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The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Mineral Resources OGAIasIsa.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 15.-Wm. Guv-
erneur Morris, collector of customs at
Sitka, Alaska, has just arrived from the
North, and .in:the course!of an interview
confidently states that the very rich
mineral deposits of Alaska would not fail
to attract great attention in the near
future. The lodes found at the base Of
the mountains, which can be traced up
their sides, are worked by surface dig
gers to such advantage that last season a
small force of men made over $3.50, 900.
The quartz diggings have been much in
terfered with by reason of the little re-
spect paid the proprietary interests of
others. Considerable Pacific coast CAPT
tai is finding its way into Alaska, and has
already brought into prominence lines
Of mines as large as the whole Comstock
lode. He believes the mines would show
the largest body of ore in sight in the
world and says Eastern capitalists have
already sent machinery for the purpose
of developing the great mineral regions
Of Alaska.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
An Affecting Sen atorial Episode.

During the consideration Of the Pres
idenlial succession bill'' in the Senate
last week, Just before its passage, Judge
Edmunds of Vermount, Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, made Il motion to
re.commit the bill, supporting the prop
osition by rather a severe criticism OF
the pending measure. This brought
Senator Hour who had charge OF the bill,
TO his feet, and in the course OF his
remarks he alluded to the fact that Judge
Edmunds had made no suggestion tend
ing to perfecting or improving the bill,
and that if his motion prevailed the
proposition would die with the AZ tn
Congress. He said that the bill had
been before the Committee for year,
and yet its Chairman, the Senator from
Vermont, had not found time to examine
it. Judge Elmunds regarded these re-
marks in the light of reproof for his
prolonged absence last session, and rose
to reply, but for once bis tongue failed
him: he faltered, burst into tears and
hurriedly left the chamber, and the
Senate at once adjourned. The expla-
nation of this strange scene is as follows:
Last year lovely daughter of the Judge
was dying of consumption, and he LETT
l..
Washington to travel with her, first to
Europe, then to Florida, then home to
give her back to God. Another daughter
is said to be following her shadowy
footsteps, without hope from human
skill or science, and it was the memory
of the recent past, and the prophetic
fears of the immediate future that chains
ed the tongue of the Senator from the
Green Mountain State, and broke down
the stern barriers of firmness and reso'
lution when he rose to respond to
remarks that he regarded as impugnlng
his official conduct
"Arrows that at random sent,
Found goal the Archer little meant.
Scenes like these are instructive in
one sense at least: They disclose veins
Of tenderness and humanity where they
were hardly supposed to exist, and give
Ms plimpses of the sunny inner life OF
men who have never before presented
other than an icy exterior to those who
were widely separated from them by the
accidents of section, opinion and politi-
cal belief
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Here is suggestion to Congress con-
corning pensions, from the Macon Geor-
gia Messenger:
Jefferson Davis was one of the most
gallant soldiers in the army during the
Mexican war. Any roll of pensions of
that war with his name left off will be
lying, shameless, cowardly fraud. The
southern Congressman who con sents to
such an outrage is something less than a
man."
We clip the above from the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette of the 18th inst,
and do it with pleasure. because it shows
that way up in the great State of Ohio
there exists, in all generous minds in the
North and West, in spite of the late
unpleasantness, feeling of admiration
for the Mexican veteran whose services
under the old flag gave it additional
lustrc. The Macon, Ga Messenger, we
are firmly convinced, voices the almost
universal sentiment of the South on this
question. We take pleasure in stating
that the course of the Commercial has
been no less pronounced, and that course
we are glad to know has been handsome
ly endorsed generally, and one old vet
eran Of that war has said to us, with
every show of sincerity am a poor man,
and that pension would be of much
service to me. but / do not want it, if
the name of Jefferson Davis is left from
the roll - Vcksburg Commercial.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Electric Lights ON the Hudson.

But short time ago the electric
light was an invention nowhere in
use on the Hudson, but to those who
sail up and down the river, the cleo.
trio lights at Newburg and Pough-
keepsie have become familiar objects.
The first electric light made use of on
the Hudson was by the Pennsylvania
Coal Company at Newburg. who have
for several years past made use of
five in the summer months. Their
lights have become very familiar and
useful to the pilots, for their glare
lights up the whole river. There are
also several large manufactures in
Newburg that make use of the light.
The uIpar furnace Poughkeepsie
makes use of two; one Of these having
the wall of the building for a refec-
tor, sends out magnificent light o.
yer the river. Electric lights are now
in general useat Hudson, complete
system having been established; and
recently there were received at the
West Point Foundry, at Cold Spring
an engine and dynamo machine for
twelve lights.-AI6aay Express.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Effects of Electric Light on Health

The above question was (the Lon.
don Lancet says) lately discussed at
a meeting of the HYGIENE Society of
Hamburg, and DR.. Kruss explained
his views on the subject at some
length. He referred to to the infu-
ence on the electric light on the hui
man eyesight, and expressed the
opinion that it produces no evil effect
the light having violet tinge under
most circumstances. He referred to
the somewhat exaggerated expecta>
ton which had been formed as to the
distance at which the light was vis-
ible at sea; button the whole, he con-
sidered that the safety of human life
at sea had been increased by the use
of electric light in lighthouses. The
electric light being free from the dis
advantages incidental to the combus>
ton of gas in the consumption OF
oxygen and the production of car
bonic acid, he considered it's devel-
opment as being hygienic measure
of relative importance.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
The Two DanubeS.

The Rhine and the Danube have PROV
ed to be as unmanageable as the Missis-
sippi. Whole towns are submerged, the
water in some cases nearly reaching the
roofs of the houses, and thousands have
been driven from their homes. In Vienna
there is great alarm lest the dykes that
protect the city give way, and every
effort is being made to strengthen them
Men have lived in the valleys of these
rivers for many centuries, but have not
yet learned to control the waters. In a
contest for the mastery the rivers win the
day, even i'll the heart of Europe, and III
spite of all the engineers.
The fortunes of the people of the val
ley of the Danube have been precisely
those of jewellers in the lowlands of the
Mississippi At one point. abont 500
miles above its mouth, the Danube flows
within forty miles OF the Black Sea, into
which the river dehouches. Learned
bnt non practical civil engineers, for
centuries, have been in charge of the
dykes or levees walling in the river fiji
teen hundred miles; but these engineers
never dreamed of diverging from paths
their fathers trod. Levees were built by
the first farming populations that culti-
waited the valley, and nothing but levee,
in the eyes of a routine engineer, can
avail the lowlands anything. Steadily
aud slowly, through the lapse of many,
many years, have the levees been heigh-
tened, strengthened, widened, and ex-
tended, and as steadily and continuously
have the bed and banks of the Danube
been uplifted. AT last the rivers threat>
en- the security of VIENNA and of count
less towns and villages along its tortu>
GUS course. The empire is alarmed for
the security of its magnificent capital.
How simple the only method of relief
At the point, IN the province of Borussia,
at which the Danube is within forty
miles of the sea, cut an outlet, and the
river at that point will fall to the Black
Sea level, or fifty feet. Reduce the
rivers height fifty feet at the outlet
designated and Vienna will be relieved,
with every farm and village along the
rivers courses Why has it not been
done? We can only answer that the son
went to mill with stone in one end of
the bag and the wheat in tho other be-
cause his father had done SO and lived,
perhaps prospered. Washington Regis
fer
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The New Orleans Times Democrat
enjoys the credit of being the first
paper in the country to give Its read
ers the benefit of the substance OF
the new Commercial Treaty between
the United States and Mexico. In
fact a synopsis of the treaty was
published by that journal before 1t
was submitted to the Senate for rati-
fication, and even before the Senators
or the public we're aware of its hay
ing been negotiated. The able
Washington correspondent OF the
Times Democrat, Mr.. Hancock, dis
played great enterprise and ingenu-
ity in obtaining the substance OF this
important Treaty, and accomplished
the feat by dint Of interviewing all OF
the Commissioners, one after another,
using the information obtained from
one as a basis for pumping another,
until the feat was accomplished.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

GEN. Ruggles, who was Gen. Pope's
Adiutant General, has been one of the
most earnest advocates of the bill for
Fitz John Perter's Reinstatement, and
does not hfzitate to denounce Pope as
not only one of the most incompetent
officers who ever held Federal Com
mand, but endorses what has always
been the opinion of the officers of the
old army, that he is the most incorrigi-
bic liar that ever left West Point. In
referring to this last named accomplish
ment, he speaks of his once being order
ed to date dispatch from Warrenton,
Va, and upon his demonstrating and
saying that they were twenty miles from
there and never could get there, the
order was peremptorily repeated. After
that he insisted upon Pope's signing all
the rest of his lying dispatches and bonn
bastic orders, himself.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
The Canton, Aberdeen and Ma sh-
Vile Railroad.


Speclai 10 NlchsDuTS lIeFdlu.
STARKvILLE, Mss, Jan. ia. III.
Scott, Superintendent of Construc>
ton of the Canton, Aberdeen and
Nashville Railroad arrived in Stark
vile this morning and proceeded to
the line of the road in company with
a large concourse of citizens in town
to see the first dirt broken in the
corporation on said RAILROAD. r. A..
Lamkin, ST., who gave the land to
the town fifty years ago and who
was the first Sheriff of Oktibheha
county,ssand cut the first tree in the
town, threw the first spade of dirt
on the line of the Canton Aberdeen
and Nashville Railroad in the cor.
poration this evening at 8 o'clock.
Mr.. Lamkin is now 70 years old and
is in excellent health. What county
in this State can produce a man that
can say he has done the same as r..
A. Limkin, 81? This road will GER
tainly be completed by next Novem-
Der as per contract. The people of
this town are perfectly delighted
with the idea of having through
connection with New Orleans in
eleven months.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
POstpOncmentO of the Carnival
Competitive Drill.

Major FL H. BAKER, General manager
of the affairs connected with the grand
competitive military drill announced to
occur at New Orleans, during the week
preceding the carnival, in circular
states that the drill has beer postponed
until May. This action was rendered
necessary on account of the pressure Of
business at present Throughout the South
ern States, which renders it impossible
for members of volunteer companies to
enter the contest.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Gen. George @. Mckee, Post Mas
ter at Jackson, is in Washington in
attendance upon meeting of the
National Republican Executive Cons
mittee, on which he represents what
is left of his party in Mississippi He
has nearly recovered his voice but is
not yet in condition for public speak.
ing. We suppose while in Washing
ton the General will be able to make
his peace with Jay Hubbell's Secre-
tary, Henderson, and explain why he
was not able to take any Jim Hill
stock in the late Congressional cleo
ton.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
New Jewelry House.

We beg to say to the citizens of Aber,
deem and vicinity that we have secured
Store room under the Gordon House,
next door to the main entrance, for the
purpose of opening up a first-class
JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT,
and will keep fine selection Of the latest
styles of Jewelry, Silver Ware, etc. One
of the firm leaves for the East to select
the latest styles. We ask you to wait
and examine our stock before making
your Christmas and Holiday purchases.
Our goods will be new and of the latest
designs, and sold on very reasonable
terms.
Will be pleased to have you call on or
about December LIST, 1882
Very respectfully,
(nl7tf.) BUCHANAN & BRUCKNER.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
LET Me Light My Pipe at Your
Ladyship's Eyes.'

As the late beautiful Duchess of Dew
onshire was one day stepping out Of her
carriage dustman, who was accidentally
standing by, and was about to regale
himself with his accustomed Whit of
tobacco, caught glance of her counte>
nance and instantly exclaimed, "Love
and bless you, my lady, let me light my
pipe in your eyes |" 1t is said that the
Duchess was so delighted with this com.
pliment that she frequently afterward
checked the strain Of adulation which
was constantly offered to her charms by
saying, "Oh after the dustman's COM
pliment. all others are insipid. -Homs's
Table Book.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
TIE silly attempt of the Democrats

The silly attempt OF the Democrats
of the 9Th Congressional District of
Indiana, to run "ouarter race with
a "four mile horse has met with the
usual result in such cases, defeat.
Judge Ward the Democratic candi'
date beat Orth, badly, last November
for election to the 48th Congress,
and as Orth died afterwards the
Democrats insisted upon Ward max
ing fight for the petty unexpired
term, and though just out of the
canvass he was compelled to travel
around the District again, stumping
against fresh man and rehearsing
his old speeches and anecdotes OF
course he 'got Left and it served
him right.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Republican Strife in Nebraska.
WARRINGTON, Jan. 16.

NANhlhuiON, vun' III.
Congressman Valentine returned to-
day from Nebraska. He says that the
senatorial contest in his State is grow
ing more complicated, and it is by no
means assured that the republicans will
elect their man. He says the Demo.
Gratis are given every chance by republi-
cans refusing to caucus. There are
many members of the Legislature who
protest against caucus, if certain nam, .
are to be presented, and this, in view of
the small republican majority on the
ballot, Mr.. Valentine regards as very un-
fortunate. He says he is not a candidate
himself, and that tits impossible, in
view of the numerous candidates, to
predict who the successful man will be.
He stated that Nebraska had never
held senatorial caucus, but he regetted
much that one could not be held before
this election, as in his opinion it would
greatly strengthen the party. The con-
test promises to be a protracted one,
and he thinks will be conducted with
much spirit.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The recent horrible loss of life in
the burning of the hotel at Milwau>
kee should be warning TO the au-
thorities in all cities against permit
ting any building TO be openened to
the public as place of entertain
ment that is not thoroughly provided
with means of escape in case of fire
The hotel in question should have
been closed by the municipal author
tiles long ago, aud the fact of their
permitting this death trap to be
open to unsuspecting strangers,
makes them responsible in the sight
of heaven for every life that was lost,
and should subject them to indict-
ment and punishment, for murder as
accessories before the act.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

IT is reported that the Princess
Louisa, daughter of Queen Victoria
and wife of the Marquis of Lorne,
Viceroy of British America, willspend
the winter at Charleston, South Car
DINA. We hope the report is true,
for the Princess will pass her time
delightfully."- in that lovely Southern
city, where she will enjoy the adyan-
tages of refined society without the
admixture of that snobbery so preva-
lent in the North.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Clubs Trumps-S3O,OOO Won
Trench llOuS Game.

In the city Of Lawrenceburg, Ind,
Messrs L. D. Stevans, Geo. Lowe, Louis
Garrison, Bailey Lowe, Clint. Jones,
Samuel Dickinson, J. G. Wiles, F. Kei
fer, Robt. Kellaugh, Peter Pfalzgraf,
Geo. Pfalzgraf and e. Chance formed 9
club and sent to r. M. Boardman, Louis,
vile, KY, for tickets in the Common
wealth Distribution Co. land won $4,000
So form clubs and send for tickets
Tickets only So each; 81 tickets, $50; 81
tickets for 500 1850 prizes, $ll2, 400
$50, 900 capital prize. Your chances are
greater by forming clubs. Next drawing
January 3Ist.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The contest over the "Souvenir Mir.
ror" between the friends of the different
young ladies' in the list resulted in a
victory for those who cast their tickets
for Miss Willie e. Sykes. Never did
nature mould countenance lovlier or
more divinely beautiful than the Prin-
cess Of the Queen city upon whom has
been conferred the compliment conveyed
in the bestowal of the souvenir Mir.
ror." The admirers OF the other young
ladies, however, are not inconsolable,
and take the defeat in the best of humor,
approaching the fact that their favorites
are as radiantly beautiful in their eyes
as ever before. -Colunbus Indec.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

1t is a mistaken idea that young
men stand in front of church doors
after service to look at the girls.
Oh, no the young man of the period
has too good an opinion of himself
simply 10 take that view of the sub
iect. He stands there for the { i Is
to look at him'-Diobije Register
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

This is to certify that we bought over
Four Thousand Dollars worth of DR..
Droomgooles. English Female Bitters
and Bailey's Saline Aperient during the
year 1881, and from personal observation
and public opinion, take much pleasure
in recommending them as worthy of
public confidence and favor.
THOMPSON, GEORGE & Co.,
Wholesale Druggists, Galveston, Texas.
Ii you don't like the use of sickening
pill for your headeach and constipation,
just try one dose of Bailey's Saline Ape
rient, and you will never nse another
pill for the saWe PURPOSE.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
A Bankrupt Law Wante IL.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
The general voice of the mercantile
community throughout the country has
been expressed in unmistakable tones in
favor of a national bankrupt law land the
advocates of the Ingalls,
equity scheme are acting neither wisely
nor fairly in trying to prevent the enact
ment Of any law in order to defeat the
Lowell bill.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
A fashionably attired young man

A fashionably attired young man
in New York street car saw a stray
thread on the instep of his toothpick
shoes and Immediately proceeded to
remove it. He kept on pulling till
ore leg of his pantaloons was un-
stitched from the ankle to the waist.
Assuming his best agnostic express
sion he buttoned his overcoat tightly
around him, borrowed two hairpins
from the conductor and struck out
for the nearest seclusion.-N Y.
MAIL
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Col. Holiday, of Cairo, was before
the Mississippi River Committee as a
witness last week. He is an enthusiastic
advocate of the system adopted by the
Commission, and expresses his sanguine
belief that in very few years they will
be able to give us twenty feet of water
in the channel from the jetties to Cairo,
and that ocean going steamers will be
able TO receive and discharge freights at
any point between New Orleans and the
mouth Of the Ohio. .
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The bill for the relief of Gen. Fitz
John Porter, passed the Senate on
Thursday last, by a vote of 80 to 81.
The Democrats voted solidly for the
bill, as did also Senators Sewell, of
New Jersey Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania and Hoar, of Massachusetts.
Malone voted with the majority in
all tests, but RETAINED from voting
on the passage of the bill. Sherman
of Ohio, did not vote at all, but is
reported to have said that if he cast
a vote it would be in favor of the bill.
1t is hardly likely to pass the House
this session, but the record made in
the Senate will assure its passage by
the 4Sth Congress.
The bill gives the President the
power to restore Gen. Porter to the
position he held in the regular Army
that of Colonel-at the time he
was made a scape goat for Gen, Pope,
and place him on the retired list.
Gen. Porter has suffered fearfully
during the twenty years that he has
suffered from the unjust findings of
partizan and lily informed Court
Martial, and is a mere physical wreck.
Even during the last Two years he
has"aged' terribly,and we doubt if he
lives to see the cons ummation of the
act Of tardy justice that will restore
to his children the patrimony of a
name that is untainted in history.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
him right

BUFFALO, New York although regarded
as a Republican city, elected Grover
Cleveland, Mayor by six thousand ma
jority giving him the boom that made
him the Democratic Governor OF the
state. Now she has improved upon the
former experiment by eiecting another
Democratic Mayor, John B.Mannlng, by
a han dsoms majority.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The total valuation of real estate
in the City of New York exceeds a
billion of dollars. The increase since
January 1st of 1882, is estimated at
forty five millions.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The number of double-title, hyphen-
ated newspapers is on the increase.
Can't they manufacture brief nicknames
for themselves, like the railroads, 30
that it won't ruin font of type for a
contemporary to occasionally refer to
them. -Friars Point Gnzeae.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Elk. GovERoR Hendricks, of Indiana,
has SO nearly recovered from his recent
severe indisposition as to be able to walk
about his room with cane, and his
general health is better than it has been
for wears.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

The small pox epidemic in Balti-
more creates much uneasiness in
other coast cities. The number of
cases reported in that city last week
about equaled one per cent. of her
population.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

IT is hard to find man now. days
who is not ready to concede to luna-
cy of the wretched creature, Guiteau,
and yet his madness was quite as
apparent before his neck was broken
as it is now.