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Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
$751; ,467.s7 on Hand.

State Treasurer Edwards stated Satur
day that the actual cash balance on hanC
at the close of business was $591, ,4O7. 81
all of which is out among repositories
and is at work drawing interest for th'
State at rates of interest varying from
31a to per cent. The last payment t.
amount to anything was that received
from the penitentiary department, whicl
was over 5000.
Gov. Longino's Portrait Secured.
The portrait committee of the Stat'
historical department has been able tt
secure fine oil paining of Gov. A. II
Longino through the kindness of Mrs
Longino, who, when she removed to th'
country with her family, sent the yer!
expensive portrait to the department o
archives and history. The department
appreciates the gift very highly.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
The AWeek-End Ran y

What is known as the s'Week-Ens
Bag" has made its appearance. Thi,
is a miniature travelling bag just larg,
enough to hold night dress aud q
few toilet articles.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
A Gain in Convicts.

"A Galn IN OOnVlClS.
The monthly reports of the travelling
sergeant of the State penitentiary, the
camp sergeants and the heads Of other
institutions holding authority over con.
victs, which have just been filed out and
tabulated, show that there was a net
gain of six convicts at the end of March
over the number for the previous month
There were 1860 on hand at the end OF
March, while there were received during
the month "a new convicts and one re.
captured convict, making a total of 1885
to be accounted for The deductions fol
March were 29, made up of 20 discharged
their terms having expired, three died
three pardoned, two escaped and one sent
out as a witness, who had not been re
turned when the report closed, bringing
the total on hand to 1866.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
PROHIBITION A SUCCESS.
Records Which Show That People Are
Better Off Without Saloons.

The end of 1908 brings some inter-
esting statistical information concern
ing the results of prohibition in some
municipalities and states of the Amer
can union, which last year were under
prohibition for the first time
The town of Bristol, Va, reports
that for the last IL months of license,
November, 1906, to October. 1907, the
total number of police cases dealt with
was 1883, of which SO were for drunk
enness, while for the year beginning
November, 1907, and ending October,
1908, under no license, the total cases
were only 656, and the indictments for
drunkenness were only 240
Knox county, including the city Of
Knoxville, in Tennessee, records 397
commitments to Jail for the single
month of November, under prohibition,
whereas, it had 720 such commitments
for the same month of the year 1907,
when the bar-rooms were running.
The city of Jackson, Tenn, reports
146 arrests from April 1 to December
II, 1908, and recalls $40 arrests for
the same period in 1907.
The city of Brunswick, Ca, went
under prohibition on January I, 1905
and during the nine following months
had only 81 police cases, as against
30S for the same nine months the pre-
ceding year when the saloons were
running
If the lowering of the criminal rec
ord is evidence of the success Of pro
hibtion, it must be admitted that pro-
hibition is a complete success through,
out Georgia.
Taking the first nine months of the
year 1903 under prohibition, and com
pairing them with the similar nine
months Of 1907, when the saloons were
doing their work, there is obtained the
following statement of the total num-
Der of arrests by the city police:
Total arrests. Drunkenness.
Under license ...15,0S6 4.352
Under prohibition. =. $500 1883
Decrease under pro-
mDlIlon .............. o,U9o Z,fo4
While crime was falling off even be-
fore the new conditions had opportu-
nifty to produce their full results, the
city was growing in prosperity, order
and morality. The city health officer
reported a falling off of about so per
cent in the number of serious acci-
dents which came under his obser-
vation Building permits for the nine
months above mentioned represented
values as follows:
Under license .......................S3 Sc, S25, 135
Under prohibition ................... 4.156,SOo
No more striking evidence could be
furnished to show the value of prohi-
bition for any community or state.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

The announcement was made Tuesday
that upon his return from the supreme
bench early in May, Associate Justice
Fletcher, who is now filling the unex-
pired term of the late Justice Calhoun,
will take up the active practice of his
profession in jackson.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

endeavorS can scarcely be more than
educative, as for every drunkard now
saved from the hell Of appetite the
legalized traffic shares and drags down
ten others from the ranks of our Amer
ican youth.
The same situation faces the church.
For every soul that is won to God an
other is ruined for all eternity because
Of the open bar of the law protected
saloon.
1t was just forty years ago on the
LIST of next September that 500 dele
gates representing twenty states and
territories gathered in Farweil hall,
Chicago, and organized the movement
known from that day to this as the
National Prohibition party. AS par
ty it was born with the aim and pur-
pose Of securing the enactment and
honest enforcement of Prohibition law
In state and nation.
For these forty years it has labored
increasingly to this end, and to the
wealth Of argument, the mass Of sta
tistics, the investigations, the uncon1-
promising appeals which have issued
from its press and platform and to its
persistent educational agitation must
I'm no small degree be credited the
uuhSic interest evarvwharn naanifA@T
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
Why Drink
Still Battles
RefOrfl1ers
Liquor Per Capita Consumption
Grows From 171a to 23 Gal-
Ions In Past Eight Years.
MORAL SUASIoN HELPLESS.

kaquor Traffic Now Damns Ten While
Mission Workers Rescue One From
Clutches of Alcohol Appetite-The
Hope Of the Brewer Is That His
Mash Tubs Will Not Be -Moiested.
In an address at Evanston, Ill, Jan.
%, Charles r. Jones'. chairman OF the
Prohibition national comIcsttee, point
nd out the remarkable growth in the
consumption OF liquors during the past
ntght years and explained the chief
reason for the drink trades confidence
IN Its own future despite all the oppo-
1itipn OF the temperance and PrOhibi-
hon forces. In part Chairman Jones
baid:
Nations Drink Consumption Nearly
Qusdrupled In Forty Years.
There are two methods of fighting
che drink evil. The first appeals to the
Endividual to voluntarily stop drink
ang, while the second asks the govern
nent to make 1t a crime TO manufac-
1ure and sell alcoholic liquors for bev-
aEage purposes and to forbid one per-
son from tempting another.
Both systems are good and neces-
uary. Under the first we have seen
what IS generally believed to be con-
etant increase IN the number of total
GDstainerS, and yet, strange 10 say, we
ind the nation is consuming an In
&Feasing amount Of liquor each year.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

| Pretty Tribute to Woman.
| God made woman small in order to
do a more choice piece of workman
| sh,D-Alfred dc Musset.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
Suspends Louisiana Life.

Insurance Commissioners Henry has is
sued an official statement suspending ths
Louisiana Life Insurance Company from
writing any more business in Mississippi
| for the present,
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
OF patronage.
Writ Adams Gratif1ed.

Hon. Writ Adams, State revenue agent
was naturally quite gratifed when he re
ceived brief telegram from Hon. Oscar
F. Johnston of Friars Point, announcing
the result of the first round in the f. L.
Williams litigation and the overruling OF
the demurrer to the bill of injunction
set up by counsel for the defendant. 1t
may be several months before the case
gets before the supreme court, as it is
anticipated that the defendants below
will not rush the matter of appeal in or
der to get it before the court during the
current term, but once in the supreme
court, the revenue agent feels satisfied OF
an affrmance of Chancellor Dentons de.
cree overruling the demurrer. 1t will
mean something like $4,000 or $4,000
recovered to the State, according to the
figures compiled in the revenue office.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

E-f-RSN ~ sTS . a.
{ AZ the close of the civil war
the present epoch of the tenn {
4 peraHce reform was born. Moral
suasion and the saving of the
Y drunkard remained and still re-
II rain Of vital Importance, but
J. to make successful personal
L work. possible the greater duty
{. confronts US Of crushing the
+ monstrous trust in vice and
L closing up its 25o,ooo licensed .
4 open doors of shame.
Until that victory is won all
i personal endeaVors can scarcely
Z be more than educatiVe, as for
Z every drunkard now saved from
4 the hell of appetite the leaaIized
traffic snares and draas down
Il ten others from the ranks of our
4 American youth.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

Judge John L. Buckley convened the
April civil term of the circuit court in
Meridian. This is "A four weeks term oi
the court, and is devoted altogether tc
the trial of civil cases. There are a large
number of cases on the docket for dis
posal and every day of the term will be
busy one. A number of big damage
suits against the railroad companies and
the suit of L. Ulman against the city q
Meridian for s25o,OOo damages, for the
alleged violation of lighting contract
are scheduled for trial.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

Peter Cotton, an estimable citizen of
Webster county, met with a deplorable
accident. When near the outskirts Of
Mathiston, a spirited horse he was rid
ing became unmanageable, throwing him
violently to the ground. His injuries are
of an internal character and very seri-
GUS. Fatalities seem to follow In the
wake of the brothers. A limb failing
from a burning tree killed one and an
other was scalded to death.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16
State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget of State News Items Gathered by Our Special
Correspondent at Jackson.
Not a Pie Dispenser.

Not Pie Dispenser.
Gov. Noel has recently been bothered
with communications from men who are
anxious to serve the United States gov
ernment in some capacity or other in the
State of Mississippi, and some with nc
objections to going abroad, who have in
some way conceived the idea that the
governor is in close touch with the head
of the national government, and that
President Taft has asked his advice as to
the distribution of patronage. Being
queried as to this matter, Gov. Noel very
positively and unequivocally pleaded not
guilty. "The report is without the
slightest foundation. and its publication
in New Orleans paper was the first in.
timation that / had had in regard to the
matter. Not a word or line, either di-
rect or indirect, has passed between Presi
dent Taft and myself in regard to any
matter of this kind, and what is more,
have no aspirations to shine in such ca.
pacity, and do not expect to figure in any
way with the policy of the present ad.
ministration in regard to the dispensing
of natronao no -
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

For the first time in the history of the
State, or since the creation of an insur-
ance department, associations for the in
suring of live stock have been licensed
to do business in Mississippi. There have
been attempts made hitherto by certain
corporations or associations of the kind
to secure license, but they have been
turned down for the reason that the cash
capital engaged in the business has been
below the minimum established by law,
which is 100000.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

Messrs. Robbins & Moody, crosstie
contractors, brought suit against the
Peters Construction Company of st.
Louis, Mo-, and the Aberdeen Tombig-
bee Valley Railroad Company to enforce
claims for crossties. Judge Mitchell gave
peremptory instructions discharging the
railroad company for all liability in the
premises. The case consumed ten days
of the court, and the jury brought in
verdict against the defendant for $15,0 900.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

While feeding chickens Mrs. c. L.
Hart, wife of a prominent citizen of
Hattiesburg, was pecked in the eye by
hen and will probably lose her eye
fpht as a result.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

A meeting of the stockholders of the
West Point and Houston Railway Com
pany was held at West Point and ar
rangements entered into for securing a
charter
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

The Southern Express Company's Of
fee at Goss was robbed last week. Some
money and several valuable packages
were stolen.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

Advices from the bedside of Prof. 7.
B. Scott of Brookhaven, president of the
Mississippi Teachers Association, are to
the effect that his recovery is very slow,
and that there is no pissibility that he
will be able to attend the annual con-
vention of the association in Natchez
on MAY 30 and 81 and June 1.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

The board of supervisors of Jefferson
Davis county has sold bonds to the
amount of $4,000, the proceeds of
which is to be used in working the pub
lie roads of the county. They have
already spent about $4,000 on the
roads, but it cannot be hoped that the
county will have good roads as long as
the fine pine timber remains, for it will
be cut and hauled over these roads.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

At its session last week the Vieksburg
national military park commission de-
,ided to extend the time limit for the
completion of the $50,0O0 Mississippi
monument to Oct. 1, 1910, owing TO
some unavoidable delays to which Con-
tractor Treibel has been subjected.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

The first boat since the railroad was
built through the delta arrived at Roll
ing Fork last week, bringing a cargo OF
about eighty tons. This was brought
about by some enterprising citizens, who
are tired of paying exorbitant rates to
the railroad company that has system
atically shut out competition for long
series of years by building stationary
bridges over navigable streams in this
county, thereby forcing the citizens to
pay more than other roads in the State.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

Every one of the six persons who were
indicted at Indianola for the murder OF
B. A. Bradley was admitted to bail on
$500 each, and their cases continued to
next term.
Greene County herald., 1909-04-16

A sudden drop of 20 degrees in the
temperature in the Natchez district, fol
lowing the recent night winds, will seri-
ously affect the tender plants of early
vegetation, and will damage the cotton
that was planted ahead of time TO over.
come the ravages of the boil weevn.
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TIE COLD SNAP Is WITH US.
and will perhaps stay indcfi-
,hiteiy. VIC bought heavily In all
for all purposes. Some have been
slightly used and will be sold for
Whatever you offer. and plenty of
uine to pay for them allowed
you.
We also have a large stock of
wardrobes, sidcboards, leather
couches, leather chairs. Morris
chairs. oil paintings, sewing ma
cnineS. rugs and carpets, etc.
that would make very suitable
Christmas gifts to some members
OF your family, You don't need
the cash: all the credit you want.
The ! y l. Second Hand Store,
209 South State street. In the
Belmont Hotel block.
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REWARD OF S95 FOR THE ARREST
and conviction Of the thlcf or thieves
who stole 500 lbs. OF sharp -celked Shoes
from Trlpps shop, lS7 West South Tenn.
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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-22
LIQUOR POURED INTO SEWER.
Laurens Sheriff Gets Rid of Thirt.
Gallons.

Thirty gallons of good licker'
'oursing down the sewer main of the
.ity OF Laurens is the sad tale of ar
,fficial act by Sheriff Owings and
lis constables Of that place. Some
me could not stand the sight. and
get even" with the sheriff wrote
m one Of the cases about to he open
ID. Sheriff John d. Owings. Lau-
ems. S. c. Express Prepaid" and
hen the laugh was on the officer
or bringing out his own jug" and
destroying it by mistake.
The thirty gallons of whiskey have
leen held in the sheriff's office for the
,llotted thirty days. 1t had been
,eized, at various times. from per-
IONS in and around Laurens. who
we're under suspicion of selling IL
No claim and delivery papers having
Deen served upon the officers. 1t was
'estroyed Thursday morning by due
>rocesS of law. This Is the first Of
icial act of this kind in these parts
n many years.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-22
TRAGEDY on NORRIS ISLAND.
Young Ladies just Escaped Death.
ASSailant n Suicide.

After attempting at about daylight
Thursday morning TO chloroform two
Young ladies. tho daughters of Cant.
Wfeking. head keeper Of the light
house on Morris Island. near Charles
ton. who we're aroused by an alarm
clock barely in time to save them
selves from probable death. Ludwig
JACOBSON, one of the assistant keep
erS OF the Norris Island Light House.
locked himself in his room. and when
officers from Charleston reached Nor
ris Island and attempted to take him
prisoner be first ran into a closet
and took drink OF whiskey while
the officers sought 10 effect an on
trance. and then lying down again
in the hammock. in which he was
accustomed to sleep. he placed his
pistol barrcl in his mouth and fired
shot. which penetrated his brain
and ended his life. The scene of the
tragedy. the light house keepers
house on Morris Island is an isolat-
ed SPOT. some ten miles from tho city
of Charleston. where the roar of the
waves Is heard perpetually.
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ASHEVILLE LINENIEN KILLED.
:ouched High Power Wire Which
He Thought Was Dead.

Suspended by his belt from an
lectric power pole near the South
rn Railway round house, Wednes-
ay afternoon, j. IL. Leonard, a
ineman In Asheville. n. c.. in the
mploy OF the Weaver Electric
'ompany. hung lifeless, shocked TO
cath by a high-power current com
lg over line which he believed to
q dead"
The deceased. who went to Ashe-
lille two months ago from Colum-
,us, Ohio. on account of his wife's
,ealth. was one of a force of line
len repairing a break in the trans
iission lines, and is believed 10 have
let his death when he reached VI
turn switch. His comrades OF
he ground heard no cry, and die
OF know of his misfortune unti'
hey looked up and saw the dangling
'ody. Leonard leaves a wife. but
o CHILDREN.