The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-16
MISSISSIPPI.

Cotton picking III this State has begun in
earnest.
The Independent convention will meet in
Yazoo City on the twentieth and nominate
full ticket.
The Democratic Conservative party of
Claiborne has decided to hold a primary cleo
ton.
Viclssburg will raise the quarantine against
New Orleans on the twentieth, Ii no more
fever occurs there.
The Vieksburg Board OF Health announces
tho sanitary condition OF that city as follows !:
Health prevails here to an alarming extent.
r. l., Cooper has been nominated for Sena-
tor III the Fifteenth Senatorial District
Lenke and AttaIa), by Q vote OF 2Oo8 to 9B4
for r. j. Saunders.
Lincoln county held it's convention the
other day, and Instructed for A. II. Longnio
for the Stats and L. Barksdale for United
States Senator.
The crops abr Ut Beachland and Oak Ridge
Warren county, are reported III q very hour
ishing condition and our neighbors In that
portion of tho county are reasonably happy
and prosperous.
III the Clarke county primary election Il. O..
McGee was nominated for the Legislature by
i majority 81 29s over his two opponents.
fhe vote for Senator was split, .. Il. Collins
receiving the largest vote.
OF II. Wright, editor of the Nicksburg Her
aLi, is candidate for the State Senate in
Warren county. No nominations will be made
in Warren, but the field will be thrown open
to all
Twenty-odd bulldozers were Indicted at the
late term OF the Lincoln county Circuit Court
under the rigid Instructions Of Judge Chris
man They were vigorously prosecuted by
District Attorney Cassidy, and the jury stood
nine for conviction and three against.
The press II being recognized in Mississippi
politics. No less than three editors, Dr..
49, ih,f t-r al Yif,rsc II II
Williams OF the Grenada Sentinel and Frank
G. Mcttee Of the Enterprise Courier have
already been nominated for the Legislature.
AS Nj. Carloss, Of Terry, was returning
home about O'Clock after closing Saturdays
business, as he was passing d narrow lane
aim that the charge passed Just over his head.
Three buckshot and a bullet pierced the
weather boarding of q cabin in very good
range.
Cotton picking has commenced in Warren
county, and it will not be many days before
the first bale" viii arrive in Vicksburg. The
crop prospects ale reported good all over the
country, but there Is some fear for cotton for
the reason that worms have already appeared
In several localities.
| Complaints of cotton worms in this county
are becoming daily more general. Mr., Bis
land McCaeb reports that on his place and
Oh that OF Mr. J. G. Showers they are SO plen-
| tiful that one can see them readily In walking
through the fields without searching for
them. This showery weather Is favorable to
their propagation Natchez Democrat.
| There have been several refugees from tho
neighborhood Of Mayersviile In Vicksburg,
since the reported case of yellow fever at that
| place. kilograms received by some Of them
yesterday advise the refugees to return, as
| the yellow fever scare had subsidized We
learn that Nlayersville became almost de-
populated as soon as q case OF yellow fever
| occurred.
Suniiower river is so low that the little
BERTHE Claiborne, drawing twenty inches, oc-
cuped ak days, recently, in making one hun
dred and twenty miles from Vicksburg to the
| Big SuntloWer. 1t was expected that the gov
eminent would improve the river, but this
was SO long delayed that Capt. lookout took
| the matter in his own hands, and is now clear
ing away snags.
Clay county held its convention August 2
and adopted series Of resolutions Among
others was one denouncing the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, as operated, as curse to the
people Of Clay, and calling on the next Lcgis-
lature for the passage OF such law as will
secure to our citizens equal rights and privi-
| leges from said road with any other county
In the State through which said road runs,
and that hereafter all Determinations upon
the part OF said road against this county or
any other county, or any place In any county
shall be prohibited By law.
meeting of some forty citizens on Stems
| 1Ieeh bedL Oh IH'ii Stby' CHtiseu NaJoE D.
i. Su ton, Independent candidate for chancery
clerk Of Rankin county, with arraying the
races, and demanded that he should come
down or risk the consequences, and com.
mittee Of six bore him copy of the
resolutions. Major Sutton is o former
Republican, heave taxpayer, an
old citizen and prominent member OF the
Baptist Church Sutton made their action
known in Brandon and returned home on
Friday A large number of white friends
came to his protection with shot-guns and
pistols, and Saturday Sutton sent the COM
mittee denial Of their charges and declined
to come down When it reached them the
chairman Of the Democratic executive co,u
mittee had assembled the meeting, and they
were discussing the withdraw Of their res
| olutions, which they did, [Vicksburg Herald
/ Deadly City.
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