Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-06-17

LucIus LAMAR, the 1s-year-old son of
Capt. !. T. Blount, of Water Valley, has
been appointed cadet to West Point,
Gov. STONE has offered a reward Of
$3.50 for the arrest of John W. McCaf-
ferty, who murdered Charles Hudson in
Greene County on May o5, 1893.
Mrs. JANE Med. ROGERS diod at Me
ridian last week. aged 95, having lived
during the lifetime of every President
of the United States. At her funeral
eight Of her great-grandsons were the
pall-bearers.
ABOUT thirty or forty young white
men of jackson have been arrested on a
charge of crap shooting. Most of them
plead guilty and were given nominal
fine on the promise to desist in the
future.
A MEETING of Brookhaven busines,
men was held last week to consider tho
project Of establishing $4,000 cotton
and woolen knitting factory. There
was much enthusiasm, and abont $4,000
of the capital stock was subscribed on
the spot. Committees were appointed
to raise the balance, which it is safe to
say will be done. 1t is proposed to
build the factory with home capital.
THE authorities have succeeded in ar
resting another of the notorious gang
of negroes who have been operating
near Harriston. The last one caught
gives his name as Alonzo Treas. 1t de-
velops that the gang has been doing an
extensive business in the burglary line,
operating in various parts of the State.
He says the organization is known as
the Lone Star Gang" The organiza-
tion had its password and grips
A GENERAL convention Of planters in
the overhowed portions OF Warren and
adjacent counties in the Yazoo valley
will be held at Vicksburg in the early
future, with the object of organizing a
levee district for mutual protection.
The proposed levees will finish the
reclamation OF the Yazoo-Mississippi
delta and protect vast area of the
most fertile lands in tho South, esti-
mated at fully 800 square miles. twill
take at least a year to perfect its organ
ization, but afterward no difficulties are
anticipated, financial or otherwise.
The revival meeting Of Evangelist
Culpepper closed at Jackson last week.
The accessions to the various churches
during the meeting amounted to ISL.
The number includes many who were
hardened sinners, many Of them not
having been in church for years. The
city has had a religious awakening
never before equaled with the exception
of Sam Jones' meeting, and many think
the results will surpass even that one,
At the close OF the service the various
pastors arose and highly indorsed the
work.
The Delta Cotton and Woolen Mills a
Carrollton, and about 1000 acres of con
tiguous land were sold last week by The
sheriff under execution, and wert
bought alta nominal figure by Col. Il
Jesty, OF Winona, he being the judg
ment creditor. He announces that hi
will begin at once to tear down th,
buildings and machinery and sell SAM
in parcels. This mammoth enterprise
has met many reverses Of late and al
hopes Of its successful operation ar
about departed. though Maj. A. Z
Randle, New England capitalist, ar
nounces that all judgments will b
satisfied and said factory placed i
operation by fall.
THE board Of supervisors Of Ware
County have let contract for complet
ing repairs on the courthouse at an el
pense of S7,035. The board has ais
. decided to throw an iron drawbridg
across Big Black river at an estimate
, cost Of $4,000 and ordered surveys ft
/. II, This bridge will connect Ware
and Claiborne counties.
| ARRANGEMENlo uoNo pocu SOupAo Vo
: for the removal Of the Shuqualak r
, male College from Shuqualak to Mer
t dian. This is Baptist institution
established many years ago by Prof.
! M. Stone, and has present enrollmel
Of 100 boarding pupils.
Two NEGRO men went to the residen'
: OF Mr.. Abbott, near Vicksburg, Ia
!. week and finding the family away ra
}, sacked the premises for money Fin
/ ing none, they brutally beat whi
+ bow, brother Of Mrs. Abbott, and col
y mitted much mischief, wounding sever
o cows and wrecking the dairy.
!. The citizens Of Sunfcwer Coun
:, held an enthusiastic and profitable co
q vention last week to promote tho Il
W movement OF the Sunfower river NAY
= cation. Appropriate resolutions we
= psssed asking Congress- ior IN adeVus
= appropriation tos the river.