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The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-01-26
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rlth several large Interests n lha' ferlou,
aled nsrsnlIf.
Tho wlic n Colonel II Coulter Catell.
N Illshmund, W Klula, was fatally burned,
few esenlnrs slhcp W her clothing IN
ing nre a Rfais.
The exploring party which has 70.
ornily bern operating In that vast and am
hlfpous region known ne ''lhe fvsfglades,"
IN Florida, does NOT alspa very Gathering
account ~ The condition down thrfe. u
Il simply melancholy waste n bugs,
auleksand and saw erass. We are assured,
useless for any purpose, and beyond reach
Of any process ~ reclamation, Tho ang'
rcsilon n aided that In the course of
century ur twu The fofces N nature may
turn the hogs into iirm soil and replace the
saw.grass with something else, but that
can hardly be said to give the country any
practical insrrrst
James Wustcn. A farmer, was found
dead fcw mornings since few mites
from Beauregnrd, Miss, shot through the
heart. There wa. no trace Of tho mur
drrer.
| Governor Lowry, Of Mississippi, wants
the Legislature OF that state ~ pass law
authorizing an expenditure Of 81 100 In any
case whsrr man charged with hlgh
crime runs away and can not hc reached
by ordinary official rffort.
Wire fence cutting is still guing on In
the ncighborhood OF Marshall, Tex.
| j, d, Stocking, Postmaster at Law
renee, Tex, was discharged alter cxnmina
tion on charge Of unlawfully opening lot
ters.
! Mrs Eliza Stewart. mother Of ex-
Governor Pmchhnck OF Louisiana, died in
New Orleans few nights ago.
Counterfeit gold dollar, bearing tho
stamp OF 1861, are In circulation la Angus.
Ia, Ga. Tho counterfeit is perfect IN every.
thing cxrcpt tho weight.
At Sweet Water, Tenn, n few nights
ago John Reagan, a well.to.io farmer, was
bruially murdered by Tom Wilson, u
former neighbor, with whom he had n
, trivial dispute some time ago. Wilson ~.
capped. ..,.
John Davidson and wife, cighty-eight
and oighty.six years old respectively
were found dead from hunger and cold In
their house at Newport, Tenn, few day,
ago. t
Over $4,000 has been subscribed II
Houston, Tex, In aid OF nn Interstate en-
campment and drill In that citynext May
, The first prize for infantry drill Is expectct
. 10 be $500.
Jack McKenna, gambler, killed Ed
Wilson, faro dealer, In vicksburg, Miss.
few nights ago.
|, Andrew IIcrtzog was crushed by
a falling tree near Paducuh. KY, few day
' ago, and appears now 10 bs compile 81,
Z dead from the hips down, while above he I
as well as ever, suffering no pain.
o J. $. Harley, Of Petersburg, Va, wa
recently sentenced to eight years. impri.
= onmcnt for higamy.
a A Dallas Crcs.) gambler paid sl. ~
fines recently under pleas ~ Guilty.
y Nero, colorcd man shot In the brai
. at Marshall, Tex. couple Of weeks sg,
u died few DAYS since from his wounds.
J. II. Tucker, rallrond cmployc q
: = Denison, Tex, caught his iootin a Awitc
!, frog few days since and was run over b
" freight car. losing ono leg.
!. Mamie Mayen, of Louisville, Ky
h died recently, aud an investigation show,
n that her death resulted frDn opium poisoi
ing. She sometimes took eighty grains
4. day.
a l.. -.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-01-26

Mrs. Anna Trion. whose home whom
. girl was In Bucks County. Pa, was
the young woman who bnckled the
sword Of General Hosston around that
veteran Just before the battle Of San
Jacinfo. Her death In Bryan. Tex. was
. recent occnrrunre.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-01-26

The young man Lsndell, who did
Of hunger and exposure st Lexington,
KY. ihs other day was son cf tie
Presideuf cf ths kenelDEton National
bank, u Philadelphis. and IVES on h :
waywsrd freak foT adventure.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-01-26

Tho following arc thosc on tho raft. .vhcsc
faic 4 nnknaxn. A. Morrison. chief enzi-
necr. Edwin G, Fuller. hr-t mate; Augustus
Hariin, ssrgnd msfss Tm4 nuuhy. nrsINant
engineer. Wm. Fitfpafrick- carpenter. hieh-
ard sullivan, PrIn0s inward IdAnd.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-01-26

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The crow arc known 70 BE- eeyedt Captain
OIeary, steward pitfman: seanien MADDEN.
folIowins ere the nafnee ,of th0ee taken
ashore al 6ayhead. One 6f thrIn wa. drnd.
but II Il moi Known vhich onrt Hssvy collins
ahssl h Ksnssdy waiisrs Eivsifd 01Issen.
waller; John IIolmes Piewans oue re ~>sef
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Mrs. Robert j. Burdette.

We who read that Mrs. Burdette is dead are
very thoughtless. We listen TO the birds this
morning; and the gliding of the sunshine on the
blossoms and the leaves is simply just the al
chemy our selfshness demands, and we are
pleased, and say this is very pleasant world
to u.s. Some of us say this because we want to
forget the mother that went away a year ago,
and tried to speak but could not; for that the
lips were dry and framed no thing, although
they writhed and writhed with the great yearn-
ing of their love. Some say it because the sis
ter, when she went, was very poor, and had no
legacy at all to leave only her virtue and old
maidenhood, and the strangely vague daguerreo-
type of the one whose lie made all her life an
empty album in which no line was writ by any
friend. Some say it because they blindly think
this agony will never come to them-but, all the
same, some day thehammer on the anvil willring
drear-the twitter of the blithest bird will hurt
the hearing, and the lghtest laughter of the
sweetest child will be an awful discord that will
jar and clang and ache on every sense.
The woman that is dead is past all this That
is her rapture and her JOY. God is blessing her
just as He has been blessing her for years
and years. AS it happens, L knew
her here; also her husband. he
is not funny man" to-day, nor was he very
funny when, but few weeks ago, at his own
home, he asked the writer, one Sunday morn
ing if he would join the family i'll morning
service. The scene is here and it is very plain:
The invalid bolstered in her chair, the sister at
her side and the boy that he has laughingly
called 1.-The Prince" for her sake, leaning on her
knee. Words grow very tired trying to say how
sweet and perfect it all was. But the very funny
man, 1 remember held the Bible on his. knees
and read from it in way that suggested that,
sometimes, he was not funny man at all, but
thought serious things and even was capable OF
having tears in his eyes and blessings on his
head, showered, both, from the palms of God.
Come from this with me. and read from the
pen of the woman who will never, with her
poor crippled hands, write one other line
''Out of the clond-folds of her garments
shaken, nature trails the soft, soft blossoms of
the snow, from grey sky tobrown earth. Softly,
softly the snow comes down, and in my heart
the sun still shines. Sweet peace is there. The
strong right hand of His righteousness is about
me; underneath me are the everlasting arms;
Away / hear in my heart His words, Abide
with me- am waiting for the post to come
across the river with the message."-
This is the woman who is dead to-day, the
wife of the funny
JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY.
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might as well work out of Jail as III it. To man
they are opposed to labor. and so am l, and so
are the Greenbackers We want plenty of
money. no monopolies or railroads built by
much money and the least possible amount of
labOr hence, also, we are opposed TO the impor
tation of labor.
The tenth resolution is a hideous blunder. a
huge conglomeratiou of incongruities 1t
admits the policy Of taxation of some
kind and the raising Of revenues
in some way. whereas our financial
system" contempates the entire abandonment
Of all such expressions. 1t demands the issuing
of money enough-cheap money, as the resolu-
ton wisely calls it-money enough to pay our
national debt, and meet all the expenses of the
government, and it should be as cheap to farmers
to bankers. Every man who has a govern
ment bond should be permitted to deposit it and
issue a currency on it, and draw his interest in
greenbacks, and then have his bond paid in
greenbacks which have no promise to pay dol
lars, out which are to be real, sure enough dol
lars. We are in favor of all that, and especially
in favor of cheap money and lots of it.
A GENUINE GREENBACKER-
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Tariffs md CIVILIZATIONS.

rn tI.e Editor Of tho Indiana polls Journal:
It must be plain to all that governments would
not be instituted if all men were governed by
the rule that every man has the liberty to do rs
lie peascs limited only by the liberty of every
other. la former letter to the journal, the
''inalienaole rights of men" was the form of
words in which the same idea was clothed.
Certainly there would be no governments were
they not needed to protect life, rights and prop
erty After they are organized they are worth
less if they don't do this. Here is nation which
strikes down the possibilities of great class to
attain to equal social and political conditions, by
denying them inaenable rights in her organic
structure. As consequence of this abnormal
condition this great class. while producing
per man, as many tons of iron rail,
as many yards of cotton goods, as much
of everything else as similar class in another gov
ernment does who enjoy all their social and po-
tic3l rights, still. by reason of their disability,
are compelled to accept one-half less pay for
their services than the other a large per cent
of the value of the goods produced consists of
the labor in producing them. Now that nation
which so largely manufactures all classes of
goods, and compels its labor, stated, to take
erly half pay is able to put the goods on the
Hnarket at price below which the other one can
produce them. AS result, the nation which
clothes its people with equal rights, so that they
are able to demand enough TO feed, clcthe and
educate their families decently. and thereby be-
come fit for their part in self-gOvernment, is
driven out Of manufacturing pursuits and must
90 to agriculture, some uOn-eompetitive
pursuit. That breaks down diversity of indus
try development of natural resources, home
markets, and puts the nation of broad organic
structure into the narrow rut Of simply feeding
the other. That ought to he primary enough
discussion of this question to enable anyone to
understand it. This nation has in only two or
three brief instances been so pusisnimous as to
fail to protect and enforce the rights of its own
people against the consequences flowing from the
organic structure of the commercial nations
with which it has had to deal Wheneveritfails
to do so for generation, population, driven
to straits for existence in the unequal race of
life. and into abject ignorance because of the
lack Of ability in the laboring masses TO
educate their children, as elsewhere we
will be unfit for self government. But
that won't come Our organic structure
recognizes the lnaJienable rights of men. and
our nation was organized TO protect them; in the
language of Herbert Spencer, mot only of
shielding each citizen from the trespasses Of his
neghbor but defending him. in common with
the community at large, against foreign aegres-
sions whether these come in the form of invad-
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Burdette's Melancholy Marriage.


Mrs Burdette was the daughter of Auren
Garrett. of Peoria, and was married to Burdette
some fifteen years ago. Her father was opposed
to Bob. and he made the course of true love OF
the young couple anything but smooth. Bob was
a clerk in the postofice at that time and Carrie
was a beautiful young lady, but with will OF
her own that moro than matched that of her
father One day the old man commanded her to
discard Bob She refused. and violent alterea-
with her heart that this precipitated She was
stricken down with a spasm They sent for Bob,
and he found her pale and lfeess on the sofa.
Here she managed to express wish that they
might be married before she died, and a clergy
man was sent for The marriage of the great
humorist was celebrated amid tears and signs,
the orange blossoms absent and only the pallor
of dying face looking out from the heap of
pillows. Strange to say. she Immediately began
to recover and she soon regained her former
strength; with it, however, was an unaccountable
malAdV
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Children VS.. street Cars.

To the Editor OF the indianapolis journal:
In connection with the recent lamentable ac-
cdent on the Massachusetts avenue streetcar
line, it is surely not untimely to say word in
behalf of street-car drivers and their response
bilities as guardians of other peoples children.
I have repeatedly been the Massachusetts
avenue and Illinois street cars when there would
be no lees that seven small boys hanging on the
back of the car and chasing around it when
stoppages were made, to the great annoyance of
passengers and persecution of the driver The
drivers mind and hands were obliged to be oc
cupied with watching for passengers making
change. thrashng mules and taking the proper
switches. and if mince meat had been made of
all these small boys at once, should have been
glad to testify that the driver could not, in the
remotest degree, have been to blame. Too
much, in this respect is expected OF drivers and
too little from the parents OF the children. When
parents turn their children into the streets
to play what else but exposure to such
accidents is included? The French
have very sagacious law that when a pedes
trian is run over he pays the fine as the road is
for vehicles and riders, and the sidewalks are
for foot travellers. If We had a similar law, the
much-abused street-ear driver could be excused
from acting as deputy kindergarten, and fewer
children would meet dreadful deaths under
grinding wheels. While this is written with no
lack of sympathy for the poor mother of the
lately sacrificed child, it is nevertheless in
tended to submit that street cars and drivers
have some rights which parents and children
should be bound over to respect.
OBSERVER.
Probably if the street car company was com
PEELED to live up to its charter and provide con-
ductors for cars, these accidents might notoccur
Suits not only against the company but against
the city, for SUCH might possibly avoid the 'acci-
dents and do what the city authorities seem to
be poweress to do or careless about Ed. Jour
nal.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

ADVERTISED LETTERS.
rTNHE FOLLOWING IS THE LIST OF LETTERS
L remaining unclaimed at the indianapolis postef-
fee on Saturday May 81 1854. Persons will please
call for advertised letters and give the date OF this
list
A.-Arnold Mrs. Ellen; Allen, Eliza; Arnold, Miss
Allie Alexander Miss Hattie
B.-Bird, Miss Lille Ballou Miss Gertiei Burke
C.-Couch, Miss Mag; Cayton, Mrs. Laura; Ourrior.
Miss ACgie
D-Dealle Extra J.
Finley Miss Bettie Fuller Mrs. Mamie.
G.-Gaveile, Dora b.
L.-Lndsey Mrs. Annie; Lewis, Miss Flora; La
Verd. Bella.
M.-Morton Mrs. Emma
Mc.-McClan. Martins McCready, AMMO.
P.--Patterson. Miss Ernine
R.-Riley. Miss Eliza.
S.-Segner Mrs !. F.
W.---White Miss Hattie ~.
GENTLEMEN'S LIST.
B-Bower. DR.. A. s.: Biakely, Charles: Bringgatt.
ner A.; Blaukenship, J. C.; Baltino Prof j. H..
C.-Craft, DR.. E. FL Carr, G. W. F.; Caughnlan.
E-Edd Candy; Ellis john Eaton. Murray t2p
Frost. A. b.. Funk, Ed.
G.-(iilmole. John.
6.-Holladay Charles; Hsdley, George; Hopkins,
Mark; Hemphil Samuel; Hennebcrg, Thos.
I.-Iry. Malcolm.
K.-Kram b.; Kohle Henry.
L,-Littletou, Billie
M.-MeiIiam, Mr.. and Mrs. John.
Mc.-Macincy j. H.
N.-Nnrvell. Lawrence H.
R.-Rickert Samuel Robinson. |. CT Roberts VIA.
H.. Randall George.
S.-Sansell jasper: st. Clair. Arthur w; Stewart
Samuel; Stewart William Schribner Charles SiLd6r,
Christ
V.-Vanlew. David: Valequett Crist t2l
W.-Werner. Charles; Watkins. john Williams 4.
A.; White, D. F.; Wackeimau, T. II. 90. Weakey,
Mn. J. A. WlLpMAN, p. N.
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Popular Science Monthly.
But the worst thing about the cocoanut palm
the missionaries always say, is the fatal fact
that, when once fairly started, it goes on bearing
fruit uuinterruptedly for forty years. This is
very immoral and wrong of the ill-conditioned
tree, because it encourages the idyllie Polyne-
sian to lie under the palms all day long, cooling
his limbs in the sea occasionally sporting with
Amaryllis in the shade or with the tangles of
Neaera's hair, and waiting for the nuts to drop
down in due time, when he ought according to
European notions) to be killing himself with
hard work under d blazing sky, raising cotton,
sugar. indigo and coffee, for the immediate bene
fit of the white merchant and the ultimate ad
vantage of the British public. 1t doesn't en-
force habits of steady industry and persever
ance the good missionaries say; it doesn't in
duce the native to feel that burning desire for
Manchester piece goods and the other blessings
of civilization which ought properly to accom-
pany the propagation of the missionary in for
eign parts. You stick your nut in the sand; you
sit by few yeas and watch it growing: you pick
up the ripe fruits they fall from the tree, and
you sell them at last for illimitable red cloth to
the Manchester piece goods merchant. Nothing
could be more simple or more satisfactory. And
yet it is difficult to see the precise moral distinG
t,on between the owner of a cocoAnut grove IN the
South Sea Islands and the owner of a coal mine
or big estate in commercial England. Each
lounges decorousy through life aftor his own
fashion; only the one lounges in Russia leather
chair ut a club in Pail Mall, while the other
lounges in a nice soft dust heap beside rolling
surf in Tahiti or the Hawaiian Archipelago.
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An unhanpx Greenbacker.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
am not happy over the resolutions of urlate
convention. The first one chuckles over the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, whereas that de-
cision is a most infamous slap in our face 1t
maintains the legal-tender qualities Of our pres
ent greenbacks which are promise to pay dol
lars Our theory is that Congress has a right to
declare by its omnipotent fiat, that q certain
kind of paper is dollar, or ten, or fifty, or a
thousand dollars. There is all the difference in
the world between a promise to pay dollar or
q hundred and an arbitrary declaration that this
is a dollar or hundred Nevertheless, the reso-
luton means well and ends well, or wabbles
well in the middle. 1t demands the issuing of a
sufficient quantity of such money" to answer
all purposes, which is good Grecnbacklsm
The second resolution is good as far as it goes.
It condemns railroad and other gigantic copor-
ate monopolies" That is right; every man
ought to be permitted to make his
own railroad, and do 1t, too. with
out any concentration of capital" II is the
easiest thing in the world to do but if every
man refuses to invest his spare millions that
way then let the government build the roads
II will afford employment to everybody to build
and 70 run them but the resolution should
have sse''u more explicit
| most heartily indorse the resolution to
''abolish the convict labor system" There is no
greater outrage than tn require convicts To labor
Their relnlgnance to labor is their most striking
eharac teristio ami it they must work. they
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ST. WINIFRED'S WELL.
One of the Shrines of Scotland-Origin of the
Sacred Fountain.

Sacred Fountain.
All the Year Round,
That many of our countrymen look on prayers
offered at special shrines specially eficacious
is evident from the number of deVout Welsh
Roman Catholics of the upper class, who on the
9th of July, 1882 went pilgrimage to st
Winifreds Well at Holywell to offer prayers
for the restoration to health of the infant son
of the Duke of Norfolk The pilgrimage was
conducted by the Very Rev. Canon Monaghan,
and prayers were said at the chapel at Holy
well, and also at st. Winifreds Well itself.
OF the many wells held in reverence by our
ancestors, none probably has more fully
sustained it's old reputation than this,
which has given its name to the town of Holy
we'll According to the legend. its waters gushed
up within the Church of St Beuno at the spot
where the head of the holy st. Winifred rested,
when, having been cut off by Prince Caradoc,
it rolled on until it entered the consecrated
building. The miraculous fountain, of course,
became a noted place of pilgrimage William
the Conqueror, Henry ii, Edward L and James
II were among the sOvereigns who came here to
seek pardon for divers sins, and doughty war
riors were ofttimes to be seen standing for hours
in the well, with only their heads above water,
absorbed IN fervent prayer. and craving the
intercession of St Wi9ifred OF one
earnestness of his devotion he forgot all
prudence and stayed III the chilling water till he
was paralyzed. His last audible words were:
'Sancta Winifreda ora pro me- after which he
never spoke more. Cold as the water is, it never
freezes, and the flow is always the same. 1t is
said to be the most copious spring in Britain,
yielding twenty-one tons of water per minute.
This well is the property of the Duke of West
minister. who, in 1876, granted to the corporation
of Hoywell lease of the well for /, 900 years at
a rental of one sovereign per annum recent
visitor to the well took note of some of the
votive offerings which had been deposited by
grateful patients and which included thirty nine
crutches, six hand-sticks, pair of boots and a
hand hearse.
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Prices of iron rails during the latter five years
of the comparative free trade, or revenue tariff
of 1886 duty, 30 per cent.


Considering the difference of endurance
between steel and iron rails, and therefore
the difference in value, it is seen that
the prices of rails were very much lower
under protection than under free trade. The
factor explaining this is expressed in a single
word: Competition. And during this 1876 free
trade experiment. half of the iron furnaces in
the country were sold by the sheriff, and at its
end, in 1860 the nation, self-impoverished, yet
with only a small debt, was paying II per cent
interest on her obligations.
Many people suppose that Great Britain is
free trade country. 1t is such in far it is
her own interest to be 80. But that nation OBJ
tans large per cent. of her revenues from
duties on imports, and probably always will.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 81 JNo. B. CONNER,
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ing armies or by the subtle influences which flow
from abnormal structure through commercial
intercourse.
Civilization is a many-sided and complex sys
tenn, and the higher the civilization the more
complex it becomes More and more are men
interdependent, and more and more are the
classihcations of industry dependent on each
other Let us take q theoretic patitude of the
freetraders for an Illustration, one of the favor
lite arguments of Prof W. g. Sumner. He takes
pig-iron in 1880 for his argument and says:
1.-THE statistics of pig iron are: Capital $l05, 600
900; hands employed. IL 700; wages, $4,000, 900
average 81 per day produced 700 900 TONS val.
$58, 900 900; product raised in value, $31 900,
900.
1.-The imports in 1880 were GOO 900 tons; tax 81
per ton; revenue Sd 200 900; tax paid to the home
producers SOS, 900 600, CS7 per ton on 300 600
tons). If we had paid full wages and 10 per cent.
profits to all persons interested in pig iron to hire
them to be idle, but let get 300 600 tons of pig
iron in free market, the account would have stood
thus
Loss-wages. .......-...S I2 600 600
Ten per cent. on capital. 10. 500 600