Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-01-12

nut or some other valuable wood that will
assure fine revenue in the future to the
school. Arbor day or tree planting is
farce if the trees planted are worthless
Happy Christmas.
The patients in the State Insane Hos
pital at Jackson had a regular feast on
Christmas day. The bill Of fare in
cluded 70 roast turkeys, $50 cakes
among them sufiiciency of fine fruit
cake-several barrels Of cookies, chick
en- and oyster soup, vegetables, crack
ers; to each patient, two oranges, two
apples. nuts, ralsins and candy. Six
barrels Of 8our were used in the cake.
~ one of .he happies. households
- r s.. MANY ol the patients
were remembered. iu aa4.0. -.
from their homes One was much frs
tressed because she had received uoth-
ing, but another comforted her by Civ
ing her one of several nice handler.
chiefs that came to her.
According to the Railway Age there
are 1876 miles of railway in the
United States, private roads not count
ed. In the forty-one States and Terri
tories 4,92LO7 miles were constructed
in 190O-Mississippi having the good
record of 125sS. In the railroad com.
missions map published last February,
Mississippi was given 2,925.78S miles.
This included several miles constructed
in 1900; but Mississippi has, in round
figures, 5000 miles of track for general
transportation purposes. Other roads,
recently chartered, will add 500 miles
in the next few years.
The legislature, at its last session,
appropriated four thousand dollars for
a colored annex to the Institution for
the Blind. The sum not being sufi-
cient the trustees have returned the
money to the treasury, and they will
ask the legislature next winter to APP
proprate six thousand dollars for the
purpose,
The Illinois Central railroad authori
ties have agreed to build a spur track
from the Jackson depot to the new cap
itol site, through Hamilton avenue.
The distance is about half a mile 1t
viii cost the l. c. about s. 600, and will
greatly facilitate construction. 1t will
also save the contractors and the State
a good many thousand dollars.
The Meridian Star wants an ordi-
nance "to protect the ladies from the
sidewalk splitter 1t says the fellow
who walks down a sidewalk and emits
a pint or two of ambeer every few steps
for some lady's garments to gather up
ought to be assessed dollar a spit
We second the motion. 1t ought to
carry
The public printing contract with the
Vance Printing Company, Jacksonville,
Fla, has been Cancelled by mutual con-
sent. The Board Of Contracts will re-
let the work, which will be chiefly the
department reports, to be printed next
fall.
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com
pany will establish a quarter million
fertilizer plant in Jackson next spring.
1t is already operating forty-four facto.
ries in the Southern States, making
about four hundred different brands.
The new capitol expenditures, thus
far, are: Architects fees, $40, ,2GLOO; ad-
vertising, sl7O,O5; commissioners sala-
ries and mileage, St,223.5G; experts,
$4,000; office expenses, $767SO. Total,
S21,9l5.4t Actual construction ex.
penses will begin very soon.
Among the visitors to the Masonic
grand bodies to meet at Oxford during
the last week in February will be Gen.
John Corson Smith, of Chicago He is
one of the most distinguished and most
learned Masons on this continent, and
has travelled the world over in search of
Masonic light, We hope nothing will
interfere with the wish that he has ex.
pressed to be with us.
The cornerstone of seventeen thou.
sand dollar building, to be erected and
used jointly by the Masous and Odd
Fellows of Grenada, will be laid with ap.
propriate ceremonies on the afternoon
of Jan. 10. Hon. w. A. Roane, of Ok.
ford, will deliver the address.
The total receipts at the State treas.
ury for the fiscal year ending October
/, 1900, were So, ,s4O.45 This in.
cludes 1888, 165. so Gu hand October /,
1S99 Total disbursements for same
period, S163,543.52; cash in treasury
October /, 1900, s622, 4Ol.93.
There were only two deaths in Jack.
son in December, both colored. This is
perhaps the best health record in the
history Of The city.