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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
How Il Fashionable widow stole HeI
Daughters IOvrr.

A Paris correspondent sends the fol-
| lowing translation from the Figaro /:
We rc.atcd few days ago that the
Comte dc X, after being at1ianced to
the Prime IS G., had ended by marry
ing her daughter. Here is another
history, quite equal to that in big0rerie,
but different in the detail that the
hero of the romance, i'll place of es-
pousing his first .fulcce, the daughter,
married her mother. Mons. de N. is
well known in the monde P0risiene,
who is generally designated by the
title Of "Chevalier."
Two months ago this gentleman
made the acquaintance, at Deippe, of
Mile F., il young girl of sixteen, who
had come to the seaside accompanied
by her aunt, sister of her dead father,
Nil e. P.'s mother, Il lady still young,
not having wished to quit Paris.
Although Mile. p. is not very pretty,
Mons. ID. n. paid assiduous court to
her from the time he learned that she
had considerable dot. He gained the
good graces of her aunt, established
himself in the heart of the young girl,
and at the end of several days an
nounced that he had the intention of
asking her hand in marriage. Mile.
p. found this intention excellent, but
replied that before her sutton made the
demand it was necessary that he go
to Paris and make the acquaintance
of her mother.
The aunt, consulted, was of the same
opinion, therefore it was agreed that
as Mile. p. was to remain still some
days at the seaside, Mons. de n. would
go to Paris, and under the prelence of
giving her news of her daughter,
would call upd Nine. p, and do
everything possible to inaugurate him
self with hef, to the end of procuring
her consent to the marriage. This
little plot was carried out to the letter.
Two days after her suitOr's departure
Mile. p. received Il letter from Mons.
de N, and found him charming.
Mile. p. was pleased at the course
which things seemed taking. But at
the end of seven days more she was
surprised at receiving no letter from
Mons. de n, who had sworn thai he
would not suffer day to pass without
writing her. Madame p, too, said not
a word more of having seen or heard
of him, and, indeed, wrote scarsely
lllDGt IItlll W JtIl lltl tdlt9lbCI SllC W ttS
not yet to think Of return to Paris.
Fifteen days passed thus, and still no
news from Mons. de n.
The situation was becoming intoler-
able, and in spite Of her mothers COM
mand Mile. p. was about leaving
Dieppe when she received a letter
from Nine. p, which came like
thunderbolt upon her. Her mother,
after having tried to prove how triste
it was for so young woman to re-
main always a widow, announced that
she had decided to marry Mons. de N,
who had come to Paris to ask her in
marriage. The blow was terrible for
Mile. p; but gifted with great
strength of mind, she dissembled her
grief, and several days later attended
her mothers bridal. But the next
day she retired into convent, and
declared that she would never leave
it, her sole earthly wish being to take
the veil.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
MARINE DISASTERS.
Wreck of n steamer In FAKE Huron
Statement Of Survivors.

OWEN SOUND, Ont, Nov. 3O-The
steamer Manitoulin, which arrived
tonight from Manitouln Island has
five of the crew Of the steamer Sim
coe, which foundered on the 25th inst.
The Simcoe left Chicago on the 18th
inst with cargo of $4,000 bushels of
corn and general freight She eXpe-
rienced continued and severe gales on
lake Michigan, accompanied with
heavy snow-storms, which she wealth
cred. Early on the morning Of the
oath, while off Providence bay, on the
South side of Manitouin island, the
sea was so high that it broke through
the engine-rooms, putting out the
fires. The ship became completely
unmanageable, remaining in the
trough Of the sea and making water
till noon, when she sank. AS she
filled her upper works were forced
away, carrying the life-boats with
them. Five men succeeded in releas-
ing one of the boats from the wreck
and got into it. They then tried to res
cue two others who were clinging to
the upper works, but were unable to
reach them. When the hull went
down the remainder of the crew were
forward by the bow and made
no apparent effort to save themselves
After witnessing the last of the wreck
the lite-bOat containing the five per-
sons made for Providence bay, distant
twenty miles, from which place they
went by steam to Manitoulin where
they took the steamer for this port.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
ERICsSON's TORPEDO boat.
The Most Formidable Engine of
Death known to Naval Warfare.

The New York Tribune gives the
following description of EricsssOn's
wonderful torpedo boat: "Capt. John
Ericsson is Xperimenting in New
York harbor with the most formida-
BILE engine of death known in naval
warfare The.inventor of the monitor
is one of the most modest and unpre-
tentious mechanicians Of the age, and
is not likely to eXaggerate the merits
of his own work. He is entirely salts
fed with the results of the recent eX-
periments with his torpedo boat, and
some Of the most experienced naval
officers in the United States service do
not hesitate to pronounce ii an une-
quivocal success. 1t will be seen that
Capt. Ericsson has invented three
things-a boat, Il gun and Il pro-
iectie. The boat is submerged like
monitor, with all the machinery below
an intermediate deck of plate-iron,
which is strongly ribbed and supports
inclined armOr-plates. The deck
house above water has no ports at the
sides, and can be shot away without
the vessel being disabled. Heavy
wook- hacking gives additional protec-
ton TO the whole, and the electric
battery and steering gear is ten feet
below the water-line, attacking bows
on and defying with her armor the
heaviest ordinance. The Destroyer is
invulnerable, at the same
time practically most terrible antag-
Onist. Her armament consists of a
single breechlOadcr of wrought iron
hoped with steel, aud bore of Is
inches. This gun lies seven feet under
water and discharges "A proieclile CON
tanning $50 pounds Of dynamite.
When the boat, with its crew Of ten
men. is within 800 or 100 feet of the
enemy, the gun is fired by electricity
and the projectile eXplodes by concus-
sion. If the first shot fails another
follows in few minutes, aud torpedo
commandment proceeds with extraord-
mary activity. no time being wasted
in charging the gun. The substitu-
ton of gun power for compressed air,
in the operation Of charging the gun,
vastly increases the efficiency Of the
Ii may not be too much
10 say that it leaves the mightiest iron
ships Of the world completely at her
mercy
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
A QUERY.

I rue AlHhuNIl
What Is the purpose and signihraiiun Of the old
phrase "wihYut benefit of Clergy
This was a clause which came TO be
introduced into very many of the
penal statutes of England, owing to
The protracted contest between the
King and the Pope, which grew out
of the effort of the latter to remove the
Clergy altogether from the jurisdiction
of the Civil Courts, and TO exempt
them from the operation of the laws of
the land, and IL was not intended, as
persons are apt to suppose, to deny
the consultations and privileges of
religion, nor the ministrations OF the
clergy to such rs might be condemned
under the statute wherein the phrase
occurs.
TO understand it Alright, we must
know that the Bishops of Rome ac-
tually put forth thepreposterous claim
of an exclusive jurisdiction over all
the clergy and members of the various
religious orders, and held that such
persons were liable only to the provis-
ions and penalties of Canon Law,
and W ere not at al subject to the
aut GRITTY of the Crown, nor to the stat
utes of the Kingdom. This was Il
part of what was included under the
'Papal Supremacy" although it was
never, perhaps, admitted on the part
of the state, as other equally unbound
ed claims occasionally were.
In consequence Of this, it became
not unusual for persons, when arraign-
ed before Il civil court and charged
with the violation of some penal stat
IIto tn al aim the Hhpnpfit of CLERGY ~
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

action of the Court, and assigns IL for error.
We think the right of the prisoner was
dlsrcgarded IN the matter mentioned. The
statute, Code of 1871, S216l. allowed the
prisoner four peremtory challenges. The
object was to enable him to set aside -four
from panel of twelve men, without as
signing any cause. TO give him the full
beneit of the statutory right, he should
have been presented with fun panel, sin
order. the better to enable him to take his
challenges. The propriety of this Is mani
fest. The exercise of the right to challenge
might be materially influenced by view
of full panel. When complete panel is
presented to the prisoner, he may exercise
his right to challenge unembarrasscd by
uncertainty us to who may be called to fill
Il vacancy other than that created bNhis
challenge. His right is TO be tried by
jury from which four have been SCI aside
Inv him, without cause assigned, II he so
elects. lie has Il right to view twelve men
presented to him as jury before he can be
called on to say which he will reject or
whether he well reject any.
Hawkins lays it down that "beiore any
iuryman Is brought to the book, the priso-
ner by leave of the Court may have the
whole panel once called over in his hearing
that he may take notice who do and who do
not appear, in order the better to enable
him to take his challcngcs"-2 Hawk. T..
G. C 40, "a.
Our Statute entities the accused to II
list of the special venire summoned ON his
trial, in order the better to enable him to
take his challenges. In misdemeanors the
accused has the right to select eight from
twelve jurors offered, by rejecting FOUR OF
them at his pleasure. When the District
Attorney challenged two of the jury their
places should have been supplied by two
others, and when they were accepted, the
Jury complete, should have been presented
TO the prisoner and when he had passed
upon il. and jury was completed, the
District Attorney should have been allowed
to challenge or cause (he having exhausted
his peremptory chalenges) any of the
Jurors not on the jury when he declared
himself content with ii.
The case of Tatum VS.. Preston, 53 Miss,
654, is not inconsistent with the foregoing
view. In it the question was whether the
defendant, after challenging peremptorily
one of twelve jurors who had been ac-
cepted by the plaintiff, and presented TO him,
could, after the place Of the challenged
Juror was filled by one called to il, chal-
lenge one of the eleven not challenged by
him in the first instance; and we held it to
be correct practice to require each party,
when Il full panel is presented to him, TO
all whom he desires to challenge,
and not to permit experimenting by chal-
longing one and waiting to see who is
called to his place, and then to challenge
others who were in the box at first
In capital cases the list of the special
venire summoned being in the hands of the
prisoner Obvates all objection to the uni
form practice which prevails in this State
of calling one juror at Il time.
judgment reversed and reaire dc nof0
awarded.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

THE Veteran of the Mercury hav-
ing made war upon most things, ter
restrial and celestial, is opening his fire
now upon Jupiter. That big brother
in our planetarium had better learn
To behave himself if he don want
Mercuy to get after him with a sharp
stick. Says the Mercury
"IfJupiter i at the bottom Of thi- vii
lainou, weather. as the weather prophet,
are saying he j., we have had enough Of
Jupiter. lie j. decidedly uncomfortable
and disturbing element in our solar system,
and the nearer he gets to u the worse hc
makes il for u. lie can 90, and the sooner
the better. We heartily wish him some
millions Of miles further away. We much
admire his brilliarcy, but we shall really
admire him more when he begins to '.grOw
mail by degrees and beautifully less"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

Coz. G. b. MITCHELL received the
compliment of an election by his col
leagues as messenger To carry the
electoral vote TO Washington. The
honor was bestowed upon a deserving
recipient, the only objection anybody
could have to the choice Of the cleo
toral College was the fact that Col.
Mitchell was himself member Of il.
But if this election broke any rule Of
delicaey or propriety, it could not have
been broken in behalf Of a better man.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
\ report has been current for the
past two or three days that the Gazette
of this city was about to purchase the
Commercial and attach it to itself by
a hyphen. A similar report was afloat
a couple of years ago, and that there
is something in it now seems extreme
ly probable from the fact that several
of the old employees of the Gazette
have been sounded as to their will
lingness TO accept similar positions
again, and that il is well known that
Mr.. Halstead, of the Commercial, is
DESTROYS of retiring from the active
and arduous duties of journalism, and
of entering the now more cOngenial
field of politics. 1t is asserted by
those who profess to know that he
said as much in letter to his asso-
ciate editor, Mr.. F. B. Plympton,
during the last Chicago Convention.
Besides there are not enough patrons
in the Cincinnati district for the proper
support Of two metropolitan Republic
can newspapers though the elientage
is amply sufficient TO pay one hand
sOmely.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

ACCORDING to Comptroller Knox
the people are all paying their debts
and boarding money. a colcmporary
puts ON record his emphatic disbelief
in the doctrine. His subscribers, he
says, are not paying their debts to his
paper and they are not boarding
money to invest in United States
bonds and to buy insolvent railroads.
They may not "pay up" but they are
not 50 lost as to throw away their
chances for heaven by INDUCING in
railroads, steamboats,, and silver
mines, aud leave his paper to starvc.
He thinks Comptroller Knox don't
appreciate the conditions Of his sur
ruundings.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

SOSIE time ago Georgia paper per-
petrated an uncalled for Islander upon
Jones, of Winona. 1t said that the
ladies of that rising city gave him a
cake for being the ugliest man in town,
We do not doubt that Jones got the
cake-he ought to have fought to
have several cakes-but not as a trib-
ute to ugliness. Jones is not an ugly
man. On the contrary he is hand
some-siX feet high, well and symme-
trically built. There are few hand
somer men of his age than Jones. The
more you know him, the more you
like him; the oftener you see him,
the pretter he grows. How the idea
ever got out that Jones is ugly we
can't understand, unless it is the
underhanded work of some ma ici0uS
and envious rival editor who wants to
undermine the acknowledged popular
ity of Jones with the ladies, popu-
laritv which he deserves by always
devoting himself to their cause and
the promotion Of their happiness. No
man in this country is sounder than
Jones is on the question Of devotion to
the fair sex.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
Imports and Exports.

WAsHINGON, Nov. 30-The chief of
the bureau Of statistics reports that the
excess Of exports Of merchandise for
the month Of October, stated in specie
values, Is 81 ,G57,l Sl; for the CORES
ponding month Of 1879, il was $50, :
81, S57. The excess Of exports Of
merchandise for twelve months ending
October 81, IL Sl5j, pa, I56, against
SOS, 81, 1872 last year.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

IT IL estimated that there are 5000
900 Of unmarried men and 100000 of
unmarried women in tue United
States. \ woman for every man,
and 1000, 900 to draw on for second
wives, This a great country for Man!
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04


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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ArrALA Co. !
JASON NILES.

JASON NILES.
Error to the Chancery Court of Alfalfa
county, Hon. r. w. Williamson, Chan
cellOr.
Certain persons filed their petition with
Board of Supervisors TO have new road
opened. The petition was granted and
commissioners appointed to review the
proposed route of the road and mark it out,
which they did, and reported Recommending
that the road be opened. The report was
received by the Board, and w. G. Chesteen
was appointed overseer of the new road
and instructed to open it for public travel.
Niles sued out an injunction against Ches-
teen to prohibit him from complying with
the order of the Board upon the alleged
ground of ilegality in the proceedings by
which said order was obtained.
The Board moved for leave to be admit
ted to defend the bill filed by Niles, alleg-
ing that Chesteen intended making no
defense, and that the public interest de-
manded it. II rendered an answer with
the motion.
The court overruled said motion and re-
fused to admit the Board to defend the
suit-henee this writ of error.
Nugent & Melville and Campbell Il An
derson for plhs. in error
CHALMERS, c. j.
Held
The Board OF Supervisors should have
been admitted to defend the suit. True, a
decree rendered IN it would not have con-
cluded them, and ordinarily parties who
will not be affected by litigation have no
right to intervene, but in this case the road
overseer was the mere representative of
the Supervisors, OF of the public, and he
refused to make any defense. If he had
been enjOined, so might each successive
Overseer whom the Board might appoint.
each one of them being willing to be re-
lieved of the duty of opening the road, or
unwilling to eXpend any money i'm the litiga-
ton. Under these circumstances it was
eminently proper that the real parties in
terested, tO-wit: the people of the county
as represented by the Board of Supervisors
should be allowed to come in and have the
question settled once for all.
The decree will be reversed and the
Board admitted to defend.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

Mrs. HAYES has ordered a beauti-
FIJI extension table and side board for
the White House, which, with the
new dinner set, will brighten the life
of her successor. Both are of bDauti-
fully carved mahogany The legs Of
the tables are bodies eff eagles conven-
tionalizcd.- Dcs Moincs News.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
senator Lamar.
Aberdeen Examiner,

The following extract from the Ok
ford Falcon, published at the home of
our distinguished Senator, will inter
est his innumerable friends and admir-
ers throughout the Union:
senator Lamar's health Ia, been i'm
proving since the close Of the canvass and
he viii certainly be in his seat Mrs.
Lamar has been for some time in very poor
health. and senator Lamar may take her to
his being present at the opening Of the SEN
ate, but under no circumstances will his
,cat be vacant during the next session Of
Congress unless he can be paired with a
Republican Senator"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

Gen. WRIT ADAMS, the General
Revenue Agent Of the State, has in
stitutcd suit against Charles E. Fur
long, formerly Sheriff Of Warren
county, for the recovery of $4,000 al
legged to have been unlawful y col
lectcd and improperly appropriated by
the late Sheriff while in office.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
Lotfa's Husband


Ethard Zapf, who about one year
ago declared himself LOtta's husband,
aud father Of two children by her,
was committed b. the Napa Insane
Asylum Friday. Since the original
declaration was made, Rapf has in
creased the number Of children b
seven. The ease brought 10y Zapf
against Lotta was discontinued nontlis
AGO.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

CAPT. SPIGHT, of the first district,
and editor of the Ripley Sentinel, was
an active canVasscr as clector for
President, and did good service for
the cause. He is good speaker, and
pans out well as an editor. We hope
next time he comes to Jackson we
will be able to see more Of him III our
office
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04

STATISTICS of our petroleum trade
show the exports of petroleum and
petroleum products from this country
for the nine months ending September
3Oth last, to have been of S24 $3.50, 900
value against $26, OG0,G3O for the cor
responding period of last year.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-04
A KILLING IN THE CARTHAGE
COURT HOUSE.


On Thursday the 25th ult, there
occurred a shooting difficulty in the
court house at Carthage between Kalb
McGTughey and Gassamar Hughes,
about 2 O'Clock in the day, The
Carthagenian of last Saturday has
this description of the trouble;
1t is said that the difficulty grew out of
business matters in connection with q
third party-a negro named Bill Cheshire;
that Mr. Hughes sought Mr.. McGaughey
out, and used violent and insulting Ian
guage, assuming meanwhile threatening
attitude; that McGaughey believed him.
self in danger, drew his pistol and the firing
between them then began. Just how many
shots were fired we do not know, but there
were several. Hughes retreatcd out of the
south door of the Court house rs the firing
continued, but quickly re-entcrcd and adj
yanced upon McGaughey. The latter fell
back to the north door, and there made
stand. Hughes also stopped us McGaughcy
did, and it appeared that more shooting
would take place but it did not 1t seemed
that Hughes desired to advance upon Me
GauOhcy, but was held i'll check by the
pistol Of the latter (Which subsequently
proved to have been empty. At this
moment sheriff Lacey, who had been
waiting ON Chanccry Court up stairs, came
tashing down between the two and com
mandcd the peace. Hughes fell in the
hall OF the Court house, but was shortly
after moved to boarding house across the
street, where in few moment he lay still
in death.
Examination of the body disclosed two
wounds--0nc near the groin and the other
Just under the heart. Mr.. McGalghcy
appears to have had quite Il narrow escape,
rs the right sleeve of his coat was torn
apparently by bullet. McGaughcy used
revolver and Hughes cartridge derrin-
ger. These details were not gathered from
the testimony before the examining court,
and may be inaccurate in some respects:
Mayor Frceny held McGaughey in bond
of 81, 800 to await the action of the Grand
Jury.
We may refer to this subject again next
week.