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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-05-03
Revenue Reform


We have published an extract from
the speech of Mr.. Muldrow in favor of
a TariHfor Revenue, in the House of
Representatives, on the 18th of April.
His whole argument is mastery, and we
would publish it entire, if our space per-
mitted. Revenue Reform has come to
the front as living question of the hour
1t is one phase of the issue between the
People and the Monopolists, SO clearly
presented in the article which we
reproduced in our last number from the
Bonneville Pleader. Protection" is
another form Of expressing the robber-
plan of taking from one class to enrich
another. Never was promulgated SCUM
der principle than was expressed by the
highest tribunal of the country, that for
the Government to take the property,
or the money, of one citizen to bestow it
on another 10 aid the latter in his pri-
yate enterprises, Is none the less robbie
ry because done under the forms of law
and called taxation. In view of the ex-
actions Of the present tariff, the New
York Herald, an independent organ of
opinion, above fattering men or parties,
well says that there is good reason for the
increase of vitality which revenue refor-
mers all over the country, are Displaying
the persistence of Congress in wringing
one hundred and fifty millions Of dollars
a year from the taxpayers more than is
needed for all the legitimate expenses
of the federal government, SIS an issue
''for a practical appeal to the people
(which it is easily conceivable may
'throw all the present political organi-
cations into confusion. And the unde-
enable purpose for which Congress
''insists upon the exaction-to have the
"means Of jobbery Cor robbery ofevery
''kind in Acknowledgements the
Occasion for public protest.
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PIKE COUNTY.

The unfortunate victims of this terrible
calamity are, so far as we have heard, as
follows J. z. Welch, w. j. Fortinberry.
w. S. Eilzey, Jeptha Simmons, Alexander
Green, Raymond Afford, Mrs. ShillIngs,
Eli Afford, Ellis Varnad0, Jordan Dykes
and Rhoda Smith, colored woman. These
persons lost their houses, fences, timber and
some stock. Nearly all of them received
some personal Injuries, and the only partic-
ularS we have obtained are in regard to Mr..
Fortinberry and Mr.. Afford.
DR.. W. T. Simmons was at Mr.. Fortin-
berry's on a professional visit when the
storm occurred and just previous to that
awful visitation, Mrs. Fortlnberry had given
birth to child--a girl. Several ladies
were present, and manifested some alarm at
the threatening elements. The force of the
wind struck the house, first break
ing the glasses, then taking off
the roof after which the walls
fell in. DR.. Simmons knew no more for
some time, for he was knocked senseless by
falling timbers. After he became conscious,
be found himself under the debris
of the building, and with powerful exer-
tions extricated himself Then he began a
search among the ruins to see who was hurt.
He found Mrs. Fortinberry still IN bed, and
down, and she was slightly bruised. One
lady had the infant in her arms, and was
seated in rocking chair when the storm
came. DR.. Simmons found her and the
babe wedged in among the timbers, and it
took about 10 minutes hard work to extri-
cate her. When she was released from her
perilous condition she was found to be
bruised considerably, but the infant was not
injured at all. Mrs. Fortinberry and the
ladies present were injured also, but not Sc
riously.
Mr. Raymond Affords family were all
injured, and Mrs. Afford seriously, by some
gashes on her forehead and other parts of
her head. She remained unconscious from
Tuesday night until last Friday, when she
realized her condition. The fright and
wounds have had terrible effect upon her.
Her condition is regarded as being very crit
ical.
A mule was blown some distance from
Mr.. Affords place, and a broad-axe was
taken up by the wind and carried 80 yards
A dead crane was found in the track of the
storm with its neck and both legs broken
Other dead birds were also found.
Farm fowls were carried off and feathers
scattered in all directions Some Of the |
fowls have since been found and they pre- |
sent the appearance Of having been picked |
or deprived of their plumage. Bark was |
taken offthe young pines and oaks and the /
large timber all blown down. Some of the |
largest trees after they had fallen show signs |
where they have been forced by the wind, |
as though they had been dragged a distance |
of from five to fifteen feet. In some places |
the grass had been actually torn up by the
roots.
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rhe Mississippi River ouestIOn.


Mr.. Edward Atkinson, the large
minded and philosophical citizen Of
Massachusetts,, appears before the pub
lie in a communication in the \. I.
Herald with an able argument in sup
port of the proposition :" that the
control OF the Mississippi river if under
taken at all, must be undertaken by the
national government, and cannot be
compassed by the States, the
river must be treated as unit-that
it cannot be compassed under divided
or separate system Of administration"
This able paper brings to mind a memo
rial sent to Congress by Hon j. l..
Alcorn in 1866 Immediately after the
war. The position taken by him was in
complete accord with that Of Dir. At
kinson, who speaks rather as a post
eventual prophet, not as one who saw
In advance. In the light Of the recent
disastrous food the memorial Of Gen.
Alcorn, in 1866, praying the immediate
adoption of measures for building the
Mississippi river levees, reads like pro-
phecy, and shows how thoroughly con-
versant the memorialist was with the
levee system, and the magnitude Of the
interests involved in maintaining it,
which he argued could be adequately
done BY the general government alone.
lis author was one Of the earliest pro-
moters Of the levee system; and prob
ably its most active laborer. He had
administered its affairs in his own coun-
| ty, and was for years the head Of the
Leyee Board Of the entire oyerfowed
district. He had been afforded ample
opportunity to test, and TO study, the
local system, and we infer that he had
come to have little faith in it from his
veto Of the bill organizing "Levee Dis
trict No. 1" when he was Governor, in
| 1870. The insuficiency Of the syste m
/ had been shown by his memorial four
years before. From that paper we
quote as follows:
THAT the work of rec0nstrusting the
Mississippi leyee l. one of great magnitude.
That & labor of ten years from 1880 to
| 1860, in the effort, with the donations OF
! the General Government, added to several
millions Of money derived from local taxa
ton, all faithfully applied, and yet the task
barely accomplished at the outbreak OF the
war; forces the unmistakable conviction
that the effort now being made by the local
authorities Is but the feeble attempt of
feeble and impoverished people to accom-
plsh by industry great public work which,
without the nations generous help, they
can never perform
The wonder is that the prophecy,
that the feeble and diSjointed efforts Of
the separate local authorities would
avail but little, was not sooner verified.
There has been at last terrible demon
stration Of its truth.
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state Prohibition Convention.
CALLED TO MEET IN JACKSON JULY 9TH,
1882.

The State Prohibition Executive Com
mittee met in the city ofJackson on Thurs
day, the 9th, at u NJ The committee was
called to order by Col. W. L. Nugent, the
Chairman, who stated that the members
were invited to meet to consider the ques-
ton of a State Convention. Letters from
different parts of the State were read, urg-
ing that the Convention be called at an early
date On motion State Prohibition Con-
vention was called to meet IN the city Of
Jackson on the Goth day ofJuly, 1882,
The following were appointed a commit
ted to issue an address to the people on the
subject OF the State Convention w. L.
Nugent, J. w. c. Watson, c. B. Galloway.
1t was also resolved that the friends of
prohibition in each county be requested to
meet on the LIST Monday in July and appoint
a full list of delegates to the State Conyen-
ton.
A resolution was adopted inviting Gov,
J. ?. St. John, of Kansas and Gov. A, II.
Colquitt, of Georgia, to attend and address
the State Convention.
All papers throughout. the State were
invited to publish these proceedings.
w. L. NUGENT, Chairman.
{ B GALLOWAY Secretary
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Monticello.

A representative of TIE CLARION visited
Monticello-or what was left Of the town
on Thursday last. The essential particulars
of the cyclone have already been published,
but they cannot convey correct idea of
the extent of the destruction, and of the
necessity for immediate and generous relief
We found DIR. Geo, A. Teunisson, who lives
near Monticello, in charge of the suffering
Drs. Bennett, Maybin, Rowan, Butler,
Weathersby, Jones, and others rendered
prompt assistance, and we were pleased to
hear the services OF our young Dr. Hunter
highlY spoken of
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PLANTERS have had enough to dis
hearten them the present season. The
early Spring was one Of those peculiar
seasons described by Dickens, undeci-
ded whethcrto step backward into Win
ter or forward into Summer, inclining
now 10 one and now to both at once,
ho and cold, wet and dry, bright and
lowering, in the compass Of day; and
when Spring had fairly leaped out Of the
lap Of Winter, rain succeeded rain, re
tardjng atI the operations Of the farm,
and checking the growth of everything
but weeds and grass. The memory of
the oldest planter cannot recall a gloom
Ter prospect.
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A High-handed Proceeding.

Mr. Mayor Shakespeare, Of New Or
leans, has caught the inspiration Of the
federalists who passed the Scdition law
under the rule of the elder Adams. 1t
authorized the suppression ofspeech and
Of the press by squeIching newspapers,
and furnishing by fine and Imprisonment
persons who INDUCED in what the pub
lie functiunarics of the time deemed too
severe. criticism Of their conduct. The
people in their wrath expelled from
office the authors of the law, and its
very title has been term Of reproach
from that day to this. The Mayor of
NewOrleans, having no fear Of the exam
pie, and without the reverence for the
constitutional guarantee Of the freedom
of the press expressed by Gen. Hancock
when he was commander of the military
district of Texas, took it upon himself
to order the summary suppression Of a
newspaper called the Mascot for car
featuring and otherwise deriding and
censuring some Of the public officials of
the city. 1t was weak, trashy affair
at most, but contained nothing offensive
to public decency. Its conductors may
have rendered themselves liable to
prosecution for libel, or a demand for
personal redress by the parties ag-
grieved, bat it contained nothing to JUS
tify the high-handed preceding Of the
Mayor-a fact which he soon discovered.
Failing in this expedient some of
the complainants have obtained an in
junction restraining the publishers from
continuing their assaults.
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The Terrible Hurricane in South
Mississippi on the Oath.
At Silver Greek.

SILVER CREEK, LAWRENCE COUNTY,
April q, 1882. !
EDITORS CLARION The cyclone which
started west of this place, know not where,
passed Silver Greek Saturday oath, at III
o'clock a. NJ, from Monticell6 It swept
everything in its route. At this place il
seemed to rise somewhat, but destroying the
following buildings DR.. Rowan's, A. Y.
Nelson's store house (no goods in it,, not
quite complete, and w. w. Williams resi-
deuee. II decended again in Silver Greek
swamp with the same force as that at
Monticello, and as far as we have heard it
has been very destructive.
Your friend, J. J. D.
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AT ME-. OLIVE.
WEssoN. Mss. April y
Your friend,

WEssoN, Mss, April y, 1882.
EDITOR HERALD: A letter dated the oath,
just received from my brother-in-law, Stan
ley Gilbert, Esq, of Mt. Olive, Covington
county, gives the particulars of the cyclone
of last Saturday which swept through this
section on its course OF destruction and de-
vastation. The storm burst upon them
with sudden and terrible fury, and almost
instantly his fathers place was in ruins;
not building, panel of fence or tree was
left standing. All the members of the fam
ily consisting of Rev. Jos. Gilbert, wife AID
three small children, and himself were in
the house, none of whom were killed, and
only Ed. Gilbert aud wife slightly wounded /;
il seemed as if the end of all things had
come, and to add to their deplorable con
dition they We're in a perfect torrent OF rain
for about an hour, without even board
above them for shelter; finally aid reached
them and they were conveyed TO 4 neighb0rs
house about 4 mile away.
One OF their horses in a stable that was
blown down; escaped unhurt, while another
in a pasture was killed.
The places of Mr.. Allen johnson, J. \.
Gilbert, EYander Calhoun aud some others
in that immediate -neighborhood, suffered
the same terrible fate as that of Rev. Mr..
Gibert's.
Some of the places are such complete
wreck that they will doubtless be abandoned
their owners.
As far as could be learned in either djrec-
ton the fury of the storm had nos abated
tn the least, and death, desolation md
destruction was left to mark its path.
Only one person reported killed, Mrs
Sullivan, and Mrs. Chain badly wounded.
Yours truly,
JNo. MANGUM.
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Rsfuuding the Cotton Tax.

Bills have been Introduced in both
Houses Of Congress, the present session,
as they have been periodically for the
last thirteen years, to refund the cotton
tax, sometimes in one form and some
times another. If the tax is refunded,
which We apprehend will never be done
inasmuch as the Northern represen-
tatiyes of both parties, without ex-
ception, are committed against it,
the only just plan is to restore it
to the persons who paid the tax, or their
legal representatives. To make it
common fund and apply it to general
use, is to take private property for pub
lie use, under the robber rule,
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Our news columns contain repeated
notices of sudden death from the poison
of trichinae eaten with swine meat. The
following is the latest case reported:
ATCHIsoS, KAN, April 26.-A case of
triehinosis is reported on a farm a few miles
south Of Clyde, Kansas. On the 23d a
farmer named Adam Bollinger killed large
fat hog. A part of the tenderloin was cool
ed for supper and heartily partaken Of
During the night the family was taken with
severe vomiting and burning in the
stomach. DR.. James Burgner, Of CLYDE.
was called, who examined the patients and
pronounced the trouble trichina. A son IL
years old died during the night, and but
short while after medical aid arrived.
The rest Of the family, tour children, are in
a dying and suffering condition, with no
hopes for them, while Mrs. BolIinger recov-
cred, having eaten sparsely, wherein she
finds herself childless and q widow. An
examination Of part Of the hog showed the
trichina TO be 50 plentiful that their move
ments are visible to tie naked eye.
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AGAIN, while Alc0rn was Governor, some
twelve years ago, a piano was purchased for
the Mansion, said to have been the most
magnificent in the State, and costing the
over-burdened taxpayers about 81, 200.
When the whites came into power the piano
was sold as a useless appendage, or rather
one that should be supplied by the occupant.
Does it not look significant when large sums
of money are again invested in the same
way, and paid for out Of the pockets of the
people? We do not cry down the repair of
the mansion, but are opposed to this whole
sale expenditure of the peoples money for
ANYBODY, be he President or Governor be
he worthy or unworthy, unless there is
some equivalent return for it. "Willful
waste oft makes woful want" Kinds
County Gazatte.
Our usually well informed, and always
well intentioned, neighbor has got it all
wrong. There was no appropriation to
purchase a piano while Governor Alcorn
occupied the Mansion. A manufacturer
placed one there on trial, and probably
for display, but it was not furnished by
the State. As for the recent expendi-
ture, a committee of members of the
Legislature on investigation, ascertained
the building to be destitute of furniture
and housekeeping essentials, and made
what was considered an economical ex-
penditure for such an establishment.
As long as the State stipulates to pro-
vide a furnished residence for the
Governor, it is right that it should be
done creditablv.
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Value of the Hay Crop.

The hay crop Of 1879 ranks next after
corn and wheat, and before cotton.
The figures are: Indian corn, value,
s679,00O,0 900; wheat, s474,000,0OO;
hay, 100000; cotton, s280,000,-
600; oats, $3.50, 900, 900 potatoes, $751;
100000; tobacco, $50, 100000 Anoth-
er surprising fact is that hay is a much
better paying crop than is generally
supposed-one Of the very best paying
of all crops in proportion to the amount
of labor it requires. The hay crop of
1879 was estimated to be worth S1438
per acre, while the corn crop was worth
only $1055.
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AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Graniteville Is. O. Manu-
featuring Company, on Thursday last, it was
stated that the net profits of the company,
which owns two cotton mills were Sl79, 399
last year, this being nearly 30 per cent. of
its eapital.-Exehange.
There is no other industry in the
South that pays onc-third as much. 1t
shows that Southern manufacturing
can prosper without the aid of an uncon-
stitutional robber tariff which discrimi-
mates against 81 per cent. of the popu-
lation of the country to enrich the re-
naming 3 per cent. The South has all
the elements Of a successful manufacture
ing system within her own confines, the
raw material, cheap labor, fuel and
water, and she only wants the tariff taken
off the manufacturing machinery which
she is compelled to buy, and on which
she is paying tribute to the eastern
for whose enrichment the
present exorbitant duties on steel and
iron are kept up.
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Sneak Thief Legislation.
sedalia Democrat.

Sedalia Democrat.
The single gold standard will not lei sill
yer alone. In every clandestine manner
they are scheming how best to again dis
franchise it. The other day a bill was
Struggled through in the Senate which viz
tually demonetized it as it was stealthily de-
monetized in 1873. So unfair and 80 per-
sistent is this warfare that the friends of the
standard silver dollar have also organized.
They have agreed that they will antagonize
the interests of national banks if attempts
are made to stop the coinage of silver, and
will propose as substitute for Withdrawing
silver certificates the withdrawal of bank
notes and to substitute gold and silver GER
tifcates. The coinage committee has de-
cided to make square issue against the
banks if an attempt is made to interfere
with the silver interests. 1t is the only
way. If those who favor single coinage
will not Be content to submit their interests
to a fair vote in Congress and have them
fairly settled there, they should be resisted
in other ways. The people of the country,
by a large majority, have declared in favor
Of silver, and they will not permit it. dis
ffanehisement through any system of sharp
practice or chicanerF
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
REPoRTED BIZ G. c. CAMPBELL.

MONDAY. May i, 1882
The following cases were Affirmed;
3933-Er Parts. A. Y. b. Thomas, CLERK.
3a4i-J. r. Maysou, v E. G Banks.
3962-Wm Burke, minor V. Shaw 4 Son.
The following cases were Reversed and Re
maadsd:
8s19-C. St. L. & N. o. r. R. Co, v. J. s.
Jones.
3SS0-Naney Hubbard, H. A. Flynt.
8o06-C. St. L. & n. o. Il. r. Co., V. Jno. W.
Scurr.
3909-Henry c. Bate, v Alberta Incisa de Cam
erana-
39l0-Minerys F. Musgrove, V. City:of Jackson.
S929-C. st L. < n Q. Z. L. Co., V. W. A. Jar
rett ct al
396S-A. Goldman, ct al v. J, c. Page, ct al.
3974-Margaret J. Lake, V. Robt Williams, ct
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ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE.

Hon. s. Gwin, Auditor Public Accounts,
Sir: In reply to your communication of this
date. I will say, that in my opinion, since
the repeal by the Legislature of the pint law,
it is not lawful for those having unexpired
licenses to sell by the pint, to sell under
them. A license to sell liquor is not a con-
tract, and may be revoked by the State
whenever it see proper to do it.
The only question about which there can
be any doubt, is whether the Legislature has
revoked unexpired licenses. think they
have been revoked. Druggists cannot sell
liquor, except oy taking out a regular sa-
loon license, or one to sell in quantity not
less than one gallon. They stand upon the
same footing with other persons.
Respectfully,
Il G. iyATcHINns- Aftr- Genars1
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A REPORT of of one the South Carroll
ma election cases viii be found in another
column. Itshows how easily testimony
was manufactured to procure conviction.
For sufficient reason, the case was dis
missed. Its just to say that the trials
seem to have been conducted with fair
ness and impartiality blythe Court, with
a motive more to vindicate the majesty
of the law. and inspire a wholesome re-
spect for it, than to punish yindietiveIy.
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7. c. CATcHINes. Atty. General.

President Pro Tenn. Davis, of the Senate,
created laugh At his own expense in the
Senate the other day. The japanese Iadem-
nifty Fund Bill was up. and, being objected
to, it vas consented that it might go over
without prejudice President Davis said,
..That goes over without prejudice; call the
next case For moment be apparently
thought himself back on the bench once
more.
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WE had the pleasure of visit yesterday
from John \. Wheeler, Esq, of Cleveland,
Ohio who, with his accomplished lady,
have been spending few months in the
South, and are now homeward bound
When this writer visited Cleveland in the
crowded time of the Grand Encampment
OF knights Templar, August, 1877, it was
his good fortune to be invited to the home
OF Sir 1t. Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler
visited the Lunatic Asylum yesterday, and
were most favorably impressed with all the
appointments of that model institution
ana especially with the courtesy Of Drs
Mitchell and Neville.
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WE see by the Congressional Record
that Mr.. Manning, of Mississippi. on
the 22d ult., introduced an important
bill to define the jurisdiction of the
Circuit and District Courts of the Uni
ted States in certain cases. It was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary
of which Mr.. Manning is a member.
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Bills have been introduced in the
Lower House Of Congress to abolish
taxes on tobacco; to appropriate ST.
600, 600 for a Presidential Mansion at
Washington and to appoint new Ms
sissippi river commission.
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Col. John A. Bl air, Of Tupelo, will deliv-
er the annual Grafton at the Decoration of
the soldiers graves in Aberdeen, on Tuesday,
May 9th. The Examiner says the ladies of
the Association have been fortunate in Sc
curing q speaker 50 talented, 50 polished and
80 brilliant for that occasion.
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Our Nicksburg neighbor, the Com
mercjal, has removed to more commo-
dious quarters on Crawford street-an
evidence Of increasing prosperity for
our able and enterprisjng contemporary
upon which We congratulate il.