The Port Gibson reveille., 1893-10-20

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Marshal McMahon, the famous
French soldier, died on the nth, aged
IS years.
The local option election in Lefore
county on the 14th resulted in a vic
tory for the prohibilionists, though
by small majority.
A Picayune dispatch from Bruins
wick, Georgia. last week. said that
two yellow fever patients were MAX
ing trial OF DR.. Sanche's electrical
appliances.
IL the Democratic party is determ-
ined to go 10 pieces over the currency
question, it will undoubtedly be able
10 do so. 1t is tending straight in
that direction right now.
Senator Morgan boasts that he is
''ready to die at his post" in oppos-
Ing the repeal men. Nobody will In
terpose any objection provided the
senator is not too slow about it.
What wonderful things we Demo-
Gratis were going to do when once in
control OF the government! For
further particulars inquire of the
Democratic majority in the senate.
Rev. Joe Jones has Just closed
successful revival at Clinton, La,
the Methodist church receiving forty
converts. Mr.. Jones and his work
are emphatically endorsed by the
community.
A compromise is an adjustment
between parties Of equal strength and
influence. 1t is only in the United
States senate that the weaker party
talks of forcing compromise on the
stronger party.
The Democrats OF Copiah have
nominated II. p. Willing, Jr.. for the
state senatorship made vacant by the
resignation Of senator Mayes. w. Nj.
Kethley, president Of the county ALI
ance, is the Populist candidate.
The most likely form of compro-
mise is one conceding an issue of
bonds TO the east, and providing for
continued government purchases Of
western silver. In that arrangement
the south would figure as the dupe.
Populism seems to be on the wane
in Alabama. AT a so-called conven-
tion held last Saturday i'm Selma by
the third partyites, only six persons
were present. The convention, SAYS
the Picayune dispatch, was COM
plete farce.
The Democratic senator's have no
esprit dc corps. Afraid to trust eth
or the president or the Democrats in
the house, they refuse to fulfil the
pledges made in the platform, and
drift aimlesslY along while the party
Is going to destruction.
Evidently senator Butler is not
the only galley-slave of The Popu-
lists, TO use the N. Y. Posts phrase.
Several other southern senators are
plainly cringing before q free coin
age sentiment among the Populist
sympathizers at home.
No compromise II the repeal bill
can not be passed let the Sherman
law remain untouched so that the
country may learn by experience /
which side is right. The lesson would !
be valuable hereafter, even if the ex- /
pertinent should result disastrously. i
Senator Hill deserves credit for his ,
manly stand against the tactics of
the obstructionists. AS he seusibly !
remarked the other day in a debate /
with Mr.. Vest, if the senate is power
hess either to legisiate or to change !
Its rules so that it can lcgisIate, the I,
proper thing for il TO do is to disband.
Notwithstanding his persistent vo- !
cal efforts, the tomcat is universally /
pronounced sad failure as musician; !
yet competent authorities say that the !
internal machinery of single one e
II these animals furnishes SO worth J
of violin strings. So after all it is
true that out of cats comes forth
music.
Mr.. Vest, OF Missouri, glories in the c
Tact that the senate rules do not per- il
nit the majority to compel a vote,
md also in the alleged fact that r
'hese rules can not be changed. Such u
IN arrangement may be satisfactory q
10 Mr.. Vest, but all the same it is a 81
tate Of things that the country will 81
lot long tolerate. h
When the attack began on silver in e,
S13, cotton was selling ut seventy 81
i've dollars bale. 1t now scarcely
ellis for one-third that sum.-Yazoo ID
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Yes. and in 1879 Tildan apd Han. a,