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Clarke County.

In accordance with notice given, the De
mocracy of Clarke County assembled in
Mass Meeting at Quitman, on Monday,
July 18th.
A. +. MCGEE, ESQ.,, having been chosen
as Chairman of the Executive Committee
in place of Capt. G. A. Lyerly, resigned,
after short speech called the meeting to
order, and on motion, Maj. s. II. Terral,
was elected Chairman, and Arthur AIRING
ton, Jr., Secretary by acclamation.
The following committee on resolutions
were appointed
District No. 1, F. NJ Woodward, o. B.
Collins; No. ,, John Mccormick, Tim
0Flinn; No. 3, A. +. MCGEE, w. G. Ed
wards: No. 4, Chas. Still, Geo. H. Wal
ker; No. ), A. ID. Smith, H. I. Parker.
The committee retired to draft resolu-
tions, and during their absence Maj. S. FL.
Terrell, in response to many calls, addressed
the meeting in his usual eloquent and easy
style, and was followed by Mai. G. l. Don
aid in some well-timed remarks.
The following resolutions submitted by
the committee, after being slightly amended,
were adopted:
The Democracy of Clarke county, believ-
ing in the unity of the party and the neces.
sity for making nominations for the various
county offices, do hereby adopt the follow
ing;
ing precincts of the county, on the 4th
Tuesday, the 23d day of August, 1881,
primary election to designate nominees for
the different county offices, which shall be
held an conveniently like a regular election
as is practicable, the polls to be opened at
O'Clock A. NJ, and to close at O'Clock p
NJ. No one shall be allowed to vote at said
election except legal voters in full sympa-
thy with the Democratic-Co conservative par,
arH II.
TO support the nooIlinses OF said primary
election.
2. The executive committee shall appoint
three inspectors and two clerks for each
voting precinct, who shall keep list of all
who vote in the primary election, which list,
together with the ballots cast and the tally
sheets shall be sent TO the courthouse by
the hands of one of their number and there
turned over to the executive committee by
II O'Clock noon of the day after said election |
Is held, except where further delay is una. !
voidable, in which case they shall be de- |
hvered as soon thereafter as possihIa- The
returns shall be canvasSed by the executive /
COMMITTEES. and the persons receiving the /
highest number Of votes for the Offices /
designated on the ballots shall be declared /
the nominees of the DenoeFatieeC onserva-
tive party of Clarke county.
3. Any person desiring 70 contest q nom
ination shall flle notice thereof with the
chairman of the executive committee. to
gether with specifications and copy of notice
duly ssrved upon the party against whoa
the contest ID made, within hve days after !
the primary sleetion Is held. The chairman 4
shall call the committee together within /
not less than three nor more than Eve days
after receiving said notice, % hear and |
determine said contest, and the decision of 1
the committee shall be final and conclusive |
in all eases.
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Or. J. E Noble. D. w. benson and ]. D..
RatIif
Beat No. 4-R. A. Tibb.. j. Melvin
2; <. Jones. W d. Robins and S. b.
Rhodes.
Beat No 5-DAvid Rankin. J. S. W..
Lamb, Dr.. G. R. Norman, J :. Hobs0n and
w. L. Manning
On motion of A. J McLaurin. Esq. @.
e Miller, President. and +. +. Frangz and
John Barnes, Secretaries, were addei 90 the
list Of delegates To the State Convention.
IL was resolved that chairman of the
County Executive Committee be nomina-
ted by the Convention, and that each beat
select two members for said committee.
T.. Henry, Esq, was elected chairman,
and the following gentlemen "a, members of
Executive Committee tor the ensuing year.
Beat No Nv. e. Euochs W w.
LOuther.
Beat No. 81 w. Iovelace. b. r.
Thompson
Beat No. 3-Dr. J. f. Noble. Dr. 5. w.
Robinson.
Beat No. 4-D NJ Robbins. =. b. Rhodes.
Beat No. "a. o. Watson sim Lacy.
Rcsoire3, That the Convention now adj
jouru. G. C. MILLER. Prest.
p Fo. z. + FE a, secretsrie..
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Our Pensioners.
A TERRIBLE TAX ON THE PEOPLE OF THB
UNITED STATES.
Tribune


Chicago Tribune.l
The money required to pay pensions
has suddenly jumped from about
S28, 900, 900, to $50, 000, 900, for that
enormous sum will be required next year,
and 1920, 900, 900 the year after, and the
Lord only knows when the maximum
will be reached Col Bentley, pension
commissioner, who was forced to resign
Tor no cause except TO play into the
hands Ofthe Washington pension agents,
in conversation last Monday among
other things said:
The number of new pensions granted
during the year will be about %, 900, ex-
elusive of the war of 1912 pensions
The settlements next year ought to reach
from 45, 900 to 10000 First there are
probably from 5000 to 1000 cases on
the files, ready or nearly so for the issue
of certificates. We have exhausted the
pension appropriation for this year,
$50, 302, 1866 IS, and have been compelled
to carry over into July nearly all the
May and June settlements. / think
they will require for the first payments
about $50, 900, 900 This added to the
expected increase in the settlement next
year will bring the amount for the next
year up to nearly or quite $50, 900, 900,
so there will be required for the pen
sions next year an appropriation Of
$40, 000,0 900 in addition to the
$50, 000,0 900 already appropriated, New
claims continue to come i'll very rapidly.
There have been filed this year upwards
of 30, 900 new originals claims
Each new pension, with farrearages"
commencing back to the time of dis
ment from $1,000 to $4,000, and 500 to
800 new pensions consume SO, 900 900
of taxes to pay the arrearage allowances.
Formerly a mans pension began to run
from the time he applied for it; under
the demagogue act of two years ago, it
is made retroactive and to date back
to the time of his discharge from the
army, which is utterl y unfair to the tax
payers, and is a powerful inducement or
temptation to fraud in Ming claims for
such allowances. In other words the
government was compelled by congress
to advertise bonus of $1,000 to $4,000
cash for every new name added to the
roll. 1t is no wonder that such an an
nouncement drew out host of appli-
cants who had never before thought of
filing a claim. The ninety-day men,
the home guards the bounty
and large numbers who had never been
connected with the army in any meri-
torious manner became candidates for
government support. The pension
claim agents in Washington organized
in force.
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Mary Blake, in Scribner's for September
You never know how long you and

Mary Blake. in Scribner's for September
You never know how long you and
vour children will have each other.
At best they will not be little children
always. Make the life which yoq. i've
together, as happy as possible: IL YOU
can do but little, put plenty OF love anu
Sunshine into that httIs, 1t Is worth
or-ast deal to have them TO grow up
SSs;tb the habit of being happy, 1t TINS
hab;t comes-not because they are al
no 70 At some cheerful or helpful work
neyer fear that they will grow up quef;
,.Io,,s and selfish. Children so trained
s go, not ant to fail into fashionable ilst-
iassness or TO give themselves up 70
idla grief. if Disappointment ana sorrom
oo1,e into the maturer lives Inc enect
o - snch ! home atmosphere as tins =
;n.aIculable. 1t not only tends ~
.4sangtben and purify each separate
~ ~; ,y;Snal in the family, but its innnnes
,n1 Iii daaY,er and more far-reacning'
= go tands to make our FANNY
~ =. and stronger Is doing the pest
llle P -1Sl service for society. Iake
anu n y ..,sarv mother. Your lite may
couIHes ~, not much more than
5 Area grind day after day, . oh; aIPP'
tba nbTSsical wants Of your caH honor n
Nj IF they grow up TO love AM la,-a .g and
80, heeaase you deserve snelI 70 -, tn
ionar---if they go OUT tIIm 80 Won
Ls.slJ mn other homes re ing I'D
I 49,. aads TO them the 49, hs,SIf
-. ,ssteet place on earth, yoa 49, ronr
80 rods of dyke over 49, -; 80
o1 lST house o and % have bu u.t =. no
yourself on alone. bus for al i, s line
- $3.50 =. 1Isy alone, bat for Al 'lne.
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PORT GIBSON, Miss, July Z, 1881.
Editor Southern Reveille:
In the last issue of your paper a card
signed claiborne County" mentions my
name as candidate from this district and
calls on me Ito say yea or nay" | have
been twice honored with the choice of my
county to represent it in the Legislature
Whether discharged the trust acceptabIy
Is best known to those who gave il to me-
If, therefore, they can indorse my name
and consider me worthy of promotion | I'M
hesitatingly say, that | will serve them to
the fullest extent of my ability. Should
however, their choice fall on another, there
Is nothing can honorably do TO secure his
election that will be left undone
10 the voters of Claiborne and Copiah
counties [ say: | am Democrat and stand
on the platform adopted by the last State
Convention. In my judgment no other par
ty can conceive the various interests of the
State. Whenever its members divide ON
important questions, then, the principles
upon which it is founded, will cease to con-
troll and direct the policy of the government.
The Democratic party in Mississippi repre-
SCENTS the highest civilization. To its keep
ing Is entrusted competency as against in
competency; purity as against corruption,
morality against immortality honesty as
against dishonesty; intelligence against ig-
norance; and constitutional government as
against unconstitutional government.
1 favor every measure that tends to peo-
pie our State, encourage the agricultural
interests, develop our resources, build up
manufactures, and that adds any industrial
enterprise to the march of progress. Our
people are tired of innessential issues. They
want private and public lands peopled with
steady, thrifty, creative immigrants. They
want their pastures filled with herds of cat
tie, safe from unlawful depredations, while
they see their staple products consumed by
their own mills and distributed by their
over the civilized world In short,
they want great suggestive and progress
sive representation of their interests
As far as in me lay, should | be chosen to |
represent this dictrict in the Senate, | shall |
abor in season and out of season, by all |
proper means to meet these wants. With |
ny mind ever fxed on the sectional welfare
If my State, coupled with vigilant watch
'ver its constitutional rights, | shall en-
leavor to secure for it the blessing of wise,
uiet and benehcient laws.
Very respectfully,
J. Nice. MARTIN
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There is nothing better for wives and
daughters physically, than to have the
care of a garden fower pot, if nothing
more. What is pleasanter than to spend
a portion of every day in working among
plants, watching their growth, and OBJ
serving the opening of their flowers
from week to week, as the season adj
vances? Then how much it adds to the
enforcement to know that your own hands
have planted them and have pruned and
trained theml This is pleasure that
requires neither great riches nor pro-
found knowledge. The advantages which
women personally derive from the
soil and shifting the morning air are
freshness and beauty of cheek and bright
ness of eye, cheerf4lness Of temper, vigor
of mind and purity of heart.
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Pike County Meeting.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

A called meeting of the citizens of sum
nit was held en- the 4th day of July, 1881.
Hon. G. Ii. Hosmer, Mayor was called to
the chair, and II. q. Bridges requested to act
as secretary.
At the request of the Mayor, Col T. r.
Stockdale stated the object of the meeting
to be, 10 pass resolutions expressive of the
deep-felt sorrow of our people at the great
calamity which has befallen our country,
and their utter detestation of the recent at
tempt made upon the life of the President
mittee of three was appointed by the chair
to draft suitable resolutions for the consid-
Grafton of the meeting Col. I. r. Stock
dale, DIR. j. Il. Sample and F. w. Collins
we're appointed on said committee. On mo-
ton, the Mayor was added To the co nmt-
tee. The committee returned and reported
the following, which were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS, The startling intelligence of
the attempted assassination of the President
of the United states, has shocked the minds
of the people into deepest sorrow and NOR
LITIGATION. And,
WHEREAS, feelings of horror pervade the
community at the CHASTITY spectacle of the
chief officer Gfthis great Republic Frustrated
in his own capitol, perhaps unto death, by
the hands of an assassin welded IN open
day, and seek expression. BE it, therefore,
Resolred, J. That we look with shuddering
disgust at all times upon acts of the assas-
sin, the baEest of all characters, but in this,
where in addition 10 the dastardly crime,
the blow was aimed at free government, IL
an enormity at which humanity
revolts and christianity weeps, and we find
no expression adequate to our adherence of
the deed.
2 That we view with apprehension and
alarm the possibility that such intense de-
pravity can be nurtured among a free and
people, as to eliminate in strik-
ing down the head of the Government of
fity millions of people, in the quiet, and as
they supposed, secured pursuit of happiness;
and whether born of conspiracy or tanati-
cism, the complexion of the crime is equally
detestable and equally dangerous.
3. That we invoke the prayers of ali good
people for the recovery and restoration to
his family and the country of our stricken
and suffering Chief Executive, and request
the stricken family of the President to ac-
cept our sincere sympathies in this great
n
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Governor, he ought also to have pub
lIshed his reasons therefor, which in the
following words are spread upon the
Journal of the Senate, page 240. ssIn
voting to sustain the veto message of
the Governor, desire TO say, that / do
not concur with the Governor in the
reasons assigned for the same. l am
clearly of the opinion that the Legisla-
ture has fun power over the subject
matter, and only vote to sustain the
Veto, because there are other bills
pending which afford more general and
perfect relief, with which the bill now
under consideration to some extent is
IN conflict" A number of Senators
united in the request that the above
reasons be spread upon the journal as
explanatory of their votes. Others
simply stated that they voted to sustain
the veto in the interest of pending bills
But for these bills the Governors veto
would not have been sustained.
W. W. HUMPHREYS
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Meeting at Bay St. Louis.

BAY ST. LOUIS, July 9th, 1881.
Great county mass meeting at the court
house last night, by all parties and races,
to express the feelings of the people with
regard to the tragedy at Washington. Col.
J. F. H. Claiborne, of Natchez, who is
here in delicate health, offered the resolu-
tions and was the orator of the evening.
Great enthusiasm and unaaimity. ]. P.
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Why viii not the press let the farm
ers aionel They are always lecturing
them about planting. Corn at S1.60
per bushel is q pretty stiff price it is
true, but if the farmer desires to pro
duce COTTON At thirty dollars per bale
and invest the proceeds IN corn at one
dollar and forty cents per bushel he
has perfect right TO do so. Cotton Is
the only crop he can convert into cash
a. soon "a gathered. and after 1t is con-
verted he then has no trouble IN its
convention into corn. -four, Iueat. ate o.
Let the farmer aione.-West Point
News. szMas 80
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Died, July 18th, 1886.
Age,i 3 years.
Gone up.

This is all; there is no name, either Of
child or parents. Whether it was name
less here for-ever-more," or whether this
was simply an oversight of the sculptor, is a
question that this writer cannot answer.
The parents little thought that they were
furnishing conjunction of words for an
epitaph destined in later years to be CEN
spicuous in slang phaseology. They. too,
long before this time in all human proba-
bility have also '.gone up w.
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=. . AAAad-tA-fsf man maui
MURPHEY MCDONALD, } S..
X. g. COOPER,

THE English House OF Commons has
passed resolution E,voring a local
option law. Public opinion in favor
Of anti-hquOr legislation Is undoubtedly
growing in that country, bur the great
brewing interest, which finds a market
in pretty nearly all the world for its
ales and porter, Is yet a power with
vast number Of the voters.
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occupants have been removed by tle1r
friends to the new and beautiful cemetery
10 the northeastern part of the town. The
BAYOU, which runs through the Town, heals
near this old grave yard, and the steep nih
side has gradually caved away, carrying
with it the bones of some of these early 1T
tiers of YazOo City. Not long since arr
fearful rain, well preserved cofiln, loos' u
ed from its moorings by the gathefi1k
waters, shot down the bayou with frigntlFI
velocity, and plunged with its grim frelgII
into the river near the oil MILL Not tWo
feet below the surface which was as smoo11
as any grassy lawn, the end of decayed
coffin extended from the perpendicular lace
of the hill The writer reached down and
drew forth the sole of an old-iashloned
souare-toed shoe 1t was a number four
boys shoe Two or three small bones fsfi
out and ratified down the steep hill-side
Only very few tombstones with legtele
inscriptions remain. The dates. range frasn
1897 to IS47, and the following are some of
the names Charles c. Dixon CorissandF,
wife of Geo. B. Dixon; Penelope, wife OF =.
Z. Creecy, and daughter of Gen. Richard
Benbury of North Carolina, and DIR. James
+. Rainey.
In the extreme northern part of the coan-
ty there is little slab, brown with age and |
corroded by the rains of forty-fve yeaFs, |
bearing literally the following laeonie III
scription
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\ 7
J. II. BRowS, ct. AL
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Goa
homa County. Hon. w. g. Phelps, Chan
cellor.
J. II Brown was elected sheriff of Goa
bona county for the term Of two years,
commencing Jan. /, 1874, and gave a bond
b. sheriff aud tax collector, signed by four
sureties Afterwards. in compliance with
an order of the board of supervisors, he
gave a new bond with eleven sureties, one
pf whom was on the first bond. Between
Oct 18th, 1874, and March 1st, 1875, Brown
collected the county taxes, and neglected to
pay over to the treasurer a large portion
thereof.
TAis bill was fled in August, 1880, by
khe state revenue agent against the sureties
b. the two bonds Brown, being non
fe.ident, was not made party. The bill
alleged that the book. and memoranda kept
By the tax collector showed the total amount
b. had collected and the amount for which
BE was ia default, but that he had in many
ca-es failed to date the stubs Of tax receipts
kepJ by bin, and that he had not made
-.
the various coIleeIiohs' 'nA' ooin Piaih""'
eOuid not state now much OF the taxes was
Received under the first bond, nor how much
49,, the second so a to determine the
4.,.... go. -a.,..,,i..o sat. ,f s,,,a,ia.
ia'''''' % '''e
y he prayer OF the piil was ior aH account 10
b. taken 20 ascertain the full amount due /.
,t,+ ,h, .-,,rotie. on tho +,-o
~ '"'''s
4Doh'7 ~ ounce - iA'9i P'e@u III oi1oi ="
determine the liability on each, and that
#decree be rendered against the respective /
.,,-.,f.. se...r5f,,., to the liability The hill
- :,
va N''- % ',' w. So '''i'i eau -
was assigned, ( y that there was an adequate
remedy at law ~ that the bill was multi
#f,ri,g.
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o.I.;,,. 49,.
Aui u'''n'9''i7 Wv JIM '''' P'''''-'''1' "P
PeaIeu'
HCooPER, }.
Ifeti-
L. The demurrer should have been over
- '''' ia'' anu 1T3.l 90
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T. L. SToCKDALG,
J. r. SAMPLE, C,o,,o,;t,oe
f. w. COLLINS, 0
G.. III. HosMER.

was
Resolred, That a copy of the proceedings
of this meeting be transmitted to the Hon.
Jas. G.. Blaine, Secretary OF State of the
United States, that the same be published
in the newspapers of this county, and that
the newspapers of the cities of Jackson,
Miss. and New Orleans, La, be requested
TO copy the same.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
e. II. HosMER, Chairman.
II. Q. BRIDGERs, Sec V.
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:. Acquires the confection1 Is the Ros
ton girls translation of Takes the
cake Similarly. g The proper caper'
becomes sscontortion. Boston Times
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He who puts a bad construction on
good act reveals his own wickedness Of
heart.
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MANCHESTER.

The old cemetery. &c TIE head Of Jefkerson
when Ta1oo City was known hy the name
~ Manchester. e has not been used for
long time, and ] suppose that aany Of it,
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SUICIDE.

On ssFlodden Field plantation in the
midst of what is noE known as the Banks
dale Geld, the impecunious Hpholder Of the
deed OF trust turns aside his soFrowful mule
to avoid a small dense cluster Of elder
bushes and wild grape vines Underneath
i the inevitable marble. As the writer
pulled away the vines, a great black snake
darted out and shot away into the tall cane.
This tablet is in memory of John NJ. Evans,
who died In 1881. aged "a years.
More than fifty years ago, this silent
sleaper under the wild elder was young
man Of fne address, heir 90 splendid for
tune, the only son Of proud and aristocratie
parents. Wine and women we're bis ruin
Goaded by the Femorsef4l ago1y follow
ing long debaueh, he repaired to this spot,
then in the primevai forest, and committed
suicide in a strange and most horrible man
ner. This is the legend under his name and
ace on the marble BLESSED are the dead
who die in the Lord"
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SOLITUDE.

Ia an old sedge field of thousand acres,
the property of the Vaughan family, there
is solitary grave inclosed by brick wall,
on which rest a broad marble slab, with the
following somewhatquainti inscription which
we give literally
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Beat No. 1-Dr, w. II. White, L. w.
Ellis, P B. Berry, ]. l. Evans and H. H.
LowtheF
Beat No. PA. J. MeLanrin, J. M. Der
rick, John r Enochs, d. Pickett and ID. III.
Brown.
Beat No. s-JOe McLaurin, R. F. Grimes,
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

STATE. TTsE CoAHoMA COUNTY,
V. NO. olUl.
J. H. Brown, ct. Al
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|igents
gent
||iabans.
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Letter From Hon. John Nice. Martin

W. W. HUMPHRIEs