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The
C LA RI ON.
Xlvi.
bL.
Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday, January
1 88.
No. 5.
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jeathof Mrs. Judge Ford, the
je mother of Hon. Thomas 8.
T. B- Ford, is announced.
Lre-oFthe Natchez, Jackson &
gailroad s leiegrapn company
Martin from Natchez last
t is being hastened to Jackson.
advantages over the Eastern
n treat that I am indifferent
operations of the tariff. I be-
tariff should be arranged strict
he revenue standard." Capt.
Lf the Mississippi Mill, in Wes-
news columns the rinding of
bodv of a young man floating:
er in a casket, is mentioned.
nee transpired mat tne casket
Goodrich's landing where a
has caved into the river. The
yesterday mentions the find-
Pelta Point of the body of a
y supposed to have been buried
ch's years ago.
tal number of i mmigrants
the United States for the year
lecember 31, 1882, was 712,542.
iber exceeds the present popu-
Maine, and exceeds that of
of the smaller States.
en
ashington Star says: The Pres-
otly told a New England Sen-
while he was anxious to have
pass a bill to revise the tariff
rf ill on account of the late-
he session and the diversified
n the bill that it would fail.
ni if he would call an extra ses-
billdid fail, he sail: "That
igency I will not consider until
Iterian Church at Meridian
Destroyed by Fire.
Iik, Miss., January 25, 1882.
Clabion: The Presbyte-
h was destroyed by fire last
fire originated from the
mm from the basement, where
school. Loss about $6000, in-
B4000. Our new Fire Compa
lod service kept several adja-
trom burning.
Yours truly, C. B.
Another Killing.
rsday morning last, while a
laborers were engaged at
he construction train of the
Railroad at Jones' cut, bc-
Bsim and Raymond, about (5
, the former place, two colored
uel Johnson and Johnson
lame involved in a difficulty
Ited in the death, of Samuel
Brown admits that he knock
l on the head with a spade,
that he did it with the inten-
iag him ; says they were both
ohnson also having a spade.
er attempted to escape, but
red by our efficient Deputy
. Albert G. Lewis, about six
the scene of the killing, his
with him, and was brought to
d lodged in jail. A coroner's
isting of Messrs. B. W.
bt. Bradley, Geo. Lemon,
n, W. H. Potter and Wash.
tendered a verdict that the
me to his death by a club
of Johnson Brown.
Republican : The votes taken
oathe several prepositions in
lith the tariff go far to show
ing issue in the next national
fill be revenue reform, and that
Ife will have the affirmative and
M the negative of the question,
iplexion the contest will come
Herald ; The unanimous re
lator Coke on the first ballot,
legislature, was a deserved
to a deserving man. The una-
W Texas Legislature in return-
Senate is significant as to
Wire State of the South stands
'question. Senator Coke holds
' iews. It thus seems that
Political sentiment in Texas is
r tariff i8gue.
IEW: The civil service
Otoe a law. Wo or trlnrl tr
effort has Vwnn marla lit.
reform Ki. J - . 1...
"which recently passed Con-
ltsnr.,...: 1 If .
t tir woraing, amount
F We trust when the Demo-
E meeets something more in
we necessity of reform in
lvice may be originated.
foDKNT of a daily news
mi lettara rf tk :.. r
M thn P.S ' fu-i
d talks as other people do ;
t. j ii 10 tQe Pno in the
fod opened it with her own
r jo gratifying to learn these
7 And their mention
Liz S" estimate of the
l8"h, but penetrates the
M well.
Over the State.
WeatrilleNaws: Mr. J. B. Allbritton and
family in company with two other brother.
Elam and Quitmaa Allbritton and their fam-
mea, leava to-day for Texas. Their point
of destination will be Woodrille, in Tyler
county.
Port Gibson Reveille : Messrs. T. C. and
H. Duflin are here to arrange for beginning
the work on the M. V. & New Orleans Rail
road, they having taken a contract for thir
ty miles of the road, commencing at Port
Gibson and going South.
Macon Beacon : E.v-Senator Isham Stew
art (colored) "Uncle Isham" a he was
generally, called, died at his home, in
Macon, last Sunday night, after a brief con
finament. Brandon Republican : Mr. Jan. A. Sinn
cane, a former resident of this county, died
at Ratrsdsle, Fannin county, Texas, on
the loth of December, after a very short ill
ness. Last rear W. M. Sloin. of Clay county,
Miss., aged seventy-six years, raised with
his own labor on six acres of land, six and a
half bales of cotton, averaging in weight
530 pounds. It was of the long staple up
land variety.
Says the Oxford Falcon : "The first
'honor men' of the freshmen and sophomore
elasses of the University are girls, which
conclusively demonstrates that in mental
capacity the girls are equal to the boys, if
not more so."
Mr. Tiner, of Itawamba county, Miss., is
109 years old. He is the oldest man in the
State.
Meridian, Jan. 25. The Circuit Court is
till in session. Eleven persons were sen
tenced to the penitentiary, all colored, save
Willis Merritt, who was convicted of man
slaughter for the killing of Joe Benton in
1878, and he was pardoned by the Governor
to-day, but is still in jail until the Judge
decides whether he must pay the eost of
prosecution.
Tupelo Journal : Maj. F. M. Goar turned
over the postoffice this week to his succes
sor, Col. J. A. Blair, who has appointed
Messrs. B. F. Farabee and Jas Witherspoon
his clerks.
Wesson Herald: Mr. Sims, of Brandon,
will take charge of the Richardson House.
He is a brother of our late townsman, Mr
John Sims, formerly of th firm of Mangum
and Sims.
Boonevillk, Miss., Jan. 26. At Rienzi,
Boone & Williams' store was entered on the
26th, the safe door bored into, and money
to the amount of two thousand dollars taken
therefrom. Mr. Boone is a memaer of the
State Senate.
News and Notes.
address;
Of the National Conference of Green-backer.
To the People of the United States :
Incorporated and affiliated wealth
threatens the liberty of the people. It
lias divided American citizens into classes
of rich and poor those who live on
fixed income, yet produce nothing, and
those whose labor pays all the taxes and
supports all classes. It controls the prin
cipal avenues of commerce and travel,
and the transmission of intelligence. It
wields an undue influence over the pub
lic press. It corrupts Legislative, Judi
cial and Executive officers, and above all
it manipulates the volume of currency,
which enables it to create panics, destroy
property values, paralyze business, throw
tabor out of employment, and stop the
demand for its productions.
Therefore, we, the undersigned citi
zens of the United States, realizing the
wrongs from which the people are now
suffering from incorporated wealth, and
its dangers to free government, do hereby
request that a conference of representa
tive men from all sections of the country,
be held in the City of Washington, I). C.,
commencing February 7, 1883, to devise
the most effective means of securing im
mediate public consideration of the fol
lowing propositions, and that no other
question or questions except those here
in enumerated, shall be in order or en
tertained by said conference :
First Prompt payment of the public
debt.
Second. The general government to
issue all money, make it a legal tender
in payment of private debts and public
dues, and keep its volume uniform with
the requirements of business on a cash
basis.
Third. Railroads and Telegraphs to
be regarded as public institutions, and
their charges regulated by National and
State laws, based on a fair return on the
amount actually paid by stock and bond
holders for construction and equipment
of such property.
Fourth. The repeal of all class-legislation,
and the enactment of laws com
pelling all property to bear its just pro
portion of public burdens.
Fifth. All public land to be held for
actual settlers.
Sixth. Economy in public expendi
ture, honesty in administering public
affairs, and an elective civil service sys
tem. Seventh. Puritv of the ballot through
adding disfranchisement to imprison
ment of all who sell their votes, coerce
votes, or render false returns of votes
cast. m
A Continuous Voluminous Lie.
N. Y. Sun.
The Coneressional Record, as now man
aged, is one continuous and voluminous
Hn It is not what it ournorts to be. It
i not what the neonle pav for. Instead
of beintr a record of the official proceed
intra nf the two branches of Congreta, it
is a garbled, doctored, patched, and ex-
purgatca version oi iuuwj prwvovuuijjo,
The Delaware House has refused to pan a
bill to abolish the whipping of persons con
victed of murder in the second degree.
Four hundred lives were almost certainly
lost with the ocean steamer, Cimbra. The
fight for life, the panic and confusion, the
emigrants sinking in groups, the families
slinging together to the last, the women
powerless to save themselves, six wretched
Indians forced away with axes from the
boats, the struggle in the icy waves, the
shrieks which died away in moans, the
moans which ended in awful silenoe, is the
startling way a contemporary describes the
scene.
Two men were killed and eight injured
by a boiler explosion in the Ledger Paper
Mills, Elkton, Md.
A gang of robbers attacked a train on the
Central Pacific Railroad, robbed the train
hands, bat were repulsed by the express
messenger.
At Franklin, Pa,, ibe trial of Mary E.
McClelland, for the murder of her husband,
in French Creek township, on Monday, No
vember (i, is progressing. Alex. McClelland,
the murdered man, had bad reputttion,
and when under the influence of liquor,
was a desperado of the worst kind and a
terror to the neighborhood in which he
lived. On the date mentioned he went
home drunk from Oil City, and abased all
about the house. Mrs. McClelland, who had
been delivered of a girl baby a few days
previous, was still in her bed, and because
the child was not a boy, McClelland had
threatened to kill it and its mother. Mrs.
McClelland, to protect herself and child,
had hidden a revolver ii her night dress,
and when McClelland advanced to carry
out his threat, she drew her revolver and
fired, the ball entering the right eye, causing
instant death. Mrs. McClelland was arrest
ed, but allowed to enter bail. The sympa
thy of the community was with her.
The London Medical Press says : " It is
indisputable that the success gained by fe
male students at the outset of the movement
in favor of admitting them to equal exami
nation with males, have not been maintain
ed. In the Cambridge University Higher
Local Examinations a marked decrease is
yearly observable in the number of women
who succeed in passing in the Natural Sci
ence group of subjects."
In the Druggists' Circular, a simple test is
given for ascertaining the presence of cot
ten seed oil in olive oil. An aqueous solu
tion of acetate of lead is stirred up with
the oil and the mixture put aside for twelve
hours. If there be present even so small a
quantity as 5 per cent, of cotton seed oil,
the mixture will have a reddish color. This
reaction is said to be peculiar to cotton seed
oil.
Orange, Va., Jan. 22. The trial of Grant
White (colored) for murder is progressing
in the CountyCourt to-day before a jury com
posed entirely of negroes-the first jury of the
kind ever impanelled in this county. On
the panel of sixteen were four white men,
but they were stricken off by the defence.
Pittsburg special in Cincinnati News :
John Beabout, aged eighty-four years a
wealthy farmer, who lives near Ashland, O.,
came to this city on Monday to marry a wo
man whom he has been in love with for two
years. Her name is Miss Maria Sanders,
and she is thirty-four years of aee. iust
fifty years younger than her new husband.
The wedding took place in the presence of
few friends.
The National Board of Trade, in session
at Washington, adopted a resolution favor
ing the establishment by the Government
of a postal telegraph and telelephone sys
tem.
A cotton Exposition, similar to that at
Atlanta in 1881, is assured for this year
at Louisville. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars hare been subscribed by tho
citizens, and the necessary building will at
once be erected.
At Newport, R. I., a prominent and
wealthy oitizen is suspected of throwing a
stone through the window of the residence
of Mrs. Edward R. Sherman, and Mrs. Sher
man and daughter are seriously ill from the
shock.
One of the wealthiest of United States
Senators is George H. Pendleton. It takes
at least $100,000 a year to maintain his sev
eral places of residence his elegant winter
home in Washington, his large city mansion
in Cincinnati, his cottage at Conway, N. H.,
and his villa at Mount Desert, Maine. No
one knows exactly how he got it all, but he
has been in Congress for a good while. He
is the author of the sham Civil Service Re
form bill lately passed.
The ocean steamer ( imbria collided with
the Sultan last week, and only fifty-six per
sons are known to have been saved.
There is little doubt that letter postage
will be reduced to two cents.
Col. William Preston Johnston has tender
ed his resignation as President of the Louis
iana State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College, at Baton Rouge, in
order to accept the charge of the Tulane
College, to be started in New Orleans.
The chances for tariff legislation at thli
session of congress do not improve.
Judge ',. Hunt, one of the leading law
yers and jurists of Texas, died suddenly of
pneumonia, at Dallas. He waa born in
North Carolina, and tor a short time resid-
od in Mississippi, before settling in Texas.
A horrible murder was perpetrated on tho
23d in Walker county, Ga., on H. H. Rudd,
a respectable farmer, aged 75 years. He
waa found in his doorway with his head
split open with an ax and a frightful cut
from an ax in his breast. Two negroes have
been captured. There were threats of
lynching them.
A body of disguised men forcibly took
from the jail in Russel county, Virginia, two
white men named O. F. Farrcll and Evan
Griffith, confined on a charge of obtaiuing
under falae pretoaues, about eighteen thous
and dollar's worth of cattle from graziers
of that sec-ion. Nothing is yet known of
the disposition made of the prisoners, but
it is believed they were lynched.
Webster sued Taylor in Chicago for
alienating his wife's affections, and was
elated when the foreuian of the jury said:
"We find fer the plaintiff," but correspond
ingly depressed by the rest of the verdict,
"And award one cent damages."
Corsicaha, TKX. Judge Bradley sen
tenced Joseph Millgrove, a white man, to
four year' imprisonment in the peniten
tiary for marrying a negro woman. Served
him right.
Hon. Edward MePherson, Clerk of the
House of Representatives, at Washington,
has made up the roll of the next Mouse. All
the districts are represented except the
Sixth Louisiana, Second Mississippi, and
Third North Carolina.
United States Senator Plumb, of Kansas,
used to be the foreman of a little newspaper
in Xenia, ., of which Mr. Whitelaw Raid,
of the N. Y. Tribune, was the editor.
At Atlanta, da., W. C. Kemp killed him
self in the presence of his wife, who now
threatens to snieide.
Strawberries from a New Jersey hot-house,
were sold in New York last Saturday at
twenty-five cento a pieoe. They were sold
in little baskets holding from four to twelve
berries. Hot-house peaches are now selling
in New York at IS each.
Mrs. Lucinda Rose, ot Monroe county,
da., is seventy-four years of age, has 145 liv
ing descendants, thirty-one dead, and, being
an oecoticheurt, has officiated at the birth of
168 of the aforesaid posterity.
Prof. Sumner, of Yale, declares that "the
worth of the Pendleton bill will depend en
tirely upon how it is enforced."
Col. O. II. Irish, chief of thebureau of en
graving and printing, died on the 27th.
Ed. Garrett, colored, was hanged at Tex
arkana, on the 27th, for the murder of his
wife.
At Amite City, La., Win. Lowry was
shot and instantly killed on the street
by Taylor Ard. An old feud existed be
tween the parties, and threats had been
made. They were hunting each other with
shotguns, when Ard got the drop on Lowry,
and he went immediately to tho happy hunt
ing grounds, a load of buckshot having pass
ed through his head.
The Nebraska House of Representatives
passedja resolution calling upon the supreme
court for an opinion upon the constitution
ality of a railroad commission. The court
decided unanimously that a railroad com
missio n similar to those of Illinois or Iowa
would not be constitutional in Nebraska.
At Memphis, Messrs. Roper and Flanigan,
engaged in the retail grocery business, made
an assignment foe the benefit of their cred
itors. Previous to this, however, they had
received five bales of cotton from a colored
man engaged in farming in Arkansas, who,
when shipping the cotton, instructed them
to hold it for him and not to sell the same.
They disobeyed his instructions and sold the
cotton, but in making their assignment fail
ed to mention him as one of their creditors.
For this they were indicted by the grand
jury for a fraudulent breaeh of trust, and at
their trial to-day were found guilty and
each sentenced to one year in the peniten
tiary.
Mr. Alfred Robins and wife, of Shelby -ville,
Ind., were divorced a year ago for in
compatibility of temper. Mr. Robins went
to California. Last month he returned, and
on the 14th iust., they were again married.
Shawneetown, 111., had a spee of war last
week. A negro killed a white man, and
was jailed. A mob of the murdered man's
friends, who wanted to lynch the murderer,
attacked the jail with arms and a piece of
cannon, but were driven off by the Sheriff
and his assistants.
At Vincenncs, Ind., Chart es M. Wetzel, a
young attorney, brutally whipped hia ex
oweetheart, Miss Annie Stewart, with a cane,
one night last week. Ho was arrested on the
charge of assault with attempt to commit
murder, and placed under bond.
Judge Thomas M. Bowen, a silver-mine
millionaire, is the coming man for United
States Senator from Colorado. The bonanza
men are getting the bulge in the Federal
Senate.
The friends of women suffrage in Oregon
are to begin their campaign in behalf of the
amendment to be ', submitted to the vote of
the people, by a meeting to be held in Port
land February IS.
The Maginnia cotton mills, at New Or
leans, will soon duplicate their machinery
throughout, thai doubling their labor and
consumption of cotton. These mills will
thea run 17,500 spindles, and give employ
meat to 600 people in the various depart
ments. Bishop Kavanangh, of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South, has his residenoe in
3t. Louis. But he recently attended the
Florida Conference, and waa prostrated,
and will be compelled to remain in Florida
during the winter.
John Stewart, who under the name of
Geo. Coleman, swindled the City National
Bank of Dallas, Texas, out of $6100 by
meana of forged drafts, on the 16th of Pe
oeraber last, and who was arrested in New
York last week, cut his throat.
At Crawford, Texas on the 27th, two farm
ers named B. F. Baker aud L. M. Hopkins
quarreled about some trilling mitter. It
ended in a fight and Hopkins was instantly
killed.
Mrs. Wm. L. Yancy, widow of the late
Senator Win. L Yauey, of Alubatna, noted
secession leader, died at the residence of
her sou iu Athetis, Ga.
The young tragedienne, Alice Margaret
Ring, grind-niece of the late Vice-President
William R. King, of this State, who lately
made her debut at Stienwny Hall, New
York, was greeted with a crowded house.
KIND WORDS FOR THE CLARION
Corinth Snb-Soiler: For the information
of those of our readers who are not familiar
with this old and widely known journal, we
remark that it is one of the best in the South.
Clinton Argus: Has been greatly im
proved in every department, and may now
be reckoned among the finest weeklies ever
published in Mississippi.
Maoon Beacon : It ia full ot varied, inter
esting and instructive reading. Success to
this old, well-known and universally recog
nized leader of papers in Mississippi.
Yazoo Sentinel : We congratulate its pro
prietors on the cbauge and improved ap
pearance of the journal. It is a State paper
that every one ahould subscribe for.
Boone ville Pleader : It is besides generally
recognized as the State organ of the party
and is eminently worthy of patronage.
Chickasaw Messenger : It is one of the
livest papers In the South and deserves
well of the people of the State.
8tarkville Citizen: Thi O.abion comes
to us adorned with a new garment, embel
lished with a new heading, and transformed
into an eight page paper.
Holly Springs Reporter : It is in the 46th
year of its age, has all tho vigor and spice
of former days. It is a P.i!tr in tho State.
May it live u thousand years.
Lexington Advertiser: Tub Ci. Anion
has always been one of the best papers in
the State and is continually getting belter.
Winona Advance: Always able, and al
ways realiublc.
Copiahan: Is a beautifully printed paper,
and well filled with good and reliable read
ing matter.
Meridian Sun : It is not excelled by any
journal in Mississippi in point of editorial
ability and variety of news.
Pauolian : While it contains more read
ing matter than formerly and is improved
in appearance, we regret the change.
Batesville Blade: We differ with Tint
Ci.aaioN politically, but yet welcome it to
our sanctum, and watch for its arrival, be
cause it is a good newspaper,
Fayette Chronicle: It 4s teeming with
the news of the day and logically sound
upon all the great questions at issue iu the
national council.
Ripley Sentinel : Is full of good reading
matter.
Gulf-Shore Advertiser: In its new dress
it is "a thing of beauty," and we hope will
be "a joy forever."
Meridian Observer: We confess to a
preference for the folio form, but Tub Clab
ion, as now conducted, in any shape and
any form, ought to be very near to all Mis
sissippians. Macon Sun : It it, if possible, brighter,
newsier, and handsomer than ever.
Walthall Warden : The publishers de
serve much credit for the energy and per
severance they have displayed in making
Th Clarion the best and cheapest paper
in the State.
Pascagoala Dem Star : It has always, and
sometimes nnder trying circumstances, had
the knack of saying the proper things at the
right time.
Delta Review : Long may it live and
prosper.
Notice to Persons Wanting Carp.
Aberdeen Examiner.
Many applications for carp are being re
ceived from Mississippi by the Fish Commis
sion and will be supplied as soon as possi
ble. Parties who have prepared carp ponds
should at once forward their applications,
for the demand promises to exceed the sup
ply, In this connection we wocld say that
it will not do to havo any other fish in the
pond where the minnows of the carp are
placed. They are very inoffensive and de
fenceless fish.
Death of Capt Wm. Thompson, of
Fayette.
Fatetti, Miss., Jan. 24, 1883.
Editors Clarion : Capt. Wm. Thompson,
one of the most enterprising of our citizens,
died here on Saturday, 20th inst. He was,
at the time of his death, the W. M.'. of Thos.
Hinds Lodge No. 68 j a member of the Board
of Supervisors of the county, and President
of onr Fair Association, an Odd Fellow and
Knight of Honor.
Yours very truly, O. H. M.
Organization of a State Horticultu
ral Society.
According to a call made at a prelimi
nary meceting on tho 12th December,
prominent horticulturists from differ
ent portions of the State aemblcd in
Jackson on the 2oth inst., for a perma
nent organization.
The committee reported the following
Constitution after discussing each article
teriatim, with the amendments appended :
OONSTTTl TION.
ARTiri.r. I. TtihiwWj shall be known aa the
MIMMimi Horticultural Society.
Akt II. The ohjccls of the society are a develop
fact il priimoliinte information pvrtaluIliK to the
science of liortlciiltiirf.
Art 111. lt officer nhall conlt of a rrealilcnt.
.wcn Vice-lTi'ii()iii, one from each Conumwional
IMatrict, Sm-rvlart . 1i..mii.-i .iikI l.o. nine Cum
mil lee of three.
Ast. IV. lis memhers shall ronaist ol annual
members, paving a fee of one dollar per annum Into
the in aory of the noclety, ami honorary members
who ahull be elected by I lie aoclrly fur merit art aor
Healturiats of diaUenuon, or kindred M-trnoea, who
may at pleasure participate in the delllwratlniu
of the society. Members wives will bo members
without fee.
AT. V. The President shall preside at and con
duct nil the moetinirs of the society, and In his
absence the Vice-President, in Ihclr ordor shall
perform Hie tame duties. It shall U thr further
duty of Vico-lrssldeiila to organise local Horticul
tural Su ielies In their districts whenever practica
ble, and look after the Kvneral Interrwta of horticul
ture In the same and report to this society annually.
Aht. VI. The Secretary shall reeonl all the doliiu
of the society, collate and prepare all communica
tions, etc., lor the public ureas, and pay over all
money received from members or otherwise, to the
Treasurer, on his receipt, and shall receive and
answer all communications addressed to the society.
AaT. VII. The Treasurer shall collect and bold
all funds of the society, aud pay out the same only
on the order of the Secretary, countersigned by tho
1 "resident.
AST. VIII. Officers shall bo elected separately
and annually, by a ballot vote, and bold their offices
until their successors are elected.
Aht. IX. The President, Secretary and Execu
tive Committee shall constitute a Board of Mana
gers, and, under the direction of the society, manage
all Its affairs.
A h i'. X. It shall hold an annual meeting In
February on the Western System of Uallroada, end
a semi-annual meeting In June, on the Kaatern
System of Itailroads, (or vice vena) at such time and
place as the society may direct.
Art. XI. Each member of the society shall be
entitled to ane copy of the transactions, so often a
tne same may no puuiisnoa.
The following amendment to Article
X, by J. J. Shannon, was adopted : At
least two meetings shall be held each
year, one on the Western system of rail
roads, and one on the Eastern system,
alternately, at such time and place aa
the Society may determine.
Retolvea, That this Constitution may
be mnended at any time by a vote of
two-thirds of all the member present at
any regular meeting.
The following, by Prof. J. J. Colmaift,
was adopted :
Retolrt'ti, That if from any cause what
ever, any of the officers elected do not
attend, the Board of Managers be autho
rized to fill the vacancy.
It also was
Rmtlvfd, That the following standing
committee, consisting of two membera
each, shall be appointed at each meeting
of the Society, and it shall bo their duty
to make reports In their several depart
ments at the meeting succeeding their
appointments Vegetable Gardeninfj
) re ha nl Culture, Sirawberries, Tears,
Plums and Cherries. Gathering and
Marketing Fruits and Vegetables, Orajio
Culture, Raspberries una Blackberries,
Peaches, New Fruits, Entomology.
RtMolwd, That tho President appoint
five delegates to the Mississippi Horti
cultural meeting in New Orleans on tho
21st February, including the President
and Secretary.
The following, by G. D. Bustamante,
was adopted i
Rewired, That this Society would hail
with pleasure the re-eatabliahment of the
tho State Fair at the the Capital thia
year, and would recommend our mem
bers, who can conveniently do so, to con
tribute to its success by a liberal exhibi
tion of their horticultural productions.
The following resolution, by J. B.
Yellowley, was adopted :
Reiolved, That when this Society ad
journs, it be to meet at the A. & M. Col
lege, during the commencement exercises
of 1883. The day to be fixed by the
Board ot Managers.
It was also unanimously adopted, that
this body tender to the press their pro
found thanks for the great assistance
rendered, hoping, so far as they are able,
they will publish a portion of these pro
ceedings. After the enrollment of members, the
following officers were elected by ballot:
Dr. H. E. McKay, President.
8. H. Stackhouse, Secrteary.
u. i). Bid way, treasurer.
C. W. Gallagher, 1st Vice-President,
5th Congressional District.
Prof. J. J. Colmant, 2d Vice-President,
1st Congressional District.
Mai. E. G. Wall, 8d Vice-President,
7th Congressional District.
Chas. H. Lynch, 4th Vice-President,
4th Congressional District.
Joseph Piazza, 5th Vice-President, 3d
Congressional District.
W. A . Whitfield, 6th Vice-President,
6th Cingrcssionnl District.
T. A. Dockery, 7th Vice-President, 2d
Congressional District.
J. P. Yellowley, Chairman, W. H. Can
sclh J. J. Shannon, Ex. Committee.
The meeting was a grand success, and
such an organization will do much to
wards increasing the development of our
great horticultural resources. Tho new
society needs tho co-operation of tho
people; it needs the assistance of that
great moving lever the proas. With the
aid of these powers, it can march tri
umphantly over a great many almost
insurmountable difficulties.
Dr. H. K. McKAY, Pres't.
S. 11. Stack house, Scc'y.
Death of a Prominent Physician.
Wesson Herald.
Dr. Edward Brown, died at hia homo
in Hickory, Newton county, on the 21st,
aged 57 years. He probably died of
conjestion superinduced by exposure to
tho wretched weather in the practice of
hia profession.
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