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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
Illinois Central Railrd
Shortest Route to Chicago.
CITY to CHICAGO
; vVllh~ae Change or Cara!
Commencing June i. ls7s

commencing June J., Hta<
A daily express passenger train VIII leave
m. and arrive at Chicago at q. ~ 7. M.
{ Sleeping cars run through from Sioux City TO
Chicago. fare, s2e0 OIL sleeping car.
10. 90 a. m, via the Iiinois Central railroad, Will
arrive at Sioux City the next day at 11.30 a. III.
An accommodation train will leave sioux Guy
daily except, Sundays at Zoo y. NJ, CONNECTING
Passengers leaving Chicago at $50 p. m. arrive
at Sioux City at Gas a. IN.
Trains going east Connect at Chicago with all
iFaIns P iGf pelroi Ph iGIieaSsI,ainia' B sdia'o; . Mssii.
lngtOn, New York, Boston and all parts OF the
east.
This train connects at Waterloo with trains
leaving Waterloo at 1927 a. m. and arriving. at
waukee and 81. Paul railroad trains. and arriv-
ing at st. Paul at 6.36 p. NJ. and Minneapolis at
Connections are made at Dubuque with trains
on the Illinois Central main line, leaving Dubu-
que at $40 Z. m, arriving At Galesburg at 3.ao p.
Rock Island at e.sop. m., Quincy al $40 y. M,
st. Louis at 80 q: m. and Cairo at 40 q. m.
Connecting at. Cairo with trains for Memphis,
sas ns1ls ! y tSa sn%,T Mobile New Orleans and
Connections are made at Freeport with Vest
ern Union trains. leaving Freeport at 1o5 p: m.
and arriving at Racine at 5.45., and milwaukee,
at GA p. m.
Baggage Checked Through
To all important points.
For through tickets and information apply at
the Illinois Central depot.
Trains run by Dubuque time, which Is twenty
JOSEPH +. TUcKER, Chicago,
GenI Passenger Agent. Chicago.
iigH H. I. WRIGHT Agent, Sioux City.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-22
ANNOUNCEMENT.

RELIEVING THAT the District Attonieyship
- ought to be unconnected with politics, 1 off
er myself as An independent candidate for that
position. promising that if elected, I will per-
form the duties of the office according to the
best Of my skill and ability.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08
4Te Question Of Economy.

The actual peouniary loss by the yell
low fever epidemic in the last season is
estimated at 5000, 900, 900, to say moth
ing of the loss of life and human suffer
ing which are not to be estimated in dol
lars and cents. One-ffth of this loss is
supposed to have fallen upon Mississippi
say $40, 000,0 600, not including its effect
upon immigration upon which so much
depends for the future development of
the resources and prosperity of the State
A few thousand dollars, say $4,000 at
most, but most likely not exceeding
SIS 600 to prevent a recurrence of such
another loss, 10 say nothing Of the saw
ing Of human life, would be measure
of ecouomy as we'll as of humanity But
after all it may not come; and is it not
luck sometimes to take the chances? Who
knows We might say, though it is a
matter of intense local and domestic con-
cern, wait upon the general government
and see what it will do; but the old ia
Bile of Hercules and the wagoner does not
teach us that the latter got his load out
of the ditch until he had put his own
shoulder to the wheel.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

For the past week the receipts of cot
ton at all the Z. s ports were 1919, 9Sl
bales, against 2O4,SS2 bales the proceed
ing week, 220,291 bales the previous
week, and 220,7l8 bales three weeks
since. The total receipts since Septem-
Der /, 1873, have been 2,576, 1856 bales
against 1882 9I5 bales in 1877, showing
an increase Tor 1873 of 243, 221 bales.
The visible supply Of cotton on Friday
night was 2.304, 004 bales. against :, 345,-
76I 10 1877; 1855, 900 in 1876; 2,731,-
227 in 1878. These figures indicate a
decrease Of the cotton in sight of 41,7t7
bales rs compared with 1877; 531,O56
As compared with 1876; 327 223 as com
pared with 1878. OF the total supply
2,0IS,254 bales were American, against
2,014,26l in 1877; 1886, 500 in 1876;
1862, 227in 1875. Middling uplands
cotton is quoted in Liverpool on Friday
at 81: in 1877 at Sc in 1876 at 1916;
and in 1879 at 6 l5-1Gd.
The price of cotton is lower now than
it has been siuce the war. and we regret
10 say there seems no prospect of an i'm
mediate Improvement
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

If the judgment of sensible people is
not at fault, Mr.. Blaine's key note, will
prove death note after all. The Man
chester IN. h Union Democrat says,
what we were thinking, that 1.-The coun-
try is sick of this bootless negro contro-
versey. The people generally have a
deep seated conviction that, now that
the negroes are made the equal of the
whites under the law, they should be left,
like white men, to work out their desti
ny under the general laws of the Union
and the States, without being under
the special guardianship of politicians.
The most influential republicans in Con
gress do not look with favor upon this
attempt to revive sectional luminosity.
Even Mr.. Garfield said few days ago,
in the course of his remarks upon the
consular bill 1.-The man who attempts
to get up political excitement in this
country on the sectional issues will find
himself without party and without sup
port" So mote it be.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

THE most outrageous election frauds
which were practiced in the late elections
were perpetrated against naturalized
Democrats by one j. l. Davenport,
United States supervisor. Upon charges
of illegal voting thousands of that class
of citizens were arrested. The cases
have recently been judicialy determined,
and the decision is that the arrests were
without authority of law. The proceed
ing was partizan and strictly bulldozing
affair, but then it was done in the inter
est of the party of ''moral Ideas" and
who has right to complain. 1t is only
in the South where it is wrong to interfere
with the rights of free American citizens.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08
Mississippi News.
Merilian Mercnru-l

mtIluidn MercuTy.I
On the 18th OF Decem Der, John ". Fsw-
elI. Esq. at Oruey for the Alabama Central
Railroad. appeared before Justice stone and
made affidavit that 3. &. Walker. late of
LAuderdale county, did. on the --- Ga7
of August, 1875, ia the city Of Meridian. In
ssIu county, as agent OF said road. en- brZzLs
the SUN OF 80 S53, which said SUN had come
into his care and possession, &c. and PRAYED
for warrant OF arrest.
Inc warrant was accordingly issued. die
fected TO the Sheriff, with the usual cone
mand' The warrant was put into the
nanus Vi James r. sanford, special deputy,
VINO Immediately made the arrest la "a most
quiet and transformations manner. very Iate
IN the evening, so that few persons knew ~
u until next morning when Nc was soon
widely known that Walker had spent the
night IN the county jaIl.
This Is case which had q large ruFrir
hotoriety Several circumstances cousufreI
~ give 10 me case unusual interest The
high standing of the party which had rua-
O Oltu MN 70 give bond TO the Alabama
~. eueral haliroaG company upon entering
theif service, and his marriage 10 a bcauti-
!ul and most respectable young woman
immediately preceding the detection and
exposure of his crime. were the most
prominent OF the circumstances attending
~ i1lnpaIt an interest. The Justic siguifrd
70 friends that lie would require a bond Of
70 VOO and, az this writing no bond is
CURED, and Walker remains in Jail.
, We nhu thst there is mistaken notion
IhaC walker has heretofore been arrested
~ IT, Is a mistake. Soon AFTER the exposure.
Waiker attempted to make his escape
through the country. His surctics uo-iug
Ine direction he went, telegraphed To uI-
rant ana other places, and sent n rrivate
detec'lye for him. He was detained by an
onicer at Durant and turned over 10 TIE
private detective, and, without formal
prosecution and warrant, agreed To return
ana I dId. Since then, he has had some en-
by hleht IN the Ala CT. So. Railroad Office.
MS beautiful young wife returned with
eI Iather, some weeks ago, when he was
nneIe, 70 his home in Claiborne county.
Foor thing! She went away from SO great
s,t trouble to home desolated by yellow
hroth,oE nIe i TOOK away mother, sister,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

MASSACHUSETTS, Pennsylvania and
New Hampshire, require that voter
shall pay his tax as a condition of vot-
ing. Connecticut and Massachusetts i'm
pose an educational qualification. Rhode
Island requires property qualification.
Nothing could be more odious than such
a measure as the Rhode Island law. 1t
places the government exclusively in the
hands of the manufacturing interests OF
that State but as it is Republican in
politics equally with Massachusetts, no
complaint is made by the agitators who
falsely complain that the free exercise OF
suffrage is interfered with in the Southern
States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

THE intelligent leaders of the colored
race, are protesting against the reduction
of Southern representation on accoantot
the negro, proposed by Northern Repub-
licans as penalty for their refusing to
work in Radical traces. Mark the in
dignant protest Of P. B. 5 Pinchbaek of
New Orleans.
P,B. 5. Pinchback's New Orleans Louisian-
ian.
Now the events have proved that the Civ
ing OF the ballot 10 the negro was not
successful adjunct of reconstruction, and
does not tent TO increase the numerical
strength of the Republican party in the
! halls of Congress, We find Northern news
| papers, '-stal@art' journals. trying to mold
| public sentiment to secure the disfranchiSe-
/ ment of the negro. Not ouiy is il proposed
/ 10 eliminate the representation of 2O0 U90
| blacks ia South Carolina, Mississippi
/ and Louisiana, but other suggestions have
/ been made that the whole race, or rather
! that part of ii Who happens TO live on
/ Southern territory, shall share the same
| fate
! These are remarkable suggestions, and
| tend 10 show TO what extreme our North
eru sympathiz-rs will 60 in their mao
| effort to curtail Southern power and infiu-
| euce in national legislation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

GEORGIA has been deprived of the counsel
and assistance of the State Board of Health
bv'the action of the Legislature. and that
should lead to redoubled efforts on the part
of endangered points to prevent the disease
from gaining a foothold. 1t should also
prove a warning to Congress TO hurry up
that National quarantine law. The country
must be in position next summer to prevent
the transportion of the pestilence from our
West India neighbors. We want no more
shotgun OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AvalaH-
che.
Nevertheless we will have them if no
better means are provided by the govern
ment. There are times when the people
will be a law unto themselves.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

J. D. WEBSTER, a colored man, of Wash
ington county, announces himself as can
didate for the office of Clerk of the Chan
Gerry Court to fill rhe unexpired term of A.
w Snadd. Subject 10 any action of the
Democratic voters in convention assem-
bleI) We would remark that Webster
was few years ago one OF the most prom
inent Republicans in the river district, and
exerted a considerable influence among his
brethren of the colored persuasion. He
recognizes that the safety and happiness Of his
race is best promoted by co operating 10Th the
Democratic pdrty.-YaZ0o Herald.
1t would be we'll for Senator Blaine to
inwardly digest this significant fact. 1t
takes away the foundation of his theory
that the colored people are disfranchised
because districts in which they are in
the majority select Democrats to repre-
sent them.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08
from premises laid down by the writer

FoG the next House the Democrats
have secured eighteen States, the Repub-
licans eighteen, with the balance of pow
er in Indiana held by National OF Re-
publican antecedents, and California to
elect her four Representatives next June.
This we believe is about the situation.
Under the Constitution if an election Ct
President by the people through the
Electoral College, fails, the choice will
be made by the lower house of Congress.
Each State will cast one vote TO be de-
termined by majority of the lRepresen-
tatives thereof. Both houses will have
Democratic majorities, and under the
provisions of the Edmunds electoral bill
that has passed the Senate, they VIII
have absolute control of the count of the
votes cast for President in the Electoral
College.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

Ir is said 10 be fact that there
were seven cases of yellow fever on Cat
Island during the last summer, although
the people of the Island held no commu-
nieation With the outside world whatever.
The fact goes so far to overthrow the
importation theory that the medical ex-
perts Of the Yellow Fever Commission
have determined to visit the Island to
ascertain whether it is true or not.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08


GEN. d. H. Maury has contributed an
article to the December number of the
Southern Historical Society papers, call
ing attention to the fact that the right
of secession was inculcated at West Point
as part of the constitutional law of the
land from 1922 to 1851 and that, there
fore, Mr.. Davis and Sidney Johnston,
and Gen. Joe. Johnston and Gen. Lee,
and all the rest of us who retired with
Virginia from the Federal Union, were
not only obeying the plain instincts of
our nature and dictates of duty, but
we were obeying the very inculcations
we had received in the National School,
Not only so, but he might have added
that Rawles, an eminent Northern wri-
ter, in his commentary on the constitu-
ton. openly affirmed the right of Sc
cession. Under the changes which might
has achieved in the overthrow of right,
the question is no longer practical, but it
is useful in indicating the acts of the
Southern States and their sons who es-
poused their cause; and interesting as
matter of historical record,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

.,.orD will have to work for living for sew
eral LONG months" ,a-,. 4.
preferable to having our taX-Fldden and
pnnressed people pay these gentlemen large
salaries tor the little good that "ouIu now
y, ~ t the LEGISLATURE. peeialy in such PINCH
~ s'' riInes a. the present? Would il not
hes hitter for us to 'endure the ills We row
have, than fly 10 those we know not OF
=, nc, en- I.s say Really. 1 mink We
would be better of If there was but one
pFGrLAR session every four years.
f' Truly yours, j. Y. NJ
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

The low price Of cotton is distressing /;
bur, then, it viii be remembered that its
purchasing power is larger than it ever
was before. One pound Of raw cotton
will buy double the quantity Of manufac
tured cotton goods that it would before
the war.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08
ESby-iciHBs sGssd GheTr Families
wa" are VA Arring from the
Epidemic.

We are in receipt of a letter from our
felIow-citizen, Hon. J. Tarbell, who is
temporarily residing at Washington City,
and whose efforts to procure aid for the
yellow fever sufferers of his State, have
been unremitting, stating that he is author
lied by Surgeon General Woodwork to
say that he can render some assistance to
physicians and their families who are
suffering from the effects ofyellow fever;
and that any case properly recommended
viii receive prompt attention. We
would advise persons who are interested
ic this notice to communicate with Judge
Tarbell who has shown, as we have had
opportunity to know, that it is labor of
love with him 10 assist our suffering
people,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

TEE consul-general of the United
States at Cairo informs the Department
of State that the cotton crop of Egypt for
1878 will fall far short of the average
annual yield, and that the quality of the
cotton will be very inferior. One thing
is assured to the Southern States, mo-
nopoly of the better qualities of cotton.
Their soil and climate have secured it
for them. In this regard they are be-
yond the reach of competition. Natures
irreversible laws have made it so.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

The London Times, for 1878, repre-
sents the condition of the trading and
Industrial classes of Great Britain as ex-
ceedingly bad, with little encouragement
for relief in the immediate future.
England was one of the countries to lead
off in the denomination of silver. and it
is an open secret that British gold was a
powerful lever in effecting that object in
the United States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08
THE PUBLIC health

ED1ToRs CLARION: Ny most hearty and
cordial endorsement of the efforts of THE
CLARION t. impress on the city authorities
the great Importance OF guarding against
the return of the yellow fellow epidemic,
and tbe deep interest feel in the matter as
an humble citizen OF the place, constitute
my apology for this brief communication.
Your editorial Suggestions are timely.
practical. aud TO the point, and must meet
the warm approval OF all classes OF the
community. The public health is "a matter
in which all are vitality interested. AZ de-
serves the profoundest thought a.d the
most prompt and decisive efforts ON the
part OF the authorities whose peculiar PROV
ence it is to guard and protect the lives and
the hea tE of tie men and women and child
rem OF Jackson.
rejoice that you are calling attention to
it, and urging the adoption of wise and
prudent measures. There is no point OF
view. it seems to me, in which your sug-
gestious can be cousidere-,tha th,y will not
commend themselves to the appreciation OF
every one. 1t is genuine humanity and
sound economy to erematc The Pes'Hauce
| breeding" material that may vet remain iu
| b., il Is better, thousand times better. 10
! submit to an additional tax sufficient 70
| compensate the owners for the destruction
/ of such articles of bedding. clothing, &c
| that IN ight keep alive and nurse the germs
| of the fearful disease unril warm weather
/ again returns to call it forth in It's morCile.s
| fury. Ii Won take the wealthv class of our
| citizens, who are able to flee. with their
! families, to place ofsafety on the approach
| of the DESTROYER, it will cost them much less
| TO pay the tax than il viii O. spend the
| summer away from home; TO say nothing
about the trouble. the Inconvenience. and
| the loss in a business point OF view. But
there is another, and far higher consider
alton, that appeals most powerfully to the
! ciry authorities 10 use every effort t0 pro-
tect the people. 4 very large mum ber OF
| our people can't get away; they are inauci-
| ally unable 10 do SO, and the poor man has
no alternative but to lace the storm aud see
| his wife and little ones, "a ter suffering un-
! told agouies fall victims To tue plague. N
! indeed, he does not tall first himself In
| this light. does il not become a sacred and
| Imperative dUty OF those who have the DOW
| eT, TO use It tpr the protection OF those who
cannot protect Themselves?
i Blu do not intend q elaborate the argu-
ment. l only wish 90 say that / wish YOU
| God speed in your efforts for the protection
and safety OF our pc pie. CITIZEN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

ANOTHER great strike Is impending in
England, with 100, 900 men to take part
in it. This means more distress. more
wretchedness, more trouble and more
emigration, share of which the South
should endeavor by all means to obtain
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

THE Maine Legislature has elected
D. G. Garcelon Governor of the State,
Mr.. Garcelon is a Democrat Green
hackers were elected to the other State
offices. This state of affairs was brought
about by coalition between the Demo
Gratis and Nationals.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08
Judge McGehec, of Wilkinson
County.

Superb in his physical proportions and
in the strength of his intellectual facul-
ties, Judge Z. McGehee, of Wilkinson
county, has been spared to reach his
ninety-fourth year, with his mental
forces unimpaired. His children and
grandchildren have grown up around him
and called him blessed. Following his
shining example his sons have made
themselves useful and honorable mem
bers of society in this their day and gen
Grafton, as he has done in his. Hon.
Burrus McGehee is member of the
Louisiana Legislature and President of
the Railroad company of which his
honored sire was one of the original pro-
iectors, and Hon. George T. McGehee is
a prominent member of the Mississippi
legislature But these remarks are in
troductory to the following article from
the Natchez Democrat:
We regret very much to hear that the ven
cradle Judge E. MoGehee of Wilkinson
county has recently been threatened with
paralysis. Judge McGehee is now in the
ninety fourth year of his age, and during
his long and respected life has dene much
to develop the section of country in which
he has lived. In 1912 he camped on the spot
where he now lives, then an unreclaimed
forest, and by his quiet energy and iRdus-
try built up fortune. In every u-eful
public enterprise inaugurated in Wilkinson
county he was ever foremost. He engaged
e-sfully in manufacturing, and when
the recent disastrous war began his Wood
vile Mills had acquired an extensive and
lucrative reputation. He was an active
mover in the construction OF the Woodville
& Bayou Sara Railroad, which has done so
much for the sperity OF his county. As
a contributor to the educational institutions
of the Methodist Church he has been sur
passed by none, and in the excellent and
prosperous female school now doing so
much good in Woodville, he has estab-
lished tor himself, we hope an endearing
monument. Full of years, he is also full OF
honors. None knew him but to love him,
none name him but TO praise"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

The Harrisburg pennsylvania Pa
triot, calls attention to the fact that
though there are enough colored voters
in that State to secure it to the Repub-
licans, the colored people have not a
single representative of their race in the
Congressional delegation or in either
house of the Legislature or in any cleo
tive county office in the State. The
matter ought to be investigated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

Too late for insertion in this number,
VIC received from Mr. r. K Jayne, Of
Newton, lengthy report Of the murder
Of Mr.. Woods Caperton, formerly of
Scott county, in Tensas Parish, by a Mr..
j. \. Dougiass. ar. Caperton was one
Of the best young men ever raised in our
State, and was universally beloved for
his excellent qualities. His remains
were brought to Forest for interment.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

Previous to the war, Hon. Stephen
A. Douglas had through his first wife, a
North Carolina lady, large property in
Lawrence county in this State. During
the war a quantity Of cotton belonging
to him or her heirs was capturered by
the United States and sold as abandoned
property. Suit was instituted for recoy-
cry and has just been settled finally in
the Court OF Claims by a judgment in
favor of the claimants. The case had
been pending for years, and has been The
subject of much controversy, investiga-
ton and litigation. The heirs are
Robert NJ. Douglas, United States Mar
shall for the Western District Of North
Carolina, and Stephen A. Douglas, IT..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-08

HoRArIo SEYMOUR, of New York, is
beginning to be talked of for the Presi
dency. If a New Yorker is wanted he
is the man. He always carries the EN-
pire State with her 35 electoral votes.
He is a man without reproach, and his es
cutcheon is as stainless as that of George
Washington.