Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-09
BREVITIEs.

SOME more bad weather.
A CHRONIC dampness prevails.
HURRAH for the Flanagan Guards!
The n. A. P. didn't PAN out
we'll.
Two BUTTIN' kids on the levee, yes.
terday-a little goat fight.
DR.. CRAFT, a leading physician and
surgeon of Jackson, was in the city yes.
terday,
A STORM OF thunder, lightning, wind
and rain was prevailing at 10 o'clock,
last night.
THERE is q shirt manufacturer in
Memphis who advertises himself as a
shirt tailor.
Tug cau.can-everybody will ex-
claim, Glow naughty" aud everybody
will go 10 see II.
DR.. 7. D, FRENCH Is home again aud
may be found at his Office prepared 10
attend 10 all dental work.
THERE are some Folkes who don't
find any opposition, and still are not
BY any means monopolists.
We understand that the Pryor's
Church and Mont ALBION boxes are to
be contested on grounds Of irregu.
l~arities.
The over.coat days have come, the
most troublesome Of the year, when a
mar must double garments before he
goes out to take a be see q man on
important business.
Low PRICES aud q short cotton crop 4;
yet the planters exhaust all their means
and energies on the staple. They will
never quit cotton, but It looks If cot
ton will quit them.
For exubersnt young met, hot,
fried oysters nov end the evening fray.
While they hastily masticate them, they
give thanks that the ice.cream man has
telescOped his cans and things, and
silently stolen away.
A KILLING frost fell yesterday norm.
ing, aud the day opened with every
prospect OF fine weather, but q south.
east wind blew up heavy clouds in the
afternoon, aud a series Of showers cul-
minated IN a delugiug rain shortly after
night fall.
The boxes containing the ballots and
tally sheets, giving the results OF
Tuesdays election, are in the custody
of tho Board of Registrars, and will
not be opened until u o'clock to-day,
at which hour the Board will proceed
10 examine them and declare the vote.
Until then, possess your souls In pa.
thence.
ANOTHER heavy rain began falling
last evening about $50 O'Clock, with
every prosp ect Of q disastrous continu.
ance. We say disastrous, because II
will cut of the cotton crop fully one
half, damage the quality of the remain
der, aud there iS no prospect Of Q rise
in the market, until too late 10 benefI
anybody but Spectators.
AN expensive drunk: Frank Harpel
got tight the day preceding the grea
race, The niggers 10 charge Of the slablI
did likewise, and left the muzzle of
Ten Brock the night before be ran
aud Harper friends paid nearly $500,
900 next dag for the fun. Glad we
wasn't there, for we were sanguine
enough to bet our whole bank &C.
count OH the noble Kentucky steed,
Twould have been q pity to have seen
those losses swelled to half q million,
A RESPONSIBLE gentleman from the
Oak Ridge neighborhood gave us, SUBJ
stantially, the following account Of the
killing OF Mr.. Russell Graham by Mr..
Chas. Mclvor, at Oak Ridge on Tues.
day night. The count Of the ballots
was progressing, when Mr.. McIvor,
who was one Of the Judges, called out
the names of Furloug and COwau, and
Graham interrupted, declaring hat
two Senators should not be called
from the same ticket. Mr.. Grant, the
Clerk, stopped ta!lying, when McIvor
told him 10 90 on. Graham swore the
count should not 20 on unless Cowan's
name was passed, aud emphasized his
declaration by drawing a small car
fridge pistol aud throwing it down on
the tally-sheet. McLvor then tried 10
explain TO Graham that Furlong was a
candidate for the long, aud Cowan for
the short, or unexpired term, on the
same ticket. But Graham picked up
bis pistol and again declared that
Cowan's ballot should not be tailed,
10 which McIvor replied that he was q
Judge of the election and would see
that the vote was counted. At this,
Graham showed the cooked pistol under
McIvor's chin and pulled the trigger,
but It only snapped, and before be
could cock 1t again McIVOr seized It,
wrenched it from his hand and dis.
charged tho contents OF the four re.
naming barrels into Graham's body,
killing him almost outright. Graham
was under the influence Of liquor,
somewhat, and when in that condition,
aud enraged. was considered a danger
GUS man. lie was about ~ years oil
age, and leaves a wife aud four chill
dren. He was q Northern man and
settled in this county In 1866 was
successful farmer; has always acted
with the Republican party, until the
opening Of the present campaign, when
he Joined the Democratic Club at Oak
Ridge. Hisparty politics had nothing
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