The free press., 1895-08-29
EXCHANGE FL ASHES.
OH! FOR BETTER ROADS.

The Day-Book would suggest
that our highly efficient ''county
legislaturen could hardly employ
it's time better for some time in the
future than 10 earnestly set about
devising some ways and means for
permanently improving our public
highways. \ good system of roads
would soon place Pearl River coun-
ty in the foremost rank among the
counties of the State, We have a
competent board of supervisors and
if they will set their heads to work
we think it would lead us out of
this wilderness of fruits and bogs
and roots and rough causeways."
What say you gentlemen? Cant
You give your county boost and
it's people comfort by improving
its public thoroughfares ?-Lum-
berton Day-Book
TIE SABBATH.
We hail the blessed Christian
Sabbath and pray God to avert ev~
cry influence that might lessen its
sacredness in our midst. Sunday
in our land is reversed as a day OF
rest and public prayer. The halls
of congress and of our state legisla-
ture are closed. The proceedings
of our courts of justice are suspen
ded, the din of commerce is hushed.
The looms in our factories are ST.
lent, the fires burn low in our found
ries; every city, town and hamlet
resounds with the peal Of the joy
Gus bell inviting men to prayer
Rev Father Heffron, Catholic, st.
Paul, Mlnn.
A conductor saw the moon as
it was rising a few nights ago and
thinking it was an approaching
train, switched his train to anoth-
er track and stayed there 10 min
utes waiting for ii to pass.-Ex.
The associated press adds one
line to the account of the sentence
of Marshall and his co-murders to
the penitentiary for life which if
true will be glad tldings and great
Joy to all law-abiding citizens of the
state. 1t is that "there is no hope
or chance Of a pardon" If these
men are pardoned 1t will be a last
ing disgrace to the pardoning pow
er and that power should at once
be taken from the governor.~New-
ton County Progress.
All Mississlpplans would rejoice
at the appointment Of Hon. Il. G.
Catchings as the successor of Judge
Jackson. He is a gentleman Of
great ability, lawyer of high stand-
ing, and has all the qualifications
necessary for justice of the United
States Supreme Court. CLARION
Ledger.
Mississippi has neither gold nor sll-
yer mines-but for the last six
months about 5000 of it's free silver
citizens were most industriously
engaged in digging for Offices with
gold salaries attached.-VicksA
0urg Post,
Some of the sapient scribes on
the obscure American press (there
are mere than one and less than Il
hundred in Mississippi), in their
treatises on the financial question,
now so seriously disturbing the
Democracy OF the nation, suggest
pictorial reproduction of the
-Ksopic fable of the frog and the
OK. They are endeavoring to ex-
pand to the breadth OF a subject
whose scope their mental vision
cannot even measure. The result
is as disastrous as in the case of
the small amphibian. Outside the
sphere of newspaperdom it is fact
that the average man will rush in
where CANCELS fear to tread,' and
that many pgmles strut amidst
giants. -Natchez Democrat.
One remarkable thing in connec.
ton with the nominations for State
offices is the absence of the farming
element. The politicians worked
the 10 to | game with so much ef-
feet that the farmers actually forgot
to put In their claims.-Burns
(Miss.) Mascot.
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