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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25
sOcIALLsTs.

Our dispatches from San Francisco
disclose a most stsrtIing plot to assas-
sinate a number Of influential and
wealthy citizens Of California. The
details read more like news from Rus
sla, or some Kingdom Of Europe, than
like the truthful account Of the acts Of
American citizens. The idea that cit
liens of this country will coolly go
into such a hellish plot is shock
ing to the last degree. That
they did SO and many other
evidences, prove there is a
very dangerous class in Northern
communities so stupid with prejudice
and reckless of consequences as to
require the coolest, wisest and most
determined craftsmanship. In all the
larger Northern cities evidences crop
out that the socialistic sentiment has
a strong hold, and that it is growing
more desperate every year.
In the old world socialism, has
brought some crowned heads to the
dust, and the Great Napoleon only put
it down in France in its most fearful
form, by the determined use of mill
tary force. 1t is a constant menaDce
to every Government of Europe, and
its unreasonableness is only surpassed
by its desperation.
In the United States, where the
ballot is free to all, those who believe
in this pernicious doctrine have at
times created little political sensations,
but the good common sense of the peo-
pie can always be relied on to prevent
them from exercising any very great
political power. The Socialists seem
to have discovered this, and they are
now trying the argument of terror.
That they car ever thus enforce their
devilish tenets is utterly improbable,
but it is not improbable nor impos-
STOLE either, that they can work great
mischief.
The lower classes in all densely pop
ulated communities are easily wrought
up to frenzy by passionate appeals to
their prejudice and hatred, and there
are men in every community who are
not murderers and law-breakers only
through fear. How important it is
then for our Northern neighbors to
look to themselves, and cease their
meddling with the South, which is
now the conservative section of the
Why should they continue to
hammer at the South, when
in the very nea future they will need
the help of Southern Statesmen,
and all the cooperation of the Solid
South to save them from the enemy
in their midstP
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE Times Democrat, Of the 18th,
contains an interesting account of DR..
Carmona's method Of incubation for
the prevention of yellow fever, in
which it is stated that of three hun
dred persons on whom the experiment
had been tried, none have been attack
ed by the disease, though many Of
them were subjected to great exposure.
jackson Clarion.
Since that time Senator Eustis, of
Louisiana, has introduced a bill to
have incubation for the prevention of
yellow fever thoroughly investigated
and tested. Let us hope Congress will
pass it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THERE appears to be a systematic
plan on hand to enlist the State of
Mississippi in an effort to secure a
further respite for Ford and Murphy,
recently convicted of murder in New
Orleans, and now under sentence of
death. We have an idea that the
hanging Of Ford and Murphy is a
matter that does not concern this State
or its people. They are citizens of
Louisiana, have been tried and found
guilty by a Louisiana jury, and have
been sentenced by a Louisiana court.
1t strikes US that Mississippi has crim-
inals enough of its OWE to watch,
without bothering with those of a
sister State. Give us a rest.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

ONE good thing has come of the de-
bate in the House of Representatives
on the question of revising the rules.
The Hon. Samuel J. Randall has clear
ly defined his position on the great
question of Mississippi Riverimprove-
ments. He declared, on Tuesday, that
he had "never voted for a River and
Harbor Bill" and, like a good many
other patriots, he cloaks his hostility to
Mississippi River improvements under
the gauzy veil of opposition to the
general and special appropriations con-
tanned in the River and Harbor Bill.
And yet we expect to see Mr..
Randall held up as the friend of our
great river improvements.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

GOVERNOR LOWRY, Hon. T. NJ.
Miller, and other influential Mississip-
plans petitioned Governor McEnery to
respite Ford and Murphy. Governor
lowry thinks the ends of justice will
be secured by Imprisonment for life
and has acted conseientiousIy in the
matter. Mr.. Miller views the case as
a lawyer and is appalled, at a verdict
which takes the life of two men, Ger
tainly less guilty than the one who re-
ceived a milder sentence.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

HON. LOGAN MURRAY, in his ad-
dress before the recent Bankers Con-
v%ention, said: This year nearly 8,OOO,-
900 bales of cotton have to be put into
the markets Of the world. Contem.
plate for a moment the vast wealth
that flows into the South from this
production; add to it tobacco, sugar
and rice, and tell me if, in the great
aggregate of income to the country as
a whole, she is not entitled to be
heard upon questions affecting the
general welfare to an exalted and in
tense degree"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

The PRESIDENT is very apprehen-
siYe that the continued coinage of the
silver dollar will drain the couDtry of
its gold. We have now in the United
States more than five hundred millions
OF gold. We produce annually from
our mines some seventy millions of
gold, and during the fiscal year ending
on June 30, last, we expended $8,477,-
600 and received from the rest of the
world nearly $27, 900, thereby dem
onstrating that we retained all of our
annual product of that precious metal
and increased our store from abroad
$l8,2l4.OO0. We have an idea that
the country can stand that sort of a
drain for an indefinite period. Let the
coinage OF the dollar Of our fathers
continue.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

LARGE numbers of excursionists
from the West are coming South each
week, by way of the Illinois Central,
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas,
and Mobile s. Ohio railroads, prospect
ing with a view of locating. A few
years ago the tide of emigration was
Westward. A New West, with cheap
and desirable lands no longer exists.
Low prices in the West now mean
little Ualue. The South, immense in
extent and rich in natural resources
and advantages, needs and will wei.
come the surplus labor and capital OF
other sections.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

TIE Washington correspondent of
the New Orleans Times Democrat thus
speculates as to the places Mississippi
members will get On the committees:
Speculation as to the Mississippi
members sends Mr.. BErksdale again to
the committee on commerce, although
the fact that he was for a number of
years the public printer for his own
State suggests his fitness for the chair
manship of the committee on printing.
The duties of that committee have
grown to he important. and there is
the call for a man of ability and ex-
p%erience in such affairs to preside
over it. Mr.. Barry, who succeeded
Mr.. Money, is mentioned for a place on
the committee on which his predeces-
sor served-postotiices and postroads.
Mr.. Catchings, who represents an i'm
portant river district, desires a place
on the River and Harbor Committee.
Mr.. Van Eaton will probably be re.
appointed to the Public Lands Com
mittee, which was an important one in
the last House, and will cut equally as
prominent a figure in this. Gen. Sin
gleton will likely serve another term
as Chairman of the Library Commit
tee, and Mr.. Morgan will be urged for
a place on the Committee on Agricul-
ture."
We think it quite certain Mr.. Catch
ings will be on the River and Harbor
Committee, for Mr.. Breckenridge, of
Arkansas, does not want to be on it
again, and the Speaker will put Mr..
Catchings in his place.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25
CRUEL KINDNESS.

Gov. MeEnery. Of Louisiana, has
granted Ford and Murphy a further
respite Of thirty days. We do not
propose to discuss the Governors act,
or to investigate his reasons, and we
only refer to what he has done as
illustrative of a policy, that prevails
to too great an extent in the South.
In this particular instance the Gov
ernor may be right or he may be wrong,
but as a general rule we are sure the
interposition of gubernatorial power
to prevent the carrying out
of the verdict of %juries. or even to
delay sentences, is %perniciOus in the
extreme. In many cases it is no real
kindness to the criminals who escape,
for they 500 return to their old des-
perate habits and it is hurtfully dig
couragiDg to those honestly endeavor-
ing to live up to the laws and trying
to secure protection through them.
The people are very skeptical about
any persons with means or iDfu-
ence being punished for murder,
and they are made so by the
false sympathy of Governors. The
cases are rare indeed where iuries
render verdicts proportional to the
crimes committed, and when they do,
the Governors should have most excel.
lent causes for delaying executions. 1t
is no kindness to do it; on the contrary
it only aids in increasing the number
of violent crimes and the number of
executions. In countries where
swift and sure punishment fol-
lows manslaughter and MUIR
der, Ethese crimes are rare. In
some of the Southern States, these
violent crimes are more frequent, than
other crimes of less magnitude, which
are more certainly punished.
There is no wisdom, kindness or
mercy in not furnishing those who
take human life, unless they are
justifable. The Governor who
makes mistakes in this respect encour-
ages violence and bloodShed more than
the vile desperadoes who walk our
streets and mock at justice.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

A FEW days ago three little colored
children were burned to death near
Starkville, in this State, under very
pitiful circumstances. The little
creatures were locked up by their par
ents, when in some unknown manner
the cabin caught fire and they all suf-
fered a most horrible death.
Such affairs occur entirely too often
in the Southern States, and a remedy
should be provided to prevent them.
If parents are zoo careless
to guard against such dangers, the
State ought to do it. 1t ought to be
made punishable severely, for parents
to lock their children in a house with
fire in it, or that is in any danger of
being fred from without.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

WHILE Gen. Robert Toombs lived
there were TWO white men of native
birth in the United States without
rights of citizenship. When he died
there was but one, and that one, Hon.
Jefferson Davis. Gen. Toombs was
irreconcilable. He cherished no re-
sentiment, but he would never admit
that he was wrong.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25
SOME PUP.

Whyte Bedford, of Horn Lake,
Miss, paid $3.50 for Bob Gates, a black
and white and tan setter puppy, eight
cen months old, after his first race in
the all-age stake at the recent National
Field Trials at Grand Junction, Tenn.
The next day Mr.. Bedford refused
$500 for Bob, and two days later he
divided the third prize $3.50, with
Trinket's Bang,a pointer dog, and the
winner of second in the Derby at High
Point. N. c., last month. On Tuesday
last Bob Gates was the winner of the
second prize, $3.50, in the Derby, and is
considered, by competent judges, who
were present. the most promising
young dog in America.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE Maine people think labor must
be protected and they have petitioned
Congress moi TO allow Canadian fish to
be imported free of duty. Fish is a
staple, almost indispensable article of
food, but the greed of the Protection
lists knows no bounds, and they do not
hesitate to demand that it shall be
taxed for their benefit. The sugar, the
rice, and the fish men all want the
West and the South taxed for their
benefit, but what protection do corn,
wheat and cotton get?
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25
The Presidential Succession.

New York Herald.
Our Washington dispatches recite
contingencies with which Senators are
perplexing their minds about the
Presidential Succession bill in its pres
ent draft.
We observe none that is novel in the
number. Some were suggested when
the bill was debated long ago. 1t re-
quires only moderate exercise of COM
mon sense to obviate the whole of
them by judicious amendments, and
the sooner this is done and the bin is
enacted the better for the credit of
Congress.
President Cleveland's declaration
that the immediate passage of such a
bill is the first duty of Congress was
timely and is wise, and the people APP
prove it without distinction of party.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

II Is stated that not one Of the per
sons killed in the recent fFightful ac-
cldent on the Georgia Pacific. suffered
any external wounds. The victims
were either scalded or steamed tn
death by the engine which telescOped
the sleeper.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE New Orleans papers keep pi-
ping away in praise Of the Exposition.
They are booming it all they can. They
declare it is a success. and endeavor to
impress this idea on the minds of their
readers. But the thing itself doesn't
pan out like the New Orleans papers
say it does. Visitors say, it is a flat
failure, the great Exposition of last
year dwindled down to a bazaar and base
ball game. 1t is also said that the cit
liens of New Olleans-those not in
teTested in the scheme-ridicule it.
AID say its failure as an Exposition, is
calculated to iAjure New Orleans, that
people from the North and other sec
lions are induced to go there by
false representations, and will neces-
sarily be disappointed.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

a THIEF does not like to be told OF
his rascality, but then it often happens
that the telling prevents a recurrence
of the theft, aHd affords protection to
honest people.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

IT will now be seen that Mr.. Ran
all Is 80 I'sGE so powerful as he
was, before his Committee was placed
on IN Equal footing with others.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

There was aman Onca on q time,
Who thought him Wfudruus wise.
He sNorB by al the tabled gods
He'd never advertise;
But the goods were advertised ere long,
And thereby hangs the tale
The ad was set IN nOnpareil
And headed 'Sherins sale
Salem Gazette.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25
THE CAUSE OF THE OMISSION,

THE CAUSE OF IHE OMISSION,
The omission of President Cleve-
land to mention the subject of the
Mississippi River Improvement in
his recent message to Congress was
explained by some that the President
would send in a special message on
the subject, This hope, however, has
been ~dIspelled. A special telegram
from Washington, dated the 10th inst,
and published in the Memphis Ava
lanche, demonstrates that there is no
hope in that direction. The telegram
referred to says:
Senators George and Walthall yester-
day had IA talk with the President
about his failure to say anything about
the Mississippi river in his message.
The President told the visitors he had
not forgotten the matter but was not
prepared to treat iC at that time. The
Presidents omission to recommend a
further appropriation is understood to
proceed not from hostility to the work
but a failure after considerable study
of the subject to discover that a well
defined system had been adopted or
followed in conducting experimental
work. The report that the President
intends to send a special message on
This subject to the Senate may be set
down as incorrect, for it is stated upon
excellent authority that he does not
intend to do so.
This determination of the President
emphasizes the fact that the people of
the Mississippi Valley must rely, more
than ever, upon themselves and their
OWL Senators and Representatives in
Congress, for the improvement of the
great artery of commerce, which not
only laves their shores, but bears upon
its turbid bosom a traffic greater in
bulk and value than u entire foreign
commerce.
The emphatic need of the hour is
the immediate convocation of all the
Senators and Representatives from the
entire Valley to devise ways and
means to enforce the demand of the
people.
If we take the States and Territories
drained by the Mississippi and its
tributaries, we have a population of
nearly thirty millions of people who pay
greatly more than half of the i'm
mense revenues annually gathered in
to the Treasury of the nation.
II with this vast interest at stake
the people of the Valley will unite in
a persistent demand upon Congress
for relief, the demand cannot fail; but
instant and united action is necessary.
and that action should be initiated by
our Senators and Representatives, and
enthusiastically backed up and sus-
tanned by the press and the people at
home.
There is no time to be lost, and
every day is valuable.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

The Hon. Sam Randall is making a
bitter fight for the retention of his
vast power as chairman of the House
appropriation committee, and we can
not blame him for clinging to it with
such tenacity. The craftsmanship of
the appropriation committee hereto
fore, has been almost equal to the
speakership, and membership of that
committee has been almost equivalent
to the craftsmanship of any other.
The folly Of the present system, which
Mr.. Morrison and others are now
struggling to reform, was happily
illustrated a few years since. During
the Forty-ffth Congress, while Mr..
Randall was speaker, Mr.. Atkins,
of Tennessee, was chairman of this
~autocratic committee. During the
closing days of the 45th Congress, the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was
reported to the House. The printed
bill, covering nearly ninety pages, was
not laid on the desks of members until
about the time the clerk commenced
to read it. Two clerks were exhaust
ed in the reading, and when the last
paragraph was read Mr.. Atkins de-
manded the previous question, and
under this gag rule a bill which appro-
priated more than nineteen millions of
dollars, vas railroaded through the
House. Not ten members of the
House outside of the Committee
knew anything about the bill, but un.
der the rule Of the gag they were com.
PEELED to gulp it down.
This instance is but one of many
illustrative of the wickednesS and folly
of placing such vast power in thu
hands of one tyrannical committee
We trust to see the House make short
work of it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

MANY young ladies in Atlanta have
notified the young men who are given
to taking their drinks, that their visits
are not desired. G~irlcotting the boys.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

The profit of the cattle business of
Texas for the year 1885 is estimated
at over twenty million dollars.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE temperance question has been
the occasion of much incorporate
speech. The latter should be prohib-
tied.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE Clarion thinks of starting a
daily in Jackson. 1t would be a good
thing for Jackson, but we doubt that
it would pay in a village of that size.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

CIVIL service reform will be con-
sidered complete when every fellow
who wants an Office is gratifed.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE Tombigbee StaVe Factory has
been removed from Aberdeen, Miss,
to Bradley Station, Miss.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

MISSISSIPPI boasts of more Jersey
cattle than any other State in the
Union.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

SOME of the big tax payers in New
York city are organizing a movement
to get rid of the board of aldermen AS
now constituted and leave legislation
entirely to the mayor and council.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

MR. SAN RANDALL holds on like
grim death to bis power. And that's
what's the matter with Sam.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

THE first importation of Hereford
cattle was made by Henry Clay in 1917
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

AuONo VAO WAnk OAl : WulCu WdD
read twice and referred to the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds.
ABILL
To provide a building for the use Of
the United States Courts, Postofice,
Custom offices. and Internal Revenue
office at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled, that the Secretary of the Treasury
be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to cause to be constructed a
suitable building, with fire-proof
vaults, at Vicksburg, in the State of
Mississippi, for the accommodation of
the United States Courts, Postofice.
Custom Office, and Internal Revenue
Office, at a cost not exceeding one
hundred thousand dollars, including
cost of site: Provided, that no part of
said sun shall be expended until the
plans, specifications, and full estimates
FIR said building shall have been made
according TO law, and valid title to the
lard for the site of said building shall
be vested in the United States, and
the State Of Mississippi shall cede 70
the United States exclusive jurisdiction
over the same, during the time the
United States shall be or remain the
owner thereof, for all purposes except
the administration of the criminal
laws of said State and the service of
any civil process therein And provid-
ed further, That the site so purchased
shall leave the building unexposed to
danger from fire in adjacent buildings
by an open space of not less than forty
feet. including streets and alleys.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-25

In the Senate of the United States,
December 8, 1885, Mr.. George intro.
duced the following bill !; which was
read twice and referred to the Com
mittee on Public Buildings and
Grounds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-06
THOSE PAMPHLETS.

At this late date the pamphlets, in
tended for distribution at the New Or,
leans Exposition, setting forth, briefly
the principle resources of Mankato, have
been issued. geographically and me-
chemically, the work is entirely to the
discredit of Mankato. The paper used
is ofs very cheap grade, and in fact the
whole work is failure, when the mis-
sion of the pamphlet is considered. II
is intended to lay before the people Of
the whole world the inducements VIC
offer to settlers, and it will fall into the
hands of the better class of men from all
sections, whose judgement will be biased
by its cheap, shabby appearance. 1t ia
q give-away on its face. Who 10 respons.
IDLE for this mistake we do not pretend
to know, nor do we care, but regret that
the document will not serve its purpose
for want of little care in its prepare.
ton. The cover does not say what
State Mankato and Blue Earth county
are in, which is an inexcusable blunder.
It's whole appearance is repulsive and
does not meet the expectations of our
cif;zana