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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

THIRTY SECOND DISTRICT.
and Neshoba compose this new Senate
rial District. Both counties claimed the
Senator and each brought cut its candi-
date-both good men, Judge Bell and
Capt DOwd. In primary election, the
Neshoba claim was endorsed by q major
ity of the voters, and Capt Dowd is the
candidate. In the true spirit Of Demo-
cratic brotherhood, Kemper will vie with
Neshoba to give the largest majority.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

DURING the recent illness of Mr.. Carey,
the telegraph operator at MartinsvilIe, on
the jackson Railroad, The Office was managed
entirely by Miss MOllie Short, who Is only
ten years of age. She sent messages and
train reports. aud received orders for con-
ductorS from the Train Dispatcher's office in
very creditable manner.-Osyka News.
And the foregoing paragraph reminds US
that it is copied from a journal conducted
exclusively by young lady, Miss Piney
w. Forsythe. On the death of her father,
some years ago, she became his successor
in its management, and it is one of the
best newspapers, remote from the great
centres, on our exchange list.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
The Democracy of Claiborne are fall

The Democracy of Claiborne are fall
ing into line for Col. Ben King, the
Senatorial nominee for the 9Th District.
The following resolution has been adopt
ed by the Flower Hill Democratic club:
Resolved by Flower Hill Democratic club
In mass meeting assembled, That we accept,
ratify and endorse the nomination of Hon.
Ben King for State Senator, aud we pledge
ourselves not only to vote tor him. but to
use our. utmost endeavors Co secure for him
the largest Democratic vote ever polled in
Claiborne
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
The Banner County,
[ azoo Herald-Democrat.I

Yazoo Herald Democrat
The Chairman of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee of this county, Hon. A. NJ
Harlow, has gone to work with his accus-
toned zeal aud energy in the field of politi-
cal endeavor-and it is to be hoped that his
example will inspire all others of our party
to go and do likewise.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

Aberdeen Examiner

The appearance on the Platform on Ho
Democratic Conservative party, a- pr0muI-
gated by the Jackson Conventions Wu.
looked for with no little auNiety by tuou.Ht-
ful people; for they feared that b. m-.u
contain good Lord, good devil" puns
endorsing Mr. Hayes. The Democratic
Conservative party of Mis.is-ippI f. boo. Nh
the most iniluItcsimal degree tlr debtor d..
the dc IactO, nor does BE- recognize I.m ..
the author or instrument of amy Ifua of
policy affecting the South bcuenuu.E Ur
Daneinliy In Withdrawing Che United
states troops from Louisiana and South llra
Olina, he but submitted tothrfurylfIlIa...
had he not acted, ana acted promptly Nn
would have bren left by COugrc-s without
the ghost Of an army.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

DECLINES AT a meeting held recently il
Kinds county. Hon. Geo w Harper adj
dressed the Democracy, and announced tina
he was not. and would probably never agair
be candidate for office. Long identified
with Kinds county, always active in the III
terests OF the people. the loss of tbs seFv ices
OF such man will be severely felt. There
was never time when the people of Kinds
county SO much needed such man in the
Legisiature.-PortG Gibson Reveille.
We have not so understood the posi-
ton of Mr.. Harper. While we do not
wish to make an inyidious discrimination
between him and other able and worthy
gentlemen who are spoken of for the
Legislature in this county, we can
not refrain from saying that in view of
his long career of public usefulness, and
his faithful service in the cause of Reform
in the Legislature, there is no man We
would support more cordially than the
veteran editor of the Kinds County Ga
zette.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
COPinh County.
COpiahan.I

DVTIIlIIIIIs y
Tim r.. Cooper, Esq after serving tu0
years as chairman Of our county executive
mmittee, we learn declined "a recollection.
IN the last two canvasses SIR. Cooper per-
formed good and efficient work. Cant. ".
Is. Harris is now chairman on me- commit
tee. Everybody, aud more especially he
ola citizens Of the county, know him No be
the right man In the right place TOR th.s
canvass
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

The platform is unmfstakably Demo-
cratic It is a vast Improvement upon the
platforms of post beIIaug nOtorietv. There
is 10 mention Of the Amendments; HAYES
10 ignored; Conservative Is dropped from
Democratic; the reserved rights of the
State are re-organized.-Ok States "a.
Y. Harper.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
We have copied letter which hal

We have copied letter which has
found its way to the public prints,
from Hon. A. G. Brown. Nothing that
emanates from source 20 respected
should escape observation. It il not
necessary to say that we do not see the
situation as he beholds il, and that we
dissent entirely (but with due respect for
experience and sincere convictions frank
j. expressed) from his conclusions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
The Morton Programme.

In another part of this paper will be
found an extract from the speech OF
Senator Morton forecasting the issues
with which the Republican leaders intend
to carry ''soIid' North for the continual
ton of Republican rule in the next
Presidential election. The people Of the
North are told that the South has no
other object in view but the payment of
what are called in Radical parlance
''rebel claims" That is, "claims" for
property destroyed by the war-the Con
pated slaves. 1t will be nearly three
years before the next Presidential car vass
opens, and we presume that the Southern
Representatives and Senators will dispel
the delusion before that time, and that
they will unlearn as dull Il scholar as Mr..
Morton his mistake. They will show
that abuses which have developed
gigantic proportions under Republican
rule are to be reformed that the govern
ment is to be brought back to the repub
lican simplicity of its trainers, and that
new policies demanded by the exigencies
of the country are to be enforced. We
imagine that Southern craftsmanship
will be equal TO the task of inaugurating
these changes, and of taking the wheels
of the government out of the old ruts in
which the demagogues and chronic agi-
totors of the Morton school have been
running them for, 10, these many years.
-~~D.s-O
We will inform the Edwards Citizen
that the non use of the term "conserva-
tive" in THE CLARION is to make the
head of our Platform conform to its
body and to the action of the State
Convention. The Committee on Reso-
luton reported them as the resolutions
of the Democratic Party of Mississippi
and in that form the Convention unani-
mously adopted them. We suppose the
term conservative" was regarded as an
unmeanipg appendage to a name which
as used in the struggles against Radical
heresies and abuses, implies conserva-
tsm and all the other elements of sound
and pure doctrine. Besides, it was
doubtless designed to conform to the
name Of the national organization of
which the advocates Of geform in Missis
sppi are an integral part. For ourselves,
we shall conform to the decision of the
party in Convention; but ii is purely a
matter of taste and our contemporaries
will, of course, exercise their own judg
ment. The measures and principles of
party define its objects, more than the
name, and they would be all the same no
matter what it is called. We would as
sure the Citizen that nobody is ''lett" I'M
less he chooses to fall out with the OBJ
jects of the party as declared in the
Platform and illustrated by its acts, and
if these do not accord with the opinions
of dIssenters the name would not heal
the breach. But the name, we propose
to take pure end simple, without prefix
or adornment, precisely as it was used
by the State Convention and the national
to whose music we are
marching.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

Holly Springs Reporter
Hon. j. III. Amacker, candil4t. Gr...
oenaJoIal nomination, tu very gru.u|..
anu PalTlotlc speech AZ Wall HID, ou Tues.
Jay Idst' Withdrew from the canvass. bT
niS nlaglanlmous course, Mr.. Am4.her ..a
ulsPlAyed most conmeudahle spirit a".
suuWh himself worthy Of the high reZlr.
with which he Is held by his fcIInW-rIfIl.rs
OF Marshall. Gen. West has now u0 Uuuu-
position. Wherever he appears tbe people
welcome him with unbounded 5uflu.l-m.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

HEARD From. Emanuel Handy.
(colored), who fourished in the Legisla
tnre from Copiah county, in the flush
times Of Radicalism. The Crystal
Springs Monitor says he is trying to put
Democrats into the harness of an 'sinde-
pendent movement.r
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

This convention met at Corinth last Erie
day. The delegates mum Jered some three
hundred, and represented, principally
south Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala-
bama, Arkansas and Texas The PREVAIL
ing sentiment seemed 10 be Ia favor of cole
onization, not In the direction of Africa,
but towards New Mexico, Arizona aud
Northern Texas Columbus Index.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

WrTH one or two exceptions, the
Democratic papers have expressed them
selves pleased with the Democratic State
Convention and they will be all right as
soon as they have made their complaints
and had their saw.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

There are two things In the epoch ofALis-
sissppi for which the average northern
newspaper can give no account. one is
why the Democratic party re-uomin mated
Gov. Stone, and che other why have several
hundred of the wOrkIngmen ID the northern
States signified their Willingness 20 come
and settle I'm this State. These are grave
subjects for northern papers 70 digest
kemper Herald.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

We are glad to learn from the New
ton Bulletin that Capt. Simmons, sh eriff
of Neshoba, is rapidly recovering from
the wound he received in the discharge of
his official duties recently.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

Says the Fayette Chronicle; On Saudifer
Hoggart's place in this county. negro man
was struck two hundred lashes few DAYS
ago, By fifteen or twenty of his color for
being caught in another fellows hen house
That's right. We are glad to note
that the colored people are determined
to put stop to this petty pilfering which
does more damage to the poorer than to
the wealthier class. Stripes for chicken
thieves. The halter for horse thieves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

The Tidal Wave says that Maj. H.
F. Bowman, of Tate county, whose name
was appended to the famous circular, y
disavows and repudiates it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

The cotton worm has commenced its
ravages in Texas, Arkansas and Louisi-
ana. We have heard no reports of its
appearance in Mississippi
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
THE TESTIIIONY or q u'OuIrI.
CAL OPPONENT.
''As Safe Hs COuId Have uccm se-
Iectcd.''


nv not
In our first issue after the Demo.mH.
Convention adjourned, we expressed tIu
opinion that the ticket which 10 nominated.
with one or Two exceptions, WIS as g00IHuI
conservative as obey could have -pIu.trI
Nearly three week. have elapsed since tI.t
opinion was expressed, and we desire. n
possible,to empathize 10 and declare chat Doe
Democratic nominees arc "a safe men l.
could have been selected by The Democrat
&c party.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

AN important opinion of the Attorney
General is published in another column,
to the effect that a Banking and Insur-
ance Company is liable to be taxed on
both privileges.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

THE meanest thing ON record il the
act Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company presenting bin for transport
ing Government troops during the strike
to protect its own property.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

SENATOR MOTIONS illness, according
to Washington kilograms, has caused
much anxiety to Mr.. Hayes, who is re
ported to have remarked that s'the bal
8" ance wheel would be wanting if Nor
!" ton could not take part in the Senate
g deliberations" Politically the Senate
is now nearly equally divided, and the
absence of Morton. with the contest be-
tween Blaine and Conkling, must result
in giving the Democrats control.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

EDITORS CLARION: There is a strong de-
sire that Gen. I. j. WhartOn-whose name
is the synonym of honor, and guarantee OF
ability, fidelity and patriotism in the dis
charge of public trust--should serve the
people of Kinds county in the State Sen
ate.
WoRKINGMEN.
AUGuSr. % 1877.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

Hon. Ben King, the old war-horse OF CO.
from Copiah and Claiborne cannties He is
one OF the ablest men in the State, and Just
the man for the pOsition.-Brandon ReDub-
lican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

The Comet has a good article on tho
Printing Law aud Senator Hewel. We hope
the subject will not be revived, and moro
especially ia the manner Of condemnlng one
~ one Senator for what q majority OF Ser
ators participated ins-POrt Gibson heYe'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

TIE annual Fair Of the Jefferson coun-
t. 2. II. d NJ. Association viii coma
mencs on the 18th Of October. Jefferson
i 1--we county.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

WE learn from the Advertiser that
the vote for Democratic nominations in
the Holmes county primary election,
resulted as follows
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

HoN. NJ. r JONES declines a renomi-
nation as Representative from Kinds
county.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

The above is from the Port Gibson
Reveille. Hon. d. T. Guyton, Demo-
cratic nominee for the Legislature, has
made a similar disclaimer through the
Central Star,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

THE administration papers felicitate
themselves that no matter what the trial
of the Louisiana returning board forgers
and perjurers may prove, it cannot affect
Mr.. Hayes title to the presidency. He
holds it, +" say they, 'by the judgment
of court (the Electoral Commission)
whose decision is irrevocable." But
there is another court superior to it,
which will adjudicate his case and pro-
nounce sentence through the ballot-box
ere long--the tribunal of the people, the
court of last resort under popular gov
ernments. There is no escaping its YER
dict, and the brand which it will stamp
upon the conspirators.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

THE Copiah county fair win commence
on the 24th day Of October. A liberal
premium List Is announced.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22

Gov. JOHN G.. ANGEL, who died re-
Gently in New Orleans, was native of
Mississippi. He was soldier in the
army Of North Virginia, and a prOmi-
nent white leaeuer at the time Of his
death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
A Card from Hon. w. ID. Bean.

PATToNA, Miss, August IA, 1877.
DEAR SIR-In your papar | see an article
headed THE Farmers Movement; That
Famous Secret Circular" | wish to say
to the public that my name was used in
connection with the article without my
knowledge or consent.
Very respectfully.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
No More Commissions.

Speaking of the Ohio proposition for
the appointment of commission to regu-
late the business of the employer and
employed, the Philadelphia Times (inde
pendent) exclaims:
No more Commissions, if you please, VI r.
President Hayes! We have had surfei. of
them, aad they've left a bad taste in the
peoples mouths. There's the Electoral
Commission that fingers sadly in the mem
DRY of the nation aud the world; then the re
is the Louisiana Commission that was EN-
ploved TO do what the law should have done
itself; then there Is the Arkansas Springs
Com mission that is a flagrantly fragrant
asylum of political camp followers, aud
then follow the White House piano COM
mission, and We don't know just how many
others have been spaW ned By the admins
tration. Now it's proposed in Cabinet con
sultation TO have Labor Com mission, and
the country is RECALLED with an awk wardly-
strained definition of powers which no sane
man has dreamed of as either warranted or
practicable.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
Kinds County SenatOr--.T. n.
Wharton.

Chairman Dem. Elk. Com.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-08-22
Letter from Dr. Banks.

AUGUST, 20, 1877,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-14
CHARLEY wALsH's WATCH.

Several years ago Charley Walsh,
well known in New York as a sport
ing man and a favorite with Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, bought a watch for
timing ace 1t was n of the best,
and cost nearly $1,000. Mr.. Walsh
was very proud of the watch, as it was
an absolutely acurate timekeeper.
One day he dropped in to chat with
the Commodore and displayed his
chronometer. The veteran was charm
ed with the watch and begged Charley
to allow him t. carry it for timing trot-
ters for a while. Walsh complied
with the request. Time ran along
and no mention was made of the
watch.
When the Commodore passed away
Charley found no reminder in the
shape of a legacy i'm the published
will, and went about, realizing the
truth of the saying, "To him that hath
shall be given, but from him that hath
not shall be taken away even that
which he hath"
Finally, he walked down to the resi-
dence of the late Commodore, and. re-
lating the circumstances of the loan,
asked for the return of the watch.
To his surprise, he was Informed
that the Commodore, some time pre-
vious to his d~ecease, gave away the
time-piece to one of the ministers con-
Hected with his Tennessee University.
-NeW York Sun.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-14
= o r GIG "a z w s.
n Powers to Consider n Terms
of Agreement in Relation to
Turkish Affairs.
LONDON, March I3.

LONDON, March ID.
To-day will be memorable in the
history Of the Eastern question. The
Cabinet meets to consider the terms of
agreement among the Powers. 1t
does not contain any engagement to
use force in any form. The Powers
will employ their diplomatic influences
in favor of the reform the Conference
decided was necessary, but further
than this they will not go. No terms
are fixed within which the Powers are
to use their influence, or after which
they are to consider their efforts have
failed. When the proposal which
Lord Derby submits to his colleagues
has been accepted by the other Eu-
ropean Powers, it is expected that
Russia will declare herself satisfied,
and rehabilitation will follow in due
course. The protocol to be signed by
the Porte and countersigned by the
Powers, is a form OF agreement which
has been found most in favor. There has
as yet been no beginning of better rule,
and the condition of the provinces
which originated the seal OF insurrec-
ton is pitiable in the extreme. The
Powers will become once more
sureties for the Turkish Government,
and should they fail the end must
come at last.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-14

The New York Mail reports that Mr..
Tilden will sail for Europe next month.
Buttermilk sold to English poor
houses is largely watered.
At fashionable balls in North Wales
gentlemen wear black gloves.
Punch: The new form of cattle
plague from a butchers point Of view
American beef.
Somebody says "Hayes has no small
vices" Wheeler is the biggest kind of
a Vice.
The London Echo says that paper car
wheels are coming largely into use
over there.
At the Florida State Fair was a stem
fourteen inches long, holding fourteen
oranges.
Chesterfield said that the greatest
part of mankind are incapable of more
than seeing the surface of affairs.
Muriatic acid poured on the wound
made by the bite Of a dog may prevent
hydrophobia, but the best way is to
shoot the dog before he bites.
An exchange says the entire assets of
a recent bankrupt were nine children.
line CreuItOTS dClcu Sly
and let him keep them.
The Salt Lake Tribune tells of a
Saint in that city who has just remar-
ried his deserted wife, taking her as his
third, and also taking her daughter as
the fourth.
Punch: New Cook, eff you're going
up stairs, Mr.. Ruggles, you might just
tell my lady that if she can't write the
'Menoo' in French, I shall be very
'appy to do it for her!"
A foreign critic says that no rival is
so serious as the sympathetic, vain
married woman who has petted and
flattered the bachelor and is bristling
with anxiety to do the same kind office
for the benedict.
New York Commercial: The Milford
(Ct.) Ray says that a woman in that
village has been made crazy by hair
dye. How this may be we can't say:
but we know several Anticipated super
animated old fops who would very
soon 20 crazy for the want of it..
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-14

DEATH OF A NOTED BANK RoBB Err.
A "cracksman" as noted as any of
the gang that got $75O,OOO out of the
old Northampton Bank, has just died
at Newark, N. j., in James Griffen,
alias Spaulding. Hi. first effort,and his
greatest was robt,ing the New York
Royal Insurance Company of $500, 900
at 10 years of age, assisted by Noble
and Frank Knapp, we'll known
to the 'professi0n." His next
exploit was in Cleveland, Ohio, where
he managed to beat the Cleveland
Savings Bank out of $25, 1000 in United
States bonds. For this he was sent
to the State Prison for five years, but
escaped by forging a pardon. In COM
pany with his wife, he rext went to
Detroit, Michigan, and there succeeded
in making a haul of $40, 900. About
six weeks ago Griffen, with three 9TH
ers, came down to Newark to work
the banks in that city, but was de-
tected and arrested on suspicion.
Griffen married a young woman of a
very respectable family, she at one
time being a singer in one of the
leading churches on Fifth avenue.
She was constant to him to the last,
and visited him in Jail, and was with
him in his last moments.