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Year: 1879

The Export TO make the solid South
rise up in sympathy and support Of
General Grant ia not meeting with much
encouragement. The South is in favor
of only one kind Of non sectional caadi-
dates. It's leaders and journals hsve
refused 70 accept Gsneral Hancock,
Democrat as he is, and why should
they be expected to accept Grant, They
want a man like Bayard, who THINKS
the way to wipe out all sectional bitter
ness and strife is "to make the South 5
position in the Union one OF honor, i'll
the first place" They want to have
harmony by being permitted to have
their own way. They know Genera
Grant would not allow this, and they
are afraid General Hancock wouldn't
Year: 1879

AFTER ALL the bluster Of the Demo-
orats to have the City Hospital abol-
ished, it is very evident that they are
in no great hurry after all and want
time to rsHeot before they abandon an
institution which was such assistance
to the Democrats in carrying the last
citv election. Even the chairman Of
the Finance Committee, who introduced
An ordinance to abolish the hospital
before he was quite warm in his seat in
Council, has backed water, and now
sees reasons why the City Council
should not bs hasty.
Year: 1879

Now that public feeling is being ex'
oits in relation to the political con-
test il behooves not only every Rspub-
lican, bat every citizen who has al
heart tie country's common good to
provide himself with a reliable paper;
one that has a national reputation, one
in whoge very columns id mirrofed all
that pertains to the entire country,
politically as well as socially, and
whose simple word is as expressive as
truth itself. TO be so suited We would
refer our readers to the New York
"rimes," live wids awake and emi
ne 1tly reliable exponent OF the living
princi pies OF Republicanism. The in.
tsrests Of the country are made lis
interest, and through the past when
those interests have been ilperiliel it
has stood in the breach fearless and
nnwayering. The result of this policy
is now apparent in this: 1t takes the
front rank in political as we'll as gen
eral journalism. Its opinions are
read and being the expressed senti-
mept of the nation, are given that
weighty consideration which their
meaning and interest entitle them to.
Its reliability is beyond question. Hav
ing the essentials requisite as public
education we unhesitatingly recommed
it and in doing so enjoin upon our
people, not through any obligatory
motiva on our part, but for the imme-
diate and general good of Republican
ism, to take it into their families.


As an evidence Of its reliability we
have but to refer to the compagn OF
1875 when Immediately following the
election it announced Ruthtriorl B.
HAYES President by an electoral vote Of
1876. While the Republican papers Of
other cities gaze the result over to the
Democrats, it maintained its position.
As every one is aware this position was
subsequently confirmed by an official
announcement from the commission
As in this 80 it was in the late New
York election. While others we're in
doubt, "The Times' came forth with
the--to the misunderstanding an.
nouncemeat that the Republican State
ticket was elected with the exception
of Lieutenant Governor. As usual il
was right As mouldAr Of pure Re
publican sentiment we chesrfully re-
commend it 10 our people.
Year: 1879

perhaps, the coinage Of silver, are those
against which the Democratic party has
made unrelenting opposition from the day


the exigencies Of q Democratic war made
them necessary to the sustainment Of tho
Government. The greenback or legal
tender record Of the Democratic party dur
ing the war does not aatter the truthful
ness of the Senator's present claim.
Neither does its attitude toward resump-
ton, which has brought the wave of pros
perity over which the Senator exults, jus
tify the high feather with which he at
tempts to plume his party. If the Demo-
cratic party could have had its way, re-
sumption would have been postponed, and
with it the revival Of trade, business and
prosperity which now exists with the ma
terial interests of the country. The Sena-
tor struts too proudly in the borrowed
plumage of resumption, honest money and
good times, for the country is not indebted
to the policy and methods of his party for
either
Year: 1879

THERE was not single member of the
Bourbon party 50 debased and lost in parti-
san prejudice as TO listen to or pay The slight
est heed to the ISLANDERS of the Post against
Secretary McCRARY. They assented to his
unanimous confirmation yesterday without
even asking the Cormality of division,
much less roll-call. A diminished head
and sore one, TOO, now surmounts the
editorial physique of the Great National
Democratic Organ ~"
Year: 1879

Verify, at YazOo, murder has its reward
1t is not in the penitentiary or upon the
gallows, but it is indorsed and approved by
public sentiment, and honOred with place
and emolument BARKsDALE the assassin
of DIXON, is not punished with imprison-
ment or the loss of life, but the people elect
him to the position of Chancery Clerk, with
the following ilattering Endorsement from
the Herald, his party organ; Our next
"Chancery Clerk, JAMES A. BARKsDALE, is
"a young gentleman who possesses every
"aunlification to fill that Office with honor
"to himself and usefulness to the county.
"* The Democracy were proud to
"rally around his standard. lie deserved
" to be elected SANDER could not bar his
progress, nor vilifcation impede his on
"ward march to victory"


This is the reward which blood-stained
murderer receives at the hands Of the people
of Mississippi for taking the life of fellow
citizen in cold blood, in open day, and for
no other cause than difference OF opinion
on the question of politics. Instead OF
being incarcerated in prison or hung upon
the galows as other felons of the same
grade are in all civilized communities
when the proof of guilt is clear, he is
placed at the clerks desk of a court, when
he should be arraigned in the dock of a
criminal court for a heinous crime. This is
the character that Southern society reflects
upon Republican form Of government and
upon the civilization of the nineteenth
! century,
Year: 1879

THE political gossips, especially of the
Bourbon stripe, hereabouts are one and all
confident of General MAHoNEs election to
succeed Senator WITHERs, of Virginia. And
it is a fact worthy of note that none of
them express any confidence in the sincerity
of MAHoNE's pledges for the accomplish
ment of political reforms They say He'll
be Democrat when he reaches Washing
ton, whatever lie may be in Richmond
Just now I"
Year: 1879

son one week of the session has been per-


mitted to slip by and nothing has been
done; business of public nature has been
neglected, and the private or personal
affairs Of individual citizens have been
wholly disregarded. And in this way the
earlier days of the session will nll slip by
until the holiday recess is reached, with its
relief of temporary absence from the scenes
of political responsibility and official duty.
Year: 1879

THE First Virginia district can be, and
must be, carried by the Republicans next
year 1t is none too soon to begin prepara-
tons for the accomplishment Of that result.
The way to go about it is to Danish all the
accustomed and self-styled Republican
leaders--save the mark Ito the rear and
permit the people to come to the front in
grand and effective combination against the
Bourbon Democracy. Every man in the
district who is opposed TO BourbOnism
should be invited TO cooperate in this
movement, regardless of his past partisan
predelections,and one Of ftheirnumber should
be selected as a candidate on an anti Bour-
bon platform. Such nominee, assured of
the combined support of all the anti-Demo-
cratic elements in the district, would have
carried it last year, and can carry it next
year
Year: 1879

THESE is growing disposition the coun-
try over in favor of change in the length
of the tenure OF the offices of President
and members of the House of Representa-
tives.-, The proposition of Mr.. POUND, of
Wisconsin, for Constitutional amendment
TO fix the Executive term at six years and
the House term at four is in response to
this feeling. The argument advanced in
support of II is that under the proposed
system the frequent changes, often violent
and radical, in the autonomy of the Gov
ernment, 80 to speak, which now obtains TO
agitate the currents of political affairs


would thereby be avoided. Governor
POUND has given the subject much thought
and urges his amendment seriously. II
will, of course, evoke some debate, out of
which il is certain no harm can possibly
follow and much good may be expected.


PEACE, not work is the motto of the ma
lority party in Congress, But the peace at
tanned is the deceptive quiet which covers
restrained spirit of political diabolism. II
the Bourbons were TO attempt the work set
before them Us their task at this session,
this restraint would be removed and that
spirit would emerge from its coyerto destroy
all possibility Of peace and quiet In short
and in truth, the eowardly aud cowed ma
iority party does not dare TO show its hands
In the face Of the rebuke administered by
The people, because Of the recklessness and
Iedition Of the extra session. For this rea-
Year: 1879

DON'T GRowL.--Of course there is
very limited quantity Of local news in the
JOURNAL this week, but it is only be-
cause there is so little worthy of mention
transpiring hereabouts. We feel like
giving ourself Nn extra credit mark for
finding as much local as We have this
week.
Year: 1879

TAX HsT.-Tho Delinquent Tax List
published in another column is a lengthy
document presenting items of consider
able interest to some of the parties
named therein. While there are somo
cases Of delinquency that cannot we'll be
avoided, there are many which result
solely from carelessness ON the part OF
property owners who are able IL settle
but neglect to do SO.
Year: 1879

DEAR READER When your eye rests
upon this little item, jdst pause and con
slider whether it is your own or some 9th
or PERSONS paper in which you are read
ing. If it is your own and laid for, we
sny, God bless you ~ but if not, our
advice is for you to subscribe at once and
hereafter do not depend upon your neigh
bor for glance Mt the local newspaper.
Our books are always open for the recep-
ton of new subscriptions.
Year: 1879

FERRY WANTED.-We learn that
parties interested in the Dixon Bar
Mining property will make application
to the Board Of Supervisors for license
to put ferry on the river at or near
that point. There is now no ferry on
the Trinity below Cox's Bar, and one
Mt the place proposed would be not only
n great accommodation but a positive
benefit to residents on Lower Trinity.
There is no reason, SO far as wo know,
why the request Of the Dixon Bar folks
should not be granted.
Year: 1879

A Coon CITIZEN GoNE--Few men ever
eft more regretful friends behind. than the
gentleman who died on Saturday last. His
death had been expected for some time, but
it came too sudden for every one.


DIR. Goodwin was born in Kentuckey in
1918, and after good common school edu.
cation, at the age of Is, he commenced the
study of medicine at the age of 20 he was
so far advanced, that he commenced the
practice Of his profession in Cumberland
county, ILL.,; he did well, and at the age of
~ he married. In 1850, he became the
victim of false friend by going security for
large amount of money, and r solved to
follow the great tide of Immigration that
was then rushing toward the Golden State


Being only partially successful as miner,
he returned home and was ship-wrecked on
the coast of Mexico. After great difficulty
and privations. he managed to reach civili-
zation and his home in the Fall Of 80, and
resumed the practice of his profession aud
holding also the Office of public instructor.
During the war he was a sterling Democrat
Of the Douglas school Of politics, and became
so inimical to the administration, that on
several occasions he had the armed merce-
naries at his door. but he always stood his
ground and with some old comrades, pistol
in hand, beat them off. In '65 he came West


and after very rough trip, he brought a
! portion OF his company. consisting of 100 wag


Ons, and OF which lie was captain, safe to the
Yakima, where he lived until he came to
Walla Wall., where, with few intervals he
has since resided. From that period, the
country has been oonversant with his history,
he has diligently followed his noble profex-
sion, and las been universally successful
During the small pox scare, when even other
doctors would not attend the sick, he re-
mained at the bedside of the stricken, and
proved himself MAN in every sense of the
word. By his death, the country at large has
lost a citizen who cannot be easily replaced.
Year: 1879

COOP ISDIANs-Thc bodies OF two In
dians are reported as having been found in
the Payette River with their scalps taken
oil We most decidedly denounce the prac-
tice Of scalping by white men, and no one
but brute and a coward at heart would
ever mutilate dead body, and you all know
Year: 1879

Ed WILLIAMS is making great improve
ment in his saloon next door to D"oley &
Kirkman's. His place is becoming very
popular resort with all classes on account of
his attention TO business aud the extra good
quality of his goods and ATTENDANCE.
Year: 1879

Numerous complaints have recently been male to
the Brooklyn Board Of Health concerning the filthy
condition of the streets. Sanitary Superintendent
Raymond stated yesterday that the health authori-
ties could not remedy the evil further than call
the attention Of the Board City Works to the fact


The street cleaning contract is held by Patrick Dun
ngan, and it is only, DR.. Ray mond said by the re-
cent determined effort of the Health Department
that he has been made to clean the streets at ALL


Francis Swift is the contractor supposed remove
dead animal but, the Doctor said they are often
Year: 1879

From the chicago Journal


He was friend of mine, and used
frequently to drop in and give me adj
vice as to how l ought to run my pa
per.


He was minister, and consequent
ly thought | should devote 1t little
more to the cause of religion and not
quite so much to politics.


He said it could be made power
for good in the Western land in
which we had both cast our fortunes.


He was lover of the original, too,
and said he disliked to see reprint,
thought 1 should write more-tal<e
the time, in fact, to fill the paper
right up with good new stuff. 1t
seemed such an easy thing for him
that one day 1 ventured to say:


"Brother, you had a glorious
meeting at the school house, hear
suppose you write it up for me-


He didn't seem to act as though
he wanted to.


l urged.


He flushed little and stood around,
awlxward-like. He had never been
honored with an invitation to write
for the press before.
/ still urged.


Then he took off his gloves and hat.
Then gave him seat at the table,
with paper and pencil.


He sat down to editorial work.


He was always talking about how
it should be done, and now he was
at it.


He started in.


l went about my work and, having
written I'D column or two of matter
for the days paper, left him still
writing, while | went out ta solicit
some advertisements.


/ was gone an hour or two, and
when l came back he was still ct it.


He was sN eating awfully.


His eyes were bent on the dazzling
white paper before him, and his pen
ell was stub. | began to grow
frightened. knew / had only small
weekly paper, and that its fourteen
columns of space Gone side was :
patent inward) would not hold tht
contents of the Bible and supplement
tary messages from Heaven besides.


At last the man looked up and tim
idly advanced with piece of pape
in one hand, and suddenly went bacl
to change word.
Then he came on again, and like
one who had passed through visior
held out piece of paper and boldl.
asked:


''Will that do?'
1 looked at it.


There were just seven lines of ii
advertising measure.
He was large man, weighing owe
800 pounds then, but when l me
him three weeks later he weighe
less than 155.
1 He had been sick.
The seyen-line nine-heur effort wa
too much for him.
But it was not all lost. He neve
advised an editor again.
, Neither did he compose for ps
per again. 1t was hard work for hiI


to write, and he saw he was not CT
out for an editor.
Year: 1879

The only mysterious thing about
mosquito is, how in the name of cor
mon sense he can get his work in .
the back of your neck when you h:
just hit him and your left cheek a t.
mendous swipe. That's what max,
men so down-hearted and disguste
with life.
Year: 1879

The crop reports continue to show that
we shall have an uncommonly large har-
vest of breadstuffs enough to guarantee
abundant supplies at not exorbitant prices
to England and Germany, where the crops
are short. 1t is curious that Texas reports
poorer corp crop than any other State in
the Union but in the. other trans-Missis-
sippi States this crop promises extraordi-
nary results.


In some Of the cotton States corn is said
to be doing poorly, which will increase this
year the demand upon the Northwest from
these States, which have for some years
largely and rapidly enlarged the area
planted in food stuffs, greatly to the ad-
vantage Of their people of both races


On the whole the season is now so far adj
vanced that we may reckon securely on un-
commonly good crops which will put
very large amount of money into the pockets
of our farmers. We trust they will know how
to take care of it, and we advise them and
all other Industrious people TO beware of
speculation. II Is plain to all observing
men that we are about to witness the be-
ginning Of q new fever OF mining specula-
Year: 1879

in which most people of the better
class are engaged, in the hope of becoming
financially the equals of some OF their ac-
quaintances. Men and women of small
means but high aspirations and cultured
tastes may be numbered by tens OF thou
sands in and about New York, and within
view of Injuries which they may see but
not grasp and enjoy their tastes are allowed
to dominate their reason to an extent that
is morally dangerous and almost criminal.
A slight reduction of income, the prospect
of being compelled to be less prominent In
their ''set" in society, seem to these peo-
pie the most dreadful of earthly ills. 1t is
time that this lack of mental and moral
balance should be rectified, and the warn
ings OF what may follow in case OF neglect
are frequently to be found at the Morgue
and in the lasting miseries of estimable
families suddenly bereaved.
Year: 1879

tion, and whoever has by hard work earned
and by economy saved little money will
be tempted by newspaper reports and by
a too general example to try to in
crease it largely and rapidly by
putting it into ''stock" of some
kind. and especially mining stock. We
advise everybody to be careful. There are
no doubt good mines, but there are cer-
tainly great many worthless ones, and
great many more of which nobody
knows whether they are going to turn out
well or poorly and these last two kinds are
the ones most easily bought by the mex
perienced.


If any farmer or planter has done so we'll
this year that when he has sold his crops
he finds himself with money to spare, let
him buy land. That is still cheap almost
everywhere, and it is always safe to own
real estate bought cheaply or at fair price
in well settled and law respecting COM
munity. We should not advise any one to
buy land either in Mississippi or California
at this time. The people of those States
do not seem to think much of the laws, or
of the rights of others, and it is as well to
keep away from there until they get done
shooting.
Year: 1879

San Francisco is reported quiet again.


But what melancholy spectacle society
in that Western metropolis presents to the
rest Of the world! A preacher and jour-
nalist scold at each other, the one in his
journal, the other from his pulpit, until
finally one calls the other out of his church
and shoots him. Then comes the preach
ers son, also clergyman, and addressing
an excited mob, urges it to await the action
of the law, but if the law fails to hang the
assassin Of his father then he asks the mob
to "kill him, or help me kill him.


The Mississippi bull-dozing and assassina-
ton are irritating enough, but surely this
report Of a clergyman calling upon mob
to help him kill somebody goes step be-
yond the "Yazoo plan" What sort Of
people are they who can listen to the Sun
day instructions of clergyman who openly
announces his desire to kill a fellow
being? What kind of society has grown
up on the Pacific side, which toler-
ates such indecencies as preceded this
ceeded it, in this address of a young clergy
man to mob? There is something pain
fully disreputable, something savoring of
shocking and vulgar recklessness and con-
tempt for even low standard of Christian
morals, in the whole of this business but
particularly in the last phase of it. 1t may
be true that the Chinese in California are
bad, but the principal actors in this vulgar
and indecent tragedy are men for whom
any decent and reputable Christian society
has more cause to blush than respectable
Cinnamon have to be ashamed Of even the
lowest of their people. And these men, whom
California society seems to encourage and
sustain, are, the one a journalist and the
other two lergymen-members, that is to
say, of two professions whose especial and
sacred duty it is to advocate moderation in
life aud language, decency, observance of
the laws, and imitation of the mild and
blameless life OF Jesus.


If the people of California have not self
respect enough to purge society OF such
men; if society is so debased out there
as to continue to accept such men as public
teachers, Southern men may justly say that
we of the North have at least one State in
which social degradation has spread more
widely and sunk more deeply than even in
poor Mississippi.
Year: 1879

Mr.. Kalloch's wound may add chapter
to the history of capricious or detected
missiles. Judged on the simple statements
of the case thus far received it seems some
what surprising that the wound did not
prove immediately mortal. He was shot
with pistol said to carry ga large slug"
and he was fired at from the window of q
carriage drawn up at the curbstone, while
he was on the sidewalk-say o distance of
the lead had, of course, great penetrating
power, and might have been expected to go
completely through the man, or at least to
appear under the dorsal muscles, if it had
continued its career through his body in
the line in which it was flying when it hit
him. But how could it have continued its
flight in that direction and not have
killed him Immediately? 1t penetrated
the breast, as reported, just above
the heart, and all that region is
filled with large vessels, the cutting of
any one Of whith would be as fatal as cut
ting the heart itself Even if one of the
little bullets such as Lillian Duer uses
snouiu pass through Shere "hu Ho' oPeh uh
artery or a vein it would be strange but
for ''large slug" to make that journey and
leave the vessels intact is decidedly more
than strange. 1t may turn out that the
slug did not enter the cavity OF the chest;
that piercing his clothing and the muscles
on the chest it hit rib at happy angle
and was detected from its murderous
direction. In this case it might pass around
and be found close to the surface of the ribs
under his arm. Or if it certainly pene-
trated the walls of the chest it may have
been turned from its course by impinging
on the upper or lower edge of rib and SO
have been sent into neighborhood where
its presence would be less Immediately
perilous.
Year: 1879

tain TO arouse the North, not to unconstitu-
tional action, but to union for self-pro-
lection. If Mississippi and half dozen
other Southern States could this year be
swept by Independents or republicans,
far from injuring the democratic party next
year, this would help it to carry a much
larger number of electoral votes in the
North. The ''solid South" is not natural
phenomenon, now that those States have
been restored to self-government. 1t is not
worth while for any Southern or Northern
democrat to hope to persuade the North
that it is: And it is the greatest folly in the
world for the Northern democrats to foster
and count upon the solid South. If they
were wise they would insist on an imme-
date and decided break in the Southern
line.