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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-06-11

Hae attained q standard Of exceience ~insS
admits Of no superior. .,,.rt%-.
It contains every improvement mat msenes'
-srius shin and money can produce.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
THE IRISH QUESTION.

The Irish World is doing a great
service, not only to the Irish, but TO
all who wish to keep posted about the
political upheaval caused by the
efforts of Irishmen to secure home
rule. The World has recently printed
more on the question than any other
journal in the world. 1t gives the
views of friends and enemies of home
rule, both in the old world and
the new.
Although we have not agreed
with its extreme utterances,
we are forced to acknowledge
1t has welded a potent influence, even
across the ocean.
There are few on this side of the At
lantic who do not think it would be best
for England and Ireland to accept Mr..
Gladstone's plan or some similar one
Such a condition of affairs has been
reached that the Irish can take no step
backwards, and th9 English dare not.
While we do not think the Irish will
reap all the vast benefits anticipated by
them from home rule, we are sure they
will be able TO hear their ills better.
Ireland has too dense a population
and many Irish must suffer from even
a partial failure of the crops, from
trade depressions and from many other
causes not political. England has un-
doubtedly been held responsible for
much suffering of this kind, that it
was not just to charge to the Govern
ment with home rule for the Irish,
that could not be done.
In any way in which the question is
viewed, local rule is preferable.
We of the South can speak
knowingly, for during the
dark days of reconstruction just
after TIT war between the States, we
had to face the innumerable ills which
flow inevitably from a rule admins
tered at a long distance.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
CAPT. HENRY MARTIN HIGHLY
SPOKEN OF.

The ~dlssension among Republicans
over the nomination In the Second
Congressional district forms tho prin-
cipal political topic discussed just at
present.
An old time Republican in CONVEX
sarion with a States reporter today
said, "the opposition candidates are
trying to make it appear that Capt.
Henry n. Martin has not the support
Of the regular Republican organiza-
tons. Such is not the case. He is the
strongest candidate now before the
party for the nomination. The Blaine
and Logan Legion are composed of the
old and regular cOloftd Republicans,
and was not one Of Capt. Martins
Blaine organizations i'll he last cau'
paign. He has the support and conf.
dence of the regular R,pubilcans, as
he has the support and confidence of
the National Committee III the last
campaign,' said this RepubllcAn.-New
Orleans States.
Capt ,in Martin was formally a citi-
zen of Vicksburg. When he left here,
he was considered first class timber
for a Republican congressman.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

A Little Gavel Made from a Section
OF the Tree that Heidi In It's Flbres
the Dust of StonewaII Jackson, the
Christian Soldiers.
The Montgomery Advertiser, Of
April 10Th, says;
On yesterday the Soldiers Monu-
ment Committee received a gavel that
has an interesting history. 1t was &C
companied by the following letter:
WASHINGTON, April 10th.
Hon. w. s. Reese, Chairman:
Dear Sir-I send today by mail to
the Alabama Soldiers Monument AS
ISOLATION a gavel, made of wood as
described by Enclosed card. This me-
mento was, at my instance, expressly
made Sfor your Association by my
friend, Rev. John J. Latferty, the
donor. Its authenticity is beyond
question, and l feel SURE it will be
mighty priced by all who revere the
memory of Stonewall Jackson.
Your friend, JOSEPH BANNER.
To the handle of the gayel a little
card is tied, and on one SIDE the follow.
ing is written
Presented to the Alabama Soldiers
Monument Association, by Rev. John
j. Lafferty, of Richmond, Va, through
Joseph Banner, April ~, 1856"
On the other side of the card the
history of the tree from which the
gavel was made is printed as follows
"In 1864 a gentleman in Cincinnati
sent through the lines a twig Of Pau
lonia Imperials to Col. j. L. L. Pres.
ton, of Gen. T. j. Jackson's staff, with
the request that it be planted by the
tomb OF the Confederate warrio', in
the cemetery at Lexington, Va. 1t
made rapid growth, and in years dis
turbed the modest mound. In 1884
Mrs. Jackson directed its re-
moval. The sexton opened the
earth and the company present found
the roots had gone directly to the
coffin and embraced by curious curves
and bends the body of the dead cham
pion of the South. Mr.. friend, thu
sexton, handed me a section of thu
tree, and these little objects are madt
from wood nouriShed by the mighty
dead, and holding in its hbres the dusl
of the matchless hero. They are pr,
scented to men who honor the memory
of the great Captain and Christian
Soldier.
REV. JOHN j.. LAFFERTY, d. L.,
hmO Va
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
The New School Law.

Editor Of Commercial Herald.
An article in reference to the new
school law appeared in your paper
(date not now remembered) in which
there were three statements not
altogether correct.
1t will not be necessary to survey
and lay off districts, twelve miles
square in which to locate schools, but
tO embrace a territory of that size
around the present sites of schools
and name each district. The minimum
of educable children must be twenty
not twenty five, in a district.
The salary of the county superin-
tendent shall be three per cent Of the
total school funds, not to exceed six
hundred dollars nor be less than u
hundred and fifty dollars, but the
board Of supervisors may increase or
diminish the salary as herein fixed, but
said increase shall not be more than
five per cent nor exceed eight hundred
dollars, nor slid decrease less than one
hundred and fifty dollars. The law
requires the board of supervisors to.
appoint, at its next meeting, n per-
son from each supervisors district to
form a county school board.
The first meeting of the board shall
be on first Monday Of August, next,
when it shall locate the school districts,
and establish the schools of the county
for the next scholastic year.
Respectfully,
H. T. MOORE, Superintendent.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
A Narrow Escape,

Mr.. M. L. Fortner, who lives in the
Yokena neighborhood, came neal being
drowned a few days since. He was
looking for cattle in the overlooked
Big Black swamp, and while riding
along ar inundated road his horse fell
in a deep ditch in which there was a
swift running current. The horse
being unable to get out with him on
its back, he attempted to get off and
swim to shallow water, but in doing
80 his leg became entangled in a large
bull whip which was coiled and tied
behind his saddle. A spur on his foot
prevented him from e~xtricating him.
self and the weight of a pistol and
fifty collars in silver in his pants pock-
cts threw him head down in the tur.
bulent waters. 1t was with the great
est difficulty that he eventually got
foot loose and escaped death.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
JUST SO.

Already the troubles we foletold
when advocating an appointiye govern
ment for Vicksturg, are beginning to
flow from the one elected. The Mayor
and Chairman Of the Police Committee
threatened to resign Tuesday night,
and there was a pretty kettle Of lsh,
because the Police Committee sustain
ed the Chief of Police in removing
men from the force, whom he did not
want. Aldermen wanted to protect
their men, and they had the strength in
the Board to virtually neutralize
the efforts Of the Police Committee.
How the matter was patched up or
whether it was patched up at all, we
do not know, and it makes little differ
ence to the people as long as the
vicious system is retained of permit
ting Aldermen to have pets on the
police force. The whole business is
wrong. The Chief of Police ought to
select his own men from the various
wards,they ought to!be well paid and the
Chief held strictly responsible for them.
Under extraordinary circumstances
the Mayor and Board might review
the action of the Chief, but the occa-
sionS should be rare indeed of rein
stating men he does not want, wheth.
er they are removed for good cause
or not. If he is fit to be Chief at all,
he is the INT to select the men, and to
remove them. That is the only way
the best service can be secured for the
city, and that is what the city govern
ment is for, and not to provide places
for drunksrds, or pets of Aldermen.
The Board also voted away $4,000 in
oae fee to lawyers. If we are not mis-
taken, the attorneys offered to compro-
mise the claim for just half that
amount. but if they did not, the Board
should have stood a suit before paying
such an exhorbitant SUN. Perhaps
the lawyers think they could have re-
covered that amount before a jury, but
very many tax payers do not think
they could have recovered half the
sum. Judging by what the very best
legal services can be secured for, and
the amount of legal work done for the
city in this case, which the city itself
compromised, we think one thousand
dollars would have been a very liberal
fee.
But we presume this will not be the
last time, that round sums of the peo-
pies money will be lightly voted away
by the City Government, elected by the
people, or elected by the hoodlums,
thieves, bummers, strikers and Niger
leaders; the dear people pay their
money, they can take their choice.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
A Damage Suit.

The time of the civil circuit court
was occupied yesterday in the hearing
of the cause of A, H, Andrews, a col.
ored cotton sampler, VS.. the Vicksburg
Compress Company, it being a suit for
damages in the SUI of $1,000 for defa.
nation Of character. Andrews, some
time since, had been sampling cotton
in the yards of said Compress Company
when for non observance of the rules
Of the press or for other cause iustita-
bic in the minds of the managers he
had been forbidden entrance to their
yards, they declining to allow him to
work there, whereupon Andrews
brings this suit for defamation of
character.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
Quick Time.

The steamer Lake Washington on
her last up trip broke her shaft at
Sandy Ridge in Tallahatchie river,
Capt. Nimtz Immediately sent a man
to Greenwood to telegraph for a boat to
come to her assistance, which was
answered by the hydraulic boat, the
steamer Helen Mead, she making the
run to Yazoo City in seven and a half
hours and meeting the Lake Washing
ton at head of Honey Island, at $50
Sunday evening, Capt, Nimtz with
his usual push, having rowed the Lake
Washington from Sandy Ridge to the
head of the island, a distance of over
ninety miles, ala 1atboat, at the rate Of
four and a half miles an hour.
This is the fourth shaft that has
been welded in this city by the man
ayers of the line ,one of which was nine
and a half inches in diameter, and
they find it as easily done here as at
any other place outside of New Orleans
or New Albany, where they are pre-
pared and make a specially of heavy
iron work.
The shaft is in the hands of first.
class mechanics and together with the
wheel work will be finished for her to
leave Oh regular trip this evening. All
boats are subject to such accidents, but
we know of no management who SO
quickly overcome these difficulties, and
keep their packets in their trades, so
that merchants and planters can al
ways depend on their time of arrival
and departure.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23


THE Ford fund which the New
Orleans Times Democrat is trying to
raise for the widow and family of
Patrick Ford, who was recently exc
cuted in New Orleans for murder, to a
certain extent measures the value of
popular sympathy in dollars and cents.
The amount contributed so far is
$435. go. That does not show very
well for those who were so terribly
distressed about "poor Ford's wife and
children" There are ever so many of
them, but their sympathy does not ap-
pear to be worth much.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
he States given below in 1880, was as


When it is borne in mind, that about
four and half million Of whites live in
eight States with about the same num-
Der of blacks, and that the blacks are
increasing faster lin population than
the whites, there can be no very great
amount of i'll treatment. The race
troubles are not as numerous as on the
Pacific coast, where the Chinese are not
nearly SO numerous and where they
are not allowed to vote at all.
Many things which occur in the
North, which cause white men to kill
each other, the whites of the South do
not notice in the negroes. Northern
white men kill each other for working
on terms not approved by some COM
mittee in the South the negroes work
right along side of the whites, and the
trouble is to get them to do all the
work offered. On the farms they have
better opportunities than any tenantry
in any Northern State, or in any coun-
try in Europe.
Let the Northern Radicals and the
Southern fellows, who love to SANDER
the Southern whites reflect on these
facts.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
Shooting in American Bottom

Too much whisky in a belligernt
negro caused quite a commotion on the
East end of Harrison street Sunday
evening. The negroes name was Buck
West; he shot at another negro man
by the name of Alex Davis and assault.
ed a negro woman by the name of
Laura Sawyer. Laura had West ar
rested and brought before Judge
Loewenberg yesterday on three
charges, shooting with intent to kill,
carrying concealed weapons and assault
and battery. The case was set for
Wednesday, and West gave $500 bonds
for his appearance.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
BILE BEANSl What a funn,

BILE BEANS! What a funny
name for a medicine Nevertheless
it is very significant as applied to the
article. Bile, according to Webster, is
a %yellowish bitter, viscld nausceous
fluid, secreted by the liver" When.
ever the liver does not act properly
this fluid is retained in the blood and
poisons the whole system, and sallow-
ness and misery is the result.
SMITHS BILE BEANS is a sure cure
for biliouSness and liver complaint.
Price, Is cents per bottle.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

SECRETARY GARLAND's statement of
his connection with the telephone mat
ter is straightforward, and no doubt
truthful. From it, we Judge that his
main efforts after being made At.
torney-G General, were to avoid even
appearance of prostituting his powerful
official position, to help the company
in which he was a stockholder. He
never attended a meeting of the stock
holders after the election of President
Cleveland, and he obtained his stock
long before he was thought Of for At.
torney.G General. That his political
enemies viii try to use the matter
against him in the future as in the past
there can be little doubt, but we feel
sure there is no good ground for the
people to distrust him.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

Rev. Sam Jones in Columbus, Miss.
Columbus Dispatch.
The Committee Of Arrangements
announce the following programme of
exercises subject to such addition and
changes as the Rev. Mr.. Jones may
direct.
Services-Preaching daily at II
o'clock a m. and 8 o'clock pm. at the
Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
Open air services, daily, at the Court
house at 4 o'clock pm.
Accommodations - The Methodist
Church will seat comfortably 1900
persons. The Presbyterian Church
will e a 800 persons, so that during
the preaching services $500 person.
can be conveniently and quietly &C
commodated.
No seats will be provided at the
open air service at the Courthouse.
Persons desiring seats will provide for
themselves. Arrangements will be
made at this service to accommodate
the colored people. Five thousand
persons can easily hear the distinguish
ed Evangelists at this hour.
The hotels, private clearinghouse,
eating and lunch-houses are making
ample arrangements to entertain all
guests who may apply, at reasonable
rates.
Expenses.-In addition to the sub
scriptions paid to the Finance Com
mittee, contribution boxes will be
placed at the doors of the churches to
receive such donation as any person
may be willing to give.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

THE statue of Benjamin ]. Hill will
b. unveiled in Atlanta on the first of
May. on which occasion Hon. Jeffer-
son Davis will deliver an address.
There will be a vast civil and military
demonstration. Many distinguished
citizens aud soldiers of the North will
take part.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
ADVICE.

About TWENTY-FIVE years ago the South
went on a strike under Grand Master
Davis. Thel Uucle Sam struck and the
Southern strike after years of suffer
ing was ended. 1t is not pleasant for
US to refer to that great strike, for we
took part in it and lost a father and
brothers and a fortune by it. We only
refer to it now to warn the fellows all
over the Union who go on strikes not
to collide with Uncle Sam. Tn, y
may take a brush with Governors now
and then and not get hurt very badly,
but if Uncle Sam ever gets after
them in earnest, they will wish they
had never gone on a strike against
him.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

SENATOR HoAR has introduced his
National inquest bill. lit provides in
brief that whenever three citizens of a
State petition under oath, setting forth
that any person has been killed, seri-
ously injured in person or property, or
threatened because of political opin-
ions, or with a view to prevent the
free expression of opinions in regard
to matters affecting the general well
fare of the United States, it shall be
the duty of the circuit judge to hold
an inquest into the circumstances and
report the evidence and his conclu.
sions to the President, to be laid before
Congress-" Its introduction, we Judge,
will be the last of it. 1t so invites
perjury, that it ought to be called a
bill to encourage those who SANDER
the Southern whites, to periuTe
themselves more frequently.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
A Train Thrown Over an Embank-

PITTsBURG. April 20.-A fast
freight train going east over the West
pennsylvania railway ran into an open
switch near HarmarSville, Pa twenty
miles east of this city, about daylight
this morning and was precipitated over
an embankment. The entire train
Was wrecked and the crew, consisting
OF Engineer Mcfarland, Fireman
Ramley and Brakeman Mathews. serl-
ously and perhaps fatally hurt. Their
injuries were sustained in jumping
from the train. Q
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
Cotton

The following are the cotton receipts
at the congresses in this city this
season; Week ending April 18th ll3
bales; to date 50,747 bales; shipments
for week 1925 bales; to date A, 727
bales; stock on hand 6,02O bales,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
THE RACES IN THE SOUTH.

III IN OOUIH.
We wish to remind our readers of a
few facts to show the negroes of the
South, are as a general thing, we'll
treated. 1t is a favorite occupation of
some in the North and a few in the
South to magnify and distort every
race trouble which occurs in the South.
Before presenting these facts and fig
ures, W will say that in many in
stances, the Southern white people in
dealing with this very difficult and
irritating question, have done
things they ought not to have
done, and left. undone things
they ought to have done. What we
wish to make plain to the world is the
fact, that the white people of the
South are as good as any white people
on earth, and we believe, are more pa
tient with, and kinder to the negroes
than any other people would be.
The last census shows that since the
war the blacks in the South have in
creased five per cent more than the
whites. This fact must be accepted to
prove that the relations between the
races are kindly. In the West the In
disns are rapidly dying out, although
the Government does everything to
protect them.
The populi ton Of the two races in
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

Ex.Gov. WARMoTH is in New Or
leans trying to reconcile Republican
factions in the Second Congressional
District of Louisiana. Itis stated that
Warmoth has re-entered politics and
will try to be elected Governor of
Louisiana at the next election.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

THE Louisville Courier Journal
thinks that if Hoxie's daily bulletins.
are correct, the strike is a good thing
for the railroads.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

JUDGE PARDEE has decided that the
Texas Pacific system is in the full pos.
session of the United States Court, and
that any interference with it is a con.
tempt, that Uncle Sam will see to
p. d. q. Of course he doesn't use such
concrete language, but that is what be
is trying to make the strikers under
stand. And he is succeeding, too.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

The Greenville Times and one or
two other Valley papers find fault with
the term ''danger line" on the river
gauges. The Times argues that it is
"surplusage" to put the danger line"
on a gauge.
We think it serves its purpose very
well, which is simply to warn the PEG
PIE the river is at a point where the
lsvees need close watching, when the
danger line is reached.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

The eight hour system is rapidly
gaining favor. 1t is alike acceptable
TO the laoorer, and to the capitalist
who is suffering from over.prOductiOn.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

A MASS meeting is to be held at
Raymond on the 9th, and the Sword
and Shield urges that Prohibition be
made the question,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
Cheap and Interior Porous Plas.
tors

Will inevitably d~IsappOint you, and are no.
Among the unerous porous piasfers atfarsd fn.
sale Benson's Capcine Pla,ters alone merit i'm.
pliciG confidence. They have won heir great
popularity with the people, and ga neil The vo!.
SSntary em3orSelheat, OF the medical profession
only. When purchasing be on your quart
against worthless limitations under mis- easdinS
names, such as .Oapslcln, - 'Capslcum, Gap
nclh, "Oapslclne, etc., certain huckster-
IN place OF the genuine. II is better { deal Win
none put reputable and Ii lnorable druggists,
ask for Benson's, and see that it bears tie
""dhree Seals" trademark and has the word
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

A MONTGOMERY evening paper has
been boycOtted by the Printers Union
for not paying union prices.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
The Weaker Sex

are immensely strengthened by the use
of R. V. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrip-
tlon," which cures all female derange-
ments, and gives tone to the system.
Sold by druggists. c
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
A Divorce Case to be Reonened

a DIVofce Case to be Reopened.
LONDON, April 2l-The queens
proctor, after testing the evidence in
the divorce case of Crawford VS..
Crawford and Dixie, has interviewed.
and the Crawford divorce case will be
reopened:
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23

The river is falling at Cairo and only
rising very slowly at Memphis and this
city. We are more confident than
ever, that ne serious damage will be
done in the Valley in this locality, if
the people are watchful and energetic
in strengthening and guarding the
%levees, and the weather continues
favorable.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
SCOTS Emulsion of Pura

Cod Liver Oil, With HypophOsphites,
L" ScrOt"tO"s and COnsumpttve Cases
DR. c. C. LOCKWOOD, New York, says: 81
have frequently prescribed Scott's Emulsion,
and regard it as a valuable preparation in scro-
fulous and consumptlve cases, palatable and
etlicaciOus."