The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-16
RUNNING COMMENTS,

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He gave his friend Deason ventilla
tion--perhaps we ought TO say, a drub
bing-but Col. ID. wisely keeps out q
the range of his fire. Pike county
one-sided for Hancock, English, ant
Hooker. The Radical party Is Yer,
dead, and the Grcenback party wa
never born in this county. How coult
it be otherwise, with four stauncl
Democratic newspapers to strike ter
ror to all such political heresies? Tn,
colored people are reconciled to admit
the whites on terms Of political equal
ity, and TO give them some chance tC
help govern the country. They are
going to vote for Hancock and Hooker
from choice, if the Radical bulldozer,
don't fall down ON them, and make
them afraid by telling them that such
vote leads directly to perdition and
slavery.
Summit holds its own, but its neigh
boring city, McComb, seems to have
absorbed most of its growth for the
last six or eight years. During the
month of September and up to the 10th
of October, it shipped 1885 bales of
cotton which i more by l6S bales than
for any corresponding period in the
last decade. Most of the old pioneers
of the town are still here and doing
we'll Among whom may be men,
toned the clever and prominent firms
of Hitler & Co., Hyman Il Bro. Ben
Hilborn e. Co., Levy Il Noise, G. E.
Teunisson, Jno. II. Mills, VIM, A.
Boyd Il Co. This is the home of
Judge ID. w. Hurst, whose head
holds one of the most massive
brains in the United States. Here,
also, lives that gifted and analytical
lawyer Judge Hiram Cassidy, ST.
These two men have no superiors at
the bar in the State, and though old
age is gradually creeping upon them,
yet when either appears before a jury
or Il court, the pondcrous vigor and
quick brilliancy of thcr prime is still
manifest.
a UNIVERSAL GENIUS.
Capt. Geo. r. Gracy still holds the
fort at the depot being railroad agent,
express agent, insurance agent,
printer, publisher, editor, author, lee
turer, proprietor of the "Lyceum,"
manager of all the amateur shows,
and the leading spirit in the direction
and promotion of the Peabody Public
School, Il fiourishing institution of $50
pupils under the principalship of Miss
Flora Bennett.
1t has been remarked before that
there lives in this State but one man
who could equal Gracy in the dis
patch of clerical work-that man is
Col. Power, of the Clarion. Power
can write as many letters, shape up as
many papers, and keep as busy as
Gracy, but it is doubtful whether the
former has the facility of the latter in
turning from one thing to another,
and of giving the thing turned to, the
benefit of his entire mind for the time
he is engaged on it. If Power was
absorbed in yellow fever statistics, it
would possibly ruffle his temper some
what to be called on to make up bal
ance sheet of mackerel, pigs feet, lum-
Der, cotton, etc, daily invoiced from
the Summit depot. But it wouldn't
disturb Crazy. If Power was laboring
upon the elaboration of Sunday
School plan for the evangelization OF
the youth of the land, he would, per-
haps, be slightly put out if some cold
blooded and Unconditional correspond
ent should demand the preparation
and production of a statement of his
lodge dues.
But Gracey would be ready and pre-
pared for all such cases. If Power
wa engaged in building up set
speech in favor of the public schools,
he might not relish call for his SER
vices to take the leading role in an
amateur Pinafore troupe. And if he
did yield to Il departure in Pinafore,
he would doubtless find some difficulty
in beginning at the place where he
left off in the architecture of his pub
lie school speech. But with Gracey all
this would be easy and natural.
We conclude, then, that in the mat
ter of despatch, Capt. Gracey Is the
equal of Col. Power, and in the article
of adaptation, the superior.
Gracey never rests--never jokes
never gOssips - never talks, except
when business is the theme, or his
wife and little children are the audi
tors. He walks fast, he thinks fast,
he eats fast, he sleeps fast, he works
fast. 1t is not eXtravagant to say that
he does the work of four average men,
anu AiOJE IL we'll hC SICuI
st. Louis and n. o. Railroad would
probably stop running if any catastro
phe should remove Gracey from the
depot of Summit. The town of Sum-
nit would be likely to fade from the
map if Gracey moved away. He is
master of the freight, passenger and
express offices, and he does all the
work and answers all the questions
by himself. He is life and fire in
surance agent, and writes policies
enough TO bring in a heavier income
than all the agencies of the railroad
give him. He publishes small but
spicy paper, and sets all the type, and
writes all the paragraphs, does all the
heavy business, allthe selecting, proof
reading, makeup, press work &c-plays
the devil, editor, compOsitOr and press
man. He is the Highest and Most
WOrshipful Grand COckelorum Patri-
arch of the Masonic fraternity, and
when called OH delivers Masonic adj