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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Orrtc*—Leader Building, 22, Cherokee fU.
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THURSDAY, JU7JR 14, 1883.
KDITOBI IVtTWi.
Th» State of Te*a* now owna the
Alamo, where Crockett and his brave
followers fell.
Th* best way to bring a l>oy up in
the way hvj shoal 1 go is to ambulate
that way yourself.
Misa Cabbie Gi-enb, a niece o*
Judge Chalmer«, died at h ?r unde’s
residence in Jackson on the 8th
inst. after a protracted illness.
Ho*. Jkffekso* Davis, and the
Presidents of the Press Associations
of the adjoining States, have been
invited t > attend the Columbus meet
ing.
The Silver Cornet Band, of Sum
mit, will gives grand hop June 15th
to raise fund* te purchase new in*
strumentfl. It will be a brilliant af
fair.
The Board of Managers of the
WorktJ Cotton Centennial Exposi
tion held a full meeting in New Or
leans last week and established their
headquarters.
When a man wanti to “shuffle off
this mortal coil’’ in Alabama, be
takes “Rough on Rats ’’ Three have
been recently landed on the other
side of Jordaa in this way.
The colored Republicans of Hinds
and Madison counties are offering
to fuse with the Democrats, with
strong probability of acceptance.
The Independents sre unhappy.
We notice in the Summit papers
that Hon. H. Q. Bridges is announc
ed as a candidate for District-Attor
ney in this District. He is a popu
lar gentleman and a good lawyer.
A mail bag was stolen from the
depot at Wesson last week and cut
open aDd rifled of it contents. Only
a small amount of money was found.
The thief missed the bag containing
the moBt valuable registered pack
ages.
Though not a candidate in the
ordinary acceptation of the term,
Dr. E. A. Rowan of Beauregard, ha9
signified his willingness to accept a
nomination for the Legislature from
the Democratic Convention of Copiah.
There is no better man in the
county.
It is stated that W. H. Kernan,
Esq., announces his intention to re
turn to the South. If lie will come
and confine himself to writing poetry
we will not object; but it is about
18 years too late in the 19th centu
ry for any more of the Okolona States
style of prose.
We return thanks to President S.
D. Lee tor an invitation to attend
the Commencement exercises of the
A. A M. College, Jime 17-20. There
will be 8 graduates this year, the
first the Institution hasevtr turned
out. The Salutatory of the class
will be delivered by Mr. B. Walker,
ofStarkville, and the Valedictory- by
Mr. B. H. Lee, of Columbus.
A Washington telegram of the 7th
lost, says the question where the
next national conventions are to be
held is being discussed. Leading
Jtapublicans say that if the Repub
licans carry Ohio, Cincinnati will be
selected for the Republican Couven
lion. It is stated that the Iroquois
Club of Chicago is taking steps to
have the Democratic National Con
vention held in that city. There is
some talk in favor of Long Branch
for both Conventions.
The Democrats of Iowa were
In Convention at Dos Moin s last
week. Judge Kirme was nominated
for Governor on the first ballot and
delivered an address accepting the
nomination and indorsing the plat
form, and promised to make it a
fighting campaign, and said that
whether successful or not in this one
the Democrats would sweep the
State at the next Presidential elec
tion. The convention declared for
**a tariff for revenue only.**
We return thanks to Dr. W. S
Webb, President of Mississippi Col
lege, Toi an invitation to attend the
Commencement Exercises of that
Justly popular Institution. We note
on the pr< gramme that Rev. J. W.
Bozeman, of Meridian will preach
the commencement sermon, June
$4tb,.and Hon. A, H. Longioo, of
Monticello, willdeliyer the Annual
Address before the Literary Socie
ties ou June 26. The address of
graduating class and the presenta
tion of diplomas will take place on
June £$ih.
That Dffrane.
After carrying pent-up in its heav
ing bosom and hroodiug for about
two months over our article in
Tiik Leader «<f April 5 against
lynch law in Franklin, the Summit
Times a'd Intelligencer of June 1st,
coims out in the labored “Dcfinse
of Franklin county” wh’cli wc pub
lish in another column. Though
the T. and I. has been a long time
in tubbing to the rescue ol the hon
orabloJyi chert of Franklin, wc an
very giad it has done so, for
it has only demonstrated more
clearly the flimsineas of the argu
ments upon which the advocates of
lynch law are uow compelled to de
pend fora justification of their po
sition.
Notwithstanding the T. and 1. lays
such stress upon the quotation which
it copies from our sr.iclo, we have
never seen any reason to change or
modify the language thciciu used;
in fact, since the T. and I. has
thrown the headlight of its genius
upon t!ie subject, we see even le ss
reason f>r doing so. To deliberately
take human life, c*mtrary to the
forms of law prescribed and in a
spirit ot revenge, is murder, legally
and morally, whether the act be
done in Franklin county, Biookha
ven or Washington City’. Law, both
civil and moral, is inflexible, and
does not bend to suit ibe caprices,
prejudices orjpassions of,men. Hence,
an act which the law denominates
as murder is murder, and belongs in
the category of murder, it matters
not by whom lommilted. That
there may be a difference in degree
of heinousness, according to circum
stances, we have never denied, but
readily admit; as we have also ad
mitted (as the Ti. and I. will find if
it will ta ] ihe trouble to re-examine
our article), that here are circum
stances under which there may be
more or less extun nation for lynch
ing; but it cannot be justified where
the law prevails. It is not onr pur
pose here to assume the position ot
“defender” ot those who were en
gaged in he Bnx khaven lynching;
but, since the T. and I. has intro
duced that affair, it serves our argu
ment to say tint there were material
extenuating circumstances attending
it of which the Franklin lyncliiugs
and many othersjof recentdate are to
tally destitute. This extenuation con
sisted chiefly in the fact that the out
was publicly confessed by the crimi
nals and tbe main object for which
organized society and law exists—
to-wit, a full and fair investigation
of the guilt of the accused,—was ren
dered unnecessar3’ by^ their confes
sions of the crime. Again, that was
in 1871, 12 years ago, when carpet
bag rule was in the zenith oi
its power, and the negro, in
his ignorance, lorded It over
the whites and tilled the juries, and
when, too-, the penalty f>r which
those fiendish criminals wele execu
ted, was only a term in the
penitentiary instead of death, as now.
The people proceeded about the exe
cution in the right wa3r, too.it being,
as tbe T. and I. suggests, on tbe
public square, in broad day light,
and after due notice had been given.
But things are changed now, the
best men of this State direct its af
fairs, the courts may be trusted to do
their dut3', anti men of intelligence
and reason should recognize this
fact and govern themselves accord
ingly. It will stand as a perpetual
honor to the American people and
the jurisprudence of our country that
Guiteau was not tynched, boi» hung
in the legal w&y after having been
accorded every right guaranteed to
him under the Constitution; and that
Sergeant Mason, tbe would-be assas
sin of Guiteau, was tried and sen
tenced to ten years, imprisonment,
for his attempt upon tbe life of a
prisoner, albeit that prisoner was a
murderer. Legally and morally, tbe
lynchers of Frankliu county stand
iu Masou’s shoes,with this difference
in Mason’s favor—they accomplish
ed their object and lie did not.
By its vividly portiaying the bra
tal uuturo of Tom Bailey’s crime, the
T. and I. seems to think that the
passion it aroused in the hearts
of the men who lynched him was
an all-sufficient reason for
their act, notwithstanding the
law prescribed the same degree
of punishment aathey inflicted and
the way to its execution was sure.
If passion is to be made a defense
for violation ol the law, why not, by
the same argument, justify Amos
Bailey in killing Mr. Cain, about
whose lynching, by the way, the T.
and I.istludiously ailed.
In asking, ‘‘Where was the larger
mob to come from?’’ the T. and 1.
virtually proelaime the tyrant’s law
that might Is right. We will answer
tbs’, question by asking another.
What is to become of tbe courts
in TraiikJin, and the law which
guarantees onto every man the sa
cred right of fair and impartial trial,
if, as is plainly implied by the T. and
I.’s language, the whole county sanc
tions the authority of Judge Lynch?
And why the necessity fur any such
court* and law?
If the T. and I will read its ex
changes a little closer, it will see
lhat lynch law does not extirpate
Crimean}’ more effectually than the
faithful execution of civil law; and
it will also not have to ask us
“Where is the community in which
swift retribution does not follow that
crime?”
In conclusion, we wtsh to say to
the T. and I. that its intimation
that the editor of The Leader
would not express the same senti
ments concerning the people of
Brookbaven as of Franklin, under a
similar state of facts, is entirely gra
tuitous and assumptive. We object
to our “corn” being measured by the
T. aud I s “hall-bushel” in any such
way. Our conceptions of the true
journalist are just the opposite of any
such standard. Whenever the vital
interiBU of the people are involved,
as in the matter under discussion,
The Leader will never hesitate to
express itself emphatically on wbat
it conceives to be the right side,
whether it stands with the“majority
or in “a crowd by itself. ’ When we
wrote the article at which the T. and
I. is directing its criticism, it might
have been more popular to have con
doned the hanging of Tom Bailey;
or we might have pandered to wrong
and prejudice and come out in
‘A Defense of the People of Frank
lin as it has done;” but we
rather chose to do what
we conceived would be for the abiding
interests of the couDty, even if we
had to say some filings which were
for the time being unpleasant to be
heard. Time will provewhich is the
real friend of “The People of Frank
lin” in this matter, and we are per
fectly willing to bide our time and
leave iZ Zo /hem. We a.ready have
Zhe mosZ undoub/ed assurance ZhaZ
our ar/icics are doing good, and Zhey
are endorsed by some, a/ leas/, of Zhe
besZ men in Zhe coun/y, who Zhink
wi/h us, ZhaZ iZ is Zime lynch law
were a Ztiing of Zhe pasZ.
If anything is lacking to has/en
Zhe consumma/ion of Zhe desiredjend,
iZ is a few more such‘•defenses” as
Zhe one we have under review. LeZ
us have Zhem, neighbor, and if Zhey
have no more in Zliem Zhau ZUis, we
will then close the argument and ask
the jury to recommend the lynchers
to the mercy of this court.
-
Judge J. II .t'hrUmaa.
Several people down here advocate
the election of Judges by tbe people.
We would rather like it, for Hou. J.
B. Chrisman would receive niuet}’
live out of every hundred votes in
the District for Circuit Judge. But
we are happy any way, because it is
understood that he wdl be re-ap
pointed by the Governor.—Brook
haven Cor. State Ledyer.
As far as wo have ever heard any
expression upon the subject, the
above in reference to Judge Chris
mau is the sentiment entertained to
ward him by the people throughout
the entire district. We are confi
dent that if the elective system were
in vogue, no other candidate would
stand a ghost of a chance with him
in the field; and while we do not
know upon what authority the last
statement in the above paragraph
is made, we are confident that if
Governor Lowry consults the well
nigh unanimous wish of the people
in this sgetion when he comes to
make the appointment, kite spotless
ermine will continue to rest upon
the worthy shoulders which now
wear it. Aceordiug to our recollec
tion, the records show that no Cir
cuit Judge in the State has fewer of
his decisions reversed by the Su
preme Tribunal, and he is one who,
while fair to all, is a fearless and
faithful executor of the law, neither
currying favor nor dreading condem
nation.
Jn1x« t'owtedjr not a Candidate.
As will be seen by reference to bis
card in to-day's paper, .Judge Cas
sedy has decided to withdraw from
the contest for District-Attorney of
this District, an office he has Sited
with marked ability for the past
eight years. We believe this an
nouncement will be read with pro
found regret by a large majority of
the voters- of the District, who would
prefer to honor him, above all others,
with their support. While filing
the position Judge Cassedy has made
a reputation as a lawyer which
few could have equaled and none
excelled, and though none can
blame him for seeking new chan
nels in which to exercise his aotDle
legal talents, the many who appre
ciate a vigorous, able and fearless
prosecuting State’s attorney, will see
him retire with regret.
I'ratfriml Talk
In New York last week a number
of distlng tished representatives of
the Southern Exp >siyo* at I4fda~
▼ilk, Ky„ wer«r* entertained at
a banquet at DalmoaieoV by
Messrs. C. 0. Bhl.lwi«,€. P. Hurt-1
tington and William Butler Duncan.
A large springling of distinguished
Northerners were also present,among
the number (Jen. Grant artd Carl
Schurz, who, when the time for shoit
speeches frara members oT th« com
pany came, expressed themselves as
follows: > a T
Gen. Grant said he had passed
through Lonisville last week, btr
that the people of that ciU' were too
hospitable to give him suIHciest leis
ure to enable him to visit the expo
sition building. The exposition
will "undoubtedly have groat
influence in removing whatever sec
tional feeling may still exist between
the people of the South and the peo
pie of the North. There still exists
much ignorance on the part of the
|teople on both sides of tho line tha
is now being rapidly obliterated. A
gentleman from Louisiana, whom he
met at Saratoga, said the best thing
Congress could do for the people of
this country would be to make an
appropriation to enable the people
of the North to go South and the
people of the South to come North.
As we cannot erpect Congress to
(to.HSess such wisdom for another
century at least, the next best thing
is for the people of the North to go
down to the exposition, meet there
the people of the South, shake hands
with them, and become acquainted
with them, while at the same time
they make themselves known. The
railroad presidents who had given
the dinner to their Southern friends
would, lie was sore, furnish them
with special trains for the purpose.
Speaking to the toast • Unionism,'’
CAKL SCML'KZ
said: At no time in the history of
our country has the Union been more
firmly cemented together than at
present. When, previous to the war
or since, until recently, could we re
member the time wheu there was
not some set ot men, some faction,
who discu3ie,l the possibility of dis
organization or secretly wished for
it? Now we could travel throughout
the land and not find enough such
men to fill a single ward in & lunatic
asylum.
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A DoaMe Ueddinf.
The double wedding of Mr. John
T. Hull and Miss Robbie Dameron,
and Mr. J. T. Damerou und Miss
Fannie McKay, took place at Madi
son Station on the evening of the 7th
inst. The bridal party and attend
ants returned to Jackson on the
early train, and were handsomely
entertained at the residence of Mr.
Frank B. Hull until a late hour. The
editor of The Leader joins in con
gratulations.
NEW!* PAKl^RVPUA
Jackson is to have an uptown ex
press office.
Summit and Jackson are having
law parlies.
Stereotype plates for printing are
now made of celluloid.
Barnlm’b circus tent was destroy
ed by tire in Chicago last we*-k.
The Liberty ILrald notes an in
creased production of wool in Amite.
A negro child was accidentally
drowned in Beaver Creek, Amite
county, last week.
H. B. Mayes, Ja.. Esq , of Ilizle
hurst, is a candidate for District-At
torney in the 9th.
Mrs Laura D. Shaw, wife of Mr.
Richard J. Shaw, died at her home
in Amite county, June 2ud.
Mr. L. C. Ford, of Pike county, re
cently died at the residence of liis
son-in-law, Mr. Monroe Dayman.
Mr. T. W. Cobb of Pike county,
recently lost his house by fire. Most
of his household effects were saved.
Miss Lucy Hines, of Summit, was
one of the graduates this year of
the East Mississippi Female College.
TIiomas Riley, of New York, who
had been in Natchez for several days
drunk, fell over the bluff there on
Sunday last and was killed.
Gov. Lowry has appointed about
100 delegates to tbe New England
Manufacturers and Mechanic*' Ex
position, to be opened at Boston,
Mass., the first week in September
next.
Gen. Geo. B. McClelland has
lately been making an extended trip
over Texas in the interest of a New
York Land Syndicate. His welcome
at some places amounted to an ova
tion.
Mr. Geo. Fearn, of Jackson, ccle^
brated his 85th birthday on tbe 1st
inst Mr. Fearn came to Jackson in
1810, and up to the war period was
one of its most active and success
ful business men.
The Sentinel says that in a few
weeks tbe Yazoo City Baud intend
to visit Vicksburg, Natchez, Jack
son and Canton, at each of which
places they will give one or more of
their excellent concerts.
Toe Republican Convention of
Ohio, which met at Columbus last
week nominated Hon. J. B. Foraker
of Cincinnati, for Governor. Foster
will now be a candidate for the D. S.
Senate and Sherman for the Presi
dential nomination. Tbe platform
pronounces in favor of a protective
tariff and high tax on whisky.
• *
■■ *r ^wwSSi C—»y.
Many and some rather severe criti
eisms hare appeared*!* ttle press on
the late action of florae ofthcc.tisens
rtf_Frfl^tUn ermstv, In this Htate, in
rj|er#ce to Ae hanging of Tom
ifylef. As an expression of publie
opinion iti opposition to this sum
mary manner ol executing vengcnce
on a particular class of criminals
there can be no doubt of the right
of the press to do so—if it thinks the
crime is not of such character an to
warrant summaiy vengeance. Many
or tjie-e articles assume a sort of
tone of lecture-reading to the peopltt
of Franklin county. The most pro
nounced of this character is a long
and well written article in The
Bkookiiaven Leaoek, headed “Civil
or Mob Law, which Shall lYevail?”
From that article we take the follow
ing extract:
* • * “The fact is—anil we speak
plainly because the subject demands It—
those who engage In this sort of business
themselves become murderers morally and
in tlie sight of law. In short, those who
deliberately proceed, regardless of the
forms of law prescribed, to deprive a man of
bis life because of s murder lie lias commit
ted, that niomeut themselves take the place
in the category of crime of him whom they
essay to ptiuish. Ou the same principle a
larger mob might, with propriety, nang
the smaller, and so on until there would
he no more of a whole cannty left than
there was of the Kilkenny cats in the
story.’’
This denunciafion, if sfrikes us, is
too broad and exficn.e. If is fhe
broad bold annouoccmenf fhaf the
men who execufed flie negro for ouf
raging a liffle girl are as greaf crimi
nals as fhe man wiio com miffed flic
deed, and miglif be hung by the
friends of fhe deceased wifli fhe same
propriety fhaf lie was hung, and
fhe}’ “take the place in “the catego
ry of crime of him fchom they “es
say to punish.’' Tliaf is puffing it
sfrong! and we cannof concur fhaf
fliose men now sfand in fhe same
category of crime as fhe man who
commiffcd fhaf hellish deed. This
is a sweeping, blasting crifcism on
file good couufy of Lincoln and fhe
edwrafed town of Brook haven. If is
huf a few years, as we are informed,
since fwo men were hung on fhe pub
lic streets of Brookhaven, in fhe
presence of an immense concourse 01
people; not by an oufbursf of rage,
fhaf drove a few maddened men fo
hang fhe beast in fhe ninghf—as fhe
Franklin cmiofv people did—fo
avoid disfurbing the people of Mead
rlfle, buf in opcu day, atfer prepara
fion and announcemenf of fho occa
sion long enough before hand for fhe
populafion f > gafher; and we are in
formed rh.-u fhere were enough pres
ent to have prevented it if they had
been so inclined. That was not in
Franklin county, however.
Neighbor, how long do you think
you could take jnlips at “Peter’s” if
vou would ann mnee in your next
issue that those men were and are in
the same category with those whom
they essayed to punish?
The poor little giil that writhed in
the foul embrace of the licentious
beast—wailed out for her life, and
was flung dying into a pond—was
not a spectacle before the eyes of a
civilized community to produce calm
reflections on the proper mode of
executing the laws, and upon the
consequences to government, or on
the probable hanging of themselves
by another larger mob. Where was
that mob to come from?
We know of no cummnnify £ha£
has tolerated that loathsome, dam
loanable crime beyond the time that
they could get their hands on the
perjietrator.
A man of fifty and a child but nine
veare old; no doubt of his guilt. The
child was mutilated to death; lived
a short lime—long enough to speak
between her aguoics of pain and pour
into the ears of her relatives and
ther friends the scene of her torture.
It was a warning in Franklin—as
it was in Lincoln—hissed into the
ears of all such beasts who contem
plate similar crimes,and it will likely
be heeded.
It is easy to advise others to keep
cool. Where is the community in
which swift retribution does not fol
low that crime?
We desire to say as empahlically
as Tiie Leadek speaks, that the
Franklin county people are as free
from crime, and as honorable people
as are in the land, and with an ap
preciation of female honor that will
ever make it unsafe to commit that
nameless Cl ime within their borders.
—Summit Timet and Intelligencer.
CarelfM lluntllinir of !V«wapa
pen !■ tbe Mulls.
Washington, June 6.—Postmas
t r General Gresham’s attention was
called to the fact to-day that at least
one-third of the newspapers sent
through the mails fail to reach their
destination.
He was told that the cause of the
failure was the negligence of post
masters, who, if *the wrappers arc
torn or if the addresses arc not as
plainly written as they ought to be,
throw the papers in their waste
rooms. He was also told that post
masters do not hesitate to appropri
ate newspapers to their own use.
The Postmaster General said that
he should at once issue an order to
to all postmasters in the United
States, directing them to treat news
papers as sacredly as letters. Gen.
Gresham also entertains the opinion
that newspaper should be sent for
one cant, and he will recommend to
Congress a reduction of newspaper
postage to one cent.
Wm. Goddakd, a carpenter, suici
ded at Woodvill^ on tbe 6th inst. by
taking two ounces af chloroform.
The deceased was about 45 years of
age, and was engaged in repairing
the court house under a contract of
some $4000. No cause can be ascer
tained for the rash act. Ho took the
fatal dose in the presence of his wife.
Th« Bipialllia Ml iMlgra
IIOB.
Because fun-ten ^asfflants gener
ally prefer th« Norttfwes^l-ii States
the plWfcof tli# NortlX. concludes no
immigraat^ar# going Hence
when tb# tens#* w-gs tftkta and all
ihe Sdmhero States showed a largo
increase iif population the utmost
incredulity seized on the Northern
mind. The probabilities are now
that the next census MIL be a' great
er surprise than that ot 1880.
During the past ten years about
3,500,000 immigrants haw found
.liumca in America. Thu, immense
number naturally disturbs affairs;
these new comers crowd all the
avenues of labor any industiy and
drive out thousands from the cities
u> flud employe, eat in the agricul
tural districts. These in tarn create
n demand for good farming lands,
and gradually land in the North In
creases In price, This increase in
duces men with farms in the older
[States to part with their home to
buy more land or farms for their
i children in loc#lities more sparsely
settled where land is cheap. This
moving, restless tide of America
agriculturists grows larger edch
: year and is swelled by the coming
[of every emigrant ship, and these
men are now turning to the South.
Another influence which is draw
ing farmers of the North and East
to the South is the climate. The
long cold winters are discouraging,
not only to the weak and the sick,
but the strong hard-wofking but
ambitious laborer, aud if he can get
a good farm at a low price in a mil
der climate he is apt to move. This
change would have begun long ago
bat for slavery, and i* even now re
tarded by the presence of the negro
in the South.
The farmers of New England, of
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and even of Illinois want to
know more about the South, and
they are coming to Louisville to
gratify this knowledge. They nat
urally expect to see at the Southern
Exposition a full representation of
the products of the soil. If a South
ern State can produce anything but
cotton, they take it fur granted that
this fact will be demouslrated at the
Southern Exposition next August.
If any State neglects this opportun
ity to advertise her cheap lands and
fertile soil it will be said everywhere
she exhibited nothing because she
had nothing to exhibit.
me Agricultural Committee or
the Southern Exposition will do all
in its power to make known in the
North the last capabilities of South
ern agriculture. Its inexhaustible
richness and variety the South it«elf
is only just now beginning to under
stand, as is evidenced by the growth
of truck farming and stock raising.
Heretofore tiie impression has been
widespread that the South was not
a grass-growing country. The de
lusion is fast disappearing, and tbe
Agricultural Committee can do noth
ing better than to induce Prof.
Pbares, of Starkville, Miss., to pre
pare a complete exhibit of the grass
es of the A’outh, with a statement of
their character and value.
But this is Dot sufficient; if a per
fect, or by any means satisfactory
exhibition of Southern agriculture
is to be made, if we are to show to
our iuquistive Northern visitor that
our cheap Iand9 a«o really more pro
ductive than are the high-priced
lands of the North, the work must be
done to a large extent by the far
mers themselves. They must do this
through their local grangers and
agricultural associations, and by
arousing the interest of their State
authorities and their local newspa
pers,
Some of the States, notably Ar
kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Florida, are now preparing exhibits
which will inform and attract tbe
prospecting immigrant, but every
State in the South should take hold
of this matter in the most vigorous
way.
This is the South's opportunity.
More Northern people will come to
Louisville than could by any means
be induced to go to any Southern
city. It is no rash estimate to place
the attendauce here during the hun
dred days at one million. As we
have said, these visitors will be made
up, to a large extent, of families in
serch of cheap and productive lands.
In addition to this the Exposition
will De me industrial event of the
year, and it will receive, as it has
already received, widespread atten
tion from the press. If the South is
here with the products of her fields
as well as of her mines—if she sends
corn and wheat and tobacco as well
as iron, peaches and pears and
grasses as well as cotton, silk and
sugar, vegetables and grain of all
kinds, as well as a wonderful variety
of timber—if the South will make
an exhibit of this character, which
she can well make, it will do more
to attract attention, to bring to us
immigrants and capital, than with
out such an exhibit she can accom
plish in ten years with all her immi
gration bureaus and land syndicates
actively at work after their usual and
well-approved methods.
We hope to see the press direct
special attention to this feature of
the exhibition, which, as far as the
South is concerned, is the most im
portant feature of all. During the
mouth of May 140,000 acres of land
were entered in Mississippi, but this
is only an indication of the change
in the tide which should enrich every
Southern State.— From Courier
Journal, June 4.
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A fruit, vegetable and canning
association has been organized at
Madison Station with RC. Lee,
President; Capt. L. F. Montgomery,
V. Prest.; Mr. P. J. Cameron, Sec
retary; Sir. R. L. Bennett, Treasurer.
Tf «k« Bwr mt SMpImi,
I propose to add a sew feature to
my paper—a Legal Directory of tbe
Htats. t If I can gft enough lawyers
to patronize the scheme, I will de
vote one page of The New MissUtin
phU»'te1ejzM matters* 1 Will
the legal card of each subscribing
lawyer, send him the paper, and
guarantee him the reports of the Su
preme #6 -$3 for
bis card and |8 for the paper—be
ginning with the October term of the
Supreme Court
In addition to this feature, I will
die Usd silii It*' princi
pal Collecting Agencies of the Uni
ted States. In order t<> be able to do
this at the low flgnre mentioned, I
will require two hundred sttbscrib
c s. The New Mississippian will
give the decisions earlier than snr
other source. They are delivered on
Monday, and tbe paper is printed
Tuesday. Thus they will reach each
subscriber every Wednesday room
ing.
The best talent in the Ctty will he
employed to edit this department,
and short communications on legal
matters, are requested from the Bar
of the State.
If you thiuk favorably of the pro
jeet, please remit $5. If you are al
ready a paid up subscriber, remit $3.
The members of the Bar in (his
City, and all visiting attorneys that
I have met, have subscribed.
All I ask is the co-operation and
patronage of the Bar of the Stat e,
and I promise that this feature shall
be a permanent success.
Eogar S. Wrt .sow,
Jackson, Mis*.
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PikeCesaty Deasseratlc Kxecu
llve Committee.
In compliance with a call from the
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of Pike county, tbe Committee
met on Monday, tbe 4th inst., and
the following resolutions were adopt
ed:
Resolved, That on Saturday, tbe
30th day of June, the Vice-Presi
dents hold a meeting at their respec
tive precinct in this county, to select
delegates to meet at a Convention to
he held at Magnolia, on Monday, the
2d day of July.
Resolved, further, That at said
Convention it shall be decided in
what manner the candidates for the
different offices to be voted for, at
the general election in November,
shali be nominated.
Jiesolvea, turtner, mat in oraer
to preserve Democratic unity in this
Judicial District, the Committee
earnestly recommend, that one of the
subjects to be considered by tho
Convention, is that of the nomina
tion of District-Attorney, and to
that end we recommend co operation
with the other counties composing
the district, in the appointment of
an Executive Committee and the
calling of a District convention.
Jlesolred, That each district be
entitled to 10 votes, and that the pre
cincts shall be entitled to represen
tation as follows.
Holmesville, 3, Simmons, 4,
Kelly’s, 3, Tylertown, 6,
Varnills, 4, Carters Creek, 7,
Sartens, 3, Summit, 4,
McComb City, 5, Osyka, 5,
Mognolia, 5,
Resolved, That the papers
throughout this Judicial District be
requested to publish the proceed
ing* of this Convention.
W. E. Simmons, Chm’n.
Jas. C. Lamkin, Sec.
A Vo«t»g niiwl«<ippl Orator Wow
the Sad Prise
We are gratified to learn that our
young townsman, Mr. John H. Boyd,
was awarded the second prize in tbo
intercollegiate oratorical contest at
Nashville, on the 25th inst. Five
universities competed—two from
each. Mr. G. A. Garwood, of
Texas, from the University of the
Sonth (Sewanee), won the first prize.
Mr. Boyd’s subject was, “The Eclipses
of Genius."—Clarion, May SO.
Mr. N. W. HATcn, of Aberdeen, and
Misa Lizzie Cooper, of Jackson, daughter
of tbo lamented Fleet T. Cooper, were
married in the latter city on the 5th inst.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.
GOING NORTH.
Express*— Leaves N. Orleans, 7:05 a. m.
Arrives Brookhaven, 3:15 p. m.
Arrives at Jaekson, 5:45 p. in.
Express—Leaves New Orleans, 530 p. m.
Arr. at Brookhaven, 1032 p. m.
Arrives at Jaekson, 12:35 a. ni.
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GOING SOUTH.
Express—Leaved Jaekson, 10:35 a. m.
Arrives at Brookhaven, 1:03 a. in.
Arrives at N. Orleans, 7:00 a. m.
Express—Leaves Jackson at 3:30 p. m.
Arrives at Brookhaven, 5:41 a. ni.
Arrives at N. Orleans, 10:45 a. m.
Way Freight arr. Rroohhi»vear 334 m. in.
No. 4 and 3 will not atop at flag stations.
J. C. CLARKE, Gen. Manager.
J. W. COLEMAN, A. G. P. Agent.
YIQK8BURB 4 MERIDIAN £. R
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Leaves Vicksburg.«... 6e00 pu m
“ Jaekson.1035 p. in
Arrives at Meridian......4:20 a. ui
Aeeommodation, Going Asst.
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Arrives at Jackson. 430 p. in.
Mail, Going Went.
Leaves Meridian.1030 p. m.
“ Jackson. 3:40 a. m.
Arrives at Vicksburg.. 6t00 a. m.
Aecvimno&atiom, Going Went.
Leave Jnckson......735 a. m.
Arrive at VlekMnirg..9:45 a. in.
JOHN Stonrr, Gen. Manager,
ft F. Raworth, Superintendent.
Hatches, Jackson 4 Colombo* R. !•
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Leaves Natches...3M0 p. m.
Arrives at Jackson... 6:40 p. in.
Mail, Going Went.
Leaves Jackson.. 6:00 a. m
kcrire* at Natchez......__ 11:35 p. at