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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

FAMILY MuRnEnFn-

BELFAST, ME., June lG.-At dalI.y0t..
morning Almond Gordon, % farmer H..
near Thorndike station, and hI- V|.
Youngest daughter were iouliy mH-I..
In one bed, and his little siN-year .
slept in a crib ia the same ROOM f.r.
wounded and the house set on nre. All.
bodies were terribly mutilatrd A ..
ak, with which the slaughter w.. H..
was found near at hand. A younger hr..
Of the murdered man b. nov under ....
charged with the crime. Tho HlIeg.. ...
of the bloody work was UI-uHr. ..
some property. The suspected MAN ar..
perfectly calm, and manifc-ts uo Hul.a.
rHE YANKEE DARKEY INITIATE. ut.u..
BROTHER.
SPRrNGPmLD. Ill. June lG.-TUo.
men, named Brown aud Taylor, Uu.r-..
Yesterday. and Taylor was logged. I
then went home and got dOHU.r....
shotgun, returned 20 Browns U.I.
killed him. Taylor went home again
shot himself, in1licting "a wound 81.
proved fatal.
MURDERER TO BE HANGED.
BosroN, June l6.-The commission
pointed TO examine Smith, che W...
murderer, reports him same. llu H...
hanged on the 9th.
NEW York, June lG.-A five mont.
band, aged %, met hinetccu-yplr u.r..
with whom he had never lived auI ...
her five times, causing death iu GYr n
utes.
Two Of the stabs inflicted by Gltnr-.
his wife went completely through hgrI..
and another through her liver Gium.
sent To the tOmbs by the coroner.
MORE RLOoD.
NEW YORK. june lG.-A disrcpuu....
son killed Instantly laboriug m1
free fight.
James Curtin, while drunk early rt..
day morning, quarrelled with OBS
when a young and idiOtic br0therU
latter interfercd and struck Curtin w.#
AK, fatally wounding him.
CHURCH ROBBED
NEW York, June l6.-The ycstry 0fI
ity Church was robbed bv burglar
night of several books. The poor h.
were emptied, and some OF che cu
robes carried of.
MURDER.
SAN FRANCIsCO, CAL, June lG-Jn
Oldheld was murdered in the town ul F
SADIE, Sonora, by man named Aulnt
stabbed his victim In the presence of
wife.
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The Attorney General responds to the
card of Mr. Street by saying that he
(the Attorney General) "never asserted
s.tbat Mr.. Street was a candidate" for
Commissioner of Immigration. He only
asserted that Chs name was before the
Joint Convention as a candidate" The
difference is only in the form of express
ing the same idea. The meaning inten-
ded to be conveyed was that Mr.. Street
after the failure of his own (alleged) as
pirations, objected to the election of
Griggs, another member of the Legisla-
ture on the ground of illegality; and that
such objection would not have been en-
tered if he had not been defeated" for
the office IF this was not his meaning,
there was no more sense, nor point, in
the reference to Mr. Street than there
was justice in the inference sought to be
created that he was a candidate.
For ''the instruction of those who are
ignorant of the duties of the Office of
Attorney General" he states that he did
not give the opinion earlier that Messrs.
Niles, Hancock, Cunningham, Chandler,
Cowan and others, all holding Judicial
offices in violation of the Constitution,
because it was not requested" But it
seems that it was given at last without ga
request :" and if the rule was to be vio-
lated at all, persons "who are ignorant"
naturally want to know why it was not
done before the $50, 200 illegally paid
them was drawn from the Treasury, and
why they have not been suspended in the
performance of acts, which being ''vOid
quences of the gravest character There
is no complaint that the opinion has been
officially promulged. The complaint is
that it was not sooner done; and that
there was no fitness in its introduction in
the case of Griggs.
The following explanation of the mat
ter of Mrs. II. R. Pease in assuming to
fill an office for which she was not eligible
and drawing pay for services she never
rendered, and thereby committing a fraud
on the Treasury, throws the burden of a
serious culpability on the Auditor
The case of Mrs. Pease, appointed under
section 2005 of the revised Code of 1871,
came to my official notice from the circum-
stance thar | was a member of the State
Board of Education, which that lady was
appointed to serve as secretary. / OF iected
to the appointment at the time as unconsti-
tutiOnal.and so notified the Auditor of Pub
lie Accounts, without any delay.
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The Senatobia Times, in reference to
the Board OF Registrars appointed tor the
new county of Tate, says " if we are COR
g rectly informed it is thoroughly Radi-
" CAL" We trust it is not @ correctly
" informed" The law is imperative. 1t
requires that " all the registrars shall not
:" be members of the same political
party" (Revised Code, sec. 340.) An
election held in violation of it, will be lille
gal and void. We trust the Marshall
county infamy has not been perpetrated
in any other county.
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track. iust above the depot az daysvlp,
was swept or by th8 cOwcateher. ".
300 feet further on the engine encouDtar-5
tie i'm the very heart Of the VilliaRean .,.t
in some 500 feet "a the switch. uL.-
caught In a frog and threw the lua0r1t
of the track The whistle blew braEa'
and every effort made 10 keep Che iIa.,.
the road, but the speed WHs go grrgf
engine could not be rtoppei and n .g
the cap-stOnes from The li|N..r oven
five mile river, AMI the Locomotive,
three cars, containing rs persons. fI.
bog meadow, some "a feet below, bur.
the engineer and fireman beneath Goo M.
After hours 81 labor, they Wer. ts.r.....
badly bruised aud scalded. but arc r.I....
as doing well. To-day, at "a mr.f...
citizens. reward of $1,000 was p.rlg.#
behalf of the town, 20 be paid on cuHy....
OF the rascals who were guilty oI
crime
WhmAHFHaa.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

BY reference to the notice copied from
the Washington Chronicle it will be seen
that there will be a meeting of the Vete-
rams Of the Mexican War, at Washing
ton, on the 18th Jan. next. We would
suggest that the surviving veterans who
enlisted for service from Mississippi will
take measures for some form of organiza-
ton, SO as to secure representation at the
meeting and in this connection we insert
letter from Mr.. David NJ. Holdings
worth, a well-Enown citizen of New Or
leans, formerly Of this State. The Sc
lection of Jefferson Davis, the hero of
Buena Vista, as the representative of
the First Mississippi Rifles, would be ex-
eeedingly appropriate;
NEW ORLEANS, June IL, 1873.
EDITORS CLARION:
You viii see by the enclosed notice, ia
ken from the Washington Daily Chronicle,
of May 10Th, that it is intended to hold
National Convention of the Mexican War
Veterans of 1876 on the 18th of Jan. next
II the Mississippi Rifles make any move in
the premises, | would propose Col. JEFF. Da-
Wis as the most suitable person to be sent as
their delegate To the National Convention.
He doubtless will take pleasure in repre-
sehtlug his old comrades on that interest
ing occasion. Yours respectfully,
d. NJ. HoLLINGswoRTH,
First Serg't Co. A, Miss. Rifles.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The Cotton Plant mentions a rumor
that there will be "a union of the Pow
g ers, Ames and Flournoy factions on
" Judge G.. @. Shackleford," and says
that =" it is probable that he will be the
" nominee, if no great change in the
g status of matters occurs between now
" and the holding of the convention. The
Cotton Plant volunteers to say, further
more, that Shackleford is 60 an old citi-
6 zen of the State, is free from objections
which attend the adventures who
=" have been so persistently pressing
90 their claims"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The Mississippi Central Railroad Elk
tension has been completed as far as
Milan, Tenn, where the extended line
crossed the Louisville and Memphis
Railroad. Trains will run through to
that point, so we have been informed.
by Col. Frost, General Superintendent,
by the first of July, after which tim e
passengers going North by the Central
viii change cars at Milan instead of
Humboldt, as now The iron has been
laid eight miles beyond Milan, and the
extension viii be pushed through to
Cairo, H., as rapidly as possible.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The Chicago Tribune, the ablest Re-
publican paper in the West, says that
" the Republican party had for its pur-
"pose the overthrow of slavery; the war
" became part of this work, and recon
" struction was a necessary sequence
Z" of the war. The party's mission was
" then performed. 1t had nothing else
" to do, and since then has done nothing
d" else but divide offices and public plum
"der among its chiefs"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

We wish Col. R. W. FIournoy well in
his proposition to reduce taxes, bat he
has undertaken a work inside of his
party in comparison with which the
labors of Sysiphus were light. Ninety
nine hundredths of the Republican
leaders have no other pursuit but office
holding. 1t is as essential to their exist
ence as the air they breathe. Cut of
the allowances which they have derived
from the present high taxes, and their
livelihood would be gone. Men don't
fall out with their bread and butter, and
the Wreekers are not going to part com
pany with the system which makes their
occupation desirable. If they were mer-
chants, or doctors, OF lawyers, or me-
chanics, or farmers like FIournoy, the
case would be different. As it is, he is
preaching the gospel of low taxes to
stocks and stones.
The Colonel mars his letter by the adj
vocacy of the monstrous and absurd pro-
position of mixed schools, which is re-
pulsive to the sensible people of both
races, who think that the happiness of
both consists (not in equality of civil
and political rights, butt in preserving
the distinctions which God Almighty
created for His own wise purposes, and
which cannot be violated without de-
stroying the harmony of the order which
He has established
It remains to be seen whether Colonel
Flournoy's acquisitions will be met We
will venture the prediction that they will
not be; and that his ideas about reduc-
ing taxes will be trampled under foot by
the Carpet-baggers and their followers as
remorselessly as the grass of the prairie
is trampled by herd of buffalo.
DEATH OF JAMES NJ. COATES.
our last publication Mr.. James NJ. Coates,
Sheriff of Kinds county, has died of
cholera. The deceased has resided in
this city for upwards of twenty years.
The writer has known him during all
that period, and was politically associated
with him until the reorganization of
parties after the war 1t may truly be
said of Mr.. Coates, that his heart over
flowed with generosity. He was an open
enemy, and there never lived more
steadfast friend. We who never permit
ted the differences which in later years
separated us politically, to be made the
occasion of single unkind remark of
him through our columns, cannot suffer
the melancholy event of his death to pass
without offering heartfelt tribute to his
generous qualities, and tending to his
bereaved family our sympathy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

What the farmers and the laboring por-
lions of every community ask. what they
want, what they mean TO have, is an end of
all ecial.legislation, and an era inaugu-
rated in which prosperity shall come, not
to him to best can manage to levy a wrong
but to him who works the
hardest and most intelligently in the pro-
duction of values. This is what the farm
ers' movement means, and this is what it
will accomplish if rightly managed.-Ter-
re Haute und.l Gazette.
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS,
JAcKsoN. MondaY Jnne IL ]

JACKSON. Monday June Is, 1873.
Buckingham vs.. Walker; affirmed.
Edwards VS. Burrage; reversed and re-
manded.
Sanders vs.. Sanders; affirmed.
Weeks vs. Whitehead: reversed and iudg-
ment here. s
Weeks VS.. Salter; demurrer overruIed.
and leave to answer in forty DAYS.
Stewards VS.. Mullins; reversed and re-
manded.
Ware vs.. Buck; motions dismissed.
Majors va. Wortheimer re-argnment
granted.
Mclaughlin vs.. Green reversed and re-
manded.
imandeds leave to answer in forty DAYS.
Taylor VS.. L0wenstein; same.
Fisher vs.. Bowman: affirmed.
Ingersoll vs.. 1ngersOll; affirmed. a4
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The farmers of the West are signing
petitions to Congress for relief from the
Railroad monopolists and plunderers.
What the Farmers ought to do is to re-
lieve themselves by dismissing from pub
lie service the tools and procurers of the
monopolists, and electing honest men to
fill their places. They have set a good
example in the Judicial elections In Tlli-
nois. The farmers have the game in
their own hands.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The Jackson (Tenn-) Wing and Tribune
tells OF woman who sent her husband to
buy q Jug of m0lassess He got drunk and
fetched home the jug filed with whisky.
She took it up. smelt, set it back, and then
eQuaring herself, arms akimbo and eyes
flashing, she exclaimed: s'Whar's them mo-
lasses ?" The old man smiled and winked
pleasantly, and waving his hand propitt-
atingly, exclaimed. ssThefas theyt7 He is
deranged.4 $3.50
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Corn Crop.

The corn crop of the Western States
is now expected to be very short. This
is owing to the long continued cold and
wet spring. The Prairie Farmer, of
Chicago, anticipates that the crop will be
short OF last years by one-third, and pre-
diets large advance. Farmers in the
South are advised not to neglect their
growing crop, and to take care of it after
it is gathered. 1t is not encouraging to
think that they will have to purchase corn
at high figure and sell cotton at a low
one the coming season.
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ROBBHNG THE EXPRESS.
Capture and Sentence of the Eek.
press Robbers ON the M. a. o.
BOad...A Gang of Daring
RufEiamS.

About two years ago the Southern Ex-
press Company's messenger on the Mobile
and Ohio road was robbed of his safe. in
which there was six thousand dollars. The
robbery WAS committed while the messen-
ger was INDUCING in a map" and while
the train was in motion. For some time no
clue could be had to the perpetrators of the
robbery but at last the company's detec-
tives suspected colony of negroes who
made their
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

Can it be possible that the Pilot does
not understand the full import of its own
language in regard to the payment of the
Repudiated Bonds. Here it is:
That this debt will ultimately be paid by
the State, provided the Republican party re-
mains In pOaoer- there cannot exist the
shadow of doubt.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The Canton Mail says that /" the peo-
90 pie generally are paying little attention
=" to politics, and seem to be bent only
upon attending to their own private
g concerns, which is indeed sensible.
" There is plenty of time yet before en-
g tering into political campaign"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

Mr. Jos. G. Moore, Sheriff of Noxu-
bee county under Gov. Alcorn, and a
relative of his, has been appointed U. S.
Consul to Trinidad, Cuba. Whereupon
the Meridian Mercury observes: " So
sc much for Alcorn's declaration for
g Grant for third term"
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From the West Point Citizen.
Dissre..1ng Accident.

We learn that i youth named Tommy
Cook, drummer for the Commercial Hotel
in Aberdeen, was killed Monday evening bv
falling from the ears near Muldonl Station.
The body was Horribly mangled, and death
was instantaneous. The deceased was wen
known 70 passengers over the Aherdeen,
branch road. he leaves sister and widowed
mother to mourn his untimely death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

THE GRIGGs CASE In the mandamus
case of Griggs, so-called Commissioner
of Immigration, Judge Brown has de-
cided adversely to the opinion of the AT
torney GeneraD that Griggs is eligible
and entitled to his salary. The case VII
go before the Supreme Court for final
adjudication.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The murder Of Mr.. Mansfield Ifl.. .
worth, In New York, by bis SON
profound sensation, owing % pug
guished social relations Of the ia1l..
deceased was the son Of the late IVY
WalwOrth, one Of the most al-...
citizens Of the State, and idcntinea
Temperance, Tract and Blblt
Chancellor WalwOrth died in the ''..
OF his age. The brother OF the deetA.
popular and eloquent mission pr
the Paulists. The family Is largely f.
fed with the prominent Interest.
State In the judiciary, IN The chuilN'
education and literature, ana Jhett H
wide and influential connection
worth was in his ABA year. lie va
Gated for the legal profession, anq Af
ing admitted 10 the bar. assisted Li'
for a short time In his Office in Al9,a
the profession becoming di-tastelu' N.
turned his attention 10 literature
ried some years ago, and the resu.
union is two daughters, now DetWg
4 years Of age, and the son by "ho
his life. He has been for some eIe..ra
rated from his wife, who Is now AH
seminary for young ladies on Ins s,r
the late Chancellor WalwOrth, W rt
Springs, where she lives In elegant
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

The Vicksburg Times has a long CON-
munication from the Auditor in continu-
alton of the disgraceful wrangle between
the Acting Governor and the Auditor
over the Mcbride warrant case The
charge of prevarication is repeatedly
made, and the following paragraph IS
50 emphatic an accusation Of downright
-- against his Acting Exeellency as to
re Iuire his immediate attention. Says
Muss
[ then put the direct question to him
Gov. Powers as TO what he had done with
the warrant He stated that lit had been
converted into certificates, and that = 1t
could not be returned for that reason, even
if ne was willing" few moments after
ward saw Judge O'Connor, Chief Clerk in
had given the Governor certificates for the
warrant, TO which he replied, = He had not.
Here is a question of veracity between
two distinguished functionaries, both OF
the Carpet-bag persuasion, which cannot
be postponed In other words, there is
- out and we will not undertake tc
decide who is the guilty party until the
Acting Governor is heard from. Justice
requires a suspension of public judg
ment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

LEXINGTON ADVERTISER Sal
lie Ada Vance, who has shown capacity
of the best order for the profession of
journalism, has retired from the Lex
ington Advertiser. The paper will be
conducted by Mr.. j. S. Hoskins, and
is Conservative in politics.
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LEADER OF THE GANG,

Wash Crosby. whose capture was effected
in Mobile. While being taken to Meridian
by the Mobile Chief of Police, he made his
escape, and up To few months ago evaded
the efforts of the detectives of the Express
Company to re- capture him, though they
had constantly been on his track. Two
months ago he was captured in Louisiana.
He was in disabled condition from the eff
fects of pistol shot wound in the leg, in
nIcteu by nImsclf- Another of the gang,
Nelse Arnold, was also captured about the
same time. and on Friday last they were
both sent to the penitentiary, Crosby for
i've and Arnold for tour years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

What's to be done about cases of the
Radical officers who are drawing salaries
and performing grave duties for which
they are pronounced disqualified by the,
law officer of the State Administration? p
Is the matter to rest there?
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HOMES IN THE MOUNTAINS

around Meridian. and whose shanties were
so peculiarly located as to be almost mac
cessibe. The detectives ''went" for these
sable Medocs in their mountain Businesses
and learned the names of about half dozen
of them who had planned and executed the
robbery. Four of them were soon after
arrested including the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

Here is a voice from Texas, exphati-
cally the "white mans State" so far as
the numerical superiority of the eau
casians over the blacks will entitle it to
that appellation. And it is uttered
through a no less influential and ac-
credited organ of Conservative opinion
than the Galveston News. Its views
are worthy of acceptation wherever the
two races exist:
Even in slavery times our wealthiest
slave-owners did not deem it disparaging
to treat colored persons with civility. In
deed. far more consideration was mani
Tested toward such persons generally in
the South than by the Northern people,
who made such hollow professions of syIn-
pathy fer that race. And now that politi-
cal equality has been guaranteed to that
race by the Constitution and laws of our
duty owe to ourselves, as well as to
them. to cultivate friendly relations with
them Such relations are undoubtedly ne
cessary to the happiness and well-being of
both races, and to the general prosperity
of the South, while they are perfectly con-
sistent with the difference God himself has
made in their social position. While our
laws have established political equality
human legislation can no more establish
social equality than it can annihflate the
organic differences which God has made
between the two races. Such equality is as
repugnant to the more intelligent and re-
spectacle of the colOred people as TO the
white race. But what they have a right
20 claim is to be treated with strict Justice.
with civilitv, with kindness. and with q
due consideration for all their rights under
the laws of the country. The future well
fare and prosperity of the South probably
de ponds more upon cultivating the proper
friendly relations between the two races
than upon any other cause.
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" sNEAKING THE CAR.

The way they effected the robbery was by
secretlng themselves Oh top of the express
car, and entering it in their bare feet, while
the messenger was dreaming of-"cock-
tails" and hurting the safe from the ear.
They divided the booty, but the express
company succeeded in recovering most of
it, the thieves divulging where iU was hid.
The express company have incurred enor-
nous expense in breaking up this desperate
gang of negro robbers. and it is hoped the
capture and punishment will be a warning
to others.
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EDIroRs CLARION 4:
First Serg't Co. a, Miss. Rifles.

From an article published elsewhere
from the Seashore Republican (RadicaD
it appears that Credit Mobilier organi-
cation, with McCombs at the head, has
been chartered by the Legislature, and
that it contemplates gross treachery in
the matter of the favorite popular meas
ure Of railroad TO our seashore. Nc
combs is not without experience in Credit
Mobilier operations. 1t is remembered
that he was member of the celebrated
Hoax-Ames combination, and that the
gigantic villainy was revealed in conse-
quence Of quarrel between Ames and
himself over the spoils.
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Fulton, June Q. 1879.

:. A despatch from Los Angeles reports the
discovery of q mammoth tin ledge rortv-
nye miles from that city, on the San Anto-
sixty feet wide.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

About twenty car loads OF Nej D.
lumber passed down the mobile -5lg
Railroad, last Friday, 30th ultr en W..
Liverpool, EngiGnd,-PascaBoui-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

fJ0hnl "A BiHghams who bore the most
prominent part in the murder OF Mr.. Sur
raft, is appointed Minister to Japan.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19

A splendid piece of war history, from
the London Standard, written by James
Smith, Esq, of Scotland, formerly of
this city, will be found elsewhere in this
paper.