The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1886-06-19
OVER THE STATE.

first copy having been presented
to the Secretary OF State yesterday.
All orders received at this office
for the Acts will be filled during
the next week. The Senate Jour
nal was delivered six weeks ago,
and the House Journal was CON-
pleted three weeks since.-State
Ledger.
The Mississippi Valley Railroad
now operates 552 miles of track, as
follows: Main track, Memphis to
New Orleans, 455 miles; Lake
Washington branch 43 miles; Hun.
tington and Leland branch twenty.
three miles and the Clenton and |
Port Hickey branch 81 miles. To |
operate this length of road they |
have GO observation-disclosures
Herald.
CLINTON, Miss, June 81, 1856.
Editor of the State Ledger:
DEAR SIR-I am requested to
ask you to state editorially in the
next issue of your paper that Hon.
Chas. L. Hooker will address tho
Literary Societies of Mississippi
College and Central Female Insti-
tute, June 2lst, 1856, and not j. L.
Alcorn as stated in n previous
issue of your paper.
Yours truly,
G.. NJ. LEWIS.
Several car loads of machinery
for the Natchez Warehouse and
Compress Co., have arrived at
jackson, and is now being trans
ferred to the cars of tho Little j.
1t is a portion of the big press,
and is OF the heaviest character.
1t is expected that it will arrive in
the city the latter part of the pres.
ent week or early in the next.
Ono of the pieces, we are told,
weighs about 10000 pounds
Natchez Democrat.
A suit for $4,000 damages has
been brought py z. II. Lowry and
) Judge L. Brame, attorneys. for one
Evans Forbes, an ex convict
) against Jno. p, Withers, in the
Circuit Court of Kinds county, fol
cruel and inhuman treatment
! while the plaintiff was snb-leaset
: to Withers. The case no doub
3 will be an interesting one, since i
: is the first of this particular char
! acter ever, brought in our Stat
J conrts,-Siate Ledger.
J The most exciting campaigI
! ever held In Meridian and Lauder
u dalo county closed on Tuesda
= night by o victory for prohibition
u There were 2,676 votes cast, c
,, which the prohibitionists had
= majority Of 126. The fears {
trouble were groundless, as Il
!" disturbance occurred anywhere !
tho county during tho day. Th
:, ladies were not present at til
y polls, but instead, in a room az
~ joining the place of election, hel
= a prayer.meeting and dispense
- coffee to thirsty ones.-Columbr
, Democrat.
Walter NJ. Laurin, of this plac
was up at Leland one day tn
week, and informs us that CAP
Gwinn, ex.Auditor of this Stat
has twenty acres of corn in si
and tassle, and in a week longer
will all be in roasting ear. CaT
Gwinn is not only q good farm
but made ono of the best office
Mississippi ever had, and is ol
of tho best men within her be
ders.
The first ripe peaches of Il
season wero on the streets la
Wednesday. They were rais'
on the vickland place and '
were informed that they ha
been shipping about forty bushe
day, for about ten days, to WEI
tern cities. 1t is fact. beyoi
dispute that this is the finest fru
growing country in the enti
South, and the people are beg
ming to find it out. Now that t
overflow question is about settl
there is no doubt but that in t
course of a few years there "
be whole carloads of fruit goi
out of this delta daily, going ov
a direct route to Kansas City,
Louis, and other cities, there
find ready sale. A promine
planter living near Anguilla h
given an order to MississiI
nursery for $500 worth of fir
trees, to be delivered this fall, a
os in q few years he will be shippi
no by the carloads, realizing moro
al of one acre than he would on I
inc or fifteen acres of cotton.-Dt
,.t Creek Pilot.
an. The indications are that in a f
op years Yazoo City for its size v
he have few if any equals as a po