The Port Gibson reveille., 1893-02-17

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Women voted without the least
compunction in tho recent stock-law
election in Washington county.
The electoral vote was counted in
the senate on the Sih, Cleveland get
ting 277 votes, Harrison 145, and
Weaver %.
Miss Hickles, white girl Of Win :
Ston county was married few
weeks ago to Rev. Thos Tubby, an
Indian Methodist preacher.
Tho supreme court lias decided
that tLe capital stock of the Wesson
eostcrf mills, heretofore considered
exempt, is subject TO taxation.
The Canton Progress is favor OF
annexing Hawaii, though it foresees
that England may try to frighten us
"by bullying demonstrations Of her
navel power"
A Chicago anarchist named Hirth
has performed a duty to bis coun-
fry that might profitabIy be initiated
by Mississippi White caps. He COM
mitted suicide.
1t is said that more land is advert
ised for tax sale this month than has
been the case for twenty-five years.
In some counties the list occupies
eight solid columns IN the newspaper.
The Natchez Democrat reports that
Rev. ]. t. Nicholson, who had 10 be
sent 10 The lunatic asylum last sum-
mer for insanity brought ON by over
work, is rapidly progressing toward
recovery.
a bin brought before the Mime
sofa Legislature last week forbids any
nHnrbcr Of that body and any state
to accept a railroad pass under
penalty Of $4,000 fine or ten years i'm
prls0nment.
last Saturday, near Columbus,
Miss, occurred the first case of ne
gro suicide ever known in that sec
lion. The victim was plantation
lrborer who killed himself because of
4 quarrel with his wife.
Strange things are happening in
politics these days--a Republican
president appointing a Democrat on
The supreme bench, and Democnt-
ic prcsident-elect inviting Republi-
can into his cabinet. Where are we
at2
State senator Byrd of Neshoba
county denies that there have been
any white cap demonstration in his
county, as lately reported in the dis
patches. lie says the county is in
4 perfectly peaoelble and orderly
condition.
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The Baxton high school building
about twenty miles from Brandon
was set on FIRE and burned down
OH the night of the 9th. The dis
patches intimate that the crime was
committed by dissatisfied patron.
Tbe building was lately completed,
and had been furnished with valu-
able school apparatus.
Tbe election in Washington coun-
~ on thc It'll nist., to decide the
renee question, gave the following
result: No fence, 355; fenco against
hrge stock, lt5 fence against all
stock, l64 plurality for no fence,
p9l. Washington county therefore
will abolish her fences and require
stock to- be kept up.
The term Popnlist, which was at
hrst resented rs an epithet of deris-
fon by those to whom it was applied,
has tiually triumphed over the awk-
ward name Peoples Party and is now
accepted and used by the Populists
themselves. Even their newspapers
Aave adopted it. The name, how
aver, is about all that is left of the
Shird party movement.
.The'cltizens in the neighborhood
Of Six Towns Franklin county, re-
Gently held o meeting to devise means
hpuL a stop to the burning of fences
and houses and other Iawlessness
going on in the county. The thirty
i've men who were present signed a
resolution pledging themselves to use
every EFFORT to bring the guilty per-
sons to Justice.