Mississippi Democrat. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1875-1???, 1876-08-05

| lhe tnueDtCuhe@s of ihlCkAsaV
county on July Is, 1876, was els,
ga 81.
i In Canton, few days since. IA
warl Sulm accidentally shot an,
killed. Arthur Mur-ell They uer,
both boys AMI the shooting was don,
with n pistol
Adyicc~ from Raymond say thai
Capt. 2 w Shearcr, Who vas thrown
from his buggy near that place las
Tuesday, = very scrioasly, though
not dan .crou-ly hurt.--Tribune.
ColumLu- has new enterprise in
the way 81 urunk manuiactor,
Mr.. WcIuiield showed us some very
substantial truuk- ot his make
and informed "a that be could put
up any character OF trunk Col.
umbuS Index.
From the Canton CitlSen, We lcarn
that Lncy Ilnnvcr, of Madison
comfy. accidentally shot and killed
her lover, Alex. Ia ker. while Gpni.
ishly trying 10 take pistol away
irom him. The ball passed through
her right hand and penetrated Young
Fucker len side, from the effect, %:
which he dl,d IN lew momsntr.
Ten years agp VIM. Fuv waS
marier,d in Goodman, Miss, by
Thomas Ozark. who e@apcd The
sister OF Foy continued a -earch for
the criminal almost inccssantly, yis
Iiing = veraI States and spending a
large sum ~ money. until now she
has discovered hm in Texas. lie
will probably b. convicted and
hanged.-Ex.
The following named troops have
been detailed for duty m Mississippi
20 "brvak tic Confederate front.
Gen. Anger il chief conL and bottle
washer: Five COMPANIES of the 18Th
Infantry, ana two ~ the 10th occupy
posts ia MlSsi~Stppi, viz Company
A and |, 18th Infantry, at Nlck.
burg; Companies G. and X. at
Holly SPRING; Company II a. Port
Gibson, and Company Is aud II, 10th
Infantry, a, Jackson.
Tho Satartis Sentinel SAYS, ave
are called upon again g. ehrouiclc the
deei of the assassin. Yesterday
morning Eugcnc Briggs was hoeing
in bis field near the house whcr
some unknown person, concealed on
the outside. fred on him with /. gun
loaded with buckshot, or supposed
TO b., striking him Ia the breast. lie
ran a short distance aud tell, mort
ally wounded, aud lived only a short
time.
The expense of running the State
Government during the SIX years II
Radical rule amounted 10 STTT,3t0
annually. Our reform Legislature
has reduced Il - tl.al il will be only
s200,90 saving the State s576, i35.
Thi~ is the work of a Democratic
Legislature, who, as they hal prom
ised, went vigorously 30 work far ~.
trenchmeu,, aud the result of their
labors will save the State at least
two-thirds Of what the Radical Log.
islature would have expended.-Ex
change.
We learn through Mr.. Z. Rich.
ardson that the caterpillar has ap.
peared in large force on hIs planta
tons in the Mississippi nvsr dis.
triet, and that the cotton crop OF
that whole reglonIs threatened with
destruction by the insect. The effect
Of its depredations thus early In the
season will be % destroy the cron
literally. The intelligence is very
distressing TO the cotton planting IN,
terest In which the prosperity oI
all other classes l. more or less Ia.
volyed, especially the mercantile
Clarion.
John r. Lynch, the negroes can
didate for Congress from this disirieI
10 probably not a Hayes man in the
full sense Of the term, or win not b
IL Hayes carries out his ''ref5rT
within," - he says In his letter o
aceeptance. Lynch, we understand
had promised post-offiees and othei
positions 10 all the delegates In th,
convention which nominated him fol
Congress, aud according 90 the le,
Ter Of acceptance Lynch viii hav'
no voice In sneh appointments
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