The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1882-06-24
MISSISSIPPI ITEMS.


IN. 0. Democrat
After all it is now stated Monticello is
to be rebuilt.
Terry, Kinds county, has shipped 25OC
boxes of fruit.
Jasper county farmers are gloomy ov-
er their crop prospect.
Wool is selling from 26 to 27 cents a
pound on the coast.
Two dairies near Starksville ship 100
pounds OF butter week.
Our State library, in size and excellence,
ranks fourth in the United States.
In Jackson all loose dogs are killed il
the owner fails to pay taxes on them.
An Edwards man has, matrimonial
policies ON himself amounting to over
$4,000.
Edwards is to have q broom factory.
One man has so acres in broom corn and
another 80.
A few nights since a masked mob
broke into the Jail of Kemper county,
and released two prisoners.
!, This State has 426,6S9 educable child
ren, n,-l75,25 white, and 25l ,438 colored :
colored majority 76,lS7.
There is lawsuit on docket in the
courts of Coahoma county involving a
claim of 706, 1850 acres of land.
Carroll county taxes matrimonial in
surance agents $40 each, and the town of
Carrollton taxes them S..
Within the past year one firm in Kosci-
usko has shipped nearly 1000 pounds of
wool to the Mississippi mills.
Bob Stewart, colored, whose term of
four years, as postmaster of Macon lately
expired, is shoveling dirt on railroad.
On account of feeble health, Major
R. Walpole, of the Yazoo City Herald,
is spending the summer at Covington,
La.
Col. j, D. Stewart, of jackson, has a
COW that has given as much as 224 quarts
at one milking; 40 per cent of her milk
is rich cream.
The corn crop in Lowndes county is
pronounced splendid. The oats are larg-
er and better than ever known in that
section.
The Waterford express, speaking of
the nomination in the Seventh District
says, either Barksdale or Calhoon will be
acceptable to the Greenbackers, and will
receive their support
A few days since rascal swindled a
Lefore county neighborhood out of a
horse and $l00 by pretending to be a
preacher, and making two appointments
which he failed to meet. VI
At Batesville a colored postmaster has
been appointed. The Panolian says the
appointed ''is looked upon as unfit, both
morally and intellectually, for the trust,
and discharge ofthe duties of the Office"
The corner stone of Shaw University,
at Holly Springs, was laid on Thursday,
jane 9th. A large crowd witnessed the
ceremony. The address, veryable and
eloquent one, was delivered by Rev. E.
ID. Miller.
John Slater, of the vicinity OF Oxford,
was bitten by a dog supposed to be mad,
about two weeks ago, and maidstone
belonging to Mr.. Ben Milan, OF Marshall
county, has been applied to his wound
as a cure.
Mr.. G.. H. Hester, of Lone Star, Ita-
wamba county, was knocked down and
robbed, while returning home from Tu-
pelo, and within short distance of that
town by negro whom he had allowed
to get upin his wagon. The robber has
not yet been arrested, but he is being
sought ON all sides.
John and William Cook, while on their
way home from Taylor's postoffice, La
fayette county, on the night of June Sd,
were attacked by number of armed ne
groes, who knocked the former into the
mud and shot the other through the
shoulder. Three of the assailants are
now in Jail awaiting trial.
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j.. b.. Hughes is the place to go for
drl,gs and toilet articaoc