Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-02-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

"a doctor killed q butcher for
ing him.
NIGER BOYS arc given free rides
bic vehicles In New York.
s. ouse Committee on Invalid Pen
eady has $500 bills before it.
cost about 5000, 900 to obtain
fmation for the eleventh census.
ENTENDENT PORTER has decided
Ben may be census enumerators.
"a 100000 arc sent from this
20 Europe every year for dolls.
& AcE WATT, Reading (Pa.) five-
has been left entirely deaf by
WOODS died at Lancaster, Pa,
"a day at the we'll authenticated
n "a
n u tsu capitalists are now said to be
buy up the American boot and
tories.
I ING thief entered yard in New
ick N. D.. the other night and
6fplo hive of bees.
Los Angeles river has caused
G&kain Of orange and other crops BY
change in its course.
Bnk2lI. has a law for tho medical OK
amtn0tion of persons about to marry to
1eteFmine their fitness.
Tim latest estimate gives Now York
population of 1,50O,000 Chicago
aolaimsa d population of 100000.
AGArN the Island of st. Helena is to
h0 used as a political prison. Certain
Ln1u chiefs are to be detained there.
IA vRGErABLE cartridge case has been
Invented in France 1t weighs only
half asm much as metal case, and costs
less.
THE'son of the late Senator Ben. Hill,
Of Georgia, is going to publish his fa.
ther's Speeches in volume of 800 to
1000 pages.
THERE are now 700 female physicians
IA Russia, and the mortality reports
show q decrease in the death rate
throughout the Empire.
Mn. GLADSTONE has again refused an
Offer made by a firm of American pub
fishers of 10000 yearly for everything
he writes for the public.
THE grip is now raging in the Wiscon-
1ln lumber camps, where its severity is
increased by the limited facilities for
nursing and medicine to be had there.
u HYDRAULIC power at pressure of $50
pounds to the square inch is now con-
Yeyad about beneath tho streets Of Lon
don ~ steam is conveyed in this coun-
ELL has been introduced in the
New York Legislature, appropriating
08, ,QOO, 900 to finish the State capitol.
4 Int building has already cost Sls, ,0O0,-
100.
'Hs HsGENERAL' BUTLER right arm is re-
Inarkably developed owing to tho
amount of handshaking he has done,
while his left arm is shrunken and
weak.
BIsNARcK may keep up his old fence
Il he chooses The great American hog
will have plenty of room to forage.
Mexico has ordered down her bars and
will give it entry.
GE0RGE DARLING, brother of Grace
Darling, and only surviving member of
the family, is living at Sea Houses,
ok1k Sunderland, England, He is over
5sxhty years of age.
EONDoN paper tells Of dog which,
|AaRing run away from its new master,
travelled fifty miles over an unknown
country to its old home, arrived there
ItheS day after starting.
A BAR of Welsh gold has been for
Narded to tho British Geographical So
etety with the request that it be used in
thA making of tho medal that the so.
loletyis to give to Stanley.
Miss WINDOW, daughter Of the Secre-
nv Of the Treasury, had arranged to
spend the night at Mr.. Tracy's house
4ho night of the fire, and changed her
PLANS at the last moment
II n Is said that almost all Of the postal
olcfks and carriers who become thieves
begin by stealing letters addressed to
l0ftesy agents, which they know are al
Qpst sure to contain money.
4HREE of tho best.dressed mon in
@QQgress, according to correspondents
x4p0rt are Representative Gibson, of
Axyland, Stahlnccker, of New York,
41d Bingham, of Pennsylvania.
AN English scientist propounds the
fhcOry that the grip epidemic arose from
no contamination of the air by the de-
lying bodies of the million Chinese
oWncd in tho great floods of 1883.
III 4 london was first lighted in 1414 with
&EfVate lanterns. In 1856 the lanterns
6f1 increased to 100000 in number
A744 tho first lighting act was passed.
$50 gas was generally substituted
I'll.
~ Henry W. Grady monument COM
pc. OF Atlanta, Ga, has issued call
chitects and sculptors asking them
$epare designs for the proposed mon
pit. The amount to be expended is
O0
p total property of tho negroes in
ex-slave States Is estimated to be
pr from $50, 900, 900, This is not inc
ing the property of tho wealthy Cre-
of Louisiana which is not far from
100, 900.
Is said that John Jacob Astor works
Ird as the driver OF leased hack with
fge family on his hands. He stays in
York winter and summer. His
hne, estimated at a hundred milliona,
IS him chained down to business.
tNAT0R WADE HAMPTON, OF South
plina, while on a recent hunt in his
We State, killed two deer, the ant
OF which he scnt to Senators Gray
Mcpherson. They now ornament
walls of the room of the Senate Com
Zee on Naval Affairs.
6MAN TRuMBuLL, Ex-Governor, ex-
fetary of State, ex-Supreme Judge,
member of Congress and ex-United
tes Senator, is still practicing law In
cago at the age of seventy-seven.
M. Brooks, of Roxbury, Mass,
is 90 years old, is the champion 'old
Bcriber." He has taken the Boston
rnal thirty consecutive years, the
listian Register sixty-fve, and the
tport Sentinel seventy-one years.
HE largest tea and coffee importer in
United States is j. w. Doan, of Chi
o. He keeps one man buying teas in
ma at a salary Of $4,000 year. An
er gets the same salary in Chicago
grading teas hu inhalinr the arnmn.