The Vicksburg Post from Vicksburg, Mississippi • Page 2

1 r.k 0 THE VICKOBURGr VENJOtfG PC na i i ii iiv i mm '-aaam mmm aiBraawBBa, mmi a. aw av. mmm Crubernatoriai Proposition had two ttrtra. TUB EVEIHHG POST mm asrvoue and excitable, and. the a ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCENES AT THE NANTICOKE COAL MINE.

Uovernor Lowry, among eeveral rcc emmendaliooa for chanfeajie tbe admin istration of the criminal jurisprudence of the Suite, anggeata that "it may, be killed her. The parents were vary okL white-haired father hovered lib a ghost CATCH THE TRADE. wnutm J.O.CAfaUAM 0O WMhlacton Vlckaburg, bout the ill-fated mine, wringing his Bands. 'Tve rot two as good boys aa ever lived that it would be well to allow a lee oi one-fourth of tbe amount now allowed race of a. Calm Bank-Asjsssto Kescaer Dlggla fTpoa Their BsaMlav i and Kneet Generosity of tha lead in that mine, and aa good agui as a father ever had lying dead at home, but the wmoCGodbedoawliasaJd.

to the District Attorney on conviction to DiuvhbtCabbibmio Birawr-nn -awta a the Justices of the Peace for each con It was very pitiful The accident occurred i Friday. Monday another tremandous viction." DONT READ TlilS Until yon have firmly impressed upon your mind tba POSITIVE Vapt This special proposition comes in con nectioawith a paragraph dealing with the subiect of economy in respect to tbe piices CANNOT BE DUPLICATED at axy place in Vicksburg. Come and BARGAINS offered, rememberine that aum slide took place. It fell into and filled completely the narrow, painful passage already cut out Every way of communicating with the imprisoned men had been tried, If, peirbanee, hey were yet alive. An iron pipe ran through the chambera The rescuers triad knocking on this, knowing that tha sound would penetrate to the farthest re expense of tbe Judiciary.

The idea pre T0U CAN RELY ON WHAT I SAY. YICK8BURG, JAN. 11. 1880. sumably is to relieve tbe Circuit Uourt of the trial of misdemeanor, but at tbe same time not to lessen tbe chances of conviction by a change of forum.

But it was never answered, wnen tbe second landslide took place all hope ended. Tbe men were given up I surely MATCHLESS BARGAINS Therefore tbe recommendation that tbe The rescuers made rush to escape with their own lives. Justice of tbe Peace shall be offered a (Special Comspoiulsam. WrxxxKBARHS, Jan. were more heavy hearts in and about tbe town of Nanticoke, durine; tbe past holidays than perhaps in all the United States bssidsa.

A prosperous place it is, too. It is in the heart of the entbracite mining district of the Wyoming valley, nine miles from here. The anderground veins which furnish its industry are the property of tbe Pennsylvania Coal miany. This company does not belong to the coal owners' combination, but operate its shafts its own way. Consequently, when the general association orders mmes to atop work on account of low prices, the Pennsylvania pays no heed, but continues to blast out and bring to light Its black treasures the venr around without stopping.

It is a good company to work for. Cash circulates constantly in Xan'icoke; tradu is lively, and the people are huppr, as only busy persons can be. They give work to 6,000 men and boys. These turn out daily 35,000 tons of coal The men employed are of all nationalities, but mostly of foreign birth, Irish, Welsh, -IX- Then they took thought how tta bodice premium for eacU conviction to quicken bis zeal and move bim in the direction might be obtained. The coal company offered a reward of $100 for the first body discovered.

i Dry of convictions. He is not to have a fee for the trial of a misdemeanor, but a fee St only where be convicts tbe alleged (of fender. BOOTS and SHOES, CIaOTHIHQ, -AND Gaato' Furoiohing Coca This. is an extraordinary pu jo'iti o. Each Justice of the Peace, a judicial officer who is to decide upon tbe guilt or innocence of the accused, is to get a A lar cftod choice lot of BOYS' SCHOOL SUITS, Heavv-weirJ nTT wr a PN premium from the Sta'e Government if uuuerwear xor jaaiea, uents, Yootbs and CBildren, Pok and Hungarians.

The scene near the mouth of No. 1 slope, tbe day of tbe ac client, was like this in tbe picture. he decides in favor of tbe State and against the accust-d. In Ireland in the days of the McNeils WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE SOW. Seventeen widows and fifty-two orphans when they held their Eiridun and ware made by the disaster.

A subscription fought against Eogli.sh persecution Rlror Improvement. Thj opinion Menu to be general that tary is to be expected from tbe preteot Congress or National Adroinia tration farorable to tbe improvement of tbe Mississippi rirer. Aod yet fotea were aupprened by tbe teni of thousand in Mississippi and Louisiana, and perhaps io Arkansas and Tennessee State all deeply interested io tbe im provemeot of the great river io order that Mr. Cleveland might be installed in tbe White House. This was called political sagacity by the Northern Dem octets whose lead the Southern Dem' tarata have been blindly following for years.

But there is no statesmanship or patriotism in suppressing votes in order that New York Democrat may be Pres-iJent of the United States, and our people will begin to learn after awhile that there is no political sagacity io it. Tbe fiill iwing paragraphs are not very en couraging fur those wh are anxious for a liberal National policy toward the Mis sissippi river: The Misnlssinni river is likely to have a hard time making itssnlf felt before the com mittee on ri vers and harbors. The com mitten seems to have been constituted rhieMv on the principlo of how not to do it. We hope that we are bit alien in this. The number of gentlemen from quartern indifTfr'ciit if not unfriendly does not indi rate that we ar mistaken.

Memphis Av nhnche, Jan. 10. It not to he forgotten that the outlook for an appropriation adequate to the necessities of the lower river is not favorable. As our readers am aware we have indulged Nmall hopes of any recovery of lower river Inteersts, from me ruin wrought by the fatal unwisdom of the Itiver and Harbor Committee of the Inst. Congress.

Greenville (Miss.) Tim's, Jan. 0. Aa heretofore, I will always keep a full line of GROCERIES AND PLAHTATIOH SUPPLIES Which will be offered at price3 as low as they can be obtained elsewhere. until tbe Smth. uf Ireland was decimated of its population, the has been start jd to send tbe helpless ones back to tbe old country.

Since the conditions of life there are far harder than here, this plan, to a humane person, looks tolerably tough. What will become of them then! One of the dead men was a young Pole who had only been married the Hunday wolves increased to such an ex'enl that the English Government ofF-red a premium for wolves' heads. THC HIGHEST CASH PRICE WILL BE PAID FOB COTTO And liberal advances made on consignments to me. before tbe disaster. He had saved $900 of His Excellency apparently anticiiia- his earnings.

With this he bought a house ing the criticism that bis proposed reform "would be a constant tern t'a' to con D.J..S vict" says that this i-tm by lie right of appeal to the Circuit urt, and the rieht to a iurv in a Jusiicj'a Court. The right to an appeal, ire or le's costly and burdensome, is ho n.i'W to the proposition to offer lhJ inferior Court a cons'ant money temptation to conviu'; nor by the fact that the accused have a jury in view of tin f.ict iai Ji Court under whose anpics Hip ju is selected is under a money premium and temptation to convict. and took his bride home to it This is one of the saddest mins disasters in history. Even hope of rescuing the bodies is about abandoned. They must probably lie beneath the culm bank till the end of time.

Rather strangely the flow of culm and debris still continues, in a slow dull stream, like the current of lava on Mt Vesuvius. Above ground, it has the appearance of a sink hole iu the earth. The yawning opening represented in tbe illustration is 150 feet wide. It Is in the center of the culm pile. What next! Tbe pile of debris is so great that they say It would take a year to exca vate the dirt, and then there would be no certainty of finding tbe remains.

The men were known to be at work In a certain chamber when the vault fell. That chamber was reached after a few days' digging, but they were not there. They must have tried to escape with the rest and been over whelmed and strangled by the deluge of black mud in tbe passage ways. The company propose to cease digging, wall in the dangerous mine, and erect a monument on the spot to the memory of the lost miners. Then they will divide $40,000 among the bereft families.

To continue digging would certainly cost a year's work, and $300,000, The rest of the miners have returned to their other work in the lOpUSa Bo the tragedy ends, and one of the darkest leaves of tha year 1885 has been turned down. A. J. Botiwxlu iiXTD AZIT There is no lack of in victions in Mir sissippi of petty offender it is game i Senator Z. Qeorue has our thanks for valuable public documents.

CLAY OVER SOUTHERN EXPRESS OFFICE, VIOKSBU-RG, MISS. arger sort that needs Io king after. We would be greatly gratified, foi ex Statu Senator Hatch klor has favored us with imoortant State reports. Fine Photographs taken of all the new styles and sizes. Call and examine.

Pott-offlce Box 101. 1 ample, if the Govern would send to the L-ginlature a special mensige recommending some improved methods fur the suppression of lynching. WW. "A.f editorial in Tuesday's Vicksbnrg Herald, headed 'What is the shows that Mid present editor is of a pious turn. Has the witty fellow suicided." Port Gib'on Eeveille.

Till editor of Tub Post has a poor opinion of the enterprise of Ja kson, and publishes the following unkind cut at ourcit "It is said that eold Bowman PROPRIETOR OF THE RAW-MILL BOAT LEE RICHARDSON, AND MANUFACTURKR OF House lot, north of the Capital building at Jackson, has been purchased with the The II lustre Men shows what is called the fau house. The great engine in the fan houw worked away as though it was a matter of life and death, the steampipe outside puffed merrily, ani the frreat pile of culm was added to hourly. And it was culm that caused the accident What is it? It is the dust and refuse from oal. It is piled high about all the mines. It is blown hither and thither by the winds, the rain wets it, and it sos down in'o grimy mud, blackening like ink a'l tbat touches it.

Day by day it accumulates the longer mines are worked, until niino owners are at tbeir wits end what to do with it It becomes in time not only an inconvenience, but a danger. A man has invented lately, it Is said, a process for making fuel very cheaply out of culm. It is made into a mixture and pressed, and in this itate is said to give out just the steady, intense beat that is best adapted for boating the water in steamboat bo lers. If this be then a great nuisance will be got rid of. But the Pennsylvania company had found noway of disposing of their culm.

They had dug coal au I shipped it till their refuse pile was a bill 300 feet high and covered thirty acres. It was upon a field of swampy round, over an abandonod portion of tbe mine. Tbe water stood in puddles under the culm, and made channols through It, and trickled into tbs ground beneath, til! all became a slippery, treacherous mass. At 10 o'clock the day of the accident a miner was blasting out rock in a vein of No. 1 siopc.

It mads a tremendous crash, heavier than usual. Immediately thereafter water and earth began to pour upon the hapless miners. "Save yourselves! Run for your lives was tbe word passed. Tbe miners sprang out in frantic haste, but the water oured in in torrents. The main znnnwty is the "spe," end it was tl is he tune's aimed to reach.

Most of view oi erecting a line hotel upon it. The lot bus not yet been purchased, but we will wager that a fine new hot-l will be TllB Greenville Times says the thermometer recorded two degrees above It 'roat that place last Friday night, and hat the present is the longest sustained range of low temperature ever known in Greenville. built in icksbnrg before the foundations are laid for the one at Jackson. Jacltson DIMENSION LUMBER BOAT AT LANDING AT GLASS BAYOU, VICKSBURG, MISS. 4 1 Sash, Doors, Blinds, itiouidlngs, T.

and 6. Flooring and CtMllflf Orders addressed to the undersigned will be promptly filled. if Ledger. The Chess Match. Since poor Paul Morphylost his wits at chess America has had no great champion.

Morphy ia yet alive, raiding at New Orleans, a mental wreck, at once a monument and a warning of what Inordinate chess playing will ma he of a man. The chess tournament now going on in There was nothing unkind in our para Dakota. The Senate Committee will graph, and it was not intended 'ibe tin report favorably upon the bill for the kind. Our opinion that there was not Ml WM. CURPHET.

Proprietor. New York la lor tbe ffkmtnnlrmeititfi if much prospect for the erctin of a rcw hotel upon (be old Bowman House admission of Dakota. Then will come "the tug of war," in the discussion upon the subject. Dakota is Rapublicin by a large majority, aod this fact will cause lot, is verified and confirm! by the fol w. o.

worrell: soma unwarranted opposition to its ad lowing "unkind cut" at Jac.son, which we find in the same issue of tbe Ledger that contains the above paragraph mission as a Slae. Commission Merchant the world. It began Wednesday, Jan. 6, and will continue until one or the other of tbe two players, whose portraits here appear, shall have won ten games. Mr.

Blelu-ita is ostensibly the Mr. h. Virden. one of the most nro- Jackson correspondent of the -AND DEALRK ilS -mil'-- -t'- Itil-ixi Herald writes as follows: grcssivc citizens of Jackson, has purchased the old How man House Int. A report having gone out that Mr.

Virden intended soon to erect a hotel on the lot, a repot ter of this paper called upon him to American cham WILLIAH 8TIINITZ. The weather Is cold and clear, and there Is very tittle sickness, The Clarion, Mew MiHsissippian and ledger are live papers and all doing well. The Clarion comes AAA. aiiu jaMir -r pion, but it is not necessary to spell out his name in order to discover hat he is a German. His strong round face showa that He claims to be quite 4ve games ahead of his ine particulars II- g.u I ill 'i I no arrangements build it i 1 i lot, but that it would prob.bly niii.cd for that purpose.

out as daily on Thursday next, the l.edtrer will orobablv tmblish atri-weektv. Ool. Power will without a doubt elected State printer. AH of the hotels Lime, Cement, Plaster, Etc. iSTaalijngtDii atreet, YICIIDDimD, I1IDC opponent on the total past recora.

The first four games are to be played in New York. Then the two chess giants will are run to overtiowing. From present indications tbe colored WARREN County has been greatly move to St. Louis, and play at tbe rooms of the St Louis club, till several more games population of Mississipri will be larger increased by emigration from other ibe ii escaped and were dra.ru out, although the water was up the necks of the last When the terrified hundreds gathered above ground, twepty-six hapless souls were missing. Ten were Poles and Hungarians; the others mostly Welsh and Irish.

One thought seised every human creatrxe in Kan tlcoke. The lrxt men must be rtacoed. There were tbe Sugar Notch miners burled by a in 180. They were prisoned in a mine six days, and yet evei man of them was taken out alive. To work, then, to work with desperate energy I Tbe company offered every Inducement in complimented by Speaker Sharp in bis HENRY YOSTE; are won.

The match wuiDeflniansa in new Orleans, selection of Committee rbairmen, Hon, L. V. Maeruder is at the bead of tbe Ju Like everything else in these days, the Southern States in the futurt Oim un-dred arrived from uth Ctrolina, in Jackson last Saturday, and many other arrivals havi been rec rd in te press of late. Tbe Delta alone can take three Watchmaker and Jeweler tournament Involves betting and Samsung on the resulu. It is a moaey-makmg scherae.

A stake of $2,000 a side has been put up. diciary, and Hon. H. C. McCabe at the bead of tbe Corporations committee both 1 cordially Invite a comparison of Work and Pices, bielieVla The winner will get It ia nothing important committees.

Messrs. Magru iter and McCabe are well Qualified nl its power. The workmen stopped in all the wiuif ots we neat ana tjneapesc ALSO DIALER nr times as many colored laborer as ii has, and no doubt the S.at will afftrd like as much as a champion prise fighter oaa win, but cheas being an intellectual game, that of course is not to be expected. till the dutiea that will devolve ubon mem. mines, They would not go on and labor as though nothing had happened, a home to a hundred thousand more Mr.

Zuckertort is the champion player of WATCHES. DIAMONDS AND SILV KRW, Great Britain. He is a pale. Intellectual these people in tbe future. This wilt not "Ths VteasBi'Hu Post is disuosed to anr SPKCULTICS IN JPICTACtM.

I the supervision question with the Supreme looking person, far more the ideal chess i wnen twenty-cu I lirtvi mwmJm simplify the political problems iu his section. 'I might be dead or player ia appearance than Steinitt; vjurtui urn ilea otsies. it tue argu nient is prcised the Supreme Court will liave to employ additional counsel. Next i Port Gibson Reveille. We brieve some of the newspapers hat he also woks -ftvn wu-der ground.

One hundred of the stronsest men went IN.ScJ.Y.PIAZZAN WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Kke a man who Miaaiaaippt Finances. Fro.u Gov. Lowry's Message.) The reports of the Auditorand Treasu A Wf i tjmM varrv mmv this State, occasionally wait to bear down to dig ont a chess nights and some other papers have to say be. er will be fu-nlshed you at an early day. and will acquaint you with the financial condition of the Suite.

I have doubt finally break down CARRIAGES BUGGIES AND WAGOHC i'W xa Ju9iSt nndar nervous pros lore expressing their own opinions upon W'X I Mr RUt. passageway. How they worked yon seem the ptctnre. They sought to make only atrmnal sa large as a man VI ita has a deep chest lirominent topics. It is the custom of The Post to "break the ice" and speak wit promptly and positively upon ques SADDLERY, HARNESS AND SADDLERY HARDBAKE, HARNESS, SOL, LEATHER, SHOE FWDlJf OS; i OIGOI50 ihk Passage, might crawl 'ions of public interest as thev arise 164 XT ASHIKGTOV STREET, V1CKPBUEG.

Therefore, we promptly expressed our tiplnion as to the "effccl" of the recent lecision of the Supreme Court in the W.E. natter of tb Mississippi Railroad Com mission, but did not undertake to "arirue the question. Tbe New Orleans Pica Distillers' iLrrenta yune, and othr leading papers, as well as prominent gentlemen of Vicksburg, tbat but these reports will simw a ronid arable increasin the State debt within the fast four years. This wiit not be snrp. is ng when the ict is recalled that the Legislature of 1882 inore.i.te 1 the co school fund $100,000 per annum ar-d decreased the rate of taxation from three to two and abalf mills, which is equ .1 to $50,000 per annum.

It will tie i that these two items made a iiiftVence 'if in the financial transactions of the 8tate in the four yean. Ha I the rotnmoi. school fund not been increased and tbe rate of taxation not reduced, it is safe to say that the net payable debt could have been discharged before this. It is well to increase school ictli ties sod to redact taxation, bnt, unfortunately, both cannot be done at thesama time without increa-init the debt. 1 venture to rrne tt and emphasize the cantion contained in my last message, tbat the most riirid economy must be inaugurated in every of the Government Even then I apprehend tbat tbe present resources will prove inadequate to meet necrssarr expense.

I nrire that you will in future avoia the grave error of directing expenditures in excess of tbe revenue you shall provide, and that you shall either first determine what sum of money may be re isonublr expected to come into the Treasury, ami then appropriate it tn the objects you see proper, or that, after directina'l expenditures yon shall be careful to assure the realisation of enough money meet them. nave concurred in the opinions on the I and heartv animal H. zcckthtokt. vitality. acker-tort, too, is of German extraction, which ia rather odd.

Are Germans the best cheas players! There has been what the lamented Arte mns Ward would call a "lata oapieasaat-ness" between the two men, but it is ever now, and they claim to be the best of friend Tbe sporting gentry are making betting books on the game as if ft was a haras race. Tbe champions play in public, and the "gate money" ie largely counted on. Than is no brass band aocompanfmert aa far aa they have got, but one don't know what may happen before the game ended. This playing tn public and being stared at Use a fat ox at a prise show must have a soothing effect on the nerrea, and tend to make tbem do their best They play on alternate days, four hoars in theaftsrnoon and four at night In case a gams is not finished at night it wOl be left over and concluded next day. If there is a tie of nine games the match is to be withdrawn.

At the opening each player was required to make thirty moves ia the first two Bonn, after that not less than fifteen moves an hoar. After every movett is lefsroduced exactly out ia the crowd anon a bigohest board few feet square, an that spectators may watch the game. tfccision expresJ by this journal. The Bveillt abi made a comment ihroiigh. Mora would waste precious time.

Tliey gathered up trowelfulls of the black xrud and filled tuckets with it, croocbing ipon their bauds and knees. When a Docket was full it was passed from man to man till was earned to the outer passage. Sach work seemed puny child's play, for there ere 250 feet of cnlm above them. But it was all that could be done. Pumps were rigged at once, and set work-aig to get the water out When one aqnad men were tired, a fxtsh relay took their slacea.

Night and day they kept at it, iron-Hnewei, determined miners. Bulletins were rut out constantly ta the thousands who irere gatbereJ about the mouth of the mine. ''In twenty-fonr hours we shall reach htm. and we think they are alive." Again: "By to-morrow morning we shall have them dead or alive." The days went on. Some moles that had wen tn one of the shafts were found, alive, rhat renewed flagging hope.

But presently mere was a trace of fire tiamp in the low, ilimy tunnel. Exierienced miners shook their heads. "They are choked to death, 3od haTe merry on their souk! They might save lived on mule meat a good while, bat if Um air was cat off they died at one." WHOLESALE on LIQUOR DEALER is this very imp decisionbut it she very same comment our respect ed rnntero porarv makes on mint other au b- jects. It is only one word, but very ex x- 1" pressi ve ana enthusiastic, vir "Hoopla xro. 218 nohth iiaut otheet.

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. WHOISALE en present herewt'h tbe Reveille's tire article urn ih Supreme Court cixion: de- The Supreme Court of the I'niied States reuuomi aerisinti rt tbe Mmissi ppi ie railroad cases last Monday. reTersin ruliBK of Jade Hill n.l the 90IES, UPORS: CIGARS ml TOBACCO: eooatitationalityof ibe Mississippi super The cold weather continues. Job Printing at Evening Pout.

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