Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-12-16

:. '''op tHuFcH IN Meth
oo'Sm" is phrase the people of Scran-
Ton nave invented with which to de.
scribe the new Elm Park Methodist
Episcopal church which was dedicated
with services beginning on the sth
Inc structure occupies a square ON
Elm Park, the aristocratic part of
Scranton. Complete, it cost 5000 ooO
and is practically free from debt
The prince of Wales, on the It'll, was
nominated grand master of the English
Freemasons. The nomination was
greeted with the unanimous approval
OF 800 brethren whoattended the grand
lodge meeting, presided over by the
earl OF Mount-E dgcumbe.
The schooner Transit, from Homo.
lulu, arrived at San francisco on the
Sth, Up to the time she sailed Minis
lister Willis had taken no steps toward
the restoration OF the queens govern,
ment, and was reported as saving he
would do nothing but preserve order
(by the use of force il necessary uu.
til he received further instructions
from Washington.
The manufacturing jewelers. of Plain.
vile, North Attleboro Falls and Attic.
boro, Mass, ninety-six in number, and
those of Providence, r. l., have suf-
fered by reason of failures in the past
year losses aggregating $500, 900.
The joint resolution providing for
the payment Of salaries and expenses
of additional collectors of internal rev.
cnuc to carry out the provisions of the
Chinese exclusion act has been signed
by the president
NJ. PAVE French minister TO Siam,
has been instructed to proceed from
Bangkok to the upper Mekong river to
carry out the delimitation of the boun
daries Of the territory cedcd to France
by Siam.
THE democratic members OF the Vir,
ginia legislature assembled in caucus
on the night of the 18th and nominated
Gen. Eppa Hunton for the United
States senate for the short term by &C.
clamation
The failures for the week ended or
| the Sth numbered 3S6 in the United
States, against III for the correspond
ing week last year; and AZ in Canada
against 80 last year.
IT having been decided to dissolve
the Portuguese cortes elections fol
new members have been fixed for Jan
uary H. The new house will meet OF
March ).
Hon. ROBERT Preston BRUCE, {
brother of the earl of Elgin, the newly
appointed viceroy of India, died a
Edinburgh. on the Sth, of influenza.
THF banks of New York held in re-
serve, on the Sth, Slos,OO0, OO0-the
largest ever known,
The president, on the sth approved
the joint resolution comforting diplo
mas upon designers inventors and ex
pert artisans
KING LoBENGuLA has sent ENJOYS II
the British, asking that number o
the British South Africa Co S men b
sent to meet hilN He desires to sur
render, and wants the soldiers to guar'
him.
THE Maison Hanzatique, a famou
granary in Antwerp, caught fire at
o'clock on the morning of the 10th
and within three hours was entirel
consumed, with 10000 tons of gram
entailing n loss of 81 100000 Their
were 100 barrels of naphtha upon tn
ouav adjacent TO the burning ware
house which were with much difficult
saved from the flames, The facade
the granary collapsed, killing police
man and injured fireman
The statement of the New York as
ISOLATED banks for the week ended o
the 9th shows the following changes
Reserve, increase, S46S,525; loans, II
crease, $3.50, 800; specie, increase
$40, 700; legal tenders, increase N'@'.
100; deposits, increase, $5,d5h 100; Gil
culation, decrease, $50,
LANSING B. MINER, cx-Inlted state
minister to Guatemala, whose conne'
ton with the Barundia affair resultc
in his recall. died, on the 9th, at Zen
cia. Cal, at the age Of IS years
IMPORTS of specie at the port of Ne
York for the week ended on the .,
were So, l5s. of which s1s,6Sl wa
gold and s9.5S7 silver.
THE British home Office is reissulne
under the explosives substance az
of 1883. a reward of eloO for inform'
tion that will lead to the discovery q
persons engaged in illegally maxim