American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-20
Among Our Exchanges.

We are in receipt OF the initial
number of the Carroll Courier, a
neatly printed and spicy Democratic
weekly, edited aud published by A.
c. Durdin, at Carrollton, Miss.
Mr., W. A. henry, formerly OF
Brookhaven, has become associate
editor and publisher Of the Yazoo
Sentinel. TIE paper has been
doubled in size, and is now q six.
column quartO.
Gen. Jos. II. Davis has sold the
Seashore Gazette to Messrs. l.. 2.
Odom and II. =. Beeman. The
new publishers are practical prin~
t-rs, and will doubtless make IA sue
cess of their paper. They have our
best wishes.
Our old friend Maj. Balance, of
the MeadeviIIe Banner, has charm
or named Maggie, who writes very
fiattcriug letter abnut his paper,
and winds up, .sNOw don't let any of
The her girls know | am writing
to you." Yet he prints it. All I!
Balance. you young fellows arc too
bad-tOO bad.
MIR. Sam. Patton, late ofthe Su H.
mil Times, has become junior editor
of that excellent Democratic journal
the Holly Springs South. With
the veteran Col. Tyler at the head
and Mr.. Patton to assist, the So"h
will be even II better paper than
her-tofOre, and il soon to be en-
larged to ten columns.
The able and exhaustive paper
published in the Clarion, entitled
"The Yazoo affair considered in its
legal and moral relations to sOci-
ety." by Gen. JnO. ID. Freeman, is a
complete and invinclbie retutatiOu
OF the ISLANDERS against our people.
We trust it will be extensively cir~
culated By Democratic papers in
the North.
Since Col. Horn, Of the Meridian
Mercury, got on such a hot trail
after tho senatoIship we have
thought of following the example OF
the Indianapolis paper that asked
to have the NJ, mphis Avalanche
it's lex" during the
for fear thai office Seek
ing, like yellow fever, might br
catching" But we couldn't do
without the wIng-i, Oted messenger,
and 80 took the risk Of getting ill.,
fected.
Our esteemed friend Mai. Glen.
Davis, is now editor of that lively
little daily, the Vlcksburg CONNER
c;al. Glenn. is Il fine printer, an en-
ergetic and popular business man,
and his long connection with the
press and very extensive personal
throughout the South,
will doubtless prove of much benefit
to the Coma ercidt. In short he is ID
bovine lad with vItreOus optic,
and Will keep the paper up to the
81 audard. There's nothing slow
i, bout Glenn.
The jackson CONT is one OF the
most entertaining papers that come
to our table. The contributions of
u "Mississippi Taxpayer" on the
industrial situation are worthy of
careful perusal by all who desire to
know the causes of the present dis
tress (hard times) and the remedies;
and the article of Dougald Dial
getty on the subject of education is
he richest piece of humorous satire
that has appeared since the "Geor-
gia Scenes"
The opening OF fall trade was
marked in Yazoo City by the APP
pearance of an al. for almost every
business house in the town, in the
The issue of Sept. 9Th was
he most prOsperous-looking coun>
Try paper we have ever seen in this
,pctiOn, and speIks loudly for the
public spirit of YazOO merchants
md the enterprise and push OF the
Herald editor and publisher. They
to enlarge their paper, but
We here record our opinion shat it is
big enough aud good enough for
anybody.