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Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08
EnterEafmmenrs.

BUNNELL'S MUSEUM. Atkinson's comedy company, now playing
 "Pesk's Bad Boy at the museum. continue to draw immense houses.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08

George Campbell, Hopkinsville, Ky, says: Fl BI ' dock Blood Bitters is the best preparation for u
 blood and stomach ever manufactured. a5 St
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08

The Elastic starch has no competitor
Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-08

Read Monson & Carpenters adv. on secon' page.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
TIIF CLAY COUNTY VOTE.

\ majority Of the white votes in the
eight precincts in the county was cast
for Prohibition with two exceptions. A
number of Prohibitionists seeing the
negro was massed, declined to record
their votes even along side Of the crime.
The same thing occurred in West Point.
The negroes surged like a swollen stream
to the polls and white men were forced
to stand and watch their precarious
chances to cast vote, but we have a
saving majority for Prohibition of the
white vote. oh Democracy wilt thou
allow this crime to be committed in thy
name?
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Whether Prohibition prohibits or not
is question yet to be determined. but
that the Temperance movement has re-
duced the traffic in whisky, ali candid
minds will admit The trade of the re-
tail dealers has fallen off wonderfully.
and OF course the wholesale man has
suffered in proportion To any obser-
want person, the falling off of the pat
ronage of our home dealers is very
patent. We know of numbers of young
men who use to frequent saloons who
now never think any more about enter
ing one than if such thing was not in
existence. Then in proportion to the
falling off of drinkers, has the scale of
morality and order been elevated until
there is hardly more peaceable and
law abiding town on the line of the |. G..
railroad than Grenada Then whether
this county is for Prohibition or not,
the good people continue their efforts to
build up healthy, moralsentiment, for
no matter which way the election goes,
it is this that must sustain our
people at last With it we can live
lown all the evils Of the day, and with
out it, no laws, no matter however rig
dly enforced, can eradicate the vice of
Let those who have en-
listed in this reform movement be en-
outraged, for change for the better
las certainly taken place within our
,ody polite, which change is likely to
,e deep and lasting. No matter how I
much people may differ on this great
uhiect, let those differences be reason.
bla nd let all discussions be fair and |
iberal, respecting the rights of one |
er-Grenadal Sentinel. I
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
ANOTHER COLONIZATION SCHEME.

The men who fraudulently represent
ed the colonization circular to be the
production Of Prohibitionists and used
it with the nefarious motive of antago-
nizing the two races. and of inciting the
deadly ignorance of the negroes against
the homes of Mississippi are moral lep-
ers, and should be socially colonized.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
MOTHERS AND WIVES READ ruIs.

Ruskin, that great and good man, that
strong believer in woman and her in
Auence, says that the souls armor is
never so well set to the heart unless a
woman's hand has bound it, and it is
only when she braces it loosely that the
honor of man fails. These clarion notes
be careful how you bind, ever arise
to my mind whenever [ hear of the fatal
glass being passed by the hands of love-
ly woman; for oh how often through
our sex the honor of manhood falls.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

st. Louis, Mo-, has been four years
under what is known as the Downing
High License law, which requires each
saloon keeper to pay to the city an an
nual license fee of $3.50 According to
d report read April 29th before the St.
Louis District Convention of the w. G..
L. Z. by Mrs Anna Sneed Cairns, its
President, there are ] ,592 saloons in st.
Louis doing business under this law,
as against | ,457 last year But the In
ternal Revenue Office shows that 1880
places paid the Z. s. tax to sell alcohol
last year in St. Louis-more than three
times the number paying the city
license.
TO this have we come the report
reads, after four years Of the Downing
High License law 1880 places sell aIco-
hol in some form. and pay United
States license; 1,592 saloons are run by
stupid people who walk up and pay
city license like lambs; l,529 places pay
United States license as groceries, drug
stores, breweries, distilleries, ETC.; 1,709
places pay United States license, but are
neither saloons, groceries, drug stores,
paint manufactures, hotels, club-rooms
restaurants, theatres, nor expositions.
: The low license of S25 catches 1.709
in the United States office that 500
don t catch in the city Office < Our
doyernor Marmaduke had an oyermas-
tering terror on the subject of Prohibi-
bition. He said it would take all the
good. honest. upright saloon keepers and
them into hypocrites. Now.
ask you in the name Of common sense,
what has high license done for these
same good men.
The revenue to the city ofSt. Louis
rom the dyam shop licenses last year
Gas sI!)S, S,3TS; other revenue TO St. Louis
vas S5,O6O,879, It pays little over II
Der cent, Of the revenue, and causes 90
Der cent Of crime and expense Of caring
or crime. In eight years it has brought
Il 2,266 out of a total revenue to
he city of $58,523, DO. There are II
listilleries in St. Louis that last year
estroyed 474,S bushels Of grain, pro-
ucing 100000 gallons of spirits.
= People 60 to Maine and
nd there are | oh places selling alcohol
nder United States License. They
on I substract the drug stores, paint
hops, etc, as ! have, and they come
ack to St Louis and shake their wood
q heads and mouth out. Prohibition
ont prohibit. | show you 1880
laces selling alcohol in some form in
lie city of st. Louis and carrying the
me United States license as the 1.O14
aces in Maine, and ask is not Prohi-
tion most as good as license? The
opulation Of Maine is 628,0OO and St.
ouis has 100000. Maine to have as !:
any places as St. Louis in proportion
her population, ought to have 1888 :,
here she has only / Oh"
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Charles Roundtree, negro resteraunt
keeper of Vicksburg. shot and seriously
wounded John Allen, (not Private John
OF the First DISTRICT. This is the third
shooting scrape he has been in. The
cause was jealousy.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Prohibitory party, now organized
IN twenty-seven States, has taken no
special action as national party except
to issue official circulars, send out lec-
turers and publications, and extend its
organization into hitherto unoccupied
ground. Only a portion of the States
have held State elections during the last
year. Local committees and State or
CARNATIONS have been active, and
large amount of organization work has
been accomplished. The elections held
during the year have resulted as follows:
Massachusetts,, 4,714; Rhode Island. q
328; New York, 3O,866; Pennsylvania.
1903; Maryland, 2,146; Ohio, 28,O81;
Michigan, 14,7O8; Iowa, l ,4O5; Nebraska
4, ,45; Kentucky, 39,4O5.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Mr.. Henry Roam, young man living
about ten miles from Kosciusko, didn't
know his pistol was loaded when he and
his cousin were cleaning it up. His
funeral took place next day.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Among the resolutions adopted at the
annual meeting Of the Canada Temper
ance Alliance were the following:
That this convention afirms the
necessity of of electing Prohibitionists
to all representative bodies-municipal,
educational and parliamentary.
That it is desirable to form prohib-
itory Union in each municipality
throughout the province, the members
OF which shall be pledged to support for
municipal and parliamentary positions,
such candidates only as are known and
professed Prohibitionists, and who will
work and vote for the enacting sustain
ing, and enforcing Of Prohibilory legis-
lation.
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Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Rev. B. N. Hatch, Baptist Revivalist,
has just closed highly successful meet
ing at ETinona He pays high tribute
to the young men of Winona.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Gov. WetmOre, of Rhode Island, has
By official proclamation announced the
prohibitory amendment as adopted, and
part of the law Of the State.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Fifty boxes of tomatoes and over one
hundred boxes OF peaches were shipped
from Crystal Springs last Monday and
the shipments are constantly increasing
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
4 CRYING SLIME.

There have already been introduced
IN the Legislature numbers of bills il
provide for the suppression of gamblina
IN its various forms, and so wide 4
range does the definition Of the tern
take, that the bills embrace everything.
from playing craps and matching
pennies. This, however, is mere skir-
mishing around the edges. For pic
ture of the real evils which exist. let
the graphic description in the memorial
ofthe Committee ofone Hundred suffice
1t says:
Public gambling is a leper spot on our
city.
Large numbers of these dens of in
iquity, handsomely fitted up. Iii with
electric lights, where liquors and cigars
are given away to the players, open their
doors upon the most frequented streets
and attract large crowds of those classes
OF people who can at least afford to in
dulge in such a destructive vice.
1t would make any but a hardened
villains heart sick to walk through
these places on Saturday night after the
wage workers have received their nav
for their week labor. on which depends
the support of their families, and to see
the hundreds upon hundreds of men
congregated there.
But for some alluring hell like this.
its snares across their home
ward path, they would be with their
wives and children
No man with soul in him can look
upon this scene before whose eyes there
does not rise mist which shuts out the
View OF these misguided wretches. and
out OF which there comes a vision of
crime, intemperance and brutality. ofE
squalid homes, of wretched wives and
mothers, OF naked and starving chill
iren.
With such state ofthings as this de-
redress the skirmishing after
less serious evils seem absurd Pea
y''ne e.
We submit that Gov. Lowry is not
AR TO the jackson organs. He recently
published remarkable interview in an
obscure vicksburg paper, and when
his dazzling organ of truth and liobt
rotted up confidently to the front and
lsked for similar favors, he simnlv
cached out to us large lump of the j
old shoulder. We placed him figura-
lively on the stand and cross examined
lim: We say fguratively because in
eality he would not engage in the pas ]
ime. Then last week our holy friand
Brother R. D. Gambrell did, on the j
uggestion of Hon. {. G.. Catchings. ask
i'm many pertinent and interesting /,
the answers to which would
ave been thrilling matter, but the !
e Governor answered not to the point. |
We hold that the Governor shonld not !
e partial to the foreign press. and 5
hould give his home papers a chance at a
he interview business, and let us eat of /
he fatness thereof-Neao Mississi,pD;;an. a
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Port Gibson Oil Mills closed
Saturday night after most successful
season, having used $500 tons of seed
and sold their products as fast as they
could turn it out.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Mr.. B. w. Matthews raised strawber-
ries at the rate of 128 crates per acre
this year-Sucker State variety. Off of
the same piece of land he sold last fall
$40 worth Of plants, the amount of land
being less than an acre. This is what
We call business Crystal Springs
Meteor.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

A painful accident occurred at Halle
hurst last Friday eveding. Drury White
accidently discharged pistol which he
was handling and the ball entered the
roof of his mouth, and came out at the
top Of his head. killing him instantly.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Senator Wilson, of Iowa, is reported
as saying Prohibition is fixed fact in
that State, and believes it is the coming
issue in national affairs.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Mayor of Corinth who has been
confined to his home by an attack of pa
ralysis, is able to be on the street again.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Supreme Court in affirming the
case of Doc Bishop, puts Saturday July
3, as the date of his execution. Unless
the Governor should pardon him, he
will be hung at that time.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Bishop Galloway formally rendered
his resignation as pastor of the M. e.
Church at Brookhaven last Sunday.
His people are glad ofhis promotion but
hate to give him up.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

4 large number ofliquor dealers have
left Iowa and gone into business in
Chicago.
The Clark Prohibitory liquor law bill
is fast diminishing the number of Iowa
saloons.-Nattonat Temp. Adcocate.
But Prohibition don't prohibit.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The great Indian fight and big ball
play came of in Neshoba county last
week, and more than seventy five In
dians were engaged in it. It is thought
that two hundred were on the grounds.
The battle was hot and savage, and re-
suited in much cruelty and brutality
and some bloodshed, and was barely
won by the Bogue Chittoes over the
Turkey Creeks During the battle, a
beautiful Turkey Greek maiden, who
was supplying her lover with weapons.
was attacked by an opposing warrior
but she parried the blows and finally
succeeded in giving him a broad side
with club, that blistered the naked
skin across his chest. Moral: Let In
dian girls Gas well as their fairer sisters)
alone, when fighting for their sweet
hearts. Clarion.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Col G. E. Hooker spoke at Wesson
last Tuesday evening. He rather has it
on Major Barksdale in being able to
give his personal attention to his can
vass, but if Mr. Barksdale is re-nomina-
ted it will be all the more a compli-
ment
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Illinois State Prohibition Con
yention meets at Springfield June 23rd
Delegates are already being chosen and
reduced rates on the railroads have been
secured.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Prohibitionists ofold Alfalfa will
hold convention at Kosciusko on the
9th inst.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Local Option elections are to be held
in large number of counties in North
Carolina in the first week in June.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

1t is again reported that Sam Jones
viii spend week at the Seashore Camp
meeting Grounds this summer
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Judge Reagan's inter state commerce
bill is thought to be laid on the shelf
for this session. at least.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Wiley NJ. Toomer, an employee of
Pointevant \ Farve, at Pearlington,
was killed by lightning on the 3lst ult.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The case ofthe State ys. G. Il. Jarman
tor killing Robert Shropshire at Sturges
resulted in Jarman being acquitted
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Mr.. Collins, the reviyalist. closed a
meeting at the Methodist Church at
Holly Springs last Sunday.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Twenty or twenty five bales of cotton
belonging to j. Sutton of Corinth, was
recently burned and damaged to the
tune of $500.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Female College at Carrollton had
q mite meeting and sociable last Friday
night
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Senator Colquitt and Sam Small will
speak for Prohibition in Meridian next
week.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Mr. Charles Patton takes Mr. Wm.
Gorinfa's place az manager of the Biloxi
canning factory.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Dir. John Martin addressed the Pro-
hibitionists of Madison last Sunday.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Mr.. G. p Adair succeeds Hon. IL. G.
Williamson as editor Of the Walden
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Nearly 800 Confederate soldiers lie in
unhonored graves at 0kolona.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Prohibitionists are whooping EN- up
IN Pike and Franklin counties.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The subject Of waterworks is agitating
Macon.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Crystal Springs is going to have a
moonlight picnic soon.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The crop prospect around Hattiesberg
is good.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Holly Springs reports severe wind
and hailstorm on the lst.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

fazoo county has adopted high license
having raised it from $500 to 81 900.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The National Temperance Society was
p years old the 11th of Nav.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

hlHl 70 reopen Dy specl
every man in that body wn,
for the act, has on him to-day
blood that was split last nigh
Jones saloon. They are partakers Z.
the blood outlines. Nor can they
wash their spotted souls ofits stains
by the specious pleas of politicians
any more than Jones can clear him
self by washing his bespattered
floor.
And every man in this city who
signed Jones petition is a partaker
of this bloody deed. They made
him their agent, and this would not
have happened as 1t did, but for the
part they took in it. Let that peti-
ton be looked up, and let the names
of Booths murderers be again put
before the public. No plea in cx-
tenuatlon will clear them. No BODY
but an idiot is ignorant of the ten
dency and the constant peril of the
liquor traffic. Here in this city are
merchants who for trade have set
up men in this bloody business, and
the blood of this man is on them.
Lawyers, for fees, lend themselves
to this work of death. Editors have
either lent themselves to Jones in
his traffic by signing his petition or
have kept silent while the city has
become party to this bloody bust
ness. Church members have had
their part in it in some cases. Itis
to be be feared that the blood of
this victim of the liquor cleaves to
some of the pulplts of Jackson,
which under the specious plea of
prudence have been voiceless on
this subject, and have thus become
silent partners in the traffic in hui
man blood: A silent pulpit is a
bloody and guilty pulpit.
Mayor McGill and the city board
who violated the law in licenseine q
nan who has not legal qualifca-
ions for the business, are guilty of
he blood of Booth. And the Quill
# the Mayor is all the greater
because he knew, or might have
Snown, the disorders in Jones'
aloon, and did not close it as
he law directs. (Revised Code
$50 Sec: 11O6)
Let Jackson bury the slain man
nd spread the mantle of charity
yer his faults. Let us not too bit
erly blame Jones or the bartender.
hey were in the line of their call
ng, and are scarcely more to blame
han those who put them there.
Above ali, let those who have
lded this business in any way lay
his case to heart, and prepare to
meet just God in Judgement.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Clay county goes against Prohibition
by large majority.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
w 9. T. u.

This department is the official organ Of
the Women's Christian Temperance I'm
on of Mississippi, and is conducted by
MRS. CHATTIE BEALL.
West Point. Mississippi.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Rev. J. H. Gambrell is in the fight in
Lauderdale county.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

A W. c. l. U. was organized at Mead
vile last week.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Memphis will after all probably have
a bridge across the Mississippi River.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

sds xosciusko Lodge Of Knights of
mr. will have grand picnic at Me-
ool on the 3rd.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
PROHIBITION Ne W.S.

Alcoholism and Anarchy go hand in
hand.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Evangelical Association, at its recent
session, adopted the following:
Resolved, That we are earnestly OPP
posed to the liquor traffic, believing it
to be a fruitful source of crime and
poverty, and that we admonish all our
people to do everything in their power
to extirminate this great evil
Whereas, The subject of Prohibition
is one of the live issues ofthe American
people at this time, and the lines ofdis-
elimination between the supporters and
opposers Of the liquor traffic are being
thoroughly laid in the minds Of public
sentiment; therefore,
Resolved, That we encourage the
prohibition of the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquors with our prayers
and efforts; and, further,
Resolved, That we consider it incon-
sistent for any protesting Christians to
sign a petition for license"
Somebody has been demonstrating by
the following figures that the liquor
tax is the poor mans tax, and that the
poor man pays seven eleyenths of the
tax of Chicago This is the estimate.
$500 saloons Al
City license 500 dollars each $l,750, 900
Government tax % dollars each 81. 500
Saloon rent 600 dollars 210O.0O0l
Supporting D persons, each sa-
loon IL 800 persons at 800 7.000.0O09
Sundries, say 200 dollars % .7OO,0a8a
First cost OF liquor Ii ,637 800 |
Total So. pa. 500 |
This is the poor mans drink bill 81
If this money were expended legit-
imately, the wheels of commerce would /
commence to move; the merchants |
would see a revival of trade the wheels /
OF manufactures would commence to
reyolye; labor would be in demand; hard
times would disappear the millennium 1
would come, and peace and prosperity
would prevail"
This is probably an exagg-ration, but
at any rate the tax is voluntary one,
self imposed and therefore the poor
man is alone responsihle for bFinsfIe
The burden upon bimself. Chicago
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Starkyille has organized a military
company
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
COY. BRoWNs ARGUM MENTs.

The financial interests Of Georgia
have been injured.
But what branches Of them?
The wholesale liquor business, in
which Gov Browns son was engaged
has been wonderfully injured.
The valuable store houses belonging
to Gov. Brown, which stand vacant arc
the houses that were used for saloons.
Gos Brown also leases the crime Of
Georgia at so much a felony, and the
suppression of the source of crime is
compelled to injure his financial inter-
ests; Prohibitiohists are generous enough
to concede that point. Stand Governor
Brown upon his own record and stand
Governor Colquitt in the pulpit, then
choose ye between them.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
STATE NEVIS.

Natchez has Merchants Exchange
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05
ST. LOUIS HIGH LICENSE HoAx.

REGULATION THAT DOES NOT REGULATE
SALOON KEEPERS PAY THE UNITED
STATES TAX AND DO BUSINESS WITH
OUT A LICENSE-THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
INCREASING UNDER TIE LAW.
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

The Union of West Point received a
delightful visit last week from our dear
President Mrs. Erwin and noble sister
Mrs. Smell, of Columbus. An inter
change Of these manifestations of Chris
tian interest would be greatly upbuild-
ing to Unions
Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-06-05

Madison county wants Fair Associ-
alton.