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804 MACON pleasure and fair grounds, was laid out in 1870 at a cost of $125,000, and possesses great beauty. Rose Hill cemetery, near Macon, is one of the most beautiful burial grounds in the United States. It is situated on the Ocmul- gee, about half a mile below the city, mostly on elevated ground, the highest point being 142 ft. above the bed of the river, and com- Macon, Georgia. prises about 50 acres. Macon has ample means of communication by the Central, Southwest- ern, Macon and Augusta, Macon and Bruns- wick, and Macon and Western railroads, which centre here, and carries on an important trade. These roads have workshops in the city, and there are also three iron f ounderies and ma- chine shops, a cotton factory, several flour- ing mills, and manufactories of sash and blinds, brick, &c. The banking capital amounts to $1,032,000, distributed between one national and five state banks. Macon is the seat of the state academy for the blind, which occupies an imposing brick edifice four stories high, and has a library of 2,000 volumes. Mercer university (Baptist) was organized in 1838, and in 187l-'2 had 5 professors, 82 students, and 9,000 vol- umes in its libraries, including those of the college societies. A theological department is connected with it. The Wesleyan female col- lege, organized in 1839, in 1872-'3 had 13 in- structors and 190 students. A daily, a semi- weekly, and two weekly newspapers are pub- lished, and there are seven churches. Macon was settled in 1823. MACON, a city and the capital of Macon co., Missouri, at the intersection of the Hannibal and St. Joseph, and the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern railroads, 170 m. N. W. of St. Louis, and 80 m. N. of Jefferson City ; pop. in 1870, 3,678, of whom 920 were colored. It has a wagon factory with a capital of $50,000, a savings bank, a private bank, two public school houses (one for white children, costing $20,- 000, and one for colored, costing $5,000), four weekly newspapers, and 12 churches. It is the seat of Macon academy, formerly Johnson male and female college. MlCON (anc. Matisco), a town of Burgundy, France, capital of the department of Saone-et- Loire, on the left bank of the Sa6ne, 208 m. S. E. of Paris, and 37 m. N". of Lyons ; pop. in 1866, 18,382. It has a college, a normal school, an agricultural and scientific society, and manufactories of clocks, watches, machinery, casks, earthenware, copperware, woollen cover- lets, velvet, &c. M&con is the centre of a great trade in Burgundy wine. The best sorts are the growths of Thorins and Moulin a Vent, which are red, and of Pouilly, a white wine. The com- merce in grain, hoops, horns, and cattle is con- siderable. Lamartine was a native of Macon. It was the seat of a bishopric from the 5th cen- tury till the revolution. (See MACONNAIS.) MACON, Nathaniel, an American statesman, born in Warren co., N. C., in 1757, died at his plantation in the same county, June 29, 1837. He was studying at Princeton, N. J., at the opening of the war of the revolution. In 1777 he left college, and served for a short time as a private in a company of volunteers. Re- turning to North Carolina, he entered upon the study of the law, but soon enlisted again as a volunteer, and, though several offices were urged on him, served as a common soldier un- der the command of his brother, Col. John Macon. He continued in the army till the provisional treaty of peace in 1782, and was present at the fall of Charleston, the rout at Camden, and during the pursuit of Greene across Carolina by Lord Cornwallis. For his military service he refused any pay, nor would he accept a pension. While yet in the army, in 1780, he was elected a member of the senate of North Carolina, in which post he continued to serve through 1785, and though very young was employed on the most important commit- tees of that body. He advocated the scheme of pledging the credit of the state to redeem her paper issues at their then depreciated rates, but held that the promises of the state must at any rate be redeemed. During this period he