Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-05-05
and next winter The location is fin'
one for such purpose.


Indian river, running from Titusville to
Jupiter, and also a small steamer on the
lake to gather mp fruit and vegetables.
4 hotel will be built at the head Of the
lake and the terminus Of rail line. Work
will commence at once. and it is p,o-
posed to have everything ready before
next fall News Herald.
The contract between the committee
of citizens of St. Augustine and Matthew
HAYS for the paving of the shell road is
drawn up. The total amount of pa,ing
t. be done is one mile long and "a feet
wide, or 40s square yards. Mr.. Hays
is to receive $40 per square yard, or
Sl5.4Ss for the whole contract. Mr..
Hays is to leave in the hands Of tie COM
mittce a guarantee of ore-third ri the
contract for five years for repairs etr.
Those persons owning property along the
shell read who are able to pay for pave
ment and will not. will probably be left
out 10y the committee.
The following protest, signed by ten
practicing physicians, has been sent from
Barlow, one of the places where yellow
fever is alleged to exist according to Sur
geon General Hamiton's report:
I've, the undersigned, embracing
every practicing physician in this town,
hereby announce as false and libelous.
the report sent out by the Associated
Press on Saturday, April 21st. of the
present or recent existence of yellow
fever within our limits or in our vicinity,
and we h, rcby certify that there is not
now, nor has there ever been within our
knowledge or information. a single case
Of yellow fever within the town nor
within Polk county, Of which Barlow is
the county seat.
MISSISSIPPI
A colt with but two legs WAS folded at
Fort Adams recently.
Mr.. J. +. Connell, of Lowndes comfy.
realized $500 from the sale of hay this
year.
Large quantities of vegetables and
strawberries are being shipprd from
Centerville to the North.
The Meridian Building and Loan As
sociation has assisted in building over
800 houses in that place.
Since its organization the Bank of
Holly Springs has paid its stockholders
about S15, 900 in dividends. Ii must be
profitable stock to own.
The Yazoo City clerks will ask their
employers to close their stores at six
O'Clock p. m, after the first of May.
One Okolona man has shipped 81, 600
worth of cattle since the opening of the
fall season. Stock raising and shipping
pays.
The water work company in Nicks-
burg Is going ahead with its pipelaying,
though the high water has seriously in
terfered with other parts of the work.
Joe Pcavy. seventeen-yearOld lad of
Meridian, shot and seriously wounded a
man name Ed Etheridge last week
There has been bad feeling and several
alterations between the arties lately.
The Summit shippers of green peas to
the Chicago market are not at all salts
fed with the returns, and the Sentinel
saws they look blue and feel sick mot
the peas, which are green, but the ship
pers.b
The Kemper Herald says that the poor,
house of that county is without single
inmate, and the Jail doors have been
standing oper for nearly year. For
tunate Kemper.
Messrs. Philips & Bro, of Corinth,
have been working up trade in sor
ghum with northern syrup reiners, and
are of the opinion that market is grow.
ing up which will bring large quantities
in demand.
From the Gulf Port correspondent OF
the Dolly Advertiser. we learn that in 9
garden at Bay st. Louis, Mississippi, there
are cabbage, peas, Irish potatoc beets
and other vegetables, all ready .or the
table. which were planted last fall.
The State Fair and Horticultural AS
sociation will begin at Jackson on MAY
22d and continue till. and inclusive oi
Nav the 25th. The Inter State Poultry
and Pet Stock Association will be co
ordinate with and continue during tht
Fair.
A dividend Of 90 per cent is declared
by the Water Valley Cotton Mills. Nor
/ than 30 per cent priit is made each yea
by the Great Mississippi Mills Mt Wesson
! but men with means are afraid, it seems
/ to invest money in cotton factories in tn,
South. Ripley Sentinel.
Mississippi timber lands are being qui
etly bought up by the Northwestern
/ lumbermen. The United States register
ers Office shows that they have bough
about a million of acres in the past 81,
months. The purchasers ale principal,
from Michigan. --Brookhaven Leader.
The State immigration Convention a
called by Governor Lowry, and in whicl
the deepest possible interest is felt. ant
which hundreds from every section o
the State will attend, will be- held a
jackson on the cath, doubtless continu
ing two or more days.
The Mississippi Grass Growers Asso
citation which appeals strongly to tn
agriculturalists, especially of The middl
and Eastern part of the State where cot
ton has ceased to be profitable. and ha
gives promise of being the great futur
crop. will meet at Jackson in annual cor
vention on the Gath of MAY.
Mississippi to sns are waking up o
the railroad question. Starkville ha
voted $4,000 and Winona s65, 900