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Smyrna times., 1876-10-25
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Milford is getting in her coal at $4.70 for
stove, $4.20 for nut.
J. W. Seymour, of Dover. has been gran
ted patent on fruit dryer.
About two hundred Dover residents visited
the Centennial on Delaware Day.
Supt. Groves will hold a public school
institute in Milford on Dec. 9th, 7th & Sth.
Fears are expressed that the new NJ. f.
Church in Milford will not be completed in
time for conference.
Mr.. r. L. Kane, who rode as the knight
OF Delaware in the Centennial tournament
is resident Of Baltimore county, Md.
Judge Houston is going to deliver a
historical lecture before the Delaware
Historical Society sometime this winter.
e rumord that Kendall Records. of
DaItImOre hundred, nominee for Reprssen-
tative on the Democratic ticket for Sussex
can neither read nor write.
Mr.. Nathan Cook, of near Camden, last
week sold his celebrated trotting mare,
"Fancy," to G. w. Fitzwater, of Philadel.
phia. Price 81 200 it is said.
On Delaware Day 4,744 Centennial rail.
road tickets were sold in Wilmington.
Thirty-one passenger trains passed over the
road going to Phila. that morning.
A Wilmington boy tried to steal some
ljewslry at the Turkish Bazaar, on the Cen
tennial Grounds few days ago, but wal
captured, by the proprietor. He was i'm
prisoned for 30 days.
The Teachers Institute of New Castl,
county will be held at Newark on the BOIL
OF November, the session continuing thre
days. Eminent educators will be in atten
dance and make addresses.
The time for the annual literary neetin
J of the Historical Society of Delaware ha
| been fixed for Thursday, December I4tL
Chief Justice Comegys will deliver the hi
torical address. 1t will be held in wi
} nington.
The morning train on the Delaware roat
Delaware Day, had to be divided into fou
sections and consisted Of forty-two cars, a
overloaded with passengers IL is estimate
that 5000 people attended the Centennii
I from this State.
. PETITIONS FOR PARDoS.--Petitions al
now being circulated praying for the Pres
dent to pardon DIR. VIM. ID. Nolen late Co
lector for this State, who last week pleadc
guilty to an embezzlement of goyernmer
' funds. 1t is said that the money embezzles
amounting to 5000, has been made up an
returned TO the government.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

Mr.. Charles Francis Adams has been
making some very cautious remarks about
the situation in South Carolina. A cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer visited
him at Quincy last Thursday to get his
opinion on the Presidents proclamation.
but as Democratic campaign document
the reported interview was not q success.
Ar. Adams said in the first place that he
was not prepared to give an opinion because
he did not know the reasons which induced
Gov. Chamberlain to call for troops. He
did not believe that the President, Just be-
fore relinquishing Office, would wish to per-
form so wicked an act as to send troops into
the State merely to control the election.
lie did not think that the President
would dare send troops into a State when
their services were not needed. If there
were any coercive measures adopted it
would be the result of Cabinet influences.
and he knew there was one man in the
Cabinet, Mr.. Fish, who would never sane
ton such arbitrary measures. He added :
president Grant has assumed an exceed
ingly great responsibility in sending troops
into that or any other State for the pur-
pose of controlling the election. 1t Is /.
matter only justified in the grave. ca
gency, and as yet | am not aware that such
an emergency has arisen. President Grants
Cabinet may have been biased by partisan
motives, and on that account urged the
forwarding of troops to South Carolina. II
such is the case-and indeed it looks very
much like it now-the only inference one
can draw is that il is done to Interfere with
the Democratic vote. Yet, as said before
we must wait and get the evidence which
induced Gov. Chamberlain TO make a re
QUESTION for United States troops before W,
condemn them.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

SEEING THE ABsURDITY OF TEMPERANCE
PoLIrIcs.-Occasional there is man in
the Prohibition party who sees the absurd
ity of running that organization as politi-
cal machine, merely to weaken the only
political party that has ever tried to do
anything for the temperance cause. The
Rev. A. G. Comingo of New Hampshire is
one Of the sensible ones. He declines to
be an Elector on the Prohibition ticket
because either Hayes or Tilden will be
the next President, and he does not see
any possible way for good to come to his
party through the Democrats, He urges
all of his friends, therefore, to support
Hayes directly instead of Tilden indirectly.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

SOLDIERS N SOUTH CARoLINA.-The great
est outcry of the campaign is that made by
the Democrats against the administration
for sending soldiers to South Carolina to
protect voters in their legal rights. This
assault upon the Republicans has been so
fierce and direct that we have really looked
upon the measure with some degree of dis
content, but it seems that there may be wis
dom in it after all. The Democratic out
cry is political "clap-trap," it would seem,
if we may judge from the expression of
some o. the South Carolina papers them
selves. For instance, the Nc,cs and Courier,
the leading Democratic paper of Charleston,
talks thus:
ITO put the case concisely, we contend
that the presence of the troops ought not
TO be injurious to the Democracy, because
the troops will simply prevent fraud and
violence. to which the Democrats have not
resorted and would not resort, and will,
besides, enforce that obedience to law
which the Democrats have never
refused. And we believe that it will be
worth three or four thousand votes to the
Democrats if a squad of United States sol
diers be posted at every polling precinct in
Charleston County, for these soldiers will
make it safe for colored men to vote for
Hampton, and will prevent the repeating
on which the Radicals rely for their najori-
ty. The chances are still in our favor, and
the proclamations, instead of disheartening 2
the people, should and will encourage them
TO work harder than ever before"
If this be the case, what are the Demo
Gratis growing about. While those of the
north are cOntending that the measure is a
blow at personal liberty, the leading paper
of South Carolina thinks it the very thing
to guarantee that liberty.
In this connection we will call attention
TO the remarks of Chas. Francis Adams, in
an item elsewhere printed in this issue.
Some of Mr.. Adams's Democratic friends
wanted him to condemn the measure, but
Mr.. A. said he could not say whether it was
right or wrong until he had a proper basis
TO 60 upon, like the Cabinet has. While
he could neither endorse or condemn a
thing in which he was not posted, he felt
sure that Mr.. Fish and other members oi
the Cabinet would not sanction a thing
they did not believe to be right.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

In writing of President Grant, a CORES.
pondent Of the London Times says En-
glishmen who are accustomed to think of
the President of the United States as one
of the most powerful rulers in the world, q
ruler compared with whom any monarch ofa
constitutional country is politically almost a
cipher, are not little astonished TO find
him leading the life Of an ordinary private
citizen of comfortable but moderate means.
There is nothing todistinguish his Cottage
from those of his neighbors except that all
day the passing excursionists have been
craning their nscks over his fences in the
hope OF getting peep at him as he walks
from room to room, some of them having
taken the iudicious precaution to brina
opera-glasses. Every Englishman
must hope that in England he will be
accorded the reception to which his high
reputation and illustrious career, and per
haps to certain extent the harsh treat
ment which has lately been dealt out ia
him here, so amply entitle him."
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25
GBe Smprna Gimes,
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, October 25.

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Sers
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

THE most encouraging polical news we
can give is that the election is not quite
two weeks off.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

When David Livingstone was boy he
was obliged to be at the mills by six o'clock
every morning, and he did not leave until
eight o'clock in the evening. 1t might be
we'll supposed that the little factory boy
would have been glad to rest during the
short time that he was not at work. But a
lad with such a spirit of determination as
Davie possessed was not easily to be deferred
from pursuing the course which he had
marked out for himself. When he received
his first weeks pay he forewith purchased a
Latin grammar with a portion of it, and
within very short time joined an evening
school. This school was a very humble
one, and it was partially supported by the
owners of the cotton mills for the benefit oil
those employed by them, the dominic
who carried it on being thus enabled to
give instruction at low rate TO his pupils
Davie now. began to learn in real earnest,
continuing, night after night, to attend the
school until ten o'clock, and then devoting
two hours-sometimes more, unless his
mother prevented him by taking his books
away-to the preparation of the following
days lessons; and SO absorbed was he al
ways in his thoughts that tho hard work in
which he was regularly engaged seemed
almost to be lost sight of by him.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

Mrs. Jane M. Walker, President Folks
sister, who died at Columbia, Tenn, few
days ago, left just one hundred grand and
grandchildren
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

Gov. HAYES, of Ohio, the republican
nominee for PresidentS will depart from his
determination not to visit the East again
this season, and will 60 to Philadelphia to
preside at the reception at the Ohio head.
qarters tomorrow, October 26, that day
being designated as the Ohio day.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

1t is significant that the Southern press
does not seem to care to discuss the proba-
bility Of the payment of Southern claims in
case of Democratic success. Some Of their
journals get indignant about the matter,
but none of them attempt to pledge the
South against the granting of these claims.
Occasionally hot.headed son of chivalry
breaks out in frank confession like the
following, which Mr.. w. S. Upton of Cleve.
land, Tenn, makes to the Cincinnati Com
merciaL: "You are continually abusing the
South about something. You Nothern folks
got rich off the war, while it broke the
South up. You are always harping about
Southern claims. The people Of the South
have a right to be paid for everything that
was destroyed by the Yankees. And we are
going to have il. II is nothing but right
that we should be paid, and we intend
to be. lost 20 negroes, and ought to be
paid for them"
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

1t ia quite natural for the editors among
the Nevada silver mines to bore deep for
the we'll Of English undsfiled. They are
boring now. The Silver City Times scolds
the Virginia City papers for using the ex-
preston, "Hit over the head" Il says: at
is quite ungrammatical, illogical, and non.
sensical. One can mover receive an injury
over the head, inasmuch as there is no
part Of one over the summit of the crown" /"
The Gold Hill Nacs resents the criticism
as senseless and impudent, and calls to the
stand its fighting editor, who testifies with
great gravity that he once hit man over
the head with fence.rail; that the rail
crushed tho hat, but did not touch the
head that the owner of the hat lay inscn,
sible FOR en hour or two, and had terrible
headache tho next day. Which was to be
demonstrated.
Western what growers raad tha Enro,
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25

Western wheat growers read the Euro
pean war news with eager Dyes.
Smyrna times., 1876-10-25
THE CORONATION

took place in the evening, at the judges
Hall, when the queen and maids of honor
were successfully crowned by the victorious
knights entitled to the honor as above
stated in the order following: Queen, Miss
Parke Perkins, of Buckingham county,
Va. maids of honor, first, Miss Ida Griffin,
Prince Georges county, Nd. second, Miss
Bessie Holland Of Tallahassee, Fla; third,
Miss Ida Taylor, of Baltimore; fourth, Miss
Mary Bladen, OF Philadelphia, young lady
IA years Of age.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25
Fit Subject.

Inc duties of the House of RepresAn.
'a'iVeS III The matter of finding article.
oI Impeachment against wrong.doinr
puoi'e officer, correspond with the d1-
Ties Of a grand jury in finding indict.
ments against parties accused Of cr;n,;na1
ohenoes' After the election of NOV,
bers' they were, so to sneak on arsn
ellgu as an inquest for that purpose. #
Is only through them that deIiponent ona
naiieasing State officers can be draonad
70 tue Oar of justice, tried and made Ieo 70
Suiier the penalties prescribed in the CON.
s'i'utlon. 81 Now what is to be tbouobt nf
'ne conduct of a Judge who is presnmad
to know the sacred obligations restiaa.
upon the members that const;t,to 49,!
INQUEST and who seeks to manipulate 'lls ths
WIRE, wires and bring into play ipanenoas ' .se sne
s"aL ~, i0'estall and control their actions9 Tf
~ conduct does not make the Jua.a
naaoh go ! sull'y of it fit subject for ;@.
it certainly presents ,Or . I'M
Tor the application of the prsen's rsrD case
vided by Sec. alst, Art ~ oe 1emsay .a pro-
stitution. u the Con-
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

Supreme Court in the case
Hume, 80, Miss p. COS. ' OF Brad,
Under the decision in that u
ton is utterly untenable. case, the ,.
Ii the votes at Glencoe hox
in ~ acfofba1ce tba G With the views Of T. eHca
lty Oh Ihe committee as hereintlne nsS
pressed General Chalmers Is snemnot.eioe \
seated ior the reason that he hoe Titled h
highest number of legal,voteS 90 receive
Suilivan's vote as returned :.
duct from this 279l5, that bent%s % Ll!OS3, /
tlonai snare OF the whole nnr,I hls prof.
votes cast at the Glencoe bow % yer Of ijs.
planned, and his vote would b ba aS q ooeiots
Chalmers vote as ret,,,5s'
Add the seven votes excIndn9eu' is IL
tordville box, and his total eu yo,d at TIE
Majority for Chalmers ovo.
1031a. over SuHh,
For me reasons given, the maio.,.
committee recommend that JanyyoIlt Oh.
mers be seated as the duly eIon.ea> h.
from the 2Sth Senatorial Distriico,,e Sele~
K. 0. REYNOIDS
X. II. THOMPSOS Mn,
Z. G. CATCHINGS
F. @. BARRY.
tions: moving ns,
l. Resolved, That NJ. B. snu,
eligible to seat in this BODY 'sak
z. Be 1t further Resolved. Tbo.n
llVan dld not receive. at the elac,i%h 3,
this State on the End day of Noves,rUola Ass
the highest number of legal votantost e
once OF senator from the 2sth hO'SS ffs
District. -''n Senshs
B. Be it further Resolved Tbo.,
Chalmers, received the highest %' r,,sS JAMS
legal votes cast at the election boisa au0s
State on the End day of Noyembaaua au y, n
from the 2Sth Senatorieii IVA
and that he is entitled to be Swonn "a, Dish
seated as member of this bodv 10 / n
Mr. Pratt stated that he had no,t.
20 prepare his minority report. and and ual ral
ed until tomorrow. "''u Itq0s
Mr.. Reynolds moved to mako h
ne special order for Tomorrow tto ,he sOe
IO12 O'Clock, at which time th.S S",uN
'eport could be presented; carried HlIl''
MI hooker, chairman, reported -.
entatlon of large number of hiro eF II
Governor. 0'iS 10
SAD ANNOUNCEMENT.
just before adjournment Senate. .py
made the following announcementV1' d, 4
Col. John B. Sale, of A Aberdann !,
our O'Clock this morning. uIe,
a meeting of the Bar will be baId
pect 10 his memory in the Suprema u u
CLOCK. Nofllns 4,
All members of the Bar from, u Y
Northern) Supreme Court District st.. %
ttend. iequesIed kHs
Adjourned.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25
IHE Southern Herald ,

AHE Southern Herald, referring to the
enarge that the people of Amite county
hau driven off Redmond, says that the
authors OF it can learn, by inouirino
'nat no office-holder, either State or Fed
eral' has been driven from Amite co,ntu
Out that 1t was their own voluntary act
caused oy the advice of their friends
ana that they We're not molested wb;lo -
the county at all" All of which will -
qOuot be fully ELECTED by the Legislative
investigating Committee
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

The Oxford Rieochet had better wait
until their record is finished before it ar
raigns the Representatives of Lafayette
in the matter of the public printing.
They will be able to show that they CO.
operated in reducing the rates to a just
and economical standard, and that that
branch of the service will present, under
Democratic rule, more signal example
of reform that any other.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

GEN. S. j. GHoLsoN, and Gen. @. T.
Beauregard have petitioned Congress for
the removal of their disabilities. This is
the true way. Let each case be taken
up on its merits as occasion arises, until
after the Presidential election and then
the year 1877 will be splendid time for
the passage of a universal amnesty bill.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

A SPECIAL election for Circuit Clerk
of Lincoln county will be held on the
29th February. Mr.. B. L. Atkins, a
gentleman of integrity and capacity, has
been nominated for the Office. The vo-
ters must now see that he is elected.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

IT is reported that strong tide of negro
emigration has begun to flow from mid
die Tennessee to Kansas, Mississippi and
Arkansas. Additional trains have to be
attached to the railroads leading to those
points to accommodate the multitude
seeking homes.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

TIE Indianapolis Journal, the leading
organ Of the Indiana Radicals, nominates
Morton for President. Nobody talks of
Grant now, except his bread-and-butter
brigade here In the South, and the hot
gospeller Gil. Haven.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

Hon. J. VI. CAUsEY, Representative
from Pike, has been elected Worthy
Master of Pike county Grange, No. 2,
for the year of 1876.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

JUDGE ORLANDO DAVIS reference to
Democratic sympathies," reminds us
tnat' staunch Republican as he is. be
TOO claimed to be Democrat once upon
ume. he was delegate to the Dem
ocratlc Presidential Convention of 1868
ana was SO much of Bourbon that he
opposed the selection of member of tho
oe'egatlon to serve on the Platform Com
nlltee, on the ground that the said Nom.
Der might not be in favor of incorpora-
ting in the platform of the party, plank
oenounclng and repudiating negro suf.
TRACE. The delegation did not susta;n
the Judges objection, but nevertheless
IL stands as part of his political record
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

LIE Democracy of Lincoln have - -
ganized Tor the campaign. Committaa.
nave been appointed for each Of ths
oeats. Dr. IL. P. Atkins. a firm, aas
m Jealous Democrat, has been selected -
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

THE Vicksburg Herald endorses as
"excellent" the plan of Hon. }. NJ. Wes-
son for leveeing the Mississippi river.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

The Republicans of Maine have
brought out their Presidential candidate.
His name is Blaine.
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

a.,h Lhtf nave civil rights case in Phil.
worl pn'a' 90 much the better. Let i
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

WE intend to do justice to Mr.. Jane:
Hill, Secretary of State, who was charged
IN the Times with dereliction of dutv Il
1t takes all winter The facts are as fol.
lows: Mr. Hhddleston introduced res
olutlon referring to the statement in the
Times, and providing for the appoint-
ment of committee to investigate the
same. The resolution, on motion. was
referred to the Committee on Pronos;.
tons and Grievances, who reported to
the House and recommended that II do
not pass ; and also, through their chair
man. Mr.. Leigh, made a verbal
statement that Mr.. Hill had apnesrod
before the committee and produced ev;
dence that the charge was unfoupded
ana therefore the committee was of on;n
Ion that the appointment of snecio1
committee to investigate it was unneces.
Sary' On motion of Mr.. Featberston
the report was recommitted, so that tba
reasons Tor making it might be presented
in writing. N''-'eu
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25
Impeachment.

Chickasaw Messenger
IHE CLARION speaking ofthe impeach-
ment of Ames, Davis and Cardoza, uses
the familiar quotation: eff it were done
when It's done, then it 'twere we'll it were
done quickly" To which we say, amen.
Ames expects and knows he deserves it.
so does Davis and Doza. Morton expects
It, Butler expects it, Blaine expects it,
and the people of Mississippi demand it
then twere well it were done quickly
The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25
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The Daily clarion., 1876-01-25

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The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-14
BILL TN CHANCENy
Involving Over 1900, 900 in Coin.

In tho y. S Circuit Court, the import
ant suit of Jacob Mussina VS.. Arthur A.
Maginnis aud Martin II. S..epard, is
now on trial
The orator claims that Martin II.
Shepard, one Of the defendants, n prac-
tical oil cake manufacturer, sought and
induced him to eltor into partnership
with him and ono Arthur A. Maginnis,
for tho purpose Of carrying on tho busi-
ness OF manufacturing cotton seed oil
cake, that about the year 1869 tho mill
for that purpose went into operation.
and that the firm name was A. A. Magin-
mis-. The orator alleges that Mt one time
he was permitted to have free access to
tho books Of and to manage the
partnership; that two lots OF
ground were purchased with tho
partnership funds, and that vt
tho beginning Of the year 1861 tho stock
OF the firm was more than sufficient in
value to have met all tho liabilities of
the firn. That the said defendants ro-
fuse free access to tho books OF the part
nership; and also exclude the orator
from any management Of tho business
Of tho partnership. That the profits OF
said partnership have been over tho sum
OF $500, 900 in coin. The orator asks that
defendants may bo compelled TO answer
tho interrogaties annexed. portion Of
which II. II. Mari, Esq, solicitor for tho
complainant. was reading whom this ro-
port closed. 1t now comes up on it's
merits