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on account of the prisoners. So it is
a peculiar nastiness of Harr s county
prisoners or jail birds—befouling
their own nest, ]f that be so it’s
useless to build a new j I*- because
the nasty habit will attach to
t hat. Y\ < don’t the autnori
ties send a Priest to see
whether • it bv is fected with
leprosy, and try the od law of cleans
imr " e d ibr tile Gar ft- id a td Grant
d c ors t >cate the pr-c^-e p) nt of
trouble or say whether it be a t n
porury ulcer or an incoriigible
cer that can’t be prpvtd wav in t e
opinion of the Constitution by even
a D. I). Re ntniber ih e is no
complaint on the same of safety—its
nastiness altogether, It lias been
such a continued stench for years
bick that no wonder ne cuimination
has about come up in the public
mind as to an urgent necessity to tio
something. The grand juries have
given very broad allu ions and point¬
ed. Perhaps they were not broad
enough and hadn’t enough [joint. I
was glad when that doomed culprit
died, and I wasn’t glad. I’m not
much of a hanging man; at most I
would not sling off such reprehensive
aitides as I have seen issuing from
editorial tab.es against juries if they
don’t under their solemn oaths de
cide to choke a man t® death. That’s
their business a al not mine. I have
seen some hangings. i hev are o r
rible. I would not see another. But
to be glad or not -glad depends
whether it be prepared to die by a
new clean rope, or die by long con
fmement in filth. By my own senses
and the representations of others for
years past—a man to suffer a length
of time in the Harris county jail and
to be taken hence an 1 sentenced by
the court for further punishment, re
views double punishment, and it is
simply shocking for an innocent man
logo through its torments, which
may son etimes occur. But build a
new jail if it can keep clean, ami ev
ery c can man in the count) will give
an extra quarter tu ii.ie a cleaner for
tbe old one .1 not. IT. ovman.
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LOCAL POINTS.
The weajher *s at last becoming
spring-like.
The picnic season opened with us
Saturday,
Mr. A. F. Truett lias thousands of
young carp in his large pond.
Ham ltoti needs good schools more
than anything else to make her pros
perous.
} here were not a great many who
went from here to Co! ambus memo
rial day.
The Methods! chinch is now un
der the printers brush, and when fin
ishedit will present a nea? appearance.
Irish potatoes and English pea
wid soon be glarn J -n at each other
from opposite sides of the gudewife’s
table.
Our streets presented a indy -ap
pear a nee during court. 1 hey were
thro ged with visitors who came to
atten 1 court.
A stock law in Hamilton would
benefit the gardens about town, al
though it woul 1 'ace rate the fedin 0 s
of the town cow.
A long train with the Co’umbns
Broad Street Methodh.t Sunday
school, excurted to Y\ hi tc Sulpl iur
Springs Saturday.
If our farmers would raise plenty
of corn and meat tins year a clash of
arms in the East would not effect
their prosperity.
A New Home sewing machine, in
perfect o;d^r, with all the attac h neats
can be bought for ^25. Is new. Ap
ply to J. L. Dennis.
b*ow that to 111 is over, our town
has settled back to its usual quiet,
and our cit.zens again pursue the
even tenor o; their way.
For the sixteenth time, gentle An
me, it looks as if the spring time had
conic, but we will know more about
it after the moon fulls,
Tncre is talk of putting a Sunday
tra il on the C. & K. road a'ler the
first of May. It will enable us to
to Gieenville t- pre idling.
Our farmers are doubtless putting
in as large an acreage in cotton, as it
the dUiiculiits between England and
Russia were adjusted. An 1 yet a
war between the powers wib diminish
the price of the staple.
Rev. Bascom Anthony preached
o good congregations at ti e Meiho
Hist church on Sunday morning and
evening. At the morning service he
preached on t 1 e prophecies of the
Bible, their fulfillment and inspira
tion. He established God's power
and the immitabilitv of his word. Mis
promises-to us slid stand and not
one ‘jot or jit re** shall fail until all
are fulfilled.
Mr. Jim Lyons, of Troup, lost a
child,a baby on’y three years od, Sun¬
day night. He has been very unfor¬
tunate, huvmg l«*t his wife about a
ear since, and ha 1 another child
jurned to deaf*. He ha thesympa
hy of his friends in his sad bereave
nent. The child was buric I he; e
yesterday afternoon.
The LaC ge Reporter, in the
last issue gave an account of a dog
that is but another proof of the kind
nfit ne of this do neslie anim il. A
little m) a of Col. \V. B. Jones caught
a rabbit and brought it home tc
ill ‘ litt.c chi; Iren. Missing it soon
after, a -ware \ was made, when it
was found h.d a .vay in a box with
the yard dog. The dog followed it
about the place, giving every evi •
deuce of fondness for it. finally the
children ca ned it back, and turned
it loose in the held, but the dog
caught it, and is now said to be nurs¬
ing it as tenderly as it it was a young
pup.
The.Terupeiance Union have nev
cr had a more pleasant meeting than
the one held at the testdeuce of Cob
J. M. Mobley on 'I huisday evening
last, A number of the legal train
nity honoied the Uh.io .1 w th thcii
presence, j ii 1 ;e Willis, Col C. j.
I hornton and Mi. G. \ . J i fc ner, oi
Columbus, Mr. t\ . L. rainier -and
M r R* A. Russell, o! Clique), wen*
Called upon to speak and eac 1 re
sponded happily, but too brieny f 0
satisfy the numU r who lesirecl to
hear their full views on the great
question ot tha day. lu his remark?.
J li ^o c *bat nuale it a
point in his charge to tbe grand jun
to advocate the benet f i ui pronib*
tion, and believed lie woum do moo
for tne cause in bait *ay dnm by au
dressing those present on the sub
ject. alter tiie meeting a journe
tbe crowd remained ana had a pica*
ant tan a in social converse, (
tow * has excellent material for a lit
e ary entertainment and the Union