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THE CLARION-LEDGER SEPTEMBER 5 1895 CAPT. WHITE'S MURDERERS. RANSOirSKHClillROiD Site OFFICIAL JOURNAL OP MISSISSIPPI BY THE CLARION-LEDGER COMPANY Cor. Capitol and President Streets. .11.

Henry, J. L. Power, President. Secretary. A GREAT VICTORY.

The fight inaugurated years ago by the Clarion-Ledger in favor of a change of schedule on the "Little J. R. is at last likely to prove successful, the Railroad Commission having granted an order directing the railroad company to change the schedule of their freight trains so as to reach Jackson not later than 10 a. departing not earlier than 3 p. the order to go into effect September 15th.

For years the people of Jackson have been compelled to submit to schedules altogether against the interest of their city, and now that they are, in a measure, to have what they have so long fought for, they are certainly to be congratulated. The change will prove beneficial to all concerned, the traveling public, Jackson and the railroad, for the travel will be very greatly increased. In the name of the people of Hinds county, the Clarion-Ledger thanks the Railroad Commission for the order. CAUSE OFTHETUOUBLE. The Wall street sharks, who are not included in the gold bond syndicate now acting as receiver for the National Treasury, have planned a systematic raid on the gold reserve for the purpose of forcing the government to issue more bonds.

That they will succeed, goes without saying, for the Rothschild syndicate will not be under any obligation to protect the reserve after October. Following the stupid policy of his Republican predecessor, Secretary Carlisle has insisted on paying all government obligations in gold, which the law does not contemplate, for it says they shall be paid in coin either gold or silver. This policy he has persintently pursued, knowing that it would deplete the Treasury and force the issuance of bonds. Under the present administration, the law has thus been repeatedly violated by the Secretary of the Treasury, of course under the direction of the President, neither being willing to recognize silver as having the same debt paying quality as gold. The law is perfectly plain.

It says that treasury notes and greenbacks are payable in coin not in gold, but in gold or silver. If the law had been carried out, there could have been no depletion of the reserve, for the raiders of the Treasury would have been balked in their efforts to reduce the gold reserve, silver being tendered when their drafts were pre ABOUT GREENBACK CUltKEXCY This is terrible news Mr. E. Benedict, the rich New Yorker who furnishes Mr. Cleveland yachts for fishing parties, and who nestles closely to the Presidential household, is out in an interview in which he says he will leave the Democratic party unless it declares in favor of the retirement of the greenbacks.

He further says he will unite with the party that announces opposition to the greenback currency. Mr. Benedict is too reckless. He ought to be more conservative in his financial views. This threat of the President's clmm to bolt unless the Democracy allows him to shape its policy has brought forth a very able paper from Mr.

St John, president of the Mercantile National Bank, of New York, who proceeds to show that there is nothing wrong with the greenback currency, which brought the country through a great war safely, ar.d when the war was ended, transferred a part of that prosperity to the conquered section. The greenback and the Sherman treasury note are not payable in gold and never were, and it was not until Mr. Cleve land determined to adopt Charles Fos ter's plain violation of law that gold was drawn out of the treasury in any' large amounts. The greenbacks and Sherman treasury notes are not payable in gold by law, and when Mr, Cleveland made them so payable he violated the law and involved the treasury in practical ruin. The only result of this plain violation of the spirit and purpose of the law, which says that these notes shall be redeemable ii coin gold or silver at the option of the government is the increase of the public debt more than $200,000,000 counting the interest on the $162,000,000 of bonds.

The treasury situation is precisely where it was before Mr. Cleveland, oy violating the law, felt himself compelled to place it, in the hands of a receiver. If a portion ot the notes had been redeemed in silver, with a plain intimation that all would be redeemed in silver in the event of a run on the treasury, the public debt would not have been increased by a dollar, and the business of the whole country would today be in a better condition than it is." Our Mexican Strikes Aa-other Stumbling Block. HE CAN'T GET HIS SALARY A Little Treasury Clerk Resurrect an Old Law. Washington, Aug SO.

Minister Hansom's troubles have not ceased. Fir his salary was withheld for thru his appointment as Minis-er wa cUired illegal and the otfice vacated. It was thought that his by the President on Augus: l'4, wou'i ul the but deputy aivh-tor of the treasury, Willie, has declare i that Ministei Ransom cannot draw salary until he has been confirmed bv Senate. The provision of the law up whiei, he bases his opinion is as follows: "No money shall be paid from the treasury as salary to any person appointed during a iecess of the Senate to fill a vacancy in any existing office if the vacancy existed while the Senate was in session and was by law required to be filled by or under the advice and consent of the Senate, until such appointee has been confirmed by the Senate." Mr. Willie holds that the decision of his chief, Auditor Ilolcomb, that Mr.

Ransom's first appointment was illegal and that he was therefore not entitled'to draw salary meant nothing if it did not mean that since the death of Minister Gray there had been no Minister to Mexico. That being the case he holds that Mr. Ransom's appointment now comes under the provision of law quote! as a recess appointment made to till a vacancy existing while the Senate was not in session. A further question is raised a9 to whether hen confirmed Mr. Ransom's accrued salary since the date of his last appointment can be paid or whether he will look for relief to Congress as in the case of his first appointment, but on this point Mr.

Willie is not prepared to express an opinion. DUTY OF GOOD DEMOCRATS. The Central Committee of Kentucky Issues an Address. The special committee of the State Central Committee of Kentucky, has issued an address to the Democrats of the State, in which they say: "Whatever opinions you may hold as to economic questions, whatever differences there may exist relative thereto, we earnestly and sincerely ask you to lay them on the alter ot the party lor its safety and success, and unite in the one great effort to defeat the Republican party and its nominees. Certainly no true Democrat desires the election of a Republican ticket and the defeat of the Democratic ticket.

We should always bear in mind that in the past our sister States of the South were subjected to a bitter and degrading experience and loss of good government, prestige, property and wealth under Republican control of their State and local affairs, and reliet came only through the Democratic party coming into power. The people of Kentucky surely do not want to make the dangerous experiment of turning over State and local affairs to the Republican party, nearly one half of which is composed of the negro vote. The present peaceful conditions of the State demand, then, that you vote ior the Democratic nominees. The administration of affairs of State by the Democratic party commends itself to all good citizens and this is a potent reason why the Republican party should not come into power, with its well known methods and policies. The people of Kentucky are more interested in honest and proper administration of the State government as given by the Democratic party than any question affecting the campaign, especially when this one disturbing question may be fought out and settled upon national ground We plead for harmony, charity ana forbearance, under broadness of thought and utterance, in a spirit of conciliation on the part of the press of the State and every Democratic voter throughout the State for the united action and support of the ticket and platform.

Let us with one mind, one heart, one spirit and one purpose, labor for the defeat of the He-publican party and its ticket by a majority so pronounced that Kentucky will he-come more firmly settled than ever in the Democratic column." The State Librarian. Miss Rosa lee Tucker, the efficient State librarian and keeper of the capitoi. will he a candidate for re election when the Legislature convenes next ytar. There are a number of beautiful an i accomplished ladies running against her, but then she is beautiful and accomplished herself, and has been faithful in the discharge of every duty imposed upon her. The Gazette can not say whether she will be re-elected or not, but fee's certain that no person better suited for the successful performance of every duty that devolves upon the librarian oi Mississippi, could be found than the present worthy imcumbent.

Magnolia Gazette. Avery of Louisville, ask that a few line stalks of cotton be shipped them at their expense, with dirt attached, for exhibition during the encampment of the Grand Armv of the Republic in that city. This will be a fine advertisement for Mississippi. 300,000 vieitors are expected at Louisville during the middle of September. One of Them Now in Jail for Robbery at Kansas City, Mo.

City Marshal Ewing applied to Gov Stone Tuesday for a requisition on Gov. Stone, of Missouri, for the return to this State of one Elgin Stevens, now in jail at Kansas City, tor a robbery. Stevens is wanted here for the'murder of Capt. J. S.

White at Clinton on the 10th day of November, 1S91. Capt. White was at that time a deputy sheriff of Hinds county, in which capacity he was attempting the arrest of two white men who had committed a robbeiy at Raymond. The thieves shot and killed the officer, who was as true and as brave a man as ever trod the earth, and made their escape. Their secret would perhaps never have been known but for the robbery of Mr.

Alfred Bourgeois' jewelry store some months ago, and the capture of the thief John McGowan, by Pinkerton detectives. McGowan, it will be remembered, confessed his complicity in the robbery and gave away his companion in the crime; and more than that, he promised the officers that if they would let him oif with a light sentence he would tell them of the murderers of deputy pheriff White. His proposition was a good one and was accepted. On his testimony, which has since been learned to be straight, the grand jury found a true bill against Elgin Stevens, charging him with murder. Photographs of the fellow haye been sent here from Kansas City and he has been identified by those who saw him the day of the murder.

The governor of Missouri will doubt less honor the requisition in which event the murder of brave Capt. White will be avenged alter the next term of the Hinds county circuit court. A HANGING IN SIMPSON. A Negro Swung Into Eternity for De bauching a White Girl. Mr.

Jim McLeod, of Simpson county, was a guest of the Price House Friday night, being enroute to Crystal Springs. Mr. McLeod brought the first news of one of the most sensational lynchings that ever occurred in the State, the particulars of which are about as follows A Mr. Mulligan, is a prosperous farmer out some distance from Westville and beyond the pale of civilization, it would seem. Mulligan has a daughter only fourteen years of age, but well grown, buxom and fully developed, whose duty it was to work in the field with the negro farm hands.

For some time her parents have realized the distressing fact that this daughter was enciente, but were not prepared for the horrible truth as to the identity of the author of her shame. A few days ago the young girl gave birth to a negro child, and simultaneously one of the farm hands took to the woods. He was pursued and captured and lodged in the Westville jail till next day when a constable and a brother of Mr. McLeod took him out to carry him to the Mulligan neighborhood for a preliminary trial on the charge of bastardy. Whsn in a thickly wooded portion of the road a large crowd of men and boys met the officers, took the prisoner away from them and ordered them to move on, which they did.

The negro was then swung up to one of the tallest limbs in Strong river swamp, where he hung the balance of the day and all night, being cut down next morning. CHASED AND CAPTURED. Five Hundred People Aided in Cap turingaThief. Chicago, Sept. 2 Five hundred people chased a thief through State street today and aided in his capture.

The prisoner, who gave his name as James Williams, of San Francisco, was charged with robbing the till of the Masonic Temple Association of a large sum. He started down the crowded thoroughfare on the run but was easily captured owing to the crowds gathered to see the labor day parade. Very True. Mississippi needs a new State house, and the next Legislature should provide for one. The new building should be as handsome as the best architects can make it, and substantial enough to stand the strain that will be put upon it by the heavyweight statesmen who will use it.

Jackson also needs an auditorium building, to accommodate State conventions and other large assemblages. Yicksburg Post. The "silver craze' in Mississippi has been so steadily "dying out" for the past few months that the gold bugs forgot themselves and let the "silverons" adopt unanimously a free silver, 10 to 1, independent of other nations platform in the late State convention, and the gold standard advocates having betn aroused to the true situation, are now objecting to the platform constructed. Some people are hard to please. Greenville Democrat.

Will Baggett, a Brookhaven boy who went to California a few years ago and began the practice of law, gained a case the other day involving large mining interests that Drought him a contingent fee of $250,000. Brandon News. 1A I fol t- I WKBKLY SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Year. ................81.00 iLx Mouths 75 DAlLf SUBSCRIPTION BATES, One year 9 6 00 Six months 300 Three month 1 50 One month.

50 JACKSON, SEPT. 5, 1 895. DEMOCRATIC JSTATE TICKET. For Governor-A. J.

McLAURIN, ot Rankin. H. JONKS, of Wilkin son. For Sec'y of Stato-T. L.

POWER, of Hinds. For Auditor-W. D. HOLDER, of Lafayette. For Treaaurer-A.

MAY, of Simpson. For Attorney-lieneral-W. NASH, or Ok tibbeha. For Supt. of Education A.

A. K1NCANNON, of Lauderdale. For VerL Supreme Court E. W. BROWN, of Copiah.

ForTiand CoinuiUIoner J. M.SIMONTON, of Lee, For Revenue Aent WIRT ADAMS, Hinds FOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER. 1st District J. D. McINNIS, of Lauderdale.

2d District M. of Jackson. 3d Dlwtrlct-J. EVAV3, of Monroe. St.

Louis has an attorney whose name ia Mudd. The Tupelo Times is as bright as a new silver dollar. Tub Courier-Journal is not "cutting much ice" in the Kentucky campaign. The success of Quay in Pennsylvania js regarded as the retirement of Harrison. Meridian is to have another afternoon paper the Herald by Charles P.

Dement. The publication of the Attala Ledger -will be commenced next week by Noah and Saunders. Give Burkitt and his followers the "right of way." They are powerless to do any harm. A woman has been arrested in Little Rock for wearing bloomers, but was released by the judge. Mayor Swift has forbidden the Socialists to carry their red flag through the streets of Chicago on Labor Day.

The jury has at last been secured in the Durrant murder case at San Fran-cisco, and the trial set for Monday. Bissell declines the Judgeship made vacant by the death of Judge Jackson, saying he prefers Buffalo to Washington. South Carolina spent only $532,769 on her public schools last year, while Mississippi expended more than a million. Trrr Virlrohii rff TVs of rl roa nrf aoom fn know that the "war ia over" and that the free silver Democrats of Mississippi are in the saddle. Put it down as a fact that either Lowry, Hooker, Money or Allen will be elected to succeed George in the United States Senate.

The Democrats of Ohio have gone to work with a will and a grand flourish of trnmpets as if they really expected to elect their ticket. The latest bicycle is reported to weigh only seven pounds. That's about as light as they will get till the wheels are made out of spider-web. Postmaster General Wilson has been elected an honorary member of the Greenbier Gun Club. That sounds nicer than to be a member of the Buzzards Bay Fishing Club.

Since Secretary Morton, the worst gold bug of the administration, conceived the idea of paying off the employees of his department in silver, he is known as "Cleveland's Court jester." The New York Sun thinks the administration needs a more enegetic foreign policy, and says such a course would be worth a million votes to the Democracy in New York next November. In atrial race between the Defender and the Vigilant, the Defender won by several minutes. She will, therefore, be pitted against the English yacht, Val kyrie III, to defend the American cup. The United States commissioners appointed to inspect the Nicaraguan cana have made a favorable report, in which they give it as their opinion that the proposed route is entirely practicable, estimating that the canal can be built for $110,000,000. So it seems that Gov.

Stone did not carry Adams county for the Senate, as first reported, Hon. H. D. Money, a silver champion, leading all candidates ior the United States Senate. So far Gov.

Oi -l cione nas not carried a county. It is a silver walker over. That rabid gold bug rebellion sheet the Nicksburg Post, predicts "that Messrs. Kyle, Denny and Spencer will be found in line with Gen. Catchings upholding the administration ot their own party, and defending the cause of sound money." Messrs.

Kyle and Spencer have said they would be gov erned by the action of the Democratic State it ia fair to assume that Mr. Denny will also. It is not ex pected that Mr. Catchings will pay any attention to the declarations of the Mississippi Democracy, But the Congress man from Mississippi who votee against silver remonetization, when the measure comes up, will be elected to stay at home extfali. Mark the prediction.

Mr. McLaurin has said he would not under any circumstances become a can didate for the place to be vacated by Senator George. Clarion-Ledger. We beg to correct the Clarion-Ledger. Mr.

'McLaurin has not said "he would not under any circumstances become a candidate for the place to be vacated by Senator George." Wood ville Republican. The Clarion-Ledger begs leave to cor- rect the esteemed Woodville Republican Mr. McLaurin has said he would not under any circumstances become.a candidate tor the place vacated by Senator George. Secretary Carlisle has felt called upon to reply to some criticisms made upon his Memphis speech by Hon. John H.

Reagan, of Texas, in which he seeks rather to defend the act of demonetiza tion than hij own "flop," remarking that "nobody cared very much about the silver dollar at the time." It would become the Secretary to be discreetly silent regarding the action of demonetization and his own financial record. Coin's Financial School has been dramatised and is being played in Chicago under the title of the "Silver Mr. Harvey, the author of Coin, was present at the initial performance and said it was very good. A special from Brookhaven says the People's party ot Lincoln county is in a bad way. That is exactly the condition of the party throughout the State The organization will disband within less than two years.

Gen. Lew Wallace says that he would not have Librarian Spofford's job. The national library is something like Mississippi's State house liable to fall at any time and hurt a librarian. The fact that the next Governor of Mississippi has declared that he would not pardon Marshall, Fox and Coleman seems to worry the Vicksburg papers; but Mr. McLaurin will keep his word.

The papers are full of third term nomination for Mr. Cleveland, and while there may be nothing in this, it is worthy of note that many of the gold bug papers are urging his renomination. The Atlanta Exposition is to have a Ferris wheel which will be the Peoenix wheel. It is known as somewhat larger than the celebrated Ferris wheel of World's Fair fame. The summer institutes closes with this week.

MISS MATTIE WORK DEAD. Young Lady Who Has Many Friends Around Jackson. Miss Mattie Work, one of the teachers at the new public school at Digneway Hill, died last night at 7 o'clock, on South Flores street, of some affliction of the brain. She was ill but twenty-five hours being taken sick at clock Sunday af ternoon. The remains will be shipped to Seguin by Sloan Shelley, where the interment will take place.

The young lady was in the bloom of youth, being only 19 years of age at the time of her death. She was very bright and was a favorite with her companions during school davs. She was a member of the First Baptist church, where services over the remains will be held at 1 clock to day. The young lady had many friends here, who will deeply mourn her death The above is taken from a San Anto- nia, Texas, paper of the 27th. Miss Mat tie Work was a daughter of the late Geo.

A. Work, of this county, and the death of one so young, and whose life was so full of promise, will be regretted by her many friends in this community, which was her childhood's home. I ROARED AND RAGED. Fire Destroys a Big Wholesale Clothing Store in Rochester. Rochester, N.

Sept. 2. The wholesale clothing store in the Levi block occupied by Sheil, Rosenbaum and Stefel was burned at 8:30 o'clock this morning. The total loss is estimated at $115,000 of which the above firm lose $75,000. In the same block were three other wholesale stores owned by Koehenthal while Marks Kauff-man Dinkelspeil Co.

and Adler who lose respectively $25,000 $10,000 and $5,000, all insured. By the greatest efforts of the firemen, the lire was confined to the one store, but the others suffered considerably by smoke and water. The fire started in the boiler room and spread rapidly, the elevator shait serving aa a great chimney through which the flames rushed with a roar that could be heard on the street. A Noted Dog Tourist, Owney, the tramp dog, which in the last year or two has traveled pretty much all over thia continent, was put aboard a steamship bound for Australia at Vancouver a week ago. If he lives, he is likely to make a remarkable record as a tramp traveler.

sented This is so simple that even a child can understand it, and it requires no doctor of governmental science to prove that the President and Secretary, by their stupid policy in insisting on paying all allegations in gold, have done more to stimulate the raids on the gold reserye than all other agencies combined. They have, by discriminating against silver as coin, rather invited these raids. By openly violating the plain letter of the law, they have virtually said to the money sharks, "come on with your treasury notes and greenbacks; the government will pay them in gold;" and then, when the demands for gold become great, and the reserve is being rapidly exhausted, President Cleveland seeing another issuance of bonds is inevitable, prates about the "endless chain" that is drawing all the gold from the Treasury, ignoring the fact that the ruling of the Treasury Department is largely responsible for this condition of affairs. A SPECLIjATIVF BAUBLE. According to all accounts London hs gone crazy over the south African iAuid fields.

These mines have yielded during the past year more than Sno.OOOCO worth ot gold, and a greater output is expected. Atlanta Constitutor Then there is no wonder that England is opposed to fe silver coinage, but if the South Af. i gold mines prove as prolific as reposed, gold will depreciate and silver advance. After some considerable correspond ence between the Republican and Democratic committes of Kentucky, a list of joint debates were arranged between the two opposing candidates for Lrovernor, but after three or four discussions with Gen. Hardin, Mr.

Bradley, the Republican nominee for Governor, declined to go on with the debates, stating as his reasons that he had been discourteously treated by the citizens of Eminence, Ky. But the Democratic managers decline to let him off and insist that the ist of appointments be kept. It is evi dent that Mr. Bradley discovered that le was no match for Wat Hardin, and ook this means to escape from future thrashings by the free silver champion. In his address beiore the American Bar Association Judge Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, said that the delay of justice, which is becoming so flagrant in our courts, is commanding wide pread attention.

When a Judge of the highest court of th's country makes this statement, there can be no doubt of its correctness. It seems the M. O. R. Ii.

and the I. C. R. are seeking to purchase the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad It is also rumored that the I C. has its eye on the A.

V. The Democratic Executive Committee tf Warren county has ordered a primary election to express a choice for Floater Senator, the time being the 1st of October. So far, the Populites haye made no appointments for Mrs. Lease to epeak in this State. Should a list be made who will agree to meet her? T.

Y. Noland, formerly ot Wilkinson county, but latterly of Texas, has re turned to Mississippi, having located at Mississippi City. The advocacy of a gold bug for Floater Senator by the Yicksburg Post will not increase his chances for nomination. It is said that Japan has agreed to ac cept 30,000,000 taels as additional indemnity for the evacuation of Liao-Tong. The question of insurance will cut quite a figure before the next Legisla ture, as it should.

The next Knight Templar conclave will be held in Pittsburg, October, 1898. A poor selection. The gold bug papers are coming around by degrees. That's right. Stop the "rebellion.

The school book fight wages now throughout the State. There will be Senatorial race. no dark horse in the GULF AND SHIP ISLAND K. II. Let us hope that the report that has recently gone out that the contract for the building of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad to Hattiesburg has been let to a New York firm, will not result, as all others have, in failure.

It is said that the contract price is $000,000, in receiver's certificates, bearing 7 per cent, interest from date of issuance and payable in two years. This contract, which has been approved by the Federal Court at Mississippi City, provides for the building of a pier four hundred and fifty feet long into the gulf to twelve feet water, and furnishing the road with all necessary rolling stock. The decree of the court provides that the lands along the second twenty miles are to bs sold and the proceeds applied to retiring certificates in the order of their issuance. Col. Nugent, the attorney for the railroad company, who has never lost faith in the enterprise, says he is satisfied that the road will soon be speedily built, and one of the best sections of the State developed.

The New York Journal of Commerce, a leading gold standard bigan, reminds the friends of "sound money" that the "silver craze" is not dead, as many of the jold bugs insist. It says "The action of the Nebraska State Convention admonishes the friends of sound carrency that the fight has not been won the great bulk of the free coinage sontiment has not been touched; the fight must be maintained at least until November, 1896, and we fear that the cause of sound currency will not be perfectly established even then. Silver will not stay down until the banking question has been settled." The Clarion-Ledger is struggling very hard in its vigorous attempt to con vince somebody that there never was a more equal distribution of the offices on the State ticket, so far as location is concerned. Delta Advance. The Clarion-Ledger is making no such effort.

The object of its recent article was to show that all the offices did not go to south and east Mississippi. It that article it showed that every section of the the extreme west and northwest, was represented, and those sections were defeated by their own del egates. That is a high-handed game the gold Democrats of Kentucky are playing in demanding that Gen. Hardin, who is making his canvass for Governor as a bimetallist, withdraw from the race, Yazoo Herald. But finding they could not scare Wat Hardin, the gold bugs of Kentucky came down fram their perch, and are now giv ing the Democratic nominee for Gov ernor a half-hearted support.

The Princess Colona, nee Miss Mackay, has secured a release from her trifling husband by agreeing to pay him 60,000 francs per annum. That ought to be sufficient to keep the old Maccaroni in good order. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat of Friday contained telegraphic accounts of ten suicides 0 in addition to the 1 three columns of murders, shootings, and it wasn't a good day for funerals either, The Republican Convention of Penn sylvania declared against "free and un limited coinage at 16 to 1." So have John Sherman, Grover Cleveland, Wal street and the money leaders generally I II fl unlike other pain remedies, is free from red pepper, turpentine or ammonia, and can be safely applied to the sorest spot without fear of it creating inflammation. It is cooling- and soothing goesMirectly to the sore place whether it is external or internal, and gives prompt relief.

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