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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

EVANSVILLE, Ind. is to build a
mammoth cotton factory, to cost $500
600.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

Col. THos. DABNEY, for fifty years
q resident Of Kinds county, is about to
remove to Baltimore.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

VIZ learn from special TO the n. o.
Democrat, that the greater part of the
business portion Of Kosciusko, Miss
was deftroyed by fire on last Mon
hau
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

HIGH water on the Sangismond
river, In Central Illinois, is doing i'm.
mense damage.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

The Tupelo Journal says a gloom
has been recently cast over that COM
munity by the death of Mrs. M. j.
Dunn.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

THE United States pays annually
to foreign countries $500, 1000, 900 for
merchandise.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

YAzoo COUNTY got $500 out Of
Cooper & Jackson's show. Most
shows generally get about $4,000 out of
county.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

THE Yazoo Herald says that the ar
rival of Frank Russell, who was re-
Gently pardoned, made joy in the
household.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

DIR. RoBT. s. MCKENZIE, distin-
guished editor OF Philadelphia Is dead.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

Col. D.. s. PATTERSON, accused of
numbering a negro in Claiborne coun
~, has been acquitted at Hazlehurst,
where the case was tried.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

DANIEL FLYNN, formerly Of Vicks-
burg, tried TO kill whole boat full
OF people recently, when some one
broke his skull.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

SENATOR DAVIS Of West Virginia
will no longer be candidate for
Office.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

Col. LAMAR, accompanied by Gen.
E. G. Walthall, will soon visit Nc
Comb City.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

SINCE the assassination Of President
Garfield, cranks are getting very nu-
merous.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

In the name of an anxious and en-.
quiring community, we ask where Il
he?
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

Mr.. GLEN DAVIS, an old and re-
spected citizen Of Kinds county, is
dead. Mr.. Ed. Walton, Of Bolton, is
also dead.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

CHICAGO has 1876 licensed beer and
whiskey saloons.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

THE Raymond Gazette advertises
for q sober and industrious printer.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

A CLERGYMAN Ia Canada was fined
one dollar and costs for kissing another
mans wife. kissing Is 30 cheap, the
Clergyman ought to be deadheaded.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

New YEARS cards, this season, are
to he mixture of pink and gold.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is soon tt
be married.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

NJ. GAMBETTA is only forty-four
years old.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

VIcKsBuRa Is to have a $4,000
Opera House..
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03
WHERE Is Ogden?

WHERE was he when last heard
from?
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03
nm ~, ....ff AT
Their stock is full and well as
sorted from cheapest to best


Is varied and large and no one
can fail to be suited in any kind
of goods from best to Cheapest.
Their easr AZ
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03

r. T. Cooper, the business Manager,
will receive and receipt for all subscrtp-
u0ns, and make all contracts for advertise
ing, Job printing, etc., for THE COMET.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-12-03
"IIesov 20 Him 20 WHOM Hsusp IL
Due"

TO BE REPORTED.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Re-Districting the State.

We endorse the suggestion of the Ray
mond Gazette that the State should be
re-districted with single reference to
business interests and compactness of
territory which is at least, the only hon
est way of dividing off State for dis
trict officers of any description.
In this connection we may say that
while to us personally the present asso-
citation of Kinds with the Seashore and
Piney-woods counties, is exceedingly
pleasant, the arrangement conflicts en-
tirely with the rule laid down by our
friend Of the Gazette There are other
incongruities under the present arrange
ment that are no less palpable, all of
which the Legislature will no doubt cor
rect.
The Corinth Herald lays down a gen
eral plan which has the appearance of
fairness and convenience of arrangement.
1t says:
1t IS now conceded that Mississippi will
have seven Representatives., and the mart
'AAseAe " III nave 10 re-distrlct the state.
various suggestions are being made, and of
course everyone will want to be suited. but
this cannot be expected We think no bet.
Yer plan can De found for general conven-
fence than to make Coast District extend
ing across the South end of the State. then
from the North line of this run a line
70 the Iennessee State line near the center
Of the State, having regard, Of course. 20 the
population then divide each side into three
DISTRICTS Of average proportions. and the
mnoie VIII be in convenient form, and -
vel VEL located on rivers and railroads a. anv
plan that could be suggested. any
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
A Mercantile View of Bi-Metalism.

Smith, Edwards q Co., Of Liverpool,
in their last monthly cotton circular,
expresses the following views on the
double standard question
A conference has been convened by France
and the United States, to meet in Paris in
April, to consider this most important
question, and we understand that most Of
! the Continental powers, including Germany,
/ Italy and Russia, nave signified their lnten-
| ton to be represented There IS no doubt
| that a strong reaction OF feeling has taken
place against the policy of demonetizing
silver, so abruptly entered upon by Germa-
nv ten years ago. The great suffering that
this course has brought upon all nations
alike and the endless vista of trouble it
! opens out before them if persisted in, have
convinced the bulk of thinking men out Of
England that the old system of Europe,
which recognized both gold and silver as
full valued money at a fixed ratio is much
the best for the world at large. 1t is now
acknowledged everywhere except in Eng
land that nothing but the bi-metallic sys-
tenn of France and other parts of the
continent kept the two metals al practically
fixed ratio of value for nearly an hundred
years, Notwithstanding that the annual
production of gold huctuated during that
period from three millions to thirty mil
lions, ana the production OF silver from
three millions to thirteen millions, and it is
equally acknowledged that the great fuctu-
atoms that have occurred in the last ten
years are solely due to closing the minis of
the bi-metallic countries to the free coinage
of silver.
The Financial Chronicle speaking Of
the Conference, says:
The American position at the Interna-
tional Conference should be one of supreme
indifference. We are not in any situation
to ask the restoration of bi-metallic relations
as favor. On the contrary, if the rest of
the world can stand it, we can. We have
yearly balance payable to us of some
$250,000,000, and if Europe prefers to pay
it in gold we shall not object The old
world reserves Of gold are getting low, and
Germany and France are both at their wits
ends to meet the drain-but it is nothing to
US. We shall take the gold with pleasure,
and we shall take good deal of it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14


THE CLARION c0ncars with numerous
other journals that any man who takes
part either as a delegate, or otherwise,
in the Democratic State Convention, is
morally bound to abide its decision
and to support the nominees whoever
they may be, without reference to the
Senatorial election, and that the Sena-
torial election is a matter wholly foreign
from the business Of the Convention.
The Vicksburg Commercial after re-
peatedly serving notice on the friends of
all candidates that it viii vote for no
man who will not pledge himself TO sup
port It's own favorite for the L. , Sen
ate, in It's issue of the Sth, in answer to
THE CLARION, reiterates the declaration
and SAYS that it (the Senatorial election)
"shall dominate" all other issues As
a sequence of this position, it declines
to commit itselfin advance TO the nomi-
nee for Governor, or We may say, to the
nominees of the Convent on, for it has
said that the rule it arbitrarily lays
down must be applied to candidates for
all the officers.
While the prOnunciamento Of the
is utterly undemocratic and
it has the merit Of bold
ness and now, as the Commercial is
to make ''the issue" let it
do it in an open and manly way by a
resolution before the Convention, de-
elaring that it is the right and the duty
IF the Convention to take charge Of the
election and that pledges
shall be required in accordance with the
plan as condi
ion to nominations. 1t is more
straightforward and manly to make the
ssue in this way, than by the insiduous
method of "wire-pulling" and "manipu
alton" for which our contemporary ex-
presses its holy horror.
The extraordinary proposition Of the
has led to an able discus
ion by several of our contemporaries
whether we shall have ga personal party
n Mississippi" party of bosses, or a
,arty of principle. We believe the
Convention will utterly stamp out the
rebrand.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14


Raymond Gazette.
Copiah has the largest white population
of any county in the State, Us, O00) and is
altogether one of the most independent and
prosperous counties, not only of Mississippi,
but of the Southwest. The plantations are
generally small and self-sustaining, and con-
sequently the people are independent, self
reliant, thrifty and hopeful. Corn is raised
there in abundance, and fruit, and hogs, and
vegetables, and sheep; and we have heard
that the best class of mules to be found there
are of COpiah nativity.
Copiah has the Wesson Factory, Ca big
thing and is traversed by the New Orleans
and Jackson railroad while our own Match
ez and Jackson road passes through its ex-
treme Northwestern township, and will no
doubt there plant town near the waters of
the classic and historic Bayou Pierre. We
are glad that the Democrats and Conserva-
tives of Copiah are organizing. We must
preserve our political organization-we
must put good men in 0ffice-we must keep
out carpet baggers and rascals-if we wish
to prosper; and no political party can be
held together and made efficient without
timely, laborious and well-directed effort.
And no party, We may add, can
maintain itself if it tolerates disorganiz-
ers and soreheads, who after taking their
chances in the party conventions, raise
the standard of revolt and throw them
selves into the arms of the opposite par
ty for redress of their personal grievan-
ces.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

The Adriatic brought " sd, OUO u
gold" says late despatch from N1r
York. And stiH another Of he sans
date says that forty thousand pounds
of sterling gold, principally from private
sources in Holland and Russia, was OBJ
tanned yesterday for the United States.
And SO the dispatches report a steady
and increasing flow of gold into this
country from Europe. 1t comes with the
immigrant. 1t comes to buy our cotton,
and to buy our grain. 1t comes toinvest
in our bonds and other securities, and
our land. 1t comes to buy our meat and
unslaughtered swine and cattle, and it
even comes to buy our silver 1t is
flowing into every port from which the
huge argosies depart, laden with the
rich products Of the new for the old
world.
This is very wrong thing for gold to
do. If it only had gratitude, 1T would 90 in
the other direction. Fit only had brains
to think and mind to remember and heart
to feel whatits especial friends, the gold
bugs, predicted of its movements pending
the bill to remonetize silver, it would
give this country wide berth. The
theme Of every editorial, the text of
every sermon, the argument of every
speech against the reconciliation of
silver was that upon the passage of such
an act, gold would take the wings of the
morning and fly out of the country, and
leave us with a debased currency and
industries. What dire disasters
the bond ring and their champions pre-
dicted, when they invoked the wrath of
their god gold, the great monarch of
commerce
But alas, gold, like its worshippers,
has no heart, and regardless of the
Of its friends, it continues to
pour into this country, seeking an ex-
change for our cheap products and food
for the over populated countries of Eu-
rope. And thus we have gold, the great
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the mighty agricultural products of this
country, while silver lessons the
burthens of the public debt, and stands
guard at the door of the Treasury to
the money power, and bond
ring, and forbid the creation of panics
for their own profit, at the expense of
the people.
a monetary conference has been
called Of the great powers of the world,
and the indications are that silver Will
be remonetized in the very countries
whose example was cited in favor of
nonometalism, and this with a hope to
top the flow of gold to this country.
The time is at hand when the opposition
o its restoration to its constitutional
functions as part Of the none tary
ystem Of the United States will be uni
-ersally condemned as worse than a blum
er. What glorious indicators of
ruth, are time andexperience.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Death of an Old and Honored Citizen
of Amite.

We learn from our contemporaries,
with sincere regret that Judge r NJ.
Nelson, of Amite, father of Col. c. p.
Nelson, is no more. He breathed his
last on Tuesday, the 9th inst. The
Woodville Republican pays a fitting
tribute to the good mans memory:
The writer knew Judge Nelson long and
well, and knew him for all that was amia
bic, just and upright, lovely and loveable in
life. In the community where he was best
known he was greatly beloved, and long
will the citizens of Amite mourn the loss of
one of their oldest and best citizens. In q
quiet way his life had been busy and useful
one. Filling various public offices, among
others, Judge of Probate, and Mayor of
Liberty, he discharged the duties of ell with
fidelity, ability and care. He had passed
the Psalmist's limit of three score and ten
years, and his life work all done, and well
done, he passed away in LIES ''bright late
Autumn" fading silently from life as fades
the flower, or falls the ripeEed leaf
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Tennessee's Burden.

The strange part of the passing of the
bill to pay the Tennessee bonded debt
dollar for dollar is that the bondholders
had repeatedly offered to settle at from
80 to go cents in the dollar. The an
nual interest at 3 per cent. will amount
to 1910, 900, and it is to run ninety-nine
years when the principal becomes due.
There can be no evading the increased
taxation which the payment Of this in
terest will require, as the coupons are
receivable for taxes. To carry on the
State government taxes must be levied
over and beyond the sum of $4,000.
The Governor will have to call an extra
session of the Legislature for the pur-
pose Of levying the additional tax.
There will be goodly number of
Jehial Stebbinses in that State, men
who have clamored loudly for preserving
its credit. Stebbins was for the Maine
liquor law, but 'agin its enforcement"
These demagogues were for the tax but
will be opposed to its collection.
Tennessee is a fine State Rich soil.
Brave men. Beautiful women. But
with this debt perpetually hanging
around the necks of the people and sink
ing them down into the bottom of the
gulf of despond, it will be good State
to emigrate from. Mississippi throws
wide open her portals. She has no debt
to speak of; and here young men in
search of prosperity and fortune can
come and begin the race of life even
with all the world.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Cotton Manufacturing Statistics.

The consumption of cotton in the
South last year is given by the census
as lS6, 600 bales; of these 139, 900 were
used in the Southern States nearly half
of this being in Georgia. The con-
sumption in the New England States
was 1,140,60 bales, Massachusetts,
standing first, and using over one-half
of the whole New England allotment
in the Middle States (including Mary
land), 231 900; in the Western States,
$4,000 The total consumption in the
country, therefore is about 1856, 900
bales, 1S1 ,G29 persons being employed
IN the working of this quantity of cot
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

To those who advocate a life-salary of
$17 800 a year to Grant for the ridicu-
lous and insufficient reason that it will
be the means of getting rid of him as a
candidate for the Presidency in 1884,
We would commend the following ex-
tract from the letter of sagacious
writer in the New York Herald:
General Grant has no political future,
his defeat at Chicago and the expression of
Republican opinion which the preliminaries
20 Chicago drew out, make any plans to
bring him out in 1884 absurd and for the
party suicidal In this reasoning a number
of the most prominent and influential Grant
men are fully agreed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
FIRE AT VERONA.
Special Correspondence of The CLARION

Special Correspondence of THE CLARION.
The fire broke out in Town Hall about
O'Clock A. NJ, and by $50 A. NJ. all the
frame buildings on north side of Main street,
between the Lee County Bank and store
house of J. J. Rogers were, with major par
of their contents, completely consumed.
The principal losses were J. r. Childers,
tin shop and contents, 81 900; J. A Arm
strong, Drug store, 1900; J. NJ Williams,
undertaken and furniture, $500; Town Hall,
$500. The walls of Bank were very much
injured, and also the walls of the store-house
of J. J. Rogers. Not a single building
burned had insurance. Some Of the insured
buildings were slightly damaged, and some
merchandise also, but loss to Insurance
Company was trifiing, not being over $400
in all. All the houses in town (save one)
that we're not insured, burned.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

We have received a letter from
Messrs. Studebaker, wagon-makers,
South Bend, Indiana, denying the truth
of the paragraph copied into THE Ola
RIoN from the Courier-Journal that they
bulldozed their employees, and by
threats of discharge and other persua-
sive arguments, induced them to vote
the Republican ticket We cheerfully
give them the benefit of their denial;
but will say that our belief in the state
ment of the Courier-Journal was
strengthened by having seen a partisan
letter published over the signature of
member of the firm during the Presi-
Dental canvass.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

WinOna Correspondence n. o. Times
During the heavy storm last Friday
ming struck the new two-story reslden'
Capt. Jones, editor of the Advance o.
top Of the roof, followed a rafter to the 7
and then down the corner post to the s..
floor plate, and thence to the chimney
ing through the plastering, and T'- .
around the room on a gilt moulding,
ing the wall black, thence down the eni.it
bursting the clock wide open, and nl.@
a round hole through the mautel ~
places. Ten persons were in the hoa"
none hurt,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

To any present subscriber renewing, or to
any new subscriber, we will send THE
WEEKLY CLARION two years for. 50. 90
To any old or new subscriber, sending US
$500, we will send THE WEEKLY CLAIR
IoS for one year, and either of the fol-
lowing journals
THE New YORK WEEKLY HERALD.
The NEW YORK WEEKLY SUN.
The LOUISVILLE CoURIER-JoURNAL.
The NEW ORLEANS WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
BSS- Subscriptions will not be received
for either of the papers named except in con
necton with a remittance for the WEEKLY
CLARION. Address
Power & BARKsDAIF
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Garfield in the Role Of Sectional Az
tor and PartiZaU Manager.

Washington Correspondence \. q. IIHI
In talk with n delegation Of uegr.-.
Virginia to-day, Garfield said the col
people ought TO unite with the white
ment in the South which is ready fog u
against the old leaders, and good b.
the same sort Of advice. lie said th.s
not to be confined to Virginia bu, .0G
throughout the entire South. Longs
is coming home to head q general hre
up. if he can start one. The admius.r
has decided to help the ColquiJ iac.n
the Democracy in Georgia
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

THERE is State in the Union which
prevents man voting unless he holds
certain amount of property, and
which discriminates between the man
who has property and the one who has
none. 1t allows the former to vote be-
fore paying his poll tax, and refuses a
like privilege to the latter. That State
is not a Southern State. 1t is not
Democratic State 1t is Rhode Island
and therefore the troops won't be called
mt
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
The Vote for District Attorney in Fourt h
District

We are indebted to Mr. d. P Porter, As
sistant Secretary of State for the official
vote in the 4th Judicial District on 9TH
inst, to fill vacancy occasioned by resgigna-
ton of c. w. Clark The District in
cludes the counties of Bolivar, Coahoma,
Issaquena, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunfower
and Washington: w. S. Parish received
1,252; L. T. Rucks, 646; Frank Valiant,
1863; S. II. King, 427; T. R. Baird, $50;
I. ]. Carson, 562; ]. H. Winn, 652. Far.
ish's plurality, 600.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
For Auditor.

EDITORS CLARION: I see no reason why
SYL VEsrER GwIN should not be reelected
Auditor. All who have had business with
the Auditors Office during the last four
years, must admit that he and his assistants
have been courteous, prompt and efficient.
The Auditors Office has never been con-
Quoted more properly, and, probably, never
will be. Why not re~elect GWin?
YAZoo.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Why Dawes Wouldn't Name His Hl
Washington Post. ]

We do not believe word OF tlei
told by Senator Dawes, and iu orj.ra
his sincerity, we offer him the ue
column or more Of this paper u Viii.
present the facts His cold gray ba
man" is back in Massachu,ltt- wA-r
Mississippian can neither modest h.u
make him afraid. There is, in short
one reason why Dawes should na. give
name and all the details Of lie pyr-er
and that reason We believe tJ Je .la
one-the person doesn't exist.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
Stnnlcy Matthen.s Nomin.LL-.
HollY Snrings SluLn.

Holly Springs south
Abundant reasons are we'll -et ~.
the CLARION why the appointment.
ley Matthews-to the supreme BEN.
not fit to be made one Is that DE-.
tisan. Another is that the ~outuen
have no representation ou chat b.u..
other that he was principal ar.a.
steal of the Presidency iu 1867. 81
a record as a procurcr aud rowan
bribery and perjury. These would
enough. The history OF thr trau-a..
which Anderson was bought tu SOL
evidence which would establish OBJ
that East Feliciaua parish wa. fairly
ried by the Democrat, is fresh iu OBJ.
lection Of the country.