The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1889-06-01
OYER THE STATE.

least notice of his departure; has been
appointed postal clerk on the Vicks-
burg and GreenvilIe river route. Col
ored postal clerks are as plentiful as
blaekberries nowadays-in the South.
Evening Post.
The grading on the Lake Washing
ton branch is progressing rapidly and
up to date about three miles have been
graded. McCabe, Noble Il Wilson,
the firm that have the contract for
bridging and piling, have located a
camp at Alexander's gin and COM
menced work on the bridge over Big
Deer Greek. This is the largest bridge
that will have to be built. 1t viii take
1900 ties to lay the track from here
to Hampton, and it is probable that
one of our citizens who owns a large
cypress brake near the line viii take
the contract to get out the whole lot
Pilot.
A friend begs to differ with the
Commercial Herald in regard to the
remedy proposed in regard to barbed.
wire fences within the city limits
The G. ii. reporter having noticed sew
eral valuable horses that had been
cruelty lacerated and injured by these
barbed-wire fences, called attention to
city ordinance that prohibits such
fences within the corporate limits Of
the city. There is also an ordinance
against allowing stock to roam about
the streets which also should be en-.
forced. Both ordinances should be
strictly enforced.-Commercial Herald
Our friend Mr.. Gus Blackburn yes
terday showed us a copy Of the "Mis-
sissippi Free Trader aud Natchez Dali
ly Gazette of May Sth, 1910, which
contained a full account of the great
tornado Of which yesterday was the
forty-ninth anniversary. 1t was an
extra edition of the paper, and from
IT we take this paragraph to show the
extent of the loss of life; "By the un-
iversal opinion ofcommittees and prac-
tical men, the number Of killed and
missing from Natchez in the late lorna
do amounts to three hundred. The
only wonder is that so few were killed
in the fierce conflict of the elements,
and the furious whirlpool of timbers,
falling roofs and crushing walls. AS II
is, in consequence of the weight Of the
calamity in loss of life being chiefly
confined to the boatmen, there will be
mourning all along the banks of the
Wabash, the Salt river and the Ohio
The amount of the loss and dam.
age to property was placed by careful
business men at $l,260,000, and al
losses by the fearful tornado 10 goods
merchandise, etc, at $5,O00,O00. o
fifty or sixty flatboats that were at th'
landing, only six were left, and somt
one hundred men are estimated L
have been Drowned of these boats
The steamers Kinds, Prairie and st
Lawrence were also destroyed ano
sunk at the landing, as well as tht
Natchez and Vidalia ferryboat, and
number of persons perished on thu
first named two steamers.
The Free Trader itself twas somewhat
damagen by the blow, and in the issut
before us it makes apology for any ap
parent Observation-Disclosures Demo
crat.
Especial to Commercial Herald.l
Yazoo City, May 27-The two white
postal clerks, Dorsey and Morgan, Oh
the Greenwood Il Jackson railroad
postal service, have been replaced by Q
couple of the nations wards, making
their first official appearance to-day
Granbury and Jones, the new coloret
appointees, may be very good men, bu
their appointment or the appointment
of colored men at all, is not satisfac.
tory to the whites along the line O
road onswhich they serve. There Ia
considerable feeling at this injection OF
the negro into the official stations oi
this valley, and It does not augur any
too smooth sailing for the appointees.
Especial to Times-Democrat-l
Lexington, May 26.-Al the prison
ers in Jail escaped to-day during the
absence of the jai.er. There were only
four in Jail, the others having beer
taken away by tho contractor: Bril-
liant Mcbride, sentenced for life fol
murder: William johnson, ten years
for manslaughter, both negroes, and
two other negroes, also sentenced to
the penitentiary. The jail has patcn
wrought iron cells, and it Is impossible
to escape out of them but one of the
light term prisoners was left in tn,
corridor during the jailer's absence
| II seems that one of the cell keys wal
left where he could get hold Of 1t ht
then unlocked the cell door, when they
ripped up the floor of the corridor and
eseaped. IL is not known what timt
they got out as the Jail is neal
the creek bottom, and 1t being Sunday
M one was about. After they got
INTO the bottom they were out of sigh
of the town. The escape was not dis
covered until the return of the jailel
obout 7 D. m. Fifty dollars reward
zach is offered by Sheriff Wyatt
n.n,snx srAr1oN, MIss, May !. lsso