Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-01-11
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Lo1I10N fashion is smiling again on
BAx1~pRIED raisins sell for IS a TOT
Calif61nia.
PkrTf expects to make $500, 900 out Of
Z An21rican tour.
Juo tvERN is tho namo OF a prosper
j WIN e in Georgia.
I3i0 |NG's resting-placo in West
MI Abbey will bo near that Of
Nj EFFERsoN DAVIS win presently
"a hsas to live with her married
A M rE owl was captured by Mis-
ia N on his farm near Scdalia, the
A ~ h stole pair of shoes from a
II policeman at Scdalia, Mo-, the
y ght.
m \ (1sentpr OF tho stylographic pen
ted to have made.a million dol
r. Df it.
PETENT authority thinks that
: Exposition drow at least $780,
d lhto Paris.
IN a Idgeport, Ct, the influenza has
oo) the cats, and feline sncezing is
B oII J of the night.
MA1 GRUNDY says that as a persistent
She md shower in crowd nothing
uai4 woman shopping.
4 Axo15NG man in Brooklyn has sued his
-oWDotheart for breach OF promise.
cl6Ims SIS, 200 damages.
3rxHI.EY is not afraid OF African saw
es and lions, but he will not talk to a
man. He is woman-hater
rIrE supply of spruce gum in North
i Mnine, which has been regarded as
,xh0hstiblc, is reported to have given
LNthe wilds of tho Sierras, near Ka-
ahk1ycr, Tulare County, California,
B S60uoia tree, l76 feet in circumfcr.
NJ III said that the negroes of Georgia,
d twenty-five years ago were slaves,
" possess $4,000, 900 worth of prop
y0NaREssMAN BULLOCK, of Florida, is
j father of thirteen children; Con-
,ssnsan Bliss, of Michigan, has no
lldfen.
Tim superintendent of an electric
ht company in New York City has
On Indicted by the grand jury for man
ughter.
Two colored ministers immersed sew.
ty-four people in seventeen minutes
the Wakenda, at Carrollton, Mo-, the
~ day.
CHf deepest bore hole in tho world is
Schaadenbach-55,7 734 feet. 1t took a
lri1ond drill three years and half to
Ich the bottom.
An .anti-trcating league has been
med in Minneapolis, tho badge of
Itch is a white collar button, worn in
, lnpel of tho coat.
4. H. DAY, of Toombsboro, Ca, claims
have been the youngest soldier in the
lie enlisted in 1868, when
ly thirteen years old.
rHE head of tho Brazilian republic
ms himself as follows: Marshal
noel Deodoro da Fonseca, Chief of
j 3Provisional Government"
A Exposition is being considered in
w 0rleans to change the name of Ca
street, the principal thoroughfare OF
. city, to Jefferson Davis avenue.
WIZ. *. VANDERBILT's stables on his
tatc at Oakdale, l.. l., which wore de-
med by Richard M. Hunt, have just
en- completed, at cost of $780, 900.
rHE Treasury Department invites
lssior the privilege of taking fur seal
the waters of Alaska. The term is
euty years and the bond is 100000.
a WEsr VIRGINIA girl has saved
,noY enough to buy herself gold
Itch by trapping muskrats, skunks
4 othcr animals and selling their
~ american company has given two
81 painters an order,for panorama
nley's two journeys through At
f 1t is intended for tho worlds fai-
'ixe. ~
Nh, Cox, widow Of tho late S. S. Cox,
y returned to the Sultan Of Turkey
G&kders and decorations which that
1{N potentate conferred upon her late
la1dnd.
DURING the last five months the
|@Aeury Department. has purchased
~ to the amount of S236, 1868, $50.
k{Aggregate Of interest thus saved is
~, $50.
IN YORK children who get no Christ
~ fesents are told that Santa Claus
? lot mako his visits to the roofs and
the chimneys for fear Of touching
BADLY electric wires.
L-EsTATE seems to be doing fairly
In New York City. The Bennett
ng, owned by James Gordon Ben
md situated in the lower part OF the
has Just been sold for one million
b.
rEI.LAR, the Spanish orator and
han, reioices in the downfall Of
Pedro. He is q thorough repub-
and the old monarchial govern
II( Of Europe are thoroughly dis
hl to him.
Of the witnesses who recently tes-
|L14 at Salt Lake, regarding the oaths
- Endowment House, has since had
~ valuable horse killed and another
~ st, but not fatally injured, by his
ION neighbors.
Q recent wedding in Philadelphia
foom was festooned in red, white
blue, in honor Of the patriotism Of
bride, who had declined many
pean offers and decided to give hor
to an American.
E youngest new member Of tnc
De Of Representatives is Iceman
Yer, of Now York. Ho is twenty
\ years old. The oldest member is
w. Van Schaick, Of Milwaukee,
70 years.
bE schoolma'ams Of st. Paul not
ago were instructed to give occa-
Rl instructions in plain and fancy
ng to the girls under their charge,
the horrible fact came out that few
~ Of the teachers could do any kind
living whatever.
SoLoN Mich young man pawned
pvercoat to get married, tho mild
ler favoring that sort Of dicker.