Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-12
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FRA is rated as the richest single
In in the world who has earned her
money.
ERE is bill before tho New York
hbly to abolish capital punishment
BIT State.
n ground on which Helena, Mont,
Ilt yielded $50, 900, 900 in gold when
= mined.
widow of a carpenter at Reading,
Hound $1,000 secreted in her hus.
B tool chest.
MISS TARDY Of Boston has sued a
sarly of the same city for breach of
bse of marriage.
\ miles of railroad track, in litiga-
II Wichita, was torn up by ono of
hrtics to the suit.
FEENcu scientist says that people
trowing dark, and that all will be
| in few centuries.
PnGBE WILSON, Of Hartnett
ty, n. c., is 1O9 years of age. She
5cen thrice married.
latest automatic machine in Eng
tells your fortune when you have
bed penny in the slot.
f.LIAM SALMON, an English physi-
|who will be soon 100 years old, is
)dest living physician.
of the bank note currency of the
IN Government is engraved and
ed in the United States.
Is BRADpoN, the novelist, is a col
of bric-a-brac, and has a very
land valuable collection.
of New York's dudes is said to
twenty-fve different silk hats, but
bne head to wear them on.
Is. ANN FERRY, who was buried
thcr day at Leavenworth, Kas.,
eachcd tho remarkable age Of 113
!. q. S. GRANT leads a very quiet
New York. Her eyesight has be-
poor, and she seldom appears in
a curious coincidence that the
tentative sons Of Bismarck and
a nLan1I ham thn %
bert"
IGoRous movements being made
ssachusetts to induce the Legisla-
10 authorize women to act as nota-
nblic.
IERAL NEAL Dow, tho temperance
|or, has just celebrated his eighty
birthday, and is still hale, happy
earty.
INELL is tall, slender, and has the
confirmed i'll health. His cheeks
lllid, his neck thin and his shoul-
bowed.
BILL has been introduced in the
York Legislature to abolish arrest
ii cases, and it appears probable
will pass.
Ere are dozen factories in Am
pm kept busy night and day maxi
fnuine old spoons, knives and forks
mcrican tourists.
tORDING to the calendar March is a
month, but this mistaken classi-
pn was never more apparent than
month just past.
AroR BLAIR's speeches on his cdu-
bal bill would make two volumes as
as those composing James G.
e's Twenty years of Congress-"
pYLAND's new cigarette law re-
the seller to pay an extra tax of
nd to make affidavit that the cigar
he sells contain no injurious drug.
Nee ALBERT VIcToR has boen
ng the real tiger in India. And
more success, it is said, than he
18th the figurative animal in Lon
EDERAL official in Baltimore re-
enough applications for Office
day to easily fill, his private
larry estimates, two bushcl meas.
he last ten years the State OF New
has spent S26, 900, 900 on her canals
here are now pending appropria-
bills for $4,000 900 for the current
price of leo in Philadelphia has
liked at 81 per hundred. As coal
for twenty-five cents per 100
s' 1T will be cheaper to keep warm
cold.
pile OF old boards at Harper S
called John Browns fort" has
bought by Chicago as a companion
to the pile of old brick called Lib
rison.
Chester (Pa. fishermen quarrcled
the ownership of boat and
would surrender his claim. The
vas finally sawed in two, and each
part.
Kangaroo is doomed to extinction
ustralia. Tho farmers object tC
animal for the reason that he cats
that would otherwise provide
70 for sheep.
RE is large trade in alligators
The Florida rivers. A fair spcci
worth SIS, and negroes with las
occasionally make two or three
res in day.
other day a Minnesota clergyman
led thirty miles, made six calls,
y Two schools, gave an Afternoon
and shot seven jack rabbits, all
'en sunrise and sunset
'NAs SEYMOUR DENTON has in
'he word "manuprint," verb, ad
y and noun, for work done with /,
writer 1t is at once moro accurat,
"sgestlve than manuscript TO,
work.
op river, Oregon, is quite alive
,s uesr frequently they may b,
'eeoing with cattle on the range
PANTHER in his hunger, frighton.
'a'a @ deer into companionship with
R''le for protection.
~ rREfcINET, who has become fo
Sas Sutth time Premier of the French
o''c, is peculiar creature. lie /,
@ ana Insignificant physically, ant
"n'enance habitually bears a fur
,srea expression, which has led !,
'"s dubbed "the White Mouse"
adaEn .dss from the Philippine isl
addressed sa, to sea captain at Bath
rived a few days ago after bein,
,oau ak years II was rathel
Sa' s''li bore lcgible direction
,aa.' as~r was the captains sister, wb,
C,o ~" lost at sea since she penre,