The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1890-10-24
SIat9 in General.

dreenvllle.
Woodville fair great success in
spite of rain.
Luther Reeds store, at Bruce
Landing, burglarized.
Missippi Mills at Wesson putting
in full knitting machinery.
J. II. Sistrunk's gin burned near
Crystal Springs. Loss, 81 600.
yicksburg's slice of the River and
Harbor appropriation is s67,5OO.
Rob Johnson had his hands mu-
tilated in a planning mill at Wesson.
Yazoo City has first class hang
ing scheduled for Nov. 2lst. No
cards.
Supreme court considers the case
of ex-Treasurer Hemingway this
month.
New opposition steamer between
Vicksburg and Natehez-the Lam
caster"
L., N. o. q T. about decided on
its branch from Mintcr City to va
zoo City.
Walter Mays lacerated his hand
in a gin, near Grenada, and died
from the effects.
Gen. Featherstore is Great Com
mander Of the State Camp of United
Confederate Veterans.
Columbus hopes the projected
Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Mem
phis railroad will call by there.
Over 700 sheep shipped from
Iuka to Tennessee. The animals
were purchased in Itawamba county.
Hon. r. C. Patty emphatically
denies that be is in favor of length
ening the terms of officers now IN
power.
]. S. Veach, machinist, murdered
at Purvis, and the remains placed
on railroad track to be mutilated.
No arrests.
L.. N. @. IL T. still after a por-
ton of Natchez bluff for deput pur-
poses. The aldermen won't bluil
worth a cent.
Shooting scrapc at a party at the
residence Of Robt. Mccormick. near
Union Church. Will Blue killed
Penn McIlee, Jr.
As mark of respect to Wash.
Nicols, colored, the business houses
of Duncanby closed and the mer-
chants all went to the funeral.
Reveillc job Printing Office now
issues any class Of work, in hand
soonest style of art, at New Orleans
or St. Louis prices. Give it a trial.
Justice Hammctt, Warren Co.,
out fox hunting captured ''coon"
with wheel-barrow load of wom-
ems clothes, Pekin ducks, and fall
chickens.
Gaillard Sporting Club celebrated
at Natchez, the 18th. Sam. Nc
Dowell won medal on a score of IL
out of 25 birds. G. w. Babbitt got
the BOBBY with 3 birds.
concord" one of the handsom-
est and most paIatial of the old. time
southern homes that remain in the
vicinity of Natchez, sold by Miss
Kate Minor to DR.. Stephen Kelley
for eli, 900 cash.
One of Barnum & Bailie's ele-
plants, at Vicksburg, became en-
ragged and struck an attendant with
his trunk. An ice-dealer, who hap
pened to be at hand, struck the ele-
phant with his bill and laid him
out.
The Constitutional Convention
adjourned to attend Barnum's cir
Gus. A fellow feeling made it won-
drous kind-to itself. Well, tax
payers should not grumble; one
freak naturally runs after another.
Well get even after adjournment
by putting the whole thing into a
dime museum.
Gen. Catchings is having every
thing his own way with Hull in the
race for Congress mot exactly IN
the race, either, for Hill is out of
sight. Black and white republicans
have come outsquarely for the Gen.
eral on account of the oppression
they know the Compound Lard bill
has IL store for them.
Jno. p. Richardson has contract
ed for 200 portable houses to be
built and placed on his new planta-
ton in the Delta. The houses are
to be built of first-cldss material.
and are to be handsomely finished
and adaptable for the use of white
families. They will require about
/ 400, 800 feet of lumber and 500, 600
shingles, and il satisfactory to Mr..
Richardson, he will probably order
ZUO more OF them.
The Levee Board which met at
Greenville Saturday decided to
build the new levee at Catfish Point
across, and not around the point, as
| il was heretofore. This will throw
several valuable cotton plantations
outside of the levee, and will here
aftar ha at the mercy of fenrinp fresh.