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The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
The Right Man,

The other day on an Arkansas
railroad train, an important looking
gentleman took seat by quiet
man and began a conversation,
II am going to Little Rock" he
said, "to get pardon for a convict
thief, I am not personally acquaint.
ed with the Governor, but he cannot
afford to refuse me. "
rs the fellow guilty." asked the
man.
"Of course he is, but that makes
no dif1e ence. His friends have
agreed TO give me $500 if get Kim
out, and the thermometer is very
Low when I can't put up good talk
Where are you traveling?'
"Going to Little Rock"
"Do You live there2'
eyes"
"Porhaps you might be OF some
service to me. What business are
you ins"
I'm the Governor said the quiet
man. -1rko1asdse 1rooeter.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Heagreed torule as l asked for $4,000
paid him the money with this check
exhibiting the $4,000 cheeky Suisse
qnently Blaine came to me and de-
manded $500 more and | was obliged
to yield and make the second pay
ment with this check exhibiting the
$500 cheeky sNow,' said Mr.. KEN.
Bile, defy any man to say that l evel
had any othe bushes transaction with
Blaine,and defy any man to dispute
the genuineness of this endorsement
in Blaine's handwriting, If he is
nominated by this convention will
give these facts to the public, and
his defeat is certain to follow. ! have
no objection to man being bought
if he will stay bouSht, but | protest
against him demanding the pay
twice
"The effect of this speech was cleo.
trical, "oontinued Mr.. Bergner. "When
Kemhle sit down he handed the can
celed checks around among the dele.
gates, and they were examined care
fully, and critically. ] had them in my
hand, and am satisfied that they were
genuine. Immediately after the vote
was taken,and the delegation decided
to cast its vote for Hayes. That vote
decided the issue against Blaine"
While the balloting in the Chicago
convention of 1880 was in progress,
Gen. Simon Cameron, abiding to the
same matter, said to a neighhor that
it was evident that the people were
for Blaine, but owing the evidence
against him it would be fatal to nom
mate him.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Col. Ed Richardson, the great
Mississippi cotton planter-the cul-
tivator OF more acres than any other
one man in the world-and Presi-
dent of the New Orleans Exposition,
is about to commence the building
of a narrow guage rail road to run
from Carolina landing on the Missis-
sippi river, to lake Washington, con-
Meeting with the Greenville branch
of the Memphis, Vicksburg and New
Orleans road.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Mrs. M0rrilI KeaiiirMs Her LIE T.
ter.

Mrs. Morrill, repeats and realfirms
every word of the scathing letter
which she wrote to the Republican
State Committee of Ohio, as follows:
81 am in mourning for my hus-
band, but as much as l mourn his
death, thank my Father in Heaven
that He called him home before the
party he loved SO we'll and did so
much for had so disgraced itself as to
nominate so wicked and corrupt a
man for the highest office within the
gift of the American people, as l
know, and my husband knew James
G.. Blaine to be. If he were alive he
would not support Mr.. Blaine, or any
such man, even at the bidding of his
party.
CHARLOTTE MORRILL,"
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Tammany will put herself on record
tonight, and unless all signs fail, the
meeting will be as lively as cat fight
in back yard.-New York Mail and
Express.
The signs failed. The only kicker
was Thomas F. Grady, who has pretty
we'll kicked himself our of Tammany
and the Democratic party.-Mobi!e
Register.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

for Vice President, Thomas A. Hem
bricks, Of Indiana, and hereby pledge
ourselves to an earnest and cordial
support of the candidates so nomina-
ted"
Amid great applause from the
Tammany Democrats and Kisses
from Grady's outside hackers the
resolution was adopted.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

SERVED HIM RIGHT.-Little Pc
--'Do you know that we are going
to have new papa !
Little Jack--iNo; | dess you il
staken.'
Little Pet-'No. ] amt. Nurse
said mamma was goin' to be married
again and that would give US a new
papa
Little Jack---'Who is it p
Little Pet-'That MI. Simpkin,
that never brings us any candy
Little jacks ma doin' to make
him our papa p
Little Pet-'Yes.'
Little Jack-'Serves IN right
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Respectfully,
w. B. WALKER.

Chicago Husband-I am shocked
my dear, that you should waltz with
that stranger; the idea of letting a
man You never saw before put biz
arms around you in that style
Wife-I should not have done it.
love, only / found after a few mo
ments, conversation that / formerly
knew him.
Indeed!
Yes; he was one of my early hus-
bands
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
The Result in Maine.

An Augusta, Me-. special to the New
intimate experience of political cam
paigns in various parts of the country
for fifteen years past, onein a municipal
contest which has since become historic
because of the legal prosecutions fol
bribery that followed it, your cores
pondent has never seen such open, un-
blushing, avowed debauchery of the
ballot as was exhibited in this Puritan
city yesterday. From one end of the
Town to the other the talk was "money. >
You passed group of rough~looking
men on the street, and without taking
the trouble 10 lower their voices they
discussed how much each got for his
vote grumhling at the better luck OF
one over he other within sight Of the
polls. Within 80 feet of the polling
place, in Mr.. BIaine's own ward, men
were treated ont OF whiskey bottles by
political runners. 1t was saturnali;'
of corruption.
| WAS not familiar enough with the
individual politics of the town TO dis
crimiuate between the Democratic and
Republican runners, but comparison
of the poll books with list of the cor
ruptible voters prepared before Il {
election shows that their names are to-
day, in the great majority of instances,
marked for Robbie. Perhaps this result
was due to the fact that the Republican
campaign purse was the heaviest.
have seen no reluctance to fight the
Ievil with Ere; but there are some two
hundred Republican office-holders il
he city-One out of each eight voters
| and the salaries of these men were to bt
Irowu upon, to say nothing of the enor
nous fund sent into the State.
If the same processes obtained else
where in the State rs in Augusta some
thousands OF dishonest electors were
richer when night came by from S. tC
| SO each Three hundred and seventy
names were on the corruptible list pre-
pared in this city before the election.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

WAsHINGroN, September To-
The New York Herald, Times, World
and Sun this morning published
several columns OF what are known
as the "Mulligan Letters" the letters
which passed between Warren Fisher
and Blaine. None of to-day's letters
have heretofore been made public.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

A poll of 1870 Republican members
Of the New York Produce Exchange
were taken on Monday, and Of the
1870, l05 declared that they would
not support Blaine. Another straw is
the fact that out of the 1000 mem
bers of the University Club in New
York city only three are known to be
Blaine men, and one of the three is
William NJ. Evarts, whose SONS have
announced themselves for Cleveland.
: Mobile Register.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Barksdale and Yellowly met in
Joint discussion at Yellowly's home,
Madison Station, on the 18th, and it
was a bad day for Yellowly. Banks
dale is as certain to be his own sue
cessor in Congress as that election
day dawns.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Six acres of land near Poplar Springs,
about two miles in the country, sold for
$500, in the last few days. Two years
ago it could have been bought for S.
per acre. We learn that another party
is taking steps to purchase six acres
more i'll the same locality Meridian
Mercury,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Iris understood that Blaine is to
take the stump in person in Ohio,
next week, as that State though al
ways Heretofore considered reliably
Republican in Presidential years,
threatens to go with the general
tide, to Cleveland.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Judge Houston, of New Orleans, is
nominated for Congress to succeed
E. John Ellis who declied to be
again candidate.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

The Magnolia Gnzette reports the
opening of au ancient Indian mound in
that vicinity in which were found two
skeletons ",hat we're apparently per-
forated" and saggests sending them 10
the Exposition. Don't do it, friend
Burke, we Mississippians have been so
often charged with ''perforatlng skele-
tons that an exhih1t of this kind will
lAe ''rnthel agin u.s." dur enemies will
swear that we sent the bones there to
illustrate apopular Mississippi industry.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

The cholera is making fearful
Roadway in Naples, Italy. On the
Ii b there were S72 fresh cases and
1856 death. King Humhert is show.
ing the most heroic devotion to his
plague stricken people, and visits
the wards of the cholera hospitals
in all Of the worst neighborhoods,
refusing TO resort to disinfectants
or take any precautions which the
humblest of his subjects connot
command,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

IT is reported that Conkling was
recently asked if he would take the
stump for Bl aine, and tartly replied;
81 am not engaged at present in
criminal practice"
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

DR.. B. F. Duke. of Lake Como
Mississippi, rs having the water of
the grand mineral spring in that
vicinity analysed with view to ex-
lnbiting it in the Mississippi Depart
,nent at New Orleans.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Itching DiIcs--SymOtous and Cure

Itching Pilcs--Syuptens and Cure.
The symptoms are moisture, like perspr alton
intense itching increa sed by scratching; very
distressing particularly at night. seems as II
pin-worms were crawling in and about the rec
fallowed to contHe very serious results may
follow. "SWAYNE'S OINTMENT" is n pleas,
ant. sure cure. Also 1 or letter, Itch. Salt,
Blotches all scaly, crusty Skin Diseases. Box
by mail. so cts; for Sl.25. Address, DIR
SWAYNE & SON Phla., Pa. Sold by Druggists
March 18th. -1y.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

The Virginia Democrats are perfectly
eontidpnl of success, and the persistent
refusal OF the Republican National Com
nittee to supply Malone with funds
affords good evidence that that body
concurs with the Democrats in their
view of the situation.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

THE New York SIM says that the
position of Secretary of the Treasurer
has been offered to Post Master General
Gresham, aud that Frank Haitian will
get the Post Office Department as a re-
ward for his services to Arthur at the
Chicago Convention.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Appointments i'll The FIRST Dis
trjct.

EDIToRs EXAMINER:
hand you herewith a list of APP
pointments for speaking in this Dis
trict. DR.. J. NJ. Bynnm, my oppos-
ing candidate for Elector has been
invited to meet me at all these points,
when l will gladly accord him a fair
division of time.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

THE SONS of Judge Hoar eff Massa-
chusetts, and of VIM, NJ. Evarts,
Secretary OF State under Hayes, are
enthusiastic supporters of Cleveland
for President.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State
nnder Grant, and Benjamin F.
Bristow ex Secretary of the Treas.
ury, have both announced their in-
ability to support Mr.. Blaine for the
Presidency
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Thirteen Years dyspepsia

II suffered with dyspepsia for IS
years." Writes John Albright ESQ.,, of
Columbus, Ohio. SAMARITAN NERvINE
cured me.' AS it always cures such
disorders. At druggist.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

THE Houston, Miss, Free South
claims for that town the champion
squirrel hunter in America. He
killed 1,l44 last year and says he
will greatly exceed that number this
wear
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Master Mechanic Jack White has
been quite sick for the past week at
Winona, where he went to attend the
trial of the Duck Hill train wreckers
-lWater Valley Central.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

THE Chicago hoodlums have had
some more fun-they murdered a
poor Chinese laundryman on Sunday
last.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

To any body who has disease Of throat
or lungs. we will send proof that Piso's
Cure for Consumption has cured the
same complaints in other cases. Address,
e. T. HAzELTINE, Warren, Pa.
cArf
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

1t vas but few years ago that
James Ct. Blaine, as United States
Senator, styled Massachusetts, in
debate, "a State bristling all over
with unpatriotic records going clear
up to the verge of Treason, and in
the opinion # some patriots step
ping one point beyond it, OF the
city Of Boston, in particular, he de-
clared that lis inhabitants were ''ili-
informed and prejudiced," and in.
capable of understanding or appre-
ciating people who were brave and
generous These remarks will not
add to Blaine S vote in the Old Bay
State. -Mo6ile Register.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Important II True.

A New York correspondent tele,
graphs the Washington Sunday Ga
zette as follows: "a conference oil
the leading Stalwart Republicans
will be held in this city at an early
day to discuss theexpediency of rails
lying in body to the support OF
Cleveland, or rather to arrange the
prelminaries for such a move.
Blaine's intimate friends have been
threatening ever since the nomina,
ton that he would, when elected,
finish the work he began SO we'll in
1882 by causing the defeat of Folger
in this State. The Stalwarts have
concluded to take Blaine at the word
Of his friends. and it is war to the
knife now. I can positively affirm
that George G. Gorham's recent visit
TO Gov Cleveland was part of a care
fully matured plan of the Stalwart
leaders of this State, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania. I am sure that
in less than two weeks such men as
Pierce, Endicott, and Forbes of Mas,
sachusetts, Conkling, of New York,
Cameron and Qnay, of Pennsylvania,
Foster, of Ohio, and New, of Indiana
will unite in supporting Cleveland.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

A murderer was quietly taken
from the Jail in Wellington, Kansas,
by party of armed men on the 10th,
and lynched.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Thursday, September IS 1884
Dem Ocraiic y, teExecutiveC Conn
nittce.

State at large-Oliver Clifton, Kinds;
James A. Barks,lale, YaZ0o;J. F.Sessi0us,
lincoln; ;. A. Jonas. Monroe; Murray
+. Smith. Warren.
lst Congressional District. II. Har-
ri-nn, W. M. Cox.
2rd Dist.-C. b. Howry, J. G. KYLE.
70 Dist. W. Anderson, q. r. Page.
lth Dist.--S. b. Brown, j. III. Duke.
9TH Djst.-E. Watkins, &. n. Harris.
9th nst.-J. w. Lambert, NJ NJ. Evans.
9TH Dist.-A. J. McLaurin, W. c. vii
kinson.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Brother Barke, of the Magnolia Ga
zctte thought TINT by mighty effort of
will he could snake off the Editorial
harness, and so he advertised his excel
lent journal for sale. Brother Burke
hns retracted and will continue as here
tofore q reliable pilot at the wheel.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Cases of metallic poisoning have
been traced to cheap silver plated
pitchers. Where the lining is broken
or worn galyanic action is set up and
the base metal rapidly oxidized.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Rev, Henry Cosgrove, has been
consecrated as Bishop of the Catholic
diocese at Deavenpsst, Iowa.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

The Illinois Central now has 1916
miles Of road and employs 4,544
persons
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

The Odd Fellows OF this city never
fail to respond to the appeals of char
ity.- Water Vdlley Cent? az.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

CABLE dispatches report the cotton
industry of Lancashire, England as
suffering abe severest depression ex.
perienced in many years. Many
mills have closed, short hours are
general, and in some districts the
mills only run four days in the week
This is not very favorble showing
for the opening of the cotton season.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Assistant Secretary of the Treas
Tury, Cbas. e. Coon, has been desig.
snated by the President as Acting
Ssess ry for ten days.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Gov, Hendricks will make speech
at Columbus, Ohio, on the 25th inst.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

A Jacksonville, Fla, apple meas.
ured III inches in circumference
and weighed seventeen oances.-N
o. Pjcay,aae.
Pshaw - Mississippi will show
peaehes at New Orleans that vii
beat that apple long ways in size
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
Coughs Colds, Catarrh, COnsump-

All Throat Breast, and Lung Affections
cured by the old-established "SWA YNE'S
WILD-CH EIbRY." The first dose gives
relief, and a cure speedily follows. 2j
Cts, or .1.O0.at Druggists. March 13-1y
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

Tue government property,at Har-
;pers Ferry is to he sold October. 22d.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18

HE steam cotton compress at
Eufaula, Ala, exploded its boiler on
the 18th. Three colored men were
killed, and Nj. B. Pickett, chief clerk
is supposed to be buried under the
walls. Three others were badly hurt
$50 bales eff cotton were destroyed,
and the compress which belonged to
the Central Georgia Railroad, and
cost $4,000 was a complete loss.
This accident following so swift, upon
he heels of the burning of the great
-four mills at that town, is likely TO
have II disastrous effect upon the
winter trade of that enterprising city.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-18
A press special to the Mobile Reg
ister from Moss Point, Miss. SAYS:

ISIVT ITO!U NOSS I VIfI, AIIhS,, SHyS.
1.-The Excelsior Shoe Factory a
this place is no y in operation, turn
ing out shoes superior in quality to
those made in Northern factories,
being made for durability as well as
STYLE
, 1884-08-23

was finally decided that, according to
the present information, and in pre-
sent circumstances, no British expe-
dition will be despatched to Egypt
for he relief Of General Gordon. All
information now reaching the Foreign
Office tends to show that the authori.
~ of the Mahdi is being broken down,
and the tribes are growing efusiveIy
friendly in their relations with Bri-
iish officials, whenever met with.
Colonel ColviIIe, OF The Grenadier
Guards, who was recently despatch
ed to the Soudan with Instructions to
organise the Bedouin tribes, reports
most tavournblI Of his mission. More
over, all news from Gordon repre-
sents him in n position of increasing
strength. The Nile Mt khartoum is
still two months off its full rising.
Many weeks ago Gordon promised to
give " good account Of he Mahdi's
men when the Nile rises" He has
fulfilled that pledge hitherto, for with
something less than halt the Nile rise
he has steamed up and down, &C
cordil.g to one account, reaching close
to Brrhrr, and everywhere dominating
the Arabs. There is little doubt, nc
cortiing tO the information both of the
War Office and the Foreian Office,
that Gordon will be able, before the
middle of September to leave Khar-
toum. Arrangements are now being
made, on a large scale, to cooperate
with him, by all means available
whether by friendly tribes or The
Egyptian forces differed by English.
men. But the Government will not
risk the lives or incur the cost of send
ing out a British army, which, to do
its work e~fftctunlly, could not be "a
man less than 10000 strong.
, 1884-08-23

very useful for taking ont coarser impuri-
ties, are not of the least use from the
point of view in question. Although
nearly all drinking water contains micro
sc0pie organisms in abundance, Fortunate
" f0E us the. vast majority are harmless,
otherwise none of us would he alive 10
talk &bCut them 3; We may 60 on
drinking unboiled water all our lives and
either not meet with any that is c0ntami.
mated, or, drinking it, may from some
popularity OF constitution he none the
worse for it. Still for the sake Of security
tits better to boil all drinking water at all
times, and certainly not to omit doing so
in a locality reputed to be unhealthy or N
the appearance of any epidemic.
All English gentleman, exploring in the
interior of Central America in 1928 q,
had to take with him from the coast u
number of Indians to clear the trees and
bashes from around the ruins of some
ancient buildings which he desired TO
examine. He says that he had soon to
~relinquish the work, because his Indians
all became sick with fever. The Indian
tribes of the district were free from this
fever, and he attributes the immunity to
the fact that they always boiled their
water before drinking it, wen if on q
march, and this the Indians from the coast
~obstinately refused to do. He himself fol-
lowed the more cautious practice, AMI
escaped. Thus these nntaught SavageS
had by experience arrived at the sAlne
result to which science has now brought
civilized man. Many civilized men, it is
true, pay as little attention to the advice
given them in the matter az did the coast
Indians above referred to, and many pay
a penalty similar TO theirs.