The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-08-23
OYER THE STATE.

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Mr.. Reilly, of Clarksdale proves him
self to be possessed Of by his very
rhetorical call upon the Democratic
voters Of the Shoestring District to
nominate Judge Wynn for Congress,
which we published in yesterdays
Commercial, but it is our duty 10
assure him that Gen. Catchings is too
far ahead now to be disturbed by any
one, even by so worthy gentleman as
the one for whom Mr.. Reilly expended
SO much ofhis vocabulary. The people
want Catehings. and will have him and
no one else, because he has proven
himself to be Just the man to represent
them fairly and with spirit, energy and
force. He is worth more to them in
watching and caring for and promot-
ing their river interests intelligently
than any ten men in the District who,
without his experience on that score,
might be pitted against him.-Memphis
Commercial.
In the Clarion-Ledger's tabulated
statement ofthe vote for delegate to
the convention from the state-at-large
Capt. j. S McNeily, late candidate for
public printer, is put down as having
received $500 votes, whereas the re-
turns in the secretary of states Office
show that he received $500, running
even with instead of behind the bal
ance Of the ticket.-New Mississippian
In the race for delegate at large at
the late state convention, Capt. Nc
Nelly ran second to no man voted for.
lie is the profoundest Journalist in the
commonwealth. And when 1t comes
to superb gentlemen, he is the peer OF
any man in the land. Since recon-
struction no mans services to the party
and state have been greater than his.
He was forced into the race for state
printer by his friends and would have
been elected but for the negro vote in
the legislature. OF course he had no
right to expect that, since John X.
Lynch once stated that the republicans
would never-carry Washington county
as long as McNeily lived there.-Com-
monwealth.
Jackson, Aug. 15.-Judge Hill, Of
the United States court, decided this
morning in the case of Ford 4 Levy
VS.. the Delta and Pine Land Company
in favor of defendants, that the tax
titles to the lands In the Delta derived
through the sales for levec taxes in
1868 and subsequent years are valid
and unimpcachable, any errors In the
manner Of sale being covered by the
curative law of 1860, 1875 and 1888.
This settles the titles to more than q
million acres of land in the Yazoo
Delta, and the opinion follows the latest
decision of the Mississippi Supreme
Court ON this subject.
Frank Johnston and j. II. Yerger, of
jackson, represented the defendants,
and Whitfield & Sullivan and Z. Msyrs,
of Oxford, the plaintiffs.
A similar case is pending at Oxford
against the Louisville, New Orleans
and Texas Railroad Company, which
is practically settled by this decision.
The attorneys for this road participated
in the argument Of the case just de-
cided.
Last week q negro named Willis
Comon was deepening well on Mr..
s. N. Samples place on Cypress Creek.
The well had failed to furnish a
sufficient supply of water, and the Dig
ging was for the purpose of more
prolific vein. Willis said, shortly be-
fore he stopped digging hc heard a
rumbling sound and the bottom Of tho
well began to rise up along tho curb
ing and the water commenced oozing
through the bottom next to the curb
ing. lie called to be taken out and by
the time be was taken out the bottom
of the well with him on 1t, had arisen
more than ten feet. In little while
the water was within three feet OF the
top of the well and could be dipped
out. Mr.. Burney, reliable gentleman,
who had measured the well before the
negro stopped digging, found 1t % feet
TO the bottom and no water in 1t he
measured IL after the water had come
to a stand within three feet of the top,
and found that the well was only
forty-one feet deep. The well and the
water are still there TO show for them
selves. No explanation of this freak OF
nature has been offered. The top OF
the well is about twenty feet higher
than the surface of Cypress Greek.
We would like for Mr.. Sample 70 Try
the experiment OF having the ten rect
of earth that arose from the bottom OF
the well with Willis on It bored
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