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ALLIANCE OF LAWRENCE CO.
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VOLUME VI.
With this issue the Leader Itegins
its sisth year. Since it unfurled its
spotless banner to the breeze five years
ago. it has fought rull many a battle
for political and moral reform, and
feels to-day more encouraged than evt r
for the enemies ns well as the friends
it h is made. As it turns the new
mile-stone it does so with the deter
mination to keep up the contest for
principle along the lines it has hither
to pursued, and will never lower its
flag, as long as its present editor is at
the helm, which he hopes and believes
will be for many years to come.
We return our heart-felt thanks to
all who have encouraged us by word
and patronage in our effort to publish
a paper devoted to the best interests
of the people ; and to those who have
resorted to detraction, the boyeot
and other methods to cripple
and destroy the paper’s influence and
usefulness l>ecause they could not con
trol it, we say, “Lay on, Macduff";
we will pursue the even tenor of our
way as heretofore without your assist
ance and in spite of your opposi
tion.
The present Legislature, takeu alto
gether, deserves to l»e ranked as the
best which has assembled at the Cap
ital since the one elected by the revo
lution of 1875. It is a thoroughly
representative and patriotic body,
uud has distinguished itself quite as
much by what it has refused to do in
the way of legislation, as what it has
actually done.
A meeting at Brookhaven last week
engineered by that odorous old ex-Re
publican and negro champion Hiram
Cassedy. endorsed the Republican
Representative Deasou in his Legisla
tive battle for whisky, and commend
ed the Governor for vetoing the
constitutional convention bill. Deason
and Lowry should now be happy.—
JVeic MissUsippian.
Hon. A. F. McGee, the Floater
Representative from Clarke, Lauder- ,
dale and Kemper, is entitled to the j
lasting gratitude of the \V. C. T. I’.'s
of the State and the temperance peo
ple generally for his successful man- ,
ngcment in the House of the bill pro- j
viding for scientific temperance in- i
struction in the public schools of the i
State. As Chairman of the Temper
ance Committee of the House, he
achieved a number of notable victo
ries, but on no temperance measure
did he win a more signal or far-reach
iDg triumph than on this one.
No member of the present Legisla
ture has made a more enviable record
than Dr. Geo. A. Teunisson, the hon
ored Representative of our sister
county of Lawrence. He has been
watchful and true, and on every im
portant measure which has come be
fore the House, liis vote has been east
upon the side of the people and the
interests of the State. On the sub I
ject of temperance legislation he has i
been a recognized leader, aud the |
friends of sobriety and moral reform
throughout the State, and especially
of this county and Pike, owe him a
debt of gratitude they cannot soon re
pay.
In these days of newspaper degener
acy, when more than half the papers
of the State are a burlesque on taste
ful aud accurate mechanical workman
ship and miserable failures editorially,
it is truly refreshing to see a news
paper like the Greenville Democrat. j
That paper is a model of typographic
al and mechanical skill, aud its edi
torial, repotorial aud miscellaneous
make-up all that could be desired in
a fresh aud newsy weekly. In fact, a
look over its columns makes one fairly
yearn for a return of the days now
seemingly past in Mississippi when
editors and printers took a pride in
their busiuess, and when running a
newspaper meant something and re
quired both skill and competency.
Summit Going Dry.
The Legislature has crowned its
good work in the way of five mile
laws, by passing the bill prohibiting
the sale of liquor within five aud one
half miles ol' Lea Female College, lo
cated at Summit. The fight iu the 1
House was led by Messrs. Teunisson
and McGee, supported by both of
Pike’s Representatives, Messrs Craw
ford and Simmons, aud in the Senate,
by Senator Ford, of this district, and
Senator Love, of Amite, aud ot course
with such a hacking the bill went
through both tardies without serious
oppositiou. Under the provisions of
the law, existing licenses are allowed
to run the time for w hich issued, when i
Summit will become a dry town aDd
cease being a drunkard mill and
nuisance to herself and all her near
neighbors. ‘‘Praise God from whom
all y:<flow “
The Voice of Jncob but the
Hand of Emiii.
No one should think it strange or
improper for this paper to allude to
the old Republican record of Judge
Hiram Cassedy, and the fact that he
betrayed his constituents while a
meml*er of the State Senate by turning
Republican and voting for the saddle
colored Hruce in preference to a white
Democrat like I.amar for Cuited States
Senator. Though the Judge was sud
denly reconverted to Democracy after
Ames and his minions were over
thrown and he saw their power in the
State forever gone, ami though he was
received back into the ranks of the
party he had betrayed with open arms
and honored by it with a place at the
head of its council boards and even
once nominated as an alternate dele
gate to one of its great National Con
ventions; and though he was once
favorably mentioned by a part of the
Piess(wein our innocence and forgive
ness of the prodigal among the num
ber) as a suitable candidate for Dem
ocratic Congressman.—yet after all,
his reconversion seems never to have
been thorough and sincere. In short,
while he has come out from Republic
anism, Republicanism has never come
out of him. The voice is Jacob's, but
the hand is Esau's. The old white
Republicans and negroes seem to
thoroughly understand this, atid he
has never lost his grip upon them.
They will follow him almost to a man
like sheep their bell-weather, and
more than once lie has led them as an
element of discord into Democratic
councils to shape the party's policy,
name the candidate or carry some
other point, only to see them betray
the party w hen that end was accom
plished.
As one who has witnessed these
things we say he is not entitled to the
full confidence of the party, aud it is
not strange that we and others are
often reminded of liis old Republic
an antecedents. The old association
lie seems unable to shake oft'.
He should make the divorce complete,
or he should proceed to reorganize
the shattered ranks of Republicanism
and head a Blaine or Sherman delega
tion to Jaei.'son and Chicago. He
never looked more in his element and
more forcibly reminded one of his
leadership in the days of Ames than
when standing at the head of his
Republican contingent the night lu
tried to capture the Citizens’ meeting,
and was applauded to the echo by his
black Republican shooters. It was a
picture for the Republican gods aud
John Sherman.
An Industrial l.ureau and Hook
for Farmers.
Col. Dennett, then grieultural editor
of the X. 0. Picayune, makes the fol
low ing sag. estions to our Legislatme.
Ifthe plan could be properly carried
out, it would ell'ect great good:
That in Mississippi there are about
100,000 farms and probably over 200,
000 families that depend exclusively
upon farming for a livelihood; and
that large numbers of these have no
agricultural book or industrial,journals
for the instruction of their families in
industrial and general intelligence.
That if the Legislature would estab
lish a bureau of agriculture and indus
trial intelligence for the benefit of
such farmers, and place at the head •»
that bureau a journalist well informed
in all industrial matters, to compile
from the best books and libraries and
collect from tbe agricultural and in
dustrial journals, and all sources, the
most reliable information for tbe bene
fit of the farmers of tbe State who
desire it, and to distribute monthly
bulletins through the mails where if
may be most needed at an expense of
from five to ten thousand dollars a
year, great good would accrue to the
agricultural interests.
Another proposition which Col.
Dennett makes is for the Legislature
to have 30,000 copies of a valuable
book for farmers which lie lias written
and compiled published at the expense
of the state for gratuitous distribution
to tbe. farmers of the state through the
couuty superintendents of education,
the state paying the royalty of five
cents a copy. By having the book
stereotyped future editions could be
furnished at short notice at u greatly
reduced cost. The author will have
the book handsomely illustrated with
elegant cuts of the different breeds of
domestic animals and fowls, useful
articles and devices for farm use, fruits
of different kinds, rural architecture,
etc., if the state will pay the expense.
This book lias received the fullest en
dorsement of the State Horticultural
Society and many prominent agricul
turists, ami is particularly adapted to
the wants of a large majority of the
farmers of Mississippi. It is intended
and made up not only for the benefit
and enlightenment of the poor and illit
erate farmer, but also for the instruc
tion of his wife aud children in indus
trial matters, to take the part of a
primary industrial school for farmers’
boys aud girls.
What Mississippi needs more than
she needs immigrants or capital is
moredight and agricultural knowledge
on her hundred thousand farms; aud
her large uumbers of intelligent fanners
are more anxious than the illiterate
farmer for the latest and best light on
agriculture. Mississippi cannot add
to her wealth in any other way so suc
cessfully ns to enlighten her farmers
who are unable to obtain the knowl
edge which is important to their success.
THE HAMILTON TRIAL
THE JURY COMPLETED AND
EXAMINATION OF WIT
NESSES BEGUN.
So many person* had heard of the
the killing of Gamhrell by Hamilton
and formed an opinion a* to hi* guilt,
that all of last week was consumed in
empanneling a,jury, the last juror not
being secured until 1 o'clock Satur
day. The jury a* finally made up is
composed of 7 white* and five negroes,
as follows : Whites—O. Grain, R.
X. Downing, J. F. Goodman, S. I.
Donnell, Anderson McPherson, Joel
J. Al»ernathy and J. C. Hunter : ne
groes—Hatton Samples, Perry Webb,
Silas Robinson, John Fitzhugh and
Wiley Ervin. When the last juror
was obtained, the entire panel was
brought forward and sworn in, the in-,
dictment read and court adjourned
until Monday.
On Monday the trial began with the
examination of the State’s witnesses.
There are said to be about ISO wit
nesses in the ease altogether, and the
examination of these together with
the speeches of the lawyers and the
charge to the jury, is likely to carry
the trial through at least two or three
weeks more. The first witness exam
ined was Dr. Will Galloway, of Jack
son, a brother of Bishop Galloway,
who examined the wounds of Rod
erick Gamhrell after he was killed
and extracted the balls. He gave it
as his opinion that unconsciousness
was caused and death hastened by
the brutal blows received by Gatn
brell on the head after he was shot
down.
Hamilton is Convicted.
The effort to get a jury at Brandon lias
proven one fact at least and placed it
forever-anil.forever Iteyond question
or dispute. And that fact is this, that
Jones S. Hamilton is convicted in the
minds of the people of Mississippi.
Hundreds of men from all portions
of Kankin county have Been examined
and testified that they had formed an
opinion on the ease. Some of these
have come from Brandon and across
the river from Jackson, and others
have come from far up near I.eake
county anil far down on the Simpson
anil Smith county lines; some have
Been intelligent and well read, and
some were unlettered, and some had
not Been to town or read a paper for
many months—among the number
were high and low, rich and poor, and
from them nil came practically one
response—their fixed opinion was that
Hamilton was a murderer.
Up to this writing only three of
those who had an opinion. Believed
him innocent, and one of these was a
relative of one of the defendants.
From every portion of Kankin
county, the county in which Hamilton
had property and large influence and
relatives and many friends—from
Kankin county, where he was once
entrenched so safely—from the county
w here lie formerly had his stronghold,
now after all the excitement that im
mediately followed the murder has
died away, when the people have
reached that sober second thought of
which the defense talked so much,
now there comes the awful verdict of
the people, white and Black, given
with one terrible accord, that Jones
Hamilton is irniltv of murder.
Ml'kder, that terrible word which
sounded first from the press of the
State, from the coroner’s jury, the
court of Judge Peyton, and the grand
jury — ml'hdeu, that fearful word that
was sounded against him from that
high and solemn bench of our Su
preme Court, has been echoed back
with strange unanimity by the people
from town and county, house and
hovel and lint in every portion of
that county which lie chose to try
him for his life.
Jones Hamilton may by his wealth
aud influence lie set at liberty on
some quip or quibble of the law, but
all the courts that ever existed and
all the verdicts that might ever be
rendered, could not wash out the
mark of murderer which has been
burned into his name and character as
deep and eternal as the brand that the
Almighty stamped upon the forehead
and smote into the soul of the world’s
first murderer.—Daily Mississippian,
March 2.
Sensible Remarks.
The Tupelo Journal copies the ac
count of the interview between the
Governor and the Alliance committee
as given by the Clarion-Ledger and
adds the following sensible remarks:
“The above being from the State
organ, may be regarded as the most
favorable account possible, for Gov
ernor Lowry, of the matter referred to.
It is the most flagrant and inexcusable
exhibition of discourtesv, if not actual
insult, on the part of the Governor
toward a committee representing it
large and respectable body of citizens,
that the people of this State have evei
been called upon to witness. The
committee did not call upon Governor
Lowry as individuals, lint as the rep
resentatives of the State Alliance,
which, as the Governor knew, was
composed almost entirely of Democrats
and they should have been recognized
by him its such and not subjected to
the humiliating treatment that they
were. The Governor might with the
same propriety have questioned them
about their religious preferences, and
then informed them, if they happened
not to lielong to the same church that
he did, that his administration was a
Methodist or Baptist administration
as the case might be and that it was
an iinpertiueut assumption on their
part to make any suggestions or ex
press any opinions, as to its policy.
We have no doubt that the Alliance
will resent, in a becoming maiiuer, the
shameful affront that Governor Lowry
placed upon them in his treatment of
the committee apiioiuted to represent
them.”
The Republican Daily Advertiser
says the Governor “sat down on” the
Alliance committee. When the re
turns come in, the Governor will feel
like he sat down on a long, keen
medic. — Eachanyc
OllR SOLONS. j
WHAT THE LEGISLATURE
IS GOING.
Item, of Unml Inter*** Olemneil from
the I’roreetilns*. hr the Rentier* of
the l-ender.
A prn|>oscd amendment to the in
surance laws, whereby foreign insur
ance companies titling business in
Mississippi would lie released from j
paying into the State t.teasury the j
sum of *25,000, as a guarantee of good
faith, us now rtt|tiired by tbe law.!
was defeated in the house. Many ;
voted against the bill beeniise the j
State lias spi nt a (tout *200.000 of the
insurance companies’ money which:
luid liei n placed on deposit, and bail
no money in the treasury to replace
it, without increasing taxation.
\ The Scientific Tetn|ieraiice bill pro- |
ending for the teaching of the effect of,
alchohol on the human system, in all
the common schools has passed both
houses.
I lie House killed two public school
bills last Friday.
Tlie bill lias lieconie a law, provid-1
ing for tlie pensioning of all Confeder
ate soldiers and sailors of this State at j
the time of tlieir culistment and now
resident here, who lost a leg or an arm
in the service of the Confederacy, who
are now or may hereafter lie otherwise
incapacitated for manual labor by rea- j
son of a wound received in said serv- j
ice. The amount of each pension is
$30 per annum, and also applies to the !
widows of soldiers killed who have j
remained unmarried, and to the colored
servants of soldiers and sailors who
are disabled in the like manner of
soldiers or sailors by reason of said
service. The law is not to apply to
persons owning over $500 worth of;
exempt property, or to any person I
holding any kind of office worth over
$300.
The Legislature at this session lias
not passed any general law regarding j
prohibition, leaving the local option !
law to stand as it is; but more than a
score of “live-mile laws” applying to j
churches, schools and villages have!
been passed. The cherished idea of
the Womans’ Christian Temperance
Union to have a tive-mile law to apply
to the Girls’ Industrial Institute at
Columbus is abandoned for this year,
as the delegation from that county
were bitterly opposed to it.
The bill formulated by the joint
committee appointed for the purpose
of arranging a plan whereby titles to
certain lands in the Mississippi delta
could be quieted and their owners
made secure in their possession and
saved the annoyance of continual liti
gation, growing out of the supposed
claim of the state for taxes, while the
lands were in tlie hands of the liquid
ating levee board, as well as the hel
ium claims has become a law. The
bill provides for the payment to the
State of all taxes due since the pur
chase of said lands by the liquidating
levee commissioner or the furnishing
of proof that the said taxes have been
paid, whereupon the auditor is requir
ed to make a deed conveying the
State’s title. The Louisville, New
Orleans and Texas Railroad Company,
which owns about 8,000 acres of these
lands, is required to pay State and
county taxes the same as individuals
for Hie yea vs 1882, ’88, ’86, and '87,
and relinquish all claim to exemption
to taxation under its charter l»y which
it lias been governed heretofore, the
lcgislatme of 1884 having in express
terms remitted all the taxes for the
years 1884 and 1885, and all levee
taxes on said lands up to 1886 having
been paid by the company. Besides
quieting the titles involving 2,000,000
acres of land, it will put into the State
and county treasuries an amount of
money running into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars. This measure,
as a piece of practical legislation, is of
vastly more importance to the State
at large, and particularly the delta
section, than anything that has yet
been before the legislature.
The house on its first reading passed
by a vote of 74 to 29 the senate resolu
tion seeking to submit a constitutional
amendment to the people restricting
the term of the Governor to four years
in succession.
The senate hill reducing the interest
of the Chickasaw school fund from 8
to six per cent, was defeated in the
house by three majority after a hot
tight.
Senator Boone's hill in the senate to
abolish tile leasing system, so univers
ally detested by the people of the!
State, was lost by a majority of four j
votes in the senate.
Complimentary resolutions to Lieu
tenant Governor Shands upon his
withdrawal from the office of president
of the senate were adopted liy that
body. They express sympathy for
him because of his affliction, which,
though not serious, is painful, and
regret that, liecausehy his withdrawal
the senate loses a wise, judicious and
courteous officer.
The Ways and Means Committee
has raised the State tax from 3$ to 4 :
mills, and made several changes in
and additions to the privilege tax list,
which wc haven't space to mention
here.
The House refused to pass Senate
hill appropriating $10,000 for a Con
federate monument.
One of rhe most important measures
yet passed is the hill reducing the
number of circuit court districts from
eleven to eight and the number of
chancery districts from eleven to six. i
In the proposed redistricting Judges 1
Featherston, Wharton and Roane are >
left out and Chancellors McLaurin,l*ey-1
tou,Kimbrough,YYilliauibon and Critz, I
all of a hose present terms are about
to expire. Judge Chri.sinau’sdistrict, I
under the new arrangement, includes 1
the counties of Amite, Pike, Lincoln,!
Copiah and Leflore; and Judge Cowan j
will he our Chancellor.
The Legislature expects to adjourn
tomorrow or Saturday.
The Alliance and Politics.
Since the adjournment of the State
Alliance a great deal has heen said in
certain quarters, unfavorable to that
body as a political organization. This
censure is due to the fact that the Al
liance sat down on sotnelmdy’s j»et
schemes, and liecanse it refused to lie
a tail to someliody's kite.
The Alliance has nothing to do with
partisan |iolitics. It doe* not seek to
disrupt any |ioliticnl organization.
It seeks to elevate the agricult
ural classes, not l*y Insisting
any set of men for office, but liy im
proved methods, economy, honesty
and lastly, to secure such legislation
as will promote the welfare of these
classes without any injustice to others.
There are certain questions which
require legislative action; there arc
grievances which requite legislative
enactment to remove. As a part of
the great body politic, a* citizens of
this great commonwealth they have
the right, yea more, it is their duty to
make known their desires and their
grievances. There is no partisanship
pi this —no attempt to disrupt any
party.
There are economic questions which
come home to every man. The farm
ers are studying these questions, seek
ing to arrive at a true understanding
of the needs of the State. These mat
ters are above and independent of
partisanship. And every other inter
est can meet, can make known its
grievances, ami ask redress, and there
is no wild howl about its being a se
cret political organization with revolu
tinary tendencies, but so soon as the
farmers begin to act in accord with
the dictates of euli ;hfened common
sense, all the office-holding oligarch
ies yell out “shoo! shoo-oo! don’t
bring it into politics.”
To illustrate: For years the people
of this State have been seeking to
have a new constitution. Year after
year the matter has been agitated,
and the people have grown more and
more clamorous in their demand. Fi
nally in answer to this universal de
sire, a legislature was chosen which in
both branches was overwhelmingly in
favor of a new constitution. A bill
was passed. Then Governor Lowry,
armed with almost despotic power,
steps forth, and says: “Though you
want this convention, though your
representatives ha\e passed this bill,
you shall not have your desires grati
fied. I am the State, and 1 don't want
this convention.” Then wJicrefor*- the
Governor’s friends were numerous
enough, meetings were held and the
veto was endorse. An effort was
made to manufacture public Sentiment,
and where this was impossible, to
misrepresent it.
Well, after all this discussion,
after Lowry’s friends had used every
argument against the convention, and
loudly protested that the people didn’t
want it, the State Alliance meets. The
delegates are fresh from the peojde.
They represent nearly every fireside
in 50 counties. They have no axe to
grind. They don't want office, and
have no friends who do. And what
does this Alliance do? Why, by a
vote almost unanimous, it says: “Gov
ernor, you are mistaken, we do want
this convention, and as the servant of
the people we respectfully ask you not
to stand in the way of the accomplish
ment of our desires.” And w ith what
result? There conies forth from the
office-holders, their henchmen and
retainers, a how l of dismal dismay and
anger which would have discounted
Home in her best days. It was all
right for the Governor’s friends to
meet and “whereas and resolve,” but it
was the height of presumption in the
farmer, who never held office and
never expects to, to have a say on this
subject, especially as it was in disap
probation of the imperial policy of his
majesty, Robert L Hut if the farmeis
have no offices they have several votes
at their disposal.
Again, there is anil shoiitd not he
any polities in taxation. Every man
shoiilil hear his proper share of its
burdens. All property should pay for
the protection rendered by the State.
lint this is not the case. Millions
of property, the most profitable in the
State, pays no taxation. The people
are groaning under a heavy harden of
debt anil heavy taxes. Should this
exempt property be made subject to
taxation as the constitution provides, j
the burdens would be made easy. A I
proposition is made to tax them. At i
once, all the enginery that millions of j
money can command is put in opera- I
tion to defeat it. The Alliance meets !
while the matter is pending, and says '
to the Legislature: ‘‘There is the
constitution you have sworn to obey.
It says taxation shall be uniform, and
that corporations shall be tax *d as
individuals. Do vour dutv and tax
them.”
This is the great crime the farmers
have committed, and for which they
are being denounced as “a secret
political organization, soreheads, etc.” i
The farmers can stand it if the j
other fellows can.—AVtr Mixxixxippiait. 1
It is the fashion in some quarters to j
answer Frank Burkitt’s arguments
with abuse. But Burkitt can stand
this if his detractors can. llis speech !
ou Senate Bill 107 was a calm, logical
presentation of the power of one Leg
islature to shackle subsequent ones in
violation of the express provisions of
the constitution. He explained what
a coutract w as, and wherein the ex- j
emptied features of restorations were !
not contract:*. There was no rant:
against corpirations, but a manly and
timely protest against their encroach
ments, and special privileges. Burkitt
is not much of a sentimentalist, and
less of a destruetionist, but he is a
true friend of Mississippi's pnutical
interests, and tiria in his convictions
in spite of the waves of personal abuse
which have swept over him. His1
speech delivered last Wednesday was j
one do mau in the State might be
ashamed to own, and makes u plat
form on which Burkitt need not fear
to stand.—yew Mwsixsippian- \
THE STATE.
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
AND CONDENSED FROM
AI.L QUARTERS.
Jackson connty is on a boom.
Crystal Springs is eating lettuce.
Greenville is to have a lnrge hotel.
Jackson has a typographical un
ion.
An iron foundry is being built at
Tupelo.
Meridian wants a government
building.
llinds county has a village called
Greasyville.
lee county recently shipjed 1,400
rabbits to Memphis.
The Water Valley cotton mills are
now lighted with gas.
The Dost thinks Vicksburg will yet
have a cotton factory.
It costs this State .$10,000 a day to
run the free public schools.
The Ripley Sentinel favors one ses
sion of the legislature every 4
years.
A Yazoo county planter last year
made sixty bales of cotton ontifty-two
acres of land.
Meridian is devising plans for in
ducing Northern and Western excur
sionists to visit Meridian.
Over seventy indictments are miss
ing from the circuit clerk’s office in
Vicksburg. This is [eculiar.
Kosciusko lias a barrel factory in
active operation and the Star says the
demand is greater than the sup
ply.
Miss May Ely a very modest and
lovely young lady, is now book-keep
er in the Capitol State Hank at Jack
sou.
The East Mississippi Poultry and
Pet Stock Association will hold a
show in Meridian beginning March
28th.
The Independent Hook and Ladder
Fire Co., No. 1, of Summit, are mak
ing efforts to secure a steam en
gine.
Mr. E. W. Crozier, of Warren coun
ty, has brought suit against Hon.
Jefferson Davis for hire as over
seer.
Mr. 1{. J. Scott and Miss Lizzie
Parker were united in marriage re
cently near Hazlehurst, by Rev. A. A.
Lomax.
Will I). Cowan, of the Greenwood
Enterprise, has purchased the Yaiden
Journal and will consolidate the two
papers.
The tirst shipment of vegetables this
spring, was by a colored man of
Crystal Springs, and consisted of nine
boxes of onions.
The Crystal Springs Meteor, says
the vegetable business of that place
will give employment to about 3000
hands tills season.
Ex-President and Mrs. Davis have
been visiting at Davis’ Rend, near
Natchez, where they were warmly
greeted by friends.
Andrew Govan, a young democrat
of McComb City, has been appointed
to a $1,200 clerkship under the Nation
al Railroad Commission.
A disastrous shooting occurred re
cently at Aberdeen, resulting from a
school fend, in which two men were
killed by Mr. James Raily.
One of Gov. Lowry’s sons tried to
shoot an I. C. Railroad conductor the
other night because he would let him
ride on the Governor’s pass.
The Cedar Grove Alliance of Union
County has passed resolutions censur
ing Gov. Lowry for his discourtesy to
the committee of the State Alliance.
It is said that Senator George re
marked when elected that he would
never wear a dress suit or ride in a
carriage, and that he has kept his
word.
It is rumored that Gen. S. D. Lee
will resign his position as President
of the A. &, M. College on account of
the decreased appropriation for that
institution.
The Harmony Alliance of Copiah
county is boycotting the Crystal
Springs Meteor because of its attacks
on Hon. J. L. Ramsey, representative
from that county.
The Crystal Springs vegetable acre
age tlie coming season will approxi
mate 700 acres in tomatoes, 250 in
peas, 400 in beans, 100 in radishes,
300 in berries and 000 in peaches.
A big real estate deal took place in
Meridian last week between Mrs.
Ragsdale, whose large hotel was re
cently burned, and Marks, Rotlien
berg and Co., the price paid lieiug
$33,000.
A correspondent of the Corinth
Herald says there are fifty children
within a radius of three miles of the
Court House who are growing up
paupers and will soon become va
grants and tramps.
The late Mrs. Ed. Richardson be
queathed the sum of $5000 to the
Presbyterian church of Jackson aud
a similar sum to Dr. Palmer’s church
in New Orleans, besides large sums to
other charitable objects.
Mr. .1. F. Hutchison, of Memphis,
and Miss Minnie Burns, a very young
lady of Columbus, were married on
Feb. 29th at Starkville. The bride
was a “run away,” her father bitterly
opposing the match on account of her
youth.
Four negroes were drowned near
Aberdeen. One endeavored to ford
a stream known as Old Town Creek
and was drowned. Afterward six
went out in a canoe in search for the
body, the canoe capsizing and three
of them drowming.
The work of construction on the
iron draw-bridge of the Kansas City,
Memphis aud Birmingham road across
the Tombigbee river at Alierdeen is
in progress, many of the heavy parts
being in position. The bridge will
not lie completed earlier than April
first.
Bill Beason, whose father still lives
near Meridiau, was the black-hearted
criminal of the noted Gainesville
(Texas) horror in which a yoong
girl was hatcheted to death and an
other wounded. In being carried
back to Texas he jumped from the
traiu and was injured unto death last
week
w. It. Branch, editor of the Wln«»a
rimes, aud Percy L. Moore, of tlle
Advance, got into a street tight M„ .
day with pistols, resulting in Moore«
receiving a serious wound in the *j<ir
A peddler standing near whs struck in
the leg by a stray bullet. The qMl.
rel began in the editors' pajiers.
CHARLEY SCHN0RRENBEB3
IIAS THK BK8T ASO CHKAPKST
^FAMILY * GROCERIES*
OF ALL SOkTS IS TOWK
ILLINOIS CENTRAL R R
The Most Popular Route Between
the South and North.
THE SHORTEST AND MCST
-DIRECT LINE—
To St. Lonis, Memphis, Kansas
City and Chicago.
Pullman Pallace Buffet Sleeping
cars
ON ALL TRAINS
Through without change.
Also connections made at Chicago
with all Buffet and Dining Car
Lines to the
East and North-west.
Connections in Union Depot at St.
Louis for all points
Bast and. Wosl.
Also in Union Depot for all points
in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and
California.
For Tickets and information call
at any
^REGULAR TICKET OFFICE.!*
J. W. COLEMAN.
Ass't. Gonr'l Pass. Agt., New Orleais.
A. H. HANSON,
Geo'l Pass. Agl.. Chicago.
T. J. HUDSON,
General Traffic 'Manager.
E. F. JEFFERY,
Geucrul Manager.
('ommtlHioner’8 Sale of a
Railroad.
ILLINOIS CKNTHAL KAILHOADCO.MPA.NT
\o. 7tin | vs,
MKIMDIAN, BltOOKIIAVKN & NATCH F.Z
KAILIIOAI) COMPANY, KT. AL.
Lincoln Chancery Court: Decree Jnie
nary 2nd, in favor of the Com
lilainanl against I lie iiefcnduula lor
§.:».e5.r> i-B and costs ot suit.
By virtue ot the filial decree in above
stated case, the undersigned special Cam
missioiier of the said Chancery Court,
having been appointed fur that pnr|s«e,
iv ill
On the 2nd Monday, the 12th Day of
March, 1HH8,
hi the Cnnri House ilnnrol'LincolnCnnnir,
Mississippi, (at 11 o’clock a. M .) in the
tow II of Brooshaven, Mississippi, sell to
‘he highest and lust holder lor cushat
public unction the following described
property, tn-vvii :
1 ll«' .'H I 111 lil II ( IIH'Ilh 11,1 > I'll a .MMCIHi
Railroad, Iieiiig the railroad denominated
mid iirsrribjd ill the pleadings in the
at,,iv, sty led cause in said Chancery Court,
and a part id wliii Ii railroad has been
enlist lulled, beginning mi tile line nl'the
I linnis Central Railroad at Urnnkhaven,
Lille,dii County, Mississippi, and extend
ing continuously in the general direction
of Meridian, Mississippi, for a distance of
seven or eight, miles, together with it*
mini hed, light of way, and the In mis on
••ill'll side thereof lor the distance ofoO
feet on each side thereof from the renter
of said railroad track, and all the right*
of each anil every and all of the ilefeu
danls in mid to said lands, and the iron
rails, chairs, plates, pliecs, locks, fasten
ings, holts mid ml the other iron thing*
la-rtaining thereto or celllieclcd there
with, mnl ills,, all the cross-tics, bridges,
ell! ha Ilk men Is, superstructures, switches,
t urn,nits, depot grounds, gravel land*,anil
all other tilings helm ging to ot connect'
ed with or uli|ifrlnioing to the *aj>l
Meiiniau, Hrookh.iven A Natchez Rail
t->ad Company, and its right to lie »
corporal ion, and all of its charter right*
and privileges, and all the rights, power*
and iluiuiii.ities conferred, created or ha
slow, d ii|miii sail) Meridian, llrookhavel
& Natchez Railroad Company, or lit*
eorpoiatiou thereof by the act of the
Legislature of the Slate of Mississippi,
approved March 7'h, 1882. entitled : “An
act to incorporate the Meridian, Bn wit
haven & Natchez Railroad Company.
(In laws 1882, pp. 104U- 10«6.)
Alkx C. McNaik,
Special Commissioner.
R. H. Thompson,
Solicitor lor Complainant.
Feb. 2-tit.
Commissioner’s Sale of
Lands.
J. A. 8. Hkndf.rson and Wife
No. *05] vs.
F. H. Hartman kt al.
Lincoln Chancer Court—Decree .l*'1
nary 20, 188*. for $345.50 uml cents, in •**
vor oi Hartman hiiiI against J. A. *■
Henderson Mini liis w ile.
By VIRTUE of Hie tiual decree in al^v*
slated cause, I, ns Connnissiouer, having
lieeu appointed for the purpose, wdl ®
the h
Second Monday, the 18th Day of -Msrr
A. D. 1888,
at the Court. House door, of Linen “
county, Miss., in the town of Brook" •
vex. sell al public auction, to the iHK w
slid best, bidder ior cash, the folio*1"*
described lands, vii: The northw'
quarter of section 24, township 7, r"1'*
1 east, situat. d in Lincoln conuly. *■ ’ '
uontaiuini; lnOJacres, more .or less, j
land is known as the “Warreu Hosltl
or the “Johu Hawkins” place.
FELIX HAT,
Clerk of Chancery Court and Coniinf
K. H. Thompson, Solicitor
int Hart Rian Fal***