Daily State Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

VOLUME 135 -JACKSOlSr, WEDNESDAY, 11. 1892. $0.00 PER: YEAH. STATE DRUGGISTS. TOE BRADLEY TRIAL.

JACKSON AND HINDS CO. For First-Glass and Stylish at the most i 8Q 0 OD ODD IP we are HEAD QUAE, TEES! See us before Buying Wb Iff, EDWIN BARKSDALE CO. LOW PRICED GEOOERS, Have just received 500 Bushels tories and residences have been built, is sure evidence of our continued prosperity. We have a brilliant system of electric lights anil water works, which suj-ply the entire city with an abundant supply of pure and wholesome water. As we are overgrown in cotton, I will state we have a very fine compress; alnlt a "Commercial and Business College," where all attending are taught to handlo intricate figures in cotton dealing, as well as every branch taught in a first-class college in this line.

Our newspapers are the Statu Ledger, Clarion, lender and two smaller ones. The first two publish dailies. Our medical stall is considered second to none in the South, as also our bar of learned anil aide lawyers. Jackson being the State Capital, presents many inducements and advantages to the later profession. Gov.

Ixnvry (the historian) at thel expiration of his term of ollice, located in our city, and is reaping tho benefits of an honest administration, by fine and lucrative law practice. We sincerely hope when our present most excellent Governor, do? leave the Mansion he too, will reside with us. Five of our State Governors, who amassed a competency and loved the city so well as to reside here after their term of oflice ex pi ml, and died with us, rest in our "City of the Dead." Jackson, with its tine educational ad-advantages, well attended churches, Y. M. C.

its fashionable as well as literary clubs, opera house, and really every means of making its people of what they are justly proud their extreme refinement, hospitality and culture. The late Edward Richardson, who accumulated a fortune of millions from the time the war closed until his death a a year or two since, was an evidence of what energy and preseverenco can accomplish in our State. When we take into consideration our destitute condition at the close of the war, how our own little city was by the torch of that war almost obliterated from the face of the earth; and remember that all this has been accomplished to a great extent by home capital and perseverance, 'tis something of which her citizens have a right to boast. Through the management of Capt. Merry, Northwestern Passenger agent of the Illinois Central, and Gov.

Hoard, of Wisconsin, we have held two Inter-State Agricultural and Horticultural Conventions in our city. The last one, in February, was one of the most interesting meetings I ever attended. Quite a large number of our Western and Northern friends added their presence to the occasion which made it a constant "feast of reason and How of soul" from beginning to close, verifying the words of Senator D. B. Hill, of New York, in his eloquent speech to-dav in our city, "that excellent reason at all times for interchange of thought between the people of forty-four States, banded together for life insure one another's liberty in the pursuit of happiness." Quite a number of Northern families have left their lands of ice and snow and made homes for themselves in our county, a few in our city.

However, most of them are charmed ith our agricultural prospects. We want more to come to the city as well as to tho count', and rest assured a brother's aid and a sister's sympathy will ever be extended them by every desirable Southern man and woman. Our praiseworthy mayor and his competent co-laborers of our entire city administration, by their kindness and capacity, will make them utterly fortet they are in strange land. One word more and then I will bid you a present farewell. To that whole-souled Capt.

Merry, and that prince of men, ex-Governor Hoard, Mississippi as a State, Hinds as her county, anil Jackson as her capital, will ever erect in their hearts a monument to them that time can never touch or cause to crumble and decay. Will Sell at Small Margin Edwin Barksdale Company. Dee. 8 d-tf I. C.

F.NOCIIS, President. ENOCHS LUMBER and MANUFACTURING COMPANY. E. A. HILL, Sur'T.

Factory. -MANUFACTURERS AMD DEALERS Meet at the Capital and Transact Considerable Important Kasiness. The State Pharmaceutical Association met here yesterday and besides indulging in many interesting debates on matters of special interest to pill-rollers, elected the following officers and committees for the ensuing year II. F. West, President J.

M. Kimbrough, first vice-President; W. C. Mosby, second vice-President D. E.

Holt, Secretary Oscar Lillybeck, Treasurer. Committee to represent the State Pharmaceutical Association of Mississippi at the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association, to be held at White Mountain, Vermont: J. C. Shotel, Gloster R. II.

Ledbetter, Jackson G. V. Stewart, Jackson. Constitution and By-Laws Drs. Kendall, Mosby ond Osborn.

Executive Committee Drs. F. L. Ful-gham, W. C.

Mosby and L. N. Keiser. Drs. West, Kendall and Osborn were appointed as a committee to suggest fifteen names to the Governor from which list he is to appoint a Board of State Examiners.

The Assoaiation meets agam in Jackson in May, 1893. A STRANGE PHENOMENON. The Sun in a King and Accompanied by Lesser Lights. A very strange phenomenon was that witnessed by the people of Jackson this morning, and many were the speculations and predictions thereon. About 8 o'clock the sun was surrounded by a white ring, similar to that often seen around the moon, but several times larger.

On either side of the sun, and on a line with the ring were other suns, apparently, though somewhat dimmer than the real sun. Thousands of people looked long and earnestly at the strange astronomical phenomenon, but no one could offer a satisfactory solution. It was probably a reflection from some planet or other heavenly body, but the prediction was freely expressed that it wa3 a hand writing on the wall, foreboding the end of the world. THE THOMPSON CASE. C.

D. Thompson, superintendent of education of Lauderdale county, was charged belore the State Board of Education with being drunk and disorderly in Jackson a few weeks since. Tuesday was the day for trial. At 12 o'clock Mr. C.

C. Miller arrived to represent the parties from Meridian who made the charges, and J. L. Morris, also from Meridian, defending Thompson. He demurred to the charges and contended before the board that it had no jurisdiction because the offense occurred in Hinds that the new law, section 6, chapter 118, of Revised Code, now in operation, is unconstitutional, cit ing several authorities.

Mr. Miller, not having time to discuss the case, was allowed four days to file a brief, and no decision will be made until this is done. All charges, except that of being drunk, were dismissed by the board. A Human Vampire. A telegram from Benton, Iowa, to the St.

Louis Republic, says "Joseph Hamilton, who has spent the last seventeen years of his life chains, died here yesterday. He had a terrible mania, a thirst for human blood, which nothing could appease and he had to be kept in irons all the time. When about 25 years of age Hamilton acquired this appetite by tasting blood in a fight. He was watching a sparring nlatch, when he saw blood flow from the nose of one of the boxers and went wild instantly. Drawing a knife he plunged it into the heart of a bystander and drank his blood as it flowed.

He killed another man before he was arrested." Indiana a Close State, Neither party has a majority in the State. The Democrats have a. slight brought out will prevail in November. People a thousand mnes distant may proclaim that Indiana is "sure ior one party or the other, but we, who are on the ground, know better. We know that every inch of the ground will be earnestly contested, and that the party which wins will be the one which shows the best generalship and keeps in closest touch with the people.

Indianapolis Doors, Blinds, Glazed Sash, Mouldings, Casings, Stair and Scroll Work, Lumber, Shingles, Lime, Cement, and Fire Brick. Xlspeoial Attontiou. Given to 3VT 1 Ordors- 9 an Biiiuui iiiaicnai jii imii iliv iui lllBt'U. Our New Factory is equipped with tbe best Machinery and our facilities for and at reasonable pricks are unsurpassed Correspondence solicited. SI0U XV EN -YES, AND HERE IS A A Large Number of Witnesses Have Been Examined.

Testimony Not Very Favorable to the Accused. A gro Eye-witness Only SawJTliree Shots Fired. Riots In Poland Cyclones in Tennessee Iowa Democrats in Convention Mine Horror in Washington. Special to the State Ledger. Clinton, May 11.

The prelimi nary trial of Chas. Bradley, for the homicide of Chas. Annistead, was resumed here this morning. Mrs. Sorsby was the first witness called.

She was on the train and said that at the time of the shooting she had her back to the combatants. She con- tradicted Mr. Sranburg, the State's principal witness, as io conversation he testified as to having had with her on day of killing. Stranburg swore he passed Mrs." Sorsby on the way to town and then repassed her. She stated that he passed her on road to town, but she did not see him again, until she met him after the shooting near her resi dence, when he asked her who did the shooting, who was shot, and if he was dead.

Mack Harvey, a negro boy, testified he "was behind Bradley when the shooting took place, that Mr. Bradley fired first shot. Several people were near them. Only saw three shots, Bradley fired all of them." Several witnesses were here examined. whose evidence was merely corroboratory and brought out no new facts.

T. A. Leavel, a student, stated, "I re side near the depot; I am seventeen years old, and was two hundred yards away from the depot saw Armistead standing near the steps Mr. Bradley, I think, fared farst only heard thr shots can't swear Armistead ever shot. Three witnesses only examined this morning and several last night.

The defense will occupy this evening and the trial will possibly wind up tomorrow. All quiet. Another Account. Trial still progressing. So far evidence is against the accused.

The court has taken a recess awaiting the arrival of im portant witnesses for the State. BOOMING BOIES. Iowa Democrats in State Convention at Council Bluffs. Special to the State Ledger. Council BluAs, May 11.

If it is possible for Iowa's Governor, to come into the field as a Presidential candidate he will have the voice and the vote of every delegate chosen to-day by the Iowa Democrats. At clock this morn- mg each congressional uisinct men 111 caucus and named two delegates to rep resent it at Chicago. At noon the work of naming delegates-at-large began. The candidates likely to be named are L. M.

Martin, of Des Moines; Senator Yeomans, of Sioux City; ex-Congressman Posey, of Council Bluffs, and Edward Campbell, of airfield. HAPPY ON THE WAY. The Editorial Excursionists Arrive Colorado Springs, at Special to the State Legder. Colorado Springs, May 11. Shortly after noon to-day the trains bearing the delegation of the National Editorial Association, arrived and were awarded a splendid Teception.

ihe Chiles party is also here, and to-night the great mass of representatives here will be banqueted bv the officers of the International Typo graphical Union. Everything is in read iness xor me opening 01 uiu iauonai Printer's Home to-morrow. Among those here who will speak to-morrow are Amos Cummings and Sena tor ualhnger. MEXICAN WAR VETERANS. Not Over Fifty Delegates Attending Its Convention.

Special to the State Ledger. Chillicothe, May 11. The Mexican War Veterans Association met here to-day with Presidenl M. Jamison in the chair. There are not more than fifty delegates here, although Ohio has 300 of these veterans in its borders.

The State furnished over 8,000 to the Federal army in 1847-8, and this and many other interesting facts were brought out in the opening speech of President Riot in Poland. Special to the State Ledger. London, May 11. Thirty-thousand workmen banded together and burned down the city of Lodz, in Poland. Ten people, were killed and more than one hundred wounded by the 'mob.

The bodies of the victims were horribly mutilated. A Tennessee Blow. Special to the State Ledger. WILBER3VIIXE, May 11. This city was visited today by a terriDle cyclone.

No loss of life has been report- edf but the damage to property ia great Recovering Dead Bodies. Special to the State Ledger. Rosltn, May 11. Sixteen bodies have been recovered to-day, making forty-ight in all, but the cause of the ex A Descriptive Paper Prepared by Miss Annie Cage, And Read Before the Minnesota Travel Class. A Number of Northern Families Have Settled Here.

Others Assured of a Brother's Aid and a Sister's Sympathy-A Great Railroad and Manufacturing Center. The following paper was prepared by Miss Annie Cage, a popular and intelligent young lady of this city, and read before the Minnesota Travel Albert Lea, Minn. Hinds county was established in 1827, named in honor of Gen. Thomas llines, the land having been ceded to the United States by the Choctaw Indians on the 18th of October, 1820 on February 4th, 1828, the Legislature appointed five commissioners to select a site for a court house and jail, to be located within two miles of the center of the county. Kay-mond was selected as the place and still remains the county seat.

Hinds county bounded in the north by the counties of Madison and Yazoo on the south by Copiah and Claiborne on the east by Rankin on the west by Claiborne and Warren. Big Black and Bakers creek are on the western border and Pearl river on the east. The other rivers are the Tallahala, Bogue Chitto, Rhodes and Big creek. The railroads in the county are the great Illinois Central, traversing the county from north to south the Alabama and Vicksburg, running east and west, crossing the Illinois Central at Jackson the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad and the Yazoo, making Jackson a great railroad center. The principal towns of the county are Jackson, Clinton, Kaymond, Ld wards, Bolton, Utica, Terry, Learned, Adams, Oakley, Byram and Tougaloo.

The population of the county is between 45,000 and 50,000 about equally divided between white and colored. The number of cleared acres are average value per acre $5.50 total value, including incorporated towns, is $4,850,987. The schools are numerous, and are first-class for country schools, with equal facilities for white and colored, (separate schools, however free schools holding full term. The colored men and women's school, located at Tougaloo, is too well and widely known to need comment. The soil is rich and highly productive, yielding an abundant return in cotton, corn, rice, potatoes, pumpkins, melons, peas, grasses, clover, wheat and tobacco the fruits are the peach, apple, pear, quince, apricot, plum, cherry, damson, grape, figs, berries of every description, ami bananas are being experimented with successfully.

Really with our warm bright sunshine and genial showers, fruits, flowers and everything planted in Mother Earth, yield a return that will delight the eye and gratify the palate of the most fastidious. The forests are grand and sublime, including growth of ever variety from the lowest huckleberry bush to the mammoth oak and stately pine. Northern visitsrs often remark the rich dark color of our foliage, as well as the luxuriant vines. This is owing to the highly productive soil and refreshing dews, which in the absence of rain, furnish vegetation with sufficient moisture. As a very learned gentleman from the North said, "Tis the climate of the South that produces what could refuse to grow under such sunshine." Poets have sung in prose and verse, for ages past, of the glorious Italian sunsets, sunshine and perfect azure skies, but none can surpass those of the good old county of Hinds, in the State of Mississippi, of whose Capital I will now briefly touch.

Jackson, as I have already stated is a great railroad center, and occupies almost a geographical center. Besides the tour great roads traversing it, others are in contemplation. Our city is situated on a high, level plain, on Pearl river, whose untouched forest and cypress brakes, line its banks for hundred of miles. We have here the Lunatic Asylum, Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Institute for Blind, both white and colored. Churches are the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Christian, Episcopal, Catholic, and Jewish synagogue.

We have graded public schools for both sexes, at a cost of about $27,000 or and where the pupils can obtain the most finished education. Our State law requires teachers to be thorough in all branches they teach, from the smallest child to the graduate. Our teachers in music and art are pupils of the oldest and most advanced conservatories of music and schools of designs. Many private and select schools are also well patronized. The pride of the South, Millsap's Methodist College, is being erected, a school for boys and young men.

This College is named for Maj. Millsaps, a wealthy citizen here, who subscribed liberally to it. Then Dr. Holmes and his accomplished daughter from Rockford, 111., have purchased a tract of land, are buiding thereon, a magnificent structure, to be used as a school for colored girls. Both of these grand and noble institutions will be opened next fall.

The latter will be baptized "Mary Holmes Seminary," an appropriate monument to a worthy woman. I will here add that one of the greatest privileges our Capital City enioys, is being the place of residence of two profoundly learned Bishops, Bishop Chas. Galloway of the Methodist church (white) and Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson of the Episcopal church (white). Of the manufactures we have a large cotton seed oil mill, sash, door and blind factory, three plow factories, canning and packing house, boot and shoe factory, candy emporium, besides quite a number of smaller enterprises too numerous to mention, but which add very much to the advancement and thrift of the city. The steady progress with which new enterprises, new stores and new manufac SOU VENIE HICH Represents Our City.

original design and artistic merit. They come in plain and gold bowls. You must also see my beautiful line of Silver and Plated Hat Pins, Hair Pins, Jersey Pins, Love Chains, Flower Pins and lots of other goods, rTST JSTJETW 1 Most of the old stock was Christmas, and we A. C. ENOCHS, Secretary.

IN- furnishing first-class work promptly dec. 17 d-ly SPOON" 0 sold out before now offer S. H. HOWARD. PH YS ICIA AND 8 US GEON, Office at Hughes Moeby'e Drag Store tele phone at neeiaence, no, 124.

nu ly E. A. PIERCE, M. Homedpatliist, Office over First National Bank. Tackson, Miss.

KEY BROS. General Tinshop No. 215 South President street. (Opposite City Hall.) Prepared to do all kinds of tin work and fill any special ordei. aecoa Wright House, NO.

206 PASCAGOtTLA, ST. (South of City Hall.) Will Weood board at tl per day; to 03 0 My JULIUS INTERIOR -AND Of A There Up Town. BR AND TOOK of the most desirable goods the market. has been a BIG CUT in the prices of American Watches, and ha zing bought a large stock at the reduced prices, Patrons Shall Have the Benefit. T.

A. nLEK.West kb. MOB SPIRIT GROWING. Negroes are not Lynched on Account of Race or Color. The very conservative St.

Ixmis Republic offers the following explanation on the subject of lynchings which will be found more than worthy of careful perusal: A number of blatherskite politicians, some of them negroes, are attempting to show that lynchings are due to race prejudice more than to any other cause. The threat is even made that if lynchings do not cease negroes will resort to dynamite to revenge those of their color who are lynched. Such talk comes from a few crap-house loffers in the cities, and as little attention as possible should be faid to it. If it were not for such false-' loods from low and ignorant politicians, black and white, the intelligent people of the country could exert their influence more effectually to keep the peace, to maintain order and to uphold the law. The mob spirit is a national disease in and it is growing worse.

Of that there is no doubt. But, as far as we know, no negro has yet been mobbed in America for being a negro. We have seen Chinafnen mobbed and 'murdered for being Chinamen, but thus far negroes have lynched only under the ordinary usages of the mob in committing its murders. This is to say. they have been lynched on suspicion of crime, just as white men are lynched.

They are fools who think that it is possible by either supplications are threats to secure a negro exemption from mob vio-" lence on account of his color where white men are being lynched every week in the year, and sometimes almost every day in the week, regardless of their being white. The white people of America cannot treat each other more justly than they treat the negro; nor can they treat the negro more justly than they treat each other. There is neither race question nor sectional issue involved. The negroes are now as free as anyone else, and on this account negroes are lynched much oftener than when they were slaves, protected by masters who were as a rale the men of greatest influence in their communities. Being as free politically as anyone else, the negroes are living "in a country where, as the mob spirit becomes more prevalent, anyone is liable to be lynched if anyone els chooses to suspect him of deserving it.

Nevertheless most of us, black or white, will not be lynched. In this connection negroes or others who live in communities where lynching is liable to occur will find of great value the celebrated Dr. Hall's "first rule for preserving health in cold weather." It is: "Keep, your mouth shut and move on." C. WOLFF, DECORATOR Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, Window Shades, Wall Paper And Fine Curtains a specialty. DEALER IN- 307 3P.oarl street, Tomporarv Stand, mch 22 lind Misplaced Encourgement.

NeigKbor (looking benignantly over the fence) I am glad to see you at work in your garden so early, my boy. Industry brings its own reward. Tommy Tucker (turning up another spade-full) I reckon so, but I've been diggin' more'n half an hour, and havn't got the blamed can half full of worms A Hopeful Augury. New York World The passage in the House of the free wool and the tree cotton-bagging and cotton-tie bills by a practically unanimous Democrati3 vote is a gratifying incident and a hopeful au- Mr and By. ne had just bought a pair of fancy-priced horses, and with a brand new cutter and paraphernalia he went out on Cass avenue after the rest of the outfit.

As she got into the cutter he nodded proudly toward th horses and remarked: "Aren't they beau tie? There are no flies on them, I tell you." No, she said slowly, almost solem nly. and his pride began to tumble. "No, Walter, but there will be ia the summer time." And the keen, sharp breeze from the northwest went whistling through his crliieluaa-s RECEIVING NOW I Our Spring and Summer Shoes. Cheaper and Handsomer than Ever. 23.

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