Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1892-01-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

day of this month
sBBAs PAsHA, the new khedive OF
Fpt, talks English like native
biz Dominion parliament will be
pmoned to meet on February 1s
IE railroads will expend $40 900, 600
Preparations for the Worlds fair.
HE Athenians, it is asserted, suffer.
from an epidemic of the grippe SOC
RS B. c. t1.
kcksoN county. Mo, has a citizen
ring the wholesale grocery name o!
fee Rice.
Ev. JOSEPH Cook, of Boston, i.
htioned in connection with the pro.
ition nomination for preside 1T this
liz pope hopes to be buried in the
heran by the side of Innocent III,
pse tomb has just been finished
Re.
is said that company is being
hnized at st. Louis Mo-. with ST..
600 capital stock, to fight the Amer
Tobacco Co.
tIERE is an attempt on the part OF
Edinburgh ladies to raise money
the erection of a statue to Mary
en of Scots
HE first overhead trolley electric
let railroad in England is under con-
ction in the suburbs of Leeds by
merican company.
bIE mae defendant in a breach OF
hise suit in Randolph, Mo, has
promised for 5000, although jury
rded the lady 81, 600.
nee Patagonia was divided between
and the Argentine republic, it
w been developed into wonderful
= try for sheep raising.
FRAMp was struck by a train the
night on the Pennsylvania road,
on his person was found bank
with credit of S3Oj
lE prince of Wales has begun to
himself Edward" instead Of "Al-
Edward, indicating that when
he will be Edward III.
BIZ proposition to choose U. S. sen.
s by popular instead of legislative
tion is under consideration at both
of the national capitol.
BIZ women in Bridgeton, Pa, have
hally petitioned the mayor for per.
ion to carry red pepper with them
n they go out after dark.
HINEsE officials at Canton are said
bave violated treaty obligations by
fscating the property of British
fchant and arresting his servants.
EwFIK PAsHA, the late llhedive of
1pt had but one wife and the
|ces in the dispatches of his harem
b to the companions and servants of
wife.
be Russian navy consists at the
TENT time of 36 first-class vessels, 4s
3nd-class ships SS third class ships,
20 vessels of the fourth-class, or a
of 1872 vessels.
RoBABLY the youngest woman evan
u in the country is Fannie Edwards,
ltcen-year-old Louisville girl, who
been preaching the gospel to Ten
be mountaineers
IL grand total OF charitable be.
la. England during the past year,
kding Baron Hirsch's $4,000 900
ewish emigration, was Sl5, 0Oo, 600,
|ainst Sll, 800, 900 in 1899.
ERE has just died in Poland once
brated beauty, who refused the
of Napoleon III. She was the
cess Helene Sagonsko, and died
arried at the age Of fiftyseven,
bsToN has new law which prohib'
he driving of a vehicle nearer than
en- feet from the one in advance of
Street car drivers are arrested for
htions and fined five dollars for
} offense.
ELIx NICKEL, a French horn player
Jed his ability to pucker up his lips
900, and because his lips will no,
ker as they used to he has sued n
York firm, whose wagon struck
injuring his lip.
bIE fire losses of 1891 in the United
fes and Canada foot up over SlS7,'
|Doa M ;p,,a,ea nf about coo mn nnn
1890 and SO, 900, 900 over 1889. In
nty-seven of the fires the loss ex-
led 500, 900 each.
HERE is TO tie a new Prussian
bne. Frederick /. had one, but Napo.
took it off and melted 1t, and there
now only two small chairs OF small
be.
y orange tree in a yard in Yuba
Cal, has full yield of large ripo
bges of this seasons crop, and hang.
among them are a number of or
es of the previous year in good
of preservation.
Texas there is stone about
PITY feet in diameter that has won
ul magnetic power. 1t is said that
ill draw hammer or an ak to its
ace even when placed ten to fifteen
away on the ground.
HE queen is so favorably impressed
h the picturesque turbans worn by
own Mussulman attendants that
has requested Lord Lansdowne to
lore the old-fashioned Oriental head
IS whenever practicable.
HE young blood Of Egypt has rea
to be entirely satisfied with theil
cnt change of rulers, The new khe
els a dowuy youth in his teens, wht
y undertake to compensate for lacl
Snowledge and experience by fertil
of ideas.
ARIs is the finest city in the world
the number of emigrants by suicide
Fery large. No less than 500 escape,
lt way last year. The favoritc meth
OF exit among men were by hang
shooting, stabbing, poisoning ant
phyxiation.
Tue Pennsylvania railroad compan,
5 been sued for $40, 900 by New Jer
Methodist Episcopal church, tn
aggregation Of which complains tina
e hundred trains pass the churcl
ily The odors are offensive and tn
Pise insufferable,
TUE old mansion house that is beinI
I'm down at Beaver Falls, Pa, was Il
day the finest edifcc in wester
nnsylvania, and many wandering
Mites and Indians visited it out O
iriosity. 1t was built by Isaac vii
Pn In l775 and was occupied by hir
" many years as u dwelling and q
mes as fortress, for the country wa
Ill oil hostile Indians In those days.