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The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
A Notable Case OF EIOpemcnt.

st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 20.-The little
town of Polar, In Mercer county, Mo-,
turns out the following tragic story
Henry Thomas, an .old farmer, has
four grown daughters, named Hattie
Margaret, Nancy and Jane, aged re-
spectively 16. 1s, 20 and 22 years.
Last Wednesday night Samuel and
Charles lIasburn, brothers, procured a
ladder and helped Margaret and Jane
out OF second story window of their
fathers house, and as they were about
to elopo with the girls, the old man
appeared on the scene, but too late to
prevent their escape. lie at once pro-
cured the best horse he had, and a
shotgun, and started in hot pursuit.
When about twelve miles from home
he overlook the fleeing party. lie i'm
mediately opened fire on them, killing
both the boys, and seriously wounding
Margaret. After getting nearly home
with the girls, he was told that the
other two, Hattie and Nancy had also
elopcd with Ned Greason and Thomas
Allison. lie at once left the girls he
had with him in charge Of some neigh
bors and started after the others. AT
ter securing the other two girls with
out any serious trouble, he started
back, but when about two miles from
home q mob took possession Of him
and strung him up to tree. The old
man was very strict with The girls.
lie would hardly let them out of his
sight, hence the elopement. lie always
Dragged that he would notbe bothered
with lazy sons-in-law. Public opinion
is strongly in favor of the lynching.
Margaret died last night.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26

[Arkansas City Journal

[Arkansas City Journal
It is a fine leYee and bids fair to re
main good indefinitely. 1t was let by
contract to Robert Mcnamara by the
Louisiana Tensas Leyee Basin Board
and completed under the supervision
nf Captain L c. Tollinger, United
States,, Assistant Engineer.
The contractor has labored under
many difficulties principally from the
heavy rains of last winter causing Full
ton Lake and Boggy Bayou to con-
stantly overflow the work and hauling
dirt in many places over two thousand
feet thereby forcing all the sub-con-
contractors to abandon their part Of
the work and quit in disgust.
II was also necessary to construct
dumping cars and railroad tracks un-
der very heavy expense to fill Fulton
Lake. The dirt kept constantly
spreading and sinking, while under
progress of construction. Provisions
and feed for stock had to be carried
two miles on the men'sbacks through
the snow and ice, as it was found i'm,
possible even for the teams to walk,
the roads being in such a horrible cen
dition.
The contractor deserves the more
credit for holding out and building SC
gesd levee of such Importance and
benefit to the country.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
DELTA EXPOSITION.

We commend the following to our
readers. That it will remunerate
Greenville in many ways, material and
moral, to project and carry out the
proposition presented we have no
shadow of doubt. Expressions from
our citizens are in order:
GREENyIILE TINES:
The enterprise which charaeterizes
the city of Greenville leads me to sug-
gest to them the idea Ofholdiug an ex-
position this fall, not local in its exhib-
its, but should include the Miss. Valley
and more especially the Yazoo Delta
The good That will result to the city
and Delta county will be incalculable.
Our county needs advertising and there
is no more certain way of doing this
than the one suggested. Atlanta, New
Orleans, Augusta Ga. and other cities
have found in their Expositions gold
mine. The little city of Greenyllle
cannot expect to rival these. My ac-
quaintance with her peoples public
spirit, strengthens my belief that no
city in the South of three times the
population can compete with her in
liberality to private aud public enter
prise. An exposition to be of any per-
manent benefit to the city must be
made broad enough to cover all adja-
cent territory and to be Of a magma
tude sufficient to attract exhibitors
from every other State. Aside from
the money that will pour into Green
vile during the Exposition, business
acquaintance and associations will re-
suit to the lasting benefit of the town
and country.
The planters of the Delta individu-
ally and through their organizations
should take very lively interest in
any enterprise of this kind. We must
SHOW to visitors from other sections
much of that we have said and written
so much about. To see leaves impress
sions more lasting than to hear or read
about them. To be successful, early
announcement should be made, that
those who desire to exhibit their goods,
wares, or products may have time for
preparation. The New Orleans expo
sition was too far away to be of much
practical good to this section.
With the Georgia Pacific completed
no more profitable celebration of thai
great event could be devised than ,
grand Yazoo Delta Exposition to be
held at Grcenville. With every facility
for transportation, cannot see why
Greenville cannot get up crcditablc
Exposition.
Boards OF Supervisors could doubt.
less be prevailed upon to contribute
money to this purpose, We want an
Exposition-not county fair, made
up of horse-racing. These are well
enough in connection with the other
If desired.
What do the citizens Of Grcenville
say to this suggestion?
The TIMES will please take the
floor.
W. L. COLLINS,
Carolina. Miss. Jan. 10. 1889.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
PAUSING ON THE RUBIC0N.

The following from the st. Paul
Pioneer Press, an extreme Republican
paper. indicates the hesitancy with
which the Sherman bill is approached.
The Press will get over its squeamish-
ness though; even as Morton and
other constitution sticklers did theirs
20 years ago:
Enthusiastic Republicans viii do
well to take time for consideration be-
fore they venture to applaud the bill
which Senator Sherman has introduc-
ed for a federal control of elections.
For, while the purpose Of the act is
worthy, aud while the occasion for 1t
Is the notorious abuse of the right Of
suffrage in communities under Demo-
cratic control, the principle Of it is
such that the public may conclude,
after deliberation, that 1t is better to
suffer the evil than to undergo the
remedy. To know that something
like one-third of q congress may be
chosen without any expression of the
popular will, to see how these commu-
mites boldly deny the right Of self
government and impose fraudulent
representatives upon the people, and
to feel that the balance Of power in
congress and the electoral college may
be held by men CHOSEN through ostra-
cism of the weak and ursurpation by
the strong, is enough to excuse a
movement toward federal supervision
for the rlghting of such abuses. But,
even with all this in mind, extraordi-
nary caution should be observed In
anything looking toward subyersion
Of local right and local autonomy to
the aggrandizement ETA central pow
er. The day might come when we
should find that the old grievance had
given way to new that was less tol-
erable. The danger is that we should
presently find among us mighty fed
eral machine, independent Of the pco-
pie and bent upon retaining in power
the party that managed It, with peo-
pie maddened by real or fancied
wrongs into readiness for revolution.
II should be remembered, too, that
this system would apply not only to
the South, but to every state of the
Union; and that 1t would still be in
existence should the Democratic party
again como into power at some future
date. 1t would be well for each Nor
thern state to consider how 1t would
relish having the determination Of its
congressional elections dependent up
on such canvass of the vote as might
be made by the appointecs of David
B. Hill, for example.'-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26

What are we coming TO in the way
of machinery? If things go in this
fashion much longer the working clas-
ses will have to rclinquish their incomes.
Can IL be that there is q surplus Of
brains in the world, too many inven-
tive geniuses ?
Just read this from the San Francisco
Call and then judge whether an old
farmer of the last century wouldn't
rather emphasize his favorite aDgosh p
If he could see that new plough In
operation =
G. s. Berry's traction engine ploughs
and seeds seventy acres every twenty
four hours at his ranch IN Tulare
county, The machine runs day and
night-N. Y. Herald.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26

Topeka, Jan. ia bill introduced
in the legislature is attracting the close
attention of members and of the rep
resentatives of the various corporations
operating in this State. 1t gives the
Railroad Commissioners supervision
over telephone and telegraph lines and
sleeping car and express companies
Among other provisions are the fol.
lowing: The commissioners shall have
the power and are required on COM
plant to fix reasonable charges for
services and fix reasonable delivery Of
parcels or messages in any city OF
town of the State of any express OF
telegraph company. The same Board
shall also have the power to fix reason
able charges for the use of berths in
sleeping cars. including therein such
requirements to be observed by the
sleeping car companies as the Board
may deem right for the comfort and
accommodation Of the persons using
such cars. The Board may also, on
application by any resident of town
or city, fix the limits within which q
telegraph or express company must
deliver messages or parcels free Of
charge. Heavy penalties are provided
for violations. Reasonable charges fol
telephone service shall be fixed upof
application in a similar manner.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
A "GO0d Prospect"

The Delta is getting to be the dump
ing-ground for the surplus negro pop
ulation of the entire South, and there
seems to be a good prospect that the
segregation of the negro race in the
lowlands of the Mississippi Valley VIII
soon be an accomplished fact. 1t Is
hardly supposable that all or even ths
bulk Of them will come, but If sufli-
GENTLY large proportion does SO to
leave the whites in decided majority
in the States that they abandon the
race problem will be nearly settled, SO
for as these States arc concerned.
This is the opinion of several bold
thinkers who add that although this
will involve the almost Africanization
of portions Of Mississippi. Louisiana
and perhaps part Of Arkansas, a reni-
edy might be found for carving a new
State out of the black counties Of these
States, leaving the colored population
to work ont its own salvaiion.---
Vicksburg Post.
How do our readers who have BULL
homes and fixed their abiding pIaoe IN
tlls He|Iz ||ks the above Kind of eboI.l
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
stopped His Subscription.

An exchange truthfully says that
the value of certain kinds of local news
Is well set forth in the following criti-
cal but badly spelled communication
Dear Sir-I hereby offer my resig-
nation as a subscriber to your paper, 1t
being a pamphlet of such small knon-
sense as not 10 Benefit my family by
takin' 1t. What you need in your
sheet is branes and someone to russell
up news and write eddytoryals on live
topicks. No mention has been made
In your shete Of me butchcrin' po-
land china pig weighin' 500 pounds, or
of the gaps in the chickens out this way.
You stugusly ignore the fact that the
tatei bugs am eating things up out
here, and say nothin' bout Ill Simp-
sons durham bull calf breakin' Its legs
fallin' down o well, or of grandma
sipes havin the sore legs. Two impor-
tant wcddins here have utterly ignored
by your column, and two kolum
obituary writ by me on the death Of
grandpa Henry, was left out by your
shete, to say nothing of a alfabetical
poem beginnin' with "A is for Andy
as well as for Ark writ by my darter
This is why your shete is unpopler
here. If you don't want any eddyto-
rrals from this place and amt going to
put in any news in your shete we don't
want said shete.
Yourn in disgust,
Hiram Doaks.
Psf you print that obitchuary
in your next isoo l may sign again for
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
Clerk OF the Arkansas House.

We are pleased to note that oul
friend, Hon. j. G. B. Simms, of the
Chicot Chronicle, was successful in his
race for chief clerk Of the House ol
Representatives at Little Rock this
week. He went In on the first ballot
receiving sixty out ofnInety-dve votes.
His principal opponent was Hon. j.
w. Galloway, formerly clerk Of the Pu-
laski Chancery Court.-Arkansas City
Journal.
We IoI1 our contemporary II con-
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
Privilege Of changing regular
once a month without charge

Privilege Of changing regular advertisements
once a month without charge.
Locals space Of i've lines or more,
this type, 10 cents per line for first, 5
cents each subsequent insertion. Less
than five lines, 10 cents per line for first
and 10 cents per line each subsequent in
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rate.
Personal articles or rsnotices charged
for or declined according to their nature.
Communications on matters of local in
terest solicited. While correspondents
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tiOns, real names must accompany same.
Customers will please give explicit di-
reetlons oflength oftime for publication
of advertisements.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
Larger advertisements. quarterly, half
yearly and yearly,
Contracted for at Liberal Rates.

Orders from transient customers, ver-
bal or written. for job work, advertising,
or subscription. must be accompanied by
the cash. Accounts of regular eusto-
mers due and presented the lst Of each
month
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26

The Freeman. the leading negro
organ In the United States, published
at indianapolis, remarks with good
deal of truthfulness, "The fact is, dis
ordinations against colored people
are as rank North as South. The
negro can vote in the North, but has
the doors Of industry and busine ss
closed against him, while In the South
he can't always vote, but he can get all
the work he can do
Would it not be good solution Of
this trouble 10 have all the political
negroes 90 North, and al the work.
ing negroes come Eepth
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized to announce
THos. WoRTHINGToN candidate for
Sheriff at the next county election
subject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic Convention.
We are authorized to announce
RoBT PRINCE candidate for Sheriff at
the next county election; subject to
the decision Of the Democratic Con-
vention.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26

FURNISHING GOODS
OF every kind and description at the
lowest PRICES, It M 5kINoE's
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26

At the last session of the Mississippi
Legislature the TIMES urged an amend
ment to the railroad supervision law
comprising the above features.
The Greenville times., 1889-01-26
Yourn in disgust,

Hiram DOaks.
Psf you print that obitchuary
in your next isoo I may sign again for
your snete.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-08
THE PENSIONS BOOMERANG.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch,
When the partisan opponents of Pen
sions Commissioner Tanner went gun
ming for him they thought his Unknown
sentiments favorable to the veteran sol
diers might have led him into irregular
official generosity. They were so conf
dent and so blatant that they went the
length of reporting that Secretary Noble
and the President were averse to Tanner.
Now that the special examiners appoint
ed by the Administration have formally
reported in favor of the Commissioner
absolutely and entirely generating him
from the charges, the whole affair is prac-
tically boom for Tanner and boomer
ang for his enemies.
Many might differ from Commissioner
Tanner as to the proper policy as to pen
siOnS. But there is none so stupid as to
deny him the right of advocating openly
his opinions. There need be none so dull,
either, as not to understand that man
who suffers such terrible wounds as Tan
ner did in the war should naturally feel a
sympathy for the soldier. But when it is
shown that no matter how strong his
sympathies, the charges about irregulari-
ties in his administration are falsehoods,
the opposition have greatly obliged the
Commissioner. They have demonstrated
that however his feelings run, he is still a
safe man to keep within the law as he
finds it.
There was particular malignity in the
method of assaults on Tanner. The pur-
pose to rush him out of the Office on a
wave of frothy imputation was pretty
Thousands who may differ
from him in his views on this or that
matter will, not less than his friends, feel
glad that the clustering attempt to STAN
pede both Tanner and the Administra-
tion failed so utterly. The people like
fair play. In the crush" on Tanner there
was little of the one and nothing of the
other. He will now enjoy immunity,
while the opposition will look for another
man to "turn over
That seems to be about the size of the
partisan warfare in these days.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-08
BPltttnt1t GItruttirle.
THURSDAY, AUGUST s, 1889.
OUR offer of low-rate campaign papers

OUR offer of lOw-rate campaign papers
met with responses from some of the
post offices of the County. We desire to
express thanks to those of our friends
who interested themselves in the matter,
and to repeat the declaration that in no
other way can Republicans of the Coun-
ty so effec' ually promote the good cause
in the campaign in which they will soon
be engaged.
The rate offered (25 cents each, in clubs
of ten and upward, until after the No
vember election, ought to add one thous-
and names to the subscription list of THE
CHRONICLE within two weeks. That ad-
ditional constituency would be reached
and stirred every week for about fifteen
weeks, at a cost of less than two cents
week for each. Is this not, incompara-
bly,, the cheapest and best way to reach
the people? Is not the newspaper, 60
ing into families week after week for
more than three months, more apt to
make an impression than passionate ap
peals addressed to men on the eve of the
election, at one hundred times the cost
The offer is still open, and we hope to
hear from every post-office of the County.
Remember: The price is 25 cents for each
in clubs of ten or upward,
from the time received until the week
following the election.
This plan offers cheap, easy, and eff
fective way to reach the people, and the
of the County should avail
themselves of it with spirit
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-08
THE OLD REBEL YELL.

The speech that "Private" Allen made
at the ex-Confederate soldiers reunion
week before last at Byhalia, Miss, is at
tracing general attention in the South,
and is of some interest to the North
"Private" Allen is evidently far from
reconstruction, as also are many of his
hearers. The speech had savage un-
dertone of the old rebel yell running all
through it, and besides was weighted
with political moral. Allen, like a
great many other Southern Democrats,
seems to be fearful lest some others of
his party might ally themselves with the
Republican party for sundry Govern
ment offices or other rewards. The
speech is not long and is worth quoting
in full. He said:
l read something not long ago about
the sentimental and practical side of life
l am practical man, but when 1 get on
the war l am little sentimental. l am
sorry we had war, but I'm glad l was
born about that time and I'm glad was
in it. The more l think of it the proud
er L am of our war record. When 1
think of the 2,900,000 men the Federals
had and their equipments and navies and
munitions l am prouder than ever. 1
would not detract from the valor of the
Federal soldiers, but when think of the
fact that the South never had more than
100000 men in the field and we got
most of our weapons from the enemy;
when think of these things don't feel
like saying anything against the Union
soldiers, but if they are proud of their
record of licking us in four years time,
what ought to be our feelings? TCheers.
Col. Hooker mentioned the magnificent
graveyards for the Union soldiers, in
which there are $4,000 men buried
And there were some we fixed for burial
that haven't got in. Then there are
100000 or 100000 on the pension rolls
of the Government and as many more
who want to get on just for what we
did to 'em. Speaking of being proud,
the crowd you're in has a great deal to
do with it, and l don't believe there is
a man who fought with Lee and Jack
fon and Johnston and Walthall and
Vaughan and all these privates who
would swap their knowledge of it for
the biggest pension and best office in
the gift of the Federal Government. l
am afraid, however, spoke to fast.
There are some who have lost those
precious memories and are anxious to
gather the fruits of treason to their
training. That's Chalmers" said a
voice in the crowd. l said something
of what those 100000 Southern soldiers
did; now I'll tell you who they were
They were Southern white men. And ]
ask those men and their sons if the,
will prove false to the records of the
past and succumb in time of peace to far
less odds than they resisted for years in
the time war? Cries of "Nol We
Wen take care of our
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-08
THE SENSIBLE GIRL.

Selected
The sensible young woman is self-re-
liant. She is not merely a doll to be
petted, or bird to be supported; but
though she may be blessed with father
able and willing to care for her every
want, she eultivates her capabilities, she
seeks to prepare herself for possibilities.
and, though she may not need to, she
qualities herself to feed and clothe her
self, so that if left alone she can stand
upon her own feet dependent upon no
human being. With the multiplied
ways of honest toll now open for young
women, it seems quite exeuseless for
any one of them to be helpless. There
are few nObler sights than that of a
young woman who, though she may
have good home, with father and moth
er that are willing to indulge her to the
uttermost, realizing the limitation of
their means and their hard self-denial,
says: "Father shall not be burdened
with me; l will be self-reliant and
elothe myself; yes, will help him to
educate the younger children" Such a
one is thousand times superior to the
pale fingered, befrizzled, bejeweled sub
stitutes for young women, who are good
for nothing but to spend fathers hard
earned money. The sensible young
woman is brave. Heroism is not most
seen upon great occasions, but in little
things. The strength of life is in the
power of each little common act. Brave
ry is best exhibited, not in enduring things
we cannot help, but in the small matters
one might help. In such little thing
as dress is field of heroism-in willing
ness to be neat and not fashionable, in
daring to wear last winters cloak or last
springs bonnet until you can afford to
have another-in being superior to the
laws of style. Some young women who
would be willing to die for the flag of
their country will almost die, in anOth-
er sense, for the want of little ribbon.
The sensible young woman makes the
best of everything. What We want and
what we need are not the same. What
we want and do not need makes life
miserable A sensible young woman
treats herself as she does her plants
She gives them all the sunshine there is.
If there is but one little window in her
room, she gives them the benefit of that;
and if the sun comes round TO them but
once day, she gives them the benefit
of that. She does not lock them up in
her closet and stifle what life they have
because they are small, but she makes
all the more of them because of their
smallness. So the sensible young wo-
man lets all the light there is come into
her heart, pushes back her tears, and
throws out her smiles, and thus her life
grows in contentment and gladness.