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THE COURT RECORD,
Supreme Court of Errors.

Supreme Court of Errors.
 | This court came in yesterday morning at | 10 o'clock.
 | The court was occupied in the forenoon in
 hearing the case of George H. Perry vs. the 1 Selectmen of New Haven. The suit is a test
 case brought to settle the vexed question of
 whether Yale students can become electors
 of New Haven.
 ! Lynde Harrison, who argued the case for ! Perry, claimed that Perry, who was refused \ qualification by the Board of Selectmen last ! fall, had resided here year and supported | himself while studying theology. The law | provided that a man must have a home somewhere and the attorney held that Perry possessed all the qualifications entitling him to vote in this city while living here and he | was independent of his parents and expected to stay here till he was called to the minis try. It was an injustice to MT. Perry to de- bar him from the privilege of voting under ! these circumstances. He did not ask for | damages, but he did ask for decision that the Seleotmen were wrong in their ruling
 Governor Ingersou in the closing argument quoted from a late decision by the chief jus tice of Maine, in which it was held that college student not intending to make his home in the town where he is studying is not entitled to g vote. The attorney said the law
 in Connecticut was very peculiar on this mat ter of qualifying voters. The Selectmen and
 town clerk constituted a supreme body to pass on the qualification of men to be made voters. In Perry's case they decided OH evidence that he did not pos sess the rec. uisite qualifications and jected him. Now what is to be dones Why Vothing but to submit to it. It is one of Go uneeticu-t was formed. There's no ap- peal from it, and if it works hardship in Perr, -,s case it has worked a hardship in others
 Next was, heard the case of the State vs. Be,sudet, an appeal from rulings of Judge St, ode lard at the time Beaudet was tried for assaul,in Dr. Zink of Branford, when the accused was found guilty and sent to prison for tea years.
 The case of the Evergreen Cemetery asso- citation vs He ury c. Beeoher and others, occu- pied the att ntion of the court dur ing ing the fternoon. The association desires to ex tend it's boundaries over land belonging to the heirs of Alexander Beecher, and bel ng unable to agree as to the price to be paid the plaintiffs, asked that a committee be appointed by the court to as- sess the value of the land which they propose to take The question argued to the court yesterday was as to the right of the cemetery to take and condemn land filling & Webb for plaintiff; Baldwin for defendant.
 Court adjourned until this morning at 10 o'clock. Court of Common PIeas-Judge Sud-
 This court came in yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
 Owing to the illness of the counsel in the case of O'Connen vs. the Travellers Insurance company the case was put over until this morning and the jury were excused for the day.
 InH s. Sawyer & Sons vs. Warner 6 Co.,, all of Derby. in which plaintiff sued for re- covery on bill of goods amounting to $17.65, the jury returned verdict for $1515.
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Chi1dren's suits, plaited and corded, fol 8. 50, $5 to $5, at the
 "HUB" CLOTHING HOUSE,
 112 Church street.
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December 3, 1885.
TraupIers' Guide.
NEW HAVEN STEAMBOAT co. Daily for New York-Farc $1, sncIud ing Eberth-ExcursfoR Tfckets $1xEQs

ing eberth.Excars1on Tiekeis sf.ao. F oeoeI pm suhday e2cepted State sore seaer esce TsHR and a Ro Dg peeF rEom s1;n New w Yorh5The The q + NoRThAM leaves pp;1n,, n, Sundays excepte Saturday 1s o'clock mid.
 Sunday Boat for N York-steamer NEW HAVEN, Capt Post leaves at 10:3o m. Staterooms sold as the Elliott House Free stage from Ins Building at to S Philadelphia (via both routss5 Baltimore and ALLAN LINE MAIL STEAMERS h, erpool and Baltimore and Liverpool via Derry Cabin, sse to sioo intermediate ssc; steer.
 srshsE se Sas Ths enly line calling at Gaway Fer
 ss saa ssa 7 sFsRs cRape seFsss
 National Line of StcamsiiPa, BETWEEN FINE NEW A6 X0fk 6NhoT QUEENS
 Sailing weekly from Pier s, % North River, New tS Rerk are among the largest steamships crossing paid Rs,d tstssFsgs sg tickets sis. SsIag lSxsT tSsn trip to New York; days u J5 hegTs p9 and q minutes
 Agents at New Haven sUNNELLS EutI sR4HT6N aRanse65 Nj DoMNEs SON. E. E DoWNEs. ssiAA' G5G'A a1i 7ss starin's New Haven Transporta- ton Line. EH4ik-N Leave New Haven from Starin's -EEsz4R9s EEssz4R9s Dock. at 1G:15 o'clock p, m. The ERASTUS CORNING, Captain Spcor, carrying freight and passengers, every Monday, Wednesday The JOHN LENoX, Captain Relyea, carrying freight put no passengers, every Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday.
 Returning, leave New York from Pier IS, foot of Courtland street, at ?. m.-t the LENOX freight only every Monday, Wednesday and Friday; the CORNING, freight and passengers, every Sunday tuesday and Thursday. The only Sunday night
 Fare, with berth in cabin, s1; stateroom s1. Ek- curson tickets S1 50.
 Free Stage leaves the depot on arrival of Har t. ford train. Leaves corner of Church and Char streets every half hour, commencing at 800 o'clock p. m
 Tickets and Staterooms be purchased at the Tontine Hotel, at the Downes News Co., 1851 Chapel street.
 Patrons of the Line will please take notice that pes le freight is transported everyday as usual fir sengers are carried on the CORNING ONLY. f1 om New Haven Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri lays, and from New York Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, the LENOX having DO passenger ac- commodations. c. M. CONKL1N, Agent,
 n23 New Haven Conn.
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Mrs. M. schaenbsrger, Beaver Dam, Wis, writes We have used Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil in oul family for coughs, colds, ,croup and rheumatism" :"
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Corduroy and corkscrew suits, for chil- dren, in ages to 14 years, at the
 "HUB" CLOTHING HOUSE, d3 2t 112 Church street.
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NaugatucEX Railroad.

COMMENCING JULY 17th, 1884, trains leave New Haven via H. & D. R. R., connecting with
 this road at roc g. m.-Connecting at Ansonia with passenger train for Waterbury, Litchfield and Win
 stead
 $50 a. m.-ThFough for Waterbury, Watertown
 Litchfeld, Winsted.
 200 p. m.-Connecting at Ansonia with passenger train for Waterbury. 5:45 p. .m.-Through car for Waterbury, Watertown, Litchfeid, Winsted. 6:20 D. m.-Connecting ct Ansonia for Waterbury. FOR NEW HAVEN-Trains leave Winsted: 7:1o a. m, 1:2S P. m., with through aud at 525 D. TRAINS LEAVE WATERBURY-At 5:3O a. m., s:26 a. m, through car, 10:50 &. m. 2:44 p. m., through car, 6:45 p.
 Brid2oport, July F. 1881.
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ghe 9na1rna1 aud Gn1xrier.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THK CITY, 12 GENTS WEEK, 42 CENTS A MONTH, $500 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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Parlor cars on trains leaving New Haven at ii :O4 a. m. and p. m., and from North Adams at 9:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. m
 EDWARD A. RAY, G. T. A. je20 New Haven and Derby EEaiirOad. Train Arrangement commencing June IT, 1885.
 LEAVE NEW HAVEN At 7:00 and 952 a. m.. 200 5:45, 6:15 D. n Sstur- days at 11:00 p. m.
 LEAVE ANSONIA At 6:35. 9:05 and 1:40 .n., 3:20 and 7:11 D. u Connections are made at Ansenia with passenger trains of the Naugatuck railroad and at New Haven with the principal trains of other roads centering there. E. s. OUTWARD SuD1t New Haven, June 16 1885.
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Coughs, colds and sore throat yield readily to B H. Douglass-& & Sons Capsicum Cough Drops. Sold everywhere. Price 15 cts. per or. pound.
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HorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate.
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Beware of limitations. limitations and commercials have again ap- peared. Be sure that the word fHoRsFoRD's" is on the wrapper None are genuine with out it. al eod3t wit Heavy underwear for 50 and 75 cents, white and mixtures, at the
 HUE" CLOTHING HOUSE,
 112 Church street.
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DISINFECT

As well as well as clean your vaults and cess pools, and send to
 FARNRAM, for the best and cheapest disinfectant he has tested and uses in his business
 All orders sent to F. 0. BOX z75 will receiv . prompt attention. Order book at R. B. BRADLEY & CO.'S, 4Oe State street, ROBT. VElTCH & SONS. 914 Chapel street ie1S
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
your Pa, my son."

COL. HOLLAND FOR SPEAKER.
His numerous friends will press Col.
T.V. holland Of Wilkinson county for
the next Speaker Of the House of
Representatives of the Mississippi
Legislature. We have known Col.
holland from boyhood (he is a native
Of this county, and we have no hesita-
tiOn in saying the House could not
make a better selection for its presid-
ing officer. He is capable, heightened,
industriou us, experienced in both
branches of the Legislature and
thoroughly reliable and patriotic. We
wish to call the special attention of
Warren's members to the claims of
Col. holland. He was born and reared
in this county. and his candidacy, in
the event that Warren has no candi-
date, should take that place. We
predict that Col. holland will be very
strong, where he is best known, and
that the man who beats him will be
Speaker.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
LABOR VS.. CAPITOL.

The North and the South are rapid
ly settling their differences. Section
alism is fast passing away, and before
another decade the bloody-shirt will
have been buried and those who waved
it will be remembered only to be
pittied. Another, and graver ques-
ton confronts us graver because Of
its vitality. The bloody shirt is only
a myth-the emblem of imaginary
things. The question to which we al
lude and designate as a vital one, is
the question of Labor VS.. Capital. 1t
is restricted to no particular section,
but affects the entire Nation. Many
statesmen have already addressed
themselves to the subject and many of
the leading journals of the country
are discussing it.
Our people have been making such
rapid advances in mechanic arts, and
so many labor.saving machines have
been invented and put into use of late
years, that labor is not only lightened
but the services of laborers dispensed
With.
The enfranchised working man finds
himself out of employment, labor
saving machines are Understanding
machines to him, and he realizes that
there is something wrong. somewhere,
and will, in time, seek to right the
wrong. He has his vote and knows
its power and influence when associated
with other votes Of like character. He
further knows that the laboring class,
the bread winners, those who live by
the sweat Of their brow, far outnum-
Der those who deal in stocks and mort
cages, revel in wealth, or float upon the
political sea.
Self preservation with him is the
first law of nature, and he will seek to
protect himself.
The strikes that occasionally occur
throughout the country are pigmies
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

8th-Calhoun and Yslobusha-S M
Ross. C~offeeville.
9th-Bolivar. Calhoun, Sunaower-
#G W Gayles, Greenville.
1Oth-Chickasaw and PontotOc-W
T Houston, 0kolOna.
1lth-Itawamba, Lee, Monroe-*R
0 Reynolds. Aberdeen; ~. M. 81
monitor, Shannon.
12th-Lowndes-*E T Sykes, Co
lum6us.
19th-Clay, Oktibbeha. Choctaw.
Webster-*H L Burkitt, Palo Alto; J
W Barron, Chester.
14th-Carroll, Lehore, Montgomery
j R Binford, Duck Hill.
l5th-Washington-W G Yerger,
Greenville.
l6th-Holmes-*J G Hamilton,
Dnrant.
17th-Attala and Leake-*D I
Guyton, West.
l8th-Winston and Kemper-H J
Gully, DeKalb.
l9th-Noxubee-*G G billiard,
Macon.
Observation-Disclosures P. Walker,
Meridian.
2lst-Scott. Newton, Neshoba-Dr
R 2 Austin. Harperville, Scott county.
Old Rankin and Smith - VIM
Buchanan, Brandon. .
23d-Madison-*G A Harvy, Can
ton.
24th-Yazoo-Wm H Luse, Ben
ton.
25th-Warren-Geo M Bachelor,
Bovina.
26th-Issaquena and Sharkey-DC
Casey, Rolling Fork, Sharkey county.
27th-Hinds-*Jones S Hamilton,
Jackson.
28th-Claiborne-J D Vertner, Port
Gibson.
29th-Simpson, Lawrence, COving-
ton-*T A Dickson, Westville.
30th-Clarke and Jasper-*John f
Smith, Barnett, Jasper county.
3lst-Jackson, Hancock, Harrison
Roderick Seal, Mississippi City.
32-Lincoln, Pike, Marion-*S E
Packwood, Magnolia.
33d - Adams - IA H Brennan,
Natchtz.
34th-Jtfferson and Franklin-*J
] Whitney, Fayette.
35th-Amite and Wilkinson-W F
Love, Liberty.
36th-Grenada, Quitman, Tallaha-
tchie-*J j Gage, Grenada.
37th-G Greene, Wayne, Jones, Per-
ry-J L. Morris, Waynesboro.
38th-Copiah-Geo S Dodds, Halle
hurst.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
THEORY US. PRACTICE.

The best historians of the late war,
and when we use the word historian
we mean that class of men who tell or
a tell of the details and minutie of
battles, ETC., are those who did very
little actual fighting themselves. The
men who did the fighting were too
concerned about sterner things-they
hadn't the time to make observations
and notes. Much of the "war annals
published in the Philadelphia Times,
is from the pens of Quartermasters,
Commissaries, Ordnance officers, and
staff officers, men, who, as a rule,
"snuffed the battle afar off," These
men had the time, opportunity and the
position to see and learn more Of what
was going on than the men who bore
the brush Of battle. The private SOL
der was a machine, and the officers of
the line weTe. very little more; their
business was to march, fight and often
times starve; and it frequently hap.
pened, on our side especially, that
many men, well-schooledi in geography,
were wholly ignorant some times
whether they were in Georgia or Ten
nessee, Virginia or West Virginia,
Mississippi or Louisiana.
As with those who write war an
nails. so it is with many of the present
day who write on agricultural and
industrial subjects; there is too much
theory, and false theory at that, too
much imagination and not enough of
the practical. 1t is said that n Of the
most verbose agricultural writer's in
the South, n who furnishes each
week two, three and four columns to
one OF our most popular metropolitan
papers-is himself one of the poorest
most impractical farmers and mana.
gers in all the land. His DeiOhbors
say he has the poorest fences-that his
lands have been allowed to run down.
and thst his stock is half starved
that the very vehicle he drives to
town in is a rafting old trap, with its
wheels big-bellied or sway.backed and
their tires tied on with wire. His
horses are raw-boned and guant and
the harness on them tied together with
cotton strings, while plow-lines serve
for reins. Now this man, away from
home, is regarded as a scientific farmer
and the best'of authority on all things
relating to agricultural and farm in.
We do not wish to make him
feel bad by calling his name, but
should his eyes fall on this, he may be
by the reflection that precept
without example is Of very little
weight.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
THE INAUGURAL MEETING OIL

- 49, - - Ia ~
THE FAIR Association.
The first meeting of our Fair Asso.
citation is now but a memory, but we
hope it is a pleasant memory to thou
sands of u citizens. Certainly our
city and the surrounding country had
such a shaking up with outdoor
sports and scenes, as they had
not before for a decade. There
were crowds from everywhere
around Vicksburg, and although
the managers could not do all they
originally intended, we never heard a
word of complaint about them. The
general expression was very favorable.
The grand stand, track, stables and ap:
pointments were universally praised
The crowds enjoyed the sports with
great zest, and the grand finale, the
sham battle, was pronounced by many
to be very superior to many where
much larger bodies of men were en-
gagged.
We heard from the managers that
they would suffer some loss %pecuniarly,
but they propose to stand squarely up
to their agreement with the AssOcia-
ton, and hope that they have profited
by their experience.
The success of the Association
teaches our city another valuable
lesson. 1t teaches what can be done
by a proper utilization of our
advantages Of location and honest
united effort. The city has a valuable
plant in the beautiful grounds and
race course, and not one who sub
scribed to the stock has any just cause
to regret it. How much the city will
be benefited in the failure by the prop
erty, it is hardto estimate, but it will
certainly prove very valuable in many
ways.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
VICSKBURG HARBOR.

We copy the following from the re-
cent report of the Mississippi River
Commission:
It'll desirable that a moderate por-
ton of the first appropriation that
shall become applicable to that pur-
pose, shall be expended upon the in
itial works of a plan having for its Oh
ject the gradual restoration of the har-
Dor of Vicksburg to, or in the direc-
ton Of its former conditions; in such
measure at least as shall give a portion
of the city water front at the low
river stage. This will be attempted
by such works of contraction and de-
Election, located at suitable points
above, as shall ultimately affect a
diversion of the main body Of the
stream to the Vicksburg side, and a
recession of the shore line above the
city, by the usual process Of erosion
and caving. An early effect will be to
relieve the pressure, and therefore put
a stop to expenditures at Delta Point.
If the restoration Of a navlgable low
river front to the city of Vicksburg is
practicable, it will require several
years for its final contamination in the
manner proposed.
Col. Gilmore, in his supplementary
report, says:
In the report now submitted a spe-
cial method of treatment for Vicks.
burg harbor is described, and l recon-
mend that the sun Of $4,000 be set
apart by Congress for beginning this
work.
Lieut.. Col. Comstock, in his report,
says:
l have little hopes that the Missis-
sippi can be forced, at any justifiable
cost, far enough up along the Vicks-
burg front. which it has abandoned,
to be of much use to that city. AS
there will be no funds available for
about a year, the decision as to action
should be based on conditions then
existing.
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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

SOMEBODY started the report in
Jones county, shortly before the cleo.
ton, that DR.. Lee, the editor of the
Ellisyille Eagle, was an infdel, the
Doctor rises and says: "Be he infdel
or not, he believes there is a hell fully
large enough TO hold men who are so
devoid Of consciences as to manufac-
ture such lies"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
LET US DEVELOP OUR RE.
SOURCES.

The short, though thoroughly practi
cal address of the Hon. T. Marshall
Miller On the opening day of our Fair,
was worth a thousand long-winded,
impractical and always unheeded re-
marks usually incident. to such oc-
casions. AS we remarked a few days
ago, Life is too short, too real aud TOO
earnest for lengthy dispositions"
The sugar plum is none the sweeter
because it has a dozen wrappers on it.
Mr.. Miller was correct when he
remarked that visitors to our State
were amazed when they learned of our
possibilities. He might have gone
further and said that our own people
are amazed at what resources we
possess, and that we have been
so long in developing them. But
recently a well-to-do Illinois
farmer located in Mississippi, a
little more than fifty miles from
Vicksburg and established a stock
farm, bringing his brood mares, some
thirty odd, from his native State and
has gone to raising horses and mules,
giving it as his opinion that they can
be raised in this State to as high per-
lection as in the West, and at far less
expense. Our natural pastures of
grasses for nine months in the year,
with the perpetual pasturage Of the
cane brakes, give us a decided advan-
tage V the colder climate Of the
West.
Nearly all of our State exchanges
contain mention Of the introduction
of blooded and improved horn-cattle.
DR.. T. w. Holland, formerly of Ken
lucky, has recently brought to this
State a heard of Holsteins, and hPs
gone regularly into the cattle breeding
business, and we know of numerous
other instances where parties have
embarked in the same enterprise. But
this is not all; one industry will follow
another. Where improved cattle are
raised diaries and creameries must ex-
list; they follow the cow. We cite our
readers to 0ktibeha county, and to the
wonderful progress its people have
made in the past few years in cattle
raising. Nearly every family there
has one or more thoroughbredS OF high
grades, and find ready sale at remuner-
alive prices for the produce of their
COWS at the creamery Of the A. & NJ.
College. We have a State great in re-
sources that only need to be developed
and utilized. Ii our people will only
do the half or the fourth that nature
has done for them, the Texas fever and
the Florida orange grove craze will be
as dead as Billy Malone and his
satellites.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE Exposition opened at New Or
leans on the 10 inst, has name enough
to kill it, "The North, Central and
South American Exposition" and we
regret to learn from a number of WIS.,
itors who were in attendance at the
grand opening that the firing Of can
non, blowing Of trumpets and hurrah
was much bigger than the Exposition
itself. Somehow u people don't seem
to catch on to the thing, and have got
an idea that it is a sort of a catch ben
eft of the New Orleans hotels, boarding
houses. bar-rooms, cigar stands and
retail dealers. 1t is intended to bene-
fit New Orleans, and, if successful,
will injure the trade of the country
merchants.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

A NUMBER of Mississippi towns are
taking censuses of population in order
to ascertain whether or no liquor petit
tions have the requisite majority. One
month ago the Prohibitionists of Can
ton took a censu and reported 420
males over Il years of age within the
corporate limits. The census takers
appointed by the city authorities re-
port only 1856.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
"WHAr,s a pool mother 2"

WHATS a pool mother"
"It'sa body Of water smaller than
a bay, my SON."
"Well, if a pool is smaller than a
bay, how are they going to get "the
bay" in the pool out at the Fair
Grounds?"
"Ask your Pa, my SON."
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

MUCH Of the bitterness of partisan
hatred has been Modified and elimina-
ted BY the unswervingly honest policy
pursued by the President, that Of 1.-The
greatest good to the greatest number"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

ONO has abolished October cleo
lions. Judging by the way elections
are managed in that State Ohio might
do a good thing by a%bolishing them
altogether and submit its political
questions to- the Courts at once.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

JOHN SHERMAN says the South has
not learned that the negro is a citizen
and has a right to vote. Oh yes, we
have, but John has not learned that
the negro has the right to be a Demo-
GRAFT and to put his vote where it will
do him the most good.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

REPORTS from Virginia are to the
effect that Malone is both politically
and socially ruined. The feeling
against him is so strong that he is
ostracised socially, and it is believed
he will leave the State.