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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
A Plea For Dumb Animals.

We do not know what are the particulars
embodied in Mr., Stewards bill, but we
are highly gratified to see that a bill has
been introduced in the Mississippi Legis-
lature, entitled an Act for the prevention
of cruelty to domestic animals.-Kosciusk
Star.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
THUs far over I'm IA.

Illus far over $500 colored peonrs
from North CarOlina-men, women and
chlldren-have emigrated to Indiana
Ool. heogh, Secretary of the National
republican Committee. has arrived n
/" asnlngton from North Carolina. and
reports that the discontent amopg tbe
negroes still continues, and large num-
ners are preparing to leave the State for
sne West during the next two nlOnts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

CONGRESS- is again taking action In
the direction Of organizing part of the
Indian Territory under territorial form
of government and giving it the name
of Oklahoma.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

We note with pleasure. as am evil
aence # the good opinion in which Be
z held BY his neighbora. that Albert 81
Esq, has been elected ATavor
q sAtaFtia with but three diuesntinss
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

IT is said that Senator Bruces bill to
devote unclaimed pay and bounty of
colored soldiers to educating colored
soldiers will most probably be passed.
Both parties are in favor of it,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE members of the Legislature from
the counties comprising the Southern
District Of the Supreme Court held a
meeting last evening in the Senate
Chamber. The object of the meeting
was to appoint a committee to request
the Governor to appoint the successor
to Judge George from the Southern
District Senators jackson and J. p.
Carter, and Representatives Johns of
Amite, Seal OF Harrison, and Seabrook
of Wayne, were appointed as such COM
mttee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE United States Supreme Court
will take a recess from February 2 to
March 2.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

A CORRESPONDENT puts the case strong
ly In favor of the next appointment OF
Supreme Judge from the Second ,Iu-
dicial District.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

The Democrats in Congress are said
to be dissatisfied with the appointment
Of Census Supervisors. 1t is claimed
that they are not anon bipartisan in their
character, as the Census bill provides
they should he, and that only one-ffth
OF the number are Democrats. 1t is
not che first act Of bad faith the de facto
President has been guilty Of
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE demand for the passage of
Senator Stewards bill to prevent cruel
tY to animals is universal
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
Benton County Register.


One day last week, the precise day not
ascertained, Mr.. ]. w. Smalley, who lives
in the Northern part of Benton, got into
some u5ie with his wife which resulted
in his benz :, fieu-lv, if Itu1 fatally stabbed
by her in The back and under the arm
At our latest inform ,tiou he was still alive
though in critical condition.
Vicksburg Commercial
Judge Mayors will hold court here for
Judge Young during the coming week
Judge Young will go to Brandon in feoru-
airy to hold court in cases wherein Judge
Mayers was of counsel before his promotion
TO the bench.
Corinth Herald.
We had short interview with ex-Lieut.
Governor A. X. Davis last week, as he was
waiting for train on his passage from
Nashville to Macon He has been some
time in Nashville studying for the minis
try, and we must agree that his face we'll
harmonizes with pious profession. lie
smoke freely of the industrial, economical ana
eleyating influences needed on the eolored
people and expressed the opinion that edu-
Gated talent in the ministry Is one OF the
most hopeful means of effectiveness.
Greenwood Flag
A Chinaman-John Ahbo, by name, was
in town the first of the week trying TO rent
premises to carry on a bakery and laundry.
We have red, white and black people Jew,
Gentle and Christian people, and we must
have a yellow Pagan before our town can
ever become complete city.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

CoLoRED emigrants from Texas cons
tinue to arrive in Kansas in large num-
bers, both by railroad and teams across
the Indian Territory. Some of the emil
grants are living in tents and wagons
in the woods, and several of them have
died from the effects of restitution and
eXposure.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
English Farmers for Texas and Man
itoba.

The distress among the English farmers
has caused them, more than ever before
to turn their attention to emigration, and
the latest phase of this feeling has drawn
their thoughts to two points, Texas and
Manitoba. Several parties have already
taken up land and are building new homes
/ in the former State but, from the nature
of the climate and from their inability to
cultivate with as much success as they
anticipated the crops they were accustomed
to grow at home, there is a Stacking off of
the Texas movement and the beginning of
new one toward Manitoba, where the long
established Selkirk settlement is f1ourishing
at this time beyond precedent. This move
ment is encouraged by the Dominion Gov
eminent, which is actively building the
Central Pacific Railroad of Canada. About
40 miles of the road from Thunder Bav to
Selkirk is to be completed by the present
year. When it reaches Winnipeg and the
Saskatchewan valley, which is said to be
without exception 'Ethe best wheat-growinp
country in the world" (?), British farmers
1t IS believed, will flock there in large num-
bers. 1t is also in contemplation to out on
steamers 10 carry direct to England the
produce Of that region by the Hudson Bav
route, that route being shorter than from
New York, and the saving to the Manitoba
farmers by direct transportation being esti- /
mated at 20 cents bushel All this. how
ever, Is in the future, but the movement
appears to have begun, as it is reported that
from 80 to 100 English tenant farmers Of /.
the bettef class, with their families, and /
carrying with them the means of establish /
ing themselves, will emigrate to the /
Saskatchewan valley in the spring.-Ex-
change.
Why can't efforts be made % induce /
come Of oithese English farmers to set
tie upon the lands in Mississippi that
were once in high state Of cultivation,
but are now vacant and returning to
their original wilderness condition.
Hon. George Torrey, of Jefferson, who
has visited England in the interest of
Southern immigration, and has studied
the question well, thinks it could be
lone, and we have no doubt Mai. Wall,
our Commissioner of immigration, has
given the subject Thoughtful considera-
6on.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

REpssTRIcTNG THE STATE.-''Wan-
derer' writes from the Capitol to the
Natchez Democrat:
There Is, think, every prospect that the
very likely that-the census of this year may
necessitate an ex -ra session of the Legisla-
ture for the purpose of re-distFieting the
State. If such should be the case / hope
your Shoe-String District may receive
more consideration thad was accorded to it
when il was stretched out in such q shape
as to include 50 disproportionate a colored
element.
He may add that some Other districts
viii need remodeling.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

The Legislature of Mississippi has never
tried the experiment Of turning over the
entire State to one firm; and as we live in
an age Of progress, perhaps it would be well
enough to try it now ust to see how ii
would work. Comet of yesterday.
The ungenerous attempt made in the
foregoing paragraph to prejudice Mr..
Barksdale in his candidacy for the Uni
ted States Senate would seem to call
for passing notice 1t is the only sign
even Of acrimony that has appeared in
the course of a long and exciting con-
test in which nothing but generous
kniehtliness has been exhibited by the
several candidates and their friends. 1t
is proper TO say thai the selection Of
Col Power to do the St.te printing
does not affect the merits Of Mr.. Banks
dale for the office of Senator one
way or the other. 1t would
neither add to his qualifications, nor
detract from them. II he is elected it
viii necessarily sever his connection
with the press after the Senatorial
term in March, 1891, and THE CLARION
will be left in other hands. Ifhe is not
the presumption is that he will contin-
he his labors as at present, just a. ii Is
presumed his honorable and distin-
guished competitors, and personal and
political friends, Gel Singleton and
Judge George, will continue ip the
places they already occupy, if they
should not be elected to the Senate 1t
is pueriic and preposterous to talk
about turning over the state to any
body in any contingency.
P s.-After the above was put in
type the deadlock was broken, and 4
nomination was effected by the with
drawal of Mr.. Barksdaie to preserve.
the harmony of the Democratic party,
and to relieve the Legislature of a con
test which was taking up the time of
that body and reta4Gipg public business.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

AMONG the important measures in
PRODUCED in the Senate, are the resolu-
tions Of Mr. West, concerning the es-
adjustment of a Board Of Public
Works; Of Mr. King for the enumera-
ton of the inhabitants and qualified
electors Of the State and Of Mr.. An
derson in reference to oppressive taxa
ton in the Levee District.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

q LEGISLATOR who would taka e..
ana consistent stand in favor Of doing nrfis-
ing. would run chance az being rs7lrsssa-a
statesman Exchanre.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE Eastern Observer Ia the title of
a new paper started at Meridian by Dir.
Charles P. Dement,, to whom we ex-
tend our best wishes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
The Financial Question in the u. .
Senate Mississippi.

The financial issue is the great ques-
ton Of the day. 1t is now fairly be-
fore the Senate in shape of PROPOSE
ton to demonetize greenbacks-to take
from them their legal tender property.
If it was an original proposition there
could be no doubt about adhering to the
principle that the government cannot
make any substitute for gold and silver
a legal tender for private debts; but in
the present aspect Of the case no such
conclusion can be fairly reached. The
greenbacks were issued eighteen years
ago. Their constitutionality has been
affirmed by the highest judicial author
itv. They have been put IN circulation
with the greenback quality affixed. The
government has entered into contract
with the people that they should be le-
cal tenders. To demonetize them would
be an act er pest facfo-a violation Of
solemn obligation. It's tendency would
be to conyulse the financial system and
to contract the circulating medium to
the injury Of the people at large in the
interest Of the privileged classes. An
other matter Is the necessity Of providing
for the $3.50, 900, 900 outstanding United
States Bonds which viii fall due in 1881.
As a public debt is a public curse, all
the available resources Of the govern
ment should be applied to the payment
Of these bonds; and for that amount
which viii remain unpaid others should
be substituted at Il lower rate Of inter
est. It's the interest on the public
debt that is eating up the fruits Of the
honest industry Of the country. These
outstanding bonds bear five and six per
cent interest. 1t is now proposed to re-
fund at the rate Of three and half per
cent, and thus save $4,000, 900 annu-
ally to the taxpayers,
How these questions viii eventually
be settled remains a question Of doubt.
Our impression Is that the legal tender
function will not be taken from the
greenbacks though the scheme is sup
ported by the administration and a
small faction Of the Democracy who are
identified principally with the bond
holding interest.
Thus far in the session which com
menced on the second Of December
pending these and other important Is
issues, Mississippi has been without rep
resentation in the Senate, except in the
person Of Bruce, the colored Republi-
can member. Our State, to all in
tetns and purposes, has been voiceless.
But il is better so, than to have had
her will set at defiance and trampled
under foot as on the bill for the remon-
itization of silver.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

1T Is said that the National Green.
back party hopes to throw the Peesi-
dental election into the House.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
The Currencv ouestlnn-

The Committee on Banking and Cur
rency Is preparing for lively contest
on the currency question, as it is now
divided INTO three parties, backed by
powerful factions IN the House one in
favor OF greenbacks, and the third in
favor Of allowing the finances to remain
IN their present condition.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

HE bill of Congressman Stapp, of
Iowa, to regulate transportation charges,
provides for the appointment Of nfne
commissioners, one from each Judicial
district of the United States, to insti-
tute thorough investigation into the
subject of transportation charges, and
who shall, as soon as practicable after
such investigation, prepare schedules Of
reasonable maximum rates for all rail
roads; revise ana change such schedules
from time to time, report to Congress
any legislation deemed necessary, and to
attend generally to the collecting of
railway statistics, lie argued that
there was apparent necessity for legisla-
ton on interstate commerce when we
consider the fact that all the great trunk
lines have by agreement, pooled all
their earnings.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

Hos. ]. TT, FosTER, the new Envoy
to Russia, after the War was editor and
proprietor Of the Evansville, Indiana
Courier.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

WHEN is the Warren county contest
ed Senatorial election case to come up?
The grave allegations set forth in Judge
Morris petition cannot be permitted to
pass without an opportunity to disprove
them. And to the end that the investi-
CATION may he full and fair, and all the
facts revealed, so as to give the petitioner
no cause for complaint that a Democratic
Legislature would not give him a fair
hearing, we would suggest that the com
mittee in charge of the subject have
power to send for persons and papers ;
or what would be better, because more
economical and speedy, be authorized to
visit Nicksburg, where they will have
access to the witnesses. 1t is under
stood that both the contestants are
anxious for an investigation of the case.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
state Normal school

The bill before the Legislature asking
for the adoption of the Military Insti-
tute as the State Normal School, meets
want much felt by nearly every neigh
borhood in the State. By it young men
will be educated and required to serve a
period of years as teachers, subject TO the
order of the Superintendent of Eduea-
ton. The trouble now is that as gen
eral rule, men who are competent TO
teach cannot afford to accept positions
in the common schools. We need a
thorough elementary training at home,
50 that boys may be prepared for college
or business without the necessity of in
curing the immense expense of attend
ing the preparatory departments OF In
situations far away.
1t is more economical to send compe-
tent State teachers to the country to
instruct the youth in the Grammar
school than it is to send the boys from
home to prepare for college. The Nor
NAL School, the Agricultural College
and the University would all be bene-
flied by this thorough training in the
county schools by teachers Endorsed by
the State. Every State should have an
institution whose special duty is to train
teachers, for the science of teaching is
progressive. In our State the colored
race have enjoyed the advantage of two
Normal Schools, but the white people
have been denied the privilege. The
excellent scheme of Col. Murfee pro-
poses to supply the deficiency.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28
State Agricultural College.

The Board of Trustees of the A. and VI.
College met at the Governors Office at 9
o clock yesterday morning. Present, Gov. j.
NJ. Stone, President; w. B. Montgomery, w.
b. Augustus, J.. B. Brown, Chas. L. Gill
mer, J. VI. Causey, ID. l.. Phares, J. Il.
George and Frank Burkitt. ABSENT. c.
Dockery. The committee received the re-
port of the Architect, showing that the
College building is near completion. The
committee appointed at the last meeting to
memorabilia the Legislature on the subject
If an appropriation will make out and fur
nish a schedule of the needs of the Board to
make the enterprise a success. The
actual amount required has not yet been de-
termined by the Board, which will perhaps
be in session for several DAYS
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

The University at Oxford has 8T6|
students. Four years ago the atten-|
dance was only eighty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

Hon. A. H. BRENNAN is Chairman
of the Health Committee in the Senate !;
and Hon. T. b. Ford is Chairman of the
same Committee in the House. They
are both able physicians, and their ap-
pointment at the head of their respec-
tive Committees was eminently proper.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE bill of Mr.. Torrey, of Jefferson,
to authorize the Board of Supervisors of
Jefferson county to issue bonds for bulk
ing court House, meets the approval
ofhiS constituents
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

The election Of Judge George has
created a vacancy on the Supreme
Court Bench Of the State. Numerous
names have been mentioned in connec-
ton with the successorship. Among
them, Hon. Roderick Seal, Judge
Mayors, J. F. Sessions, ii. s. NanEa-
ton, Judge Chrisman, and Judge Hurst,
ofSouth Mississippi; and Judge Watson,
Gen. Featherston, Gen. Walthall and
Judge Houston, of North Mississippi.
TAX LIsTs.-We have received or
ders from several Assessors for the
blank forms used in assessing taxes
Having good reason to believe that the
present Revenue Law Is to be amended
in several particulars, we shall defer
printing tax lists until the Legislature
shall have acted in the matter. Asses
sors will save themselves trouble and
expense by waiting until the House of
Committee on Ways and Means is heard
from
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE principal event in railroad cir
cles last week was the acquisition of a
controlling interest in the Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis Railway by
the combinatioI controlling the Louis
Vile and Nashville and Great Southern
Railroads. The aggregate number of
miles now under control Of this one
management is about $500 miles, and
extends from St. Louis to the Southern
Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE Bridewell trial terminated yes
terday, after able and eloquent argu
ments by District Attorney Foote, and
Messrs. Cowan, Pittman and McCabe,
for the State. and Messrs. Morris,
Brian, Simrall and Meek, for the de-
fence Mr.. Bridewell was acquitted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-01-28

THE commission for the improvement
of the Mississippi river and its tributa-
ries was in session last week in St.
Louis. The preliminary work is being
pushed forward with commendable
CELEBRITY, there being three triangula-
ton parties, 4-ane Typographical party,
three observation parties, and one bor-
ing party in the field at work. The
triangulation has covered a length of
125 miles between Cairo and Memphis.
The topography has reached little
below Tptonville, nearly ninety miles
below Cairo. One of the observation
parties is stationed at Fulton, Tenn.
another al Lake Providence and
another at Garrollton. The boring par
ty is below Memphis at work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-19
,NOL. Vino. Is

persons rushing up stairs into the office
j. l.. BROMLEY assisted Lefevre 10 a sofa in
the ad djoining room. The blood rushed in
torrents from the wound. snd Lefevrc knew
that he had only few minutes TO live
With faint voice he dictated the follow
ing declaration.
Il, Alfred Lefevre- knowing that am
about to die, declare in the preasence of
God and these witnesses that | was killed
by 4 pistol shot, fired at me by +. :.
Schroeder, without any provocation
The shooting occurred at five o cock in
the afternoon. An hour later Letevre was
dead. Schroeder seems TO have been cool
and collected throughout. After he saw the
man fall he handed the pistol To one of the
bystanders, and gravely said: Citizen DO
your duty. | am responsible for act. " He
was arrested soon after and taken to the
city prison, his wife and child accompanying
him. On the way he is reported to have
said =" | hope to God have Killed him.
1t | haven't [ will. \ man cannot seduce
my wife and live.
Oakland has seldom known such an ex-
cltement. The young people sympathizod
with Schroeder; the older citizen said:
This thing of shooting man down in cold
blood, tor either real or iaucled grievances,
must stop"
The statements Of the dentists assistants,
who emphatically deny the possibility of the
assault, since it was their duty to be pre- sent
whenever chloroform or gas was administer
ed, also have weight. Yet Schroeder seems
to have thoroughly believed his wife story,
whether true or false. She also seems to
be thoroughly sincere in it. The suggestion
has been made that it is a case of halucina-
ton, the effects of the chloroform. Such
cases are not unknown to medical men or
the courts.
Later evidence modihes in an important
point the first suppOsitlons as to the motive
of the crime given by the newspapers. At
the examination of Schroeder, July %, the
Rev. Dr. Stebbins testified that on June l2
his daughter confessed to him and her hus
band that Lefevre had betrayed her; that
he and his son in-law soon afterward visited
the dentlst, and he taxed him with the
crime that Lefevre neither affirmed nor de-
MED the charge, but was much excited, and
trembed vislbly. Dr. lstebbins empI.nticoI-
~ 0dtied that he regretted not hnctng bern
orn.ei at the time; II he had had u pistol, he
snid, he acoufd then nnd there hure kdjn} the
seducer, and soced hts son tn-lu,o this trial.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-08-19

A WARNING TO CIGARETTE SMoKERs-
Some yankee cigarettes which are smekei to
SO large an extent arO SAID to be dangerous
articles. A physician had one Of them ana
lyZed, and the tobacco was found TO be
strongly impregnated with opium while
the wrapper, which was warranted to be
rice paper, was proved to be the most ordi-
nary quality of white paper. whitened with
arsenic, the two poisons combined being
presented in sufficient quantities 20 create
in the smoker the habit of using opium
without being aware Of it. and which crav-
ing can only be satisfied by an incessan, use
of cigarettes