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The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15
HAZLEHURSr NOV. i5h. iss;
TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Subst.
Do your duty uext Tuesday, but
dent get excited.
The Brookh.ven Leader is heavy
or tho Copiahsns.
wv. Fagate & Co.. are selling
goods remarkably low.
The streets are somewhat better.
lie, the gaod work go GA.
The nast ward viii I've represented
on be bpard Of alderman by G,b.
Lowe.
The boSr,l OF supervisors viii meet
next hoaday. One more, aud then
farewell.
Ms. Leha Burch hiss returned
home from 81 extended visit to P3rt
Gibson.
R5v. p. II. Johnston and lady
we,o hers the f;s; OF tie we k visit
ics sela'ivfs.
wa want to ga ono question
who said boat three wouldn't go
q. mocrI;icp
Va wan, 20 ask another question
Who said Browns Sore was srsdi
c.. box?
judge Eayes YES conGusd To his
b i fer some days recently, but has
been cut this seek.
" Tao pS.eu, caurn man held forth
hrs !his and last week. II seems
10 - good invention.
Tlc beat and corporation courts
were full oftusiu,ss Monday. Both
RAINING on full time.
The city charter should h. amend
ed 81 .. 10 require rhe election OF
marshal by tho p.,pls.
We notice that Capt ]. l.. Al
no. occapie. position 10 thu house
oi II aria, Dodjs L c..
The mex excitement will he our
city cLeiion. L,t it DO conducted
qa'.,'J and psseoably.
TIE side-waik GEAR the B,ptis.
chn,sh n ia . bad cnndition snd
shculG be attended TO ct once.
Il oost Tho county eleven hnudrcd
and iay dol'r, tn find ont that it
os.i Uncle Billy Cook ono thousand
dol'sr'.
Tx pGyiay tune sat hand. and
80, nmeant repaired falls pretty
iesyy--ihanks - cur board ofsaper-
visoys.
Several persons isrormed as they
wishes TO pay tIoir subscription IN
~ood. Nov WOOD Dc good time 10
bring il in.
A very hsrl rsiu fell Saturday
night. aud SsuAsy w.s also q rsicy.
disegrce.bls Say. No preaching in
consequence.
Tho Parker sin 10 This place seems
to re doipgs good bn.;nees. 1t il
said to be ore Of tho best arranged
gin, in tao ccuasy.
The damage suits against the diff
f.,ent saloous by Mr.. II. Penn were
compromised in favor Of the la.tcr,h he
recoiveipg Sl.I0o.
Oar democratic speakers who de-
voted so much Of tbeir time for tho
benefit Of the party during tho can
vsas deserve our unanimous thanks.
Mr. c. Tslaiiorro yeceived last week
agrist mill for bis plsoe. Il Is called
the "M,id Of the South." from the
house Of Coleman & Bro. New Or
leans.
\ We want correspondent in CIV
town and neighborhood IN the
ooN%y. II you bavn't time to fix up
your %ttor in shape just give us the
pcin.s,M
The bad ,honld not disband. now
thS' the canvaV IL over. They have
too much musica, talent to let il go
tor nausht. orgssrc a string band
In connection. *
What has become { all the we'd
dings thspwcre talkcd q, II will
not do for our wedding-e>;rg folks
10 die with ennui. 80 hurry N,younr
. man and start the ball.
The present beard OF supcryis-
before ttoy adjourn forever shou'a
pass resolutions n regret for their
past aims aud osk the democrats not
to remember them in anger.
Now tba. cha election /. over far
mers can grind their cane ard finish
getting on. their cotton. The yield
OF mclasses in This copntv will nroh
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15

IL you vans tho cheap.st shoes
you eSer bought caii on l. A. re-
els.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15

Omnicura, q positive euro tor chronic
chilis Every bottle guaranteed 70 cure. II.
Burnley. gole agent
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15

ecSa month aud board Tor . live young
yVJmep or ladies in each County. Address
Z. w. Ziegler & Co., Pai'adelphia, IA.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15

Drrmcr 4-Snpcrvisnr n Fugiam scGrew 1856; Fol-
cham Magistrate Copn col; Jenkins 6l0; Heath 49,
ce 81 nstable Butler 5lS; n King 81 Anderson 49, Lu
her Anderson g. Albert Anderson l; Il A Lane "a.
Dr. rnc 5-Sapervisor G2i John Terry 20f Magistrate
l3 johnson 6l9 Collins 1Si; bennington l05
Constable Frank Giynes GIT; Sam Alea $780,
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15

NkDAQ A,s.beucs,t4 designs, Some
VAlty,1t hipg good. Mailed on receipt
o. 8 cents in stamps. Haarnc & Co, 7. o.
Box i4S7, ". Y.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15
johnson g. Son,

Fazehurst, mississippi
Hacks Bng Pheaone Spring Wagons and cbidEena cnr
sty quality and price Parties intending 10 purtas
Bugge will find 10 their interest purchase from them O:sh
inen OF Green Street.
The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-11-15

business.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08


The absence of thrift, energy, and
n 1aagement, many think, marks negro
character at its best. 1t is certain that
der long condition of servitude, been
abnormally developed. Emancipation
found the negro without the master S
care (and, as a body, shareholders, at
least from motives of self-interest, were
humane1, without the customary over
sight and medical attention, dependent,
not self-reliant. No wonder that many
OF the negroes have been worse off than
under their former bondage; that the
burden OF life has been SO often excess
sive; that infanticide has been so often
resorted to, to lessen it; and that death
from want and exposure has been SO ex-
ceptionally frequent. A body of four
million slaves. ignorant, uncivilized and
trained in habits of dependence, sud-
denly set free. then invested with the
ballot and intoxicated with political pow
er, then checked, and in many instances
violently checked, by the necessary and
wholesome self-assertion of the white
race, that they should have increased as
they have done is astonishing, and can
be accounted for only by the remarka-
BILE fecundity of the African. For the
future the adverse influence to popula-
ton, arising from this cause, will be-
come less and less potent. The negro,
adjusted to his surroundings, will work
with more ease and effect. He is ascend
ing from the lowest round. Education
must give him increased power to &C,
cumulate, experience must improve his
thrift, and. life passing under better con-
ditions, it is reasonable to think that in
subsequent decades he will add five pe-
cent. of increase to that of the past. We
put this rate at thirty-five per cent
Prot. E. W. Gillian, in Popular Science
Monthly for February.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
a Carload of Reas.

On Saturday car containing Curl
Gus freight was switched on the East
Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and
moved South.
1t was filled with bee-hives. One
hundred and forty of the latest style of
bee-hives piled Systematically on top of
each other, and to the foreground a
philosopher with his bed and board.
''Where are you going to take your
bees?'
ITO Florida for the winter. My name
is Thomas Mcfarland jackson, and I
live in Northern Missouri. 1 have large
apiaries that are forced to lie idle in the
winter. Pm going to take this carload
of hives to Florida where they can make
honey every day in the year. AS
soon as the clover is out again in North
ern Missouri l will take them back
there
"Will it pay you to move themp"
81 think SO. 1t costs less than dol
lar hive for transportation, and each
hive will have from Sc to 81 worth of
honey in it when bring it back. That
is what Italian bees Isent to Florida last
year did last winter. Only Italian bees
will thrive in Florida, as the moths eat
up the common bees"
''Will you live in the open air there?"
'srm going to camp around with my
bees. l believe I will bring back about
81 900 worth of honey in hives that
would otherwise lie idle all the winter
and be empty in the spring. ."-Atlanta
Do,7 cyiIlyIion
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Tho Mach;na in Edncat;on

We hear much of the bad effects of
machine politics, but it is questionable
if the evils of machine education are not
far worse. By machine education, we
mean the rigid, mechanical, law-estab-
lished routine applied to great multi
tudes of children of all conceivable sorts
who are got together in large establish
ments and submitted to operations that
go under the name OF mental cultiva-
tion. Machine education is of the very
lowest sort, and the best that can be
said of it is. that it js barely better than
nothing at all. I. wcrst difficulty is,
that it is not catsL,3 Of Improvement.
The method itself is radically false, so
that the Improvements of it but make it
worse. At the same time it borrows in
fuence from its enormous extension and
the authority by which it is enforced.
The education factories run in series,
each has complex grading, and the
different institutions are intimately
belted with each other, and all driven
by the motive power of legislation. AS
might be expected, the whole system is
run with view to popular effect, which
is necessarily fatal to the best results.
If the reader will refresh his memory
in regard to the first principles of men,
tai cultivation by reading the article.
found elsewhere in our pages. entitled
''Brain-Power in Education" he will
get clear idea Of what must be the
necessary outcome Of educational me-
chanics. In the work of the school there
are two modes Of dealing with the brain;
it can be stored with information, or
strengthened in its functional operations.
True education consists in the develop
ment of brain-power in accordance with
the laws of its activity, and is simply
and always discipline in spontaneous
self-exertion. In the attainment of this
object the engineer of the educational
machine has very little to do. The office
of the teacher is important, but it. con-
sists in encouraging, melting, and arous-
ing the pupil to put forth his own efforts,
and when this is most effectually done
the result is not of that conspicuous
kind that is suitable to make snowy
impression at public parade. No
method has yet been devised for exhib-
iting such results that is notfull of rank
injustice and that does not put pre-
MUM upon inferior work. Prof E. l..
Yownsd,as, IN Popular Science Monthly
fo7. Feby7knru
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
The House With Closets.


How dear to the heart of the housekeeping
woman,
Are comforts of which go few architects
tell;
Nice children, good servants and plenty of
The we-nlted mansion in which they must
dwell.
But fra OF the blessings kind fortune can give
If she in the city or country abide,
Is that which she longs for and covets forever,
closet,
The big. airy closet, her joy and her pride.
The house may be perfect from garret to cell
lar,
Well lighted, well aired, with cold water and
hot,
And yet, to the eye OF the feminine dweller,
If closetiess, all is as If 1t wero not.
How Oft she has sunk like a dove that is
How oft she has secretly grumbled and sigh
Because she saw not, though with all else sur
The big, airy closet, her joy and her pride!
The roomy, clean closet, the welfordered
The big, airy closet, her joy and her pride:
Fond husbands, who fain would have home be
For you and your Ewes all complete as a
whole,
To read in, to write in, to sleep in, to feed
Forget not the closets SO dear to the soul;
But build them in corners, in hooks, and in
Wherever a closet may harbor or hide,
And give to your Marys, your Hates and your
Armies,
The big airy closets, their joy and their
The roomy, clean closets, the well-ordered
The big, airy closets, their joy and their
pride.
1.-THE Builder.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
nnld Wilder

You must know that Old Wildsy was
a wild duck that. four years age, came
one fine day in December to the mill
pond. among the other ducks, and swan
with them until they got almost to the
place where Grandfather fed them;
then it was afraid to ceme any nearer
and would fly away again. and thus it
happened that every night when he
called the tame & .eks 70 the shore to
feed them, Old H-udes came little
nearer and little nearer. dll enc night
she came to the grassy bank and looked
at the other ducks eating up the grains
Of Indian corn that Grandfather fed to
them.
but, as she was wild duck, and
did not know that Indian corn was fit
to eat, she just stood looking at than
eating it. Well, one night she walked
up among the other ducks, and turned
her head to one side, and looked at the
grains of corn with one eye; then she
turned her head to the other side and
looked at the grains of corn with the
other eye; then she took single grain
up in her bill, and held it moment and
then swallowed it; then she carefully
picked up two or three more grains, and
ate them and few away. This delight
ed US grandchildren very much. The
next night she seemed to have found
that corn was as good for wild ducks as
as it was for tame ones; so she walked
up among the other ducks, and when
Grandfather threw them down the corn
she ate it up as fast as ever she could.
In the course of q few weeks, when
Grandfather called the ducks she would
fy out of the water, and would be the
first one that would come to be fed,
and before spring came she would eat
out of his hand. So it went on till the
early part Of May, when the leaves
were out and the meadows were dotted
over with golden dandeiion, and blue in
spots with tufts of violet. Then we all
noticed that Old Wildey would OCCASION
ally leave the other flock and fly away
out of sight, and after awhile return
again, until one day, about the middle
Of May, she disappeared and we saw
her no more. However, about the first
of November, flock of seven wild
ducks were seen on the lake, and when
the tame ducks came home to be fed,
one of the wild ducks left the flock and
came up and ate corn with them. 1t
was Old Wildey! An so it has been
every year since, About the middle of
May, when the ice begins to break up
in the Northern lakes, Old Wildey leaves
her winter home to go north; and every
autumn. about the first of November,
she returns to her old home in Pennsyl-
vania. Each year, Grandfather and
Grandmother and the aunts and grand
children, wonder if Old Wildey will come
back. This time. when aunt Hannah
came in and told Grandfather that Old
Wildey had come back, he put aside his
newspaper and went to the feed-room
for some corn and called out, Come
along home, my duckie,' when Wildey
just flew out of the water and came up
to him and ate the corn out of his hand.
Although she had been away for six
months, she had not forgotten the voice
that called her, or the hand that had
fed her during the winter.-H. E. S. in
St. Nicholas for February.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
A Mule that Hates Irishmen,

Ex-Policeman Buckley, who is now a
butcher in the market, sold mule to-
day which exhibits remarkable preju-
dice against Milesian. Mr.. Buckley
had occasion once to beat it for an al
legged serious offense, and the animal
has since manifested strange looseness
of its headquarters for Hibernian.
He will allow an aesthetic Englishman,
a burly German. hirsute Norwegian,
a musical Dutchman, a verbose French
man or suave italian to approach and
utilize him, but when an Irishman goes
near him his aft part gets kind of loose,
his ears turn back, his eye grows wicked,
and there is mischief to play. He has n
wonderful faculty for distinguishing be-
tween the nationalities, and some think
that Mr.. Buckley trained him in that
line. He is wonderful mule, and one
characteristic about him is that while
he has no love for an Irishman, he alb
solutely and unqualiiiedly hates a
negro, and except he is knocked on the
head may make some poor African a
subject for the Coroner. -jSGUa1aaaeth Re
cOr(ler,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Aaron Burr as a Gross Examiner.

A writer thus describes the conclusion
of case in which Burr was one of the
lawyers: The evening session opened
and Burr resumed his cross-examina-
ton of the witness. 1t was test of the
profound skill and subtlety of the
lawyer, the self-possession, courage and
tact of the witness standing on the very
brink of a horrible gulf calmly and in
trepidly resisting the efforts of the ter
rible man to topple him over. At last.
after dexterously leading the witness to
an appropriate point, Burr suddenly
seized a lamp in each hand, and holding
them in such manner that their light
fell instantaneously upon the face of the
witness, he exclaimed in a startling
voice, like the voice of the avenger of
blood: Gentlemen of the jury, behold
the murderer"
With wild, convulsive start, face
of ashy pallor, eyes starting from their
sockets, lips apart, his whole attitude
evincing terror. the man sprang from
his chair. For a moment he stood
motionless, struggling to recover his
self-possession. But it was only a
momentary struggle; shaking every
nerve with paralyzing fear. Conscious
that the eyes of all in the court room
were fixed upon him reading the hidden
deeds of his life, he left the witness
stand, and walked shrinkingly to the
door of the court room. But he was
prevented from making his escape by
the sheriff. The effect can be better
imagined than described. II struck the
spectators with silent awe, changing the
whole aspect of the trial in an instant,
overthrowing the hypothesis of the
Attorney-Generab which he was con-
vinced would send The prisoner to the
gallows, saving an innocent man from
the deashful hands of bold and skill
full perjurer. The false witness was az
rested, two indictments were found
against him, one for murder, another
for perjury. He was acquitted fol
murder, but subsequently, convicted fol
perjury and sentenced TO q long term oi
Imprisonment.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Scripture Revision.

The following is genuine extract
from the composition Of little native
African girl, Is years old, wild savage
only few years ago, now pupil in
the orphan school at Cape Palmast-
Do you know what is histerys His
tory, as you know, teaches us what is
happen in the past event, and geogra-
ply shows us where the garden Of Eden
is, which continent and which division,
history tells US that Adam was the first
man who was created, and while he
was sleeping God took out one of his
ribs and made Eve. After awhile Eve
went to walk among the trees of the
garden; conversation took place be-
tween her and the devil The devil
told her to eat some kind of fruit which
God had told her and Adam not to eat
She took it and ate it. Also she took
some for Adam, her husband. When
Adam saw it he did not take no time to
ask Eve where did she get it from.
History, geography and the earth
just do 60 together, one tells US about
that, and one about this and so forth.
Histories are interesting to read indeed
they are.
1t tells something about the whale.
The whale is the largest animal in the
sea. The whale is spoken of in the
bible.
When God sent Jonah to Ninevah to
preach to the people about their sins
Jonah refused to go. He went into q
ship with some people. He Just went
in there to hide from God but God caused
a great storm to take place. The ship
went from this way to that way. The
people was afraid indeed and they be-
gan to cast lots and the lots fell upon
him.
They took him up and threw him in
to the sea. While he was going to the
bottom of the sea he met with this ami
NAL, so the whale said: my friend,
where are you going?' Jonah answer
ed and said: Il have disobeyed nv
God and am trying to hide from his
face" The Whale: ''Well, you ought
to be ashamed of yourself. Don't You
know that neither you nor can hide
from Gods face"
Jonah: "Oh, Whale. am afraid l
don't know what Pm doing or saying"
The whale said: "Jonah, o Jonah,
harken unto me and take heed unto thy
self for in will swallow you SOON"
''Have mercy on me, o whale, and if
its Gods will he will carry me safely
to the land so l may obey Him"
The Whale Jonah, put your head
in my mouth and get ready for your
life.''
Jonah: whale, think you had
better swallow me because l see there
is no use in talking"
The Whale: "Jonah, the idea of
your running away from God! You
will have to bear the consequence, that
is all have got to say"
At the same time the whale swallowed
him up. Jonah thought the whales
belly was his grave and end. He did
not think he would get to the show any
more, therefore he offer prayer to God
for his sins and if he should die before
he should get to the show, if it was
Gods will carry his soul to heaven.
The whale did not rest day after day,
night after night, so after three days
the whale went to the show and vom-
tied Jonah up. Jonah was just like a
drowned rat
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08
Gettinr the Laugh on a Society Beau,


A charming grass widow, who sings,
had asked a gentleman friend to bring
her list of new songs to the kettle
drum, and when they met over cup
of tea she reminded him of his prom
ise.
Holding his cup in one hand, he pro-
ceeded to take folded paper from his
side pocket with the other, and as some
girls came up to offer flowers and bon
bons, he hurriedly handed the paper to
Mrs, She opened it, of course.
but what was the result? A suppressed
scream and a prolonged litter. OF
course all the girls clamored to know
what was the matter. and then the men,
Joined in the chorus, or, as one of Bal
four's young men said: whats the
row?' Mr.. - had made a mistake,
and instead of giving a list of songs, as he
supposed had, handed her alist ofholiday
presents he intended giving to the young
ladies of his acquaintance, and the cost
of each set down opposite the names,
with comments like this:
'.For Mrs. So and So, holiday book
-$20; rather steep, but l have dined
there so often l must do it.
"Miss -, a fan--$10; know where
l can get one cheap.
1.-TWO Misses, gloves; get doz-
en- good, and ditto inferior qualify; mix
together, best on top"
And so on, ad lib.
Poor fellow! He tried his best to re-
cover the paper, but Mrs. - holds
on TO it, declaring it was bona fide Of
fering. think it is rather mean of her,
but then I'm not a bit sorry for him, for
he's real mean old thing and has been
going through society since before ma
was married, and he's such a gossip
himself, its nice to see the tables turned
once in while.-San Francisco Ne,0s
LETTER.