The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-11-17
NEWs.

EdclHc IlallfOdu IOf one lIldn cAulOIu
Phenix, to the amount of $4,000, for
damages sustained by Phenix by the
falling of pile driver belonging to
and being operated by the railroad
Sunfower Toesin.
The river bank in front of town has
been caving very rapidly during the
past week. The land upon which Mr..
Mayors warehouses formerly stood
went in Sunday. The old leyee just
above where the old landing was has
also gone in with part of the road
Just behind it. 1t has also caved a
great deal just below Mrs. Spiar's resi-
dence. 1t now looks like our pretty
little city is doomed to be cayed into
the river, and if the caving does not
stop and that very soon, the land upon
which the town now stands viii be
swept away.-Mayersville Spectator
The Board of Supervisors of Bolivar
county is not above mistakes, neither
are its members as prompt as they
might be. They are all valuable citi-
zens and conscientious gentlemen,
though. Their intentions are never
other than right. The man who would
impugn their motives had better butt
his head against brick wall and he
who would assail them for not always
answering the roll call should remem-
ber the difficulties of travel, and con-
slider the numerous special meetings
that have taken them from their per-
sonal affairs during the current year.
Bolivar Democrat.
Especial to Commercial Hersld.l
Yazoo City, Nov. 1S.-Capt. Robt'
G. johnson, an old and widely known
citizep of Yazoo, living at Satartia,
was killed yesterday evening at bis
plantation on Lake George, by one Of
his negro tenants. The negro came to
town last night and surrendered to the
sheriff. and is now in the county jail
lie claims to have acted in self-defense
but the officers of the Bonham, who
came up to-day from the scene Of the
killing, reporta different impression as
prevailing among Capt Johnson''
neighbors, and state that the negro
Drained his victim after giving him hii
fatal wound with derringer.
Last Thursday night Alex. Richard
son and Horace Mack got into diff
Guilty out on Indian Bayou, and both
were badly cut. Alex. Richardson
ran home, a short distance, and just as
he was entering the house he turned
and saw some one following him, ant
thinking it was Horace Mack he go
his gun and emptied its contents II
the direction from which the sound
came. Upon examination he foun'
that he had emptied load of duck
I shot into his fathers head-old maj
I Henry Richardson. DR.. Orendorf
was called to dress the wounds ant
pronounced them very painful but no
: serious. Both boys were badly cut
Deer Greek Pilot.
The Illinois Central railroad has re
Gently built platform at this place
along its incline, which will enabl
them to handle cotton and freigh
much more rapidly than formerly
when there was no such convenience
1t also insures cotton brought her
by the Pugh line for shipment by raj
j from exposure to mud and damage
d Cotton is handled direct from th
l. boats to the platform, thence into car'
O and is not subject to any rough hand
ling. Shippers on Tallahatchic AM
Yazoo rivers need have no hesitatio
in routing via Pugh line and |. G. roa'
through fear of damage in transferrin
, here. The local packets deserve SUI
port from shippers on Tallahatchi
and from our merchants as they al
= convenient to the former and al
feeders to the latter. Greenwood no
: receives many c. 0. d. orders by hi
local packets that formerly went
Vicksburg.-Greenwood Enterprise.
Yesterday morning just before fly
!, o'clock the ringing of the fire bel
awakened the citizens of Yazoo Cit
When it was found that the fire WI
; at the Oil Works the imminent dang
of the destruction of the entire plal
was great, as almost everything co1
/ nectcd with the mill is of an infiar
mable nature. The fire originated
the outside of the storehouse, whit
contained between $4,000 and sSO'
worth of cotton seed. The buildil
was soon mass of flames, the fl
D spreading in an instant from one el
to the other. On the railroad si'
track, between the storehouse al
r mill. were four boxes of the lllinc
Central railroad, two of which we
n loaded with cotton seed. The TO
u cars were badly burned, the amou
= of damage being between s25OO al
,m lPi $4,000. The storehouse and confer
, were entirely consumed, causing
Os loss of betwsen $1,000 and $75O0
Yazoo City Herald.
The people of every neighborho
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