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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
A New King of Anam,

PARIS, Sept. 14.-Gen. DeCourcy,
commanding the French troops in
Anam, telegraphs to-day to the min
lister Of war that Chanong has been
proclaimed the new king of Anam and
entered the royal palace to-day. A
salute of twenty-one guns was fired in
honor of the event, and the Anamite
flag has been hoisted over the palace
and various public buildings Canong
will be crowned on the 18th inst.
There is much mortality among the
natives, owing to the prevalence of
cholera.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
From Canton.

Special to the Commercial Herald.
CANTON, Miss, Sept. 10-A horrible
murder was committed last night at
colored church in this county ten
miles east Of Canton. Leon Cockrell, a
negro school teacher. shot Aaron
War;, a colored deacon, while the lat
ter was kneeling with the congrega-
tion at prayers. Officers have goneto
arrest the murderer.
Mrs. Margaret Mckee aged seventy
four, relict Of DR.. NJ. ]. Mckee, died
here this morning. She was one Of
our Oldest citizens, an amiable Christian
woman and her death is deeply de-
plored by wide circle Of relatives and
friends.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
OUR Evening cotemporary refers to

OUR Evening contemporary refers to
a statement of the debt of the county
as gratifying exhibit" How it can
be "grati6ed" at it, unless it be tickled
at the vast amount of scrip which the
statement proves Beck must have
shaved, is beyond our comprehension.
By the way the Post has never yet told
the people what it thought of Beck's
record. Beck has challenged in the
columns of the Post, an investigation
of his official conduct. Is the Post
afraid to accept the challenge, or does
it think Beck's card settles It?
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

In reply to the protest of the Wo-
mems National Labor Convention the
Secretary of the Treasury has declared
that none but American washermen
and women shall be allowed to punY
the department towels. If this DIS
elimination against him is extended,
how will the prosecuted Chinaman be
able to keep himself in opium?
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
PROPER TREATMENT FOR
COUGHS

That the reader may Tully under
stand what constitutes good Cough
and Lung Syrup, we will say that Tar
and Wild Cherry is the basis Of the
best remedies yet discovered. These
ingredients with several others equally
as eficaeious. enter largely into DR..
Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup, thus
making it one Of the most reliable now
on the market. Price SOC and 81 90.
Samples free. Sold by G. @. Reynolds
81 Co.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

SOMEHOW railroad wars don't hap
pen exactly at the right time to be un-
mitigated blessings to the travelling
public. When it is cold weather rival
lines commence to cut rates going
North, and when 1t is hot they cut
rates going South. This style of tao
tics while it doesn't benefit the travel
ing public, fails to bankrupt the rail-
roads.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
The Iron Business RevIvlne

LANCASTER, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE Co
lumbia rolling mills, operating ten
pudding and one heating furnace, was
started up to-day after a long suspen-
sion. This gives employment to sew
eral hundred hands. The Reading,
Pa, furnace No. l, Of the Reading iron
works, which was idle over two years,
was started up to-day, giving employ
ment to about sixty hands. The Key
stone iron works, which have been
idle for year and a half, will start up
in two three weeks. The works give
employment to several hundred hands.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
An old Case Reonened.

WASHINGTON, Sept. l4-The secre-
tary of the interior was occupied for
several hours to-day In hearing argu-
ments in the case Of theiTechatticup or
Southwestern Mining company vs.. the
Gettysburg Mining company, Neva-
da case, that has been before the de-
partment for years, and has now been
reopened.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

BECK hasplayed the courts, the Jail,
and the county scrip, as if they were
his private property, and lie has played
them for all they are worth to a man,
who "don't give a d-n," what the
people think.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

SEvENTY-Two thousand five hun
dred dollars in scrip issued annually
in Warren county. No wonder Beck
has ten dollars to all the other candi-
dates one, when a leading broker says
Beck has a monopoly oft.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
Euneral 81 Artlat cannn

VIENNA, Sept. 16. The funeral Of
the artist Canon yesterday was impos-
ing as that Of Makart. Archduke
Rudolph, Archduchess Stephane and
othar members Of the royal family
sent wreaths, and an immense process.
sion followed the remains to the grave.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

SIXTY postofices, within twenty
eight days, have been robbed and
burned by burglars. In each case the
average loss was less than 500, which
falls upon the government.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

The representatives Of the sovereign
people of Warren county may not
have "ten dollars for all the other
candidates one" and may not have. the
privilege of drawing on Mr.. Rigby's
"bundle," but they may very correctly
understand their rights and they may
dare to assert them. We shall see.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

THE people should bear in mind that
it is their right to have honest, COM
petent, official servants, economical
local government, and courts without
packed iuries.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

ONLY one half the quantity of do
nestle breadstuffs were exported this
year compared with last year. Our
people are eating more and drinking
less.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

The scrip evil must be destroyed
root and branch; the way to do it, is
to prevent the Board of Supervisors
from issuing any warrant on an empty
treasury.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

The editorial from Saturdays New
Orleans States, headed "Deserting the
President" which we reproduce in our
present issue has the ring of sterling
Democracy in it, and is an excellent
and unanswerable reply to the apos-
tacy of the New York Sun and World
and their little, sneaking Pen Wiper,
the Vicksburg Evening Post.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

A WRITER in the Scientific American
says cyclone can be diverted from its
course by exploding a keg of gun
powder under it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

LIGHTNING rods are being put on the
Washington monument. Pretty soon
its base will be a good place for Office
seekers to stand.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

PAY taxes and send the little "nigs"
to school, and then let me buy up the
votes of the big "nigs." r. F. d.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
"Rnchn-Paiha .

Quick, complete cure, all Kidney,
Bladder and Urinary Diseases, Scald-
ing, Irritation, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh
of the bladder. 81. Druggists.
an0Q-tlla
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

JUST now Louisville seems to be on
atobacco-chewing boom. Its next ex-
citement will be whisky-drinking
boom.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

AS A rule Eastern Republicans don't
like John Sherman's bloody-shirt as a
regular diet. They prefer cold pie.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
A New Fable.


Detroit Free Press.
A Vulture, who had Smut Machine
of his own, Slandered and Abused and
Villfed the Eagle, the Pheasant and
all other Birds, even to the Humming
bird. This continued until Sage had
his Curiosity Aroused, and he called
upon the Foul Bird and inquired:
"Why is it that you Abuse all the
Bird Creation outside Of your own
Species? Have any Of them injured
you2"
"Why, no." replied the owner Of the
Smut Machine. "The fact that none
Of them will stoop to notice me is what
Punctures my Cuticle."
MORAL.
A Vulture never Forgives the
World that he wasn't created an Eagle
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

LET the damnable heresy that any
rich Radical may control Warren coun-
ty be stamped out.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

JOHN KELLY is well enough to
write letter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

CoNKLNG's law partner, Scott Lord,
died last week at Morris Plains, New
Jersey. He was a Democrat.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

AN Illinois man named Perry Whit
lock, living near Ridge Farm,
has been trying to distance
the murderous feats of the
Texan, Locke. Tuesday morning. after
shooting his wife, child and two sis
ters-in-law, he killed himself.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

HENRY WARD BEECHER is prepar-
ing his oration on Grant to be delivered
in Boston, October 22d.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

THERE are 1,728 third-class Post
Offices in the United States.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS GUY, the emf
nent medical writer, died at London,
England, Saturday.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

rapidly than on the outward course.
Both yachts are doing good work.
S:15 p.m-The Puritan passed buoy
FIVE at 3:O4, Genesta at $40 minutes,
16 seconds.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

HURL back Beck's insults, and ac-
cept his challenge to investigate his
record.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
nRollph on Eats. :

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, dies,
ants, bed-bugs. skunks, chipmunks,
gophers. l5c. Druggists.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

The public has not yet seen the
clothes of Miss Lydia Thompson's
professional career.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

REFERRING to the rage among
Americans for the collection of relics
a London paper sarcastically says: ut
is the American who chips off bits of
the Parthenon, who engrosSes lynx
eyes of the Swiss guards at the vati-
can, who used to make Temple Bar
even more hideous than it was, and
who barks every British tree to which
any tradition attaches or from which
any historical character has been sus-
pended. Americans supply a steady
market for locks of hair and old boots,
and they were the chief bidders for the
clippings of Thorwaldsen's beard,
which were sold in Copenhagen"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

OUR European relations are no
longer complicated. Mr.. Kelley has
resigned.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

If the Spaniards invade Germany
they will take the cholera along.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

BoUQUET is singular name for a
mathematician. He is dead, however.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

Speak not to me in desolate rhymes:
Life is a reverie without sense, because
Ihe soul is dead when she sleeps, and
Things are not what they appear to us.
Life Is real. Life is serious; death
Is not its termination. "Dust, thou
Returnest into dust" The word has
Not been said for our soul.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
Heart Pains

Palpitation, Dlopsical Swellings,
Dizziness, Indigestion, Headache,
Sleepness cured by "Wells' Health
Renewer."
apps tue
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

THE body of United States Deputy
Marshal Miller who mysteriously dis
appeared in Sumner county, Tenn,
several weeks ago, was found Saturday
buried within 200 yards Of the house
of John Bradley, moonshiner, living
near Nashville. Bradley has been ar
rested and charged with the murder.
USE the surest rem edy for Catarrh
n. Cnn.D.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

SINCE the Re0eI deS DeuU MondeS,
translated Mark Twain's dumping
Frog of Calaveras," we have never
seen anything so irresistably funny as
the following rendition of Longfel-
lows Psalm of Life in French alma
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
"Rouqh on Corna.n

Ask for Wells Rough on Corns." !"
15c. Quick complete cure. Hard or
soft corns, warts, bunions.
ap S-tue
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

MY bar'l with the head knocked in,
so that strikers, bummers, and negroes
can be bought up to elect me Sheriff.
r.. r. r
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

ONE of the beneficial results of the
recent visit of the Mexican editors to
the United States, according to the
New Orleans Picayune, is seen in the
endeavor Of the press to improve the
condition of the masses. 1t is well
known that large portion Of the peo-
pie Of the republic are little better
than slaves. The peon class are work
ed on ranches and in the mines and are
subject entirely to the will Of their
masters, and frequent instances are
being recorded where fogging is ad-
ministered. The newspapers of recent
date are comparing the condition of
the poems to the negroes in the United
States, and are advocating a change in
the system that permits them, for al
Legged debts, to be pltced in bondage.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

GTOpSln East tCarrOll--SerlOuSC COM
plant in Regard to Mail Facilities.
Special to The Commercial Herald.
LAKE PROVIDENCE, LA, Sept. A.
The cotton crop in East Carroll parish
has suffered very materially this week,
in consequence of the heavy rain
storms with which we have been WIS.,
tied, the rains being the heaviest
known in many years, aud the cotton
fields have been flooded with water,
preventing any possibility of picking
during the present week. The worms
also have been at work, and many cot
ton fields are stripped of their foliage.
Many planters think, however, that the
worms have not damaged the cotton
10 any serious extent recently, and
their recent appearance may prove
beneficial. Should the heavy rains
continue, great fears are apprehend-
ed from rotting.
Business is unusually dull here for
this season Of the year, and very little
cotton has been shipped from this
point.
There are two landings with ware
houses short distance above Lake
Providence Established in conse-
quence of low water in front of town
and the wharfboat owned by v. M
Purdy below-all bidding for share
of public patronage, but the wharf
boat seems to be doing the leading
business in receiving and forwarding
from information received.
The levee in the neighborhood O
Judge Montgomery's and Judge Wyly'
has been caving considerably and ma.
necessitate rebuilding of new levee
There is matter to which l woult
call attention, deeming it to be one O.
interest to the public generally, anC
that is the irregularity of mails re-
felved at this place. For instance the
mail brought the issues of the 9th, 10th
and 1lth altogether of your paper, also
in same mail the New Orleans papers
dating back to Sunday the 9th to
Thursday the 10th inclusive. This ia
certainly injurious to newspapers and
deters persons from subscribing for a
daily paper. Cannot this be remedied
in some way? Who Is to blame,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

HAVE made a hundred thousand
out of Warren county, but 1 want a
hundred thousand more. .F.B.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

Ny false vouchers. R.F. B.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

l DON'T give a d-n for poor white
trash. Niggers are too cheap.
r. =. r.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18
Destructive Storm Near Canton--
L. Struck by Lightning.

destructive Storm Near Canton--
Struck by Lightning.
Special to the Commercial Herald
CANTON, Miss, Sept. 14-A heavy
rain and wind storm, accompanied by
much lightning and thunder, visited
this place and vicinity late yesterday
afternoon, blowing down trees and
fences and doing much damage to
crops.
On the Weathersby place. two miles
west of town, while Tom Weathersby
and three negroes were engaged in
packing cotton, they were struck by
lightning, and Austin Carson, one Of
the negroes, was instantly killed. The
rest of the party were badly stunned
and scorched; two of them are unable
to walk. Fortunately, the gin-house,
which was full of cotton, did not take
fire.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

Ny packed juries. R. F.B.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-09-18

MY hands in the Jail. R. F. B.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-07
SOBER. .

There has been no roller skating craze in
Louisville man has to be sober to skate.
Philadelphia Call.
The man who is up to his eyes in work
cannot be said to be above his business
Boston Transcript.
If an ocean steamer cannot get full cargo
of freight she gains nothing by shipping a
heavy sea--New Orleans Picayune.
A cyclone resembles western man, be-
cause it is some on the blow. 1t is like a
woman, because when it makes up it's mind
Chicago Ledger.
''Do you believe in cremation?" "Certain-
ly not" 'sGive me your reason for not ia
yoring it?' tWen, one reason is enough.
We are constantly being reduced to hashes
at our boarding house. Boston Budget.
A number of dead fish have been washed
up on the beach near Long Branch. The
theory that their death was caused by Ten
nyson's poem which came over the cable a
few days ago, seems plausible
Herald.
She-"There is often a vast difference be-
tween boor and bore" He (ishing)-
"And are most men either one or the other?'
She (wearily) y)-'sWell, man is a boor when
he does not call on us, and generally bore
when he does. New York Life.
The man who picks up an empty pocket
book on the first LAY of the fourth month
is called an "April fool;'' but the man who
expects to fill an empty pocketbook by in
vesting his money in southern lotteries is a
fool all the year round.-Norristown Her
AID
''There," said Washington hotel man, as
he read of the railway accident and the burn
ing of the mails near that city a short time
ago, s'that accident cost me hundreds of dol
lars" "Got stock in the road, [ presume?'
''No; but every congressman who is out OF
the city will swear he sent me the amount Of
his board bill by that train. Chicago News
II see you are building new house, Mr.
Browne" eyes, you are right" ''Made the
money out of whiskey, I supposed" "No.'
why, you are liquor dealer, are you not?'
"Oh, yes; but the money I'm putting inte
this house was made out of the water I pu
| into the whiskey. Every cent was made out
of water, sir.
s'I tell you, Sarah, - observed John Grab te
his better half few evenings ago, "then
| college text books is awful expensive.
'tWhy?'' remarked that lady. ''Wen, I JUS
! got letter from John when 1 was down tt
| the store and he says as he wants 81. so for
| geometry and So for a tcyclometer' I dom
| think eyclometer ought to cost more than {
geometry, do you, Sarahs" 81 don't know
John, but 1 reckon it must be little harder
study. Boston Post.
| In the spring the busy housewife gets notion
That the rooms are very full of dirty dirt,
And she puts the whole house in such commotfon
That you cannot find single decent shirt;
Then she you meals on tables half careen1ng
| And she hustles things around as though t'wer'
And she sets you if you're idle. carpet cleaning
Oh, a husbands life in spring is not a happy one
Oh haps hagbsnds STs life in spring is not happy one
Columbus Despatch.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-07
Thursday, May =, 1885.


Election frauds in Ohio cities, especially in
Cincinnati and Cleveland, have been so fire.
quent and shameless that good citizens have
felt compelled to protest. and demand that
their protest be needed AS result of their
protest a registration law has been passed by
the Ohio legislature. Most of the Democrats
of the legislature did all they could to pre-
vent the passage of the BILL The report in
its favor was twice stolen from the files, and
the only safe way was to keep a report in his
pocket until the time came for debating it.
The law seems well calculated to attain the
object for which it was made. Each voter
in the cities under the law will be required
to make and subscribe to statement in a
book provided which shall be at all times
open to inspection, giving the street and
number Of his residence, date of his removal
if within year, his age, and whether mar
ried or unmarried These statements con-
cerning each voter are to be dated and num-
bered consecutively, beginning with number
one of each year. The registers on demand
shall furnish the voter with corresponding
certificate dated and numbered like the orig
inal entry. The registry is to be called off
at the close of each day to prevent fraud.
The lists are to be properly revised and a
copy of the revised list is to be delivered to
the judges of election in each precinct on
election day before the opening of the polls.
No votes shall be received except from per
sons registered, and they are liable to chal-
lenge as heretofore. This section is made
mandatory, and not directory.
The law makes ample provision for the
freedom and security of the voter in the act
of voting. 1t provides that during the re
ceiving and counting of the ballots in any
voting precinct it shall be unlawful for per
sons to congregate or 1oiter within one hun
dred feet of the voting place, or to hinder OF
delay, in any manner, any elector in reaching
or leaving the place fxsd for casting his bal
lot. It shall be unlawful for any person
within said distance of one hundred feet, te
give, or offer to give, any ticket or ballot te
anyone not judge of election, or to fold ol
unfold or display any ballot which he in
tends to cast, so as to reveal its contents, ol
| to request or demand of any elector that h'
shall exhibit his ballot or make known it,
contents, or to solicit the vote of any elector
| or attempt in any way to influence him il
casting his ballot
A few Democrats voted with the Republi
cans for this measure. It is difficult to se
| how anyone in favor of honest voting coule
vote against it.