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Vol. Xlvi.
Mb. J. W. Baii.y. of Crystal Springs,
has been elected the orator of Cumber
land University at Lebanon, Tenn., to
attend the Tennessee Inter-eollegiatc
Oratorical contest which takes place at
Nashville on the 4th of May next. A
high compliment, that we are pleased to
note.
The Small Fox at Dry Grove.
Dry Grove, Much 96, 1K83.
Editors Ci.ariox: Wrote vou on
19th in regard to small pox hero. Mr.
;ieoison is improving very last -is con
sidered out Of danger now. No new
cases, and as his case was Isolated from
first, no fears are entertained now ..i its
spreading. Yours respectfully,
J. E. Johnston.
Additional M. D's.
The following named gentlemen have
passed approved examinations before
the medical censors of the 4th District
and been licensed t practice medicine:
J. E. (. 8immonii,tdladelphia Neshoba,
county; W.J. Mhoon, Canton; E, i!.
1'artin, Decatur; James J. Tatum, Enter
prise; J. M. Barrier, Shiloh, Yazoo Co.;
B. F. Passmore. Canton, and Jno. W.
El 1 iot t, Yazoo City.
Sadden Death of a Good Citizen.
On Monday morning last, as Mr. E.
W. McLemore, a worthy citizen of the
neighborhood of Learned Station, on the
Natchez and Jackson Railroad, was re
turning home from his, neighbor Mr.
Brock, with whom he had just had a set
tlement of their partnership business, he
is supposed to have died of heart disease,
its he was found afterwards dead in the
road, and his horse grazing around in an
old field near by. The discovery was
made by two school boys his own sons.
Mr. McLemore was an honest, hard
working citizen and highly esteemed by
the community. Deleaves a wife and
several children.
The Cattle Disease in this Vicinity.
Our local reporter, in a recent issue,
stated that, "pleura-pneumonia" was in
epidemic form among the cattle at State
Lunatic Asylum. We are gratified to
be able to say that the information upon
which that statement was published was
not correct. The disease was what
might be termed acute pneumonia, and
originated from some local cause. At
the Lunatic Asylum, where about a
dozen of the cows died, the calves were
with the mothers twice daily during their
sickness, and none of the calves became
affected. The disease at Col. Heming
way's, and also at the Lunatic AiyluA,
yielded promptly to medical treatment,
and we are happy to slate that there is
now no sickness among the cattle at
either place. In this connection weare
glad to he able to publish the following
cert i tieate :
Jackson, Miss., March 27, 1 !"::.
I certify that I examined the hums,
after death, of the cow. Raplea, owned
by Col.- W, L. Hemingway and Judge
1. E. Cooper, (hi making an incision
into the lung the cut surface presented
a dark red anpeurcucc and a frothy,
bloody liquid (lowed in abundance. The
air cells were tilled with a serous thud.
Inllamination of the pleura is generally
present with pneumonia, but there are
exceptional cases where the disease has
not extended to the surface of the lungs,
which was the case in this instance, as
the pleura was not inflamed, showing
j that the case was one of acute pneu
monia and not pleuro-imeumonm. lhe
cow died in the first stage of the disease.
J. b. Hunter, l. V.
A New Paper at Vicksburg.
Messrs. John G. Cash man & Co.
nave issued the prospectus of a new
evening paper,, the Post, at Vicksburg.
r. Cashman is a trained journalist.
He is familiar with the newspaper busi
es in all its departments, and has abun-
wt capacity, with the qualities of
Mirage, enterprise, energy and pluck,
achieve success wherever there is an
'ning. The following is an extract
from the prospectus, and all who know
projectors of the enterprise are con
tent that its promises will be redeemed,
id that the Post will be conducted
Pen the high plane indicated:
It will be the aim of the Evening Post
advocate and assist in building up
1 enteroriscs. to further the irrowtn
' the city, to encourage the building of
"'roaus, factories, the improvement ot
harbor nd river front, and every-
ig that will tend to the development
this city and section, and to promote
material welfare of the people. We
1ct to make the Evening Post a good
""paper, and to give subscribers tun
c lor their monev. The Tost will he
and untrammelod. It will not hesi-
to denounce wroncr and to defend
rieht. It will fa vnr the prtfiirrement
be laws for the protection of life and
twj, ana the huihting up ot a pun
sentiment averse to the taking of
"an life. In the discussion of pub
questions we shall advocate what we
P right and the best for this section
tie nation.
News and Notes.
The small-pox is still lingeringat Cleve
land. Tenii.
A bod of marl has been discovered at
( uthbert, Q.
The Arkansas train robbers claim to
In? natives of Mississippi.
Shclbyville and Murfreesboro, Tenn..
are now connected by telephone.
At Raleigh, March 23, James Holt,
colored, convicted of rao, was hanged.
The Kentucky State Prohibition Con
vention will be held at Louisville April
One hundred and fortVreight emigrants
ien t onnemara,
for America.
The Tennessee
Treasurer Polk"
1 r. . .
Irelu
m the 24th,
senate lias adopt
proportion to
it ex
make good his defalcation.
A Georgia man raised $100 worth of
watermelons on seven-eights of an acre
of land last year.
Twenty-five emigrants from North
Carolina passed through Ottflandoga
on Priday for Pueblo, Col.
'1 his is the heading of a news item in
our exchangee; A christening in New
York winds up in a free light and mur
der, The Missouri House of Reprt
enU
; rail-
ucs on .-aiuruav passed a lull nxin
road passenger fares at '!
cents per
mih
Governor Hates has signed the bill to
pay the State debt of Tennessee at fifty
cents on the dollar and three percent,
interest.
Every session of the Connecticut Legis
lature costs the state more than $100,000,
and the people are now agitating the
question of biennial sessions.
At Corsicana, two ear loads of cotton
were fired by a spark from a passing
engine, aiid each bale was more or less
burnt. Loss $0000, covered by open in
surance, The Rhode" Island Democratic State
Convention nominated ex-Governor
William 8prague for Governor lie had
previously been nominated by an "Inde
pent" Convention.
At latest accounts, the total visible
cotton supply for the world was 9,292,
802, Of which 2,286,502 was America:!,
against 2,908,112, and 2,173, -d7 respec
tively last year.
A bill is before the Tennessee Legisla-
httuiv to repeal the Four mile law,"
which prohibits the sale of any wine,
liquor, qr beer within four miles of a
church or school.
Capt. James B. Bads has sent sent in
Ms resignation asa member of the River
.Commission. He has recommended thai
Col. Henry Flood, of St. Louis, be ap
pointed to fill his position.
A drunken engineer on the Western
and Atlantic railroad, a lew nights ago.
ran his train from Chattanooga to Bovee
station, a distance of live miles, in ix
minutes, lie was discharged.
Cold from France to the amofint of
$313,000 arrived at New York on the
22d and 23d, and $900,000 more was on
the 2-ith drawn from the Bank of Eng
land for shipment hither.
This is the head line of a column of
ohio News: Double tradgedy near Green-
field, . The Taylor brothers murdered
by Wrh. Kees A young lady despoiled
of her tresses A bullet hi the brain."
J. T. Brown, recently appointed
United State- Marshall for the Fastern
District of Arkansas, has been arrested
and charged with forging a large num
ber or vouchers and CO
on tnem.
ectinjt money
The fanners in the vicinity of Char
leston, S. C, have; been picking straw
berries for several days; the crop
promises a good result. Some sales have
been made of choice kinds as high as
$: SO per quart.
At Houston, Tex., March, 18, Henry
Campbell (colored) fatally -shot Police
man Richard Snow. Campbell was
flourishing a six-shooter at a negro hall
and upon Snow entrance to quiet him
shot him in the head.
Ella Linsey, a young girl 10 years old,
living at Sandersville, Ca., went into the
woods to get some 'firewood, when a big
dog ran towards her. She uttered a
piercing shriek and fell backwards
dead.
At Helena, Ark., five members of the
Mc.Cool family, consisting of six persons,
all of whom were flood refugees, from
the mouth of the St. Francis rive-, have
died from pneitmonia within the last
twelve davs. The mother, the surviving
member, is now dangerously ill.
United States Senator are human.
The fact that Senator Mitchell of Penn
sylvania, had appointed his son to a sine
cure place in connection with a Commit
tee has called attention to the fact that
seven committee chairmen in the Senate
had their sons as clerks during the last
session.
The Tennessee Legislature to-day
passed a bill to pay a bill to pay a pen
sion of $10 per month to all Tennessee
(federal and confederate) soldiers who
lost an eye or eyes during the late war.
Considering that, the same body has just
repudiated half of his debt, it is sug
gested that she is generous before just.
It is started that the charge against
Associate Justice Hoover, of the Supreme
Court of Arizona, who was suspended by
the President, is that he borrowed a
large sum of money from a bank, against
which the government had brought suit,
that the case was to have been tried be
fore him, and that he indefinitely posi
tioned it.
The Mississippi River Commission now
on a tour of inspection is dispensing
with the services of quite a number of
Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday, March
civil engineers, reducing the number of
men. emploved, with a view to making
the unexpended appropriation last until
the end of the fiscal year ending June
it), 1884. No new work will be marked
out or undertaken in the meantime.
United States postage stamps hear the
faces of Washington, Franklin, Jeffer
son, Jackson, Clav, Welwter, Hamilton.
Commodore O. H. Perry, General Win
field Scott, Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln
and Garfield. The new 2-ceut stamp
will bear the head of Washington, and
not of Craut, as reported. The lace of
no living person U ever put on these
stamps.
The cost of the forthcoming Yander
bilt fancy ball is estimated by an expe
rienced statistician of the great sum of
$50,000, which is equal to the enlarged
annua! salary of President of the United
States. It is estim itel that the value of
the contents of the houta of the million
aire who is to give the ball, including
furniture, pictures, bric-a-brac, and
jewels worn by his family and friends'
will be -not less than $5,000,000 1"-
The controversy over what is known
as the Arlington estate Was practically
settled very quietly in the closing hours
of the last session of congress. A para
graph was inserted in the deficiency ap
propriation bill, appropriating $150,000
to enable the secretary of war to remove
all claims and pretensions in respect of
the property in the State of Virginia
known as Arlington, on which a ceme
tery for the burial of deceased soldiers
of the United States has been establish
ed. The property was purchased from
Mrs. Robert E. Lee.
Young Frank H. Waite was hung at
Franklin, La., on the 24th, a fair-skinned
man, aged 23. lie says that he bore an
assumed name: that a year or two ago
he left one of the Western States (Wis
consin) in company with a young man
named Fred E. Wait, and they went into
the mining reghms. and there Wait died,
lie then and tnere assumed Wait's name,
and frequently Wrote to his mother for
money, not telling her that her son was
dead, but personated him successfully,
and frequently received small remittances
of money. He came to Texas, was
accused of stealing a valise from the
hotel lit Hearne, was put in jail, and in
May bS.s-j, be formed a plot for escape
with Wyatt Batiks, colored, then in jail
on a charge of horse stealing, and Dan
Couipton, in jail on a charge of incest.
Wait managed to conceal himself in an
unlocked cell, ami when Add Wy-er
came into feed them. Wait sprang out
struck Wyser On the head with a bar of
iron, and felled him to the ground, dead:
BtUltched hi Watch and pistol, ran out
side of the corridor and threw oft' the
locks or brakes which fastened the other
cells, which put all (he prisoners at
large.
Over the State.
Yazoo Sentinel : Dr. J. T. Green and
family, Mrs. Fnger and Miss McMnrtry,
of this county, their future home.
The Kosclttsko Star regrets the death
of Mr. s. v. Houghsion, one of the old
est and most highly respected eltheeni !'
French Camp.
Mr. H. W. Campbell publishes in the
Payette Chronicle that at a meeting of
the directors, it was resolved to hold the
annual May Fair of the Jefferson county
association at its grounds on Thursday,
the lOthflay of May, 1883, for one day
only. Vicksburg Herald: Dr. J. A. Tillman,
a prominent citizen of the Deer Creek
section of Washington county, died at
his residence Wednesday evening last at
o o'clock, in the fifty-second year id' his
age. He had resided in Washington
county since 1870.
The Presbyterian church at Port Gib
son, Otte of tiie handsomest in the State,
was badly damaged last Sunday morn
ing, by the falling of a largo portion of
the ceiling to the right of the pulpit, ac
companied by the rafters and wood
work. The accident occured just before
the hour for servie. .
As Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson
was administering tneriteof confirma
tion to a class of eleven persons, on
iood Friday, the flooring on the left
side of the church suddenly sunk for
about a foot, the sills beneath having
broken. There was momentary panic,
but the services were resumed.
The Meridian Observer savs that in
the Newton Circuit Court there are a
number of suits pending against the
Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad. The
most important of these suits was that of
Mrs. Annie R. Hunter against the V. fe
M., being for $20,000 damages for the
death of her husband, an employee of
the road, who was killed in an accident
that occurred between Newton and
Chunkey three years ago. The plaintiff
was represented by Messrs. E. Moore
and B. Y. Ramsey; the defence bv S. B.
Watts, of Meridian, and (!. B. Huddle
ston, of Forests. Also that other suits
against the V. & M., which were con
cmned, as the State docket will probably
tonsumc the balance of the term.
South Carolina Election Cases Dis
missed. Charleston, S. ('., March 24. The
preliminary examination of McFaddiu
Wheeler and other citizens of Clarendon
county, charged with conspiracy to in
timidate voters at the last election, was
resumed here to-day before United States
Commissioner Gayer. There being no
evidence to sustain the charge, the Com
missioner dismissed the case. The pris
oners were released.
There arc more counties than Carroll
interested in the return of Hon. H. C
Williamson to thelxgislature, and anx
ious for him to come to the front.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE,
Autlmr of "Home, Sweet Home'
The bqjly of John Howard Payne has
recently arrived in this country from the
cemetery of Tunis. Mr. W. W." Corcoran,
who made the poet's acquaintance in
1H40, and saw IUm first in 1809, will bear
the total expenses of the cmovai and
reinterment. The body of the author
of "Home, Sweet Home." will be placed
in Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown
Heights, near Washington, on June 0
next. A simple monument w ill lie elec
ted over the remains, bearing the in
scription:. ",101111 Howard Payne, an
thor of 'Home, Sweet Home.' Born
June!', 1792. Died April lu, 1852."
John Howard Payne was not born in
Boston, as is stated on the monument at
Tunis, but in New York City. His fa
ther removed to the capital of Massa
chusetts when his son was very young,
and opened a boarding school in that
city, rife future poet was a clever, am
bitious boy. While still at school lie
published a weekly newspaper. The Fly.
which is said to have given promise of
gn at literary ability. He was a good
elocutionist, and loved things theatrical.
One jjfcf his sports was as commander
of n military company known as the
Boston Federal Ouards. When thirteen
years of age he was placed in a counting
house in New York, 11 situation most dis
tasteful to him, the tediousnessof which
he relieved by acting as the editor of
The Thespian Mirror. The excellence
o! the dramatic criticism contained in
this journal made him some influential
acquaintance-, among them a Mr. Sea
man, who sent him to Schenectady Col
lege to' be educated. While there he
edited Pastime, a we kly magazine, the
fu st number of which appeared in 1807.
In 1808 he returned to Boston to prepare
for the stage and continued literary la
bor there as editor of the Mirror. His
first appearance on the stage was made
at New York, in February, 1800, and
was a success. It was followed by en
gagements in NVw England, the "South
and West. In 1818 he went to England,
and on June 4 of that year, appeared in
Drory Lane Theatre, London. He eon
1 in 11 d an actor several years, after nrhleli
he devoted himself to literature. His
editorship, in London, of a theatrical
journal called The Opens Glass, did not
last long. By the year 1X25 he had com
posed several dramas of merit, including
"Brutus," his masterpiece, and "Clari.
the Maid of Milan," which contained
'Home, Swee; Home." This drama was
included in manuscripts sold in the year
1825, to Charles Kemble 'if Concert ( Jar
den Theatre, London, for thirty pounds.
Miss Tree, a sister of Ellen Tree, sang
the ..ong upon its first production. It
was popular immediately. A hundred
thousand copies were sold in one year,
but not one cent was paid to the author
by the fortunate publishers. It has
been distributed by millions of copies
since then, and the greatest singers have
delighted myriads of hearers with its
simple and touching music and senti
ment. Mr. Payne's literary work while in
Europe, was carried on sometimes in
London, and sometimes in Paris. It
was precarious as to its financial results,
and the gifted author is said to have
endured cruel hardships by reason of
poverty. Some relief to his unfortunate
condition was found in his acquaintance
while at Paris, with Washington Irving.
He returned to America in 1881, and
made his home in New York with a
younger brother. I lis literary schemes
proved unprofitable. For some time
Payne acted as the agent of the Chero
kee chief, John Ross, both in the country
of his tribe and in Washington. This
chivalrous kindness to the Indians led
to his arrest by a party of the State
militia of Ceorgia, and temporary im
prisonment.. President Tyler appointed
him consul at Tunis, in 1841. He was
recalled during the administration of
Polk. President Fillmore reappointed
him. and he held the position of consul
to Tunis at the time of his death.
- 'Si
A PHlt.Aiuxi'HiA woman invited sales
girls from the stores to join her class in
Sunday School, and a number of them
did so. At the dose Of the regular ser
vices, the superintendent announced
that a season of prayer would follow.
"The young ladies' meeting will be held,
a usual, in the ante-room on the left,"
he said, "and that of the shop girls on
the riht." The woman lost her new
pupils immediately.
Memphis Avalanche: The removal
of the tax from matches will have a ten
dency to establish a match factory in
Memphis and to kill the monopoly that
has grown out of the consolidation of
interests by the leading match manufac
turers of the United Suites. The new
law goes into effect on the first of July.
I
28,
Wbittsx FOB TlIK Clauion.
IHAH1TY.
The air of morning, (rath with shower,
And Irecratit wild ilir lirealti of flowrre,
ItlowK softly cvrr meadows wide,
A mi liy the np&rMitig river' iile,
W here birds are enroling in Uf,
1 his fuiry hour of morn t see,
While in the theerimon light,
Pursuing; the retreating night,
Throw overall, lhe rosy glow.
The DntkoiI rising beam bestow ;
When to my -ight there wonders forth
A traveller of rojal birth,
llotn to the kingdoai of our IahJ,
A glad receiver of His fr id,
A win later upon the road
That leads to u lleavenlv abode.
With bended kmc and humble idr,
lie loriiiuhites this earnest praver,
To One in iniaW robe i light,
W ho ooeMpIes a throne of might.
' Father, In fore aie lies.the r:u
Thai b ads me to thy blest abode ;
Hut through the desert far and wide
Wrh burning sands on every side.
And o'er the mo inUiiu's rugged height,
Obscured by raven wingol Right,
W here wily foes loi ever strax .
To lure me from the i-hoeti m:v
I e en niusl tas err, vet 1 rest
My weary hwsd Upon thy breast,
And ttnm, ! Ilcitvenlv l atin r, give,
A guiding spirit S hits I live,
A guai dian angel by wlios, migh.
My soul is strenutliened for lh right."
And thus repR s tut Prise of Pesos ;
' Son, let the troubled waters cease,
A heavenly meswiiger I'll send
To guide thy FtMttM In the end,
'Faith. lloi'C and Charily, these three'
Hut greater far than all to me
Is (mrUy, that priceless gem,
The bumSIS Christian's diadem,
And thou shall have lh ehoiee to be
Guided by either of the three.''
"Then Charity shall be mr guide
io walk forever by my side."
And t'hai itv, on snowy wings,
Obeys ih mandate ot' the king,
And swiftly earthward Wends In r way
here wearv feet of mortals stray,
A ttd now, with pilgrim's statl' in liund,
They journey toward the promised land.
Hut soon, with noisy oIiikIi and elstter,
There psSSSSonS whom mortals Halter;
The rieh man who, iu line array,
1 fiit It SOmntOOBS bamiuets every day :
The neighing of whose elutrgeis proud
Salute! the ear with ftchaSf linul;
"Ah," says the pilgrim, "fortune! gifts
Are most uneven lie who lilts
The he ivy load of earthly toils,
Is none the worse, than liiui, whose soil
is til ed by hired servant's hands,
Who reaps the fruit- of many lands,
1 nd it is hard thai I abide
With daily toil while he may ride,"
I'lu 11 speaks the cl tir voiee of hi guide,
The guardian snijii by his side ;
' Charity tavieth noi,
Hut is eontent with humble lot."
Ami now he im wi'h much amiis.
Before him, one whose devious ways
s'eem not betitiiug him to whom
The royal host Im h said There's room."
Ami io his guide he speaks: ' lu this
The one who gives the Judas kiss?
1- thit tin livprnerile ? lie walks
Not lis I walk, nor does hp. talk
In language such us I use when
Addressing (iodor fellow men. '
Tit 11 speaks this i;uide, who see th not
As mart see. " I by earthly lot
A rid his are far apart. I lie Ml MSI
ThoU tallest in gives him no rare,
And 'Charity tlunketh no ill'
n bile journeying o'er life's rugged hill."
And now this
More fiercely s
inygod's fiery bsSSfif
low. The desert u b ams
With fervid rays that he hath sent
rroru highest areh of firmament,
And now he sees besides the way
An erring one whose footsteps stray
Thus n. nr the road that IttSfltth to
Tlie glorious oily eve-new.
lu palsied limb and bloated face
n 1 1 bended form, the eye oat) traee
The devious wanderings of sin
The presence of (bid's Iocs within,
"This," says the traveller, ' is one
Who lOBg bath spurned (toil's living son,
I thank thee Lord that I am-nut
As this mail is; though poor my lot;
I've not committed half tt.c sin
This loathsome w.eteb hath wallowed in,"
Tl speaks in accents mild, his guide,
The loving spirit by his side,
"Charity is not puffed up
lint to the thristy gives the eup
lf water cold, thai doth bestow
A quicker pulse and ruddier g low."
Asd now, in wonder, looking back,
He MSth OSS Spot) his track,
The liencls ol envy, malice, bate,
Would e'en pursue to iltuven's gate.
Anil thus he speaks, "Oh I'ather! thou
Who Uikest note of spurrowH, bow
Thine ear unto my cry, nut grant
That these my enemies who haunt
My footsteps with these imps of night
He quickly banished from thy sight."
Ami thus the guardian angel speaks
While tears of sorrow blanch her tdicek.
"Charity sufTcreth long
And to the wicked does no wrong."
Anon the sombre hue of night
Will darkly veil the mountuin' height.
"Ah, says the traveller, "let us haste,
Hehind 11 lies the desert waste,
IJefore ub, o'er the mountain's gloom,
l.ieth the country fresh with bloom
Of fairest flowers pure ami bright
Whose beauty is ne'er dimmed by night."
"Aye,' say the finding spirit, "true; ,
Rut tin this mount there's work to do.
One hapless sheep hath gone astray,
And now, ere night obscures the sav
Take thou thy shepherd's staff ami bring
The rebel subject to the Kiug "
Now on the mountain bleak and col I
He setks the wfintlerer from lhe fold ;
Ami on a frowning precipice
Nenth which the terrible abyss
Of full despair yawns, dark and grim,
With bleeding flesh and trembling limb,
lie finds him and with loving nit
IU turns him to the shepherd's rare.
Ami now the entl is drawing near;
Iu solemn grandeur doth appear
The silent river, on whose breast
Death wafts the pilgrim home to rest.
Ami with his faithful, loving guide
lie crosses to the other sitle,
And meets the plandit "Faithful one,
Thy earthly work was fully done;
Knter thou into lasting rest
In peaceful mansions of the bleat,"
A. It. V.
Walth all, Miss., Jan. 22, 1HR.1.
The N. V. fSun says that lion. W."K
Holman, of Indiana, the watch rioj; of
the Treasury, would make a .lacksonian
President. No mistake about that.
No.
1
The Internal Revenue Taxes.
Assistant Coraminsicnrr of Internal
eleven im U.ijrers has pre'ared a con
densed Hat of all tases that will he col
lected by the Internal Kevenue Depart
ment after the new law goes into effect.
Cut it out and paste it in your hat:
Distilled spiritu per pillon, .K)c
wines made in imitation of champagne,
but not from jrrajH-s grown in the Unit,
ed Ktatos, per pint, toe. ; stamps for dis
tilled spirits for export, 10c.; stamps for
distiUins; warehouse, ltv. .stamps for rec
tified spirits, I0e.; stamps fr wholesale
liquor dealers, lOe.j stamps for special
bonded warehouse, ltk; stamps f,,r re
wan housing, lOv. isasnps for tobaceo
tor export, 10c.; stumps for imjairted
spirits, 10c; fermented liquors, beer, 4c,
per barrel, 1; cigars per thousand, $8;
cigarettes, per thousand, fV.; tobacco,
chewing arid smoking, per Hund, Sc.;
snun", per pound, tic; dealer in manu
factured tobacco, per annum, $3; dealers
in leaf, iter mnuim i.
nf tobacco, per annum, i'JI; manufactur
ers of eisaia.ua annum sr. 10.1. mf..,. .
tlircrs of stills tier milium sell I f...
each still manufactured, $i'0; brewers,
.r; barrels, per annum, o0; ped
dlers of tobaceo. lir! rl S'Ul. .....I
tilers of tobaceo, second class, tlo: nods
.11... ..r a. .1 .t 1 v .... 1
ii is in i.omccii, iiniii class, i,0; ped
dlers of tobacco, fourth class, i.ti0:
wnoicsaie dealers 111 malt liquors, per an
num. t.rtO: wholesale I
annum, $100; retail liquor dealers, p, r
annum, tip; rectifiers of IKK) barrels, per
annum, $100; retail dealers iu leaf to
bacco, per annum, UttO, and lor annual
sales over $1,000, 30 cents on each $1.
Circulation of banks, per month, one-
twelfth tif one ner rent- cirenli.ti,... r
g - -. - . ,".' ,,1
exeeei bmr !K) tier cent (if 1 -1 1 1 1 1 'i I avnssu.
sixth of one per cent, additional; oa cir-
vuiuiaiig niciiiiims 01 nunks, cities, or
persons, n jht cent.
The above comprises the entire inter
nal revenue tax under the new law. It
will be sometime before theiurangemen
for rebates ean be perfected.
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Gulf and Ship Island Land Grant
Annual Mectinrs, Etc.,
OUI.P AND SHIP ISI sMi.
W wuiiNdTON, 1). ('., Uarch 111. The
Gulf ami Ship Island failroad was in
cluded in tht! List of land-grant railroads
which the Judiciary Committee of the
House, during the' l-'orty seventh Con
UrcsH, reported upon, recommending that
their laud grants be declared forfeited
for the reason that tho work ot" const ac
tion had not been Begun. No actum,
however, was taken by 'ongrsss, ami
l4'preHent4ttives Manning and Monsv,
at the instance of Ool, J. s. Hamilton in
behalf of the incorporators, have gtmo
to New York for the purpose of iiiter
eNtirir capitalists then: 111 forming a syn
dicate to supply the foods necessary' to
complete the road, or nunc portion of it,
with the expectation that the valuable
land grunt can be secured.
(We have reason to
the foregoing statement
Negotiations an- pending,
Hamilton is summoned
York to asnlst in the a
Nothing short of sufficient
that
true.
Col.
New
ami
to
rangemint.
guarantees
that the road will be built in
t reason-
SOlfl time, will lie satisfactory.)
"Bleeding Kansas."
Florence News.J
Home of the history of Kalisas and
ib exodus is now revealing the appro
priateness and "true inwardness ' of
lhe above cuptiiui. Henry Patton,
a very thrifty colored clti'cn, who
left here a few months ago to seek
a home iu that much lauded State,
U lis an experience which reveals tho
way Kansas "bleeds" the duped exo
dustera that reach her inhospitable
boundaries. Unfortunately bo had sold
out the hard earnings of several vearsj
here, and went there determined to be
pleased. HO found it the most decep
tive country of which he had beard. He
honestly believes every acre of land in
the part of the State he visited to bl
under mortgage. The entire DePriest
family got lands with defective titlcsatid
have lost. them. Notonethat he w of
his oltl friends iu that State but that
would return to-day to Alabama if able.
He says the treatment to colored people
that settle there is as chilling as their
climate. All that they have acquired iu
tho years of their delusive captivity is a
terribly large harvest of bitter experi
ence, and instead of "forty acres and a
mule," no foot of land tlo they possi Ml
and iiotnoncy with which to leave. Ho
says that if men were as idle there as
here they could not, live at all. Tho
energy and economy required in Kansas
to make a living, woul'i iu every caso
here make a man rich. He is happy to
get hack to Alabama, and any one can
sec it that looks him in the face. His
advice is, "(lo West, young man"
never! never! !
4tSs
Attorney-General Brewster Testifies.
Bpsetal to the Times Democrat
WaHIN(ito:, March 21. Attorney
General Brewster testified Iwforo the no
tary in the (.'halmers-Munning contested
election cast! yesterday. He said that ho
employed Chalmcrs'to assist in prosecu
ting the election fraud cases in Missis
sippi locause the Department of Justiot
needed his services. It is said that Hrew
stcr's testimony wan not very satisfactory
to the DOntestee, ami that he may be re
called for further examination.
... W.K
ire 1 rl
driven w
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