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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
PresIdentIaI AppoIntments.

SSAASuItol appointments
WASHINGTON, Nov. l6 The presi.
dent made the following appointments
to-day: William D. Bloxham, of Talla-
hassee, Fla, TO be be surveyor general
Of Florida, vice Jones F. Mcclellan.
resigned.
To be register of the land office,
Ralph n. Marble, Of Minnesota, at
Duluth. Mimi; William p. Chrislen-
sen, of Minnesota, at Redwood Falls,
Mimi; Thomas F. Coming, Minnesota,
at Fergus Falls, MINI; Henry Rine-
hard, OF Oregon, at Legrande, Oregon;
Winfield S. Austin, Of Washington
Territory, at olympia, Washington
Territory.
To be receiver of public moneys, Law
renee Laun; of Minnesota, at Fergus
Falls, Mimi; John T. Clubhouse, of
Oregon, at Lagrand, Oregon; James
Browne, of New Mexico, at Los Conces,
N. M.
To be Indian agents, Charles E. Nc
Chestney, of Dakota, at Cheyenne river
agency, in Dakota Peter Roman, of
Montana, at Hatheat agency, in Mon.
tana.
The following were appointed
United States consuls: Augustus M
Boyd, at Tuxpan. Mexico; Benjamin j.
Franklin, Of Missouri, at Hankow,
China; William E. Hugar, of Louisiana,
at San Jose, inspector to the consulate
of the United States at Chin Krang,
China; William B. Herbert. of Della
ware, to he marshal of the consul court
of the United States at Kanagown,
Japan.
TO be registers of land offices, En-
met Harran, of Wisconsin, at Eau
Claire; S. E. Thayer, of Wisconsin, at
Wauson, Wis.
To be receiver Of public money at
Eau Claire, Wis, Sylvester B. Kepler.
Tennessee Regulators Whip a Negro
Man and Woman, and Orders Ex-
ConvIcts to Leave.
NASHVILLE. Nov. 16--At midnight
Saturday band of regulators took
Noah Carey and Susan Mayhem. both
colored, from their cabins and gave
them terrible beating. The mob
numbered fifteen men thirteen of whom
carried small arms, wore gowns and
had their faces concealed with masks.
The other two were not disguised and
were provided with guns. The party
marched to the portion of the town
occupied by negroes, bearing the name
of Happy Hollow. On their way
the men stopped at a cabin and forced
two colored men to point out the dwell
lings of Carey and Mayhem, and those
of several ex-convicts, who had been
discharged from the penitentiary and
were employed by the Tennessee coal,
iron and railroad company. On reach
ing Carey's house the regulators took
him out and gave him lE0 lashes. They
then went to the woman's home and
like punishment to her,
after warning her to leave Tracy City
without delay. The band reused the ex-
conVicts from slee p and delivered them
The same message they had given the
adding that death would be
bheir portion should they disregard the
warning. AS soon as they could take
their departure the ex.convicts bade
The town farewell. The mob then
separated and so quietly was their task
lone that nothing was known of it
'or severalhours; the ex.convicts being
regarded with suspicion, the law and
)rder committee decided that they
,ould not stay. 1t is not known what
Carey or the woman had done.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

~ 4 Il Premature decline of
manly powers, nervous debility and
kindred diseases, radically cured. Ad-
dress, confdentially, Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.
- a.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
Safe Blown open and Robbed.

Safe Blown Open and Robbed.
BALTIMORE, Nd, Nov. 1S.-Bur.
glars Monday night blew open the safe
Of I. M. Reese & Son, and stole secu-
rites and money to the amount Of
$500. There were registered bonds
for $4,000, which the robbers cannot
negotiate.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-12
VOLUME II.
A,eoso,e Charles Dickens.


Mr.. Howard Paul was entertained at
dinner last week by The Clover Club, Of
Philadelphia, and in an after dinner
speech related the following:
Englishmen are conspicous in their
hospitality in the matter of dining, but
it strikes me forcibly that the Americans
are surprising their brethren cover the
sea- in this respect. I have been in the
United States now some six weeks, and
it seems to me have dined out at clubs
and other places every day since my
arrival. Mr., Charles Dickens was en-
tirely alive to the profuse hospitality OF
the Americans, as this incident will in
dcate. Some years ago, when he came
here to read, he brought with him a
strong, vigorous and healthy compatrot
named Dolby. Dolby had been in my
employ, and was by 10 means struck
with his capacity, and | heard TO my
surprise that Mr.. Dickens had engaged
HIM at a large salary. On the return of
the great novelist to England said to
him: II congratulate you, sir, on your
great financial and artistic success in the
Stetes, but 1 can't imagine what you
wanted with Dolby"
my dear sir" he replied, THAT man
was simply a treasure. He possessed
unlimited capacity for eating and
drinking, and had noble digestive pow
ers. If anybody called on me and sug-
gested drink | gently deputed Dolby to
do it for me. If I was asked out to din
ner and couldn't conveniently attend, Dol
by turned up as my representative and
occupied my place He did most of my
superauous eating and drinking, and so
saved me a vast deal OF exhausted fes-
tivity. In point of fact" concluded Mr..
Dickens, 81 simply engaged Dolby's
stomach"
Then I perfectly understood. re-
membered that Dolby had fine, well
seasoned, British, irouclad interior, and
icveled in what he was won't to call "a
big greasy chin dinner" Mr.. Dickens
looked all the better fpr his American
trip. Shortly after this | met Dolby at
club and he was relatively a wreck.
The incessant gorging and cOcktaling,
whiskey souring, chartreuseing, cura-
coaing, mararchinoing and other alcho-
holc frivolities had done their fell work,
but Dolby still lives to protest that the
Americans are the most hospitable peo-
pie on the face Of the earth.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-12
Belford's first Law Case.

Chicago Tribune.
Sergeant -at-Arms Leedom tells story
of Jim Belfords first law case as Belford
told it to him at Denver this summer.
Said Belford:
1T was shortly after I came to Color
ADD. was poor and unknown, and L
had q case before the court in which
Senator Teller was my opponent. The
odds were all against me, and the cvi
dence all in Teller's favor He lost his
case by attempting to browbeat me. In
the course Of his speech he tried to make
me the subject Of ridicule, and said:
'''Who is this red headed lawyer who
defends this man? He is a poor devil
without clients aud unknown
He then went on to- talk Of my ap-
pearance, and / don't know but that he
rather amused the court while ]1e WAS
doing so. He sat down thinking he had
settled my prospects. And when I arose
to reply [ assumed the pathetic dodge.
/ told them it was true | had no clients.
1t was true had few friends in Color.
ado. but had come to Colorado to stay
and practice law. As to whether | got
rich at the practice or not I expected to
be honest in it, and after had been as
many years in Colorado as had Mr.. Tel
ler | would probably have had as many
clients, and / hoped that my clients
would then be better off than his were
to-day. Teller, you know, had grown
rich, honestly enough, [ suppose, but it
chanccd that in that court room there
were half dozen clients OF his who had
lost their fortunes since he had been their
LAWYER
ITO these men l said: There is Sam
. Jones, who was worth 500, 600 when
Teller began to manage his business, and
how much is Jones worth to-day? Look
at Smith there, pointing to another side
of the court room. He was worth near
ly 81, 900, goo in the Blank Blank mine
when his suit sprang up and Teller be.
came his lawyer. What is he WORTH
Here Smith yelled out: Not dollar.
By this time the jury, the court, and the
lawyers had taken in the humor OF the
thing, and they roared, while Teller
blushed, and l went on and pointed out
. half dozen of his clients who ha6
lest money in this state of varying for
tunes. l clinched my argument by ask
ing: And what is Mr.. Teller worth:
He was known to be rich, and the audi
ence roared again. A moment later
I. I L.
in my favor without leaving the box
aud the story of the trial went over the
whole state. 1t made me well known
and from that day to this l have haC
no trouble in finding plenty of practid,
in Colorado"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-12-12
Would Bear Repeating Lsas.

Newark ADVERTISER.
a jury of men will seldom do justice
in quarrel betweena a husband and wife
\ jury of women have, however, given
decision on the matrimonial issue by
soundly flogging q husband who had
been caught beating his wife Khis hap
pened in Washington Territory, long
way off but the lesson would bear re-
peating on this side of the continent.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-12
A Word to Boys.

You are made to be kind, boys,
generous, magnanious. If there it
a boy in school who has a club-foos
don't let him know you ever saw it,
If there is a poor boy with ragged
clothes, don't talk about rags in his
hearing. If there is a lame boy as
sign him some part IN the game that
doesn't require running. 1t there
is hungry one, give him part OF
your dinner. If there is a bright
one, be not envious of him; for if
one boy is proud Of his talents, and
another is envious Of him, there are
two great wrongs, and no more tai
ent than before. If a larger or
stronger boy has injured you, and is
sorry for it, forgive him. All the
scholars will show by the their conn
tenances how much better it is than
to have a great fuss.-Horace Mann.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-12
-
GI.IGANINGS.

No less than 1S.06 young women are
at college in this country.
Gold worth $50. 800, 900 was dug from
Uncle Sans rich soil in 1884.
William Black makes about $40, 600
year from his novels.
Sunset Cox has had his photograph
taken in Turkish uniform.
An ornilhological puzzle was flock
OF countless humming birds at Edmon-
ton. Ky.
Madison Morton. who wrote ''Box
and Cox, y is living on public charity IN
London, at the age of sc.
Bishop Taylor writes that mission
aries with bic families are wanted in
Africa. They can dig and teach, hoe
and preach.
a large green stone taken from a
cocks gizzard in Alexander County,
South Carolina, turns out to be SI,-
900 emerald.
Perhaps the most beautiful writer
among we'll known Englishmen IS Mr..
G. A SAla. whose letters are as easy
rs print to read.
Neither the Cipitol nor the White
House Is lireproof, Notwithstanding the
millions, that have been expended up
on them to make them SO.
A great Eng,ish authority on dys-
pepsfa speaks strongly in favor Of milk
buildings and stewed fruits Tor the
iyspeplic, the bilious and the goutY.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-12


Mr.. GernardI, the artist, has been
offered $4,000 for the Grant death
mask, but declines TO sell it, nor will
he part with it till he shall b. rdy to
present it to the Nation.
Ten copies of the 8 = ordinary
.,Iition in fac similc OF he Vicar OF
Wakefield and ten copies OF the large
paper edition have been bound IN wood
from the panels of Doily's chop-house.
where Goldsmith, johnson. and Gar
rick We're accustomed TO meet.
PHYSICIANS in the Sandwich Islands
have come 10 the conclusion that the
only way to stop the alarming spread
of leprosy is 10 begin yaccinating with
leprosy microbes, but no one has yet
been fouid who is willing to submit
to the operation.
Capt. Shackleforl, master of Jay
Gould's yacht, is on terms of social in
timacy with the millionaire. 1t is said
that he will soon be in Morosini's
shoes, as Mr.. Gould has never felt the
same toward that unhappy man since
the Huelskamp scandal.
Mrs. Langtry, not satisfied with the
natural color Of her hair. which was
beautiful, and OF which she took in
cessant care. has painted i kind of
reddish co.or-w which. ii .ppcars, is be-
coming the fslshipn i. rarls-and has
much injured her appearances.
Jonathan Fin liay, now resident of
Montreal, G naia, was more than sixty
years ago pupil Of Carlyle's, who, Mr..
Findiay says, was = cruel tyrant, ru-
ling class Of trembling boys with a
rod of iron. He was rough aud un-
coutl in his appearance, aud no one
suspected that within him were the
elements Of Il great aid successful
writer.
Brass faucets are To shine no longer
behind New York bars. Health Off
GERS are busy going the rounds of the
10000 t;syerns of that thirsty town aud
The order is that John Barleycorn's
blood shall be drawn through harmless
wooden or glass-lined faucets. instead
OF through the communicating metal.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-12
Luther Benson.

/ do not think it would be right
for me to fail to speak of another
whose labors in our State, while not
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-12
Our Children.

The unanswerable question,
"Why, oh why did not the women
begin this years ago, for then /
might have been saved ?" was asked
me recently, and finds an echo in
many a poor wretched heart, and
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-12

had never seen him before, and /
slipped out of the room before he had
a chance to see me.-bttt Nye.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-25
,e aurora borealis We batch our

e aurora borealis. We batch our
own wild geese, of such dimensions
that Eastern and Southern tenderfeet
are liable to mistake them for winged
hippopotami, on lakes of never-free:-
ing rosewater and cologne. We wall
up for wells the holes from which we
pull with steam derricks and 1900
horse power Corliss engines, our rad
ishes and bcets, and make cow
sheds ard circus tents of our
turnip rinds. We put rockers un-
der our empty pea-pods and use them
for cradles. When we want new
union depot for our constantly ex-
tending railroads, we simply cut
doors and windows and lay sidetracks
and swltc .es In one of our ordinary
field pumpkins. We ship our corn
stalks for bridge timbers and telegraph
poles, aud cut our wheat straw into
stove wood and wagon spokes. Da-
kota is the sole remaining quarter sec
ton of paradise in all the western
world. There no wave of trouble ever
rolls across the peaceful breast, and
the prosperous people who raise from
twenty-five to seventy-five bushels of
golden wheat to the acre of land that
costs them nothing, and get n dollar a
bushel for it, can calmly smile at Sa-
tan's rage, and face frowning, be-
cause less fortunate, universe of an
cient states and obsolete populations.
made many oCher similar mild rep
resentations, and they were all greeted
with just such audible smiles of unbe-
lief rs you give me now.
But, jesting aside, look at this mag
nificent exhibit of natural wealth and
restless energy and enterprise; re-
member that but ten years ago the
whole grand region from which it
comes was an almost unbroken will
derness, buffalo pasture and Indian
hunting ground; and then tell me
whether you think it would be posi-
BILE for human genius to exaggerate
the story of Dakota's infinite riches
and unparalleled growth.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-25
Shaken Up by an Earthquake.

An officer said he had permission to
spend the Christmas holidays with his
family ut Albania, in Spain, and had
few friends TO dinner. After dinner
the friends left, and he sat talking
with his wife and children, five in
number, when suddenly one end of the
room rose up three feet. The shock
threw the whole family to the floor,
with the lamps and other articles on
the tables and shelves. They re-
mained in total darkness, dazed and
wondering what had happened. Pres
emily he supposed it was an earth
quake, and called TO his wife and
children to come out into the street
He reached the street door and the
street was in total darkness. The air
was filled with the dust of crumbling
buildings. Afraid to 90 out, he stood
shivering and undecided, when n sec
ond shock came and the kitchen fell
in, killing two servants. a piece OF
wood fell upon his wife, breaking her
leg. He then carried his wife out over
a pile of ruins. The narrow, dark
streets were SO changed by the debris
that it was hard to recognize them.
He reached the open fields, where he
found that many had preceded him.
He left his wife with friends and re-
turned for his children. He brou9ht
three the next trip, and then the other
two. All the way, while crawling
over pieces of ruins, he heard the cries
of those that had been caught and
could not eXtricatc themselves. Every
voice was familiar. He met neighbors
telling each other of the loss of rela-
tives and friends. The horror of such
an experience was unparalleled. The
night was spent in the open field
shlvering on the ground, entertaining
fears and suffering grief, terror and 8
horrid uncertainty.-St. LoutS Globe
Democrat.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-25
Peruvian Senoritas.

"For beauty that is merely skin
Deep says a Paris letter writer, 1.-The
Peruvian senOrita or sonora is incOm-
parable. AS she is terrible iirt,
and somehow manages to talk in
many tongues without having an idea
to express in any, she gets to the head
like champagne. But the effect she
produces rapidly subsidies, because, |
suppose, durable witchery depends
upon a perservering will of the en-
chantress, and Spanish-American
ladies have neither the ambition nor
tho tenacity in getting their behests
carried out of their North American
sisters"
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-25

"Our people want only the freshest in the
dramatic market" said the DaEota dramatic
critic to the representative OF an eastern
trae cdian. II know this Merchant OF Venice
you talk about. / saw it In Salt Lake rs far
back as 81. No such wormy chestnut Will go
down with a culturned community that had
Young Mrs. Winthrop and The Bandi;
King three months after they we;e brough
out at Drury Laue.n
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-05-25

cOiulng luSHlOndDlc.
In Charleston nine strawberries can
be purchased for % cents.
The town of Spartanburg, 5. c.,
will be one hundred years old in 1887.
The Pennsylvania legislature passed
four bills in eight weeks and has taken
4 rest
The Spaniards shout "Oye oye ~
("Hear hear r') when using the tele-
phone.
The frost in the ground is nearly
three feet deep in the vicinity of
Boston.
There is negro in Yalobusha
county, Mississippi, said to be 122
years old.
Springfield, Mass, is excited because
a span of horses for the fire department
cost S1,035.
Eggs are quoted in Montana at
ten cents each; in Georgia at ten
cents a dozen.
Only one American out of eighty has
perfect teeth; fewer still! cut their eye
teeth properly.
Mail bags from Cincinnati were re-
Gently delivered in Berlin in the short
space of eleven days.
The death of Cardinal McCabe
leaves the government only two sup
porters in the Irish hierarchy.
The cities of Baltimore and Phila-
delphia are declared by medical au-
thOrty to be ripe for cholera.
A Macon, Iia., man is trying to de-
wise method of saving wood by
electricity of which he dreamed.
The Salvation army began opera
tions in Hartford, Conn, with what
they advertised as "a big kick-up.'
Hot Springs, Ark, has eight thou
sand resident population, and last
year had twenty-One thousand visitors.
Nevada has 140 postoilices, one of
which is second class and eight third
class. The remainder are of the
fourth grade.
On Bayou Fordochc, La, in a neigh
borhood of over one hundred people,
physician has not been required for
over two years.
A Georgia woman boasts that she
has in use, unbroken, a sitter which
she bought when she was married,
siXty-one years ago.
The moss crop of Florida, says The
Pensacola Commercial, is worth more
than the cotton crop, and can be put
on the market at less expense, The
demand exceeds the supply, and there
is not u county in which this product
is not going to waste.
The opinion of Prof Lockyer now
favors the theory that several remark
able seas--including inland seas, some
OF them connected and some not, by
straights, with still largers seas-are
at present delinable in the southern
hemisphere of the planet Mars.
According to the report of the
bureau of statistics Texas has only 80
per cent. the number of cattle there
were in the state n year ago, and 50
per cent. the number of sheep, but
there has been an increase of III per
cent in the number of hogs, per
cent in the number of horses, and 10
per cent. in the number of mules.
An orange-grower near Anthony,
Fla. will ship this year between eight
hundred and one thousand boxes of
oranges. From the same grove last
year he only shipped fifty boxes.
, This increase. though large, is not
, unusual, and demonstrates the won
derful bearing capacity OF an orange
grove.
, In the drilling or filing of hard iron
{ castings the use OF turpentine has been
, | found of much assistance. The tool
should be kept wet with the turpentine,
applied with common mucilage
brush, and the turpentine should be
evaporated and oxidized by exposure
10 ha vi 4 Ia
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-15

from me EttiddekDh1u Ns1He.
"Dissecting prons and sleeves can be oh
tanned ul-stair IN the dis-rctng- room 4" This
sign stared a reporter In the &C, as he
asie Died the stairs Of jefferson Medeal Col
le yesterday 10 fatuOm the truth II "A hOrri.
hle rumor tina Jimmy, tae attendant in Inc
dirseclinR room mad been scared TO death tue
night before
Are you a stodent'' said little English
man tn door Of the room which was IN the
sky parlo-.
mot of medicine" replied the reporter.
hen gu can't come in" SAID the English
man.
81 want to learn something about fright
ful accident % Jimmy the ~tteudant" said
the reporter. ~ be- ar hat he Is almost insane
and w. Il nigh dead from fright"
"fm Jlmint, and I h int frightened nor
de1d. ~ was Ouly Z Tie fun some OF the
boys tri 20 play on me-
dummy slammed the door and the reporter
wa X rioWu stairs. a young student from
Cora Wa met on the stairs, aud he SAID
tudt Jimmy ha brought n subject up 81 ira
from ne puck ipgvtt IN the cellar and laid 4
on ihr .li-sr c ing board. One Of the a .i.taut
d"mnnEtra' or-, " hen Jimmy WIS not Ooklpp.
pumped the lunss OF the dead man fan of air
an1 lr. he carotid artery wit a piece or
ellh. when Jtmm started o liff the uodt "A
few minute afIcrwarl 10 another ulaep an
the board Dc WIS lold 10 be careful. a. IN.
subject WAS believed o. show some signs I'D
life. jimmy laugh 4 incre iuiou.lt. one Of
the boys slylN cut the string arouUd tha
arury and pres on the che-t OF the cornse.
The wind rushed sut 81 ne lung. aud m de "a
~ mat ne dropped the 's IN anG starred
down STAIRS. lie came btc. alter some her.
sua-'on' bu the boys have been guying him
ever since.