Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1869-12-25
EDITORIAL BREvIrIEs .

Oniy ABOUT l,UVO nghtlng men o
the Apache Indians are left. Gen
Ord says the race is fast dying out
! The Oeonto Lumberman tells Of
q contest between 81 Indian and
, bear, near Pine river, fatal to both
The Indian shot the bear in tbs
head with bucEshot, blowing out
an eye, and otherwise severely in,
juring him, and then pounced upOr
him, expecting to dispatch him with
his dirk-knife. Bruin Rugged the
Indian, and both fell to the ground,
when a struggle for life ensued,
which must have been q terrible
one, as the belligerents were both
badly MANNED, and lying dead
within two rods ofeach other when
found.
In Chicago husbands are said to
be so much under petticoat govern.
ment that they add to their an
nouncements Of future movements
the letters "W. p" which means
wife permitting"
The passage. Of the Suez Canal is
described as q sail for some hundred
miles along Q broad ditch, with
high sandbapks on either side, over
which at rare intervals you get
giimpses Of a sandy desert.
Chinese testimony Is TO be re.
ceived in the Courts Of California /;
1t having been decided that the
State law excluding it conflicts with
the Fourteenth Amendment 10 the
National Constitution.
A lady passenger, terrified by
the recent collision on the Penney.
vania Central Railroad, threw her
child out Of the window after the
danger was entirely over. Some
one caught the child and saved il
from injury.
The slave trade is said 20 be still
carried on on the east coast of Afri.
ca, in spite IOf the efforts Of the
British and American cruisers TO
prevent it.
Maine papers are discussing
whether q Sunday school in Bangor
which requires the constant pres
ence Of two policemen to preserve
order is o success.
The Dusseldorf artists have pro-
duced 100000 thalerS' worth Of pic.
lures this year, Of which $4,000
thalers' worth were orders from
America.
The wine cellars of San Francis.
co are now stocked with more than
a million gallons of wine, q large
portion Of which has been bottled,
aud 10 ready for use.
A young girl committed suicide
near Liverpool, England, recently,
because her sister, with whom she
resided, refused to allow her to but
ter . piece Of bread.
Senator Trumbull Of Illinois is
striving for cannOnizatiOn he has
presented a bill making 1t misde.
meanor or a penal ofrense, or some
thing worse, for any officer Of the
the government 10 accept presents
or gifts from any person or per-
sons whatsoever.
The little Senator from the small
est State has ready q two days
speech on the finances and on things
In general. He and Abbott have
not come together yet, the North
Carolinian, born in New Hamp-
shire, not having put in an ap-
pearance.
Congressman Churchill Of Us.
wego, Is about to offer o bill for the
division of the northern district of
New York into two judicial dis
tricts, to be called the middle and
western districts. Cayuga, Broome
and CORTLAND counties will form
the eastern boundary Of the western
district. The population of the
northern district as now constitu.
ted iS nearly 100000, almost four
times as great IS this population of
the State In 1914, when It was first
divived into two districts.
Thomas Gillon, in endeavoring to
eject Albert Tanner from a church
near Greensboro, Kentucky, on
Sunday, for bad conduct, was stab
bed i've timss by Tanner and killed.
Atlanta, Georgia, dispatches say
the Democratic papers throughout
the State are unanimous in de-
nouncing the letters and statements
ofTift as being entirely unauthOr-
by the Democratic party. They
are . unit In opposing the reseatlng
Of MegTalr, the expulsion Of mem
bers disqualihedb By the Fourteenth
Amendment and stFOnuOusly urge
the defeat ofths Fifteenth Amend
ment.