The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-01-13

inst Wtich We Lsarned From
Our Exehanses..

Our Exehanses..
That Il 4 aid that Treasurer NAY
win = = caadidate for railroad com.
Aiaienes;
1hat ~ Commission seems to have
bsdasas : psaeioa bureau for our OK.
tssaeaSsrA.
That the people Of Mississippi will
dsmand > primary election todetermine
their wishes for United States senator
That Anse may be in 1t, but there are
others.
That Senator Butler has introduced a
bill to pension Confederate veterans.
Win 1t pass! Nit!
That q Tobacco Growers Association
was organized in this state on January
., with R. NJ. McGeehee as temporary
president, and las. NJ. Sessions secre.
tary.
That St. Thomas Hall, at Holly
springs, was destroyed by FIRE re-
Gently:
Tia the school will not be opened
again until next September. In the
meantime, another building will be
erected.
That Judge Robert Powell, of Madi-
son county, is another aspirant for
gubernatorial honors.
That the United States troopship
Roumauia, with the Second South
Carolina Regiment, and the Mobile
with the Fourth and Ninth Illinois
Regiments, sailed from Savannah on
January 0 for Cuban ports.
That jackson is soon to have a new
papers, morning daily:
That 1t will boost Governor McLau-
rim and his administration. We are
sorry TO zee . man commit suicide in
amy such manner. but he's old enough
TO know better.
That Murray F. Smiths speech was
the only real warm thing that has
transpired In the State recently.
That Senator Sullivan saYs be will
not enter the race for governor. ~ was
generally believed.
That 1--we farmers at Meridian paid 4
negro 4l.S5 for jug q muddy water.
thinking II was whiskey:-
That they now think blind tiger
booze. never wa no good, 70 how.
That among the many evils credited
to Mississippi, that Of w~hite-capping IL
not one Of tho least Of these. Alas!
how much lower can We fally
That the Dingley Tariffs total re-
ceipts from customs in the past calsn.
dar year fell only $8.0e0. 900 below what
its author predicted would be the yield.
That less than l per. cent. OF the
American troops in Cuba are on the
sick list.
That on January l the quarantine
against Southern cattle went into ct.
feet
That from that date until Nov. Is
no cattle ran be shipped from our
states to Northern and Western mar
kets.
That Ike Jones, a colored man of
Canton, shot and severely wounded
John Testor, a respectable white farmer
Of near Conton, on the morning Of Jan.
s.
That the negro has not ss yet been
captured, but ID supposed to be some
where Id Big Black swamp,
That the resent heavy rains in the
delta have destroyed the last hopes Of
the planten, 70 far q the ungathered
crops Of cotton are concerned:--
That many felds which were white
with cotton only = few days ego have
hsen stimulated, and this, coupled with
The Generalization Of labor, has caused
ne practical abandcumsnt Of the crop
NOW remaining In the fields.
That on January {. Tom Thomas. =
hand at Durant, killed his wife
BY striking her over the head with !
gun:-
That after committing the deed,
Thomas carried his wife out On the
Esilroai track and tried 70 make It ap
pear that shs had bean killed BY the
train. a woman who lived with tho
family gave the matter away, and
Thomas subsequently confessed the