The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-12-13
8FER THE STATE.

Maj. I. G.. Dshney gave US A pleas
ant call yesterday, and requested us to
state that he win call meeting one
day next week for ihe purpose Of or
ganizing bis battery. The Major Is q
splendid military man and we want to
see him organize the best artillery
company in the State. All who enlist
ed under him should give the support
ne deseryes.-ClaFksdale Advance.
We learn that Ex-Governor Aleorn
was again prostrated with another
stroke Of paralysis, q few DAYS ago,
and that he was in a very low and
precarlous condition when last heard
from. A few years ago be suffered an
attack of the same affection but finally
recovered and has since added six or
seven years to his long and useful life.
But he is now getting well advanced
in years, and it is feared it may go
hard with him.-Clarksdale Banner.
The mammoth furniture house Of
W. II. Campbell & Co. made au assign
ment yesterday morning, r. A. Nabors
being named as assignee. The assets
and liabilities are not yet definitely
known. This was Que of the largest
furniture houses in the State, carrying
an immense stock of goods. Our COM
munity deeply sympathize with the
proprietors, and sincerely regret the
necessity that forces them to make an
assignment.-Winona Times.
Mr.. John Buckland is replacing the
broken window glass in the Factory,
and we understand that large force
of hands will be there in short while
to make all necessary improvements.
Mr.. handle, the present owner, is
Mississippian by birth, and takes a
lively interest in all that concerns his
native heath, and acting upon this SEN
timent, he is determined to do all in
his power to build up our town. So
let us all join in the good work.-Car-
rollton Conservative.
The exception which proves the rule
about isolated misfortunes, occurred
in the case of Capt. 7. p. Leathers last
week. The very day that his steam
boat burned on the lower river, he OBJ
tanned a judgment in the Chancery
Court here, in an old case in which
there has been several freaks Of nature
in the shape of intricacies and peculiar
tiles of the law, and as au offset to the
losses of the Insurance Company's in
regard to the boat, he took In under
the judgment aforesaid the snug little
sum OF $S,400 in clean clear cash.
Bolivar Review.
While the Forum man don't own
any cows, hogs or mules, he still
thinks that the recent ordinance pro-
hibiting such stock from running at
large within the city limits, is q move
in the right direction. Why people
who do own cows should claim the
right to pasture them in the streets Of
our little city, thereby compelling
other people who do not own cattle to
fence against depredatlons, is ques-
ton which Il beyond our understand
ing. Certainly the enforcement ofthis
stock ordinance will be Of great benc-
| fit, both TO the cows and long suffer-
ing people, as the COWS will have to
be fed and the people can curtail some
of their expenses in keeping up hog
tight and bull-proof fences. Long live
tho stock ordinance.-West Point
Forum.
Housekeepers who sometimes at
tempt bit of amateur glazier work
will be interested In the following
from an exchange: In the place OF
murlatic acid or yitriol, either of which
is occasionally used to decompose
putty in sashes when the ordinary
procedure of "hacking OUT with a
knife is likely to injure the woodwork,
petroleum oil will probably be used in
| future. Three coats of this over tho
old putty will penetrate eficctually in
to the pores of the material, and by
dissolving the hardened linseed oil the
putty soon regains its original plas-
ticity. In about three hours from the
application OF the first coating of Pc
troleum ii is practicable to cut out the
unity with as much ease as though the
sash had only been glazed day or
| two previously-New South.
The present cotton crop has utterly
cast down the greatest OF our crop
suessors. Two months ago our people
were all reasonably sure of half crop
of cotton. One month ago the esti-
mate was reduced to 40 per cent, and
now no man who has any standing as
cotton Judges Will say anything about
the crop except: 1--WE won't make any"
Another very remarkable thing
about this crop is the extraordinary
weld of lint from given quantity OF
seed. 1880 pounds of every day
China prolific is yielding 45O pounds
of lint. and this is bad year for cot
ton too.
Another very remarkable fact about
this crop is. that although the season.
has been short in duration and Gisap'
pointing in quality, the lint is longer
than Il has ever been in the swamp
Spectator.
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