Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-04-23
no 81


pfAsesr-l klalaa t311olios Hfa
The report of tho conisEsaoo
| committee on the Circuit Court bill
was concnrred il BY both Honhes
Of the Legislature yesterday, afssr
very little Opposition. TIE kllI
nov gOea 10 the Governor foF shls
Signature and viii doubt les Be
promptly appFoTeds We may there
Tore, expecta apaedY ,OFaanizaai0n
OF the Circuit Courts thr0uxh0ut
the State. ~ s,fa ialas. Is. u
Col. Sykes, President Of he Alb
1 erdeen and Ellyton Railroad Z, In
this city. He speaks hopefully OF
the projected line and locke for.
ward 70 the time not far distant,
when the road viii be cOmpleted
to Grenada, and thence south 70
YazoO City and Vicksburg. The
Colonel is q liveman aud viii make
himself felt whenever he appearssS--
Jackson Pilot. mo9 yf ThaHf
The Pilot says the political com-
plexiOn Of the Legislature is as fol.
lows: h
Republican los ConservativeIO;
Democrat o; Independent 2 Con.
servative Wing 2; Radical Repnb.
lican 2; Conservative Republican
2; Union Democrat 2; COnserva-
tive Democrat /; Radical / Old
Line Whlg l Henry Clay Whlgil;
Old Rad1; Ny Country and Her
People 1. .f ba5-Ha1 iasacsq Hl1
The Aberdeen Examiner Spsak-
ing Of the Memphis, Aberdeen and
Selma Railroad, says; y 1a
This Road 0f ours c0mmencss Il
Selma, d most Important port npOn
the Alabama river. there connent-
ing with a line 10 the Atlantic, and
traversing q country rich IN ooal,
iron, lumber, corn and Gotten; it
connects at Aberdeen with she
Northern line 70 Decatur atOkO-
Iona with the Northern line 70 the
lakes, and sontheFA line 10 the
Gulf, and at Holly Springs egaln
crosses o great North and 6enth
Railroad, and on to Memphis
where It's burden Of produceands
cheap water transportation 10 the
great cities on the Mlsslsslppi,
Tennessee and Ohio. , aar
III b
Col. Z. +. Raworth, General su-
perihtendent Of the ViCksburg and
Meridian Railroad, was in St. Louis
last Saturday. He had Just re-
turned from the East, where he had
purchased several locomotives, and
had ordered one hundred more
freight cars aud first class passen-
ger coaches for the use Of the Vieks-
burg and Meridian Railroad. Col.
RawOrth informed the Democrat
that arrangements were on foot for
q fast freight line from 81. Louis TO
Meridian, via the Vicksburg pack
cts. This news will be acceptable
to the business men generally in
this State, and consnmers will be
glad to hear of any arrangements
that win cheaper the rates oftrans-
portation, and thus bring pricea.--
Now let the Legislature 90 amend
the charter OF the Yioksburg and
Meridian Railroad that Il oani run
to the river at Vieksburg, and thus
save the great cost and delay of
transportation at that point
Jackson Pilot.
Winona, Miss, is q fast place,
with fast judge and fast hotel
keeper, as witness the following
incident; u aaUtat +. 80
| On the 4th there were two SPORT
ing women stopping at sald hotel,
aud, by virtue Of the corporate laws
Of the village, constable went TO
arrest the women, when he was re-
sisted by the probate Judge, Who
was having O fast time with said
women and did not like the inter.
ference Of the constable. Where
upon the constable met the resist
ance by knocking the iadgs
down with q stick, and proceeded
TO make the arrests. The Judge
then had the constable ar
rested and bound over 10 answer
the charge Of assault and battery,
after which the constable had me
judge arrested and bound over Cor
resisting an officer IN tho discharge
Of his duties. The Judge, hotel
keeper, and women were all tried
before q J. r., who fined the Judge
$40 for the fight the hotel.kseper
$50 for keeping q house Of bad re-
pute, and the women each $40, and
advised them to go to some other
locality, where such houses were
licensed and their calling legalized.
The bill passed by the House On
Wednesday, entitled an act to exc
pedite the collection Of taxes now
due, provides in section one, that
from and after its passage, the
tax collectors in the several cOun-
ties Of the State shall dlstrain, and
sell personal property for the nom
payment Of taxes, and land on
which taxes are unpaid on the 3Oth
day of April, 1870, shall be lmme-
diately advertised for sale, and sold
as prescribed by law on the flrst
Monday Of June next inslead Of
the first Monday Of July e now
provided by law.
Section two provides that on alI
taxes now assessed, and which
shall be unpaid on the 18th
day Of May, IS7Q there shall be coll
leCted ftyg PEI esHssia additional 70
said assessment dg
Section three makes it the duty
Of tax collectors, within twenty
days after the passage Of this ace to
pay over ell taxes collected by them
| mn To the date 0f thar eta ssAo-