Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1898-03-19

House committee on elections No 3
has agreed by strict party vote to
make a report in favor of seating ex-
Josiah Patterson. who
the seat of Mr.. CarmaclI,
from the Tenth Tennessee district.
Mr.. Patterson, who represented the dis
trict in the last congress as democrat,
ran against Mr. Carmack, the demo-
cratic candidate, as gold candidate.
Large Furnace to Resume.
The Tennessee Coal. Iron and Rail-
road Co. is repairing No. furnace at
South Pittsburg, Tenn, prcpitory to
putting it in blast. This furnace has
been idle for several years. and is one
of the largest and best equipped owned
by the company. 1t has capacity of
80 tons day. Several hundred men
will be employed.
Rev. David Morton.
Rev David Morton, d. d., secretary
of the board of church extension of the
Methodist Episcopal church south, died
at his residence in Louisville, of blood
poisoning, at the age of IS. For the
past IS years DR. Morton had been one
of the most conspicuous figures in the
Methodist church. lie leaves widow
and four sons.
says Women Must shovel Dirt.
Mayor w. p. Small of 0wensboro,
KY, has ordered that when women are
confined in the workhouse and there
is no work for them to do, they must
take their places with the street hands
and shovel dirt with the chain-gang.
A Missouri Girls Success.
Mrs. Victoria Conkling Whitney, of
the Missouri bar, has been admitted to
practice before the supreme court of
the District of Columbia and the sew
eral departments of the government.
One More sign.
One more sign that the south is work.
ing ahead in the matter of cotton man
ufacture is to be found in the fact that
the Lynchburg (Va.) cotton mills are
about to double their equipment.
Steamer City of savannah Burned.
The stcamerCity of Savannah, owned
by the Memphis & Vicksburg Packet
Co., burned to the waters edge at Mem
phis. Tenn. The loss will aggregate
$4,000; insurance, Sl4,ao0.
Old stage Drivers Death.
Isham K. Merryman, who drove {
line. of stage coaches between Versailles
and Lexington, Ky, may years befor,
Versailles had railroad, died re
Gently.
Charged With Train Wrecking.
Josh Taylor, John. Jesse, Eli ant
Nolan Cotton, Sharkey Logan and LIE,
Hardin, all colored, are charged a
Grcenville, Miss, with train-wrecking
Prosperous Merchant Gone.
Sol Kohn, for many years pros
porous merchant of Selma, Ala, diet
after long illness. He was for Il
years treasurer of the city.
Death Of Prof. Ashley ID. Hurst.
Prof. Ashley d. Hurst, of Tulane uni
versity, New Orleans, was stricken
with apoplexy, fell down 20 feet o
stairway, and was killed.
| Georgia ut Omaha Exposition.
The citizens of Atlanta, Ca, have de
cided to have an exhibit at the Omah;
exposition consisting of display o
the resources of Georgia.
| Separate Coach Law Sustained.
The supreme court of Tennessee ha
sustained the validity Of the separat
coach law, because equal privilege
are given both races"
Prominent Mlssissippian.
Judge D. r. O'l,annon, a veteran {
the Mexican war and an officer in th
sco1fsserate army, died ~ Clesnsiii'
Miss, At the age Of IS.
Child Chokns To Death.
At Holly Springs, Mics. Nay BriggI
the four-year-old daughter Of Jarns
Briggs, swallowed = button and choke
70 death.