The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-01-03
OVER THE STATE.

tN-A1A-Af -l-A-c-s Dcl. -i.-IuE DoAfl
oS Mayor aud Aldermen tonight in
view OF what they deemed the general
ineficlency Of the police force. asked
for the resignation Of the entire force.
which was rendered and accepted to
take effect January l. This action of
The Board was precipitated BY the
failure to suppress lawlessness on
Christmas.
A large number of negroes have left
the prairie this month for the bottoms
of Mississippi and Arkansas. We hope
this means prosperity for the emigrants,
and so far as our country is concerned
we know that it means more clover
more hay from native grasses; more
home-bred mules and horses; more im-
proved implements more concentra-
tlon of labor more intensive farming
and bigger cotton crops.-Aberdeen
Examiner.
The annual house-swapping is going
on at lively rate among our colored
population. The steamboats, are reap
ing harvest of gold out of this scant
and meagre hoard. The planter, OF
course, must pay it now, but it must
finally come out of the laborer. II Is
commendable spirit TO want to better
ones condition in life, but the game is
often not worth the candle, as played
by some of our simple and childlike
population. Year after year the same
wild chase continues, and each sue
ceeding year finds the chase one round
lower down the ladder of financial
standinf.-Msyersville Spectator.
Especial to Times -Democrat.l
Yazoo City, Dec. 27.-Belzonia, a
thriving business town thirty miles
above here, was visited last night by a
disastrous fire. Bowles Il Unger's
large establishment and the mercan-
tile house of NJ. Cohn, with entire con-
tents, were destroyed. Bowles Il
Unger's loss, from best data. approx
mates $4,000, including building and
stock. COINS loss is in the neighbor-
hood Of S6000-the last-named being
literally insured. Accurate data is
not obtainable, as Belzonia cannot DC
reached by telephone, the office having
been in M. Cohn's store.
More than one thousand colored peo-
pie have left this county, Monroe and
Lee, during the past sixty days for the
Mississippi bottom, Arkansas and
Texas. The Messenger has never felt
disposed to meddle with the right Of
the people TO go and como when they
please, II has never urged them to stay
or 20 away, bat II is fully convinced
that tie emigration of the negroes
from our beautiful prairie region will
result in the dividing up of the large
plantations into smaller bodies and
their ultimate purchase by race OF
thrifty white settlers from the North
west. From the day the first little
colony from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebras-
ka, Illinois or any part of the blizzard
stricken north, lands in our midst, we
may date a prosperity which this sec
ton has never known since the war
and which will exceed anything which
can be offered the honest, industrious
immigrant IN any portion OF these
United States.-Messenger.
Especial TO Times-Democrat1
vicksburg, Dec. 29.-Following is q
corrected list of insurance on the build.
ing and stock buried Saturday night
Brown & Kuhn, owners Of block, $6,'
575. divided among Phoenix of Brook
| lyn $2,s75, Queen $4,000, and Western
$1,000; John Walsh, Mechanics and
Traders 81 400, unknown companies
81 900, Mississippi Home $500, Ma
cara 5000; Bloomensteil, confectionery
$3.50 in the Germania, $500 in the Me-
cbanics and Traders Joyce's saloon
81 400 In the Equitable of Meridian
Adolph Levy, $1,000 in the United
| Underwriters; Keary and Deely
boots and shoes, $1,000 in the Missls'
sippi Home, and $1,000 each in inc
Niagara and Western. The actua
losses largely exceed the insurance, and
are all total.
The buildings on each side of the
fire suffered some damage by water
and fire, but are fully insured. Iner'
| is no clew to the cause of the fire. The
Mechanics and Traders will pay
Bloomensteil's loss tomorrow. Inc
others are being adjusted.