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The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
As 10 Original Matter.

The Monmouth 1lL) Atias reflects a
patent fact when it says: awe never
esslld ses.the virtue of the boast which
IS y often made by the papers and mag
azines that 50 large a portion Of their
pages is original. Such originality is
often maintained 10 the dctriment Of
the paper The best exchanges Of our
acquaintance are by no means those
which have the greatest amount Of orig
inal matter. There is more Of editorial
tact and talent required to make proper
and practical selections than is put in
requisition BY the production Of the
Wanting original papers, that seem to
consider originality the only requisite
for a good periodical A good newspaper
is always dependent upon other resources
than its own. And thelbOast Of period
ical that it is entirelyNoriginal is too
often Ike the boast Of library if it
should claim to have the production Of
only one author"
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
Mortality in India from Snake Bites.

Readers will bc startled TO learn that,
according to a return published In Janu-
airy, 1873, no fewer than $4,000 human
beings lost their lives in India during
the previous year by snake bites. This
lamentable sacrifice of life is occasioned
not only by the cobra and kraft, but by
other deadly species, and notably by q
snake barely foot long, the Echis
carinata, known also by the name Of
Kupperor Foorsa The effects produced
by snake bites vary according 10 the
species. Thus the bite of the cobra pro-
duces coma and speedy death, whereas
the poison Of other, such as Russells viper,
produces excessive pain, commissions.
and usually death. The bite of Echis
carinata causes blood to ooze from the
pores Of the victim, who, after lingering
FOR aweek or more, suecumbs 10 the fatal
poison. The number Of harmless snakes
Is enormously in excess Of the yenomous
species, else the mortality wonld un-
questionably be greater even than IL IS;
and it is to be dcplored that more strenu-
Gus measures Are not taken to oradicaie,
as for as possible, a tribe Of animals 20
deadly TO man.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
Where a Forged Note Proved Good.

The why old president of New Eng
land commercial bank is known among
the younger financial fry Of his town as
"Old Nails"-possibly from his incisive
decisions and driving way Of doing busi-
ness. Some time ago business man Of
the place, and a brother in good standing
OF the church, had note discounted at
this old worthy's bank. When it came
due, the president, at the solicitation of
the makers friends, though against his
own judgment, extended II. When the
final time Of payment came, the note was
discovered to be a forgery, to the scandal
OF the church and the astonishment Of
the town, but not that of the astute bank
President
The brethren, however, rallied around
the erring one, the note was paid, and
the matter supposed to be hushed up.
Some time after, however, the bank re-
ceived letter from another financial in
sttution, asking their opinion as to Mr..
Ms note.
Old Nails said he would answer the
letter which he did as follows:
d" President - BaHk.
"DEAR Sra ,--In regard 10 Mr. - note,
we would say; eff it isa forgery, IL will be
paid by the First --- Church Of Bushytown.
lift is genuine, il is not worth a cent. Re-
specifically yours,
NATHANIEL Nails. President.U
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
Personalities in Politics.

The New York Erqageiht on person
alities in politics says: "There should
be no hesitation In telling the simple
truth about a bad man who Is lifted into
publicity by nomination to Office; for
the community would suffer more from
the election Of such man than the pub
lication q bad deeds IL T. only in this
way that parties are compelled tochoose
good men, and that the community
brands evil doing. But never beyond
this point should personalities be allowed
10 20. Unfortunately, a great many
good men are deferred from accepting
nomination 10 Office from a natural
shrinking dread Of the abuse and slam
ders that would be heaped upon them.
The Misrepresentation and vilitication
of public men in this country arc really
fearful, and tend 10 lower the moral
tone Of our public life, and degrade orr
politics The indulgence in personalities
without Just cause Is bad in every re-
spect, and should be everywhere dis
couraEed.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
A Generous Man.

A certain old gentleman, very rich
and still more stingy, Is in the habit Of
wearing his clothes 70 the last thread.
One Of his friends, meeting him, ex-
claimed: "They told me that you had
q new hat, and I'll be hanged If you
hayen't| ooh, yes" said the miser,
looking as II he were a triHe ashamed OF
himself, you Sc my wife kept telling
me that the old one was good deal worn
out Well, yesterday was my wife'a
birthday, and l got myself a new hat for
her birthday present.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
Strange Enough.

Apretty incident occurred at Lebanon,
Ont, the other Sunday. Into the
Methodist Church few q robin during
service. Perching on a rail opposite the
pulpit it sang loudly when the people
sang, was silent during prayer, but when
the minister preached it ehirped Occa-
sionally as II to encourage him. 1t re-
manned until the congregation was
formally dismissed, and iLe8 seA away.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
The Dream Of Life in France.


The dream ofeyery young Frenchman
whose pockets are empty, is to marry a
girl who has from $4,000 10 $4,000, and
earn about E200 year for himself by
means Of a situation aHTording a fixed
salary. II is not an extravagant dream,
and, 10 do the Frenchman justice, he In
quite happy il he realizes it. Having
got $500 or f400 year, he does not
seek to enlarge his income, but lives
prudently within his means, and invests
some savings every year with commend
able judgement. The vary fact, how
ever, that most Frenchmen should pitch
their ambition SO low as to require moth
ing more than what an Englishman would
call little competency, shows how keen
the struggle for life is, and, when one re-
fleets that the thousands of men who
cover the position Of petit-rentier are
Joined annually by 10000 young recruits
fresh from the schools, and with all their
talents whetted according to the newest
systems for the social fray, one cannot
wonder at the large number of educated
young men who find their way into jails.
The last annual report of the Ministry OF
Of Justice dwells upon the increasing
number of we'll educated persons who
are imprisoned for offenses against prop
erty. M. Victor Hugo and his friends,
who used to laud education as the
ps gges- for oil sOUigIl and political Ills,
may find this hard fact to digest, but
there it lies; and one may add that for
determination in ohenses against life, as
veil as in swindling, the highly trained
young men who have been through the
best lycees are quite equal to the un-
nnltured rouQh.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
Risky Business.

At the Western railway station two
young men are awaiting the departure
Of the ST. German train. The elder of
the two szys to the other, who is watch
ing a lady with some tenacity:
"D0n't look at hat woman that
way"
aWhy notF'
because, one day, in this very place,
I contemplated aEttle badly a. you are
contemplating this one"
"Well?'
HWen, I have been contemplating her
nov for eight years."
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
A Boy,s Dishones,y.-M Legouve tells

A Boys Dlsh0nesty'-M. BegOuYe tens
Us Of an interesting consultation a
mother had with him about her boy who
was in the daily habit, as she was horri-
sied TO learn, Of stealing sugar from his
aunfs drawer where she kept IL for an
occasional and an extra cup Of coffee.
The fond mother, who had believed him
almost faultless, foresaw in him the
makings Of a thief, burglar. Her friend
laughed a little and predicted that he
would outgrow it. Soon after, while
strolling through the garden with wish
to-, the mother TO her even greater hor-
ror, saw him 20 into her room, take some
money from her pure and put itintO his
pocket. She was thoroughly alarmed.
She recalled several instances where
children Of her friends had been detected
as thieves. Only a few days before lad
Of sixteen was expelled from college for
stealing a five franc piece from one Of
his comrades. After long thinking about
it, but without informing anyone, she
resolved to put him to some test, which
would show whether his fault was mere
thOughtlessness or ingrained dishonesty.
His father, himself, and his Snother
we're sitting in the room, the boy en-
gagged in writing out his lesson
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
a GOODNIGHT SONG.

Tod keep You safe my kile lore,
All through the night; -rrfr
Rest close in His enciroling arms Nt
Until the light.
Ny heart is with you as kneel 70 pray;
Goodnight God keep you in His care Away. -
Thick shadows creep llks silent ghostn = gm
About my head: NM
l lose myaen Ia tender dreAms, N "a
While overhead aM
The moon comes stealing through the window bars
A silver sickle gleaIning mid tie stars
For though am 80 FAR away.t W# N
Feel safe and strong.
To trust you thus, dear love, nd yet
The night is long
say with sobbing heart the old fond prayer,
Good night Sweet dreams! God keep you every.
The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1879-12-18
EIEE nsrNpERsr oop.


nN KATIE =. NtMS8rt
We 90 throashli nd unleStsndlng M
Ard N laindersto0si.
We srs Too pfOnt - ~ i O,heH ~,
Eril instead ol ,0ot
We cannot rad each others hesrtA
There Is hidden hisiorY o. 81 - Z
n every ii'ei Nr are 20 eaehsiher
Ala mystery
In every heart here Is a gave
oss3s; saae3pellST ~
The ereT-wasiing cares Of earth
We there CllUyal
Ill he hasnQniaFe bltlerncu
liiA' Ne eaaiel ~ N aftM FN
J-aiousg, hatrsl and strife
Ton often and
A place In that rsceptacle- ~
The human AIM, 1875
In love hope and sympathy ~
Cannot ahound:
FOR vile, ungoverned passions hold
The vantage Gound.
Al length the soul in ruin ainks
Al what 4 cIsi - s-a-sll
And grim death snaps tine vital chord
And ali Is lost,
-cOlH'Sis tCoRa.l Rsgisier.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27
God is With Us, # the North is Not,

The all-absOrbing topic of the
day is the restoration of prosperity
to the South. 1t is felt and talked
about in every household. 1t has
imbued capital with confidence, and
inspired labor with hope 1t rides
supremely over every question in
politics This newborn vitality
that Is now permeating all branches
of business, simply demonstrates
the energy and pluck of the South
crn people. 1t is not the work OF
any political party. Politicians
have had naught to DO with the in
dustry Of the farmer. the enterprise
OF the merchant, nor the ceaseless
toll of The mechanic. God alone
has stood on the side of these.
Despite the chickering's of partisans,
Cod s sunshine, His rain, and His
invigOrating air, has touched as
with the beneicence of inspiration
the resources of industrial thrift,
and they have yielded the fruits of
renewed prosperity. God is with
us if the North is not. Our manu-
factories and workshops were never
buster than now, and the counters
of the merchants we're never more
thrOnged Capital and labor were
never drawn together by opportuni
Ties OF greater mutual advantage
In fact, better times have come, and
peace and happiness reigns through
out our own sunny Southern land
= Banner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27

known as Vale Mills. situated about miles
west of Pulaski on the Lawren ceburg road.
The Factory consists OF a large brick build
ing stories high, with basement, metal
roof. used as cotton mill, and contains the
following machinery: 1 lapPer, 9 cards, {
railway reads . drawing heads. speeders,
4 spinning frames 132 spIndles each, reels,
4 formers, . rope machines, foot lathe, l
gear cutter and card grinder-all now in
running order and now at work.
The Grist Mill embraces large frame build
ing 215 stories high and basement. metal
roof, contains three (3) n of 4s-in. French
huhrs, Eureka shutter, Screw, double is
feet bolts. elevators, &c, complete machinery
including IS inch American Turbine fuTn-
ished by Stout, Mile s. Temple. Dayton, o.
There is connected with these mills 20
acres of land. on which Is situated a freproof
cotton ware house and tenement houses con-
tanning u to Is rooms. on RIchland creek
with fine water power, and surrounded by q
very productive cotton country. This a
fine property for the investment of money
for profit and safety. This property will be
sold free from the equity of redemption.
Purchaser required TO execute note with good
personal security, and lien will he retained
upon the land for the payment of the pur
chase money. j. B. STACY, c. 81 NJ.
novl3 At
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27
The Late Greenhack Party.

Last year the Greenbaek part
polled 2,759 votes in Colorado; this
year it lost seventy five per cent. OF
these.
Last year, in Connecticut, it cast
1914 votes; this year, the party has
not been heard from there.
Last year, in Iowa, it fused with
the Democrats, and the two parties
together cast $4,000 votes, from
which subtracting the $4,000 Dem
ocratic votes, left the Greenback
strength at $4,000; this year, with
the total vote in the State increased
$4,000 votes, it pOlled $4,000 votes
only, which is equivalent to q loss
of $4,000 or 10000.
In Maine, last year, it polled
Al, 900 votes; IN Maine, this year,
it polled $4,000, gain of 5000.
No comparison can be hat be-
tween the votes of this party in
Massachusetts, IN 1873 and 1879,
on account of the Butler Demo-
cratic rote being entirely mixed il
with the total vote that Gen. Butler
received.
Last year, in Mississippi, it polled
10000 votes; this year, it has on y
been heard from in a scatterin g
way.
Last year in Ohio it polled $4,000
votes; this year, about IL 600.
Last year, in Pennsylvania, il
polled eighty-one thousand votes
this year some fifteen thousand.
Last year, in Wisconsin, it pOlled
thirty thousand votes; this year
none at all.
The question is, what has be
come Of the GreeHback party? We
think it is dead w ashington Post
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27

Postmaster General Key, in an
swer to the question III Virginia or
Tennessee had any excuse for re
pudiation,' replied:
Tennessee certainly had none.
The value Of its crop last year
reached about $IO6, 600. 900, and the
cost of labor IN producing it 81,
600, 900. 1t Is a fresh country with
mineral resources, and able to pay
its liability. Virginia has more
excuse, being a wornOut State, with
no resources to speak of. It's crops
last wear were only valued at 1913,
100000. while it took $4,000, 900 to
produce them. Still the action of
the State cannot but have a bad eff
feet. and business men will be apt
to shun any dealings not only with
State but with the people of u
State in which debt is repudiated. !"
The present population of Ten
nessee is estimated to be l, 100000
If the people of this rich and pOpu-
lous State do not settle their in
debtedness it will be because of
their unwillingness to pay anybody
anything, and they must suffer the
consequences Of the failure to meet
their creditors on some mutual ba
sis of settlement. The failure to
pay up cannot be ascrlbed to lack
of ability. Gen. Key, however, is
entirely mistaken, when he styles
the late So proposition 1.-The pay
ment of the debt" and when the
people of Tennessee voted it down
by 10000 majority, they voted for
Reputation. Gen. Key seems to
be entirely oblivious of the fat
that vote of 50-4 was vote for
the absolute Reputation of one
half of the debt, as the creditors de
clined to accept 80 cents on the dol
lar, and the people of Tennessee
very properly voted down the prop
Osition in the interest of the good
name of the State. Gen. KEYS
views as to the future duty of the
people to provide for an honest pay
ment of the State debt are sound,
and will meet with the hearty con-
currence of a great majority of the
citizens of Tennessee Memphis
Avalanche.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27
The Memphis King.

Courier Journal Memphis Cores
pondence, 18th:
King Cotton sits enthroned in
Memphis. With a massive truck
for his chariot and the omnipotent
mule, in twos and threes and tours
and skies, for his outriders, he is
met everywhere in the city, from
the bluff to the Bayou Gayso, from
Chelsea to Fort Pickering. From
1000 to 5000 bales of the Omnipo
tent staple are daily received here.
The cotton press men of Memphis.
that is to say, the men who own
and run the machines for pressing
cotton, are all growing rich. The
prolonged putting of their compress
sing machines is heard all through
the night. As the nulse of some
mighty monster of iron and steam
it beats throughout the darkness,
every second thrOb being as sill
yer dollar coined for Its owners.
No mine of Colorado equals in coin
producing capacity this cotton mint
of the South. 1t has made and Is
making little mOnarchs OF men who
once walked the streets of the Bluff
City with poor and apologize air
And why should 1t not? A bale of
cotton is compressed in a few sec
Onds. One descent of the com
pressing lever and the work is over.
The decent costs half dollar. 1t
is therefore clear that ''there is mil
lions in it." If Jupiter had had
any proper information of the cot
ton compress monopoly, he need
not have woOed Danac in a shower
of gold.
Yes, cotton is king, and cares
not a snap Of his heecy fingers for
the gaunt and skeleton hand of vel
low fever. Three weeks ago the
streets of Memphis were silent as
the grave. A spectre seemed in
every house, and men and women
stunned the city as something
whose touch was contamination.
To day the sun-and it is a fierce
southern sun at that-looks down
on streets full of vehicles of all
sorts, laden with the products of al
most every country; on sidewalks
crowded with welldressed pedestri
ans, on shops and stores and marts
bright aud prosperous with prOfita
BILE trade. But yesterday a''plague
spot" ''stricken city," a deserted
and red type cursed town-to day
its strong and erect commerce, its
revived Industries, its renewed and
Cheerful energies, give the lie to the
prophets of evil who pronounced
its fate as sealed. Surely Memphis
is a wonderful city-a city of IN
surpassed recuperative powers, a
city of unparalleled vitality, Of
great rehabilitative resources. II
scientific laundering and red-tape
cIrcumlOcution and tOmtoOlery add
ed to the terrors of yellow fever.
coniured secundum artem, by cru
dite NJ. DIS could have killed Mem
phis, this now sturdy city would be
as dead as julius C@zar. But she
has survived even this combination
of woes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27
Bob Tocmbs' Bazoo.

A Chicago paper having invited
prominent Southern men to send in
its care congratulations to Gen.
Grant on his return to that city,
Gen. Toombs sent the following:
Your telegram received. l de-
cline to answer except to say pre-
sent my personal congratulations to
Gen. Grant on his safe arrival to
his country. He fought for his
country hOnorably and won; l
fought for nine and lost 1 am
ready to try it over again. Death
to the Unioul R. TooMBs."
A reporter of the Atlanta Consti
tuition showed Gen. ToOmbs the
dispatch and asked if it was genu-
inc, whereupon he replied:
"It certainly represents my views.
l did dot intend to answer the edi
iJor's dispatch in full. L merely de-
sired him to congratulate General
Grant on his sale return. ! then
went on to say that l was ready TO
fight again for my cause-that OF
establishing the rights OF the States
10 SeCeNe- w ny SuOul'Nu say III
feel i'll mean lit is In my
heart and why should l deny it?
Why should l crawl about and ne
gin TO tell lies in my old aye? l
don't like the Union and they know
it, and l have nothing to hide. The
policy of suppressing sentiment Is
all pretentiOus. Seymour got u
bigger vote in New York IN '6S than
We have ever got since, and we've
been choking the North with butter
ever since. The Union cannot last.
Honest government is impossible
under the fourteenth and tittee til
amendments. The Radicals inject
ed 100000 snags into the belly of
the Constitution, and they did it for
the purpose of breaking down our
institutions. They will succeed, 1
hope and believe. Yes, sir, l tee-
graphed the Chicago man my hon
est views. l speak Tor no one but
myself, and l don't care to tell =
ID he about itr'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27
White Lato7 in the South.

Mobile Register: There has
been no negro emigration to Texas,
vet that State, which made only
Two hundred thousand bales before
the war, now grows nearly a mil
lion. The cotton is made by white
labor in Texas, just as it IS made by
white labor u great extent all
over the South. 1t is white labor
that is running the cotton crop into
the five million bales. In twenty
years we will have it up into the
ten million bales, and then we will
have our factories to spin for the
home demand, and we will export
immediately from cur cities all that
the world will need.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27

Union, and was formed by the peo-
pie of the several States in their
sovereign capacity; that the rights
and powers of the United States
Government are defined and limited
by the Federal Constitution, and
these rights and powers cannot be
enlarged nor diminished except by
an amendment to the Constitution.
Resolved, That the rights of the
States have the same sanction and
security in the Constitution as the
rights and powers of the Federal
Government, and that local domes-
tic government by the several States
within the limits of the COnstitu-
ton is absolutely necessary for the
preservation OF the liberties of the
citizen and the continuance of our
republican system of govern ment.
Resolved, That the doctrine that
State has a right To secede from
the Union is in conflict with the
idea of a perpetual Union" as
contemplated by the Constitution,
and should be regarded as being
forever extinguished by the results
of the recent civil conflict.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-11-27

GAINESVILLE Chronicle: We cut the
following from that rabid stalwarr
organ, the Lamars { Iowa. Sentinel
The Republican speakers and edi
tors generally do not openly en-
dorse the proposals of the Sentinel
but their declarations against the
South as favorers of State rights,
and their demands for the suppress
sion Of such principles can only be
practically carried out by the pro
cess openly demanded by the SentI-
mel. The costitutiOn as it is is an
effective bar to them; this the Le-
mars Sentinel avows and this the
stalwarts know, but do not avow at
present:
The captured Capita al has been
retaken from Southern assassins,
Never again to pass from the
control of patriots.
we plead with the loyal States
men of the North
To hitch this second conquest of
rebeldom
To the everlasting pillars of Nor
thern patriotism by
Cancelling every State line,
AbrOgatiLg every State cOnstitu-
ton and
ResumiIg every State right
That exists, OF is supposed to eX-
ist. south Of Mason 6 Dixon's line,
And govern the same by martial
law. under the supervision of the
National war department.
"Give US peace"
All we Lemand then is the dis
tinct understanding that the Demo
Gratis stand upon the constitution
as It is, and demand its inviolable
integrity, while the stalwaris enter
tain purposes which cannot be car
ried out so long as the constitution
stands.
The sophistry of the stalwarts
consists in this: When the Demo-
Gratis insist ON the rights of the
constitution, they intimate that this
means renewed secession. Our
only answer TO this is a copy of res
olutiOns carried by Democrats in
the Congress of 1876 against the
united resistance of the Republican
party.
The stalwarts are the emily Rsvo
lutiOnists.
Resolved, That the people of the
United States Constitute a nation
in the sense. to the extent and for
the purposes defined in the Federal
Constitution.
Resolved, That the Government
Of the United States is q Federal