Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-05-06
miscellaneous.

Cor. w. II. McCARDLE died at Jack.
son last week after long illness.
MAYOR DIAL is sdiscouraging the blind
tiger business at Meridian by fning B.
B. Banks, the first offender brought be-
fore him, $40
THE official count from the recent
election in Bolivar County gives the
Prohibitionists a majority of 49, Sun
flower County is dry by a very large
majority.
TIE property owners of Meridian
have organized for the purpose OF cor
recting the crying evil of non-paying
renters. The organization is known as
Property Owners Protective Union.
A COUPLE, supposed to be man and
wife, were jailed at Brookhaven last
week, charged with infanticide near
Bogue Chitto. A child to which the
woman gave birth was found buried.
with marks OF violence on its person.
DAVID C. KINERAL died at Marion
last week, aged &c years. Deceased was
an old resident OF Lauderdale County.
locating there in 1853, and has since been
engaged in farming and was known and
admired for his probity and uprightness.
FARMERS in Neshoba, Leake, Scott
and Jasper Counties are disheartened.
Owing to the high prices prevalent some
time ago, all the cotton seed except
barely enough for planting purposes
was sold. The recent frost has killed
the young cotton, most OF which was up,
and they now have no seed with which
to replant.
A PROPOSITION is pending to add
another institution to Meridian's educa-
tional interests. Rev. NJ. L. Stone,
president of Shuqualak Female College,
which has been in successful operation
at Shuqualak number Of years, with
u present enrolment of 100 boarders,
proposes to move his school to Meridian
in consideration Of cash bonus of ST.
500 and suitable grounds. This is
school tor females, conducted under
Baptist patronage.
From all portions Of the State comes
the report that cotton has either been
killed or greatly injured by the recent
cold spell and frost. There is time to
replant, but the great trouble is in
many sections there is no seed. This
complaint is most general. The recent
high prices paid for cotton seed had the
effect of causing nearly all the surplus
to be carried to the market As a con-
sequence much of the land originally
planted in cotton will have to be plowed
up and planted in corn.
LIGHTNING played curious freak
during a heavy storm at West Point
last week. 1t struck large tree in a
neighboring yard, then entered the
residence of w. w. Robinson by way OF
chimney, knocking off about half the
: roof of the house. The bolt divided
and entered three rooms, tearing out
, the sides of the house in each, COM
, pletely demolishing the furniture and
tearing away portion of the veranda.
The family were eating breakfast in a
room adjoining that destroyed, but not
one was injured in the slightest.
Gov. STONE has offered reward Of
slOO for the assassin Of Cornelius
Griffin, which occurred recently near
| Bolton.
t HENRY HA1pER died at Yazoo City
, last week in the 52d year of his age.
, Mr.. Halder had been resident OF Yazoo
: City for forty years, and was justly held
! in the highest esteem. When the call
to arms was made in 1861 he promptly
responded and went out with Company
X of the Tenth Mississippi, and served
. through the war from its beginning to
' its close with conspicuous bravery. he
; was a prominent Mason In high stand
ing.
SIMPSON, an interior county remote
from the railroads, wasa severe sufferer
from the recent cyclone. The people
; Along the line Of the storm are said to
be left in a fearful condition.
DEVELOPMENTS tend to show that the
/ liamare wrought by the recent cold
msp on the prospective crop OF the
, leecy staple is far more disastrous than
: was at first expected or reported Many
, II Carroll County's farmers will he conn
. oelled to rcplant their entire cotton
. ,rop, should they be SO fortunate 70
,ecure seed. which now seems 10 DO the
scaroest commodity.