davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The Post says the petition for the
abolition of municipal elections have
been circulated. Our neighbor is just
a little bit mistaken. The petitions
lave not been circulated at all. Two
or three are at different stores, where
nc great effort has been made to call
the attention of the good citizens to
them. But our contemporary need not
fret the petitions will be thoroughly
circulated and then sent to Jackson.
The Post may circulate counter petit
tions if it wishes.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

AN Interstate Agricultural and In
dustrial Convention will be held at
Jackson, Tenn, on the Oath. 25th and
Goth of the present month. A large
number of States will be represented
and the meetingI promises to be the
most important for progress ever held
in the South. A number Of distin-
guished public men will be present
and able papers and addresses will be
read and delivered.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

Now that our Legislators have
shown that they have the courage Of
their convictions" and have done
themselves an act of justice and pub
lished those convictions to the world by
cutting down the salaries of the Rail-
road Commissioners forty per cent. and
of their Secretary fifty per cent, let
them signalize their courage further
by making another cut, one In the in
terest Of progress, and material devel-
opment, in the interest Of immigra-
ton and the introduction Of capital
into the State. Let them cut the re-
naming sixty and fifty per cent. from
the above salaries and make the posi-
ton of Railroad Commissioner an hon.
orary one. If the gentlemen now
holding the positions are not patriotic
enough to serve the State on those
terms let them get down and out, and
if nobody else is willing to accept the
position the State will certainly not be
hurt1
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

THE committee Of statistical infor.
nation Of the State horticultural AS
ISOLATION, which recently met at Crys-
tai Springs, report a large increase 10
the acreage Of fruits ard vegetables
along the line Of the road DuraDd
so per cent, Madison 50, Jessamine
100, Terry a heavy increase, and Crys-
tai Springs 100 per cent. Resolutions
were adopted memoralizing the pres.
ent Legislature to pass a law which
will afford a better protection to farm
ers in the use of commercial fertilizers.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: DR.. II. E. Mackay,
president c. w. Gallagher, vice-presi-
dent S. H. stackhouse, secretary ; ].
A. Terry, notwithstanding : Hon. ].
B. Yellowly, L. j. Rhymes and W. H.
Cassell, executive committee.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The Jackson Daily Clarion, pub
lished only during the sessions of the
Legislature, must think our law makers
a very wicked set, for it gives them,
each day one of Sam Jones sermons, on
the Texts: Repent ye of your sins"
"What wait l for" and the like. Now,
if the wise men in the Capital "Stnned''
because they didn't give the Clarion the
official printing it was "aOaittng' for, it
is a little too rough on them to put the
Rev. Sam Jones after them.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
The Contest for the Chess Champ
ionship.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3.-The chess
champions, Messrs. Zukertort and
Steinitz, resumed their contest for the
championship at Harmony Club this
afternoon. The large dining-room Of
the club house was arranged for the
accommodation of spectators. about
n hundred of whom were present.
and a small adjOining-room was fitted
up forthe players, who sat upon a plat
form raised about a foot above the floor
placed opposite open folding doors
and in full view of the audience. The
moves were all represented on a large
chess board standing on an easel
against one wall of the dining-room.
and Mr.. S. M. Joseph, a member of the
Harmony Club, kept the official score.
Among the gentlemen present were a
number of players of local note and
several from abroad, including Mai,
Henry Turner, president of the Brook
Ign, N. T., club, Mr.. Intrepide, of the
Manhattan, N. Y.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

TIE newspapers in the 4th Congress
ional District are after the old War
Horse. about his candidacy for re-elec-
ton to Congress and some threaten to
pull his own letters on him Ia which
she says he would not be a candidate
again." Well may some public men
say, "Save me, not from my friends,
but from my letters"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

YESTERDAY, Tuesday, was the day
fixed by the committee on p~ostofices
and post roads Of the National House,
for hearing Norvin Green, President
of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany on the postal telegraph question.
The committee has now before it a
half dozen bills, some providing for
the purchase of the existing lines and
others for the establishment of sta
tiOns of existing lines in postoflces,
the rates charged to be fixed by law.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Saved His Life

MI. D.. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky, says he was, for many years, badly
afflicted with Phthisic, also Diabetes:
the pains were almost uncomfortable
and would sometimes almost throw
him into commissions. He tried Elec.
trio Bitters and got relief from FIRST
bottle and after taking six bottles, was
entirely curel and had gained in flesh
eighteen pounds. Says he positively
believes he would have died, had i
not been for the relief afforded bv
Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a
bottle by Hardaway & Cassell. s
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

THE Senate and House Of Represent
atives Of Mississippi 1t is said, will,
sometime this week, resolve themselves
into a Committee Of the Whole for the
purpose Of visiting the A. & M. Col
lege, the Female Industrial Institute
and the East Mississippi Insane Asy-
lum. Now, If the law against free
passes is abolished in time ouI law
makers ian make this little excursion
without expense to the State, other
wise it will cost the taxpayers con-
siderable money.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

OREGON people resort to a novel
plan of catching geese. They soak
wheat in alcohol and then feed it to
the winged ones. The geese become
beastly drunk and are easily captured,
says the Oregonian.
Down this way they make alcohol
out of wheat, bait it with a free-lunch
Of cheese and crackers and the geese"
slccumb.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

THE Evening Post seems to think
that popular sentiment among those
who bear the burdens is not over
whelmingly in favor of the abolition
of municipal elections. Let it send
around its reporter and see how many
other reputable citizens, like Col.
Flowerree, are opposed to the change.
Instruct the reporter while he is out,
to ask the banks how much they are
willing to advance the present mongrel
concern.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

route referred To-. u simply means On
extra mail between New Orleans and
Vicksburg twice per week, leaving the
former city Tuesdays and Saturdays,
and from Vicksburg Tuesdays and
Fridays returning. This will supply
to the people along the route the
old time service of the two packets
That have been plying between this
city and Yicksburg for the past
forty years. 1t will also Gil the vacuum
which now exists in the regular mail
service. Just now all mail matter de
posted at Natchez by boat, destined
either up or down the river, is detained
not less than two and occasionally
three days before distribution at points
either above or below this tel;ral mail
ing point. Now l maintain that with
the service as asked for, the mail re.
ferred to would go through to its des-
tination without interruption or delay
of any kind, thereby giving the people
along the route in question a daily, Or
at least a mail five times in either di.
rection, whereas they have at present
no certain or direct communication
with the service Iabove or below
NatcheZ,
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

JUST what we thought would occur
has occurred, in the discussion in the
Clarion between Rev. Father Quito,
of the Catholic Church, and Rev. DR..
Andrews, of the Methodist Church, on
Grammar and Religion" The for
mer has suffered much at the hands of
both divines, and the latter has not
been benefited. Parsons, stop your
parsing.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

WHEN the Preacher says: "In my
Fathers house there are many man.
%sions," and tells you that in the here
after, "men are rewarded according to
the deeds done in the body here and
according to their capacities for enjoy
ment," it would be well for our young
men to remember that there are no
Base Ball Clubs, or Germans in
Heaven.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

WE print elsewhere an extract from
an interview with President Cleveland
which will be read with interest.
The Presidents frank and straight.
forward talk to the correspondent is in
itself a revelation of character and a
declaration of purpose such as have
not come from the White House in any
unofficial utterance since Mr.. Cleve-
land entered it. my purpose" said
the President, "was announced at the
beginning Of my administration. l
meant then to adhere to it. l have
never changed it. l do not mean to
change it in the future" His reasons
for forming and for adhering 10 this
high purpose are enthusiastically
simple and strong. We commend the
Presidents %utterances to the Dem
ocrats of the country, to the Republi-
cans of the Senate, and to the lovers of
patriotic courage and fair play of what
ever party.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

THE Grand Jury of Lincoln county
regards Sabbath Base Ball playing as
. base offence and indicted some thirty
young men and boys therefor at a
recent term of the Circuit Court.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

MIEDA CAMPBELL, who died in
Savannah, Ca, recently, aged IS, was
the mother Of Tom Sims, the fugitive
slave whose trial in Boston, in 1850,
created great excitement, and resulted
in sustaining the decision as to the
validity Of the fugitive slave law.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

II is said that one of the attractions
in Jackson is a dumb barber. The leg.
islators crowd his shop and assert their
prerogative, and do all the talking
themselves.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

ONE Of our State exchanges says
that bis county has two candidates for
Superintendent Of the "Pennytensi.
ary." The author Of that paragraph
ought himself TO be sent to the peni-
Tertiary for a spell.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

SOMEBODY introduced a bill in the
Lower house Of our Legislature, to
make billiard playing in a room ad-
l1ining a SALOON. a misdemeanor. When
the bill got to the Senate it found a
: III line" and was defeated.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

A LADY adyertises a "shool for
euchre. whose pupils are made pro-
iclent," cost Of instruction $40 for the
full course of one month. Many a
man has paid ten times that much for
a single lesson in poker.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Remarkable Hsoana

John Kuhn, of Lafayette, Ind, had VERY
narrow escape from death. This is his own
story: zone year ago l was in the
last stages of Consumption. Our best
physicians gave my case up. / finally got so
low hat our doctor said I could not live twenty
four hours, My friends then purchased a bottle
OF DIR. WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS.
Which benefited me. l continued until I took
nine bottles. 1 am now in perfect health bay-
ing used no other medicine"
For sale by all druggists.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

TWELVE courses with seven wines
at the white-house are calculated to
still further embitter Republican re-
greet. The nomination of the Mulligan
hero cost very dearly.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

A SPECIAL to the Times-D Democrat
from Kosciusko announces the sudden
death on January 29th of Mrs.
Alexander, the wife of the Presbyterian
Minister of that place.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

ARTICLES of impeachment against
the police commissioners of Cincin-
natl, have been presented to Gen. Fore
aker by the Law and Order League.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

Go on, Mr.. Evening Post; the Radi-
cal bosses and.the ignorant negroes ap-
plaud your utterances. One does not
wish to be deprived of buying up
votes, 0 the other of selling them.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

THE Nashville, Tenn, Methodist
Publishing House has sent out over
10000 copies of Sam Jones sermons
in the past four months.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

Tbs Queens late address to the
English Parliament is a good deal like
some Of the speeches we read in the
Congressional Record. Not wen
by their reputed authors.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The Baptist Record has been moved
TO jackson on the Pearl. If Brother
Gambrell wanted to get near a water
course he should have moved to Vicks-
burg.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

BISHOP HUGH MILLER THOMPSON
Ofi;iated at Grace Episcopal Church in
Canton last Sabbath and confirmed
several candidates.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

SOME of OUT Legislators will have
to prove an alibi when they return to
their constituents-that is if tLey ex-
pect to be reelected.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

"ALL is not quiet along the Potomac
tonight, as some dead poet would have
US believe says a Washington cor
respondent. IL Lamar Fontaine dead ?
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

IT is limited that Mr.. Randell has
gone over to the free-traders, but as no
squeal has been heard from tbs iron
pigs of Pennsylvania, the rumor is
doubtless false.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The l%ow-necked dress is no new
thing. 1t fourished in ancient times
and is yet popular with the Hotten-
tots and South Sea Islanders.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

THEMobile Register has an article
on Handling colts"
II he is a horse colt handle him at
the head end, if a mule colt, get some
body else TO do it.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

Ex.CoNGREssMAN RAINEY, of South
Carolina, is running a cOal-yard in
Washington City. He is a coal black
man.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
MORE MAIL SERVICE,

A petition was circulated on ouI
streets yesterday, and received numer.
Gus signatures, asking that extra spe-
cial mail service be put on between
this city and New Orleans. This is a
matter in which our city has great in
terest' as its growing importance as a
distributing point since the construc-
ton OF the transfer over the Queen &
Crescent at this place and the compile
ton of the Valley route makes
it imperative that additional
mail service on the river
below should be established. In an
interview on the subject, Capt. 7. P.
feathers said to a reporter of the
Times-D Democrat:
The service as proposed has no re-
ference, bearing or connection with
any as at present operated along the
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

BOTTLES picked up along the beach
often tell of shipwrecks upon the sea-"
Bottles found UPON the bar also tell of
wrecks upon the land.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
Attend to it Now.

Many suffering people drag themselves about
Win falling strength, feeling that they are
steadily sinking Into the grave, when by using
Parker'3 Tonic they would find o cure com.
menClng with the first dose. and vitality and
strength surely coming back to them.
~ i'm G3 years ODD have been sick neorly all
my life and ought TO know something about
medicine by this time. ! have used Farker's
Tonic freely for more than q year, and consider
II the best remedy / have ever known. In fact,
! now find no other medicine necessary. For
weakness, debility, rheumatism, and That dis
suffered so lOUg, 1t has no equal. | do not see
how anyone can afford TO do without so valu-
able a lnedici e."-MRs. HATTIE N. GRAVES,
cor. East and Front streets, Providence R. 1.
Parker's Tonic.
Prepared by HiscOek Il Co, N. VI
Solo by all Druggist In large bottles at One
Dollar.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

OFFICES are not as plentiful as gar
den seed. You can always get the
latter, II not the former, by applying
to your Congressman.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

MISSISSIPPI will SOON have an organ
lied body of State troops of which
any State might be proud, says the
Mobile Register.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

dipped bis pen in ink and written
black words against the late Col. Ed
mund Richardson.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is down
on lying newspapers says an sx
change.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

"PIoUs JEENIs," who, by the way, is
4 member Of the Lower House of the
Mississippi Legislature from POntotoc
and the correspondent of her county
paper, is the only man who has yet
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The pen Of the slanderer, like tbe
Stiletto Of the assassin, gets its work
in in the dark.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

OXFORD is doomed to catch "hell.o.'
A new paper is shortly to be started
there called The Telephone.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The discussion Of The silver question
puts many a Congressman on his
mettle.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

DIR. VI. A, SIMMONS LIVER M~EDICINE-TS
no c%ure-all, but IA simple Vegetable H0nsehoid
Remedy, which for the past forty-two Years has
given itself to be, and is yet, guaranteed To he a
rer1ect and Effectu4l Remedy for all disease Of
the Liver, Stomach and Bowels.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

KoacuaEo nas shipped 1880 bales
OF cotton 90 date.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
TeIegraphIng from a Railroad Train

Telegraphlng from a Railroad Train
Special to The Times-Democrat.
New YORK, Feb. o. The sys
TEN of transmitting and re-
ceiVing Geographic messages from
trains in motion was successfully
demonstrated by the Railway, Telegraph
g. Telephone Company at Clifton,
Staten Island, yesterday. Inside the
railroad car, at a small table, a tele-
graph operator sent and received
messages while the train was in rapid
motion.
The operator differed from others in
having telephone sounding plates over
his ears held to place by a rubber band
passing over his head. In front of
che operator, on the table. was an
ordinary Morse key, Fy means Of which
he sent messages to an operator at
Clifton, who received them trough
telephone sounding plates fastened to
cars.
The system was explained thus: In
Il SAAAbOh OlllOC llIClC 40 q GO1uClDCk
made of layers of tin foil separated by
air, but that at the car a condenser
was formed by thirty Baltimore and
Ohio wires stretched along the tracks
by the tin roof Of the cars, which were
all connected by copper wires and by
the air between the wires and tin roofs.
Under the table of the operator in the
Car was a local battery. The current
used may be conceived as passing first
from the battery in the Clifton station
and leading through the condenser to
the telegraph wires,then passing along
these wires without in~terrupting or
binary messages until it gets opposite
the cars, when it jumps across to the
tin roofs and passes down through a
wire to an electro magnet on the oper-
ator's table. Thence it returns through
the ground to che Clifton station.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

MIR. EvARTs' present opinion upon
the silver subject appears to have been
corked up and thrown away.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

GEN. DAVID HUNTER, on the retired
list. died suddenly in New York yes
terday.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

The New York Times thinks "the
President is greatly strengthened in
his resistance to encroachments upon
his prercgatives by his consistent
avoidance of any attempt to influence
the action Of Congress in any matter
within its legitimate sphere, aside from
his formal recommendations. Those
who are interested in the fisheries
question say that the Administration
is exerting no influence in favor of the
commission plan. Congress is left to
deal with his suggestion, made in his
annual message. in any way that it
deems best. That suggestion was the
result of the understanding with the
British Minister for the extension of
the old arrangement through the last
fishing season, and there is no reason
to suppose that the President is wed.
ded to this idea of a joint commission.
In any event, he seems disposed to at
tend to his business and leave Congress
to take care of its own"
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05
The Praise Of Sozodont.

Like the famous article itself, is in
almost everybody's mouth. The peo-
pie know that it preserves as well as
beauties the teeth. Hence it is the
standard Tooth Wash of the Period,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
A Sad Tale.

Maj. William M. Cline died on Mon
day at the poor house near Griffin, Ga.
In the Gfties Major Cline was one of
Griffin's most prosperous and popular
citizens. He was an officer ofthe Macon
and Western railway. He was mayor
of Griffin in 1858 and 1859, and frequent
ly an aldermen before and after that
time. While in the zenith Of his pros
perity and good fortune he began to
drink. Steadily the habit grew on him
until he lost his position. property and
friends and became a begger on the
streets. For a number of years he liv-
ed in little room over one of the stores
and subsistcd on the charity ofhis former
friends. About year ago he was led
''over the hills to the poor honse," and
the once gifted. promising Mayor of
Griffin died pauper.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
A Dangerous Drug.

The use of cocaine In Detroit is be-
coming alarminslY prevalent. \ Bank
cashier named Mcdonald and j. y.
Fisk. proprietor Of the city laundries.
are the two latest victims. Fisk began
using cocaine last summer for catarrll
by painting his nostrils with it, and later
took it internally. On Wednesday he
was removed TO Harper hospital for
treatment. He is full Of vagaries. Ill
ternately imagining that he is the Al
mighty and immaculate Conception and
again asserting that he has been raised
from the dead. Mcdonald wandered to
Toronto while suffering from mental
alteration caused by the drug. Several
other more or less prominent Detroiters
are known to be i'll a bad way from
using the drug.