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Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-03-25

polntment principally because he is
the son Of bis father but he has very
little ofthe ability that distinguished
The honest old rail- plitter.--Fort
Smith Independent.
! This winter may have lcrn
an unusual hard one on Sfoc,
but there has never been 4urh
demand for cattle and sheep at
;hiS time of the year as there is
now. We predict that stock eat
'lc will be- higher thsn rorfuon
lbs ycar.--f'rresct.
The Orange Free State farmers re-
."rE lie 7, r,intcrccnen.s now rom.
ing from England. as dangerous to-
thcir interests. They fear that the
British VIII attempt to annex their
country and are about ready to- Join
the BoeSS.
The' Mexican National railroad,
the PaEmer-Sullivan company, have
contracted with two PENNSYLVANIA
firms for 200 engines and 5000 ears
for the equipment Of the line from
Laredo on the Mexican frontier To
he City of MrxicS,
Paul Kruger, IN letter To Prrsi-
dent Brand, of the Orange Free
state, expresses the desire Of thc
Hoer, for an honorable pracc, !lu'
SAYS "Wc' cannot cut our own
throat- hy ,tc, !ayjng ourselves reb-
els. We h"Ii. 60 the offer @f a rrpu'-
he under q British pretectorate.
The Southern Eaptis,t Missionary
Society is luii,iinr a new missinn
in tie lr,fian Territory II Is to L'
located sky miles southwest Of
Muscogee, in. tie Choctaw Natirn
composed of niac Spacioas buildings.
Including ~ church, school house,
residences for the missionary anil
married teachers, and IL BOARDING
house for unmarried workers.
At meeting in New York on ia.
D5th Enst. fifteen persons subscribed
tlN cost ore roofn, $500, in behalf Of
m Indian school. One lady gave
$4,000 for a special department..
Cen. Tinslong has raised 10000 in
the city. Twenty thousand dollars
will be needed to complete the pro-
roscd building for Indian girls.
which scores of half savage youns
woneu are wsigng to enter.
The quarantine grounds sci
apart for Texas cattle, begins on
the west line of Comanche county
thcncc north to- tie Arkansas River
thorcc west along the river to H.
y est Enc Of Ford county: thence
rortb twelve miles thence west six
iilss; thence north to the north In,
~ Gr"v" county; thence Vest {. ~.
cast Fine Of Thomas county; thence
north to The north lir@. of Kansas.
-Crrssct
The fo'lovinq resolution WAS
adopted hy the socialists ot New
York on the l7th: M prop'c hav,
n right 70 pro ect thrir risi to-. uy
means, unI although Ve cori.mu
| oCcoCsip Yti,n .- il,,,r,, f...I I. ,..t...
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-03-25
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Beside, wing The Iadian new
.r -Lau al lys give to the Stock
| to..<t. 81. .'e country that amount
pa.. am lort which its impo,-
a.oc demands, and cordially in
1.ta stock mrn to correspond with
u- .n matters of interest to their
lass. Ne have fixed the price of
brand adr. rtising so low that we
believe this department will be iii =
orally supported by stock men, anl
a closer intimacy established he
tween those parts of the county
separated by long distances.
SUBSCRIPTION,
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

THE Yazoo Sentinel cities the follow
ing section of the Revised Code, from
which it would appear that if the Legis-
lature adjourns before the passage of a
new apportionment law by Congress,
the additional member to which it is
understood the State will be entitled,
can be elected by the State-at-large:
SECTION I63-Should an election of Rep
resentatives in Congress occur after the
number of Representatives to which the
State is now entitled shall be changed, in
consequence of a new apportiOnment, such
Representatives shall be chosen as follows ::
In case the number of representatives to
which the State is entitled be increased,
then one member shall be chosen in each
district as then organized, and the addition
al member or members shall be chosen by
the electors of the Sate-at-large and if the
number of Representatives shall be diminish
ed, then the whole number shall be chosen
by the electors of the State-at-large.
1t is understood that new apportion-
ment will be the first business Congress
will dispatch when it meets, and it is
probable that bill viii be passed in time
to enable the Legislature to enact re-
districting law before it adjourns. The
Legislature of Minnesota at its recent
session took it for granted that the num-
Der of Congressman to which the State
would be entitled would be increased
from three to FIVE, and passed law
apportioning the State on the basis of
Eve Congressman.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
THE DAILY CLARION.

With the assembling of the Legislature
on Tuesday, January Sd, we shall commence
the publication Of THE DAILY CLARION.
1t viii be issued every morning and VIII
contain full reports of the proceedings OF
Senate and House OF the preceding day !;
also the latest Geographic and general news
We will have an efficient reporter in each
house 50 as to record not merely the formal
proceedings, but to note more IN detail any
specially important questions that may be
considered, and also to make mention OF
persons and things generally about the
Capitol.
The subscription price of THE DAILY will
be t,oo dollars for the session. We will en-
deavor to get the paper on the midnight
and early morning trains, 50 that subscri-
bers in every direction from the Capital may
be promptly supplied.
Persons who may want The DAILY can
send their orders direct to the office, or by
the members of the Legislature when they
come to Jackson.
Subscribers to THE WEEKLY can send US
the subscription price of THE DAILY, and
the weekly edition will be discontinued as
to them for the session, and their credit
extended accordingly.
Our local merchants will find THE DAILY
CLARION an excellent advertising medium,
and we trust they will avail themselves
literally of its space. Our advertising rates
will be satisfactory.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
A State College for the Women of
Mississippi.

We hope none of our readers have
failed to peruse the able address of Rev.
G. S. Roudebush on the subject of
Education for the Women of Mississip-
ri. printed in the last CLARION. 1t
supplies the argument for the OCCASION
1t is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
and for correction in a matter of tran
scendant Importance. The treatment
which the matter of female education
has received from the State, has amount
ed to practical denial of the right of
the women of the State Eve mean white
women of course-ample provision
having been made for the education of
the females of the negro race to the
development and free exercise of their
intellectual gifts, and it derogates from
rights and advantages which belong
to them in the struggles of life. For all
others, institutions have been literally
endowed with appropriations from the
public treasury and supplied with ap-
paratus, libraries and the appliances of
essential and efficient instruction for the
practical duties of life, while the edu-
cation of females has been left to be
accomplished by private enterprise un-
aided and alone. This neglect is due
to the custom of an age which we trust
is soon to be numbered with the bygones,
that has regarded woman as an inferior
being, drudge, or thing of beauty to
charm the senses like the flower that
blooms for a season and wastes away
forever, instead of coadjutor and conn
panion of man in working out the great
problem of human capacity and deyel-
opments. What reason and justice
claim for her is, that all the opportuni-
ties for utilizing her powers should be
bestowed upon her by the State, as freely
as upon men, to prepare her to enter
every department of the worlds bust
ness upon equal terms with the other
sex. DIR. Roudebush assumes that call
departments of education should stand
equally open to both sexes" The logic
of his doctrine is that this should be
done, in order that woman may not be
mere drudge, or an ornament, or
dependent, but that she may be fitted
for all the ayocations and professions of
life. This subject viii be one of the
most important that win engage the
attention of the incoming Legislature ];
and the member who will digest and
prepare bill for the establishment of
an institution of learning for the edu-
cation of the white women of Mississip-
pi, and work without eeasing until
It becomes a law, viii deserve to be
honered as public benefactor.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07


We publish in to-day's CLARIoS from
that leading agricultural Journal Of the
West, .sColman's Rnral World, the Con-
stitution as adopted BY the Farmers
Congress at St. Louis.
We commend it to the careful con-
sideration of the farmers of Mississippi
This is a national organization with rep
resentatives from all sections. and we
agree with the World in saying that the
plan is both wise and practical.
We have not space to notice the plan
at length but we wish to direct especial
attention to the duties of the Vice-Pres-
idents from the different States.
1t is made the duty of these officers to
examine into the condition of the agri-
cultural interests in their respective
States, the progress being made in farm
ing if not prosperous, the cause or
causes which prevent it, and to suggest
the best plan for its removal.
The ablest and most energetic men
will be selected in each State for these
places and boundless field Is open for
their investigation. Their reports when
published will furnish invaluable infor-
nation as to the industrial movements
of all the States and in form long de-
sired. Take the State of Mississippi for
example. The Vice President from this
State will look carefully into the agrl-
cultural interest, the profits of all the
crops cultivated, the difference when
diversified crops are made, the value OF
lands under cultivation, the amount OF
lands and character untitled for want OF
labor, the quantity and value Of lands
still uncleared, the most successful plan
vet tried to improve our worn lands,
the use of commercial fertilizers and
their use on our exhausted soils, the
effect of the railroads now constructed
and in progress on the prosperity of the
State, and the influence of manutac-
lures of every kind upon agriculture,
furnishing as they will markets for
thousands of farm produce now eompar-
atively valueless. Reports of this kind
will be of incalculable value to our peo-
pie aud furnish to emigrants informa-
ton they desire. No doubt Hon. I. j.
Hudson, the Vice-President from this
State, will make his work labor of love,
and we speak in advance for our pro,
gressive people that he will have their
lasting gratitude.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
Our Railroads.

The Railroad interest is booming
in Mississippi. The following roads are
now under way:
The West and East Road, from Du-
rant to Lexington, and is contracted
for its extension from Kosciusko to
Aberdeen. Work on the Aberdeen end
will begin in January.
The Mobile and Northwestern, has
now running thirty-fve miles, and has
under contract it's extension to the Tai
lahatehie river, thirty miles. Also the
northern end of the line to Memphis.
The Vicksburg and Memphis has I'M
der contract eleven miles, and chances
favor its early extension to the northern
boundary line of Sharkey county.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi Valley
and Ship Island, is nearly completed to
Port Gibson, and prospects favor its
extension to Wesson.
The Meridian, Red River and Texas,
has ten miles, and will be pushed on to
Pearl river in the next four months.
The Meridian and New Orleans has
let out the contract, and will be COM
pleted in two years at most.
The Greenville, Columbus and Biz
mingham has completed its line to John
sonyille in Sunfower county and is now
pushing along the work from Arcola to
the Sharky county line.
The Natchez and jackson is being
rapidly pushed forward from Martin to
the Kinds county line, and the grading
on the entire line is nearly finished.
The Gordons are at work on the road
near Columbus and Aberdeen and will
extend the line to the Mississippi River,
making through route to Atlanta,
Georgia.
Mr.. Clarke will push his jackson,
Yazoo and Northern road" forward rap
idly to Arkansas City as soon as the
Legislature meets to amend some points
in the charter, which this company de-
sire.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
Sound Doctrine.

We hold the following to be selfevi-
dent truths. The government has
neither moral nor lawful right to
assess and collect taxes for any other
purpose than the obtaining of the
necessary means of its maintenance !;
that no tax should be levied for the pur-
pose of enhancing the market price of
any merchandise on the consumers
thereof, for the benefit of any person,
corporation, or section and that no tax
should be levied with the view of build
ing up the business of any citizen, or
branch of industry, at the expense of
another. This doctrine applied to the
mis-called doctrine Of protection in
levying duties on foreign goods, viii
knock it as high as kite.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

THE Westville News, We are glad to
note, endorses our suggestion to the Sem
ators and Representatives in Congress
from this State to use their influence for
the passage Of a Law to prohibit criminal
prosecution before the law of Courts of
the United States, BY the process Of in
formation, and to require that persons
charged with offending against the laws
If the United States shall be prosecuted
only By presentment or bill Of indict-
ment By q grand jury. Our article on
this subject has been reproduced by the
Post, the leading Democratic journal at
the fed raj capitol, and We are not with
out hops that it will receive cOnsidera-
ton from other members besides the
able delegation from Mississippi.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
Gen. chalmers-A Fair Statement

Washington Post.
The National Republican, with malevo-
lent zeal, urges its party to unseat Gen
eral Chalmers. That the decision of the
highest court in a State upon the construc-
ton of State statute is binding every
where, has been repeatedly held by the
Supreme Court of the United States and
by Congress. 1t was moved as a true
principle by the Republicans in the last
Congress in the Iowa cases and admitted
without comment by the Democrats. The
Supreme Court of Mississippi has decided
that the marked ballots used by Lynch,
the opponent of Chalmers, were under the
Mississippi statute illegal and void, and as
they were all marked he did not receive a
single legal vote in the district. To UNI
seat Mr. Chalmers under such state of
facts would be an outrage which honest
Republican lawyers cannot be driven to
perpetrate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

THE pension list is getting to be fear
full drain upon the earnings of the Peo-
pie. Col. Dudley, Commissioner of
Pensions, has submitted to the Secre-
tary Of the Interior recommendation
that Congress be asked to appropriate
500, 900, 900 for disbursement by this
office during the next fiscal year ending
June 80, 1888, in payment of annual and
accrued pensions, and also that an I'M
mediate deficiency appropriation of $780,
O0O,O 900 be requested for the purpose
of paying all arrears of pensions to
claimants whose cases have been or may
be favorable adjudicated during the cur
rent or fiscal year. The commissioner
estimates that 10000 pension claims
will be allowed this year, and that with
a further increase in the clerical force
of the bureau as many as 10000 may
be disposed Of next year.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07


o. Tuesday, the 9th, the Texas and
Southern Pacific Railway united at
Yerra Blanca, about ninety miles this
side Of FL Paso, thus giving New Orleans
direct rail communication to San Fran
cisco. Thus has been accomplished the
grand scheme Of trans-continental
Railroad connecting the lower Mississip-
81 River with the Pacific coast, which
originated u the fertile brain Of Jeaer-
son Davis twenty i've years $50. Twas
through his influence and direction as
Secretary Of the Var under the Pierce
Administration, that the original znr-
vsy for 1 Southern line, was made,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
A Department of Agriculture.


AT its session of 1880, the National
Grange passed a resolution declaring
that the Commissioner of Agriculture
should be made Cabinet officer at the
head ola separate Department. represent
ing the important interests confded to
his care. The Grange at its recent
session renewed the application, and the
measure viii come up for consideration
at the next session of Congress. The
Committee on Agriculture reported Q
bill the same that was offered by Mr..
Muldrow, of Mississippi, if we are not
mistaken carrying out the recommen-
dation of the Grange, and though It
passed the House By large majority,
# failed to become law, and is still
an open question. Some of its oPposers
embarrassed its passage by proposition
70 combine it with other interests under
the general classification of Depart
ment of Industry, and Others made
direct war upon it. The enactment of
q measure 50 unquestionably proper
cannot be long retarded if it be urged
with the energetic spirit its Importance
demands. The following resolution was
unanimously adopted by the National
Grange at its late session:
Resolued, That a committee Of ten Of this
body Sc appointed to visit the Commission
er of Agriculture to confer with him 10
relation to the elevation Of his department
to higher rank, and to convey the protest
Of the National Grange against embracing
ii that department other industries or
interests beyond the one which We represent
agriculture.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
THERE will be a great pressure for the

THERE will be great pressure for the
repeal of the Silver law. The Director
of the Mint has recommended it. The
N. Y. Times, describes in exaggerated
terms what it called "the error of the
silver legislation" and says eve must
non act while we are in a condition to
retrace our steps" And the N. Y.
Tribune says the argument of the
Director of the Mint is so conclusive
that it ought to have the early atten-
ton of Congress"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

THE Lexington Advertiser, in refer
ence to the horrible assassination of
Mr.. Robert Catlin, one of the best citi-
zens of Lefore county, makes this
statement:
The worst feature of this case is the fact
that the murder of Catlin was deliberately
planned and was known beforehand to
twenty or more negroes who could have
prevented it, but who never opened their
mouths in regard to it until Craig was
arrested and made confession. After the
murder was committed the negroes attempt
ed to shield him from arrest.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

For Republican paper the following
i n very remarkable admission-it may
even be STYLED a confession. The New
York Times says:
The fact seems to be that the tone of
nuhlic opinion in Washington has a depres-
s;ng effect upon any movement against
people who have grown rich at the expense
IF the Government. The line that separates
a reputable way of living out of public
funds from swindling the Treasury has long
ceased to be very clearly drawn in the
National Capital, and there is no communi-
ty in the country among whom it would be
so difficult to secure an honest public senti-
ment against official peculators as in Wash
ington.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07
Itawamba.

Itawamba gave 1850 votes for Lowry
and 50 for King-oyer twenty to one for
the former. This is the best showing of
any county in the tate.-Tupelo Journal.
We have heard great deal about
"The Bride Of Itawamba." Her name
il Democracy,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

MEssRs. C. n. HILL & w. A. HENRY,
(of the Yazoo SentineD will commence
the publication of the Jasper County
Review in Paulding at an early day.
The publication of the Sentinel will not
be interfered with by the arrangement.
We wish the enterprise success.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

THE Virginia law requiring the pre-
payment of the poll tax as prerequisite
to suffrage is a failure. An intel
ligent Virginia Democrat writing of the
laws says that not a few Conservatives
are of the opinion that making the
capitation tax prerequisite to suffrage
has worked badly, and that this feature
ought to be repealed. It has failed,
they say, to exert any wholesome inau-
ence in excluding worthless and vaga-
bond negroes from the baIlot-box, for
these have their taxes paid out of a
fund raised by the Republican party,
and at the last election methods were
employed to certify the payment of other
taxes by the negroes which were GER
tainly calculated to promote extensive
frauds upon the balIot-hox without any
benefit to the State Treasury.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

Hon. Z. o. SYKES, of Monroe, is not
a candidate for Speaker. The following
are spoken of:
Hon. T. L. Mellen, of Adams, Hon. ]. s.
Montgomery, of Oktibbeha. Hon. J. w.
Buchanan, of Chickasaw. Hon. W. Fl. H.
Tison, of Lee, Hon. w. NJ. Inge, of Alcorn,
Hon. T. H. Woods of Lauderdale, aud
Hon. J. H. Field, of Lowndes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

Mr.. LAMoN, of Bolton, assures the
Kinds County Gazette that refined cot
ton seed oil has been used in that town
to the entire satisfaction of the most
fastidious. The Gazette intends to try
it and report.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

TIE election of KeiSer. of Ohio. over
Hiscock, of New York, Speaker Of the
House of Representatives was a tri-
umuh of the stalwarts. Hiscoek had
aptagonized Conkling and his man
FRIDAY. lie Too Platt. In one aspect
Hiscock,s defeat is not S matter of
regret. He vas the candidate Of the
extreme protective-tariR interest and
the ants-silver monOpolista being rep
resentative Of the New York SIT
monopolv. Wits Keller Is supposed 70
entertain the modefats views O ms zee.
ton on those questions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

DR.. URIEL TERRELL, Democratic mem
ber-elect to the Virginia Legislature, from
Orange county, is perhaps the oldest person
in public life in this or any other State in
the Union. He is in the ninetieth year of
his age, with an unclouded intellect and the
activity of man of sixty.-Exchange.
There is a member-elect of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature who was member
forty odd years ago. We won't tell his
age, Che is a widower.) His body is
active and his mind is as unelouded as
a mans of forty.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

CoseRxss met Monday The RePub-
lean machine worked smoothly All
the House nominees were elected Inc
Democratic members who hold eertif-
Gates Of election (including Gen. Chai-
mers) we're all admitted to seats. The
fobt over them viii soon commence.
In the Senate Logan introduced his
bill to create an office in which to
..retirea Gen. Grant with a salary of
ST. 500 per annum. Sherman, to issue
$500. ooO. 900 per cent. bonds. And
Garland. for tariff commission.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

THE New Orleans Times has been
purchased by, and merged in, the n.
o. Democrat, and hereafter the latter
paper will be called the Tmes-Democrat.
It will be mammoth journal, able,
progressive, and redolent of the spirit
of the new era. Mississippi matters re-
ceive a large share of its attention, and
it is entitled to liberal share of Mis-
sissppi patronage.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-12-07

MRs. KATE D. WRIGHT, of this vicin-
ity. will be a candidate before the next
LEGISLATURE for the office of State Libra
rian. Mrs Mary Morancy is also can
didate for reelection.