The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-05-02
MISSISSIPPI FORTY YEARS AGO
Carroll Circuit Court Described nv
Franklin E. Plummer.

| way OF Business and pufFoonrv. Poll
ticks and Personalities shall there
fore give you the doings of the first day
in detail.
| At an early hour Judge Howrv took
the chair and delivered very practical
and comprehensive charge to the Grand
Jury. Carroll county always furnishes
good jurymen, and did not require much
time or labor on the part of the Judge to
enable them to fully understand their
duty. Addison King is the foremen of
the grand jury, and will discharge his
duty in ferreting out frauds upon the
State and County, whether committed
by public officers or public journalists as
well as other petty vices and offences
against the body politick
Glover, the clerk of the court, is at
his post discharging the duties imposed
upon him by his fellow citizens with i'm
partiality ard fidelity, and | must say
with good humored atfability rarely
equalled
After the court was fully under way
in the afternoon general rpera occurred
| III the view of the Court, which caused
general suspension of business for sew
eral hours. 1t has not been the custom
OF the Regular Judge" to do moro on
the first day than charge the Grand
Jury, and some of his particular friends
considered it an invasion of their
Cdvorting pririleges," and therefore de-
termined to have their share of "pabHc
attention" in defiance of the powers that
be. One worldly minded gentleman con,
cluded that he would commence the
"Show-off" according to the established
rule of certain society, and therefore
applied to physicianfor "puke." The
physician agreed with him that he
needed it, but they could not agree about
the price. The physician charged him
one dollar for the medicine, but Bryan
Saunders agreed to furnish enough tc
vomit a dozen men of ordinary dimen
sions, for half dollar in dimes, s for tht
dollar. The medicine was administered
in the 'usual way" in the which a quar-
rel arose between the parties either as tC
the dimensions of the drinkers" the
payment in dimes when the demand wai
over dollar, or some other equally per
tinent matter, and finding that it coulC
not be arbitrated by reference to the
Hon Franklin E. Plummer lin every
way in our view fully competent to de
eide the question: the parties concluded
to eight it OUT and at it they went
Canes were flourisbed, oaths were vocif
erously administered were knock
t ed d0wn-others heads were cut-an(
eyes were blackene4 and noses mashed
$ after the most improved modern style
Willie this general row was at ''jts best
here come the sheriff with posse t
enforce the mandates of the acting Judge
who with the whole Court, dixie a com
handing general and his aids, in q mar
= tial conflict occupied a prominent posi-
D ton in view of the riotous conflict
True to his charge the sheriff arrested
the principal rioter and lodged hin
G safely within the four walls of the Jail
: being the same man who extracted ON
;. of his neighbor's yes not long since, with
/ out his neighbor's consent. A brothe
e bully, of rather genteel stripe, attempt
: ed to arrest his comrade from tn
:. clutches of the sheriff, was himself ar
n rested and placed in the back room o
s the Jail for two weeks and fined $l00
:, This checked the rebellious spirit of tn
i Composition" to the court, and it has hat
no further trouble from without"
h A fine army OF lawyers presented
a themselves cat and about the court
= full representation from all the adjoln
/ inc counties, the whole of Grenada an
= most of the Yallobusha members wer
: present. Mr.. Bailey, a member of tn
i Charleston Bar, recently from the ''dar
|. and bloody ground" was present for tn
d first time. Mr.. Mount, late representa-
G tive of Yazoo county in the State Leg
G stature, was also present; he has recent
r, become so corpulent that he is compelle
IS to travel under wheels" but frien
# Heron was not present and there was II
} rivaIship in that way, A few "Cotto
# men" mixed freely with the people 0
Is Monday; among the number was you
rs friend Brown of Grenada and Messr
le Minter and Chisholm and Mcconnell {
If Williams Landing-all seemed to /
,e willing to serve the good people in the
way. Wood and Stancel were also dri
ING small business in the same lin
Worlev of Tchula was also here atten,
inc to the wishes of his big Black
friends.
re A temperance meeting came off in Il
le courthouse on Monday evening at whit
of your townsman Baine with his lit
n whiskers smoothed up and his best loo
about him) presented himself and Il
n, curses of imtemperance,p prominently al
f. very favorably before very enligE
es ened audience. Mr.. Brooke, of Lexin
"a ton, a rough hewn, strong featured la
d. yer, (who made himself conspicuous dr
IL inc the hard-cider campaign as the q
o. yocate of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too
of made tolerable speech on the blessin
We az temperance. VIC. Robb, another
he your talented townsmen, made a We
,al pretty short speech upon the subject
Temperance generally with slight II
r. ling of religious zeal and enthusias
on He is a good declaimer and all that,
to needs to make him a most effect
Sos public speaker is thorough acqua
ance with the subject under discussi.
ms In reading the minutes this morni
I'd tho clerk called the grand jury all &c
Il and lawful men," at the same nome
80 10 chair uuuo her waS in Jail for