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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
Hon. @. E. Hooker in the Ohio Can.
vass.

From every report, our immediate
Representative is doing good work for
the Democratic nominees ia Ohio. His
speeches are suited to the canvass, and
are eulogised not loss for their matter,
than for their eloquenee. To use q
homely but expressive phrase, be has
taken the shine off of all the other ora
tors that have spoken in that State, ON
the Democratic side. A special from
Newark, says;
General Hooker, of Mississippi, and Sem
ator Thurman spoke to the Democracy of
Newark, this evening, in Music Hall. Not
withstanding the inelemeney Of the weather
the audience was greater than the seating
causcity, or even the standing capacity Of
che binding. General Hooker, in an hour
ara 4 half7s address, held his audience SPELL
hound with Ssa mastery portrayal Of the
wrongs of his party. and particularly of the
people Of the South. His arraignment Of
Garfield was most severe, and his laudatlon
afAi4ancock such is should emanate from 9
5fii4ahad orator The Democracy are Iubi-
9ant nWnr this, their FIRST meeting and angnr
thefefrom an Overwhelming majority IN this
county in October next
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Baxter Mcfarland, contra.
To be reported.
S. P, GIBBONS,

? NO. O-OJ.
J. W. MCALEXANDER, ct al.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mar
shall county, Hon. J. w. G, Watson, Judge.
Appellees recovered Judgment in elects
ment on a tax title for land sold first Nom
in January, 1876.
Defendant appealed, and raised three
questions as to the validity of the tax title
1. That there had been no legal assess
ment of the taxes. The assessor failed to
attach a certificate TO the assessment rolls
returned to the board of supervisors, as
required by 1854, Code 1871. But he APP
pended an affidavit, in accordance With that
section, that he had made & faithful assess
ment of the property in the county.
2. It was claimed that the taxes had been
paid before the sale. In November. 1878
the owner of the land went to pay his taxes.
By mistake he omitted the go acres in con
troversy, and paid on 90 acres IN an adioin-
ing section, owned by another party. This
party, q few days afterwards paid on all his
lands, including the tract previously paid
on by mistake. Both payments were noted
on the land roll. The land that was paid
on in duplicate, assessed higher than
the other 90 acres. Therefore, She duplicate
payment little more than satisfied the full
amount Of taxes due ON both tracts.
Inc collector notified the owner of the
mistake, but 1T was never rectifed, and the
land ia controversy was sold for the taxes
due thereon.
3. 1t was claimed that the tag collectors
deed was void for uncertainty in the de-
scrIption of the land The description was
AS follows IN. TT. n. E. / go az Sec. 80,
T. l R. 2 West"
Neither objection was sustained.
1Der c"rta'"' Judgment Gfymsed.
L. johnson, and Manning 4 Watson, for
appellant.
L, Brame, contra.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
Epidemic of Dengue in Charleston.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE National
Board of Health have advices that an cpl
demic of dengue prevails at Charleston, S.
c., there being two thousand cases in that
city. Dengue also prevails at New Or
leans.
IF we are not mistaken the 'sdengue"
is the second cousin of yellow fever.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

GEN b. F. BUTLER, in an elaborate
speech, has declared for Gen. Hancock.
He thinks it is time peace was restored
between the sections and the way to
do it is to elect the CINCINNATI ticket.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE New York Herald independently
says the reasonable conclusion would
seem to be that while the recent Demo-
cratic reconciliation improves the De-
mocratic prospect it does not take New
York out of the list of doubtful States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE case Of Capt. John Adams,
charged with the killing of J. J. Rob
inson, at Water Valley, was brought
before a magistrate and the court adj
United him to bail in the sum of Sc, O00
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

Ex--Gov. AMEs, it is announced, has
dropped politics and betaken himself to
the practice of the law. Our recollection
is that politics dropped him some years
ago.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
"a CaEsfanI EEeenIe1 - J.
ort Gibson ReveiIlal

Utt NsIUsOu heYeIIIe.
PA1GHLET AcTs, 1880. IT,.
are on our table through tbe L;rg. ~ Aets
hon. Henry q. Myers, Secretarv ~ 81. q
We nave looked through the 49, - .,.i-
some care and ind il a carefully s-....,..i
~ ~. MoEsny q tne reputation of the ofic.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE Vicksburg Commercial announ-
ces the death, in Issaquena county, on
Saturday, of Col. Richard Christmas, a
gentleman long known in this region.
aged seventy-three-by being thrown
from his buggy by frightened horse.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

The Democratic majority in Arkan-
sas Is estimated at from 5000 to co.
900. It's majority for honest, consti-
tutional government. and rest from sec
tional agitation.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

The total population of Warren
county, according to published state
ment by the President of the Board of
Supervisors, il 81, 259.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE census returns viii place the
present population of the United States
at about 5O, 900, 900, which is an increase
Of II, 700, 600 in ten years.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE cotton crop will fall short near
Is per cent. of the July estimates, ac-
cording to the crop report for August of
the Memphis Cotton Exchange. But
this estimate was made before the recent
storms The shortage cannot now be
put at less than from 80 to 40 per cent
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

Dr.. TANNER is Iecturing. He adj
yocates cessation from eating for the
cure Of all infammatory diseases, es-
peeially dyspepsia and rheumatism.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

The Governor of Missouri has APP
pointed delegates to the Interstate
Convention to be held in New Orleans
on the 10Th of November for the pur-
pose of discussing the question of Mis-
sippi River improvements and the
development of the commerce of the
Mississippi Valley.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
THE TIDAL WAVE.
Republican Defeat in Maine I!

Contrary to expectation, the election
in Maine, on Monday, has resulted in a
Republican defeat The returns indi-
cate that the Democrats and Green
backers have elected their candidate for
Governor. Mr.. Pasted, BY three thous-
and majority, and have gained three
members Of Congress, and carried the
Legislature The State has voted Re
publican by from 1000 to 10000 ma
jority ever since 1856 Senator Blaine
admits that his party has been badly
beaten in that State.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

OURworthy young confrere, Mr.. S. N.
Patton, late of the Holly Springs South,
has made an engagement with the New
Orleans Times and will hereafter be
located at Houston, Texas, in the inter
est of that enterprising journal. That
paper has done well to secure his SER
vices
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

MEssRs. f. F. Noel and c. G.. Grace.
talented young members of the Lexing-
ton bar, have assumed control of the
business and editorial departments of the
Lexington Advertiser-the paper having
been purchased by a company of Demo-
Gratis. This is labor of love and of
duty entirely with these gentlemen and
we hope their efforts il she good cause
will be literally sustained by the people
of Holmes. Under their management
the Advertiser will be kept at a high
standard of ability and usefulness.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15


Mr.. j. W. HoILEMAN, in the New
Orleans Timas. gives a favorable report
of the effects fthe appropriation for the
ifaP"opea4Ae,at of Pearl rivor on Column
bia, the ancient capital Of Mississippi,
and on the lower Pearl region;
There has been an appropriation OF $780,
COO thirty thousand dollars for removing
snags from Pearl river, below Jackson
Work will commence shortly upon it.
Business is building up considerably, and
we could soon support steamboat our
selves. We have an immense pine forest
around US here and tEgpautine orchard
would be started immediately, and we al
ready have rumors of cotton factory and
a tannery to be put up here, if we can get
quick transportation for our goods. We
have five stores here, all doing good bust
ness
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

ANOTHER Railroad scheme-or an old
one has been revived-in which Missis-
sippi is partially interested. 1t is said
that company will be formed soon to
Luild a railroad from Decatur, Alabama,
on the Tennessee river, southwest to a
connection with the Mobile and Ohio.
Surveys are reported in progress to de
termine the best line, and also the point
where connection will be made, which
will probably be either Columbus or Aber-
deem, on the Tombigbee river. If Co
lumbus, it will constitute link in the
main line Northwqrd of which the
Natohez, jackson, and Columbus will be
an important part.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

IN. w. w. GowAN, has been Sc
lected as suh-electqr for the county Of
Simpson, a. recommended By the State
Executive Committee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
Dir. GARFIELD

/ Opposed the amendment of Mr. Landers,
the reason for which were so conclu-
sively presented in the extracts above
quoted. Mr.. Garfield repeating what
has since become a threadbare argu-
ment of the bold soldiers advocates that
/ to pay them with the silver dollar which
the contract called for, would be doing
them injustice, said:
{" If you insist on paying in silver then
| insist that your silver dollar must be
equivalent to your gold dollar Do gentle
men consent to maintain equivalency in the
two standards and then pay in silver :?
Manifestly not. Their incentive is gone the
moment they are asked to pay one hundred
cents on the dollar Some one has said that
there is an innate desire in the human mind
TO get a chance to cheat somebody. A
great minister once said that there were
two things in human nature which when
united always made iniquity complete-one
was the desire to do dishonorable thing,
and the other was the opportunity to do it.
1t has happened in the fluctuations of these
metals that there Is now a notable opportu-
nifty to cheat several millions of men by
adopting the baser metal as the standard of
payment, and thus accomplishing a swindle
on SO grand a scale as to make the
achievement illustrious. BY the proposed
measure one-ffth of the enormous aggregate
of public and private debts can be wiped
out as with a sponge. This nation owes
81, 100, 100000, and private citizens of the
United States probably owe 2,50O, 00O, 900,
possibly more. AT the present moment the
relation of debtor and creditor in the Uni
ted States involves nearly $4,000, 600, 900.
1t is proposed by the amendment of the gen.
tleman from Indiana, tMr Landers) that
at one fell stroke one-ffth of all this enor-
nous sum shall be wiped off, repudiated
and that this process shall be called honest
legislation Since / have been in public
lite / have never known any proposition
that contained so many of the essential
elements of vast rascality, of colossal swind-
ling, as this. / do not charge that such Is
the purpose of the gentleman; but such, in
my Judgment, Is the effect of the amend
ment proposed. But aside from the political
ethics involved in this scheme, we should
consider its effects upon the business of the
country"
We viii here make brief extract
from the reply of
NIB. WILLARD, OF MICHIGAN.
Mr.. WILLARD. The gentleman from Ohio
(ATr. Garieldl, has proclaimed that the
amendment which was offered by the gen
tleman from Indiana Mr.. Landersl and
which Is now shorn from the bill was 4
swindling measure; but let me say that the
swindiing in regard to this subject has al
ready taken place in the moneyed centres
of the world.
Let lis not take the side Of greedy Eng
land and grasping Germany in this coinage
contest, but let ns conrageonsly champion
those industrial classes who are striving 10
prevent gold from having N undue sppre.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

ARKANSAS held her elections last
week. The Democracy have carried
the State BY so 900 majority over all
opposition.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

The Northern Republican press pre-
tend to believe that the bulk of the
Democratic party is in the South. But
what are the facts In 1876 the Tilden
Electors received from the sixteen
Southern States 1,614,20 votes, and
from the Northern States 1910, 165
votes. Almost two-thirds of the voters
of the United States who believe in the
Democratic party are voters in the
Northern States. The Northern States
furnish a million more voters to the
Democratic party than are furnished by
the Southern States.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE Republican leaders are making a
loud noise over the Vermont election.
If they could not hold their own in that
State, where would they axReet to do it,
Ever since 1S5d it has invariably gone
Republican, and before the Republican
party was organized, it always went
against the Democracy. In holding
Vermont, the opposition has not gained
much to boast OF. In 1876, at the State
election, Fermont's Republican majority
was 23,S83; in 1880, it is over 26, 900.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

WE are gratiied to state that the
damage to the Agricultural and Mechan-
zeal College is not as serious as at first
announced A note from Mr. quicker,
the architect, informs us that the inces-
SAINT rains undermined the foundation
of pier at the northeast corner of the
dormitory building. The damage has
already been repaired, and the total
expense does not exceed fifty dollars.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

HoE. JEFFERSON DAVIS Memoirs
will be published At an early day.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESID mt.
GEN. w. S. HANCOCK,
OF PENNSYLVANIA
FOR VICE.PRESIDENT,
HON. VIM. H. ENGLISH,
OF INDIANA
FOR CONGRESS-

1st District-Hon. n. L. Muldrow.
~ Disirict-Hon. Van II. Manning.
81 District-Hon. II. ID. Money.
an D;strict-Hou. o. r. Singleton.
9th Disrict-Hon- Chas. f. Hooker
9th District-Hon. J. X. Chalmers
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

A PRIMARY election for the nomina-
zion Of Sheriff, i to be held il Wayne
county on the 18th inst. The Chair
man of the Committee, Hon. J. P. Sea-
brook, announces that "none but Demo
Gratis will be allowed to vote" That's the
true doctrine. Democrats only should
be allowed to make nominations for the
Democratic party. Otherwise the svs-
tenn of making nominations for the party
is farce
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

THE total number of inhabitants in
Amite county, is 1875. White males
over 81 years of age, $50; colored
males over 81 years of age, 1921; cot
ton raised by white labor in 1879, ,, 165 !;
cotton raised by colored labor in 1879,
), 458. So we learn from the report of
Mr.. E. f. Gardner, State census emu
merator in the Liberty Herald.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

The speeches of General Chalmers
in Maine and other Northern States,
we are assured by the press of that
section, had telling effect; and were
so well worded and guarded that the
utmost ingenuity of the bloody-shirters
could not find flaw So much for the
'Ehot-heads. We wish as much could
be said ofthat eminently conservative
Southern Democrat, Gen. Hampton,
whose untimely utterances seem to have
baked his really patriotic intentions to
serve the good cause.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
The, Fraudulent Census of 1870.

A correspondent calls attention to the
fact that the census of 1870, upon the
results of which frauds are charged by
the Republican leaders against the
Southern enumerators, on account of
the increase in population, was no cen
sus at all, but was a pretended census.
By a comparison of the enumerations
of 1870 and 1860, it has been ascertain
ed that the officials charged with the
work in 1870, copied extensively from
the census in 1860; and that the So
called census of 1870 was fraud on
the people of the South, and for ten
years robbed them of their rightful re-
presentation in Congress and in the
Electoral College
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

MosT Of the data in our leading arti-
Gle of this number, upon Garfeld's
course on the Silver question, has been
obtained from a campaign document
which the Democrats are circulating in
Ohio: and which a friend in that State
has been considerate enough to send us.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

On our first page we have published
from the West Point News, an interest
ing sketch Of the life and public servi-
ces of Gen. w. ). Featherston- omit
ting a paragraph in which the writer
committed an error in reference to a
matter which. however, was not rele
want to the subject
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
IT'S REPEAL DEMANDED.

Of course. the people could not rest
under such wrong. As they became
aware of its preparation, the popular
murmurings, which was feeble whis-
pering Mt first, commenced, and il
deepened and swelled into reverberating
thunder all over the land And this
brings us to the
RECORD OF GEN. GARFIELD.
From which il win be seen, that he
resisted the movement for the repeal Of
the law and advocated the single
standard Of gold, instead Of the double
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15
For THE CLARION,
California Correspondence.
mot to be reported. !

A CURIOUS POLITICAL sPECTACLE-THE
SAND LOT" OF SAN FRANCISCO ON A
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-09-15

RemPer Herald: Mr.. J II. Duke the
Chairman of the County Executisc Con,l
mlttee, ihas entered upon the duties of The,
campaign wash a vim and determination,
that VIII succeed and we trust the people II
the county will stand up to him. and aid in
rolling up handsome majority for Ham
cock this fall
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-03-13
FROM KANSAS.

Measles--The Negro Invasion--Gl eaniDgs In
Geology.
Our old friend Reuben Hackett writes long
letter to the Hon. VIM. Reddick. from which,
at the writer's request we publish some ex.
tracts:
IIACKETTs HILL, Kas, Feb. 10, 1880.
Kansas is always ieastIng upon some cX.
element The third railroad is soon to sound
its whistle within the corporate limits OF OF
tawa A dark cloud of Africans is settling
down on Kansas. New York sent US over
fifty homeless waits all of whom got homes
among our farmers; but they had taken the
measles on the way and have spread them all
over the country.
We have had thus far the most delightful
winter since 1854 -thanks to Oletice and the
weather clerk.
GLEANINGS IN GEOLOGY.
Since writing my little book on Geology the
teachers and young students are asking me
the question: In what geological period does
man take rank? | send them this answer:
The flint and stone implements so numerous
all over the world declare the oldest human
inhabitants to have been hunters and fisher
men. Stone hatchets and flint spear heads re-
veal later race, but still lost IN the fogs of
tradition. These early races crossed rivers,
lakes and oceans and left their traces III all eli
mates. The mound builders were later race
and reveal the art of pottery. With the intro
ductlon of copper, bronze, tin and iron we Dor
der Oh the historic period. Interrogate the
great monuments of Egypt, india and China,
and we learn lessons in the art of building
cities, while wars and revolutions have marred
the pages once written upon the rock. The
art of writing introduces new era, and HUI
man history begins. As TO mans geological
period:
Professor Boyd Dawkins, in a paper on the
antiquity of man read before the Sheffield
meeting Of the British Association said, when
he examined the great divisions Of the tertiary
period in their relations to the highest forms
of life, he was confronted by the following i'm
portant facts In the socene age there was
not single species of the placental mammal.
There Is not a single well authenticated case
of any mammalian species now living on the
earth that lived in the mocene age, although
the French psychologists claim that man lived
in the pliocene age, where two or three living
species make their appearance.
Passing to the pleiStOcene or glacial age
living species are very abundant and extinct
are rare. 1t is IN this period that man appears
over an extended area. He is mere hunter,
however, not a farmer or owner OF trained ami
mails The prehistoric period which succeed
ed was characterized by the absence of extinct
species of mammals with the single exception
of the Irish elk. At this time the domestic
anImals-thc dog, sheep, horse and various
breeds of cattle appear and are subject to man
and along with them began the cultivation Oh
the earth. In conclusion, he claimed that
hopes of fixing the exact antiquity of man
we're VAIN There were intervals of the length
of which we had no means of judging, but
man was certainly an inhabitant of the earth
during the glacial period.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-03-13

IN its lack Of enterprise, in It's want Oi variety
of industries, IN the back wardness OF us com
mcrcia appliances and in the slendcrness OF
its population and resources
The idea that we are a nation" has no more
10 do with the growth AMI prosperity oi inc
North than with the current OF the MlsslSsi',
nj or the temperature Of the Gulf stream just
rs little has the maintenance OF the sovereign
IS of the states" to do with the lack OF growth
and prosperity in the south. Putting aside
MI other Causcs-sOmc Of which have been AT
work for Il hundred ycars-thc North not only
EMERGED victorious from the civil war, Out
owing to a peculiarly favorable combination
of circumstances grew and prOspcred during
that war. The South, on the other manu- was
not only beaten in the end, but went down mn
upidly while the struggle continued. WIN
empty treasury and ruined credit, the Hover
of her population in a bloody grave and the
working class utterly dcmoralized by cmanci.
patton, she was thrown INTO the flint mil OF
Republican reconstruction and literally ground
to powder The grinding process lasted ten
wears; and the wonder Is, not that so lltllc Is
lett, but that anything survived the terfiolc
ordeal. lndomitable energy and courage ana
survive, and by the aid of these the South is
GRADUALLY recovering, and if let alone will at
no distant day have healthier growth and
prosperity than ever before. The upward
movement is slow but sure, and when we con
slider the obstacles to be overcome it Is simply
marvellous.
The leading organ of the party which sup
pementcd the Souths disastrous war with
something vastly worse-ncgro and carpetbag
rule sustained bv bayonets-can hardly afford
to taunt the victims of Republican policy ana
attribute their inierorty in strength and
wealth to political ambition. All THE sepa-
rate sovereignty the Southern states want Is
the right to manage their own affairs in then
own way subject to the constitution and the
laws Pocket interests are more powerful than
politics in that section, and the latter are en-
trclv subordinate to the former. The South,
ern people are trying to work out industrial
and financial salvation, and II the federal gov,
eminent will permit them to do this they Will
be quite content. Southern sOlidity hath this
eXtent-no more."-.St. LOuis RepUJltcdH