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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-08

Europe will noxt year bo divided among five
Great Britain and France; four of medium
Importance Swodon, Spain, Italy and Tur-
key; thirteen small Statos-Norway, Don-
mark, Holland. Belgium, Switzerland, Portu.
gal, Greece, Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria,
Montenegro. Eastern Roumelia and probably
Western Roumelia; besides three minute
Statos--Monaoo, San Narino and Andorro.
II II no one else rejoces at tho outcome of tho
Congross, tho diplomatic service will.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-08
VOLUME XIII. mo. SO.

SCHOOL CIILDREN.--MaDya child, that
is the light Of tho house to-day, will have
been laid in tho grave before the season id
ended, by inattention as to heat and cold,
Inducing ,plcurisies, inflammation of the
lungs. colds, groups, and other dangerous
maladies.
Teachers should be spoken to about
allowing the children to cit with the back
near stove, or register, or window, or In
any position whore tho child is exposed to o
draft of air, or to ovor heat.
The ohildron should not be allowed ia
come directly to fire or stove, on first en-.
tering the school room.
In addition, they shold be detained in an
outor room fiftcon or twonty degrees colder
tor fow minutes after tho school ia dig
missed, and then have their gloves put on
and vail put over the face and fastened,
80 as not to be blown aside. The colder
the weather, and the higher tho wind, the
more necessary ard thcse precautions, NOT
only 10 leaving tho soKSol-room, but on
leaving home. #
The grateful relief which is experienced
when facing fierce, cold wind, on putting
a silk handkerchief over tho face, will our
prise any one who tries it..
All lndia.rubber Shoes or garments
should be removed tho moment on coming
in doors.
Children should be instructed to run
with the mouth shut for the first block or
two after getting out of doors in cold
weather.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-08

Galveston reports the receipt of two bales
of fthenew crsp Of cotton for the past woek. \
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-08

London is laughing over suit Of breach
of promise Of marriage. The plaintiff was
a widow Of seventy years, who wore a.
a wig, her hair, as sho testified, having
fallen out in consequence of her grief at
tho inconsistency Of her suitor, Romeo OF
threc-scoro and ton. The jury gave her
$50. ,p 10iS 4.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-08

%Phil!ips, the celebrated Irish sploadcr,
solomnly declared before jury his conyio-
tion of tho innocence of his client, at tho
very time when tho confession of his guilt
wns in his pocket. roady to be produced, on
conviction, to ameliorato the force of tho
BeDtouce.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-08

We are going to have big fair. 1t will
begin on Monday, tho 2lst day of October,
and run through tho week.
Its not saying too much to predict that
it will BY al odds BE the largest and best
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20
Conviction of the Returning
ROardeFs.

No trial has ever taken place in the
country which has created more interest,
and is more wide reaching in its bearings
than that of the Returning Boarders,
who are being prosecuted for forgery and
perjury in New Orleans. Their convic-
ton secures the punishment of criminals
guilty of an infamous crime but it de-
rives importance from the fact that it
will show whether or not Rutherford B.
Hayes was elected President of the
United States. He was counted ia by
vote of 185 to 184-the six votes of Lou
isiana having been counted for him.
The proof in the trial of Anderson was
positive that he and Others of the
Returning Board had altered and
forged returns to effect this result and
thereby procured declaration BY the s
by Commission that Hayes, andnOt Til.
den, was elected. Anderson has been eon-
victed, aud his confederates viii Of ne
cessity share his fate. The cloud upon
the title of the Rutherford B. Hayes s.
now bIacker than impenetrable darkness.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

IT, ne Eaitors OH, Clorioa

IL me EdttoTS OF me CLARION.
! write To say that l concur most heartily
! In Your recent utteraaces in regard 10 the
text books 10 b. used in our Public Schools
| They should be selected carefully and DELHI.
| erAtely bJ tie State Board .; Education. aud
when 50 selected, they should not be chang
ed in less than fiv" years, nor then unless
| better books atr iouud 70 supcrcede
them. Besides securing entire uniformity
throughout The State, parents and guardians
viii save many thousands of dollars snuu-
ally. Under our present ridiculous system
every Co1nty Superintendent has his own
particular text books anu the result is. thar
the children have new books 10 buy nearly
every session. l viii not say that the pub
fishers OF school books bride County SUI
PeriHtcn3eu;s To ciunge from old e. new
teS books, but will say changes are ZOO
frequently made.and a. County Superintend-
ents only receive bout three hundred dollars
per aanum, for their services. many people
are puzzled 10 know how some Superiuteud-
ents manage 10 do so much with their
small salaries
These SuperintcUdents may all be honest,
hope they are, but il they are honest and
above temptation, il will do them no harm
70 remove te ptation out of their way.
Let the Legislature enact in the new
school law, brief clause empowering the
state Board of Education to select and de-
clare y hat books shall be used in the Pub
lie Schools of Mississippi; that when Sc
lected they shall not be changed to- five
years, aud we shall Kill two birds with one
stone. We shall save thousands TO the peo-
pie annually, establish entire uniformity In
our educational system, aud above and be-
You'd all rule, we shall break up the corrupt
and demoraliZing system which many now
believe debaucheS County Sunerintendents
Oy regular course OF jobs aud bribery.
L am not an advocate for aGyboGy's books
but would mercilesSly exclude from our
schools all that are unworthy.
BROUGHAM.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

MAJOR Jonas Aberdeen Examiner
one of our abIest State papers, which
speaks only after due deIiberation,
heartily unites with THE CLARION" in
the proposition for the adoption of Col
McCardle's forthcoming work upon Mis-
sissippi, as text book for the public
schools, after examination and approval
by the State Board The Exam iner su-
peradds a suggestion and gives numerous
toreible reasons in support of it, that
"the State Superintendent and Board of
Education be instructed and empowered
to compile, arrange or otherwise provide
the matter for series of school books,
to be dencminated the Mississippi Series,
the office of every County School Super
intendent to be made depository for the
distribution and sale of these books, said
officials receiving a reasonable commits
sion TO be fixed by law, upon the sales" "
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20
The North EEissi~sIpPt state Lime
POuGOtOc and ship Island
RaiErosad

''Pious Jeems" continues his graphic
and very entertaining letters from the
capital to the Pontotoc Democrat In
his last, he has the following to say in
reference to the above enterprise, which
we insist belongs to no particular sec
ton, but to the whole State:
There will be presented charter for a
new road, under the head of, North Mis-
sissppi State Line, POptotoc and Ship Is
land Railroad :" How Is that for high !?
When we get the charter through we viii
tell the people how We propose 10 build it.
But we must not be too fast; we must con-
fine ourselves to past and present aud if We
succeed in our expectations, new era will
dawn upon our country. Soon will the Iron
Horse awake with its neigh our people
from the lethargy that years of commercial
inertia has held them in. When the first
earth is turned mp by the convict labor in
Pontotoc county, We viii hail the dAv as
one of the happiest of our lives, and feel re-
paid for every sacrifice of personal interest
we are making now to serve our people
In this letter the prOnouns- zoe and our are
often useI, not in the SENSE editors use it.
but to include my colleague, Mr.. Wilson,
our tloater, who is working with your eoun-
ty representative with zeal worthy OF the
great undertaking before us.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20
Supreme Court Decisions.

Judgments in the following cases were
affirmed by the Supreme Court, Monday,
February l1th:
2G7S. .oiner vs.. Miller & WILLIAMSON.
26l9. Selden, ct al, VS.. Coffee, and re-
mandcd.
1858. John G. Kendrick vs. the State.
2GiG. Th0s. ;. Parker vs.. the State.
25ji' John A. Mcdonald vs.. Mary A.
Mcdonald.
2GO9. Holly vs.. the State.
Judgments in the following causes we're
reversed.
2G49. Donis, ct al, VS.. Kilgore, ana re-
mauded.
2G54 Holly Springs VS.. State Board OF
Education.
1893. Garner VS.. Andrews, and the bill
dismiS sed.
26Z2. billiard VS.. Schumport, and re-
manded.
2505. Harriston vs.. the State, and re-
handed, and new trial awarded.
1852. Hamilton VS. Booth, and remanded.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

There are 10 people, however deinocrat
ic their form Of governmental whose laws do
not qu,li'y suffrage in some way, eth 3
as to age, sex, education property Il
our State the suffrage j. confined 10 the
male sex ami no Que g permitted to vote
unless he has been resident for given
period, aud Is twenty years "f age.
In Massachusetts aud other States IN
educational qualification is required,
and in sone others property quail
fcation is prescribed. We do not
propose to apply either of these
tests in Mississippi; but we propose that
the voter shall be required to present
evidence of his having paid his poll tax
of the previous year. which would guar
antee that he possesses the essential
element of residence. The amount of
the poll tax might be so small as not to
be an obstacle in the way of any one who
is worthy of the privilege of voting and
taking part in making the laws of the
State A poll tax receipt for the same
year in which the offer to vote is made
will not suffice first, because it swould |
not afford evidence of residence; and see
ond, because the voter might then |
De the mere tool of designing dema-
yogues and of candidates possessing the
money to purchase his vote. Itshould |
DE- the aim of every patriot to protect the
purity of the ballot box and make it the
agent of a perfectly untrammeled ex
preston Of public sentiment.
No more important subject than this of
regulating suffrage can engage the atten-
ion Of the Legislature, and the people
viii be disappointed if constitutional
amendment having the above object in
Jew is not submitted to them for
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

The following are said to be the main
provisions of the Income Tax Bill, which
will be reported by the Ways and Means
Committee of the lower House of Con
gress: All incomes up to two thousand
dollars are exempted all incomes ex
ceeding two thousand dollars, and not
exceeding ten thousand, to be taxed two
per cent; all incomes exceeding ten
thousand dollars to be taxed three per
centum per annum. The bill is support
ed by the South and West almost unani-
mously, and opposed by the East, which
gets its inspiration by the regular channel
of Wall street and its branches.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

The following is the bill which passed
the National House Of Representative
on the 9TH inst, by a vote of 40 to 102,
in regard to the alleged timber depreda-
tons in our coast counties The bill was
reported BY the Judiciary Committee as a
substitute for one offered by Mr. Hook
er; but it received his support, and was
advocated by him in speech forcibly pre-
senting the wrongs which had been prac-
ticed upon the people engaged in the
lumber trade, and the necessity Of a
speedy trial of the case. 1t awaits the
action of the Senate, which we trust will
be favorable:
Congressional Record, February 9Th.
The Clerk read the substitute as follows !:
A bill to authorize a special term of the Cir
cult Court of the United States for the
Southern Distric- of Mississippi, to be hel
at Scranton, in Jackson county.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States oil
America in Congress assembled, That
special term of the Circuit Court o. the
United States for the Southern District OF
Mississippi shall be holden at scranton.
IN JACKSON county, Mi~>l>SADpl, 90 Dt2if on
the second Monday in March, lSUS, and the
Clerk of said court shall cause notice of said
special term of said court 70 be published
in a new paper in Jackson, Mississippi, and
also in a newspaper in Scranton, at least
ten days before the beginning thereof and
all process writs, bonds and recogniZances
which relate to any suit or suits pending
which may be instituted IL said court in
behalf ofthe United States against any party
or parties for or on account of any lumber,
of or on account of alleged depreciation
upon. or timber cut or taken from any OF
the public lands OF the United States in said
district shall be considered as belonging
To such special term. and such suits shall
be then and there tried ana deter
mined rs if they had been brought, and
such Vvrits, process, bands and r"coRuizauoce
had been issued and taken with reference,
ana made returnable to such special term.
And the presiding judge of said court shall
have power to coutinue such special term
from time to time until said suits stall be
determined, if in his judgment the ends OF
justice may require.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

The following is an analysis OF a
recent test vote. in the lower house II
Congress on the income tax 1t was
upon a resolution introduced by Mr..
McMahon. of Ohio, instrucring the Com
mittee of Ways and Means TO report, at
the earliest day practicable. bill to tax
incomes. The resolution failed tc re-
ceive the necessary two thirds maj rity.
but the decided vote in its favor shows
that a large majority Of the House will
vote for bill to restore this tax. The
vote was-ayes, 165 noes, 50. The
annexed table shows the vote by States:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20


THE great corporations aud monopolies OF
California are determined at all hazards to
beat a Constitutional Convention. Califor-
lila suffers more from powerful corporations
aud mOnOpulies than any other country on
the globe The mines and the railroads OF
that State elecl large partio; o the Legis-
ature. One OF them, the Union Pacific.
holds the balance of power between the two
great parties of tie country, and gives the
State to either the Democrats or the t;epnb-
leans, Just as it sees fir.-New Orleans
DemOcT
In proof of the foregoingit is stated that
the people Of California, by twenty odd
thousand majority, voted in favor of a
Constitutional Convention, and elected a
Legislature pledged to execute their will.
The corporations, however, ruled the
lobby, and have thus far succeeded in
preventing the enactment of law
calling the convention. The result will
in the end be violence or revolution.
The public cannot be too long tempered
with. 1t gathers like the forces of tor
nado in the physical world and sooner or
later breaks forth and sweeps away every
thing in its onward march.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20
EVEN Senator Blaine in his late speech

EVEN Senator Blaine in his late speech
admitted that Congress had no power TO
demonetize either silver or gold. and said
it is the money Of the Constitution; but
that uuder the power granted 'to coin
gold and silver and regulate the value
thereof" he wants Congress to enact
that the silver dollar shall consist of 426
grains instead of 4l24. But what differ
ence does the number of grains make?
It is the act of the nation investing it
with the functions Of money that gives
it intrinsic value just as it does the strips
of paper called greenbacks which pass for
money.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

AFTER all the pretended horror of So
called Mississippi reputation by news
papers of Virginia, the Legislature of
that State is on the eve of passing a bill
scaling Cor repudiating) one third of
her debt. The bill provides for issuing
three per cent. registered bond, with
interest payable .semi-annually, in ex-
change for all classes Of the public debt
only two-:hirds of the debt, however,
is provided for, the other one third be-
ing set aside as the share of West Vir-
ginia. 1t provides also, that all licenses
and taxes, including revenue tax derived
from the Moffet register, shall be collect
ed in money and set apart for this pur-
pose and ne other.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

DABNEY H. MAURY, a Major General
in the Confederate army and a promi-
nent member of the Southern Historical
Society, has contributed to the Philadel-
phia Weekly Times a spirited and enthu-
siastic review of the military career of
Gen. Van Dorm, gallant Mississippi Of
ficer, who played a most important part
in the war between the States. By the
way, Van Dorm County would be pleas
ant and euphonious sound.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

WEsTvILLE, February 5, l77S

>
To the Editors 81 he clarion:
1t was not my intention to have had any
! thing more to say in regard 10 the lien law,
after nay former communication. until saw
an article from Merchant" in the CLARION
OF the third inst In oFder to be brirt /
VIII ask "Merchant' the following uueS-
tions, which hope he will answer definite
~ First, where is the authority in law for
a lien 10 take precedence over "A judgment 4?
by what authority can lien be given on
something not in existence growing crops D.
Does Blackstone. Marshall or Kent inculcatp
these law principles? Again, were those
very few farms sold in Yazoo under the lien
law, ana how many men do YOU know
who ever went into the lien law, who
made their corn and meat at home? Are
nov Ieh-lehths OF the liens given ostensihly
Tor corn and meat? What per cent. of the
men who lave given liens. ever Dly ont ?
once they get the handouts on. is il "A pro-
lection To. or "A poor mans boon to make
cotton with which TO buy corn and meat
IT careful, honest merchants will deal
with none unless they believe them to be-
honest,why exact a lien. Was such thing as
lien law ever heard OF before the late war
IL nos was there any poor people during
that time! II SO, how did those poor people
manage to get along without this lien law ?
the strongest fertilization i'm laws"
Have the people now any better laws for
the protection OF the poor man, than they
had before the war? These are pertinent
questions iOr the satisfaction OF which
thousands would like 10 hear definitely an
s~ered. VIII "Merchant" say they are all
"boSh ~
Now. mind you, Messrs Editors. FOR
P0pHt never once impugned the honesty of
any one, merchant or any one else; only
attacked what he believed to be a bad or
class law, which enabled merchants more
particularly to take advantage of il. But
there is certainly one very Objectionable
feature IN nearly every argument i'm sup
portot the lien law. it is the continued cry
Of poor man." The term H. to say the
least, sinister ana invidious.
Merchant may yet see that farmers
ana all good citizens who wish TO see the
material prosperity of the country adj
vanced, will have a say in settling this mat
tef--tlat II the present Legislature don't the
next shall This fungoid Is an outgrowth
OF that mise rable Radical reign under the
regime OF the Ames- A lcorn. Gatlin- gun
dynasty; and large majority (poor men
TOO OF the voters to-day, are demanding its
repeal, yea, its being eXpunged from the
statute book. And mark what / say, if the
present Legislature don't respond to this
demand, the next will. Let those counties
which want "A lien law have it, but don't i'm
pose 1t on on those which do not.
VOX POPUIL
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

THE military bill pending in the lower
House of Congress contains one excellent
feature, the object of which is to prevent
the Executive from keeping up the mill
tary establishment in defiance of the will
of Congress. 1t provides that all the
troops and all the officers shall be in the
service of the United States $50 long as
Congress shall provide for their support,
by specific appropriations therefor, and
no longer" and whenever Congress
neglects or refuses to make the appropri-
atoms for the army before the expiration
of the fiscal year, ''such refusal or neglect
shall be deemed equivalent to an express
act for the abolition of the military es
tablishmert, and the army shall torthlcith
be disbanded."
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20
Summit, Miss.
The No Fence or Mort.a2e Law.
Dry GROVE, Kinds Co. Jan. y. 1873

10 he Editors Of The Clarion
| fed il the CLARION a communication
headed as above, signed = N IC is clear
the writer wants something for nothing.
The privilege claimed. TO raise stock on
other peoples land tree of rem. is precisely
like living in other mems houses Tree 81
rent, or cultivAtiDg their lands free OF rent.
The idea that the owners of lands
are compelled by any body 70 i'm pOyerish
themselves in keeping their lands in
closed to prevent trespaSs by other peoples
stock, | deny. Those claiming this right
expect or hope to succeed by making the
ignorant colored race believe the land
owners are their enemies, hoping thereby
to control their votes for their own personal
ends, regardless of right. The writer ar
Horn Lake says some lana owners are too
poor to feed their stock all the time. n
man, and especially farmer, has any right
to keep airy animal if he IS too POOR 10 feed
it, but should be held auenable to the law
for cruelty to animals. L deny the as
sertiOn that landowners care nothing
for small farmers or tena.tS. lt may be so
at Horn Lake. 1t is not true as to Kinds
county. Our landowners in Kinds since
the war have uniformly been nerous TO
the colored people; indeed the interests
are the same. They have furnished them
with homes. fuel and water, and | can say
with truth that it has been free Of any cost.
These same men and families get all these
home comforts three months in every year,
and they do no solitary thing for the benz
fit of owners without com pensaCiOn. There
are in this county some three thousand or
more men 1aborers who have failed To pay
poll-tax for the year 1877. This tax, it is
well Known, has been set apart exclusively
for the support of public schools. They get
the greatest benefit and still they neglect to
pay this tax. Not single land owner has
failed 10 pay his. Ifhe has, his home has
been confiscated or forfeited to the State.
The landowners pay their taxes aud sub
nit; and in this assures to them their only
hope. They come to the law-making
pow er, not asking favors but rights. That
they be no longer burthened trying 10 do a
useless and foolish thing that al tie world
may without impunity be trespassers on
their rights. | do not think it would be
wise for the Legislature to pass a general
stock law for the State. Many of the river
counties need no such laws. nor does the
pine forest region. But there can be no
doubt about Kinds, aud | do hope the SEN
ators and Representatives from this county
Will give the subject that attention it de-
serves. Let it not be deferred two years.
1t is a necessity which cannot be delayed.
RECONSTRUCTED.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-02-20

The measure in the Senate to pro-
vide for a compilation of the military
records of Mississippi for permanent
preservation, is so entirely proper,
that we presume it will be adopted with
out serious opposition. A correspondent
suggests that Col. McCardle be selected
for this service. The selection would be
so manifestly suitable that it would re-
ceive universal sanction. We would
take the liberty to add, that it would be
well if the bill making provision for the
compilation, should designate him by
name as the person to be selected for the
service.