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The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
Thursday, March 20, 1888.
ThesPoliticaI Ternpest In Rhode
Island.

The nomination of Gen. Sprague
by the Democrats and Independents
of Rhode Island for Governor, is
creating no little uneasiness in Re-
publican circles, although his adver-
saries speak confidently of defeating
him. Sprague was almost the only
native Rhode Islander who made any
reputation for the State in the late
war, and this assures him the support
of whatever of "soldier element" the
little Commonwealth contains. As a
manufacturer he was noted for his fair
and liberal dealings with his employ
ees, and this gives him areliable foot
ing among the working classes. In
addition to this he is championing
the cause of popular suffrage" in a
State that denies the right to vote to
every foreigner who is not the owner
of real estate within her limits. This
provision in her constitution is looked
upon with hatred and disgust by even
those of her foreign born people who
are rich enough to avail themselves
of it, and it it said that they are ready
to make the cause of their ostracised
countrymen their own, regardless OF
former party affiliations, and if this is
true the candidacy of Con. Sprague
may result in victory that will be SC
far reaching as to return "Little
Rhody" to the ancient list of reliable
Democratic States.
As United States Senator Spra.
que was among the most conservative
Of Republicans, and among the first
to offer kind work to the returning
South, and we will heartily rejoice in
his success. In one of the last speech
es he made in the Senate, he gave
utterance to sentence that has be.
come by-word among public men
in alluding to the influence of money
he said: "there is nothing in the world
more timid than half million Of dol.
lars, unless it is a million" We hope
that IN the Rhode Island canvass hi:
aphorism may be verifed,and that the
millionaires of the State, startled by
the new aspect of things, may fol
once keep their money in their peck
cts and allow an unpurchased vote tC
be cast in Commonwealth that has
not enjoyed free election since the
war.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

THE stock men of the Yellow Stone
country claim that tho present sea,
son has been very favorable one
for their business, as the Gloss from
exposure and cold weather is esti-
mated at less than twenty five per
CEN" What do our farmers think
of thatF What do they think of
stock men claiming as "very favor-
able season" one that kills twenty
five per cent, of their stock? Here
in Mississippi the loss Of COW or
calf from "oold or exposure" is
something that need never occur,
and we have almost twice as long d
grazing season as is enjoyed in the
region above referred to. Surely
this should be and will be the great
est stock growing region in the
world.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
Assessor Notice.

Owing to my earnest desire to make O
just and correct assessment of the real
and personal property of Nj onroe county,
l have tried through the means of ap-
appointments to see in person, each tax
payer and obtain from him his ASSESS
ment. Some have failed to meet me
owing perhaps, to the inconvenience of
the location of my former list of appoint-
ments to certain localities, and / have
concluded in the interest of my county
and for the convenience of the people to
make another list. The very unsatisfac
tory custom of leaving blanks should be
avoided, as they are often misplaced and
in the assessment of lands especially / de-
sire that they be rendered 10 me directly
from the owners. The extent Of the
work will prevent me from hunting the
farmers up when they are in the field,
and as will have no deputy at Aber-
deem (the pay of my Office not justifying
same) it is very necessary that they meet
me. SO l herewith submit'the following
list Of appointments.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

Florida is absolutely swarming
with health seekers from the New
England, Middle and Western States,
and this has been the case all the fall
and winter. The Southern coast of
Mississippi is far more accessible than
the Florida resorts,a and is believed by
medical men to possess unequaled
advantages for invalids, including de-
lightful climate; glorious sea bathing
and air; abundance Of fruit Of all
kinds; fish and oysters of the finest
quality and in inexhaustible quantity;
picturesque enery;excellent society;
easy access to the cities of New
Orleans and Mobile for marketing and
shopping purposes; splendid rowing
and sailing facilities; beautiful, hard
roads for driving and horseback
riding;charming villages, good hotels,
pretty churches and excellent schools.
The towns of our South coast have
been favorite summer resorts for gen
erations, but no effort has been made
to turn the tide Of winter travel to
them, and thus secure the generous
support to be derived from the seek
ers after repose and health who fly to
Northern watering places and the
Virginia Mountains during the warm
months. If the Mobile & Ohio the
Louisville s. Nashville and the Erlan.
ger combination, would unite in an
effort to turn this tide to the Missis.
sippi coast,we have no doubt but that
they would succeed in making oul
lovely sea side villages national re,
sorts, in addition to building up ar
immense winter passenger trade fol
themselves.
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Mcdonald iii Indiana.

Captain BRADSHAW, who is so we'll
remembered in Omaha and who has
large property interests here,is a well
come visitor to his former home from
Indiana where he has long resided
Captain BRADSHAW is a Republican
in politics, but says that Mr.. McDoN-
AID is very strong as presidential
candidate in his own State, that he
should vote for him himself if he
should be the Democratic candidate,
that many other Republicans would
do the same, and that he should be
sure to carry Indiana. Send the news
to WATTERsoN and HoADLY- Omaha
Hsr0ld.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

The plea of emotional insanity will no,
save murderers from the scaffold in CAL
ifornia hereafter, if the courts do their
duty. The legislature has passed an
act requiring that where the plea Of in
sanity is set up as defense of murder
the prisoner shall first be examined as to
his mental condition by competent
tribunal. If pronounced sane, no ia
tried for murder, and his false plea ruled
out; il pronounced insane, he is sent to
an asylum for life. The insanity dodge
has become the refuge of murderers all
over the land, and it is the most despe-
rate oase--those in which no sort of
justification can be found-whcrein it is
most successfully employed. 1t has so
often afforded means of escape to the
guilty that public sentiment rejoices at
such iron-clad statutes as that of Caifor>
mia. Washington Star
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

SENATOR EDMUNDs will surely re-
sign the Presidency Of the Senate
when Congress meats. 1t has been
discovered that if he does not, Sena-
tor Logan will succeed to the chair
manship of the committee on the
judiciary.-JacIso2a MisSisSippian
Senator Edmunds may resign the
position of President pro tempore of
the Senate, next December, but if be
does SO the act will have no reference
to the organization of the Judiciary
Committee, but to give the Repub-
cans an opportunity to elect the
nominee OF their caucus, Senator
Anthony of Rhode sland. Had a
special session been called Mr.. An,
thony would have been elected, but
inasmuch as his new term did not
commence until after the adjourn
ment of the Attn Congress he could
not qualify as Senator SO as to be-
come eligible to the Presidency of
the body.
A President pro tenn surrenders
none of his rights or privileges in
the Senate, hence Hon, A. G. Thur.
man during the whole Of his torn as
President pro tenn retained the
cinrmanship uf tho Judiciary Cuul-
mittee, and Judge Davis while pre-
siding officer maintained his usual
committee place while in the House
we find Speaker Keller serving
through the 47th Congress as pre-,
siding officer and Chairman of the
Committee on Rules.
Gen. Logan is Chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs, and
We don't think he would exchange
it for any in the Senate.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
"IFA MAN DIESMALLE HE LIVE
AGAIN ?''
BY ISAAC L. ROBINSON,

If death be an eternal sleep,
Why doth the Spring return
To scatter flowers beneath our feet,
And the wastes Of winter spurnf
If death be an eternal sleep,
Why doth the buried grain
Send forth new harvests for man to reap,
And Written the spreading plain?
If death be an eternal sleep,
Why the oceans ceaseless flow,
When the planets all their journeys keep
And never weary grown
If death be an eternal sleep,
Why do we hope for Heaven,
When we approach the mercy seat
And ask to be forgiven?
If death be an eternal sleep,
When will justice come,
To those who toll for others meat,
And receive but scanty crumbsf
If death be an eternal sleep,
Why did the angels go
The poorman to bear to Abraham's seat
While the rich man was in woe?
If death be an eternal sleep,
Why was man e'er born,
And why should he his vigils keep,
If'there is no coming NORM
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

THE REIMBURSEMENT of the salaries
of post masters of the Bird ,4th and 9th
classes, in accordance with the bill
that passed last Congress will not be
carried out, owing to the fact that
Congress neglected to make an APP
preparation to meet the expenditures
that the changes will necessitate.
The Post Office Department estimates
the requirement for this re-adiustm5 ut
of salaries, at from two to three mil
lions Of dollars.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

. Mr.. TABoR's marriage has created con.
siderable talk and scandal in Catholic
circles. Father Chappelle, Of Washing.
ton, who declared that the ceremony was
Illegal according to the laws OF the
church, has been reinforced in his
opinion by Father O'Malley, of oshkosh,
who states that be married Miss Nc
Count in 1877 to William 5. Doe, who il
still alive. Evidently tho only thing
left for the senator is to marry over agar
according to some other service. an6
that, too, before he has made up hii
mind that he doesn't want to.-Chicagt
Times.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

THE Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that the tariff bill does
not make an appropriation to pay the
dealers in tobacco a rebate on unbro-
ken packages when the law goes into
effect. This was omitted by an over
sight, and dealers who are caught
with packages on hand will have to
take their chances of being reimburs-
ed the difference between the old
and new taxes, by the next Congress.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
A match for $4,000 between Sui

Il match Tor SIO,OOO between Sui
Ivan and Slade, is one Of tho posi-
bilities that ia now engaging the at,
tention OF the devotees of tho prize
ring. As mother of these athletes
has ever been engaged in q prize
fight we suppose it is essential to the
maintainanco of their standing sin
the circle in which they move" for
them to meet without gloves and
pummel each others countenanee
into such shape as will secure them
standing among the roughs. We
hope that if our Southern coast falls
under the bane Of selection for the
rufianly scene--as it did last year
Governor Lowry win capture the
entire party. The fight must be
prevented in that region even il he
has to call out all of the State troops
to picket the coast.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
High Priced Supplies IaI1e
Cheap Cotton.

The last two cotton crops were the
largest on record and yet the price
was maintained better throughout the
producers market seasons than during
the years of small crops that we have
had since the war. This proves that
there is demand for all the cotton
we are likely to be able to make, and
that the demand is keeping pace with
the increasing supply, and that the
price is mainly dependent upon your
ability to hold, and that your ability
to hold is dependent entirely upon
your making an abundance of corn
and being able to buy what meat you
failed to-make at low prices.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

THE Herald Of St.Joseph, Missouri,
says that "when Agent McGillicuddy
took the Pine Ridge agency he was
as poor as church mouse, but his
friends boast to-day that he is able to
show a cool $4,000. He could not
have saved it out of his salary, and
Red Cloud swears that he systemati.
cally robbed the tribe" McGillicuddy
is the man who lost a pocket-book
containing $4,000 in St. Louis, and
rewarded the man who found and
returned it to him with an invitation
to drink. 1t may be thrift and not
dishonesty that accounts for McGilli-
cuddy's wealth. AT any rate, his
experience shows that it is about as
good thing to be an Indian agent
as to be government lawyer, or a
free and untrammeled expediter Of
star mail routes.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

Special to the Vicksburg Herald.

Special to the Vicksburg Herald.
WAsHNGroN, March 24-The taking
of testimony in the Manning Chalmers
contest Election case was resumed to day
before Notary Public Oliver Attorney
General Brewster was examined and
testified that Chalmers had been appoint
ed special United States Attorney to
prosecute the Election frauds in AIissis,
sippi upon the recommendation of the
United States Attorney for Mississippi,
because of his familiarity with the cases.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

All the clerks Of the House and Sen
ate arc up to their ears in work ar
ranging the papers of both houses,
which have to be- assorted, indexed
and placed on the permanent files OF
each branch Of Congress. This ms
cludes every petition on any subject
sent to Congress, all official papers
having reference to pending bills,and
ali correspondence OF any nature at
fecting matters requiring Congress.
sional action. The House, especially,
are very burdensome, and if the pa
pers continued 70 accumulate Con,
gress will either have to provide suit.
able accommodations for such re-
cords or direct q national bonfire for
their DIES truction Washington Star
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

The President has been compelled to
suspend another US. Territorial Judge.
This time it is Judge q. J. Uonger, of
Montana, against whom charges of
drunkenness have been preferred. It
is so seldom that Radical official is
arraigned on charge as light az this,
that we feel inclined to plead for mercy
for him.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

STAND guard by your corn cribs
until the next crop is made, and be
just as careful and economical in
disposing Of the yield of your fields
as though you were making crop
on Western corn that you paid a
dollar q bushel for. Another corn
crop like the last one will be the
making of our country and will make
cotton planting generally profitable.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

LAST season demonstrated the fact
that with ordinary weather we can
make enough sugar on almost any
Mississippi farm, from the Louisiana
striped cane, for home supply.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

You can depend upon the cotton
area increasing annually despite all
of the stereotyped sermons from St
Louis supplymen and local platitudi,
nists' But you cannot rely upon
cheap supplies until you muster up
courage enough to give your corn
every working it needs even if you
have to take all the teams and hands
out of the cotton field.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

Whether Sprague is elected Gov.
ernor of Rhode Island or not, he is
stirring up the old barnacles, who
have been running that plantation so
long that they claim title to it. Old
Senator Anthony, the head overseer,
is as excited as the federal comman-
ders used to be when jackson began
to feel for them-Meridi0e Observer.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
Paul StrObaeii in Power.

Arthur has appointed D. B. Rus
sell U. S. Marshal for the Eastern
District of Arkansas, to succeed J. 7.
Brown against whom, charges of forg-
cry and perjury are pending, but has
offset this possibly good appointment
by designating that miserable parody
on decency, Paul Strobach, to act as
U. S. Marshal for the Southern Dis
trict of Alabama, Vice Osborn, sus-
pended. With regard to Osborn, who
is from Illinois, we can at least say
that he has the education and breed
ing Of a gentleman, while Strobach
is one of the most loathsome creatures
that vice in its attempt to burlesque
man, ever spewed upon a Common
wealth. His deficiencies were as well
known to Arthur and Brewster as te
the people of the End District of Ala
bama when he was appointed, and
never was the appointing power SC
degraded by even Radical admin.
istration, than in this case.
Paul Strobach was not long since
| indicted for an offence that no decent
Journal dare even name in it's col
umns, and though the case was clear
ly proven he escaped the walls of the
penitentiary by a legal technicality
to be recognized and rewarded by al
administration that stoops to the very
cutters in the hope of conquest.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

WE don't want to discourage the
boys, but frankness compels us to say
that Brady the late assistant Post
Master General, who is now on trial
as the chief of the Star Route con-
spirators, testified on oath last week
that he was a printer by trade. To
be sure this is rather hard on the craft
but then they need not feel any worse
on that account than Ole Bull did
when he discovered that Nero was a
fiddler. You see, boys, a man may
be printer without being robber,
or fiddler without committing arson.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

Rev. Mr.. Eaton, of New York.
preached upon fashionable women on
Sunday, but he said this in their de-
fence: "If woman is a toy, it must be
remembered that man has done all he
could to make her 80. He has walled
her round by forms and customs till
she has been able only to get q
glimpse Of the great world outside.
He has tried to make her q clinging
vine, instead Of n tree that can stand
alone"
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

II Mississippi comes out of the
present crop year with an abundant
harvest of corn and as heavy now
ing of hay from native grasses as she
saved last year,she will be one of the
most prosperous regions or the face
Of the earth.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

ThE New York Legislature viii
probably at the present session pass a
law compelling the telegraph and
telephone lines to put their wires un-
derground in the cities of New York
and Brooklyn. This rule will doubt
less be enforced in all the large cities
ere long, and will relieve the streets
from the Disagreement of a forest of
ungainly masts anda perfect network
Of wires. The telegraph lines were
bad enough, but during the last few
months they have been reinforced by
innumerablo telephone wires,and now
the electric light is claiming q divi-
sion of space and promises to stretch
as many strands as either Of its pre-
decessors.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

The Baltimore American of last
Tuesday records the death of Mabel
Whatley, 4 bright, sweet girl of fif>
teen summers, whose loss is attribu-
ted by her physicians to the overtax-
ing Of her brain at school. This is
another warning to parents and
teachers against the pernicious habit
of crowding the minds and overtax.
ing the energies of bright and ambi
tious students. While it is only oc-
casionally that this unwise practice
results in killing the child outright,
we believe that tho injury sin almost
every instance permanent, and at
tribute much of the misery incident
to youth and middle life to the
crowding and examining at school.
If parentswill retrospect little,
they will be astonished to find that
they can hardly name single one Of
the precious school children Of the
long ago that grew to be brilliant
man or woman; while on the Other
hand, those of their early playmates
who attained prominence Or distinc-
ton in after life, were almost all Of
them dull, Flooding children, who
were not pressed or crowded al
school, and whose brains we're given
full time for solid and healthy devel'
opment.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

The greenback members. of the Con-
gress just expired have issued an ad,
dress to the people, the burden OF which
is that the country made a great mistake
in retiring them from public life. The
defunct greenback party will be missed
only by the few whom it helped into
Office, and the lament OF the retiring
Congressman is moro for the loss OF
place than because of apprehensions for
the future of the country. Washington
Star,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

WITH good corn harvests cotton
planting is always profitable when a
crop is made. For good corn crops
in the South force the West to con-
vert her corn into meat, and cheap
corn and meat always make cotton
planting romunorative.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

THE railroad hands now at work
in East Mississippi afford good
market for all the truck our people
have to sell, besides that, they are
taking thousands Of bushels of our
surplus corn and large quantities Of
our hay to feed their stock
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

JUDGE d. o. SHArrUoK, the Wing
candidate in 1S41 for Governor Of
Mississippi against 7. M. Tucker, is
now living in California,and enjoying
goood health, in the ninetieth year Of
his age.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

THE Agricultural bereau estimates
the damage to the wheat crop of
Illinois by the weather and Hessian
fly, at fully twenty-five per cent.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29

Count De Lesseps is renewing the

Count De Lesseps is renewing the
agitation of the scheme for converts
ing the desert of Sahara into great
inland sea. Centuries ago this scheme
was discussed by the Caliphs; and
the first and third Napoleons both
had surveys made to test its feasa>
bilities. That the matter has not
been consummatedere this is due
rather to polit teal than natural OBJ
structions and If Lesseps succeeds
now in organizing capital for the
undertaking the chances are ten to
one that he will be confronted with
political obstacles Of more formidable
character than are presented in the
Monroe Doctrine to his Panama
Canal enterprise. The camels-"the
ships of the desert" are not TO be
feared by any nation that has inter-
ests on either side of the sandy
waste, but if this vast area should be
converted into q pathway for the
navies of the world it would perhaps
open TO flank o. rear attack colonial
possessions that find in the desert
of Sahara one of their strongest de-
fences. 1t is very sure that any adj
vance movement towards carrying
out this long considered scheme, vii
be the signal for the assemblage O
an international convention, in whict
Italy, France, SPAR, England ant
Russia, will be deeply interested par
ticipants.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
An Idyl of the street.

Girl on a ladder,
Mopping of a winder;
Long comes man
With no one nigh to hinder;
Climbs up the ladder,
Puts his arm around her,
Smacks her on the mouth
A forty horsepower sounder-
Naughty man!
The girl Turns around
With a sudden chop,
Reaches for the man
To use him for a mop;
Gets good, strong hold,
No one nigh to hinder,
Goes right ahead
hopping of the winder-
With the manI
HAMPTON, in Cincinnati DrumD,e,