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The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06
Circuit Court is still progressing,

Circuit Court is still progressing,
being now in its third and last week.
Since our last issue Messrs. Joyner,
McCrary and Head, of Little River
county, and Maj. Jno. b. Burton, OF
Lafayette, have been within the bar.
The Grand Jury adjourned on last
Saturday, after a sitting Of two weeks,
having returned into court about half
p dozen bills among which were two
for murder and one for manslaughter.
In one of the murder cases, hatagainst
Riley McGee for the murder of Antho-
ny Stewart, The jury brought in a
verdict Of guilty of--and assessed
his punishment at thirty years in the
penitentiary. The other, that against
Frank Barnes for the killing of Harris,
was transferred TO Nevada county for
trial. Most of the trials had, have
been for offences of minor Importance,
and would not be of interest to the
general reader.
Right here we would like TO suggest
TO the bar of the State, and TO all others
who are interested, the propriety of an
effort to effect change in our court
system. There ought to be, in our
opinion, separate criminal jurisdic'
ton, a separate criminal court The
reasons for such a change which might
be suggested are too numerous to be
mentioned at this time, but are 80
patent to those who have observed the
workings of our courts under the pres
ent system, tiat their mention is un
necessary. Many of the delays which
now occur in the administration OF the
law, and which are unavoidable at
present, would be obviated.
We might mention the unnecessary
and expensive detention of witnesses
and Jurors, but we intended at this
time only to suggest the matter to thu
attention of those most deeply concern
ell. We may say moro about it a
another time.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

KILLED.-Soon after dark last
night, Willis Trimblc, (colorcd) well
known shoemaker, was shot and in
stantly killed, by some party unknown,
according to the verdict of the coroners
jury. The circumstances are very
singular, being, as we get them from a
member of the jury, about as follows:
1t appears that the deceased and one
Abe Moss were walking together along
the street Immediately in front of
saloon kept by colored man, on lizard
street in the back part of what is
known rs the old Beller building, when
two men overlook them. One of them
caught the deceased and gave him n
shake or two. Only two or three words
passed between them, when one of the
strangers fired, and Willis fell dead.
Abe says the two strangers then mount
ed and rode off. He ran into the saloon
and got gun and followed 10 the
next corner where shots were eX-
changed between him and the strangers.
Upon examination it appeared that
Willis had been shot in the breast with
some kind of weapon carrying buck
shot, and at so short distance that
all the shot entered together. His
clothes were on fire when he was first
examined. An inquest was held and
the jury returned verdict in accord
ance with the facts. Sheriff Vance,
with posse of eight or ten men pur-
sued the strangers, and came up on
them six or eight miles from town in
an old clubhouse. short distance from
the road. Upon the approach of the
posse, the lights in the house were ex-
tinguished, and the firing commenced.
One of the party, we understand, says
there must have been a hundred shots
fired. The two strangers finally es-
capped, after having wounded one of
the posse severely but not dangerously.
Two horses, one double-barrel shot
gun, n pair of saddle.bags and blanket
were captured and brought in. Another
party, numbering about dozen men,
was sent out in pursuit of the supposed
murderers this morning.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

An enrag-d photographer, namel
Henry Newman, did a strange thing in
Lor.don the other day. He was EN-.
+rcv-ea- by the well known Messrs.
Mayoll, in Regent street, as a a ,asc, ,.@r Oh
pictures Lately he became neglect.
ful Of lis duries, and, after some un-
needed cautions, he received notice
that his services after a given date
would be dispensed Nth. AZ the
same time he was told by his employ,
era, that if he wished to 60 into bdsi.
ness on his own account out Of London
they ~osld sssist hin. On this, New
man went to the gallery after business
hours, and, getting quite alone into
the st1dio, smashed with a ham,
mer all the lenses attached to the came
ras, and cut to pieces with a knife all
the backgrounds. In few minutes
he had destroyed property worth three
thousand dollars. That done, he wen
straight home, took a dose Of cyanide
of potassium, and was subsequent,
found quite cold and dead in his cham,
Der.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Albany Evening Journal says
of Grant: 1--WE have had in all our
history no Executive who surpassed
him in conscientious devotion to the
public welfare. The American people
have studied his character and career
to little purpose, if they have not come
to comprehend the simplicity, sincerity
and honesty of his nature, and his
disinterested suborlination of all per-
sonal ends to the paramount interests
of the nation. Washington himself
was not more removed from all self,
seeking, self,asserting, ambitious pu7-
poses than President Grant" Thi. OF
a President who has made himself a
millionaire by the sale of the Executive
patronage, and who has devoted all his
official energies to the aggrsndzement
of himself and his own family.-Cour.
Journal.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06
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The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

SCHOOL MEETINa.- - Next Saturday
week, being the third Saturday in De-
cember, will be the time for holding
the annual school meeting, at which
trustee is to be elected. This is n mgt-
ter of great importance tothc tax-Pay-
ers and we bope they will attend, and
manifest their interest by the selection
of a capable and trust worthy trustee.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Louisville Ledger gets off tho
following on the CatteIson- Vance i'm
broglio:
The bone Of contention at Little Rock;
The collar-bune.
Says Cat. to Vance, Down with them stars!
Or I'll get in "a miii
You've gone and star-ched your collar till
My ehoIct's getting stiff :"
Says varce to Cat: "stargazer, git
Thy martial fury qlsll
Not only shall yo" see The stars,
But ieel tn" stripes, as Wcll."
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Chicago treathes more feely irE
finding that three abstracts of titles
are safe. One of them is ,erfoct. and
two are nearly so. They are priceless
papers, for they settle nd quiet tho
title to every foot of lad in the city,
the public records Being lost. Ono
Of these documsnb covers one hundred
thousand pages.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

George G. Harding, formerly OF
Kentucky, makes the following touch
ing confession in the indianapolis
Evening Journal:
at might be well enough to stop
controversy and forestall public indig-
nation by admitting that | am a po>
liical mercenary, and am mcrconary
in other respects. About all the work |
ever did in my life-and.I | have driven
oxens, plowed corn, made brick, and
served as a sailor before the mast on a
Mississippi fatboat-was inspired by
mercenary motives. | worked for
money, and | wanted money to buy
food and clothing and other comforts,
As to mcrcenary politics, never hp
many politics of any kind, and he
few | have are not so deeply roote or
so luxuriant in growth as to b' unN
manageable. l believe with Caleb
Gushing that doctri ne is the lave OF
man, and not man the slave odoctrine.
| follow journalism as . profession
simply because | am ff for nothing
else, and prefer doing prcenary work
with pen and scissors 0 stealing and
starving in devotiont political dog.
ma"
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Washington correspondents
have joke on the Presidents Attorney
General, which explains the error in
the ku-klux proclamation. Says the
Cincinnati Gazettes special of the
9th ult:
The mistake ia the Presidents ku-
klux proclamation, by which Marion
county, South Carolina, was put under
martial law instead Of Union, occurred
in the impossibility of reading the lists
of the counties which Mr.. Akerman
sent to the Attorney Generals Office in
his own handwriting. All were satis'
factorily decipherod except the word
Union" and all the experts in bad
penmanship in the office finally decided
that it was Marion, and so the procla-
nation including the latter county went
forth.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Four candiatcs already out for tho
Presidency Grant, Greeley, Train
and Woodhll. And still we say there
is room. We think there ought to be
at leastor'y, since neither ability nor
charaeer seems to be requisite for the
OCCUPANCY Of that degraded position.
Ifar name is mentioned in that con-
notion somebody will get hurt.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

1t is reported Tat Horace Greeley
has got into a Giss with a Texas edi-
tor, 1t appca's that in an agricultural
essay on tobcco, Mr.. Greeley asserts
that fine-ca will not ripen well unless
the tin fol is stripped from the grow
ing bujs early in the spring, and that
plug tobacco ought to be knocked of
the ,es with clubs instead Of being
picked by hand. This the Texas edi.
Tor said was nonsense, and Mr., Greeley
challenged him.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Gazette of the Doth says, Co.
Charles I. Jordan il mentioned as an
independent candidate for Governor.
The Southern Standard adds that,
Charles, is we'll known through South
Arkansas, and would no doubt receive
rs large a vote as old Joe Brooks or
=. W. CAN'T.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Fayetteville Democrat says;
We've got the Agricultural college,
and we've got three mayors and three
sets IF lSancilmen. And Ne now give
notice to st. Louis that we shall. at
an early day, commence TO advocate
the claims of Fayetteville for the scat
of government.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

There are few mortals so insensible
that their affections cannot be gained
by mildnes,, their confidence by SINGER
ity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.
Zimmerman.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

A man ought to carry himselfin the
world as an orange tree would if it
could walk up and down in the garden,
swinging perfume from every little cen-
sor it holds up to the air.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

We hear with regret that the Hon.
Il. S. CAN'T is no more. He died at
Little Rock, on the first inst, we
believe, ofa pulmonary disease from
which he had been suffering for a long
time.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Republics are ungrateful," and
political parties ditto; but the customers
of Taylor & Jett never forget the good
bargains they get from these live and
energetic merchants.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Horace Greeley hits the nail on the
head when he says: at is strange
how closely men read the papers. We
never say anything that anybody don't
like but we soon hear of it, and every>
body tells us about it. If, however,
once in a while we happen to say a
good thing, we never hear of that
nobody seems to notice that, We may
pay some man hundred compliments
and give him dozen pufs, and he
takes it as a tribute to greatness, and
never thinks of it-never thinks it does
him any good. But if we happen to
say anything this man don't like, or
something that he imagines is refec-
ton ON him or his character, see how
quick he flares up and gets mad about
it. All our evils arc duly charged to
us, but we never, apparently, get
any credit for what good we do
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The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

A young man in the strsct being
charged with laziness, was asked if he
took it from his father. 81 think not, >"
said the disrespectful sou: "father's got
all the iaziness he ever had.n
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Mother, l heard sister swear"
"What did she say, dear?" "Why,
she said she was going to wear her
'darned stocking. to church."
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

THE "RoYAL BLUES. In another
column we publish an editorial from
the Little Rock ARK ) Gazette, which
give, an interesting account Of the
modas operandi, whereby Grant Pros
noses to secure the delegations to the
radical convention from the southern
states.
The first step is to organize the
militia" throughout the state, all of
whom are, of course, truly loyal, and
fully armed. And as the several COM
panies are organized and equipped
they are marched 10 some appropriate
rendezvous and initiated into the Grant
Clayton league, designatedas as the "Roy-
al Blues" the special mission Of which
is TO secure retention Of the local
government to the Clayton faction, and
give Grant the electoral vote. In
other words, we have here the specta-
Gle Of legalized ku>klux bani, set up
by the civil authorities in every county
in the state, armed and fed and paid
out of the public treasury, whose only
business is to strangle the voice OF the
people of Arkansas, and force upon
them, as their rulers and masters, set
of graceless scoundrels, whose only
object in life is to plunder the treasury
and oppress the people.
The picture drawn by our Arkansas
contemporary is not whit overcolored,
and applies with equal force to th'
radical establishment throughout The
South. The semblance Of free govern
ment in that section is the veriest mock
cry. How it can be that the peopl,
of the Northern States can consent tC
lend themselves TO the continuation il
power of man who will thus oppresi
and degrade brave but helpless Top
ulation we cannot understand. Sure
ly they do not know the truth. 1t car
not be that the masses Of the republi
can party, if they could be made Il
1 reaif4e-the truth as it exists at tn
South, with aif>its terrible details o
outrage and refinement of oppression
would for a moment co1&tenance o
tolerate, much less applaud and vo.,
for, the chief actor and instigr Tor q
these things.
1t is the duty Of the press to max
these facts known. Tie Republican
press should in Justice and fairnes
publish them, that the people ma,
kDGw and understand them. Surel,
+ 1t cannot be that the journalists of tha
party at the North are willing to indors
them; and yet by declining to publisl
them, and by magnif.ing and empha
sizing all disturbances which can b,
any sort Of process be charged upol
the native population of the SOutherl
States, they become particcps crimini.
in that they aid Grant in his attemp
to retain power, that he may continu
this oppression. How long shall thes
things be2-Lo,dsriHe ledger.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

When VIC. Woodruff is elected to
the Presidency, will she be Mr.. Presi.
dent, Mrs. President or Miss President?
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Brick Pomeroy was adrnitiei to u"
bar of New York last was week,
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06


a GHosr SToRY.-George Blank,
a Confederate soldier, was killed at
Gettysburg. Even his own family,
who were Of course the most anxious
to have him alive, cheerfully admitted
that he was killed at Gettysburg. Ono
month after the war he walked into
his fathers house. as thas you,
George" asked his mother. "For
more than twenty years." was The re"
ply, 81 have suspected that Il i'l "And
amt you deadl' his mother asked.
well, yes,' said he, as a ghostly
smile fitted athwart his cadaverous
features, "but hardly so much as you
may have been led To believe These
were his very words, If any swearing
to them is wanted, plenty Of men can
be found ready to take the contract.
But the most wonderful part Of this
supernatural story is, that George is
now clerk in wholesale dry goods
store on Main street. Courier Journal.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06


The New York Commercial Bulletin
states that Tom Scott has bought the
Cairo and Fulton road, and that it viii
be extended with unparalled rapidity
TO the western ocean. This statement
accounts for the fact that Shreveport
and Jefferson talk about the diversion
of the proposed Memphis rond to Full
ton. 1t signifies nothing. Tom Scott
will find a competitor in the Baltimore
and Ohio and Chesapeake, Lexington
and Big Sandy roads, which must find
n route to the west through Memphis,
Louisville, and Louisville railroads are
as thoroughly interested as this city,
and as the Memphis and Charleston
road, in the extension of the Little
Rock road to Shreveport, Memphis
will profer to the cotton crop of North
ern Louisiana and Texas a shorter
route to the east than will be furnished
by Tom SCOTS Cairo line, and then,
we must precede Tom Scott in bridging
the Mississippi.
We find the above paragraph in the
Memphis Appeal Of the 29th ult. If
it be true that Tom Scott has bought
the Cairo and Fulton road, it is a truth
which to us seems stranger than fiction.
On last Wednesday night the ele'
ments seemed to be in a state Of active
preparation for some kind of demon
stration, and the morning Of Thursday
was ushored in by fall of the "beaus
tiful snow," which continued until by
evening it had attained a uniform depth
of six inches, an unusually deep snow
for this country. On Saturday there
was another fall ofperhaps three inches,
melting off considerably, and on Sun,
day night hard freeze followed high
north wind, so that we may say First
it sne,o, then it blar, and then it fra
-
The board of directors of the Cans
den and Red River Railroad have
agreed to accept subscriptions from the
people of this county, conditioned that
depot shall be located within one
mile of our court house. Now that
this difficulty is settled, We hope to
see our people interest themselves IN
this matter at once. Let us proceed
to do what we are going to DO, SO that
the boaro may know what to expect OF
us. Remember that this is the only one
OF the many roads projected through
Hampstead county. that proposes to run
by Washington.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, who is gener-
ally well informed and reliable, tele>
graphs the following TO that paper
under date of the 22d:
1t is now beyond question that a
movement is being inaugurated at this
pointto oppose the nomination Of Grant
for president next summer. Several
leading Republicans and Democrats
have been approached witt in the last
few weeks, and programme is now
being developed which will lock to the
nomination Of some Independent Re.
publican whose views are liberal 50 far
as tariff, amnesty and civil service
reform questions are concerned. The
Democracy are expected to support
any such man as may be subsequently
agreed upon, and who will appear to
be able to draw upon the Republican
strength the heaviest. According to
this programme the Democracy will
make no nomination, but will postpone
holding their convention until late in
the year. 1t is expected by them that
the Republican disadection to Grant
will be so strong thatit will be felt in
the next Republican convention, and
the Democrats will ratify whatever
nomination the boilers may see fit to
recommend. 1t is stated that even
such bitter Democrats as Senators
Bayard and Casserly have given in
their adhesion to this plan, and that the
plan will be more perfected in detail
when Congress comes together.
The Van Buren Press, in an able
article on passivism, closes as follows:
We then say, boldly to our demo-
cratic friends, let patriotism swallow
up party measures and party differ
ences, and let us unite cordially and
fully with the anti-Grant party, which
is the party opposed to corruption and
incompetency. Let us look at the
fate of Tammany frauds, and take
heart, believing the people fully intend
to correct our present crying evils, and
to drive corruption from power, lot
il be found in whatsoever party II may.
The Boone County Record has the
following;
Election returns from the East come
creeping up our back like SUIT Loyen'
goods Lizards did mp Parson Bullen's
spinal column. They look powerful
dark; but we all have read of the dark
est hour just before day. Out Of
seven states we have carried Maryland,
and governor in New jersey, and
and-Do you expect boy to have a
thousand shirts!
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

The Little Rockpapers are discussing
the question, "who struck William
Patterson"
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

In a tangle-political party lines,
(so. called.)
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

FACE THE MUsIc.-There are many
papers in the country that refuse to
recognize the great popularity of what
is known as the Passive Policy. Some
of these are radically radical and Others
radically democratic, while all, as a
general rule, are Radical by Wrong
One of our most valued exchange,
and by the way one of the ablest edited
and bsst newspapers in the great West,
the Kansas City Times, hits them of
in the following style:
1t is little curious that the ST. Loui.
Democrat and the Kansas City Journal,
when hunting for expressions of views
regarding the policy of Passivism,
never discover what such able and in
dependent organs Of public opinion as
the New York Nation, the Tribune,
the S,m, the Springfield Repubiican,
and numerous others of the same class,
have to say. We have from time to
time rcpublished comments from these
papers favorable to the idea Of that
frstsrnal union of honest men against
the thieves which is involved iu the
suggestion of Tassiyism. But our
Administration contemporaries do not
seem to appreciate our benevolent in
tsntions. They severely pass by the
stterances of the Nation and the Trib-
une, and seize with vast relish upon
the oracular maledictions where with
the Semi> Occasional Rufls-Sit and
the Arkansas Meat. Are and other great
journals are wont to visit the Passive
Policy.
We submit that it is time for our
Radical contemporaries to look square
in the face the disruption that threat
ems their party, and to cease attempt
ing to kill OIL by ridicule a movement
that is meeting with wider and more
rapidly growing appreciation than any
other movement of the kind ever
known to the political history of the
country. The proposition that the
Democratic organization should remain
quiescent while the factions of the
opposition broke in two and destRC yed,
one of them the other, WAS a bold and
hazardous one. 1t had double enc,
my to confront-the unsparing opposi-
ton of the united Administration
press and the bitter hostility of the
impracticables in our own party. But
it is triumphing over them all and
gainin. the assent of the best minds Of
the nation, with a rapidity that sur,
passes even the hopes ofits orig;nators
We exhort the journal to contemplate
these facts and be trs.lquil.
The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-12-06

Time on the jump-Leap year.