The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-03-11
OVER THE STATE.

BrOOkhaVen has hau Martina
Washington tea party.
Wheat looks well in Carroll coun.
ty, and an unusual quantity of oats
has been sown.
Times: The city sexton reports
ten deaths in jackson, during the
month of February.
Ficksburg is the metropolis OF
Mississippi to the extent of having
a $650,000 city debt.
The Holmes County Aegis il
dead. 1t died for want of funds
and an overdose Of unfulfilled prom.
Uses. 1t was a good paper willie il
lived, and should have been sustain.
ed.
The Natchez Democrat says that
the Natchcz L Jackson Railroad
Company are having built at that
city n neat and commodious freight
warehouse and Office on tho lot al
the city terminus of the road.
Gen. A. J. Smith the able editor
of the Brandon Republican, and a
gallant soldier of the Lost Cause, is
suggested for State Superintendent
of Education, vice Il. W. Cardoza,
the impeached and soon to be con-
victcd thief and forger.
Scott County Democrat: On last
Monday negro woman, on Mr..
Pettus' place, six miles south OF
Morton, left her child alone in the
cabin, and returning in a few hours
found the house burned to the
ground, and the remains of her
child in the ruins.
Aberdeen Examiner: The ship
men.s of cotton from Aberdeen for
the week ending Wednesday, March
LIST, by railroad, amounted to 381
bales; by river. $50 bales, total for
the week, 631 bales. Total ship
ments for the season commencing
September LIST, 1875, to March LIST,
1876, amount to IL, 400 bales.
The Vicksburg Herald reports the
appearance of number of rabid
dogs on the Halls Ferry road, and
acting on the principle that an ounce
of prevention is worth . pound OF
cure suggests to the city auth critics
the propriety of taking some pre-
cautionary measures against these
animals, and to the Legislature the
propricty ola dog-tax law.
Grenada Sentinel: A few nights
since some one entered the Episco-
pal Church here, and stole from it
about $40 worth Of property, in
Guiding large Bible. IF the party
took the Bible for their own use,
there might be some excuse, but the
other articles can be of no use to
any one save a minister. Let the
thief take time by the forclock, and
return the articles.
StarkvlIle Cor. Meridian Mercu-
~ Mr.. Whitehead, of Meridian, a
photograph artist, in difficulty
last Saturday with Mr.. Bardwell,
who is a magistrate of this town,
stabbed the latter with a pocket
knife, inflicting a serious if not IA
tai wound. The trouble grew out
of Bartiwell's attempt to attach some
tools, the property of Whitehead
Whitehead is under arrest.
Lexington Advertiser II. S. Al
len, Esq, met with an accident near
Ebendzer, one day this week. He
was driving in a buggy and his
horse ran into a deep gully and
things up pretty lively.
Mr.. Allen escaped without any in
juries, but that buggy is total
wreck. 1t was brought to town in
q wagon yesterday morning. The
roads should be looked after in that
portion of the county.
Kosciusko Star: We understand
that there are sOme negroes sick at
Factory in this county,
and that the physicians call their
disease smallpox. Several weeks
ngo an old culored man came home
from Grenada sick, and had, as was
then pronounced, measles, from
which he died /; but the subsequent
appearance of smallpox leads to
Inc supposition that the old man
lied with this fell disease.
Peoples Defense, jackson, Miss ;:
Mr.. William Armstrong, one of the
best citizens Of Lawrence county,
living some six miles north of Mon
icelIo, was killed on Saturday night
,r Sunday morning last. by me-
gro man, who is now lodged in jail
his trial. The sad event
,reatcd great excitement. and it was
With the utmost difficulty that the
.ooler and more thoughtful people
Il Monticello coHld shield tho mur-
lerer from summary vengeance at
he hands of the exasperatcd popu-
ace. We get these facts by private
etter written from Monticello.
Peoples Defense, Jackson, Miss:
The people of Jackson have been
with interest for the prom
sed steamboat, which in to run on
Pearl river. The boat has arrived at |
'ur port, and brought down a heavy
Dad of lumber. .Ehe machinery |
vas manufactured here by John
icDOnald l. Co, and will be imme-
lately placed upon the boat. This
raft is commanded by Capt. III. E.
ilasscock, and is intended to run |
this place and Carthage,
n IIeake county. We are fully |
the enterprise will be q
'erfcct success, as the right men
ave taken hold Of it, and they have
he energy and means to push it
trough.
kosciusko Star: A few nights
go some one entered the sleeping
partmont of Judge D. Carr, of this
lace, who was sick at the time, and
yhile he was in sound sleep, stole
Is pants, coat, twenty dollars in
old and ten dollars in greenbacks;
nc thief then went to an clubhouse
nd made off with a saddle. So
If as we know the Judge has no
Iue to the perpetrator of The daring
but the evidences point
, the fact that it was resident of
ais vicinity, evidently familiar with
,e residence of Judge Carr, and
ognizant of his enfeebled condition.
90 much care cannot be given to