The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-03-10
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Capt. L G. Aldrich left for Jackson
yesterday, representing the Board of
Aldermen in presenting a memorial to
the State legislature, asking authority
to issue 100000 worth of bonds for
the improvement of our city.-Natchez
Banner.
This morning at alittle past o'clock
Colonel John Wesley Wick departed
this life. lie was 50 years old. He
died of an internal abscess.
Mr.. Wick was the second son of the
proprietor of the land on which this
city, that bears his name, was built.
lie was born in jefferson county, and
came to this county when a lad, where
he had his home to the end of his life.
-Vicksburg Post.
JEFF Meadows dogs ran mink un-
der a clay root; when it ran out he
stamped it and fell on it, when it grab
bed him by the leg; he took it by the
neck and the mink seized him by the
finger. He was afraid to let the dogs
get hold of it, for fear ii would tear
his finger of, so he just put the mink's
head in his mouth and crushed Its
brains out. So whoever has fight
with jeff may look out. l wouldn't
fight him for a hundred d dollars.-For-
est Register.
We are plased to note that Miss
May Ely has been appointed to the
position of book-keeper in the Capital
State Bank. Several capable and wor-
thy gentlemen were applicants. Miss
Ely is graduate of bookkeeping de-
partment of the Industrial Institute
and College at Columbus and since
leaving that institution has been en-
ployed as correspondent and type
writer of the Equitable Mortgage
Company. And thus the l. l. & c. is
demonstrating the wisdom of its estab-
lishment and the duty to sustain it,
Clarion-Ledger.
The Mississippi and Tennessee Iron
and Manufacturing Company held
another meeting ON the 18th, which
was no doubt the most satisfactory
one ever held by that company. The
entire career of the company has been
one of investigation and experiment
but with a determination that meant
success. The gentlemen composing the
company have worked and are at last
resdy to say to the world that the day
of experiment is past and the future of
Duck Hill is no longer a subject of
doubt ann uncertainty, but an assured
fact.-Winona Advance.
Several of our exchanges have late
ly mentioned in plcasingly compli-'
mentary manner Mr.. Charles Scott, of
this counly, and Mr.. d. A. Scott, of
Coahoma county, as prospective and
possible successors to Gen 7. c. Catch
ings in the most numerous branch of
the national Congress. AS matter of
personal pride, we are satisfied our as
sociates of the quill have furnished
these two distinguished gentlemen
meat for very agreeable reflection, but
we are assured neither of them are
troubled with the buzzing of the Con-
gressional bee, or are contemplating
the path leading to Washington. Dit
ferent from entering the lists against
Gen. Catchings, they are his supporters
for his own ccessor.-Bolivar County
Democrat.
The largest deal and exchange of
real estate that ever occurred in this
city or section of the State was coll
summated to-day between Mrs. Rags
dale and Messrs. Marks, Rothenberg Il
Co., all of this city.
The International Hotel building,
the large stores -four In numbcr) now
occupied by Marks, Rothenberg Il Co.
and the three splendid lots in the rear
of their stores, and fronting ON Fourth
street, and the well-known large Opera
House building with commodious store
room underneath, now occupied by
CASTOR & Suttle, and with the opera
hall in the second story elegantly fitted
up with every appointment necessary,
was sold, or rather given in exchange
to Mrs. Ragsdale by Marks, Rothen-
berg & Go. for four splendid lots
with 100 feet fronting the head of
Twenty-third avenue, and extending
back to the railroad, and three lots on
the cornor of Fifth street and Twenty
second avenue, and $4,000 additional.
This deal covers property valued at
over 100000 and is considered among
the most valuable lots in the city
Meridian News.
Our county is destined in the near
future to take first rank among the
Delta counties as one of the largest
producers of cotton in this cotton pro-
ducing country-lying, as she does
wholly in the Valley, and well drained
by her water courses-with good soil
of virgin purity and richness and .
population that is comparatively large
and increasing every year. Lehort
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