The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18

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the MANNED Confederate soldiers Of Hs9r
gia with artificial limbs, a contemplaf'
by an act Of the last legislature.
! Last Friday the Eagle and Phell
Eeotton mills at Columbus Ga, gold ~,
900 worth Of their products-Resqu
plaids and ball sewing thread.
james Rice, confined in jail at Yh
land, Ala, for giving his step-daug te
medicine 70 produce abortion, hung I'm
self in his cell Friday morning.
Orangefeld, O. o. Democrat: Alag.
number Of trains are employed n6w-c
the South Carolina railroad than az an
previous time 10 move the freight.
The Cincinnati Times says that diu
I ing the past six months five cobnie
have gone from Cincinnati to SETH o
lands IN Tennessee and Alabama.
Rev w G. Veal, Of the Methods
Episcopal Church South, Of Texas ha
been dcp0sed from the ministry On at
count Of charges Of gross immortality.
The Lancaster, Is. CD Ledger say
that number Of persons who emigrau
a. Texas last year are coming back
their old homes in Lancaster couny->..
Texas exports SJ0,00O,00Q wo1b /
exports annually and the tTOesb@
| New Era says that if ii were ny for e
'''.r.- '------' LOTTO s''''9 ka<S M :
Upon the resignation, lastt ~
Shaw, superintendent of the TtIfI,.ntU
| and Petersburg railroad, he was trcss,tJ
by the employees with an elegant goll
watch
A fire started in cotton gin / VIM
boro, :. G., the other day, and bfore it
could be checked three cottages and .
colored Methodist church wa he
-troyed.
Thursday afternoon negro roms,
and her child were burned togethF ina
house in Union county, :. G. Inc fire
was caused from wood chimneSNtcl-
ing fire.
a colored woman, about fifty var. od
and in feeble health, while alone in lrr
residence in Richmond, Va, last Satu'-
day evening, caught fire and was burnd |
to death.
A meeting Of farmers will he leld At !
llender'onyillc, y. G., this week 10 cat, |
slider the adyisability Of plantineh large
crop of tobacco in Henderson county !
next year,
Carrolton, Ga, charges License of |
-, 800 for the privilege Of selling liquor
IN that town by the quart or les, and |
-, 600 for selling it in amount more
than quart.
The Gulf City Steamship company.
Of Mobile, Ala, has advices from elias
gov, Scotland, that the fast steamship
built for the company has jus, been
launched and will soon reach Mobile.
There are 75I patients in the Georgia
state Lunatic Asylum. The current
Expenses Of the institution amounted
q $50, 629, 10, an average Of expense per
'apita per diem of 80 $40 cents.
in Washington county, Mississippi
olored man was elected circuit clerk
'yer two white competitors. He was
.oted for by good many white peopldk
n the score of superior fitness and RELIC |,
'ility. y f
A. 4; !! / lillian, 8 qq 9FiGis5 ap a.
I'd suicide the other day. He lied 4
ape around his neck, fixed it to the limb
a tree and then shot himself through
ne brain.
The Raleigh N. O. Observer is of
le opinion that the reports of the As
'ssors for the present year will show an
Icroase of the valuation of property in !
lat state over last years figures of$l,-
10, 600.
The city of Richmond, Va, is asked
contribute $4,000 for railroad up
e James river, such road to be CON G
ructcd under the auspices of the James :
liver and Kanawha Canal Company. Il
Nashville American: Lightning en- a
red the capitol Monday via the tele- O
one wires and produced loud reports /
the rotunda, in the comptrol lcr's of. "
e and in that of the clerk of the SUI v
emo court Il
The owners of established factories in II
'orgia complain of the legislative ex- St
ption of new factories from taxationA
ten years, and il is said that the valid &
of the exemption is to be tested in W
; courts. r,
- hNhpulk NISiildu OHt Oh the ~
st remarkable results of the late cleo al
u in Virginia was that in which an old ii
itician who had been frequently al
rted TO the legislature, was defeated m
his former slave. W
charleston Is. CO. News: In the past Ia
&c days three large steamships have &C
sed out from this port for European az III
Is with about 10000 bales of cotton, -
on a Submersion of sixteen and II
+ to over eighteen feet.
The law passed at the last session of IN
Alabama legislature, prohibiting the 10 -,
ing of cotton in seed, has been deci- ~
unconstitutional by the Circuit, court -
Lowndes county An apPes4 -s-sl- 10. ~ -.
cn TO the supreme court. ~
he Journal SAYS immense beds of salt he
e been found in the Elm fork Of the rel
Wichita, Seventy-ive miles west Of q,
nrletta. Texas. Two wagons loaded he
Ia 1000 pounds Of the salt sold in nj
nuetta last week at one and a half Va
{, pound. IA.
he Georgia Legislature, at it, Last ses-
J, enacted o law prohibiting the sale
immoral or obscene literature, and ~
u : rumored that the next grand ~
Will indict all vendors Of Police Ga ~
cs and other similar illustrated nlpcrs ~
Ter the law. les'