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Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03


The County Alliance Of Milan
County, Tex, buried sold Jute'
with imposing ceremonies last week
Then passed resolutions asserting that
sold Jute" was dead, and appoint
ed a minister, pail bearers, etc, to
perform the funeral services. They
then got The only roll Of jute bagg-
ing in the town, dug grave, formed
a procession, marched through the
streets singing Alliance songs, de-
posted the bagging in the grave,
covered il up, and returned to their
hall, where they adopted resolutions
calling on all other Alliances to
follow their example, and wear a
badge of rejoicing for thirty days.
Instead Of going through such non.
sensical farces, and boycotting every
merchant who keeps jute bagging
for sale, hey had better go to
work and try and manufacture
cotton bagging to wrap their crop
in. Last year they resoluted untilit
was too late, and then had to buy
their bagging from the Trust Com
pany, and it begins to look very
much like they were going to do the
same thing this year. They leased
the penitentiary in this State months
ago, and was going to have the
necessary machinery in it in few
weeks, SO as to be prepared to make
their own hagging, but the factory
is not yet started, and we fear il
wont be this year. There is too
much talk anG too little action on
the part of the Alliance men.-Bran
don Republican.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Tie negro Justice of the Peace in
Georgia who declared himself to be
Christ" and whose followers COM
mitted any crime suggested by him
has been arrested before this time no
doubt. The wonder is that the craze
was allowed to reach its proportions
ia any Southern state Fanaticisms
do not thrive on Southern soil, or
have not as rule thus GAG In our
history. Northern cranks, male or
female, have not made any lasting
impression, and as for the home
made eranks-they peter ont quietly
by unanimous consent.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
TAX SALE.

WILL he sold on Monday the 26th
w day of August 1889 to the highest
bidder for cash to pay tho taxes AMI
damages, between the hours Of IL
o clock a. M, and o'clock D. M, in
front of the South door of the Court
House the following described town
lots and improvements thereon the
property of persons who filled to pay
their corporation taxes for the yeac
1889:
North part of lots l, 2 and 8, Square
Is, Division l, assessed to NJ. l.
Berger, tax 1925
Let 5, Square /, Division 8. assessed
to isabella st uman, tax S2.25.
Lot ID. Square L, Division 8, assessed
to Simon Wright, tax rs cents.
Lot 8, Square l, Division 4, assessed
to L. A. McNeeley, tax 81 81.
II. w. JOOR,
Corporation Tax Collector.
July 81, Sow.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
TAX COLLECTORS SALE.

THE undersig ned tax coIlec-
L tor and Sheriff of Wilkin-,
son county, Mississippi, will on
the first Monday in August
A. D., 1889, sell at public out
cry to the highest bidder for
cash during the hours pre-
scribed by law in front Of the
Court House door. in the town
of Woodvilee the following
d escribed lands, for taxes due
thereon for fiscal year 1888:
Fresburgh Bros, all Lot 10
in Fort Adams, Stat e tax So.
County tax So, total tax $i0.
r. II. Reed, w Of S. hi
Sec. 4, 7. 2, R. . W; State tax
81 cents, County tax $3.72.
total tax S4.63.
+. D. LEWIS,
Tax-Collector.
July IS, '89.-T. D. S.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Some Democratic newspapers are
hattering themselves with the idea
that John w. Brewer, a Republican
Congressman from North Carolina,
will run as an Independent candidate
for Speaker of the House.
No doubt Mr.. Brewer and several
other boiling Republicans could
defeat the party candidate-and nc
doubt Mr.. Brewer and his sup.
porters, if he has any, WILDE "fxed"
at the proper time If necessary.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Notice to Applicants.

4 Ii students who are applicants for
N admittance to either the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College at Stark
vile, or the Industrial Institute and
College at Columbus, Mississippi. are
requested to meet ut the Office Of the
County Superintendent Of Education
at 10 O'Clock a. M, on Friday August
Both. 1859.
This notice is in accordance with
Section 2, OF the Apportionment Law
which took effect October LIST, 1885.
4. W. BROWN.
Superintendent.
Aug. 8. 'S9.-4w.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Memphis is acting very toolishly in
lighting our compress. OF course
the reason is palpable. The proper
way for Memphis capitalists would
have been to invest some of theiV
money In thus enterprise, which
would have yielded them a hand
some profit. The day is past when
Memphis can bleed the cotton plan
ter in the Delta out Of his last dol
lar. The country is growing in
wealth and ability to shift for itself
as well as the city, and mutual con-
cessions are more desirable and pro-
fltsble to both than fighting each
other, = Clarksdale Banner.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

American editors Who have been
figuring out the cost of Royalty to
England and offering lots of advice
gratis, would do well to look about
home a little. Tanners Pension
List is getting to be, or rather is
already in a public way the biggest
thieving scheme of the age: Also,
the money spent for bribery and
corruption in the last presidential
election far exceeded the cost of any
amount of Royalty for. say four
years, and it will require an ardent
Republican to assert that it was
expended for a non-respectable pur
pose.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

PITTsBURe, July 3l.-This in all
probability will be the last days work
for the miners and cookers in the
Cornellsville region for some time to
come. Tomorrow morning between
$4,000 and 10 900 men will lay down
their tools and unite in demand
for better wages. The reports re-
ceived here from all over the region
indicate that this will be the most
general strike that has ever occurred
here.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Cape, Maison parish, La.
JEFFERSON COLLEGE.

In our advertising columns OF
to-day will be found an advertise.
ment of that old and excellent insti-
tuition, Jefferson College. Literally
endowed and complete in all its
appointments and equipments as a
first-class high school for boys, this
institution holds high rank, and
receives, as it deserves, a liberal
patronage from both Mississippi and
Louisiana. Situated near Natchez
in the quiet little village of Wash
lngton, place proverbial for health,
no less than for its freedom from
vice and dissipation, we know of no
school of similar grade which pre-
sents stronger inducements for pat
ronage than this venerable institu-
ton.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
NOTICE.

THE Senatorial Convention of the
L Goth District composed of Amiie
md Wilkinson counties, will meet in
Oentreville, Miss, on August 18th at
II 30 o'clock a, M, for the purpose of
nominating q State Senator.
Called by request.
P. NJ. SToCKETT, sect'y.
July 81, 80 -3w.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Teachers Institutes.

THE teachers of public schools Of
1 Wilkinson county are hereby mott
lied TINT Institutes will be held at the
places and times as follows:
For white teachers ut Woodsille and
Centreville, on the third Saturdays in
each month Of the SUNNI er term.
For colored teachers at WoodviIIe
Centreville and Smithland, ct same
time. Teachers are left to select the
places most convenient for access.
7. w. BROWN, Supt.
June 20, 'S9.-2 mo.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Notice to the Public.

THE Rev. Samuel K. Lewis will open
/ private school for boys OF the
Temple Rooms on Monday August
26th, 1889
Respectfully,
REV. SAMUEL K LEWIS.
Aug. Q, 'S9.-2w.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

IIypoIite and Legitime keep up
the civil war in Hayti without much
blood she'd thus far-that will come
after The victory. Il would be a
blessing Il tie inhabitants Of the
island TsTs wiped of Of the earth.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

The Mississippi Editorial Excur
sionists are having a high old time in
the Northwest. They we're ban
quoted Fl Dubuque, Ia, on the 29th
inst.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

]. w. Griffing an old citizen Of
Claiborne county was shot and in
sta ntly killed. From what can be
learned of this sad affair, it appears
that Ed. GrlHing, youngest son of
the deceased IA youth of eighteen
years, was annoyed by a thief who
had made several attempts to break
into the house, and upon going to
bed he took his double barreled shot
gun charged with small shot in bed
with him, so as to be ready for the
burglar. During the night a wind
and rain storm came up and blew his
door open. His father thinking him
to be asleep got up to close the
door, and while in the act was fred
upon by his son only few steps
distant, The charge Of shot entered
the ribs on the left side and came out
at the left nipple, causing instant
death LEX.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

No sunstrokes on the Gulf Coast,
but political lightning has struck
Jackson county in the nominations
of MessTs. Mack NJ. EYaps and
Horace Bloomfield. Our people are
happy Democrat-Star
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

The increased values Of Washing
ton county over last year as shown
on the assessment rolls is over fifty
per cent.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
New Advertisements.


Members Of the Woodyille Alli-
ance are requested to meet August
10th at 10 O'Clock a m.
S c. FUGLER.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Il IS reported that the Lane mills
Of New Orleans are manufacturing
$4,000 yards Of cotton bsgging a
day.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Tho Vicksburg Herald has made
an abls fight against the present
insurance aws and we hope a VIM
ing one.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Special to Times-Democrat.

Special to Iimes-Democrat.
BosroS, July 3O.-A special from
London confirms the reported de-
struction by volcano Of the City Of
KumamotO, the principal city Of the
Island of Kiou.Siou, Japan, with the
loss of over 100000 lives. The city
was famous health resort, on the
western slope Of the celebrated
volcano Unzen San, or Mountain Of
Hot Springs, and was the hand
soonest and wealthicst city of the
island. There were two volcanoes
on the island, Unzen and a smaller
one, Yama. The latter is still
active, but Unzen has been passive
since 1892, when it destroyed the
City Of Sima Buro, located on its
eastern slope, sacrificing $4,000
lives.
The principal eruption Of Mount
Uzen, and the one which made it
famous, was terribly dramatic. 1t
was in 1892, and for a century it had
been quiet. That year 10000
native Christians fleeing from perse-
cution occupied the old crater as
means of defense. Here they were
followed by native army, who
attacked them, and a hand-to-hand
conflict edsued, during the height of
which, with no warning, the volcano
awoke. The entire summit was
blown off, and 10000 Christians and
10000 Pagans sank into the fiery
abyss. Besides these 10000 more
lives we're lost by towns being over
whelmed. The present eruption
gave no warning and no opportunity
to escape.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
COLLEGE
HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOTs AND YOUNG ME
-lNear Natchez, Miss. u

-(Near Natchez, Miss. -
7 ARGE number of boarding pupils,
IL libernlly endowed, full corps of
professional teachers, English, Clas-
sical and Commercial courses Gives
BOYS practical business education or
thoroughly prepares for College or
University. Military organization and
military drill. Buildings in fine repair
and thoroughly equipped with modern
appliances Daily mail and free tsle-
phone to Natchez Principal in chirge
If boarding department. and pupils
under bis immediate supervision
Terms moderate. Session OF 1Ss9-9O
opens 18th OF September. For terms
ind catalogues giving full information
address the principal.
j. =. RAYMOND,
Washington, Miss.
Aug. 8. 's9-1 mo.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Camp meeting at the Sam Jones
Camp Ground begins August 9th
and continues ten days.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

John L. Sullivan was arrested in
New York upon rcquisition from
Gov. Lowry. Sullivan did not seek
to evade arrest and probably will
come to Marion county to stand his
trial without making a legal fight.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

SHELBYvILLE, Ky, July 3l.-Mr.
James Guthrie, of this county, has
certainly made a departure in the
sale Of mules. While mule dealers
have always considered mules just as
staple and as much a commercial
commodity as sugar or coffee, yet
this sale will be a matter of surprise
to the trade. He sold 100 bead of
two-year-old mules to Martin,
Thompson & Co., of New Orleans,
to be delivered during the month of
August, for l4l cents per pound.
This purchase was made by Price
Hudson, of the above firm. The
mules are to be weighed on the cat
tie scales, and Mr.. Guthrie's opinion
is that his mules viii average not
less than 110pPoaRds per head.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

A grand reunion of the Blue and
the Gray is proposed to be held at
Yicksbnrg next May.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
NOTICE.

MRS. LUCIE WATT will open a
M school at her home in Noodville,
ON LIST Monday in September next, aud
respectfully solicitS the patronage Of
the public.
July 81, 's9.-4w.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

THE Board of Education Of
L Wilkinson county will
hold its regular annual session
in the Office of the County
superintendent of Education
on the first Monday in August
next.
7 W. BROWN,
Superintendent.
Jnly l3, '89.-3w.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Kinds county Republicans want to
fuse-the Democrats refuse.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
For sale,

A Graded Jersey Cow az years old
with nth calf 8 weeks old, Apply az this
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
100000 LIVES LOST.
Town q Kumanno.o Destroyed

HUVII q % IAIININtEaIUIU UtsIHUyCUs
A dispatch received from NagasaIxi
states that dreadful volcanic erup-
ton has occurred ia the western
portion Of the Island Of Kiou Siou.
The town Of KumamotO was des-
trOyed. "A great number Of people
persisted. A vast amount Of pro-
perty was destroyed.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Advertising Rates.

Locals" five lines or less. so cents,
each succeeding insertion % cents.
Personal articles, obituaries, etc., 10
rents per line.
Regular advertising. one square, 8
months, 81; 6 months, slo;l2 months,
slo. Larger advertisements contracted
Tor 81 liberal rates.
Announcements. Transient Notices,
al notices and Jon woRK cash. Ac.
counts Of regular customers due on
demand.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03
Subscription Terms.

One yehr. in advance. ........ 80 90.
Six months, in advance. ...... / 90.
Any subscriber desiring his paper
discontinued will please notify us
promptly.
Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-08-03

Jnly 10, Sew.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07
Marks or Gentility.

There are many curious personal
habits and usagcs that originally mark
ed gentility. if not aristocracy. The
practice observed among Spanish hi
dalgos OF allowing the fnger-nails to
grow into claw-like forms was TO show
that they had never done any work.
The same thing is done by the Chinese
for the same purpose.
Among the ancient Romans the wear
ing of long sleeves, which came down
over the hand, was the fashion in the
upper circles. This adve, tiSed to the
world that the wearer did not engage
in any labor. and freedom from en-
ployment was, according to their crude
notions of worth, the condition Of re-
spectability.
The height of absurdity is reached
in the fancy of the Chinese leaders of
fashion who have gone to the extent
of inducing shapeless deformity in
women's feet, and rendering the victims
cripples for life. to prove that these
could afford to get along without doing
anything for themselves.
Yet we can not afford to laugh at
TIE tullltot III Wis ludbttI LIP lloll
boots and shoes have been designed
more or less for the same absurd pur-
pose As early as the time of William
Rufus "peaked-toed boots and shoes
excited the wrath and contempt of the
monkish historians. The shoes called
pjgdcid had their points made like a
scorpions tail, and courtier named
Robert stuffed his out with tow, and
caused them to curl round in form of a
rams horn, fashion which took might
ily amongst the mobiles" 1t is plain
that the purpose of this fashion was to
show that the privileged wearer was
not dependent on any kind of labor or
fieetness OF foot for his daily bread.
The practice of wearing tight-ftting
boots and shoes is an old one, for Chau
Ger, writing of them i'll his day, says
that ii is
sMerveyle sith that they site pleyn,
How they come on, or OF again"
Later, in 1865. Horace Walpole said
Il am now twenty years on the right
side of red heels"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07

People named Smith are obliged 10
encounter the tedious joke about their
name very frequently during their
lives. 1T seems to me that I've heard
your name before" is the form this joke
usually takes, and, if you notice, you
will see that everybody who utters it
to any member of the numerous fam
lily of Smiths says it with the air of
getting off n very original witticism.
Once in a while, however, something
really good follows this same old joke,
and attones to the long suffering Smith
for the complacency with which good
breeding forces him to smile for the
thousandth time at the remark. A
young man named Smith was intro
duced to a famous London clergyman.
"Ah," said the famous man, iocularly,
Il think, don't You know, I've heard
your name somewhere.
. Possibly" replied the young man /:
shut if you'll pardon me for saying so,
did not expect man of your charac-
ter to say that same old thing. Do you
really think, sir, that clergyman
should go to heaven who is capable OF
saying that to one of us Smiths?"
Quick as thought came the answer,
while the good mans eyes flashed with
a merry appreciation of young Smiths
mirthful sarcasm.
"My dear lad" said he, don't you
know that heaven is peopled with
Smiths? They've been going there for
hundreds of years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07

Il have lived heNe for nearly forty
years." said an old resident OF Belle
Vile, N. j., and never in all that time
have eaten anything for my breakfast
during the spring, summer, aad au-
tumn season except bread and butter
and water crosses"
The old gentleman's practice is not
exclusively his own. There are still
persons who eat water crosses, and
call them the healthiest herbs that
grow. The streams that flow into the
Passaic River, in the vicinity of Belle
vile, are just now literally choked
with water crosses. and although bush
ell baskets are filled with them every
morning, they seem rather to increase
than to diminish in numbers. Scores
of persons, young and old, find a health
full recreation in picking them when
the early dew is on the grass, and are
willing to submit to the inevitable
penalty of wet feet for the pleasure of
the occupation and the flavor of the
cress. Country maidens, who are by
no means partial to early rising as a
prelude to lighting the fire or milking
the COW, are up with the lark when it
becomes a question of wading in the
cool streams and gathering water
crosses.
The water cress is weed, pure and
simple. 1t can never be anything else.
Efforts TO cultivate it and produce a
better and more delicate species have
been made, and signally failed. Under
artificial treatment it loses the faint, pi-
A L. "a
cial charm, and assumes much of the
hot, pungent taste of the horse radish.
1t fourishes for nearly nine months in
the year, and, as it is constantly re-
newing itself, the large, coarse leaves
of the old plants may be left to wither,
and only the young, delicate stems
picked 1t VIII not bear cooking of any
kind, but eaten raw with little salt,
and fresh bread and butter, it is-well,
try it.-NelO York Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07
A Dogs Extraordinary Leap.

Lieut.. Franklin A. Shaw, of the
First Regiment of Infantry, of Boston,
was out walking at Greathead, with his
little daughter Grace, the other after
noon. They were attended by thor
oughbred st. Bernard, the property OF
Lieut.. Shaw. While at the highest
point of the cliff, Grace went close to
the edge, and the dog, seeing her dan,
ger, walked between the child and the
precipice. The turf started and the
dog lost his footing. Realizing hi:
danger, he made a spring far out ovel
the cliff. The child had turned to hei
father and was really out of danger
when the dog sprang up in front of her
but the noble brute had done his duty
in guarding her. He sprang clear OF
the rocks and landed on his feet on tn,
beach, 100 feet below. 1t was re
markable escape, for the dog is ex
tremely large, weighing 165 pounds
and such leap, without breaking
limbs, seemed impossible. Beyond {
few cuts on his feet the dog was APP
parently unhurt.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07
The Effects OF Thunder OH Dogs.

An interesting story was told last
year of supposed mad dog out in
Litchfield County, that was killed be-
cause of its strange conduct, and after
ward was found TO have been only fright
ened by the thunder. II had run twelve
miles and then'taken to a strange house,
run upstairs and refused to stir, and
so was shot. 1t was a Scotch collie
and these dogs are peculiarly suscept-
IDLE to and utterly cowed by thunder
There is one in this city not quite as
bright as the sunshine in fair weather
that becomes an utter imbecile as soon
as thunder or even firecracker Is
heard. Yesterday afternoon, amid the
distant rumble of far-away storm, he
laid aside his intelligence and ran
wildly off from home without it. A
long search for him proved futile, but
in a couple of hours he turned up, all
wet and muddy, at his owners office
ready to be escorted home. On the
penitential journey homeward they
met another dog, not quite so big as
this one, and, at sight of the large and
ruilled collie, the strange dog dropped
flat upon his belly and lay cringing
and trembling, the victim of abject fear,
until the dog scared by a crack OF
thunder had walked proudly by. There
are all sorts of towards.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07
Found a Corpse Through a Dream.

Belief in dreams has received new
adherents in Lincoln County. owing to
some strange circumstances attending
the finding of the body of Elbridge
Call. For three or four days three OF
four hundred people had been diligent-
ly securing the woods and examining
the ponds in the vicinity, when broth
er-in-law of the missing man, in whose
care Calls motherless child had been
left, dreamed that he had found the
body of Call drowned under bridge
After telling his wife and others of his
dream he started to follow down a creek
not far from his farm, over which his
dream had located a bridge. Upon ar.
irving in Dresden he sought his init
mate friend and brother-in-law, Mr.
Bowman Myers, and they both made
their way to the little stream from q
directly contrary direction from Calls
home, and under the old country road
stone bridge, so old that old people
say that it was built before their time
they found the body.-Bath Times.