The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-03-20
OVER THE STATE.

pui uSstu.
Small Pox is said to be raging
among the negroes on certain plan
tations in Holmes county.
The Holly Springs Reporter no.
tees a great many able bodied ne
groes wandering from house to
house begging for food.
Another Radical incendiary has
cotton his. reward Ames has APP
pointed w. B. Sullivan Sheriff and
Tax Collector of Bolivar county.
The telegraph says that J. l.. Lake
will not be superseded as United
States Marshal, Southern District
Mississippi.
Weekly Copiahan We are pleas
cd to learn that quite a number of
our farming friends are planting
sugar cane, preparatory to making
their own sugar and syrup.
Mr.. Morton of Kemper county was
fired at and wounded last Friday
night by two negroes, who were ar
rested and confessed the crime
Another s'Southern outrage"
Pease, who drew pay as senator
for Mississippi during the last ses-
sion of Congress, has been halted
in Washington to answer in a libel
suit instituted by one Albert Fisk.
Lieut.. Governor Davis was in
Vicksburg the other day. One of
the local papers alludes to him as
the whitest of the yellow negroes,
and classes him whittier than some
white men.
w. W. Dedrick has been appoint
cd, by the President, United States
District Attorney for the Southern
District of Mississippi, vice Branna-
gan, resigned L: lis probable that
Gen. Dedrick will be confirmed.
CarrolIton Conservative: The
prospect of the Greenville, CoIum
bus & Birmingham Railroad has
again assumed a cheering aspect,
and we hope to hear the scream OF
the iron horse at an early day.
The Changers of Colfax county
are undertaking to look after
The interests of the tax payers,
and are doing good WORK. Last
week they employed an Attorney
C &, ;oI
they intend to look into matters
generally.
DR.. Edward Lea, Superintendent
of the Blind Institute, has resigned
his position and been succeeded by
DR.. w. S. Langly. DR.. Lea's reason
vote himself wholly TO his extern
sivc practice in diseases of the eye.
A brakesman of the 81. & O. r. r.
met with his death last Sunday
morning at Lauderdale. The freight
train having stopped there. he was
engaged in coupling cars when he
stepped on piece of rotten wood,
which caused him to fall, tho car
passing over him and killing him.
Winona Advance: Mr.. Solomon
Forchand dropped dead ut his pillow
in the field while planting potatoes
last Thursday. He sent his daugh-
ter to the house for a piece of to-
bacco, and when she returned she
found her father lying dead. Mr..
Forehand was an old and esteemed
citizen, and his death will be regret
cd by wide circle of friends.
Hons. r. NJ. D. Feemster, of
Lowdncs, Jno. w. Chandler, Of Nox-
ubec, and l.. w. Mackcy, of DeSoto,
were expelled from the Rspubli can
caucus late in the last session of the
Legislature because they refused to
favor the bill separating the offices
OF Sheriff and tax-collector and pro-
viding for the appointment of the
latter Office by the Governor.
Lowdncs Independent Mr.. p. B
Taylor informs us that five ne .rocs,
charged with robbiny the bodies OF
Mr.. Cohen and wife, after the lorna
do two weeks ago, were arrested
last week, and have been lodged in
the Pirkcnsville Jail. Various ru-
mors are afloat as to the amount
stolcn-one raging as high as 81 100.
Mr. Taylor says about $50 have
been recovered so far as heard from
Hon. F. III. Little, who represented
the counties of Monroe and Chicka-
SAW in the State Senate, has resign
ed. Capt. Little is entitled to the
credit of having inaugnratcd most
of the few reform measures adopted |
at the present session, ard retired
from the body of which he was
member with a more respectable re-
puiation as Legislator than any
other Republican in either house
can Claim.