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Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13
VOL. XIV.
Current Comment.

THHE country is threatened with
an ice famine. Less than hall
crop has been harvested up to
date, and the season is too far. ad-
vanced to build hopes of any con-
siderable addition upon future
freezes. By reason of the lateness
of the fall and mild winter, last sea-
sons cropis almost exhausted.
The factories will not be able to
supply the demand--unless their
capacity is very largely increased.
Ice lie no longer a luxury; it is class
ed among thenecessitles in our mod
ern civilization. Hence an ice fam
inc, while not SO serious as a water
or bread famine, is sufficient cause
of lamentation. The health, not
simply comfort, of our large cities
is dependent upon = cheap and
abundant ice supply. And the bur-
den of suffering falls upon the poor.
A Boston firm has fallen upon a
solution of the problem that, at
first sight, seems Quixotic, but, in
this age of wonders, we hesitate to
pronounce any achievement impos-
sible. They are arranging to send
out feet of vessels off the New
foundland banks to capture and tow
to land some of the icebergs that
are always found there. If this ex-
pertinent is successful, the whole
question of ice supply will be put
upon new basis. We wish sue
cess. sa
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13

ket will have to look to other sour
ces for its supply. Far-seeing tim
Der spectators are buying up i'm
mense tracts of pine land in the
South. The timber resources of the
yellow pine belt in the Gulf States
will soon be more valuable than the
gold and silver mines of the Pacific
slope.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13
4 LARGE LAND PURCHASE
IA Geo. w. Howell, Of the firm o

lS1AAsN = LA - ~ = ~ NJ IL AOE.--
IA Geo. w. Howell, Of the firm Of
Howell, Jarrett g. Co., Atchi-
son and Chicago, has recently made
what is probably the largest land
purchase ever made by single in
dividual. The tract comprises 1OO.-
GOO acres, lying on both sides of the
Sabine river, in both Texas and
Louisiana. Its length is nearly one
hundred miles, and its width ten
miles. The most of it is low bot
tom land, heavily timbered witn
pine and cypress. At the lower and
of the tract is the town of f.ouans-
port, La, and there the saw mills
will be located. Much Of the Inn
Der will be raff. I'd to the sea and ex-
ported. T.ne white pine forests Of
J tne last and North are being rapidly
exhansed, and very soon the mar
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13

| DAVlS d RANKIN contract build
| ers of great factories for the man.
ufacture of butter and cheese,
write us they think we are "off7' in
our opinion that it is not good poll
cy TO start in, in new place with
$4,000 to $1,000 factory; which COW
ers the tools to make both butter
and cheese, and a cold storage room
and ice-house, land, water, &c. We
are not of, if there is only q business
to do that can be well done, with aa
investment of 50, 600 or Eoss. Again
we are not opposed 10 the invest
ment of all that is needed to do the
business we'll, if it is $4,000 or
more. In short we want the bgas
ness to be done, to 6rst crowd the
capacity to do. A SO, 900 invest
ment to do $4,000 business will
wreck it instead of developing II.
We don't want 4-inch augur holes
to stick inch pins into-neither is it
for the abiding interest of real friends
of the dairy business, to build too
large. A $4,000 investment in most
any part of the country where Is, 900
lbs. of milk per day can be gathered,
is enough to take care of it, and put
the milk into either butter or cheese.
or both, as the management may de-
termine .-Hoard's Dairyman.
We have done our part in trying
to warn our readers against those
creamery builders who attempt to
induce uninformed communities to
erect and equip $1,000 and $40, 900
creameries where the necessities of
the dairymen may possibly demand
only 1900 or $4,000 outfit. We
are then exceedingly gratifed to see
such an able and influential dairy
journal as Hoard's Dairyman take
such decided stand upon the same
ground we have occupied.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13
IN ECONOMIC ANOMALY

n N ECONOMIC ANOMALY
IA Mr.. T. V. Powderly, Grand
Master of the Knights of Labor,
has begun the publication of a Sc
ries of letters in the New York
World. In his last he deals with
the distressful condition of labor in
the coal regions of Pennsylvania.
He deals with specific individual
cases of hardship, and shows that
the miner in the richest State in the
Union receives such beggarly pit
tance for his labor that he cannot
provide his family with the neces-
saries of life. Many families are in
abject want. A weeks illness of
the toiler means pinching hunger to
all who are dependent on his small
earnings. He mines coal that is
sold at SO high price in Nebraska
that the farmers of that State can
not afford to buy it, and are burning
corn in its stead. Truly there is q
great wrong somewhere that needs
to be righted. There is coal in
Pennsylvania needed in Nebraska,
and corn in Nebraska needed in
Pennsylvania, and yet the two can
not be interchanged. Corn is being
burned as fuel, while thousands of
helpless children 60 hungry to bed.
Hundreds shiver on the wind-swept
plain because they cannot afford to
pay the exhorbitant prices for fuel
demanded by the coal trust.
This reminds us of another dis
tressing fact recently brought to
light. Francis E. Willard, in her
walks about Chicago, discovered
women who make shirts for 75c. per
dozen and furnish their own thread.
Such horrible disclosures are suffi-
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13

IN 1889 the average price of corn in
Nebraska was seventeen cents. By
the time it reached New York il
was worth forty-nine cents. What
became of the extra thirty two cents?
If the farmers can only find out, they
will have some idea what is the
matter with them, which may be
some satisfaction, even though they
do not know what to do about it,
Elk.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13
NO. "A

cient to sicken every heart that has
one single drop of the milk of hu-
man kindness. The world needs
another Tom Hood to sing "The
Song of the Shirt"
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1890-03-13
OROFITS IN SHEEP

)nOT 11O LIN O1EEr MANY OF
K our stockmen have gone into
Northern Alabama and bought
large focks of sheep to pasture on
their wheat. The sheep industry
in our section has been considerable
revived for the past year or two.
More profit is made IN sheep on the
money invested than with any other
class of livestock we raise.-Giles
county, (Tenn.) Cor. Country Gen.
tleman.
I'VE are glad to be able topublish
anything Of value as to the profita-
bleness of the sheep industry at the
South, because we have great faith
in this much neglected Gin the
South) industry and we desire to
see it encouraged. We would not
advise any inexperienced person to
60 into the business largely at first,
but to increase his flock as he gains
practical knowledge from personal
experience. 1t does require GER
tain amount of personal experience
in breeding sheep before one is fitted
to conduct the business so as to in
insure success, and success means
profit on the investment. Unless a
man proposes to provide shelter for
his sheep that they may voluntarily
seek in bad weather; unless he is
willing to feed them literally in
winter and at times when there is
insufficient pasturage to enable them
to hold their own in flesh and gen.
eral thriftiness; unless he is going to
make up his mind to guard them
against using strichnine or
the shotgun, or both if necessary,
securely penning them at night
unless he is willing to do these
things he had better let sheep Sc
verely alone. No use to attempt
sheep husbandry unless one intends
to give the sheep good care and at
tention. Neglect will result in fail
ure. And it pays to breed good
class of sheep; and it does not pay
to breed scrubs.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

We congratulated friend of ours
the other day on having signed the
petition to the Legislature for statu-
tory prohibition. "Oh!" said he, 81
would have signed for the State any
time, but l don't believe in this thing
of killing out one town and not an
other" This dear brother evidently
believes in cutting off the dogs tail,
close to its head and it is not bad
idea. If thousands of dollars" of
BrOOkhaven's money, as has been
stated, flowed into Summit during
the whisky regime there, there are
thousands that have flowed into
the same place from out the cot
ton fields and other fields of industry
since prohibition went into effect, as
its receipts will show. AS for Brook
haven, there is no word needed from
us to our own people, but we must
say that there exists no "semblance of
death"-we are not killed
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Hon. c. r. Dale, of Lawrence coun-
ty, strong advocate of temperance,
and one of the best and most intelli-
gent men in our State, was in Brook
have last week and complimented the
w. C. t. u, by saying that he never
failed to read it's column in the
LEADER.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13
DIR. TICHENOR'S
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4 See what those who have used it say
xa about it i'll the few following extracts
4frOm Testimonials:
q New Orleans, Dee. II, II, lses.
s SMessrs. Tichenor * SherrOusc, 23O CAM
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lit. S. ID. McENEEY,
Ex-Governor and Associate JnS'lcel
Sap. Court Baton Rouge, La.
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Baton Rouge.
IL have used it extensively IN my|
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~ tried it for a severe case OF cranll;
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more Of it than all other patent l'eu'
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Fish Commissioner, State of Ark'
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The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

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Seminal Losses, Night Emissions, Loss "t
Vital Powers, Sleeplessness, Despoudrn'
cy, Loss OF Memory, Confusion of Ideas
Lassitude, Gloomiuess, Depression or
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life q burden. Safely, Permanently anL
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BLOOD AND SKIN Diseases, Synhils
disease most horrible in its results conn.,
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mercury. Scrofula, Erysipelas, Feyc,
Sores, Blotches, PImples. Ulcers, Pains m
the Head and Bones, Syphilitic Soro
Throat, Mouth and Tongue, Catarrb etc
permanently cured when others bay,
failed.
URINARY, Kidney and Bladder Tror
bles, Weak Back, Burning Urine. Fra.
quency of Urinating, Urine high coIored
or with milky sediment on STANDING
GonorrhGa. elect, Cystit, ETC., promntiv
and safely cured. Charges reasonable
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The President requests a meeting of
the w. C. T. U. tomorrow evening
at o'clock at the Methodist church.
Business of momentous importance is
on hand, and members are earnestly
urged to attend.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

We heard of gentleman the other
day who said the w. C. L. U. column
generally contains real good sense"
If Prohibition wasn't a sensible thing,
we "stron minded" women wouldn't
advocate it.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The House killed the Senate bill
creating jeff. Davis county, and pass
ed bill changing the name of Boil
var to Jefferson Davis county.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Tne bill proposing to repeal the
present law prohibiting all officers of
this State from accepting or riding on
free railroad passes was massacred in
the House by a vote of 63 to 25.
Good !
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Mrs. S. MI. Henry, an aged tenn
perance veteran and grandmother of
Miss Mary Henry, our National Press
Superintendent, died at her home in
Evanston, Illinois, last week.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Mr.. H. p. Ricketts,, brother of
Prof. r. S. Ricketts,, of Brookhaven,
has been promoted to the position of
managing editor of the Memphis Av-
alanche. Mr.. Ricketts, is a brilliant,
spicy writer, and is said to be one of
the best all around newspaper men in
the Bluff City.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The House bill to exempt from tax
alton money loaned on real estate at
not exceeding per cent, was indefi-
nitely postponed.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The Senate bill to prohibit the sale
of alcoholic liquors within five miles
of the Girls Industrial College was in
definitely postponed. For shame
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Colonel bennett would have honor
ed the Y's with his presence last Fri
day evening, but the weather prevent
ed a meeting and we were all sorry.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

"Falter who must, follow who dare,
and may God defend the right"
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The Fifth Anniversary of the w. C.
7. U. is fast approaching.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The Us are all aglow over their
Valentine Party to take place tO-mor-
row night at the residence of Mrs. r..
II. Thompson.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The repeal of the insurance deposit
law would about exhaust all the cash
in the State Treasury.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The Legislature refused to exempt
physicians from the payment of a priv
ilege tax.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The mightiest human power known
is profound conviction.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Save your Valentines for the Post
Office at Mrs. ThompsOn's tomorrow
night.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The immortality of the liquor traffic
will be seen when it ceases to pay.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

We cannot make men sober by law,
but we can stop making men drunk
by law.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

In accordance with this understand
ing the Senate passed the bill Tues
day evening just as it came from the
House, without dissenting voice,
and in a day or two more it will nc
doubt receive the approval of the
Governor and become law.
The LEADER feels that every either
of Brookhaven is to be congratulated
upon this peaceful and amicable soIu-
tion of strained situation. There
may be few extremists on either
side who will condemn what has been
done, but we are glad to know that
the great body of our citizens heartily
acquiesce in what their respective
representative did.
The passage of the bill guarantees
an annual saving in salaries of not
less than $4,000 annually, averts all
agitation incident to an election fOl
four years, places it in the power OF
the city to establish creditable public
schools for both colors, and each side
is sacredly pledged to put forward its
best available men for all positions to
be filed. Both sides will be as near
equally represented in the city gov
ernment as can be, and each can act
as check on the other if any thing
extreme or partisan Is undertaken by
either, which we do not anticipate.
What more could any reasonable man
askf
In this connection, we may add
alatMr. A. Lewenthal, jr., has been
unanimously endorsed by the sup
porters of the bill for Mayor, and
Messrs. z. d. Davis and j. n. Cooke
VIII almost certainly be recommended
Tor Aldermen; while the opponents Of
the bill will probably be represented
by Messrs. j. w. or Martin McGrath
A. Bowsky and Joseph Connolly o.
Capt. A. 4. MOreton. With such /:
combination, the interests of the cit,
VIII he in safe hands.
Vow let every body bury the hatch
- smoke the pipe of peace. and nj
pm s"sether fol the common weal
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

A. f. Weathersby, Esq, has re-
moved from Monticello to Indanola,
and formed a law partnership with
Hon. Thomas II. Baird. Mr.. Wealth
ersby is a young man Of sterling in
tegrity and shining talents, and we
predict for him success in the great
Delta. His departure leaves Monti-
cello and Lawrence county without a
lawyer, where once fourished that
brilliant bar composed of Hurst, Van
nerson, Harris, Goode, johnson and
others.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

A Mite Valentine Party doesn't
mean it will be a small atfair-but a
entity" one.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

Representative Hartsfeld, of TIA
wamba, died last Sunday.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13
70 Young and Middle Aged Ne,,

A SURE CURE. The awful effects of
early vice which brings organic weak
ness, destroying both mind and body
With all its dreadful ills, permanently
cured.
URETHRAL STRUCTURE permanent
ly cured Removal complete, neither
knife, canstIc OF dilation; without pain
or injury. Proof indisputable.
DRs. BETTS address those who have
impaired themselves by improper indul-
gences and solitary habits, which ruin
both mind and body, uniting them for
business, study or marriage.
MARRIED. MEN, or those entering on
that happy life, aware of physical debi-
ty, quickly assisted.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13
OUR SUCCE SIS

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Medicines are prepared in our labora.
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The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13
pUBLTSBED WEEKLY.
THURSDAY, Feb. 13. 1890.
The Charter Amendment.

On last Monday afternoon Hon. Il.
ii. Thompson, Judge Cassedy and Il.
T. Hobbs, representing the citizens of
Brookhaven favoring the charter
amendment, and Capt. Hoskius, j. w.
McGrath and Sam Aliens those oppos-
ing, met before the Senate Committee
on Corporations, to which the bill had
been referred. The Senators had al.
ready become familiar with both sides
of the case through the newspapers
and it was apparent that both com
mittee and Senate were in temper tc
pass the bill, Notwithstanding the op-
position offered. The gentlemen rep.
resenting the opposition evidently
realized this, and after the matter had
been discussed awhile before the com
mittee, at the suggestion of Senator
Wilson, made a proposition to com
promise. This proposition was met
by the friends of the bill in the spirit
in which it was offered, and after 4
short consultation, the following
agreement was drawn up in writing
and signed in the presence of the com
mittee:
We, the undersigned citizens OF
Brookhaven, representing those per-
sons who have petitioned for the pas
sage of the bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Applewhite in the Legisla-
ture of 1890 entitled, An Act to
amend the Charter of Brookhaven
agree and bind ourselves, and we
promise for those we represent, as
follows:
]. We will urge and cause, as far as
in our power it be, those we represent
TO recommend for appointment by the
Governor, in case said bill shall be-
come law, three aldermen of and
from the persons who oppose 10y peti-
tion the passage of said bill, to be Sc
lected by those opposing the bill by
petition.
2. We agree that the said persons
who opposed by petition said bill shall
have taken from their number one
half of the school trustees provided
for in said bill, and to accomplish
this end we will earnestly advise and
counsel that Il sufficient number of
those named in the bill as trustees, of
those who have petitiOned for the
passage of the bill, shall not qualify,
thus creating vacancies which we will
earnestly endeavOr to have filled by
persons who by petition oppose the
bill, and so as to give an equal num-
Der from each party, those favoring to
have One-half of the trustees and
those opposing to have one-half of
them, each party to select its own
trustees.
And in consideration of the above
understanding, we, the undersigned,
committee of the citizens of Brook
haven who oppose the passage OF said
bill by petition, agree and bind our
selves, and in so far as we can those
we represent, as follows:
l. We withdraw objection to the
passage of said bill.
2. We agree to recommend for ap-
pointment by the Governor, if said
bill passes, citizen for mayor from
among the number who have petition
ed for the passage of said bill.
3. We will so petition for appoint
lnent by the Governor for aldermen
of said city, two of the persons who
have petitioned for the passage of the
bill, they to select the aldermen
whom we will recommend.
(Signed) r. H. THOMPSON,
B. i. HoBBs,
ii. CASSIDY,
SAM. T. ALCUs,
w. j. MCGRATH,
JAS. A. HOSKINs.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13

The special committee of the House
appointed to investigate the insurance
question, reported that the number of
companies doing business in this State
and which have complied with the law
requiring a deposit in the State Treas
ury is as follows: Foreign fire compa-,
nies, 13; home local companies, 4 !;
foreign life insurance companies, 4 !;
foreign accident insurance companies,
3. The total amount of deposits is
$375, 200, costing the State in interest
$40, 1000 annually. The committee
considered the law requiring deposits
an expensive luxury, which should be
dispensed with.
The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-13
A Hard Hitter.

We make the following extract from
letter of Hon. Polk Talbert, Amite
county's Representative, to his home
paper, the Liberty Herald:
Judge Chrisman and Chas. Scott,
Esq, of Bolivar county, president of
the Levee Board, discussed JEFF Davis
county before the committee on cOun-
ty affairs and members of the Legisla-
ture Saturday night, the former favor
ing, the latter opposing. Judge Chris
man is giant in debate. Mr.. Scott
is an able man, and maintained his
side creditably, but Judge Chrisman,
in my judgment, got the best of the
discussion by great odds. He is fluent,
eloquent, forcible; his gestures, the
nodding of the head, his facial contor-
tions, the stamping of his right foot,
and the earnest, merry twinkle of hi S
eyes, carry with them force. He has
large fund of anecdotes, and the
happy faculty of bringing one in occa-
sionally, and driving it in as wedge,
and it generally splits the timber
though it may be rough, knotty and
twisting.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-04-05
old Age Of Rosa Bonheur.
CHICAGO EeWa.l

chicaso Eewsl
Rosa Bonheur 10 aging now, 10
short and fat, and still wears her
hair cropped short and parted on the
side. She lives in the Forest Of Fon.
t.iaeblsau, and. ~ Of yore, her apparel
IL masculine. In her studio she wears
q blouse and wide trousers, but on
her sketching tours she 10 equipped
in . esmekeeper's corduroy legeing'
and stout boots. She is quito an ex
pert with the gun and rifle. l hear
Rosa adopted male attire many year.
ago. At the fairs, cattle sales anc
stables she was jeered At and 'nsulsee
when, in those early days, she visited
them to make sketches. She soon saw
it was necessary to change her garb
it she would be free from annoyance
Accordingly she had her hair Gu
close and disguised herself - boy
The ru.e worked 80 we'll then tina
she has stuck to trousers ever since.