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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
A New Enumeration and Legislative
Apportionment.
Section 81, Article / of the State
Constitution declares


Section 81, Article / of the State
Constitution declares
The Legislature shall provide for the emu.
meration of the whole number of inhab-
itants, and of the qualified electors of the
State, once in every ten years, and the first
enumeration shall be ordered at the first
meeting of the Legislature under this Con-
stitution.
The first meeting Of the Legislature
under the Constitution, was held in
January, 1870 Consequently, the
present year, 1880, is the time prescribed
for an enumeration with view to Il new
legislative apportionment. The present
apportionment. it is well known, was a
scheme cuuujngly devised by the carpet
haggers and their allies to establish
their ascendency in the law-making de
partment of the State government.
Time sets all things even, and the OPP
portunity is now afforded the Democrat
ic-Conservative party to undo this infa-
nous work, and to adopt fair and just
apportionment. The preliminary steps
to this essential object, is new enumer-
alton in accordance with the above
section. The Legislature at its
present session will doubtless pass
the necessary act and provide for an
enumeration the present year. The
constitutional requirement is plain and
the necessity urgent.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
How to Abate the Dog Nuisance.
CANTON. MISS. Fer. Cd. 1880.

CANTON, Miss, FER. 3d. 1880.
EDITORS CLARION "A bill is before the
Legislature intended to benefit sheep-rais-
ers by protecting their flocks from the raw
ages of prowling ours. Sheep-growers will
welcome any law that will tend to suppress
these dreaded midnight marauders; but the
bill in its present form is open to several OBJ
IJectlons, and fear will meet with serious if
not fatal opposition when it comes before
the Legislative bodies for final disposal
Taxing dog will not impair his fondness
for mutton. Muzzling will be considered an
oppressive exaction by every dog owner
who values that property sufficiently to pay
taxes thereon, and to have an animal cana
BILE OF as much service and affection as a dog
destroyed because he happens to get beyond
It's masters eye, will not be tolerated bv pub
llc sentiment. Again the tax will be evaded
by those who own the greater portion of
the ours, the bill aims to get rid of. A ma
Jority of the freedmen pay no taxes, and thew
who own the most dogs have nothing of this
world goods wherein the sheriff can Law his
hand. Lastly the freedman is Just now par
tlcularly Jealous in regard to his rights. and
although some are of the opinion that the
South will be benefited by a general exodus
OF the negro race, yet they who have fully
tired the substitutes will give decided
preference to the blackskin (The writer
speaks ex-cathedra on this subiect In
conclusion it would appear that ali that
sheep-growers can at present ask of the Leg
isluture Is, to gradually contract the dog
currency. 10 do this and at the same time
allow freedmen and others to have a. many
ours as they like without paying a tax on
them, 1t Is suggested that the Dog bill he
amended somewhat after this fashion
Tax bitches, Thoroughbred shepherds ex-
cePted,) 81 each. Tax male dogs. castrates
excepted, 81 each. Exempt fhorougbred
shepherd bitches and castrates.
Allow any person to kill any taxable doc
II the tax Is not paid within the legalIY
required time, wherever said dog NAV be
found. " NC
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
THE Philadelpbia RECORD Indenon

The Philadelphia Record, Independ-
ent, believes that Gen. Grant will be
the Republican candidate for President.
Here is what it says:
"As this Journal declared on the following
day after the result at Harrisburg. the
nomination of Gen. Grant at Chicago ii ap-
parently foregone conclusion New York
viii fellow Pennsylvania, and State after
State viii fall into line. Gen. Grant viii
enter the Ohicag0 QonEention IN june with
majority q the delegates, and his nomi-
nation Millin oil probability be made on the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

THE Superintendent of the Census
says, in answer to numerous inquiries
that he will not issue the commissions
of any of the Supervisors until the en-
tire list has been filled The instruc-
tons to the Supervisors have been com
pleted and will be issued at the same
time. 1t has been decided to appoint
one enumeration for, not to exceed each
$500 inhabitants, and in some sections
for every 700.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
The FaIIacies of Sectional Agitators
Exploded.

The Senate Committee investigating
the cause of the negro exodus is bringing
a number Of interesting facts to light.
1t appears from the testimony of color
ed men from North Carolina that many
Of the colored people are now farmers,
owning from one hundred to FIVE hun
bred acres Of land apiece One negro
testified that he has acquired a proper
ty worth 5000 dollars. He thought in
dustrious and honest colored people had
no difficulty in getting a good living in
his State. Another colored man, Mr.
w. w. Arlington, of Nash county,
who was a slave in 1861, now owns a
thousand acres ofland, and has the best
reason to be satisfied with the condi-
ton Of his people, and the laws under
which they live. He has never seen
any discrimination on account of color
Another colored man, who owns four
hundred and seventy-fve acres of land
near Goldsboro, rents portions of his
farm to white tenants. He says the
tenant laws are just and reasonable.
This may be accepted as a true state
ment of the opportunities and treat
ment Of the negro in all the Southern
States since the Democratic party OBJ
tanned power.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
State Tax Lands,

We clip the following extract from & \
article in the Lexington Advertise
Capt Hoskins, of the Advertiser, is a
Sheriff, and knows whereof he speaks.
His suggestions are entitled to consider
alton; and we will say further, while on
the subject, that the present administra-
ton of the Auditors Office has exhibited
both originality and energy in its efforts
to reform the land business, and the
Legislature would do well to listen to
any suggestions from that quarter:
The points is this: the records of the
State tax lands in the Auditors office, and
in the offices of the Chancery Clerks should
be precisely alike at all times
They are not so. The consequences are
such to affect seriously the material in
terests Of the Commonwealth.
The people have never had any confidence
in tax-titles, and never will have until the
records are regulated.
The tax-collectOrs are not able to tell
what lands have been purchased and what
have not. Hence they do not know what
lands to collect on and what not to collect
on. and they, unavoidably in many cases.
lected, and sell, as delinquent, lands that
have never been purchased from the State,
thus confusing the titles worse and worse
from year to year. This is no fault of the
present administration of the Auditors
office.
The trouble originated in 1875, and moth
ing short of legislation can straighten it.
The rules sent out by the Auditor will keep
matters right in the future, but cannot cor
rect the errors of the past.
The present administration, # we mistake
not, is the first to attempt in this State to
methodze the State lands.
Anybody who will read the rules will be
satisfied that there is capacity in the Audi
tors office to inaugurate a successful sys-
tenn.
The opportunity may not be offered again
soon, and in our judgment, the Legislature
ought to take hold of the subject, and get
the matter under way.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

THEY have whipping-post bill be-
fore the Kentucky Legislature. 1t
Furnishes petty larcenies under twenty
dollars with nine and thirty stripes, but
excerpts females, who, for the same
offense, are to be confined in the county
Jail. The Courier-Journal advocates it.
Such measure would find no favor in
the Legislature of Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

SENATOR BILLS, Chairman, has called
IL meeting Of the Caucus Of the Demo
cratic-Conservative members Of the
Legislature, at 4:30 o'clock Monday
evening, for the consideration Of i'm
portant business
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

In the House yesterday an important
change was made in the law pertaining
to married women over their seperate
estates. The provision adopted by the
House secures to them the right to dis
pose Of such property without the
consent, and Independent of, the wishes
of their husbands.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

IN Bolivar county, the Mayersville
Spectator says that but very few of the
newly elected officials have qualified
owing to the rigid manner of scrutinizing
the bonds. The fernando Press says
that Sheriff elect Miller, of DeSoto
county, has made bond which was not
deemed sufficient; and the Board Of
Supervisors has ordered a new election.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
a Deserved rriI1ute to aovernor stone
West Point News ]

" est Polnt News.
While every man in public life must
make enemies, yet we venture the assertion,
that no man who has ever occupied the
position of Governor Of Mississippi, has
left that position with more general conf
dence Of the people reposed in his private
and official integrity, than Governor Stone
will possess when he yacates the Gubernato-
rial chair. We believe that even the enc.
mics eff Governor Stone will admit that he
has been faithful and honest In the dis
charge Of his duty, and holy writ declares
that San honest man i the noblast work q
God
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

Tine Iowa House of Representatives,
by vote of 81 to 81, has adopted a
constitutional amendment making wo-
men eligible to the Legislature The
white females of Mississippi do not ask
political rights. but they do ask to be
admitted to some Of the educational
privileges which are accorded to the
male sex. Are they asking too much
in their appeal for the establishment of
a State Female College? Surely their
appeal is for a just and reasonable OBJ
ieet.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

II is a horrible story ofIicentiousness
which is going the rounds of the press,
and is published elsewhere under the
head Of "a Congressional Scandal. "
1t is said that in order to expose the
guilty, and protect the innocent from
unjust suspicion, an investigation viii
be ordered
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

GEN. GRANT telegraphs Senator Lo-
gan at Havana, that he was very much
gratified at the result in Pennsylvania;
that is, the instruction to the delegates
to support him for President.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

The numerous friends Of Hon A. T.
Roane Of Calhoun, will be glad TO learn
that he is recovering from his late dan
gerOus illness
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

Hon. j. II. CHALMERS publishes Il
letter in our paper to-day inculcating
some wholesome Democratic lessons.
He is sound to the core. lie speaks
the truth boldly and champions it gal
lantly and successfully against all com
prS
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
Hon. 8. ". 1ruilins.

4uka Mirror.l
Il is with pleasure we s,,o. =, i,
\; Ias ! friends Of Mr.. 9. w. MuIiins the, bs
= : PSF Of our present Tepielatura ~
s ssSsiispellg the staunch old county 81 No
hae h.sst :. ssAkeisins once resided here ana
JON us IN congratniafing hirr ". Y W .', WI
80 --- .o---------- ~ 49, =
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

SENATOR CosKLRG says that be viii
not allow his name TO be used IN CON
nection with the Presidency in the Re
publican Convention, and that heis for
Grant, first, LAST and slKags.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

THE Fayette Chronicle says that the
members of Grange in Jefferson
County, have opened books for the or
ganization of cotton Factory Compa-
ny upon the plan of the Clement at
tachment. The shares of stock are
placed at ten dollars each, and when
everthe subscription amounts toS3, $780,
90. the Company. viii contract for the
machinery.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

Col. J. L. MoRPHIs, United states Mar
shall for the Northern District of Mississippi,
was in Washington last week on his way
home from Albany. New York, whittier he
had been to turn over lot of counterfeit
ers TO the penitentiary, who were convicted
at the last term of our District Court. The
Colonel is anxiously waiting for Congress
to make an appropriation that viii enable
him to collect about 5000, due for services
and money advanced to pay Witnesses,
transportation, etc, for the year ending
June so, I870.-Aberdeen Examiner.
Thequestion arises why are these con-
viets sent to a Northern Slater Il there
no penitentiary nearer home I'm which
they can be confined
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

THERE is now pending before the
South Carolina Legislature a bill pro
hibiting the sale rs ''medicine" Of any
dose whose ingredients are not known,
and which is not labelled with the for
mula of its composition. The bill Is
primarily aimed at so-called patent med
icines.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
w. r. Harper, ESQ.

Mr. W z: Harper Is young man az
sPlendld ability and high social standing.
ate By the Secretary, because Of his eS 81
lent Qualifications. We do not endorse TIA
politics of the Qkalona States. but We ~ a,s
dorsa the sen Of is editor as gentlsns ~, !,
every way worthy Of the appnlntnenf ~ NJ
recesveo at the hands OF the Secretarv =. ~
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

a MEETING has been held in Bay St.
Louis for the purpose Of petitioning the
Legislature for additional protection to
the stock owners, against the destruc-
ton of their property by the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
Living Issues VS.. Dead Ones.

The Democratic members of Congress
especially the Southern members, will com
nit great blunder if they permt Themselves
to be entieed into tcrangle the sectional is
sues BIZ the cunning schensers Of the Republican
party, who are striving to produce diver
sion from the living questions of the day,
upon which they well know they are beaten.
Senators Beck and VOORHEES,, in the Senate,
have struck the keynote in their resolu-
tions upon the financial questions What
the country now wants, and is determined
to have, is an honest execution Of the law
remonetizing silver and the unlimited coin
to its former status as the co-equal of gold
in performing the functions of money. The
National Banks in outlawing silver as
money, and the Secretary of the Treasury
in his report, have thrown down the gaunt-
let as the champion Of demonstration, and
declared war against the silver bill, half
way measure though it was, of the last ses-
sion, and if the Democratic leaders could
be inspired By the spirit Of the people. they
would take up the gage Of battle with the
money power and give the Zoe no quarter
until the field Is won.
me sectional iss.ss i 70 longer practieal n
= p.pslg szstiglsntaz and i proportions are
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

SEVERAL important notifications
have been adopted in the registration
laws by the House. They viii simplify
and economist the existing system.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18

THE opinion Of the Supreme Court Of
California Is that a woman cannot be
excluded from the law department Of a
college simply because she Is a woman,
if she is Otherwise qualified
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
Neeting of the Democratic-Conser-
JACKSON, February Il, 1880.

\ meeting Of the Democratic-Conser-
vative State Executive Committee viii
BE- held at jackson, at II o'clock, a. II.
Tuesday. March 2nd A full attend
ance is requested.
l.. BARKeDALE,
Chairman
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
MEMBERS,

T.. BARKsDALE. b. F. KIMBRoUGH,
J. c.. PREwIrr. r. c. PATTY,
w. w. HUMPHRIEs, A. J. BAKER,
w. A. PERCY, NJ F. BERRY,
G. d. STANDS, WM. McWLLTE,
r. H. ALLEN, +. F. GRIFFIN,
J.. u. MCDOWELL, TIM +. COOPER,
Il. II. TAYLOR, 7. OTIS BAKER,
G.. NJ KLEIN.
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To which the Herald reioins:

W. puDIlSleu thaC senator george Is an
out and out old-fashioned hard-money Dem
ocrat We believe this is almost the exact
language he used to describe his position on
the financial question. Does Major Banks
dale claim that be and Col. Singleton agree
with the Senator? Why, Col Singleton is
one of the widest inhatiOnists we ever saw.
He said during the last campaign the cur
rency should be increased to nine hundred
million of dollars. And if we mistake not,
Major Barksdsle's strongest argument
against the Greenback movement in this
State, was that the Democrats are as good
Greenbackers as can be found, has already a
powerful organization, and therefore there
was no necessity of a Greenback party. His
silver imitation views are we'll known. AL
though the South produces no silver, and
silver imitation will benefit the North and
West at our expense, he wants a million
tons of it coined if that amount of it can be
procured in the mines He wants the coinage
of it absolutely unlimited. without any re-
gard to the effect it would have on the mon
ey markets of the world, or the way it would
rate with gold and greenbaeks. "Out and
OUT hard money men can { see how this
would advantage non silver producing sec
tions of the Union, and consequently they
differ from those who advocate it. Suppose,
for instance, one of the Silver Kings out
West should discover mountain of silver,
according to Mr.. Barksdale's ideas the Gov
eminent should instantly coin the whole of
1t for the owner, without any regard to the
injury that would be to cotton, corn, tobac-
co. and other productions of the country.
Yet he saws there is no difference between
him and the one who believes that the BIZ
metallic ratio should be kept well balanced
by the laws of the Government.
1t is matter of history that Major Banks
~ L j
the methods of 1875 should be continued to
secure a victory. 1t is matter of history
that he approved of and apologized for the
Yazoo affair. 1t is matter of history that
Senator George never did approve of it.
And right here is (for we acknowledge
that the currency question is not given much
prominence in this State) the difference be-
tween Bourbonism and Conservatism. The
Bourbons believe in "the methods of S75 :"
the Conservatives believe in standing
squarely upto all the Constitutional Amend
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-02-18
The foregoing was answered as follows in
the CLARION:

The foregoing appeared in the Vicksburg
Herald soon after the Senatorial election.
1t is still on its rounds in the newspapers,
where the facts are not known, and is
making false history, which in Justice to
ourselves and to others, ought to have been
noticed sooner. The Herald has no authority
from the public acts and expressions of
Judge George to classify him differently from
Messrs. Singleton and Barksdale. They all
belong to the same party and their political
acts have been in thorough accord. As we
have before said, Judge George was elected
on his own merits as a Democrat, who had
rendered the State signal service in Kidding
it of alien rule and corrupt administration,
and as a wise and patriotic statesman thor
oughly imbued with love for the people and
a capacity to serve them in any sphere of
public duty. He has made no record differ
ing from that of Mr. Singleton and Mr.
Barksdale For year past, he has been on
the Supreme bench of the State and there
fore could not have mingled in the canvass
of 1879; but no man has right to say from
his antecedents that he would not have APP
proved what the intelligent and orderly peo-
pie of Yazoo felt themselves called upon to
DO to protect the peace of their community
and to prevent the organization of strife,
violence aud crime in their midst. No one
has authority to forecast his course when
he takes his seat in the Senate He has
committed himself to no mans policy ex-
cept as it is written in his own record that
does not prove him to be more conservative
nor less a Bourbon, whatever those terms
mean, than Messrs. Singleton and Barks-
dale-JACKSoN CLARION.
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The Vicksburg Herald's Arrangement
of Messrs. Singleton and
BarksdaIe.
Vicksburg Herald. ]

'
The Memphis Avalanche wants to know
what we mean by terming Senators Lamar
and George Conservatives There are two
wings to the Democratic party in this State
Lamar and George belong to the liberal, Just,
ant-sectional wing, while Barksdale and
Singleton belong to the extreme, anything
town wing. Barksdale approved and apol-
ogzed for the Yazoo and Rankin affairs La
mar and George never did and never will.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-30
A LEAPYEAR SOLLHOQUT.

Oh here am that would dance with you
If YOU would only ask me to;
But you pass me by, with naughty air,
And, really, think, it isn't fair
The way you ladies' treat the men,
To make lls sit in the corner.
when we'd give our socks for heeandtoe;
But of this perhaps you all may know
Now. Wonder comes Miss Joncs--to think
She passed ple by with nod, and wink
When but last year took the first dance,
And led her ont every other chance;
And then by gum TO think that she
Would lead out old Tom ColliDgsbce,
rBut her airs are all feigncd, and this know,
'Taint all to her liking-this heeland toe.
Eut meelly sit (by Fate subducU
And acknowledge my mind little blued,
Leap Year Is out quite soon, you know
And then Miss Jones will stand no show
And the cream and all these little things
She can wait till old Colingsbee brings
And think she'll, privately, shed tear
when she thinks o the lesson OF this Leap Yea
MARIE MARGUERTTTA NJ,
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-30

by the way, is being rapidly renovated
for the removal Of the Capital from New
Orleans, in accordance with tho new
cOntitution.
We have no hesitancy in saying that
Baton Rouge is destined to be ono Of the
most attractive cities in the South. Her
situation on the Mississippi river is per
culiarly happy With New Orleans TO-
her commercial centre and Baton Rouge
her seat of learning and science, Louisi-
ana will yet regain that eminent posi-.
ton which she once held among her sister
States.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-30

A Cough, COLD OR SORE THROAT
should be stopped. Neglect frequently
results IN an Incurable L""g Disease or
Consumption. Browns BRONCHIAL TKo-
cHEs are certain to gire relict IN asthma,
Bronchitis, Coughs, Cato'rh, Co"s"mptire
and ThroGt Diseases. For thirty years
the Troches have been recommended by
physicians. and always give perfect sat
isfactiOn They are not new or nnfrled,
but having ben tested by wide and
constant use for nearly an entire Eener-
alton, they have attained well-merlted
rank among the few staple remedies OF
the age. Ppblic speok"rs aud singers use
them to clear aud strengthen the Io'cc.
Sold at % cents box everywhere