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While the storm of disapproyal was
raging through the audience on the
first representation Of Dumas new
play. the author suddenly retired from
the front of bis box. He was found
to be busy taking care Of his
daughter. Nine. Dippman. ghO had
given way to a fit Of Mysteries.
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Burnsn Cecolins has bssu snld IN
every civilized COUNTY, and 1hEVubhn
have rendered The verdict 1hm il Is
ths cheapest and best har dressing IN
The weird
BunBms FLvm1ug AEangz ErE
.iuvEr7Gbly acknowledged the BILrsH
md the best
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At a land league meeting ia ireland
the other day, an impassione9 speaker
was thus declaimiDg; Our Creator
gave the land to man for his own. He
nave it first 10 Adam" "Arrah, be
ssy about Adam, interrupted voice
from the crowd, adam was eyicted
Widout compensashin.'
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Prof. Glln8ttGS French EV Dad

wiz positively cure Fever and
Asue, Ague Jake, Bilious y Ague, Dumb
Dyspepsia and all diseases o. .yver, Jaundice,
ach aud Blood. PrioeI.@ the Liver, Stom-
Prof. Guilmette's Treats oy mail: Send for
Liver, free by lAaiA son the Kidneys and
IS3xxxiiid&weea -ENCH PAD co,
-- Toledo, Ohio.
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New Advertisements
ADuERTr9ERa
Attachment Notice.

Before S H%ammontree, j. P. for Shelby u
ty, Ienn.=B NJ Martin va. Thomas Griffin
II N. MARTIN having personally appeared
u before me, : HAmmoltree,. j. T., and
him in TIA snm ofS+, and that the clair
is tusil thatsaid defendant Is abscondinS .,
abseonding himself from said state so tb,, ~
ordinary process Of law cannot DO sery ed nnos
him, and AZ a(taehment having , cen nv, ~
issued Nnder section 345 Of the code oeIFms
.Aessees and due return thereof, le Sled anon
the property Of said defendant, nSvinS bpeenn
made thereon, said Thopas Srfhn & tbersl
ore oraeleq 20 apReai betoSe me, At ~ ofsee,
day Of April, 1897, at III m, and dofSnd said
attachinept salt, " same Will DO proceeded
WITH ex-parte, and a COPY of this order he
na1lished once q week fer four successive
weeks n t4e Public ledger ofthe city Of Mem
This 22d day February, 1881.
2sl4A 8 HAMM0NTREE, j. P.
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Wall Of building left standing after
FIRE 10 Shreveport, La, fell and killed
Mike BrOmpit.
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Invalids who have lost but are recovering
vital stamiua, declare in grateful terms their
appreciation Of the merits as a tonic Of Hos
letters b tiers. Net only docs it impart
sSign stats ~ Of tbe Stomach mskss ~ aibD eswoIs
net ut proper Intervals, gives ease to those
who suffer from rheumatic and kidney trou.
bles, an cDnquers as we'll as prevents fever
and ague.
For sale by al. druggists and dealers gener-
Ill
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The IiYernnaI COfinn Market.

Memphis Appeal: We have re-
ccived the excellent Liverpool cotton
circular of Smith. Edwards Il Ce., in
which the business of the month of
June is reviewed. The circular says
that of late there has been but little
speculation, the good accounts of the
American crop balancing the strong
statistical position of cotton. Grades
below good ordinary remain out of
favor, and permanently wide mar
gin between the medium and low
grades was looked for. The result is
that those who can use the common
qualities make the best profits. Man
chester holds large contracts, some of
which extend into September. The
consumption of cotton is extremely
large, but profits are not generous,
through fear of a scarcity of cotton in
the autumn. At this season of the
year the prices that merchants will
pay for goods are based very much
upon the rates ruling for next cotton
crop, and as 56d is now the current
quotation for new crop, it is diff
cult to get distant contracts based
upon higher place. This state of
things Is very unsatisfactory, the trade
of Lancashire, and it will continue till
we accumulate much larger reserves
of cotton so as to be wholly beyond
the risk of squeezing this market in
the autumn. The most striking fact
in the situation is the narrowing of
the visible supply, s" that the portion
to Great Britain has fallen $4,000
bales lower than the previous one
and it leads. as might be supposed, to
more sanguine feeling than seemed
likely some time ago. 1t now seems
that $4,000 bales is hardly more than
the world needs; indeed, it has fur
nished this country with less than it
required TO keep our market stable in
the summer and autumn consequent
" people look with less Apprehension
than they did upon the chance of a
monster crop the next season. 1t can
not be disguised that we shall go
through the autumn with 4 small
stock. and that we shall be liable to
speculative attempts 10 force up prices;
at the SAME time we don't think that
there will be real scarcity; for spin
ners will run themselves entirely out
of stock so long as they have to pSy
a premium of 2sd on autumn cotton
over new crop; besides America will
likely ship US large balance of the
remainder of the crop, apd perhaps
the Continent may send a little cotton
here if prices advance, and it is liber-
ally supplied this year. The main
feature that will operate against any
great advance is the excellent promise
of the growing crop in America. AZ
long as this prospect is in front of the
market we think it viii be difficult to
force up prices on the mere chance of
an autumn squeeze; but on the other
hand it must be remembered that the
steady demand of the trade fofat least
$1,000 bales per week, coming upon
reducing stock, win give holders a
strong position, and remove all in
ducement to force their stocks for sale.
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was in the maritime provinces" A detec-
tive was taken along on the train.
Mr.. W. A. Armstrong, Hawaiian minis
ter of State, accompanying King Kalakua,
United States regarding the proposed sale
Of the Hawaiian islands 10 England or
France is frivolous and utterly false; that
the king is travelling for pleasure only, and
has no political purpose whatever, and
that if he had any such purpose it would
rather be 10 obtain the guarantee Of these
countries for the absolute independ-
ence Of the islands; that England and
France do not wish TO acquire the islands,
and the United States wish only TO see them
independent.
The FIJI Times, Of April 30, has an ac-
count Of "a horrible massacre perpetrated
at Tpitawa, one Of the Limo Islands. The
natives had recently been proselytized by
the efforts of a Kanoka missionary named
Kabue. who induced them to give up their
weapons. Subsequently the people Of the
| southern portion of the island became dis
satisfied at the constant acquisitions made
upon them FIR cabra and apostatized.
Kabue preached a crusade against them,
[ armed his followers and led them in prison.
/ An indiscriminate slaughter cnsued, over
1900 men, women and children being mas
sacred. Their bodies we're collected i'm q
pile and burned. kabue is being brought
| TO Honolulu to answer for the crime.
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.sI Do Not Know the Gentleman. -

The Boston Sunday Budget tells the
following story Many years ago there
dwelt in certain Boston street two
families which, although near neigh
bors, had no neighborly relations nor
even acquaintance. This grew out of
the fact that while the head of one
hOuse-let us call him Jones-was Of
somewhat slow condition." the other,
whom we shall style Pedigree, was
upper crust regular patrician." 1t
rather troubled the Jones family to
have the Pedigrees treat them as thoug'
they did not exist; but they managed
10 worry along, and in due time the
Jones boys grew TO be men and
entered upon the serious business of
life, one of them TO such good purpose
that he acquired wealth and became
the President of a bank. One day one
of the Pedigrees received a check on
this same bank and stepped in to have
1t cashed. The teller was all polite
ness, said he had no doubt it was all
figi1t, but added that the rules of the
bank required that the presenter of a
check should be identified. Mr.. Pedi-
gree found no fault, and added that
he had no doubt Mr.. Jones, the Presi-
dent of the bank, could furnish the
needed identification. Just then the
President happened to pass from his
private rOnm, and the teller handed
him the check and stated what was
wanted. The President took the
check, examined the signature and
the endorsement carefully, and look
ing Mr.. Pedigree straight in the face,
handed it back TO the teller, and said,
Il do not know the gentleman" turn
ed on his heel and went about his
business.
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Prohibition and Our Labor system,


Southern ProhtbifionjSt The up
permost and ever present question
with the planter is the character of
his labor. If that is unreliable his
increase is uncertain and his landed
interest without stable marketable
value. The exodus" of 1879 when q
few thousand negroes left the Missis-
81 ,saiuaaF alley forf Kansas. caused great
kensions for the future of that
MAJ Seflously fertile section. If that
foolish hegira had continued, splendid
estates along the Mississippi and its
tributaries-their worth multiplied
thousands-would net have command
ed one half their assessed valuation.
So any movement or influence that
rCnders unstable the labor of a coun-
try depreciates values and makes pro-
gress an impOssibility.
This leads us to inquire what is it
that most demOralizes and destroys
the efficiency of our Southern labor?
Many observing and intelligent plan
tiers are contemplating with alarm the
menacing intemperance of the negroes.
! Above every other influence they con-
slider the little country store which is
thronged Saturday and Sunday with
negroes, drinking the meanest of whis-
ky, as the blight and curse of agri-
culture. Apart from the horrible and
bloody tragedies occurring with pain
full frequency about these miserable
dens, and the knavery practiced upon
the ignorant black man, the influence
of these drunken carOusals last during
the week. For several days thereafter
they are almost totally disqualified for
field labor. Every chicken they have
raised and every head of cabbage
from their little gardens, are given
for vile whisky. They are kept in
abiect poverty, withouf'a comfortable
bed or decent clothing; because liquor
must be had. One of the largest
and wealthiest planters on the
Mississippi river said to one of the
editors recently: "Sir / am with you
heartily in this movement. The ne
groes, as labOrers will soon be utterly
worthless, if we do not keep them
away from whisky. Prohibition is
our only remedy. L am not a teeto-
IiiCi, III SUI, Dul L an lOl DIOllblilOl
1t is our salvation" That gentleman
represents a multitude. Though
themselves partial to tOddy for their
own pecuniary interest and the well
fare of the country, they favor prohi-
bition. 1t is idle to talk of arresting
incompetence among the colorcd peo-
pie by any other method. If their
ministers were all faithful and Cxem-
plary; and every pulpit echoed the
thunders of Heavens doom upon
drunkenness, they would have it, if
within reach. We must expel ii from
our shores. What will become Of our
lands if we have no labor? Broad
and fertile acres will become source
of poverty instead of wealth, if this
evil is not arrested. We therefore APP
peal to all thinking men in the coun-
ties with large colored population, to
calmly consider the industrial side of
this great question. Labor or whisky
abundant harvests or barren fields
which shall we have? Landowners
of Mississippi, you must sooner or later
forfeit your lands or vote for prohibi-
ton.
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THE SOUTHERN STATES.
ARKANSAS.

Philip Hall and Thomas Dunn, cit
liens of Poinsett county, are under ar
rest and in prison at Little Rock on
the charge of moonshining. They
will be tried at the October term of
the U. S. Court.
The engineer corps now making the
survey from Alexandria, La, to Lit
tie Rock, for the New Orleans, Paci-
fic and Little Rock railroad, are west
of the Hamburg line. The survey
will 90 a few miles west of Month
cello.
Hempsted county sent to the State
prison few days since, the following
prisoner: Mingo Booker, horse steal
ing. ten years; w. S. Trammell, forg-
Dry, one year; Oliver Williams, lar
ceny, three years; Alfred Bel, larce-
ny, one year.
In Johnson county, a few DAYS ago,
John Bennett and Rosa Cudd were
married. That night seven masked
men broke into the house, captured
Bennett, dragged him several hundred
yards, threw him into a creek and
left him. He was badly bruised and
severely cut. No arrests.
a dispatch from Pine Bluff to the
Gazette says: Arthur O'Connor shot
and killed George r. Withers at l
o'clock Saturday morning The
weapon used was a double-barreled
shotgun. Six buckshot penetrated
Withers's body. The shot was fired
through the thin panel of door in a
house of lll-fame. Withers was out
side the door not more than foot
from the muZzle of the gtn. The
murdered man was a nativapf Ala
bama and was about % Years old. He.
had been in this State since he was a
little child. The United States Sena-
tor of Virginia is an uncle to the
deceased.
Greenleaf, rear Fort Gibson, in the
Cherokee Nation, point about fifty
miles west of Fort Smith, was the
scene of a horrible tragedy Saturday.
The Creek and Cherokee Indians
were having barbecue, preparatory
to nominating their candidate for the
ensuing election next month. Whisky
flowed as freely as milk and honey in
the Promised Land. Two fuH-blood
Indians, Bill Lovett and Deer Track,
became fighting drunk, and in their
drunken frenzy made an onslaught on
some of the party. Seven men We're
killed and MORALLY wounded. Two
men, jim Satterwait and his father,
were first shot, and then had their
heads completely severed from their
bodies by the crazed demons. The
murderers are at large, no efforts be-
ing made to arrest them.
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LOUISIANA.

The assessment rolls of West Fell
ciana show total property of 81, 49,
go.
The st. Mary RecieW declares that
hundreds of green alligator hides are
shipped from that point weekly.
The whooping cough still prevails
in East Feliciana, and has been the
cause Of the death of number of
children.
Some dissatisfaction exists in Grant
parish at the fact that several teachers
hold positions on the Parish School
Board.
a negro man and a mule were
struck by lightning on the plantation
of Mrs. MOreland, in Tensas Arish,
last Saturday.
A negro named Spence war iyuched
in the neighbOrhOod of Frog Levee,
CaddO parish, last week for an at
tempt at rape.
Monroe has just numbered its
houses. 1t proposes to supplement
this by placing the names of, the
Robert Smith, while crossing the
Red river near the POUCH place, in
Caddo parish, fell into the water and
was drowned last week.
The name Of the station on the New
Orleans and Pacific has been changed
from HobgOod City to Grand Cave
City. The town has been laid out and
lots are now offered for sale.
The police jury of Caddo levied a
tax lat week of724 mills they also
passed an ordinance levying a special
tax of 80 mills for the payment of
the amount due on parish bonds and
judgments against the parish.
Last Saturday on the road about
two miles from Mindel. Webb Gam
bic shot and killed Frank Elkins.
The shot took effect in the abdomen,
and the wounded man died next day.
The shooting was done about dusk.
Elkins and Gamble were brothers-in
law.
The election in the parish of St.
Martin for the removal of the parish
seat from st. Martinsville to Breaux
Bridge, held on the sixteenth instant,
resulted in grand victory for st. Mar
tinsville, where the court house has
been located for nearly half century.
A most atrocious crime was comit-
ted Saturday nigh at Kingstown, a
small hamlet in DeSoto parish, about
twelve miles northeast of Mansfield.
Nj. Judd Scott, young merchant do
ing business in Kingstown left his
boarding house about 9 o'clock p. H.,
going to his store, where it was hi.
custom to sleep. On Sunday morning
his body was discovered lying about
half way between Mrs Boards, where
he boarded, and his store. The top of
his head had been almost entirely
blown off by a gun shot. The brains
were scattered around, and hogs had
partly devoured his body. HIS store
and safe keys had been taken and it
was subsequently ascertained that the
store and safe had been opened No
goods have been missed, and it is not
known how much has been tfkexy-
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GeOrgja's Convict CamDs.

The report of the special committee
to inspect the convict camps in GeOr-
gia has been read in the Legislature,
and has raised a howl throughout the
State. 1t is most unfavOrable, show
ing the grOssest abuse practiced upon
the cOnvicts by the lessees, such "a
wretched quarters, unwhOlesOme and
insufficient food, filth, lack of proper
sanitary measures, indecent cOhabita-
ton between the sexes and imhuman
whipping, though whipping as pun
ishment for crime is plainly forbid
den by the State constitution. At
some of the camps cOnvicts are made
to work from twelve to fifteen hours
a dav. and are most brutally treated
by their merciless guards, who have
literally taken the law into their own
hands. There are 1900 convicts in
Georgia, the majority being negroes,
and many females. The committee
recommend the appointment Of officers
by the State to stand between the poor
cOnvicts and their barbarous lessees.
Public sentiment is fierce and bitter
against the lessees, who are manifest
" uneasy.
The committee fluid nothing refor-
matory in the present system and pre-
sent bill establishing board of man-
ayers, with power to make. suitable
regulations for the States prisoners.
1t abOlishes the office of principal
keeper, against whom grave charges
are made, and makes local keepers
amendable to the board of managers.
The st-AppeGl, commenting upon
the report this afternoon, says that lit
makes a shameful showing for GeOr-
gia, which grows out of the lOOseness
Of her administration, go disastrously
conspicuous for several years past.
The evils of the system pointed out by
Robert Z lston, who was murdered by
Cox. a lessee, are found to prevail.
Senator Joe Brown works 3J6 con-
victs at his coal mine in Dade county.
The lash is used upon the convictS
there and the committee have no good
word for his treatment Of the prison.
ers. The lessees are stirring and the
people are aroused.
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FOREIGN.

Advices received here from Honolulu re-
port that a lava stream from Mamma Loa is
likely to destroy portion OF Hilo and its
harbor.
Patrick Egan has purchased the Dublin
Irishmdn, thereby placing the whole of the
national journals in Ireland under control
of the Land League.
A detective sent to watch secret meet
ing at KieG was killed. Similar murders
abound in the Russian provinces, whittier
the Nihilists have transferred their activity
from the capital.
The first stone was laid of the new water
works, in Mid-Wales, to supply Liverpool
with water from the River Nirnuy, tribu-
tary of the Severn. The Times prefers de-
tailed description with the statement that
the works, alike by reason OF their magni-
tude and novelty, are among the most i'm
portant in modern times.
The excessive heat in London and on the
Continent continues. The French Cham
bers are expected to adjourn on the 18th
instant, ten days earlier than intended, on
account Of the heat. A Spanish telegram
says that the heat at LaGranja, the sum-
msr residence of the Spanish Court, is al
most unbearable. and Madrid is like fiery
furnace.
A St. Petersburg paper says the peasants
in the district near Noygorod are suffering
from constant bleeding at the nose, accom-
panied by the appearance Of large black
spots on the body. A local sanitary COM
mittee has established quarantine in the
environs Of st. Petersburg. Deaths in St.
Petersburg last week exceeded births by
Sl6.
Six men were fined and imprisoned for
disturbing the funeral procession Of Pope
Plus TX. There were great disorder at the
trial of the prisoners, and the court was
cleared twice. The sentences were receiv-
ed with a storm of shouts and Kisses. 4
crowd Of people numbering between 1000
and 5000 cheered the prisoners on coming
out of the court and followed them
shouting, Down with the clericals.'
King Kalakua, monarch Of the Hawaiian
Aeianu. IL Oh HIS lAdNtlS- IL - - - ~
find s buyer for the sovereignty OF his
island. 1t is a very fruitful one, but his
native subjects are rapidly dying cut and
he wants a steady annuity for life. The
property men there are almost all Ameri-
cans. They dislike the change that may
come, but it is our policy to hold no foreign
possessions, that we may be clear Of amy
entangling alliances.
The Marquis of Lorne, Governor General
OF Canada, has been travelling up to Winni-
peg and the Saskatchewan country An
Ottawa paper tells that extraordinary pre-
cautions were taken on the railroads on that
occasion, even spiking down the switches,
for sit was rumored that the authorities
had received hint that His Excellsncy
was threatened with some danger while he
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MISSISSIPPI.

Corn crop reports from Hancock
and Marion counties are very unfa-
vorable.
A postoffice has been established at
the seashore camp meeting grounds.
Address Seashore, Harrison county,
Miss.
Glowing reports of the fine condi-
ton of the crops come from all the
river counties.
The mails on the YazOo and Sun
flower rivers were discontinued on
the thirteenth ultimo.
A twenty-four pound beaver
was killed OIL fourteen mile creek near
Raymond last week.
It is announced that the West Point
Ne,0s viii be discontinued after the
seventeenth of August.
Miss Beck, living near Summit, was
burned TO death last week while try
ing TO light fire with coal oil.
The crop of Kinds county will be
remarkable short this year, the drouth
having destroyed from one half to
three-fourths of it.
The HandsbOro AdceTtiSer is en-
gagged in a fierce war on Rev. j. ).
Haskell, who has been conducting a
a camp meeting on the gulf coast.
John McCrea]y, living in Wilkin-
son, accidently sat down on an open
knife in tie hands of one of his school
mates, inficting a wound from which
he died.
The State Superintendent of Educa-
ton announces that a series of teach
ers' institutes viii he held through