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issing 'of the Alabama R. Some of the other in the northern part, ce. The Alabama & rt of the county from :ion with Jackson and s City R. R. traverses id has opened up some opportunity for man-as the Tallahatta Ry. aps its eastern border. ;eks, which flow south f the region consists of alia, beech and cypress, rie belt and its surface ies in character, con-ind ?reed brakes.? It icco, sugar cane, rice, jles and fruits suitable re to be found in the is made; in the year
profitable and this item f the county. The fol-5tates census for 1900, on :?Number of farms -oved 114,928, value of ; of buildings $543,230, roducts not fed $1,165,-ivested $162,102, wages otal value of products 1900 was whites 11,659, se of 3,083 over the year ed at 21,000. Artesian key?s Station and along al assessed valuation of y in 1905 was $2,435,291 ; an increase of $1,330,-
rt of Wilkinson county, at, and nearest banking, 1900,26.
ren county, on the Mis-cksburg. Population in
:y, 13 miles east of Kos-)0, 22. _ , rn part of Pike county,
Nicholson, a station on the New Orleans & North Eastern R. R., 34 miles northwest of Bay St. Louis, the county seat of Hancock county. Picayune is the nearest banking town. A money order oostoffice is maintained here. Population in 1900, 100; in 1906 ^the population was estimated at 300.	T
^ Nicholson, Isaac R., a native of Georgia, was a lawyer in Northern Alabama before his coming to Mississippi. In (1822 he was colonel on the staff of the governor. In 1825-27 hef represented .Copiah county in the legislature, and was elected speaker in, 1827. >-,-Upon the organization of a new judicial circuit in 1828 to include '- the Choctaw cession of 1820 and the upper Tombigbee country,
-	he was elected by the legislature as judge of the circuit and the J fifth member of the supreme court. In this position he served with notable ability until the change of the judicial system under the constitution of 1832, when he resumed the practice and continued in it until his death at Natchez.
Nick, or Malone Station, a postoffice of Marshall county, on the Illinois Central R. R., 14 miles by rail south of Holly Springs.
Nile, a postoffice of Attala county, 10 miles southeast of Kosciusko, the county seat.
Nirvana, a postoffice of Panola county.
Nittayuma, a post-hamlet in the northwestern part of Sharkey ??county, on Deer creek and on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R., 10 miles north of Rolling Fork, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice. Population in 1906, 125.
? Nixon, George H., colonel of militia, distinguished in the Creek war (q. v.) ?was born in Virginia, and, living some years in South Carolina, removed thence in 1809 to the Mississippi territory.? He was lieutenant-colonel commanding the militia of his county, before the Creek war, when he was selected by Governor Holmes, in October, 1813, to command a battalion organized for duty in the field. It is said of him in Pickett?s history of Alabama: ?During the Creek war, Colonel Nixon, at the head of a considerable force, scoured the swamps of the Perdido and other streams, and frequently killed and captured Indians. After he had accomplished all he could, he marched to the head of the Perdido, where he divided his command, sending Maj. William Peacock, with the troops of the 39th, (Col. John Williams? regiment) to the Boatyard, on Lake Tensaw, while he marched the remainder of his command to Fort Claiborne. He was an excellent officer and served in the war until its conclusion. fHe was a member of the first state legislature in 1817. and was appointed colonel of the ^eventh regiment, (Marian and Hancock) in the same year.] He died in Pearlington, Miss., m 1824. He was a large and fine-look-lnK nian, with fair complexion, and was very popular.?
Noah, a postoffice in the northeastern part of Lafayette county, mU* m>les from Oxford, the county seat.
Nod, a postoffice of Yazoo county. It has two stores, a church f school, and a population of about 60.
Noel Amendment?See Judiciary (1870-1905.)