The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1902-03-07

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for good fruit season with bounti
full yield. Those who know claim thi
to be the brightest outlook we hav'
had for several years, inasmuch al
the continuous cold has prevented thu
swelling Of the buds prematurely. VIZ
have suffered greatly in recent years
from this cause, a killing frost usually
coming to do it's deadly work after
the trees were pink and white with
bloom. This week and next are re
garded by the growers as the critical
period, and If this is passed success
fully hopes will rise high indeed
Great numbers of new orchards will
come into bearing this season, and
the fruit business will get well into
its place as leading industry in this
land of milk and honey" where
flowers and fruit should abound in the
highest state of perfection. An au-
thority on these matters writes that
the fruit acreage in this State has
been steadily increasing for several
years. and during the present season
thousands of acres of new orchards
are expected to bear. The peach is
the favored fruit, being, in fact, the
only fruit that can be grown with any
| great degree of success, followed by
financial remuneration. Many of the
| fig trees killed by the severe weather
OF 1893 have since sprung into life and
will bear this year.
Among the truck farmers the situa.
ton is also unusually bright. Tomato
and cabbage acreage will be fully
equal, il 1t does not greatly surpass,
that of last year, and the sale of fer
tiltzers has been abnormally heavy.
Tomato and cabbage plants in the cen.
trail and southern sections of the State
are now in cold frames awaiting the
first opportunity of transplanting to
the fields and large variety of other
vegetables will be planted.
The many successes of last season
in favored sections has inspired other
communities to experiment in truck
and fruit farming.
Chief Justice Whitfield's statement
anent murders is going the rounds of
the press. This most wise judge de-
clared, in passing on murder case
before the Supreme Court, that "mur-
ders are. too frequent in Mississippi,
and hanging is the only remedy If
we can stop killing it is to be stopped"
In commenting on the utterance of
Judge Whitfield, the Grenadian says:
Justice Whitfield sounded the key
note when he remarked that the full
penalty of the law, hanging, is the
only remedy and he spoke the senti-
ments of the law-abiding citizens of
the entire State-and he means legal
hanging and not Judge Lynch.
Mississippi approving the above al.
ready. There are already more con-
demned men in the State, who have
been tried and convicted since January
/, than ever before known in the his
tory of the State In so short time.
THE conviction and sentencing to
hang of Ashley Cooke and his partner,
Lauderdale, at Greenville, for the
atrocious murder of Engineer Rhea, is
God-send to the commonwealth.
Washington county has set the
pace; now let every county in the
State follow their example and get rid
of such people"
Washington county. is heading the
movement of w. A. Percy Camp of
Confederate Veterans looking to the
worthy interment of the ashes of the
men who wore the gray. There are
some. tbs true, land pity It's it's true"
whose loved ones were not able to |
give them fitting interment at the time
of their death, and who now sleep in
the potter's field. These remains are
to be transferred to a beautiful Con.
federate lot in Greenville's cemetery,
and henceforth their comrades who
shall lie down to sleep may find place
beside them, if it is so desired. Nor
Is this all. 1t is proposed to mark
the sacred spot with beautiful mon.
ument bearing the names of the he
roes lying beneath it. When Capt.
Stone and the other good people of
5reenville undertake to perform a
duty that duty is sure to be well done.
We rejoice in this labor of love now
before them.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway is at
present in Canada, in attendance upon
ha roaotiuOc of tho ctndautc' vo1rptoorI