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JjIAYERS, Proprietor. LOVE FOR OUR FRIENDS ; COURTESY FOR ALL; FEAR FOB NONE. Terms-Two Dollars per Year in Advance. LUME 56. SORANTON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1900. ' NUMBER 43. ... i i i . i , . : i, i t jactson County Officials. rflhf Court F. H.Lewi. 24 u, I T-Ooltectr-R. J. LooghrWge. 5,-Artbar U. Smith. IS-Willie P. Rmnay. 3edenlof Edocatlon-D. D. Cowan 101BD OfltniTIMUi rdrr Brown,jre.ldent: 8lmeon George, R. C. J7f, II. 0. Flurry. Andrew Allman. S01SD Of HEALTH. t Mirert. presidents I. P. Delmafc aecreta .rftrVarer; M. M. Kv.na, B.F. Dnk,quar- JIiIk pnjslclan- THE COURTS, THE REGULAR TERHS. - Circuit Court 2nd Dist. THAD A. WOOD, Juoot WALTER A. WHITE. District Attoilht. . f ttr.A An thai BVitil4 WiMlllaV ,f tumn "ft "? a!-AS, .. In tbe colllllT oi r i ..r ... - - birth Md.y of Janaarr "fF.nniaryaiid Aiipiatand continue all day. In the county oi viaiao " -"J f r.lirmrv and Aiignat and eontinae twelve day L, the ee'nntv of Jasper on Hi nrnt Monday of Um and September and eontinae dy. latheeonaiy viitou- ---.-.- j Wtrrh and September and eontinae i day. Intheeonntv of Haneoek on tta. fourth Monday j jar mil November nd continue aix day. In theomntv of Harrison on th aecond Monday of Miv and November and continue nil day. In (lie conniy oi .1 acawra ou me im juwiib,i.j f April and October and continue aix day. Chancery Court 2dDist. STONE DEAVOURS, CllAXCkUOK. Tn ttncMnty of Pearl River ra tbe Unit Monday f Jaimert aM July ann continue nx yn. i. ,k. mitt nt Marion Drat diatrict on the lemnd Menilnv of January and J uly and continue ii ivy ! I!" second district on the third Monday nf January and July and continue aix ''hike nsatr of Hancock on the fourth Monday tt Jinuair tad July and continue aix daya. Jji tii wnntjf of Harriann on the tint Monday ifFtarnary and August and eontinae nix day. In U mnaty f Jackaoa en the aecond Monday f r'ahruary and Atifuat and conntinne all dya. I. th. Muni v of Wivn on the aecond Monday f JnM and December and centinun aix dava. In lb county uf J one. on the firat Monday of Mirth ann aenteraiier ana continue aix aaya. I. Ik. eonnlv nf Jaaner on the mnnd llamlav f March and Mptemlier and continue aix day. Ii th county of Perry held iu Aiixuata, the Tint diBtriot en the third Mniulay nf March and bpleinberand continue all dava. In the town of Iittieabur;. (lie secona iiinirict on I net lie tint lioeday of J one and December and continue aix inn. In the county of Smith on the fourth Mundny of nircn anu oeiwmner an,, cniiunuo aix liny. In the conntv of Ovlnirtou ou th fourth Mnn itj of April and October and continue aix day. In the eountv of Greeue on Thunwtav mtter the lecond Monday of Apiil and October aiid continue Hire flay, In the county of Newton on the Drat Monday 01 Apni ann novenioer anu continue aix aar. In the otuoty of Lauderdale on the flint Hon day of M:iy and November and continue twenty' fimr davs. In the ciinuty of Clarke on the tlihil Monday ot April ana Hovemuer ami continue aix usyi. wnnnHfUinnnwnnnTTnnwwwwntTn SEASHORE RESORT. vTn-rm , ON PASCAGOULA BAY. This Hotel Inn a beautiful view of liie Gulf of Mexico. Plctureaque wenery. Surf and Salt Buttling. 1 nurnased Klshlni and Boating, Open the Year Bound. Oualne Un Mcellcd. Wine free at Dinner. lira-)! pti day. $10 1 wttt, UO I oitft, tHAS. BOSTER, Proprietor, Paacagoula, Ml. Special rates to families. April f, 1899. t-(m fUUUUMtittuitt'yuMiiuUMHUUyS J. M. CIRL0T, DEALER 15 Choice Groceries AND H I.URCHU North PueaxonU Street. , , kcranton, Miss. Ju"' "wo. ,i.Bm For Nice, Clean, Quick Work SEND TO THE Peeress Laundru, MOBILK at. a "."fSHl-.. iCi5,"2'' o"Pi?MiM.. ly v., . MonUna), For AQLAH.riai.ii a Kent, A A "noberan iooa a juuia, mo. VTJIh. MO. OI 4111 (ABSTRACT -- 'i .cur. o . J. H-BLOOMKELD, I. TIME - TAJ3IiIE. LOUISVILLE A NASHVILLE R. R. GOING EAST. No. & Lmtm New Orleana at 1:45 n. m. Ar- vea at Scranton at 10 58 p. at. Arrive. In Mobil t 13:06 a. m. No. 4. LeaveNew Orleana at 11:13 a, m. Ar- rive, at Keranton at 2:07 p. id. Arrive, at Mobile at 11:12 p. m. no. . Leave new imeana at T.az a. m. at riven at Scran ton at 11:33 a. m. Arrives at Mobile 12:40 P. m. GOING WEST. No. 1. Leave Mobile 1:43 p. m. Arrive at Scranton 2:3V p. m. New Orleana, 0:35 p. m. AO. a. Leave Mobile 3:13 a ra. Arrive at Scranton 4:21 a. m. New Orleana, 7:40 a. bs. No. 5. Leave Mobile at 41 p. m. Arrive at Serantoa 6:31 p. ai New Orleana, 8:80 p. m. u enect uue , inn. John H. Santa Criti. Aaent. Scranton Business Director!. SMITH'S BAKERY & RESTAURANT, By Mrs. Jus. Smith. Meals on abort notice.' Also fm-nisb Wedding Cukes on orders. C H. DELMA8, SniPPKR ok OYSTERS AND FISH. ALGONA SALOON, , M. V. B. Cnrey, Proprietor, Fino Wines, Liquors, Cigars iind Tobacco. s CRANTON SHIP YARD, Geo. Frvntz, Proprietor, Vessels Built mid Repaired. IOHN FOSTER &. SON. J Gulf Oysters, Fish and Shrimp. tCs p ato r CSS ION A I $J A G. MAYERS, tEx-Judue 8th District.) ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Brandon, Mississippi. T. M. MiLLBit, J. I, Ford, K4 Common at., New Orleans. Scranton, Miss Miller & ford, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, Will 'nractine tn Jackson. Harrison. Han cock and adjoining counties. Ofllce fti4 Com mon street, lew ureians, ua. una ocranwn Sute Bunk. Scranton, Miss. W. M. BRKKT. W. R. WonllS. JJENNY & WOODS, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT i,AW, Sorawiton, Miss. Practice In all the courta nf the Second Judicial Dintrict. Omce in Frcderie building. 0, H. Wood, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, Moan Point, Mian. Practice In all the court ot Jackson Harrison. Hancock. Perry and Greene. Qhas. S. Meriwether. ATTORNEY ANL COUNSELOR AT LAW . Soravnton, Miss. Office In the Frederic bulldlm. near court house. H7 Bloomfleld.- -- tTTORNEY AND COUNSEELOR AT LAW Sorainton, Miss. Will nrnctlce in all the rnnru nf th 8r. nnd Judicial lllatrlm OlMce in Scranton State Hank nuiidinz. R, D. WlGGINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Ocean Sprinaja, Ml. Will nractlce In the counties of Jackann and Harrison, umce in mm ouiiaiuc, secona noor. E, A. Clark, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ooaam Spring, Miss. WEDDINGS! Our extensive nurnhases for the trado Pin braces many Nnveltloa and Useful Articles most appropriate lor WEDDING PRESENTS. Precious Stones, Jewelry, Watches, Kllverware, Cut Glass, Vases, Decorated China, Statuary, Paintings, Our displays offer splendid suggestions tf you are in aount as u ine proper selection ui a uiic IsvitSitlssa, AsasssessiMiU, Cars, ets wsrsel ssa ea(sva la tatet abrea asa itjrla, a Lows rfsrtker Pries, PIANOS. (From the llnslc Trade) Beview, Deo. 1, 1808.) The MEHLIN PIANOS have always been reaarded In the trade and amnni musicians as oemi anions the most aclentlficali con structed tlanos made In thla country. In nfiiauiiitT iuev are aurnassea ov tne inr.ru- mantaof ant other niake. its Inverted vrsnd scale gives to the uprights the eharacterlo- iics oi in norisontui grana. . 0. ZADEK, Mobile, Ala. C. D. WALTON, Manager Piano Department, Third Floor. November 23. 100. . 41-3m "THE LITTLE BARRISTER B5r 5 Cent Smoke Made. W. M. OANTY, Sole Agent. Try One. SeptT.lWO J. F. VOLIE, Worker. Water Pipes and Compression Oocks SORANTON, MISS. -lm tCSenator Morinn has been re-elected r ter to rj ti Itlc-alf 11 itt re Editorial and Otherwise. Editors seldom hare gout. Deal honestly with your fellow-man. Where to go when short ot money go to work. A thing that must be pushed a wheel barrow. Rural editors subsist principally on air ind water. Conceit Is but the self-esteem of the other fellow. The Lord loves a cheerful giver so does an editor. The hardest thing to deal with an old pack of cards. A fellow sometimes gets it in the neck In playing the races. Pull down the blinds when you want to kiss your best girl. Heaven is like home ; it is open after the other place is shut Some people do mortally bate to pay what they owe the editor. An inveterate liar cannot be trusted under any circumstances. A dentist says teeth are like verbs- regular, Irregular and defective. It will not bo good form to call him Teddy after the fourth of next March. Come in and surrender, Aguinaldo. All is forgiven and no questions asked. Familarity, it is said, breeds contempt. Don't go to see your best girl to often. Swapping horses is a pleasant past- time, provided you get the best horse. The fellow "who couldn't find his match" decided to go to bed in the dark. Public enterprise redounds always to the good of the individaul who displays it Advertising for a wife is about as ab surd as getting measured tor an urn brella. Dobbs says the reason cats are so mu sical is because they are all fiddle strings inside. Call no woman old until she has ceased to throw apple-parings over her right shoulder. Remember, tun does not mean license, nor merrymaking a disregard of proper decorum. The young farmer who inquired, the best way to start a nursery was advised to get married. Doing the dirty work of a pretended friend often gets tbe poor simple fellow in a peck of trouble. The last note ot summer has been paid with interest, and the flrstoneof winter is about to be discounted. Crapshooting Is strictly a negro game, though white men and boys are caught indulging in it, sometimes. Verv few women like to think the Lord knows as much about their hus bands as they do themselves. Standard oil stock is getting so high that one of these days to force it higher it will have to be exploded. Secretary of the Navy Long has an nounced himself in favor of the general extension of woman suffrage. "'Tis sweet to have friends you can trust;" but it's sweeter to have friends who are not afraid to trust you. People who find the most fault with the editor are the hardest to get money from when they owe for their paper. Just so long as there are footpaths and roadways across the tracks of railroads people will continue to be killed on them Somehow the author of a love story never sees the wart on the nose of his hero or the freckles on the face of his heroine. A woman will do without an article she has long needed in order to give a wedding present or send flowers to a funeral. Religion affeots the sexes different A man begins going to sleep In church when he is fifty) a woman rarely begins before she is sixty-five. An old sailor at the theatre said he supposed that the ballet girls wore dresses at half-mast, as mark of respect to departed modesty. The Democrat-Stab don't accept many of the patent medlolne advertise ments that are offered it because tbey want too much space tor the money of fered. "Never lie on your left side," saye an exchange. Nol if you happen to be on that side when you want to lie to your wife about the important business that kept you at the office so late, turn over. President McKlnley, in his Union League speech, congratulated those Democrats who helped blm In the elec tion. These are doubtlesa the aame fel lows who want to re-organise they cer tainly need It. at It is said that the 4-cent stamp in the new series to be issued and sold during the next year in commemoration ot the Pan-Amertcan Exposition at Buffalo will have as Its central picture a motor vehicle, representing the latest form of transportation. The Democrat-Star ofllce has a pet dog Instead of a eat Hie name Is Beppo, and he's a daisy. He has been chewing on patent side exchangee until tbey be came so unpalltabls that he longed for a change, so when he espised the editor's gloves lying on his desk he wentfor them and chewed them almost Into threads. It la noted that the 165 Urges! cities in tbe country show an increase In popula tion for the laet decade In almost axaet proportion to tbe increase from K3 to tier-sty Isect-J that the exodus i .A v- a.aafc. an iaa..y noa jrww A TRIO. BY UAURICK THOMPSON. Oh, did you hear the drowsy wind Go sighing half asleep? And did you feel across your mind A dreamy wonder creep T Somewhere, far off, a bird sang low, Clcardes jarred the grass; Mayhap you saw, I do not know- Mayhap you saw me pass ! And Love was by me, and Delight, We three did trudge along, Cumbered with sweets from morn till night, And overfilled with song. Behind us burned the summer land, Fair autumn lay before, And we oh, we went hand in hand A-singlng ever morel And then you knew the lazy wind Was sighing half asleep ; But did you ever feel across your mind, A dreamy wonder creep f SENSIBLE VIEW. Written for Greenwood Commonwealth. The Clucatio Tribune is publishing asent'H or articles by Miss t rances Kellor, author of "The Woman's Club," of Chicago, who, though not quite bo tabid as the majority of the disturbers, only goes to show how lit tie capable a non-resident Is to grasp the real conditions. Gathering statistics on criminology Is no excuse for publishing broadcast some of the assertions which she makes, and the man or woman of any section who undertakes to arouse an arcliy among the negroes of the South by asserting that they are unjustly treated here, more than elsewhere, is assuming a big responsibility. The consequence of licentiousness in tne north where better means arc at hand to quell or suppress it, is bad enough, but down here it means and demands a wholesale siaugoters. au women attend to your poorest and un fortunate whites in the north who die of cold and starvation nt your very doors as the vilest negro would not be allowed to in the south. God knows the white people of the south have burdens enough to bear, and contend with without any addi tional ones from a lot of sentimental do-nothings. Either come and live and work among us, or take the ne gro to yourselves If he will go. The southerner lias a heavy load to "tote," and for humanity's sake help him or let him carry it as his sense dictates and conditions permit. Those who have not been brought up with the colored child can never have the patience and forbearance which the southerners exercise. It Is true that reforms are needed that tbe lower class is sadly in need of missionary work but the expres sion to the negroes and the outside world, that he Is more unjustly dealt with here than elsewhere is a peculiar method to take If reform Is desired to imply that "collusion" Is so very prevalent between lawyers and jus tices of the peace against the negro, is monstrous. It Is safe to say that there is much less collusion of the kind described in the whole State of Mississippi than In the oity of Chi cago. lama native Chicagoan with all the usual sentiment anent the down trodden negro, and after ten years residence in two different sections of Louisiana and Mississippi, quietly In vestigating and living among the darkies, I feel that I am better quali fied to Judge of conditions between Illinois and Mississippi than one a few months visitor in a narrow groove. My sympathies aroused and alert for tbe negro, has been transferred to the burdened whites, and strange to say, the latter will help a poor negro more quickly than he will a poor white, and I have yet to see a worthy negro defrauded, as Miss Kellor de scribes. The negro can always find a friend among tbe best class to defend him against opposition, while that same defender will not think of In terfering in behalf of one of his own color. If the lady who deplores the "leis ure" of the negro will only devise a humane method to coax the lawless negro to work, there might be a method In her madness, and one gets heartsick to read of the negro having "no credit." When I think of the weary hours that I have labored with speech to teach every darkey whom I ever knew, to save something, 1 only wish she had a tormenting, stubborn darkey to deal with, who would "quit" to get paid off, or go to bed and send for the doctor, to gain his ends and his monev. When he would mutter at her "foolishness" and tell hor he was a "free man," I think she would change her opinion of the "poor Igno rant negro." It Is redleuloui, too, to assert that high rente prevail for the negro. I have never found It to, In many of new towns, rents are very high Is the only one worthy of considera tion. In my experience of the negro, he usually gets a house on the "aidge" ot town much cheaper than elsewhere, so that be may "have a good time," which Is bis main object in life and which he Invariably manages to grasp to his own satisfaction. And if in old age be is destitute, like his im provident white brother, lie will at tach himself "or ber-self," as the case may be, to soino family, you may be sure. When I contrast the assurance and utter carelessness and disregard of the lower class here, with the lower class north, I am forced to acknowl edge that he would soon land in jail with very little sympathy, in any other section. I am not the author of a club writ ing for a fat remuneration, nor have I measured the height, breadth, or cranium, ot the criminal and lower class except with a practiced eye, but I feel fully competent to judge of the merits respectively of the class refer red to in Illinois and Mississippi where the unfortunate have ever claimed my most earnest endeavors and sympathy without regard to color. It is past understanding why the condition of tbe negro down south should arouse more sympathy and out cry than the deplorable condition of whites. It Is also folly to compare the facilities for education in the sparely settled south with the north rather compare them with sparely settled Western States, and even then, more credit is due the former who were made paupers and homeless, with the bono of contention left for them to look at, and provide for. It would be well to Investigate the negro condition in Chicago, who are inside of all the influences. Miss Kellor says: "The northern mothers with her smaller family and with her trained assistants In the home, school, library and church, will realize what the problem for the negro is and what tbe result must be." Is the writer comparing the negro as a class with the people who have trained assist ants in home, school, library, etc? There is no comparison even if the negro was white. The laboring class to which the ma jority of the negroes belong, in the south, must be compared with the same class north and I do not remem ber of ever noting any trained assist ants, eta, among them, in fact if that lady will traverse part of Canal street and some of Its tributaries and Jeffer son, Judd and Clark and then come through the worst of the foreign ele ments westward along Eighteenth street, she will And very few trained assistants and it memory serves me aright the children in these localities have more to contend with than the hard headed little negro who is jolly and content with plenty to eat, which he always gets in the warm climate, where his little body dose not freeze three or four months in the year. The writer of that article has not "investi gated" in northern Wisconsin evident ly or In Minnesota tn say nothing of her native city. To siy that the negro women are Immoral because of "subserviency" to the whites is preposterous. That same immorality is alarming the mothers of young boys boys scarcely In their teens. A northern community would fill the jails with theso women and build more to suppress this worst of all evils. Miss Kellor is strangely inconsist ent. She bewails the lack of kinder garten schools for the negro when wc do not possess them for bur white children and again she compares tbe negro of the lower class with tbe "white child who is going to school." The negro has splendid schools in the south, thanks to genrous north erners who had his welfare to heart regardless of the other color. Equally as good schools are provided for the negro In towns, and settlements, as for the white children, and no matter what their social grade tbey can at tend that school if they will I would like to ask, why this cter nal fuss about the southern negro who never realizes that he is abused until he reads of it from a northern pen. Miss Kellor may 1 able to judge of the respective merits or jail lire, but certainly not of every day condition outside. Jennbttb Olyeb, Scranton, Miss. Ex-Chlcagoan. It is very easy to persuade people to sign papers. Somebody once made the remark that "it would noteven be dif ficult to get people to sign a petition for tbe execution of tbe most popular man in town," there being so many people who attach their signatures to documents without reading the docu ments. This tendency of people to carelessly sign things was Illustrated In Massachusetts during tbe recent election. Though more than one thousand names were signed to the National party nomination papers. scarcely five hundred voted the ticket. Iowa has joined Tennessee as an GHASTLY FINDS. forty-five more dead found ON GALVESTON ISLAND. Galveston, Texas, Nov. 29. Forty- flvo bodies of storm victims were found and buried on the Island beyond the city limit this week, by men au thorized by the central committee to do this work. Prior to any action on the part of the central committee to have the bodies in the swamps and marshes down the island interred, there were several reports from these quarters of the neglected dead, and voluntary par ties organized and engaged in burial work. Probably fifty or seventy-five bodies, victims or the late storm, were buried before the matter was brought to the attention of the central com mittee. Few of the bodies were found in the open prairie, but in the swamps and low marshes many were recovered. The corpses were decomposi-d beyond recognition and not a thing ot value was found upon them. The pockets of the men's clothes were turned In side out, showing tbat the corpses had been robbed. Many of the bodies of the males were clad in jumpers and overalls, which led the burying force to believe that most of the bodies found were those of workingmen. The work of the. burying squad was done systematically and it is believed all of the bod ics on the island have been buried. It is probable that the burying force will go to the main land in a few days to continue the search for unbuned bodies. PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD. At the session of the Mississippi Presbyterian synod, just adjourned, at Hattiesburg, a resolution was adopted authorizing the presentation of an overture to the general assembly of tbe church which meets at Little Rock next May, asking the creation of a separate synod of the Presbyteries of South Mississippi, Louisiana, New Orleans and Red River and to make another synod of the Presbyteries of Mississippi, central Mississippi, north Mississippi, Meridian, Tombigbee and Chicasaw, six In number. The north Mississippi and Chickasaw Presby teries have heretofore been within tbe domain of the Memphis synod, but they have overtured the assembly to oio them to the newly formed Missis sippi synod, and there is said to be hardly any doubt but what such action will bo taken. This places the entire State of Mississippi with tbe excep tion of ten counties in the Southern portion within one synod. COLORADO AFFAIR. Natchei Bulletin, The details of tbe negro lynching in Colorado town, not far from the city of Denver, is or such a terrifying, re volting character that tbey will com pare with the Indian atrocities com mitted in the early days of tbe repub lic. The nerves tingle with horror as the eyes followed the record. The negro who was burned had outraged and murdered a litttle girl, and be de served deatb, but not such a death as would have been inflicted by savages of earlier days. The shocking inci dent gives emphasis to a conviction expressed in these columns a while back that antipathy to the negro is not confined to the South; and that when the negro commits the terrible crime so often rightly charged to him his life is the forfeit without regard to section. And it is to be observed that the Colorado people not only killed the offending negro, but hafe ordered the negroes In the locality to move away. "Private" John Allen, the well known Mississippi Congressman, who retires from ofllce with his present term, may become an Alabama citizen. He own a little place at Coden, in Mobile county, given him by his good friend. Hon. E. L. Russell, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and he likes the country. To a reporter of the Mobile Herald, Mr. Allen said that he would probably build a home at Coden and spend much of his time at that place. Incideutly he remarked that there was no truth In the fre quently published report that he would devote his time to lecturing. He also remarked that he was out of politics forever. "I am going to be a gentleman," said Mr. Allen with a smile. Birmingham News. . Lake Erie and the States ot Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia were swept by storms with some lues of life. ' uen. jfitznugn Lee will assume charge ot the Department of Missouri with headquarters at Omaha Id a few days. Five civilised tribes Commission will meet at Hattiesburg, December 17th, to enroll tho Mississippi Choe- EXHAUSTING PINE FORESTS. Biloxl Herald. There are such heavy inroads being made on the timber supply ot the coast tbat it is estimated that It will be exhausted in the course of the next fifteen years. The entire section Is honeycombed with saw mills, with. new ones constantly springing to ex istence at every eligible point, while legging roads, tramways, and the like are Intersecting the country in every direction. It is a retrrettable fact tbat the timber supply is being so rapidly exhausted, especially as no efforts are being made to reforest the localities In which the standing tim- ; ber is being exhausted, and the spots denuded are being left bare, to grow ' up In briers and bramble. The con- ' tents of the restricted timber belt of the coast counties has been a mine of wealth to them, but bas never been appreciated by our own citizens, who permitted the lands to pass from them at much less than their value to capi talists and mill men from the north and west, who have erected hundreds . of mills and are cutting the timber just as rapidly as their facilities will permit. It is a problem as to what will be come of the many thrifty and pros perous villages that have sprung up in South Mississippi and along the ' lino of the Gulf and Ship Island rail road especially, when the deforesta tion shall have been finally completed. Nearly all of them are wholly depen dent for their very existence on the sawmill interests and the trade they bring to tbem. Without sustenance and support from these Interests the towns would soon wither and decay, and they would take their places in the category of the western boom cities, that blossomed almost in the course of the night, flourished for a day.afterwards became deserted equal ly as rapidly, and are now but memo ries in the minds of those who knew of them tn their palmier days. We are not at all Inclined to be pes simistic, but there is danger tbat these now apparently prosperous little cities that have been built in the heart of tbe pines of Mississippi will fail when the timber shall have been ex hausted, because there are no other resources that they can draw up on for support; the soil Is too poor to be of much value for agricultural pur poses; they are surrounded with no minerals to be mined, and really there is nothing for them to live upon, so far as we know. It would be to tbeir future interest if they bad some means for protecting their forests, or regulat ing tbe quantity of timber cut an nually from tbem, but they have not any such means at their command, and doubtless the prediction that all the timber will be completely exhaust ed within the next fifteen or twenty years is correct. It will be a sad day for South Mississippi when this oc curs, but notwithstanding this it would seem to be inevitable. ANCESTRY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. Tho discovery has recently been made tbat Samuel Davis, the father of Jefferson Davis, was a participant in the battle of Kettle Creek, Ga., during tbe Revolutionary war, and he served with signal bravery during that memorable conflict. It is known to history that the father ot Jefferson Davis was a Georgian, but very little has even been found concerning his per sonal career. In the memoirs of her husband written by Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a vague account of his ances tors, but ber Inability to give details is not to be wondered at when it Is re membered that Jefferson Davis was the younger of ten children, and that be was born while the family was en route from Georgia to Mississippi, and his father died when he was still a child. Furthermore, not until within a few years past have the public thought or cared for ancestral history, and the life of Jefferson Davis was too full of the present to dig amoog the dry bones of the past. The battle ot Kettle Creek took place In Wilkes county, Ga., during the year 1770, and a recently discovered manuscript In tbatcounty shows that Samuel Davis was a man of fighting stock. The grandfather of Jefferson Davis is bu ried Iq Wilkes county. non. J. F. McCool stated to a Cla rion-Ledger reporter tn Jackson on Tuesday that he did not think there was much chance for tho Democracy to elect a President soon, and that he was in favor ot the Southern Demo crats demanding that the next Prest-, dentlal nominee be from the South and the Vice-President from Vermont, the chief planks being brotherly love. He think such a ticket and platform would create a splendid sensation. Minister Conitr la about to com home. After his arduous duties and confinement in Peking, hi deserves rest. - -' ''"'. "S Nelll, the coti:: ' r V matestnat the okj .:r t. f i ' is h f : i I' 1 ' if, intl-clrirette Stttc. ' :