The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-11-10

creased. W hat Tor
| The Administration is gloomy ovr
the New York election.
BIZ decided vote of her Legislature,
Minnesota has repudiated reputation
TIE Star Reuters virtually admit
their guilt by trying to get clear of q
trial on a technicality.
MORTON, Scorr COUNTY, so far as
heard from, is the banner box. She
was the next thing to being solid.
The Meridian Mercury suggests CIV.
Stone as the next Democratic candidate
for Congress in the 1st District.
If President Arthur wants to make
it hot for the Star Reuters, let him
make Gen. Fitzgerald Attorney-Gen-
eral
GRANT declares that there is an end
of the third term business. He is get
ting his third term out of the admits
tration of Arthur.
THE cotton statistics for the present
season show falling off in the receipts
at every Southern port except New Or
leans from last year, the decrease in
some cases being considerable.
THE Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company has taken possession of
the Cincinnati, Louisville and Licking
ton line and branches, aggregating 2371
miles. TheL. & N. is a great institu-
ton.
THE earnings of the Chicago, St,
Louis and New Orleans Road increased
last year 1925, 900. The company has
thus far exchanged SIC, 900, 900 in bonds
into per cents. The road is doing
splendid paying business under its pres
ent able management.
THE Mathews Cotton Factory of
Dallas county, Alabama, employs about
800 boys and girls and could give en-
ployment to 100 more. The stock is
said to be worth 10 per cent. premium,
and none can be found on the market at
that.
ALMOST every article of food is now
considerably higher in price than year
ago. The cost of living, measured by
the provision market, appears to be full
ly twenty per cent. greater than at the
opening of last winter, with no prospect
of reduction.
THE report that Gen. William F.
Fitzgerald is booked for place in the
new Cabinet will crafty all of his polit-
zeal, and many OF his personal friends
in Mississippi. He is by far the ablest
and best Southern Republican who has
been spoken of for Cabinet position.
In Massachusetts III $50 citizens are
excluded from the privilege of voting
because they either cannot read and
write, or because they fail to pay taxes
No such wholesale acknowledgements of
voters was ever known in the South.
The negro can vote more freely in the
South than anywhere else in the Union.
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In the lower house of the Washington
Territory Legislature, bill giving the
right of suffrage to women passed; - |
to II. A similar bill was defeated in
the upper house on the 26th ult., by a |
vote of Z to 5, but it will come up in
another shape, and it is believed will
pass.
THE grandest demonstration of the
season next to the blowout at Pearling-
ton, came off at Stems Creek Saturday
night before the election. Hon. A. J. /
speech was magnificent
outhurst of campaign oratory. The
Stems Checkers are a great people, and
hey have rolled up handsome MAORI
y for the Lowry ticket.
We learn that DR.. W. A. Hurt, of
Montgomery county, contemplates es-
at Winona monthly devoted
o the agricultural, mechanical and
interests of the State.
DR.. Hurt is gentleman of talent and
mercy, and his journal will prove an
Efficient handmade of the great interests
o which it will be devoted. We be-
peak for it in advance liberal patron
lge.