Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-11-04
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.


Death of Col. Polk.
CoRINTn, Oct. 27.-This morning at
o'clock Col. G. ?. Polk breathed his last
1t the age of four-score years, ripe in |
years and Christian character. Col.
Polk was born at Columbia, TEnn.. Oc-
tober 81, 1873 He was son OF Ezekiel
Polk and half brother to the tather OF
President James X. Polk. When a
Young man he moved to Bolivar, Tenn,
where he was married to Miss Ellen
Fitzhugh, of Virginia. IL moved to this
place about 1856, where he has lived
most of the time since. In ante-bellum
days he was man of considerable prop
erty, most OF which was lost during the
war. Though a man of great energy
and fine Judgment he never succeeded
in recovering his lost fortune, and Tor
number Of years, in his feeble health,
he has made his home with his son-in-
law, Capt. D. J. Hyneman, who married
his second daughter, Miss Eugenia
Polk. The colonel kept posted on the
current topics OF the day, and, like his
distinguished nephew, President Polk,
was Democrat of the strictest order.
The remains will be inferred tomorrow
evening in Henry Cemetery. The fu-
neral services will be held at the resi-
dence of Capt d, j. IIyneman, conduct
ed by Rev. Robert Young, OF the
Cum mberland Presbyterian Church, OF
which Col. Polk was ever constant and
faithful member.
Miscellaneous.
OWING to DR.. w. c. Blacks election
to the editorship of the New Orleans
Christian Advocate, Bishop Galloway
has transferred him from the Georgia
back to the Mississippi Conference.
THE Love wagon factory at Durant
one of the largest plants of the kind II
the State, was destroyed by fire las
week. Loves loss is estimated at abou
$50. .000 with only light insurance.
NJ, w. DuNBARD, a well-known an
popular young man OF Grenada, die
, last week in Greenwood, where he ha
gone to visit his parents, in the hope c
!. getting we'll He was a young man .
l. sterling traits.
= WM. QUINN died at Senatobia la.
/. week. Mr.. Quinn was an old citizen
$ Tate County, brave and true Confe'
crate soldier, and had the high estee
q of all who knew him.
9 ALARGE barn containing 1000 bushel
- of corn on Mrs. jefferson Davis Brie
ID field plantation, in Warren Count
o burned few days ago. Insurance n
- known. Fifteen hogs were burned Wi
the building.
IA w. NJ. FOSTER, deputy Chancery tlel
IT. of Warren County for the past twent
I'd one wears, died last week. His dea
", " is a great loss to that county al
in especially to the bar, as his acquair
"a ance with the chancery and proba
m ~ business was phanomenally great.
on REVENUE officers have destroyed so.
ng illicit stills in Newton County and
to rested their operators. Word comes tn
g, moonshiners are doing thriving bu
!. ness between Edinbufg and Carthaf
" in Leake County, in inter defiance
ne law, and that good people are terrorizt
ed AT Meridian last week fire broke {
~, in n cotton warehouse and destroyed
ep. number of bales of cotton belonging
es, ". $. Harris & Bro. The fire is 81
NV posed to be the work of an incendiai
IN, When the fire was discovered great I
'ad citement prevailed, and men and won
w in their night clothes rushed frar
in cally into the street, the women screa
ur' ing for help, and the men beating
ION hasty retreat before the tiremen
on spectators.
lat Wu. WILEY. a respectable and We
n,a to-do farmer. living seven miles east
of New Albany one night last week
fire to Marion Wynne's and Will
eld Speck's barns. After seeing them un
good headway, and that nothing fr
lat them could be saved, he quietly
as turned to his own home, and, with
lso disturbing his family, set his own ho
he on fire. When the family awoke
'ed roof was falling in His wife and dau
ast ter are suffering from burns recei
m ioi while making their escape.
THE case of the State Revenue Ag
vs. the Postal Telegraph Company
"" argued in the supreme Court last W.
and submitted. The suit is brought
,,y the revenue agent to secure back pr
(. lege taxes due by the company since
on. admission into the State. 1t der
no. liability when the agent brought
OF to recover the taxes. In the lower ct
ice Judge Chrisman held it liable, whe
'on appealed to the Supreme Court, In
err case is involved the right of the Stat
'ed tax telegraph companies. Should i
ere decided against the State it will hav
'ut- refund all taxes collected from
me Western Union Telegraph Company
heo AGANG of professional burglars,
W. have been doing the State, struck
Nv umbus last week. The large dry e
,a. house of w. c. Beard & Co. and
,an clothing store of Voorhees,, Miller 4
,or- were robbed. The rear end of Il
sin houses run into an open alley and
of the rear the burglars gained an
ubt trance by saving out panel OF
cen back door. From VOORHEES,, Mill'
in Co. s they took several hundred dol
eis worth of gentlemen's fine underw
cen and from the safe they got S4O3 in
to The safe had been opened without
eat use Of any explosive, but an ak
ear used to break open The money draw
cfe- the safe
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