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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1875-11-11
RPMG ERiS.

As lost my store goods and books by the
fire Of Thursday morning, 4th Nov, and
having no insurance whatever, | earnest
" call on all owing me to come forward and
settle their accounts at once. | am com
PEELED to settle with my creditors, and
unless those owing me promptly respond
to this l will he greatly embarrassed.
Friends, | have been very l%enient with you,
and trust you will help me.
/ have just moved in my old store on
Monticello street, and will soon have in
store a new stock of stoves and tinware
suited to the trade. l.. PRINCE.
Brookhavcn, Nov. II, 1875. 1t
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UP Again.

We are pleased to note the fact that
Col. j. l.. Power, Secretary Of the
State Fair Association, who has been
confined to his house for several days,
has SO far recovered as TO be able 10
pursue his usual %avocatiOns.
The State Fair Association could
lily afford to be deprived of the Col
onel's valuable seryice.-Itmes.
Without Col. Powers assistance the
fair ,Duld moi be a success.
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e 6GfI.

| take th;s method of returning thanks
to my many friends in general, and esle.
ciallv the ladies, who assisted in saving my
goods on the morning of the late fire
Through their efforts | saved the greater
portion of my stock.
| have lust moved in the Storm build
ing, where | am now prepared to sell dry
goods and groceries at a slight advance
upon cost. | will be happy to see my
friends at my new quarters.
CHAS. HEUCK.
Brookhaven, Nov. 18th.
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Gov. HENDRICKs does not take
much stock in the third term business.
He thinks President Grant is out OF
the field. As for the Ohio defeat. ne
is not a bit down-liearted. 1T isn't
so awful" he said TO a reporter of
The L0uisUiNe Cou1Ter-jOuTRol. 81
have known worse things to happen
in politics. Naturally it will make ii
harder for US TO win in the Prcsiden-
tial campaign next year.
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A most remarkable. but true,

A most remarkable, but true, in
cidcnt reaches us as having occurred
in the neighbolhooi of Center, this
county. Toby Burk. son of Mr.. v
j. Durk, while hunting a short time
since. caught three young squirrels
ana carried them home, where a
mother was unexpectedly provided
for them-a benevolent house cat
took charge of them. and suckles
them TO this day. The squirrels are
now half grown, and they and the
cat sleep together in beautiful har'
mony.-KOSciuskO Star.
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Mrs. Mary Arthur, of this city, had
two sons. David S. Arthur. and &.
w. Arthur, in the Confederate army.
She has rcason to believe that one OIL
her sons is dead, and she has not
heard Of the other for years. Any
person knowing the whereabouts OF
either OF her sons will confer IA great
favor upon a widowed mother by adj
dressing her in Vicksburg.
Southern journalists will confer
favor BY giving this paragraph an in
scrtion in their respective papers.
-Ttchs6uyy Uearld.
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TO OUR sc BSCRIRh;ssS.

The election is now Owe and the
nerves of all should he steady and
every subscriber of The LEDGER who
rejoices at the victory we have won
should remit the amount he is due
us. We are in need Of money. ami
urge delinquents TO respond to His
at once.
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Seal Probably HYea ten.

Special to the LEDGER
JACKSON, Nov. IL, 1873.
The chances are against Seal. lie
is now behind Lynch about 400 votes,
with Perry county yet to hear from
Hemingway's majority. seven counties
only to hear from, aud five of them
Democratic, 29,l4l.
MARION SMITH.
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JNo. =. RAYMOND.

.After almost five years lard labor
upon the columns of this paper. the
present issue witnesses my withdraw
al from it. Ill health is about the on.
w reason necessary to be urged il
favor of, it is to DE hoped, only a tenn.
Dorary retirement from a profession
which has been NV support and the
support of my family for twenty-five
wears. | am warned by able physi-
clans that, without a season of RESI-
from mental toll, and the absence OF
the accompanying excitement of a
journalists career, | am liable to sut.
fer serious injury. The field Of labor
is my chosen one. 1t Is, therefore,
with sincere regret that depart from
it even for Il brief season.
TO my very many kind friends OF
the State Republican press, | extend
these parting words with Il feeling OF
sadness that ! am no more to read
their excellent journals, and nc
longer to labor with them for a cause
that has always been to me most dear.
May they find their works 10 prosper,
and may l,iey, each and every one
Of them, meet a richer reward in the
happy hereafter than is vouch-safed
the editor OF a newspaper here below
To the editors OF the Democratic
newspapers in the State, | leave my
record, while IN active partisan. as
found in The files of the Pilot. | am
not ashamed Of it. W. have differed
somewhat in the past. and, should !
remain connected with the press 70,
many wears, would still differ, but
we need not be enemies. TO the con
cuctors OF the Ciu1lOn. | return
thanks for their invariably fair and
manly treatment Ofone who came as
strangers. / believe that re
tain their respect. if not their warm
esteem. 10 their ability | give q
parting, 1but-wii4sng and heartfelt
tribute.
TO all Republicans l say-Fare-
well!
70 The proprietors OF aIe Pilot a
word: They have always done their
best to second any effort, and all EFF
forts. that | have made to add to the
strength, prosperity, ahu increase the
success of the Republican party of
Mississippi. | part with them with
sorrow. TheY have been good
enough to express regret that | am
compelled to separate from them, but
the .fat is inevitable.
| propose remaining in MissiSsip-
pi; but what my calling may be, is
vet to be learned. That the prospect
is as promising as it W has been fol
those who may be dependent upon
their own eXeriions for a livelihood
| hope and trust may be among the
probabilities under the expected
change in the political compile Xion o
The State.
II. II. WHIpPLE.
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VinanltsGivin. Proclamation
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
My \. 1879

JACKSON, Nuy. D, 1919
In compliance with time-honored
custom in reverential ackno Wedge
ment Of dependence upon Divine
Providence. and in gratitude for the
blessings bestowed upon us during
the past yeal, | do hereby :ecom-
mend to The people OF his State to
observe
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 90. 1873,
as a day for Thanksgiving and pray
CT.
Given under my baud and
Seal the seal OF the State this 9th
day of November, a. d..
1875.
ADELBERT AMES
BY the Governor:
JANIS HILL,
Secretary of State
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The Vote i'm Ohio.

Official voteior Governor: Hayes
297 ,Sl2, Allen ~, 264. Hayes MAORI
ty 5,549. Lt. Governor: Young
297, 93l, Carey 287, 1868. Young.s ma
tjority, 9,963. Highest prohibition
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II II

Those persons who wish their taxes
paid, at a considerable reduction, nau
better call on me, as / have a large
amount Of warrants to dispose of.
II. w. MILI.SAPS.
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Being obliged to return to Illinois, |
offer my house and lot on Cherokee street
for sale or rent. HELEN LATHROP.
Brookhaven. Nov. II, 1875. ct
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and alF articles usually. kept in a retail
store. My stock is well selected, ana
bought at bottom prices. Highest market
price paid for cotton and country produce.
i hope by honest and fair dealing to merit
and receive a continuation of the liberal
patronage | have heretofore received.
Oct 21-ly
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People,
LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST!
FRE1H MEAT!

The undersigned has resumed the
~butchering business, n would call the
attention of The public TO the fact. L
will keep constantly on hand the best
meats the market can afford, and will
sell it only at living prices. Beef, Nut
ton. Pork and Sausage in season. Come
and see me. .sCompetitiOn is the life OF
trade" My market will be open every
morning and evening, except Sunday
Sept. 2-tf.. LEM
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Farewell, Brothers Crawford.

Farewell, Brothers Crawford.
Immediately after the election the
editors Of the venomous Pilot wrote
the following pathetic valedic'ories.
Mississippi having gone overwhelm-
ingly Democratic, they have conclnd-
ed to retire. We believe we speak
the simple truth when we say these
men have done more to fire the pas
sions of the negroes than all other
| Radicals in the Stale. This being the
case, their withdrawal from a paper
thew have made odious TO decent
people. can not be regretted:
Having. some time since. disposed
of nv business interest in the Pilot
Publishing Company. aud at the same
date severed my connection with The
PU0t-retaining only an editorial
position-and, having at present, and
prospectivcly for some months to
come, other occupation, absorbing my
whole attention, | now find it neces-
sarv to withdraw from the editorial
department o: this Journal. During
my direction and management OF the
! Pilot, for nearly six years, | have en-
deavored to perform my Guty to the
people of the State of Mississippi.
and to the party with which | am
identified and for which | have earn
estly and unremittingly labored. If
| have failed in that effort, the fault
has been OF The head and not of the
heart. The fact that the paper has
received the cordial support of al
most the entire party is sufficient evil
dence to lie thai [ have not fallen
short in this respect. The withdraw
al of Mr.. Whipple and myself will
not, in any manner, interfere with the
course of the paper for the future, or
with its efficiency and p|ermanency as
a Republican journal.
JNo. i. RAYMOND.
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For Sale or Rent,

Brookhaven, Nov. 1lth.
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Real Estate Going Begging.

IF real estate is difficult TO sell in New
York, except at heavy concession from
prices ruling during and Immediately
after the war, the fact but reflects the
feeling in that important interest through
out the country 1t is by no means pc
culiar to New York. Even at Chicago,
fortunes which are common to the rest
of mankind, the situation is substantially
the same as it is here. At any rate, the
Tribune of that city says:
"If a man is very anxious to sell a
piece of property he can't and he might
as well quit trying. If he offers it at
half price the man to whom the offer Is
made at once imagines that all real es-
tate owners are in the same fix, and thai
in little while more than half the prop
erty in the city will be pressed upon the
market at the same price. But on the
other hand, if man wants to buy, and
begins negotiations for that purpose, the
property owner too often imagines that
the long-expected revival is at hand
and refuses to sell for anything less than
the prices of two years ago. We hear OF
occasional cases from time to Time in
which property is sold for actual use at
about the prices of two or three years
ago-as, for instance, lot on Michigan
avenue, south of Thirty-second street,
sold during the past week at $3.50 PEI
front foot, cash, to gentleman who wants
it to build on for his OWE occupation.
But cases of this kind are not very fire.
quent. The majority of fhe sales are
made at prices % per cent. below those
of two years ago, and we have even heard
Of a number of instances in the past
month in which property has been vol.
UNFAIRLY abandoned to the mortgages. y
-NeaO York BueLetiR.
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THE LOST WACO.
No TidinES from the Missing Crew and
E1n&semsers,

The mate of the ship Caledonia, which
was lying Immediately astern of the
Waco, states that he was on the deck of
the Caledonia, when he heard an explo-
sion. Looking in the direction of the
Waco, he saw she was enveloped in flames.
About half an hour later he heard cries
for assistance, and a few minutes later
saw two persons afoat on a fender or
piece of wood. The mate made prepara-
tions for sending assistance by setting
out the life lines and life buOys. The
sea was running so high at the time that
was impossible to launch boat. After
hearing the explosion he watched the
steamer closely, and states that after the
first few minutes the fire lost its fierce
character. All agree as to seeing five or
six persons in the water, and in also
hearing frequent explosions on the Waco,
which was no doubt the cases of oil.
All officers and experienced seamen are
of the opinion that it was impossible for
a boat to have been launched from the
Waco on account of the rapid spread of
the fire and the terrible sea that was
running. There is nothing later from
the west. Capt. Sawyer, agent Of the
line, is out since yesterday morning with
a good crew. They will remain outside
as long as there is any hope of saving
one of the passengers of the crew of the
Waco
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Woman in Business.

The pretended incapacity of women
for business, says an exchange, has no
foundation in nature; and is no justifica-
tion of the secrecy with which husbands
commonly keep from their wives what
they are pleased to call their own affairs.
In many foreign countries the woman
bears as active a part in the conduct OF
trade as man, and they are not seldom
directly associated together as partners
in business. 1t is a common thing In
England and on the continent of Europe
for the wife to succeed to the share and
management of her husbands business
at his death. This is often an arrange
ment very beneficial, and even essential
to the full security of the estate and the
best interests of the heirs. What con-
fusion and loss often occur in this country
in consequence ef studded death and the
hastv settlement that ensues, but which
might be prevented were the wife IA
miliar with the management of her late
husbands affairs, and thus enabled TO
conduct them, or bring them at least, to
prosperous termination. While men
insist upon believing that dry goods, pig
iron. and other small ware are entirely
too abstruse for the comprehension of
women. and will rot apply their own
great understandings to the enlighten-
ment of their wives little ones, they must
resign themselves to failure, in a great
degree, of the highest hopes of aspiring
trade.
An unreserved communication of his
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Statement of a Survivor of the Toronto.


The brig Centaur arrived from Grey
town. On the second of October she
picked up Spanish negro in boat be-
longing to the bark Toronto, of Glasgow,
wrecked near NavaZa, but when and un-
der what circumstances could not be
learned from the negro. The crew aban-
doned the bark in the same boat and all
perished, except the negro; he was in
sensible when found.
A reporter has had talk with the res
cued seaman, from which it appears that
soon after leaving Navaza furious storm
arose, and at eleven o'clock at night the
foremast broke off close to the deck. They
cut away the mast, and, an hour after,
the mainmast gave way, leaving only the
mizzen mast. The tempest was very
violent, yet the captain was below sleep
ing, and the first mate was lying on deck
disabled by a nail in the foot. Land was
then discovered and the captain was
called, under whose orders all hands took
to the longboat. 1t was, however, inn
mediately filled with water, and seven of
the men were washed into the sea. Some
of them clung to the oars but were soon
washed away, and the violence OF the
waves speedily carried the boat out to
sea with no provisions. For days they
drifted without food, but secured little
water from occasional rams. From Max
imo's account it seems clear that the men
lost their reason. He describes them as
walking about, looking at the sea and
sky Some leaped into the sea; some lay on
their backs, with their parched mouths
open, and so died. Others lay against
the boats side and dropped until they
died. speaking not word to their COM
panions. One by one they all went,
throwing themselves, or being thrown,
into the sea. At length he alone was
left He ate seaweed to sustain life. He
caught sea>tird occasionally, and some
times fish. When found he was drifting
along helplessly, reclining against the
side of the boat, his head dropping over
his bosom. He could not speak or move.
The boat of the Toronto, on board the
Centaur, shows where it has been scraped
by the men for the purpose of eating the
dirt that clung to the sides.
CONTENTS OF A FLOATING BOTTLE.
A special dispatch from London says
that a telegram from Rochelle, dated
November 18th, states that bottle con-
tanning the following message had been
picked up: November Sth, off the
coast of Niewdiep.-The crew of the
British ship Lennie, Captain Hatfield,
from Antwerp to New York, mutlnled
October 31st, and killed the master, mate
and bOatswain" A telegram from Ro-
chelle, dated November 10th, says a gov
ernment steamer discovered the British
ship Lennie off Yarmouth, with boy
and five men on board, a few of whom
are supposed to be accomplices in the
mutiny. Six of the crew are Greeks
and escaped from the ship the evening
previous.
The steamer Waco, burned in Gal
weston harbOr, had on board three hund-
red cases of petroleum. The vessel had
no right to carry this oil, being without
the necessary certificate, and her owners
will he 1nrnsncI1tod
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THE "sTONEwALL" BRIGADE.
BeaurcEard's Account or How the Nau,a
Orfgtnntad.


In letter 10 the New Orleans Pica-
yune, General Beauregard says:
During the battle Of Manassas, AbOut
II o'clock, A. NJ, when that gallant and
meritorious officer, Brigadier General
Barnard T.. Bee, was cndeavOrng % rally
his troops in the small valley in the rear
of the Robinson house, he noticed Jacl
sons brigade which had just arrived anil
taken position a little in the rear Of him,
in a copse of small pines bordering o.
the edge of the plateau, where was about
to be fought the first great battle Of tn
war. Bee, finding that his appeals wer
unhceded by his brave but disorganizcl
troops, then said 10 them: "Rally, mer,
rally. See Jackson's brigade standin',
there like stone wall" These word
gave the appellation TO the brigade, an |
thence 10 its heroic commander
The other incident occurred a. the DE-.
livery of the confederate battle-fags "a
my forces at Centreville in the autumn
Of 1861. Many Of these flags had been
made from ladies' red silk dresses, som,
of which were much faded, but nevc,
theless highly appreciated by our troop.
The brigade had been drawn up in col.
umns Of regiments on the plateau ot
Centreville, around small elevation,
where were stacked all the flags for di--
tribution. The Colonels Of regiments
marched 10 the front and formed a lint
near the colors. After addressing a few
remarks TO these officers, / handed cach
one in succession a flag. When / camn
to Col. Withers, he remarked: General.
it is nearly white, and may be mistaken
for a flag Of truce" / answered at once;
"Then, sir, dye IL in the blood Of our
enemies, which he promised, laughingiy.
To do. But he had occasion 30 dye 10
more than once in his own gallant blood,
and finally he was 10 desperately wound
ed that he had to be put on post duty
toward the end OF the war.
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surged alonside her, carrying away all
the starboard braces and rigging on that
side, and also the foretop mast.
| Sawyerstates that he hailed the steamer
I as she surged past, and called to them to
Law bv him and send boat, as he then
| supposed his ship to be in a sinking con
| dition, but no one answered him, neither
/ did he see anvone on her deck. She
drifted or steamed away; he was not cet'
| tain which; he afterward saw dash OF
| light, which he took for signal; he
| thought they had heard his hail and
would lay by him: he saw her no more !;
| his ship at that time demanded all his
attention he lay the remainder of that
night and nearly all day Friday repairing
the rigging that forenoon he got under
way and made all sail for land soon af-
| ter dark he made light he took it for
Cape Flattery, and knowing there was a
light on the coast further north; he al
lowed five miles clearance for Duncan
| rock, and considered himself safe for en-
tering Straits Fuca, when, at about five
o'clock Saturday morning his ship scraped
reef and Immediately after struck her
bow on rock, stuck fast and filled. The
light he mistook for Flattery was the
Cape Beal enterance of Barclay sound,
thirty miles north of the former. The
ship will be total loss. Sawyer got all
the valuables, etc, that he could cut of
her and encamped on shore with his wife
and crew in tents made of sails. He had
hired a canoe of the Indians and started
the mate to Victoria for help. The
weather was so bad that the Indians
would not venture on the voyage, and SO
they were found. When the WOlcOtt
arrived Lieutenant Harwo0d took them
aboard his vessel, with the most valuable
portion of the goods saved, leaving the
first mate of the Orpheus in charge Of
the wreck until the owners could be con-
suited. All were landed safely at Port
Townsend Friday. Nothing was heard
or seen in Barclay sound of anything re-
garding the Pacific. Captain HarwOod
and Pilot Peter Thompson went to the
wreck of the Orpheus and examined it.
They say the ship was undoubtedly struck
by the steamer just abaft the further
rigging. The Orpheus registered one
thousand and sixty-seven tons, and was
owned by G. T. Taylor & Co., of this
city. At the time of the collision with
the Pacific she was in ballast ON her way
to Departure bay for cargo of coal,
having sailed from here no the ninth in
stant. There is no hopes of rescueing
any more of those On the Pacific. There
has been heavy weather most of the
time since the wreck, and after the
search. No hopes are entertained of fur
ther discoveries.
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business affairs to his wife will often Sc
cure for the husband the counsel he re-
quires, and certainly relieve him from
the anxieties which oppress an undivided
responsibility. 1t would serve, also, TO
check much of that reckless expenditure
which is supposed to be characteristic Of
the wives and daughters of our people of
business, by not only showing the exact
means of the head of family, and how
far prudence will justify expenditure,
but by creating a common interest in the
methods taken and ends proposed by him
for building up fortune, and thus dis
posing all to cooperate with his manage
ment and economy.
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"A fifth-ward widow moved into her
new house the other day, and her first
six callers were ighteningrod agents.
She blufed them off one by one, but
when the seventh came he said /" L
don't claim that rod will protect the
house, but | do say that if | was looking
for a second wife I'd never marry wild
ow who didn't have lightning-rod on
her house And that's the way all rich
men think" You may put up two of
em! I" She promptly replied, "and be
sure they are conspicuous, too! !"-De-
tr0it Free Press.
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An apparatus for washing smoke,
and thus depriving it ofits character of a
nuisance. is in operation at a factory at
MeniImontant, Paris. A fine shower OF
water, travelling in the direction of the
smoke, and at five times its velocity, is
projected into the chimney, where it
mikes with the smoke, taking up the
soluable gases and precipitating the inn
purities carried up with the smoke by
the draught The foul water Is dis
charged into a cistern, where it is col
lected, and fine black paint is got from it.