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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
Jay GOUtd's winning.

The New York Public says that q
year ago Jay Gould sold JOG. 900 shares
of Union Pacific for about 900. .OGO
Then he bought a controlling interest
in Kansas Pacific, which was at II
for about S60O,OO0, and in the next six
months the stock rose to %. netting
S4,O00000- Wabash was at is, when
Gould bought, men say, two-thirds of
the stock, and it rose later TO 62I
His profit ON the consolidation of the
st. Louis Northern (which he bought
at Z and saw rise to AZ ami Wabash.
are put at Sl,S50,000 for stocks. Gould
has netted Sll,0000O0, If he Were 70
sell out. Meanwhile he can borrow
ON his holdings two or three times the
amount IF his original capital. The
question in Wall street now Is how
much Gould expects to make on his
central stock, Of which he has at least
Sc, 800 shares.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
GOV. STONE AND GEN. GRANT.

The newspapers and the public gen.
orally seem to be charmed with Gov
Stones ideas about lionizing Gen.
Grant. Here is the way the Bluche1
of the Oktibbeha Citizen views the
matter:
From the Starkvill Citizen.
Here is what Gov. Stone said when
asked to join an invitation to Grant to
visit Jackson
9 If Gen. Grant, travelling as private
citizen, should visit Jackson, he would eX-
ert himself to show him all the courtesies
which are due so distinguished a citizen of
the Republic, but to assist in organizing a
procession of flunkeys, who would hail
Grant or any one else as conquering hero,
and pay the individual the honors of roy
atty, was degrading to a freeman and be-
meath the dignity of the chief Executive of
great State, and he would not do it."
We think Gov. Stone answered in
great good taste, and we thank him
for his manly reply, which is in keep
ing with all the actions of Mississippi's
splendid Governor
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
Coffee In Typhoid Fever.

DIR. Guillasse, of the French navy,
reports that in the early stages of the
disease, coffee is almost a specific
against typhoid fever. He gives to
adults two or three tablespOonfuls OF
strong black coffee every two hours,
alternating with one or two teaspoon
fnls Of elaret or Burgundy wine. The
beneficial effect is immediate. A lit
tie lemonade or citrate OF magnesia
should be given daily, and after a
while quinine.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

THE people of Montague county,
Texas, expressed their disapproval of
the wholesale pardons by Gov. Roberts
Of that State, by hanging him in
effigy, between two pardoned Grim
inals.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

COL. w. II. JONES, Clerk of the
Ways and Means Committee, died in
Washington, D. c., on April Both
He was the man to whom Gen. Dix
issued the order, "If any man attempts
10 tear down the American flag, shoot
him on the spot.u
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

WE have received the first number
of the Holmes County Times, publish
ed at Lexington, Miss, G. M. Hull
editor. The Times is an advocate OF
the Greenbaek hobby, and flies the
names of Solon Chase, of Maine, for
President, and Gen. A. M. West, for
Vice President.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

A Nevada miner was recently at
tackled by lockjaw, but the doctor got
the victim into a game of poker, gave
him four kings and kept four &C for
himself, and after the showing OF
hands, the miners jaw was working
out profanity that could be heard three
miles away.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

When Denver deacon forgets him
self and remarks to the man who
doesn't notice the contribution box /:
"a Are You going to chipT the folks in
the congregation wink at one another
and the clergyman tries to look as
though he doesn't see where the fun
comes in -ReIigions Herald.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

Two BABIES were born to woman
in Maysville, KY, on the I'd inst, one
being white and the other black. The
doctors of that locality are puzzled to
account for it.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

"How many young tOrpedoes are
blowing in these times" remarked
Mrs. Partington To Ike, as the little
fellow came tumbling in with hair
and clothing disheveled by the wind
at seems rs il there must be consider
able emotion among the elements. -
sighed the old lady, as she cast her
eyes down ward and went on with her
knitting.-Hawkeye.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

Ara public meeting to aid the suf.
ferers in Ireland, held at Haverhill,
Mass, on May 1st, the sum of $1,000
was raised.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

a BILL has passed Congress appro-
priating $4,000 to build Marine Hos
pital at Memphis, Tenn.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

Col. Tom. ScoTT has resigned the
Presidency Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

Hons. H. d. MONEY and G. r..
Hooker have our thanks for public
documents of interest.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

THERE was considerable snow
storm along the Hudson river New
York, last Sunday.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

BoGARDUs defeated Fred. Erb, Jr.,
in pigeon shooting match at st.
Joseph, Mo-, on Saturday last. Score
So to 83.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

DIR. SAMUEL chopin, the distin-
gulshed physician and surgeon, died
in New Orleans on Sunday last, of
pneumonia, after three days illness.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

We regret to announce the death of
Col. Robert Lowry, Gather If our
distinguished fellow-eitizen, General
L1wry, which occurred at Ba dwyn,
Mississippi, recently. He was a native
of South Carolina, and removed to
Tennessee, where he resided several
years, and thence to Tishomingo
county, Miss. He was no ordinary
man. He possessed a strong native
intellect, a splendid physique, and an
honest, noble heart. He was a true
friend and generous foe, and a per-
feet gentleman at all times and ON all
occasions. He had passed his seventy
fourth year, and died calmly and
peacefully, eheered by the hope of a
blessed immortality beyond the grave.
and left host Of relatives and friends
to mourn his loss.-Brandon Repub-
lican,
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

Che Junior Of the Kinds county
Gazette, has been dec AIRED eligible to
serve on the United States Grand
Jury, at Jackson, and the old man was
80 tickled he went of and bought two
suits Of striped stockings. Port Glib
son Reveille.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
A Cool Attempt to ASSRSsiuate
Friar'S Point Gazette.
To the Voters OF the First Congressional District
of Mississippi:

!
On Sunday night, about 81 o'clock
a colored man named Henry Mitchell
suddenly entered the room of Andrew
Allen, the co!ored cook at Sheriff
Fishers residence, and fired two shots
at Andrew, who was asleep upon his
bed; upon being aroused, he jumped
up and grappled the assassin who fired
two more shots; one truck him under
the left nipple, and passed through the
lung. He then jumped out of the
window and made his escape, several
parties present following him through
the yard and fired several shots at
him, but he scaled a seven foot fence,
and got away. Andrew is quiet,
well-behaved yellow boy, and has
lived in Mr.. Fishers family for a num-
Der Of years. Mitchell has not been
about this place much, and has been
separated from his wife for the past
five or six years. The woman also
lives at Fishers, and jealousy, no
doubt, was the cause of the attack.
DR.. Slack dressed the wound. and
though il is serious, may not prove
fatal, and he has been up to this time
steadily improving.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08

PosTMAsTER-G GENERAL Keys sue
cessor will not be appointed until after
the Chicago Convention.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
VOL III.

ALL Jews, of foreign birth, have
been ordered from the Russian ca pital
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-05-08
THE PARTISAN UNITED STATES
MARSHAES.
speech OF Hon. Ebenezer Ii. Finley,
of Ohio.

The House being in Committee OF the Whole,
and having under consideration the bill III. Il, No.
1920 making appropriation to supply certain def
cences ia the appropriations for the service Of tho
Government for the fiscal year ending June 80 1880,
and for other purposes
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VS..
VIM. l.. HURT.

The prisoner being brought to the bar
and being in the custody of the Sheriff,
being asked by the Court why the sentence
of the law should not be pronounced upon,
him, sayeth nothing. Therefore be it order
ed by the Court, that the said VIM. i. Hurt
receive 40 lashes save one, well laid on, at
the common whipping post, in and for the
county of Pike, between the hours of 10
o'clock A. NJ. and 4 O'Clock r. NJ, on this
30tl, day of March 1897, and that on to-
morrow being Friday the 3lst day of
March, 1897, and on Saturday next being
the LIST day of April next and on Monday
next being the 81 day of April 1887. You
stand in the public pillory of said county
one hour aud one quarter each day sue
ceSsiyely, between the hours of 10 O'Clock
A. NJ, and 4 O'Clock +. NJ, and that the
Sheriff of Pike county carry the sentence as
aforesaid into execution,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30
Boys.

Some people imagine that the world was
made for men. All a mistake; it was simply
intended for boys to amuse themselves in.
Who enjoys life except the boy. if we accept
an occasional girl or two? Nobody. Grown
up folks try to think they do, and some really
imagine they do, but they are mistaken. Men
work themselves up into fever of excitement
over an election. They hold mass meetings
and get up torchlight professions Of great
length and noisy roar. but do they get any fun
out of it? Not bit. 1t is the boys on the
outside who do that. They are the ones who
build the bonfres on street corners, aud thew
do large share Of the hurrafing. Men In a
procession move along as solemnly as though
they were going to their own funeral, if such
o thing were possible. but the boy who observes
them from the curbstone, or who trots along
close to the drum major, is all animation and
joy. He takes it all in, and is the freshest one
in the party when the tramp is completed, no
matter how long he is in passing multitude
OF given points. No oone gets such keen enjoy
ment out of play as the gallery god. And all
the circusses in the couHtry are gotten up with
an eye single to his special amusement. II we
could be girl again we would prefer to bs q
boy. =
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everything. That is the charm of a principle
you always have an answer ready"
1T will be private life there and that Is the
article the British public want now"
up Salt River" "

The Cincinnati Commercial gives the fol-
lowing information to correspondent who
asks What is the meaning OF the term Salt
k'ver'Y The answer to your question opens
up very interesting bit of Ohio river pioneer
history. Professor Schele De We're gives the
origin Ct the phrase in his book called 'Ameri-
canisms: The English OF the New World. ,
Before the day Of steam all navigation of the
Ohio river was carried on by fatboats aud
keelboats. 1t was necessary to row the keel
boats up stream. The labor was painful aud
exhausting. There were slaves all along the
Kentucky side Of the river in those DAYS.
When negro had been refractory or sassy it
was the custom to punish him by hiring him
out to row keelboats up the river. This pun
lshment was called rowing up In time it
became the popular slave term for scolding
or punishment OF any sort, all over the coun-
try, much as the term to blow up is applied
nowadays. Professor De We're quotes this SEN
tence from the New York Herald Of May 7,
1906: We hope the President gave his Secre-
tary good rowing up for his imbecility'
Salt River was, and Is, a little tributary of
the Ohio i'll kentucky. 1t was so crooked aud
dan ,erous that rowing keelboat up It's waters
Was about the hardest labor a man could un-
de"take. Hence to row a man up Salt River
was as severe punishment as could be i'm
posed on him. The expression became pro-
verbal. One day, on the floor Of Congress, a
member from Kentucky inade use Of the
phrase in a happy illusion. The expression
was thence crystalized in the popular speech
OF the country. From that day to this, the
person or party that has been badly defeate
In an electio'nis sent up Salt River"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30
GTinsley's Magaziue.l
The Honest Domestic and Her
Umbrella.

A next-door neighbOr of mine advertised for
a domestic servant, and. repeating our expe-
rience thus far, engaged one, subject to the
character being satisfactory. She was daring
operator. Having obtained the sum Of FIVE
shillings from her prospective mistress;-she re-
marked with emotion, "I will repay the money
na'am, every penny, whether suit you or
not. If you doubt me, ma am, allow me to
leave my umbrell." The good old lady was
touched by this proof of the poor girls honesty
and of course declined, effusively, to accept
the proffered pledge. Well, let the grim truth
be told. The ostentatiously honest applicant
for the situation of general servant had not
been gone half an hour before my neighbor
missed her best umbrella. The young person
had availed herself Of the opportunity afforded
by the temporary absence Of the owner to
annex the article from the stand, (which any,
body might have done," observed the inspect
or sententiously; "but to offer it as security
for the borrowed five shillings was stroke Of
genius. That girl has a career before her il
she does not get herself 'pinched' too soon."
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The two young heirs, who had been taking
their first lessons in grammar, disputed long
and earnestly over question, and at last de-
cided to settle it by arbitration, selecting the
head Of the family as arbiter, with full power
to send for persons and papers. The old man
was greasing his boots before the kitchen
stove.
Father" said the elder heir, sis it proper
to say we is rioh,' or we am rioh'?'
The old man worked carefully down into the
hollow of his boot under the instep, remaining
a long. time in thoughtful meditation, and
then slowly replied:
well, should say it would come higher to
the truth to say we hain't rich.'
The young heirs when they came to think
what a hard time they had worrying pennies
out of their paternal relative, thought 1t might
be made that way. too. And the old man
kept on amounting his boots with the extract
Of hog.-Rockland Courier.
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A BRAVE LADY!
She Endures the Pain of u Severe
Surgical Operation Without
Taking ChlOrofOrm
(From the Courier.)

Mrs. Schoonmaker, of Creek Locks, Ulster Co.
N Y had the misfortune to entirely loose the sight
of one of her eyes, through an accident and en-
dured painful in1ammatory action therein for two
long years:-the other eye finally becoming sympa-
thetcally affected her general health seriously suf
ering indeed she was mere wreck, walking
skeleton In this terrible strait she consulted Dr.
David Kennedy, of Rondout New York, who told
her at once that the injured eye must be removed
She quietly but firmly said "All right Doctor, but
don't give me chloroform. Let my husband sit by
my side during the operation, and will neither cry
out or STIR" The work was done, and the oI
woman kept her word. Talk of solderly oourage
This showed greater pluck than it takes to face a
hundred guns. To restore her general health and
give tone and strength to the system, DR.. Kennedy
than gave the "Favorite Remedy which cleansed
the blood and impaired new life to the long suffer-
ering woman. She rapidly gained health and
strength, and now we'll. The "Favorite Remedy"
is a priceless blessing to woman. No family should
be without it, Your druggist has it. If not send to
DR.. David Kennedy, Rondout, New York.
move ThT&S1m&w1m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30
College "reminiscences In Boston Courier.
Making Him Pray for His Country

There is fine story of Prex. Woods that a
clergyman in Maine told me. You know the
presidents sympathies were notoriously with
the South in the war, and the boys were not
slow to comment on it. One morning when
Prex. came in to prayers he was aston
ished-or at least fancy he must have been,
to find every man jack of the fellows In his
place and all as quiet as stone grifins. He
took his chair as usual, and he must have felt
a cold chill run down his back from the way
in which every body looked at him."
"He'd feel that: interrupted Percy, from
the chapel. 1t is always colder than the
tomb"
He was no sooner seated" resumed the 9th.
or, than his eye caught great sign stretched
across the front of the organ loft on the oppo-
site end OF the chapel. with the words sPray
for the Country, in letters yard high. He
read the Scriptures as usual, and then started
in on the prayer amid an awful stiffness such
as never was experienced at college prayers
before or since. He got along to the phrase
with which he was accustomed to close, and
not a word about the country Then there
was sort Of dull murmur among the bows
Nobody made any noise in particular. you
know, but there was kind OF stir. The pres
dent didn't dare hold out any longer, for :he
pressure of that body of boys with all the NOR
al seDtimdnt of the country behind them was
too tremendous for even his will; he gave in
and prayed for the country with the utmost
feryor.p
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

The Albany Argus, speaking of the Maine
Governorship, says it has mo doubt the
honest thing will be done, and every vote
allowed to the candidate for whom it was
evidently intended. Because the Democrats
ignored this honest rule last year is no rea-
son why the Republicans should do so now.
1t would be better that score of Democrats
should be given Office than that one Repub-
ican should be declared elected upon any
other than a just, fair and honorable count.
The Democratic party may flourish ON for
gerry and fraud, but the practice of either
by Republicans would result in the death of
the party.''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

SPECIAL AGENT Robert p. Porter of the
Census Office, has completed an investiga
ton OF the ownership and distribution of
the four and four and half per cent. regis
tered bonds, which shows some interesting
results, and, among other things, the ease of
money in this country and the confidence of
home investors in Government securities
bearing low rate of interest Of the toGal
of these bonds $69S, 1881, $50, nearly one-half,
or 1854, 800, is held by individual home
investors; the National Banks hold $175.-
9S7, $50, and Trust Companies, $166, ,927, 800,
while the beggarly allotment to foreigners
is only S11, 100000. An interesting feature
OF Mr.. Porter s report is the exhibit of the
relative amount of the bonds held by males
and females, the latter having invested
S9,419,S50 in these securities against $780,
43S, 600 held by males, very large percent
age. OF the total amount of bonds held by
individual owners, the Eastern States own
II 9-10 per cent. of the bonds; the Middle
States, GA 40 per cent; the Western States
IA 2-1O per cent; and the Southern States,
3 $40 per cent
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30
PROF. EDIS0N'S
P0LYF0R M T.

After much persuasion, Prot. Edison has been
prevailed upon to give the world his truly wonder
u discovery for aeyiating pain. For years he suffer
ed from neuralgia pains, unable to find any remedy
among the hunireds which he tried that would give
him permanent ease. Finally he became con yinced
that he must become his own physician and seek,
by experiments for the desired relief. He had
taken all the well known sedatives which gave only
tempory relief, and produced nervousness, loss OF
appetite. &c. lie now sought for combination Of
such remedies as would, by outcard application.
cure him of his distress and the same time not be
injurious to his system.
Trials and experiments followed this determina-
tion until he at last produced compound which
by application entirely subdued all pain and al
lowed his system to recuperate, and throw off the
disease.
To his discovery Prof Edison gave the name
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

COLONEL INGERsoLL says that it is as
plain as Cesar's nose would be on Tom
Thumbs face who elected Ga. field. 1t was
the business men of New York. They en-
tered unconsciously into conspiracy to de-
feat Hancock. They took fright at the last
moment. Maine had great deal to do with
it. They put up their money and voted the
same way. and thousands of men who had
been talking Hancock few weeks before
voted for Garfield.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

E. V. SMALLEY, the New York Tribune
correspondent, sees the dawn of an era of
good feeling, and is delighted with the
brightness of the political skies since the
election. He notes an unusual absence of
bitterness in the Democratic sen iment at
Washington
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30
THF, PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 80.

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publca-
sion but as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munIcatlons Lnat are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

THIS is the irony of fate indeed: A China
man has opened laundry in the rooms re-
Gently occupied by the Democratic head
quarters in Cleveland. Ohio.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

THE Baltimore American is of the opin-
ion that the illness of P. T. Barnum, the
Snowman, is due to his having been taken
for the other Barnum.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

KENNEBEC Journal: Governor Davis
and Council have given ractical illustra-
tlon of fair counting of votes which is in
marked contrast with the course pursued by
Garcelon and his Council. They have
counted in Albert Moore, the Fusion candi-
date, as Judge of Probate in Somerset coun-
ty, though Moore had but two more votes
than his Republican competitor and would
have been in minority had the vote of one
small plantation been cast out, for which
there was a petition. Mr.. Moore took
prominent stand in his newspaper in sup
port of the Garcelonian count-out last win
ter, and now owes the position of Judge of
Probate to the honesty and magnanimity
with which Republican Council have
couoted him in right in the teeth of his for
mer advocacy of a policy which if adopted
would have counted him out. We presume
Mr.. Moore will graciously accept the office
and thank God in his heart for an honest
Governor and Council. He ought to at
least. They pursued similar course in re-
lation to the Pennington representative,
giving the seat to Democrat when by
throwing out Perkins plantation they could
have brought in Republican. Truly there
is great improvement at the State House
since last year as to the manner of counting
votes.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-11-30

EVERY regular attache of the PREss is furnished
With Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen
EDITOR All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
wiz confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
OF every person claiming to represent our journal