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Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17
The FIremen Yesterday.

AT the solicitation Of some Of the
visiting Aremen, the orders and pro-
gramme for yesterday was so modified
had.
Our visitors, va are told, expressed
themselves IS being worn.out with the
cesseless round OF pleasures given
them By their new.fOund friends, and
claimed . partial cessation, on the
ground Of their being guests. There
was, therefore, nothing done by the
Department until towards 6 o'clock In
the evening, when the companies as
sembled In front Of the Washington
Hotel, formed q procession, and march.
ed through some OF the principal streets.
After the parade was over, the
Phoenix engine took water from the
Clay street c~istern, near Washington,
when the nozzle Of Mr.. ]. T. Condor
was tested In various ways, and to the
entire satisfaction Of ell. The idea of
a fire parade always brings out O large
number of the small boy tribe, and
yesterday was In no wise noted for its
variation from this rule. Numbers of
ladies also, were lookers-on ct this tri-
oil, while the streets were crowded with
the best class of U citizens. The
tested nozzle seems to be o very simple
affair, aud certainly has the qualiflca-
ton Of being under the complete
control Of the pipemen. Its spray
attachment is q novelty, and Of vast
service in protecting the iremen from
the intense heat when at close quarters
with the deVouring element.
The Department then dispersed in
order 10 prepare themselves for the re-
ception, to which the Phoenix COmpa-
ny had invited them, and about 8
O'Clock q large number Of ladies were
present to take part In, and be the
guests OF this pr0Vsrbially hospitable
Association. The delightful music
had its accustomed eft ;ts, and the
light fantastic was INDUCED in until
the night was nearing the day again.
During the evening the heavily L.
dened tables added still another zest to
the pleasures Of the occasion, and in
separating at the close, but one verdict
was rendered, being that Of 9
pleasant time, and 9 fitting close to the
visit Of Mechanics No. 8, Of New Or
leans. The members Of the New Or
leans Company are surprised ct several
things In Vicksburg; the first 10 the a.
most universal hospitality with which
they have been met, and the persistent
manner in which It has been kept up.
The visitors will leave by special train
this morning at 7 80 o'clock, and vii
carry with them the very best wisheI
Of our citizens. Their stay among ul
has given an opportunity to our De
partment TO extend the courtesies duI
one city to another, and in their efforts
have placed one more bond of uniOI
and friendship between the citizens o
Vicksburg and New Orleans. To tn
departing guests Of our aremen "
extend the cordial hand of friendship
and hope that at some future tim
they may come again.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

A TEXAS paper wonders If other
States are not beginning to look with
dismsy at the political power that will
soon be welded by the "Lone Star"
State. The last census and apportion.
ment gave her six Congressman, and
100000 population, and to-day she
numbers over 1,75O,0OO, and by 1880
will show more than 100000, and be
entitled to twenty representatives at
Washington. The State is as large as
all New England, New York, Penn
sylvanis, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land and Ohio. The entire popula.
ton OF the United States could be To-
Gated within her borders, and the State
would not then be az thickly settled az
Massachusetts. Her immigration for
1877 is over half as large as the popula-
ton of Connecticut, but scattered over
Texas they will make no greater show
ing than q peck Of oats in a forty acre
field.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17
The President ana the Extrems
fgRw.

AAN AEHAA4AH ana eAE AAAAGAA
lists.
The issue between President Hayes
and the extremists of his own party is
now sharply defined. In Ohio the
Presidents policy was Endorsed by the
State Republican Convention, but since
that time prominent and influential
Republicans have plainly eVinced their
~displeasure at his course. In Maine,
in the Convention which met 10 NEEDLE
as much as possible with the Southern
States, there was displayed furious
opposition by the "stalwarts" to the
Presidents wiae course towards the
South, and there was ever so much
whining about the "Confederates."
Iowa refused point blank to
pass a complimentary resolution OF
the very man that q few months be-
fore 1t gave a majority Of thirty thou
sand votes. In fact, all Of those
Northern people who hate the South.
ern white people, oppose the curse the
President has seen ft to take toward
the South. The extreme Radicals are
opposed so violently to the President
that a split is imminent, if indeed II
has not already taken place. This
situation of affairs has been brought
about because the President has been
kind to the Southern people. All the
resolutions and expressions of opinion
are proof Of this fact.
While some of the Radicals sneer at
the Civil Service rules and find com.
plant with the Administration from
other causes, it Is certain this would
not have been done had the President
pursued an arbitrary and tyrannical
course toward the Southern people.
His justice and kindness to our people
iS his crime in the eyes Of these fanat-
les. We Gee in the resolutions adopted
by the Convention that met in Maine,
that 1t Is charged that Republicans
in this and other Southern
States are not able to secure
the Offices although they greatly out
number the Democrats, and the infer
ence iS to be drawn that the "stalwarts'
are angry with the President because
he doesn't rush down here and change
that sort Of thing. These fools forget
that the Southern Republicans as q
class are besotted in ignorance, aud that
they are just as easily controlled, and
in fact more easily controlled than are
the laborers of the North, although the
science Of voting the poorer classes Of
the North against their interests seems
to have been brought TO a high
stand Of perfection. They seem
to think 1t the duty of the President tC
see that all the niggers in the Soutt
vote the Radical ticket, and that the
white people shall divide amongst
themselves in the face OF this eterna.
aud Internal meddling with their loca.
affairs by people, who live thousands
OF miles away. They may whine az
much as they choose about the freedom
of the ballot and the equality Of men
but we would suggest to them that they
first give their own people the right to
vote as they choose, and not vote them
in squads In charge Of s "boss,'
and that they go West and study
equality among the Cslifornians and
Chinese. As to their causeless and
cruel attack on President Hayes, w
will say that we are sure that he viii
not be injured by it, and that time will
prove the wisdom OF bis policy TO,
ward the long.abused aAd a'wayt
slandered South.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

THE announcement of Nj. S. 7,
Fortson for the Senate, appears in the
HERALD this morning. Mr.. Fortson ID
widely known and very popular
throughout the county, and is truly q
representative man. He has always
contributed largely of his time and
means in the furtherance of any public
enterprise, has been an efficient worker
in the Democratic harness, and is withal
3 genial and clever gentleman.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17
Proposed Pooling Arrangement Be.
tween Telegraph Companies.

New YORK, August lit was re-
ported this morning that the commit
tees appointed by the Western Union
Telegraph Company and Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company would
meet together next Tuesday and dis
cuss the propriety Of pooling the re-
ceipts Of the two corporations-the
Western Union to have four-Gfths OF
the entire proceeds. President Orion,
Of the Western Union Company, this
evening stated to 8 reporter Of the
Evening Post that the report OF the
proposed meeting and its object was
true. OF course he could not tell what
the result would be, but he recommend.
ed the step. Mr.. Orion said further,
that be heard of no scheme to actually
consolidate the two companies.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

The Chicago Railway Age publishes
a statement showing the extent Of rail-
road building during the last six
months. Up to July l, 1854 miles oil
track have been laid, as against $50
miles in the same period in 1876, 4OC
miles in 1875, and $50 In 1874. In every
year noted, the track -laying of the
first six months was from One-third "a
one-fith only Of that ofthe year, This
points to a mileage of 5000 miles OF
more Of new track in 1877.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17
Tho virrinia convantion.

RICHMOND, August ll.-Gen. James
A. Walker, Of Pulaski, was nominated
Lieutenant Governor. The financial
plank invOkes the Legislature and Ex-
ecutive 70 adjust the public debt, 90
that equal justice may BE- done to oil,
without Increasing taxation.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

The Governments Reluctance to DIsouss
the Eastern 0usstIOn-AR Easier Feel.
Ing In Regard to EapIand's Neutrality.

"NNAeAANAg ~ WtaHHH8
the Eastern 0asstIOR-An Easier Feel.
Ing In Regard to EaSlAnd's Neutrality.
LONDON, August 1I.-Mr. Charles
Monk, Liberal Member for Gloucester
City, persistently pressed the question
on the Government whether thew
would consider the temporary occupa-
ton of Constantinople by Russian
troops so far inconsistent with British
interest as to disturb the relations Of
amity between England and Russia.
Though Sir Stafford Northcote refused
to answer this hypothetical question, Il
had the effect Of drawing from RI. Hon.
VIM. Edward Foster, Liberal Member
for Bradford, a statement expressive Of
greater confidence, which is felt BY the
opposition, Of the improbability Of
England's becoming involved In war.
Mr.. Foster said, speaking for myself
and others, we should not have Yielded
TO the Governments desire to avoid de.
bate on the Eastern question,
II we had any easOn to fear that the
Government was likely to drag
the country into Var, or Involve Il IN
any breach of neutrality, we have care.
fully considered everything that has
been written and said by the Govern.
ment, and looking at their last dis.
patches we feel convinced that they In
tend to abide by the policy OF strict
neutrality. That being the case, I do
not think 1t necessary to do more than
remind them Of the heavy responsible
ity under which they lie. This state.
ment seems indicative Of en- easy feel
ing generally prevalent which is large
~ due to Earl Beacons6eld's recent
statement In the House Of Lords.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

SPEAKING Of Judge West, the 81.
Louis Republican says be is "a political
nondescript, the like of which has nev.
er been seer before. He is undoubted.
ly too honest a man to be demagogue,
aud yet too intelligent a man to talk
such wild nonsense without knowing
It Is nonsense" This is a poor csrtif.
cate Of character for the standard.
bearer ofthc Republican party In Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

NIAGARA FALLS are deserted this
season, even the mild aud moonish
bridal parties having belaken to other
regions. So sever has the pressure
been on the hotel kee ers that they
have actually become reasonable, and
reduced their rates to living figures.
The hackmen also are subducd aud
melancholy, and the falls themselves,
We are crediiabIy informed, are not
quite 50 insolent as they used to be,
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

Col. 7. W. N. HOLIDAY, who will
be the next Governor of Virginia,
lives at Winchester, is a ene.armed ex-
Confederate, a lawyer with q good
practice, and has never had much to
do with politics.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17
We clip the following from the col
rmns Of The New York Bulletin

Imns oil the New l or6 Bulletin
senator Lamar, OF Mississippi. in the
course OF a recent address. Is reported as
expressing the conviction that 'QuestIOns
G. Constitutions! law the relations of the
states to the Federal Government, aud of
t1e relations Of the people To their state
Government, would soon cease ~ play
any very conspicuous part in the issues Of
American politics. Questions OF tari1,
trade. commerce, currency and transpOr.
tltion, would soon take their places; were
t%esinning ~ engross the attention Of the
ieople, and will tax the intellect Of Amer
lean statesmen Mr.. Lamar but here
states a truth which must be patent TO
tae most superficial observer. The
mind Of the country, so ~ speak, Is in q
transition state, and the transition
ls, as the Senator says. from ira.
ditiOnal questions " subjects that
are more directly in the line ot social and
political economy. inasmuch. however,
as these questions are imbedded in the
very texture Of our free system OF govern
meht, and involve the contest that Is ever
going on between the encrOachments VI
power and the maintenance OF individual
liberty, 1t 10 impossible to permanently
get rid OF them. They are only intermit
ted, and their recurrence Is as inevitable
as the incoming and reluX Of the tides.
We do not believe they will ever cease
to play . conspicuous part In American
politics." For the moment, however, new
Issues are undeniably upon us. Material
interests rather thar abstract theories OF
government have TO be con ,idered, and
the problem TO be solved, Ii II were per
1 missible TO try and express IL In q single
J phrase, is, how to apply old economic
truths to the changed aud changing con.
dttlons Of the country.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

The departure yesterday Of tny Amer.
ican carpenters fnr England, only adle, II
is plane, to the complications OF the labor
question. Number ci brother carpenters
saw I EN- Ufr.-lNcw YORK Commercial
Advertiser.
Aud it augNrs i'll for our future
when skilled mechanics are compelled
/" 90 from America to Europe to earn
\ WING. Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

JOHN SMITH has been appointed
Joint Secretary of the Treasury Of
Great Britain-plain John Smith, at
that-with no title to mar the cosmo.
politan sound OF the name, and no
possibility OF parting 1t in the middle.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

VIZ are glad 10 see that Judge War.
ren Cowan is announced as a candidate
for State senator from Warren county.
Tie Is a u~oble.hearled gentleman, aud
the very man TO succeed Hon. 7. &.
Catchings. Cowan aud Brien would
make admirable Senator's Brandon
Republican,
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

We see by the Vicksburg papers thai
Or old friend, Judge A. W. Brien. Ia d
candidate for State Senator from War.
rem county. He is = mau OF brains,
experience aud line oratorical powers,
aud If elected will reflect honor upon
his constituents Il Brandon Republi.
can.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-17

Sunday Morning, August 12.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-10-25
GRANGE DIRECTORY.

BozeAan Grange. No. 2. W.B Meadow,
Master. CLARK Ii. Switzer, Secretary.
Bozenlan h. @. r.M ~.
East Gallatin Grange. No.3. John Math-
ecw Master. &. /. Weaver, Secretary.
BoAeIEan =. O.
Pennington Grange. No. 3. V. a. Cock
.erill, Master. B. NJ. Dawes, Secretary. Cen-
trail Park Z. O.
Elk Grove Grange, No. G.. J. q. Stuart,
Master. J. Plum. Secretary. Bozeaa2an 7. O.
Prickly Pear Grange, No.. W. l.. Mill
igan, Master. Geo. Breck, Secretary Hell
ela p. O. ..-t.-.
Fair View Grange, No. -. r. II. Reed,
Master. L. o. Railsbaek, secretary. Boze-
man.P. O. ~ t." 55
Sheridan Grange, No. IA. J.. Z. Lewis,
Master. L. L. Taylor, Secretary. Slier-
idan p. o.
Corvallis Grange. No. II. Oliver Tolber,
Master. w. Is. Harlan. Secretary. Corvallis
Fort Owen Grange, No. Is. 5. +. Mar
tin, Master. G. i. Sanders, Secretary.
Stevensville p. O..
Madison Grange. No. %. A. y. Bull,
Master. A. w. Switzcr, Secretary. Virginia
CIV ~. -r E-..- z4.- E..- -Nba ~. I..# fI#.
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-10-25
PATRONS OF H[gSPANDRY.
TIE season for instructive and interesting
Grange meetings has arrived.

NO WOELHY ,OUJCCG ID CfSi dl'niiSo INV
exertion. No. Climb, order or institution can
be sustained without the active cooperation
of its individual members. Those who feel
the necessity Or desirability of greater
tJreadth of knowledge and experience will
he the most earnest in their acquisition.
"
WE have never known union stores, Co
operative stores or grange stores conducted
.on the credit principle to be successful.
What is eNerybedy's business finally proves
to be nobedy's business, and failure is the
result. Let every grange determine in or
derimg goods to first collect the money, buy
the goods for cash and distribute the same
to purchasers ut once on arrival. In this
way cooperative purchases may prove a
benefit to the participants. Avoid the shoals
of credit on which so many concerns, full of
hope and sanguine Of success, have been
wrecked. ff.,.
A live Patronis one who is fully awake to
the interests of the hour. One is thorough
ly conversant with grange literature. He
can no more live and prosper without a
good supply of agricultural reading, than
Ire could breathe without lungs. Would
that every farmer in the land could under
stand this. Whenever you find a lux e.
warm Patron. who guesscs the grange don't
pay, you will find not one that is always up
ITO the times in sunshine or storm, summer
or winter, or who reads all the farm and
grange periodicals he and his neighbors
take. He patroniZes lightning rod agents.
Ii lie would avoid such frauds he must read.
lfhe would avoid a thousand other things
equally Improbable and unpleasant, he
must read. If he would leave his farm bet
ter at the close of his labors than when he
began to till it, lie must read. 1t he would
grow the best fruits, and stock of all kinds,
he must read. How well it is understood
by other classes, whatever their calling,
that they must keep themselves thoroughly
posted in regard to their OWN business. AND
shall we be less. wise? May, verify" And
why need we when so many of the very
best papers Of the LAND are devoted to our
interests? The grange has come to lis as a
new dispensation; as an answer to the de
mand of the hour. Those who stand out
side its gates and listen with suspicion and
hcsitancy and Jealousy know not the wrong
they are doing themselves. Come in, there
are golden treasures and you shall have
the key. You have already received many
benefits, more perhaps thai you are aware
of, through our instrumeptality, come III
ind share the whole.-Ex.l #3 uqsf an Fftf
,ats,,rr orr DalsIni acnnsH,rni
Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-10-25

Mountain Valley Grange. No. %; E. Not
tingIam. Master. ?. B. Mills secretary
Pleasant Valley Grange. No. %. Geo. >.
Wicklam. Master. Miles futile, Secretary
: comnromise Grange, No. 26. J. Wyrock,
Master, NJ IL. Lott, Secretary. IWlli
Bridges P.,O @. ta. 49, -------
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-04
Set RIuht by Time.

At the fall term of 1867 of the Superior
Court of Gulford county, NO, James r.
S. Chapman was convicted of the murder
of Martha Pinnix and sentenced to be hung.
A few days before the time appointed for
his execution he broke Jail and made good
his escape.
In 1868, man by the name of Paris
Stewart, from the same county, was con-
scripted in the army of the Confederate
States. He reported for duty at Green's
boro', aud was assigned by the enrolling
officer of that place to the command of
guard of twelve men stationed at Deep
River bridge, near Jamestown, on the North
Carolina railroad. On his return from
Greensboro to his home in company with
his brother on tho day of his enlistment he
made the following startling disclosure,
said he:
81 have now entered the army, and in
short time will be dead. There is secret
wish to communicate to you. am the
murderer of Martha Pinnix. l was be-
trothed to her, and knowing that the mar
riage would be an unhappy one, killed
her, and by strangely fortuitous circum-
stance, the crime was fixed upon Jim Chip
man. When I'm dead you tell Chipmans
sister, for whom have special regard,
that it was me, and not her brother, who
murdered Martha Pinnix."
The next day after this conversation
Stewart took command of the guard at the
bridge. That night, and half an hour be-
fore the passage of the cars over the bridge,
he told them to go to their quarters-that
he would watch till morning. He took his
seat on the bridge and permitted the train
to run over him-a plain case of suicide and
so reported at the time.
The sequel of this strange affair is thus
told in the Raleigh Observer The sister
of Mr.. Chapman, who resides in Texas,
visited the Governor, and exhibited the
affidavit of Stewards brother and each of
the guard on duty at the bridge at the time
of Stewards death, in corroboration of the
above facts. She also had a petition signed
by the most influential men of Guilford
county praying the pardon of Chapman.
The Governor did not hesitate, but issued
the pardon at once. Chapman is now in
California, but as soon as he is notified of
his pardon will return to his old home.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-04
The Misers of Brush Creek.


For more than forty years Matthew and
John Russell lived on the hills of Brush
Creek, near Wellsville, Ohio, lives of in
dustry and frugality seldom seen liz these
times. They were widely known, because
of their wealth, and because of the strict
economy with which they conducted their
business. They went to Jefferson county
when it was mere wilderness. They lived
in a log house and had good large barn.
Their fields yielded rich crops, and their
stock was well fed and housed, but they
were elways poorly clad themselves.
They Stunned alike matrimony, politics,
and religion. At an advanced age they
sold their farm for $15, 600, and invested
their money in good securities. Then they
moved into small hovel which had former
ly been used as a pig pen. For years they
occupied this hovel, eating and sleeping
together, and boarding their money. Four
years ago John Russell died, when the
relatives of the surviving brother made
him withdraw from his miserable habita-
tion and take home more in keeping with
what he could afford. On the night of the
Goth of July last he also died, and letters
of administration were taken out in Ohio
and Pennsylvania. The money will go to
cousins, who are the next of kin. The
estate is supposed to be worth at least
$150,000.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-04
"The Yoke to 90 to the Lawyers"

The suit of Stepenson VS.. Ray, for a
yoke of oxen, has, after five trials, with as
many hung juries, been at last decided.
The jury evidently had gotten tired of the
case, as the following verdict shows: "We
of the jury find for the plaintiff one of the
steers in controversy, or its value, $50; and
the defendant the other steer, or its value,
$50. The cost to be equally divided be-
tween the parties, and the yoke to go to
the lawyers. "--Sta'yord, Ry., Journal.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-09-04

DUBLIC NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED.
a. All persons are hereby notified that the
Trustees Of the Methodist Episcopal Church OF
New Bloomfield, Pa, have made application by
to make a loan OF Three Hundred Dollars, Tor the
benefit OF said corporation, and all persons are
requested to take notice that said decree will be
If no good cause is assigned ON that day, or no
reason given why said Court Of Common Pleas OF
Perry County should not make said decree
ID. MICKEY, ProthonOtary
W: A. SPoNsIER, Attorney for said Trustees.
August 23, 1871.