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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

Dersonal property for sale: One Tympkin
spring buggy; enc set iron harrows; one
Waterloo road cart: two sets single harness;
about sir tons Of frst class hay one mare in foal:
ono yearlibg colt. one spring colt.
Persons purchasing any chattel property
found In the above list will be given months
time, N preferred on furnishing good endorsed
and approved notes, with interest at 6 per cent.
per annum.
A largely increased and extended list Of both
real and personal property win appear in the
next Issue of the ExrosTToR.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
Artistic and Beautiful I!

Probably in M department of home decora-
tion has the finer sensibliites OF the artist made
themselves more manifest than In the decora-
zion of walls and ceilings. Ono need not go
back many years To ind bare cold walls almost
everywhere, and how cherries they make a
room To-day that ID all changed, thanks 60
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04
w ELL CROCK
And Sewer Pipe.

We have on hand a fine assortment OF well
crock sewer pine and tile of various sizes and
grades IL you want n permanent well we can
furnish workmen and crooks.
The sewer pipe makes better ana cheaper
Call and examine stock and get prices.
474 TAPPAN & LAW.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

TIenry Grswold or Stratton property, One-half
/ mile west OF Yale; 81 acres for sale. or VIII
exchange for good village property.
Warm of 100 acres. of which IS acres lie within
II the corporate limits of Yale. Good house
and first class barns, wells and wind mills.
Terms veiy reasonable.
rI>he Joel Shades property on North street,
east of railroad. Good house, ~ acres OF
land for SALE OF will exchange for farm property.
JSarm of so acres running one-half mile along
II Brockway road, directly north OF Moore 5
Corners within so rods OF school house. Good
barn with stone stable Terms to suit purchaser.
ISARM, situated one mile north and four miles
il east Yale, 100 acres In good state OF cultiya-
ton, two orchards on place. fine farm house,
barns and outbuidings. Well watered. Terms
TO suit purchaser.
A ACRES of village property well located, plat
4 ted, $3.50. $50 down, balance on time.
600 ACRES. part OF which is within the cor
ZUU porate limits Of Brown City Location
good, price low. terms easy.
on ACRES in Speaker township, one mile
on from MoOre's Corners. Good house and
stable. fine orchard, good well, etc. Price 81 100
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-04

Vames Garlick's house and lot. situated in north
81 west part of the village for sale. A one story
house, with cellar cistern, good wei OF water,
small orchard on lot, two story Darn ana other
Outbuidngs. Terms reasonable
IIouse and two lots situated in the Reed s Nc
III Mutt addition to the village Of Yale. Deslr-
able location.
house and lot i'm the village of Armada; also
"A one i'm the village of Memphis. VIII be sold
cheap for cash.
GONE very fine vacant lots in the Tappan &
- Law Menerey and Reed 4 McNutt additions
BURIAL LOTS in Elmwood cemetery, Yale.
A FIRST-CLASS business chance in tine
N thriving village OF Yale. Can be purchased
on very easy terms. Call on Drake Menzise
for particularly.
fpn ACRES, 40 acres in good state Of euitiya-
| lOO ton. sandy loan, two houses, Two large
| barns, sheds and other ostbuildinEs; good or
chard farm well watered, fences In good condl-
ton. 10 acres OF timber.
IIOUSE and lot and two story barn, on Ken
III ninc street, very desirable location. $40
down, balance on time to suit purchaser.
ZINE house and lot, nicely located cheapand
Il terms easy.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10

thst purpose. The rule has beeu
to use them for convenience in every
possible way, regardless of destructive
effects. In this spirit trees were al
lowed to grow upon them everywhere
so that in many places they were
scarcely distinguishsble from the sur
rounding forests, many trees having
grown up, rotted and disappeared,
leaving the embankment honey
combed with rotted stumps and rotten
roots.
In the work of restoration which
was inaugurated in this District six
years ago. these stumps and roots
were grubbed out as far as practicable,
but doubtless many escaped detection,
so reliance was mainly had upon a
sufficient preponderance of dirt TO
overcome these defects.
II has been the custom heretofore
not to grub out stumps on the ground
to be covered by new levees, but to
cover them.
This is only excusable where the
levee is expected to cave into the river
before the stumps can decay.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
THE GREATEST DEFECT.

But the greatest and fundamental
defect in the present system of leyee
building Is that they have not been
designed and constructed on engineer
ing principles, in the most thorough
manner, with the sole view to certain
efficiency, as is the case In all other
classes Of engineering works; but il
has always been a mere question Of
doing the best that could be done with
an insufficient amount of money.
The great desideratum has been TO
pile up as much dirt as possible in the
cheapest possible way, so as to cover
the greatest extent of territory with
the highest bank Of earth attainable
with the means at hand. This is rad
ically wrong in principle. A levee is
nothing more than an extended dam.
In building dam the first consider
alton is to be sure Of a good founda-
tion. The next Is to make the super
structure high enough and strong
enough, having caro- for the modus
operandi in its construction.
To begin with, before piling up any
dirt an excavation should be made in
the longitudinal axis of the base, very
much larger than the stereotyped
"muck ditch" and to such depth as the
character Of the ground demands A
good rule would be to mako this ex-
cavation as wide as the levee Is high,
but never less than the crown-width
and deep enough to penetrate and re-,
move all defective strata, buried logs,
roots, etc. This should bo reflled with
selected material, and by scrapers, by
which process it would bo thoroughly
compacted.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
DEATH OF SENATOR BECK.
Democracy and the Nation SusIalns An.
other Great Loss.

Washington, May 3.-Senator James
B. Beck, of Kentucky, dropped dead in
the Baltimore and Potomac station at
4 O'Clock this afternoon.
He had just arrived on the limited
express from New York and was
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs.
Goodloe, wife of Maj. Goodloe, of the
United States Marine Corps. He got
Off the train with the rest of the pas
sengers and walked with his daughter
the entire length of the platform and
through the gate leading to the station
proper. He seemed to walk with an
effort and to breathe with labor, but
these symptoms were the usual accom-
paniments of exertion with him for
some months.
After passing into the station the
Senator and bis daughter stopped and
were Joined by his private secretary
who had brought carriage to take
them home.
A few words were exchanged with
regard to the care of baggage, when
the Senator suddenly turned pale with
the remark, 81 feel dizzy and fell into
the arms of his companions.
DIR. Chamberlain was the first physi-
clan 10 arrive, and he was soon fol-
lowed by DIR. Wells and others, but
there was nothing for them to do
except TO examine the body to deter
mine the cause of death. A super
fetal examination only was possible at
the time, but this was sufficient to sat
lsfy the physicians that death resulted
from paralysis of the heart.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
THE RoBERTsoNvILLE LEvER.

The new Robertsonville levee, .
large structure, three aud q quarter
miles long and from fourteen to thirty
feet high, which was completed little
over year ago, was called upon to
Withstand q sudden and enormous
pressure by the breaking of the out
side levee near its upper end, which
precipitated volume of water In some
places 25 feet deep against dirt that
had never been melted before by river
water. The conditions were aggra-
waited by the ponding of the water
between the levees at the lower end,
which gave 1t a super-elevation Of
more than a foot above the normal.
The heavy and continued strain was
resisted without any sign Of weakness
in the leyee, which was doubtless due
to extraordinary precaution in prepar-
ing the foundation befeore building 1t.
This brings to consideration the de-
fects in the old system of levee build
ing, which must be remedied before
any levee can be relied upon with con-
fidence to resist heavy and continued
strain.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10

One radical trouble is that the exist
ing levees are, for the most part, a
system of patchwork, which have been
built upon and enlarged from time to
time, as circumstances would admit,
instead of having been originally con-
structed upon intelligent design and
in thorough manner, with view to
performing aspecific service.
Having had small beginnings, they
were afterwards badly located, and
upon this faulty nucleus has gradually
grown up the present system in this
District.
Another evil is the low esteem in
which the levces have been held by
the people who live near the front,
which led to the absence of all care for
their preservation during low water,
aud which still renders il very difficult
to enforce laws recently enacted for
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
THEIR CONSTRUCTION,

Experience has shown what the pro-
portion Of the levees should be. The
crown should not be less than 10 feet
for levees 8 feet high and upwards.
Above IL feet high a crown width of
IL feet is desirable. Side slopes Of 8
and to are the minimum to be ad-
mitted, and this only when the materi-
al Is pure "buckshot.' The minimum
In other materials Is 4 and 8 to slopes,
the greater being ON the land side
Four to one on each side is to be PIE
ferred. In all depressions along tho
rear base, such as bayou crossings,
ponds, etc, "banquettes' or reinforce
ments to the lovees should be made,
twenty 10 forty feet wide, and high
enough to be well above water accu-
mutation, SO as to give dry ground be-
hind the leyee. Especial attention
should be given to the foundation at
bayou crossings and other deep de-
pressions, to the extent of using Golfer
dams, where rendered necessary by
the presence of water. In order to
make the proper excavations in levee
construction team work should be
used wherever practicable to the ex-
clusion of wheelbarrows, even at in
creased cost per cubic yard, as the ma
terial is thoroughly compacted in that
process.
Borrow pits should generally be
made only on the river side, and tho
berme should be thirty feet instead OF
twenty, as heretofore.
In buckshot formation pits may be
safely made on the land side with a
berme of forty feet, but should not
exceed six feet In depth, with good
slope next TO the berme. In sandy
formation 1t is better to have no pits
on the land side, but where necessary
to make them the bernie should be
sixty feet and the excavation not deep
er than four feet, with a good slope
next to the bernie. In forest ground
thickets and cane-brskes the surface
sScrld be stripped before excavating
for materi.., &c put in the levee, to re.
move trash, mould, roots, etc.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
4 Great Deal In A Name.
Evening Post.l

The River aud Leyee Convention
to-day, after an animated discussion,
worry wisely decided that its. official
name shall be "the Mississippi River
Improvement and Levee Association"
The Post from the beginning has
been in favor Of sticking TO "river
improvement" in any demands tho
people of the Valley made upon the
navigation of the river and perhaps to
control it); but we do not believe that
ive cents can be obtained from 1t for
a proposition pure and simple to build
'evees to protect low lands from over
low. Our own State government does
lot appropriate cent TO protect its
citizens from overflow, and 1t would
DC idle to expect Congress to do 1t.
Improvement of navigation, river
control, and a good leyee system to
accomplish these ends, win be the
watohwords Of success and Of victory.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
IncorreeIIT Reportsd.

In the last issue of the TINES there
was copied an extract from = recent
letter of Mr.. Chas. P. Huntington
our design in copying said extract
was to refute statement going
the rounds of the press, to the effect
that he had written letter to Hon. T.
]. Henderson, Chairman Of the Rivers
and Harbors Committee, reprobating
Government construction of levees.
We are now in receipt of letter from
Mr.. Huntington enclosing copy of
his letter to Chairman Henderson.
There is not a sentence or line bear
ing out the statement of his sntsgoniz-
ing Government aid in building leyees.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
Change In the River Commission.
Especial to Times. Democrat |

Washington, May 3.-Honry l..
Whiting, Of New York, was to-day
appointed member Of the Mississippi
River Commission. There is no par
ticular significance attached to the ap-
pointment. The law provides that one
member of the commission shall be
taken from the coast survey. Capt.
Davidson, who up to recently was the
coast survey member of the commits
SION, was stationed at San Francisco.
During the two years that he has held
the position he has not been able to
attend any ofthe meetings. He there
fore a short time ago sent in his resig-
nation and the vacancy was filled TO-
day as above stated.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
Flood In the Red River.
Especial to the Commercial.

New Orleans, May ALARM is
now felt on account of the serious
foods in the Red River.
The river at Fulton rose 5 tenihs
during the last twenty -four hours. and
is still rising. The water has already
risen beyond the highest marks Of the
great floods.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
rspecial to Times.Democrat,

Washington. May S.-The general
concensus Of opinion at Washington is
that Senator Beck's death will result
in Mr.. Carlisle's elevation to the Sem
ate. Even tonight talk has already
begun az to who will be Speaker of
the next House, in case il is Democratic.
Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, ii is believed,
would haye the best chance.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
TAvalanche Special

jackson, Miss, May 2.--Seversl days
since the Delta and Pine Land Com
pany and the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas Railway Company enjoined
the Swamp Land Commissioner from
issuing patents to certain lands to
claimants Of original entries under the
recent swamp act declaring certain
scrip entries void. To-day Messrs.
Mays & Whitfield, attorneys of Ok
ford, representing Messrs. Ford &
Levy, of New York York City, who
are already in land suit against these
corporations to recover upwards of
100000 acres of these lands, q large
majority of which we're entered with
erroneous scrip, made a tender to the
commission of $4,000 in cash, cover
ing the purchase price and fees. The
commissioner acknowledged the ten
der, but declined to permit the entries
on account of the injunction. This
means that proceedings will soon be
instituted In the Federal Court to
compel the issuance of the patents by
the commissioners. The corporations
claim that the quieting act passed by
the Legislature of 1883, and which
they availed themselves of, fully pro-
tects them.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
FROM REPORT OF ENGINEER DABNEy.

"The present flood season is notable
both for Its long duration and the ex-
traordinsry hight which the water
attained. Both Of these features are
potent adverse factors in the problem
of leveo defense aud when combined
are more than doubly so. As con-
sequsncc the levees along the Missis-
sippi River have been taxed as they
never were before. During the past
six years levee building in the Missis-
sippi Delta has been pushed with re-
newed impetus as result of the dis
astrous high water during the pre-
ceding years, which demonstrated the
necessity in this direction. This Inn
petus received additional strength
from the aid and encouragement
extended to local levee organizations
by the Mississippi River Commission.
These exertions have resulted in the
closure of all gaps in the levees on the
east side Of the river, from Memphis to
the Gulf, and on the west side from
the mouth Of the Arkansas south.
But these levee lines, while continuous,
were for the most part admittedly too
low and too weak to hold an extra
ordinary high water.
In the upper Yazoo Basin alono
were they deemed at all adequate to
meet such an exigency, and in this
levee district they have almost fully
met this expectation.
The present flood has been very in
structive to levee builders It has
clearly pointed out the defects In the
existing levees and how to remedy
these defects.
One thing has been certainly de-
monstrated-that the difficulty has not
been to make levees high enough to
hold extreme food nights, but strong
enough to withstand long continued
strain. In the Upper -Missis-
sippi District, werever the levees were
up to standard grade, they proved to
be of sufficient hight, and the most en-
ergetic fight had to be maintained
when the levees were from three TO
five feet above the water. IT rs EsPE-
CIALLY NOTICEABLE THAT THE LEAST
TROUBLE WAS ENCOUNTERED BETWEEN
HELENA AND OLD Town ON BOTH
SIDES OF THE RIVER, WHERE, FOR A
DISTANCE OF TWENTY MILES, BOTH
SIDES ARE LEVIED FOR THE FIRST TINE
SINCE THE WAR. II is also noticeable
that Immediately below this reach the
water was higher than at amy point
within it, attaining hight of fourteen
inches above 1882 and nine inches
above 1888.
In the lower half of this District the
levees have been under heavy strain
from the river for more than three
months, and at the same time the
country has been flooded and satur-
atad hv fha 1ooaI raiua
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10

Locals, space Of i've lines or more.
.hls type, IO cents per line for first.
cents each subsequent Insertion. less
than hVe lines, Is cents per line for first
anu ~ cents per line each subsequent in
sertion' Other reading notices sams
rersonal articles or notices charged
Ior OF declined according to their nature.
communications on matters of local in
terest solicited. While correspondents
may afhx any signature to cOmmunjea-
tions, real names must accompany same.
customers will please give explicit d.
seetlons oflength oftime for publication
Of advertisements.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
Larger advertisements. quarterly, half
yearly and yearly,
contracted fOrat Liberal Rates.

orders from transient customers. YER
oal or written. for Job work. advertising
or subscription. must be accompanied bv
the cash. Accounts Of regular custo-
mers due and presented the LIST of each
month
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
Prohibitions Death Knell.

1t was reserved for the Federal Su-
preme Court to deal prohibition the
deadliest blow it has ever received.
Chief Justice Fuller's decision that a
dealer in prohibition State may i'm
port liquor and sell il in its original
packages, even if these packages are as
small as a single flask, completely
smashes the prohibltory system. The
only way to establish complete prohibit
ton anywhere In this country is to
secure Congressional legislation that
will make it effective, and 1t is not
likely that Congress will be on that
line for a long time to come.-Ex-
change.
As stated above unless Congress
comes to Its relief prohibition is now
nil. Under this late decision dealers in
dry districts could not be convicted, as
heretofore, for carrying on the jug
trade. Indeed such dealer may now like
the Pullman Car Co., deal in bottles OF
specified "drink" capacity and really
conduct saloon.
The TIMES, regarding proper local
option law, one permitting every COM
munity to decide for itself whether or
not saloons should exist In its midst, as
consistent and beneficial, regrets this
decision. But the fact remains and
will govern. High and strict license
is the only, and the TIMES believes the
best, means OF eounteracting and re-
stricting saloon abuse.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
EHE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES.

The following is sn extract from the
able and highly interesting report Of
Chief Engineer Dabney to the Yazoo-
Mississippi Delta LeVee Board. The
sentence of this paper which the TINES
has capitalized is intensely suggestive.
But the experience in this District,
Of confning the whole volume between
two lines of levees. was different.
This differing testimony is further
proof Of the complex and complicated
nature of the problem of the Missis-
sippi. There is far more variance in
strictly local regimen, Of slope, Of bed,
of current course, than is commonly
supposed. These local influences sf-
feet velocity and decide altitude, create
apparent contradictions and lead to no
end Of bewilderment and fsllacy.
There can be no correct course Of
reasoning, no exact conclusions, de-
duced from isolated Mississippi river
phenomeus. In itself it is q vast
system of components, hidden, devious,
profound, perplexing; varying and
swsying under influences remote, ir-
regular, uncertain and immeasurable-
influences held suspensive and discon-
nected over half the continent All
these must be studied and weighed in
formulating rules and theories for
Mississippi river goverance, to devise
the equations of resistance to its mighty
forces. Compared with 1t all other
rivers of the civilized world, all others
with which engineering science has
grappled, are as the primer to the higher
mathematics. Truly magnificent, q
boundless field for scientists-and for
cranks no less!
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10

During high water prevalence, like
war times, waste and extravaganza are
the certain rule-there are even loop
holes for dishonesty. While by far
the larger portion of this well termed
"frightfup amount was closely scruti-
nized when incurred, as suggested by
our correspondent, one of the largest
and most intelligent tax payers Of the
District, there should be a change in
the system Of high water campaigns.
The old practice Of inspectors with
plensry powers, unrestricted even by
the officers ofthe Board, though always
abused, was well enough for, or at
least consisted with, the "old planta-
tom days.
The past high water has been costly
beyond precedent, as the struggle to
maintain the levees was longer than in
previous years. Economically viewed
1t would have been better had the le-
wees broken month earlier, as in 1882.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10

Fine and Complicated Watches re-
paired. Satisfaction guaranteed, al
Oct. 1e.-tf FRANK BINDERS.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10

gineers to the Vieksburg Convention
a. to the efficiency Of a proper system
and the futiliiy Of all other proposed
plans for preventing overflows. The
most hopeful thing which has occurred
within my knowledge of levee history,
is the remarkable endurance Of the
present weak line in the face of the
late remarkable food.
Very truly yours,
[Signedl SMITH S. LEACH,
Captain Of Engineers.
For Louisiana-Geo. G. Waddill, A.
w. Crsndall and ]. S. Richardson.
For Mississippi-W. G.. Yerger, w.
FL. Stoyall and III. r. Steele.
For Arkansas-D. II. Reynolds, Pat.
Henry and N. Stsub.
For Missouri-G. Clay, NJ. Bern
heimer and Luke Sells.
For Tennessee. r. Graves, w. r.
Moore, j. w. Clspp.
For Kentueky-H. P. Mcdonald, j.
S. Brannin.
For KsnsSsLJ. II. Rice
For Illinois-W. P. Halliday.
This Committee has been directed
to appear in Washington and most Of
them have responded by going. Capt
Yerger left on Tuesday last.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-05-10
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