The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-01-25

ExrERED AT The PosT-OgrIcE At JAcKsol
As SEeoxD-cLAss MATTER
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Mr.. john G. SULLIVAN has been ap
pointed Postmaster at StarkyiIle.
There can be no permanent nationa
banking system without a perpetua
bonded debt
P. Fl. HALE has been appointed post
master at King, and NJ. R. Jagers, Zior
Hill, Mississippi.
THE Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland
and Lower Mississippi and its tribu
taries are on a rise.
The Legislature of South Carolina
has passed a general law restraining
stock from running at large.
COUNSEL are delivering their argu-
menls in the Guiteau case, and the
trial will conclude this week
THE Meridian Homestead is confident
that the whole line of the road from
Meridian to New Orleans will be com
pleted inside Of twelve months.
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The Langley cotton factory, located
in Atlanta, has declared semi-annual
dividend Of $3.50 per share-over 20
per cent. for the year. The net earn
ings for the year were % per cent.
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The prevailing sentiment seems to
be that effective means should be pro-
vided for securing to the patrons Of
railroads reasonable freights and fares,
without imposing onerous exactions
upon them.
The perpetuation of the national
banking system means the perpetuation
of the national debt, and that means
a continuation of the unjust legislation
in favor of the wealthy and privileged
classes.
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The politicians are abusing Hon. Mr..
Ellis, Of Louisiana, for saying that the
Democratic party, in his State, is dis
integrating and moribund. They had
better 90 to work and remove the
causes which brought it to that cOndi-
ton.
THE Supreme Court of Alabama has
decided that sections 404-5 and 6 Of the
Code of that State which authorize the
tax collectors of the several counties to
give a separate bond for the collection
of State taxes and general county taxes
Is unconstitutional and void.
Mr.. EDMUNDs is tk.leader
of the Republican party the
United States Senate. Il said in the
Senate the other day IL "the ssfe
time to deal with a corporation
you have it in your hand" II
said wiser thing. Remember ffaS
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SENATOR SHERMAN in his speech
iustifying the demonetization of silver
in the interest of the privileged classes,
said that there had been no coinage of
silver from 1853 to 1873. This gave
rise to a controversy between him and
Senator Vest, who disproved the state
ment by facts from the official records.
There was no argument in Senator Sher-
mans statement against silver coinage,
even if it had been true, but it hap
pened to be the reverse of truth.
MEMPHIS AVALANCHE: The unpIece-
dented mid-winter flood in the Mississippi
threatens much mischief to the cotton plan
tations between Memphis and Vicksburg
In Issaquena county great alarm is felt on
account of the precautions condition of the
embaDkments. Long sections of the ievee
in that county are already on the brink OF
the cayipg banks aud the high water i
rapidly undermining it. The telegraph
line of the Grenville and Vicksburg COM
panv. including the Office at Ben LomGnd,
have been swallowed up in the raging tide
ANUMBER of billsapportioning Repre-
sentatives in Congress have been intro
duced but there seem to be no disposition
to hurry themup. Numerous Leglsla-
lures are in session awaiting the acton OF
Congress, but unfortunately there are
MANY members of that body who are
interested in keeping the Districts as
they are, unchanged, until the Legisla-
lures adjourn, and We apprehend 1T will
be months before an apportionmeHnt bill
is passed.
TOUCHING the ballot law, it would
guarantee an honest count if 1t was
so amended as to provide that the
ballots shall be marked with the num-
Der of the order in which they are re-
ceived, and that the same number shall
be placed opposite to the voters name
in the voting list of the precinct
Each voters ballot could then be iden-
tilted, and it could be determined
whether it had been altered or tamper-
ed with.
u. S. SENATOR Brown, of Georgia,
offered the following resolution in the
Z. S. Senate, on the 18th:
Resolred, That it is inexpedient and I'M
wise To contract the currency by the with !
drawaI from circulation of what are known as
silver certificates. or To discontinue or fur
ther restrict the coinage of silver.
To the point and sensible. But If the
silver bill coinage had not been proper