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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

The Greenville Spirit calls for
the organization Of AZ society for
the prevention(of cruelty to ami
mails. Scranton needs such a so
ciety very bad.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

HE Constitutional Convention
does more adjourning than any
thing else. The pay of the mem
bers goes on all the same.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29
SpcciaI. Meeting of The
Board Of Supervisors.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI !

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, !
JACKSON COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that a sperl',,
meeting of the Board of supervisors OIL
said county will be held in the Court
house, at Scranton, on
The First Monday, the LIST day q
September, 1890,
for the transaction of anyand all buslne"
that may be done at such meeting,
j. N. RABBY, President
WALTER NJ. DENNY, Clerk.
August Is, 1890. %0-o'
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

TIE conference committees on
the land grant forfeiture bill have
practically reached an agreement.
The terms of the agreement are
generally upon the principles OF
the bill as it passed the House OF
Representatives, namely: An alb
solute forfeiture of all lands oppo-
site to and coterminus with those
portions of railroads not now COM
pleted the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad Company to be allowed
one year to complete their line,
provided they will relinquish title
to lands sold by the Government
for cash.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

The proposition TO grant to wO-
men the right of suffrage in Mis-
sissippi, leads TO the inevitable con-
clusion that the occasion is most
serious and desperate. 1t might
solve the question as to the con-
tinuance of white supremacy in
Mississippi, butt would be a point
gained at a dear price. To vote
bv proxy even, is outside of wo-
mans sphere, and the moment the
barrier is broken down it is sure to
destroy her influence to some ex-
tent in the home c~irele-MOHtgOm
cry AdUertiser.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

DON'T fail to read the advertise
ment of dwelling House for
Sale" 1t is one of the most com
plete and comfortable houses in
Scranton.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

EX-TREAsURER HEMINGWAY was
thrown from his buggy the other
day in Jackson and considerably
bruised. He is laid up.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

TIE Fewell plan of female suf-
frage, when ii comes to be analyz-
ed, does not seem so much a plan
to give women votes, as it is a plan
10 give married properly-OwnerS
an additional vote. The effect of
it would be TO give a married man
who has $500 worth of property
an additional vote for his wife,
who, under the plan, could author
ize him to, cast it. The unmarried
women, who each owned $500
worth of property, would not cut
much figure in any election. Per
haps the plan would encourage
matrimony, as we'll as enable a
minority of voters to win cleo
TONS iGksbUrg Post.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

The following is that coarse fel'
low, Sam Jones' last:
"Laying up money for Sallie and
the babies, you old coOnl Before
you have been in hell two years
some old fellow will have married
your widow and be sitting out on
The front porch Dragging about
marrying the Kurnel's widow and
getting the Kurnei's money. !
told my wife If she wished to gel
married after | died 10 do so, but
tn keep the old hound off the front
porch.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29
SHUQUALAK
Female College

nth SEPTEMBER NB4E, =
Located on the n. & Q. RsIlrV %sebs
so% sgy part Of the Coast. U9eH oT;ns.
f5r,sxh the winter and Is1is
Fist-elass in all o. is Igas ~
Moral Influences pure, win
famHy air about everything; -.so,sps .
,tsrorsi Write for catalogue, MIS-
L. n. STONE, Shndh sfl2m
July Il, ls9o,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

WE ARE hopeful that the elective
Judiciary idea is about exploded.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

Although our Sheriff pays us
the regular price for publishing
the State delinquent tax lands, we
do not withdraw our article of
last week on Senator Geo. g. Dill
lard and the "Picayune Act" The
generosity Of Sheriff Lewis is du-
~ appreciated by US, still We don't
care a continental for billiard &
Co. Their political days are
numbered.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

THERE are only 1876 negroes in
Jones county, as against 1904 in
Kinds.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

IT is said that the Force Bill is
dead for this session of Congress.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29

MARRIED women are not allowed
to teach in the public schools of
Cincinnati.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-29
DWELLING HOUSE
FOR SALE!
One Of the NeateSt and
Most Comfortable Cot
tageS in Scranton.

The owner, being desirous of giving NJ
housekeeping, offers his new and comfort
able one and a half story cottage, on
Pascagoula street, the most pleasant part
of town, near the Methodist and Lutheran
Churches, for sale Mt n bargain, including
all standing furniture, which IL almost
new.
The house has 6 rooms, 5 of which are
nicely furnished. Carpets on all the
rooms except ono. The parlOr and two
bedrooms arc papered. Crates in the
parlOr and one bed. room. Galleries in
the front and rear. Dining room, kitch-
en-, wood and store room adjoining. A
1000 gallon c%istern, and water conveyed
into the kitchen by pipe. Also a good
well of water near the hOnso.
On the lot, 76x3O3, is u large barn, horse
stables, COW stables, chicken house and
small garden, aud all necessary outbuild-
ings.
There are also some fruit trees, such as
figs, pecan, orange and and pear trees,
scuppernong grapes, etc.
In the front yard is the prettiest flower
garden In the State, Containing some of
the richest and rarest flowers to be found
anywhere.
The house and all the improvements
are new and substantial, having been
built only about two years.
With the place will be sold two graded
Jersey cows. one in milk now and the
other will be in October. Also a new one
horse wagon aud harness.
Price for Dwelling House and Standing
Furniture.
$1,000 CASH.
Possession given as soon as sold.
Apply to
P. X. Mayors.
Scranton, Miss, Aug. %, 1890. 25-tf
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Mrs Mobiles Treasures.

4 writer in the St. Louis Republic
tells that Mrs. Noble, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior, possesses
one of the most unique collections OF
gold enameled and silver spoons to- be
found in Washington. These crljos
are kept in the parlor in an inlaid
mahogany table, the top of which is
sunk several inches below the outer
rim. lined with tufted crimson satin
and covered with a plate glass-top,
which fastens with a spring, the key
of which is safely slowed away up
stairs. Among the most interesting
of the collection is dull looking
silver spoon, on the handle of which
in bas-relief, is shown the Baptism of
Christ, with the Holy Spirit descend
ing from heaven in the form a dove,
as John the Baptist pours .copious
draughts of water from his hands,
raised high above his Master. This
spoon was secured from an old ca
thedral in Nuremberg, at which place
was also obtained 4 small, delicately
shaped teaspoon with pointed bowls
and fine open work tilagree handles.
Another curious piece. picked up in
Moscow. is I; small vessel, cross be-
tween spoon and u cup, used in the
churches Of Russia by the nobility in
drinking the holy water This is of
gold inlaid with transparent enamel,
which. on being held up to the light,
shows the most brilliant coloring. An
open work golden egg enameled in
the same manner can be taken apart
and formed into two egg cups.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
CONCRESSMEN WRITE A BOOK.

Reconstruction and its Results Discussed
The Race Question.
Representatives Herbert Of Ala
bama, Hemphill of South Carolina,
Turner Of Georgia. Stewart of Texas,
Wilson Of West Virginia, ex-Repre-
sentative Barksdale of Mississippi,
Senator Vance Of North Carolina,
Pasco of Florida, Vest of Missouri
and ". L. Fishback of Arkansas, Ira
p. Jones of Tennessee, O. S. Long of
West Virginia and B. j. Sage of
Louisiana have collectively written,
and will soon publish, a book entitled,
"Why Solid South: or, Reconstruct
ton and It's Results"
It undertakes to na1rate fairly and
dispassionately. in a concise and pop
ular form, the history of the recon
structed governments in each State
showing how the Republicans OBJ
tanned control and how they lost it,
figures and facts as to the shrinkage
of values and the increase Of debt and
taxation under these their govern
ments and the prosperity Of the South
under present auspices.
The book speaks of Abraham Lin
coins death as an appalling calamity
to the South, argues that Andrew
Johnson followed strictly Lincoln's s
plan of restoration and contends that
if Lincoln had lived he would have
been able to defend that plan against
the assaults of Congress.
Each chapteris signed byits author,
who thus becomes directly response
bic for the truth Of bis statements,
and the claim Of the book in its pre-
face. written by Gen. Herbert, it's edi-
tor, is that in all the chapters the
facts are understated rather than
oVerstated.
The race question and race trou-
bles are extensively discussed. The
statement is made that there is no in
tsntion to agitate for therepeal of the
18th amendment or the deportation
of the negroes. Educational and
material statistics of many kinds are
given in support Of the contention
that the negro is prosperous and that
the South is solving for itself the
negro question.
The book is dedicated to the busi,
ness men of the North with the state
ment that they are interested in con,
tinuing the prosperity ofSthe South.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
MANNING. 5. c., WEDNESDAY, APRIL l6, 1890.

ed for the ministry and became !
foreign missionary and on heathen
grounds lived, and translated the
scripture, and preached, until among
the most illustrious names OF the
church on earth and in heaven Is
the name Of glorious Robert Mo1l
son. Go forth and save the lost,
and remember however filthy and
undone a child is, OF a man IS. OF a
woman is. they are worth an effort.
I would rather have their opport1lni-
ty than any that will ever be given
to those who lived IN magnificent sin
and splendid unrighteousness aud
,!iy' wrapped their gorgeous tapestry
aroml>: ;;.."m and without prayer ex-
pred better is Il living dog than a
dead lion.
In the great day it will hc found
that the last shall be frs;. There
ale the srog-shops and in the harlnts
of iniquity to-day those who will yet
be models Of holiness and preach
Christ to the people. In yonder
group of young men who came here
with no usefal purpose. there is one
who Will yet live for Christ and per
haps die for Him. Ia q pulpit stood
a stranger preaching, and he said:
Tie last time I was in this church
was fifteen years ago. and the circum-
stances were peculiar. Three young
men had come. expecting to disturb
the service, and they had stones in
their pockets. which they expect
ed to hurl at the preacher. One of
the young men referred to refused to
take part in the assault, and the
others, in disgust at his cowardice,
left the building. One of the three
was hanged for forgery. Another is
in prison. condemned to death for
murder. I was the third, but the
grace OF God saved me. My hearer,
give no one up. TIE case may seem
desperate. but the grace Of God likes
to undertake dead LIT. I proclaim
it this day to al the people-free
grace. Living and dying, be that my
theme-free grace. Sound it across
the continent, sound it across the
seas-free grace: Spell out those
words in flowers, lift them in arches,
build them in thrones, roll them in
oratorios-free grace! That will yet
Edenize the earth and people heaven
with nations redeemed. Free grace!
Salvation. Oh, the Joyful sound,
lis pleasure 10 our ears,
sovereign balm for every wound.
cordial for Jur fears.
Buried Ia sorrow and 10 sin
AT deaths dark door we lay:
But we arise by grace divine,
To see q heavenly day.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
RuIlatS StCnDcd in Garlic.

IL a trial in New York, on Thurs
day. OF Concetta Rcsita, IL young
italian women. for an assault on
Giuseppe AlIanello. the facts we're
brought out that the husband made
tie wife fire at her lover with bullets
stepped in garlic, according
superstition among the Italian peas
ants that to steep a bullet in garlic.
puts it, effectiveness beyond all
doubt. But the superstition failed
in this case, as the bullets did not
hit the man. She was sentenced to
the penitentiary for three years.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
Revolution the Certain Sequence OF Official
Tyranny.


Tyranny.
The frequency with which the
Russian outrages are brought before
the public by the indefatigable
George Kennan, makes the subject a
little tiresome. The latest and most
sensational Of al-the massacre Of
the political exiles in Yakutsk-is
treated afresh in the April Century,
wherein Mr.. Kennan shows quite
conclusively that the explanation
made by the Russian government is
absurd. He concludes his summary
as follows:
One of the executed men, two
hours before the rope was put about
his neck, scribbled a hasty farewell,
note to his comrades in which he
said: We are not afraid to die, but
try-you-to make our deaths count
for something-write all this to Ken
nan: The appeal to me shall not be
in vain. II I Live the whole English
speaking world at least, shall know
all the details of this most atrocious
crime.
However this may be, the world at
large, and we Of America as a part OF
it, cannot but feel deep interest in
| what is going on In Russia. There
| can be but one end to the total sup
preston of liberty which the govern
ment of Russia exercises this day.
with as brutal q severity as in the
times of Peter or of Catharine.
There was dawn OF hope for Rus
sia-at least it looked that way to
Young America-when the serfs were
first emancipated. Russia had been
kind to us-althoueh, as our states
man then knew,the kindness was but
| another name forzzpolicy-and Amer
leans were deceived for 4 while with
the roseate views of what rejuvena-
ted Russia would surely accomplish
III time.
It soon became evident. however,
that there was no hope for modern
civilization in Russia, until she should
pass through the same furnace which
| tried France, and in the nature OF
things. the trial will be even more Sc
we're. The tyranny of the French no
bility was as nothing compared with
! that which the governing class OF
Russia exercise without limit, and
the retribution will, unhapply, reach
| the innocent alike with the guilty
| When Russia emerges from this sea
| of blood she will take her place II
| the foremost ranks of the great ns
tionalities of the world.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
Reform in the Internal Revenue.

The House Judiciary Committee
has ordered 8 favorable report to be
made upon HenGerson's bill to amend
the internal revenue laws. The bill
removes the min mum penalties now
provided by law ior the punishment
Of offenders against revenue laws,
limits the issue OF warrants upon In
formation to those sworn to by the
collector, deputies OF revenue officers
and to those made upon sworn com
plants and personal knowledge, and
prohibits the payment of fees unless
the prosecution is approved by the
United States Attorney or conviction
results. It provides for a return
upon warrants before the nearest
judicial officer, authorizes Circuit
Courts to appoint commissioners to
act upon warrants and admit persons
to bail, and finally empowers the COM
missioners of intelnalreyenue to COM
promise civil OF criminal cases or re-
duce and remit fines.
She Raised Eleven Goou Democrats
Wilson & Bishops Rink, IN New
York, was filed Satur day with 167 o
the descendants of Aunt Amah Chard,
who assembled to help the old lady
celebrate her 10lst birthday. Mrs.
Chard was in the best of health and
spirits, and was greatly pleased on
receiving the congratulations of her
friends and relatives In the evening
religious exercises were held. and
over three hundred people were pres
ent. Mrs. Chard was born in Brandy
vine. Pa. in 1850, on the very spot
where the battle OF Brandywine was
fought She takes pride in pointing
out the fact that she has raised a
family OF eleven boys. who are all
living and are ali good Democrats.
Her Oldest boy is eighty years OF
are
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
A COLLEGE SITE.

These provisions of the Clemson
will we're, in effect, that the property
was to be used as the site for an
agricultural college. This was to be
controlled by aboard of thirteen trus-
tees, seven named in the will, and
the others to be named by the State.
In case of q vacancy amongst the seven
named by Mr. Clemson, the vacancy
was to be flied by election by the
remainder, so that this NUMBER
majority of the board-was to be self
perpetrlating.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

Mrs. Jane Clause. 105 years of
age. lives near Crews, in Lamar
county. Alabama She counts her
age at only a little over 100 years, but
the record Of her birth which is now
in possession OF a wel-nown gen
tleman Of Marion county, shows her
to have been 1O5 last autumn.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
TWO TRIALS.

The Injunction was granted, and
the case was tried before Chief JUS
tice Fuller and Judges Bond and
Simonton in the circuit court at
Charleston.
It was decided against Miss Lee
An appeal was taken to the Su-
preme Court, and the decision which
has just been announced confirms
the decision of the lower court.
The case was advanced on the
docket through the efforts of the
attorney general of South Carolina,
acting under instructions from the
Legislature.
The arguments in the last trial
We're all in writing. Perhaps the
most exhaustive argument on either
side was that of Nh. Alex. King, of
the Atlanta firm of Calhoun, King 4
Spalding. This was highly commend
ed in Washington, and is considered
one of the ablest arguments made be-
fore that court in years. 1t embodied
all that could be said in the interest
Of Miss Lee, as remainderman under
the will Of Mrs. Calhoun.
The decision is against Miss Lee,
however, and is final.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
THE FIGHT BEGINS.

Miss Lee, the great grand daughter
of John C. Calhoun, and the sole heir
of Mrs. Floride Clemson Lee, fled
bill of Injunction to prevent the execu-
tor of the Clemson estate making a
deed to the State OF South Caro-
lima
It was contended that Mrs. Glenn
son had conveyed to her husband
only the property that was actually
hers, the rents then in hand, from
the estate, with certain other property
left her by her mothers will, amount
ing to about $4,000, and did not in
tend to convey the estate in which
she had, it was contented, only a life
interest, and that the homestead she
expected to become the property OF
Mrs. Flo1ide Clemson Lee.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
CLEMsoN's INTEREST.

Mrs. Clemson died, leaving ''the
entire property and estate to which
she was then in any wise entitled, or
which she might afterwards acquire" "
to herhusband, Thomas G. Clemson
in fee simple.
Then in will made in 1885, al
tered in 1887, Mr.. Clemson left the
property to the State of South Caro-
lima.
He died in 1883, and in November
the executor addresseda a letter to the
Legislature of South Carolina profer-
ing to make the deed to the State if
the conditions were accepted.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
THE HISTORY OF THE CASE.

Thomas 6. Clemson, who married
the daughter of John c. Calhoun,
made Fort Hill their home. They
lived there quietly and plainly. When
Mrs. Clemson died, Mr. Clemson was
lett as the sole~3cupant Of Fort
Hill. He lived there almost as q
hermit, neverleaving bis own grounds,
but taking the greatest pride and
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

1t is stated that not a pound Of
ice was saved in North Carolina last
winter.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
CLEMSON WILL CASE.
INVOLVING THE TITLE TO THE JOHN c,
CALHOUN HOMESTEAD

Which is Now Declared the Property OF ths
State of South Careina, and will be the
Site of an Agricultural College.
,1lanta Cor sutution.
4 famous will case ended
The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States was given briefly
in yesterdays Constitution, special
from Washington.
The history of the case is pecu-
liarly interesting one, invoking as
it does the title to the old home of
John G. Calhoun, Fort Hill, in South
Carolina
It was here that the modification
declarations were prepared by Mr..
Calhoun, the papers bearing the post
mark Fort Hill" Here also Mr..
Calhoun famous letter to the Cover
nor, upon the question of notification,
was written.
It is the birthplace Of Hon. Pat
Calhoun, of Atlanta, who was an at
torney in the case.
The issue was between Miss Isa-
bella Lee, great granddaughter Of
John G.. Calhoun, and the State Of
South Carolina.
THE SECOND OWNER
was Mr.. Calhoun's widow, Mrs.
Floride Calhoun. May 18th, 1854,
Mrs. Calhoun and her daughter, Cor
neia Calhoun, conveyed the place to
Andrew P. Calhoun for $4,000, in
cluding number ofnegroes and their
personally Andrew Calhoun gave
mortgage for $4,000.
Afterwards heofered several times
to pay the $4,000, but this was not
done because his mother preferred
drawing interest on the money as an
investment.
Mr.. Andrew Calhoun died just
after the wal, leaving the mortgage
unpaid. The mortgage, it should
be stated, was given to his mother
alone.
Mrs. Calhoun died in 1871.
By the provisions Of her will a
three-fourths interest in the mortgage
was left to her daughter, Mrs. a. G.
Clemson, and the remainder to Miss
Floride Clemson. Mrs. Clemson was
allowed to dispose of her interest in
the mortgage as she saw fit. 1t was
further provided that if the mort
gage was foreclosed and the property
bought under the foreclosure, the
place was to stand in lieu ofthe mort
gage.
SOLD AT AUCTION.
The mortgage was foreclosed and
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16
SOLD AT AUCTION.

The mortgage was foreclosed and
the place sold January l, 1872. It
was bought in the name Of A. G.
Clemson as trustee for his wife
Miss Floride Clemson married
Gideon Lee, of New York, and died
leaving daughter, Miss Isabella
Lee.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-04-16

DR.. De Witt T,lmage Speaks From Ecciesl-
astes Upon Dead Lion. and tTes'es Il
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14

CaIumniators are the asps OF soct:
ETY.. Envy ana malice are the herbS
upon which they feert!