The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-02-04
Mississippi News


| Judge of this circuit, died at his home at
Canton, aged 80 years. He was one of
the most prominent men in the State. In
1902 he gained considerable notoriety
by thwarting the efforts of q mob to
rescue a gang of whitecappers who were
on trial in his court at Brookhaven. The
mob had overpowered the sheriff and
broken into the courtroom where the case
was in progress. The venerable Judge
| took in the situation at once, and, quick
ly leaving the bench, met the rufians
and deied them to take the prisoners at
the bar. They quailed before his stern
eye and courageous manner, and skunk
out of the courtroom.
w. c.. Cain, a farmer of Franklin coun-
ty, gives some facts III regard to hog
raising that will be hard to equal any
where. Mr.. Cain states that he killed a
hog that tipped the scales at $50 pounds.
He got 100 pounds of lard, which, at the
present price, is $500; 200 pounds of
sausage, at 1919 cents per pound, s25,
leaving a balance of meat which, at the
present price of dry salt meat, is worth
s36. The total of the above is s74.2o.
| Mr.. Cain also made the statement that
with only three acres of peanuts and
what peas the hogs could get in the field,
it cost him not over So in cash to raise
and kill 1000 pounds of pork.
Grenada is very much interested in
the proposition before the lower house
of congress by Hon. L. Z. Sisson to make
a survey of Yalobusha river for the
purposes of navigation. Every piece of
information and much data are being
collected to send Mr.. Sisson, so that he
may be fortified against any probable
opposition. Old citizens recall the time
when steamboats, piled the waters of the
river regularly. A steamboat was up as
high as Grenada as late as the SOS that
carried one thousand bales of cotton.
Following some correspondence be.
tween Secretary Runnells of the Bust.
ness League and Prof. Thomas L. Bal
ley, secretary of the Mississippi Inter.
collegiate Oratorical Association, the di-
rectors of the league issued a formal in
v~itation to the association to hold their
next meeting in Greenville, the time set
being May IS.
In the trial of John Gaines, at Co
lumbus, on the charge of selling booze, it
developed that some of the most con-
slant patrons of local blind tigers are
young boys. Three of the principal wit
nesses were boys IA and IS years of age,
and all swore that they frequently threw
in money and bought whisky from unli-
censed vendors.
One of the most important meetings
ever held in Mississippi among the ne
groes will be the midwinter session of
the bishops council of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, Feb. 9, in
Vicksburg. 1t is estimated that upward
of 1000 people will be in the city at the
time, because of a number of important
questions to be reviewed by .prelates.
A shooting affray occurred at HOl
comb, eleven miles west of Grenada, be-
tween DR.. c. C. Moore and Shell Guy,
brothers-in-law. DIR. Moore fired four
shots and Guy nine. Moore was UNI
his left arm broken. The shooting took
place in Moore's drug store. Both par
ties are prominent.
Quite a great number of the farmers
of Lelore county nave begun the raising
Of produce, and especially are they be-
coming interested in the breeding of
mules and horses. At present mules
command a very high price in the Delta,
and it is believed that this experiment
in the breeding of mules will be profit
able.
By a vote of 694 to 9 the bono issue
of $50 900 to be given the Mississippi
River Western railroad by the city as a
bonus to build into Natchez was the re-
suit of Mondays election. The $4,000
is not to be paid to the road until they
have completed the same from Meridian
to Natchez and running trains into the
latter city over it's own tracks.
A bold holdup occurred in the northern
portion of Leake county, when William
Wilder, a negro, met Mr.. Lepord, a white
man, on the public highway, pulled his
pistol and ordered him to give up his
money, which he very reluctantly did.
I. E. McGhee, who has the ~seinine
privilege at Moon lake, in making an
other haul over the same course where
he caught 903 alligator gar, eclipsed this
record just 90, catching a total of 972
gar and $50 pounds of drum and buffalo
at the same time. A great many of the
CARS were s and 9 feet long, and were
so heavy one person could scarcely han
die one.
Coffeeville was visited by the worst
confagration in the history of the city.
Five stores were totally destroyed, with
a rough loss estimate of 500, 900. The
fire was spectacular, and thousands of
people were attracted to it.
Sharkey county is not to be outdone
by her sister counties of the eastern part
of the State in the way of agricultural
progress, as DIR. L. E. Martin is engaged
in booking applicants for a competitive
corn growing contest among the boys OF
the county.