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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The son of a Doctor Hale, put a pis-
toll to the head of a legislator named
Yaneey afew days ago at Bunker Hill,
Ills, and gave him "Hail Columbia"
with a cow-hide. Yancey feels very
sore over the affair.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

ONE by n Beck's supporters are
deserving him. By the time of the
election very few good citizens will
support him. Worrell, against whom
not a shadow of objection can be
raised, will beat Beck two to one.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

W. D. HowELL's is becoming as
much advertised as the lamented
Lydia Pinkham Of medicinal memory.
He writes for weak-minded, while she
wrote for weak bodied females.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The stronrest Hor.e In Dc World.

NNV VtNOI99aV -~""" " ~ WNINN'
Our farm people will be interested in see.
ing a picture Of what is claimed to be the
most powerful horse living. The illustration
is an exact representation of him in little.
He looks as if the power of a railway engine
was in bis tremendous neck Verify tim ght
indeed be clothed with thunier." The
powerful legs, hoofs AMI shoulders seem as
though this magnificent specimen of animal
strength could pull a tree out by the roots.
We have never had a horse like this in
America, although some very large ones
have been imported. He was reare1 IN Bel
GUM, by a common peasant.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

ITEW4N' IIWUGH III Ne \ DUHJ
crthe first time since 1881 the farmer is
to-day the master of the situation, and it is
his own fuult if he does not make the most
Of it. If he will hold his wheat at 81 at
the station he will get his price, and by
selling half as much as he did last year he
will receive more money for his sales and
still have some wheat left to carry over -
another. year.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
TAYES.

III tulS county tue TAX levy is QXeQ
this year at l9 mills, but we are in
formed the Board of Supervisors will
be called together at once to reduce
the levy to the legal limit, which is Is
mills. Captain Worrell, the President
of the Board, did not know, as he has
only been a short time a member of
the Board, that the legal limit is Is
mills, or he would never have consent
ed in the first instance to the levy of
10 mills. 1t is fortunate for the peo-
pie that he will instantly demand the
reduction to the legal limit.
The taxpayers can readily
see how they are benefited
when taxation is reduced. They can
understand the difference between
paying Is mills (which is a large levy
though and 10 mills.
This decrease this year may be
looked upon as the first fruits of the
reform, the people are determined
on in their local affairs. When the
Democratic ticket is elected, the issu-
ance of scrip will be stopped, the
affairs of the county will be honestly
conducted on a cash basis, and the re.
duction of taxation will continue until
taxes in this county will not be larger
than in other, we'll governed localities.
In Aiken county, South Carolina, and
we select acounty from South Carolina
because it was as badly robbed by the
Radicals as any other State, the tax
levy this year is only 103 mills for all
purposes, State and county. That
must convince all our taxpayers, that
the taxes of the rich county of Warren
can be and ought to be greatly re-
duced.
This paper started the movement
when it killed the Blake road job If
$500, and pointed out the necessity
of preventing the issue of county war
rants on an empty treasury. The Dem
ocratic party is now honestly and
earnestly strivingto secure the econom-
ic reforms demanded, and the victory
would be as good as won, but for the
unreasonable and Unsuitable avarice of
the Radical candidate for Sheriff. He
is the soul, the strength and the leader
Of the opposition to the will of the
people. He is very rich, has no chill
dren. and in all probability will, at
Mr.. Rigby's death, have the msnipula-
ton of his immense estate. If he
only expected to make the hon.
est income of the Sherif's office,
it would not induce him to be
a candidate. 1t must be plain
to every reasonable man that he wants
two more years Of good stealing.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE Alabama woman who shot the
city editor of the Birmingham Age in
in the neck recently, did the deed with
a pistol concealed in her parasol.
Timid editors hereafter will regard,
with suspicion, all lady visitors who
approach their offices armed with par
asols.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

AS QUICK as one great statesman
goes off another comes and takes his
turn at twisting the British Lions
tail. Still the earth makes its custom
airy revolution in the usual time.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

A JEALOUS policeman, of Columbus,
Ohio, murdered his wife with a pistol
Tuesday night and then killed himself.
AS a Milesian would phrase it:
"Politeness demanded he should kill
himself first and his wife afterwards"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE efficacy of the banana as a dead
~ weapon has been again demon
strated in Chicago. An Italian fruit
peddler, Of that city, Michael Rosa, by
name, stabbed a man named Kehoe to
death on the 18th for taking an I'M
bought specimen Of the fruit from his
stand.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
COUNTY TICKET.

For State Senator,
GEORGE M. BACHELOR.
For Representatives,
L. W. MAGRUDER.
II. G. MCCABE.
ID. H. ALVERS0N.
For Sheriff,
". o. WORRELL.
For County Treasurer,
JOHN NJ. CAMERON.
ForGCounty Assessor,
CARTER HILL.
For Coroner and Ranger,
SOL B.. AUTER.
For Supervisors.
First District-Thomas j. Hanes.
Second Distrlct-J. H.. Adams.
Third Distriet-J. d. Laughlin.
Fourth District-T. w. Brabston.
Fifth District-Ab. Harper.
For Justice of the Peace.
First Distrlct-James I. Strother, L.. M. Loew-
enberg and T.. r. Foster.
Second District-D.C. yandenberg, John W.
LAWNS and Pleasant Crosby.
Third District-A. K. Hankinson, Z. Lee and
John III. Thompson.
Fourth District-W. J. Gilmer. Livingston
Brlen. Lam Raney and James Lanier.
Fifth District-D. w. McBroom, T. B, Bird
song and W. j. Fletcher.
For COnstables.
First District-Daniel Cook, NJ. Comes, ir.,
Second District-A. L. Klineman, j. N.
Collier.
Third Dlstrict-John H. !Hankinson, b. f.
Miller and {. Stevens.
Fourth District-W. L. Overly, Frank Lanier,
C. Childs and j. l.. Frazier.
Fifth District-W. d. Shingler and W. d.
Bishop.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE first blood for Worrell. He pro-
poses to reduce the tax levy of this
county 4 mills. If he is elected
Sheriff, the levy will be reduced more
next year, and the good work will con-
tinue until the taxes are within just
limits.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The nebula Andromeda is declared
to be the mother of the newborn star.
Its other parent has not yet been
ascertained. IT'S a wise star that
knows its own father.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

DEPARTMENT clerks who go from
Washington to Ohio for the FAN cleo
lions will vote at their own expense.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

what a potfull she would make, wouldn't
BheF' says a lady who likes country cream
chicken stews. So say we all of us.
The Buff Cochins are favorites in Great
Britain. They are Of immense size, tx
ROSTERS sometimes weighing fifteen pounds.
They get growth young, are very healthy
and hardy, and ~good-natured stay at homes.
They are, moreover, excellent winter layers.
They are probably nearer the much looked
for all-purpose fowl than almost any other.
The only drawback, apparently, is that they
are not remarkably prolific layers. They
produce an average number Of Eggs and
chickens. The hen in the picture is a Swear
old, and has taken q number of prizes.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The workingmen want the shops
located here. Lawyers, doctors,
merchants, real estate men, ditto.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE Puritan's being so awfully fast
is accounted for by the fact that she is
from Boston.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE railroad shops here or Warren.
ton will be a bigger town than Vicks-
burg in FIVE years.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The people have some rights. One
of them is to retire a dishonest, rich
official boss, when they don't want him
any longer,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

The Blade, the leading Republican
paper of Toledo, Ohio, observes:
damn the bloody shirt" We should
say so
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

THE Genesta knows the shape and
size of the Puritan's heels. She has
viewed them twice.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

A CABLEGRAM says Spain wants
more ships" She wants more cholera
medicine.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

SOME Of Beck's supporters, in their
desperation, are trying to weaken the
fearful exposures we have made by
crying out, that no proof is offered.
We offer to prove every charge we
have made, and to show that rotten
ness has existed in the sheriff's Office
for years, we reproduce a portion Of
the report of the Grand Jury Of Janu-
airy. 1888: I'VE have partially exam
ined the books Of the Tax Collector
and Treasurer of the county, but in
the limited time which we have had
for such examinations, we could not
possibly give to any of these offices
the time and attention such examina-
tions demanded. To give anything
like a thorough examination to the
four officers of this county which
would do justice, alike to the officers,
the taxpayers and your present Grand
Jury would, in our opinion, be a work
of several months constant employ
mentIfor a committee thoroughly COM
to do such work.
"In our examinations we found the
Chancery Clerk has failed in numerous
instances to require monthly reports
from the Tax-collector, not, however,
as far as we could ascertain, from
criminal negligence, but simply be-
cause he did not think it necessary,
also find on the books of the
Chancery Clerk fines entered against
parties which have either been
RENTED or %pardoned. These fines are
held against the parties because the
Sheriff has failed to report them, as
cancelled to the Chancery Clerk.
ave found that the Tax-collector
has failed to make his monthly reports
to the Chancery Clerk as required by
law. { We found only eight reports
filed in the Office of the Chancery
Clerk since 1880.
"We found that the County Treasu-
rer has failed to require the oath,
which the law requires he should adj
minister to the Tax Collector at every
settlement with him, except at his final
settlement.
"We found also that the Treasurer
has received sundry warrants from the
Tax Collector in settlement for poll
taxes.
each of these offenses were before
this body, but in each and every In
stance we failed to find a true bill of
indictment against any Of them"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

"GrvE 'em FIFTH" is the war-cry of
Virginia Democrats.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

Ipo1NTto my past official record as a guaran-
tee for the future and challenge fair mvestiga
ton Of my official conduct.
As to my life and character, 1 refer to my fel
lOw-citizens of Vicksburg with whom l have
been in constant intercourse for the last twenty
years as a mechanic, contractor, business mai
and official,
From r. F.. Beck's card.)
We shall fairly investigate Beck's character
and official acts. and then leave the decision
with the people.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

ALL the London papers weep for
Jumbo.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

To THE on-Progressionist ; Don't
be a clam.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

WE understand that the buildings
and track of the Vicksburg Fair Asso-
citation will be put under contract by
the energetic President this week.! 1t
will be required Of the contractors that
the work must be finished in time for
use in November. This will be of i'm
mense benefit to all the business inter-
ests of the city, for it will insure a
meeting which will bring US vast num-
bers of visitors right in the middle of
the business season.
To those who are holding back
from aiding this enterprise which
promises so much for so lit
tie outlay, because former
efforts were not of permanent benefit,
we beg to point out the difference in
our facilities and advantages now.
The completion of the L., N. 0. s. T.
R. R, and the V. S. & P. R. R. give sus
facilities never enjoyed before, not
only to secures races of national reputa-
ton for our meeting, but to secure the
crowds to witness the sport.
In addition to that sort Of attrac.
ton, the military contests are growing
more exciting and interesting in the
State, and will prove a very popular
feature.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25
Buff Cochin Fowls.

The London Live Stock Journal thinks a
certain Asiatic hen important enough to
give a picture Of in It's columns. We repro
duce the illustration here:
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

JUDO, now on her way TO America,
carries with her fifty new and costly
dresses, for use during her tour in the
United States. The gem of the collec-
ton has been viewed by all Paris. 1t
is a robe of gold and silver lace, over
p~each-colored satin, in imitation of the
imperial purple of the ancients, and is
copied from a court dress of the EN-
press of Russia. The embroidery on
this one garment occupied a hundred
workers for four months. The others
are equally beautiful and expensive.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

SHALL the slums of Shurtle Bend
and the dives Of Poverty Flat, be
perpetuated and Railroad Shops with
their attendant revenue and thrifty
population be sent elsewhere?
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-25

WASHINGTON, D. G, Sept. 14.-The
President is awaiting with an interest
akin to which a boy feels in his first
pair Of boots the arrival of his first
portrait in oil. 1t is life-size and the
work of an artist who never saw Mr..
Cleveland. The production has an
interesting bit of history. Just
after the election Mr.. l.. M.
Montgomery, an American jour
%nalist, then in Rome, wrote a
sketch of Mr.. Cleveland's life, tracing
his rapid career from Sheriff of his
county to President of his country. He
invested his subject with some romance
and held him as the ideal creation of
American Democracy. To bring the
case home to Italians more forcibly,
he drew astriking comparison between
this mar rising SO rapidly that while
yet comparatively young, he had reach
ed the highest positiondn the Repub-
lie, and the Italian Prime Minister,
a venerable statesman, who had
climed slowly and by short
steps to his greatness. The brochure
was published in Italian and it touched
the cord in the hearts of those whose
memories enshrined the red shirt and
Garibaldi. They wrote poems, and
they paid tribute in various ways to
the Cleveland Of their imaginations.
And one, Signor G. Molinari, an artist
of standing in Rome, came to Mont
gomery and said he wanted to paint a
portrait of Mr.. Cleveland.
Every WELL" said the journalist,
"write your letter in Italian. 1 will
translate and forward it."
He did so. In due time there came
back a politely worded note from Mr..
Lamont, at Albany, and a photograph.
With the latter for a guide and his
ideal of American Democracy for
inspiration the artist has wrought the
portrait. He is coming to present 1t to
Mr.. Cleveland in person. 1t is the free
will tribute Of an Italian Democrat.
No wonder the President looks for.
ward to the arrival of the canvas with
interest. A Baltimore artist has
sketched Mr.. Cleveland, and is now
engaged on a portrait, but that is a
purely business transaction. That
work will not be done until some
time after the Italian artists produc-
ton has arrived.
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lambs, with 2 carloads of choice Kentucky wethers,
III fbs average. sold at 1878.
~Hogs-Receipts, Is, 600; fairly firm for live hogs at
4.25.
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 3O.-Cattle - Receipts. 1900;
Shipments, 500. The market was steady, with a fair
bean : native shipping steers $3.7505. 20 native
S2. 800; Q: stockers and feeders, $2.5003.75; rang
Hogs-Receipts. 200; shipments, 300. The
market was active and steady; Workers, $3.50; pack
ing grades, $3.6003.s0; butchering grades, 1915
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 1000; shipments,
100. The market was steady, and stronger; common
to medium sheep. ~$2.2502.65; good to choice NUT
tons, ~$2.7503.5O.
BALTIMORE. Nov. 3O.-The market for beef
cattle opened fairly active, but closed dull; best
beeves, 1.1505.z5: first quality, $4.2504.75; me-
dunn, $4,000; ordinary, 1908; most of the sales
were from $500 to SO; receipts, 1892 head; sales,
HogsaFair supply and fair to good demand; re-
ce1Pts, 3,loI head; quotations, $415@5.
6Sheep, and Lambs-Receipts, 2,231 head. Sheep,
$204; lambs. $4,000.
BUFFALO, Nov. 3O.-Cattle.-Receipts. 100;
fairly active and a shade higher for good grales, slow
and unchanged for common.
Sheep and ~Lambs-Receipts, 5000: steady, with q
fair demand at about last weeks prices.
~Hogs-Receipts, $4,000; steady. with a good de-
mand; good to choice Workers. $3.7503.sO medium
10 Ialr, So. |OO3.T5; good butchers grades, $500
$3.50; good to choice heavy, $~3.7503.s5.
EAST LIBERTY, Nov. 3O.-Cattle-In brisk de-
mand, a shade stronger, but prices unchanged. Re-
celpts, 2,236 head: shipments, 79S head.
.Hogs-The market was active and firm; Philadel-
phlas, S3.9004 10; Workers. $3.7503. 80. Receipts,
1900 head; shipments, 3 200 head.
Sheep-The market was active but unchanged. Re-
ceipts. 200 head; shipments, 1000 head.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3O.-Cattle in fair demand.
Receipts, 1900; prime, $5.5006.25; good, $500
5.25i medium, $3.5004.25; common, 2.25 as. %.
4.25; good, ~$3.5Oa3.75; medium. SO. 1908. 25;
common, 1929 rs. Lambs, So. 5OQ5.75.
Hogs-1n fair demand; receipts, $500; selling at
$5.5O05.75.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 30.-Hogs steady: common and
light. So 03. IS; packing and butchers, So. 65 03. 90.
Receipts, 1000; shipments 800.
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Elsewhere.

CHICAGO. Nov. 3O.-The Drovers' Journal reports:
Cattle-Receipts, 5000; shipments, 1000. Best
steady; common, 10015c lower; shipping steers,
1850 to l 500 TBS, $5@5.90: 1900 to 1856 lbs,
bulls and mixed, $1.7504; through Texans, steady;
$50 to 1850 TBS, $~3.1O03.7O; $50 to 900 lbs.
$2.7O03. 10; 600 % 700 lbs, $2.6O03.1O {.
Hogs-Receipts, 43. 600; shipments, 5000. The
$40; packing and shipping. 5004l lbs, S3. 20
03. 95; light weights, $3.2003.7O; skips, $500
800.
Sheep and L~ambs-Receipts. $500; shipments,
700. The market was steady; natives, S203. 60.
Texans. 202 80.
The Drovers' Journals special c~ablegram from Liv-
erpool this week quotes the cattle market steady and
firm. Best American steers lac ~ fb dressed.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 3O.-The Live Stock Tnd;.
Gator reports: 1871; Shipments
05.25; good to choice shipping steers. S4.65
as: common to medium, $42504.60: stockers and
feeders. S2.S003:75; cows, $203.40; grass range
steers, So. 03.2 %.
~Hocs-Receipts. a,4s3; shipments. 1854. The
market was active: good to choice heavy sc higher;
good TO heavy, So. 65 - 80; light and mixed. $40
03. 55j common S~3.35Q3.55.
Sheep-Receipts, 328; shipments, none. The mar
ket was quiet; fair to good muttons, So. rs:
common to medium, $1.5002.25; scalawags, so
070c each.
NEW YORK, Nov. 80. = Beeves-Receipts. 81
carloads for export, Is carloads for slaughterers
direct. and 159 carloads to be sold. There was a
good demand, both for home use and for the export
trade. and trade was brisk at an advance OF Is
~ cwt., live weight. Poor steers sold at Sd. 75041
common to good steers, $40 05 Co prime and extra
steers, $~5.7506.1O. An exporter bought 100 fat
steers. mainly at $4,000. The weeks exports were
600 carcasses of mutton.
Sheep and L~ambs-Receipts, 16400: fair demand
at steady prices for choice stock, but dull for common;
extremes, $~2.7O04.75 for sheep, and S4.5066 for
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Oils.

NEW YORK; Nov. 3O.-Petroleum-The market
opened firm at 931 2c, and after sales at 93lec, broke
rapidly to 9Ol2c, on an active business. Most of the
sales We're then made between 913ec and S9ac, until
late In the afternoon, when there was another break
to $50, and the market closed weak at $3.50. Sales,
1859, 600 brls.
Nov. 3O-National Transit Company
certificates opened at 93c and closed at $3.50: high
est price. 93l2c; lowest price. S77sc; runs, Isl, 249
brls; shipments, 63, 395 brls; charters not reported;
clearances, 1856, 600 brls.
OIL CITY, Nov. educational Transit COMPANY
certificates opened at $3.50; highest price, 933sc;
lowest price, Sc; closed at $3.50; sales, 5,135,-
600 brls; clearances, 1904, 600 brls.
~PITTSBURG, Nov. 3O.-Petroleum unsettled, fair.
~ active, and weak. National Transit Company GER
tlhcates opened at 9314c, and closed at 88l4c;
highest price, 93l4c; lowest price, 884c.
T~ITUSVILLE Nov. 3O-Natio4al Transit Com
pany certificates opened at SO Sc; highest price, 93asc;
lowest price, SIC; closed at SSloc; shipments, g.
394 brls: charters not posted.
LONDON Nov. 3O.-Calcutta linseed oil. 44s0
44s Sd. Refined petroleum. 67s07d per gal. Tur-
pentine spirits fiat; spot, 26s cd per cwt; December
26s Sd per cwt.
ANTWERP, Nov. 3O.-Petroleum 19lsf paid and
sellers for fine pale American.
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The Foreign Grain Trade.

LONDON, Nov. 30.-The Mark Lane Express, in it's
review of the British grain trade, says: Heavy rains
have prevailed during the week, and in some districts
the country has been flooded. It is believed the
whole acreage is below that of 1884. Young wheat
looks strong and healthy. Values are barely main
maintained and the tendency is downward. The sales
of English wheat during the week were 68, 21S quar-.
tiers at sos Sd, against &C, 9s5 quarters at 3Os Sd
during the corresponding week last year. Flour is
freely delivered: prices have not improved. Barleys
are declining, The foreign wheat trade is merely a
retail one, and it is d.fficult to maintain a rate. The
receipts are large. The floating bulk increases. The
huge stocks in America grow larger. Money is scarce;
there have been heavy losses, and no hopeful signs for
the future have yet been sighted. Perhaps the most
disturbing element is the possibility of the collapse of
the American gambling market, which would entail
the shipment of a quantity of wheat here, and further
reduce values. Corn is rather in favor of buyers.
There is no future in the market for wheat carcoes.
Twelve cargoes arrived; three cargoes were sold, five
were withdrawn, and nine remained, four of which
were California. At to-day's market wheat was
~stagnant and Is lower. The supply of corn is
small and prices are steady. Peas are plentiful and
cheaper.