The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-23
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r. Jackson bas two colored lawyers.
: Suustroke are REPORTED from var.
ious partsioftlie State 'H.,'. %.
Work has been resuiDed oI the
cottanGirtory- At Port Gibson. nv
Grnsshoppers are doing great
damage in u few of the river towns.
Cotton bolls, full grown, are
plentiful in the cotton fields about
BmOkhavcn.
Lucian ID. Hovry of Oxford, has
been appointed Naval Cadet from
that District.
The Huston Light Guards have
won $4,000 in prizes in the past
three years.
Madison county is suffering con
siderable loss by the presence ol
cattle thieves.
it's currently reported that Mr..
Blainc'S friends intend to put him
back in Congress.
Mr.. Talmage, the great preacher
has sailed for Europe, where he will
spend the summer.
While the crops promise TO be
good in the South. they will be
short in the Northwest.
Bees are being shipped from Adj
ans and Grenada counties to Cam
ada and North Carolina.
The Baptist church of Meridian
has introduced into their choir the
cornct, flute and violincello.
The State Dental Association
will hold its annual meeting in
Jackson OH Tuesday, Aug. dth.
After the death of the treasurer
of Union county it was found that
he was dci;lultrr to the amount of
$S0O.
During the month of June the
Southern Express Company hauled
5oG, eco pounds of fruit over the l..
Z. Railroad.
Twenty thousand Hungarian EN-.
ignnts are expected to settle in
Minnesota on the. line of the Ca
madam Pacific railroad. e.
There is some talk OF the city OF
Columbus repuiliating the city
bonds she issued in ai,l OF the State
Female College located there.
An ordinance has been passed in
Dawson. Ca, imposing Il fine of 80
on persons wearing "Alotler Hub.
bards" on the street. a good
move.
The Worlds Exposition plant,
buildings and machinery were sold
mt auction on Monday for $4,000
and bld off forsthe new Exposition
company.
Sen. George headed a delegation
OF working men in Washington the
other day, who visited the Presi.
dent to recommend man named
oyster frr Public Printer.
The smallpox is so fatal ia some
parts of Iowa that it is impossible
to get conveyances to carry the
dead to the cemetery. The dead
lie unburricd for several days.
The Louisville and Texas rail.
road will place on the market Sept.
1st 100000 acres of land in the
counties of Tunica, DeSOtO, Quit
man, Coahoma, Bolivar, Sharkey
and lssaquena.
The Illinois Central is negotia-
ting for the purchase of two or
three steamboats, to run on the
Yazoo, Tallahatclie and Sunhower
rivers to connect with the Illinois
Central's branch line at Yazoo
City, Miss. ''' hg 'e
John r. Lynch, the colored man
who once represented (D u Missis.
s,ppi District in Congress, writes a
letter in which he says that the
apprehension on the part OF the
colored people in consequences of
Democratic ascendency has been
entirely allayed." 'as''i re s's''i
John L. Hickmcycr, who two
years ago, when Grand Treasurer,
embczzled somo $4,000 of the
funds Of the Catholic Knights Of
America. has gwen himself up
He came from San Antonia, Tex,
dead broke. There are six indict-
ments against him.