The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-06-26
OVER THE STATE.

icudin III eudISo Oh tue Military
Department of the A. & NJ. Col.
lege this year. He has been re-
moved to other fields of duty.
Lieut.. Davis, from Washington,
takes his place here. He is a
representative Virginia and a gen.
tleman refinement and culture.
In the name of our citizens we ex.
tend him a cordial welcome.
East Mississippi Times.
We-understand that the execn.
tion of Dick Hudson will be pri.
vate, only few witnesses beng
admitted to the jail yard. We are
glad to hear this as a public exc.
cution could not have any but a
bad effect. When several years
ago the hanging Of Tobe Bell,
brought a larger crowd than any
circus ever did to Yazoo City. his
assertions on the scaffold that he
was goingto glory and his evident
pride in being the central figure
on such an important occasion
was not calculated to place murder
in its true light, but instead ex-
tend to him some of the honor
due hero.-Yazoo Herald.
About noon TO day a difficulty
occurred between Mr.. n. Stevens
and Mr.. Eugene Webb on Main
street IN which shots were ex-
changed. Mr.. Webb was shot
through the thigh aud Mr.. Stevens
received a ball in his tight shoul.
der. The shooting is said to be
the outcome of quarrel between
Mr.. Webb and Mr.. Stevens, Sr.
Neither of the parties are consid-
cred seriously hurt. Mr.. Webb
was reported to be at his home at
| p. NJ, doubtless in tho hands OF
q physician. and Mr.. Stevens was
under DR.. Hardenstcin's care at
the latter's Office on Clay street,
Evening Post.
We had tho pleasure of meeting
Mr.. s. l.. Martin, assistant engi
neer of the Yazoo Mississippi
Levee District, in town yesterday
From him we learn that ther,
were three breaks in the levee
one at Austin, one at Carson''
Landing and one at Harrison,
Bayou. These breaks caused al
overflow of $4,000 acres of land
the rest of the Delta, which wal
overhowed in 1882, being protect
cd by the leyees. The water a
Friars Point rose one foot an,
eight inches higher than in 1SS.
and three aud one.balf inche
higher at Austin. All along th,
: river front the experience of thi
season and the great saving to tn
Delta has inspired the creates
confidence in levees and it is gen
orally believed that hereafter on
District may be considered abso
lutely secure. AS soon as tn
bonds are foated, work will b
commenced repairing the breaks
and making the levees stronge
and better than ever. The levee
have made the Delta the best sec
! tion of the United States.-Yazo
Herald.
The town of New Albany. th
: county seat of Union county,
! about to start on o boom. In tn
) near future, 1t will be crossed b
two railroads, one, the Gulf & Shi
Island, reaching from the Obi
, Valley to Ship Island, on our Gu
} coast, the other from Kansas Cit
: to Birmingham. Two such trun
) lines of railroad crossing an int,
. rior town, opening up and deve
, oping the country through whic
| they pass, are we'll calculated {
. boom a town. The Optic gives
favorable account of the surrount
!, ing county, its grasses, facilitie
for stock raising and Its produ,
{ tions generally. The town
. healthy. its merchants enterprisin
and everything calculated to hel
4. the boom. The editor Of the Opt
Y is already improving his paper,pr,
Q paratory to riding on the waves
i. success. We wish our neighbo
Q ing town the best kind of q boon
/. --Boonville Pleader.
r Mr.. Bruce in the first place
not a citizen of this district, is M
t identified with its interests, and
J. by no means one of It's represei
: tative men. Possibly he woul
like to pocket the $4,000 year pa
: of a congressman, but there al
very many men of both partie
+. Bruce's superiors in every wa
f who would also accept the otfiC
G and its emoluments, and who Ii,
: here and are to the manor Dor
:. Again, Bruce was for long tin
U. s. Senator from this State, al
7, we do not remember that that ci
! cumstance made the labor of Il
: country whit more happy or co
n tented or settled, or placed
Y single additional dime in the poe
n - - ~;.oa 1aho,ino mon