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Resignation Of Commissioner
kAunl.

Special to the Times Democrat.
WASHINGTON, April 28,-Mr. Green
B. Raum rendered his resignation as
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
to Secretary Folger this afternoon,
TO take effect on next Monday. The
fact that Commissioner Raum pre-
medtated the step has been a matter
of quiet talk among few of his most
intimate friends for several weeks,
but the sudden announcement to- day
caused profound surprise in every
department of the government.
1t was stated authoritatively late
that afternoon that ex Congressman
Julius Burrows, of Michigan, will
succeed Gen. Raum 10 the commits,
sionership.
"What will Gen. Raum do in civil
life?" was asked by reporter, of one
Of Raum's most intimate friends, this
afternoon. He will practice law in
this city, was the reply; II am al
most assured of that fact, because he
is having several houses erected in
this city"
In an interview with a reporter,
Commissioner Raum said that his
reason for resigning was that the
responsibility of the Office had grown
too heavy for man of his age, 81
years, and that the salary was too
meagre. He should remain in this
city aud practice law before the Su,
preme Court and other courts, and
The departments. He had been Com
missioner six years and nine months.
The resignation was sent to the Pres
ident, accompanied by a statement
giving these reasons.
Immediately after the resignation
becatue public, Mr.. W. P. Clark, the
chief clerk to the Commissioner, re-
signed. He remarked that ho would
not stay in the offic five minutes
after the Commissioners vacated.
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Cur Revenue Necessities.

Hon. Thos. H. Hendricks is quoted
as saying that she thought that Fed
eral taxation should be so reduced
that the revenue collected would not
be over Sl00,000,000, which he
thought would be ample for the
proper expenditures of the Govern
ment.'
Hendficks was not the author If
any such idiotic expression Of opin.
ion, for he well knows that it will
require nearly that amount annually
to pay the exhorbitant pension roll
that has been saddled upon the
country, ard that cannot be pnrged
of the large percentage of fraudulent
claimants while they hold the balance
of power in elections in numerous
districts. The payment Of the inter-
est on the public debt; the support
OF the army the support of the civil
service, and the many other necessary
charges upon the public purse, will
inevitably swell the amount under
the most economical administration
to at least hundred and twenty
five millions of dollars, exclusive Of
the pension list.
1t is not likely that the time will
ever come again when the Govern
ment can be maintained on an annual
expenditure of less than a hundred
million of dollars, while for the pre-
sent it would be poor craftsmanship
that would venture upon fiscal year
without arranging for the collection
of at least two hundred and fifty
millions of revenue.
Mr.. Hendricks, like most OF us,
favors "a tariff for revenue with incl
dental protection" such tariff as
that would inevitably result in vastly
increased importations, and of course
our revenues would be swelled enor
nously rather than decreased, leaving
to the Government the alternatives
of lavish expenditure, payment of the
public debt, or such division of the
surplus in the Treasury among the
several States as was engineered by
henry Clay in like emergency,
mat.y wears AGO,
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BAR MEETING.

At meeting of the Bar of the Eastern
Division of the Northern District of Mis-
sissippi, on Friday evening, April 9th,
Hon. L. E. Houston presiding as chair
man, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted, and Hon. John
M. Allen, requested to present the same
to the Court in open session.
REsoLvED-1st. That in view of tn
patience, ability and impartiality uni
formliy displayed by His Honor, Judge
R. A. HILL, during this term of the court,
it ia desired by the members of the diff
erent bars in attendance to present a
suitable testimonial of their appreciation
of the same. and that they take this
method of giving expression to the high
regard in which they hold his said SER
vices ability and courtesy.
End. That the thanks of the bar be tend
cred to the officers of the court for their
uniform courtesy, efficiency and kind
ness to the bar and all interested during
the present term.
3rd. That these Resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of the court.
Very respectfully,
II. 0. REYNOLDS.
K. II. BRISTOW,
b. MCFARLAND,
Committee.
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Thursday, May 8, 1883.
Executive Conn
EMIT GREEN Ii. ksAUsa.

Green B. Raum, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, has resigned his
office. The resignation was SO sudden
and unexpected and was so promptly
accepted by the President, that there
is reason to suppose that in sending
it in he was complying with an init
1nation from the White House that
the missive was wanted, although his
friends say he is anxious to re-enter
private life and engage in the practice
of law.
Raum, who was candidate against
Cullum for David Davis's seat in the
Senate from Illinois, has been at the
head of the Internal Revenue Bureau
for many years and has used it as
great political machine in every can
vass in every Congressional District
in the United States. In Mississippi
and elsewhere South last year and on
prior occasions, he made numer-
GUS appointments of special agents
who were mere political drummers
drawing pay at the rate of six
or eight dollars day and travelling
expenses, and whose duties were
mainly comprised in attending the
public meetings held in the interest
of the Administrator candidates, and
disbursing the campaign funds wrung
from Government employees by the
Jay Hubbell Committee. If he had
remained in Office until the assem-
bling of the 4Sth Congress, he would
doubtless have been impeached, for
his tracks have been carefully follow
ed and the evidence against him is
voluminous and convincing and
though he has escaped great State
trial, the country and practically the
South is to be congratulated upon
being rid of one of the most venal
partlzans that ever did the bidding
Of the Radical party
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Information Wanted Alb out birds

JEFFERSON, Wis, April 25,lSS3.
There is at present being carried
on systematic and extended study
Of the migration of birds. 1t will
greatly aid the work if those who can
answer all Or any of the following
questions will send to me the infor-
nation by postal or letter as soon as
possible.
Wanted-The date of the first one
seen this spring or the last one seen,
or both, of the following birds.
Wilson's Olive Backed, and Hermit
Thrushes; Rury and golden crowned
Kinglets; Winter Wren; Black and
white Creeper;Go Black throated
Blue; Black Poll; Chestnutsided; and
Hemlock Warblers; Oven Bird Mary
land Yellow Throat; Redstart; Red
eyed and White-eyed Vireos; Purple
Martin; Scarlet Tanager;Rose Breast
ed Grosbeak; Indigo Bird; Bobolink;
Cowbird; Redwinged Blackbird; Bal
timore Oriole; King Bird; Whippor-
will; Nighthawk; Chimney Swift;R
Hummingbird; Cuckoo and Swallow
Tailed Kite. Newspapers please copy.
w. w. Cooke.
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WE have received from General
Haldeman, q. S. Minister at Siam, a
copy of the Hong Kong (China) Daily
Telegraph, paper published in Eng
lish, at the modest price of s24 per
year in gold, that is to the foreign
colonists in China and Siam what the
London Times is to the British and
American residents of Paris and St.
Petersburg.
In looking over this journal we are
impressed by the spirit of enterprise
of the Chinese merchants and other
business men as exhibited in their
English advertisements. OF the four
Insurance Companies advertised, two
of them are composed entirely of
Chinemen; of one of these "Woo Lin
Yuen" is Secretary; this company has
a capital of sl,000,000. The other
company with capital of 100000,
gives the following list of officers:
"Manager-Ho Amei.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
"Lee Sing, Esq, Lee Vat Lou, Esq.
"Loo Yeok Moon, Esq, Chu Chink
Nun, Esq"
Lool ing over these cards, one 8 struck
with the fact that wherever dollar
is to be made, John is sail samme
Meliken man."
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We don't believe in doing things
by halves, and we have perceived that
the PROGRESS is published for people
who views this half way style of doing
business just as we do. Hence, we bid
farewell to the "patent inside" of the
PRoaREss, that has heretofore been
printed in st. Louis, and issue today,
an all home sheet This may be an
unwise move on our part, but we think
not. Without entering into discussion
of the dement's or the merits (if it has
any of patent sheet, We simply state
that our reason for abandoning it is
simply more space for home news, hap,
penipgs and advertising. Then again
we do not care to publish reading matter
and advertisements of swinding and
bogus firms we cannot endorse. In short
We want to publish the paper ourselves,
without the aid of men who never inves,
a dollar in our community and who in
no manner contribute cent towards
benetiting cur city or county, but who,
on the other hand, have been drawing
weekly through us, on the people in
whose interest the paper has been es-
tablished. - West Point Progress.
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Last Wednesday we went north along
the right of way of the g. A. & N. Rail-
road. The grading of the first two miles
has been let to Mr.. Schnadelbach. He
is pushing vigorously ahead. He has
some deep cuts, one Il feet in the edge of
town. This is cut almost entirely in the
rock. A mile north of town is a fill "a
feet. The third mile is being graded by
MIR. Roy and the fourth by Messrs. Hale
g. Bell. Work was progressing very well
all along the line. At the end of our
journey we met with Mr. r. b. Neal. At
his house we enjoyed good dinner and
a social chat. We saw there strange
thing for this country: spring on the
top of hill. IL boils up al the root Of
an immense cottonwood tree,-Stdrk
tile Tmcs
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WEDDING BELLS.

This Afternoon A. B. Hurt, Esq, OF
Mississippi, was married to Miss
BELLE WALL, daughter of the late
Maj. H. c Wall. The ceremony was
quietly performed at the residence of
the brides mother by Rev. DR.. NJ. d.
Hoge, pastor of the Second Presby-
terrain church. The parlor was hand
somely decorated with evergreen and
flowers, and just above the couple a
mammoth artificial horseshoe was
suspended. The bride was elegant
ly attired in brown plush travelling
dress. The bridal presents were nu-
merous and valuable. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hurt left this evening for Cincinnati,
Louisville, and New Orleans, from
whence they will go to their home in
Jackson, Miss.
We clip the above from the
columns of the Richmond Va, States,
of April 25th, and heartily congratu-
late our esteemed friend. He needs
no assurance that words can frame to
convince him that the best wishes of
his many friends in this portion of
the State as we'll as elsewhere ac-
company him in the life journey for
which he is so happily embarked.
May kind Providence shower bless
ings upon those who have so auspi-
ciously united their destlnies.
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Brother JONAS, of the Aberdeen Eram-
iner, has very potent way of "sitting
down on reckless writers who tritie with
statistics. Recently a Mississippi man
complained that half the lands of that
State were getting too poor to produce
either grain or cotton. Whereupon Mr.
JONAS squelched him with these facts:
Does this correspondent know that of
the A, 156 square mAes comprised within
The boundaries of the State of Mississippi
but 7,64S miles are in cultivation? In
other words. while Mississippi has an
area of &c, 179,S40 acres, she had under
pillow in June, 1880, but A, $4,000 acres, or
less than one sixth of her area. The fact
is that half the area now III cultivation
in Mississippi Is of almost inexhaustible
fertility, and has never been plowed
deep enough to test its strength, while
the remainder will average fairly with
any other State in the Union. On the
other hand, we have millions of acres of
as rich land as any country IN the world
can boast that have never known the
touch of pillow or hoe, and ters of thou
sands of other acres that were abandon
ed years ago as worn out" but hay Q
had their fertility renewed since the war
by those blessed immigrants, Japanese
clover and Bermuda observation-disclosures
who have carpeted and adorned all the
waste places, renewing their fertility,
and making Mississippi throughout her
length and breadth grand natural
pasture land unsurpassed by any on the
Continent"
What is here so specifically stated of
Mississippi is true of Georgia and all
other Southern States. We have not be u
gun to develop them agriculturally or
any other way. Either our own regen-
Grated population will make the waste
places of the South "blossom as the rose"
or else strangers will do so. The LORD
never made such a country as this to be
trlfied with. Mr.. JONAS is doing good
work for Mississippi and the South. We
account him one of the most valued of
our countrynen and fraternity. His
paper always contains something useful
and instructive. 1t also never fails to
uphold the genuine and matchless value
of this section, which has every ele-
ment Of power, wealth and salubrity, in
its generous soil and atmosphere. We
trust that the Aberdeen Examiner may
continue its missionary work, and that
its accomplished and progressive editors
may survive to behold the fruit of their
devoted abors doubly redoubled.-Au-
gusta Chronicle and COnstitittidnaist.
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HALL WILDEY LODGE No. q, |. o. o. FL
Aberdeen, April "a, 1883.
MISS ADELE ROBERTS:
On behalf Of Wildey Lodge we beg
loave TO acknowledge receipt of the
handsome Banner!thls day presented by
you. and to extend the hearty thanks
and express the high appreciation of its
members for the gift. A more beautiful
"Ne'er waved beneath the golden sun,
A lOvelier banner for the brave"
As we view it we are reminded that the
links engraved upon it are emblems of
"Friendship, Love and Truth" the three
virtues so highly priced and exempii1ed
by the daughters of Rebecca, and upon
which our beloved Order is founded; and
also, that woman has ever been foremost
in efforts to promote the sentiments
which comprise the aims and objects Of
Odd Fellowship's mission.
w. II. KIDD,
J. l.. OLDsHUE,
s.. A. DALTON.
Committee.
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WE understand that one of the
results of the recent trip of vice.
President ]. G. Clarke over the Can
ton, Aberdeen and Nashville Rail-
road, was to require Messrs. Beesan &
Hammond, principal contractors, to
double the forces now at work along
the line, and to give an additional
bond of $4,000 for the completion
of the grading by the 18th of No
vember, as they are under contract
to do. The contractors have limit
of sixty days in which to increase
their forces, and deposited fifty
thousand dollars of collateral securi-
ty for the faithful performance of
their contract. Tracklaying will be-
gin at West Point both ways as soon
as the road bed is ready to receive
the iron.
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THE most horrible casualty that we
have heard Of from the recent cyclone
was the case of lady near Wesson, in
this State. Her body was found several
hundred yards from the residence with
her head of, which was afterwards fonnd
in a tree tor.
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THE Meridian Observer reports the
work on the East mississippi Insane
ASYLUM, in that city, as progressing
rapidly under the supervision OF
Commissioners H. NJ. Street and j. f,
Moore. One hundred and fifty hands
are employed and over million OF
bricks are already in the walls, with
every prospect of the building being
completed before the end of October.
We like the idea of equitably distrib-
uting the public buildings of the
State, and believe that it is much
better than this ASYLUM should be
erected in Meridian than that large
additions should be made to the one
at Jackson. Oxford has the State
University; Starkville the A. & M.
College Vickburg the Marine Hos
pital ; Holly Springs several public
institutions Jackson the Capital,
Penitentiary, Deaf and Dumb Assy-
lum, Principal Lunatic ASYLUM etc,
Meridian Lunatid ASYLUM, and our
town will come in for its share after
awhile.
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Death Of Hon. RATION kB. Murray,
EditOr Of the Falcon.
Special to the Vicksburg Herald.

Special to the Vicksburg Herald.
OXFORD, MISS, April 27.-Hon.
Patton B. Murray, after an illness of
three months, died at his residence
here last night, at ten minutes of
nine o'clock. Mr.. Murray had been
for six years the editor of the Oxford
Falcon, and was elected Mayor of
this city twice, filing his last term
of office at the time of his death. His
remains were inferred in the Oxford
Cemetery this evening at five o'clock.
The press in his death loses one of
its most able defenders and our town
a most worthy and honored citizen.
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We believe that if the Board Of

We believe that if the Board Of
Managers of the Exposition Associa.
tod will take time by the forelock
and invite DAN VOORHEES, to deliver
an address at the opening Of the Fair
this fall, he will accept, for he has a
warm place in his heart for Missis>
sippi. If an invitation is extended it
should be sent early, as all the noted
orators in the country, as o general
thing, make their engagements dur
ing the months of May and June.
There is no canvass in Indiana this
fall, and we think Senator Voorhees,
would enjoy another visit to East
Mississippi, and would be glad to note
the many favorable changes that have
taken place in this section of the
country since he was last on the line
Of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
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Appeal to MasOns and Odd Eel.
lows.

To the MasOns and Odd Fellows of
Mississippi: A cyclone at Beauregard
and vicinity and at Wesson yesterday
killed about fifty persons, destroyed the
town of Beauregard and twenty-five
houses at Wesson. Among the killed and
wounded are several of our brethren.
Their families will not be allowed to suf-
fer, but it is your privilege as it will be
your pleasure to contribute promptly to
their relief. Don't wait till Lodge meets,
but act at once. Forward to us at jack
son. J. L. POWER,
Grand Master of Odd Fellows and Grand
Secretary of MasOns.
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TIE Supreme Court of Iowa on
the 21st inst, handed down decision
declaring the prohibitory amendments
to the Constitution of the State, null
and void. The opinion was delivered
by the Chief Justice, and concurred
in by all the members of the court
but one.
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THINGS are evidently terribly awry
in the Malone camp in Virginia
There is an unusually lively hurrying
to and fro on the part of the leaders.
and the lash of the "boss" seems far
less potent than it was few short
months ago. Some of the boys are
"telling tales out of school, and
some of the boldest and most popu-
lar of them have broken out of school
altogether.
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The Continental Guards of New
Orleans will start on the 9th of June
for Boston, and 90 from there to
Portland, Maine, and other Eastern
cities. Returning, they will stop in
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Cincinnati and other
places of note. They will doubtless
meet with grand receptions every
where they halt.
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PHILA., 30S NORTH THIRD ST.,
EAhr.anr lot 1000

PHILA., 30S NORTH THIRD ST.,
February 1st., 1888.
I have been using ALLcocK's Porous
PLAsTERs for a number of years and al
ways with marked benefit. have been
much troubled with Muscular Rheuma-
tism; have been treated by five of our
b st physicians without receiving any
relief whatever. / then used ALLCoCK's
assure you the pain has almost entirely
left me. l can recommend them to every
one as the best plaster made. 1 have
tried other kinds but found them wort TIL
less. b. f. GALLAGHER,
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The question of mileage, is not
to be as serious matter
with members of the Legislature in
Rhode Island or Delaware, as it is
with the martyrs who make the laws
that curb the COW boys and pioneers
in Texas, Oregon, Colorado and Ne
vada
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THE Wesson Herald nails its flag
to the mast in the following emphatic
enunciation:
ave now make the prediction that
Tilden will be the next President of
the United States He is our choice,
first, last and always. We want a
man, who knowing his duty will dare
to do it."
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THE result of the long fight be.
tween the rival Radical bosses in
Michigan, seems to have been as sat-
isfactory to the outside world as was
the noted Kilkenny cat.fght" to
disinterested spectators. Both Ferry
and Hubbell have disappeared from
the arena of politics.
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THEpress of Mississippi, Louisiana
and Alabama, is still laden with re-
ports from the Cyclones. 1t seems
that many places in those three States
were visited and very great loss of
life and property is the result.
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ESTRAYED.

From my farm, two miles northwest OF
Athens, on Thursday night, April 10Th,
one black mare mule, l4t hands high,
Six years old; broad weathers and gear
marks, but no other marks; slim,made
and hind legs little more crooked than
ordinary.
Address any information in regard to
her TO me at Aberdeen, Miss.
J. H. FOT.KES.
April 10, 1899.
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Col. Andrew Talcott, of Virginia,
formerly of the U. S. Corps of Engi-
neers, the Oldest graduate of West
Point, died in Richmond on the 22nd
of April, at the age of SO.
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Mrs. Louisa B. Stephenson Marion,
Iowa, has just been elected President
of the National Bank of that town to
succeed her late husband. This is
the first instance of a lady being
selected for such position.
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CORRESPONDENTS.

Extract from proceedings Of Wildey
Lodge No. Il, l. o. o. f., Tuesday
night, April "a, ordered
publishedl
OFFICERS AND MEMBERS WnDEY LODGE:
AS an humble testimonial of the appre
citation l have for the benign principles
and purposes of your worthy and bene-
ficent brotherhood, permit me to present
you with Banner to be used by your
Lodge on the occasion of the celebration
of the sixty-fourth Anniversary of the
Order in the United States. May the
three cardinal principles of Odd Fellow
ship ever find a corresponding existence
and tender nurture in your hearts. May
you be ever willing subjects to the gen
erous impulses of "Friendship, Love and
Truth" and may their genial influences
inspire you with growing zeal in the
cause of human benevolence.
Very respectfully,
ADELE ROBERTS.
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THE New York Times says that
Post Master General Gresham seems
to have determined ''that the officers
connected with his great department
shall no longer serve as small change
in political bargains"