davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
STATE NEWS.

From the Canton Mail.l
A negro girl stabbed another negro
GIRL to death with knife, in this city.
From the Copiahan.l
Cattle in Jones county are perIsning
from malignant throat disease, when
has become epidemic among them.
From the Brandon Republican,
DIR. joel C. Rice, the venerable ply
sician. who has his Office in the Shelton
House. completed his seventy-seventh
year last Friday, the I'd inst
From the Natchez Democrat
We understand that the Odd Fellows
Of Natchez intend celebrating the ami
versary by picnic and excursion on the
Natchez. jackson IL Columbus Railroad.
From the Central Start
We learn that the commissioners have
located the county site of Sumner county
about four miles south of Bellefontaine,
and on, or near the plantation OF Vince
Hays, Esq.
| From the Aberdeen Examiner.l
Col. w. w. Troup, of this county, has
about thirty white men from this state
and Alabama, at work on one Of his
farms, and speaks in the highest terms OF
them. On another place he has four
Englishmen at work, and says that he
never saw men get along more satlstacto-
rily.
From the Conservative
The legion of friends of DR.. w. w.
Liddell will be grieved to learn that he
is lying seriously sick at his residence in
! ~ NJ i la fstr
of his disease, but can say that he has
been in feeble health for several months.
The deep sympathy of the entire com
munity is extended TO the family
From the Pamela Star
The Circuit Court of this county met
on the 4th Monday of March. We now
publish a list of the unfortunates, who,
| by their evil doings, are to serve their
time in the State penitentlary
Bass Butler, burglary, one wear Hen
ry Williams, larceny, two years Leroy
Wright, larceny, one year.
From the New Albany Union.I
DEATH OF Hon. JoEL Ii. BERRY
| The death of this gentleman occurred in
Baldwin, Miss, on March I'd, 1875.
Col Berry had long been a citizen of
Tippah county, he represented his county
| for many years as State Senator, and
was leading and influential member of
the Baptist church. He was an upright
christian, and useful citizen. Truly good
man is gone.
From the Vicksburg Times.l
A fire occurred at Greenville, on We'd
nesday night, destroying Johnson's saw
and planning mill, Ketchman's bank and
many other dwellings and business houses,
and to prevent it spreading further, a
dwelling house had to be torn down in the
immediate vicinity Of the fire or the entire
business portion would have been laid in
ashes. The fire is believed to the work Of
an incendiary.
From the Vicksburg HERALD
The river is about stationary now, and, |
in the absence of rain, will remain so for
few days before it commences to fall. |
The decline below Cairo, as far as the |
mouth of White river, is going OH stead
lily, but the swell in the Arkansas may |
check the decline below the mouth, and |
possibly cause further swell if the rise |
in that stream shall prove to be very for
midable. The Ohio is falling quite rap
idly almost its entire length, but the Mis-
sissippi at st. Louis, and all the streams
above there, are on a big swell.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
A stAtesnAn's view of the Situation.

From Interview Of Congressman Iamar1
The opposition to the Administration
exists under different names, as separate
elements, and is controlled by distinct
influences. On the one issue of opposition
TO the present Administration CEN
trallzlng tendencies, its corrupt practices
and Its incompetent rule--this majority
Is agreed. On other issues it is divided
into elements more or less antaponistic
If this loose and diverse majority can be
harmonised; if, in other words, the els-
ments can be brought to believe that tho
points of union are more essential than
the points of difference, the AdministTA
tom will be swept from power on the tide
OF humiliating defeat. From this
standpoint the Democratic successes last
fail were won by cooperating, not by
conversion. These successes were not
strictly Democratic victories. They were
antl-Administration victories. They were
not achieved by the Democratic party.
as party, but by Democrats, Conserve
tlves, Liberal Republicans, and anti
Administration men, fighting for the time
under the Democratic flag, Just as the
democrats in the Greeley campaign
fought under the Liberal Republican Gag.
They were allies Of the Democratic party:
not converts to its doctrines. II Is ali !
important for US to realize that-it |
was triumph achieved by cooperation.
not by conversion. These allies. THOUGH /
friendly still to the Democratic party and I
hostile to the present Administrator. nra
not bound indissoluably or even aecnrelv
to ours. If they are content to ighk Tia
next night with as, We will whiD n.
If they are driven of, we viii lose H.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

"QUID" a Jackson correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial (Rep)
makes the following comments on the re-
cent raid upon the theiving officials which
resulted in landing two of them in jail:
1t seems that the people of Vicks-
burg and Warren county are to be stolen
out of house and home by the rascally
office-hOlders over there The court
house seems to be the rendezvous of q
gang of pilferers whose equals in villainy
have not often existed in this country, or
any other. They hold high carnival over
there, and apparently have but little fear
of punishment if detected in their crimes.
The excitement in regard to one outrage
barely subsidies before another is brought
to light"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar.

The Augusta (Ga.,) Chronicle and
Sentinel in presenting the views of this
gentleman, COPIED elsewhere)-says:
"Were We asked to-day to name the
foremost statesman of the South in public
life-to name man with the genius, with
the tact, with the courage, with the pa
triotism requisite to lead great political
party-we should unhesitatingly call the
name of L. @. C. Lamar He has a
mind capable of graphing with the gravest
political questions which can arise in this
the most critical period Of our .history.
He is gifted with an eloquence which
charms while it convinces; he has the
tact to conciliate those who can be won
over by Cancellation he is the possessor
of resolution which no difficulties can
shake, of a courage which no dangers can
appal; his integrity is without blemish,
his honor is without stain. He has all
the elements which combine 70 make a
leader of parties. He is politician in the
best sense Of that much abused word"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
THE paternity of the ilIustrious States.

The paternity of the illustrious States
man and christian philosopher, Pinchback,
seems destined to become aquestion as
mooted as the birth place of Homer. cit
is a wise child that knows its own father, .
says the proverb, and it is quite likely
that Pinch himself is not able to solve the
mystery. A newspaper rumor seemed
to fix the responsibility upon one of our
most esteemed and exemplary fellow
citizens, Gen. T. j. Holmes, and he has
performed the superogatory task (where
he is known of correcting it in a
card which will be found on our first
page.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

The municipal elections which took
place in Ohio last week went largely in
favor of the Democrats, and showed that
they have made substantial gains since
the State was carried in the ''tidal wave"
last year. These elections include the
cities of Cincinnati, $4,000 majority,
Columbus, (the capital and Cleye-
land, formerly the stronghold of Radical
ism. The Puritanic doctrines of the
Republican leaders on the liquor question
have driven the Germans into the Demo-
cratic fold. As for the Irish they are
natural-born Democrats. Besides many
of the old Democrats who were Temporal
rily alienated BY the sectional issues now
that they are settled, have gone back to
theirfrst love. Ohiois not essential to the
election of Democratic President in
1876, but if it should re-elect the Demo-
cratic ticket this Fall, the bottom will fall
out of the Radical concern.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
senator Bruce's TonsoriaI PrIvI.
Ieges
Washington Special to the philadelphia
Times

Washington Special to the philadelphia
Times.
The civil rights bill has come home to
the United States Senate in q most I'M
expected manner. Attached to the
chamber for the use of the members is a
Eirst-class barber shop, the artists in
which are paid by the government, and
provided at Its expense with an exquisite
stock of toilet article. The new colored
Senator from Mississippi, Bruce, who
is full-blooded negro, ayailed himself
of this tonsorial perquisite the second
day after he was sworn In, and has been
since then an occupant of one eff the
chairs for at least an hour every day.
As soon as he arrives in the morning, he
has his hair nicely curled by his colored
friends. and before he leaves in the af-
ternoon he gets fixed up again for dinner.
Some of the more fastidious Senators
who visited the place few mornings
ago. were astounded at the unusual sight
of a negro in the Senatorial barber shop,
the combs and brushes with which they
were accustomed to be adorned deity
fiyiDg through his kinky hair and over
his swarthy face. The result is they
have ever since given the Senate barber
shop wide birth, and held several in
dignation meetings on the subject.
All right, Bruce Stand on your
privileges and treat the sentimentalists
to doses of social equality Gd nalaeam.
The incident here related suggests the
inquiry what right U. S. Senators have
to establish tonsorial establishment for
their private use at public expense
If Bruce succeeds in converting the thing
into a nuisance and breaking it up, it
cannot be said that he has done no service
to the public.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
If Charles sumner was alive he would

If Charles Sumner was alive he would
not know his civil rights bantling. In
the first place it came into the world but
half made up, shorn Of the mixed school,
cemetery, church and other proportions
which constituted its loneliness in the
eyes of the great sentimentaIist but
what little there is of it, is construed
away. Butler says il don't mean saloons
and barber shops-Northern Republican
q. S. Commissioners are deciding the same
thing, and adding that it don't mean
a q. S. Judge. EN-
mons) who has never been ANYTHING but
q staunch Republican in politics, says
that it is unconstitutional and void, ergo,
that it means nothing.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

From the COrinth sub-soiler.J

from tile Corinth Sub-SOilerl
1t is with deep regret that we chronicle
the death of Judge james L. Stewart.
which occurred in this city, on last We'd
nesday evening, at about 7 o'clock, from
the effects of morphine. From all that
can be learned, the Judge deliberately
swallowed ten grains of morphine for the
purpose of putting an end to himself. A
few minutes after taking the fatal drug
he remarked to DIR. Beck that he had
swallowed it. The Doctor told him
that that was sufficient to kill him.
He remarked, that was just what he
wanted it to do, that unexpected troubles
had come upon him. and he wanted to
die
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

Gov. HENDRICKS contradicts a eport
that he had taken rooms at Washington
City for Presidential electioneering pur-
pose next winter. No sensible man be-
lieved it. The prominent men of the
Democratic party, no doubt, will all act
on the maxim that the office must seek
the man. 1t will give Hendricks chase,
but whether it will catch him or not, re-
mains to be seen. The party might go
farther and fare worse
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
a swIndIIng OmcInI.

j. 7. G. Campbell, n Justice Of the
Peace in the Trenton beat, Smith county,
left for parts unknown some time since,
and it has since been discovered that he
had been raising county warrants to a
considerable extent, and then disposing
of them. He has Il number of relatives
in that county, who are honorable gentle
men, and who looked upon him as an
honorable man, until this occurrence.
It is supposed he has gone to Texas
Brandon Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Labor Question Newr,.

LOWELL, Aprill0.- Them.I
tons scout the ideaottreatIugvt.
mittee of mule-spinnsrson tha
wages. They express a wiling
talk with their own employs m
ject at any time, but not wis
tons of secret societies. They
would prefer 70 shut down a
months rather than % accede %.
mands Of the operatives
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

Our contemporaries of the Vicksburg
Herald and Holly Springs South have
added important features to their jour
mails in the publication of abstracts of
Supreme Court decisions. The abstracts
for the Herald are prepared by Frank
johnson, Esq, an able member of the
jackson Bar. We will either initiate their
example, or draw copiously sfrom their
columns, giving due credit.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

AT the meeting in New York to sustain
Gov. Tilden in his war on the Canal
Rings, Hon. Edward Pierrepont (Rep.
uttered this truth the force of which has
been felt in the reconstructed States of
the South, and in none more than Missis-
sippi:
You cannot carry on successfully any
Government, unless you bring into the
foreground the intelligence and the hon
esty of the people for their lawmakers;
you cannot make wise laws without wise
men to make them; you cannot have
honest administration without you have
honest administrators.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Hooded stock for AIcOrm GInIVer-


Another Conn is needed-if what
we hear rumored IS correct-to inquire
whether S. j. Ireland, Proctor of Alcorn
University, purchased with State Funds,
blooded stock for that Institution, and if
supplying it with such property comes
within the range of his official duties?
Whether if purchased the stock ever
reached the Unworthy? If not, was it
left for safe keeping with University off,
cial And if so, why so i?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Homicide ut I3dward- Deg

From the Vicksburg Monitor
We received information f-
wards depot that Mr.. Clarence
on Sunday, killed one man anl w
two others. Mr.. Kidd was yer
exasperated at Sid Whitehead s
policeman or marshal at Edward
what was the cause of his anger w.
not learn. On meeting ID Eir
Sunday, they had very high va"
commenced fighting, when Wh.1l
ceived one or two slight cuts Dig &
When Kidd saw he had cut N6N
he attempted to go of, when W@
called to n negro named BaaEf
take him" When Bankston a.g-
to take hold Of him, Kidd r'u
surrender TO him, and cut BIN Do
bowels, from the effect of which b
ton died.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
wife Murderer seuten,..
Hanged.

ST. LOUIS, April lO.-Ar-.
killer has ,,. been sentenced 20 B.
here Wliiiain Morgan, an .l
who murdered his wife on ,bes,
81, 1874, aud was convicted n
term Of the Criminal Court n.
before Judge Jones TO-DAY i.
fenced to be hanged on FRIDAY
of Nav.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Yazoo city Election.

When our last paper was issued we had
not heard the result of the Yazoo City
elections, in which the Democrats won q
signal victory, in the success of the entire
ticket with George B. Wilkinson, Esq,
for Mayor at the head.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
state Medical Association.

This body assembled at Vicksburg on
the 9TH and adjourned on the 9th. Sew.
eral able addresses, and among others,
which are especially complimented for
the learning and eloquence displayed by
the orators, Is the one delivered by DR..
Lipscomb of Lowndes. The Convention
adjourned to meet at Jackson on the 1st
Wednesday in May. 1876. The conclu-
ding portion of the proceedings are copied
elsewhere.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Death OF MRS. yTnury.

From the Vicksburg Herald
We learn with unfeigned sorrow of the
death, at Memphis, last Saturday, the
10th inst, of Mrs. Jennie Elicit, wife of
DIR. Richard b. Maury, and eldest
daughter of the Hon. Henry T. Elicit,
formerly one of the Judges of the Mis-
sissippi High Court of Errors and APP
peals. Mrs. Maury was in the June of
life, and was most estimable and Chris
tan LADY,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

From the st. Louis Republican.
Maj. Craig, u. S. Army, aun
terday from Texas. Mauui1r
from Mexico continue 10 iula.
border in the neighborhood and
Eagle pass, and raids have been
on the ranches. The desperadoa
arrows and other weapons used b
dams on their trail, in order, u
lieve !, TO conveythe impression OBJ
are Indian raiders.
The whole country isina par.a
of decentralization. In some iusaa
outlaws are pursued across DE
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

On the eve of the Connecticut election
the n. Z. Herald said that cit would
"serYe to show whether the causes which
produced SO great and unexpected a
revolution last year are still in opera
"tion, and its result will be valued by
politicians only as premonition of
''what will be likely to follow" in future
elections.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

THE Brookhaven Citizen Republican,
frankly admits that the people of Lincoln
in electing Hon. R. R. Applewhite to the
Legislature, had in view the Jeffersonian
standard of honesty and competency,
and were not disappointed in their choice.
This endorsement by the Republican or
gan of the merits and efficient public
services of that excellent Representative
warrants the hope that he will be returned
at the next session BY unanimous vote.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
spinner Rc,lguatIo.

WAsHINGToN, April n n
Spinner to-day received h,
letter from the President
resignation as Treasurer 81,
States, and expressing nr r
official the warmest seutims,.
for him personally. together ~.
appreciation of his well kaa,-
patriotism and official iuter.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

The "banditti' in Connecticut are on
the rampage. They have defeated three
administration candidates for Congress
and the candidate for Governor who or
derered one hundred guns fired in honor
ofthe Grants Louisiana policy. Where
is Sheridan
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

Through the enterprise of our cotem-
porary, the Holly Springs South, We are
enabled to print on our first page several
decisions of the Supreme Court in rela-
ton to agricultural liens. One of these
cases is of special Importance as settling
an issue which frequently arises between
the merchant who supplies the laborer
and the proprietor of the land he cult
vates-the case of. Arbdekle VS.. Nelms.
NeIms, the landowner, rented thirty
acres of land to Kidd for three bales of
cotton. Arbuckle, merchant, took deed
of trust on Kids crop to secure pay
ment Of an old debt, and also payment
for supplies with which the growing crop
was made. When the crop was gath
cred, helms took his three bales for rent,
and Arbuckle brought suit to recover.
The Court decided that helms as land
lord was entitled to the cotton under Act
of April 18th, 1873.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
sarvey or 10 lII-.l..lnnI NJ.

Special Dispatch TO the st. Louise
WAsHrNGroN, ID. c., Apn.l0,
eral prominent officers named DO
der, Major Comstock and La
Davis, OF the Engineer Corps .
tailed, in addition 10 thsir pra.r
to report from time TO time, tao be-
water and width Of channel saar
maintained by Captain Eals u.
provement Of the mouth OF ODE
sippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
Cotton SRppIy and Consumption
A corresnondent furnishes the fill

A correspondent furnishes the follow
ing to the New York Chronicle:
Last year it was evident that the pro-
duction of cotton exceeded the consump-
ton; now the reverse is apparent, and
Europe Is likely to receive about 300,-
600 bales less than her requirements.
Planters should receive such state
ments with many grains of allowance
1t is now planting season and manufac-
turers are encouraging the production Of
a superabundant crop.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

THERE was a failure to elect Gov
ernor by the people at the late Rhode
Island election. There were three cam
didates in the field, neither having a ma
jority. The Democratic candidate was
the hindmost, and the choice by the
Legislature must be between Lippett, sup
ported by the Liquor Dealers League,
and Hazard, Republican, supported by
the Prohib itionists.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

The Beecher scandal case is still pro-
crossing. At last accounts the great Bull
of Bashan himself was on the witness
stand roaring and paving the ground,
and had well-nigh beloved the meek
and lamb-like Theodore out of court
to the infinite delight of the rest of the
Plymouth herd
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
ExchnnEfng PIncea
m the Yicksburg TImes.l

From The Vicksburg Tlmes.I
Col. Jno. B. Deason, District Attor-
ney of the nineteenth District, and Chan
cellor IT. Cassidy, have by mutual agree
ment exchanged places. Both resigned
and were Immediately appointed by the
Governor to one another's position. Col.
Deason will make a good Chancellor,
and Mr. Cassidy an efficient Prosecuting
Attorney and honors are easY.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

New JERSEY will have to be recon
strueted. She has no respect for civil
rights. The papers report that a case of
miscegenation was cured at the quiet
village of Asbury, by the application of a
coat of tar and feathers, and notice to the
contracting parties "to quit"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
The CorroN PLANT is unreasonable.

The COTTON PLANT is unreasonable.
1t exacts of us an impossibility. 1t
wants US to explain how it is that New
Hampshire at the recent election event
Republican by quite majority" when
in fact it did not go Republican by any
majority at all. The Republican candi-
date for Governor received plurality of
139 votes over his Democratic COMPETE
tor, and the Democrats gained two Con-
gressmen.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

The Kinds county Gazette announces
the deaths of two old and useful citizens,
DIR. I'll. B. Gibbes of the Raymond neigh
borhoOd and Col. S. D. Kelley, who for
several years past has been engaged in
business pursuits at Bolton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

THE EASTERN ARGUs.-This journal
has been transferred by F. T. Cooper,
Esq, to Capt. j. ~ Wells, an expert.
enced journalist and able writer, to whom
We wish success in everything but the
propagation of his political opinions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

KINDS, frst-class Radical ex-mar-
shall of Alabama, is in trouble. He has
been arrested for tampering with mail
bids, and has been held for trial in a bond
of $25. 900.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

r. w. CARRoLL, Esq, who has con-
Quoted the SenatObia Signet for the past
two years, with ability and upon Con-
sentative basis, retires and the paper viii
henceforward be issued as . Republican
organ.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14

A great number of Southern exon.
gressmen are still here seeking for place.
Carpet baggsrs from Arkansas and Mis-
sissippi are notable among them. Wash
ington Despatch.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-14
PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS.

One hundred and eighty-fve votes viii
constitute a majority of the electoral
college and elect the next President. OF
this number the following may be relied
upon as almost certain for the ticket of
the Democrats and Liberals: