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

Greek, accompanied by their charming
daughter, Miss Lizzie, reached here
Monday night to spend the heated
term and drink our health giving min
eral waters. They are boarding with
Rev. j. w. Kerr.-Brandon Republican
Hon. Clark Lewis of Noxubee coun-
ty will be about the slze Of the gentle
man who will pluck the congressional
persimmon in the 4th District He
couldn't distribute chairmanships,
but the way he can scatter garden seed
and asich like" will be sin.-Green-
wood Enterprise.
The cotton crop in Claiborne coun-
ty has deteriorsted very much during
the past ten days, on account of the
parching dry weather, and the visions
of an overwhelming crop in which
some of our people had indulged have
already faded. 1t is the same tale eve
ry year,-glorious reports in July, un-
certainty in August, and poor yield
in the fall.-Port Gibson Reveille.
Special Dispatch to Avalanche.
Tupelo, Miss, Aug. l2.-The local
option election at this place passed off
quietly. Tupelo precinct gave a-wet
majority of 10. The vote: S19 wet
and 149 dry. The wet majority in the
county win reach from 150 to 200yotes.
The county went dry two years ago by
500 majority.
The eighty-inch Morse Batture Cot
ton Press, at the corner of Delord and
st. Peter streets, is now being taken
down, having been purchased by the
Shippers Compress, Of Meridian, Miss.
The press is one of the finest erected
in this city. 1t win be put into opera
ton in few weeks in the enterprising
and prosperous town of Meridian,
Miss.-Times Democrat.
We are informed that Capt. J. T.
Lay, one of Winona's livest and most
enterprlsing capitalists, bought the en-
tire lot OH the corner of Main and
Summit, belonging jointly to the Ma
sonic Lodge and Mrs. Marshall, paying
$4.750 for the lot 40 feet front by 80
feet deep, and will build handsome
two story brick store on it, to be COM
ploted by October LIST, and occupied by
Messrs. Somerfeld 4 Bro, of Grenada.
-Winona Advance.
Mr.. Parker of the Geogia Pacific en-
gineer corps, and his family, passed
through our city Thursday, on their
way to Wayside {; all enfecbled by their
malaria residence in the Yszoo river
swamp through which the road is now
being pushed.-Greenvill Times.
Hold OH there Bro. Times. Mr.. Par
ker and his excellent family have been
residents of our city since the G. p. has
been IN course of erection, and they
left on visit in the best of health
Greenwood Enterprise.
The party or parties who put in cir
culation such damnable lie as to say
that such thing as yellow fever exist
ed in Grenada, when there is no foun-
dation on earth for such statement, is
mean enough to murder or rob his or
their own mother or wife. Grenada
was never in better sanitary condi-
ton, nor never healthier than now.
We believe this black, infamous lie was
put in circulation for the purpose of
injuring Grenada, and for nothing else.
A little "hemp" is what such scoun-
drels need.-Grenada Sentinel.
There is grave question which now
presents itself alike to the people of
Louisiana and Mississippi, and that is
what viii they do with the rapidly in
creasing mass of INDECENT insane peo-
pie who are from time to time being
placed In the jails of these two States
for safe keeping and protection? The
asylums are now and have been for
some years past crowded to their ut
most capacity. The superintendents
in extremely aggravated cases OCCASION
ally add one or more to their over
crowded wards.-Vicksburg Demo-
crat.
The crop of Rankin county, both
corn and cotton, is above an average,
and has been made on less money than
any crop since the surrender. If fair
prices are paid for cotton our farmers
will be in excellent condition next jan
uary. Most of them got out of debt
last year, and many of them had corn
and meat enough to make the present
} crop and without going in debt for
supplies An abundance Of corn will
be made this year to supply the county,
and when the cotton crop is sold our
farmers will all have money.-Brandon
Republican.
Yesterday Mr.. J. c. Lloyd, Mr. Ed
Watkins and others closed q trade with
Mr. Louis A Rausflale thrOuoh which