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REPORT.

REPORT.
gain Is the report of the Ames'
ktberss Committee as submitted by
s'oh' chairman, on Tuesday:
LEGIsLATIvE DEPARTMENT,l
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.
February 22d, 1876
C nAhER: = The undersigned, a
Ion ne appointed under a
/ av OF of THIS House, adopted on
eiaI CO.. 0n January last, to investigate
mes VCCnuuct OF his EXcellency, Adel-
|, and governor ~ of the State of Mis-
lion b W report the result of such in
&tbe the Pack PACK to this House, beg leave to
5lige6t1, ght.days your Committee has
lisehsrgga and industriously engaged
be adonss;e OF the duties devolved upon
Il has p poI of the resolution afore-
sat from three to five hours ev-
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Congressional Record, Feb. Il, 1876
Mr.. ALCoRN: | rise for personal eXpla-
nation. l desire to have a paragraph read.
The PRESIDENT pro ten.pore: The Secretary
will read il.
The Chief Clerk read, as follows:
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Cases Decided Monday, Feb. p.

PREPARED FOR THE CLARION r, r......
JOHNSTON. TsQ.
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Observation-Disclosures DAY.

THURSDAY, February a. 1876.
Mr.. Speaker Street in tie chair. Player
by Rev. Mr.. Zealy. Present 100, absent l6.
Mr.. Walden called up the bill to protect
parental authority over minor children. and
the bill passed-yeas "a, nays 49, absent %
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HOUSE-FORTY-FIFTH DAY.

FRIDAY. February Goth, 1876.
Mr.. Speaker Street in the chair. Present
103, absent -.
Leaves of absence were granted MeSSrs
Nelson, Drake, and OVertOn (cOl.)
THE DAVIS CASE.
The Secretary ofthe Senate appeared
the bar of the House and announced tina
the Senate, as court of Impeachment, was
ready TO proceed with the trial OF \. X Da-
Wis, Northumberland.
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i0USE-FORTY-THIRD DAY,

WEDNESDAY, February %, 1875.
Speaker Street in the chair. Prayer
~ Mr. Hunter. Present 80, absent Ia.
.EEes OF absence were granted to Messrs.
Rbell and Warren.
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WEDNESDAY, February p, 1876.
n-..i5aut stone in the chair; absent
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w. i. TUCKER,
w. A. PERCY,
III. l.. MULDRow.

Mr.. Parsons submitted minority re-
port.
RESOLUTION.
The Com mittee also reported the follow
ing resolution;
Resolred, That Adelbert Ames Governor
of the State of Mississippi, be impeached
or high crimes and misdemeanors in Office
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THURSDAY, February "A, 1876
Mr.. President Stone in the Chair. ADJ
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30
A Pigmy Graveyard in Tennessee.

An ancient graveyard of vast proper
tions has been found in Coffee county.
It is similar to those found in White
county and other places in Middle Ten
nessee, but is vastly more extensive, and
shows that the race of pigmies who once
inhabited this country were very numer-
Gus. The same pecuiarities of position
observed in the White county graves are
found in these. The writer of the letter
describing the burying- place, says :
"Some considerable excitement and Gu
riosity took place few days since near
Hillsboro, Coffee county, on James
Browns farm. A man was blowing In a
field which has been cultivated many
years, and plowed up mans skull and
other bones. After making further ex-
animation, they found that there was
about six acres in the graveyard. They
were buried in sitting or standing po-
sition. The bones show that they were
dwarf tribe of people, about three feet
high. It is estimated that there were
abut rs, 600 to 100000 buried there. -
N0shvilLe AaseTdc07a.
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Colorado Town.

With population at present nearly
400, and far exceeding that last fall, it
has never, in all these years, had death
or wedding never has had a Sunday
school or religious services of any kind ;
has neither doctor nor lawyer whose
time is devoted exclusively to profess
slonal business has no dance-houses or
courtesans had printing Office before
it had a store, saloon, saw-mlll, or post
office has public school attended by
about thirty pupils and is particularly
remarkable for the high moral tone which
pervades its society. City (CoL)
Sslver World.
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Munchausen in Georgia.

The Cuthbert (Ga.) Messenger con-
tests the foremost place with the follow
ing: Gone day last week some negro
children were. playing near a creek in
Quitman county, when an alligator
crawled out and swallowed one of the
children. Next day party caught the
alligator, cut him open, and took the
little negro ont alive. This is DO news
paper lie, but was reported to us by
lawyer (and they never he1, who sub
stantiates the statement by two negroes
who saw the child We don't question
the allegation, but we strongly suspect
the alligator. Why don't these Quit
man folks keep their children away from
the alley-gate9"
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Had he possessed little moral courage,
| shudder to think what might have been
the result
Fun in the United States senate.

In retreat near this city is ex-senator
Nye, Or at least what remains of his
once brilliant intellect, genial qualities,
and manly person. Struck down by q
melancholy disease, beyond the hope OF
recovery, he only awaits happy release
from earthly ills. And yet few, if any,
remember him other than with The kind
lest feelings, when he is remembered
at all. Happening In the Senate one
day, we found Mr.. Sumner giving his
torical account of the g first blood y
shed in the rebellion. Mr.. Sumner
stated that negro citizen had been
beaten and maltreated by mob at Alex
andria, had escaped from his persecu-
tors, and, fleeing to the Capitol. told the
story of his wrongs. When he lifted
his cap from his head, 'three drops of
blood" fell upon the marble hoorl A
discussion followed in reference to the
services of the volunteers In Washing
ton, who enrolled themselves to protect
the capital from invasion, In which Sen
ators Nye and Willard Salisbury, of
Delaware, participated.
81 was In Washington In that trying
hour" exclaimed Nye, sand enrolled
myself as volunteer to defend the cap
ital of the nation from the rebels who
threatened its capture -
"Did you fire gun9" roared Willard
Salisbury from his seat, unable under
the pressure of circumstances to arise.
"No!" retorted Nye. "The rebels
didn't come as we expected. They dis
appointed us.
NThen, Mr.. President" said Sauls-
bury, with great gravity, ST wish to
claim equal credit with my friend from
Nevada. /, too, was present, and volun-
teered on that memorable OCCASION
"Did you fire gun?" demanded
Nye.
"NoP' exclaimed Salisbury, in thun-
der tones, :" did not fire gun but
must remind the gallant Senator from
Nevada that, in the bloodiest battle in
which he was ever engaged, I was by
his side"
The Senate fairly shrieked with laugh
ter, in which Nye and the galleries
joined. -Noah's Sunday Times.
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,JObIink Escapes.

Joblink sat reading his paper in his
peaceful home last evening when the fol
lowing item attracted his attention:
The Won1GYa's Journal wants women
regularly drafted in the army, "not
merely to fight, but to make clothing
and accouterments, to cook, wash and
nurse"
Joblink raised his eyes from the jour
nal and riveted them upon the face and
form of Mrs. Joblink, grimly and pious-
~ perusing the Bible at the other side of
the table. The gaze was SO long and
steady that Mrs. Joblink, feeling its in
fuence, looked up. Joblink started,
turned red, and pretended to be reading
with uncommon interest.
"What's the matter with you now?''
snapped the good woman.
"Nothing, my DEAR" replied the dis
ingenious husband.
What are you reading there, job
link2 Something about women again,
I s'pose."
eyes, my dear, stammered Joblink.
"What is it 2" demanded the lady.
And Joblink read:
The WOmsu1s's Journal truly says:
Man may at times have glimmerings
of that profound beauty of soul which
belongs alone to women. He may in his
higher moments perceive that innate pu-
rity of mind and instructive love of
truth inseparable from the sex. Man
may see these things from afar off, but
his grosser nature keeps him eternauy
from reaching the angelic level :"
every true" said Mrs. Joblink, re-
turning to her Bible.
Joblink heaved sigh of relief, and, if
anybody had been there to observe him,
he would have seen that ordinarily Sc
date gentleman winking to himself from
time to time and chuckling inaudibly.-
VI1.0i,aix NeU. Chronicle.
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The Mallet and the Speaker.

The little mallet with which the pre-
siding officer In the House punctuates
it's proceedings is a fatal instrument In
| the hands of Cox. It is curious to note
the power or the weakness which comes
out in the handling of the gavel. To
use it promptly, at the right time and
sparingly, is the secret of success in the
chair. The slightest incompetence with
the gavel vitiates quickly che power of
any presiding officer. Mr.. Kerr under
stands this, and never annoys the House
by frantic hammering. Mr.. Cox's way
is to keep up petty pounding, which
would give blind person in the gallery
the impression that somebody was put
ting down carpets below. Kerr's gentle
and deliberate, but emphatic and fore
ible manner, would almost enable him
to dispense with the gavel in the ordi-
nary proceedings of the House. When
there is disorder, Mr.. Kerr does not
jump up and pound, and blusteringly
add to the confusion, but he sits quietly
in the chair, tells the House, in pleas
ant tone of remonstrance, that 9 there Is
so much confusion IN the hall that 1t is
impossible to go on with the business OF
the House," and remains silent until
members have settled in their seats and
the confusion is diminished, SO that any
members voice can be heard across the
hall. A prominent member of the House
insinuated to me, the other day, that
Mr.. Kerr was better Speaker even than
Mr.. Blaine; that Mr.. Hlaine excited the
House by his rapid manner and his en-
ergy Of utterance, frequently arousing
antagonisms, and adding heat to the de-
bates. The House feared Mr.. Blaine;
it respects Mr.. Kerr, and his speaker
ship is thus far more successful than
many of his own friends thought it could
be- Washington Cor. Boston Herald.
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According to NJ. Noback, an eminent
French scientist, very little beer is con-
sumed in the United States in compari-
son with European countries, some of
which are. not larger than one of our
States. NJ. Nobaok computes that each
person In Bavaria consumes upon the
average 542 gallons per annum; in Bel
gium, 45l gallons; in Wurtemburg, 381
gallons; in Great Britain and Ireland,
294 gallons; in Saxony, Is gallons; in
Baden, II gallons; in Alsace- Lorraine,
124 gallons; in Prussia and Hanover, 81
gallons; in Holland, 81 gallons; and in
Austria, 81 gallons. In the United
States, however, each inhabitant con-
sumes per annum but 81 gallons.
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"HOssEs is HOSES. {"
RY RREr HARrE.

Besutifuls Sir, you may say 80. Thar isn't her
match IN the county,
Is thar. old gal Chquita, my darling, my beauty!
Feed of that neck, sir-thar's velvet Whea
Steady-ah. will you ? you vixen!
WhoaI Isay. Jack, trot her out; Let the gentleman
look at her PAGES.
1Iorgans-She amt nothin' else and I've got the
papersto prove it.
Sired by Chippewa Chief, and twelve hundred dol
lars won't buy her:
Briggs Of Tuolumne owned her. Did you know
Briggs Of TuOluD1nc2-
Busted hsself in White Pine, and blew out his brains
down in Friscof
He'd mt no savey-hed Briggs Thar, Jack that'l
do-quit that foolinr
Notain to what she kin do when she's got her work
cut out before her.
Hoses Is HOSES, you know, and likewise, too jock
eys is Jockeys;
And faint every man as can ride knows what a
boss has got in him.
Know that old ford on the Fork, that nearly got
Flanigan's leaders?
Nasty In daylight, you bet, and mighty rough fora
in low wateri
Struck for that ford in the night, in the rain and
the water all round US.
Up to our TANKS In the guIch and Rattlesnakes
Greek just biIin',
Not plank left in the dam, and nary bridge on
the river.
had the gray, and the Jedge had his roam. and his
nevey, Ohiqu1ta:
And after us trundled the rocks Just loosed from
the top Of the canon.
Lickity lclity, switch, we came TO the ford, and
Chiquita
Buckled right down to her work, and afore could
yell to her rider,
Took water Jest at theford, and there the Jedge
and me standing,
And twelve hundred dollars of hOSs-de5h ahoat an
a driftin' to thunder
Would ye blieve it, that night, that hossthat ar
iIy-Chiquita
Walked herself into her STALL and stood there all
quiet and dripping!
Caean beaver or rat, with nary buckle of har-
ness,
Just as she swan the Fork-that boss, that ar'
FLY, Chiquita.
That's what I call boss and-what did you say?
%. the neyey?
Drownded, reckon --leastwise he never KEN back
TO deny it.
Ye see the derned fool had no seat-you couldn't
have made him rider;
And then, we know, boys will be boys, and bosses
well, bosses is hossesI
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MY CONOUERER.


0 wicked suggestion Of malice,
You know what cannot refuse;
And yet, when l play with you, Alice,
NJ fate from the frstj to lose.
lis not that You scheme like German,
Or wonderful tactics display:
Your eyes so decree in firman,
My heart is compelled to obey.
Then who can Withstand the confusion
You always contrive to create?
Your king and my queen in collision,
Soon manage to settle her fate.
Your knights, without pang or conjunction.
AT pleasure assume to be rocks;
Your pawns, with bishop-like junction.
Make moves never taught in the books.
Your queen thinks her foes too enraptured
To harm her wherever she moves:
And coolly declines to BE captured.
When daring unfortunate proves.
With triumph and victory laden,
their efforts she treats with disdain:
All, say, is she not like the maioen
My heart has been suing in vainY
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Great Floods in France.

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Herald telegraphs as follows:
6 The terrible foundations have effectu-
ally thrown cold water on French poll
tics, and the noise of the storms has
drowned for the moment the hum of the
Legislature at Versailles. Almost all the
French rivers have overfowed their
banks, and Paris is beginning to resem-
BILE Venice, boating parties being one OF
the necessities Of the hour, although
sOhe! le cGaot' is not the pleasant
sound it used to be. There have been
no such succession of storms and foods
in France since the breaking up of the
winter in the ever memorable year of
1915. The damage to property has been
enormous all over the country"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

A CIRCULAR saw-a proyerb that goes
the round of society.
The higher classes-the "lore"
classes. The lower classes-the "hire"
classes.
JOHN MACKAY's income is $500, 600 a
month. He lives in this country, and is
not a railroad president. He owns
silver mine.
A CERTAIN woman, never q widow,
frequently speaks of her slate hus-
band" because he never gets home till
after midnight.
A MAN who offered bail for friend
was asked by the judge if he had an IN
cumbrance on his farm. sob, yes"
said he, "my WIFE
SPEAKING of names, lady once &C
costed another at an evening party thus
"Why, don't you know me I'm
Hogg." Her father had borne that name.
PROF. LOWELL, as illustrating the
humorous, mentions an advertisement
that caught his eye some time since
Wanted, by boy, situation in an
eating house. He is used to the bust
ness.
Our in the Black Hills, when you buy
a bowl OF bean soup, you take of your
coat, dive for bean, and when you
come up with it the proprietor of the sa-
loon takes it away from you, and says
you only paid for the soup.
A GREEN BAY man, when praised for
having lived with his wife for twenty
three years without cross word be-
tween them, dryly replied: "And yet,
If she wanted velvet cloak, and 1
wouldn't get it, she might poison me! "
Mr.. RENTz, the new clothier in Dan
bury, has excited public curiosity by
having large apple painted on his sign.
When asked for an explanation, he qui-
apple, where would the ready-made cloth
ing stores be to-day?"
A LAWYER, about to finish bill for
costs, was requested by his client,
baker, to make it as light as possible.
"Ah!' said the lawyer, "yOu might
properly enough say that to the foreman
of your establishment; but that is not
the way I make my bread"
SAID a Buffalo lawyer the other day, in
the. course of his plea g when man
sits down to eat his dinner in the bosom
of his family" Here he was inter
rupted by his opponent with, "That's
curious proceeding for full-grown
man."
"DEAR, dear who broke my favorite egg?"
Cried Biddy Bantam to her daughter;
"Some lazy cur, too proud to beg,
Has mashed it-and he hadn't ought ter"
The child gave pathetic craw,
Her rueful tears began to thicken,
She sobbed aloud, +" broke it, ma =
This little person is my chicken.
Some albumen and lime nj buy
And make another one to match it;
o ma! cannot tell a lie
did it with my little hatch it !"
THREE or four Detroit girls were the
other day discussing the character and
standing of certain young man, and an
old lady was close listener. One of
the girls finally remarked !: "Wel, L
guess he's rich, for I saw him coming
out of a bank the other day" "And |
guess he drives street car" put in the
old lady, "for saw him jump off car
one day last week. Fire Press.
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THERE is in Beach Island, near Au
gusta, S. O., youthful horseback rider
who surpasses even the celebrated Rob
ert Stickney. He is only about thirteen
years of age. Jumping upon his horse,
he stands perfectly erect, urges the ami
NAL to sweeping gallop, and thus rides
for miles over hill and dale. While thus
standing on the bare back of his horse,
he often rests on one foot, raising the
other, and changes from the right to the
left at will.
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HENRY BEAVER, of Chester, Delaware
county, Pa, has a Bible that was printed
in 1899, or 277 years ago. It has in it
a record of birth Ia 1924, of death
in 1929, and of marriage in 1892.
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In the crown of England there are one
large ruby, one large sapphire, sixteen
sapphires, eleven emeralds, four rubies,
1 1863 brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose dia-
monds, lat sable diamonds, 4 drop
pearls. and 273 pearls.
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JOSH BmLnTGs says: ssMost men will
concede that it looks foolish to see boy
dragging heavy sled up hill fo1 the
feeting pleasure of sliding down again.
But 1t appears to me the boy Is sage
by the side of young man who works
hard all the week, and drinks up his
wages on Saturday night"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

GEN. Tom THUMB is reported to have
In contemplation the establishment OF
AN extensive stOck-ranche in Texas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

The population of Paris in 1874swas
1851, 1872. On the LIST of January, 1876,
it was only 1,799, $50.
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repeated several times under her breath,
but loud enough for me to hear, " Brave
man
All this enjoyed, and took the OPP
portunity to discourse severely upon
the sacredness of honor, in defense of
which I asserted that any man ought to
be willing to lay down his life.
In the course of the afternoon had
the pleasure of Witnessing the sailing of
the Ariel, Capt. Brown on board.
Whether this circumstance had anything
to do with inspiring in me these eIe-
waited sentiments, I leave the reader to
judge.
The next morning at an early hour
proceeded to the field with my second.
Capt. Ac1silles Browaa aOas ssoschere
to be seen
/ professed great deal of disappoint-
to allow him time to appear. OF course
to the remarkable courage which I dis
played under the circumstances, and
rendered their congratulations. The
affair even found it's way into the pa
pers, and ] found myself all at once ele-
waited into hero. / could not walk
Broadway without being furtively point
ed out as the celebrated duelist. Among
the ladies, particularly, became an OBJ
ject of great attention. circumstance
that may well excite surprise when it is
con idered that my only claims to their
regard lay in my having been implicated
in an affair which the moral sense of the
community processes to condemn.
Soon afterward left my boarding
place, to the great regret of the fair So
phronia. I afterward learned that. had
shown the white feather, it was ar
ranged that Lieut.. Eustace should force
me into marriage with his cousin. on
pain of duel with himself. The extra
ordinary show of courage which I ex-
hibited imposed upon him to such an
extent that he did not think it advisable
to offer the alternative, lest I should &C
cept the duel.
I have heard nothing of Capt. Achilles
Brown since the memorable day on which
he did.me the service to sail for Cuba.