The Lincoln County herald., 1870-02-03

INFERIOR OF MEXICO.
A Nevada editor acknowledges the re.
ceipt Of bottle Of whiskey and a Bible
on Christmas.
DR.. Robert Brecklnridge is reported to
be on the point of leaving the Presbytcr.
iaa communion.
James Gordon Bennett, Sr., of the
, New York Herald, is confined to his room
aud too i'll to see friends who call.
The bill for the total abolition of the
franking privilege passed the House on
the 9th ult, there being oAly fourteen
votes cast against it.
Nelson Ice, one Of the last of the ia.
nous Texas Rangers, and three years a
captive among the Camanche Indians, is
lecturing in Georgia.
The Gazette records the death at Iuka,
Miss, Of John Null, the Oldest man in
the State-being 109 years Of age. The
Gazette says he never took dose Of medi.
cine until he was 107 years old.
The small sewing machine" which
some rascal in New York sends to those
people who respond to his advertisement
by incosng him 81, is shoemak er s awl,
worth about fifteen cents.
Judge Strong, tie new United States
Supreme Court Justice, is a native of
Somers, Conn. His father was the Rev.
William s. Strong, once pastor of the
Congressional church in Somers.
Several hundred Danes and Swedes are
now at work on the plantations of Chick
asaw county, Miss, and the planters are
perfectly delighted with them, and orders
Tor many huui,ejs have gone forward
from this city, Lowndes, Noxubee and
Chickasaw counties.
John Tolson, soldier of the war 1912,
died in Howard county, on the Och ult.,
in the eightieth year OF his age. lie was
taken prisoner at Dudley's defeat, in 1918
stripped of his clothes by the Indians
and compelled to run the gauntlet"
which he did, and escaped. In 1919, he
emigrated to Howard county, where he
resided until his death.
We learn from the Jefferson (Texas)
Times that MIR. q. Towers, young man
Of 22 or % years Of age, was called out
Of the Baptist church in that place, on
last Sabbath evening, and ma, ched off 20
the stockade by Gen. Buell's soldiers.
No one is aware Of any charge against
him.
1t is stated on high authority, of actual
statistics, that the people of Vermont "a
State almost excessively devoted to agri-
culture hold more money and other
property per capita than the people of any
other State in the Union. So much for
the proftablcness of farming.
The Eutaw (Ala) Whig says: "The
great majority of the negroes, in this
section, have made labor contracts for the
present. year; but there are large numbers
still idling about the streets or strolling
through the country. They belong to
the class who are too lazy to work and
not afraid to steal for livelihood"
jeff. Davis has entered upon the duties
Of President Of the Carolina Life Insur-
ance Company Of Memphis, Tennessee
1t is stated that he is utterly impover-
ished by the war. lie has appointed as
the general agent Of the company, to
reside at New Orleans, General Braxton
Eragg.
The Palestine (Texas) Advcca says
that there will be greater breadth Of
acres planted in corn in Anderson county
this year than there was the last, and
that there will be more attention given
to raising hogs in the future. Corn is
now selling at from 81 to Sl.25 per
bushel, and pork brings Sc. to 1Oc. This
pays equally as we'll as cotton at l5c.,
and can be raised at half the amount Of
labor.
The Chicago Tribune has this report
Of passage Of wit between Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe and Senator Sumner, Mrs,
Howe had invited the Senator to dinner
to meet Edwin Booth. He declined for
the reason that he was "too much absor
bed in the welfare of the masses to take
any interest in individuals" This note
was put away in Mrs. Howe's scrap book
with the sharp comment that "when last
heard from the Almighty had not yet
reached this point"
Colonel Don Piatt has his weathercocls
pointing venomously due East. Speak.
ing of negro emancipation, he thus writes
"The cheapest philanthropy is chat
which frees somebody else's niger. Had
these slaves belonged to US, instead Of tc
the South, is there any one simple enough
to believe that we would have had wal
of emancipation? Not much.
And if the war had ended with nc
changes for loyal stealing, would "we'
have had. any reconstruction measures
N OF much.
The CENTRE OF DEspoTIsM -Ther,
are, in the Omitted States Senate," five
natives Of Massachusetts,; six of Yer
mont; four Of Maine four of New
Hampshire; three of Connecticut, ant
two Of Rhode Island-twenty. four in al
from the six New England States, ant
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