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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

A WOMAN may not be able to sharp
en- a pencil or drive a nail, but she can
pack more dry goods in atrunk than a
manscan in a two-horse wagon.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22
The Gou-Gou the Reigning F~avorlte.

Though the great west doesn't suspect
it, at the eastern centers of civilization
the dude has been replaced by the Gussie;
he supplanted by tae Jimmie, and the
latter's successor is the gou-gou, who is
the reigning favorite. The name gou-
gou it an exact reproduction of the first
sound made by an infant. We don't
know whether it was intentional -Buf-
falo EXPRESS.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The land-grabbtrs would willingly
give Secretary Lamar six feet of earth
if he would only die, says the Courier
Journal.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The Mormon lobby at Washington
City is said to be the largest and
strongest lobby ever known, and a
strong fight on the Edmunds bill will
be made in the House.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

THE neurological list of 1886 of dis
tinguished men is headed by a prom
inent Mississippian-the largest cotton
planter the world, Col. Edmund
Richardson.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

MRS. FITzHUGH LEE was so ex-
hausttd after the reception Of Vir-
ginia's new Governor that she tainted.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

Buzzards have become so troublesome
at Tallahassee, Fla, sitting on the Chin
neys Of the state capital, that the adiu.
tant general has ordered them shot.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

Rev. ROBERT LOWRY, of Plainfeld,
n. j., and not our "Dear Bob" is the
author Of the well-known and beauti-
full hymn, "Shall We Gather at the
River"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22
CREDIT.


We see that Hon. Mr.. Carroll has in
troduced a bill to prevent the sacrifice
of mOrtgaged property. II has been
referred to the judiciary Committee,
and we trust the Committee has the
good sense to promptly kill it.
1t is in the line with other measures
that have cost the honest citizens Of
Mississippi millions of dollars since
the war. 1t is simply to fur
nish debtors with another dodge
to enable them to violate contracts.
The State is now cursed with exemp-
lions on one side and rascally attach
ment proceedings on the other, to such
an extent that the rate of interest is
the highest in the United States. In
a State that needs cheap money
for industrial purpose and for
profitable development, that is a bad
state of affairs. The attachment laws
now offer a premium to the creditor
who FIRST rushes into court and pouncts
down On a debtor, and Mr.. CAROLS
bill! would greatly increase the devil
mems. What the State really needs
is less exemptions, and plain laws that
will make the dishonest stand up 10
their contracts, and make a c.ean
shocking. The way to keep people
from borrowing money and mortgag-
ing property, is to teach them that the
laws will make them stand squarely
to their contracts instead of being a
bar to the collection of debts. A thor
ough and wise reform Of our laws on
this subject, would give honest Missis-
sippians all the money,they needed at
six per cent.
The sound policy is written in the
Constitution; there should be no tam
pering with the righC Of contract.
THE U. s. JUDICIAL SYSTEM.
At the suggestion Of ATTORNEY
General Garland, a bill is being prt-
pared at the Department Of Justice
proposing certain changes in the Fed
eral Judicial System. 1t is thought
that the bill will be presented in the
House by Hon. John Randolph Tucker,
of Virginia. The bill, among other
things, proposes the transfer of all the
original jurisdiction of 1.-THE Circuit
Courts to the District Courts, and the
increase of the number and salary of
Judges for the latter; an addition OF
judges in the Circuit Courts, and con
shutting them exclusively Courts Of
Appeals, reasonably limiting appeals
thereto; further restriction Of thu
right to remove causes from the State
to the Federal Courts; permitting APP
peals to the Supreme Court from the
Courts of the District of Columbia
and the Territories only in the same
cases as they are allowed from State
Courts, and guarding against an I'M
necessary number of appeals from the
Circuit Courts.
1t is hardly probable, however meri.
torious the proposed change may be.
that a Republican Senate will agree
with a Democratic House.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

CIVIL COMMISSIONERS Edgarton,
TreDhalm and Eaton were confirmed
by the Senate on the 18th.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

EX-CHIEE JUSTICE TERRY, of Cali
fornia. who recently married his
client, Sarah Anthem Hill, who claims
to be the widow of Ex-senator Sharon
is the man who killed Broderick.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22
A Sad thing to read is the death 0.

A SAD thing to read is the death Of
the once brilliant, honored and envied
Shields S. Hussey in a LandeTdale
Poor-house. The opium habit dragged
him down from comfort and promi-
nence to be the miserable shivering
inmate Of a poor-house.--Jackson Mis-
sissippian.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

CHAUNsEY F. BLACK, son of the late
Jerry Black, is frequently mentioned
by Democratic papers in Pennsylvania
as a candidate for Governor in that
State.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

HORACE GREELEY once said that
any man with more than a million is
a nuisance.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

NORTHERN people who came South
for the Winter certainly found almost
as big a one as they left at home.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The chances of a free coinage bill
being pushed through the House are
saia to be much greater than the
chances of a suspension of the present
coinage. Such a bill, of course, would
be vetoed by the President, and that
would leave matters just as they now
are.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

THE sugar crop Of Louisiana for
1885 is 10 per cent greater than that
Of 1884
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

Only two-sevenths of the Offices
now in the gift of the administration
are held by Democrats.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

There are nineteen foreign born
members Of the present National
House Of Representatives.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

NME-TENTHs of the Greenbackers
Of the country are in favor of the free
coinage of silver.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

Only twenty-six Of the United
States Senators keep house in Wash
ingtOn.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

PEOPLE who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
cannot remember anything longer than
about seven days.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama,
takes the position that the Govern
ment appointment of trustees to man
age the affairs of the Mormon church
is a violation of the Constitution, in
that it unites church and State.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

SEVEN members Of the New Orleons
city council are in Jail for contempt Of
court.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

"WoMAN was made after man."
Yes, and she has been after him ever
since.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The Japanese ~cats'+yes, which are now
~fashionable ornaments, are g! polished
hinge, or tack knob at the hio Of the
pear oyster.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The Missouri Cremation society has
800 members, twenty-five of whom are
women.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

Baron de Lenval, of Nice, has offered a
prize of 5000 to the person who shall in
vent an easily portable instrument for
improving the hearing. Only completed
instruments are received, and they must
be sent in before Dec. 81, 1887. The prize
will be awarded in September, 1888, at
Brussels. British Medical Journal.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

IT is reported that Gen. Benjamin
F.Butler "has set his eye on re-entering
politics by seeking a return to Con-
tress this Fall" Set his eye, is good.
Ben sat his eye in that line so long
ago that it got firmly fixed.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The French, too, have their medi
cal ethics. Pasteur has never taken a
doctors degree and cannot therefore
perform any surgical operation or in
oculate a patient. He has to do every
thing but the headwork by proxy.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

9HEvoild owes sgsry nan a living,
provided Be works for II.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

WITH the thermometer at zero, and
a few degrees below, we thought ii
awful cold. But in Vermont and
other New England States, the mer
curry dropped to forty below zero.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

The exodus of negro labOrers and
farm hands from Tennessee, Georgia
the Carolinas and Alabama to Ar
kansas is increasing, Fully one
thousand passed through Chattanooga
recently. This exodus is produced
principally by high rents, bad crops
and the defective tenant system. Good
wages are offered in Arkansas.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

It is proposed to establish q Chinese
chamber Of commerce at Hong Kong.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-22

BROTHER MASON, of the Revielle,
says the present cold spell reminds him
of a slight GOODNESS of atmosphere
some time in 90
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-08
Farmers Paradise.

A man on his own farm, well cul-
tivated and kept, we'll stocked, with
good modern dwellings and barns
and out buildings, master of both
time and acres, tied to no hours by
the calls of bells or whistles, free to
come and go according to the neces-
stiles of none but himself, mostly in
his own fields, performing his health
full labors within sight of the smoke
of his own chimneys, is surely as
rich in the genuine sense of that
word as any man can be. He has
nothing to fear and nobody to envy.
OF one thing he is sure all his days,
and that is sufficient living; and
that is what other men are never
sure of without a single pang OF
doubt or apprehension. There is his
land; there is his home: there is all
the animate and inanimate machin-
cry of his establishment; and for the
rest he looks in profound trust to
the bounty of Heaven.
Instead of this unworthy and de-
moralizing anxiety to get rich, if the
average farmer, once being solidly
established, would resolve to enlarge
and exalt his life as it is, to make
out Of that, to enjoy as much as pos
sible Of what there is to be enjoyed
to adorn and beautify his home
that only paradise on earth---within
and without, he would find all his
daily tasks easier, even to the ex
tent of being delightful; he would
feel rich where now, with more
money, he feels all the time poor
and he would rid himself of a FALSE
tyrant in the form of increasing par
simony that holds his nose to tht
grindstone till he is flung into hii
! crave. If farmers only knew II they
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-08

From the Pistsburzh Dispatch, Sept 25<h- lsso-
VERY seldom do we read of an actual
case of recovery, where hope had alto
getl,cr been lost, to parallel that which
was Monday investigated by Dispatch
reporter, vino had heard in various quar-
tiers persons talking TO their friends OF
cure, seemingly little short of marvellous,
that had been performed. The plain facts
in the case referred to, without exaggcrs-
ton, are these, as they were learned from
the mother Of the young man. his pastor
and other persons well known in the COM
munity:
sWilliam Lincoln Curtis is the name
Of the young man in question. HE Is now
employed at ii. K. Porter & Co.'S loco
motive works in Pittsburgh, Pa. A year
ago he resided with his mother on Grant
street About that time he went to bed
one evening with a violent pain in his
shoulder, the result, he thought, Of cold.
The next morning the shoulder was
greatly swollen, the pain was intense, and
aches were felt all through his system.
His case was speedily developed into .
violent form Of chronic rheumatism.
among the first notable features Of which
was the paralysis of his left arm.
"He gradually grew worse, and in few
months the elbow and knee joints and
both ankles became enormously enlarged.
In March last the cheek bones began to
enlarge, and upon his left side particu'
larry, spreading his face out Of all resem.
blance to his former self. The pain in all
his joints became intense fever, with III
deteriorating effects, was now added, and
he became rapidly reduced to the sem blancr Of
q skeleton, while vitality reached its loves
possible condition, and his suferings were o
such an indiscribabie character that those " ne
most loved him sometimes thought il would b
better IL he was called away. AT this tint
physicians well known In Pittsburgh informed
his parents thst they could give no hopes o
recovery.
"The young man finally Commenced taking
that wonderful medicine, PIsuNA. In tive
weeks quite change for the better. was per
eeptible. In six weeks all the enlargement has
been reduced completely, while In spirits ant
strength the patient was quite as well as he has
ever been In his life. Nearly three weeks age
he resumed work as a machinist at his old place
able to perform as much labor a. ever In his life
"The mother of Willie Curtis, In stating al
these facts, said sIndecd, can not look upoI
the cure much less than az a miracle ! do no
hesitate in sounding the praise Of ERuSA, AM
in recommending Il to all my fticnds.'o
The pastor of .hc church where the youri
man attended Sabbath school was visited, an
he readily confirmed the facts Of the deforme'
bones. the einaciated condition from disease
and of the doctors having givea him M. IL
was greatly surprised at his improved condition
Sid he, iii ne had not spoken, would ma
have kne-n him."
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-08

told my friend that l liked his
new house first rate. Then ] went
home and wept all night. 1t was
my first falsehood The roofs were
made of little odds and ends of mis-
fit rafters and distorted shingles
that somebody had purchased at
sheriff7s sale, and the rooms and
stairs were giddy in the extreme. l
went in and rambled around among
the cross eyed staircase and other
Nightmares, till reason tottered on
her throne Then / came out and
stood on the architectural wart call
ed the side porch, to get fresh air.
This porch was painted dull red,
and had wooded rosettes on the cor
ners that looked like brand new
carbuncle on the nose of a social
wreck. Further up on the democrat
lied lumber pile, | saw now and then
places where the workman's mind
had wandered, and he had nailed
on his clapboards wrong side up,
and then painted them with Paris
green that he had intended to use on
something else. 1t was an odd look
ing structure indeed If my friend
got all the materials for nothing
from people who had fragments oil
paint and lumber left over after they
failed, and then if the workmen con
structed it of nights for mental relax
tion and intellectual repose without
charge, of course the scheme was q
financial success; but intellectually
the house is a gross violation of the
statutes in such cases made and pro
vided, and against the peace and dig
nifty of the State. There is look OF
extreme poverty about the structure
which a man might struggle fol
years to acquire and then fail Nc
one could look upon it without feel
ing headache for the man who
built that house, and probably strug
gled on year after year, building 8
little bit at time as he could steal
the lumber, getting a new workman
each year, building knob here and
protuberance there, putting in three
cornered window at one point, and Q
yellow tile or wad of broken glass OIL
other debris at another; patiently
filling in around the ranch with any
old rubbish that other people had got
through with, and painting it as hi
went along, taking what was left il
the bottom of the pot after his neigh
bors had painted their bob sleds OF
their tree boxes-little favors thank
fully received-and then surmount
ing the whole pile with a potpourr
Of roof, grand farewell incubus o
bumps and hollows for the rain t.
wander through and seek out the diff
ferent cells where the lunatics liv,
who inhabit it.
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