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Clerk of the Supreme Court.

From list of capable and worthy
aspirants, Oliver Clifton, Esq, has been
selected for this important office. 1t is a
coincidence that he takes the place once
filled by his honored father, the late
c. Il Clifton, and when we report that
he Will bring to the discharge of its du-
ties, the same business capacity, the
same high sense Of honor, the same scru-
pulous regard for the strict performance
of official duty, rs displayed by that en-
ienent gentleman, We will echo the opin-
ions of all who know him, as this writer
has known him from his boyhood. We
concur with our neighbor of the Times
that the Court could not have selected
Clerk who will discharge its duties better.
Mr. Little. the late Clerk, who has been
efficient and accommodating as an officer,
retires with the good will of the Court
and the bar
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HE Right of HnsGrucGiOn-The SiI.
yer Bill.
Prentiss Pleader.1

Prentiss Pleaderl
We commend the course of the CLAIR.
ON in standing up for the right of in.
struction. The Pleader expressed SINH
lar views some months ago, while Mr..
Lamar was sub sTtentio, and before he
had broken ground on the silver bill. II
Will not do to say that the Legislature
were numskulls, and Lamar had all the
wisdom. Subsequent events prove La.
mars theory was incorrect While we
admire an Independent spirit, we do not
admire the independence OF Senator who
dlsobeys the instructions of his own
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The True Story Of Anderson We
Carly OF tIe asfh Wi,-i--ippI


Special 70 the 81. Louis Globe. Democrats
NELSON FURNACE. ONO. Nave tel-
patch 20 the Globe Democrat m regard
the death of Anderson Mclrtg who .H
rom thc effects Ola bite OF "a reptile, In N.
oackwoods few days since, caused DTS Te.-
atiVes 70 come for his rpm4i.- Doc. rtF
ives I've In Mississippi, aud bad uut -cel oi
heard from him since Che war. The 10
mains were Identified and taken hnme. \.
was last seen IN the lSth Mississippi lHH.
try' Confederate army, in 1852, and b'. e0n'
rauea supposed that ne bad b.ou KILLED F.
battle. Nothing Is known 0iHt. history s.a"
then, except that he worked a. u IHlOrHr %
a saw-mill' near this place. about yrlras
tie was very quiet, and never roId any OH.
MS history. lie had S77G 90 the timeui h'
death
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-15
y judicial Interpretation of the
Marriage Relation.

In deciding an important case involv-
ing the title to large properties in Penn
sylvania, the Supreme Court of the
United States expounGed the marriage
law in a manner which will shock the
votaries Of consecrated forms in the crea-
ton of the marriage relation. The ques-
ton of title turned on the validity of a
marriage which did not conform to the
laws of the State in which it took place
The owner of the property 'took up
with an Indian girl, who, to use a Beech
erism, became a wife to him with all that
the term implies, and from her the plain
tiff in the case derives his title. The
marriage ceremony not having been per
formed by a clergyman or magistrate as
required by the laws of the State, the
lower court decided that it was null and
void, but this decision has been reversed
by the Supreme Court, which declares
that marriage at common law is good
Notwithstanding the requirements of stat
uISo as W tue IOIiuo vi SoleiHHlLdIloH' uu-
less they distinctly and expressly nullify
such marriages. In this case the mar
riage was by declaration and cohabitation,
and being good at common law, was de-
clared good Notwithstanding the require
ments of Michigan's State laws which had
not been fulfilled. Thus has the su
preme judicial tribunal of the country
decided what is necessary to constitute
the marriage relation.
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JUDGE Harlan of the Supreme Court.
who worked for his own Announcement NOR,
openly than was seemly, is charged with
manipulating internal revenue appoint
ments in Kentucky just like an old fashion,
ed polltician.-Springfiel Republican.
much more important charge against
him is that he was concerned in the hase
gaining in New Orleans through which the
door Of the White House was opened for
Hayes. This transeends ordinary policticaI
manipulation, aud rises toward the dignity
OF being accessory to crime. Yet for inf
service Harlan is now Justice of the SUI
preme Court IN. Y. Sun.
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DISTRESSING.
Meridian Mercury.

Meridian Mercury.l
r, on the lst day of April last, Mr. Jo.a
Taddy, Of Wilcox county, Alabama, put ~.
niece, Martha Ann Virgins, gr ab0.
10 years old, upon a boat on the AIa5lHl
river 10 90 TO selma, and thence by raii "
this city, and To 20 from here t0 frr home
pear Energy, Clarke county. Since tNN
she mas not been heard Of bv her friends.
one mas no father, but mother, who 500"
the VIE OF Alexander johnson, who i've
near Energy. OF course there i- distress
anu iehr on her account, and any person
haYlng any Information concerning ltI
VIII DO great act OF kindness by imIaf.-
lag 1t to her mother or stcp-ather I1t
person who gave ms this item does 900.
know what boat she was put on.
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Congregational Nominations.
Rooms OF THE STATE EX. CoM.. ]
OF THE DgM. Cox PAPTY

Rooms Or The STATE tx. CONF
OF THE DEM Co.'S. PARTY,
JACKSON, April u, ISIS.
The Congressional Executive Commit
tees OF the Democratic Conservative party,
OF the several Districts in this State APP
pointed by the District Conventions last
held, are respectfully requested to meet as
early as practicable, at such times and
place, Is may be designated By the Chair
men thereof, for the purpose OF calling
Conventions to nominate candidates for
Congress al the approaching election on the
first Tuesday the 9TH day of November
next. f. BARKsDALE,
Chm'n State Tx. Com.
MARION SMITH, Sec'y,
state exchanges viii please notice.
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GhairnBeH of Congregational Exc
CutIVe Committees.

In reply TO numerous inquiries we will
state that Col w. b. Helm, of Carroll
ton, is Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Third District, Hon. j. b.
YellowIy, Of Madison Station, of the
18th, and Al. Frantz, Esq, of Bran
don. of the 9TH. Our files do not snow
who we're selected chairmen of the com
mittee OF the "a and 9th Districts. The
committees of the LIST District has al
ready been called to meet at Tupelo on
the 10Th inst
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AT a recent meeting ot the African
Colonization Society IN New York the
Secretary of the society said that there
was @much interest felt in the South con
corning the coloniz alton of the negroes OF
The United States in Africa. lie had
received letters representing thousands
of them who want to emigrate to the
land of their faith ers. The general rea-
son given for their desire to 60 is that SO
cial equality fer the colored people IN
this country is too far in the future 2oo
of them have gone to Africa under the
auspices of the society, and 400 more are
expected to go this year
1t is natural that these people should
desire to return to the home Of their ia
theirs, and it is wrong to dissuade them
from doing so.
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WASHINGTON NEWS,
Census Committee.

WAsHINGToN-In the House to-d.v tho
speaker announced the following as the
committee on the next Census, authorized
oy resolution, adopted the other day. and 10
act act with like committee Of the senate !.
hlessTs. COX. of New York; Mills, of Tex
as; Stenger, of Pennsylvania. i.igon Of
Alabama; Smith, of Georgia; Carlisle of
kentucky; Hatcher, of Missouri; Rallou. az
Rhode Island; Jorgenser OF virginia
Ryan OF Kansas, and Williams, of Oregon
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Democratic R~ro In yIi-.is-ippl.
YIcksburg Herald.l

'IUA9UuIB HtTaId.T
SINCE the Radical party was over
thrown IN this State, there has been ihe
very greatest improvement i'm the eXecu.
ton of the laws. With the exception OF
one or two counties, the utmost quiet pre-
walls, the laws are executed, the Judge
are firm and impartial, and the officials
are yea ous and efficient. We are glad 90
know that the mill ofjustice in this coln.
~ Is almost at complete stand-siill FOR
want of material. The criminal docket
has been absolutely, with the exception
OF few trivial cases, cleared off,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-15

The KEMPER HERALD says that The
CLARION docs not condescend to notice
little cross road papers" The Herald
does both itself and The CLARION injus-
tce We have not presumed to classify
our State exchanges in any such invid-
ious manner. The truth is, the Herald
has been slightly belligerent in its bear
ing towards US, and as we have not felt
at all that way, we have declined to ac-
cept a state of war with our clever
contemporary.
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Riotou~ Railroad I.nborer.

ST LOUISA large number ofIt..
in the extension OF The CUI.m4r| Ar.
Railroad, between M.Nieo and N.-'
Mo, are on strike. Several uunIr.
said 90 be cougregatcd lf GLASGOW. NV.
one of them was killed uu Monde.
Another badly WnunlnI
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Mr. HAYES is still gathering the
faithful under his wings as a hen gather
eth her brood. He has just appointed
Packard to the most lucrative place in
his gift; and has conferred a good pay
ing office upon George A. Sheridan, an.
other Louisiana adventurer.
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Mr. HAYES is reported to have said
that he believes the election and canvass
of the returns in Florida, were o. K.
Why not investigate, and give him a
chance to prove that he is right As
matters now stand, there is thick cloud
heavily hanging around his title, that he
had guilty knowledge of the frauds
through some of the visiting statesmen
whom he has paid off with high and lu-
crative offices.
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| DEAR SIR:-I have completed and am
! operating miles of n. q. II. r., at this end
| of the line; have purchased aud am now
receiving iron that will enable me 70 tx
tend my road to Jamestown by the Ist July
| or AuguSt-giving II miles of road. | have
every reasonable hope o. completing %
miles OF my road during this summer.
mus far have had but little help from the
people, but feel that my plan will win the
confidence of the people along the line OF
road--as ask for no money until certain
work is done. | contem plate keeping To
the "oId line" of survey, which Gro SEES
l azoo River at Eagle Lake thence through
Honey Island to your good city, and from
winch point we may go TO Vaughn's, Can
ton or jackson. | do not yet know which
am entirely in charge of the management
OF the road have no one to dictate TO me in
any way. some OF the original PARTIES in
Mobile still have an interest in the road.
we are pecuuiarily very pOOT-not having
YET much money, excepting as we can raise
~ IN small sums. Our progress must be
slow, but | feel that t will be very sure
My present intention is to complete AT this
end, 80 miles of road; say to Trenton "a
miles from the river. Then | want To build
from Hazoo river, 30 miles this way in Le-
Hore couA' y, leaving gap of % miles which
the TWO ends OF road will soon fill up We
cross azoo river 30 miles north OF vour
city, which makes YOU l25 miles from this
point. ! shall visit your city during the
spring, and will be then prepared TO saw
IV 80 VAPcCt your people TO do for me.
W IN SUCH hel" as the people are able to
give me- eau see no reason why we can
not get through aud build road so IA Ia
MAKE Your city what it should be. or one
thlng you must rest aSsured--that Is nv
Efforts To build this road are sincere M
fancy work or fancy prices are paid: but
every dollar We get will 90 into the road
anu pay Tor all 1t is worth. If | live tU,n
years hope to be able to visit your CITY on
our railroad from the Mississippi river.
Yours truly,
THOS. 7. a. LYON
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scott County,

Through her excellent Sheriff. Mr.. Sim
mons, makes a first-rate financial report
10 the Auditor. Only s420 State tax
on lands sold to the State were reported.
Scott is sound financially as we'll as po-
li.icaIIY.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-15

CHARLES MORGAN, of New York, dis
tinguished as a steamboat and railroad
magnate who had invested largely in
public enterprises in Louisiana and Tex
as, is dead-aged eighty-three years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-15

WE learn by the figures in the Aber-
deem Examiner that Capt. Thomas B.
Sykes has been elected Mayor of that
city by decided majority over several
worthy competitors. He had filled the
Office ably, and his election was the re-
ward of faithful service.
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A Clergy man Kin,

PRovIDENCF.-Rtv W.B.N.-.
OF the Tnird Bip.-' CuurF s.'.f Nt
Stoninglon Coma, while r..n, ~. Ar
the Masonic Communicate.
morning was thrown from NV.
killed. wagon
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WE do not agree with a Southern mem

WE do not agree with Southern mem
Der of Congress that the public money
should be used to make good the losses
sustained by the colored people who put
their money into the swindling Freed
mans Savings Bank. The government
incurred ne legal responsibility. 1t did
nothing more than to charter the concern
at the solicitation Of its Radical founders
who expressed as tender solieitude for the
''poor blacks" as Mr.. Hayes did when he
was cast down to the depths and had not
been lifted out by the s to 7 machine
invented by the Republican plotters.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL CANVASS.
Spirit of the Democratic Press.

West Point Echo.l
We have quite a number of good mcn ana
true. in our District, who would bear our
gloriou, old banner through every heId,
| boldly. CALAMITY, VIGOROUSLY. Each eoun-
| " has its d Particular fav orite. This IS rlgnt
/ and proper Let each ones claims be fully
and fairly presented. Let every delegate
| who attends the ConVen' ion bear with MN
! the discrimination to lett mon, concession,
harmony, everything for the cause. and
| nothing for men" be his watchword aud
! raj, ing crv, and our word for it. glorious
| and happy issue will be the result OF their
patriotic lObo-s.
! Colum bus independence
| Our safety is not in the disorganizl ion
/ of the ID ,mOcratlc party. In TINS DISTRICT,
| Republicans and would be called Democrats,
| who have forfeited the respect and conn -
| dencc of their party friends are endeavor-
| ing TO influence some prominent Democrat
TO become an Independent candidate for
| Con yress, promising him the support Of
their back cohorts. 1t such an one b.
fou I'd weak enough to yield. the Democratic
nominee must hunt him down AS an enemy
To the safety of the community. We want
in this canvass no standard bearer who,
like the Young Scottish Iieftain, has fed
upon the milk of the White Doe.
Pamela start
Tue Democrats returned majorities in the
last two Congresses, and they can do so In
the next one if good standard bearers are
chosen and there is no dallying with the
enemy or Sinking in the ranks. With a
Democratic House and ,nate, and we are
sure of the latter, a DemOcra attic President
is one of the certainties the near future will
reward Us.
Tunica Times
Let, then, a spirit Of harmony pervade
our conventions. Think wisely and well,
and if necessary sacrifice all Individual in
terest of self or candidate to the good of the
party, and Mississippi will swell the GLORIOUS
in the grand anthems of victory that will
attend the Democratic party.
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IT will be seen that Republican tactics
succeeded in delaying the passage of the
resolution to investigate the Presidential
election; but the truth must come to
light in spite Of all their efforts to con
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CRIMES AND cAsUAL7,v.


WOODSTOCK At the sessio, ....
mont annual VI, +. Clufrr.r.a OF ldsE.
Committee Of TraI OF tnr P.g .''4aI.
kins, charged with torg.rI.. y. H
he be expelled from the minf.rry' .l-- n.
bership or the Church. y aa4 l-
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a letter from William next week.

THE TINES, the leading organ of the
Republicans in this State, gives notice
that "Iudependent candidates will run
against the regular nominees" in the
pending canvass.
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Pamela Star. I
Tunica Times I
Mobile An. w Railroad.
1azoo Sentinel

The following letter, was received by our
fellOw-citiZen, Col Garnett Andrews, who
has kindly placed it at our disposal, and for
which we give him our sincere thanks. It's
subject matter should awaken a deep inter-
est among our people, relating as it does, TO
an enterprise which, though slow, is surely
making progress towards US. The Presi-
dent-Mr. Lyon-speaks, as may be seen,
very confidently OF the ultimate success Of
the enterprise 1t is one of much impor-
tance TO this city and section; and, by the
way, the only railroad enterprise which
presents features of a practical, tangible
character.
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THE R'nai Birth closed its labors in
New Orleans on the 10th. The follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
pear:
Samuel Ullman, President; E. Raphael,
of Texas, Vice-President; Isydore Strauss,
of Jackson, Miss, Treasurer; Moses Ull-
man. of Memphis. Secretary; Aaron Meyer,
chief OF police of Helena, Ark, Sergeant-at-
Arms.
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Port Gibson Reveile.
The Picayune has, as they say, met up
. MIN the author OF certain poetic contripu'
tons Il says;
Mr.. Irwin Russell, who writes the clover
negro dialect poetry found occasionally ~
ScTlnner's Monthly, IL a resident Of 10"
Gibson, Miss, and Is mem Der Of the bar. q,
"Clever" and occasionally hardly nv
the Dill when referring TO literary prod9|'
tlons chat have been more x ,R orally pup
iisned than any OF the day Yes, be lNs@
ia Fort Gibson, and was born there.
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ISAIAH EVANS, the negro murderer of
young Mr.. Bowen, son of DIR. Bowen,
of Brookhaven, paid the penalty of his
crime at Amite, La, on the 10th. just
before he was hung, addressing DR.. B.,
he said:
''Dr. Bowen, murdered your son with
out any cause, and | am sorry for it, and
hope | will meet him in Heaven. 1t is
lust | should die.
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me HII 10 Regulate TranspOrta-
ZION On Railroads Discussed.

~ Inc House spent the day discussing the
oll reported from the Committee on Com
uitrce' 10 regulate Interstate transporta-
tol on railroads, and to prohibit discrimi,
nation on freights. No result was REACHED
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st. Louis Globe, Dem. (Rep.l
Grant 1880 is all the rage In Tan,h1,..,.
circles now. There is no other man IN
slght who would fill thu bill so well. nIedg-
ed 70 light Communism In the North and
REBEL claims In the South. anu
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Starksville Citizeu,l
II Hayes will just employ Roger A.
Ffyor, TO defend him, and r ger would give
him the same advice he gave Ames. ne
think Il B. would go, to save trouble
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Port Gibson ReY.i.le. |

1t is now growing more evident, every
day, that the dissatisfaction which the mass
manner, of the great election fraud, is to
eliminate in peremptory demand for a
thorough sitting of that fraud. and, for
retributive justice. 1t is not the custom of
the courts to connive at fraud. 1t is not
conducive to sound morals nor to a proper
sense of individual or national integrity, to
wink at wrong doing, or TO conceal crime or
to consent to fragrant swindle.
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Local elections we're held last week
in North Carolina, and as far as known,
the regular Democratic tickets we're
everywhere successful,
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WAsHNGroN.-Mi,. Maggie E.4I.
twenty-iour year, oi 1g. ra-umgWr.
parents at No. 30 PeuUaN.a AL.
shot herself Ia the lc't Ureat uI. m.-.
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Southern Sta ties. /

Southern States
The Radicals will not run a straIght-opt
Congressional ticket this year. They will
try the independent dodge.
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NExr to the Khediye of Egypt, Mr..
e. Richardson of this city, is the most
cotton planter in the world.
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On our fourth page is printed thrill
ling account of the murder OF one
woman by another of her sex, in Geor
gia; the trial and death sentence. The
affair. from its unusual character, and
the standing of the persons implicated,
has awakened deep feeling throughout
the country. The following proceedings
of a Woman Society in New York, cen
corning it, are reported:
Mrs Lille Devereaux Blake spoke of he
recent murder trial in Georgia, dwelling
upon the cruelty of trying and condemning
an eaceinte End nursing woman, and com
pared the case with the acquittal OF McFar-
land for killing Richardson. She said she
did not wish to excuse the crime. but it was
done in the heat of passion, aud that Mrs
Southern was irresponsible at the time IL
certainly was wrong 10 hang her. Mrs
Matilda Fletcher said that the women of
New York should petition for pardon Tor
Mrs Southern. 1t would be right tor an
army of women to 90 down there and take
Mrs. Southern fOrcibly from the Jail.
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Mobile News ]

That a thorough investigation be under
t ken by Congress through its committees
is due to ali concerned. To Mr.. Hayes and
others who hold office through these frauds
t those who haze BEEN defrandrd OF the
fruits of the ballot aud above all to the
gread body of the people.
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IT is said that the Republican Execu
tive Committee at Washington have
their eyes fixed con three Districts in
" Mississippi now held by the Democrats
with the expectation of carrying them. 3"
They are as badly mistaken as the old
gentleman of our acquaintance who, has
never lost sight of his former slaves in
the belief that they will yet be restored
to him. Even the Independent dodge
will not avail them
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Difference in favor of
Democrats. .......-...... $ 2O,3542O6 60
The Democratic House of Represen-
tatives accomplished this saving to the
people, Notwithstanding the obstacles of
a Republican Senate and Republican
President
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WestVille News.

We think, if there is any power in the
land-and there certainly must be some
whereby which these usurpers can be
Ousted, it ought to be resorted to, and that
without delay, and if our members of Con-
gress fail to do their duty i'm the premises,
the people will certainly hold them to a
strict accountability in the future.
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G.. ). BELL, who is well known here
abouts. arrested in Washington several
days ago on the charge Of having com
mitted various murders in Texas, was
discharged by Judge Cartier recently,
on the ground that the Indictment was
fatally defective, in that it did not give
his full christian name. 1t is the sec
ond time Bell has been arrested in
Washington and discharged on techni
cality.