American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-03-20
Mississippi I.eD3s.


County boards Of registration are
abolished, and hereafter tho Circuit
Clerk Will register voters.
The Legislature decliHed 20 levy
a tax on dogs, i'u: lett IL optionary
with boards, ct supervisors 10 levy
a dog-tax for county PURPOSES.
The late Legislature passed a
beautiful and appropriate resolution
of thanks to the charitable people
throu ghout the world who extended
aid to the sufferers from the yellow
fever epidemic.
G. Q'Hail has been reapnointed
and confirmed az superintendent
Leake County pubic schools. lie
is one of the most public spirited
and worthy officers OF that demons
ination in the State.
The Caythagiqiaa says n good
black smith can hear of something
TO his advantage by communicating
with taat Office. We suppose Cars
Get wants an artist in iron TO locate
at the metropolis of Leake.
Parties interested should bear in
m;ad that lands which have been
sold to the State are no longer res
leemable or purchasable through
tho Chancery Clerks or Sheriffs'
Offices, but under the new law the
application must be made to The
Auditor at Jackson:
The Yazoo Valley Flag states that
Col. Ed. Richardson, John Chaffe
and other capitalists interested in
lands along the route, have made
or are making arrangements to
divert tue so called Mobile &North-
western railroad from Clarksdale.
on the Sunhower river, down CASH
ty's Bayou to Grenada,
Meridian Mercury: The case
against the Gully boys, in the KEN
per court, was continued Friday till
next term, because of the impossi-
bili.y to get jury. In the forenoon
of Friday the eighth juror was Oh.
tanned, bnt all jury material being
exhausted-over three hundred men
having been examined--it was found
impossible to proceed farther with
the case.
Clarion: Tho trustees of the
Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
.lege will meet in Jackson On Thurs
day, April LIST, 10 arrange for the
erection of additional buildings, and
10 elect President. In this latte
connection the names OF Prof. L. S.
Gathright, Gen. Stephen ID. Lee,
lev. CT. S. Roude bush, Col. George
NJ. Edgar. OF Anchorage, Ky, are
spoken of. The trustees are anxious
to get the right man for the place,
and we have no doubt there will be
ample good material from which to
make the selection.
Governor Stone, in a special mes
sage, transmitted to the Senate the
following proposition IRON the late
DIR. G. NJ. Walden. embodied in %
codicil to his will "I desire my
executor to propose to the State of
Mississippi TO set aside fifty thous>
and dollars, and the State a like
amount, the State TO pay annually
eight per cent. interest, sacred to
the education OF poor young men at
Oxford, on my mess system, which
I hope to live long enough to ex>
plain and SLOW its great utility ard
benefit to the State at large The
proposition was referred to the
committee on universities.
.Yazeo City Herald: Mr.. John
Uutciens, a soldier in the Florida
waE, and, NOW sixty -four years old
made last year, on hill hand, ten.
baics Of cotton and eighty bushels
of corn with his individual labor,
except what he hired for the sum of
niue dollars. The lands he. cultiwat-
ed lay two miles from his house,
which distance be walked morning
and evening. The net proceeds OF
his cotton amounted to the sum Of
$5033i. This shows whether a
white man can stand the labor of
this climate. Can Kansas beat it?
We should have mentioned before
that the man who did this had one
of his shoulders broken a few years
ago, and this of course rendered
him less fi5 for duty than otherwise
would have been the case. The
veteran Hutchens has set a good
example to the youth of our State.