Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-02-14
CURRENT TOPICS.
.0rss costs the people $50, 900 a

british mounted infantry.
cold that one-tenth of the arabic
Vermont is still left uncultivat-
,,ce there is a government tax
NOR cent. levied on all bets on
nrpplLr's body is still seduously
in a stately tomb on Staten
sim did not shine in London until
|en days of the new year had
acts about 5000 a minute to keep
nited States Government in run
brder.
nv VICTORIA has presented q rich
arisoncd Indian elephant to the
ror of Morocco.
.ry thousand cows, it is calculat-
4 to be milked twice a day to
London alone.
Illinois Legislature is consider
bill to punish imposters who go
posing as Christs.
MARY GARRETT, of Baltimore,
hath in her home lined with Mex
,rx that cost 90, 900.
sRyoR PArrIsoN, Of Pennsyl-
has over three thousand appli-
for thirty-five Offices.
rv days ago John Bates picked
puc tree on his place in De Soto
", Fla, s,4S7 oranges.
Massachusetts Legislature has
petitioned to buy a sword Of
Washington for $4,000.
RIDER HAGoARD, like Mrs.
ev, complains that American wo-
keep their houses too warm.
tailors of New York propose to
he bills which they hold against
buent customers at public auction.
OI1cEMAN named Butter, after a
Ee of thirty-five years has just
ed from the New York police
,HloN report has It that next sum
feminine styles are to be more
uline than ever, and even more
bh."
development of smokeless coal
in Tonquin shows much larger
lis than were at first believed to
ssible
first German steamer intended
se on the Victoria Nyanza, has
shipped from Hamburg for the
oast of Africa.
RoposITIoN is before the Michigan
Mature so to amend the State Con.
lon as to permit the purchase Of
dads by the State.
|EsRo day-laborer of Philadelphia
br some time been making earnest
Is to become a jew, but no syna.
will admit him,
bGE PETER, who succeeds ingalls,
! Senate from Kansas, is a Mason,
hight of Labor and n member OF
Episcopal Church.
of the employees of the postal tel.
ph office in st, Petersburg has in
ID a watch that will run forty-fve
at single winding.
ground-hog did not return to his
bny too soon for an escape from
/ frost-bNten. As weather prophet
badow grows no less.
PTAlN SCnLEY, of the Baltimore,
his family, but adores his ship.
BY; "She is the finest, fastest and
war vessel in the world"
b chief curiosity in the Office OF
Secretary of the State of South
|lina is the original copy of the
pance of secession of the State.
bPEROR WILLIAM III continues TO
|e up the Prussian officers corps.
(as just retired three more Major
frals and one ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
English company is working sill.
hine in Bolivia which yields more
800 ounces to the ton, while speci.
\ Of almost pure silver are met with.
Farm at Pi,hole, which was bought
i years ago during the oil excite.
\ by Chicago spectators for 81, 800.
Twas sold recently at a tax sale for
FcHER Stage, who delivers lay ser
s and curved balls with equal fer
has taken charge of the physical
Prtment Of the University of Chi
MEMORIAL TO Lieutenant De Long
perished in the Jeanette expedi
will probably be erected in the
PEI Of the Naval academy at An
bills.
...H.s ,a...
|hE results of the recent expedition
Preenland prove that north of IS de
IS the land is covered with a sheet
Fe 1000 to 0,0Oo feet thick over the
|eys
HUGE bronze statue of VIM. Penn
1 sarmount the new city building in
|ladelphia. In height the figure will
eed s. that of Liberty on the Capitol
Washington. q
ASAroR CARLISLE is now fifty-five
"old He is Of medium height and
ner spare in figure. His movements
easy and graceful, and his genial
nner quickly puts his visitors at their
ah latest imported slang word is
fo,' y To spool a man is to hold his
''Nned opinions up to ridicule. The
l, word comes just as the stock of old
Naes was found to be painfully in
lquate.
az ,,.i last official act of the late Secre.
!, \ "Indom was the recommendation
|. 'ae President, which was acted upon,
' s'ames H. Young, a young colored
: e appointed revenue collector al
llmlngton, N. c.
''x'Sa y the forty-nine years of his
" Me Prince Of Wales has drawn
J. s.Sooo y from the public treasury OF
:. erltain, and his debts, it is said,
" amount to about IS, ,o0O,oOo
'.snu ! sI,AA phaeton has appeard in Pari.
,'I'nng ,'.s an ordinary phseton. II
,.a H. under the body Of the carriage 1
n. M, which can not explode, with
~ ~ oent down and discharginl
'ss under the back seat.
M, IAN a who died in a London pool
80 r~ ,ately, at the age Of ninety-fiv,
\ \" mad been a pauper for eighty
Is,' 'ears' uninterruptedly. He wal
4 NV the institution when six year
! = 'no was always an inmate Of it.