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YOL. XV--NEW SERIES. PORT GIBSON, MISS., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1890. NUMBER 3.

Devil’s Lake, North Dakota The Moat Worthless Part of the World. Under a Lion’s Paw. published an interview with Rev. lllildl lu, Devil’« lake is a body ot brackish Queen Oar few woeks’ cruise leads me to Lawrence J. Raymond, a trapper of Dr. Oambrell of Meridian, in which water of uncertain size, according to ^TSTO believe that Labrador is the most worth­ AfVican wild beasts, lately said to a re­ that gentleman expressed himself T7"iclrsTo*a.rgr, ^uCississippI, the weather, hot covering about 200 less part of the wholo world. It is porter of the Enquirer: clearly and forcibly in regard to the ------WHOL1SAL1 AND RETAIL DEALER IN------square miles'on an average, and having scarcely worth visiting even as a cu­ “There are plenty of instances where advisability of restricting the right Crescent an outlet by a marshy stream to tho riosity in sterility and desolation. In meU'bave been'seized by lions and of suffrage. We qu >te : Cheyenne rlvor only in wet seasons. Foreign and Domestic Drugs the 1,000 miles of coast tho total num­ havo lived to relate the particulars. I “The chief work ot the conven­ JACKSON TO CINCINNATI Though the water is too salt for a ber of resident humau beings will not had been out late one afternoon with tion should he'toprovide for white or stranger U> drink, yet it abounded with Entire Tram,Baggage Cnrs.Dny Concli- MIXED PAIITS FROM PIVT8 TO GALLOIS, exceed 6,000 souls. The peninsula has some of the natives to prepare a bait intelligent supremacy hy righteous nml Sleeping Cars run through ilah in its natural state; and even now an area of 160,000,000 acres; and just in a rocky ravine. Wc had built a and legal methods. Thu Africaniz­ cs White lead, boiled aud raw linseed oil, lard oil, ueatsfoot oil, turpentine without change,from Meridian, in the dead of winter one may see one human beingto about 27,000 acres. stout pen of rocks and logs and placed ing of the state cannot be tolerated, and all kinds of lubricating oils. Window glass all sizes cut to order. The Short Line via groups of wiry old squaws ou the ice That there aro 100 acres capable of a calf as a bait.. We started for camp, unless the white people leave it. (four feet thick) working the dip seine And just as true is it tnat we cannot CIIATTAN 0 0(vA cultivation within this mighty expanse and no one bad the least suspicion of 20 Barrels Putty. 50 Bibs. Lamp Black. and bringing out at each haul two or continue our present election meth­ -----TO----- has bceu disproved by the efforts of the presence of danger until a lion, ods. They are wrong in principle throe pickerel. These freeze solid in a INCORPORATED 1Î84. JOHN . HALPIN Manag'. Jcsnits and other missionaries, and by which had been crouched boshlo a and ruinous in results. They de­ lie Carolinas and Virginia, few minutes, after which they are all settlers who have been lured upon bush, sprang oat and knocked me bauch tho mauhood of the state and handled liko stones. To see the poor these shores to starve. It is possible down. compromise us before the world. I JOHN F. HALPIN CQ •J old creatures kneeling on the margin that during two or three months of “I can say without conceit that I was am, therefore, without reserve, in The Sliortline rla Cincinnati to of tho holes they have cut through the the summer, 40,000 fishermen may be fairly cool. It had come so suddenly favor of limiting the suffrage, first, CHICAGO. CLEVELAND, BUFFALO ‘^77'li.olesa.le G-rocsrs, because it Is right per se ; and sec­ ice, and with one arm, bare nearly to found off Labrador. that I had not had time to get uervous. ond, because it will greatly Siagara Falls and Canada, Ros. 117 and 120 Bilberry Street, Vicksburg, Miss, the shoulder, thrust under the edge of aid in They have no interest here whatev­ Had I moved my arm for my pistol the solution of our main trouble. I NEW YORK, BOSTON the ice to spread the seine—the ther­ ------HEADQUARTERS roR------er, save to come and grab and go. tho beast would have lowered his bead would limit tho suffrage, first, by a The Adirondack and White Mountains, mometer -from zero to 30 below—is a There are not enough standing trees and seized ray throat. Bo long as I lay tax receipt, placing the poll-tax at ISew lCiitflnncl Cilice, Flour, Meat, Hay, Corn, Oats and Bran. Alabama Lime, Portland and novel sight to the tourist. in Labrador available for building tim­ quiet he would reason that I was dead $4 or ami letting every dollar of And all points North and East. Hosed ale Cement’a specialty. r>, The lake in oue place is almost cut ber to pay for lighting fire iu a single aud give his attention to tho natives. it go to the public school fund: and I«4 AH Through Train* pass mound second, by an educational qualifica­ the l*aee of Lookout Moi, .tain, along iu two by a sort of peninsula, with a saw mill. All the frantic efforts ot the “All of a sudden I balked out like a tion, using the Australian system as the slioiohf die Emory River, over the spoon-shaped extremity running out government to discover mineral de­ dog, followed by a growl, and that Famous Hid. Iln.lge and ihroogh the ^♦MEMPHIS WEEKLY AVALANCHE/** into the lake; and there the Indians a test. I have seen various object­ posits have beeu unavailing. beast lumped twenty feet in ids sur­ ions to this, hut none of them scent Blue Glass Region of Kentucky lo Cin­ 06 \ A TWSLYE-FAGï'rjaiOCEATIO TAim./fy/ in old times used to make their great trai Union Depot, where connection is \ i\ ESTABLISHED 1867. ' , 7 What then does Labrador possess ? prise. He came down between me to rest on any rock’bottom of com­ made for the North and E ist without CONTAINS ALL THE NEWS OF THE OAY. /»V>/ > buffalo drive. Stampeded by mounted An unmeasured reach of stone aud ice, and tho natives and I turned enough mon sense and right. Representa­ tra ii aier. Ill rough die city. men, the animals fled to the lake and covered here and there with moss; oc­ to see that his tail was down aud he tive government must rest on two For further information ad dies« ABLE EDITORIAL*, CAREFULLY-SELE0T2D / /L V MATTER, TALKAOE'B BERMONS, - /i V/ wore gradually concentrated on this casionally patches of stunted spruce ; was scared. I uttered more barks and pillars—intelligence and virtue. C. II Carnahan, Agee.t, Jnc’ Ron,Miss. & The illiterate are an element of INAL HTORIES, AND A VARIETY 0? |H!iiinsula ; the hunters then advanced 1. Ilaidy, A. G. P. A , Vieksliiiig.Miss SAMPLE offener for hundreds of miles scarred growls, but without^moviug a hand, OOPiEE\J READING THAT MARES UP A V, by boat or along the land and shot weakness to any government of the i N. A. lioUias, Travl.A IlirniinghainAI« „ Virat-OlAsai / THR and blackened by burned spruce and after making a circle dear around people. They must be carried by them down at leisure. At length the F. M. Comfort, T. A I*. A.. Vicksburg. FREE, . ^ WEEKLY stumps, between which flinty rocks me the lion suddenly boltinl aud went white mâmbroke in; the great Turtle the intelligent, and in Mississippi J. C. Gault, 1). U. Edwards, aar Sand for project like cruel spears ; with impas­ off with a scare that would last him a the load is greater than can l>e car­ U I». &i T. A. (ien. Manager, Circulars showing mountain bufTnio -raids began ; for sable rivers plowing in ungovernable ried with safety. The voting age ia Cincinnati. O. former Distributions week.” and has given away seventy miles iu a line the prairie the torrents through hideous gorges; 4000 fixed at 21, because, in the judg­ A r>i»arss.———— .~***ZL ■" L _ à """ 1 »^tlO.OOO. The names aud A Preacher Thunders Against Dancing A V ALAN CHS next summer was a Golgotha—whiten­ whiles utterly uuable to leave their ment of ruunkind, that is the age at J)H. II.G. WHARTON ed with buffulo skeletons—and old set­ prisonment or better their cckuldit ion, Dr.McCov of the Alabama Christian which the youth has gained intelli­ MEMPHIS, tlers still tell of the “big money” made living half the year like beasts,aid , in the last issue of that pa­ gence sufficient to wisely exercise Offers Ilia nrofessiolial services to the TENU. by gathering their bones. In five short per, denouuccd the “kermesa,” shortly this highest privilege of the citizen. people of Port Gibson and vicinity. Of* ^ CHT7"2B2>J .A.TTZTAJrr LIST. other half little better ; 2000 Iff lians Now. I favor the extension of this teg years every buflalo was gone, and the to bo given in Birmingham, sayiug: lice next door to li s leaidence. $1,000 lxx Onsli Glftat subsisting on salt fish and raw, with essential principle to the whole vof- Pour Gibson. Feb. 16, 1888. r*f Indians had to starve, light or emi­ occasionally a bit of musty flout' or “The rigors of Lenten piety havo about ing paMilstion. The American bal­ ARENT8 WANTED EVERYWHERE. \ & grate. They fought and wero whip­ meal; 3000 or 4000 Esquimaux do^s; a2J? sulsiided, and the next thing in order lot .Huld represent the individual I/ 1ÇW uszial coiacsrint an uses khctv list ton amttb exit. ped ; part emigrated, and the rest are i

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