The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-11
Telephone Brevities.

-Ihe residence OF DR.. w. U.
Sykes was put in communication
with the Exchange on Saturday.
The progressive monarch of the
Sandwich Islands has a telephone in
his palace.-Natchez Democrat
1T would be hard to find more
obliging and faithful operator for the
Exchange than Mr., D. P. Terry.
Sheriff E. L. Sykes telephones
us that on New Years Day he receipt
ed for over fifteen hundred dollars of
taxes.
MIR. j. @. Carter, superintendent,
arrived in the city last week, and has
been busy ever since putting up the
lines for new telephone subscribers.
The telephone in Aberdeen is on
another boom, and only precedes one
OF the grandest business booms that
our city has ever experienced in
single season.
The Vicksburg Commercial says
that there are 154 telephone boxes
in that city, and that during the
month of December 56,976 calls were
answered from the exchange.
Sheriff q. L. Sykes informs us
over the wire that the sale of j. F.
Plants stock of Merchandise at Null
don on Saturday, under attachment,
netted over five thousand dollars.
The Gordon House Barber Shop
will be re-opened this week, under
the management of those excellent
colored BARRIERS, Taylor Goodwin and
Sam Brack.
THERE are about eight or ten sub.
scribers to the telephone who are
awaiting the arrival of the instru-
ments from the factories. The de-
mand is so great that it is difficult to
get orders filed.
We are requested by Mr.. J. G.
CARTER, Superintendent, to state that
as soon as telephone instruments are
received and put up for all the new
subscribers, he will give the entire
circuit serenade of splendid music
The Western Union Telegraph
Office is now connected with the tell
ephone Exchange, and subscribers
can send messages to any part of the
United States or Canadas, without
leaving their rooms.
MIR. @. o. Eckford falls grace
fully into line and has subscribed to
the Telephone, which places his resi-
dence in communication with the
whole outside world that is, if he
desires to utilize it to that extent.
If there is one place in the city
that needs telephone for the con-
venience of the people generally,more
than auother,it is the Mayors Office.
We are by no means alone in desir-
ing to see that Office connected by
wire with the remainder of the city.
Our enterprising neighbor, Es>
quiro i. G. Sims, "takes" the tele>
phone, and one of the plainest talk
ing instruments the company had
was put up in his sto.e on Saturday.
This is the first family Grocery store
IN The city that has subscribed, and
it will receive more telephone orders
for goods in one month, that would
not probably have reached it at all,
than the telephone will cost for tho
whole year so that the lagniappc in
other business matters is clear gain.
1t is but six years since the tell
ephone system came into use, but its
growth within that period has been
marvellous. According to statistics
recently published, at the beginning
of October Of this year the telephone
is in more general use in Americn
than in any other country. There
are now in the United States more
than 100000 subscribers. New York
leads the list; Chicago is second and
Paris third. A calculation of the ratio
of the number of subscribers shows
that in large number of small towns
in America there is telephone for
every twenty inhabitants. - Vicks-
burg Commercial.