The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-17

cd the sheriff to deliver the priso-
ner. He made o full confession.
The excitement Immediately sub
sided.
Prentiss Plcadcr: Four days of
Circuit Court for the first district
of Chickasaw county, at Houston,
were consumed in trying q cause
involving $50. The expense of
the court, exclusive Of the loss to
individuals, was 1927 per day, thus
ayyre eating 81, BOB. Thus the coun-
" coulI have paid both litigants
their claim and saved over 81 900
by the transaction. But what is
still worse, the jury failed to agree,
and probably similar expense will
be incurred at the next term.
Aberdeen Examiner: Tho pain
full intelligence was received by
telegraph from Okolona, on We'd
nesday, that our feliow-cltizen, DIR.
Emmett Williams, had been drown
ell in few miles from town. 1t
seems that he and others wore out
fishing, and while separated from
his l.arty, he tell in an apoplectic fl:
and drowned before his friends
could reach him.
DR.. Williams WAS born and raise
in Aberdeen, where many of tho
friends of his youth and manhood
will long mourn his un,imeIy fate.
Lexington Advertiser: Last Tues.
day evening the com nunitics OF
Pickcns Stations and Richland were
terribly shocked Mt the murder OF 7
I'll. Pickens II young gentleman OF
about "a wears Of aye, and son of J
J. Pickcns. of R;chiand. As soon ~
we hearl the nevs mere o deputy
sheriff, accompanied hy two of ou'
Young townsmen, went to the neigh
borhood for the purpose of aiding
in the arrest OF the ASSASSIN; and up"r
their return we learn tho following
particulars: Mr.. Pickcns, who had
bu, recently been appointed sdePu
ly sheriff 10 collect delinquent taxe
in that part oi tn. county, had levied
upoa some property Of ono Edmund
Orange, colorrd man, out Of which
TO make EdmHnd's tax. Edmunt
claimed tho property AS exempt
and sued the collector for it's posse.
sion, but upon tho trial At Piekens
/ Station was defeated. After ih'
trial the parties had al altcrcutior
in which the negro received n consid'
orabl.. drubbing with his own stick
with which he had attempted Il
strike the collector, but he was not
seriously hurt. lie wont home,
procured his duublc-barrcl shotgun
and while in the act OF loading it
informed negro woman that ht
! intended TO kill Herbert "Pickons
at the same tilno exhibiting to her
view the shot and sluys with which
he was charging the weapon. At 4
later date, as Mr. Philip Tackett wa
passing from his plantation to Pick
ens Station, and when about q mile
and II half from that town. his Atten
lion was called by u negro woman to
the fact that man was lying on the
roadside. Mr.. r., upon an exam:n
alton, recognized the body Of young
Pickcns, entirely devoid Of life. We
also hear that the assassin, IN pas.
ing across field in tho Hci;shborhoot
informed another colorcd man thai
he had committed the decd, and tina,
he would leave the State, since whcr
he has not been heard Of. The dcpu
~ Sheriff and other young m.'n from
Lexington, hearing that Orange had
f lends and acquaintance on Bee
Lake, went to that neighborho"', Il
.ok tor ann. but could hear nothing
from him. The proceedings ol .
citizens meeting at Richland upon
the -ad occasion will be found in al,
other place, and We hope that their
c:iprss L" secure his arrest may b.
successful,