Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-07-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

1r Charley EcsS is alive next Novern.
j.. he will be odd enough to vote,
..,r subscriptions to the Panama ca
s,heme aggregated SEQ, 900, 600.
TALKING Of stars, the American flag
:, ,ertainly getting up a corner in them.
rur debate on the navy estimates
.,ous that the British fleet lacks 30, oOO
men
, ROSE cultivated in a Philadelphia
,o,.bonse measured seventeen inches In
width
Iris estimated that more than 6,O0O
AMERICANS are now staying at the hotels
Of Paris
ocrAvF rnANEr, the novelist, is Al
;,e French in private life. She is an
Iowa girl
TuE season of ice-cream poisoning IL
rron Ms and some fatal cases are al,
ready reported
NEARLY two hundred rabbits were
tlled In single drive in Fresno coun-
Nv Qal, recently.
lHE big clock in the tower OF Phila-
aephia's new city hall is to be wound
bt steam engine,
A ST. LOUIS grocery firm has planted
100 acres of cucumbers which they
will convert into pickles.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is to go to Nor
vay after his visit to England next
month to fish for whales.
DURING the past six months $l1, $780,.
boo has been invested in South Carolina
b factories and railroads.
Az amateur gardener at Belfast, Me-,
planted his bean poles all right, but
Orro, to plant his beans.
TnG Emperor of Japan has made it a
elOny punishable by severe imprison-
uent to accept a challenge or fight q
Euel
IT was John Bright who said that
England would remain a monarchy un-
she had prince unworthy of her
hrone,
A LARGE number of farms in New
ersey have recently been abandoned
ecause of high taxes and unproduc-
iveness,
THERE are 10000 oil wells in the
rnted States, representing a capital OF
r.Q OOO,OOO with an output of 1870, 900
arels per day.
THE signature of the worthless who
(iyed their names to the Declaration
Independence have just been sold in
ngland for S4, $50.
There is in Denver a Chinese high.
Under and general terror named Wun
Jan, and according to accounts one
ie him is enough.
ALFRED TENNYsoN has been Eng.
nds poet laureate since 1850, a longer
sriod than the honor was held by any
this predecessors.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD child at Eugene,
n,, grows faster on one side than on
L other, and the doctors are puzzled
the circumstances.
EMPRESS EUGENE has taken up the
lidren Of the late Prince Napoleon as
part solace for the great grief and
neliness which fills her life.
Cor. Tow OCHlLTREE is credited with
atrimonial designs upon the daughter
COL North, the nitrate king, who
s%,5OO,0O in her own right.
Az anti-slang club, of Grand Rapids,
ch,' has so prospered that the fines
using slang amounts to enough to
Tethe members a big picnic.
MR. WAGsTAFF, the new president Of
NOhyn's lofty bridge, might have
len measured for the position. He is
srly six feet six inches in height.
VES ScorlELD is to be asked to take
urge OF the military part of the cere.
tles attending the Worlds fair dedi.
non, ii he can leave his regular duties
Fgenougl,
.r m,,, ~ '"' lio,r'.'es Oh 'he world :
[rI, I,I t'',. ov d immature Venice houses
,'.', o"''' o',' 'i'o ''ie iake ana con-
eed by canals similar to those in the
p0sror,s S'S' ,.
noE,o. ,' ne" Prohln'''oh law weh'
ngs r'r' n,'' u"'y l. !. ai,ows man twt
@ ,an, ps car ior "h'en nc can ho'
D,o ','ne''' Ls a, ou' upon 'he thiro OF
1wr nv T. yDeS up ior one year
nrod ~, '''1G"'i y. 'huruerers are con
JC ,, 10 o'e ON tne gailows on FIJI
Man, m's"9o nnS 81 h'sh' persons are a
n. NV. otI "L'''er sentence OF death Tor the
u "'l''ciue IN that state
WE "eli'meaning newspapers say
r;s ts"at, ~ would seem to be more
aueu Tor the secretary of state tc
eOu' IN a barouche or something oi
"'U
ns New Orleans district up to the
" Oi the fiscal year, June 80, the
.S'v4 ~, and indicate a crop of 49s,'
S', S%poGnds or almost twice as large
na' '~' u d last year.
SaS firrs' cripple, his wife, and
seven weeks old baby are
III a ory-goods box in an open
usar s worcester, Mass There is a
'e'piace outside the box, where
Nv "Oilan does the cooking.
al supply of human hair sent from
va" Europe amounted to fsO,OOt
May m io'o 1t was exported from
~, ~, anu II Consul Alabaster may bt