The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-06-12
OVER THE STATE.

AooOh oiuou tue idlttE part Ot lnle
week.-Lexington Advertiser.
Track.laying on the Yazoo ex.
tension has been completed from
Tchula to within two miles of
Sidon. 1t will shortly commence
between Yazoo City and Tehula,
and we understand that Mr.. Tobi-
as of the Railroad, says trains will
be run through from this city to
Greenwood by the first of August.
.-Yazoo Sentinel.
Our town is out of debt and has
money in the treasury. This is a
good thing upon the tax payers,
and also is sure sign that there
is no enterprise here, for nobody
ever heard of a live, thriving, pros.
porous, enterprising city that did
not have a heavy debt hanging
over it.-Friars Point Gazette.
DR.. p. W. Peoples has awarded
to Mr.. Harry Taylor the contract
for the erection of two handsome
two story brick buildings on Capi
tol street, in the rear of the Ed.
wards House. This will give the
now vacant square quite u bust.
ness look, aud add to the Doctors
already we!l.established reputation
as live and progressive citizen
State Ledger.
On the night Of the 2lst ex.Gov.
j. l.. Alcorn will deliver an address
before the Literary Society of
Mississippi College, at Clinton.
On the following day at 10 o'clock
a. M, Rev. w. I. Lowrey, of Blue
Mountain, will address the Alumni
Association. The exercises dur.
ing commencement promise to be
unusually interesting. Raymond
Gazette.
The first car load Of pig iron In
Aberdeen since the war was re.
ceived last week by Messrs. Lam
Il Carter for their foundry and
machine shop, down on Chestnut
street. They make two "runs''
per week of castings, embracing
almost every conceivable article
Of general utility, which are cast
} and finished as perfectly as at any
other point in the country, ant
! enter largely into the stocks o.
! our hardware merchants.-Aber
deem Examiner.
The interview held by Judg'
Buchanan and ourselves with IN,
Railroad authorizes at Memphis
last week, were to US gratifying
= and encouraging. Our reception
> and treatment by tho gentleman
:, officials of the road was exceeding
:. ly courteous aud polite. We deer
1t impolitic to attempt to detail a
that the Kansas City people sal
;. to us, but the assurance they CAV
. us created the hope and belit
= that Okolona Is to be considere
: In their plans for great Sout
' Eastern outlet for the immens
y product they are now bringing II
= to Memphis.-Chickasaw Messel
" ger.
n Postmaster Dick Holmes wa
!. yesterday wired by Congressma
\. Van Eaton, the very gratifying il
' formation that the Senate ha
q confirmed his appointment as pos
"a master of Natchez. During I'll
r. early days of Capt. Holmes 81
"a pointment some of his political o.
"a ponents undertook to make WI
upon his appointment, and II po
n sible prevent his confirmation, bl
"a there has never been any doul
g but his confirmation would eve
N tually take place, and the gratif
II ing news that this had occurre
Ia yesterday came.-Natchez Dem
,f crat.
r. We learn from Mr.. /. II. Hunt'
d that the planters on the Yaze
of river as high up as Belzoni al
q cheerful over the splendid rail-
q. which fell recently all over thl
Is section. Mr.. Hunter informs |
Of also that he never knew labor
ID the valley to be more plentiful an
g. better satisfied. There are moi
le day laborers than have been in Il
u valley for many years. Owing
st the feeling Of security now felt al
n, the trust placed in the leve'
st many Of the planters are havil
cane cut on new gronnd and clea
It. ing it up. The prospects were ne
n. er as bright as they are at prese
90 for our valley country.-Yaz'
Sc City Herald.
n Especial to Times. Democrat.
I'd Vicksburg, May 31.-The Po
I'd Gibson Cotton Mills, which we
te commenced three years ago al
On finished, but were left witho
va n,o oh;n a,.x- dnr;n m fba no sf aiohf a,