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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
GETS BRAvELY OYER 1T.

The announcement that Senator
IIoar intends to retire at the end OF
bis present term will attract The atten-
tion of the marines. Senator Hoar
has several times been SO discouraged
at the obstinacy of the other eleven
men on the jury that he has announced
his determination not TO labor any
more for wicked and perverse gener.
alton, but he has always got bravely
over It, and he probably will this time
The only probable contingency in
which he will retire would be the
presence Of Democratic majority In
the Massachusetts Legislature.-Provi-
denee Journal, Ind.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
NEW FORM OF CITY GOVERNMENT.

Vicksburg has at present many in
fluential citizens, who are rootedly OPP
posed to the present system of city
government, which they consider In
efficient by tho necessity Of Its organ
ization and not at all what the needs
of growing town demand. They
point out that so long as II exists the
legislative body, the aldermen, cannot
regard the city as q whole, but must
consider II as divided into four parts,
each of which may gain some advan-
tage over the other, and that this body
can not give that attention to tho city's
affairs that they demand, because they
can not afford to dedicate the whole,
or even any considerable portion of
their time, to the city's welfare, since
their salaries are not large enough to
maintain them.
In short they think the machinery Of
government, with Its numerous officials,
cumbrous and expensive and utterly
inadequate to carry into execution the
ends for which II was created.
In its room they desire to sec set
up a government by three commits
sioners, at salary Of say 81 300 each
year. who shall divide between
them the various municipal depart
ments, to be chosen for terms OF
different lengths, four, six and eight
years for instance. One of these
could take charge of streets and public
improvements, another the police and
fire department, whilo the third would
be the head OF the administration.
Such system, they maintain, would
narrow the responsibility attaching to
the officers, fixing IL upon few in
stead of dividing it among many, and
besides being a measure Of economy
would immensely increase the efilcien-
cy Of the government. Each Of these
chiefs of the administration would be
able to give his whole time to munich
pal affairs and, being under heavy
bond, would be liable for any misman-
agement he might commit.
The difficult and delicate matter of
equalizing assessments, and Of placing
them in proper ratio to the value of
each piece of taxable property, could
be much better managed, they hold,
by an officer chosen for long term
than by one who must biennially go
before the people for reelection.
Such are some of the reasons brought
forward by those who desire change.
1t Is not known at present whether
any special efforts will be made to
bring 1t about beyond making converts
by private discussion, but it is alto
gethcr likely that some such plan will
be laid before the legislature at its
next session.-Commercial Herald.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
THE DAY or REUKOSING.

my. Herald Washington Correspondent
To understand the depth and ferocity
of the hatred with which the average
Democrat regards Tom Reed you must
bear in mind that he has not only
strained his authority as Speaker to
the utmost limit to browbeat and
tyrannize the minority in the present
House. but he has carried his partisan
malignity into his private relations
with members and broken down the
last vestige of the amenity there used
to exist between the two sides.
You must bear in mind that Mr..
Reeds immediate predecessor, Mr..
Carlisle, was not only courteous and
polished gentleman in all bis official
and private relations with members
but az Speaker ruled the House with
absolute and judicial impartlality.
You must bear in mind that except
a few strictly partisan measures which
have been dragooned through the
House, Reeds domineering course, has
not expedited any business, so that, as
a matter of fact, the Appropriation and
other necessary bills are further behind
now than they have been at any short
session for many years.
You must bear in mind, therefore
that there is no apparent excuse OF
justification for Reeds tactics except
his personal hatred for Democrats.
The Democrats return this hatred
with interest, aud at last they have got
hold of the long end of the stick. Mr.
Reeds time has about come.
There Is this much consolation in
the career of Speaker Reed-that II
will prevent anyone else from follow
ing his course as Speaker. Through 3
fortunate accident he was prevented
from doing the South all the harm he
intended. lie has demonstrated the
evils of a partisan Speaker so forciblJ
and he has done more harm thar
good to bis party-that there need be
no fear that the Republicans will eyel
experiment again with him or a like
man. II Is safe to say that the shor
experience of Reed as Speaker vii
prevent the repetition of such scenes
AZ occurred in the last House, anc
restore a more amicable feeling be
tween the two parties. But THIS Il
only to be accomplished by applying
to Reed as the Republican leader thu
methods he insisted on as Speaker 0
The House, and showing how oblec
tionable, tyrannical aud unjust the.
ara.-Times-Democrat.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

These figures prove a greater per
centago of increase in the past 10
years of black than white people
black 47.6, whites SS.1.
This will probably be the case In
no other State except Mississippi
The census Of Arkansas proves
the same rule of population move
ment noted elsewhere the tendency
to race segregation, of tho white
counties TO become whittier and vice
versa. The negroes increased 100,56l
-74,73S In the 1s black counties. In
these same counties the whites con
tributed only 26,7S0 of the total in
crease of whites-224,gS0.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
FREE COINAGE IN KANSAS.

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. l4.-The
Alliance in Kansas started out in the
business of making laws with great
hurrah, but they have now found that
their path does not lie in pleasant
places. Their first effort was too rabid,
and they are now reaping the crop
sown by their orators during the cam
paign. One of the grievances Of the
Alliance was the fact that the capital
lists had mortgages on their farms, and
they thought II would be a good idea
to show these moneyed men that their
State was greater than their money
power. All this agitation was follow
ed by the passage OF resolution ad-
vocating free coinage of silver and In
struoiing the members in Congress to
vote for the passage of the act.
Tho crop Is now ripe and ready for
the harvest. All over the State the
farmers are receiving notice from the
loan agencies that when their notes
fall due they must be paid. Their
will be no extension. The companies
say that the security has been depre-
ciated and made bad because the leg
lslation that is proposed Is virtually
repudiahon. Consequently tho money
will be taken from the State. This Is
especially noticeable in Rocks and
Atchison counties. Here the loans
are being called In so rapidly that
nearly every farmer Ia these counties
has received notice.
But there Is slight relief offered, for
other agents appear and say they will
loan the money at the old rates Of IN
terest ON the farms. The protlered
assistance is eagerly taken and the
notes are signed, generally without
careful reading. But when they are
read there Is clause found which did
not appear in tho old notes. This
clause says that the notes must be paid
in gold. If objection is made to this
clause the borrower Is iold that II
must remain or the money will not be
forthcoming. They are told that the
silver legislation Is being agitated by
the Kansas Legislature, and II Is nee.
essary for the lenders to protect them.
selves. The farmers now find that
they have bound themselves to pay in
gold both principal and interest, and
they reason that II the free coinage acl
becomes a law they will have premi'
um of from 20 per cont. up to pay oil
every dollar. The Kansas farmer Il
not as enthusiastic for the reform
movement as he was.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
Secretary or the Treasury.

Washington, Feb. 21.-The Presi.
dent to-day nominated Chas. Foster
of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr.. Foster was elected Governor Of
Ohio as the representative of sound
money over Thomas Ewing, who was
tho candidate of the Greenbackers. II
is said at the White House that the
President and Gov. Foster are in per-
feet accord on the question Of finance
and that there is no probability o.
any change In the financial policy ol
the Treasury Department.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
dwelling or the confederate Monument

Especial to Commercial Herald.
Jackson, Miss, Feb. 23'-Thc Ladies
Monument Association has fixed June
Sd, Mr.. Davis birthday, as the day for
the unveiling ofthe Confederate monu-
mcnt here. Adjutant-General VIM
Henry has issued a call to the National
Guard of Mississippi requesting each
company to be present and participate
in the ceremonies. Miss Winnie Davis
will be among the distinguished per-
sonages nreaenk.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
salicyIic Acid as a PrOphylactlc OF Scar
let Fever.

DIR. G. DeRosa (Giomale Interna-
zionale dele Science Medichc) claims
that salicylic acid Is preventive Of
scarlet fever. Out of sixty-six chill
dren exposed to infection, twenty
seven cases existing in ono house, only
three took the disease after the admin
istration of the drug, and in these cases
the failure was attributed to the fact
that its administration had been begun
too long after the exposure. Its use
should be commenced Immediately
when there is danger of infection, CIV
ing 1.5 to 4.5 grs. daily until the pos
sbillty of infection is past.
II Is not necessary to Isolate the
patients, for fear of their communicate
ing the disease, under this regime.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
IN O. PicaYune.l

DIR. q. A. Dorman, now OF new
Haven, who was steward at Fortress
Monroe at the time President Davis
was confined there, rushes to the
defense of Gen. Miles against the
charge made by Mrs. Davis that her
husband was ill-treated while aprisoner
at the fort. Or. Dorman's vindicatlon
of Gen. Miles Is most unfortunate for
the latter and fully confirms what Mrs.
Davis said.
DIR. Craven, the Federal surgeon,
who attended him, declared that
his room was too damp and the
food too poor for Mr.. Davis, and
told his jailers that if they wished
to keep him alive until he was tried
they would have to put him In better
quarters aud feed him better, and to
this fear-that be would die on their
bands-is to be attributed his sub
sequcnt better treatment. DIR. Dorman,
Gen. Miles defender, very patriotlcally
denounces DR.. Craven for "this strange
process of reasoning" and wants to
know why the rations of private
soldiers, simple ordinary camp fare,
was not good enough for the traitor
who ahad furnished the vermin-
swarming rations at Libby and Ander.
sonville.' and grows quite indignant
over the delicacies furnished Mr.. DAVIS,
and particularly over q dressing gown
sent him by friend.
What kind of man Dorman Is some
of his own statements show, for he
frankly confesses that he several times
contemplated numbering Mr., DAVIS
and shows how easily 1t might have
done. He says:
Al had, in fact, formed plan for bis
quiet and speedy removal, but some
better natured spirit came and with
held my hand. 1t would have been
simplicity itself, aud there was renown
or at least notoriery, waiting for me
and at that time we had no thought o.
our own individual existence, SO that
should have been the heans y, n''
taking of, whatever fate might nave
awaited me then had no terrors.
ain closing let me state that nae
full charge of all the medicine stores o.
the Army of the james and coula my
self have slipped a httle arenic o.
strycbpine into Mr.. Davis food, as
was often tempted to do, but see nov
that IL would have made a martyr o
him"
Gen. Miles has most unfortunat'
defender, for the man who thus con
fesses that he was a murderer and
poisoner at heart that he serlousl'
weighed the notoriety be would hav
obtained by numbering Mr.. Davis, AM
who contemplated and proposed IN
cowardly poisoning of a helples
prisoner, must, 1t is needless to say
have been as cruel and brutal a keepe
as his authority allowed him.
In the hands of men like Dormal
Mr.. Davis must have suffered as IL
tensely as his wife declares.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
p11cK1ENs ARNIcA sALvE,

The BEST sALvE in the world tor Cuts
pruises. Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rhenm, re-
YER " Sores. letter. Chapped Hands, Chll'
bia,ns' ~ Corns. and all Skin Eruptions
nd ,aiirs nositiyely cures Piles, or no pay re
ouired. 1t is guaranteed 70 give peb,se prss,
satisfaction, or money relunoeu. ~
q cents per box. For sale py moois 9
Clarke.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

Montgomery, Ala, Feb. 2s.-Goy,
Jones to-day appointed Hon. Richard
Walker. of Huntsville, to the position
Of Judge Of the supreme Court created
by the last Legislature.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

In the preventive published in the
TIMES last week the word "sulphate''
was used when II should have read
Hyper Sulphite.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

Locals space of five lines or more.
this type, 10 cents per line for first, s
cents each subsequent Insertion. Less
than five lines, Is cents per line for first
and 10 cents per line each subsequent in
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Tor or declined according to their nature.
Communications on matters Of local in
terest solicited. While correspondents
may attlx any signature to communica-
tions, real names must accompany same
Customers will please give explicit d.
reetlons oflength oftime for publication
Of advertisements.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

The Boonville Plaindealer says
@Fifteen hundred cases Of eggs, 80
dozen to each case, making $4,000
dozen in all, were shipped from this
town during the year ending JAN
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
Larger advertisements. quarterly, half.
yearly and yearly,
Contracted for at Liberal Rates.

Orders from transient customers, yer.
bal or written, for job work, advertising
or subscription, must be accompanied BY
the cash. Accounts of regular custo-
mers due and presented the LIST of each
month
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas
R'y.--1IiSslsSlppi Valley Route.

Through sleeping car connection made
at Memphis for Louisville, Cincinnati
and st. Louis, leaving Greenville at o:45
q. m.
Connections made at Memphis with
all lines for the North and East and
West at New Orleans for the Gulf
coast resorts and Southern Texas and
California.
Through tickets to all summer resorts
now on sale at the L.. N o. Il Il. depot
Office baggage checked through. Fer
information regarding rates, ETC., ap-
ply to 4. A. GEARY, Agent.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
JEFFERSON DlVIs' PRISON QUARTERS
LCharI.s A. Dana. u New rork sun.l

lCharles A. Dana, in New York sun.1
Some remarks have recently passed
between Mrs. jefferson Davis and
General Miles regarding General
Miles treatment of the late Mr.. Davis
while the latter was imprisoned in
Fortress Monroe. Mrs. Davis alleges
that General Miles, who was in com
mAnd, then and there subjected her
husband to various improper aud un-
necessary indiguities. among them con-
nnement in a "vermin-infesteds cell.
Mrs Davis is certainly inaccurate so
far as the cell is concerned. We had
occasion to inspect it few moments
before Mr. Davis was led into 1t, aud
It was as clean and tit to live in as a
room well could be. Itwas easemated
chamber in the fortress from which
the gun had been removed, and as no
other tenant had ever lived there it
was fresh and clean, like all quarters
kept under nigh military discipline.
1t was well lighted through the broad
embrasure, and the only unwelcome
reminders of captivity were the iron
bars run across the window and the
two soldiers that stood against the two
doors leading from the back of the
room TO another room in the rear,
where an officer and other soldiers
were always to be found. We may
presume that Mrs. Davis other charges
were equally as mistaken as the one in
reference to the cell, the probability
being that her belief has been imposed
upon through the irresponsible imagiu-
alton Of other persons.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

The people Of Arkansas, Of both
races, will approve the workings Of
this law. This policy Of separate
railroad accommodation has beer
amply proved and tested in Msslssip'
pi. Now If it is supplemented by
good election law the Legislature will
further subseryo the peacable and or
derly relations of the races, by sending
these negro politicians who "predic'
racn warsu to thu rear
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
OFFTCE RUI.rR.
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Privilege Of changing regular adVertisemsr
once a month without charge
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

Separate Accommodation Law Passed.

Little Rock, Ark, Feb. i7-By a
vote 70 to IL and after heated de-
bate the House passed the railroad
separate coach bill which passed the
Senate some time ago, after amend.
mcnts TO not apply to railroads less
than twenty-five miles in length
Some of the negro members of that
body gave vent to rabid utterances
against the whites for such legislation,
one of them predicting that il would
precipitate a race war. by the samt
bill railroads are compelled to provide
separate waiting-rooms for the two
races In every depot in tho State.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28
TALENTINEs.

COL. wArIKRs- N TO D. B. H-LL.
I've sent thee letter. David,
To guard thee from possible vice,
Youin fnd it Is laden. David,
With chunks ofthe best advice
have only 10 add. dear David,
As my humble name l sign,
remain your obedient servant,
And likewise your Valentine.
D. B. HILL TO COL wArrERs-N.
You think that your conduct is plueky,
think it is shoekingly bad
You're 5 sun Of a gun from Kentucky
An impudent, insolent cad
You're a bumptlous, insuferable colonel
A loaihsome. pestiferous fool
A nuisance that's simply Internal
A Cleveland liekspitile and tool
You're a demon, dude and dodo,
Great Scott that you didn't know better
Than to dare and sit down inyour saneium
And write me that sort ofa aletler
You re a biankety blank, a----
You're - -
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-02-28

Southern papers copying aud giving
credence 10 the foregoing are probably
unaware as they are unmindful, of the
fact that Mr.. Dana is pleading his own
case in the above-that at the time in
question he was the assistant of Secre-
tary of War Stanton. Plausibly and
smoothly as he talks now, he proved
himself a fit instrument for the most
malevolent and vengefnl actor of all,
in those days OF deep stonement. Mrs.
Davis founds "her belief upon perso-
nal memory, upon the testimony OF
her husband, whom she was permitted
to visit and tend by his successor,
after Gen. Miles was assigned away
from Fortress Monroe.
There Is too much testimony upon
this shameful episode of Jefferson
Davis in prison for Mr.. Dana and
Gen. Miles to cheat history. Mr.
Davis was notoriously not cast in a
complaining mould. His only refer
ence 10 his prison treatment, in his
"Rise aud Fall of the Southern
Confederacy,' is brief and as follows
"Bitter tears have been she'd by the
gentle, and stern reproaches have been
made by the magnanimous, on account
Of the needless tortures to which ]
was subjected and the heavy fetters
riveted upon me, while in a stone case
mate and surrounded by strong
guard. But all these were less excru-
tiating than the mental agonies my
captors we're able to inaict."
Those who care to inform them
selves Of the facts in this controversy
can do SO by reading book issued at
the time of occurrence by the Federal
surgeon, DR.. Craven, stationed at
Fortress Monroe.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-04-05
FAITHF UL, AS A DOG.
One Man Has Kindly Words for the Much
Abused Zanzibaris.

One Man Has Kindly Words for the Much
Abused Zanzibaris.
/ cannot speak gratefully enough Of the
conduct of our faithful Zanzibaris. On
them we were entirely dependent for such
food as we were able TO scrape together.
The Hanzibari, it is true, will lie and
thieve-mOst untaught negroes will-but
with the white man with whom he has
worked, whom he respects and has con
fidence in, though starving himself, he will
share his last crust
1t was often pitful TO see man who
was scarcely more than skin and bone, and
who was half mad with hunger himself,
bringing us a little store Of toadstools and,
laying it before us, say, master, take your
share; God is good"
There was something childlikc and
simple about these Zanzbaris which al
ways appealed strongly TO our sympathy.
At work you may be As severe as you
please; you may fog him when he does
wrong, 50 long a- when work is done you
relax and gossip and talk with him. His
quaint remarks about people and thing,
are always entertaining and often instruct
i've. You listen to his stories about his wife
or mother, his sister or friend; about his
home in Zanzibar, and his little plot OF
land. In fact you make him feel that
though you will force him TO do his full
share Of work, at the same time you sym
pathize with him in his troubles and are
really his friend.
If you do this he will work for you and
follow you with a dogIike fidelity / have
often seen a Zanzibar who had laid hin.
self open to punishment, lie down and take
his fifteen or twenty strokes Of the cane,
and after he Ia, received them get up, and
raising his hands above his head say,
Hand cl Allah Thank Cod. by which
he meant lac has done wrong, he has re
ceived his punishment and now he and the
world are even. II punished justly, thig
child Of nature never bears malice, but iu-
Justice, want Of sympathy or cruelty will
transform him into sullen, mutinous
devil, with whom nothing can be done.
] OF course there are times when the Zan
zibari is most Troublesome and has 10 be
treated with great severity, bur when once
he understands that man is his friend
and master, these cnullitiou. are not Of
frequent Occurreucc.-A. j. Mouutency
JephsOu In Scribuer's.