American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1865-11-09

LocAL.-0ur contemporary of the Vicksburg
Herald suggests to his friends of the country
press, that they pay particular attention to
publishing local items, such as the state Of
the crops, murders, burglaries, larcenies,
fires, e~tcetera. The suggestion Is a good
one, but we would suggest to the Herald that
in order to publish local items you must have
some material to manufacture them out of
n larceny, a burglary, a murder, a ire, a
fight, a footrace, a locomotive explosion, a
collision, a run off and smash up-some OF
these startling things must transpire before
the country editor" can say they did. Some
editors are so unfortunate as not to have a
great river running by their doors, bringing
an ever changing population. aud creating
hustle and excitement, and sometimes "noise
and confusion In such favored localities
if they can really be said to be favored
something occurs nearly every hour in the
day worth journslizipg, and an industrious
local editor, possessed of a good degree Of
tact and moderate ability, can fill his local
columns with interesting items
But in a quiet country town like Can
ton Tor, rather, city, for we boast a Mayor
aud Selectmen and a charter nearly as long
as the moral law, with q set Of ordinances not
quite as huge as Hutchinsor's Code), where
the population is permanent, scarcely any
influx Of transient persons, where nearly all
the business is transacted on two days in
the week-Nonday and Saturday-where all
Is quiet and order, and everybody goes about
his own bgsiness-wheTe this state Of things
exits it 10 not very easy to impsrt any great
degree Of interest to the local column.
In reference to crops, we can generally get
an item from cur planting friends, but We
have found that planters frequently differ
widely IS to the amount of any particular
crop. One will say that the crop is over an
average, another that it is under an average,
and a third that it is decidedly short. Thus
we have been led to believe that crop articles
were unreliable and not of much importance.
For the benefit Of our ~confrere of the Herald,
however, and all others who take an interest
in the productions Of the country, we will
state that 10 Madison the corn crop, though
short, owing to the difficulty Of getting field
labor at the proper time, it is some better than
was at one time Apprehended; it is generally
believed that the county has raised enough
to supply her own wants We have beard no
intimation that there was q prospect Of a
famine in the land aud it Is now possible
that we shall not have to 30 up into Egypt
for the " staff Of life."
The lesser crops, to-wit, peas, pumpkins
and potatoes, are also short, but " from the
lights before u.s." as Martin Van Buren once
said, we are inclined to believe that w shall
have our roast potatoes (which the historian
will remember formed exclusively the diet of
" haisn and bis men y, our Porridge, and
oSs panPkin, and even pumpkin pies, "sll
the year round" (By the way, Partridge, Is
DicksnF nonthiy Of that name still In exist
ence7 II 90, get Clark 10 procure IL for MS By
the year, AID We viii foot the bin promptly,
As TO the pss-nst erep, We are not advised,
bat IL IL Is also Shost, Ne know that IL will
be much regretted, - slnOst everybody likes
parchsd pindsrs, and viii 60 bis last dime on
. pint any time. The swine are said 70 be re-
narkably fond Of then, also, and for them VIII
9 root hog OF de-" The persmnoa crop % repre-
.uted 70 us By our iuvsnile reporter, who roans
c. vOossa Raeop - be tus, ass ~ sxpe5 70