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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
Robs the Express and Escapes to
the Woods.

Robs the Express and Escapes to
the Woods.
Memphis Appeal.
News reached the city yesterday Of
a daring robbery Of the Southern Ex-
press Company at place called Dun
can, on the line of the Louisville, New
Orleans & Texas railroad, ninety-three
miles below the city, and the capture
and subsequent escape of the thief. 1t
appears that a farmer named r. A.
Brown, who resides short distance
from Duncan, mere jumping on
place, in the most dismal and
lonely portion of Bolivar coun-
ty, had been notified that
package containing 500 in money
would be sent him by the Southern
Express. He did not meet the train
but called upon the express agent at
Duncan, William Bonner, a merchant
at that place, and inquired if the
money had arrived. Mr.. Bonner ex-
planned that he had not been at the
store when the train arrived, and Mr..
Brown, who needed the money and
was sure it had been sent on the train,
telegraphed down the road, and the
next train up brought Route Agent
Curry and the express messenger Of
the down train. The latter said that
when he slowed up at the platform a
man came up to his car, and represent
ing himself as the agent, asked if
there was anything for the station.
The messenger asked him if his name
was Bonner, and he replied that it was.
The messenger was not in the habit of
stopping at Duncan, as very little bus
iness is transacted there. 1t was dark
and there was no time to make any
further investigation, SO he turned
over the package marked in Mr..
Browns name to the man, who
receipted for it, signing the name Of
the express agent, Bonner. AS soon
as Mr.. Curry was made acquainted
with these facts he suspected the sta
tion agent, E. T. Baird, who is also
telegraph operator at that point. The
messenger identified him at once as
the man to whom he had given the
money, and he was put under arrest.
at first he strongly asserted his inno-
cence, but he afterward admitted that
he had received the package,
qualifying his confession by saying
that he had never seen It since
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
Settled at Last.

Definite information reached here
from New York yesterday that the
suits long pending suits between E.
Martin and others against the L., N.
0. & T, railroad have been compTo-
missed to the entire satisfaction Of all
parties interested. 1t Will be remem-
bered some TWO years ago that suit
was brought by E. Martin and others
the original stockholders of the Vicks-
burg & Ship Island railroad against
r. 7. Wilson and others, owners Of the
L., N. o s. I, railroad, the plaintiffs
claiming that the terms Of the
original contract had not been
complied with. A short time
afterwards a compromise was
made. A few months subsequently
supplementary bills were filed in the
State and Federal courts, upon which
injunctions were granted forbiding the
further issuance of bonds by the con-
solidated road until the terms Of the
original contract between the parties
had been carried out. So matters
stood until the final compromise,
which, 1t is pleasing to state, is satis-
factory to all parties to the suit. The
compromise was effected on a basis
of 100000. This includes all
bonds, stocks, ETC., provided for
in the original sale Of the
franchises by Martin and others,
also the title to four hundred thousand
acres Of the most valuable timbered
lands in the Yazoo Delta. By the
terms Of the recent compromise it
makes the 100000 a cash marketable
value and it gives a number Of Vicksss
burgers, holders Of these securities
quite a bonanza. The principal bene-
ticiaries Of this settlement are Mr.. g..
Martin, Gen. N. H. Harris, Mr.. A. B.
Pittman, the estate Of Mr.. Hunt Of
Boston, estate of L. A. Campbell and
the estate Of G. NJ. Klein. 1t is also
said that the compromise will result in
the election of Mr.. E. Martin as one
Of the directors OF the T., N. 0. & T.
road.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
\ From RAYMOND.

The Circuit Criminal Court Draw-
ing to sclose--Ten Persons sen-'
fenced to the PenltentIary.
Special to Commercial Herald.
RAYMOND, MISS, Aug. 8. The
summer term Of the circuit court
which has been In session here for Two
weeks past is drawing to a close. the
criminal docket having already been
disposed Of as far as it was possible to
do so. Ten persons we're sentenced to
the penitentiary, as follows: Sandy
Robinson, grand larceny, 2 years:
Winnie Cartel, grand larceny, two
years; Prince Green, grand larceny.
two years; Ike Brown, grand larceny,
two years; Solomon Isaac, misdemean-
or, thirty days; w. X. Farr, incest,
nine years; Sallie Daniels, incest, two
years; Charles Williams, grand larceny,
two years; Charles Jones, assault and
battery, with intent to kill. six years;
Allen Griffin, assault and battery, with
intent to kill, s25 fine and sixty days
Imprisonment
The most important case in the
above list was that Of w. r. Farr,
white, charged with incest, the
offense being in marrying the negro
woman Sallie Daniels. The extreme
sentence Is very generally approved.
Solomon Isaac, the colored minister
performing the ceremony, has since
been pardoned by the governor, it
being shown that he was unaware Of
the fact that Farr was white. The
prisoners were all carried to tbs peni-
tentiary last night.
Commodore Smith, Steve Bingham,
John Nixon, Austin Moses, Alf. Nix
on, John Smith and Jack Barnes, all
colored, were tried Saturday on the
charge of lynching the negro Ben
Holt at Adams station, two OF three
weeks ago. After thorough inves-
tigation the jury at a late hour Satur-
day evening returned a verdict Of not
guilty.
| The speech Of District Attorney r.
N. Miller was masterful and pro-
nounced one Of the finest arguments
ever made by him. That Of w. Cal
vim Wells, Esq, was also commended
| for great power and eloquence. The
court will probably adjourn tomorrow
as only few trifing civil cases re
| main upon the docket.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
Proceedings of a Meeting of Color

Proceedings of a Meeting of Color
ed Citizens.
Editor Commercial Herald.
Thus it is headed in Saturday even
ing's Post, and the resolutions passed
are as follows:
"Resolved. That the threats that are
made by some of the young white men
Of this District have caused general
dissatisfaction among the colored peo-
pie Of this District, and that if we are
not protected by the land owners and
merchants of this county and city, we
will be bound to go to some other
country"
Now, Mr.. Editor, as member Of the
Red Bone Club, l have this much to
say-we, as people, and as citizens of
Warren county, try our best to act in
accordance with the law, and have used
every effort in our power to bring about
an amicable and peaceful relation be-
tween the producer and consumer,
and, (leaving out the politician) we
would thrive. Now the idea OF the
negroes thinking of holding meeting
and passing the above resolution with
out having been first urged to it by
some skulking, unanimously Repub-
lican, Is preposterous. When one hun
dred and eighty-fve gentlemen inter-
ested in the common interest Of a
neighborhood, unanimously set down
on an ignorant negro magistrate, for
cause, and declare in their meeting
that he is unfit for the Office, and in
this meeting appoint ten gentlemen,
young and old, to wait upon his bonds
a men and request withdrawal from
i. the same, we fail to see bulldoZing in
the matter. We understand better our
own affairs in our midst than do those
who 20 bonds in our section and live
elsewhere. We expect our wishes to
be respected, and we demand it, and
have made the demand in a quiet and
respectful manner. We have ample
proof of the ineficiency of this officer
and don't propose to be thrown off by
the Republican chicanery. Now, in
conclusion, Mr.. Editor, we are a peace
full, law-abiding people, but there
are some of us who wish to
make an honest living and see
every body else do the same, both
white and black. and we will treat the
negro as a friend, and we know
full we'll he is aware of this fact; but
let him be tampered with by few
Office seekers and they ruin our inter
ests as well as their own. We are
sorry to see that your little Post jumps
at such little resolution as was pass
ed at the meeting held at Pleasant
Hill schoo,-house on the Birchett
place, July 81, 1885, at half past s
o'clock, (the time being too precise.
There were but 6 present. The gooc
negroes who wish to live among
people they have been born and reared
with, and make an honest and goot
living, were absent. More anon.
REEL, BENE.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

l proposed Just taxation, and the Times
can find nothing else either expressed
or implied in the article in question.
The Times ridicules the idea Of any
one attacking the article which appear
ed in the COMMERCIAL HERALD Of the
eighteenth, styling it a every able and
exhaustive argument based upon
statistical facts"
Now, if there is a single solid argu-
ment in that article in favor of cot
ton tax l cannot find it. Nor can the
Times do so. He gives some statis-
tics, but as he is, 1 opine, an L., N.
o. & I. railroad man, why did not he
give the people some more statistics ?
AS Mr.. Wilson has got to be a
levee contractor, the people would
like, just for curiosity, to know how
much clear money he made out of
them.
The report of the board of levee
commissioners fails to say at what
figure the contract was taken. only
stating the cost per yard Of some re-
pair work, If l understand it Alright.
The people are, sometimes, so foolish
and amazingly inquisttive that they
want to know what goes with, and if
anyone is speculating too largely upon
their hard earned money, which seems
so very unreasonable and ridiculous to
some persons.
The Times says that "the railroads
are willing to bear their pro rata Of
the levee tax" How is that
when Mr.. Wilson says he
will lend no more money
for levee purposes unless his property
be wholly exempted from any taxation
more than the tax imposed by the pres
ent levee law; that the burthen to be
imposed by any future levee law be
averted from his gilded shoulders and
placed upon the poor man who is too
poor to own a mule.
Mr.. Wilson's lands and railroad prop
erty in the Valley are paying as much
tax as he wants it to pay, and to pre-
vent an additional tax for the purpose
of enhancing his property in value,
resorts to threats and intimidation to
force the people to complete the pro.
lection OF his vast possessions.
The Times may find fault with my
charge of threats and intimidation on
the part of Mr.. Wilson, but what else
does it mean when he says that "unless
the people have law passed to base
future levee bonds upon a cotton tax,
we will not lend the money for the
completion of the work." Are the
people to be bulldozed into tamely sub
mitting to the arbitrary will Of one
man, whose interests here are greater
than the interests Of any ten men in
the Second District?
This is all a bluff game. Let the
people of the Second Leyee District
stand up for their rights, unintimidated
by. threats and prophecies Of an early
overflow; let them hold fast to an ad
valorum tax, the most just that can be
imposed, and Mr.. Wilson will not see
his railroad property submerged and
possibly swept away, but will come up
"like a little man" and agree that, in
future, as now, he will pay his just
proportion of the whole levee tax.
SUNFLOWER.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
Board Of Supervisors.

A regular meeting Of the Board of
Supervisors was held at IL o'clock
yesterday, present, President Worrell,
Clerk Geo. I. Hardy. Supervisors Mills,
Jones, Golf and Lewis.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and adopted.
The following bills against the
county were allowed:
Morris & Kennedy, building bridge
across Big bayou, between the Mag
nolia and Henry places, as per con-
tract $500. J. F. Baum, blank books,
etc, $3.50. I. B. Fletcher, filing
washout on Yazoo Valley road near
town, $40. Il. F. Beck, attendance on
jury to lay out road from Hough's
place to Valley road above National
cemetery, two days $500. Vicksburg
Gas-light company, gas for courthouse
and Jail for May $76 /; for June $74.80
and for July $3.50.
John Barry, filling washout at end
of National Cemetery bridge, $3.50.
H. 7. Moore, county superintendent
of education, salary for July, S11.10
and postage $1.50.
W. ]. Fletcher, repairing bridge
over Ball Ground creek $l00; repairing
two bridges near Haine's Bluff $40.
Alovin Royster, repairing and haul
ing lumber to Big Bridge, near Red
Bone $40.
RE. Miller, repairing and furnish
ing lumber for bridge on Gould place
$40; repairing two large bridges on
Halls Ferry road near Big Black $50.
A. M. Paxton, repairing two iron
settees in Courthouse yard, $l8.
w. o. Worrell, lime and soap for
Jail, $3.50.
10. Arnold, burying paupers from
May 18th to July 18th, $34.
S, Spengler, repairing bookcases,
doors, ETC., in sheriff's office, and floor
for Jail, $22.
James B. Lanier, building new cul-
vert at six mile bottom, SIG; building
bridge on Baldwin's Ferry road, $75;
repairing two bridges on BaldWin's
Ferry road $25.
The Jury summoned to assess dam
ages to parties complaining, by reason
Of a road leading from the northeast
corner of the Hough place in Warren
county, by the Sheehan and Kleinman
places and through the old Willis and
Barefeld places to the Valley road, filed
their report, whereupon it is ordered
that action in the matter be post
poned until next meeting Of the board.
Carried.
The commissioners appointed to lay
out road commencing at or near Goff's
store to connect with a road leading
from Col. W. G. Flowers to Flowerree
and Hooker's Ferry, as asked for in
petition filed their report. and the
parties through whose land said road
runs having in said petition given the
right of way for said road to the
county free, it is thereupon, on motion
ordered that said report be received,
and that said road be declared a public
road, and an oVerseer appointed for
same; and George McCallister was ap-
pointed overseer.
John W. Patterson, keeper Of the
poor-house, was allowed salary for
July $833S; for six additional in
mates, 100 days at rs cents per day,
$40.
Hiram Williams and Albert Web
ster, overseers Of roads No. 81 and "a,
filed their reports and reported that
there were no mile boards on their
roads as the law requires. The board
deeming them unnecessary relieved
them Of having same placed on said
roads.
H. Mason was allowed 81 for bury
ing pauper.
The board adjourned until 10 o'clock
to-day.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 81. Tassin's,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
A Necessity Of Health.

It is prime necessity Of heaIh that the .ac-
tion Of the bowels should be kept regular. But
patton, or to remedy chronic costlveness is
not to deluge the stomach and drench the
bowels with purgatiyes of violent and painful
action. The happy medium between an inop-
erative and violent cathartic is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, which acts just sufficiently
uDon the bowels to relax them, without pain.
and which being a wholesome tonic, as well
as aperient has the effect sof strengthening
both them and the stomach, and promoting
the well being of the whole eternal economy;
The removal Of bile from the blood, increased
activity Of the liver. usually dormant in cases
of costiYeness, and sound digestion follows
the use Of this benefcent medicine, as thor.
Ough and genial in its effects as it is safe and
pure in composition. Rheumatism, fever and
ague Kidney troubles and debility are also
remedied by it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

1T must be a peculiar kind of consola-
tion which the Republican party can
take in reviewing its past, checkered
over as it is with blots fostering cor
ruptions. However, the Philadelphia
Press is one Of the kind that finds such
consolation. The Memphis Appeal
thinks it would be safe for the Re-
publican party to be proud of its
future, as it is "a beautiful, unspotted
blank"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

The New Orleans city officials ap.
propriated large sum of money out
of the city treasury to pay the ex.
penses of the junketing tour to Phila-
adelphia with the Liberty bell, and the
use Of the money for such q purpose
was enjoined. While the party was
in Philadelphia wine flowed and the
smoke of the fragrant Havana curled
freely, and now the city of Philadel.
phia has a suit on hand, having re-
fused to pay the bill. A pretty affair
this.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
The Chief Engineer Of the Illinois
Central Parchase Thirty Four

| Inc ChleT Engineer OF rnS ILLINOIS,
Central Parchase Thirty-Four
Thousand Acres Of Land.
Special to the Commercial Herald
JACKSON, MISS, Aug. 3-John O..
Mann, chief engineer Of the Illinois
Central railroad, has purchased from
the State, through the auditors Office,
upwards Of thirty-four thousand acres
Of land, lying in the counties Of Yazoo,
Holmes, Carroll, Leflore and Grenada.
These lands. in the main, are near the
proposed route for the extension Of the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad
from Yazoo City to Memphis, good
evidence that the extension win be
made. Some Of the lands are very fer
tile. Your correspondent is reliably
informed that work will begin at once
and the road put through as rapidly
as possible.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

BRUSSELS, Aug. 3,-The Nord says:
England consents TO Russia's proposal
to leave the zulhcar question to be
settled by the joint boundary commits
sion.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
-
MlT11IUS,
State OF Mississippi to the
tn tba Ghariff rf IU.rran oo,,,,+,,

To the Sheriff Of Warren county. (
We command you to receive and
safely keep in jail George Mitchell
without bail to answer the State Of
Mississippi on a charge Of willful muir
der committed in the said county,
and not bailable, according to his ac-
acknowledgement that he did kill Mar
tha Richardson, claiming her for his
wife, and has been examined before
me, the undersigned justice Of the
peace.
Witness my hand this the 1st day Of
August, 1885.
NJ. W. JOHNSON, Up.
His prisoner was a very ordinary
looking negro man who said be was
forty-fOur years Of age and had killed
his "girl" because she was not true to
him. He in no way tried to deny the
charge for which he was arrested and
acknowledged the truth Of the follow
ing affidavit which he had made. This
document was found on file in the
sheriff's Office as a companion paper
with the emitimus:
COHESION OF GEORGE MITCHELL.
Butler. Miss, on the 18th day oi
July, A. D. 1885, j. George Mitchell
did with an ak killed and murder
Martha Richardson whilst she was
lying in bed asleep. After killing her
| put her body on my shoulder and
carried it about seventy-fve yards to a
skiff in the lake, where / doubled d
rope around her neck and attached
thereto the pitcher Of pump, when ]
pulled the skiff about two hundred
yards out into the lake and then threw
the body overheard.
| GEORGE ID MITCHELL.
Witnes JAMES WALKER,
| GEORGE y BAILEY.
| mark.
The story of his wrongs were re
cited by him with a zest that indicates
his idea of giving a "tit for tat" Sh
had been unfaithful and he had spill
ner nead open Win an ak on July 1lt
and had disposed Of her as above indi
Gated in his statement, since when b.
had gone about his work as usual.
The body was discovered Satur
day morning last the weight
proving insufficient to keep her body
on the bottom. He was at once sus
picioned was arrested and taken be,
fore Justice Johnson, a colored magis-
trate. A large crowd had assembled
with ropes to hang him, and it was al
much as the magistrate could do tC
keep the crowd from killing him. They
forced him to confess the crime.
Mitchell says he was never in trouble
before, that he lived peacefully twelve
years on Col. Nichols plantation in
Madison parish, La.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
VIII Advance all the Money Neces-

Sarys
Special to The Commercial Herald.
SHREVEPORT, Aug. BIN view Of
the probability Of obtaining an order
from the United Ststes courtto COM
plete the Shreveport & Houston mar
row gauge to Sabine river, Capt. Simon
Levy, receiver, to-day contracted with
Mr.. Neil Mcdonald, Of New York,
who will advance all the money nee
sssary to do the work at 6 per cent.
and take receivers certificates at par.
Mr.. Mcdonald is one Of the largest
bondholders Of the road, and is anx-
ious to have it speedily completed and
connection made with the Houston,
East & West Texas. The road can be
completed in forty days. All that is
to be done is the laying Of rails for
sixteen miles.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

cholera III a Convict Settlement.
MADRID, Aug. 3. There were 8 ,820
new cases Of cholera and / AGA deaths
Saturday. The military governor Of
Grenada has succumbed to the disease,
Cholera is raging IN a convict settle
ment q Carthagena.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's appoint
ment of John Calwalader to be Col
lector of Customs for the District of
Philadelphia, gives great satisfaction
to the people Of that city who believe
in turning the rascals out. He sue
ceeds Hartranft.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 3-At Bayou
Sara Saturday evening, two Adams,
twin brothers, colored, w9ylaid. shot.
and instantly killed Hippolyte VIII
liams. colored at New Texas landing.
The murdererH escaped.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 81. Tassin's,
clothing store, Decatur street, burned
Loss 81, 900; fully insured:
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

y 4 y Delicate diseases in either
sex, however induced, speedily cured
Book, 10 cents In stamps. Address
in confidence, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 663 Main street.,
Buffalo, N. Y. a.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
! cUILELEss MURDERER

A Negro Murders His Mistress for
Inconsistency and Dumps Her Into
Eagle Lake.
Sunday morning negro constable
from Eagle Lake, In the upper end of
this county, applied at the county jail
for the admission Of negro prisoner
whom he had in charge, presenting
with his prisoner the following:
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07

The Natchez, Jackson & Columbus
railroad has made provision for the
payment Of its ten per cent.frst mort.
gage bonds, amounting to about $174,-
600 and accrued interest. A report
was published a few days ago that
default would be made in this payment.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
Clinton Municipal Election.
al to Commercial Herald.

opeclal 10 commercial hefdlu'
CLINTON, MISS, Aug. 3-The cleo
tion for city officers to-day passed off
quietly, and resulted in the election Of
the following named gentlemen:
Mayor, DR.. B. H. Whitfield. Alder
men--W. S. Webb, r. M. Leavell, w.
Hillman, ]. D. Coleman and G. Robins.
City Marshall. G. Moss. The office
Of treasurer is claimed by two parties.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-17
FEMALE INSTITUTE,
Opelousas, st. Landry Par. La.


The government of this school is strict but
parental, no hard tasks or restrictions are i'm.
posed but every student must comply with the
rules, and must prepare up to the measure of
her ability, the lessons assigned.
Our course of study and mode of instruction
are designed to train the mind to the habits of
correct thinking and thorough investigation.
No student win be allowed to enter higher
classes without thorough preparation. Parents
and guardians may rest assured that the man.
nerS, health and morals of their children and
wards shall receive due attention
No deduction for absence, unless in case OF
protracted Illness The location OF this town is
healthful and easy of access The boarding
tlepart'Nent is under the immediate charge OF
Mrs. Hayes. B0ardePs will provide Themselves
with blankets and towels.
For particulars, address
Mrs. NJ. NJ. HAYES,
July -28 Princlipa.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-17
Dress Foo. Sale.

Several yoke of good work oxen for sale.
For further information, apply at tnls once