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Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14
OI'ar Beyond.

In front Of ono Of the blacksmith
shops u young negro was trying " ex
tract nail from hind hoof Of an ablo
bodied and vicious.looking mule, Ar
aged oolored man came along. watches
the operation for o moment, aud Oh
served.
~. sd ss s sss s. to Heaven = dat "'''
!, RECKON NOT was the reply.
.Whar dcnP" asked the old man.
"Cl'sr beyond. "-Green Cote Sprins
(RlA.l LSttr
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14
MARYLAND, Ny MARYLAND.

Maryland legislators, who are always
alive to tho public interests, have endorsed
she new discovery, Rcd Star Cough Cure,
because It contains nsither morphia nor
opium, and always cures Hcpnceis only
Is nsnta 70 .... 40.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14

perhaps for concentr inaccura-
oy Of statement nothing can ssurpass
the following sentence. which occurred
In an account Of a burglary given y
short time hack In Dublin newspa.
per, AFTER . fruitless scar CHI. all the
money was recovered, except one pair
Of boots"
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14

PIkE'sToorHAciIE DRoPs curein minute, &c
Gknn's Sulphur Soipheals and bcautiiies. &c.
GERMAN Cons REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14
FIGHTING COCA.
A Movement In New York tn Prevent the
IndlrcrininAte Sale OF the Drug.

A Movement Ia New York to Prevent the
Indiscriminate Sale Of the Drug.
A bill is being prepared by the New
York Medical Society for submission TO
the State Legislature providing for the
addition Of coca to opium and other
drugs forbidden to be sold excep, on
physicians prescriptions. Cocaine ha.
been generally adopted into medical
b practice as local application to pro,
ducc insensibility. and It's success fol
that purpose has led 10 q proniseuous
and very hurtful use as swallowed
exhilarant So great has the demand
for II become that, in the form Of chew.
ing.pastes, II is on sale in most OF the
drug.storos. These preparations are
usually put forward as composed of the
green leaves Of the coca plant, with .
slight imprcgnation Of lime. making
Just such cud rs that which the In.
dams OF Peru chew to relieve thoii
fatigue and exhaustion. The disastrou,
effects on the Peruvians IL matter OF
no,oriety, and at times the Spanish
rulers Of that country have forbidden
its cultivation. Many New Yorkcrs
have become victims to the coca habit
through substituting the drug for 10.
bacco, opium or alcohol. than either OF
which the doctors declare II more
deadly. Into the discussion of the
qualities of cocaine, incidental to the
preparation Of the bill to regulate the
traffic In Il, has entered a powerful
commercial influence. The various
manufacturers Of the coca preparations
for lay use have fought hard for nom
inference, because they see a big bust.
ness ahead u let alone. They are bound
to intcrpose at Albany against the pas
sage Of any law on the subject-N r.
Cfdr ... IF
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14

} --Aless from cattle ..ugh,.rcd in >
terror-stricken condition Ia found. BY
Investigation 70 Be unit Tor human'
food,-Troy Tmes.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14

"A new town in Idaho has advcr-
tiscd for o brass band.
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14

No Opiun, I'm Piso's euro for Consump
tion, Cures where other rcuiedios fail. &c
Signal-Copiahan. (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1886-01-14

Tine bowels may 10 regulated, and the
stomach strengthened, with Ayers PL's.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05
A White Rock

Last spring, when there were p.s, rcof (.
nests full of little families IN e's :. {, Ger.
cry, workman climbed a tree in a. a O' q
man village, and peeped Into Int surprise plp
them. You may imagine e H ronng birds
when, among a number r, Of f.Tn GdIS grow
mVS he esp esped one that ~ was sre snH IL
White, and with pair Of ff I is S' now es-
took possession Of it. anu ! i
hiblted at Berlin.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05

light had faded the hard lines we're
again on his face.
''When will the old elephant Gomez"
the boy asked, when another morning
had dawned.
cit won't be long now
"Tll be awful glad when he does
come, I'm keepin' this big red apple for
him, an he'll be awful glad to get it,
won't hep
eyes, he will. .
He'll say to himself this is the best
apple I ever did eat, won't hep
Eyes, he will think it very fine
Physicians came and came again. A
little feverish hand held a red apple.
The tears of a heart broken father fell
upon ringlets of beautiful hair. Women
came with their gentle hands and soft
whispers. Another day dawned. A red
apple on the mantel-piece caught a ray
of sunlight. Then came the roll of
drums, the clash of symbals. Feathers
nodded, people shouted. The father
lifted his swollen eyes from little coffin
and glanced through window. The
old elephant was passing the house.
Opie p. Read.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05

To the little ones who are fond of
flowers, we give from an exchange the
little flower talk below EDS.
What wildwood treasures has May to
offer that may replace the vanished bios
SONS of April? The earlier flowers APP
pear at intervals of days Or weeks, and
the coming of which is noteworthy
event to the fower-lover. But when
May comes, there are no longer any
gaps in the floral procession. On MAY
Day one always expects to find few
flowers in bloom: the white saxifrage.
fast rooted in the CreviceS of rocks the
dull white plantain-leaved everlasting, or
ladies tobacco; the four-petalled pale
blue lnnocentS, and possibly blue and
white violetS. The innoCents are espe-
clally interesting in these latter days,
when so much is said and written con-
cerning cross-fertilization. On every
hillside you may find two kinds of these
tlowerS-one sort having the stamens
raised to the summit of the tube of the
blossom, and the stigma at the bottom of
the tube: the other sort having the two
Iobed stigma at the top, and the four
stamens at the bottom. The two kinds
however, are always in different clumps,
all the flowers in one plant being alike.
You may on your next walk easily
verify the truth of the statement. Every
child familiar with wildAowers knows
how attractive the innocents are to in
sects; and would you know how cross
fertilization is accomplished by them,
read the interesting and clearly illust1a
ted account in Craps delightful little
book, elbow Plants Behave" and the
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05
Childre1'8 Page.
When the Elephant Came.

CANT sort of man. The pleasant faces
he met along the street held no charm
for him. He had never been known to
commit cruel act, yet people sad he
was utterly without feeling. When his
wife was buried he stood beside the
grave, apparently unmoved, and the
next day he went about his business as
usual.
cit is strange, said a generous man
who had just made an assignment, chow
such a man as Millbank can be success
full in business. y
"Such men are generally successful, .
a friend replied. ''Hardheartedness sue
coed where gentleness strives in vain. !"
Millbank was not wholly regardless of
others. He loved his little boy with a
devotion forgetful of all self, So soon as
he had entered his house the hard lines
would melt from his face and his eyes,
SO cold to all others, would glow as If
his soul had suddenly sprung into them.
elbow is my little angelo" the father
asked one evening as he took the child on
his up and fondly kissed him.
"Well," the little fellow replied.
Emmett, do you know that every
morning when I awake and find you
we'll I feel so thankful to God that
ought to spend the rest Of the day in
worshiping Him p
emo, do your"
eyes, little angel"
can when the old elephant come swill
you take me to see him?'
eyes"
"NeXt week"
"W1ll he be here in the mornin'?''
No, he won't come until next week. ;"
"Tell me about him."
"Well, he will come marching down
the street with his great long snout, and
the little boys and girls will clap their
hands and laugh. Then he will go out
to great big tent, and the boys will
give him apples"
can might give him one?"
eyes"
can he won't bite me, eiver, will he?"
emo"
''What will he do?"
"He will take the apple with his snout
and put it in his mouth.
"He will?"
eyes, and then he'll want another
one"
III wish he was here now"
"HelI be here pretty soon. There,
now INnpo ,,o,,c+ no H.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05

whole ?. process will be 50 clear :
you =. will wonder that you did no, y S
er il, it for yourself long ago. - not dls'ov-
,h,t his ., year r the spring was 50 .dr,,,.,
that many flowers could h. 80, advanced
MAY May Day y than are ordinarily T'i oasd o.
Illuminated with the abundant o Ill.,. were
the tl snowy shad-bush, the FRAGILE iIs', a.s q
mones swayed on slender sts srs ' n
lleloS were starred with dandelioD, IL, +,s
s5;a '0lumOlnes nodded at the top of t 1,s
Cliffs almost, not quite, inacepss i '''
the graceful dogs tooth violets mss'
waiting In their secluded hooks to pr y,s
u.s. and the interesting hobble-bus0 S r;tI
its outer circle of neutral flowers, attr, act,
ed US while yet tar away. - ''-
AS the days and weeks glide bv IL.
the flowers appear in increasing varetv
and profusion, crowding forward in the
latter part of May, as If to prepare tba
observer for the coming high carnival IN
J June. The buttercups glow blythe way.
II
slde' the daisies spangle the moving
fields, the lavender blossoms of the wild
geranlums look out from shady hooks
the pale bird-foot violet and the sweet
white violet yield their perfume to the
persuasive sunshine; the golden-hearted
blossoms of the strawberry promise sweet
fruitage, the white blossoms of the gold
thread are we'll set off by leaves Of
glossy green, and the golden ragwor-
wrapping itself in tattered wool-looks
SO much like an autumn aSter that it is
easy to imagine that it has come 50
early by mistake.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05


Don Alfonso's christening robe, long
preserved as a precious relic, has been
given to the queen regent by Queen
Isabella. 1t is of MalineS lace, trimmed
with watered ribbons embroidered with
Bourbon lilies; and the new baby would
be proud if he realized how pretty 1t S'
The work is said to be exquisite
Old lady Ito street gamin) "Llt'ls
boy, don't you want to join the SUNDAY y,
school, and grow up to be good man. :.
Little Boy. "What Sunday-Scn00l .
it?"
"The Methodist.
"No. tried the MethodlStS las y'' =
an | didn't git nothin but a SUM- ", ~ ~
broken candy an a apple. I'm gO'"
try the Episcopal this year,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
Theory and Practice.

The Boston Journal continues to
fight desperately against any change in
the suffrage laws of Massachusetts,. In
noting the proposition Of the Globe of
that city, which paper contends that if
a man is intelligent enough to fight for
his country he is intelligent enough to
vote, the Journal says;
eve can understand the Globes de-
sire to have the reading-and-writing
tests abolished, because the man who
cannot read the ballot he casts would
be ready and easily.duped tool in the
hands of demagOgues.'
And to this the Globe replies by
asking the following pertinent ques-
ton:
"Does that explain why the colored
voter in the South was for so many
wears a ready and easily-duped tool in
the hands of'-Republican statesmen"
We will await the reply of the Jour
nal with considerable interest. If it
succeeds in reconciling its theory upon
suffrage in Massachusetts, with the prac-
tice of its party upon suffrage in the
South it will perform one of the most
extraordinary journalistic featS of the
nineteenth century.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
DEATHS.

BAGBY.-Died. January 20, 1885. ED
WARD T.. youngest child OF John and Mary
Bsgby; aged eight years and ten months.
Dear little EDWARD in Heaven,
safe, very safe. over there:
Taken from earth I'm his beauty.
Before he knew sorrow or care.
Gone from your arms lovely mother,
To live with the pure and the true;
God took your treasure TO Heaven
That your heart might journey there, too.
Funeral will take place from 1t. Patrick's
church SUNDAY EVENING al half past
O'Clock. Friends and acquaintance of the
family are invited TO attend.
Baltimore and New York papers please
copy. 2t'
CIIILES.-Died, at her late residence, No.
III east Clay street, on Friday, January
22. 1885. at 4:12 A. NJ. after lingering ILL.,
ness, which she bore with Christian fortl-
tube, Mrs. MARY JANE, wife of William
IL Chiles. and daughter OF the late VIII
liam G. Foley, in the thirty1sixth year OF
her age.
The funeral will take place from the Sc
cond BAPTIST church THIS Saturday Ar
TERNOON, January 23d, at o'clock
Friends OF the family invited to attend
without further notice.
Petersburg and Danville, We, Goldsboro'.
n. C., and Emory, Tex, paIets please copy.
SHEPPERSON.-Died, on the 2lst OF Jan.
uary, 1855, at quarter to IL O'Clock l.. NJ,
at the residence OF his uncle. VI. &. Cren-
shaw. Hanover county. MILTON J.. SHEP-
PRISON, in the twenty.fourth year OF his
age only son OF ID. \. and |. II. Shepperson.
He shall sleep, but not forever,
In the lone and silent grave:
Blessed be the Lord that taketh,
Blessed be the Lord that gave.
The funeral will take place from the resi-
dence OF his uncle TODAY Saturday. at
IL O'Clock. Friends and acquaintance in
vited to attend.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23

ASt. Louis NO. special says: AT
an early hour this morning pleasant
looking gentleman of medium height,
dressed plainly but neatly, in suit Of
black broadcloth, with high standing
collar, and wearing tall silk hat,
walked up to the clerks desk at Hurst's
Hotel. 81 haven't seen you for quite
q while," said he to the clerk, Major
Dean, at the same time extending a
long, slender hand in the clerks direc-
ton.
gWell, I'm blessed if you haven't
the advantage Of me-" answered the
Major, as he squeezed the strangers
hand in his customary aHable manner.
Your features do look triae familiar,
though" he continued gazing search.
iDely at the pale countenance, high
cheek bones, dsrk-brown dropping
mustache, and small, keen, gray eyes
before him.
"Just one moment, please" said
the unknown ~ knew you during the
war. Here's my signature" Taking
up . pen he wrote Frank W. James
and wife, Kansas City, No." in large,
bold letters on the register. It was
the: famous bandit, sure enough.
Mr.. james and his wife were assigned
. room on the parlor floor, to which
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
REDEMPTION of Greenbaclss.

Our neighbor Of the Petersburg In
der-Appeai is not in the habit Of being
"wise above what is written He is
generally careful in the use Of words.
We might say that he is usually I'M
usually careful. Therefore, we were
surprised yesterday when we read in
the hdex-Ippeol the following chal-
lepge
ave defy them to point us to a
single statute or section of statute
providing for the redemption Of green
backs In gold, or to a single statute or
section Of a statute that makes any
provision for setting apart any money
Of any kind, gold or silver, for their re.
demption. There is no such law"
After reading the above we turned to
the law of the United States on the
subject, and found the following pro-
visions:
"And on and after the LIST day Of
January, 1879, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall redeem in coin the
United States legal-tender notes then
outstanding, on their presentation for
redemption at the Office of the Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States. in
the city of New York, in sums of not
less than fifty dollars. And to enable
the Secretary Of the Treasury to pre-
pare and provide for the redemption in
this act authorized or required, he is
authorized to use any surplus revenues,
from time to time, in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, and to issue,
sell, and dispose of at not less than par
in coin, either Of the descriptions Of
bonds Of the United States described
in the act of Congress approved July
4. lS7O,n and to use the
proceeds thereof for the proposed afore-
said."
If our contemporary had not added
the last clause to his first sentence, he
would have made good point. Since
the act above quoted became law the
United States Senate has passed reso-
luton declaring that the bonds Of the
United States are all payable in either
gold coins or silver coins. And this
was done upon the motion of the Re-
publican STANLEY MATTHEWS, now
a Justice of the United States Supreme
Court.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
LYNCHBURG.
Married-Triai for Robbery Wanted 70 ''e'"
Out the Court.


Married-Triai for Robbery Wanted 70 o'ea"
Out the Court.
tco,resnondence of the Richmond Dispatch.1
JANUARY %, 1886.
Last evening at st. Paul's church. 10
Salem. Miss Ernestine Booker. the
popular young daughter of Mr.. james
III. Booker, ST., ofLynchburg, was united
in marriage to Mr.. Christian Hutter,
also of this city, and young man OF
high character and fine intelligence.
The wedding was largely attended from
LynchbuTg.
I am now told that the amusing Sum
day-school joke alleged to have trans
PRED in the grand-jury room recently
was the invention Of some one OF the
wicked fellows whom the grand jury
hauled up for violation Of the law; and
the prominent man who was reported
to have demanded the name Of the juror
who had him summoned as witness
says there was only enough of fact in
the statement to cause him to imagine
that he was referred to, as he had some
pretty sharp passages with one or two
Of his questioners.
In the Corporation Court last night
G.. S. Scott white was tried on the
charge of stealing $50 from the person
of a young man named Wright while
the latter was drunk. The case took
up the whole of the day and part of the
night. The jury reported its inability
to agree, and was discharged. Scott
has hitherto borne a respectable repu-
tation.
To-day in the Corporation Court Jim
Scott (colored) was tried and found
guilty of maliciously shooting Richard
Ganaway (colored) four months ago.
The jury rendered a verdict of two years
in the penitentiary.
Charles Smith (white), of Amherst,
was arrested and summoned to appear
before magistrate yesterday on the
charge Of beating his wife and son. lie
made his appearance in court with a
loaded shotgun, and threatened to
clean out things generally, intimating
his ability, with the assistance Of friends
present, to give the Court a cold-water
bath in James river. AS yet he has
not been punished either for the offence
charged or the contempt committed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
School-Books and Taxes.


The Constitution Of Virginia provides
that every law which imposes a tax
shall distinctly state the object to which
it is to be applied. 1t is evident
that il all the children in the Virginia
public schools are to be furnished with
free books, there must be . special tax
imposed, and, if so, that the object OF
this tar must be stated. If the Repub-
lican members Of the Legislature desire
10 have books furnished free to all the
children in the State, let them agree upon
. bill levying . tax for the million Of
dollars that will be required annually
for that purpose.
The trainers Of the Constitution of
Virginia endeavored to provide against
any new State debts. They put into
that instrument not only the provision
We have alluded to above, but the fol.
lowing:
Every Law hereafter enacted by
the General Assembly creating debt
shall provide sinking fund
fer the payment Of the same"
The Republican members Of the
Legislature may claim that to authorize
the purchase Of school-books for ell the
public-school children would not be to
create debt within the meaning Of the
Constitution. But let them not be too
certain on that point. The Constitu-
ton is Its own best interpreter. II
provides
"No debt shall be contracted by this
State except to meet casual deficits in
the revenue" &C., &c.
Those are the very words which
ought to be used, and will have to be
used, in any bill that may hereafter
have to b. pAsssd - . consequence Of
spending million Of dollars year for
school, books. The operation Of such
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23
%, 1886.
Counting the Vote.

Coming from Ohio, and having just
been reelected, and knowing well the
unfair means by which that election
was accomplished, Mr.. SHERMAN dares
to allude in the United States Senate to
the alleged frauds in New York in 1868
by which the vote Of that State was
said to have been secured for Mr.. SEY-
MoUR. Surely Mr.. SHERMAN's face
is covered with brass. He took care
to say that he did not in 1877 vote
for the electoral-commission bill, as if
it would have been wrong for so pure
man to vote for it /; but he would not
deny that he was one of the criminals
who paved the way to the fraud by
which HAYES was made President of
the United States. He was one Of the
visiting statesmen" He was the man
whose name was then associated with
that of ELIZA PINKsToN. And this
man faces the people Of the United
States. and talks about frauds in presi'
Dental elections.
Whilst it is the theory Of the Consti-
tuition that each elector Of President OF
the United States votes for his own per-
sonal and individual choice, the fact is
that all the electors chosen in any given
State are expected to vote for one and
the same man for that Office. So that
if. rs Mr.. SHERMAN objects, the bill
now under consideration in the United
States Senate provides that all the
votes Of every State shall be counted
for one man, whether one or more
of the electors be disqualified or
not, then the bill actually provides
for carrying out the unwritten law
Of the republic. If after any election
Of President by the people it should
appear that the candidate chosen by
them had been deprived Of his office,
and the defeated aspirant installed in it,
because some Of the persons chosen as
electors were disqualified under the
Constitution to serve as electors, there
would be such resulting troubles as the
country may well pray to be delivered
from. Congress ought not even to con-
slider a proposition which might bring
about such results.
On the other hand, Mr.. SHERMAN
is right when he says, as he does, in
effect. that the bill under consideration
attempts to make distinction where
there is no difference when it provides
first what shall be done if there is only
one return, and, secondly, what shall DC
done if there are two returns. ms
provision ought not to be made part
of the new law. 1t offers a premium
for two sets of returns. Leave some
thing to the discretion and good Judg
ment Of the two houses of Congress
in 1877 the proposed bill had beer
a law of the United States, there
would have been dead-locE
between the Senate and thu
House of Representatives. Al
the law now stands, the Senate cal
shape its action to suit the emergency
1t is right to require the vote of boil
houses to reject the returns where ther'
is but one. But to provide that wher
there are two returns neither shall b'
counted without the consent of bott
houses Of Congress would be to pro
vide for trouble. 1t would be to ofieI
premium for second return when
ever the two houses should be con
trolled by different parties. Better lie
"well enough" alone.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-23

In the Forty-first Congress Senator
EDMUNDs declared
alt is cause enough for me, sir, con-
stitutional cause, when the President
Of the United States, acting, if he is
honest, as he always must, upon a con-
scientious sense of his responsibility to
the people and to God, chooses to send
in one mans name for a place that
another holds"
And now will Senator EDMUNDs
explain why what was sound doctrine
in the Forty-first Congress is not sound
doctrine in the Forty.ninth Congress