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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1882-06-03
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CURIOUS coURTsHIP.
Love Making and Marriage Among the
Mississippi ChOetaWs.
Natchez Democrat. ]

Natchez Democrat.
The two thousand Choctaws still living in
their ancestral homes in Mississippi retain
in their pristine yigor many of the usages
of their ancestors. Among these are the
methods employed in conducting a courtship
and the marriag ceremony When young
Choctaw of Kemper or Neshoba County,
sees maiden who pleases his fancy, he
watches his opportunity until he finds her
alone. He then approaches within a few
yards of her and gently casts pebble to-
ward her, so that it may fall at her feet.
He may have to do this three or four times
before he attracts the maiden's attention.
If this pebble throwing is agreeable, she
soon makes it manifest: if not, a scornful
look and decided "ekwah' indicate that
his suit is in vain.
When a marriage is agreed upon the
lovers, appoint time and place for the
ceremony. On the marriage day the friends
and relatives of the prospective couple meet
at their respective houses or villages
and thence march toward each other
When they arrive near the marriage ground
generally intermediate space between
the two villages-they halt within about
hundred yards of each other. The broth
ers of the woman then go across to the
opposite party and bring forward the man
and set him down on a blanket spread upon
the marriage ground The mans sisters
then do likewise by going over and bringing
forward the woman, and seating her by the
side of the man. Sometimes to furnish
little merriment for the occasion the woman
is expected to break lose and run. Of
course she is pursued, captured, and brought
back.
All parties assemble around the expectant
couple. A bag of bread is brought forward
BY the woman's relatives and deposited near
ler. In like manner the mans relatives
bring forward bag of meat and deposit it
near him. The mans friends and relatives
low begin to throw presents upon the head
md shoulders of the woman. These pres
snts are of any kind that the donors choose
% give, as articles of clothing, money, trim
lets, ribbons, &c. As soon as thrown they |
Ire quickly snatched off by the woman's |
'elatives and distributed among themselves |
During all this time the couple sit very |
quietly and demurely, not a word spoken |
~ either. When all the presents have been |
brown and distributed the couple now man |
nd wife, arise, the provisions from the bags
re spread, and, just as in civilized life, the |
eremony is rounded off with festival |
Phe festival over the company disperse, and
he gallant groom conducts his bride to his
lome. where they enter upon the tolls and
Of the future.
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Lo9 the Poor Indian.
A NOTABLE MEETING N KoscrUsKo.

Kosciusko Star.
On Monday last quite a number of In
dians could be seen upon our streets, and
curiosity led to inquire into the cause ol
their coming. A reporter of this paper con-
versed with some of them and ascertained
that there was only one town here, of which
Mat Sockey is the chief. All the other
towns in Attala, Leake and Neshoba coun-
ties were expected, but they did not put in
their appearance,
The Sockey town came at the command
of their chief in order to meet Mr.. Bald
win, an attorney at Bolton, Miss, who has
undertaken their case before the Court of
Claims at Washington, and wishes to get
from them power of attorney to act for
them.
1t seems that the United States Govern
ment has not paid the Choctaws for their
lands east of the Mississippi river and that
those of the tribe who gave up their homes
and went to Indian Territory are prosecuting
claim of nearly $3,000,000 before the
United States Court of Claims-Mr. Bald
wins object is to make those Indians east of
the Mississippi river parties to this suit,
that they may share the money, when COLI
lected, and he wants to get their authority
to represent them.
We learn from the Indians that a mum
Der of towns, especially those in Neshoba, are
afraid to agree to receive money or
to commit themselves to anything, lest it be
a trick of the white mans to force them to
go West. They had rather lose the money
than abandon the homes OF their ancestors
in old Mississippi Territory, which the ashes
of their dead render sacred to them.
There are now in Mississippi about 2, 600
Choctaws of all ages and sexes, while in
Indian Territory there are Is, ,000 Thus the
tribe numbers II 900 to-day, strong enough
numerically to command respect, but devoid
of that war-like spirit which rendered the
name Of Pashmetaha illnstrious The name
of the Choctaw nation is Iehabod. It's
glory has departed.
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Bleached White by Fright.
Bradford Times.


While Henry Rosenthal, of Bradford,
was undergoing the troubles consequent
upon his arrest on a charge of arson, from
which he was honorably discharged by the
court at Smethport, last week, his wife was
experiencing tribulations in foreign land
which had tendency to transform her per-
sonal appearance considerably. Long be-
fore her husband was accused of incendia-
rism, Mrs. Rosenthal had embarked to Scot
land to visit her parents, who are still resi-
dents of this country. Itwas while she was
travelling from one town to another in Scot
land that she met with this misfortune;
The train on which she was a passenger
was wrecked, and although she had the good
fortune to escape unharmed, she was called
upon to witness the horrors of the catastro-
phe. About her ON every side men, wo-
men and children lay dead and bleeding,
and the agonizing walls that went up from
those wounded or mourning the fate of
relative worked so severely on her nervous
system that her reason became slightly de-
ranged. For several days she was confined
to her bed, and when she gained sufficient
strength to journey to the home of her pa
rents, the hair on one side of her head had
turned white. The change in her beautiful
black tresses was complete surprise to
Mrs. Rosenthal and her friends, and some
of her acquaintance in several instances
failed to recognize her ON first sight. In
Bradford the iady's hair was the envy of
her female neighbors.
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THE LATE S. W. DALE.
Rrookhaven Ledger. ]

Brookhaven Ledger
/ In the recent address of the Presi-
dent of the Press Convention at Match.
ez, / see that he briefly but touchingly
! speaks of the death of the lamented
and venerable S. w. DALE, of Month
cello. / have thought that a few addi-
tional words in reference to him might
be of interest to your readers, some Of
whom have known him long aud well.
As teacher, printer and editor,
preacher, lawyer and Mason, he was one
of the oldest in the State, and in each
Of these important callings he discharg-
ed his duty faithfully according to the
ability given him; but he sought not
the high places of earth, and the trump
of fame never sounded forth his name.
| learned that he first saw the light in
the then territory of Illinois, about the
year 1914, and he had, therefore, at the
time of his death, nearly reached the
age of seventy years. He came to the
South when a youth and taught school
for some years in this State and Louisi-
ana, varying this occupation by setting
type in different country offices. He
brought to the far South many qualities
well calculated at that early day to pop
ularize him with the people, but he
cared little for popularity. He was
religious man, but had about him none
of the rigid morality of the puritan.
A man of peace, he was ready on all
occasions for a fight; a
temperate man, he was BY no means !
teetotallar, and he did not consider it
to his religion or his poll
tics TO now and then, and sometimes
join his friends in beaded |
bumper of old bourbon.
He soon turned his attention to theol- !
ogy and law. He did not preach regu-
larly, but was ever ready to respond
cheerfully and gratuitously to every
draft made upon his sacred functions.
To preach, to visit the sick, to comfort
the afflicted, to marry the young, to
cheer the gloom of age, to bury the
dead, he was ever ready. Neither did
be ever practice law regularly. He
had no law books and no office his cases
we're few and of the sporadic type, yet
f any poor man or woman was unable
10 fee lawyer they were sure of IA
Torable response from him, and what
ever law knowledge he had stored away
m the shelves of his memory was freely
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OVER THE STATE.

The Waterford Express says: "That SOM
fiend, who has more than once attempted t.
throw the trains of the Chicago, st. Loui
and New Orleans railroad of, tried thi
game again on last Saturday, at Sims cut
by placing the trucks Of push car on the
track, in order to throw off the mail tSair
that comes south at o'clock. When the
engine struck the trucks they lifted tht
trucks of the engine from the track, but
fortunately the train was checked before the
drivers left the track, and no sserious harm
was done, only the detention of the train fol
nearly three hours.
The Kosciusko Messenger regrets TO learn
that Mr.. Harry Mullens was accidentally
drowned in Sunhower river, Sharkey county
ON the 9th inst. He was a brother of the
Can't. w. II. MuIlens, of Attala county, and
was during the war, gallant soldier OF the
famous 10Th Mississippi Regiment, and was
several times wounded.
DIR. ]. R. Ford, of Clay county, sends to
the Chicksaw Messenger, sample of White
Russian Oats, growing on his farm this
year. The heads are from "a to 30 inches in
length, and the grain is very heavy The
9. ntleman who bought the oats thinks the
Doctor viii make hundred bushels per
acre.
The Natchez Democrat is panied to an
nounce the death of Mrs. Mary D. Richard-
son, widow of the late DR.. Robert E. Rich
ardson, which sad event occurred in last
week in Natchex The deceased was ma
tive of Claiborne county, and was in the
56th year other age. She was most estima-
bic christian lady, and had the esteem OF all
who knew her.,
The BrookhaTen Ledger says that on
Wednesday evening of last week, Mrs J. A.
Hoskins rendered reception to their neice,
Miss Lizzie, and those who were present de
clare it was joyous occasion. Music, dane
ing. promenading and refreshments were
small part of the evenings attractions. The
visiting young ladies present were Miss Ilz-
z;e Hoskins. of Lake Station; Misses Rosa
and Mary Richardson, Of Louisiana; Miss
Mary Norman and the Misses Matthews, OF
Hazlehurst; Miss Mollie zenor, Of Louis
lana, and Miss Stevenson, Of New Orleans.
The Greenwood Flag says that last satur-
day evening, as a thunder shower came Up,
Billy Fossett, a negro living two mics
from town, started home riding mrle- He
lad almost arrived at home when he Vas
ztr,,ck bv lightning. and both be and mule
vera killea. His clothing caught On hre,
Int IS was soon extinguished b. some parties
who we're near By.
Saw. the Tupelo Journal John Dalton.
tormsrlv : citizen 81 this county, was q.
-s;oned s / at the recent term Of the fedeEal
co1rt 81 i Oxford upon a charge ol counter
fa;tinp 70 which he pleaded guilty, pus 0e
have not learned the ssnlence pa ssed upon
him He wns arrested somewhere 2
49,. 1-sssss. where he hfa gops With ne
s,sw of sIndInz he delec.iFss
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man and o.domineering in hls.course INA
he had acquired the reputation of 9
bully and was generally feared. The
doctor, for some cause had taken offence
at Dale and sought him cane in hand,
at the printing office. He found him
with shirt sleeves rolled above the
elbows, busily seetting type, He
menacingly accosted him, saying: "Sir,
l have come here to call you to account,
and | intend to chastise you!" All the
teachings of Christ were forgotten. The
tiger in his jungle was aroused. "The
devil you do" exclaimed Dale, in a
voice of thunder, as he whirled round
from his case; "then sir, l will put you
out of doors" and suiting the action to
the words, he seized his astonished an
tagonist and thrust him violently out
On the pavement. The doctor walked
away, and said afterwards that he
"would never again attack mad bull
in printing Office"
In 1870 he invented and made a
curious printing press, original and
unique in design and structure. With
this press he established himself and
family in the old female seminary
buildings and commenced the publica-
ton of the Monticello Advocate, a
curiosity in the newspaper world, both
in its mechanical and literary make up.
There he continued to have his Office
and residence up to the terrible tornado
that terminated his career and oblit-
Grated the Advocate. He did not in
fact own the house, though he had lived
there for years and called it his own,
and in the absence of all legal claimants
everybody finally conceded that it be-
lenged to him and also that it should
be exempt from taxation, thereby free
ing it from the usual burden of earthly
possessions and sure enough the moss
covered seminary was never assessed to
and the.good parson in his old
age had comfortable home that was
never darkened by the tax-gatherer.
He had no money, and did not want
any more than the necessities Of each
day required. Like Goldsmith's Par
son, he was passing rich with forty
pounds year" He had no enemies,
for he had outlived them, and there
was never anything about him to cali
forth the envy of his cotemporaries.
He did not, and perhaps could not,
the intellectual luminaries that
surrounded him.
As the world goes, his life was not al
success, but on the contrary failure.
He neither achieved fame nor aecumu-
lated money in any of his numerous oc-
but he was always contented,
cheerful and happy, and to call such
life failure is not to understand the
of happiness. He had good
name, which was all be wanted. He
made no effort to climb the rugged
steep where flames proud temple shines
afar,D and no millionaire was ever so
well contented in his gorgeous palace as
the simple printer-parson In his alOwly
matched cottage He left surviving
him his widow a most excellent lady,
several small children and Stephen
very promising youth, who, with his
mother, is about to re-establish the Ad- |
Yocate on q permanent basis.
He was fond Of public speaking, but
he was no orator. He was usually too
loud and vehement for that, and he
beat the air too much with BIS great
hands and powerful arms. and then be
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vennors Predictions for the Summer
.ennor's Weather Bulletin for SIay.l

Vennors Weather Bulletin for May
/. A season that will well merit the
designation of cool to cold and wet, gem
orally. Not that there will not be terms
Of summer warmth and even intense heat
for periods, but, rather, that these last
will appear in the retrospect as of but
comparative significance, or as the cx-
ceptions to the general rule.
2. The season will be marked by not
only great precipitation, but by mug
giness of atmosphere generally, caused
by the reeking condition of the earth
and the long continuance of clouded
sky. This will result in periods Of ex-
treme sultriness and heavy weather,
during which the thunder and hail
storms will occur. In other words, the
summer will be the reverse of clear and
dry.
3. There is a likelihood of June and
August frosts in Northern, Western
and Southern sections, and general
cold wave may occur toward midsum-
mer.
f. The autumn months will continue
moist. September will probably give
rains and floods in Western Canada
and in Western and Southern sections
of the United States. October will be
much the same, with early cold and
snow falls. November will begin the
winter of 1882-'S3--a winter likely to
be memorable on account of its excep-
tionally heavy snow-falls and very cold
weather over the whole Northern Hem
isphere. That "cold and wet sn 2rmer
is invariably followed by Evnd
stormy winter" is a truth now D. foell
proven and borne out by the testimony
of past records that we cannot lightly
put it aside and if we have good and
sufficient grounds for predicting the
former-as we most assuredly have at
this time-it is,but right that we should
warn the people of the latter in good
season.
Fifth and last-The approaching sea-
son will probably be the first of
couple of wet summers, and, as 18S2is
so is 1888 likely TO be.
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was too long and would not stop when
he was done. He was a speaker Of the
muscular type, yet have heard him
make some effective addresses. A few
years ago a beautiful little boy, a son of
Hon. E. 0. Cowart, died. and Mr.. Dale
was callrd upon to go over the river to
attend the Obsequies at the house of the
afnieted parents. He at once laid down
MS type stick and Obeyed the call.
When ne arrived laAge assemblage had
gathered in the yard and house, and on
the gallery stood the little coffin cover.
ed with the emblematie flowers of Spring.
MIR. Dale stood at the head of the still.
dead boy and for half an hour delivered
one OF the most touchingly beautiful
funeral addresses have ever heard
he made no gestures, his voice had lost
all its usual harshneSs and fell in low.
sad music on the ear. Every head was
bowed and tears came to eyes unused
to weep. l never knew the plain utter
ance of simple words to produce so
deep and profound an impression.
In politics he was radical democrat
of the straightest sect, without shadow
or variableness of turning and he did not
see how anybody could be anything else
and be a patriot. In religion he was
equally tenacious in his views. He be-
lieved steadfastly in the tenets of the
great church to which he belonged, and
he never felt certain that anybody
would be saved without immersion; but
he was a devout Christian, loving God
and his fellow-men.
During his long life he had known
but poverty, and oftentimes
actual want, but with the wolf glaring
in at the door he was never heard to
and it mattered not whether
sun or tempest ruled the hour. He
seemed to have no desire for the luxury
and grandeur Of the world He did not
think that this life, at best, amounted
to much; the unending hereafter was
the all in all to him. His treasures
were laid up in mansions not made with
hands, and to them he was travelling,
and he did not care how rough the road
was. In that terrible death-dealing
when his house was crashing
around him he exclaimed, Goods will be
done~ and if he could | believe he
would have uttered, as he had often
done, with his own peculiar intonation.
"God moves in mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps on the sea,
And rides upon the storm"
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POEM By JOHN F. H. CLAIBORNE.
THE LOVED WHO wExr BEFORE.

She came-a poor, weak woman came-along
darkling road,
And toitered, as she struggled on, altho' the
road was broad.
The shrieking winds, like demon yeIIs, fell on
her startled ear,
And ghastly forms and mocking eyes be-
numbed her soul with fear.
.My frienis have gone before, she said, "and
left me here alone,
A-weary-oh, how weary, to reach the prom
ised home."
.roh, yondsr is river, it runneth swift and
deep;
wonder where's the boatman, who doth the
ferry keep?
III give him all this yellow gold ID cross me
Ger the stream,
And land me on those shining sands the dark
waves roll between.
.sNo yellow gold" n voice replied, that chilled
her very breath,
"Ayaileth here-this is the boundary of Life
the fated River Of Death ~
She cast from her the worthless dross. and
bade the world farewell,
Fiih bore her midst the seething waves. up
from the brink of He'll.
Her prayer was heard-a voice came near-'tis
Angel minstrels sing,
oh, Grave, where is thy vietory-0h, Death,
where is thy sting p
Aud now she stands, white-robed and safe,
upoa the golden shore
AMI those who gather round her are the lov'd
who went before.
F. H. CLAIBoRxE
BAY Sr. LOUIS, June y.
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CONSOLATION or ONE WHO D1ssEI1rvEs

In the bitter waves Of woe,
Beaton and tossed about
By the sulien winds that blow
From the desolate shores of doubt,
Where the anchors that faith has cast
Are dragging in the gale,
| am qdietly holding fast
To the things that can not fail;
! know that right is right;
That il is not COED to lie;
That love is better than spite,
And neighbor than spy
/ know that passion needs
The lash of sober mind:
l know that generous deeds
Some sure reward viii ind;
That the rulers must obey;
That the giyers shall increase
That duty lights the way;
For the beautiful feet of peace
In the darkest night of the year,
When the stars have gone out,
That courage is better than fear,
That faith is truer than doubt
And fierce though the fends may fight,
And long though the angels hide.
| know that truth and right
Have the universe on their side /;
And that somewhere beyond the stars,
Is love that is better than fate
When the night unlocks her bars,
/ shall see him and / will wait
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1t will be observed that the highest per-
centage of voting was done in Indiana,
where the astonishing number of 81 per
cent. of all the votes in the State were
polled. That was the place the genius Of
Star-Route Dorsey was brought to bear.
That is the ground on which Fitzpatrick had
said the bloody shirt, with money, would
be effective. Comparing the vote of that
State with the average and with the vote
in any other State and it seems in the high
est degree improbable that Indiana properly
polled any such number of ballots. The
ratio in that State exceeded by 10 per cent.
that of any other State. The lowest per-
centage of voting is shown in Rhode Is
land, only SO per cent. of whose voters
went to the polls. The average in the New
England States is so low as to excite sur
prise that in section which claims SO much
intelligence and political capacity SO large
a number do not even care to take part in
the selection of the President and other
Louis Republican.
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A Protective Tariff-The South.
SPEECH OF HON. W. R. MORRISON REPREsEN
TATIvE FROM ILLINoIs.)

fSPEECH OF HON. W. r. MORRISON REPRESEN-
TATIvE FROM ILLINOIS.
This paternal policy now affects great
solicitude for new industries. 1t asks us to
believe it would develop new industries, or
old industries in new homes. aud is especially
concerned about the undeveloped resources
of the new South. IF the South needs pro-
lection from Old England, who will protect
her her from the New? Who from Penn
sylvanias one-hundred-year old and long
established industries and her capital accu-
mulated from the bounties of century
When capital invested in manufactures
ceases to be pensioned.on on our own people, it
will successfully contend for the worlds
commerce, depending, it may be, upon the
difference in cost of one-eighth of cent per
yard or one-twentieth of a cent per pound.
Then capital will avoid waste and must go to
the cotton and the ore. The manufacturing
industries of the country, chiefly in the
older States, are nearly or quite equal to
the production of what all our people can
use. If it be true that manufactures to
prosper or survive must be protected in our
own markets, as protectionists assert, and
they cannot therefore compete in the worlds
markets, what is to become of our old Gin
fant industries" in Massachusetts, and Penn
sylvania when new infants" are born in
Georgia, Alabama, Illinois and Iowa? Who
then, will pay for Massachusetts, school
houses and the musical instruments upon
which the honorable chairman Judge Kel-
ley] has his laboring people playing when
ever he does not have them starving? The
anxiety of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
to cut off their own markets in the interest
ofIthe new South is another evidence thatpro-
lection quickens inventive genius and de
velops resources for securing Congressional
legislation.