The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-08-18

10 auunt correspondents 1AtV Jul CcA-
umns, on both sides of the question,
until the election; but win not allow
any personalities to appear in these
communications. If such communica-
tions are sent in to us, they will be
respectfully declined, and correspond
ents win please bear this fact in mind.
Summit Sentinel.
What's the matter with speaker
Mitchell? Was the appointment of
Capt Burkitt as chairman Of the COM
mittee ON appropriation boomerang
instead Of a ten strike !-Greenyille
Times.
The appointment of Frank Burkitt
Oh such an important committee caus-
ed regular boomerang instead of a
aten strike in this section among the
Democratic masses, as Burkitt is any,
thing but popular in these @diggings.s
and many of the s.dear people, believ-
ed Mr.. Mitchell made the appointment
for "cause.n This and many other
acts of Mr.. Mitchells while IN the last
Legislature, rendered him very unpop-
ular. Had he not gone to the last Leg
islature, he no doubt would have been
our next Congressman.-Grenada Sem
tinel.
In the county outside the city, in ad-
dition to the above tax levy there is
levied for school purposes tax of two
mills, which makes the total levy in
the county, (outside the city, fourteen
mills on the dollar, of assessed valua-
ton. The State levy added to this
makes the county and State tax (out-
side the city, eighteen dollars on the
thousand.
The above tax levy by the county,
for State and county purposes (both in
the city and outside) is the lowest that
we have had in years, and speaks vol
umes for the careful and economical
manner in which our present excellent
and economical board of supervisors
have managed afiairs,--Natchez Demo-
crat.
Advices from Utica, Miss, state that
about midnight ON Aug. 18th party
of five negroes fired ON DIR. w. L. Hol-
liday and Messrs. Beverly Robinson,
A. White and +. A. Wallace, mortally
woundrng DIR. Holiday. A negro
named Broom, who was the leader in
the fray, was lynched the next evening
by large crowd of citizens. Broom's
accomplices have escaped, but are be-
ing pursued.
The negro who was hung had met
DIR. Robinson on the street the night
of the shooting and had pushed lady,
who accompanied tho latter, off the
sidewalk, a gratuitous insult, as Mr..
Robinson had politely asked to be al
lowed to pass. No disturbance arose
at the time, but Mr.. Robinson remark
ed that he would see the negro again.
Evening Post,
| We every often notice mistakes In our
contemporaries with regard to Yazoo
matters and we would ask of them IL
they wish to be correct not to copy mat
tors about any place unless taken either
from the daily kilograms or the local
papers. This week we notice the fol-
lowing item IN several exchanges:
A local option election was held in
Yazoo county, resulting in victory
for the prohibitionists. Total vote
cast in the county, 1330-majority 175.
In the city the vote stood LOG for and
LOO against the sale.
The total vote cast was 1882, the
majority for prohibition was l66. In
Yazoo City 1853 voted for the sale and
LOG voted against the sale, giving out Of
a vote of 274 majority of So "for the
sale' II is SO easy to be correct If one
will just take tho trouble.-Yazoo
Herald.