The
Clarion.
Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday, February 7, 1883.
No. 6.
r of mad-dog is again heard in
virion free
I g bright look
Press has a new
Ltal visible supply of cotton for
Ld i, 3,236,424 bales, of which
are American, against S,1ZQ,4ZZ
(506 respectively last.year.
a statement of Gen. Martin,
t of the N. J. & C. Eailmad,
cd in the Natchez Democrat,
that arrangements have been
i insuring the completion of the
folnmbusJ
Meridian Mercury says that
John P. Richardson, Chas. A.
and others, have bought the en-
Lest of Mr. Fred Wrolffc in the
Bank of Meridian, for the
of making it a National Bank.
Irprise Courier : N ext JN ovem-
followiiig officers are to be elected
Ljjppi : Members of the house
Isentatives, one-nan 01 me mem-
the senate, district attorneys,
circuit clerks, chancery clerks,
treasurers, tax assessors, coron-
Irangere, members board of super-
instiees of the peace and consta-
Pascagoula Democrat-Star an-
the death of Maj. W. C. Capers,
Christian, after a long and linger-
1, aged sixty-five years. He at
edited the American Citizen,
n, ana suDsequenuy was asso-
. . j-s 1 T 1- il rr
I til a ljyncn m , uic irue
of this city. The Democrat-
pcrly describes him as a gentle-
talent and high culture.
hi
he 31st, ult. at Winona, Capt. W.
of Grenada, shot and killed
harlcs Wright. The Grenada
1 says that Mr. Wright approached
lowler with a pistol in each hand,
tasted T. for satisfaction, when
tier) wheeled around drawing his
atantaneously and fired with the
It. The Advance mentions
r, but does not give the particu-
Vc have not learned the result of
liminary trial.
In IsuacoN: uur impression is me
light be reduced one-half with benefit
leoiile and to the State. We don't
Surplus lying dead in the State Treas
Ihere are no probable contingencies
prany great outlay. The relief af
& ... ... 1
my a reduction win create a oetter
of prosperity among us, and
ke our people to stimulate all enter
br the common good. We insist on
low taxes a question at the next
I, and lot us all take more interest in
pie, and less in national politics.
Gov. Ireland, of Texas, in his recent
message recommends the appointment of
a railroad commission, and also favors
state interference for better telegraph fa
cilities, in accordance with his recommen
dation, a bill has been introduced in the
Legislature. The bill contemplates the
appointment of three Commissioners by
the Governor, the salary attaching to
the position to be $2,500. The oath em
braces, among other things, the follow
ing: "I am not a stockholder in any
railroad, freight or transportation com
pany, nor in any wav, directly or in
directly, in the employment of any rail
road, freight or transportation com
pany." The Commissioners are to have gen
eral supsrvision and control overall rail
roads, freight or transportation compan
ies, and to carefully examine and inspect
the same as often as may be necessary,
and keep themselves fully informed as
to the condition of the companies, their
railways, bridges, culverts, embank
ments, tracks or other structures, and
the manner in which the companies are
operated with reference to the security,
convenience and rights of the public,
and also to inform themselves as to the
compliance on the part of railroads with
all the provisions of the several charters
of the companies and with the laws of
the State. The bill prescribes penalties
for disobedience. It provides for the
punishment of discriminating, and de
clares that charges for transportation on
each class or kind of freight shall be uni
form. Any unjust discrimination in
the rates or charges for the transporta
tion of any freight made against any
person or place on any railroad operated
111 the btate is declared unlawful : and it
shall be prima facie evidence of an un
just discrimination for any company to
demand or receive from one person, firm
or company a greater compensation than
from another person, firm or company
for the transportation of any freight of
the same kind or class, iu equal or great
er quantities, for the same of less dis
tance. Any railroad corporation guilty
of extortion or unlawful discrimination
shall, upon conviction, be fined for the
first offense a sum not less than $100 nor
more than $1,000, and upon a second con
viction in any sum not less than $500 nor
more than $2,000, and upon a third con
viction in a sum not less than $2,000 nor
more than $5,000.
The bill seems to be modeled after the
laws of Georgia, Missouri, California,
South Carolina, Illinois, and other States,
though probably more stiugent than
some of them.
News and Notes.
Over the State.
A woman went to a Michigan clergyman
for advice as to a business venture, and
implicitly followed the direction which he
did not hesitate to give. The result was
disastrous. She now sues him for (4,500,
that being the amount of damage which his
bad counsel caused. His defence is that,
while his profession made him an expert in
spiritual affairs, the woman had no excuse
for relying upon his judgment for business
matters,
A few days ago a telephone conversation
was carried on between W. B. Strong, Pres
ident of the Atchinson, Topeka 4 Santa Fe
Railroad in Boston, and the General Mana
ger, O. C. Wheeler, Ciuayraas, a distance of
i,.'iU0 miles. One was on the shore of the
Atlantic, the oiher on the Gulf of California,
which mingk-s with the waters of the Pa
cific.
The business of canning fruits and vege
tables has grown to enormous proportions
Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were pack
ed last year, making one For every man, wo
man, and child in the country. Nearly half
of this work was done in Maryland and Vir
Mr. B. Milan, of Marshall county, U the
owner of the famous madstone. In conse
quence of the number of mad-dog at
large, there is great demand for his mad-stone.
The residence of Mrs. Tucker, four miles
south of Oxford, was consumed by fire some
dava since.
The Port Gibson News learns that the
committee of Natchex citizens which went
from that city to New York to confer with
Mr. Wilson, relative to building the N. O.
A M.road through Natchex, have telegraphed
that their mission is a failure.
Louisville Signal: Mr. Alfred Ellis, an
old citizen of Winston county, died Satur
day Jan. LTth, in the sixty-ninth year of his
age.
Carroll Watchman : Mr. H. M. Van Avery
and family, left for Denver, Colorado, on
Tuesday evening. Wc regret to lose such
a citizen as Mr. Van Averv.
Robinson, who murdered Adair, in Car
roll county in 1881, will be hanged on the
13th of March.
Mississippi Farmer: Mr. Thomas Win-
Jacksox, Miss., Monday, Feb. 6, 1889.
The following eases ware afirmed i
4030 Geo. N. Diekerson et aL vs. Marv F.
Mavs.
4159 John O'Connor vs. Sarah E. Clopton
et a).
4165 Geo. C. Paine, assignee, vs. Aberdeen
Hotel Co.
4166 Geo. C. Paine, assignee, vs. Aberdeen
Hotel Co.
4177 B. F. Averv A Son vs. Myers, House
man k Co.
4178 John I. Adams A Co. va. Myers, House
man 4 Co.
The following cases were reverted andrt-
mandril :
ginia. The wholesale price for three-pound stead, an old citizen of Smith county, fell
uead last nday. He was a christian gen
tleman, and his torn will be felt by his Meth
odist brethren and a large circle of other
friends.
cans ranged from four to five cents each.
N. O. States : The world of lettew has
lost a brilliant luminary in the demise of
Prof. Alexander Dimitry, who died yester
day in this his native city, at 2 o'clock a.
m., in the seventy-eighth year of his age,
but in full possession of all his wonderful
mental faculties.
Utioa Monitor: Died, near Utica, on! the
night of the 25th of January, 1883, Mr. Jno
B. Adkins, in the 45th year of his age. In
the death of Mr. Adkins our community has
sustained a lots that is almost irreparable.
Maj. W. S. McCloy was killed iu his store A true christian, upright in all his dealings
at i on cord la, on the Mississippi side of the witn in a ieilow man, he had endeared him
river below Memphis. The assassin used self to one and all alike
fAt Springfield, Mo., John Gibbons, a con- residence of the bride's mother, in Lexing-
tractor an the Sorinefield and Me-mnhU ton. Thursday, February 1st, 1883, by Rev.
Railioad, was assassinated while coming B- Morriw William Sample to Miss
Iconstitutional Legislation.
mi
prerac Court lias decided that the
laws are unconstutional. This
bem out from the statute book. Thus
which remained from the war of
bllion is utterly swept away forever.
per of these relics is the internal
i taxation. It should be wined out
But this duty cannot be done by
it must be done by Congress.
Republican party has a majority in
of Congress. It is responsible
wr ts done there.
n the last hours of the session of the
Legislature, and is incongruous and de
fective in many particulars. The dis
tricts are not equal in population and
are far from being geographically com
pact. It is entirely competent for the
next Legislature when it meets to make
such sjhanges as are necessary to remedy
these defects.
commissioners of election in La-
county were indicted in the
I Court for appointing an inspec-
i Congressional election in the
I District, who could not read and
I with intent to affect the result.
pon was made to quash the indict-
Judge Hill, in overruling the
f, delivered the important opinion
e have published elsewhere
I paper.
1 statistics reported by the Com
Ber of Acrieulture of Georsria
j - - w
marvelous agricultural growth
State, contrasting the products
'with thoso of 1882. The State
i increase of over 200 per cent
600 per cent in oats, 200 per
i wheat, 75 tier cent in rye, 100
t in Irish potatoes, 800 per cent
and sorghum, 400 per cent, in
Potatoes and a similar increase in
pd of other farm and garden pro-
In 1870 Georgia raised 473,934
E cotton; in 1880, 814,411 bales
of nearly 100 per cent, in
w and ranking her as the second
Hate. In 1882 the cotton
on grew to 925,443 bales, which
accomplished with a di
1 acreage. Horses have increas-
cent, mules 51 per cent
08 86 per cent, and other cattle
cent.; gheep increased 26 and
' Per cent. In 1870 Georgia had
as; in 1880 she had 139,000
ted value of farm products in
'80.000.000: in 1880 it swelled
.
The Congressional Districts.
The bill redisricting the State was
xssed in great hurry and confusion
home from his work in Oregon county. He
was shot from a brush by an unknown per
son.
Jacob Shanner was found on College
campus, at Gainsville, Ga., murdered.
ai ivansas uity, Mo., on the 29th a trage
dy was enacted at the home of Mr. Chas.
T. Hopkins, in the accidental killing of Mrs.
rannie Hopkins at the hands of her hus
band, a young man not yet 25 years of age,
lhe accident occurred while Mr Hopkins
was engaged in cleaning a loaded shotgun
in his sitting-room.
At Baltimore, Chas. Foots, colored, was
whipped with lashes in jail for beating his
wife.
At Akemos, Mich., Chester county, David
CI irk, a farmer, was shot and instantly
killed by his wife. The fatal disagreement
arose from the wife's determination to ad
minister medicine other thau that perscrib
ed by the attending physician to one of her
children. The clild's illness continued to
grow worse until she was supposed to be dy
ing. While Clark was endeavoring to re
store he to consciousness his wife got a re
volver from an adjourning room and delib
erately shot her husband through the back.
lhe murderess was arrested imiuediiitelv
alterward.
Mrs. Outlaw, wife of T. G. Outlaw, died
at her residence in Mobile, last week
Rev. H. 15. McColIum, a veteran journal
si, editor ami proprietor of the Florida
Jennie Barbour.
Macon Sun : Several of our exchange
i t . .
iavor icmaie compositors ror newspaper
offices. Much of the corauosition of the
Sun is the work of Miss Lula Stokes who is
scarcely twelve years of age.
Capt. T. Wr. Brame, of DeKalb, has re
moved to Sjniiitoii.
Oxford Eagle: Maj. W.T. Ivey died yes
terday, lie was an old citizen of Lafayette
uuram ews : Mr. liobcrt Powers of
Ebeuezer, died last Wednesday
The Kstehe
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
RKPOUTKl) WEEKLY BY C. C. CAMMsKLL.
J. L. Harris, acting Attorney General,
centra.
Chalmkes, J.
Held
1. The iftStmotion prepared bv the judga
M Phillips.
Mobile Life Ins.
Wm-Chas. K. Nash. vs. J
3U87-Emm C. Sadler vs.
Co.
408(5 Mcnkin Bros. vs. J. L. Combs.
410j James Snoddy vs. Win. Buchanan &
uo.
4114 Chas. M'Laran vs. U. Moore A Co
4129 T. W. Hopper et al. v. Nancey Hopper
et ai.
4157 Thos. M. Jones vs. PeSoto County.
4H58-D. C. Wells vs. K. O. Andrews.
4188 C. B. Cowden vs. Jasper Lookiidge.
4107 Joel J. Perrin vs. A. B. Connell.
Revtrtti and decree her on entering i f re
mittitur.
in this ease was not in modification or ex
planation of those asked on either, and evi
dently was not to rewarded by him, else he
would not have resorted to the expedient of
handing it tne representative of the state,
in order that a request might be pre
ferred by that officer in connection with it.
Clearly that which the statute intends to
forbid cannot be rendered admissible by so
idle a ceremony as this. The judge having
no right to prepare and give it of his own
motion, did not acq uire any by the course
adopted.
J. it la not uecessariiv true tnai tne sell
ing of property which the seller knows does
ot belong to him amounts to larceny. Ln-
er some circumstances it might amount to
breach of trust, and under other to get-
in inonev muter n w iireteuses. A
felonious taking is essential to larceny, and
sale might take place where there naa
een no xueh taking, lteversej auu new
trial.
(To be reported.)
SUPREME COURT REPORTS.
October Term, 1882.
REPORTED WEEKLY UY ROUT. 8U0TWELL.
m , , .
L-iuoc.riii learns uini ouuiu i iu-it im 1
train when at Brandon staUon, one of the awwpfr
passengers, a drummer for a Cineinnatti
brewery, named Mayers, died suddenly.
He appeared in good health when the train
left this city.
Summit Sentinel : Mr. Henrv 8. Ander
son, of Amite county, met with a severe loss
last Thursday night, in having his finely
equipped gin, together with six bales of cot
ton and about ,200 bushels of cotton seed,
totally destroyed by fire. The fire is sup
posed to have originated from matches be
ing in some cotton while it was beintr irin-
ned.
Caldwki.i.I
vs.
Hall )
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Panola
county, Hon. A. T. Roane, Judge.
Hall placed in the iron safe of Caldwell
the sum of $35. It was contained In an
open box and to it and from it Hall added and
ithdrew at his pleasure, so that at one rime
he had in the box thus deposited as much aa
700. This money was never minified with
Caldwell's, nor was any receipt aiven for it
nor nny entry of it made ou his hooka. Ilia
bookkeeper, who carried the safe key, some
" -- ' miihii portions oi n in malting
change, always dropping into the box tick
eta showing the amounts so withdrawn, and
always replacing them in a few days. His
habit in tnis regard was known to and ac
quiesced in both by the depositor and de
pository. Borne months after the date of
the original deposit, Caldwell's safe was
robbed without any fault or negligenos on
his part. Hit own money was lost along
wiiu mat oi nan anu other depositors.
f illdwoll wn tint n hdnlcni hut a ,i-..l.....t
and the deposits belonged to friends and'
customers, to whom he had not made him
self liable. The
Inland Recorder: Col. Win. N. Archer
died at the residence of his brother, Mr.
Henry Archer, iu Webster county, last
week.
Brandon Republican : John II. Rhodes,
M. V., and Prof. T. E. Lamb, of Pelahatchie,
have removed to Learned, in Hinds county,
The Jute Culture.
Vicksburg Herald: It is also claimed
that planters can make their own bagging
with comparatively little expense, and thus
save at least two cents per pound in the
price of wrapping, which amount will, of
course, be again saved in the weight a so
much lint cotton. Hon. W. W. 8tone, of
Washington county, is entitled to much
credit for investing the subject of jute cul
ture with the interest it is now assuming
throughout the State. He and other enter
prising planters see that the Ssuth must
have a diversity of products and indus
tries, and we sincerely hope the late Jack
son convention has opened up the way for
so desirable a result in one direction It
least.
Union, died last week of consumption, from 011 tllc N - 0. R. R., and opened a first-
class drug store. Rhodes prescribe the
pills and Lamb gently compounds them.
The Booneville Pleader learns that W. L.
Dilworth, eight miles from town, was bitten
by a mad dog Sunday. A child was also
bitten. Mr. Dilworth left in search of a
mad-stone.
Brandon Republican : On Friday night
last, about $500 worth of merchandise con
sisting of boots, shoes, clothing, etc., was
stolen from Mr. Bland, a Pelahatchie mer
chant. No clue was found by which the
bold rogues could be spotted. On Saturday
night Mr. G. W. Brooks' smoke house was
broken open and all the meat he had sev
eral hundred pounds was stolen. On the
same nigni, a pair oi Diiggy Horses was
stolen from Mr. P. B. Bridges, and also a
pair from Mr.'J. W. McMnster. On Tuesday
night, having already supplied themselves
which he had been Buffering for many
years.
At Mobile, W. T. Ayers, an old citizen,
died on the 36th. He was engaged in the
saddlery business
The Minnesota legislature elected Sabin
to the United States senate
President Arthur said recently that he
does not intend to appoint any more colored
men to office in the future.
Representatives Miller, of the Ohio Legis
lature, is supposed to be temporarily insane
from hard drinking
The West Virginia House of Delegates has
passed a bill submitting to popular vot?s
constitutional amendment forbidding the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors.
At Erie, Pa., Libby Raible, a student of
The Favetto Chronicle of the 2nd
records the death-of two valuable citi-
itens of Jefferson county, Mr. R. K. Scott,
of Red Lick, aged 28 years, and Mr. C.
H. Forman, aged 67 years. They were
both universally esteemed.
Utah wants to come into the Union
..1 !a t. -w. ... nf nnlirmmv
as a state witn its i" "i yiuBt.i .
The best thing that could be done with
it, would be to obliterate its lines and
divide it between the adjoining States,
Nevada and Colorado, whose laws do
not tolerate the barbarism.
Rev. Da. Hugh Miller Thompson,
havine received information from the
Presiding Bishop that the Church has
completed and confirmed the action of
the Mississippi Diocese, appointing mm
BUhop, has signified his acceptance of
the trust. .
buggy from Sheriff Cole. The latter prop
erty $l afterwards recovered.
That Tariff Commission, the Nebras
ka (Jranp'r thinks, must be wishing it
hadn't made a report, or had managed to
confine an expression of opinion to mat
ters that the members knew something
about
the State normal school at Edenboro for a with the harness, they proceeded to put it
yoir or two past, was arrested for the rhur- to use by stealing twoulea from Mr. L. D.
dcr of her illegitimate babe, born on the Rhodes, and a double-seated two horse open
night ol JanuaryjU.
Representative Fred H Smith, of Dallas
county, has been appointed State Treasurer
of Alabama, vice Vincent absquatulated.
In Philadelphia, Pa., Catherine Berneson,
who was annoyed by children playing in
front of her house, fatally shot Maggie Car-
lettc, one of them.
Five negroes engaged in last year's East
man riots in Georgia have been banged. A
sixth has been arrested in Lawrence county
and others are shadowed, and another quin
tuple hanging is promised.
A colored man named Lewis Carter, liv
ing on Dr. Pretlow's farm, in Southamp
ton county, Va., attacked his wife with an
axe, crushing her skull, from the effects of
which she died. So it seems that our Nep.
Temples has company.
At Marshall, Tex., last Saturday a colored
woman named Martha Johnson, residing
in the suburbs of the city, while laying
down smoking her pipe suddenly rose, and
aying she was smothering, gasped and fell
dead. A coroner's inquest was held, and
the jury returned a verdict of doath from
suffocation, caused by nicotine In the throat.
The Missouri legislature has instruct
ed the Senators and requested the Rep
resentatives from Missouri to oppose the
passago of any bankrupt act by Con
gress.
I the U. S. Senate, on the 1st, Mor
rill, Chairmanof the Committee on
Finance offered a resolution to suspend
the coinage of silver dollars. About the
same date, the N. Y. Chamber of Com
merce petitioned Congress to that effect
The Lien law should carry the bread
and meat in one hand, says tne tveveuie
and in the other a law to force the
laborer to labor in good faith. Correct,
Meteor.
lv l.afnim Ik nhk.
ssssst iUcon or nty dnltara of I It""' '
ii u v a ii iir
Hall's monev, which.
laced, he paid to Hall after the robberv
fhis suit is brought bv Hall to reoover the
balance of the sum stolen. The right to re-
ovcr is rested upon the statement testified
to by Hall, but denied by Culdwell, that at
the time of the first deposit it was understood
and agreed between the parties that the
money was lo ne used by Caldwell in his
business if he so desired, and that it. was
received on this basis. It is not claimed
that Caldwell then became the borrower of
the money, and that the relation of creditor
md debtor then aresc, hut that Caldwell b.
came a bailee ot the money with an agree
ment to return it in specie, or to use it and
to repay it with other money at his option ;
and this it is insisted, constituted Unit peeui
liar specie of bailment known in the civil
law as mutuum.
L. C. Staudifer and Taylor & Kyle for ap
pellant.
Stone & Cok contra.
'malmkrs, J.,
1. In our system of iurisprudence. the
pecies of bailment known in the civil law
as mutuum, is treated as a sale rather than
a bailment, and this seems to be its proper
uspcei, iiiee ivs practical eneci must ill-
ways be to operate a transfer of title when
chattels are deposited, and to create the re
lation ot lender and borrower where money
invoivea. in tne one case it Is a sale
ith the rnrht in the nurchaser to return
tne thing delivered or its equivalent in kind
tnougn not in specie, in the other, it Is a
deposit of money with the understanding
that it is to be surrendered on demand but
with the right in the receiver to use and re
place it if he desires. It follows, therefore
that at common law the idea of bailment in
this class of cases is lost in that of a purchase
where the thing deposited is a chattel, and
that of debtor and creditor where it is
money.
Boh On tor on Bailment, pp. .r, 7, 7"., 77
riuwartis on liaiiment. pp. 187, l(jti.
Story on Bailment, g 28tl.
2. In order for this suit to be successfully
maintained such a state of facts must be
shown us will warrant the idea that Culd
well when the money was deposited becam
at once the debtor of the depositor. The
inonev was to be received by Caldwell as
bailee without reward, with permission how
ever to uhc it in his own business if be
desired. If he did so use it he at once be
came the debt r of the depositor.
II is Dot pr.-tended that at the tunc of th
deposit Caldwell became the, debtor of the
depositor and the subsequent dealings be
tween tho parties Hall having the right to
withdraw the deposit at any time without
consultation with Caldwell, leaves tho latter
n bailee without him, and bound only to ex
ercise that ordinary care demanded of per
sons occupying that position. Reversed and
Remanded.
(To be reported.)
U. S. Senate The Tariff.
Washington, D, C, January 30 The
ending question was on Mr. Oeorge's
amendment providing for the admission of
machinery for the manufacture ot cloth ana
threat! from cotton, wood, hemp, jute or
ramie, and all tools uied solely in manual
labor, at a duty of ten per cent, ad valorem.
Mr. Jonas moved to add to this "machin
ery for the extraction and manufacture of
sugar from oane and sorghum."
Mr. (leorge ottered a further addition, ad
mitting agricultural implements, tools and
machinery at ten per cent, for ten years af
ter the passage of this act.
At the cud of the debate Mr. ueorge
asked for a separate vote upon each of the
three propositions embraced iu his amendments.
Accordingly, the first vote was on the pro
vision that machinery for the manufacture
of cotton and woolen goods, or goods com
posed of hemp, Jute or ramie, should DC ad
mitted at 10 per cent, ad valorem :
Jones, (Fla.)
Kellogg,
Maxey,
Ransom,
Vanoe,
Vest,
Walker 14.
HATS.
Hawley,
Hill,
Hoar,
Jonai,
Jones, (Nov,)
Logan,
McMillaa,
Mc.l'htrtnn,
Miller, (Cai.)
Miller, ( N, V.)
Piatt,
Davis, (111.) Plumb,
Pari. fW. Va.) Kolllns,
Frye, flttultbury,
Gorman, Sewell,
Oroome, Sherman,
Hale, Voorhtet,
llamoton, ifwrn 30.
Harrison,
Mr. Georee's second proposition, to admit
all tools of mechanics used solely in manual
labor, nt ten per oent. ad valorem was re
jectedyeas, 19 j nays?.
lhe third proposition, to sunlit agricultu
ral implements, etc,, at the same rute, was
rejected yens, 10 ; nays, so.
With the exception of Kellogg, the
a nm
ayes were an uemoerats. i ne nemo
crate who voted in the negative are ital
icised The Republicans, except Kel
logg, voted nay.
WASHINGTON.
Barrow,
oo Ice,
Farley,
(leorge.
G rover,
Pufth,
Harris,
Aldrioh,
Allison,
Anthony,
Jiayard,
Heck,
Blair,
Call,
Camden,
Chileott,
voekrul,
Bon
Watkiss, )
The 8tate. J
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clay
county, Hon. James M. Arnold, Judge.
The bill of exceptions recites that the
Court below of its own motion prepared a
written instruction which in the presence
of the jury and agsinst the protest of de
fendant, he handed to the District Attorney,
and this officer at onre passed it back with
the request that it might bs given in charge
to the jury, which was at once done.
The second instruction for tho State told
tho jury that if the accused sold property
which he knew did not belong to him, and
appropriated the proceeds to his own use,
they should find him guilty of larceny.
F. S. White, for appellant.
The question of Miscegenation Coming
Before the supreme t ourt.
Washington, Jan. In tho United
States Supreme Court to-day, in tho case
of John C. Tinsley, plaintiff in error, vs.
the Commonwealth of Virginia, on mo
tion of Mr. A. n. Hlair, Attorney (ieneral
of Virginia, tho appeal was dismissed
with costs, pursuant to the sixteenth
rule. Tinsleys, plaintiff in error in this
case, who is a colored man, was tried and
convicted in one of tho State courts of
Virginia for marrying a white woman,
contrary to the law of that State, which
grohibits the intermarriage of white and
lack persons. 1 te brought the case here
upon a writ of error, with the intention
of testing the constitutionality of the
Virginia law, but when the case was
called this afternoon he virtually allowed
it to go against him by default, having
taken no steps to prosecute the appeal.
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The Levees.
Correspondent Picayune.
Mr. D. Mayer reports that he com
pleted the Iieveo from Chotard to Magna
Vista on the Mississippi side, and nas
moved his force of latiorers to his levee
works from Shipland to LoagWOM,
which he will complete this week.
Final settlement was made to-tlav with
the contractors for the Uivcrtou Levee,
in Bolivar county, the largest and most
important one put up by the flovcrnment
in Mississippi. The Puffin Break Levco
in Arkansas, is also completed.
Capt. Marshall states that all tho
levee work in Mississippi is asssured and
safe except that on Longwood and Skip
with; at these points it is not progress
ing so rapidly as desired.
Something has been gained in tho
passage of the shipping bill. Burdens
of long standing ana hampering restric
tion upon shippers have been removed
Ship-building materials are also to be
admitted free of duty. The battle is
not yet ended. The Hoi man amendment,
which provided that fifty per cent of the
subsidy to be paid to shipbuilders should
So directly into the hands of working
len was voted down by the nearly solid
Republican strength in the House.
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