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1 THE CLARION. VOL. XLVI. JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1883. No.

4. The Circuit Court, Judge Wharton, rendered its judgment in the Manning-Chalmers case, deciding that Gen. Chalmers was entitled to the certificate of election from the Secretary of State; that the 1472 votes from Tate county should have been counted for him instead of Chambless; and that the declaration on the part of the Secretary of State in favor of Col. Manning, was against the facts as disclosed upon the face of the official statements from the Commissioners of Election of the several counties composing the Second Congressional District, and was void. Much stress was laid by the attorney for the Secretary of State upon what was supposed to be the lack of proof in respect to a demand upon, and refusal by, the Secretary of State to count the Tate county votes for Chalmers, but the learned Judge held that the law enjoined this as a duty upon the counting officer, and no personal demand to discharge: a plain duty was necessary.

As to the refusal to act, it was adjudged that the failure to count when requested by Gen. Chalmers, and the submission to argument the question as to whether the did not control the certificate or statement of the Commissioners, at the suggestion of counsel for Col. Manning, was sufficient to warrant the institution of this suit. Else the statute giving the remedy would be nugatory; for, if the petitioner was compelled to wait until final action was taken before his right to a mandamus was complete, it would result that the right would exist only to be effectually destroyed. The law could not be interpreted so as to be self-destructive.

The Court repeated its former ruling on the construction of the State election laws, and held to the doctrine lying at the foundation of our republican institutions, that the popular will must be practically carried out, and not defeated, and the object of all laws was to ascertain fairly and justly what the people have determined by their ballots. These laws, except as to the time and place of holding elections, were directory, and any error apparent on the face of statements by Commissioners of Election transmitted to the Secretary of State should be promptly corrected. If the Commissioners of Election ascertaining the existence of any error in the written statement purporting to give the result of their canvas of votes, should correct it and send the proper evidence of such correction to the Secretary of State, no rule of law should stand in the way of his giving full effect to it. The Secretary of State asked for a trial by jury of the issues of fact, and it was granted. On the verdict of the jury, the judgment of the Court was pronounced and the peremptory writ awarded will require the Secretary of State to give the certificate to Chalmers and declare him elected.

We learn that the Secretary of State will take the case to the Supreme Court. The arguments of Col. Nugent for Chalmers, and of Judge Brame for Manning, (or Myers) were both characterized by learning and ability. The following citizens composed the jury: R. Kaler, Isydore Strauss, John Walker, G.

W. Gunn, C. A. Brougher, John Southerland, J. W.

Kelly, W. B. Jelks, W. H. Lee, W.

C. Donnell, Jacob Wonders, Abraham Washington. THE indications are that there will be no tariff legislation the present session of Congress. Gov. BUTLER, of Massachusetts on the woman suffrage question proposes that all females of 21 years of age, in the State over which he presides shall be registered, and the question of female sufirage be submitted to them.

IE a majority of them are in favor of it, it shall become an established fact; if not, it shall remain as it is now. Ir afironts common sense to assume that the Supreme Court ever intended by any decision it has rendered, to furnish ground for denying the power and the duty of Election Commissioners to correct a mere clerical error in their certificate declaring the result of an election, or explaining a discrepancy in their statement. If under our statutes a pretext so flimsy is all-sufficient to overturn the fundamental law of the right of the people to have. their rotes returned to the Secretary of State as cast and actually counted by the inspertors, and to absolutely annul them, our statutes are wofully defective and our elective system a farce. The Supreme Court could not have intended to promulgate such monstrous doctrine.CLARION December 13th.

The Manning-Chalmers Case. Meridian The Atlanta Constitution tells of a Georgia boy just a little over 8 years old, who last year cultivated with a common goat three-quarters of an acre of land and made 233 pounds of lint cotton: Looks Like Business. What a Georgia Boy Did. Memphis About 2,000 laborers will be at work this month the Memphis, Brunswick railway between Holly Springs and Aberdeen. Afraid to Touch Them.

Denver Neither silver nor lead are in danger from hostile legislation. The Republican party in Congress, dare not touch them. Without the silver States it would have no hope at the next election. The Internal Revenue Tax. Aberdeen We think, that it is more than likely that Congress at its present session will repeal all Internal Revenue taxes but those upon whisky and manufactured tobacco, and reduce those items materially, while some progress will be made towards unloading the excessive burdens incident to the protective tariff.

Death of Mrs. W. A. Purdom. Lexington Mrs.

Elizabeth P. Purdom, relict of the late Wilson A. Purdom, died at her home in Calvert, Texas, Tuesday night, the 9th inst. She was for many years a resident of Lexington, her friends among the old citizens of this county and Jackson, where she subsequently resided, will be pained at the news of her demise. Polk's Lineage.

The following is published in the Milan Exchange as showing the lineage of Col. M. T. Polk: "A lady resides here, who was a child in Bolivar with our absconding treasurer, and has known his family for many years. She says his name was originally Marshall Tate, and not Polk; that he was a poor relative of President Polk, and that the president adopted him into his family for the purpose of educating and making a man of him.

So it seems that he was not far wrong when he gave his name in Texas as Tate." River News. Pearl river is still high, but falling. The Oliver Clifton, Capt. Charley Kerr, at the wheel, arrived late Saturday evening from Carthage with fifty-five bales of cotton, nine turkeys, sixty dozen eggs and a lot of hides. She returned yesterday.

The O. R. Singleton, managed by that clever gentleman, Capt. H. T.

Brown, came pufling in Monday from Edinburg with a fair load, consisting of 182 bales of cotton and a lot of other freight. She will return to-day. Officers of the N. J. C.

Railroad. Natchez last, viz: President- -Will T. Martin. Secretary-Jas. H.

Fitzpatrick. The following are the officers elected by the directory of the Natchez, Jackson Columbus Railroad on Tuesday Treasurer--Geo. W. Koontz. superintendent, general freight and passenger agent, are all appointive officers, and President Martin assures us that there is such satisfaction with the present incumbents that no change is contemplated sofar as they are concerned.

A Congresman on A Bust. Memphis WASHINGTON, Jan. behave themselves pretty here as a rule, but get on a railroad train a few miles away, and they make things lively. A gentleman who just came in from Baltimore remarked that Gen. a member from one of the Southern States, was on the train "drunk as a boiled owl." "He was lying down in the aisle in the front he said, "kicking and yelling.

We finally got him up and into a seat and managed to keep him moderately quiet until we got here. He told me a hundred times. coming along that he was going out of Congress with clean hands pure as the driven snow. He said he could have made millions, but he wouldn't take it." The Greenbackers. MEETING OF CONGRESSMEN TO PREPARE AN ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Greenback members of Congress, held a conference this evening. A committee consisting of Rice, of Missouri; Brumm, of Pennsylvania; Jones, of Texas, and of Maine, were appointed to prepare an address and report to a future meeting. All agreed that the principles and the organization of the party should be preserved, as all signs point to a financial panic in the near future, when the principles they advocate will be understood and appreciated by the people. This, and the nationality of their party, as compared with the sectional prejudices governing the old parties, will constitute the leading features of the address.

RAILwAY REGISTER: President Ackerman denies the troth of the rumor that Vanderbilt is purchasing stock in the Illinois Central with a design of obtaining control of that system of lines. The rumor itself was improbable on its face. The grand jury of Pensacola, has presented the Board of Health of that city and county for haying been "grossly negligent of their duties, in that they did not take proper sanitary precautions previous to the introduction of yellow -fever into Pensacola in 1882." ST. Zeralda Garrison, who fell into the hands of the mashers and was reported to be abducted, has been taken East by her uncle, G. L.

Garrison, by advice of the family physicians, to be placed in an asylum for treatment for nervous disease. A card signed by Drs. G. S. Walker and C.

W. Stevens will be published in this utternoon's Post-Dispatch, in which they state that a full examination of her meatal condition showed that the young, lady was deficient in the development of her mental faculties to such an extent as to make her irresponsible at times for her actions. Irregularities in natural functions, well known to the family physicians, easily account for this. With regard to her physical condition, an examination warranted the conclusion that she was not subjected to any physical, violation during the time of her disappearance. At St.

Helena, J. O'Rourke shot and fatally wounded his wife. At Pittsfield Joseph Butler, married and 27 years old, plead guilty to the charge of raping his niece, aged 11, and intent to rape two others, aged seven and eight. He was sent to the State prison for life. At Trenton, N.

Rev. John D. Miller, in opening the proceedings of the House, prayed that no member might be forced to explain to an inquisitive constituency when he returned home how, having come to Trenton poor, he went back rich on a salary of $500 for the legislative session. Governor Ludlow, of New Jersey, wants the railroads of that State to pay $100,000 more taxes, and suggests legislation for that purpose. He says the taxes on private property and on the railroads a are unequal.

Col. Greenburg L. Fort, ex-Congressman, died in Lacon, Illinois, last week, after a short illness. The Lower House of the Missouri Legislature contains forty attorneys and fourteen editors. Women stenographers of the highest class command and receive salaries of $1000 a year and upwards, when employed, in large establishments.

In a corn-raising contest near Rome, five young men took part. The winner of the prize raised thirty-seven bushels and seven ounces on a half acre. Maj. Campbell Wallace, one of the members of the Georgia Railroad Commission, celebrated recently the seventy-seventh anniversary of his birth. He has an extended experience in railroad affairs as Superintendent and President, and is now a bank President at Atlanta, as well as Railroad Commissioner--in all positions commanding respect and confidence.

Contrary to reports, tracklaying on the Southern Pacific Railroad in Texas, is not yet completed. A gap of 3,500 feet remains to be closed. Construction is impeded by the unfriendly nature of the ground. Kitty Marsh, the Vermont girl who ran away with a mulatto, has been found with him in a small village in New York State, and reluctantly consented to return home. A meeting of colored men in North Carolina has been held to inaugurate the first railroad enterprise ever started exclusively by men of that class.

Several thousand dollars were subscribed. The projected road is to run from Wilmington into the eastern counties of North Carolina. News comes of the death of Mrs. Emma Stillwell, the confessed Ohio murderess of so many of her relatives. Up to the last she maintained the truth of her confession.

The first cargo of corn in bulk shipped to Europe from Savannah, was loaded on the 17th. Congressman Hammond, of Georgia, while at home for the Christmas holidays, said to a friend- "I am hardly as sanguine of a Democratic victory in 1884 as most of my party colleagues are. You see, while the Republicans lost a great many votes in the Fall elections, we did not gain them. We carried New York by an overwhelming majority, not because we recruited our party, but because something like 150,000, New York Republicans didn't vote." Fifteen matrimonial associations in Louisiana and Mississippi have been declared fraudulent by the Post Office Department. Bishop Joseph C.

Talbot, of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, died at Indianapolis, on the 17th of paralysis, aged 65. At Shelbyville, a divorced couple, tired of going it alone have become man and wife again. Gen, W. C. Pendleton, chief of the artillery army in Northern Virginia in the late war, is dead.

Prof. Mitchell, before the Mississippi river committee, expressed the opinion that when the Mississippi improvement is completed, under the present plan, a channel 15 to 20 feet deep would be secured in places now the most shallow. At Lynchburg, Gen. Odin G. Clay died at the Norvell House on the 18th, in the 82d year of his age.

NEWS AND NOTES. At Palestine, Texas, Dr. West, aged 70, prominent physician, was arrested and take en for trial before the court at Tyler, charged with sending improper letters anonymously to Miss Sadie, Cogswell, aged 3041 Dr. and Mrs. Durham and Mrs.

Shanks, of Thompson, were poisoned by a colored girl 10 years. old. The girl was bound to Dr. Durham, and in revenge for punishment put poison in the coffee, at dinner. The Dr.

is in to critical condition and the other two are not out of danger. Wm. Graham committed suicide cat Lar kinsville Ala, by blowing out his brains. Caused by ruined fortune, brought about by paying security debts. In the Arkaneas Legislature, a number of bills have been introduced regulating freight and passenger rates on railroads running through the State.

The present rate is 5 cents per mile, which the bills reduce to 3 cents, and freight rates proportionately. Col. Paramore, President of the Paramore narrow-guage system, will, it is said, appear before the Legislature and advocate the proposed reduction. Girls in the Iowa Agricultural College are taught to cook. Oswego, N.

January Hickey and his wife were arrested for inhumanly treating a girl named Osee Everett, aged 19 years, who had been a domestic in their household for some years. Chicago, with sixty square miles of territory and 600,000 people has 444 policemen, about two hundred and fifty being availablo for night service. Hence Chicago is fast becoming the wickedest city in the country. OVER THE STATE. Kemper Herald: T.

W. Brame of DeKalb, is soon to leave DeKalb for Scranton which place he will make his home in the future. At Austin, Tunica county, on Tuesday, 16th, a fire broke out in the general mercants' store house of J. N. Nathan Co.

The building and contents were destroyed, as were also the dry goods house of J. M. Phillips and saloon of J. C. Evans, partly insured.

Delta Review: We want no landed aristocracy in this county. At Mayersville, three prisoners, Jack Menel, Edmund Jones and Walker Thompson, confined in the county jail at that place under the charge of murder, effected their escape by filing an iron bar two inches thick and swinging from the window. The Chickasaw Messenger regrets the death of one of Chickasaw's oldest citizens, Mr. Mumford Bean, at his residence near Buena Vista, on the 15th inst. Brandon Republican: Mrs.

Susan Williams, widow of Philander Williams, deceased, died on Sunday last, in the 67th year of her age. Mr. Joe Holmes, an old resident of the county, died a few days since. The Republican says that a Swede, named Brady, living on the old Neely place, was tried at the last term of the Circuit Court, for unlawful cohabitation with a negro woman, and was convicted and fined. Last Thursday night, as we are informed by reliable authority, he was married to the negro woman by Adam Lewis, a negro preacher.

The Republican thinks that Brady stands fair chance to go the penitentiary, as the law does not permit such marriages. The Holly Springs Reporter regrets much to learn that Capt. Ed. Kuhl, of Wall Hill, Marshall county, intends removing his family to Florida the first of next month. He is one of Marshall's best citizens.

Winona Advance: We notice this week the departure from our midst, of C. G. Holman, Esq. He goes into the far West, and intends hanging out his shingle in the flourishing capital of Colorado. T.

B. Murrell made an assignment here to-day to W. T. Townsend. Capt.

Sweatman and Mrs. Parker were made preferred creditors. Macon Sun: Mr. Mat. Mahorner sold off of his plantation during the year 1882 one thousand dollars worth of stock.

At an election for aldermen at Brooksville, in Noxubee county, the whiskey issue was up and the whiskey men carried it by a vote of 35 to 28. The Copiah county Agricultural and Mechanical Association have elected for officers for the present year: Dr. R. W. Huey, President; J.

D. Granberry, 1st Vice-President; HI. C. Conn, 2d Vice-President; H. IT.

Cook, Secretary; A. B. Guynes, assistant Secretary T. J. Ramsey, Treasurer, and Dr.

D. W. Jones, E. A. Rowan, P.

J. Young, E. C. Williamson and If. Garth, a board of directors.

Dr. H. A. Moody, a former member of the Mississippi Legislature from Panola county, has removed to Florida. The Star warmly endorses him.

The Corinth Sub-Soiler says that Col. J. A. Blair has been appointed postmaster at Tupelo. The property of the Mississippi Valley Improvement Company, situated nt MicComb City, and consisting of a hotel, brick store and a number of very comfortable dwelling houses, has been transferred to the Illinois Central railroad.

Canton Citizen: Mr. Wm. McKee, of Madisonville, left on Wednesday night for Hill county, Texas, where he goes on a prospecting visit, thinking to leave Mississippi for the Lone Star State. THE ELECTION CASES. On Trial Before Judge Hill, of the United States, District Court, at Oxford.

Hoth THE INDICTMENTS QUASHED BECAUSE DEFECTIVE IN. SEVERAL IMPORTANT 4 Special to the Appeal OXFORD, January -The cases of Ed. M. Watson, William M. Strickland, A.

F. Brown, J. C. Boxley and Henry E. Williamson, all of Holly Springs, were called for trial to-day in the Federal These gentlemen were indicted violating Federal election laws in the recent al election in the Second District this State.

The attorneys for the defendants moved to quash the indictment on the ground of insufficiancy in the allegations, vagueness, uncertainty, etc. Judge John W. C. Watson opened the argument on the part of defendants, and was followed by Gen. James R.

Chalmers, the recently appointed assistant district-attorney. Mr. James H. Watson replied in support of the motion, and was followed by District-Attorney G. C.

Chandler. Judge Watson closed the argument in a speech of great ability and power, which was regarded by all present as the effort of the day. Judge Hill sustained the motion quashing the indictment, and deciding that it was defective in a number of important particulars. The prosecution immediately gave notice that they would proceed against the defendants upon an information founded on Judge Hill's construction of the law. The trial upon the information is set for the next term of the court.

Carroll WATCHMAN; There should be a law in every State requiring searching investigation of every State office of trust at each session of the Legislature. No good reason can be assigned in opposition to such investigations--if the offices are properly, conducted no harm can be done the people will know that their servants are faithful and are not abusing confidence reposed in them-if improperly conducted, an investigation will expose the irregularities, and faithless public servants, who have taken advantage of and abused the confidence of the people, will be held up to the public gaze and condemned as they should be. Or the fifty millions of persons in the United States, there are less than thirteen million who can vote. The exact number of males twenty-one years old and over by the last census report, 12,820,349, of whom 11,343,005 were white and 344 colored. Of the whites 8,270,518 are of native birth, and 3,072,487 of foreign birth.

The Horticultural Convention. JACKSON, Jan. 18, 1883. EDITORS CLARION: On the 25th, there will assemble in Jackson an important convention. I mean the meeting of Horticulturists and fruit growers, from different portions of our State.

By the citizens of Jackson and vicinity, it should be welcomed with open hearts. With a climate and soil unsurpassed for the growing of fruits and vegetables, we seem to be lagging behind all other sections. The far famed strawberry raiser, David Knight of Michigan, says: "We (in Michigan) are fortunate if one acre of land returns to us $50, clear profit, the land being worth $80." In the vicinity of Jackson, where the berry grows to perfection, land can be bought at $5. per acre, and where the profits from each acre, will bring an annual return of $100., as proven by the McKays and other cultivators, near Madison Station. These men, the MeKays, have made a name in other States, by inaugurating a new industry, and they have made Madison Station the "loveliest village of the plain" and to them be the praise for striking out a new path.

When the 25th arrives, let the citizens of Jackson feel that a body of intelligent men have assembled in their midst to encourage a new departure, which, if it succeeds, will cause the country around Jackson and all of those locations near the railroads, to bloom again and blossom as the rose. AGRICOLA. More Deaths from Eating Diseased Pork. Special to the St. Louis SAN ASTONIA, Jan.

16-Jacob Schriever, a German of Fredericksburg, and his fanily of eight children, partook heartily of fresh pork for dinner last Saturday and, were taken violently ill Saturday night. One of the children died to day, and the others are in a dangerous condition. It is thought they cannot recover. The pork is supposed I to have contained trichina. A.

and M. College. AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE, January 16, 1883. GEN. S.

D. LEE, President- -Dear Sir: In reply to your questions of this date my Record shows that 300 students have matriculated during present session; 242 are now in attendance; 34 have entered since January 1st, 1883. Very respectfully, T. F. WATSON, Sec'y.

BURY ME IN THE MORNING. Bury me in the morning, mother; Oh me have the light Of one bright day on my grave, mother, Ere you leave me alone with night; Alone in the night of the grave a thought of terrible And you will be here alone mother, And stars will be shining here. So bury me in the morn, mother, And let me have the light Of one bright day on my grave mother, Ere I am alone with night. don You tell of the Saviour's love, motherI feel it heart; But, oh! from this beautiful world, mother, "Tis hard for the young to part! Forever to part when here, mother, The soul is fain to stay. For the grave is deep and dark, mother, And heaven seems far away.

Then bury me in the morn, mother, And let have light Of one bright day on my grave, mother, Ere I am alone with night. Never unclasp my hand, mother, Till it falls away from thineLet me hold pledge of my love, mother, Till I feel the love divine. The love divine- oh! look, mother, Above its beams I see, And there an angel's face, mother, Is smiling down on me. So bury me in the morn, mother, When sunbeams flood the skyFor death is the gate of life, mother, And leads to light on high. "Friend and Foe." Manager W.

H. Power takes pleasure in presenting to the Jackson public a true Irish Comedian, Mr. W. J. Scanlan, in a new Comedy Drama, entitled "Friend and Foe," by Bartley Campbell, Esq.

Mr. Scanlan is one of the most talented Comedians upon the stage, and the only actor that elevates the Irish Character. Iu speaking of Mr. Scanlan, the N. Y.

Irish Nation says: "If the Irish blood of America sternly repudiated actors who presented caricatures of their race, and supported those who gave faithful delineations of Irish life and character, much good would come to the cause of Ireland and the education of public opinion in favor of a much maligned people. A rare enjoyment is offered in Friend and Foe and Mr. Scanlan, in whose performances Donnybrook brutalities have no place." Inter-State Commerce. PROPOSED GENERAL INQUIRY INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF RAILROADS. WASHINGTON, Jan.

-The joint resolution offered by Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, and referred to the Committee on Commerce, providing for an investigation of the subject of railroad transportation in all its relations to the agricultural, commercial and industrial interests of the United States, directs the Commissioner of Railroads to consider and investigate the subject and inquire generally into the conditions affecting commerce with foreign Nations and the States; character and extent discriminations made by railroad among corporations, and the rates charged by them, whether exhorbitant or unequal, and the sufficiency for traffic throughout the country; to ascertain, as nearly as may be, the cost of the construction and equipment of roads, amount of stocks issued in excess of the cost of construetion and equipment, and the rate and amount of dividends declared and paid. The resolution also directs that the Commissioner shall have power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths and examine witnesses and, in the prosecution of his inquiries, visit such portions of the country as he may deem advisable. Natchez, Jackson and Columbus R. R.

Matchez Democrat, The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Natchez, Jackson Columbus Railroad was held at the office of the company yesterday. The stock of Adams county, that of the city of Natchez and most of that owned by private individuals, was represented, but there were no representative of the stock of Hinds county present, and the stock of that county was not voted. The election of directors of the Company for the. following year resulted as follows: T. Martin, T.

Otis Baker, Geo. M. Brown, R. F. Learned, J.

N. Carpenter, Louis Botto, A. Rawlings, J. C. Koontz, Schwartz, R.

L. James Saunders, Surget, T. T. George Hart, W. R.

Kirby. "After the directory had been chosen, this body assembled and proceeded to elect the officers of the company for the ensuing vear. The new directory, we are pleased to say, gave strong evidence of its confidence in the old officers by re-electing them all to their respective positions. Another Assault on the Silver Dollar. A bill to regulate the coinage of silver, introduced by Mr.

Fisher, of Penneylvania, in the House of Representatives, provides: "That from and after the passage of this act, and until an international agreement on a coinage ratio for the use of silver in fall legal-tender coinage shall be made by the leading commercial nations, or until the equivaleper of bullion value between the standard silver and gold coins of the United States in the markets of the world shall be otherwise seeured, the Sacretary of the Treasury shall cause to be coined only such number of the standard silver dollars, authorized by the act of Feb. 28th, 1878, as may be required to supply the demand for actual circulation, in lieu of the minimum coinage provided by that act.".