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i I 'l THE CLARION-LEDGER; THURSDAY, K( VEMBER 14, 1889. i ft i DEATH OF COL- W. C- FAX KNEE- KELLOGG ON THE ELECTION. Ex-Gov. William Pitt Kellog.

ot Loulsian. has She Mnvion-stfytv, THE CITY ELECTION. The Presidents of the City Democratic A terrible tragedy was enacted at Ripley the most unique theory of Tuesday's convulsion on Tuesday afternoon of last weekthe yet presented. B.H. HKNBY J.

L.POWEE, widely and well-known Col. W. C. Falkner "When the smoke has cleared awav said Clubs have designated Tuesday night, Dec. 3rd, as a time for a mass meeting of the Democracy of Jackson to nominate a can he, "study tne returns from places where the being the victim.

Various and conflicting Tfc. H. HENRY accounts have been published. A dispatch colored vote is strong. You will find that the colored vote has become indifferent, and has PROPP.IBTOB8.

to the Appeal says staid away from the polls, or has. worse vet THE BLAIR BILL. Interest in the Blair educational bill is being revived, and many who first favored its passage are to day the mo-t outspokea in their opposition. To the trusting and unsuspecting mind the proposition seemed a very noble and generous one. but when the wolf was once shorn of its sheep's hide, its true significance is revealed.

It is nothing more nor less than an attempt to place our school matters in the hands and under the control of the Federal Government. The South should keep one eve. a "At the time of the occurrence Col. Falkner was voted the Democratic ticket. I have seen this didate for mayor and aldermen for each ward.

It is to be hoped that every Democrat in the city will make it his business to attend that meeting, and express his choice for the several positions to be filled. JACKSON, NOVEMBER 14, 1889 standing on the public square in Ripley, talking to his friend Thomas Rucker, about sawine some tim thing for weeks. Defeat stared the Republican party in the face from the time that President OXE DOLLAR A YEAR. CONDENSED STATE NEWS. Sam Jones is in Vicksburg.

Dr. J. L. Mabry, of Senatobia, i3 dead. Batesville needs drainage and sidewalks Centreville will buy a new cemetery lot Kosciusko boasts of two good bra bands, d0Win0na'S taxation is 26 mills on the The Empora Progress wants a SOnA printer.

ua Mrs. Whitehead, of Point, acred is dead. Rube Burrows is reported to be again in Mississippi. a Sam Jones raised $3,000 for the A. at Greenville.

A. M. Merrill has been admitted to the bar at Carrollton. Meridian now has 6-15 ber. Mr.

J. H. Thurmond approached Falkner and Harrison formulated his idea for Southern The. meeting will doubtless adopt rules wnnout a word, pulled his pistol out and pointed it at Col. Falkner.

who exclaim! reformation. He has departed from Republican platforms and Republican theories in at Who struck Billy Mahone for its own government, but no one can ex- "What do you mean, Dick? Don't shoot!" but tempting to build up a white man's party at the Grandpa's hat is too big for Benny now lhurmond fired and Falkner fell. peet to participate who will not pledge that he has no party affiliations averse to Dem The three most suspicious things in the world are a mouse, capital, and the neero. The grand jury of Bolivar county return He is ignorant and unlettered. He doesn't tell ocratic interests, and who wili not give his "After Dr.

Carter, his son-in-law, wiped the blood from his face while he was still sitting on the pavement, he, (Falkner), turned to Thurmond, who was ed 100 indictments. what he knows, but he is no tool. He has wavs unqualified support to the nominees. suspicious eye, at that, on everything coming from Mr. Blair under the guise of friendship.

It is well known that he has not the good ot the South at heart. If he did have, his educational bill would contain no provision that the disbursements should be made near mm, and said: "Dick, what did you do it for?" of communication we whites know nothing about, How was it that for years the negroes There is more in the coming election J. L. Walker, Elisha Bryant, Tom Rucker and What a grand 'sperience meetin' Mr than a mere local triumph of the Democra of Louisiana carried the State by 80,000 ma Harrison did have last week. jonn were all present and saw what occurred.

Mr. Rucker was so close to Col. Falkner that his jority? They had no newspapers. I heard cy, lhe people ot the entire State will be federate Monument. taca was powder burned by Thurmond's nisi disappointed and disgusted if the inhabi through agents appointed by the general Licoln county has been redeemed, but tants of the Capital City shall say, by th eir government that matter would be left to Brookhaven is still in purgatory.

from ignorant negroes miles from Washington that President Harrison had discharged his colored employees. The negroes who told me the story could neither read nor write. How did they learn. The President has ex Col. Falkner had no weapon on his person, not even a pocket-knife.

The ball, 44-calibre. entered the mouth, ranged under the tongue, breaking the the wisdom of the States. Mississippi has A great many voters in Ohio and Iowa been going it alone on educational matters votes, that they prefer a return of the Mc-Gill regime and the re-installment of an administration that became such an offense as to require almost a revolution to remove lave found oat that the war is over." jaw-Done, anu lodged in the right side of the neck under the ear. Col Falkner died at 11 o'clocK. Mr.

Thurmond was promptly arrested a good many years, has paid out more cited their suspicion. No Southern State can be carried by the Republicans during this administration, because the neero fears that it money to Mr. Blair's black pets than any and placed in jail. Albert Bush, a 1 1-year old boy of Cal houn county, is in jail for stealing $25.00 it. Mississippi is solid for Democracy and State in the Union, and she desires to con Mr.

Thurmond has been recognized and will not protect him in his rights. This is the result of the appointment of ex-Confederates and protection Democrats, who will never vote. tinue to transact her own business. Decency, and so let her Capital City continue to be. esteemed as one of the best and most use The Mississippi Press excursion to Iowa the Republican ticket, to office.

When the col- Baldwyn has 40 marriageable ladies and only 15 single men. The steamboat John F. Allen sunk near Shetlmound recently. Ellisville expects to handle 15,000 bales of cotton this season. Dr.

W. M. Simmons, an old landmark of Tupelo dropped dead. Holmes county has hirty odd thousand dollars in her treasury. Beat No.

1 in Clay county only cast ten votes at the recent election. Robt. Patton was killed by the cars at Vicksburg on the 11th inst. A Newton county farmer has raised a second crop of watermelons. Webster county elected an Independent Superintendent of Education.

J. W. Haskison was killed Kt- ful citizens of Ripley, and the surprise was As the V. M. train reached Spears bore good fruit the State has gone Demo cratic.

orea man stops voting the Republican ticket, very great indeed that he should do an act Last Saturday Nathaniel Stewart, a far last Saturday morning, a passenger com where is the Republican partv Three-fifth that he must have known would bring grief mer, drove into Beauregard wifh several of the white vote of America is Democratic. menced indulging in some very disparae to himself and sorrow to so many homes Campbell humped himself and went Without the negro vote, the Republican partv bales of cotton. He disposed of it, and af ing remarks at the expense of the agent is dead. The negro controls the balance of through the needle's eye of Ohio Republi who was robbed at that stf tion sometime It is understood that his enmity for Col. Falkner resulted from some transactions ter making some purchases, started home with over $200 in his pocket.

While lod canism. ago but the said aeent hannenerl tn ho power in five Northern States, add twenty Northern Congressional Districts. Where will the policy of alienation stop Washington ging along the lonely country road about connected with the sale of the Gulf Rail 1 i within hearing distance, and to the sur "Was it a log-rolling, grand swell, earth Post. five miles from town, two dusky figures prise of the individual who was shooting quake oi Sam Jones meeting the Democrats ruaa in wmch they were partners. A judicial investigation may develop a greater The above from the Washington Post of off his mouth, he jumped toward his seat held last week? darted out of the bushes, and jumping on the wagon, threw Stewart off his seat into near New Albany on the 6h.

provocation than appears from any of the Ed Rvan killed and accosted him thus, and with an em phasis that can be imagined but not re the 7th inst. is an amusing and veritable explanation of the recent Republican rout. Knowing well, as Kellogg does, that with the road. While one held him down the reports that have been published Mrs. Cleveland refused the hand of Mr.

Foraker, and the people of Ohio last week last week with a stick of wood. The death of Col. Falkner is a ereat loss other went through his pockets, and secur peated here "I am the man, sir, that you The corner stone of a npv the overthrow of the Radical Republican to the State. On the day of his death he followed her example. are slandering, and if you don't take back church has been laid at Grenada.

ing the roll of bills, ran into the woods and soon disappeared. Mr. Stewart recognized returning Board election machinery in naa been elected to represent Tippah coun R. C. Sharp shot and killprl A.

what you've said, I'll mash To which he replied, "I take it all back, sir, and am ty in the Legislature. His nomination for the thieves to be George and Anthony vv. uiauU" ter in Lowndes county on the Sth. Republicans are welcome to the satisfaction they find in reminding Democrats Louisiana his chances for being again "counted in" as the Senatorial representa Standford, colored, brothers. He hurried the othce, in the primary election, was very The Commercial-Herald nnrl tU sorry I said it." that this is an "off year.

day Democrat think "Beck did it." back to Beauregard and gave the alarm. A complimentary to him. He would have been one of the leading members of the The Meridian Candv Faotnrv tnmo tive of a disgusted but helpless people are gone forever, he shyly concludes to "let the cat out of the bag." How eloquently is his The great Catholic Congress is in session Kansas and Massachusetts will, two years search was made for the negroes, ut they could not be found. On Monday, Mr. R.

next House. about 3,500 pounds of candy per day. in Baltimore. Ex-Governor John Lee Car hence, vie with Texas as to who shall be John McCartv and Sam admission that "three-fifths of the whito J. Morris, of Beauregard, and Mr.

Sam roll, ot Maryland, is chairman. Cardinal the "banner Democratic State." men of Carroll countv shot each, n'thor ia7 vote of America is Democratic," and his Col. Falkner was a native of Tennessee, and was about sixty-five years of age. He was a self-made man, and was successful Cohen, of Magnolia, went to New Orleans, Gibbons delivered an off-hand welcome ad tlOfc week. Will Mr.

Harrison enjoy his Thanksgiv dress that is a gem in its way and Daniel Martha Washington sups Clonraa question, "When the colored man stops voting the Republican ticket where is the and the first thing they caw when getting off the train was the two negroes. They ing turkey this year It is hard to give i asu- ington tor divorce in the Leflore county courts. Republican party?" and the answer, "With called a policeman and soon landed the in all of his enterprises. He served with distinction in the Mexican war and in the late civil war; was a lawer of excellent i i thanks lor what is forced on us. Dougherty, of New York, being invited by the chairman to address the Congress pending the appointment of committees, deliv W.

Steiner. amprcliantat Hln All thieves in jail. A search resulted in find out the negro vote the Republican party is dead." Ah "Wily Willy," you have put lailed, and his stock has hepn ntiRohoA ing the 200 in their shoes. aDiiity, a planter, merchant and railroad ered an address that elicited outbursts of John R. Lynch, our own John, made a few speeches up in Ohio.

As usual the creditors. the case in the solidest form of truth. All builder; and during the last few vears in The 19th annual session of the A couple of big Republicans at Lexing Ohio folks could'nt stand the nigger. dulged in publishing notes of travel and sippi State Grance will ronvpn at iv.cf you ought to have added was "in the Southern States particularly." When in -a- ci December 10. books of romance.

His death is very gen cheers. The congress will discuss many questions of interest to the church, and the Catholic University at Washington will be dadicated. President Harrison has been invited to visit the congress. ton, had a fight on ths 8th inst. Col.

Wm. Cassius Goodloe, Collector of Internal Vicksbcrg is enjoying herself this week. Louisiana one begins to enumerate white erally mourned throughout the State. War is beincr wasred on the lnnr-h The programme calls for a circus, drill, Revenue, stabbed and killed Col. A.

M. at Durant. They are an eye-sore to that Republicans and have named Warmoth, races, minstrels, opera and Sam Jones. Swope, and in turn was shot in the abdo ousy nine city. Herwig, Badger, Smythe and a dozen or so HICKORY INSTITUTE- There are ten lunatics in the Wnrron men, receiving what is thought to be a fatal other hangers-on strikers of these The corner-stone of a large frame build The Ohio Republican State Committee county jail, some of them havintr Wn President Harrison blames the Germans for Republican defeat in Iowa and Ohio, wound.

Goodloe was also a member of ing for this institution was laid on Friday there five years. collected one per cent, of the salaries ot known "fat" political wire pullers, you have the entire white Republican party in the National Republican Committee, and a warm personal friend of President Har railway postal clerks to help elect Foraker. The Superintendent of Education of asper countv will resitm hppaiise Vip mnnnt last by the Masonic fraternity, and was witnessed by a large number of people from that State at your fingers ends. Mississippi is about in the same numerical order. and the negroes for the landslide that buried Mahone in Virginia.

Any excuse is better than none, when a fellow sees he is caught up with. Mr. Harrison may "explain" the also teach school. tne town and surrounding countrv. After rison.

It is quite fortunate for the South that both the beligerents were Republicans. air. a. 1'ayne, ot uolumbus, is a candidate fcr the Sergeant-at Arms of the RaiJSJ Kemp, a Verv had rPrrn nenr an address by the Acting Grand Master, a Tupelo, was called to his door few nitrta In Virginia, however, the case is slightly different. That State is filled up with Northern settlers who moved in after the House.

He is well qualified for the posi splendid basket dinner was served bv the tion. ladies, who are always good Samaritans, if Mahone got so mad at his terrible defeat that he shot a member of a serenading party that wa3 passing his house. He was arrested and spent the night in jail, instead not good Masons, on such occasions. Mr. causes that precipitated the result as much as he pleases, but the intelligent voters of the country realize that his administration has been a continuation of blunders which have swamped the party.

surrender, and by the aid of such men as Mahone and others of that ilk thev have Clarkson, head executioner in the post- L. M. Gage delivered a very graceful ad ofSce department, can't explain'the Republi partly revolutionized the political rule of dress of welcome. The school about to be can defeat in Iowa satisfactorily even to of receivina congratulatory telegrams at his residence. It was better thus.

Jaimself. the State. Lut the reaction was bound to come. This is a white man's government established will be one of the best in East Mississippi. It will be equipped with the since and shot dead.

Mrs. J. W. C. Watson died at Holly Spri ngs last Thursday morning.

She had passed her eightieth year. Leflore county buried three good citizens last week, viz: R. M. Portwood. Dr.

J. B. Carroll and George Rich. Dr. O.

J. Orr, a traveling dentist, was found dead in his bed at Newton a few mornings since. Whisky. Thos. Burns jumped from a third story window of the Hospital at Vicksburg and was almost instantly killed.

E. H. Job nson, colored, has been ad Willie Noland, son of Hon. T. V.

of Wilkirson county, has been clerk -f si I I it i 1 1 i 1 and the mcst intelligent negroes are learning that their prosperity and advancement best furniture, mps, charts, and its sessions will be at least nine months. The trustees are on the look-out for a class One of the self-made men ot the next Legislature will be Hon. J. L. H.

Strait, of Winston county. Commencing life with Peter Jackson the negro prize fighter, recently defeated the English champion Jem Smith for $5,000. The mill took place depends.upon;the success of the Democratic party, and whenever left to themselves, un man as principal, and applicants should ad in London. out the benefit of wealth or education, he influenced by slick-tongue Republicans dress G. W.

Todd, chairman of the has hewn out his own fortune and won ing over in Louisiana. He captured a negro concealed in the store one night recently, and concluded to keep him prisoner until next morning. During the night the negro caught young Noland "napping," and shot him, thus making his escape to the woods and leaving Noland for dead. rTt T1 Tf board. -LiiErarm oice is tne naue ot a new many negroes vote that ticket.

The ab- for himself an enviable name. paper at Walnut Grove, Miss. It is edited mitted to practice law and has hung out his shingle at Steens Creek. by Williams and Roaten, and devoted to The regular Democratic ticket was elect scence of Republican fat "fried out of rich manufacturers" is the moving reason for the result. Dr.

R. T. Edwards, former citizen this ountv. died in Yazoo Oitva few davs sinre larm matters. ed in Warren county.

Now that the con Hon. T. G. Graves will represent Alcorn county in the next Legislature. Mr.

Graves' election over three popular, good He was found next day still alive and able -J irom an overaose of morphine. to relate his experience with the negro. test is over both factions should declare unto themselves that they will "let bv- A CRYING EVIL. men is a compliment of which he may This j'ear's cotton receipts are 2,150 bales ahead of last vear at 'Kosciusko, 9(R hav In this issue the claims of Wesson for the Methodist College are very strongly set forth by a correspondent who knows John Landers, (col.) of Attala countv. gones be by-gones." so that unitv may The deadly bullet certainly got in vig- ic- xie is a young man, a ing been received up to last week.

abide with them in the future. voted the Democratic ticket last week, and farmer, and in every sense of the term self made. Noah Hendricks attemnted rnne nn a whereof he writes. orons work in Mississippi last week. It shows that the laws against carrying con a lot of negroes called him out of his The members of the bar and officials of little eleven year old orphan girl near Burnsville.

He is in iail at Iuka. cabin that night and gave him a severe cealed weapons are not enforced. It shows I he Commercial-Herald says, "Beck wanted Brennan, Henry and Magruder beating. Landers was a very aged negro Attala countv Democrats made a nletm Perry county passed some very complimentary resolutions about Judge Mayers last that men have no respect for laws alter they are enacted. It shows that human and not able to defend himself.

It is to be elected, and he secured their sweep of all the offices at the recent election, for the first time in its history. week. No iudse stands hieher in thfi psti- hoped his cowardly assailants will be How about Jim Hill? Senator Sherman 'is reported to have said, "Patronage has been the great drawback of my life. If it had not been for that I would have been nominated for Perhaps so, Mr. Sherman, but would you ever have been elected W.

P. Gillesnie. of Monroe rnnntr -n mationofthe people of Mississippi than brought to justice and made to know that life is valued at verp little. It shows a spirit ot lawlessness bordering on ruffianism. It shows that in the midst of lif? we killed Nov.

9th by the explosion of a dyna does Hon. A. G. Mayers. this is a free country and a negro can vote W.

S. Martin and Joe Solomon, of Her- 1. ,3 Jj rr. mite cartnage he was trying to light. as he pleases.

There is no doubt but that are in death. It is a state of affairs that is The ein house and 27 hales nf pnttnn ha- The Massachusetts Republicans expected uauuu, uau a uiuicuuy last luesday in which the former was probably fatally shot m. loncrinsr to Mrs. Bettie Skinner npnr AtliJil a majority of the colored people of the to be deplored by everybody. the Australian ballot system to perpetuate their principles, but it had the opposite ef and the latter severely cut.

South would vote the Democratic ticket if was burned recently. Partly imured. For the fourth they were not afraid of punishment at the A private letter from Brookhaven about fect. Poor worfcingmen voted as they pleased; and many ol them pleased to vote hands of their own color. If they are not The Vicksburg Post got out an illustrated edition ist after the election, which showed Quite a number of capable and deserving gentlemen are aspiring to serve the House of Representatives as Sergeant-at-Arms -among others, Capt.

G. A. Spivey, ol Winona. He is well qualified for the position. the Mayoralty says: "That was a good arti W.

Lambert, of the Natchez Democrat, has been elected sheritf of Adams county. Democratic tickets. beaten they are subjected to jeers and sneers and social ostracism at the hands of A freight train on the MUsisairiru Vnllev the exuberance ot spirit that permeated cleyou had on the subject last week and was greatly appreciated here by all except a through the veins ol the editors. road ran over a cow a few nights ago, and the engine and nine cars were wrecked. In defiance of police prohibition Mrs.

their fellows-in-bkick, and they have not few of Brennau's henchmen." The article was not written with the idea that it would Parsons hung out a red flag at Chicago, on the moral courage to face such results. Mrs. Robert Carrntli- nf Pi TnE happiest man in Ohio to-day is that grand old man Allen G. Thurman. He died from the effects of ininries received the 10th in commemoration of the This a political evil for which no antidote be very greatly appreciated by a man who by having her hand caught in a gin-saw.

dead Anarchist. The flag was torn down has yet been discovt-red. would lorce his drunken presence into the bought another box of red bandanas the The Chicago Anarchists proposed to have a big celebration on November 11th. The mayor of the windy city declared that thev should make no demonstration. Better hang a few more of thes blood-thirsty heathens.

It is 88 id that ih by a policeman, and the memorial services chamber of death. day after the Ohio ground swell. The Democrat Gazette, of Davenport, of Monroe county the yield of cotton will not be more than one-bale to fifteen acres. were very tame. Iowa, comes to this office this week printed Maj.

W. Y.Baker, who once represented It is hoped that the Confederate vete Henrv Foster and fien. Wrenn sen in colors, the type being blue and the col lishomingo county in the Legislature, goes rans will at once organize into Posts and E. R. Greenlaw, of Copiah county, is a candidate for of the tenced to thirtv umn rules turned Hp side down and printed to the House as Floater Representative from whisky, escaped from the Booneville jail.

Camps in every county and report to Senate. He was a page in the lsst Senate The Brookhaven Leader says "the Jack ot Harts is a winning card." So it was this time; it was trumps but as a genral thing the Leader had better not try to teach Van in red. As its name indicates it is a Dem Tweiltv-five bales nf pnttnn Vinrnprl nn tne counties of Alcorn and Prentiss. Th1 Adjutant General Sjkes at Columbus. and for several weeks acted as Sergeantat- the Brookhaven rilaiform last Wprlnecriav.

ocratic paper, and was so overwhelmingly Major is an eloquent speaker and a good Sparks from a passing engine caused the Arms. He is a competent and deserving rejoiced at the election of its candidate fori Dr. Harrison was so surprised at the re reasoner, and will, no doubt, be heard fre fire. young man. Governor, that it had to do something out quently on the floor of the House.

Mr. Weslev Keown. nf Wi nstnn cnuntv. sult of the elections that he was knocked speechless, so to speak, as he refused to of the ordinary, and right royally did it raies POtfnn that fiplla f-i- 11 nnnta wr The New York Supreme Court has Armour of Chicago, Kansas City, and elsewhere, are packing 10 000 hogs per succeed. Watts how to play cards.

Let the Democratic tree school system continue in the great Northwest. The results in Ohio and Iowa reveal that much good has been accomplished by the educational campaigns. speak about the unspeakable catastrophe. pound, and he made six bales of it on five found a flaw in the will of the late Samuel acres. day.

What a blessing to the country it would be if they would turn their entire Prof. S. Laslie Rodgers will represent J. Tilden. Has it come to such a pass that A fiffht bpt It don't make much difference how you Attala countv resulted in the death ot Ben spell it now.

Put it 1-o-w-a or U-o-w-a, but force loose on the two-legged hogs. Tishomingo in the next Legislature. He is sixty years of age, and has been in the a man cannot will his property to suit himself If so, the press of Mississippi. Swiney. His skull was broken with a stick its a fact that we all-owe-a vote of thanks by E.

B. Boyett. Brookhaven is still red-hot about the did 'schoolroom many, years of his life. He had better see to it that tl eir wealth is The continuation of the Constitution of graceful action of Mayor Brennan, but the buried with them. will cease for a time "to teach the young for going Democratic even in an off year.

The ballot boxes at Lexington were quarrel a few days since, in the course of I i j-. idea how to shoot." and try hit hand at law Mississippi will be found on 2d page of this issue. Preserve all Clarion-Ledgers containing this interesting document for future wmcn wirs. tass snot ner husband several times with a pistol. The General Grand Royal Arch Chapter mayor refuses to vacate the office.

What are you going to do about it? Ames was impeached. making, and it he shall be as successful a stolen from the court house election niht. of "the United Srates will hold its next A neerro who went nn inr? nwn the lawmaker as he has been a teacher, he will No particular harm was done, however, as reference. Delta countrv eatincr raw chickens, trlass. Triennial Convocation at Atlanta, on Tues make a good record.

the vote had been counted, says the Durant day, 19th inst. The Grand Chapter of Mis Tkxas has been visited by a terrible bliz was killed at Swiftwater recently. It took a leaden pill to Etop him. News. sissippi will be represented bv its Grand There are now said to be 1,300 cases on zard with the biggest snow of many years.

Democrats ahnnt. Prtffporillp wa inKi- High Priest, A. D. Bailey of Water- Forakkr's downfall in Ohio cannot be Trains were delayed several hours aud docket of the Supreme Court of the United States, and at the present rate it will take tord. explained to the entire satisfaction of the many thousand cattle and sheep frozen to lant over victory and were firing their cannon.

It bursted ind Bryant Sessman had a leg broken and sustained othr in three years to dispose of them. Manv of death. The Anuie P. Silver, the largest boat in Massachwsetts went Republican, of course, but oh, what a glorious revival we did have there. Thousands upon thousands of Republican sinners were brought to repentance.

James Redpath, "the veteran Abolitionist and Kansas free State fighter," is writing a biography of Jeffsrson Davis, by and with the aid consent of that Jiepublicans, bat it can to the progressive Democracy Ohio voters have been thinking about the tanff frauds. juries. western waters, struck a snag at trie head Miss Francis E. Willard was re elected the number have been on hand several years, and it is time Congress was taking some action looking to their termin ation. Gen.

Lee has nnti fie1 tlie Snrkorintenrlpnt of Pawpaw Island last Thursday nig and president of the National Woman's Chris of Education of Montgomery that his sunk in five minute after. The boat was tian Temperance Union, at Chicago. valued at 00O and was insured for half At the explosion of a gin house boiler that amount. On the 4th Memphis received more cotton thau any port in the United Sfatea, the number being 14,975, or 845 balt-s more than New Orleans. near Rosedale two men were killed and Coporal Tanner is the happiest Repub With comirendable zeal, born of their recent victory, the Democrats of Iowa are bestirring themselves to dafcat Senator Allison, by sending a Democrat as his successor to Washington.

The Iowa Legislature will have au interesting session this "inter. three badly wounded. county is not represented in the A. M. College The county is entitled to four free fccholarships.

It affords us sinceie pleasure to correct the statement copied in the summary of Staie news in last issue, that Mrs. J. H. Duke, of Scooba, died very suddenly on 30th ult. Capt.

Duke writes us that she she has been very ill, but is now lican in the United States. He understands Dispatches from Zanzibar state that the German explorer. Dr. Peter and his whole PROOrt hnVO Kuan mnoar.J 1 ir. Specials from Washington state that will be the handwriting on the wall to augur the downfall of the Harrison dynasty.

The Dr. Talmaoe's next sermon preached from Rome. New Orleans will get the Gulf Coast Navy luasoaiicu iue iuases I or Somalis. Yard. Corporal has been avenged.

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