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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

Thanksgiving Day was very generally
observed IN jackson, and the attendance
at the churches was larger than on any
similar occasion for twenty years. At St.
Andrews Church, Rev. DIR. Short delivered
an appropriate discourse, and the offerings
Tor the poor, in the shape OF pound PACK
ages, etc, were substantial and liberal.
The Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian
congregations united in a service at the
Baptist Church, conducted by the PASTOR
Drs. Hunter, Andrews and Sproles. Dr.
Andrews delivered the Thanksgiving dis
course to an audience that filed eyery seat
In the house. He commenced the service
oy reading q telegram from Atlanta an
nounclng the Prohibition victory. and
asked the congregation to rise and sing
fraise God from whom all BLESSINGS fiow y
e'c. All responded, and that grand old
ooxoiogy was sung with the spirit and the
understanding A collection was taken mn
Tor the benefit of the Natchez Protestant
ofyhan AsyRm, and the sum Of 500 %
was y thus added to the Asylum treasury.
u Is 70 be hoped that this method 81 "a
memoerIng the orphans will become An
annual Thanksgiving custom.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02
The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.

Capt Hardy, of Meridian. vino was
several weeks ago elected president of
the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, called
at the Interior department on the 18Th
inst, to consult the Secretary with regard
to the land grant of that road. The de-
partment cannot of course legislate in
regard to the matter, though all are in
strong sympathy with the project. Pres
ident Hardy went on to New York, and
says that he will put the work under
contract between the Coast and jackson,
by the 1st of January, with large force
Of convicts, and push it rapidly to com.
pletion. The present determination is
to make Corinth the objective point, in
stead Of Middleton on the M. q G. road.
We congratulate our friends on the
Coast on the prospect Of being able to
reach the 6tAte Capital at "a early day
without having to 20 around By the
way Of Mobile or New Orleans, and We
congratulate the State upon the car
taiaty Of having Z great seaport city Of
ita own, either On The main coast 81 e
Ship Island, thus realizing the pro
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02
SUPREME COURT CASES.
Reported for The Clarion, bv n. n. Parker
Attorney at-Ls~, jackson, Miss
october Term-Isss.
MARTHA ELIZA MCGEE |

MARTHA ELIZA MCGEE
J. C. HOLMES
From the Circuit Court of Winston
county. w. NJ. Rogers, Judge.
Tar title. Three years statute of limita-
ton. Code Sec. 529 construed.
COOPER, C. J.:
This was an action of ejectment. The
land sued for was owned by Francis NJ.
McGee, the father of the appellant, who
died in 1868, leaving a widow. Mary A.
MCGEE, and three children, two of whom
have since died unmarried. Mrs. MCGEE
died in 1879. Before her death, Mrs
McGee, claiming the land only as the
widow of her deceased husband, sold
the same to one Loyd, who went into
possession, and, in 1875, executed deed
of trust on the land to the firm of
Constantine & Co. This firm was dis
| solved, and one Tyson, who was a mem
Der thereof, entered into possession of
the land, claiming under the deed of
trust executed by Lloyd. After Tyson
had gone into possession, the land was
sold for the taxes of the year 1874, and
purchased by the State; and in 1880
| Tyson purchased the same from the
Auditor of Public Accounts, and in
1882 sold it to the defendant Holmes,
who seeks to defend his possession under
the tax title thus acquired. At the
! instance of the defendant, the court
instructed the jury that if the defendant
had been in the actual possession of the
land for more than three years before
suit brought, claiming the same under a
40 FOR 10 he
plaintiff could not recover.
The provision of the Code (Sec. 500
under which this instruction was asked
was not intended to apply to cases In
which, if the tax title were valid, the
defendant could not avail himself of il
as against the plaintiff. Its effect is Il
protect from assailment the tax title Of
one who, being authorized under the
principles of law to claim under salt
for taxes, finds his title, which, if valid
would protect his possession, attacked
for irregularities existing in the pro
ceedings of sale. 1t has no application
to those cases in which, if the title wa
formally and substantially perfect, tn
! defendant could not avail of it by reason
of some personal disability which woult
{ preclude him from asserting it as agains
, another towards whom he owed tn
: duty of discharging the taxes for which
/ the sale was made. At the time of tn
sale for taxes. Tyson was in possession
of the land as mortgage under Lloyd
who had entered upon the land unde
2 the claim of the widow; and thong
! her life estate had terminated by death
r Lloyd and those claiming under hin
! were tenants at sufferance to the heir
at law. Day D. Cochran, "a Mss. Unde
: such circumstances, the purchase of tn
States title should be treated as
redemption, and Intellectual to divest tn
] title of the heir at law. Reversed an
r remdnded.
a Rives & Rives, for appellant.
!. Chas. Richardson, contra.
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CLAIMS the Reward.

EDITOR CLARION: In the issue of
THE CLARION of November 18th there
is an article by "Justice" on 1.-THE
Public School Fund, /" in which is quoted
from communication of the Memphis
Appeal, written from Columbus, Miss,
the following: so perfectly convinced
am / of the universal contempt for
muscle. and the false pride engendered
by modern education that / have had
for years standing offer of $500 90 to be
paid to any person who will show me a
young man graduate of any college
who has erer worked in the field as 8
subsequent means of livelihood" Ny
motive for writing is to learn by whom
the offer has been made and whether
made seriously-if SO / will claim the
$500 reward.
Hoping to hear from you at an early
date, | am, Respectfully,
MRS. BEN H. WELLS.
Bolton, Kinds county, Mississippi.
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CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. 23d, 1885

J. B. Streater, Black Hawk, Miss.
DEAR BROTHER: Iwrote to you some
time ago concerning the proposed Con-
ventions in the Southern States during
the winter and early spring, but have
no reply. AS it is necessary that the
arrangements shall be be made very
soon, if the plan is carried out, | write
again. We propose, if possible, to have
several well-known workers visit num-
Der of the Southern States, if desirable
to the workers there, and to hold
Convention in each State "a State Con-
ventiou if possible), if not, Sunday
School Convention, or Conference, that
shall be as much like State Conven-
ton as possible at such central places as
will be best for the whole State. The
international Executive Committee will
try to provide the funds necessary to pay
their expenses We think the Conven-
tions must be held in months of February
and March, as it will not be possible to
get the workers at later time; and if
so the Mississippi meeting ought to be
in the early part of February. Will you
give me your best judgment as soon as
possible and very much oblige
Yours in the work,
b. F. JACOBS.
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A Distinguished and Deserved Som
pliment.
Fayette Oh ronicle.l

1t is with pleasure and a great deal of
pride that We announce that Capt. Put
Darden, at the recent session of the Ma
tional Grange, which met in Boston.
Massachusetts. was elected Worthy Master
This is the first time, we believe. in the
history OF this National organization, that
Southern man has been called to its
highest Office, and composed as il is of
representative men from every State Of the
Union, it is a great honor, and we as
Mississipnians should feel proud of the
high distinction conferred upon Capt Oar
den. The National Grange displayed in
this selection its usual practical wisdom.
for Capt. Darden has made the great ones
tions embraced in this Order his close
study for years, and has a mind equal TO
their thorough comprehension, and be will
make the Order, powerful and National as
il is, thorough and competent official.
His wife, Mrs. Kate Ably Darden, was also
elected Ceres Capt. Darden is not only a
citizen. but native of Jefferson county.
and We will be excused for feeling a special
pride in his merited elevation
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

The Aberdeen Examiner makes some
capital suggestions as to the manage
mentof agricultural fairs. 1t sets forth,
what has often come under our notice,
one reason for the failure attending
many of these exhibitions, the want OF
personal persistent and early effort in
interesting the people of the surround
ing country. The custom is to announce
that the fair is to be held, and then lie,
ii take care Of itself.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02
To Correspondents.

Several of our subscribers having in
timated that they would like to have a
rest on the lien-law discussion, we give
the suggestion for the consideration of
our correspondents.
We have received several communica
tons. in addition to those in this issue
on the important question propounded
by our correspondent "Justice"
others, one of twenty-five pages lega
cap! so that we must again remind
correspondents that however meritoriou.
their contributions, there is possibility
OF their not being published wien they
exceed reasonable length
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02
N. Y. SUM-

You cannot cheat the workingmen of
this State in respect to the'trusthworthi-
ness of public men. They Judge for
themselves, and their Judgment deliber-
ately formed, is irreversible and irresis-
tible. That is proved by the tremen-
dious earnestness with which the friends
of labor in this city, where they are or
ganized, overbore every effort to delude
them in a most inscriptions canvass
every plot to trick them at the ballot
box.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

Gen. Writ Adams took charge of the
jackson Postofiice yesterday. Ge, era
Mckee and his Chief Deputy, Mr.. Chester
p. Lulkley, retire with the best wishes Of
all who have had business with the
Office. They have been faithful, efficient
and courteous in the discharge of duty. It
is understood that Mr.. Bulkiey could have
retained his position, had he so desired
We are especially pleased that Mr.. 10.
Murphy is to be continued as delivery clerk.
Tor he isof that osliging and patient dis
position that peculiarly fits him for the
place Dir. Thomas J. Wharton, Jr., sue
ceeds Mr.. Bulkley, and he has the expe-
TIence and capacity equal to the position.
The Postofice could not well be under
better management. Continuance az
polite and efficient service is assured.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

Chickasaw Messenger

1t is fact that Mobile or New Orleans
c IN get -four or meat shipped from Chi
cago or st. Louis cheaper than any point
in Mississippi, although the goods have
to be hauled through this State to reach
its destination. 1t is fact that corn
can be bought by merchants in Meridian
from the farmers of Illinois and have il
laid down at their doors cheaper than
they can get it from West Point, Okolo-
ma or Aberdeen.
L is q fact that Menphis, st. Louis,
Louisville and Nashville can secure the
shipmentof groceries from Mobile or New
Orleans cheaper than Mississippi towns
located within hundred miles of either
of those Cities
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

1T was the pleasure OF THE CLARION
last week to acknowledge the receipt Of =
Thanksgiving offering for the Natcbez
Protestant Orphan Asylum, from some
young people in Madison county, amount
ing to $500. Since then, we have received
$3.50 from Rev. Inman w. Cooper, Madi-
son Station, contributed by the little peo-
pie Of that place for the same good object.
Who next? II the children in other com
munities will follow these noble examples,
the treasury Of the orphans will be sub
replecished-
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02
To Sunday School Workers in Mis-
sissippi.
BLACK HAWK, Nov. 30, 18s

BLACK HAWK, Nov. q, 1853
EDITOR CLARION: / enclose a letter
from Mr.. B. F. Jacobs, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the lnterna-
tional Sunday-School Convention, which
you will please publish. The Sunday
School workers throughout the State
are requested to correspond with me at
once, and give me their views in regard
to the suggestions made by Mr.. Jacobs.
Very truly, j. r. STREATER,
Member of Z. Com for State of Miss.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

A SHORT time ago q little girl in Ala
hanna wrote note to the Emperor of
Austria congrstulating him upon the
happy recurrence Of his birthday.
which was also her own. Last week
she received from the Emperor four
leafed clover in gold with diamond
dew drop IN the centre, and inscribed,
From his Imperial Majesty, Emperor
Francis Joseph I, to Charlotte Pollak."
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

The Durant Ne1Cs suggests Hon. J. G..
HAMILTON as the next Representative
of the Fifth Congressional District. Mr..
HAMILTON possesses eminent fitness for
the position, and comes fully up to the
Jefersonian standard of qualification for
public station.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02
N. Y. World

IT is not at all surprising to be told by
telegraph that Oscar Wilde is now en-
gagged in working up a reform in ladies'
night-dresses, holding to the aesthetic
theory that the present plain white
style should be superseded by soft silk in
shades and tints to suit the complexion
of the wearer. Mr.. Wilde's recent
marriage has turned his attention to
practical matters, and it may be well said
that he has never engaged in a more be-
coming crusade.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

Among the Sioux Indians it is the
custom that when borrowed kettle IS
returned some OF the food that has
been cooked IN it be left in the bottom.
Those who disregard the custom can
never borrow again.
Miss Carey Thomas has been APP
neiuted Dean of the new Female Col
tece at Bryn Mawr, near Pniladelphia-
she took her degree, conferred once IN
decade, summa cum laude. at the
University Of Zurich.
A starving laborer took three apples
from 4 garden aud was sentenced by
Bailie Hunter, OF Dundee, Scotland, to
forty days imprisonment.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

CAPT. w. II. HARDY, of Lauderdale
and DIR. w. l.. KERN, of Holmes, are
favorably mentioned for Congress, from
the Fifth District. Either would adorn
the position.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

The Prentiss Piaindealer, Bonneville
and the French Camp Rereille, are added
to our exchange list, with pleasure.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

phetic plan Of our illustrious fellow
citizen himself dweller on the coast
lex President Jefferson Davis.-Aber-
deem Examiner
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

ATLANTA won't go "dry" until next
July-when existing licenses expire.
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thls happy Thought makes MN cheerful.
National Republican.
He wasn't so badly beaten in 1884, by
the way. A bare plurality of thous-
and. against you in million and a
quarter of votes is not so bad. And yet
it was better so, and we have never shed
a tear about it. Blu. in 1885 everything
is joyous, and there's no defeat for us at
all. 1t is great yearly y Sun.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-02

WE have on file for next issue,
another communication from Justice"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-18
PERSONAL.

GENERAL ANsoS STAaEE left an estate o (
SS50,000 to his three daughters in equal
shares.
COUNT PRIMO MAGRI and his wife, for
merly Mrs. General Tom Thumb, will live
in Middleboro, Mass.
BISHOP TUIGa has not resigned, as has
been telegraphed all over the country from
Pittsburg, nor has he any present intention
of doing so, nor has he asked for the ap-
pointment of a coadjutor bishop, or received
any information that one was appointed.
SECRETARY, MANNING has appointed b.
Frank Albeit, of New Jersey, brother of
Governor Albeit, to be chief of a division in
the Office of the auditor of the treasury for
the postoffice department, vice Mr.. Widdi-
combe, of Maryland, resigned by request
Miss ELIZA FLANNIGAN, known as Sister
Catharine of St. Elias, died on Thursday at
the Carmelite convent, Baltimore, of con
sumption, in the 42d year of her age. She
was native of Pittsburg, and had been at.
tached to the Carmelite order for the past lS
years.
JEFFERSON when he became president an
nounced, regarding the federalist Office
holders, "that no man who has conducted
himself according to his duties will have any
thing to fear from me-" His spirit seems TO
have descended upon the present occupant of
the executive chair.
drawing the largest audience in the history
of the Chestnut Street opera house, Philadel-
phia. This was done on Thursday night at
the performance of "Othello," the audience
numbering 5000 persons, and the receipts ag.
gregating $2,sls.75.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued pro-
clamation vacating President Arthur's order
opening the Winnebago reservation in Dako-
Ia to settlement, on the ground that it was in
violation of treaty obligations. Settlers who
have already entered upon the reservation
are warned to quit within sixty days.
ADELINA PATTI has written Colonel
Mapleson announcing that she will be unable
| to fulfill her New York and Boston engage
ments owing to i'll health and the imperative
orders of her physicians to cease work fol
| several weeks. Friday nights performance
| therefore, concluded her American engage
ment. She has sung fortytwo times, receiv,
ing sl6S,000.
Poor GORDON could not help taking
| quantity humorous view of things, even il
the dark days at Kbartoum When he founG
| that Mr.. Gladstone's government was per
sistently disregsrding his appeal for aid, and
became convinced that he was to be marty
to duty, he naturally blamed Sir Evelyr
Barring tor his abandonment and said s,
bluntly in his diary but ne added, with
keen recollection of his own last journey
across the desert, "Oh, Evelyn Evelyn
would forgive you all your iniquities II
could see you humping across the Koroskt
| desert upon a camel"
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Niagara rs a Public Park

All friends of the picturesque and lovers
of the wondrous will be pleased at the pas
sage of the Niagara reservation bill by the
New York legislature. It is now in the
hands Of the governor, who has all along
been very friendly to the project, and that
it will be enacted into law can admit of
no further question. 1t is not saying too
much to assert that this is the wisest work
of New York's present legislative body,
and it must be regretfully admitted that
their Pennsylvania brethren have done
nothing approaching it in sagacity. The
latter have deemed it proper to fasten on
the people of the state most absurd tenn
perance instruction law, and compared to
this, the recent work of the New York leg
islature gains added lustre.
With Niagara Falls and its adjacent neigh
borhood under state ownership and super
vision, the woes of the tourist will be les.
sened, and this charming spot will become
more than ever the Mecca for future bridal
tours. The suave highwayman who was
ready at every point with demand for
shekels before his fortress might be
passed will be no more, and the unend-
ing beauties of this great natural
wonder will be accessible to those whose
means are far below their capacity for en-.
joyment. But the best feature Of the law
will be the protection that this famous spot
will now receive from the greed of private
ownership under which many of its beau
ties were rapidly disappearing. "A state
commission will now be responsible fol
its.proper care and the wholesale destruc
ton of trees and the tampering by unsym.
pathetic hands with places where nature
wantoned in wealth of wild grandeur
will be stopped. Those who are behind
this work are building better than they
know. They are laying up for themselye:
regulations that will make their names
bright among the generations that viii
live after them and profit by their thought
fulness.
If a provision had been added to the bill
to prohibit hackmen from plying their vo
cation within ten miles Of the park, it
scope of usefulness would have been mucl
widened. ...
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He Should Be a Slave to silence.

Mr.. John Z. Faunce, member of the
legislature from Philadelphia, writes to the
Record that he never replies to newspaper
criticisms, but violates his rule to correct
the Records statement that he had repre-
sonted himself to the friends of anti-dis-
elimination legislature as being in its
favor and then lodged the vote on an i'm
portant feature of it.
We are of the decided opinion that Mr..
Faunce's practice of refusing to notice
newspaper criticism is a very wholesome
one for him to adopt, in view of his great
failure, in the one instance in which he
has done otherwise, to properly answer the
criticism. Mr. Faunce is compelled to ad-
NIT that he did not vote on the amendment
in question and he has no explanation to
offer for his failure to do SO. He seems in
clined to stand on his reputation as one
who could not dodge. We fear it will not
sustain him.
Mr.. Fadnce intimates that he is in favor
Of certain kind of legislation against rail-
road discrimination, but he does not like
the kind proposed which, he says, violates
the constitution in enabling railroad Off
cial who violates the law to be tried in any
part of the commonwealth in which the
offense is committed, though it be not in
the "vicinage" of his residence. Mr,
Faunce does little credit to the intelligence
Of the people when he expects them to be-
lieve that the constitution which guaran-
teei to every citizen trial by a :" jury OF
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Tbc ia,faster 1ntelligciltcr.
LANCASTER, APRIL Is, 1885.
Sorry He Is Not There.

We are sorry that Senator Wallace is not
present to take hand in the enactment of
the law which he has he'd the honor of
fathering along with Senator Lee. Mr..
Wallace, being the president of an
important railroad in the state, is especially
fortified to champion the anti-discrimina-
ton legislation which he has proposed. All
the other railroad presidents, SO far as
heard from, are opposed to his law. Presi-
dent Roberts, of the Pennsylvania, has ap-
peared at Harrisburg to protest against it.
He finds one Of its great hardships to be
that it requires his railroad to receive
on its line the cars of any other
railroad, and to carry them at no greater
charge than it would make against its most
favored customer. The contractor, who is
running Senator Wallaces Beech Creek
road, had the same idea about the propriety
of his shutting out all disagreeable Gus
toners from his public highway that Presi.
dent Roberts has, and he locked the switches
on Clearfield coal miners who would not sci
their coal to the Clearfield Bituminou!
Coal company but wanted to sell it directly
to their own customers. Under Senator
Wallace's Heightened persuasion, Genera
MCGEE, the contractor, seems to have seel
the error of his ways for he has unlocked
the switches and promises to carry coal TO
any miner to any customer at
fair rate. AS Senator Wallace was 81
successful in this instance in impressing hi
views upon his associates, we would hav
high expectations of the good results of
similar energy of endeayor personally d
rected upon his fellow members of the leg
islature and SO it is that we deeply regre
his absence from the scene Of such produt
tive labor We trust he will get back t
Harrisburg before the final vote on th
anti-discrimination bill.