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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Rare Presence of Mind.
[Chicago Herald Train TAXI

Chicago Herald IRAN lalk'
Stalking about presence of mind, said
the brakeman, "let me tell you of a little
incident that l know something about.
cause | was there. We were out n bad
night, when we got stuck in q snowdritt,
| was head brakeman, and had nothing to
do with tagging our rear, That was the
business of the other brakeman, but, as
he had been drinking q good deal. | telt a
little alarmed for fear he would go to
sleep. SO pretty soon | skipped back TO
see if he was attending to business, and l
found him lying fiat on the track, asleep.
He had fallen on his lantern-the red one
and broken it all to pieces.
"Just then | heard the passenger coming
and she was coming fast, too. How to
stop that train l didn't know. l had my
white lantern, but a white light isn't just
the thing for a danger signal in a snow
storm. The only red lantern within reach
was broken into a thousand pieces at my
feet. | suppose | might have stopped the
train with my own lantern, but it would
have been risky, as the drunken cur
hadn't gone back more than half as far
as he should, and q white light doesn't
show far in a storm, But | wa mad.
and as that darned tipsy idiot got up |
suddenly concluded l would make sure OF
my work.
what did you do?"
IL hit him in the nose and held my
lantern to catch the blood. In thirty
seconds | had the daisiest red lantern ever
an engineer set eyes on. "
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
rIMIDIrY-A HlNDoo FABLE


fJoel Benton.l
A silly mouse, thinking each thing a cat
Fell into a helpless WOrriment thereati B
But. noticed by a wizard living near,
Was turned into a cat to end its fear.
No sooner was the Transformation done
Than dreadful terror Of a dog begun.
Now, when the wizard saw this latest throe,
aHere, be a dog" he said, "and end your
woe"
But, though a dog, its soul had no release,
For fear some tiger might disturb its peace.
Into a tiger next the beast was made,
And still twas pitiful and sore AFRAID,
Because the huntsman might, some ILL
starred day,
Happen along and take its life away.
aThen," said the wizard, turning to his
hou4e,
@You have a mouse's heart-now be a
mouse"
IT'S so with men; no earthly help or dover
Can add one atom to their native power;
Them from their smallness nothing can
arouse
No art can make a lion from q mouse.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06

W. X. Bender, n of the most ener-
getic young directors Of the Vicks-
burg Fair Association, arrived home
from Greenville yesterday morning.
We had been there in the interest of
the association, and said to a G. H. re-
porter that stable room was engaged
for sixteen horses, among the number
the celebrated "Efie H." and have been
receiving daily, letters and kilograms
from the prominent horsemen of Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Missouri signify
ing their intention to attend our races
with their stables Of horses. Among
the latest heard from are Samuel Bry-
ant, of Louisville, with five head; A.
Bachelor, with seven; W. L. Cassidy,
Of st. Louis with FIVE. Among this lot
is the celebrated Kirkwan, two years
old, that $4,000 has been offered for
and refused.
J. A. Benton, of Nashville, Tenn,
telegraphed MI. Bender, who has
charge Of the horse-interest, that he
would arrive tomorrow with Eve
head. The Greenville horsemen will
not arrive until the middle of next
week, as the association did not wish
to have them on the grounds with
their horses until everything was in
readiness for them, as race horse men
are a very particular class Of people,
and if not treated properly with ac-
commodations, etc, they will not re-
turn to a place a second time where
they are not cared for properly. The
outlook for good racing by the leading
horses of the country could not be
brighter, and the association feel much
aattered at the result of their labors.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Contestlne Am EleotIon.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 31.-Wm. Blood
good, late Republican candidate for
county treasurer, this afternoon filed a
notice of contest of the election of
Frank Ratterman, Democrat, to that
office. He alleges with the speciGca-
tions that four hundred more votes
were counted for Ratterman than
were cast for him and that the regis
trars in a number of wards allowed a
large number of fictitious names to
appear upon the registry books, and
that thereby Ratterman received one
thousand five hundred votes which
were illegal. He also charges that in
precinct A, of the fourth ward, the
judges and clerks increased the num-
Der of votes p~urporting to have been
cast for Ratterman from six hundred
to nine hundred and twenty.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
GpnmsrsiaI ]6@aId
GOTHAM GOSSIP.

Novel Method Of Securing a For
tune--A Defaultlng Bookkeeper--
The Presidents Message Etc.
NEW York, Oct. 31--The young
wife Of Eph. Timmons, in January,
1882, secured a divorce from her hus-
band, it is said with his consent. that
she might thus marry a cOnsumptive
James g. Henri, a young man worth
100000. Two weeks after the divorce
was secured Mrs. III nmons did marry
Henri. On Sept. 18th, 1883, Henri
died, leaving all his estate to his wife
and child. Evan j. Henri, father Of
the deceased husband, has instituted
proceedings for a revelation of the
will Of his son, and a hearing was had
yesterday, which developed the above
facts. The case is still on.
Major A. ". Hanley, book-keeper in
the employ Of the Elizabeth IN. j.
steam Cordage company, has a0scond-
ed, taking with him $4,000 in
cash. Thursday was payday at the
factory and as was the custom, Maj
Hanley visited the First National
bank and drew $4,000 for the COM
pany's account. He left the bank and
nothing has been seen of him since.
Yesterday morning his disappearance
was reported to the police. There is no
clue to his whereabouts.
A correspondent of the World, and
a soldier, having asked that journal to
start a subscription for a monument
TO the late Gen. Mcclellan, the editor
replies that he would be pleased to aid
such a worthy undertaking, but the
encouragement of the committee en-
gagged in the work of building a ma
tional memorial to Gen. Grant makes
him rather cautious.
A Washington dispatch to the
World, referring to the forthcoming
presidential message, says the admin
lstration win take very positive
grounds upon financial questions. Mr..
Jordan and Mr.. Manning will recon-.
mChA Al buCIA ACpOAbo buO oubpCuolOu
of silver coinage and the president
will endorse their views. Mr.. Jordan
will be able to show in his report that
$45, 100000 have already been lost in
the attempt to force silver into circu-
lation. 1t is understood that the policy
Of the treasury department will be
against any further calling in of
bonds. 1t is held that it is not good
flnanciering to reduce the National
debt which bears an interest of only 8
per cent when the current rate is 6.
The Herald Washington special says,
Ex-Chief Justice Vincent, who was
recentlys removed from his iudgeship
in New Mexico, was among the callers
on the president to-day. 1t is under.
stood that Judge Vincent received but
little satisfaction from the president.
From the white house he went over
to the department of justice, where
he had an interview with the attorney
general which is understood to hav,
been of an equally unsatisfactory char.
acter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
The Gar in Finland.
TCor. London Standard l

The Russians, it must always be re-
membered, are cordially detested in Fin
land-there Is no doubt about. that. An
exception is made in favor of the emperor
but the difference between the way his
majesty is received in Russia and the
grand duchy is very remarkable. There
he is the czar, the autocrat, the demigOd
almost. whose word is law, and who. like
the pope, can do no wrong. Here is the
constitutional monarch, and, as one saw
at the students concert aud elsewhere,
plays the role when necessary with ease
and effect.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
What They Are Famous For.

Old bachelors who make the round of
the various resorts, and are as wary and
hard to catch as Lamprey cells, have
iotted down their impressions of the diff.
ferent places thus: Long Branch, the
most white lace dresses, dogs and fortune
hunters; Cape May, gray satin null
tichus and mammas; Asbury Park, the
most Puritanical philosophy; Newport,
big dinners and drags; Nantasket Beach,
culture and cheeks like peaches and
cream; Martha's Vineyard, schoolmarms
and verbs; Mount Desert. dyspepsia and
dogmas; White Mountains, business,
brains and breezes, and the White Sui
phur Springs, Va, more paint, powder,
pretty girls, wild love.making, trailing
gowns, black eyes and match-makers than
anywhere on the globe.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
The indianapolis Election.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Oct. 27-Judge
Ayres returned to the city this even
ing and held a night session of his
court. The Democratic Commits
sioners had completed their recount,
and claimed to have found errors
sufficient to elect Ripley, Democratic
Mayor, by two majority. The attor-
ney for Pritchsrd, Republican, asked
the Court to instruct the Commits
sioners not to file the report, but the
Judge refused to do so. The attorney
then asked twenty-four hours time in
which to prepare IA petition for an
injunction to restrain the filing of the
report, but the Judge also declined to
grant this request. Finally, however,
he agreed to give the attorney a hear
ing at twelve O'Clock tonight. In the
meantime the Democratic Commits
sloners are searching for the County
Clerk in order that they may file their
report. No action was taken in
reference to the broken ballot box.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Yesterday at the CoIored Fair.
to the COMMERCIAL HERALD

OOSOANOJ 0b SAS SOlOIOO dlEs
Special to the COMMERCIAL HERALD.
JACKSON, Oct. 31-The Colored
State Fair closed to-day with a good
attendance. The amusements for the
evening were varied. Fred Wolfe,
Jr., was awarded the FIRST premium
for the best boy rider. In the shoot
ing match at glass balls James Craw-
ford was awarded the first premium, a
fifty dollar breech loading shotgun,
breaking eight out of ten balls ia
twenty-one yards rest. Nose Willis
was awarded the second premium.
Quite an amusing feature was a potato
race, in which many of the small boys
participated. The programme was
concluded with a fitting tournament.
The managers cannot tell yet how
they will come out financially, but
judging from the attendance, and con
sidering the fact that all premium
money Was contributed and the fair
run at a comparatively small expense,
they should have cleared a handsome
sum-.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
important Conference of Catholic
Clergy.

BALTIMORE, Get. 81 "A conference
composed of the archbishops Of Balti,
more, New York, Philadelphia and
Milwaukee, and the bishop of St. Paul,
Peoria, Richmond, as well as a num-
Der of Catholic clergy, will be held in
Baltimore about the middle of Novem-
Der, to discuss the best mode of rails
ing the funds requisite for building
and establishing a Catholic university
to be located in Washington city. A
neuclus of 100000 has already been
donated by a lady, but a large amount
additional will be required.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
A New Route to Texas.

SHREVEPORT, La, Oct. 31.-The
Queen & Crescent railway party, COM
posed of President Frank S. Bond and
others left tonight for Vicksburg.
During their stay here they arranged
with Capt. Simon Levy, receiver of
the Shreveport & Houston Narrow
Gauge, 70 run his tracks into the depot
Of the Vicksburg, Shreveport s. Pacific
depot. This will be a great advan-
tage as it will, within a short time,
give close through rail connection
with all parts of Texas by an entirely
new route.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
The Street Car Robber Identified

OMAHA, Oct. 31.-The highwayman
killed by the street a driver Thurs
DAY night now proves to be Walter
Ruckel, half brother of W. F. Martin
a furniture dealer of this city. Ruckel
had been a cowboy in the territories,
came to Omaha a few months ago and
worked for Martin, collecting bills
Recently he was discharged for drunk
enneSs. The coroner's jury not only
exhonerated Woodbridge, the street
car driver, but recommended him to
the highest position he is competent
to I'LL in the service of the company.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06

In France this ingenious method of In
fioting annoyance is popularity know by
the name Of "scie, an elastic term in
Guiding every variety Of mystiAcation;
although It may be noted to the credit Of
our neighbors that their pleasantries are
generally harmless, and do not as Is oc-
AsstopRlay the case with w. degenerate
into h0rse-nlav.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
A Salmon Leap.
lArkansaw Travelled

Professor A. Landmark, chief director
Of the Norwegian fisheries, finds that
under favorable conditions a salmon NAV
sometimes jump sixteen feet perpendicI-
larly, and that when the fsh's leap is a
foot or two short of the waterfall it often
succeeds in completing the ascent by a
dextrous use of the tail.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Laying Out a Temperance VIllsoa.
Exchan0e1

Clark Whittier, a brother of the poet.
has secured 10000 acres of timber land in
Swain county, North Carolina. and is
laying out a town founded upon the saw
mill, the plow, the Bible and prohibition.
All real estate reverts to the town when
the owner thereof sells or buys intoxicat-
ing liquors
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Offers to Resign,

ST.. PAUL, Oct. 91.-United States
District Attorney O. B. Searle has
forwarded the following communica-
ton to President Cleveland: "If you
desire my resignation as U. S. attorney
in and for the district Of Minneapolis,
l hereby cheerfully place the same at
your disposal, provided no charges of
any kind have been made or are pend
ing against me-"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
A Reminder of the Riot at Loreau-
Vile

NEW IBERIA, Oct. 31.-To-morrow
being the first anniversary of unfortu-
nate Loreauville ~riot,all Fousse Pointe
will turn outin celebration of the day.
The necessary preparations have been
made at Loreauville for a grand pro-
cession and appropriate ceremonies.
A large delegation from New Iberia
will leave for Loreauvllle tomorrow
morning to take part in the process
sion.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Honor to Mcclellan.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 31.-Gov
Pat:ison has ordered as a tribute of
respect to the late Gen. Mcclellan that
the flag of the State arsenal be dis
played at half-mast on Monday next,
that half-hour guns be fred from sun
rise to II o'clock, minute guns during
the hour of the funeral, and at sunset
a National salute.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Immense Destruction of Property
by a Rise In the KanaWha Oliver.


CHARLESTON, w. VA, Oct. 81
This morning about 3 O'Clock, the
Kanawha river began rising very
rapidly. With the rise about so barges,
loaded with coal, owned by various
collieries above the city, were swept
away. A large fleet Of loaded barges
lying along the bank of the river
shared the same fate. About a half
million bushels of coal are lost. Many
barges lie at the bottom of the river at
this hour. 1t is difficult to tell the loss,
as a number of places up the river,
among the collieries, have not been
heard from. The destruction Of prop
erty is near $4,000. The river is
thirteen feet and rising a foot per
hour
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
c. H. SPECIALS.
sudden Death.

srecial to Commercial Herald.
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Oct. 3l-Mrs.
George n. Buchanan, wife Of ex-sheriff
Buchanan, a prominent Republican
politician of the State, died suddenly
this morning at $50 o'clock. An ex-
animation showed the cause to be
heart disease.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
street Car Drivers Organizing.

%PITTsBURe, Oct. 31.-A movement
is on foot among street car drivers and
conductors of this city to form a pro-
tective association. A general meet
ing is said to be called shortly. AS
soon as matters are In shape, a demand
will be made for an increase in wages
or a reduction of working hours.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06

The bones Of the average man only
weigh about twenty-fOur pounds, and
yet some people put on airs and step
AToind as though they weighed n ton.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
The Iron Horsemen Going Home

The Iron Horsemen Going Home.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3l-The TWEEN
~ty-second annual meeting of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, which convened here on
the 22d inst, adjourned to-day, sine
die, and most at the delegates left for
their homes. The next annual meet
ing will be held in New York.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Bound, Cared and Robbed.

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 31.-Five
masked men entered the farm house
of Mrs. McSeena, near Perryville,
Wayne county, last night. bound and
gagged Mrs. McSeena and her three
daughters and ramsacked the house.
The family are wealthy, but the bur-
glars succeeded IN finding only 81.
They departed, leaving their victims
bound.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
CUSTOMERS AND BUSINESS.

W no are your best CuStomerS2"
Newspaper men and lawyers, but I
have calls from all sorts of people-lots of
them from out of town"
Does the business pay2"
"Well, | have 1000, 900 old papers
you can put any value on them you please
and | guess I've got the value Of the So
l started out with. Next year 1 want to
buy a lot somewhere and put up a build.
ing to store my stock in. l haven't room
for many more here. Yes, the business
pays, but I'm not too proud 10 black boots
yet awhile.
Here are some old papers" placing
before the reporter apile dusty and brown
with age. The first was a Herald of May
%, 1874. The leading article was headed,
Squire Bogg's Great Letter Against
James Gordon Bennett and the New York
and Erie Railroad Company" A Police
Gazette of May 20, 1866, had on It's first
page a wretched wood.cut of the capture
OF jeff Davis; a Frank Leslie's OF April
%, 1865, showed Booth shooting Lincoln,
while the issue of May 6 contained pic
lures Of Lincoln's funeral; and q week
later, a full page picture Of two men in a
boat dumping a sheeted figure into the
sea, was entitled, "The Assassin's End. :"
Other papers were a Herald of Aug. 90,
1860, containing an account of the open.
ing of Central park; a Tribune of Nov.
2, 1874, with a two-column leader
headed. Gan l Conscientiously Vote for
Henry Clay?" and signed, "A Protested
Christian" q bound volumn of The Sun
for the year 1884, including a copy of
June 20, of that year, with turned
column rules for the death of Lafayette.
The Sun of those days was a four-pagc
sheet, with three short columns to the
page The editors were Benjamin H.
Day and George W. Wisner.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Ward Sent to the PenltentIary.

NEW YORK. Oct. 31--Ferd. Ward
was sentenced by Judge Barrett to-day
to the State prison for ten years.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
SENATOR GEORGE
MIKES Il TRUE AND TELLING
TALK.
His Words Come Forth to Willing Ears,
and His ElOquence Meets a Hearty Re
spouse.

There assembled last night at Mag.
nolia hall in This city, nearly every
representative citizen, to listen to SEN
ator ]. z George. The hall was decor
ated in good taste and was graced by
the presence Of many ladies. The dis.
tinguished senator opened his remarks
by referring to those corrupt men who
had, by betraying the confidence
of the ignorant helped themselves to
place and power I; that the only idea
prevailing among those who had asked
for Office was not that they might con-
fer any of the constitutional rights up
on the people, but to make what they
could the idea seemed to be personal
interests and personal gain. Such men
have endeavored to divide the people,
by putting money in their own pock-
cts There was a time when l could
count the millionarits of this country
on my fingers. Since the war. these
men have become so numerous that
now, in New York they are a common
spectacle.
The object of the Republican party
has always and ever been personal
gain for private interest"
The senator paid a glowing tribute
to President Cleveland. 81 believe
that before his term of service is end
ed he will so reform the system now
in vogue that nobody will be willing
to vote against him. 1t is said the
rascals ought to go; there is a long
line Of rascals and they are gradually
going. Public office is a public trust !;
10000 offices had to be filed. No
man On earth could displace so many
people. But so many influences are
brought to bear that he must select
only such men as are properly recon-
mended.
We have acknowledged the result
of the war. There is not a white man
here tonight who is not glad that sla-
very is no more.
l believe it is the sentiment of every
Southern man to make this Union one
fraternal and universal whole.
The senator in conclusion paid a
beautiful tribute to General Grant and
sat down amid showers Of applause
and admiration.
We regret that space does not permit
us to give u senator's speech in full
but we can only say it was a grand
and eloquent and common sense talk.
T. MARSHALL MILLER
in his usual happy style entertained
the audience with an address full of
enthusiastic fire and devotion to the
principles of duty. The attorney-gen-
eral. that is to be, made one of his best
efforts. He ended by calling upon all
the good people to stand by the ticket
which waslnominated from the top to
the bottom. Mr. Miller's remarks met
with great applause all the way
through.
Capt. Webb Goodrum was at the
meeting and his gallant company of
Red Necks were with him in full force.
Among the Red Necks, in full uni
form, were several colored men, who be-
long to the party of reform and
Democracy.
The colored field band, known as the
Phoenix Band, led by Ferdinand Sims,
discoursed good Democratic music at
intervals.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06

A Woman Sent to jail for Perjury.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 31-Mrs. Ellen
Finn pleaded guilty to mailing false
afidavits in support of a pension claim
and was sentenced in the Uuited States
court this evening to n year impris-
onment in Jail therefor. She Ind con-
tinued to draw a pension after she had
married a second time.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06

OF the 4,133,4S2 land owners in
Italy, 1,399,965 are women.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06

Subscribe for the Commercial Her
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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
Railroad Employees Charged With
Manslaughter.

New YORK, Oct. 31.-The coroner's
inquest on victims Of the collision on
the Pennsylvania railroad, which &C.
CURED in Newark Meadows on the
18Th inst, rendered a verdict last
night censuring Howard Rhodes. Of
the emigrant train, and operator Thos.
Pratt as responsible for the accident.
Rhodes and Pratt arellocked up on the
charge of manslaughter. A dispatch
from Dover. DEL, says money is being
raised there to empty counsel to de-
fend Pratt. He was reared near there
and was once operator at Marydel,
Md. People are responding in a liber-
al manner.