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The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12
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Ihis excellent arrangement will meet long
fcli want. as It secures no change of cars Of any
clss. IN either direction. between Memphis and
N, Louis, and provides an unsurpassed time
and service. This train slsO reaches Chicago NJ
an carly hour the next evening. and in addition
The day express. leaving Memphis az 900 a. m,
daily, connects directly at Fulton with Illinois
Central Railroad for Cairo, Chicago aud an
points on or via that line, II being the only
morning train from Memphis for Cairo aud
Chicago.
Passengers for Cairo. st. Louis. Chicago and
points beyond will find il to their convenience
and interest 20 secure tickets via this line
Al trains depart from and arrive the new,
elegant and capacious Union Depot, centrally
located, al Front and Poplar streets, Memph-
Is, Tenn.
John Echols, 81 Vice-Pres, f. W. How,
lra'ilc Manager, J. l.. Frazier, Supcrintend-
tnt, il. Prouty, G.. z. A.; Louisville. Ky.
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This report was compared with
the auditors books and found cor
rect The cash was brought before
the board and counted in open court;
the warrants were compared with
the stubs of the several warrant
books and found correct; whereup-
on the stubs we're cancelled, and the
warrants punched, and the report
approved
The rest of the day was spent in
adjusting the personal roll.
Wednesday morning.
The board met at 8 a. N. with n
full attendance.
Road reports were received and
filed.
Ordered, That r. H. Magruder
be appointed overseer Of road 3 in
place of b. T. Archer.
Ordered, That b. Il. Archer be
appointed overseer of road s in
place of J. B. Allen.
Ordered, That G. w. Foster be
appointed overseer of road GA in
place Of A. Jennings, removed; and
that he at once work said road and
put it IN good order, draining and
filling the mud holes thereon.
Ordered, That A. Jennings be fin
ed $40 for neglecting to work his
road and falsely reporting, and that
sci. ia. issue returnable to next
term.
Ordered, That roads 30 and 80 be
consolidated, and extended west
from Highland gate to Waterloo res
idence, with A. II. Berry as over
seer.
Ordered, That T. ]. Segrest be
appointed overseer of road 80, and
that he have said road worked at
once.
Ordered, That Horace Clark's
hands ON S. S. Flies place be taken
from road So to road 81.
Ordered, That the N. ]. d G.
branch of the L. N. o. d I. II. II.
do Immediately repair the bridge
over bitches cut by said railroad A.
cross the public road in the town OF
Carlisle, the present bridges being
Ordered, That the official bond of
L. b. Westrope, constable, be APP
proved.
Touchingthe communication from
the Jefferson county board Of super
vlsors in regard to location of the
line between the two counties, II Is
ordered that A. Shields be appointed
on the part of Claiborne county to
assist in defining the county line
from.the Mississippi river to Clarks
creek, as contemplated by chapter
70, laws of 1886; that the location
Of said line be made as permanent
rs possible by placing stones or 9TH
imperishable substances wherever
said line intersects section and town.
ship lines.
Ordered, That the monthly sii-
pend of Geo. West, invalid conicl-
crate veteran, be increased from IS
10 sl2.
The sheriff is hereby notified that
the court house is public property
in his care, and must not be used
for any private purpose whatever.
Ordered, That the clerk notify j.
j. Nusom, county contractor, to set
tie his account due July 31st, 1891.
Ordered, That
be appointed on the board Of exam
liners Of teachers, in place of. NJ.
Taylor, resigned.
Thursday morning.
Board met at o a. IN. Present al
CONCLUDED on LAST PAGF.l
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12
NeflraInfc Iiersons

And those troubled With nervousness resulting
from care or oyerwork win be relieved by taking
BrOtUiI's Iron Bifters. Genuine
has trade marx aud crossed rcd lines on wrapper
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12

We sell and warrant every bottle OF
Beggs' Family Medicines. s. Z. Dudley
& CO., Hermanville.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12

TAILS Lone Star Plows,
- LEE RICHARDSON a. Co.
Sole Agents, Yicksburg.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12
Board OF Supervisors.

A regular meeting OF the board Ot
supervisors OF Claiborne county was
held in the court house, beginning
ON the 3rd Of August. Present, n.
McDougall. president. w. J. Pear
son, J. A. Rcgan, 4. Y. Richmond,
ID. j. Cannon, members, N. 5.
Walker, Sheriff, A X. Jones. elk.
The board spent the entire day
in considering the personal roll and
hearing exceptions thereto, and adj
journed hll next morning.
Tuesday, Q 4 IN. the board con-
vened with full attendance. s.
Bagnell, county treasurer, submit
ted the following report:
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12

The Woodville RepNblicaR sug-
gests congressman John Allen for
the senate in case Walthall declines
to serve. We fail to see any merit
in the suggestion. Mr.. Allen is
rather an "emusing feller"-at times
and does we'll enough as represen-
tative /; but he would be very light
weight in the senate. But there is
little danger that Gen. Walthalrs
"unalterable determination" will be
proof against an almost unanimous
denomination. A United States
senatorship doesn't have to spend
much time looking for a patriot to
to accept its responsibilities.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1891-08-12

The damage to the crops from in
sect ravages every year is almost
beyond belief. Scientific men, who
have made the question a special
study, estimate that the United
States annually loses from this
cause the enormous sum of $780,
100000. To the wanton slaughter
of so many millions of birds, year
after year, is doubtless due a large
part OF this loss. Birds keep down
insects more effectually than any
other agency. 1t is hardly too much
TO say that were our feathered allies
entirely exterminated from the
earth, the fields would be ravaged
by such hosts of insects that the
growing Of crops would no longer
be possible. 1t is at his peril that
man interferes with natures adjust
ments, even in a matter apparently
so trivial as the killing of birds.
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Farctrrles IN endless variety at
REDCs' DEUG STORE.
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mr.. r. WHARTON

-. Ma nrnfessional services 60 the
'ur'l ~ If port [; lbson ahd vicinity. Of
WIN .' rnext door to his residence.
U.S. e.',,r ~, CInsoN Feb. Is. 1888. lti
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Ice Cream eYery day Al KelIey's
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Snake Swallowed the Bnhy.

George Wharton, of Brown county,
tells blood curdling snake story. Mrs.
William Huxelly, living in u log cabin,
was making soap in the back yard, hay
ing kissed her sweet little 6-months babe
to sleep in the cradle. Presently the
baby screamed, and she rushed in and
was horror stricken to find hideous
black snake of enormous size trying to
swallow the child. 1t had engulfed the
hand and swallowed it up to the armpit,
and was writhing in it's contortions and
efforts to make further progress.
Grasping the hideous reptile in the
middle, it seemed to relax its hold and
disgorge the child's arm, then turned
upon its mother. She dashed it to the
floor, and in her wild frenzy stamped It
to death. 1t proved to be of the black
racer species, seven feet two inches long
and measuring six and one-half inches
in circumference. The babe lived, and
the only inconvenience it suffered from
its terrible experience was that its arm
and hand were blistered as if scalded in
hot ter.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05

Mrs. Mollie ellen Saunders died At
her home in this city lssf ~aes after q
brief illness. She was the youngest and
only surviving child of Ellie Ellen, an old
resident Of Truckee. Her death recalls
a striking incident, which is related as
aKtng place six or seven years ago. In
1888 Ellie Ellen, hale and hearty
tuoneer cf nearly sixty years of age, was
'tric,,,e1' -s -4=aiysis. Ills recovery
:S""lnis-.ed his friends and the physicians.
The doctors stated that a second shocg
would certainly cause his death. AT
mat time the old gentleman had three
daughters living, one of them an inmate
OF the state insane asylum at Napa.
A anticipating the death of their father,
tie other two daughters engaged in fire.
luent quarrels concerning the distribu,
ton of his estate.
These differences coming to the ears
of the old man aroused hatred of his
children, and in fit of anger he made a
solemn VOW that he would outlive them.
In 1886 Mr. Ellen received second
shock of paralysis, which left him men
tally and physically incompetent. He
did not die, however, and is alive today,
and rational enough at times to mutter
that he will outlive his children. I'm
known to him the old man has fulfilled
his solemn VOW of seven years ago, for
with the death of Mrs. Saunders the last
of his children passed away. The de-
mented daughter in the asylum died
three years ago. A married daughter
named Mrs. Regli was the second to die.
Her two children died subsequently, and
the husband and father was not long in
following. The nearest next of kin to
the paralytic old man are three grand
children-Jennie, Emma and Mollie.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
EYRAUD'S EXECUTION.

The recommendation of the French
board of pardons some time ago Tor
the Communication of the death SEN
tence of the murderer of Goufe to life
imprisonment does not seem to have
availed anything. Eyraud's head yes
terday rolled into the sawdust. As
the dispatches have it, there was a
sudden flash of the fatal knife, then
all was over. The very last act OF the
muir Ierer's life-the contemptuous and
stern refusal of the assassin to allow
the offices OF the priest who was pres
emit or to have any religious ceremonies
whatever-was in keeping with the
past life of hardened villain. He
faced death with the same remorse-
less stoicism with which he and his
mistress strangled the unfortunate
Gouffe.
But though the bloody guillotine
with its uplifted knife, had no
terrors for Gouffo's assassin,
his execution will have most
happy feet on the criminal classes o.
Paris and will no doubt save the lives
of many another Gouffe who may hap
pen, from whatever cause, to get into
the clutches of such wretches. While
the guillotiuipg of Eyraud yesterday
may look like the doings of bar
barous age, let the sentimentalist re-
member that the crime for which he
suffered was infinitely more barbarJus,
deliberate and fiendish; that mdrder
is a desperate disease requiring he
roic remedy, and that can only be
cured by its like. Capital punishment,
promulgated in the Mosaic law, has
been shown by the experience of ages
to be the only real prevention of as
sassination as it is the only adequate
and just punishment for its commits.
sion. The beheading of Eyraud is
notice served to the other would-be.
assassins of the French capital that
they must respect the lives of their
fellows or suffer as did the slayer OF
GouHe.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
GIVE us MORE TERRITORY.

If the legislature is disposed to give
the capital city of Texas a chance to
build herself up, now is the time and
the opportunity. What we ask is an
extension of our municipal territory
necessary to make our dam project a
success, and equally a necessity when
the city shall have grown and spread
out upon the surroundishehills, which
che will when the great enterprise is
completed. We want to extend our
authority to the dam and the dam
lake in the west, and take in South
Austin, thus making our corporation
as strong and powerful as possible.
Again we want the Legislature to
grant us more power in the matter
of street improvements, without
which our streets will probably re-
main as they are.
What we ask of the Legislature is
simply the permission and the power
to extend our resources and to utilize
them for the building up and beauti'
flying the Capital city of Texas, and
making it "a busy mart OF trade as
we'll as a city of wealth, magnificent
thoroughfares and palatial architect
ure. All this can be made sober
reality.
Give Austin the charter she asks,
and five years hence you will see a
change equal to the story OF Aladdin's
! palace.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Piles Curpd

fyou suffer with any form of piles, blind,
bleeding or itching, try Turkish Electric
Ointment, for its action being cool and
soothing it gives immediate relief, and only
one box will cure the worst case. Over ten
thousand have been made happy by itsuse
1t cures where all else fails. These sre facts.
We will send it to your address on receipt
of only 81 90. Positively no free samples
sent out. Don't hesitate. Remit now and
address plainly.
The TURKISH PHARMACY Co.,
Albion, Mich.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Curiosities of the Pine Tree State.

In Bluehil! they are finding flint arrow
heads about three feet under ground in
the vicinity of Norris pond.
A warming pan and clock, the latter
seven feet eight inches high, and both
1875 years old, are among the family an
tiquities in possession of Mr.. F. A. How
ard, of Belfast.
In Willinantic, on Lake Sebec, in Pts
cataquis county, snow white deer of
immense size was seen the other day.
A Belfast man has queer pet in the
shape of black cat that has double feet
on her forelegs, Just above her forefeet,
on the inside of the leg, is another but
smaller set of toes. When the cat walks
the double feet are on the ground and
give her a clumsy appearance. -Kenne-
bee Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
THE TEXAS EDITORS.

The wrangle between the state SEN
ate and the house of representatives
over the commission bill as offered by
members in the last house may result
in all of them being killed or new
oil not even half sister to either OF
the original being passed.-Sherman
Register.
In the state senate yesterday, upon
motion of Senator Pope, house bill No
FOG was taken up and passed under a
suspension of the rules. This bill, in
the case of vacancies in the legisla-
ture while in session, provides that
five days notice of an election to fill
the vacancy shall be sufficient instead
of the time previously fixed. Its in
tention is to cover the Case of the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
Senator Mott of Galveston, and al
though Senator Pope made the mo-
ton, the fine Italian hand of States
man Crowley appears between the
lines. Galveston has Sentinel upon
the tower" where her interests are
concerned in the person of Estates
man" Mlles.-Galveston Tribune.
Mr.. GRESHAM, of Galveston, is pre-
pairing very important bill, whose
main feature is, that it would restore
to circulation money now boarded up
under lock and key in the state treas
ury among the people, with ample
security required to shield the state
from loss. The bill Is one of the
most important That has or ever will
be offered and as it contemplates re-
lief, the people will hail it with de-
ight.-Corslcana Courier.
We are inclined to favor the idea
of sentencing all short term convicts
to the chain gang instead of to the
penitentiaries. Ii this county has to
go to the expense of capturing, trying
and convictipg criminals, why
shouldn't she have some of the bene-
fit of their labor as we'll as the specu-
lator in convict labor who hires them
out to work on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Register.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Gresham
providing for the disposition of the
idle funds of the state in various
banks throughout the state is simply
similar policy adopted by Grover
Cleveland's administration when it de-
posted $437 10000 in national banks
in order to relieve threatened none
tary stringency. 1t is an excellent
financi Il policy; places in circulation
the money now rustipg in the state
treasury, and should receive favorable
consideration at the hands of the leg
stature. Texas needs all the money
it can get, and these state deposits
will be of infinite benefit to our peo-
pie, going far to relieve the present
depression in commerce. Worth
Gazette.
There will be bill introduced in
the legislature asking for the creation
OF forty-fve new counties. The peo-
pie in and around Pontotoc want a
new county and are at work in earnest
to secure it. We are reliably informed
that they have paid attorneys at Aus
tin looking after their interests. The
territory for the new county will be
taken from Llano, San Saba, McCul-
loch and Mason counties.-Llano
Gazette.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Passed AWAY.

The burial of Edward Kirk Green
took place yesterday from his fathers
residence on West Nineteenth street.
The young ladies and gentlemen, some
thirty or forty in number, of the Cap.
ital Business college, attended in q
body, headed by their principal. The
deceased young man had been men,
Der of the institution for several
months. The following studen is were
pail bearers: p. J. Baron, V. H.
Hubrick, Arnold Klein, L. M. Murray,
A. E. Schumsnn, j. E. Bergstrom.
The services were conducted by Rev,
DR.. Wright of the Presbyterian church.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Where AndersonviIle Prison Was.

The site of the old Andersonville
prison is now the property of L. S. Jones
Post, G. A. R., of Macon. Commander
l. d. Crawford, of Jones post, has re-
turned from Americas, where the formal
transfer of the property was made. The
purchase, negotiations for which were
begun a year ago, included eighty acres
of land, on which were located the stock
AIDE, Notifications, rifle pits, ETC., of the
historic prison. The land was bought
from George Kennedy, a negro, and the
purchase price was $1,000. In thirty
days the work of converting the site into
a national e. A. r. park will be begun.
The money for this purpose has already
been contributed by G. A. r. men in
Georgia and elsewhere.
The purchase will be surrounded by a
hundred foot driveway, and a wide ave-
nue. will lead to the railroad station;
walks, drives, fountains and beds of flow
ers and rare shrubs and berries will be
plentiful, and in the center on an eleva-
ton will be erected an elegant club
house for the use of members of the G.
A. R. and their guests. Each point of
special interest will be marked by a
jaitable monument or building, and at
Providence Spring large amphitheatre
will be erected for the holding of Deco
ration Day exercises. Superintendent J.
M. Bryant, of the Andersonvllle Ma
tional cemetery, will overlook the max
ing of these improvements.-Cor Phila-
delphis. Press.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Vitality of Snakes,

Recently we were shown by Messrs.
Powell Bros. seven tiny rattles taken
from a ground RATHER killed twelve
months ago by M. D. Powell. Strange
to say, they showed they were not yet
dead, but when touched would contract
and expand, and when not touched ex-
hibit evident signs of vitality by moving
about. Mr.. Powell has carried them in
his vest pocket, wrapped in paper, ever
since he killed the snake. He had for
gotten about them until few days
since, when he pulled them out and
found them alive.-Bainblidge (Ga.)
Globe
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05

IT is proposed to give Senator Cor
man banquet for the magnificent
gsneralship he has di played in de-
feating the force bill. We say amen,
and would like to send him up some
thing good from Texas. The fact is
that during the crisis in the senate
a crucial moment for the country
German has shown all the qualities
of a great leader-a man who can be
depended on in emergencies. Let him
have the banquet.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
A COrncob Thermometer.

A corncob thermometer is very easy
to make, and is useful and effective,
Get bright red or yellow ear-any
farmer or grain dealer will give you
some to choose from-then remove two
rows of kernels, leaving place the ex-
act size of small thermometer, which
you can buy at any shop where they sell
materials for fancy work. Tie the stem
with bow of ribbon to match.-New
Yorl' Journal.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05

ETC.? What is wrong with this schemef
We hope to have the criticisms Of our
readers.
Here is a grand opportunity for
some OF our young, vigorous legislators
to immortalize themselves. Who will
be the youthful David to attack the
Goliah OF corporate greed and dishon-
esty and the selfish and sinful prac-
tees of private pilferers?
PUBLIC ROADS.
The people have declared for better
roads, and anXiously await the action
OF the legislature. Not every county
wants improved roads, but those that
10 want them badly and quickly.
Some people opposed to increased tax
alton for road improvement are will
ing, or profess to be willing, to submit
themselves to much heavier tax to
make the present so-called roads trav-
elable. One suggests law making it
compulsory for all wagons or other
heavy vehicles to have their tires not
less than four inches in width, when
their hauling capacity does not exceed
half ton, with an increase of one
inch in width for every hundred
pounds III excess of that weight. That
would make wagon capable of carry.
ing one ton have q tire fourteen
inches in width. Think of this suffer
ing granger. Good idea, isn't iti
Another proposes building an iron
roof over our roads which would not
only shed the wator, but would pro-
tect the farmers delicate complexion
from the bronzing, freckel producing
action OF the sun. And yet another
one suggests that every one should
hitch three horses to their wagon, as
is done in Louisiana and other states.
This latter proposal has the merit of
being practical, but is open to the
same objection as the other schemes
it is too costly and would be vastly
more expensive and inconvenient
than a direct road tax,
The three horse arrangement goes
long way towards keeping good roads
in good order, rs the outside horses
walk on the same ground travelled by
the wheels and ohliterate the tracks
made by the preceding wagon. But
the cost of an extra horse with its feed,
shoeing and harness, TO say nothing
about Inconvenience and loss of time
in handling, puts the plan out of the
question for the average Texas farmer.
A pair of horses can do all the work
he has for them, and any extra team
won d be so much tax.
But could not the benefit of three
horse arrangement be got by better
arr' ngement of q double teami It
seems to me that the same result
could be had by frightening the
doubletree go that the singletrees
could be attached Immediately in front
of the wheels. Of course this would
place the team much wider apart and
necessitate bar between the heads to
keep them from crowding in, till they
got accustomed to the new, but can
not see any objection to the plan if
universally adopted. 1t would involve
little or no cost to try the experiment
where roads have been newly made or
repaired. Without this or some such
plan for keeping roads in good ORDER
the best of macadamized roads will
require a large expenditure to keep
them in repair. The first thing need.
full, however, is the good road.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-02-05
Snow Storm In NshrasL.

OMAHA. Neb. Feb. 3.-North Nebraska
and South Dakota are enveoped in a terrif.
fic storm. AT Deadwood it i, q degrees be.
low zero; at Lead City 30 degrees below;
and at Galena 40 degrees below. Many
herders Of cattle have been lost and the
settlers will suffer.