The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-01-10
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'er' sably efficient, when the voters wcr
petitiOning to the Legislature 10 form
the new county. If the greed Of grain
Or has been unappeased, and the selfisl
,y- aim of some grasping mind defeated
-rv all the ends of retIfbutivc justice ar,
an gained and the fact comes to be al
trs argument in any further case, for OF
is against the county; and neither
III right or policy, justify its introduction
il into the body of this petition. If such
Id motives exist, or may be subject to
re exist, they are legitimate arguments
er at the right time the right place and
+, under the right circumstances all Of
1T which will presently be found for
D. them.
IT The county has comfortable Court
'e house and building, that, with small
y repairs, can be convertcdin to as
: nice and Comfortable a Jail as
any signer of the petition could
: possibly expect to occupy. There is a
= great losseness in the calculating fac.
ultles pr the petitioners, or they re-
quire princely accommodation while
Ill durance, manifested in their esti-
mate of the land tax requiree to fit IN
a county for housekeeping.
There has been less crime commit
ted, especially crime of aggravated
character, in this county, since lis for
nation, than, perhaps in any other
in the State. Theunfair and unfound-
cd allusion to the court of judge
Lynch, to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. a horrible crime was perpetrafed
by brutal negro, and it is believed
that his life was taken by an injured
white lady's friends No other case
Of lynching has ever occurred in Quit
man.
But the strangest part comes next.
Why on earth the petitioners seem
to hate themselves and their county
because they failed to support "seycraE
lawyers is Il puzzle. "Whcro the
carcassits, there will the eagles be as
sembled together There was n9
lack Of lawyers of ability at our court
at the last term. They viii not be
scarce at the next. Petitioners must
lltlgate more. They must steal large,
ly. Murder each other frgouentlv.
Then they will have lawyers enough.
sufficient to the day are the evils
IaWyers) thereof" (Sol.) Or why
.hey are supposed to see economy in
going 40 miles to pay out the little
mounts they may have to help the
aWyers withal, in preference to pay
hS 1t half that distance nearer home.
3 curious question. The dWc1Icrs
N 1ockanapatawpa and Tallahatchip
re requested to petition for the priv
ege of going to Jonestown to serve -.
lrors to pay their taxes, to record
lelf deeds to lands, to make their
ectlon returns, and all other official
'ncerns, instead of transactinn all
lese things at home, Why?
But, that petition was not written
Belen, nor conceived in the sin.
III brought forth in the iniqufty Gf
fchance thete be such things therc}
sweet COahoma. If citizens Of
utman wish to sign Il petition for
alr extinction, let them base their
non on correct grounds, and cmbody
their prayer, reasonably presume
facts.
let them "humbly rcpent7 that
Courthouse Of Coahoma is at
1serously precarious concern, and
'homa would like 10 tax our in
vent estates to builda new one.
urther showing, our friends at
estoWn desire our votes, to helm
m beat the men of CIarks,laIc for
location Of that Court house; for
'oh, if Jamestown gets the county
town property there viii go up
price, and condition of our GOOD
IDS there (solventl will find their
rests greatly embraced.
lrther shOwing-our county is only
tile one horse DemOcratic-to-th.
.-bone concern, and can thus he
5ed into one where Republican,
'flty, always possible, can swal-
up our Representative force.
is hardly probable that the wri-
Of the now extant petition, will
&c any fraud in the Jonestown
house argument in the above.
stute observer may find fraud in
lshlng a county, for the purpose
Hing land but to annihiIatr %
y for a similar purposc-wcL
another thing. Another reason
luitman men pctitioniug lo lr
'd out, may be found in the ,art
he men Of Coahoma so hiaIiv
clate the "inetlicicu. Officers ,r
Ii some Of their W vi.cst ANA host
assured one of the meiHci.uis
1t is their purpose To eIcc, 81
l from this region, il llc pra,--
he polititionyrs Is granted.
tman county is now about outaT
pays for her bridges Cshc ba-
" built scvcraD in currency =.
ounty paper at par. Her fat &
are being taken up, and ma.,.
INDUSTRIOUS and "solvent' mo-
identifying themselves viii,
erests. Shall big Sisv catbc,s
WANFARER.