The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-08

unknown men. while sleeping out 6D
the prairie. All four were shot, but only
two mortally wounded. H. is said that
after the men were shot, tbey were
robbed and the house burned. Tho
names Of the parties shot were /. i.
Olive. who has grocery store here, Mr..
j. Olive, Mr.. Butler and u negro man.
J. L. Olive and Butler will probably re-
cover. but no hope Is entertained for j 4.
Olive aud the negro.
MISSISSIPPI.
The debt Of Kemper county is
S23 21 "a.
The Raymond Gazette complains that
Gov. Stone pardons too many criminals.
Natchez people complain that that
city pays three fourths Of the Adams
county taxes.
The Widen Record. an extreme Bour.
bon paper, Is out against Tilden and
Hendricks.
The Postoffice Department has
ordered the postotflce at Buena Vista,
Chickasaw county, to be discontinued
Mail matter for that place will go to
Egypt hereafter.
The Board Of Trustees Of the Univer-
sity of Mississippi are zealocsly labor
ing for that Institution, and are prepar-
ing an address to the people. showing
Nearly u thousand head of sheep have
been added to the focks of Monroe
county within the last sixty days. and
fully as many more will probably be
brought to the county by the end Of
September.
The Radicals held large meeting in
Okolona. The Mississippi Democrats
had better be careful; the party of in
fanny is apparently not yet dead.
The bridge over East Pearl river Is to
be opened. The long pending case Of
the Pearl river people against the rail
road company, about opening Pearl
river bridge, has at last been decided by
the Supreme Court against the railroad
On last Sunday morning the usually
quiet town of Holmesville was the
scene of q cruel. cold-blooded murder.
Elias Garner and JEFF. Conerly, botl,
colored, had a dispute while engaged in
playing a game Of base ball, which cul-
minated in Garner shooting Conerly
with pistol. The circumstances which
led to the killing are reported to have
been Of the most frivolous nature.
Natchez is troubled at the ways OF
small boys who fly kites at night with
lanterns tied to their tails and uninten-
tionally become dangerous incendiaries
We learn it is the intention OF the re-
H. u
killed by the train at Biloxi last Wed
nesday week, to sue the railroad com
pany for damages.
A Tilden and Hendricks flag pole will
be raised at Fayette on the 14th inst.
and arrangements are being made for "A
grand demonstration on that day A
flag staff raising, torchlight procession
etc, is announced for Rodney on the
10th.
AT a funeral near Raymond, the other
day, the horses Of the carriages ran
away, seriously injuriEg six persons.
1t WAS announced at first that two oil
the wounded would die. 1t seems, how
ever, rs ii there were no chances OF
saving them.
A Radical paper publis he'd atAus tin,
Tunica county, and styled the Cotton,
Plant, thinks that Hayes and Wheeler
cannot possibly carry Mississippi. 1t
does not charge 1t on intimidation, but
says that the mass OF the Radical voters
is disgusted with the Radical leaders OF
that State.
1t Is said that almost all the domes-
tics now sold at wholesale and retail in
Mississippi, are manufactured in that
State at the Stonewall, Pioneer, and
Wesson Mills. The progress made in
the last few years Is immense.
AACIO 0lC INV OuIy uNC live
men In the city Of Natchez, and as it
takes vote Of six aldermen to do any
thing with the subordinate city officers.
the said subordinates can, until an cleo
ton be held, do as they please with inn
punity.
The Jefferson county people are pre-
pairing for big ttime next Monday
week, August IA, when Gen. Chalmers
will speak to them. They are to have
the Senatorial Convention to nominate
for the district composed OF Franklin
and Jefferson counties, and in connec.
ton with it they will raise tall TiIden
and Hendricks pole and fly handsome
banner therefrom as beacon Of sue
cess.
The Congressional Convention at
Meridian nominated eX-Judge VIM. M.
Hancock as the Republican candidate
for Congress in the Fourth District.
He was secession stump speaker in
1861, but went over to the enemy in 1865,
aud has slept in Radical bed ever
since. His chances OF election are as
slim as his capacity for the position to
which he aspires is contracted.
The colored Democratic barbecue in
Scott county Friday was largely at
tended, and everything passed off quiet
ly and armoniously. The coIored peo-
pie OF our neighborhood are almost a
unit on Democracy, and, il we are to
judge from the speeches Of several on
that occasion, are as Jealous as the
w hitoS for rofprpo obanna aF o1