The Brookhaven leader. [volume], November 21, 1889, Image 2

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IMPORTANT.
An Marly Visit from the Fort
Scott Railroad Ollirinls.
The I.KAOKK received the following
telegram just a* it was going to press.
We hope our citizens will meet the
Fort Scott Uailroail officials when
they arrive and extend to them all
the courtesy and encouragement in
their power:
Jackson, Miss., Nov. 21, ISSi*.
Kill I or Brook Ini veil Leader:
The officials of the Fort Scott llail
toad are now in Franklin county on !
their Way to Brook haven. 1 hey j
would he glad to meet the represent- j
ative citizens on their arrival and dis- j
euss railroad matters.
Gil as. W. 15vnr.ii.,
Civil Engineer.
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Vicksburg is suffering from a cotton
blockade.
The Deaf-Mute Voice wil appear
next week in a new dress.
"lie that ruletli overmen must be |
just, ruling in the fear of God."
The next meeting of the National
W. C. T. I*, will he held in Atlanta.
The restoration of the McGill dy
nasty would set Jackson back twenty
years.
State Prohibition is the next goal
for the friends of Temperance to
strive to attain.
More legal hangings and fewer
lynchiugs would help things in Mis
sissippi about now.
The New Mississippinn of last week
paid a beautiful tribute to the de
ceased father of its editor.
The Warren county bolters were in
a penitent state of mind when the
Sam Jones meeting struck Vicksburg.
Capt. Junius Poitevaut, of Pearl
ington, had his thigh crushed on the
13th, by a heavy pieee of timber fall
ing upon it.
Mr. J. Moses ami Mrs. Sarah Mock,
proprietress oT the well-known Mock
Hotel at Summit, were married in
New Orleans on the 10th inst.
\V. K. McLaurin, a prominent law
yer of Vicksburg, fell on a slippery
side-walk a few nights ago and fract
ured oue of the small bones in his
left leg.
The Hon. J.efferson Davis is serious
ly ill at New Orleans. Grave appre
hensions exist as to the possibility of
his recovery. Mr. Davis' physicians
say he is troubled with acute bron
chial affection.
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This is a great and good National
Administration. Elder Harrison runs
the prayer meetings for the concern,
Pro. Wauamaker the Sunday school,
and Vice-President Morton a hotel
with saloon attachments. A sort ot
“good-Lord-good-devil” arrangement.
November 5th was a black day for
Republicanism. Not only were the
scattered remnants of that party
cleaned up in Lincoln, Warren and
other counties of Mississippi, but
sweeping victories were won in Ohio,
Virginia, New York ami Iowa. Also
immense gains for the Democrats
shown nearly everywhere.
Congressman Stoekdale is giving
the weight and influence of his big
brain in favor of a Constitution
al Convention. 11c rightly says
that a wise State policy is at
this time of infinitely more impor
tance to the people of the State than
the impending issues before the Con
gress of the nation.
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Messrs. McGratli, Becker &, Co.
have subscribed !j> 1,0(H).00 to secure
the location of the Methodist College
at Wesson. This is only another il
lustration of the public spirit and en
terprise of the McGraths. Such men
are bound to succeed, because they
deserve success, and any town is to
be congratulated on having them as
citizens.
Let the next Legislature give us a
Prohibition statute covering the;
whole State, and then all tlit* plague-1
spots where saloons now exist will be
blessed even as those sections where !
the people have driven out the saloon j
by local option. There is no use
saying some communities are not
ready for such a law. Law is a great
educator, and moreover, no law ever
suited every body.
A good Baptist brother who U in
hearty accord with the effort to secure
the location of the Methodist College
at Wesson, says if the leaders of that
denomination have their wits about
them they will certainly give Wesson
the College and la-gin the industrious
cultivation of this part of the moral
vineyard. 'lire Baptists, says lie,
have.about taken South Mississippi,
ami “ MeMiits are mightily in de,
grass, mightily in de grass."
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County Politic*.
Ik-fore dismissing from mind tlie
late campaign in Lincoln county, we
wish to offer some thoughts to our
fellow-Democrats which we hope will
In- of advantage as a guide for future
party action. After years of factional
drMM-nsious, demoralization and de
feats, we have won a signal and de
risive victory—a victory so sweeping
and complete, in fact, ns to surprise
even the most sanguine in our ranks
ami utterly astound the faint-hearted (
and doubting; while dismay lias been
carried to the very hearts of the
enemy.
It is for the men who achieved this1
great victory, and them only, to say j
whether its fruits shall be lasting and
Democratic supremacy in the county ;
permanently established. The editor
of the Lkahkk is not a candidate for
any office and doesn’t expect to lie;
neither has lie any special favorites!
he wishes to pat forward for office in
the future. Therefore, in what we
say, weeaunot lie justly licensed of sin
ister motives, and ask that onr sug
gestions he weighed ill that light. If
they are unsound, reject them and
adopt something wiser; if they have
merit, reflect upon them, and when
the piopertime comes, he prepared to
act upon them.
Firstly, we w ish to say that it 1ms
been thoroughly demonstrated that
there is power in party organization
and the nomination of candidates
i for all offices to he tilled, from Gov
ernor down to constable. The Lkai>
j Kii has always been the advocate of
such a policy, aad it is peculiarly
gratifying to us that the tirst time of
late years it lias been given a test, it
was crowned with such gratifying
results. Let it be the settled policy of
the Democracy of the county here
after to nominate a candidate for
every office to be tilled. How these
nominations are to be made may very
i well be the subject for difference of
opinion, but we are strongly inclined
to favor tlie primary election system,
restricted to known Democrats.
Secondly, when the work of select
ing candidates and organizing for the
next campaign conies round, let us
beware of giving honor and prom
inence to men who were opposed or
recreant to the Democracy in our late
campaign. Xo good Democrat would
be ready to say now let’s make Capt.
Hoskins, Dr. Watts or Mr. Smylie the j
Chairman of the next Democratic I
County Convention, and give one of
the Caseyville bolters a prominent
place on the next Democratic ticket;
—and he would be l ight, but one or
two mistakes quite as glaring were
made at the opening of the late can
vass, and they came near proving
fatal. In short, no party can appear
to place a premium on treachery, dis
count its tried and loyal adherents,
and long command the respect of
either its enemies or its friends. The
I party should always have a mourner’s
! bench and be ever ready to receive
back-sliders and penitents, but they
shouldn’t be given the chief seats in
the sanctuary, to the exclusion of the
tried and faithful, as soon as they be
gin to show signs of repentance.
Finally, when we come to put out
a ticket in 1891, let 11s choose for our
standard-bearers the truest, strongest
and most competent Democrats to be
found, whether they be tanners,
mechanics, lawyers, preachers, mer
chants'or doctors. Such a ticket will
be invincible, and a nomination will
be equivalent to an election.
Two of a Kind.
Our clever but timorous anti-consti
tutional convention friends remind us i
of the fellows who ever and anon are j
declaring that all the d—<1 niggers
| ought to be run out of the State; but
when a few darkeys begin to emi
grate to Kansas or somewhere else,
raise a great hue and cry, say Missis
sippi is being robbed of her only la
‘ bor, go into panegyrics over Sambo’s
j many redeeming virtues, and swear
I the State couldn't get along without
! him.
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The anti-convention crowd have I
made no end of howling over the race |
problem and various other difficulties
inseparable from the eentralizingC’on-!
stitution left us as a miserabte lierit-1
age by Republican aliens; but as soon j
as the only effectual method of deal- j
ing with these ills—a Constitutional
Convention—is proposed, they go in- j
to rhapsodies over the merits and |
beauties of the old carpet-bag C’onsti- j
tution and pass from that into a tit |
of delirium tremens and conjure up
all sorts of hob goblins and dire ca
lamities, as though the whole State
were about to be converted into a j
veritable witches’ broth.
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Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, who led the I
bolt of the Iowa delegation from the
National W. C. T. U. Convention, is
a dangerous woman, and it is a good
thing the National Union is rid of
tier. What she means by a non par
tisan W. C. T. U. is one that is run
chiefly in the interest of the Republi
can party, which is a high license par
ty and in secret league with the liquor
trattic. Mrs. Foster took the stump
for the Republican party in the last
National campaign, and her husband
was given a good fat office under Har- j
risen in recognition of the valuable i
services she rendered by knifing the
Prohibition party. No wonder she'
Itelieves so strongly in nou-partisan(!)
methods.
.Jackson's Responsibility.
Just now the eyes of the people of
nil Mississippi are turning with anx
ious solicitude toward Jackson, tlicir
Capital City. Another municipal
election is approaching and on the
result very largely hangs its future
weal or woe. Jaeknoti has never had i
a reputation any too savory in the I
estimation of the people of the State,
since she was accused of selling water i
to the Confederate soldiers during the j
war, and wanted an ordinance passed |
forbidding tlicir use of its sidewalks, j
After the war she became the hot-lied j
of Radicalism and misrule, and w hen
the rest of the State threw off the Re
publican yoke in 1873, Jackson re
mained under Republican domination,
and became tbe headquarters of one
of tbe most demoralizing, vicious po
litical lings that ever cursed a munic
ipality. Negroes, headed by a few
bad w hite men, ruled the destinies of
the city. So securely did these finally
feel themselves entrenched, and so
free from responsibility to tbe intelli
gent and better element of society,
that the Capital City, which should
have been as a shining example to
the lest of the State in matters of
law and order, became tlie favorite
arena for all forms of lawlessness and
debauchery. This state of affairs j
went on from lanl to worse until ,
nearly two years ago, when it culmin
ated in a horrible double tragedy on
Christmas eve night in which a negro
policeman culpably figured. The
long-suffering Democrats and best
element of the white citizens general
ly then became so aroused over this
outrage, that, they met and resolved
to ovcrtliow the rotten city govern
ment at any cost. Though on a
smaller scale, a worse than ’73 revo
lution sw iftly followed, and the Re
publican machine was swept from
place and power as if by a tor
nado.
Since then the city lias grown and
prospered as never before. A higher
and purer public sentiment prevails.
Life and property are secure, and its
reputation for law and order is equal
to that of any other place in tIn
state. The streets have been im
proved, water works and electric
lights provided, tine public schools
for both white and colored children
established, new banks, new stores,
new hotels, new manufactories and
nepMfnsiileuccs built, and the whole
fare of things so changed that the j
old prejudices are fast disappearing
and the people of the entire State are
beginning to feel a real pride in the
city as their capital.
The strangest part of all is,that John
McGill, the former Mayor, backed by
his old crowd of negroes, Republicans
and hoodlums, and with his record of
misrule burnt into the memory of every
citizen of the town and State and
smelling to high heaven, has the
audacity to come forward and ask that
the affairs of the city be taken from
the hands of the men who have re- !
deemed it, and again turned over to ■
him and his minions. The monstrous
proposition should be met with a
NO as loud and deep as the thunders
of Sinai. If the McGill ring gets con
trol of her government again, Jack
son may well write Ichabod upon her
walls, and her people repent in sack
cloth and ashes. They will merit the
commiseration and contempt of every
other portion of the State as not
worthy of the respect and oppor
tunities within their present keeping.
The people elsewhere have a right to
expect and demand better things of
them than that they should ignomin
iotisly surrender Democratic Missis
pipi’s capital again into the hands of
Republicans, and the worst class of
Republicans at that. If they should
prove so recreant to duty—so lost to |
shame, so false to their sacred trust
—let Methodist colleges and all other
worthy enterprises forever shun
Jackson as they would a pest house,
aud’let the Legislature tear from her
unworthy brow the coronet of capital
hood and transfer it to a city that will
wear and honor it with more jealous
pride.
It is said the Mississippi Mills Com
pany promise liberal things iu the |
way of helping to secure the location
of the Methodist College at Wesson.
The citizens of the town and vicinity,
outside the Mills Company, have al
ready subscribed $25,000 to this ob- j
ject, and as the Mills own 90 per cent.;
of the property of the town, it would
seem as little as they could do,to give
$25,000 more. If the college comes
there, they will sell 90 per cent,
of the lots and rent 90 percent, of the |
houses to the new population it will!
bring. Capt. Oliver, Treasurer of
the Company, is interested in the
largest store there, and he will also get
his full share of the increased trade it
will bring. This is only the cold,
business view of it, to say nothing of
the duty the Mills Company owes to
the poor boys working for them, and
which cannot be estimated in dollars
and cents. Yes, brother Oliver should
do his full part in this matter, and
knowing him to be public-spirited
and of kindly and generous impulses,
we have no doubt but that when the
lime conies he will do the right and
liandsoine thing.
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The BrookiTaven Leader says
‘the Jack of Harts is a wiuniug card.”
So it was this time; it was trumps;
lint as a general thing the Leader
md better not try to teach Van Watts ;,
;iow to play cards.— Clarion-Ledger.
Van couldn't stack ’em this time. j
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Wesson the ZMace for the. Moth*
odist College.
As Brookliaven is not a competitor i
for tlie location of the proposed
Methodist College, the Lkadkr in be
Imlf of our people, wishes to join in
the petition of Wesson for its location
it that thriving town. Wesson is the
inly place south <>f the \ ieksburg &
Meridian Kailmad competing for the '
College, and there are many reasons,
why it should be awarded tlie prize,
some of which we will mention.
1. North Mississippi has all the
State Colleges, male and female, and !
Central Mississippi the deservedly
celebrated Baptist College at Clinton,
while South Mississippi has no white
male College at all.
2. On ueconut of its henlthfuliiess
and unsurpassed moral and religions
influences. Wesson lias the largest
churches and Sabbath schools in the
State, and is guaranteed perpetual
immunity from the demoralizing
liquor traffic by every piece of real
estate sold there having a prohibition
danse in the deed. This considera
tion alone should place it abend of
every other town in the State as the
most suitable location for a male
college.
one ot me primary onjecrs oi
the College being to afford poor but
deserving young men aud boys an
opportunity to obtain an education,
nowhere else in the State would this
end be so effectually accomplished.
Besides the hundreds of worthy
young men and boys now engaged in
the Mississippi Mills who would thus
have the opportunity of a college
education brought to their door,
scores and hundreds of others in
different parts of the State could come
to Wesson from time to time, and by
alternately working in the great
Mississippi Mills and attending
school, be enabled to obtain a col
legiate education, and thus become
ornaments to society and useful citi
zens of the State. “A beggar’s book
outworths a noble’s blood.”
t. Wesson’s close proximity to our
one renowned Whitworth College
would enable parents to send their
sons to one of the Methodist Colleges
and their daughters to the other, and
yet have them practically together,
the distance between Wesson and
Brooklmven being only 9 miles—15
minutes by rail.
5. Wesson will offer as great finan
cial inducements for the location of
the College as any other town in the
State, and all necessary building
materials such as sand, brick, the
finest pino lumber, etc., right at
hand, cheaper than can be obtained at
any other competing point. This,
while not the chief consideration, is
nevertheless a very important one,
and taken in connection with the other
reasons we have given, ought certain
ly to give Wesson the precedence in
the estimation of the locating commit
tee over all competitors. Many
other reasons might be given in favor
of Wesson,such as its accessibility by
rail from all points in the State, its
water-works, electric lights, etc., but
it seems to us the ones mentioned
above are all-sufficient and cover the
ground.
Fallacious.
A number of journals in this State,
in referring to the Convention issue
which is receiving so much considera
tion just now, from press and people,
seem to think that that subject had
never been discussed or heard of until
Senators George aud Walthall an
nounced their views, and that they
were the ones who raised the issue in
the State.
While it.is doubtless true, that the
pro and anti Convention advocates
hail with pleasure, and cordially wel
come to their respective lists, such
able and valued champions as the dis
tinguished Seuators, yet it is very far
from true that those gentlemen orig
inated this issue, or respectively
organized its advocates and oppo
nents.
Two years ago, a Legislature fresh
from the'people,conversant with their
needs and wishes, declared in clear,
emphatic, unmistakable tones, by
a vote of two to one, in favor of ac
cording the people of the State the
humble privilege of expressing them
selves at the polls, either in favor of
or against the proposition. Aud yet,
an imperious Governor, “dressed in a
little brief authority,” with a power
which was justly denominated at the
time “more autocratic than that of tho
Czar of Russia,” by a stroke of
his pen, denied the right to those
whose creature and servant he is.
The most wide spread indignation
was evoked at the time by this per
version and misuse of power, aud the
sentiment favorable to a Constitution
has rapidly grown from that day to
the present. County Conventions
have passed resolutions favoring it.
It was freely discussed during the
State campaign; and the most promi
nent candidates for Governor, Stone,
Cameron, llarksdale and Featherston
were openly and avowedly commit
ted to it.
Two sessions of the State Alliance,
representing a membership of over
fifty thousand white farmer and Dem
ocratic* voters of Mississippi have as
sembled in this city and pronounced
in favor of it, without oue dissenting
voice.
The people of Mississippi have long
since formed their opinions on this
subject, and in divers ways have giv
i‘u expression to them. It is they
svho have inaugurated and led this
reform; and it is ouly since the late
State Convention met and asked that
t be made an isssue in the selection
if representatives, that the politicians
md statesmen have begun to public
y place themselves on record.
For once, the people are leading,
md the politicians are being forced
o into the ranks.—New Missmip
3 (Vi a.
Let Us Help Wesson Get the
College.
As Brookhaven herself is not n
competitor, she should lend a willing
hand and do every thing in her power
to help her neighbor Wesson to secure
the location of the Methodist College.
Wesson is the only town south of j
Jackson bidding for it, and her people
are working bravely for the prize.
The citizt ns of the town have already
subscribed $28,000, and to this the |
subscription of the Mississippi Mills
Company is yet to be added.
At tirst blush, the mistaken notion
might be reached that to help Wes
son in this matter is working against;
our own town and comity, but a little
reflection will convince one that this i»!
not true. In the tirst place, Brook
haven not being a competitor, the j
chance of her getting the prize is
utterly out of the question. That
being so, if it is granted that the ]
college and tine educational advan
tagesare good things, it is desirable]
to have them as near Brookhaven as ;
possible.
Again, we already have the best
Methodist female college in the State.;
That is a fixture, and is conceded to
be a great advantage to the town.
A Methodist male college at Wesson
would increase the popularity and at
tendance of Whitworth, because pa
rents having both sons and daughters
to educate, would naturally want them
as near together as practicable.
While many families would locate at
Wesson to educate their sons and
would board their daughters at Whit
worth, others would locate at Brook
haven, send their daughters to W hit
worth as day pupils, and board their
sous at Wesson, and Brookhaven s
population and trade would he corres
pondingly increased as well as Wes
son’s. The two towns would enjoy
the reputation abroad of being great
twin educational centres.
Again, noys going 10 college ai :
Wesson, would be continually visiting
their sisters or other relatives at;
Whitworth or in town, often spending
their Saturday’s here, and in this
way many dollars would find their
way into our merchants’ tills that
would not get there if the male col
lege were located at Jackson or some
other far-off point.
Moreover, Wesson is in a sense
! a Lincoln county town. Scores of the
citizens of this county do their mar
| keting and trading there now and
will always do so. The location of
: the college there will greatly increase
their market advantages, and as they
prosper, so will the taxable property
of the county be increased. Indeed,
by being clever toward Wesson in this
matter it is not improbable that we
may persuade her to consent to
a change of county boundaries and
get her added bodily with her mil
lions of wealth, to the tax-lists of
Lincoln.
This is a matter worthy the considera
tion of every citizens of our town,and
we hope they will not only give Wes
son's effort to obtain the college all
the moral support possible, but that
an active movement will be started to
help out her subscription also. The
time is growing short and our Citi
zens’ Association could not do better,
it seems to us, than to take this
matter in hand at its next meeting
j and actively push it.
Mr. Samuel Colgate, a wealthy Bap
tist of New York, is endeavoring to
collect a complete set of the reports
of Baptist Societies, Conventions, As
sociations, Colleges, also Sermons,and
addresses hearing on the history ot
that denomination. These reports are
to he bouud and placed in a depart
ment especially prepared for conven
ience of reference, in the new Fire
Proof Library Building now being
erected tit Madison University, N. Y. J
Any one having a complete or |
partially complete file of the
minutes of Fair River Association, is
requested to foward same to him and
the postage will he refunded. Ad
dress, 55 John street.
Any one wishing to secure conve
nient, first-class and reasonably cheap
hotel accommodations in Jackson,
will always liud them at the deserv- J
cdly popular Edwards House. Dr.
Peeples, the proprietor, is a polished, j
courtly gentleman, and every at-'
tachee about the establishment re
flects his courteous manners. Under
his management tlie Edwards House
has been brought up to the highest
standard in every department. We
unqualifiedly commend it to our read
ers as the best hotel in Jackson.
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THE STATE.
SEAVS ITEMS GATHERED
and CONDENSED FROM
A EE QUARTERS.
Senator AValtliall has gone to
Washington.
The 11. S. Court in Jackson is hav
ing a husy time.
Two ballot 1 w>xes got lost in Holmes
county on election day.
Mrs. Mary Klein, a well-known
lady of Vicksburg, died last week.
Chalmers has sold his property in
Sardis and bids farewell to Missis
sippi.
Mrs. Duke, wife of Mr. Jus. II.
Duke of Scooba, died very suddenly
on the ;>0tli ult.
0. AV. Miller, a leading merchant
of Crystal Springs, failed last Friday
for $T>7,0(H>.
A Stark ville editor prononces the
Aberdeen Fair a gambling affair, and
a disgrace to the State.
T he lunch stands at Durant have
been ordered by the Hoard of Mayor
and Aldermen to hustle.
The clothing of Mrs. Mary Karl, of
Jackson, caught tire a few days ago
and she was fatally burned.
T he People’s Saving Hank has been
started at Starkville, with e.x-Con
gressman Mublrow as President.
Greenville raised nearly $10,000
during the Sam Jones meeting for
religious and benevolent objects.
Catharine Cole says Grenada would
stand a good show for the Methodist
College if its seven saloons were
shut.
Tlie State Medical Board anu me
Undertakers’ Association met in
Jackson the same day. How appro
priate!
John 1’. Jones was shot in Magno
lia Saturday night by Marshal Con
nelly while resisting arrest. He will
get well.
J. M. Williamson, of the Hatties
burg Democrat, and Miss Dollie Pitts,
of Jackson, were married in that city
recently.
At the recent meeting in Jackson of
the Mississippi Synod, the Louisiana
State Lottery was denounced in no
uncertain terms.
The two negroes who robbed Mr.
Stewart, near Beauregard, had to he
smuggled through to Jackson, to pre
vent their being lynched.
The strike of the big clock in the
new Bolivar county court house can
be heard sounding out the hours for
miles, both day and night.
Deputy Marshals Buck and Mat
thews raided a crooked whisky dis
tillery in Smith county the other day
and captured six of the crooks.
Col. II. M. Street, one of the best
financiers in the State, estimates that
the cost of holding a Constitutional
Convention will not exceed $18,750.
The drug firm of Ward & Atkins,
of Winona, lias been dissolved by mu
tual consent. Dr. B. F. Ward retires,
and Mr. W. T. Atkins assumes entire
charge.
An old telegraph post standing by
the public road, near Adam’s church,
is the last remnant of the old tele
graph system between Jackson and
Liberty.
The wife, of Judge Watson died iu
Holly Springs on tlie 8th iust. in the
82 year of her age. She had been a
resident of Holly Springs forty-five
years.
Tlie jury in the case of W. F. Bral»
ston, indicted for the murder of W.
II. Hrabston, in Warren county,
brought in a verdict of man
slaughter.
The Press says the last was the first
local election that ever came off in
Lawrence county that nobody but the
Election Commissioners seemed to
know any thing about.
There will he two Pats Henry in
the next Legislature. Major Pat
Henry, of Brandon, will he a mem
ber of the House, and his nephew, Pat
Henry of Vicksburg, a member of the
Senate.
The vacancy on the State Board of
Health caused by the death of the
lamented S. V. 1). Hill, of Macon,
president of the board, was tilled by
the election of Dr. J. M. Taylor, of
Corinth.
The Lawrence comity Press com
plains that the State Board of Educa
tion will not appoint a County Super
intendent to till the vacancy occasion
ed by the resignation of Superin
tendent Mclnnis.
The Alliance in this State is on a
great big boom. Men who have held
aloof for two years, are asking ad
mission at a rapid rate, and the entire
body of farmers is inspired with
hope and confidence.
The Presidents of the Democratic
ward clubs in Jackson have called a
Democratic mass meeting at Repre
sentative Hall, Dec. 3rd, to nominate
a municipal ticket. Gen. Will Henry,
present incumbent, and Mr. A. G.
Lewis are announced as candidates
for the nomination for Mayor.
Col. H. L. Muldrow of Starkville,
sold a herd of Jersey cattle a short
time ago to Mr. J. L. Gray, of Temple,
Texas., who pronounced the heard
“the finest he had seen between
Maine and Mexico.” He exhibited
them in five fairs and took premiums
at all of them, so says the Aberdeen
Examiner.
A special train, bearing an opera
company, ran into a switch engine a
mile above Canton last week with ^fa
tal results. The negro firemen on the
special was instantly killed; while
every one on the switch engine was
killed, including Engineer Pat Red
mond, Fireman Jim Loftus, the negro
helper, Sam Jones, aud a white man
named Jim Smith.
The Knoxville Progress says the
Board of Election Commissioners of
Franklin met on Monday following the
election, and on technical grounds de
clared both the Newman and the Ma
Efee tickets illegal, which will place
the matter as to who shall be Frank
lin's representative before the legis
lature tor decision. As Judge Magee
received a majority of the votes ca6t,
be was given the certificate.
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Citation Notice.
J. B. Nalty )
No. 927] vs. >Lincoln tu»»
Martin Nalty kt al. ) eery Court
The State of Missimi^1
To all persons claiming to own °r **' ,
any interest in the southeast qnarte
north west quarter section 12, towns I
7, range 7 east in Lincoln county, Mi
Yon are commanded to l>e and
before the Chancery Conrt of L"' .,
county, Mississippi, at Bulks, to he
in the Chancery Clerk’s office m Rroos
haven, Mississippi, on the
First Monday of March, A. V. 1»00'
then and thero to defend tbissujt. ,
same being a suit to couHrrn the '•* .
the complainant, John B. Nalty. t0
lands above described and to which )
and each of you, are a defendant.
Done November 11, 18e9. .
FELIX MA\, CWf*
B. H. Thompson, CowpUuuni* *
licitor.