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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Peppermint King of the World.

Hiram G. Hotchkiss, of Lyons, Wayne
county, is the peppermint king of the
world, and his name has been for many
years kept standing in the chief market
journals Of all lands. He is Is years old
and a native of Oneida county. About
1873 he began buying peppermint oil of the
farmers about Lyons, and in 1841 he aban.
doned a general store in Phelps, Ontario
county, which he had been keeping, and
thenceforth devoted himself to the pepper
mint oil business. There are two or three
other dealers in Wayne county, which
controls the market in this speciality, but
Mr.. Hotchkiss handles the bulk of the
crop. The mint acreage Of the county is
about 1000 acres, and the total product
last year was worth about $12O, 900. But
it was a bad season; in a fairly good one
the crop is worth $25O,0O0 which figure
may perhaps be put down as the expense
to the world of the collie .-Buffalo Cour-
Ter,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
JOLIET EXCITED.

A Conflict Between the Civil
Authorities and the Salvation
Army.
JOLIET, ILL, Jan. 30.-Religious
excitement in this city has been raised
to fever heat by a difficulty between
the Salvation Army and civil authori-
ties. The mayor, chief Of police, and
a majority of the councilmen are Cath
olics, and because members of the
Army have been nightly arrested under
a city ordinance for disturbing the
peace, interested parties have raised a
cry of religious persecution. Thurs.
day night six members of the Saliva
ton Army were arrested and locked
up over night, but. the city attorney
refused to prosecute the cases. This
action of the city's legal advisor caused
the mayor to call a special council
meeting last night, when by a unan-
imous vote of the members present
the mayors action was sustained. The
members Of the Army arrested yester-
day filed suits in the circuit court
against Mayor Kelly, Chief Of Police
Murray, and two policemen, claiming
$4,000 damages. The board Of super
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Literary Men and Their Names.

There is an increasing disposition among
literary men who have three names to
drop the first, especially when the second
is a family name. When the first edition
Of "Views Afoot was published, the name
Of the author was given as James Bayard
Taylor. The book was a decided success,
and the yonng author, having poetical
aspirations, thought Bayard Taylor would
be a better sounding name for a poet, so
he quietly dropped the name of James.
This example was followed by Francis
Bret Harte and William Writ Skies, and
more recently by James Appleton Nor
gan, James Maurice Thompson, and
James Brander Matthews, etc.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Bradstreet's Business Review.

NEW York, Jan. 29.--Special. tele-
grams to Bradstreet's from an extend
ca number Of distributing centres in
dictate that general business has not
been so active. The snow blockade of
the large Northwestern railways,
which has checked the movement Of
trains for the greater portion Of two
weeks, has just been raised.
At New York City there has been
some activity among dry goods and
commission merchants, as at Boston
notably in bleached cotton and print
cloths. In other lines at those cities
trade may be classed fairly satisfacto-
~. Dry goods generally are favorably
affected by renewed buying, and there
are larger purchases of wooden and
wtrsted goods at an advance of from 5
to 10 per cent in price. Print cloths
in first hands are quite firm and ad-
vancing. Prices yesterday were 5 3 &c
per yard, against 8 5-16c a week ago.
Some makes are holding out for 3 7-16c,
and 31c is freely predicted. A small
advance has been obtained for medium
sorts of wool at the seaboard, though
not quotable. The strength Of the
London spring sales encourages expec-
tatiOns of a brisk demand for materials.
At Philadelphia there is no general
activity.
The distribution of general mer-
chandise from Baltimore has been
light, but country stocks are reported
low and orders are accommodating. Adj
vices from Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Memphis, Chicago, Milwau-
kee, St. Paul, Burlington, st. Louis and
Kansas City report a quiet movement
in trade circles on a smaller volume
than in the preceding week.
At P%ittsburg business has been
satisfactory, and at San Francisco
prospects are said TO be good. Iron
shows no change in prices or demand.
Steel rails are weak. Grocery staples
move slowly. Sugar is dull and lower.
Coffee is tirmer, and tea quiet. Dairy
products are dull, but with a slightly
improved export demand. Wheat is
somewhat irmer, and the temper of
the speculative market is more bullish.
Corn and oats are steady. Flouris re-
latively firm. Hog products are irreg-
ular, pork being the leading specula-
tive product.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Four Men Drowned.

EVANSVILLE, IND, Jan. 3O-Four
unknown men attempted to cross the
river to the Kentucky side in a skiff
yesterday afternoon. The river was
full of gorged ice, making the crossing
very difficult. About midway across
they encountered a heavy foe. The
skiff was seen in the midst of the ice,
and the men pulling desperately. Then
came to the lockers on on shore a faint
sound of a grinding crush and the un-
fortunate men and boat had disappear
ed. Mr.. Samuel Butler, a farmer, and
one of his hands took a skiff and went
out as far as they dared venture, but
found nj trace of the men. 1t is sup
posed all were lost. 1t was thought
they came here from Green river after
prisoners.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
After His success-and Death.

Since the death of Hugh Conway his
drawers have been ransacked for all kinds
of rubbish, which is now eagerly pub
lished. These things are generally effu-
sions which were once refused by newspa-
pers and. magazines. Conway's life is
said to have resembled that of the French
novelist Georges Ohnet, when successes
came to him, for then he, like the French
man, wa overwhelmed with envious let
tiers belittling his work. Max O'Rell has
lately been the recipient of letters of this
kind.-San Francisco Argonaut.
The Bulgarian soldiers sing heir ma
tional songs in unison only. The Russian
war songs are sung in four parts, and
have a peculiar sweetness.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Not Easily Caught on the Wing.

Instantaneous photography is not what
it is cracked up to be, and although
have had occasion to investigate every
plan or proposition that would give a
rapid print or catch a notorious crook on
the wing, | have never succeeded. The
crooks are too fly to stand around while
you square up your portable camer to
catch their face, and they quickly turn
their backs on you. No, these instantane-
Gus cameras are good only where you are
certain of light and have your objects at
an exact distance to meet the require,
ments of your lens. Even then, with
erything favorable, you can only catch
I. figure less than an inch high that can
not be developed by the best photograph
ers.-Henry Newbold, Police Photog-
rainier.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
IN rAf woaLn.


AZ Che earth rolls over, on ia axis
Whifled,
There is always midnight somewhere IN
In the world.
But though darkness pinions ever are
unfurl0d,
There Is always morning somewhere In
world.
Sorrow has lis mission, 80 Fnte's shafts
are hurled;
There Is always sorrow, sorrow In the
world.
Even as the morning CLEANS with light
impaired.
There are gladness always, always, in the
world.
Laura Rosamond White.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Yazoo City National Bank.

YaZoo Sentinel, 2Sth.
We mentioned some time since that
parties were trying to make arrange
.ments to start a national bank in this
city. The efforts at that time failed.
but Mr.. s. L. Barnett, who recently
sold out his banking interests In
Vicksburg and purchased the National
Bank at jackson, and Mr.. Martin, OF
Alabama, have been in the city for
several days endeavoring to organize 4
national bank, and have secured stock
in this city to the amount Of about
$4,000, and will take the rest OF the
stock themselves. The new bank will
start with capital stock Of $4,000.
with the privilege of increasing it 70
1856, 900. Negotiations for a building
are in progress, and the necessary pr
pers from the government will at once
be secured. We are informed that the
managers expect to get everything IN
readiness to open the bank ID the next
thirty days.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Steamboat Burned.

New ORLEANS, Jan. 30.-The
steamer John B. Maude at the lying
up quarters, fourth district, took fire
last night and was totally destroyed.
She was valued at $4,000 and insured
in this city for $l0,500. No lives lost.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
New York,s curious Cemetrv.

New York has a curious little burial
place called the "Marble Cemetery, which
contains a large representation of the
aristocracy of the city. It lies east of the
bowery, comprises little more than half
an acre, and its existence is unknown to
the bulk of the inhabitants Of the city. 1t
does not contain a single grave, as all the
interments are in subterranean vaults.
The entire soil has been excavated and
the vacancy filled with rows of vaults.
These vaults are covered with three feet
of soil, which permits a full growth Of
turf and shrubbery. The cemetery con.
tains only the best families, and only the
names of the old Knickerbockers appear. -
Chicago Times.
The society paper business is greatly
~overdone in London, and some of these
OBLIGATIONS barely pay expenses,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
A Change in the Schedule.
NatCheZ democrat. Ian Doth

NatcheZ Democrat, Jan. 10Th.
On Sunday next there will be a
slight change made in schedule Of the
Natchez, jackson s. Columbus railroad,
by which the east bound train will
leave this city at 2:50 pm, instead Of
3 O'Clock pm, as at present, being ten
minutes earlier. The west bound train
Il. g. the train from Jackson to
Natchez,) will continue to arrive on
the present schedule time. Interested
parties would do well to make a note
of this change, and be guided accord
ingly.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Prospects of a Good Peach Crop In
Delaware

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-A special
from Wilmington, Del, says: Infor-
nation from various sections Of the
peach growing districts Of the PENN
sular, give assurance that the trees
have not thus far been affected by cold
weather. The prospects for good crops
next season are very good up to this
time. Owners of several large orchards
have made an inspection, with similar
results. All, however, unite in the
opinion that the trees had a narrow
escape. Growers say this is a peach
year, and unless something later be-
falls the trees, all are hopeful Of great
yields.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

+'@ N&1h RBA0NAlAAA gAt AAANAAa
New York, Jan. 30.-To-morrows
issue Of the Catholic Herald, an article
on THE next Cardinal" will claim high
ecclesiastical authority for saying that
notwithstanding the common report.
Archbishop Gibbons will not be the
wearer Of the next red hat bestowed
upon America. unless at the consistory
to be held in March. it should be
decided to give America two cardinals.
Congratulations in advance are ex
tended, however to Archbishop VIII
liams Of Boston as the next cardinal,
his work at the Baltimore conference
having marked him for that honor.
His course, the Catholic Herald ex-
plains twas most consistent with the
directions and counsel Of the Propa-
gaDda, and much Of the good to arise
from the plenary council may be
ascribed to his suggestions there. The
rejection Of some Of the DEGREES shows
that had the liberal ideas Of Arch
bishop Williams been carried out they
would have met with more favor In
the Holy Fathers sight"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

vlsora have now further complicated
matters. and caused another clash Of
authority By granting the salvationists
the freedom Of the city square for the
purpose Of holding open meetings.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
TRIPLE MURDER IN KENTUCKY.
An Old Negro Man aud His Two
EOns Killed,

LOUISVILLE, KY, January t2S.-A
Courier Journal special says; Mesger
details of triple tragedy in Letcher
county, KY, were received by letter
to Senator ]. Z. Candill at Frankfort
to-day. William Wright, an old mar,
Andy Wright, his son, and William
Wright, colored, we're killed by James,
Samuel and Elijah Wright Wednesday
night. The murderers are said to have
gone to the home OF the Slain men and
shot them down without warning.
The parties are related, and the assas-
sination 10 thought to have result ID
from a family feud. The murderers
have been arrested, and their trial set
for Friday. 1t is thought they will be
hung, as there is much Indignation
and excitement in Letcher county
over the affair.
Russt llville, KY, is excited over a
written threat by unknown parties 10
kill and burn the residence of II. II.
Caldwell. a wealthy citzen, brother Of
Ex.Congressman Caldwell, II he did
not send $500 to a designated spot by
Saturday. Blackmailing is suspected,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
RerIous ConIIarration.

FRANKLIN, Pa, January 28.-The
most serious conflagra.ion this city has
sustained for years, occurred this
morning about o'clock. 1t broke
out in what is known az the Opera.
House block, owned by Hanna and
Duffield. The fire seems to have orig
mated about the stage OF the opera
house, which generally consists OF
very infammable material. Before the
fire department could reach the place
the opeIa.house was q solid blaze.
The fremen worked faithfully but the
building was beyond their power to
cave. The block was built twenty
years ago by the owners and was one
of the most substantial buildings in
the city and originally cost about
$4,000.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
Saloons Not a Nuisance.

LEAvENwoRTH, KAs., January "a
In the case of the State against Nc
CRYSTAL, to suppress saloon under the
nuisance clause of the prohibitoIy
law on trial here for two days, the
Jury has returned verdict of mot
guilty" The suit was brought by At
torney-G General Bradford at the last
term, and the State has made strenu.
Gus efforts to convict. 1t was regard
ed az test case under that clause, and
if the State had won many saloon
keepers would have closed their
places. The evidence showed that Nc
CRYSTAL kept a saloon, but the jury re.
fused to look at it in that way, and
the LIQUOR men are iubilant.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29

He was asked to. identity a photo
graph Of Quong Sing, who turned
States evidence. The defense stated
that their object in placing this photo
graph in evidence was to show, by
contrasting his physical condition now
with his condition before the picture
was taken, how Qdong Sing had de-
generated and grown thin, which the
defense stated was due to the effect
which his perjury in testifying sgainst
the defendants had caused upon his
mind and body. The judge, however,
would not allow this evidence.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
THE MILLIONAIRE CONVICT.
Milton Weston TO BE Treated the
Same as Other Prisoners.


PIrTBURa, Pa. January 2S.-For
the present Milton Weston will be as
signed to no employment in the peni-
Tertiary. Warden Wright says he
will be treated precisely as any other
prisoner. Said he: ga great many of
cur cOnvicts are low unemployed, but
/ shall find Weston something to do
in a few days. 1t would be cruel to
place a man Of his temperament in
quiet confinement. His mind must
be employed, or he is liable TO become
deranged. / do not think him capa-
BILE of severe physical work. We
have men here who are naturally idle,
and who have been in penitentisries
and jails so much that they have be.
come used TO confinement But this
would not be the case with Weston.
The kindest way to treat him will be
with entire impalt atty, as he will then
not be looked up 10 nor down upon by
the other convicts. This course will
also cause him to drop into obscurity
much sooner, aud that is what Mr..
Weston wante, OF course. ! have no
idea whether he will serve his full
term or not. He appears cheerful, and
says he is ready to obey all the rules
and win the nine months commute
ton which is given for good behavior.
During his term of imprisonment he
will be known as Prisoner S053. At
his special request no stsps looking
toward flesh complications will be
taken. He received, without solicita.
ton, letter from the Governor and
State officials Of Illinois to the Cover
nor of Pennsylvania, asking that he
be pardoned. AS the Pardon Board
meets in twenty days, it will be i'm.
possible to get any action taken then,
and the case will be brought before
them in March.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
LITERARY NOTES.

PRINCE BISMARCK, an Historical
Biography, by Charles Lowe, AM,
with two portraits, from the press Of
Cassell & Co., New York, is for gale by
N. Williams & Co., 279A Main street.
1t is one of the most engrossing of
biographies, and already has taken its
place among the standard works of its
class. The Chancellor of Germany is
a great personality, the greatest OF
Continental Europe, and his Ifs is a
lesson that all men would do well to
study.
FUNK & WAGNALLs announce that
~ The authorship of The Bunting Bal
and The NeO King arthur has been at
tributed to over 200 lin all 227 to date)
different authors. a. 1t is manifest
critics, no matter how expert, cannot
tell by internal evidence" who the
author OF book is. There is NO una
nimity whatever in the present case,
although the author is one of the best
known OF living writers. How absurd
the claim that it is possible TO deter
mine by the style or thought who
wrote this or that book of the ancients,
or this or thai book of the Bible. (3.)
on March next we will distribute the
promised $1,000 to those who have been
able TO detect the author, on the con-
ditions published.
The New AGRICULTURE is the title
OF a well printed volume, by the Hon.
A. N. Cole, from the press of the
Anglers Publishing company. II is
the result of many years of patient
labor and investigation into the fun
damental laws governing the move
ments Of the waters upon and beneath
the soil. It is q system of subsurface
drainage and irrigation, by which the
most wonderful results have been pro-
duced. He aptly calls it The Nelo AZ
Ticultlre. Concisely stated Mr.. Coles
system has the following advantages
AZ comIfred with the methods OF az
r!culture now in general use: First,
cereal cropa are increased more than
fourfold. Second, the size, favor and
enhanced production Of fruits and
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
CAPLEVILLE, TENN.
Effect of the Railroad On the Town
The Fatmers' Association.
lcoRREsroyDrNoE or TAX APPEAL. |


CAPtEvILLE, TENN, January 81
Since the Memphis, Birmingham and
Atlantic railroad has been finished to
Holly Springs our little town, through
which it passes, has undergone some
improvement. We have nice depot,
a handsome new storehouse, some
new residences and other improve
ments. / am almost tempted 10 say
the place is on boom; If not boom
it is at least real live, genuine boom
let. We can't say whether the rail-
road deserves all the credit for this or
not. At any rate, it is since the road
has been built that this spirit of enter
prise and improvement has shown it.
self. We are willing, however, to &C.
cord the road all the praise, and only
hope that it will confer such benefits
and advantages as wil1n some measure
compensate our citizens for the
losses they sustained in subscrib-
lug to the enterprise when was
first started by Gen. Bedford Forrest
about fourteen years ago. We have
nought to say alnst the fame OF Gen.
Forrest. He was gallant soldier,
aud as a fighter in the lost cause wal
a decided success, but he wasn't "up
to snuff" in railroad matters. So the
original Memphis and Selma cana to
grief, Il, did al who hai put their
confidence, I'D what was dearer still,
their cash therein. But OF course the
present company owning the road
hal nothing to do with the failure to
finish it in the first instance. We at
itch no blame to them. We might
add that our citizens are not likely TO
loss anything more by investing in
Tailroa ls, at least in those in a stat OF
infancy-I might say the embryo
state. II in the future they should
ever become TO isessed with an ire
eiktible impulse TO put capital into
at kind of property, they will first
ss tisfy themselves tina. the road in
question is Q full-glown, well.dsvel'
oped, healthy specimen of the genus
railroad.
The cod wave has swept over us,
and is gone, we hope, forever. Re-
morseless blizzard, fierce child OF the
unlovely Northwest 1--WE think it must
have been a son-of-a-gun from Da.
kota), he swoops down upon our fair
Sunny South, enfolds it in an icy en-
brace until it becomes as friRidly cold
as the Arctic regions. Had that indi-
vidual who went into raptures over the
genial sunny southland come around
during the cold term, II he bad not
been snubbed by his friends and "bey-
cotted" by his enemies, he at least
would have met With cold reception.
The Farmers Cooperative Associa-
ton, which was established here about
six years ago. quietly dissolved short
time since. For several years it did a
good business and high hopes were
entertained that it might reach the
success and prove the boon to the ag-
ricultu' al aad other c'a3ses that 1t has
in England; but from various causes
dissatisfaction became rife among the
members and dissolution was agreed
upon. LrC ADAIR.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29

vegetables are in proportion as Eve TO
one under the old systems. Third,
vegttation Of all kinds lie rendered alb
solutely free from disease, more eepe-
cially that arising from fungoid infec-
ton. Fourth, the ground worked un-
der the new system being measurably
impervious to frost, the producing sea-
son is prolonged from forty to sixty
days. Fifth, it creates rich, moist
and loamy soil out OF the most IN
promising hardpsn. Sixth, it prevents
the washing OF surface soils from hill
side farms during heavy rains. Seventh,
springs are created ON the most sterile
hillsides.- Eighth, drouth is effectual.
ly guarded against.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-01-29
A Gentle atimuIus

Is impaired to the kidneys and bladder by
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is most
useful 10 overcoming torpidity Of these or
gans. Besides infusing more activity into
them, this excellent tonic endows them with
additional vigor, and enables them the better
to undergo the wear and tear Of the dis
charging function imposed upon item by
nature. Moreover. as they are the channel
forth escape Of certain impurities from the
blood. increases their usefulness by strength
ening and healthfully stimulating them.
In certa morbid conditions Of these i'm
portant organs, they fall into O sluggish
state, which Is the usual precursor Of dis
ease. What then can be Of greater service
than a medicine which. imPels them, to
greater activity when slothfulr No maladies
are more perilous than those which affect
the kidneys, and a medicine which aVertS
the peril should be highly esteemed.