Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-08-11
QUIZ MISSISSIPPI NCE
From the Charleston Courier.

Tear Journal Your last issue having
come to hand yesterday evening, with it's
compact budget of homo news, [ feel as if
1 had got a letter from friend, and must
answer forthwith, giving in return what
ever items may occur to ms at all likely
to interest. We find YOU fuller OF eensa-
tionaIisms than usual ;-"Outrages in Robe
son." fighting, murder, panic = Cohven-
ton, grand engrossing theme; railroad
meetings and minor events worth iesert-
ing.
Since our last letter to yon, O9sot o
county has spoken ou'; he's had the honor
of firing the first gun in the campaign to
be shortly inaugurated through the STATE,
TO fill county offices, and for Representa-
| tives for the State Legislature. A great
mass meeting was held in Hernando on
the Sd OF July and addressed by several
orators OF ability, particularly Mr.. J. Wat
son, of Marshall county. His expose Of
Radical corruption was feeling and ex-
coriating. He said votes in Jackson were
as VIGOROUSLY in the market cattle and
hogs; the price being unsettled, but a.
ways to be had for some price. He de
ciared the State expenses bad gone from
$3.50. 600 up to 81, 800, 900.
The good people of Des ito expect to
beat the Radicals in this campaign by
leaving out of the question all dead ISSUES,
party names and oid-time party hobbies,
only opposing solid front 10 existing
c1rruptions.
We are in the midst of heavy rains, a
condition of things unfavorable to the
farmers, who had begun TO clay by" cot
ton but crops of all kinds are fne-corn
UMPIRE ce6 entedly SO; aud of cotton, III ugh
third less is planted than usual, it is
thought the county's usual quota Of 30. 900
bales will be made. So far we have not
suffered from the hail storms, tornadoes
and terrific wiods that have swept over
other porti ons of the State and country
A storm in Memphis only last wee K blew
off the roofs Of several buildings. but &C.
casioned no loss of life. On the Memphis
and Charleston railroad, near Grand JUNO
ton, the Express train Fan into 'wasR,
and with its locomotive became total
wreck. The engineer was killed and niue
persons Injured.
We see an account copied from the St.
Paul Press, giving a description of he
plague of grass hoppers in the Upper
Minnesota country. The damat thus far
inflicted has been slight but fears en-
tertalned that these are only tho forerun-
ners of greater numbers tOcone One hope
full feature in the accounts of their lavsges
however, is that they are generally moving
in northerly direction, and therefore
likly to avoid the thickly populated re-
gions of the interior and the East.
Being at present sol o1rning in fernando,
we are prepared to write more specifically
concerning it. It's foundations are said to
be laid sOlidIy in "cottcn and morality, |
with good sandy subsci and plenty of
spring water" 1t is fact that no Whis-
key is sold in fernando publicly" and
whatever is lmbibed is done in decent, pri- |
vate fashion. In this respect we are often |
led to draw contrast with a charming
village We used to see good deal OF in the
Old North State, whose picturesque repose
used to suffer weekly suspension Of Sat
urday's, when most of all its ever open
"doggeries and "Sprawl's tavern we're
resorted 10 and patrouized. I've seen one
man lying drunk on the side walk in
HernandO !; only one, and his seemed 10 be
a mos, exceptional case, from the sensation
it created. In fact he appeared to be en-
transit, for his wife stood near equipped
for travelling, and threatening to leave
him. The street fights SO identified with
Western own aspect, are also happily for
eign to fernando. we have just been
reading a story of one that amused
US very much. It seemed that about q
dozen men had got into a melee with
bowie-knives. and were siashing each other
fearfuliy. The Mayor, a puffy little
brsgadocio appeared upon the scene, with
two constables at his back, mounted
horse block at the corner and With great
pomposity began to read the Riot Act.
He was interrupted by a pistol shot
Shouting murder" he instantly tumbled
to the ground and squatted behind the
block, creating such laughter among the
that they Involuntary desist-
ed from their bloody work.
fernando, in its present summer array,
placed in an amphitheatre of gently swell
ing hills, green with grass, and Swallowed
by the trees spared by the settlers axes.
now grown to fairest proportions, is
pleasant to look upon ; though when you
come out here, and get off at our depot,