Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-01-03
A sac q ANNIE II winston..

Judge Robert Cochran is report
ed as reading the people Of Win
ston, county the severest lecture
ever heard in this state. On tho
the first day Of court at Louisville
he spoke as follows, or is so
quoted:
III will not try you and see wheth-
er you will do the decent thing.
You summon me to find In your
county twenty-fOur honest men to
do your Jury service in this court.
1 have never been so Disguised as
l am with the present situation.
When I came on the train yester-
day afternoon, the train was filed
with drunken men coming to court;
in the cab which I took to my
boarding house there were three
drunken men cursing and roaring
like savages. / have never in my
life witnessed a more disgraceful
scene than I witnessed In this
courthouse while l was charging
the grand jury this morning.
Public officials, bonded officers,
were swaggeringaround the court
house drunk, with their hats on"
The Judge denounced the court
house as a center OF corruption,
more corrupt than anywhere this
side of the Internal regions,
where all is corruption. BE is
said to have added:
eff the grand jury does not inlict
at least one.h half Of the public off
cials OF Winston county, if will
not do it's duty. Now, go out and
curse me until you have cursed
your full; and If you do not curse
me, / will feel disgraced. Hold
your indignation meetings to de.
nounce me, and I will bid you go
to the internal regions, where you
are headed"
One can think no worse of Win
ston county than this language i'm.
plies, namely, that the respectable
element is under the domination
Of the rowdies. A good deal of
Christian evangelization seems to
be needed in that county.
When the trial jury acquits Of MUIR
der on the plea Of insanity, and the
coroner's jury releases from the
asylum because Ut sanity, 1t is mot for
the ordinary citizen, being neither law.
, er nor medico, to criticize the myss
lhriOus working Of the law that lets 8
cOfessed murderer escape. That is
lese majestic.
Possibly Andrew Carnegie gave
Representative 6ulzer those twenty.
four bottles of Scotch whiskey for Q
Christmas present because the New
York congressman's name has high
ball sound attached to 1t.
Senator Platt says he has no inten-
tion Of resigning. The senator doubt
less recalls his last experience In the
resignation business and the long time
which elapsed before he was able to
catch new hold.
Other members Of the Taft Philip.
pine party are going to get married.
AS q political junket the trip didn't
seem to do any good, but 90 o natri-
mofial iunket 1t appears to have been
success, all right.
There is Q good deal of talk about
the hon and the lamb laying down to-
gether; but, when that happens, there
will be only one OF them will get up
and you know who thtt Is.
From the size Of the mileage hand
ed them some Of those congressman
will have enough left after paying
their fares to Washington to settle up
for their Christmas presents.
The threat Of Odell to tell lot Of
things he knows about republican
leaders will probably not be- carried
ont for the reason that OdeIl may be
afraid they know about him.
A Chicago professor wants to kno "
what's the matter with Mars. Possi-
bly, they are having the same sort OF
trouble with their canals that We are
having with ours.
The "cost Of living" iS getting to be
something fierce. For several mon as
diamonds have been up from 10 to 20
per cent, and now sealskins have adj
vanced 40 per cent.