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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
County Treasurer

EDITORS CLARION ia looking a0ut
for men suitable to Ell the various ofis
soon &c b ress,sv1, VIC nave Uur minus
on one whose qualifications cminen,ly
him as the custodian Of our county fur-
We allude to
MR.. A. p. WATSON.
He is a strictly temperate man, bis Aa
at all times clear, of undoubted honesty
integrity, and last but not least, he bsI@
to that much neglected class, the Farms
Thoroughly Unidentified with the iHer
Of Agriculture, we present him to the r
pie of Kinds county as candidate
County Treasurer.
Forest Hill has always been backwa1
making any claims whatever. Indeed
never asks anything, and we think tls
quest,so modest, viii not be overlooked.
FOREST HILL N0TE-
March 20, 1881.
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Hon. o. r. Singleton.
Eureka SPRINGS lArk.l Herald

Eureka Springs (Ark.) Herald
Hon. o. Il. Singleton, of Miss, is regis
tered at the Metropolitan, Gen. Singleton
has represented tue 4th District of that
State for the last twenty FIVE years, and was
a very prominent candidate for the United
States Senatorship in the election of 1880.
His opposition to, and speech against, the
Election Commission Bill gave him a repu-
tation as a sagacious and far-seeing man.
During much of the late session Col.
Singleton performed the duties of Chair
man of the Committee of Appro-
priations, and he needed rest and the
relief which he will derive from the wa.
tiers of these famous Springs. With
health recuperated he will return to his
constituents to bear his part in the APP
preaching canvass. He is always true
to his trusts and on hand when service
is to be performed.)
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

The new Secretary of the Treasury
has been more in accord with the South
ern and Western Democrats on the
financial issues, than with his own party.
On Aprh6, 1874 Congressional Record,
page 2,835) he voted for the bill, ''to
provide for the redemption and reissue
of United States notes and for free
banking, and subsequently on April
% page 1886 he voted to pass it over
the veto of General Grant. He also
voted for the Bland silver-coinage bill,
which was essentially a Democratic
measure, though its popularity and
intrinsic merits commanded for it con-
siderable Republican vote.
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The Pasted Slip,
ADO Apour voru>

Hon .Thos. Spight in the Southern -sutir.
The newspapers that are venting Oh Ta
spleen on the Code Of 1850, are now r,,1I
a 'hulabaloo" about the little ,Iipr...
on page 358 Of the Code which wa. h..
vertently omitted. This is in reicrar.
exemptions in favor of debtors: and d.
harm this innocent little slip has daaaI A.
not yet been shown but it seems t... nli
has served the purpose of a pre.av. o."
another onslaught on the Code and III, uv
connected with it.. If those who L.H . Tl
slip sent out or pasted ON the page of.
statute, had omitted to do so, ths e- -
would have been, probably, that M.
money would have been needIessly spen
litigation over the property thus omitted
the section of the law referred TO. Or T
whenever the question should have raae.
the Supreme Court it would have been
as heretofore that the enrolled COPY boz.
Office Of the Secretary Of State is theI, Li.
although the printed code did not SHOW Do
A few years ago it was discovered l,, ndt
similar mistake occurred i'm tho cod. AI.
1871, whereby section Of tho criminal .agI
was omitted, and it appearing To- the or.
preme Court that the manuscript Iod-. N
with the Secretary of State contained Jan
omitted section, the court declared 5. So se.lL
the law notwithstanding its absence h5ov
the printed statute, Then. instead of ,.ala.
being the great "bug bear" into which In
has been magnifed by those who ara ua. r.,
ing war upon "Campbell's Code" a, thiu
term it, it was an emincnuy proper Ln
that the people and the bar should
promptly notified that the mistake bad
Cured, and thus save litigation and coma, \
quent expense. ,or
Try something else gentlemen. there
nothing In this point.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

IT is said that Stanley Matthews
who hangs with the tenacity of leech
to the hope of a seat on the Supreme
Court Bench, is in Washington to an
swer some charges of personal nature.
We do not think anything worse could
be said of him than his confidential
correspondence with the selfconfessed
perurer, "Red-headed" Jim Anderson,
a manipulation of the Louisiana frauds
and the engineer of the Wormley
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

II. 4. EE4sE, ''of Mississippi" ex-
Senator, ETC., was unanimously confirm
ed on the Oath inst, by the Senate, Re.
ceiver of Public Monies for Dakota Ter
ritory. The success of the carpet-baggers
in getting Office is wonderful. They are
persistent in their efforts, and never too
proud to accept anything that is offered.
but always with a mental reservation to
be on the lookout for something better.
We should not be surprised if in course
of time Pease should be heard from
again as the Senator from the State of
Dakota.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

Commissioner Of Confederate Archives
for Col. w. H. McCardIe, editor Of the
Vicksburg Commercial, which position
he filed until the office expired by
Limitation in 1880.
Capt. James Cole Denham ''the pirate
of Pontchatrain" has been captured.
1t was for him that Gov Stone offered
reward some months since. He was
badly wanted in Harrison, Hancock
and Jackson counties for numerous rob
berries. He will doubtless soon be an
inmate of the Penitentiary. He is by
birth Scotchman, was sailor in the
British Navy for time, and supposed
to have served in the U. S. Navy dur
ing the war.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
THE GRANT BILL.

The Vicksburg Commercial engaged the
services of a "bloated bondholder" to make
a mathematical calculation showing how
much it would cost the people per capita to
pension Grant with 81, 800 year, and how
much of this money Mississippi would have
to nav. The Commercials mathematician
reports that Mississippi would pay 1886 06
per annum, and the editor thinks thai is
too small a sum to make fuss about. No
opponent of the measure, so far as we have
observed, has made the cost to the peope a
leading objection. There are higher and
weightier reasons why Grant should not be
pensioned on the Government, and it oceurs
to US these reasons should be so apparent as
to deter any Southern man from advocating
the cause of the great National dead head.
But if it should resolve itself into a ques-
ton of dollars and cents alone, we ap-
prehend that large majority of the tax
nayers of this State would maintain that
it was in injustice to them and their chill
dren to appropriate even 1896 06 of their
money, for such an ignoble purpose.-Chick-
asaw Messenger.
The Commercial arithmetician has
calculated for one year. The amount
which will be paid will depend upon the
number of years the beneficiary will
live. But even if it was only nickel
would it be right for the representatives
of the people to appropriate
public money in that way? The
Democratic doctrine is that taxes
should be collected and spent for public
and not for private uses.
Gen. Grant besides being rich, has
recently had another quarter of mil
lion of dollars donated to him; and
what's the use of eternally greasing the
fat hog?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
Colored People in South Carolina.

The fact that the colored people of
South Carolina pay about twentieth
of the taxes, yet furnished 70, 853 of the
34,O72 children in the public schools
last year, speak volumes fer tie treat-
ment of the negro and of the desire
to educate him. According to the
Charleston Courier, he is acquiring his
own home, even though it is often but
an humble one, Better relations are
year by year developing between the
races, and this development is going on
fastest where there are the fewest polit-
ical carpet-baggers.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

THE Benton Argus, the Batesville
Blade, and Deer Creek Advance, in
fuential Greenback papers, all have
repudiated the Memphis Conference and
Ats programme, and say they will not
support any movement simply for a
division of the spoils, which does not
recognize and pledge itself to the pro-
motion OF the principles of their party.
Hon. A. b. HURT, a member of the
Legislature of 1878, from Montgomery
county, and late clerk of the Congress
sional Committee of Post offices and
Post roads, has established himself as
attorney at law and solicitor of claims
and patents in Washington City. Mis-
sissippians who may have business of
that kind in Washington would do well
to entrust it to him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

WE have received the Yalobusha
Standard with the salutatory of our
talented young friend, w. b. Sorsby, as
editor. In this county where he was
reared he he, many warm personal
friends who, though they may differ
with him politically, have given him
credit for ability and courage in the
advocacy Of whatever cause he may
esnOusa
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

Coz. w. H. McCARDLE, of vicksburg,
was an applicant for the position on the
Mississippi River Commission, but Har-
rison, of Indiana, would not resign until
the day before he took his seat in the
Senate, and not then until he had the
Presidents omise to appoint an Indiana
man whose application he had in his
pocket, So We learn from the Aberdeen
Examiner. s 4.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

HoE. LEVI BAcoT, one Of the best
planters Of Pike county, has been engag-
Cd to conduct the Agricultural depart.
ment Of the Summit Sentinel. feature
which viii give additional interest to
our valuable contemporary.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

THERE is a prospect even thus early
Of a serious quarrel between the Ad-
ministration and Conkling and his
followers over the appointment Of Judge
the port Of New York.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

GEN. CHALMERS has been visiting his
brother the Chief Justice of our Su-
preme Court. He is perfectly conf
dent Of his ability to hold his seat in
Congress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

NAL MASON, in the Port Gibson
Reveille, in well considered article,
suggests that the Democratic State
Convention be held about the 4th of
.Inlv
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

The YazOO Herald expresses the
hope that the State Democratic Execu-
tive Committee viii not call a conven-
ton before the 10th Of August, and the
Holly Springs South wants a conven-
ton not earlier than July.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

DoS A. RARpEE. dominated a. Uni
ted States Circuit Judge In place Of Mr..
Justice Woods. was the Major in Gen.
Garfeld's regiment during the civil war.
At the close of it he settled in Louis
lana, and he now turns up, in life
Office Of high judicial rank.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

By the way, how did the Vicksburg
Herald express itself upon the appoint
ment Of Thos NJ Broadwaters (col) for
collector of the port Of Vicksburg?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
Jones County.
FllisyilIe Eagle. ]

+NII934IIo 41agIs'I
We will remind some of our ezchaf
that cotton is not king in Jones COZ.
Our farmers raise their corn and mes
nome, also their .molasses and sugar
raise cotton enough to buy their -four
lee, and other things that they do no, 81
They are Independent and out o,
They are not mOFtgaged and 10 day
everything they use and more too, IKE
counties we could mention.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

THE Enterprise Courier says that
"the friends of Hon John Nee. Mar
tin, of Port Gibson, will present his
name to the Democratic State Conven-
ton for the position Of Attorney-G
eraI. He has served two terms in the
Legislature with credit to himself and
honor to his constituents.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

a COTTON factory at Augusta, Ga,
has declared dividend of 10 per cent.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

Mn. EDWARD J. CAsrEILo, one Of the
old oafpethag panel, has bsea appointed
Collector Of Customs at Natchez.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

WE beg leave to ask the editor Of the
Nicksburg Commercial to state whether
he will support the nominee Of the
Democratic State Convention for Gov
ernor, whosoever he may be ? Recent
articles in that paper have left his
readers in doubt as to his course.
In another column we have publish
ed the best defence that can be made of
the ''Pint Law" The writer sets forth
the theory of it plausibly; but it does
not work well, and affronts the moral
sense of the friends of the temperance
movement. Ii ought to be repealed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
Hon. w. n. FifZGerald
Charleston Sentinel, ]

Charleston Sentinel.
Col. w. III, FitzGerald is in toWn. a ~
ing court. IF Tallahatchie, his Ola ~
had the power to declare who should y
next Governor, the Colonel might -.
home and make his arrangements 20 ~
in jackson for the next four years
The colorad Republicans ofCAo
ii, indignant at not having been
a place on the Republican ticket
nominated an independent ticket.
say they have been fed on Ten!
enough.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

THE Live Stock Journal says that at
the recent meeting of the Mississippi
Stock Raisers Association, at Stark
vile, Mr. McRea Mosby, Chancery
Clerk of Lauderdale county gave his
experience with, and opinion of oieo-
margarine. ''His wife sent to town for
some cheap butter for cooking pur-
poses, which was used in making pies
and custards. Soon after eating of this
food, four of Mr.. Mosby's children were
taken very sick. An examination led
to the fact that the butter was not real
butter at all, but oleomargerine, and
hence the sickness was clearly shGT'n 10
have proceeded FROM this cause. Mr..
Iosby thinks the Legislature should
take action and prevent the sale of
oleomargerine in the State, or else make
it heavy fine for any one to sell the
stuff under any other name than that of
oleomargerine. We endorse Mr.. Mos
by's proposition. Our Legislature
should protect the public against this
counterfeit butter to the extent of re-
quiring dealers to sell it for what it
really is, and not as butter.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

THE Fulton Courier is a new eandi=
date for public favor. 1t is published
at Fulton, Itawamba county, A. A.
Wall, editor and proprietor. It is
Democratic in politics. 1t could hardly
he otherwise, however in the gallant
old county of Itawamba, with her four
teen hundred and fifty Democratic
voters opt of voting population of
fifteen hundred. We welcome it to
the fraternity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

Gen. Grant has resigned the Presi-
dency of the Worlds Fair Commission.
1t did not pan out as a. third term
boomer for 1884 as he expected, and be-
sides there was no money it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
roTrs. rnws AND NOTIONS,

The champion lie comes from Louis
vile. About ten years ago a young
lady stuck a needle in her foot. A
number of unsuccessful efforts were
made to extract it. As time rolled on
she would occasionally feel it, higher
and higher each time. in her leg. Fl
nally she ceased tofeel it at all. Incourse
Of time she married and had three chill
dren. The other day while bathing the
youngest, about year old, she discov-
cred hard substance in its thigh. She
picked at it and finally drew it forth
when it proved TO be the long lost
needle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

A debating society in Clinton, after
an exhaustive discussion, decided that
''the execution of Mary, Queen of SCOTS
was unjust" This leaves Mary in the
same fix that the court martial left
Fitz-John Porter, innocent but without
relief, like John Brown, cher body lies
Wondering in the ground" alice Samee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

1t was bad, bad, newspaper man
who said 1.-the only difference between
Bob Ingersoll and the man who puts up
telephones is that the latter is a bell
hanger while Bob is - bangor"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

There are but score or so of Senate Off
ces To none of these is attached any spe~
cial emolument or power. It is always dis
agreeable for gentlemen to step down and
out of office and we sincerely sympathize
with those Democratic officials connected
with the Senate who may be embarrassed
by the necessity of doing so. But we may
be sure it will be just as hard next winter as
now. Meanwhile, the spectacle of a great
party, wrangling and wasting time over a
hit of paltry spoil is undignifed in the per-
sons engaged and modifying to the country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

The Kansas people are attempting to
direct the tide of negro emigration to-
wards some other Northern State. We
advise the exodusters to be careful or
they may get into State in which they
cannot vote unless they can read and
write or own landed property. Massa-
chusetts or Rhode Island for instance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

THE colored Republicans of Maryland
have held State convention to take ac-
ton with regard to more equal divis-
ion of federal patronage in Maryland to
colored Republicans. Resolutions were
adopted declaring the distribution of
federal patronage is not in accordance
with the principles of the Republican
party and that colored voters are enti-
tied to a fair division. The colored
brother has not yet learned that it is his
business to do the voting for the Repub-
lean party and not to hold Office.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

thews' completely in procuring bribery
and corruption by promises and efforts
of reward with public ofice-to say
nothing of his being an ultra partisan
and sectional agitator-we repeat that
his nomination was not fit to be made
and is not fit to be confirmed.
After the foregoing was prepared, we
found in the Chicago Tribune, Republi-
can, another item in the long account
against the appointment of Stanley
Matthews. 1t alone is sufficient ground
for rejecting his nomination
''There is one argument against the con-
firmation of Stanley Matthews as Supreme
Judge which is beginning to reassert itself
in Washington. There is imminent danger
that the constitutionality of the Thurman
law, which has been once affirmed by the
Supreme Court, will be tested again by the
Central Pacific railroad, Fhis Law compels
the Pacific railroads to provide sinking
fund for the payment of the bonds advanced
by the government for their use. The
Central Pacific has been evading the law in
spite of the Supreme Court decision. IF
Matthews shall 60 on the Supreme Bench
the railroad company will certainly reopen
litigation with the assurance that he will
be favorable to their interest. His attitude
on the question when he Ess in the United
States Senate and the backing he now has
in his persistent effort to reach the Supreme
Bench constitute the assurance. With
Matthews there will be three Supreme
Judges opposed to the constitutionality of
the law and only three known to be in favor
of it. The opinion Of Judge Woods is UNI
certain, and the other two judges are in
capacitated. To confirm Matthews, under
these circumstances, is to risk the failure Of
just law and favor the escape Of the Pacific
Railroad companies from an obligation to
the government OF more than 500, 900, 900,
including principal and interest. Can the
United States Senate afford to take the re-
bponsibility o. such . risk r
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31

On the subject of the protracted fill
clustering struggle in the United States
Senate over the question of the election
of new officers ofthat body, the Courier
Journal pithily says:
The Democrats of the Senate are doing a
foolish thing by attempting to stave off the
inevitable In giving up the committees
they practically abandoned the fight over
the organization. Their course recalls Swift's
epigram
Behold a proof of Irish sense,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-03-31
TO SUM Up

Tue ISNSuucS VI the S0NeFum0uI WOuIQ
allow, instead of continuing it as a per-
manent untaxed investment for the ben
eft of capitalists
They voted together for low rate of
interest so as to make the burden fall as
lightly as possible upon labor.
They voted together to compel the
National Banks to deposit the new 10y
interest bonds as basis for their circu-
lation.
And finally, the National journal
might have mentioned that at the I'd
session ef the 10th Congress, these two
parties voted together in the House of
Representatives for the resolution Of
Mr.. Weaver, asserting that the portion
of debt of the u. S. falling due in 1881
should not be refunded beyond the pow
er of the government to call in such OBJ
legations and to pay them as rapidly rs
possible according to contract, and that
to meet these obligations the minis of
the United States should be operated to
their full capacity in the coinage Of
standard silver dollars with which, un-
der the contract between the bondhold-
ers and the government (see Senate sess
Olutions February, 1879 they are paya-
BILE.
These facts from the record fully es-
tablish the declaration with which We
set out that if the G1eenbackers mean
financial reform, their proper place is
with the Democrats. That's the inevi-
liable Logic Of their professions.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-03-24
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