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

The failure of the natural gas wells
in Champaign, ILL.,, is a forcible re-
minder of the fact that we know next
to nothing about the condition of
things below the earth's surface.
There is not the slightest assurance
that the people who are working up
great schemes for the use of similar
gas in Pennsylvania may not find the
supply some day suddenly giving out.
AS to petroleum there is accommodating
evidence that the amount available is
limited and that before many years the
home supply will be seriously trenched
upon. The geologist in charge Of the
Pennsylvania survey, who for a
decade has carefully studied the oil
region in that State and across the
New York border, points out that the
production for each well is steadily
diminishing with the increase in their
number and as the area of possible
operations is limited, he inclines to the
opinion thai more than half of the
supply is already exhausted. AS the
market for oil has been widening of
late years, the end will come all the
sooner, and while the question is not
yet a pressing one, everything indi-
Gates that before many years a substi-
tute for petroleum will be demanded.
Ihe wonderful development Of in
Vention, however, is calculated to keep
people from worrying over the pros
pect' since we are fast coming to be-
lleVe that mar is capable of supplying
any DEFICIENCIES on the part of nature.
New York Post.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

A CLEAR head is essential to success
in every undertaking. and the Su-
preme Court has decided that the head
ing of all liquor petitions for license
must be clearly in conformity with the
statute.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

when compared to the potency of a
workingman's party.
Organized labor can revolutionize
our present system Of laws and their
administration by a majority,
We hope for no such state of Things
but the wisdom Of our statesmen is es-
sential to avert it.
The progress we have made in edu-
cation and material advancement has
liberalized the masses. Rank and sta.
ton are no longer held in awe, and the
toiling, honest laboring man, though
he be poor, esteems himself the peer
Of his fellow man.
We hope for wise legislation that
this question may be satisfactorily ad.
jusIed. If it is not exercised there is
no telling the evils that will ensue.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

Mr.. CLEvE ROWAN, correspondent
of the New Orleans States, is in the
city. He saw the Fair the last day
and wrote a very interesting letter to
the States in regard to it. He was
much pleased with the entertainment
and the beautiful grounds.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE bee, like the flea, is a. very in
du%strious creature but not half so in
quisitive. You never want to catch
a bee as bad as you do flea. The flea
bites with his head-the bee does not.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

AFTER the election the Globe-Dem-
ocrat of St. Louis, placed a detected
looking donkey at the head of its
columns instead of the rooster adopted
by the Democrats. ASS you like it
Nice.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE friends of Prohibition express
themselves confident that the next
Legislature will pass a general local
option law.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

CAPT. PUT DARDEN had rather be
the governor at a household than the
Governor Of a State. so on the 5th inst.
the great. Patron of Husbandry became
a husband. being elected by n vote,
that Of Miss Kate Ably, of Claiborne
county.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
The Jury Fails TO Aorae

CHARLESTON, s. o., Nov. I3.-In the
case OF DA Belinger, charged with the
murder of Stephen w. Bailey, colored.
tae jury failed to agree, eleven being
for acquittal and onefor granddaughter.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

WHO are the Mugwumps? They
are the banditti of politics and the
pawnbrokers of patronage.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE lien law is being very little dis
cussed by our exchanges, and will
hardly excite any especial interest with
our Legislature. The law has out
lived its usefulness and is gradually
dying a natural death. Let it die.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE ace for United States Senator
in Virginia will be between Barbour
and Daniel. The latter takes his seat
in Congress, for the first time in De-
cember.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

Miss SALLIE WICK HILL, "the first
honor mao" in the graduating class at
Oxford last June, has been appointed
assistant Professor Of physics and
chemistry in the Female Industrial
College at Columbus.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

WHEN you wish to stop a train you
flag it. When the Winona girls want
ed their soldier boys to go to Vicks-
burg to take part in the drill they
tagged them.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

TIVE Democratic majority on joint
ballot in the Virginia Legislature will
be sixty.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE Hon. Warner Miller, of New
York, said some two months ago,
I'VE lever opened "a campaign under
finer auspicies." But they wer9 so
fine they couldn't be seen.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

IT istO be hoped that the bloody
shirt politicians are as dead politically
as they are dead to our memories.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

Miss MAUD SMITH has been appoint
ed to a clerkship in the Office Of the
United States Land office at Jackson.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE Republicans of New York are
wondering what it was that struck
them.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

Mrs. WALKUP and herlmother have
returned to New Orleans, where they
reside.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE negro as a Democratic ally in
the South is a good exchange for the
bloody shirt in the North.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

Iowa, which a few years ago was
good for one hundred thousand
Republican majority, or more, if neces-
sary, this year elected a Republican
Governor by the beggarly majority Of
1864.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE political firm of Davenport and
Foraker has closed for repairs.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE recent elections furnished ma
terial for a good deal of punning-
wise and otherwise.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

GIVE the South the negroes vote
and darn little she cares who makes
the laws.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

TRAMP, tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

If the weather had been furnished
expressly ITO order" for our Fair, it
could not have been better.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE martial spirit has struck Meri-
dian and Jackson, and both have
recently organized military companies.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

"GryE the devil bis due" That's
what Virginia did do for Billy Malone.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

THE bloody shirt, like the hopes of
the Republican bosses, is
"Al tattered and torn
Ragged and worn"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20
Assistant Secretaries of War and
Navy.

Assistant Secretaries of War and
Navy.
Special to the Times-DemOcrat.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10-Two years
ago provision was made by Congress
for an Assistant Secretary Of War and
also an Assistant Secretary of the
Navy. 1t was shown in the discus
sion which preceded the passage of the
law, that these were the only two de-
partments where the Secretary had no
assistant who could act as the execu-
tive officer Of the department while
the head was present, or who could
perform the duties of the Secretary in
his absence. In the War Department,
when the Secretary is away the chief
clerk acts in his stead, while when
the Secretary Of the Navy is absent
some chief Of one of the many bu-
reaus, usually the ranking Admiral, is
designated to perform his duties.
When the provision for AN Assistant
Secretary in these two departments
was made, the respective Secretaries
thought the amount of salary allowed
was not sufficient, and they induced
the President not to nominate anyone
for the positions, so that when the
next year rolled around the appropria-
tons for the assistants were not re-
newed.
1t is understood that both Secretary
Endicott and Secretary Whitney will
recommend that the provision. for
assistants be made. Neither of these
gentlemen has any ambition other
than to perform the duties pertaining
to his department in an acceptable
manner and each realizes the value that
would attach to an assistant secre-
tary, who would always be in conf.
Dental relations with himself aud to
whom he could transfer much of the
routine business of the department.
which is increasing each year. 1t is
not doubted that the recommendation
will be fayorably acted upon by Con.
gress.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

OVER 100000 are invested IN
manufacturing In Coplah county.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

JACKSON is having an epidemic of
matrimonial fever.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

NoTHINa is impossible to industry.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

nLENEss. n0t labOr. i dIsgraoefuI.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-20

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

Alcorn and Prentiss-J P Cara
way, Bonneville, Prentiss county.
Union and Pontotoc-James Cor
don, Pontotoc.
Holmes and Yazoo-W D Gibbs,
Bentonia.
Leake and Newton-U S Roberts,
Palona, Leake county.
Amite and Pike-James E Bates,
Bates Mill, Amite county.
Tippah and Benton-Will I McDon-
aid, Ashland, Benton county.
Calhoun and Yalobusha-Thos w
Young, Cherry Hill, Calhoun county.
Kemper, Lauderdale and Clarke
w Evans, DeKalb.
Jefferson and Lincoln-Dr J P
Wise, Union Church, Jefferson county.
THE SENATE.
The y indicates holding over.
1st District-Alcorn, PrentiSs, fish
omingo-F M Boone, Corinth.
2d-Benton, Union, Tippah-*W
a Boyd, Ripley.
8d-MaFshall-T M Kemp, By
halia.
MISUNDERSTANDING Powell, Her
nando.
5th-Tate and Tunica-*R w Owen.
Austin.
6th-Panola-J B Boothe, Sardis.
I'll
/. Hh-Lafayette-R A Dean, Glen
vile, Pamela county.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
Making the World Better.
IA Woman Lecturer.

When you rise in the morning deter. mine that you will make some person happy during the day. It is easily done. A left-off garment to some one who badly needs it; \ kind word to the sorrowful an encouraging expression to the de. jected-trifes in themselves as light as air-will do at least for the twenty four hours. If you are young it will tell you when you are old and if you arc old |, will help to smooth the road down to the bottom of the hill. By the most simple arithmetical calculation, look at tue re- suit. Suppose yor live forty years afteE you commence this course of medicine, and you make one person a little hap pier than he would have been every day. that is 365 in year, which, multiplied by forty, amoupts to "A Goo persons whom you have made happy-as all events for a time.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
Mozars's |" Requiem. "
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 The great composer, Mozart, was so absorbed ia music, that he was child in every other respect. Like all weak hensive of death :; and ts was only by in cesssnt application to hts favorite study that he prevented his spirit from sinking totally under the fears of approaching dissolution, At all other times he lahored under a profound melancholy, during which he composed some oi his best pieces, particularly hts celebrated Re- quiem.s The eircumstAnces attending u were remarkable.
 Ope day, while his spirits were uu. usually oppressed, a stranger, of q tall, dignihed appearance, was introduced. His manners were grave and impressive. He told Mozart that he came from per. son who did nut wish to Ss ksc=s, sc re- quest he would compose a solemn mass, as requiem for the soul of friend whom he had recently lost, and whose memory he was deSirOus of commemorating by this solemn service. Mozart undertook the task, and engaged to have 1t com pleted ID a month. The stranger begged to know what price he set upon his work 1; and, immediately paying him one hun dred ducais, he departed. The mystery of the visit seemed to have very strong effect upon the mind of the musician. He brooded over IL for some time and then, suddenly ceiling for writing materials began to compose with extraordinary zrdor. This spplicsssea, however, was more than his strength could support; 1t brought on iainting fits, and h,s inereas- ing illness obliged hin to suspend his work. q am writing the requiem for myself" said he one day to bis wife "it will serve for my own funs..! :e..!cs [" AAd this impression never afterwards ieft him. At the expiration of the month, the mysterious stranger appeared and de- manded the " Requiem" "I have found it impossible" said Mozlrt, "to keep my word the work has interested me more than expected, and have extended 1t beyond my first design. shall require another month to finish 1t" The stranger made no objection, but, observ- ing that for this additional trouble 1t was but just to increase the premium. laid down fifty ducats more, and promised to return at the time appointed. As,onished A, this whole proceeding, Mol trt ordered servant to follow this singular person. age, and, II possible, 10 find out who he was tho man, however, lost sight of him, and was obliged to return as he went Moz .rt, now more than ever persuaded that he was messenger from the other world sent to warn him that his end was approaching, applied with fresh zeal to the Requiem;" and, in spite of his ex- hausted state, boh of body and mind, he completed it before the end of the month. A, the appointed day the stranger returned; the "Requiem was finished, but Mozart was no morei
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28

| do not fully agree pish tho eminent authority, though be may be right Much fear has been the result of the comets appearance ever since the world began, And IL Is as good thing 10 worry about as anything I know of If we could get close 10 cemss without frightening ie away, we would Sad thas we conld walk through it any where as wa could through the glare oi a togchlight pracesslon. We should so live ;Ass ws wal not be ashamed 10 look a comet in the eye. however. Let us pay up our newspapeT subscription and lead such hvcs that when the comet strikes we will hs ready.
 Some worry good deal about the chances for big comet to plow into the sun some dark rainy night. and thus bust up the whole uniterse. l wish thAt was all had to worry about. tf any respect able man will agree to pay my taxes and funeral expenses, will agree to do hts worrying about the ccuis,s crashing into the bosom of the sun and knocking its daytghts out.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
Tho Comet.

lBill Nye, in Detroit Free Press.)
 The comet is a kind of astronomical parody on the planet. Comets look some like planets bat they are thinner and do not hurt so hard when they hit anybody as a planet does. The comet was so called because 1t had hair cn It, believe, but late years the baId-headed comet is giving just as good satisfaction everywhere.
 The characteristic features Of 6 comet are: A nucleus, a nebulous light or coma, and usually luminous train or tail worn high. Sometimes several tails are observed on one comet, but this oc- CUTS only in flush times.
 When l was young used to think 1 would like to be comet in the sky, up above the world so high, with nothing to do but loaf around and play with the lit- tic new laid planets and have . good time, but now l can see where l was wrong. Comets also have their troubles, their perihelions, their hyperbolas and their parabolas. A little over 300 years ago Tycho Brahe discovered that comets were extraneous to our atmosphere and since then times have improved. can zee that trade IS steadier and potatoes run less to tows than they did before.
 Soon after that they discovered that comets all had more or less periodicity. Nobody knows h0w they got t. Al :he astronomers had been watching them day and night and didn't know when they were exposed but there was nc time, to talk and argue over the question. Theze were two or three hundred comets all down with 1t at once. It was an exciting time.
 Comets sometimes live to great age. This shows that the night air is not 90 injurious 10 the health as many people would have us believe. The great comet Of I78o l. supposed to have been the one that vas noticed about the time of C@. sas's death, A B. C, and still when 1t appeared in Newtou's time, seventeen hundred yean after ifs 6rst grand fare well tour, Ike said that t vas ve.y well preserved indeed and seemed to have re- tained all its faculties h good shape.
 Astronomers say that the tails of all cosnets are turned from the sun. do not know why they do this. whether 1t is etiquette among them or juse mere habit.
 n tAtS WItpex Cu o80ooOmy 3afo tu1x the substance of the nebulosity and the tail is of almost incouceivabie teuuity. He said this and then death came to his relief.
 Another writer says of the comet and its tail that the curvature cf the latter and the acceaeystion of the periodic time h the case of Encke's comet indicate their being affected by . resisting medium which has never been observed to have the slightest influence on the planetary pezisds.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
How the Porter Returned the Joke.


 It happened in a sleeping-car, but when or where doth not, for obvious req. sons, tran.pire here. A lady who was travelling with her little daughter had occasion to call the porter fJr some needed service by means of the electric bell, with which convenience the car was furnished. The child saw how it was done, and presently she slyly pressed the button, causing the porter to appear with respectful query as to what was wanted.
 "I didn't ring" said the woman. Git was my little Lizzie"
 The porter withdrew, but it was not long before he was again summoned and again received the explanation that C Lit le Lizze" had rung the bell. This vas repeated a number of times, and the woman thought it was a fine joke, but the porter began to look tired. At last the mother wished something and pressed the bell-button. No porter came. Again, and with more force, she pressed the knob, but there was no response, and she was finally obliged to go in search of the man and give her orders herself. Bv the time the porter had brought the needed article she had grown very indignant, and proceeded to reprove him with severity.
 Why did you not come when rang the bell f she demanded.
 "Did you ring the bell, ma'amr
 "Ofcourse did, over aud over again.~
 Well. yoc sec, rs'sm," said the darkey, ducking his head, whilea grin spread slowly over his shiny face your little L;zzie done broke dat bell.~
 A roar of laughter from EsiehSorizs passenger let into the ~omanS mind | flood of light on the situation evidently for she snbsidsd at once, while the mes in the car. delighted with the darksy's wit in mufiiing the bell by detaeh;nx the wire SO as to break the circuit, gave him q quarter piece all around.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28

father would be glad to give you chance. Because he doesn't hke the sound of piano. organ, fiddle or guitar is no reason why he should deprive you of positive enjoyment. Almost every farm honse in the north, east and west has a musical instrument of some sort, and the playing and singing have done more to smooth away trouble and bring enjoyment than ten times the money saess :a any other way. If you have longing for music who knows what the end may be2 You may become one of the finest musicians in the land-a composer of renown. Stranger things than that have happened in the last twenty years.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28

BIS s2yso. ] cannot learn trade as other boys can, because I am partly deaf. like to attend to, and keep stock-es- peciaIly Jerseys, of which we have two. Nov would you disobey your father and go to college, or settle down on the farm and raise stockf
 Also. 1 like music very dearly-what csn hear of ito which father is also opposed. Would you pay, by working on the farm, half the salary Of . teacher fcr the opportunity of learning music Hoping sir, yoa will give deaf boy a hearing.
 ! am truly,
 PARK R. B. No true man would advise you to dis obey your father. In opposing your am- bition to become a college graduate he has doubtless been influenced to . con- siderable extent by your in6rmity. You must admit that partial deafness would be great obstacle In the path of . law yef, doctor, architect or cierKymaa. You write . splendid hand, and sesm to be . weal-posted boy. Why not kill two birds with one stonef Accept your fathers proposition, and at the same time put torth every effort to further educate your eel You can learn history, geography, grammar and orthograpAy without going to school. If say Eve years hence, your s1ock spscuiations fail you would have aa education to help you into something eass.
 As to music, it would seem as if your