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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

We lately met an old negro trudg
ing along with heavy side of bacon
that he had bought, swinging over
his shoulder. Noticing that he was
miserably clad, we felt sorry for him,
for a cold wind WAS blowing, and
asked: why do you spend your
money fer meat You'd better buy
coat" The old man stopped,
looked US full in the face, and said,
in solemn tones 'Massa, when
ak my back for credit it gives it
when speak to dis laying his hand
upon his stomach), il calls for da
cash.-Kn0xCillc Chronicle.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

THE following is the latest story
told about Gen. Butler: Some gen
tlemen we're holly discussing a mat
ter which reused the Generals ire,
and IN his anger he made remark
grossly offensive to one of the porty.
Not caring to have a personal quar-
rel there, Mr. nm sed his wrath
until he next saw the General. Then
he demanded an apology. Quoth
Mr. Butler, 81 owe you no apology,
sir The remark was not addressed
to you at all, meant Col.-"-
But you looked directly at me, and
| could not help knowing that you
meant me by your look" Not at
all, sir Not at all ! ha . ha ! I'd
like to know how you or any other
man can tell where | am looking y
If you remember, Butler is cock
eyed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07
THE DIVORCE BUSINESS IN CHI.

The DIVORCE BUSINESS IN CHI
CAGo.-The Chicago Times publish
es a list of the divorce cases 10 that
city for the year 1915, giving the
names of the parties divorced, the
dates of marriage and of divorce, and
the cause for which the decree was
asked. OF the 526 cases which
were brought before the courts 258
were Chicago marriages and 2G6
were of persons whose marriages had
been contracted elsewhere. Thus
more than half the divorces granted
in Chicago were decreed to persons
who made their stay in that city
merely temporary, in order that they
might have an excuse to come before
the courts with their complaints and
prayers for relief. The causes for
which divorce was asked were very
few in number. There were ia ca
ses of desertion, l57 of cruelty, So
of drunkenness, and many not clas-
si6ed. This is an exhibit of which
Chicago ought to be ashamed.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07
ON the summit Of Pixies Peal

On the summit of Pixies Peak,
over IA, 900 feet above the sea level,
where there is not trace of any
vegetation, or, indeed, any earth
upon which shrubs or grass could
grow. the mountain rat, an animal
twice as large as a Norway rat,
abounds in vast numbers, overrun
ming the United States signal station
on the apex of the mountain.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

THE Lyndbrook reservoir in Mas
sachusetts broke last week. Sever
al mills and many houses were
swept away by the flood, which
rushed down the ravine in a solid
mass twenty feet high. No lives
were lost.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

THOMAS, the Bremerhaven fsnd's
real name was Alex, Keith, jr. He
was born 10 Halifax, N. S. He was
a blockade runner ard absconded
from Halifax in 1864 with $3.50, 900
entrusted to him by confederates to
buy provisions fer the southern sol>
diers.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

AN Atlanta correspondent Ct the
Augusta Constitutioualist says Gov
ernor Smith has announced himself
for reelection on the ground that his
administration has been violently
slandered and that he Intends to vim
dictate it by winning the race.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

THE court yesterday affirmed the
resolutions of the creditors of the
bankrupts, Cook & Cheek, electing
two trustees and an advisory com
mittee An order was also passed
requiring the bankrupts to transfer
to the trustees all of their property,
personal and real and the trustees,
on their part are required to give a
bond of $4,000 to faithfully exe>
cute the trust. -Atldnta Constitution.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

Advertisement from a Now York
paper of l77G; ITO be sold for no
fault but want of employ, a likely
healthy Negro Wench, Is years of
age, has had the small pox and
measles. Enquire of the Printer"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

SINCE Marcellus Thornton, of At
lanta, got on the outside of 30 quails
in as many days, a man in Carriers
vile has commenced the same ex-
pertinent. Fame lies through his
mouth.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

OUR town clock stopped the other
day and the hands were thrown out
of employment. Our friend, Ruede,
thinks it was Ia consequence of an
il>considered strike.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07
GOVERNOR SMITHS APPOINTING
POWER.

Gov. Smith has a terrific power in
It's ofiice>hoIding personality-an
influence of dependent mon that
reaches throughout the State-a
power sufficient TO nominate any
man. The Governor appoints his
Attorney General, the Superinten>
dent of Public Works, the Keeper of
the Penitentiary, He appoints
School Commissioner, a Commits
sioner of Agriculture, and a State
Geologist. Each of these depart
msnts are filled with appointments
that come at secondhand from the
Governor. lie appoints his clerical
household, consisting of influential
gentlemen. lie appoints three
Judges of the Supreme Court. He
appoints twenty one Judges of the
Superior Court, and twenty one So
licitor Generals. He appoints over
one hundred Judges of City or COun
ty Courts. lie appoints nearly one
thousand Justices of the Peace. He
appoints eighty visitors of the State
University. He has besides the
above, hundreds Of casual and valua
BILE appointments to make every
year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

IT IS very strongly proven that
President Grant was partner with
his brother OrvilIe in post>trader
ships. What's the difference be
tween a brother influencing Grautin
bribery, than . wife influencing
Belknap in the same kind Of bust
ness.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

To avoid impeachment, Governor
Ames of Mississippi resigned Col
|. NJ. Stone, president pro tenn of the
senate, is in the gubsrnatOrial chair
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

THEIRS old coachman was a no.
torious drunk ard, but knew his bus.
mess so well that he only once came
into collision with a vehicle, which
caused Theirs to ask him, "Are you
sober ?" The President, on the
death of his Jehu, paid all his debts
at the dram>shops.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07

1t is said that the old Romans also
loved office, but they never had the
feeling which an American constable
has-never felt tina: their shoulders
carried over half the burden of gov
eminent.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07
Chr 5elarletta 1oarnal.

Marietta, Ga, Friday, April z, 1875
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-07
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
The Ele torai vote

WHlrE SAND I4wreace c., Oef. 10. &c.
EDuoEs CLAKIox: Ion will please all
me 10 ask you Tor a full explanation II
electoral vete-
There are nl4ny ~ u here in the piney
ws-ods Whe do ~ IA s-znd the nature
and the ohj-ct 81 Az -lertnrai VOTE. Please
explain throngis yOGr rlumns how lee
votes are divided in zach site, whether
the electoral vo es viii be all for one man
or divided according Il the result OF each
district, also the number Of electoral votes
ia each State.
Very respectfully,
A DEMOCRATIC NorkR-
Our correspondent viii have seen that
his inquiry has been answered in the
main by the circular Of the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee. 1t is pro-
videi hv the Constitution OF the United
States that each State shall elect as many
electors as it has Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, AMI these electors
are the agents through whom the vote Of
the State is cast for President. Every
voter casts his vote for the entire list OF
electors. As a matter of convenience
and not of legal requirement, two cleo
tors are named for the State at large. and
one for each Congressional District The
roter mua cast has uote fof The entire Isl
ieithout reference to his Conventional ar
rangement.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25

The Idle threat of Radical Boosters
that the votes of certain Southern States
will not be cot uted if they give majori-
ties for Tilden and Hendricks, has in
duced a correspondent to inquire what
will be the effect. Under the present
rule an objection BY either house OF
Congress viii avail to prevent the
vote of any State being counted. If
the Radical Senate commences this game,
the Democratic House, it is presumed,
viii offset it by rejecting the vote of =
Republican. And thus the game may be
PLAYED until an election is defeated in the
electoral college. Under the Constitution
the choice will then have to be made by
the present House of Representatives.
The term of the next House does not begin
until the 4th of March ; and the term of
President Grant ends on the 3rd. The
present House is Democratic beyond all
contingencies. aud the Radical despera-
does on reflection will find, before the &C.
casion arises, that in scheming 10 throw
out Southern votes, because they do not
accord with their wishes, they will be in
the condition of the viper knawing a file.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
The independents Press NOrth ON
the south Carolina Wrong.

The r~ascally adventurer, Chamberlain,
who is lording it over South Carolina,
and the Grant Administration, have
played the game Of usurpation and down
right lawlessness too strong. The en-
gineef is hoisted by his own petard. The
game was to pursue such Il course as
would intimidate the voters Of South
Carolina, who are sick unto death of
carpet-bag misrule and are trying to
throw it off, and at the same time inhame
the North with the passions of the war.
But the object is SC apparent-the usur-
patton is so palpable-the attempt to pick
a quarrel with the dQwntrodden people
of South Carolina is so like the game of
the wolf towards the lamb-that it has
had precisely the opposite effect from the
one designed to be produced. In the
first place, Hampton and his followers in
South Carolina are not lambs to be
frightened from the propriety and the
assertion of their constitutional privi-
leges at the polls and in the next place,
the Independent classes of the North,
understanding that the motive, are filed
with Indignation at the authors of the
scheme, and it is now evident, will rebuke
it at the ballot-bix. The following are
the comments of the New York Herald,
which, up to this stage of the canvass,
had shown a decided leaning to the Re
publican candidates:
Chamberlain raises the cry Of lawlessness.
and the Northern Republican leaders at
once persuade the President and his too con-
venieut Attorney-Geueral to send down
troops and begin a general system of ar
rests. Nhyg For what purposeg To aav
one who knows the southern coiOred voter
the motive Is clear. MIR. Chamberlain
knows that the negroes ignorant easily led
by a show OF power, sui devoted to the
name Of General Grant, will sec in this
ready use Of Federal troops in favor of
Chamberlain only an indication that he is
the Presidents t%avoritc, and that their duty
to General Grant Is. Ia spite Of all argu-
mcnts, 10 support Chamberlain. Even if
he were most &c and proper person 70 be
Ft-tAECtCu4 AAA- lNS-A ulAt1A.A S1 VI tic Gu
eral power for his own eads ought to pro-
cure his defeat, and would Ia any con- mu-
nifty where the majority Of voters possessed
average intelligence
There are at this moment three parties in
south Csrolina-Oae supporting TIlden and
Ham pton, one supporting Hayes and Cham
berlain, and a third supporting Hayes and
Hampton. Chamberisin's ob3ect in using
troops and making arrests by Federal depu-
~ marshals is 10 dispense the last named
party and drive the cOlored voters now in Ii
back 10 his support. He l., in fact intimI-
dating voters on a large scale by his use of
Federal troops That is the plain truth
about South CarolinG, and any Northern
citizen can see that TO reias.ate the Repub-
IN power for years when such Is their
course tsSsEd - South Is TO hand the
country over for fouF yeas more TO a very
INSCRIPTIONS and dangerous p9ifeT snd to
men whom such a sD,>~ess viii lead Y e$s
ILL ais~-5H" sure 70 caus~ sks
Union, aud pregnant with slim greater dan
gers in lSSO.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
The Great Demonstration at
W~eSIViIIe.

Simpson fairly outddi herself on
Tuesday last. She was out in her best
attire, men, ladies, children and all, in
their numbers, and without regard to
race, previous condition, etc. Her pa
triotic people (and the county abounds
with them abandoned their usual avo-
cations, and dedicated the day to their
country. From fifteen hundred TO two
thousand were in attendance at the mass
meeting and barbecue at WestviIle. It
was a first-class demonstration. Nothing
of the display, essential to make it so,
was lacking. The immense c~oncourse
was inspired by an enthusiasm which we
have never seen excelled.
1t must be remembered, to the credit of
glorious old Simpson, that she is response
bic for none Of the evils of the Radical mis-
rule which have cursed the State. In the
darkest hours of tie commonwealth she
sent such good and true men as German
Walker and DIR. Legget to represent her
in one house of the Legislature, and T..
l.. Mendenhall in the other. And of
her present talented young representative,
j: l.. Meade, it may be said in connection
with the reforms which were wrought BY
the Legislature elected in 1875, a part
of them he was and all of them he saw.
Of course a county which was faithful in
the trying times through which we have
passed viii not falter now. She has
pledged herself to a laundering majority
for Tilden, Hendricks and Reform, and
will redeem the pledge.
OF the two speeches at the demonstra-
ton on the 18th, Hon. G. E. Hooker
delivered one. 1t was an able arraign-
ment of the Republican Administration.
After the enjoyment of a sumptuous din
ner, the crowd dispersed to as
mble again at night to lis
ten to speeches from Honorable
j. L. McCaskill and others. There
! was a very general regret that Gen.
4, ROBERT LOWRY, who was an invited
guest and was in attendance on the court
at the same time, with a modesty equalled
only by the courage and true knightli.
ness Of the man in times when the dis.
play of these Qualities are requisite, in
Difference to others, declined TO speak.
But his very presence was a sunshine
and an animating influence. He is the
f%avorite of the people of Simpson, and
his voice above all others, on great occa.
sions ike the present, is the one they
most delight to hear.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
The south CarOIIna uOrror-The
Fruit Of RePubIIean RHIe.

Behold, the harvest Is bountiful.
Every breeze from South Carolina, the
last spofin the South in which Radical
ism has an assured fo1thold, is tainted
with the sickening details Of treachery,
ambuscade and massacre by the negro
trainbanls Of Radicalism upon white
and colored Democrats in that State.
Needing the sYreu song of peace when
there Is 10 peace, the whites have been
~pursuaded to 90 unarmed TO the places
Of meetings. One Of these, the little
village Of Caiuhoy, was designed for the
occasion of a joint discussion. Ii was
sgreed that neither party should go
armed. The Radical negroes violated
faith and seoreted muskets and other
deadly weapons within convenient dis
lance. The discussion commenced. A
slight disturbance, nobody knows how
caused, occurred. The rest Of the story
is related bv a c1lored man in the state
ment published elsewhere. Quick as
thought, the Radical blacks, With the fe-
rocity of tigers, bounded TO their conceal
ed guns and opened a murderous fire on
their victims who were wholly uncon-
scious Of the plot, or their danger. The
list Of casualties is published with tht
statement of Mr.. Bennett.
What will come of all these deeds o
treachery and savagery in unfortunate
South Carolina, whose cup Of bitterness
was already full? God only knows. w
believe hat the crimes Of the real au-
thors will at last find them cut, an,
that in the end their bloody instruction
being taught will return to plague tn
inventor. We had written thus ia
{ when the sickening details of
u ANOTHER HORROR
were borne on the wings of the light
ming:
b COLUMBIA, S. c., Oct. 19.-Si
whites, returning home from a Democra
II ic mass meeting at Edgefield court hous
near dark last evening, were fired int
by colored men in ambush. One wa
killed instantly and another seriousl
y wounded. Maj. Kline and other Unite
n States officers, at the request of tn
whites, went to the spot, and Will
viewing the body of a white man sent fc
the coroner, who was also shot from a
ambush and his leg shattered and h
/, horse wounded. The meeting had bee
d quiet and orderly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
amba County.

EDITORS CLARION: But little has
been said of the prospects of success in
our county. We have not been idle.
however, but up aud doing. Our county
is now thoroughly organized, equipped
and ready for the fight, and are deter
mined that ours shall be the banner
county of the State. 1 hear complaints
of voters not registering in other parts,
but am proud to say that that is not the
case in our county. We are all regis
terlng and are going to vote for Tilden,
Hendricks and Muldrow. We will cast
the largest vote in the coming election
that has been given since the division OF
our county. | do not believe Hayes
and Wheeler will get more than ten out
OF sixteen hundred votes. The voters.
white and colored, are thoroughly
aroused, and each one is determined TO
do his whole duty. So Itawamba, the
proud old county that has never failed to
come to time, either in the dark hours of
adversely or with prospects of success,
gives gu her challenge TO the State for
the banner county. Tilden, Hendricks
and Reform is our watchword, and sue
cess our determination.
FULTOSTTE>
Fulton, Miss, Oct. 10Th, 1876.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25
Attention. Registrars.

The special attention of registrars is
called to the fact that where vacancies In
the Legislature are to be filed, or county
officers elected, the law requires ''ten
days notice to be given in a public news
paper, if such be published in the county,
and by posting a copy thereof in n of
the most public places in each precinct,
or district and if no newspaper be pub
lizhed in the county, then, by posting
a printed notice of such election, and Of
the officers to be elected, with the time
and place of holding the same. in two Of
the most public places in each precinct,
or district, for the same period"
There being no general election for
State and county officers this year. the
election on the 7th November for electors
and members of Congress, win be held
pursuant to Federal and State legislation,
and Governors Proclamation, and at the
several election precincts already pro-
vided for the registration of voters
Our cotemPoraries of the press, candi-
dates to fill vacancies, and registrars
should see to if that notice, as above, be
It n G given.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25

IT IS a terribly Notifying fact to
Grants conscience-keepers that since he
issued his proclamation against the rifle
clubs in South Carolina, an examination
of the State shows that the clubs, which
Gov. Chamberlain denounces as illegal
and strictly forbidden by the laws of the
State, are regularlyehartered by the Leg
stature, under the names of Rife Clubs ;
and that there are a large number OF
cOlcred companies chartered in the same
State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-25

CoLoRED men who have recently
abandoned the Republican party u
Louisiana have testified that Kellogg,
Packard f Co., plotted the Grant par
ISL riot and urged on the colored people
to unreasonable excuses in order to gel
them killed, with the aame motive that
Ames caused the difficulty at Vicksburg,
viz that "the blood of negroes would be
good for the Republican party" These
white carpet-bag and scallawag dema.
gogues are nice fellows to boast Of their
friendship for the colored people.