dated
September 4, 1888, has reached friend or
the explorer in Edinburgh. Mr. Stanley says
no Is well and in good spirits. He met Emn
Pacha on the shores of Albert Nyanza. They
were together for twenty-six days.
COUNTESS JOSEPHINE RADErzKY COM
mitted suicide at Vienna, Austria, by shoot
ing herself with a revolver.
THE German men-of- war Alexandrine and
Sperber have been ordered to Samoa to re.
place the lost vessels.
THE Government of New Zealand has
placsd the steamship Hinemoa at the dis
posal OF Admiral Kimberley, in command Of
the transportation of the survivors of the
recent disaster to America. The steamer
which is rapid cruiser, has already left for
Samoa.
THE debts of thelat M. Vandertaslen, the
merchant prince of Belgium, who committed
suicide recently, are estimated at 1920, 900,
with assets Of S24O, 900.
THE Roumanian Ministry has resigned.
EMIL TRETTEL, one of the largest grain
dealers I'm Berlin, has suspended payment
His liabilities amount to 81, SOC, 900.
KING JOHN Of Abyssinia was defeated and
slain in recent battle, aud tho whole coun-
try is in state of anarchy. 1t is said the
battle with the forces led by the dervish
Mettoma.
GENERAL BoULANGER fled from Paris at
| the request Of friends, who were informed
that he would be tried by an exceptional tri-
buDal, and that he would not escape alive.
| Boulangcr is at Mons, Belgium, under the
pseudomym Of Monsieur Bruno. The Gov
erninent has notified General Boulanger that
he will be expslled from the country unless
he eabstaius from political intrigues in France
| YELLOW FEVER is raging at Colon anC
Aspinwall, in Central America.
The French Chamber of Deputies ha.
authorized the Government to prosecut.
General Boulanger.
| THE new Ministry of Peru has resigned
bility of concilfating the minority in Con
| gress regarding any arrangement for tn,
| payment Of Peruvian bondholders
A DIsTILLERY syndicate has been formed
in Dublin, Ireland, with a capital of IS, 600.
O00
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THREE RAILWAY TRAGEDIES
twelve Persons Killed and Many tn.
jured in the West.

collision occurred on tho Northern Pa.
cific, near Helena, Montana, by which three
passengers were killed and three wounded.
The east bound passenger train leaving He.
lena ran into double header freight train
standing on the side track, wrecking three
engines and piiing them i'm promiscuous
mass on the track.
y or the killed only one was identified, Char lie
dreen, fireman. whose home Is i'm Balti.
more The injured were Harry Coneer' a
H. H. NORTH, mail agents, and Joseph Jackson,
Inc station agent is blamed for not closing
the switch, Knowing that the passenger train
was due. ''"'"
Two yard engines in the Chestnut street
yards OF the Omaha Road collided at Sc
Paul, Minn.,, and two men were Instantly
Killed, two Others fatally injured and three
Fergus Flanagan, the yard master, and an
unknown person supposed to be a young man
named Funk, were killed Instantly: lame.
jured. III
A freight train on the Chicago. ST. Ionic
and Pittsburgh Railroad broke west of Cen
Bosed to be tramps '"P
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two tramps were burned to death in the
wreck.
JOHN BoYLEs, of Clinton, Mo-, attempted
to cross Grand River, which was much
swollen, with his wife and six children in q
wagon. The wagon was overturned in mid
stream, and four Of the children were
drowned.
WILLIAM EDWARDS, white man, who
had the mail contract from Washburn, Da.
kota, to Coal Harbor. has been murdered by
his Indian wife.
JAMES c. CALHOUN, a timer, prominent
in business, religious and social circles at
Darton, Tenn., crazed by financial losses, at
tempted TO kill his family and himself He
and his wife were fatally injured.
THE koderack, trading schooner, was
cruising between Graham and Moresly
Islands, Alaska, when five seamen-two
Kanakas-landed, taking some trinkets for
barter with the Indians. The Indians de-
molished the whale boat in which the sailors
came ashore and then killed the five.
HENRY j.. HoGUE, Superintendent of the
Electric Light plant at Fostur.a, Ohio, was
instantly Killed by coming in contact with
the -osrreat while reruirtng II dynamo.
CREGIER (Democrat) was elected Mayor
of Chicago over Roche (Repubiican) by 10 :
200 majority.
The village of Mount Pleasant, Dakota
was almost entirely consumed by prairie
the residences are destroyed. The depot
together with about fifteen or twenty freight
cars and four large elevators, is gone The
loss will be nearly $500, 900, with very little
insurance, and a hundred families were left
homeless and utterly destitute.
THE first United States Court ever held in
the Indian Territory has just been opened
at Muskagee.
GENERAL MCCONNELL, of Usage Kan. a
prominent politician, has committed suicide.
LANSING LOSING, treasurer of Greenwood
township; Mich, is $500 short in his ac.
counts and is under arrest.
MRS. MINNIE ID. MoYAN has hesn alacted
Mayor of Cottonwood Falls, Kan. The neIt
City Council will be composed entirely OF
women.
FIRE destroyed 10000, 900 fest of lumber
1t Hannibal, No, and at one time threat.
med the destruction of the entire city
GALE in Baltimore unroofed manv
coLhisioa ff1S 81 two freq at trains occrro,,
u NashVlile, Tenn, i'm which three men were
instantly killed and several wounded.
IN, IN fight near Flagstaff, Arizona, between
.sherlf $ posse and the robbers who held mn
he atlantic and Pacific Express, Edward 81
we're killed. ''
SETTLERS on tho Des Moines River lands
iowa made armed resistance against
wlction, and drove of tho United States
arShais and their men.
GENERAL JACOB SHARPE has resigned as
siovernor of the National Soldiers Home in
milwaukee,, Wis, and General Kilburn Knox
succeeds him in that position
CAPTAIN r. X. LORD, of the United States
Army, rowed out upon Lake Maxinkuctee
near Logansport, Ind, tied lump of lead
around his waist, cut his throat and jumped
into sixty-five feet of water. His body was
recovered.
TIE IosSes from tIa ,,-,,,;,. G,,o, =. n,
were estimated at ~, 600, 600. Ten lives were
thought to have been lost
ROBERT GARRETT, the insane millionaire
has returned to Baltimore from his extended
tour weighing 207 pounds and much improved
i'm health.
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No Chemicals.

In THESE DAYS when food adulteration is so
common, it is u comfort to find an article for
lhe table that is thoroughly reliable. Walter
Baker & Co.'s breakfast cocoa is eminent in
this limited class. No chemicals are used in
IS manufacture and 1t is absolutely pure. II
orms moreover q delicious and healthfh)
rink, rs refreshing and more nutritious than
ca or coffee,a: free from the injurious effects
hat those beverages sometimes produce And
I is very cheap withal. The house of Walter
Baker & Co. has maintained for more than 100
rears a great and honored repute by the ex-
cllence and puri, y Of It's manufactures.
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~. Washington.

MAJOR MARCUS A. RENO, formerly of the
United States Army, is dead, in his fifty.
nfth year. For failing to go TO General
Clusters relief at the Big Horn massacre
Major Reno was dismissed the service in
1880.
FHE Navy Department has issued orders
for the following vessels to 90 at once to
samoa: The Richmond. now i'm Rio dc la
riata. South America: the Alert now i'm
honolulu, and the Adams, now fitting for
sea at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.
THE reduction in the public nebt during
March amounted to 3,GO5, ,S51 and for the
nrst niue months OF the current fiscal year,
mgSo,9oo,394: The total debt, less cash in the
Treasury, is 81, IA, ,G83, ,662 Cash or surplns
IN IN the Treasury is s54, ,006, 1896, against $4S,-
p96, loS month ago. 'F =
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Advertising n patent medicine in the pecu-
lar way in which the proprietor of Kemp's
salsam, for Coughs and Colds, does it is indeed
wonderful. He authorizes oil druggists to give
hose who call for it q sample bottle Free, that
Bottles are 50c and 81. We certainly would ad-
rise trial. 1t may save you from consump-
ion
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= CONGRESSMAN CLIFToNR. BREcKrNRrno.p,
of the Second Arkansas District, has re-
iuested the Legislature of that State not to
reedistrict the State until after the question of
ms own eieotion over the murdered John M,
Clayton coIpes up in Congress.
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ro,rtiIUts,
tives lending material assistance.
The German naval authorities have Or
dered the cruiser Habicht and the g1lnboat
Wolf to proceed to Samoa. The German
corvette Sophie has started from Zanzibar
for Samoa
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doRsEfLEsH seems to be rather an nc
cePtable article of food in Japan. The return,
OF kanagawa Kencho alone show that during
iast year there were 117S horses slaughtered
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A Radical Cure for EpiIcp1io Rk..

:, 70 thc Edftor-Please inform your readers
mat have positive remedy for the above
worst cases. 80 strong Is my faith in its vir-
lues that will send free a sample bottle and
ne his I: 0. and Express address. Resp'y.
H.G. ROOT. M. c.. 1s3 Pear! St.. New York.
The best cough medicine Is Pso's Cure for
consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
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South and West.

A GENERAL strike OF carpenters occurred
mt st. Louis at o'clock III the morning
Over 100 men demanded eight hours as a
day's work.
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Interested People.

THERE will be about ninety vacancies this
rear at the United States Naval Academy.