The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-12-11
NO. 2I
OVER THE STATE.

a Mississippi man sent sixty.
one head of cattle TO New Orleans
for sale. They brought $500 aud
IL cost so to sell them. He SAYS
il took three head to get five to
market aud sell them. He is
thankful he not muleted in a
bill Of expenses over and above
the value of the caltle.-Meridian
News.
Wiuoua like to have bad seri.
Gus fire last Wednesday morning.
At the rcsideuc of Prof. Hartwen. |
over the store houses occupied |
by w. NJ. Falk ana II. b. Browne,
it seems that fire had worked |
through the hearth in one Of the |
rooms, down between the floor of |
the upper, aud the ceiling of the
lower rooms, and was gaining
pretty good headway when dis
covered, but by diligent applica.
tiOn of water was checked before
much damage was done. Falk's
goods were considerably dam
aged by water running through on
them. and we learn that the In
surance company allowed him
damage Winona Advance.
Mr.. John &. Roux, an old citi.
zen of Raymond, Kinds county,
Miss, passed through Clarksdale
one day last week on his way to
Quitmau county. Miss. llo had in
his possession some teams belong.
ing TO Colonel Samuel B. Thomas,
who has purchased u large quan.
tity of land in that county. Col.
Thomas advent into Quitman
county viii do more toward set
Ting it up than every other man
in the county combined, If he
should so desire, for it is fact con.
coded by every one who ever heard
of him that he is the most popular
man IN his own county. Kinds
will undoubtedly lose many more
Of its present labor when Col.
Thomas gets ready to leave there.
Quitman county can well congrat.
ulnte itself in the acquisition OF
such n valuable citizen and up
right geutleman.- Clarksdale Ban.
ner.
Judge Hiram II. Steele has not
abandoned his Mississippi Valley
railroad project on the West bank
of the Mississippi river, as we see
by dispatch from Lake Provi-
denoe, dated last Monday. The
telegram says: "rhe Hon. II. Il.
Steele addressed a large assem-.
blage of our substantial citizens
in the interest of the North q
South Railroad this evening at
Cohn's opera house. Mr.. Steele's
talk was clear common sense and
was satisfactory to the audience,
and the chances are that the five
mill tax contemplated for the
Hooker road, and not voted on,
will be given to the Steele road.
There is some opposition to a
through road here, but ii will be
overcome rather than have no
road, the people say."-Natchez
Democrat.
Whereas, q deep feeling of dis
content prevails amongst the
labOring classes IN this county, on
account of the low prices OF farm
products and the high prices of
land rent we hold, that there
should be an equitable reduction
in rents by the landlords. We are
willing to unite on plan of mutual
agreement. Therefore, we invite
all, both landlords and tenants, to
meet at the court house, in Aber-
deem, December ith, to see If we
can reach q settlement of the mat.
ter, aud we especially invite the
landlords to meet with us.
COMMITTEE.
Such manifestations of discon.
tent, and similar movements upon
the part of the colored farm labor.
ers, are simply Incidents to the
great revolution that Is rapidly
transforming the South into the
grandest stock and cattle and
grass growing country in the
world, and those of our people
who are not now sufficiently OBJ
servant will wake up to the reali.
cation of this fact when their
nelghbors have outstripped them
in the march of progressive farm.
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