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JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1879.
NO. 12.
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Tab Democrats have
majority iu Congress.
a good working
The newspapers
Blighter.
will Edison a gas
A Meer 8bn Tlia
land and Afghanistan.
war between Eng
Amono the departed glories are the Old
Year and the late glorious snow storm.
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Oou worthy and excellent friend of the
Summit Times, Col W. L. Putton, was in
J tickson last week.
The thermometer stands 20 degrees be
low zero in Des Moines, and yet the pec
llo live.
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The tramp has developed a supreme, dis
ernst for shoteuns. and displayed a won'
derful faculty for dodging buckshot.
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Blaine has declared that he won't stand
in Grant's way, and Grant is not likely to
stand much in the way of the Democratic
party.
The beautiful snow, oh, the beiutiful
snow ! '' Well, it was beautiful, and there
never was a time when it was more heartily
weloomed i this city.
Ip you didn't get any Curistmas or New
Year's present you will know how to sym
pathize with the Indian. He nevr does
get anything in his stocking.
So many of the banks in this country are
failing that people in the Levee District are
excusable for feeling a little shaky about
the banks of the Mississippi.
. Some ardent resumptionists are predict
ing that gold will soon become a drug on
the market. For our part we are willing
to risk it. We are not afraid of its hecom
ing a drug iu onr hands.
Thdbman will probably be nominated by
the Democracy for Governor of Ohio, and
if so, he will certainly be elected ; and
then look out for the Presidential succes
sion. It strikes us that there is something
of "the coming man" in Thurman.
.If anybody thinks that men ever grow
too old for folly let him dismiss the idea.
Take the case of ex-Senator Cameron, who
is eighty-four years old, aud who jilted the
Widow Oliver, and has now a case of
breaoh of prom ise operated against him in
Pennsylvania.
"Bbedren," began (he llev, Mr. Splu
gins, en eminent colored divine who had
been invited to officiate in a distant chnrch.
"Bredren, dis am de fust time I have ever
had the pleasure of preaohin in dis Church,
senoe dis locality was located."
Anderson, the champion witness, is
going to shut a newspaper in Nebraska. A
man who cau lie into scrapes and then lie
out of them with such charming mendacity,
and never lose his temper, ought to gucoeed
well with a Radical newspaper.
The people in this country m y dismiss
the idea of converting their cotton and corn
fields into banana farms. The appearance
of mother earth a foot deep in snow last
Sunday ought to convince the most skepti
cal that this is not a region adapted to the
culture of tropical fruits.
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Col. O. It. Singleton is alwiys at his
lost always at work for his constituents.
He makes a grand old Representative in
Congress knows all the ropes, and has one
ye open always for the main chance. By
lis efforts his constituency in the lately
ifBicted districts have received considerable
ums from the foreign relief f uud distrib - .
ited by Secretary Evarts . j
The snow which fell here on the 4th of
fanuary, inBt., has virtually opset the chro
loloey of the "oldest inhabitant." That
ue c-o.wir,
This number tf Tan ( oixt is sent to a
considerable nami" of piisuns. We are
sending it to all i' old xfcbsoribers who
have heretofore ft&d in tjvance for the
paper, and will keep on" doiog this until the
debt is fully discharged. There are some
five or six hundred of these, and it any
one of them is overlooked, we hope b.6
will notify us. We are also sending it to
all subscribers who have paid for the Daily
Mississippian, which paper yielded grace
fully to the cajoling overtures of this dash
ing luminary, and permitted itself to be
swallowed bodily by it Hereafter the es
sence of the late Mississippian is in The
Comet.
The Comet is to be rnn bence forward
and forever on the cash prinoiple. No
man shall ever have the right to say that
Tbe Comet was thrust upon him. It
will never degenerate into a " patent out
side. If tliero is any one point upon
which we are absolutely "solid," it is un
dying opposition to "patent outsides.''
If there is any one pet humbug we have
dedicated ourselves to wage a perpetual
war upon, and to eitripiite from the land,
if we can, it is the "patent outside."
Very many persons will Hoeive this
number of The Comet who .will be sur
prised. To such we beg to saj by way of
explanation: Be not alarmed. No bill
will ever follow it. You are subscriber
without knowing it some friend has paid
for your paper or it is sent tq you per
haps upon your request, in orier to give
you a chance to sea the sort tf thing it
promises to be, with a view to your remit
tance of the subscription price if you want
it continued. If not, the postage is pre
paid, the paper will be stopped and we are
responsible for the slight loss. If the
paper keeps on going to you, notwith
standing you did not order it nor nobody
else paid for it, please understand and do
us the justice to believe we are sending it
cot for any expectation of pay but out of
pure friendship aud for the hope that we
cherish that it will bring comfort to your
fireside and add to the store of your useful
knowledge.
We are in favor of the doctrine of allow-
ng men to do exactly as they please about
subscribing, but at the same time desire to
impress upon the public the necessity
which this paper labors under for sub
scribers. There is nothing in this world it
needs so much now as subscribers. The
mail-bags which issue out from these
sacred portals are ridiculously thin so
thin that you would think an elephant had
walked over them and mashed them into
pancakes. The fact is we are ashamed to
say what our bona fide circulation really is.
And as we arr great admirers of Washing
ton, and wish to leave a becoming example
to tbe craft when we go to our final reward,
we trust no friend of ours will press the
question upon us now. We would much
prefer to talk about what our circulation
will be twelve months henoe if the public
does its duty by us.
Now, friends, countrymen, soldiers and
civilians, lend ns your ears, your names,
and your two dollars in advance.
A SOLID SOUTHS SENTIMENT.
In another plaoe we reproduce a poetio
tribute to tbe munificence of our Northern
fellow-citizens and a heart-flowing expres
sion of Southern gratitude from the bright
pen of Emmett L. Ross, of the Canton
Mail. Aside from the sentiment which
speaks well for the heart of the author, the
poem possesses decided merit Ross is
genius, and his poetic writings always have
the charm of purity, unbounded generosity,
and glorious charity.
HIM Q1ABSTOJIE.
It is said that Gladstone has a daughter
A NEWHPAPfR II CM BUM AND
VATCH-PEMMT.
Some time last Spring, the New York
Advocate started in a small way. It pur
ported to be a greenback organ, and got
the full benefit of a really oorreot and
praiseworthy sentiment in relation, to the
currency. It apparently had the indorse
ment of the great and good Peter Cooper,
of Now York, the financial enoyolopedia o
the present age.
Peter Cooper is not a subscriber to The
Comet, and is no kin to its editor, and our
tribute to his financial genius and per
sonal worth is not biased by interest or
warped by the b'es of oonsanguinity. We
oonsider him as an oracle of fioanoe, and
as pure and spotUss a man as ever lived to
a green old age. We are not in favor of
making a President of the United States
out of him, though we have fully and
heartily indorsed tu.xny of his theories of
finance.
The Advocate with the cheek chat acter-
istio of the un scrofulous trickster, sought,
and, to all appearaiioes, obtained the ben
efit of Peter Cooper's favor and patronage.
This was the only "opeu sesame' to re
spectability which tie Advooate had, and it
made the most of it. It rung all the
oharges upon it It never lost the oppor
tunity of lugging in he name of the man
who had grown gray in good wurk, and
stood conspicuously before the American
people as a proud type of Americaa phi-
lanthrophy. It traded kpon the well-fortified
confidence of the piople of the United
States in Peter Cooper.! And the fact that
the venerable philanthropist used its col
umns frequently for tiu diffusion of his
financial views, gave somt ooloring to this
claim. But in point of Set, the Advooate
was A cheat, from the siart, and Peter
Cooper had nothing in iho world to do
with it, except, perhaps, Vi buy or sub
scribe for a few hundred copies, in order
that he might spread bis greenback philoss
ophy over the land. 1 ,
None but a simpleton will ivei imagine
that Peter Cooper was or coull be a party
to that or any other swindll- upon the
struggling masses. His nain has been
unwarantably used in counectift with this
so-called organ. His whole Ang, and
active, and successful life hal been a
steady, steadfast and constant Jebuke to
frauds of all kinds, " to tricks jf every
cnaracter. xue very soul of integrity, he
knows nothing else has never trie( to learn
anything else than to go straightforward
in tne line of nterliug honesty aid true
benevolence. It is an outrage toVouple
his name with a mushroom eoncou that
suffered itself first to pander to the vorst
element of the greenback party, thii to
betray the cause, and finally tosubsidainto
downright disreputability. i
In the first plaoe the attempt to prkt a
large eight pagi newspaper weeklyAor
twelve months at 25 cents, (not half tie
cost of the white paper,) was an evideme
of deliberate bad faith. Calculating me,
knew from the beginning that the thiu;
could not be done, and a collapse was cer
tain,
proposition be plainer than the faot that
transactions of this kind are pecuniarily
successful ?
Elsewhere we publish an article from the
New York Sun giving a fall exposition of
the Advocate's brilliant achievements. And
we desire in this connection to caution
everybody against the promises of a man
who prints a big weekly newspaper for
twenty-five cents a year. He is a humbug
aud he has made his calculations to swindle
you. The friends of greenbacks ought not
to suffer themselves bamboozled by such
frauds.
There is merit iu the greenback move
ment, but not as represented by the New
York Advooate, Kearney and Butler, So
far as this State is concerned so far as the
whole South and West are conoerned the
Democratic party has fully as muoh of the
greenback element in it as is needed ; and
we advise men who want to bring about a
wholesome change in the financial policy
of the government to seek it through the
Democratic party as the snrest and safest
means of getting it. Nothing can be ex- j
pected through such politioal parvonues as
Kearney, Butler, or the New York Advo-
cate.
1879.
A WORD IJf DEFESTHE OF GENEBAL
REUBEN DAVIS.
The Yicksburg Commercial says : ''The
meanest man in Mississippi to-day is Gen.
Reuben Davis."
Now why, we wonld like to ask, does the
Commercial set General Davis down in this
category ? What has General Davis done
to warrant this abuse ? Has the Commer
cial forgotten the time, not long since,
when General David was foremost and
most zealous of the advanced oonrants of
the so-called column of bulldozers? Sup
pose the valiant General !ias seen that he
was all wrong a few years ago, and that his
politics then were tinctured with sulphur
and instigated by the devil, hasn't he got as
much right to reform as anybody ? What
matters it if he does couple with his refor
mation a vigorous bid for an office ? Is he
to be condemned and blackguarded for that ?
Don't everybody who knows General Reu
ben Davis also know that he has been al-
ways ready, willing and waiting to serve
his country in anv prominent official ca
pacity the people might demand ? Supposi
he does want to be Governor or Congress'
man. Is he the only man in Mississippi
that would like a thing of this sort ? How
many of our leading citizons are there who
are as patriotic in this respect as he is ?
General Davis has done the State some
service, he has been a leader of the fierc
est element against Radical rapscalionism
since 1865 until last year. Such was the
fierceness of his doctrine that the Democra
oy were afraid to trust him. He was too
extreme to suit Democrats. Ho believed
in slaughtering and quartering to such
terrific extent that he alarmed prudent
Democrats. Consequently they didn't noni
inate him for Governor or Congress as he
thought they onght to have done, and oon
sequently he was forced to seek a noniina
Then the proposition to furnish! 11011 Bouiewhere e,M or not 8et any nomi"
seventy dollar sewing maohines for ten dol-nfttioD at oU- And s te was determined to
lars was in the same line of cold-blooded
robbery by the wholesale.
This wonderful sheet seemed to hare
taken tbe whole country by storm. The
servile legislation of Congress for the last I
ovthicallv venerable Dartv has never seen ! who is familiar with every work in his
nytbing equal to it. It beats all of his , library and the ran of its contents. When
liary of remarkable events and all his he wants a reference she gets the book and
iotch?a on beech trees. The snow varied
a depth from eight to twelve inches, and
11 the faoo of tbe earth looked like a gen-
ine snow picture.
m
Li Kwei is the nanietof the Heathen
'hiuee who is going to publish a work on
uierioa in fonr volumes. 'If he bad con-
llted us about it we should have advised
im to condense his work in one volume;
lat is, if he expects anybody in this seo-
on of America to buy or read it As a
general thing our people are too busy to
d more than one Chinese book on the
time subject-
The people all over the South are sorry
scanse Wade Hampton broke his leg. But
-e part ef Wade Hampton's anatomy that
it e Southern people have taken the most
tack in is his head. That is a repository
of ideas and a nursery of broad scht men,
the loss of which would be a severe blow
to the South and the country. There is no
man in America from whom we expect more
than from Wade Hampton.
The inhabitants of this latitude are not
fortified thoroughly with Know-shoes and
snow-sleds. Nevertheless, it is difficult for
the weather to get up a freak .which will
catch all the denizens of Jackson napping.
On last Sunday while the streets wen
whitewashed with a coat of "beautiful
now" a foot thick the were quite a num
ber of bones harnessed to sleds and the
Jingling of aleigh-bells would have remind
ed the Norwegian or Maireite of his
cws country.
points it ont to him instantly. A daughter
like her is worth having. But you can't
convince the average parent that it is ne
cessary for a daughter to have any real
sense. Nor can yon convince the average
marriageble male youth that a girl ought to
be able to do anything. The more helpless
the girls are the more are they beloved; and
the lesa they know about anything which
could be put to aotual use the better chance
they have for getting married.
Wade Hampton has succeeded in wading
through.
A HEW RELIGION.
Tbe New York Sun has a lot of corres-
pondenta who want somebody to invent
a new religion, though the Bun itself does
not heartily indorse the idea. When we
come to reflect that the world already has
severJ thousands of different kinds of re
ligion, and that the Christian religion itself
is divided into almost an infinity of differ
ent sects " difficult to see the necessity
for a new one. It wonld seem that there
re enough in vogue to suit almost any pos
alble shade of religious belief. And even
if another was invented it would have to run
the .same ehanoes of being perverted by en
worthy followers and expounder. The
boobls it not so much, after all, in the re
ligion as in the practio. The religion of
the New Testament of the Christians, if
faithfully studied and practiced, would
bring evea to this world a millennium of
happiness, to say nothing of what it would
An tnr in iB a,, ne,t.
twenty years in the interest of the bond
holders and moneyed rings, the tendency of
which has been st eadily to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer, had built up a
powerful current of dissatisfaction aud
hostility to this injustice and inequality,
And this sentiment only needed proper
guidance and moderation to become the
ruling sentiment of the land. But the
Advooate prostituted it to the base arts of
deceit, hypocracy and robbery. It rallied
such men as Dennis Kearney, of California,
and Ben Butler, of Massachusets. It de
stroyed the respectability of the party and
killed it, aud now it goes out in its own
ignominy.
However, for the litre being, it took like
hot cakes and spread like wild fire. Clubs
from everywhere poured in upon it until its
circulation was claimed to be about 800,
000. It was the wonder of the epoch.
Everybody bad a curiosity to read a little
of it to see if possible how so much paper
oould be furnished for so little money.
The paper, of courso, never had any in
fluence except for evil. All swindles and
cheats tend only to disaster in the long run.
But the unsophisticated public were sorely
puzzled to find out how a three dollar news
paper could be made for two bits, or a
seventy dollar s wing machine could be sold
for ten dollars. They looked upon the Ad
vocate as the harbinger of a new era when
all the literature a man could devour for
twelve months could be bought for twenty-
five cents with a sewing machine thrown in.
It was a puzzle. It was a huge mystery
one of those things "thit no fellah oould
ever find out" Nevertheless it was simple,
and here is the solution : Taking the Ad
vocate's own figures when it run up to 800,-
000 Tubscribers at 25 cents each, it had re-,
eeived tOO.OOO from that source, and then
it suddenly dropped its list There was
money in the operation.
When it received hundreds, perhaps
thousands of Postoffioe orders for cheap
sewinff machines, teaa. mvcrosooDea. eta -
it returned to the anxious applicants none splendid old rye whisky, and I-
of these cheap and useful articles, but "Now Trotter, you are talking," inter.
made all this money clear. Could any rupted Dease, "ITl go for you.,
have a nomination as a nomination was
he only thing that would satisfy him in his
id age, he sought and obtained it where it
I as offered. What good reason can the
t immercial offer for objecting to this
cturse, or what exouse does it give the
Cttinieraial for stigmatizing Gen. Reuben
Da-is as "the meanest man in Mississippi ?'
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A 3TB un inspired by the late extraordi
uarj snow storm runs thus :
'V wll-led hog routed up In hi tf
nod dropppd a regretful tear
1 1 e Bcsutiful 8now bu come,' be .aid,
nd slaying will won be here.' "
SeveU'i years ago CoL O. C. Dease, of
Jasper foiuity, was a regular delegate to
every IAmtoratic State Convention, and
as he waitl t recognized spokesman of the
East, his iniuence was very great in the
selection df candidates. No man was mors
profoundly impressed with this faot than
Judge TrotVr, who had conceived a yearn.
ing for the tfftoe of Governor. The two
were riding Song the highway side by side
upon their btrses, their destination being
the State CapUl to attend a State Conven
tion, when Judte Trotter opened on Col
onel Dease as fellows :
Dease, I havtaa idea of submitting my
name to the Convention for Governor.
You are a big Man in State Conventions,
and I want you tohelp me."
No response fron) Dease.
"Dease," oontintc-d Trotter, "if I get
tbe nomination 111 . htve the finest levees
and th finest wines fad the nicest eating
for my friends yon htve ever seen in tbe
mansion." y
Unbroken silence o t i part of Dease.
"Dease," persisted tie Judge, "you en
joy good eating and dai king. I tell you
IU have the finest branch of Champagne
and the sappiest roasts yau ever feasted
on." v
"Git np here," observed Colonel Dease
to his horse, at the same tin giving him a
kick.
Trotter was a man of per reran oe, and
he made one more onslaught npon his non
committal companion.
"I tell you what Dease," ye resumed,
"if yon will go for me, IU hare under the
bed when you eome to see a jug of
Most of our readers have probably al
ready gleaned from other newspaper soui cea
information of the fact that the late Anno
Domini has passed off; and, furthermore,
that we have fairly entered npon the year
1879. The nswsDaDers are deserving of
great praise for keeping the people adv sed
of the periodical out-going and In-coming
of the years.
The date of The Comet's visitation,
however,' makes it unnecessary for us to
offer gratulations to its great host of friends
in reference to the matter.
The present year, 1879, opens auspici
ously, and we descry promises for the
futuie calculated to encourage ns all. In
the first place we have had, what all the
people have been praying for, several cold
snaps of weather which will freeze out the
germs of yellow fever that may possibly
have been left lurking amoi.jj us by the late
epidemic and prepare the ground for bet
ter crops. Here is abundant cause for hope
fulness, and for devout gratitude to
Almighty God. With health assured, we
can count as a people upon getting upon
the direct road to prosperity during the
present year. Among the reasons why we
may oount ou this, are these :
1. The adjustment and solidity of onr
political situation Under tbe just and
liberal administration of the Democratic J
party in Mississippi, race-clashes have dis
appeared from the State, riots are unknown,
and insubordination to law unheard of, ex
cept in individual instances. The confi
dence of all classes is restored, and all the
people feel safe now in moving forward and
maturing their plans for future develop
ment '1 hey are satisfied uow to take root
in the soil and look for profit in slow, nat
ural and sure growth. It was not so a few
years ago under a different administrate
Then all was dissatisf iction, turmoil job
Dery and uncertainly. Tue people jener-
ally calculated only upon what one year
would bring forth. They lived euiihati
cally from hand to mouth, and devoted their
energies to the production of the one staple
which cou!d always be converted into cash.
They planted no trees, bocauso they hardly
expected to stay here long enough for them
to grow. They raised scarcely any stock
because they expected it to be stolen. They
omitted all improvements upon their f urns
and homesteads because thoy felt that if the
alien and rapine rule continued, it was only
a question of time for the virtual confisca
tion of their estates. It was a great thing
to wrench the State from the hands of
party which brought such a freeze upon the
hopes of the people and such a blight npon
every material interest. Happily there is no
obstacle of this kind to contend against
now.
2. The era of Shylockism and skin-flint-
ism and legalized robbery practised upon a
huge portion of the producing oommunity
has in a measure lost its grip. Money
lenders, and the dealers ii doeds of trust,
have di-played a few grains of con-cience,
and are, for the most part, satisfied w th
something less than 25 per cent for the use
of money or 200 per eent on the cost of
goods. There are vastly fewer mortgages
than heretofore. Men have learned the
nature of a mortgage in the hands of a
shyster, and they have loarned to set a new
value npon their homes. Consequently
less farms are under mortgage, aud im
mensely less money has been expended in
the production of the crop. As a whole
the farmers are freer from debt and have
corn in their cribs. We have been preach
ing zealously for ten years to hammer into
their heads the wholesome doctrine of put
ting corn in their cribs. They have got corn,
and, as a natural onto me of ths corn,
more of everything else than they had.
Now there is nothing to prevent a decided
improvement in their condition.
3. The settlement of values and the im
provement of th publio and Individual
cr. dit Our State bonds at 8 per eent are
worth a small premium. Auditor's war
rants are equal to gold in every p irt of the
State. Everybody seems inclined to turn
over a new leaf, to quit wildcat specula
tions and look tbe problem of life square in
the face, and to p ace a sounder estimate
upon his abilities and the facilities within
his command. He can make a for safer
calculation and intends not to over-crop
himself and break.down with overgorge-
ment
So after all, notwithstanding the New
Year has passed, the time when this duty
ought to have been performed, we con
gratulate the whole peop'e of Mis issippi
npon their improved prospects.
The newspapers of this State have long
since learned to let Maj. Harper, of the Ok
olona States, alone on the fundamental
principles involved in the resolutions of '98.
He has slashed them all out on the immuta
bility oi Burbonism. But he hits found a
simple-minded editor away up in Iowa, with
whom he is now conducting an able news
paper discussion upon the dictrine of
State rights and the right of seces ion. We
may not agree with Harper, but we are
bound to admire his pluck and persever
ance. Gen. Wibt Adams visited our city early
last week, and made many sales of the
Life of Gen. A. S. Johnston, for which he
is the general agent for the State. We
have not read the book, though we doubt
not all the handeome encomiums lavished
upon it by the press are fully deserved.
When Albert Sidney Johnson fell at Shiloh
the Confederacy fell. He was the greatest j
general the South had, and to him was
properly entrusted the defense of the main
entrance to our citadel. Had ho lived there
would have been no Grant, and there would
have been an independent Confederate
States. But suoh are the inscrutable work
ings of Fate. He was cut down at the
very moment of the grandest triumph of
his life, and the fruits or his great victory
melted away.
In Pike county soon after tbe surrender
a colored brother enjoyed the honors and
emoluments of the office of Justice of the
Peace in the Holmesville district by ap
pointment from Diotator Ames. His early
education had been neglected and he was
not familiar with the hieroglyphics used in
chirography that is to eay, he had omitted
to learn how to write or read iu his young
days, and when he grew to manhood tbe
cares of State were suddenly thrust upon
him and he didn't have time to learn. Bat
he was a smart man for all that. No body
knew that he didn't know a from izzard,
and it was no part of his official duties to
go about telling people what he knew or
what be didu't know. IB a leg'il proceed
ing, however, there at length arose a neces
sity for his signature. Here was a dilem.
ma wholly unprovided for Hy the Ioyp.l
League. The party that made him free
and opened the road to official grandeur
had neglected to construct their laws in a
way so that an honorable Justice of the
Peaoe oould avoid the necessity of signing
his name to a document. What was he tq
do ? Whoever had such an uroomfortable
predicament ? But he mastered the emers
gbney. "Capting," says he, addressing the
Sheriff, "Captin ;, will you be kind enough
to sign my name to that ar docymont. I'm
a leetle nervious dis mornin."
MERE HENTIO.V.
The Philadelphia Times calls Donn Piatt,
"the gold-headed American blue jr.y of
journalism."
Talmage is to be lighted by elfotricity.
Boston Post. Why? Has his gas given out?
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Wm . Astor, who has the largest yacht iu
the world, is practicing in the harbor of
Jacksonville, Fla.
The new York Commercial Advertiser
regrets to learn that in Canada the other
day "the Empress of India was drunk
standinGj."
We want this country to understand that
George Washington was elected Sheriff of
Bay county, Mich., while Andrew Jackson
represents Chippewa couuty. Detroit Free
Press.
Well, sir, why didu't you tell us that be
fore our friend out on Chunky Creek
threw away his voto on Andrew Jackson
for President.
J. D. Websteb, a tolored man, of Washington
county, announces himself as a candidate for the
office of Clerk of the Chancery Court to fill the un
expired term of A. W. Shadd. (8ubjoct to any
action of the Democratic voters in Convention
aaaembled.) We would remark that Webster was,
a few years ago, one of the most prominent Bepub-
Ueans In the river district, and exerted a couslder-
able influence among bis. brethren of the colored
persuasion. He recognises that the safety and hap
piness of hia race is best promoted bv co-operatiug
with the Democratic party. Tazoo City Herald.
And we would remark that if Webster
The Good Time Retuhnino to tue
West. The Detroit Freo Press says :
"There is something wonderfully cncouragiDg in
the improved aspect of business, as shown very sig
niflcantly by the holiday trade. Very largely the
purchases made at this season of the year are made
from the surplus or the profiis of the people ; and
the unwonted activity of trade, when compared
with the trado of recent years, indicates unmis
takably that the tide has turned and the people are
again producing more than they consume, instead
of living, as they have done so long, from hand lo
mouth."
.
Already the press people are carping at Gov
ernor Stoue because the Trustees have selected
Starkville as the location for tliu Agricultural and -Meclmnical
College. Why not Starkvlllo? .Sev
eral other towns competed and Starkvlllo ottered
the highest indueemouls, and, is in Mississippi
why not gi e it to Slark.ille?
When Gov. stone shall get a c-.llrge for eicry
county, and give the unhappy, faull-hnding editors
full charge, at fat salaries, ho will he a bigger man
than Fitzhugh, iu t!u( eyes nf chronic grum
blers. Port Gibson nevielle.
But the joke about the Slurkvilln mutter
is that Governor Stoii'i steadily aud por-
sUtenlly voted aud nrjjuod for the oth.-r
place. However, if tliu "chrome. f;:-iiui-
blers " cau find nothing e-lse to pilch into
Governor Stone about why not let them
take up this "SlnrUvilie outrage." There
is about us much truth and sense iu th it as
... .
in anything else they have vet nr"c,l
him.
ag.iinst
A few years ago Liucolu county hud no
existence, and the town of Brookhavcu was
a side issue iu county government nu in
tegral part of Lawrence, but felt that she
was aboUi. the biggest thing in the couuty.
A party from Brookhaven had applied to
the Board of Supervisors at ilouticeilo,
for license to retail. Upon the question
of gi anting the license an intricate aud
prolonged discussion arose. The Pearc'i
Creek member and the member from Pos- -sum
Neck were in favor of the proposition
and supported it in long arguments design
ed to show that if the town of Brookhaven
wanted a retailing institution, tue towu of '
Brookhaven ought to contribute somethicg
to the county treasury for the privilege.
At that time, however, the law regulating
licenses to retail did not sustain the view:
of the members from Pearch Creek anil
recognizes this very important faot it
would be a sensible thing in the Demo- Possum Neck, which-the President proceed,
oratic party of Washington, to give hira all ed to point out with force and vigor, as ful-
proper encouragement in it. It is tne
truth and the real key to the solution of
the race problem. Democrats owe the ool
oied peoplo protection. They have pledged
it, and we have yet to see the first deliber
ate attempt "n the part of anybody who
had a right to speak fo: the party to go
back on tbe pledge. The Democrats will
protect the oolored citizens in their right of
franchise from their own so-called political
friends. The Democrats will protect them
from the maohiuations of these so-called
fl-ierult against any further complications
which involves a olaah of race, and the in
evitable destruction of themselves. We do
not pretend to say what the Dsmooratic
party of Washington county ought to do
with Webster. But, if he is a deserving
man and competent to discharge the duties
of the office to which he aspires, we think
would be a graceful and eminently
proper thing in them to give his claims a
fair and equal consideration with any
other person who may offer.
Mr. Mapleaon married Maria Bose, and
he is both her husband and manager. An
unnatural relation.
rot. CLAIBORNE'S 1IISTORT.
Aa the bee lingers around iu hire, even afur it
has been sacked and pillaged, M I return, in By
declining years, to my native place and mj an.
cstral acres."
So beautifully writes the venerable Clai
borne to tbe Paulding Herald. And he
adds:
I am, as yoa know, writing the History at
Muwissippi. For three aKmlha I kar I upended
work to (ire U Moaaeary ttmtloa to my btul-
but Ua a week I shall be, at any deak at Nau-h-
ea, aad shall then remain nntil the task la Ink had.
Mr friends, ftowerar, moat be patient. I eanaot
apin this work ont of any brain, or wear It front
the imagination ; but ererf noo Brat bo kaasd on
facta, and the facta require tuno, labor aad n-acarch.'
Mtbj, Cube Giines sued for a big slice
of New Orleans, sixty-seven years ago.
The lawyers managed to keep "the case"
agoing until last year. ThU extraordinary
prolongation of the suit was done in the
interest of Shukspeare, an Englishman, to
cive a foroible illustration of ITanilet's
complaint against "the laws delays-" If a
woman wants to win a city or any consider
able part of a city by a suit at law the
most have pluck, patience and pcrsever
ance. Myra 0. Gaines had these qualities,
and we are gratified that she came out win
der at last But we dnn't know whether
we are going to Ins pleased or not at her at
tempt to recover the SUites of Louisiana
and Arkansas, with a beH of Mississippi,
nnder an old Spanish grant It seem9 to
u that if she has got New Orleans, she
onght to let the mrnl districts go in peace.
AocoBDixo to Lockyer everything is
made ont of hydrogen, aud according to
Bob Ingersoll the world was made ont of i
nothing. Here's a conflict Bnt not such I
a conflict as might be supposed, for hydro- I Da. M. 8. Caarr, of Jackson,' has lx-en
sen it about as near nothing as can well be ' one of the yellow fever experts,
, , , , . . v i j j i by the Commission. This wai a very pro,
got at, and both theories may hold good m ' ,ptK,illtment, Dr. Craft tj. .i1 the
Cienoo, uuwcrrr ure waller mar turn ua
lows :
"Gentlemon," said the President, "t! is
discussion is all out of order. It don't tech
the law of the case. It jumps clean over
the pint in question. There ain't no use
for gentlemen to waste their eloquence
agin the law's bulwarks. The law sais that
every incorporated town of a thoussud
inhabitants MU have the right to grant or
not to grant a license to retail whisky. Now
if this party from the town of Broothavon
wants a license a sell whisky by the smr.il,
then itjs his duty to apply to the Mnior of
the town whoever die may ue."
The discussion closed. The argument of
the President was irresistable, aud tho
Brookhaven seeker after a license to retail
had to go to the "Mayor" of the town,wuo
ever she then happened to be.
VICE PREMItE.VT I LAltKK.
Tne East Cairo boys are again in luck. J. C.
Clarke, Vice President and General Manager Mis
sissippi Central Railroad, sent $165 to be divided,
$20 each to the two incline engineers, 10 each to the
two firemen on same, llo each to the two head
awitcbtnen, $12 50 each to the two assistant switch
men, 10 teach to the two ear lepairers, aud Slo
each to the two telegraph operator.. Mr. Clarke,
in his letter accompanying these presents says, in
aubstance, it was not tbe amount, but he wished to
Show his appreciation of carefulness and strict at
tention to the Incline duties, an.! ul-o thanked tlirm
on behalf of the officers of the company. It Is
seldom we see or h-ar of such epis-sii as th if, and
coming from the head of so larc a ceipontion as
the Mississippi Central, shuws th.it c inp:'.tiy lias
the right men in the ifclit plaei-s. The leen at
East Cairo highly appreciate Mr. Harke's h:iiiilsnie
gift and are loud in praise of his gel er-isity and
goodnciw. Cairo Argus.
Mr. Clarke is given to tricks of that kind.
He has captured tbe people i f Louisiana
and Mississippi by a stream of liiicr lity
during the dark period of their distress,
and his management of his great railway
line is marked throughout, from tine tLd
to the other, by a course of impartiality,
justice and public spiritedtiess which u.ake
all tbe people think it a lurkr circumstance
that plaoed this grand railroad highway un
der his oo nana and.
practice.
head of his profession
I Yazoo City Herald.
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