Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-14
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significance or importance of events.
He 10 mere chip floating on the wa
ter.--[Wendell Phillips.
A SUoCEss.-In oil tie length and
breadth, the Southern policy" has
been q success. What, then, do the or.
gans mean BY saying at is failure p
i indianapolis News, Ind. Rex.
WEAKENNG.--When the lunch ia
BILE at the White House is surrounded |
BY such scheming adventurous as Kel-
lOgg and Packard, II looks as II the |
Civil Service Reform business was
weakening,--[C [Courier.J Journsl.
AN EXPLODED PERJURY.-We pre-. |
sumo there is not o Senator who hon.
estly believes that Mr.. Butler abelted |
the Hamburg massacre. The negro
testimony to that effect has long been
an exposed and exploded perjury
| New York Herald.
ABsENT-MINDED.-At q trial of a
negro for barn burning in Virginia,
the Foreman Of the Grand Jury was 90
fascinated by Miss Gum, q beautiful
young lady witness, that he indorsed
the indictment with The words, "a true
Gum, Thomas Todd, Foreman.
TIT FOR TAT.-The Lowell Courier
speaks of Mr.. Voorhees, as tho Tall
Sycophant of the War-bosh. As Low
ell is Ben. Buffers home, perhaps this
elegant expression was inspirod by the
COCk-eyed Behemoth Of the Templa.
tiOus Table-ware.-[Small Talk.
i A GRIM CHRISTMAS STocKISG.--
The Chicago Times's parsgraphlst is
evidently one Of those quiet citizens
who constitute our mobs. He says: !:
"If Galesburg justice halts not, R4de's
} stocking will be hung up by Christ
mas, and there'l be a cold toe or two
in It."
NOTHING BUT EvlL.-The carpet-bag
element In Southern politics has done
Us nothing bat evil. Thank heaven, its
days are numbered! II Is we'll that the
. feeble remnants Of II In the Senate
. should be shown up 10 the country In
r all its baseness and ingratitude - BoS.
r ton Advertiser, Rep.
TIE FoRGETFULNEss OF MAJoRITIEs.
The trouble with our Republican
! friends (or, 10 speak more accurately,
: enemies) In the Senate is that they for
= got In their day of power the wise and
witty mot OF N. do Girardin: "a ma
. jority should always remember that Il
= = has been q minority and may be 90
= again."-[New York World.
n A TENDER FATHER.-The latest Ken
n lucky romance is thus epitomized b.
;. the Louisville Courier. Journal: "Isaa
Dalton and wife, OF Ballard county
separated, she taking an only child,
little girl of eight summers, and q null
their only live stock. Last week b
IN brought suit for the possession Of lh
j child, but accepted the tender Of th
r: mule as q compromise"
y A PROMISING INvEsTMENT.-Presi
,e dent Hayes has bought, for $4,000, tel
b. acres of land in Bergen county, nea
3, the Hudson, where also ex-GOverno
y !, Tilden has been purchasing. Berger
g. county, N. j., is composed Of thi
rim Of elegant palisades, backed b.
miles of fever and ague, In which th
inhabitants are said to be still shakin
with Andrew Jacksou.-[ N. Y. Heral
~ p. |. Msu.
"a The FoURTn VlCTM.-Thero is n
y, denying the fact that The Republca
!, party IL almost sick unto death-in az
~ ticulo morris, as tho lawyers wOu
A say-and were corOner's jury TO 81
90 90 upon the moribund body and silt III
10 evidNEce, premCdlqtel suicide nigh
~ be the verdict. II IA tho fourth gre'
W .IS party that has array cd itself against tn
~ Democratic party within tho pas
7, eighly years, only 10 he overcome an
- destroyed.-Momphis Appeal.
10 INFANTRY PARADE-Jennie Jur
writes Of The New York baby.show
"A "Some Of the children arc remarkabI
IL pretty, but the mothers arc usually e.
q. actly opposite. Ono lusty baby, wit
he great black eyes. Is the son OF Chin
no man and an Irish mother. Man
on classes are represented, but the psren
are usually poor The variety Is emo
nous, but il Ia curious that all the f
babies have thin mothers, aud all Il
y. large, fat women, small, puny infanls
- The WANE or SHoDDY INFLUENcE..
nd The I fleet at Mrs. Belknap's reign au
ar influence ON sOciety has been salular
.e, and is telt to such degree that me
mi chants complain that their sales in ial
a cy dress goods are not SO large as b
M fore the Belknap affair. SociOly r
mn ceived shock from which It will tab
q years to recover, and Il is to-day qui
or as much out OF taste for q lady to boa
"a OF her Partisan dress as II was dW ia
to do 80 two years ago. [Pittsbui {
Dispatch Letter.
A REDEEMED STATE.-NO unprej
ial diced person can read Governor Ham
ms toms Message 10 the South CArOlil
ION Legislature without being impressC
~, ~. by the evidence II gives Of the improve
,rn condition of the State under the ru
ces of its own legally elected citizen
There is no longer any embIltered feC
aY, ing between the races; the sting b
been extracted from political diff
-. ences, and revived confidence brin
3" forth ito frnits in improved businei
-. increased enterprise Sand plentiful en-
on Sne ployment.--[N. Y. Herald.
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