Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-02-05
EpIroR1AL nmEVITIEs.

an extra hloWAhee OF pay
EDITORIAL BRBVITIEs.
The Kansas Legislature has elect
ed negro page.
The Princess Alice was recently
thrown from her horse at Cannes
and severely braised. Alas.
Fred. Douglas is talked Of fes
Governor of the new Territory Of
San DomingO-when we get It.
Mrs. Cady Stanton has exhausted
the lecture-listening capacity Of
the Western States, and gone to
give the coup de grace to Massa-
chusetts.
Alexis St. Martin, whose side
was shot away in 1922 in such q
manner as to expose the action of
the digestive organs to the sur
gOon's eye, is still alive aud well in
Cavendish. Few men have done
more for the advancement Of sci
enCe, and no one probably ever did
50 much invOlnntarily.
The Southern negroes who &c.
cept the carpet -baggers for their
guides and teachers begin to ex-
hibit the results of their education.
In Pensacola, Fla, recently, a black
mob attacked a party Of white Ia
borers for seeking work at loading
ships In the bay, and succeeded In
driving them ashore.
General Terry refers the eligi-
bility of Georgia legislators to O
board of officers rather than to the
Supreme Court Of that State, for
the reason that the latter body Ia
composed Of lawyers, while the
former are unhampered by any pet
ty legal considerations. --a
A newly married man at Man
chester, N. H., left his wife few
weeks ago on a prospective tour.
Durina his absence he sent her
money for her support. Upon re.
turn, last week, he found that she
had spent Il In gettinS q divorce,
on the plea Of desertiOn, and had
married another man.
A DR.. Dryden believes he has
found the birthplace Of cholera, IL
what Is described as "the endemic
area of Lower Bengal" Carried
thence by the monsoOns, and rem
derod active by heat aud moisture
II behaves In q way that may b
predicted, and In which water anC
human beings play but a subordi
nate part.
JaInes w. MArahall. who hrs
discovered gold In California, a
Suffers mill, is still alive. He !
now living at q place called Kcl
sey's Diggings, in EldOradO cOun
ty. lie is upward Of so years Q
age, and Is so reduced In circum
stances that, though feeble, he
compelled to work for bis boar
} aud clothes.
An enterprisiug resident o
Honolulu imported a cargo Of tn
Malaysian swamp snakes for th
purpose Of ridding the rice fields O
: rats. But the Kanaka authorities
. fearing the coming Of tho serpent
devil, who tempted Eve, into thei
happy islands, compelled the Owne
to throw all his snakes into tn
Honolulu harbOr.
There is q lot of BOhemians |
Washington who make a precar
GUS living by writing speeches fO
illilerate Congressman. They writ
for any party and on either sid
= One related recently, in great gle
how lie had prepared g speech fC
i ali honorable member, and a fe'
G days aferward was employed
0 answer his own argument by a ger
e tlcman in the opposition, which b
!. did with a decided success.
x Ancwly-married lady In Chicag
c complained to her ma, that on HI
y reception day her card basket WI
;. overrun with circulars from Law
II yers, announcing terms for d
y vorcc. $50 absurd, you know, NJ
before our honeymoon is over
True, DEAR replied Ma (who ha
been twice divorccd), "but i'd pl
them in u safe place; you may fiji
them very useful in year or two
b TIE Council met last night
J. special session regarding the Z
s moval of Mr.. Packard, the Ci
;, Clerk. We wish our space permi
o tod our rriviny n rnnnrL ofiho Nss