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YOL. XV--NEW SERIES. PORT GIBSON, MISS., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1890. NUMBER 3.
Devil’s Lake, North Dakota The Moat Worthless Part of the World. Under a Lion’s Paw. published an interview with Rev. lllildl lu, Devil’« lake is a body ot brackish Queen Oar few woeks’ cruise leads me to Lawrence J. Raymond, a trapper of Dr. Oambrell of Meridian, in which water of uncertain size, according to ^TSTO believe that Labrador is the most worth AfVican wild beasts, lately said to a re that gentleman expressed himself T7"iclrsTo*a.rgr, ^uCississippI, the weather, hot covering about 200 less part of the wholo world. It is porter of the Cincinnati Enquirer: clearly and forcibly in regard to the ------WHOL1SAL1 AND RETAIL DEALER IN------square miles'on an average, and having scarcely worth visiting even as a cu “There are plenty of instances where advisability of restricting the right Crescent an outlet by a marshy stream to tho riosity in sterility and desolation. In meU'bave been'seized by lions and of suffrage. We qu >te : Cheyenne rlvor only in wet seasons. Foreign and Domestic Drugs the 1,000 miles of coast tho total num havo lived to relate the particulars. I “The chief work ot the conven JACKSON TO CINCINNATI Though the water is too salt for a ber of resident humau beings will not had been out late one afternoon with tion should he'toprovide for white or stranger U> drink, yet it abounded with Entire Tram,Baggage Cnrs.Dny Concli- MIXED PAIITS FROM PIVT8 TO GALLOIS, exceed 6,000 souls. The peninsula has some of the natives to prepare a bait intelligent supremacy hy righteous nml Sleeping Cars run through ilah in its natural state; and even now an area of 160,000,000 acres; and just in a rocky ravine. Wc had built a and legal methods. Thu Africaniz cs White lead, boiled aud raw linseed oil, lard oil, ueatsfoot oil, turpentine without change,from Meridian, in the dead of winter one may see one human beingto about 27,000 acres. stout pen of rocks and logs and placed ing of the state cannot be tolerated, and all kinds of lubricating oils. Window glass all sizes cut to order. The Short Line via groups of wiry old squaws ou the ice That there aro 100 acres capable of a calf as a bait.. We started for camp, unless the white people leave it. (four feet thick) working the dip seine And just as true is it tnat we cannot CIIATTAN 0 0(vA cultivation within this mighty expanse and no one bad the least suspicion of 20 Barrels Putty. 50 Bibs. Lamp Black. and bringing out at each haul two or continue our present election meth -----TO----- has bceu disproved by the efforts of the presence of danger until a lion, ods. They are wrong in principle throe pickerel. These freeze solid in a INCORPORATED 1Î84. JOHN . HALPIN Manag'. Jcsnits and other missionaries, and by which had been crouched boshlo a and ruinous in results. They de lie Carolinas and Virginia, few minutes, after which they are all settlers who have been lured upon bush, sprang oat and knocked me bauch tho mauhood of the state and handled liko stones. To see the poor these shores to starve. It is possible down. compromise us before the world. I JOHN F. HALPIN CQ •J old creatures kneeling on the margin that during two or three months of “I can say without conceit that I was am, therefore, without reserve, in The Sliortline rla Cincinnati to of tho holes they have cut through the the summer, 40,000 fishermen may be fairly cool. It had come so suddenly favor of limiting the suffrage, first, CHICAGO. CLEVELAND, BUFFALO ‘^77'li.olesa.le G-rocsrs, because it Is right per se ; and sec ice, and with one arm, bare nearly to found off Labrador. that I had not had time to get uervous. ond, because it will greatly Siagara Falls and Canada, Ros. 117 and 120 Bilberry Street, Vicksburg, Miss, the shoulder, thrust under the edge of aid in They have no interest here whatev Had I moved my arm for my pistol the solution of our main trouble. I NEW YORK, BOSTON the ice to spread the seine—the ther ------HEADQUARTERS roR------er, save to come and grab and go. tho beast would have lowered his bead would limit tho suffrage, first, by a The Adirondack and White Mountains, mometer -from zero to 30 below—is a There are not enough standing trees and seized ray throat. Bo long as I lay tax receipt, placing the poll-tax at ISew lCiitflnncl Cilice, Flour, Meat, Hay, Corn, Oats and Bran. Alabama Lime, Portland and novel sight to the tourist. in Labrador available for building tim quiet he would reason that I was dead $4 or ami letting every dollar of And all points North and East. Hosed ale Cement’a specialty. r>, The lake in oue place is almost cut ber to pay for lighting fire iu a single aud give his attention to tho natives. it go to the public school fund: and I«4 AH Through Train* pass mound second, by an educational qualifica the l*aee of Lookout Moi, .tain, along iu two by a sort of peninsula, with a saw mill. All the frantic efforts ot the “All of a sudden I balked out like a tion, using the Australian system as the slioiohf die Emory River, over the spoon-shaped extremity running out government to discover mineral de dog, followed by a growl, and that Famous Hid. Iln.lge and ihroogh the ^♦MEMPHIS WEEKLY AVALANCHE/** into the lake; and there the Indians a test. I have seen various object posits have beeu unavailing. beast lumped twenty feet in ids sur ions to this, hut none of them scent Blue Glass Region of Kentucky lo Cin 06 \ A TWSLYE-FAGï'rjaiOCEATIO TAim./fy/ in old times used to make their great trai Union Depot, where connection is \ i\ ESTABLISHED 1867. ' , 7 What then does Labrador possess ? prise. He came down between me to rest on any rock’bottom of com made for the North and E ist without CONTAINS ALL THE NEWS OF THE OAY. /»V>/ > buffalo drive. Stampeded by mounted An unmeasured reach of stone aud ice, and tho natives and I turned enough mon sense and right. Representa tra ii aier. Ill rough die city. men, the animals fled to the lake and covered here and there with moss; oc to see that his tail was down aud he tive government must rest on two For further information ad dies« ABLE EDITORIAL*, CAREFULLY-SELE0T2D / /L V MATTER, TALKAOE'B BERMONS, OHIO- /i V/ wore gradually concentrated on this casionally patches of stunted spruce ; was scared. I uttered more barks and pillars—intelligence and virtue. C. II Carnahan, Agee.t, Jnc’ Ron,Miss. & The illiterate are an element of INAL HTORIES, AND A VARIETY 0? |H!iiinsula ; the hunters then advanced 1. Ilaidy, A. G. P. A , Vieksliiiig.Miss SAMPLE offener for hundreds of miles scarred growls, but without^moviug a hand, OOPiEE\J READING THAT MARES UP A V, by boat or along the land and shot weakness to any government of the i N. A. lioUias, Travl.A IlirniinghainAI« „ Virat-OlAsai / THR and blackened by burned spruce and after making a circle dear around people. They must be carried by them down at leisure. At length the F. M. Comfort, T. A I*. A.. Vicksburg. FREE, NEWSPAPER. ^ WEEKLY stumps, between which flinty rocks me the lion suddenly boltinl aud went white mâmbroke in; the great Turtle the intelligent, and in Mississippi J. C. Gault, 1). U. Edwards, aar Sand for project like cruel spears ; with impas off with a scare that would last him a the load is greater than can l>e car U I». &i T. A. (ien. Manager, Circulars showing mountain bufTnio -raids began ; for sable rivers plowing in ungovernable ried with safety. The voting age ia Cincinnati. O. former Distributions week.” and has given away seventy miles iu a line the prairie the torrents through hideous gorges; 4000 fixed at 21, because, in the judg A r>i»arss.———— .~***ZL ■" L _ à """ 1 »^tlO.OOO. The names aud A Preacher Thunders Against Dancing A V ALAN CHS next summer was a Golgotha—whiten whiles utterly uuable to leave their ment of ruunkind, that is the age at J)H. II.G. WHARTON ed with buffulo skeletons—and old set prisonment or better their cckuldit ion, Dr.McCov of the Alabama Christian which the youth has gained intelli MEMPHIS, tlers still tell of the “big money” made living half the year like beasts,aid the Advocate, in the last issue of that pa gence sufficient to wisely exercise Offers Ilia nrofessiolial services to the TENU. by gathering their bones. In five short per, denouuccd the “kermesa,” shortly this highest privilege of the citizen. people of Port Gibson and vicinity. Of* ^ CHT7"2B2>J .A.TTZTAJrr LIST. other half little better ; 2000 Iff lians Now. I favor the extension of this teg years every buflalo was gone, and the to bo given in Birmingham, sayiug: lice next door to li s leaidence. $1,000 lxx Onsli Glftat subsisting on salt fish and raw, with essential principle to the whole vof- Pour Gibson. Feb. 16, 1888. r*f Indians had to starve, light or emi occasionally a bit of musty flout' or “The rigors of Lenten piety havo about ing paMilstion. The American bal ARENT8 WANTED EVERYWHERE. \ & grate. They fought and wero whip meal; 3000 or 4000 Esquimaux do^s; a2J? sulsiided, and the next thing in order lot .Huld represent the individual I/ 1ÇW uszial coiacsrint an uses khctv list ton amttb exit. ped ; part emigrated, and the rest are inewspapers total depravity, regeneration aud iree in commercial expeditions, a< d the sentimental; iutcresl to him lies iu the uuconscious wreckage of vessels along the oasts, world, but when inaugurated and pa must trust their feUnw-cilî) ia in Evon Barber should be printed ia white letters on agency ? revelation of character in a photo since Labrador was discover it, it tronized by a so-called church.it is a everything else; why not in - o ATTOnNE Y-AT-LAiV. black paper, tastend of « bite paper lu the days of Calvin and Luther graphed face. “If a mau hare any would be a safe calculation that . >r ev positive disgrace to the name ofC'hra- They do not known that the tic ■\\.TII.L PRACTICE IN THE COl RTS OF printed iu black letters as now. The and John Knox these things wero dis they put in the box are not ci vv ('UtlMtriic and adjoiotag eouullcs ; also noble or mean trait latcut iu his na ery dollar in value of fish or fur secur tiauity. A church that will do such change is one lo bo desired, as white cussed in every household with as tickets. It is known that illitf tu Ilif SiiprciiK' and Ki dersl courts st .Tscksoti. ture, uukuown to the world, it conies'! ed for the past four huudred yea^s, an things for the purpose of making mon Spi-eUl at tent In« lo'coUcrtlon of claim«. Ot-~‘ much vigor an 1 earnestness as we dis voters arc often made to vote el letter», on a bleck grmiud possess greni out in his photograph.” ey is rotten at the very core, and * liiu upsuiira over Wwwiti**« barber shop. cuss politics uovv. Everybody i.a:l a equal or greator actual loss by Some ly contrary to what they supl Pl.lt (iitiNHi, Sept, in, ’St*. ______er contrast and distinctness, and are j ought to be stamped out of existence fdth aud could defend it—yes, die for This oulv illustrate* a truth that is body has been sustained. And when The intelligent really dont. thcr than never again make it a stranger to us. activity lamed, or working sorrow fol » ICKSBVJtO, MISSISSIPPI white paper, a saving could he effect contrary. But tho fact is she didu't Tho most gigantic specimen of the preserve a privilege to a elans Some look or mark iu our faces be ly forward on paths unworthy offidm. that class, oonfWHiedly, cannot ed. With our newspapers thus priuted, believe anything about it. She cared ror- famous dragon tree ot the Canary Is trays to a keen observer that wo were All men are devoutly prostrate ly use the privilege. The cl BARBER SHOP, reading on cars aud in dimly lighted potliing about it, but she did care for lands still stands, but dead as a mum once familiar with iL shipping the eloquent talker; au l no turn should look at the aubstl and did believe ai) that was necessary. ( my, near Oratava, on the island of place« would be not >uly practicable man knows what a scandalous idol things, ami be brave enough II. WASSKM, Proprietor, “Ye believe in God—believe also iu How many men have rushed from but easy.—Anaconda Standard. he is. Tcneriffc. This monster has boon ful right. Ballot reform is the 8ti| me,” was creed enough. Love God and one occupation to another, from home Probably there is not in natui p a ly described by hundreds of globe- issue before us, and wo ougl •Iff**, The Doctor's Fee. love your neighbor was duty enough. lo home, from country to country, to I* r# Hibson, more distracted phantasm thau y our ton rists duriug tho past fifty years. to play at it, but adopt gi-nuii << escape some vice or habit which had • > Dr. Pyll, you havo earned my A creed can be nursed into fanaticism, Borne of these writers have set it down forinjneMura*. grown loathsome to them ! Alas, they commonplace eloquent speaker, at he Hair Catting and Shaving done with lasting gratitude. Without your but love to God nod love to mau cuu as rivaling in age the pyramids of K- JftHiK cowan’s PI.A.V. skillful, untiring care I should nev could not travel away from them is found on platforms, in parliaments, neatness and di«patch. not.—Bill Arp in Bome and Farm. gypt and tho burial mounds of the Judgo Warren Cowan publ er have recovered. We artnudebtJ selves. It is in youth that we must on Kentucky stumps, at tavern din >> Mississippi valley. in the Jackson Common trea I Ik K It. STILBS. C. A. FRENCH. ed to you, O so deeply ! Honesty Rewarded. shut the door if we would keep that ners, in windy, empty, insiuccre ti( jes Measurements, taken at the begin ter on the suffrage question. Hi The beautiful young convalescent, Borne time ago a wealthy man died iuuer chamber uudefiled.—Youth's like ours. pale hut never more lovely, was sit ning of the fifteenth century, 400 years Stiles & French, iu Brussels leaving nearly his whole Companion. The “excellent stump orator,” asqur proposes this plan : ting up for the first time. She lean admiring Yankee friends define h/m, before Humboldt’s visit, show that the a . Let the convention pmvide.H *j ed hack in her easy chair and looked fortune to a young woman who was A TTOUNBY8-A T-LA IP, —he who iu any set of circumsta tree did not perceptibly increase in addition to those now entitledH with ardent gratitude at the young entirely unacquainted with him. This Cso. S. Dodds for Congrr.s. Am vote, that every woman, who i>fl can start forth, mount upon his stunhp, size during the intervening centuries. Cffc in the Person Building physician .vho had called to make is how it came to pass : He was a very We aunounce to-day Hon. George S. citizen ot the state, who can rtl place iu parliament or other How long must have been the time tiis last professional visit. eccentric man, and set out, like Dioge Dodds of Copiah as a candidate for dy nnd write and owns lorty acres 1 Opposite the Whecless House. i 4 Don’t speak of it in that wav, nes, in search of an honest "man. In elevation, and pour forth bis “excellent required, if Tour centuries of vigorous congress for tho seventh district, sub land in the country, or *.rKiO wo!I Jnn. SI, ISM. s Winnie,” he replied. “In speech” in such manner as poor win^ly growth did not add one foot to the gi- an omnibus he took his^eat every day ject to the action ot the democratic dis of real estate in a city or town, al your happy recovery I feel more mortals round him shall cry “bravb" nut’s circumference, for it to hsve near the conductor, and was very trict convention. Mr. Dodds is well who is not disqualified hy law, L* than repaid for the exercise of my to,—he is not an artist 1 can much ad grown to a Titan 45 feet iu circumfer reason of any crime or misdemear highest skill. * » obliging in passing up the money of known to the people of the district. He W. H. SMITH, mire, as matters go ! Alas, he is In ence? or, shall have the right to vote « “But,” repined Winnie, with a passengers aud returning tho change ; has represented this county in both but to the latter he always managed lo general merely the windiest mortal i>f No wonder that the great Humboldt any election. It will be seen at Mulberry Street, Vicksburg, gay smile ; “there must bo a fee branches of tho legislature,taking high glance that this, would secure whit besides, and you need not fear t > add a franc or a half-franc. Then he them ail; aud is admired for being did not even make provision for a rank in the senate, bciug chairman of supremacy, The number of whit make it a large one. so into the bargain. Not - a wind y doubt when ho calmly says: “I would would watch those to whom it came. the judiciary committee. Ilewas found women Unis enfranchised wouhll The young physician moved for blockhead there who kept silent but a consider It at least 10,000 years old.” COTTON FACTOR They would count it carefully, 'notice to be a safe counselor, a clear thinker, largely exceed the number of color-B ward on his chair. the extra coiu, aud invariably slip it better off than this excellent stump oi . —Ex. ed women, and tho negro majority I «I I fear if I should include in my and a safe man under any emergency. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. ator. For this reason, were there n » of the male voters combined. Ix‘tl bill one item that—that occurs to into their pockets. No one thought of If chosen to repi esent the people in Spotted Fever In Eentncfy the poor conductor, whose meagre sal other: the silent one suspects, perhaps tho convention then provide for an | me,Mias Winnie,it would Ik? thought congress, lie will do so in an able man Moroanfiki.d, Ky., April 12— electoral college composed«»! elec ary of three francs a day could ill sup partly admits, that he is a kind o\f Spotted fever has broken out in Un exorbitant,” he said, with a voice ner. Mr. Dodds is recognized as be tors, equal to the number of tho Liberal Advances blockhead; from which salutary selfl ion county, and the wildest excite that trembled and a chin that show port such a loss. But at last a youug ing among tho ablest lawyers in the members of the house of represen-4 ed a singular tendency to wabble knowledge the stump orator is dal ment prevails. It made its appear Sxtra Fins. wornau passed hers back with “Con tatives, who shall meet when elect “I hardly think it possible, doc state, and though a young man, is the ance a few days ago, and over a Open kettle molasses. - ductor, you have given me haft a franc barred.—Carlyle. ed and elect all of tho state, con tor,” she said, “that you can ask peer of any. score of children have been attack Very choice California prunes. too much.” Diogenes, delighted, fol gressional and district officers, ju too great a compensation for your ” We commend him to the people of A* Appropritw Gift t: Gon^rssiam. ed, in each taise fatally. The dis All kinds sugar, very low. lowed her home, made inquiries, and, dicial and executive, and the race Borne very nice cheap pantaloons. “Winnie Greenup!’’exclaimed the this district as beiug high-toned and ease is identical with that which as the answers wero satisfactory, made “Put those in the member’s box problem will be solved, and there at Wharton’s. young man, hoarsely, “talk not to honorable, as an affable,«greeablo man, es,” said an old man, staggering up last summer carried off two hundred nie of fees ! 1 want something in his will in her favor, though ho never will be no reason why we should not and fully qualified to represent them to the window «.! the House post- and fifty victims in Webster coun have honest elections. Titerc is it stands at the head of all finitely more valuable thau sordid gave her warning that lier half-franc in a way that will do credit to himself office the other day with an im mens« ty. The disease runs Its course in tbir- dollars and cents. nothing in this to cmiilict with any Southern I—I—I—Win- was going to bring her baft a million. bundle of pamphlets. “Put a boolq ty-aix boors. Its approach is herald- amendment os any part of the con newRpapers. Tho • 4 and honor to them.—Copiah Signal. »de, may I ask your father— in every box. Be sure you don’t ed by pain at the base of tho brain, a (Jreat Tiines-Deniocrat of “Certainly, Dr. Pyll,” said Miss Republican Gerrymandering. stitution of the United States. This disfranchisement of Democrats miss any. burning fever follow's, tbo tongue ‘•If any reason can be offered why New Orleans, La.—Daily and Greenup, haughtily. “Papa is -the Walked Across the River in a Settle. W bat are they? asked the unconsciousness and death fol- ignorant, besotted, prejudice«!, one to present the accounts to, of iu Ma*M&chu»etts is almost as bad as it .in As a syrup maker was preparing for j v immoral, worthiest» negro man Weekly. It has the largest course. He always settles the bills. «nyoung’t take manat it unit«, the itwindow. is «»»thing “We ,l0 "’' \^n.r ,1.. h .he.. vbody Won;«. _ 4 4 is in Iowa. In the former state the work among the maples he became a- should vote, and a refined, educat circulation. Good morning, sir. Democrats polled 160,719 votes, while that the members «re likely to »l»tted with yellow .plotebc*,lhe limb. In his office down town a few ware that Indians were stealing upon ed white woman, who owns proper the Republicans polled 178.811 votes, him and were already in possession of want.” swell and the whole body turns black. ty, pay «taxes and perforins all the IAKDKRTtl’9 Hr'«ta» JVed* «t wlmlnw I*. minutes later young Dr. Pyll »fight J 1 KK RICHARDSON A CO. have been seen making out, with a and yet the Republicans have leu rep his canoe. Whatever was to be done “Wan’t? Why, man, they must Peoplo are fleeing with all haste. Kv- duties of her citizenship should pot have it. Just let me tell you thing is sacrificed in order to geta- most determined expression of coun resentatives in the present bouse, and had to be done quickly, aud frontier vote, I would like vury much to Do not suffer Ignorance in your fa.ni- it is.’’ He leaned forward -'and Kvay. The schools arc closed and the » ’ the Democrats have ouly two. It hear it. ly. when you can subscribe to that tenance, a doctor bill that will wit was equal to the emergency. whispered something in th*r younglfcw physicians are almost exhausted Great Educator, the Modern newspa simply paralyze papa Greenup when takes 76,000 votes in Massachusetts to Snatching up his deep kettle he invert A large part of soutltern Asia is per. The Times-Democrat is the bu*t. man’s ear and then stepped back. P he sees it.—Chicago Tribune. elect a Democrat to congress, and re ed it over his head and boldly waded “Yes, sir, the brain \ It is a trén-|j from overwork. The disease does not being ovet run by field-mice. There It So* the largest circulation. jhppear to be infections and so far tbe quires only 17,881 votes to elect a lte- into the river. The inverted kettle tise on the development ol the 1 arc GU untie*** millions of the little WAellUl’RN aid M««i hath Wire. Tr.-gress of Religious Liberality. publicau. The empty talk about dis acted, of course, as a diving bell, aud brain. Why, man, the reputation I ■irmly in which mors than one case pests, which are destroying grow i,r. Li.K RICHARDSON à CO of the nation depends on their hav-1 Appeared are tbe exception, but every ing crop* OR well a* gathered grain. —— What little concern people have now franchisement of the negroes in the with hkUtoad iu this air chamber he adays about creeds and doctrines and j south falls flat before these official fig- ing it at once !” body believes that those who remain Hundreds of dogs have been eaten .fTTr-—Jlto»-Dwwoerat. of New Or. walked .Yro»» the river, which in the by them The mice uwini rivers dogmas ! IIow many in-mibers of ures.—Sioux City Tribune. The clerk tapped his forehead Hll be stricken, «•«t'Vfrade n’* the newspapers pub middle was many feet over his head, ' wijjr Ins finger and laid the bundle and climb mountains, und it seem* lished In the South—l)*iiy iinii < hrietiau churrho- ! n v. what is meant “ to the jp»*er «mueaient of the Indians. to ex term mute Wsvkljr. Jt ku 0,4 largest rtrentation by Calvinism, Arodaiauiatn.old-school I I *J |*»tde tor distribution.— Washington The Burning Suffrage Question, impossible either —PhJLddphia Times. them or to check their progress. t LESmCUARCWNACO. flic Memphis Commercial lately
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