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A rrenchman's Novel Vocation.

A new celebrity is making his appear
ance along the boulevards. He is we'll
dressed, intelligent-looking youth. He
saunters along the terraces Of the prin-
cipal cafes, scanning the faces Of the
consommateurs until he catches sight of
one that strikes his fancy. Dofling his
hat politely. he thus accosts the gentle
man he has singled out: "Will mon
sieur be good enough to ask me any
question he pleases relating to the his
tory Of France, from the time OF Phara-
mond down to Napoleon III? lean tell
monsieur the day, even the hour, Of the
birth, marriage OF death OF any historic
al parsonage" In nine cases out Of ten
this walking encyclopedia has so we'll
chosen his ,aan that monsieur, thus nd
dressed, puts hima number OF questions.
all OF which are answered correctly and
instantly, To the astonlshment oi the
persona around and W thu profit ui the
Inventor of this novel method Of earn
Ing = llyslihesa. -rsSis isiish
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
TERRIFIC COMBINATION.
Fire and Water Spouting From the
Earth's Bowels.
The Sublime Spectacle Brought About
by an Old Farmer Lighting His Pipe
Men Blown Through
Derrick.

MARION, Ind, March ia fire and
water carnival, the like of which hasl
probably never occurred in the gas y
is now in progress on the hill juI
this city, at a depth of $50 feet.
hrillers struck an immense vel
water, which was cased off at dep
300 feet. A tremendous flow of gas wa
veloped, the pressure of which lifted
casing and let in the water aboyeH
producing a veritable geyser. Ycster-
day the well had been nearly controlled.
when an old man, named Jackson, came
into the derrick and struck match to
light his pipe. Instantly there was an
explosion. The workmen were blowr
through the derricl-, and jackson na.s
rowly escaped being roasted alive. The
derrick-was burned down, and all efforts
to restrain the we'll or even put out the
fire have proved futile. The strange
spectacle of resistless volume of fire
and water issuing from the same pipe is
now presented. The column is shot to
a height of 100 feet, and escapes with q
roar that is appalling. The contractorS
are coniuring their brains to devise SOM
means for controlling the monsta&
while thousands of people are comin
for miles around to witness the subliifi
Spectacle
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
LAKE SHORE WRECK.
The Dead Number Six and the Wounded
Observation-Disclosures Incidents.

Observation-Disclosures Incidents.
BUFFALO, N. Y, March s.-Tho nun.
Der of the dead by the disaster near
Hamburg, on the Lake Shore railroad,
is reduced to six, tho wounded number.
ing eighteen, possibly more. The con.
ductor made a mistake in stopping the
first section of the train, thus allowing
the second section to crash into the first
section. There were about ninety peo.
pie on the train, and among them was a
young couple just started out in married
life-married just a week in fact. They
were Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph ID. Baucus,
of Saratoga Springs, n. Y, and they
were returning home from their honey.
moon trip. The couple occupied a seat
in the coach, and the bride was pinned
down when the crash came. She was
frightfully injured, being bruised in
many places, while her skull was ter.
ribly crushed. Tho husband was also
injured about the body and legs, but his
physical suffering was nothing to the
mental agony he was suffering. The
bride was rolled in blankets, and lay
stretched across two seats, while DR..
Thompson, of Angola, did what
was possible to save her
Other physicians were also there
and looked after the young couple, but
Mrs. Baucus was doomed from the first.
Her husband acted in heart bro ken,
distracted manner, calling upon tho
doctors to save her, and kissing her
poor blanched and bleeding lips in a
way that would bring tears from stone.
1t was without avail however, and tho
bride of week gave up her life in a
short time. Mr.. and Mrs. j. f..
Stewart, of Rochester, who occu.
pied seat in the coach, were killed to-
gether They had with them their little
eighteen-months-old girl who was thus
orphaned at single blow. The little
thing escaped without q single hair of
her head being injured, and was found
clasped in the arms of her mother, who,
with her father, was lying upon the
floor of the car crushed almost beyond
recognition. As the little ono was lift
ed by eager hands from its perilous po.
stion it prattled, "Mamma, mamma
in way that made strong men shed
tears. 1t was scene pathetic beyond
description.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

Edison has been granted 403 patents
and has over 800 other applications
pending.
Aunt Hattie Quick, of this city, who
Is five years older than the United
States, says she has the better constitu-
tion Of the two Washington Post.
Mrs. Nancy Frost, who resides near
Marietta, Ohio, is lO6 years old and has
lived in Ohio since the first settlement
was established a. the mouth Of the
Muskingum.
Richard Thomas, who died In West
Haven, Conn, recently at the age OF
ninety-seven years. was born and always
lived in the house where he died. The
house is believed to have stood $50 years
Bismarck in his private capacity
carries on the business Of distiller, pa
permaker and farmer, and has recently
added that of brickmaker, having es-
tablished large brickyard near Lauen-
berg, where fine bed Of clay exists
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is vice-presi-
dent of a society organized for the pur-
pose OF promoting and encouraging the
free kindergarten system In New York
City. The new organization, being en-
tirely unscctarian, will aid those already
established, and it is hoped to start
schools about the city, especially among
the poorer classes.
In Georgetown, d. G., in humble
cottage that rents for twenty dollars
month, lives the only surviving grand
child of Thomas Jefferson. Her name
is Mrs. Septimia Randolph Meikleham,
widow Of David S. Meikleham, long since
dead. She is now in her seventy-sixth
year, a cultured, amiable, venerable old
lady, with two daughters and one son in
her household.
Judge Thomas T. Bouldin, Of Char
lotte County, Va, owns the plantation
on which his grandfather and great
grandfather are buried, and which has
been in the family one hundred and
forty-six years, and although he is
seventy-seven years of age, he sleeps in
the same room he was born in, and upon
the same bedstead he was born on.
Judge Bouldin showed the correspondent
the spot where stood the cabin which his
ancestress who came from Maryland, had
erected in 1744, and the tradition is that
/ she wept because she found no place for
/ her gold lace hat.
There is living in the town of Dur
ham, Conn, an old Indian squaw who
is the last living representative of the
/ Matabesset tribe of Indians, which had
( its hunting grounds in the townships OF
/ Middletown, Middlefield. IIaddam, Dur
/ ham and Madison. The name OF the
squaw is Mrs. Beaumont. She is ninety
/ years of age and six feet tall. Her pres
ent name she took from negro whom
/ she married. She has high cheek-bones,
a bronze complexion and straight black
hair She thinks nothing of walking
sixteen miles day. She lives on what
she can raise on an eighth OF an acre OF
] ground
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
HISTORY OF SONGS.
Many Popular Airs Originated in the Mists
of History.

1t is interesting to study the evolution
Of popular Songs and favorite hymns.
"The meaning OF song goes deep" says
a noted writer And so it does. Often,
however. the original meaning OF song,
or the music to which it is set, is very
different from the later Interpretation.
Take Home, Sweet Home" for in
stance. How 1t has swept the worlds
heartstrings since John Howard
Payne, ''the man without a home"
wrote it in 1882! Yet it was part of an
opera which proved a dismal failure.
The words are not too beautiful, and al
together would not be called good
poetry, and it is doubtful If they would
have carried people by storm had it not
been for the exquisite air to which they
were adapted. And the air is said to be
taken from an old Persian or Arabian
love song. The song, however, living
on its borrowed music, won Mr.. Payne
such lasting honors that years after his
death rich American dug up his bones
and brought them to his country to be
buried again. Other specimens of meta
morphosed meaning equally striking
could be quoted by columns. Our patri-
otic america" is sung to John Bulls
God Save the Queen" and Yankee
Doodle" was borrowed by our embattled
forefathers from an old ditty and turned
into defiant jingle against the British
redcoats. Here are some more recent
oddities as regards the Transformation
of popular airs: "When the Robins
Nest Again" starts exactly like Maid of
Athens" "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By"
begins as does the "Blue Bells of Scot
land" Emmet's "Love of the Shamrock"
Is of the same musical idea as There is
Fountain Filled With Blood" ANY
one comparing Dixey's great success, in
"Adonis," "It's English, You Know" to
the old song, Flying Trapeze," will
find that there is but a slight modula-
ton. by change of key and the quar-.
tering of few notes, difference is
made between the Spanish Cavalier
and the chorus of 'Peek-a-Boo.'
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, or Viii
you meet me at the Bars" which me
with so much favor in "Joshua Whit
comb" is so closely allied to Claribel'
"You and T. that they can hardly b,
distinguished one from the other. "Al
on account of Eliza" from the opera
"Billce Taylor" is nothing less thai
''How Lovely Are the Messengers, from
Mendlcsson's oratoria of "St Paul.
Think Of il! One of the grandest O
sacred chorals ''transmogrifed' int
comic opera. And last, but not Nleas,
that stirring revival hymn, Hold tn
Fort" is, so far as the music is cor
cerned, an ancient German drinkin
song.-N. o. Picayune.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"
-'Tis evidence quite certain
OF woolng rather rash,
When yoI see a tinge Of powder
on ayoung mans dark mustache.

uuRc.
Tho skeleton dude has been ar
rested What for?" 'Vasrancy His
legs were so slim they said he had no
visible means of support. ."-Munsey's
Weekly.
Another Goodness in the Jason Fam
ily.-Mrs Jason-"Mrs. Willers is GO
ing to Florida again this winter. She Is
going down there for her lungs" Mr..
Jason-"lIow did she happen to leave
them there? Forgot 'em?"-Terre Hauto
Express.
Young wife-"Are you happy, dear,
TO be sailirg on the matrimonial sea
with such kind and loving mate?"
Husband-"Yes, indeed; but dealt you
think we'd better put into port little
while and ship a cook?'-Kearney En-
terprise.
well, my dear madam, and how are
you today" so, doctor, have terrible
pains all over my whole body, and it
seems impossible to breathe. OF course
| can't sleep at all, and haven't a par
ticle of appetite" But otherwise you
feel all right don't you?'-Fliegende
Blatter,
Mr.. Layman-"See here, doctor, you
said there wasn't any such disease as
hydrophobia. Dr. Schmerz temphatic.
allv)-"No. sir, there is not" Mr.
Laymau--"But old Grubbs got it all the
same, and last night he died" Dr.
Schmerz (meditativelyl-"Well, man
who goes and catches diseases that don't
exist ought to die."-Puck.
Kind lady to tramp-"Hcre, my poor
man, is pair of very good shoes which
my son has cast aside. He wore them
In society last winter. You may have
them" Excuse me, but I'm claiming
to be an Oregon flood sufferer, and those
fancy things wouldn't fit the story. I'll
send Billy the Kid to see yer-he's
working the dude-kicked-out-for- arry-
ing-a-poor-gal fake."-Jury.
MARY Ann" shouted a Swampoodle
matron, as she stood in the doorway.
"M-a-a-r-y Ami" "Phwat is it yez do
be wantin'?" II was desirin' to remark
to yez that Nellie Bly, kin git roun' tn
earth in less than eighty days, and it's
yerself that docs be two hours and
twinty minutes gittin' from the grocery
two blocks of wild pitcher av milk.
Turn yer arithmetic on that and see if.it
helps yer proide any."-Washington
Post
Mr.. Slimpurse (who has been ac-
cepted by Miss Wealthy without in
quiries as his financial standing)-"I
wonder, my darling, II your parents will
give their consent" Miss Wealthy
(thoughtfully)-"Ma has always been
very particular about the moral charac-
ter of young men associate with, and
Tn afraid she'll ask good many ques-
tions." Mr.. Slimpurse tjoyfully)-"0h,
can get references from half dozen
ministers" Miss Wealthy (delighted)
THAT'S splendid! Then after that ali
you'll have to do will be to get refer
ences from half dozen bankers, and
you'll catch pa IN. Y. Weekly.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15

A WOMAN who claims to have served
during the war as man, under the
name of Sumner, has applied for her dis
charge papers.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomina-
tion of Ex-Governor Warmoth to be Col
lector of the Port at New Orleans.
A BILL was introduced in the House
on the Srd, to prevent reorganization of
Congressional Districts except once in
every ten years.
WM GILLETT, head brakeman on a
Santa Fe freight train, was instantly
killed on the 4th at Chillicothe,
Peoria County, ILL.,, by the breaking in
two Of his train.
THE Neagle case, growing out Of the
shooting Of David Terry In Lathrop,
CAL, last summer, when he was in the
act of assaulting Justice Field, was ar.
gued before the U. S. Supreme Court on
the 4th.
A scnooL-TEAcHER in Canada killed
himself rather than stand trial on the
charge Of outraging pupils.
THE only opposition to the admission
of Idaho comes from the Morimons.
WHITE & ALLEN, importers, White
street, New York, owe $500 and have
suspended.
GEORGE A. PRINCE, the once we'll
known manufacturer of forgans, died a
Buffalo on the 4th, aged 72years.
CONGRESS- will be asked to liquidat,
the Judgment on John II. Piatt's estat,
for Sl3l,b0S.
COLONEL PERRY 5. HEATH has beel
offered a ''royal pass to inspect tn
Siberian mines.
NEW York will wait to see II the Sen
ate agrees with the House that Chicag
is the place for the Worlds Fair.
CHARLEY LEcoNEy was acquitted, q
Camden, N. j., of numbering his niece.
The Philadelphia Women's Branch Q
the Society for the Prevention Of Cru
city to Animals have entered proceed
ings against the demonstrator of anal
ohiy ut tho Medical College for cruelt
to animals in the process Of viviscctior
After experiments on animals q simila
operation was performed upon mar
saving his iifo.
| CArirAtisrs arc ready to carry ou
wanamaker's plan for q postal tel'
graph
LAKE marine insurance ngcnts held
hreilag on tho %,h IN Chicago, tho ol
iecs being 10 arrange ssrhedule Of rate
| bss sas Damssss assy ssnsys si . pee
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
or GENERAL INTEREST.


The American eagle Is said to be
dying off fast late estimate places
the entire visible supply in the United
! States at 800.
There are two hundred million
acres Of arid land in the United States
which can be cultivated by irrigation.
Six million acres Of this region have al
ready been redeemed.
The growth Of tho 3ities in the
United States is not among the. least OF
the marvels OF its development. There
are $50 of them, with an aggregate pop
ulation Of nearly $1,000, 600
White mahogany is exceeding rare,
but sparingly introduced as borders for
tables and delicate frame work. Of up
| holstercd suits. 1t has soft enamel
like gloss, and is very costly.
Two beggars, aged ffty-eight and
sixty, were recently married at Louis
vile, Ky. When the magistrate asked
the groom how they would get their
support, he answered: Hustle around
and live some way"
1 --At an auction safe Of household
goods the other day in little town Of
France an old painting was sold for $40.
A few minutes later picture dealer pur-
chased it for $500 and before the day was
over he was offered $4,000 for it. 1t
was a Rembrandt, with his signature
and date in lower corner. The dealer
now hopes to sell it to an American Van
derbilt or Wanamaker.
The meanest man in Maine lives
near Lewiston. He had an only son,
who was drafted and killed in the war.
The father now says: 81 was short
sighted in not paying Si0O for substi-
tute, for have been forced to hire man
ever since to help carry on the farm,
and it has cost me thousands above the
price of substitute. Besides, he was a
master hand to work and the smallest
eater ever saw"
A coincidence that is very remark
able is reported from Boston. A teams
ter who had been hurt by car running
| into his wagon brought suit for damages
against the railway company. The case
came up few days ago, and the jury
decided to visit the scene of the col
lision-a steep hill. They embarked in
car belonging to the defendant, and
had just reached the hill when the car
ran into furniture wagon, breaking
two Of the windows and shaking up the
jurymen. The teamster received YER
dict for 81, 100.
"A Toxic correspondent gives some
amusing specimens of English as it is
written by the japanese. Among them
are these, from a library companys
rules: "The Profession of our Company
is supplying the all japanese Classical
and Modern Books or Chinese and En-
glish Language Books to Readers for
receiving duly Lending Price THE
object OF our library is for the Reader
who desired to Read many book at one
time for searching useful matter. There
fore all book which is ready in our Com
pany, is permit to Read; but the pre-
vailing Book at present is wished for
Reader to be lend from the procedeur OF
sending" ''Who has read the Book OF
our Company, above Three month by the
Polish way Of the reading, thought OF
our Company will send the Signature OF
Special and may be lend by paying
Lending Price that mitigating lilo OF il. y
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
Counterfeitor Arrested.

KEoKUK, Ia, March 1O.-A man
named Shepherd was arrested Saturday,
charged with making counterfeitmoney.
He confessed his guilt, and told pitt
full story about his family starving and
not being able to get work. A full set
of dies, molds and tools were found in
his possession. His children had been
passing counterfeit coin at various
stores for some time past. Commissioner
Leach held him to the Federal Jury i.
the sum of 81. 600.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
SAWDUST EXPLODES.
Furniture Factory Wrecked by the
Fierce Shock.
Three Boys Caught In tho Debris and
Slowly KOasted-A Fourth Victim
Probably Fatally Wounded.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March s.-Yoster-
day afternoon residents of the lower
portion of tho city were thrown into a
state of excitement by terrific cxplo-
sion, which shook the houses in that To-
cality. A few minutes later an alarm
Of fire was turned in, which proved to
have been caused at the Armstrong
Furniture Company's factory, result
ing from an explosion in the dust or
shaving room. The room had heen
closed for an hour, and it is sup
posed that the air became dense, and
gas was generated by the fumes of a
lantern left there by boys who are en-
ployed in carrying shavings into tho
furnace room. The employees had con-
cluded their Dime 5, after which three
of the boys, Mike Weber and Will
Sachs (white) and Will Cheatham
(colored), went into tho shaving room
and while there the explosion occurred.
Immediately after the disaster the
flames shot up from the shay
ing room. The alarm was at
once turned in and Chas.
Shelby, colored fireman, rushed to the
portion of the building in which the
fire broke out just as he reached the
doorway the wall fell, peeling the skin
from the crown of his head to the neck
entirely off, breaking both legs and in.
fiicting internal injuries. At first it was
thought that Shelby was the only one
injured as no one knew of the boys being
in the building at the time of the ac.
cident. AS soon as the flames were got
under control, however, Chcatham and
Sachs were found to be missing, and a
careful search by the firemen discovered
the bodies of the three boys, The build
ing, which was q small brick structure
adjoining the factory, was total wreck
The walls and roof were one mass OF
debris. The damage to the building is
estimated at 81, 900, which was fully in
sured.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15

CINCINNATI, March 11.-At 1:15 this
morning flames commenced issuing from
the building occupied by Stern, Mayer
& Co., corner Third and Vine streets.
The structure was five stories in height,
built of free stone, and was one of the
largest clothing houses in the city.
Within five minutes, the fire which was
communicated to the frame work by an
electric wire against which it rested,
was out of entire control of the fremen,
and the immense building was COM
pletely Quilted. The loss is about half
a million dollars, insurance light. The
Burnet House was seriously threatened
at one time.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
Imported LabOrers,

New YORK, March 12.-Among 997
immigrants who arrived here yesterday
on the steamship Elder are over eighty
per cent. who have come under contract
to work in the mines. The majority Of
them are Huns and Silesians. They
are going to work in the mines neal
Pittsburgh, Pa. The men were well
posted, and they did not give the au'
thorities any chance to detain them
The Emigration Commissioners will
take action in the matter.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
ABSENT THIRTY YEARS.
Romantic Experience of an Old Wisconsin
veteran.


OSHKOSH, Wis, March 1l.-Frit2
Jabusch walked into the house of his
relatives in this city yesterday, after an
absence of nearly thirty years. The
story he told was most romantic one,
for he had long been mourned as dead.
In 1862 Mr.. Jabusch enlisted in the
army and went to the front. His
relatives heard from him regu-
larly until in the summer Of
1863, when his letters ceased, after
a battle in which his regiment had
been engaged. His parents, of course,
supposed him dead. He now states that
he was left for dead on the battlefield,
was found by Confederates, placed in a
hospital, and when he recovered was i'm.
prisoned at Libby prison, Here he re-
mained over year until exchanged, and
he found himself on the Atlantic coast
without money, and hundreds of miles
from home. He shipped on board mer-
chairman for the East Indies as a COM
mon seaman, and has followed the sea
ever since. He has acquired a compe-
tence, and decided to settle down in his
old home.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
RECKLESS CONDUCTOR.
Simple Precautions, Which Could Have
Prevented the Lake shore Horror, But
Time Was Too Precious.

simple precautions, Nhlch NOuld Haye
Prevented the Lake shore Horror, But
Time Was Too Precious.
BUFFALO, March l2.-In the inquest
into the death of six people by the Bay
View accident, on the Lake Shore road,
Thursday last, Conductor John w.
Houghtaling testified that he was be.
hind time at Cleveland; that after oiling
~ at Dunkira the train pulled oGt
and broke in two The coupling was re-
adjusted but that when the inspector
was about to make the air-hose con-
nections he concluded that as
he had six cars with air.
brakes they would hold the train safely;
that the hose was not adjusted because
it would have delayed the train further.
He admitted that had the connections
been properly made the accident could
not have occurred, and that it might
also have been prevented had he sta
toned brakeman on the sleeper and
one on the day coach facing each other,
all Of which he failed to do.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-15
OBJECTIONS WITHDRAWN.


LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, March TO-
Bishop Fink has consented to have his
recent letter prohibiting Catholics from
joining the Farmers Alliance modified.
Representatives of the State and
County Alliances were given an audi
ence by tho Bishop, and assured
him that there was no desire to con-
flict with the views of the Church, and
that all religious parts of the constitu-
tion would be eliminated. In view OF
these assurances Bishop Fink has ad'
dressed a letter to Mr.. A. NJ. Thistle
waiter, Leavenworth, Kan, a member
of the Alliance, stating that his objec'
tions to Catholics joining the Alliance
are withdrawn.