The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1890-06-28
OVER THE STATE.


ingly strong trio, and the county ma,
justly pride itself on them.-BoIival
Democrat.
The selection of Hon. w. G. Yergel
as one of the Delegates from Washing
ton county to the Constitutional Con,
yention was most excellent act. Oul
estimate of Mr.. Yerger is, that he is q
man of splendid judgment, conserva
tive and broad-minded, and patriotic
enough to lose sight Of self IN the con.
sideration of all questions of public
moment. He is an original convention
man.-Brookhaven Leader.
Last Friday al Clarksdale large
amount of levee work was let BY Mai
Dabney, chief engineer of the district
The price Of the work ranged from IA
to ~ cents per yard. 1t is said that
there is a great scarcity of leyee labor.
ers at present. Among the lucky bid
ders were Flynn & DeGaris, Ii. r.
Fudge, j. I. Jefferson 4 Co. and
Timothy Sullivan. The work consists
OF some 100000 yards of levee at the
Austin break.-Evening Post.
In the Hemingway trial at Jackson
on Saturday statement was introduc-
ed from Mr.. George w. Koontz, conf
dental agent and clerk of the banking
house Of Britton h Koontz, ofthis city,
showing that Col. Hemingway had, at
two, different times, negotiated loans
from Messrs. Britton & Koontz in the
sum of 800, 900 each, securing each OF
the loans with State bonds and individ-
ual notes, as collaterals, one ofthe loans
having been negotiated in 1884 and
the other in 1885, Mr.. Koontz's state
ment also showed that both the loans
had been paid upon the date agreed
upon through the Canal Bank at New
Orleans and there had been no default.
--Natchez Democrat.
Messrs. Rush and Gardner are In re-
cept of a letter from Gen. Catchings
written on the 10th, IN which he says
that owning to the solicitation of those
in the District urging him TO become a
candidate for reelection to Congress
that he will consent to serve the Dis
trict faithfully and to the best of his
ability. We are very proud and glad
to hear that Gen. Catchings viii con-
sent TO stand. The Delta Flag was the
first paper to call on him and insist
upon his being elected. No man in
the Delta country can give as good
service to their constituents as Gen. c.,
and 1t ispeculiarly gratifying to us to
know that he will consent and we pre-
dict that he will sweep the District.
His name appears at our mast head
Delta Flag.
The Delta Trust and Banking Com
pany of this city has been selected by
English capitalists to invest $5,000,000
for them In loans on lands In Louisiana
aud Mississippi. The bank is informed
that $7,O00,000 have been placed with
Shattuck 4 Hoffman, $2,000,000 with
Austin Corbin and $4,000,000 with A.
S. Caldwell q Co., for investment In
Louisiana. This Is accepted here as
evidence that hereafter the Lower
Mississippi will be able to command
the necessary capital for its develop
ment and is generally connected with
the presence of party Of English
capitalists in the Delta and Louisiana
come weeks ago in charge Of President
Wilkinson, of the Equitable Mortgage
Company.-Vicksburg special to The
Times-Democrat.
Members of the Board of City Coun-
ell were served with a writ Of quo war
ranto by the Sheriff. The Information
was made by Mr.. 7. H. Upshur and
| NJ. Jones, Coleman Il Barry, attorneys,
The law making f. +. Noel, District
Attorney the leading counsel. The
grounds, as far as we can learn, are,
| that the present Board hayo usurped
their rights, that they are acting with
out the authority of law, that the lines
fixing the limits of the boundary OF
the city do not fix 1t, but reach out on
| the north and east and take in the
whole State--and therefore the cleo.
ton was void. Mr.. W. E. johnson
carefully made the survey, and the plat
of the town was carefully looked over
| by him and several Of our old citizens
who pronounced it GOOD and GOOD we
think it, and believe 1t will stand the
test In the courts. Let us stand
together--divided we fall, in unity
there is strength.-Delta Flag:
We deeply regret the action taken
by some of our citizens in regard &c
the city government. 1t is not thai
we fear any disturbance of the present
administration SO far as removing then
from office or declaring the election
invalid. but for a town the size o
Greenwood to have within Its borders
classes and crowds waring with eaci
other is indeed unfortunate. Ii w
would build up our city and develop'
ali of her great possibilities, perfetc
uuapimity and concert of actions shoul'
characterize the efforts OF our people
The spirit eyiuced by the action recent
lly filed against the city council Is IN
deed unfortunate. 1t will go like th'
other futile attacks against the cit.
government and will only serve u
deepen the animosIty already rife an
perceptably retard the progress OF ou
eity. Only that and nothing more
Greenwood Enterprise.
The cotton planted since the Hood
as fine as can be-that is where IL ia
! heen properly worked. There ar
crops in this neighborhood plante'
since the 18th of May that will make
bale and half of cotton to the acre e
II is growing luxuriantly and formln
ranjdlv There is very little oft tina
is red or dwarfed by the cold. In
onlv drawback to fine crop is I'd
fact that there is a scarcity OF labo
and some cotton viii not be cut out
time to make good crop. There ha
. hsen @ required more rapid work tina
usual. and we regret to say that
most cases there has been no hurry o
s tbe mart of the laborers OF the count.