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J. VMM.VU.U RaraalPi MMhet. "McHENBT, IT is » TARIOU and probably uncos -peeted faet that Ohkago, albeit a thou jsand miles In the iatnior, is in aome :aense the largaal port of entry in the United States. Thus, in 1881, its ag­ gregate of arrivals and of dearanoes was 29 more than New York, Philadel­ phia and Mew Orleans combined. The total of arrivals at all the porta of the United States in that year was 43,209, •ef which 20,027, o> considerable more than half, were at Chicago.--Ktw York Letter. MABY Cisinaa eomplains of finding, •on entering the Capitol, that the beau- tiftil corriders, given to clenliness and sile&oe for nine months, had been seized by the Philistines and besmear­ ed and defiled by the tobocco-ehewing politicians. Daring the sessions of •Congress, she says, the internal condi­ tion of the Capitol of the nation is a perpet ual insult and grief to every re- y fined American. Moreover, she be- Heves that the Hons of Attila, when they swooped down from the north, did not look half so dissipated as these do. \ -y-gy r: Boumi more than 60 per <*nt. of the population of Chicago was born in the United States. No less than 94,000 -of the present inhabitants of that eity have poured in from the various States <of the Qerman empire. The Bomenians number 12,000; the Canadians, 15,000; Danes, 3,100; French, nearly 2,000; Irish, nearly 50,000; Hollanders, nearly -3,300; Italians, 1,400; Norwegians 5,700; Swedes, 16,000; Poles, 5,700, and Swiss, 2,000, with a sprinkling of Rus­ sians, Hungarians, Spaniards, Portu­ guese aand men of almost every other race and. nationality under the sun. had always fall ttnder obligations to wjueh ha did not tolsow. Then S win- ton wrote a aareastie editorial about Villard, allndt»gto him as the golden spike ihat had once been a barefooted Gemntioy. ' t "WHAT sort of a man is Uncle Bemus ?» I asked of a Georgia friend, writes a Washington co-respondent. "Joel •Chandler Harris," he replied, smiling. "He's a little, red-headed, freckle-faced farmer's boy from Putnam county. Just about as handsome as a burnt shoe. He's a good fellow, though, and bright but indolent. Sort of a signed cat. He has been very well treated by the At­ lanta Constitution people. They give him a good salary for writing an hour •a* two every day, in odditihn tc a very liice house, which they gave him out­ right as a Christmas gift, I think. So _ he has plenty of time for literature and ft pleasant plaoe to write in." D*. MAXWELL T. MASTERS writes that he nas often seen the experiment tried 1 of thinning potatoe tops by pulling out THE war upon the dreaded phylloxera Austin being actively carried on by the French wine-growers. At the present moment, according to official accounts •about 642,978 heotares of vines are more or less damaged by this scourge, only about 1,500 hectares having escaped. It is noteworthy that the champagne district enjoys almost absolute immu­ nity in this respect. Syndicates, rep­ resenting 12,338 cultivators, have been •organized throughout the country to endeavor to stay the ravages of the «nemv, and the French Minister of Ag­ riculture has granted subvention to them this year amounting to 1,240,500 francs to aid in this object. Next year *tike sum will be grantedi£ PHILKTUS SAWYBB, one of the Wis­ consin Senators, is called the lumber king, says a Washington writer. He has made a fortune in lumber, and is now adding another to it. There he stands, with his hands in his pockets, right in the middle of the middle aisle. He is the Brer Tarrypin of the Senate. He's as broad as he is long, although he j| well-shaped. He has a perfectly .round head. It is perfectly smooth on iop. His fringed hair is perfectly -White. Se is his fringe of beard. His face is as fresh as an infant's. But his parrot-like nose and his keen, twinkling •eyes deprive it of the innocent expres­ sion it ought to have. He is a very well-balanced, well-polished looking nan. He gives good dinners, if he did •Oome from Oshkosh. A WASHOJGTOK writer in the Phila­ delphia Record says that Senator Van Yyck, of Nebraska, is the oldest man ijl the Senate. He looks for all the "World down to the 'neck like the con­ ventional Mother Goose. His smooth- shaven face is crowned with gray hair % and his snappy eyes blink through spectacles. If he had a ruff and a gown he would be a perfect Mother Goose. Be has an angular figure and a pecu­ liarly shrill voice. He used to be a Member from New York. For some years he has been growing up with the -ODuntry out West He has grown out •4jf it into the Senate. He thinks he will -come back to the Senate as long as he lives. But he has built a rather good- looking house up on Massachusetts av­ enue which will probably prevent all that. Good houses are fatal to fester# • statesmen CHICAOO News: Tjrenty Tiwrtf'igb iHenry Villard, who was a reporter in •desperate circumstances, applied to . John Swinton for employment. John asked him for a specimen of his work, «&d Henry wrote a report of a fire in the Bowery. Swinton threw it in the waste basket, gave Villard a dollar to lmy his supper and a bed for the night, .«nd advised him to hire himself out as 41 porter to one of the commission Ikpuses in Ann street.* Some weeks ago, when Swinton started his new morning daily, Villard was one of the first sub­ scribers, sending the subscription price and a note to Mr. Swinton, and in the letter lie sarcastically remarked that he OATH writes to the Times: The friends of General Grant throughout the country may be inter­ ested to know that his private affairs are in £ flourishing condition. He has one-fourth interest in the banking firm of Grant & Ward, which had an origi­ nal capital of $400,000 paid in. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. put in $100,000, and James D. Fish, the silent partner, $100,000, The firm, chiefly managed by Mr. Ward, did very well, and General Grant de­ sired to come in. He first put in $50,- 000, and afterward desiring his son Jesse, ts enter the firm, his associates agreed to let him. put in $50,000 more, but in his own name, so as not to in­ crease the number of partners. While General Grant takes no part in making contracts, signing checks, or in the ex* ect^tive details of the business, he is a valuable man through his character and connections, both for credit and for diplomatic work. Besides making large divisions of profits, this firm has about $800,000 of securities belonging to it. THE story of Mary Churchill, says a contemporary, is by no means as pain ful as many persons seem to think it It is true that the girl ran away from home, and by concealing herself for weeks made her parents and friends suffer unspeakable anxiety. There are, however, certain features of the case which are extremely cheering when looked at in the proper wa^ and there is reason to hope that Miss Churchill's example will be productive of great good. It appears that the girl ran away because she was required to prac­ tice on the piano four hours daily. This was more than she could bear, although the neighbors seemed to have lived through it. Hitherto the suffer­ ings of people who live within hearing of a piano have monopolized public sympathy, and no thought has been given to the unhappy girls whose wearied fingers furnish anguish to the neighborhood. Indeed, it has generally been assumed that practicing on the piano is an evidence of the heartless- ness of the performer, and girls have thus been unfairly credited with an in­ human love of torture. Miss Churchill was doubtless regarded by those living within sound of her piano as a cruel and selfish girl, whereas, the truth is that she was herself a victim. Of her own free will she weuld never have touched the piano, and it was her mother--who is, of course, stone deaf-- who compelled her to spend four hours a day at the instrument. It is even possible that Miss Churchill suffered acutely from the consciousness of the four daily hours of misery that (he in­ voluntarily inflicted upon the residents of her "block." At any rate, she ran away from her piano, and where is the man who can condemn her? Other girls who wilfully, or because they can­ not help it, practice four hours daily on the piano, should read the account of the "ovation" which Miss Churchill received on returning home after her now famous absence. She was treated as a heroine by all except the deaf resi­ dents of St. Louis, and her father pledged himself that she should never again be forced to "practice." Why should not all girls who long for fame and are anxious to become heroines run away from their pianos? Kot for Christian NaMto. The religion of the ancient* Egypt­ ians, says Swinton's Paper, had some features not to be found in several of the religions of these times. Here, for example, is a passage from a prayer to be found in the ritual for the dead: "I know you, Lord of truth and jus­ tice ; I have brought you the truth, I have committed no fraud against men, I have not tormented the widow. I have not lied in the tribunal, I have not done any prohibited thing, I have not commanded my workman to do more than he could do, I have not made fraudulent gains, I have not altered the grain measure, or falsified the equili­ brium of the balance, I have not made others weep, I am pure." i Another man thus cries : "I have given bread to him ilikO was hungry, water to the thirsty, garments to the naked, and a home to the for- aaken one." Still another cries: "I have protected the poor against the powerful, I have given hospitality to every one, I have been benevolent and devout, I have cherished my friends, and my hand has been open to him who had nothing. I have loved truth and hated a lie." 'Crankiness is Hereditary. Crankiness is hereditary. John Cleves Symmes devoted the last years of his life to the endeavor to convince a doubting world that the earth is hollow, and made himself a pauper in the effort. Now comes his son, Ameri­ cas Symmes, and announces to the world that he has accumulated enough money to enable him to take up his father's life-work; and he declared re­ cently to a Louisville (Ky.) audience that all Arctic explorations have proven that there is an open Polar sea which is warm, and that one explorer (Sea- baum) has sailed into it and found there (on islands, we presume,) a race of Roman-nosed, Hebrew-speakifcg people. These, Mr. Symmes declares, are the lost tribes of Israel, and, he says, they have gold, iron and mica mines, and raise enormous wheat crops, which furnish China with food. He propoefis to raise funds by subscriptions to enable him to find this rich country. If the country has not yet been found it is curious that Mr. Symmes knows so much about its climate, people and resouroea.---sBoili- moreDay. ^ Ws all have sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.-- Tm Eochefouc<mUL AUWCULTUHAL. [ fefttfe «#meal and one-third wfeeet'j flour. A IJTTLE time and trouble used in re­ moving $te seeds from grape sauca will all of tl*e smaller stems, 'leaving "only! Pa.T * larf interest. After the grapes two, or at most three, of the sponger Uavf sufficiently so that the ones to the hill, and never knew an in-! ff04* •*>•»«« readily from the sauce stance where the result uas m,t! through a ec 1 >ndar. then with aspoon larger tubers and frequent! v a heavier ! th* *» possible, put total crop the skins back with the juice to cook i sssss s rtx*" f** to the best results m most apple or- > e - f* " cbards, it is, nevertheless, much better i . Sacc* for/ common fruit pudding is to select soils naturally drained. One mad* ®f ,one «»gnr. an even cause of the great success of Michigan apple growers is the fact that the subsoil is gravelly and deep. The prize orchard of L. H. Baily at South Haven, tablespoonful of floor, and one of butter. Mix to a cream, poor boiling water over this, and stir until there are no lumps; then put it on the store and Mich., has a gravel subsoil twelve feet i4 there "n,dl h ia for ten or even fifteen minutes. Flavor deep. THE length of time a heifer keeps in milk after her first calf, says a dairy­ man, ia likely to measure her staying qualities for all after life. For this rea­ son young heifers should have their first calf in the fall. By good care and ensilaged food in winter an abundant flow can be est ablished, which can more easily be kept up the next summer. If heifers calve in the spring, they are very liable to go dry early in the "next fall.-- Chicago Journal. J. B. BOOERS gives to the American Garden, in substance, the following rules for bagging grapes: Apply the bags as soon as the cluster is formed, taking care not to break it. The Man­ illa bags have the upper corners cut off, the cluster inserted, and the paper pinned around the stem. A two or three-pound bag is large enough for most clusters. They ripen later, color better, have larger berries, and a hand­ some bloom is preserved. Applied early enough, bagging prevents rot. The drawbacks are the labor and ex­ pense, and some tender-akinned grapes split sooner in bags. A CORRESPONDENT of the American Agriculturist has the following sound advice to farmers on this question: 1.. Do not mortgage the farm unless it seems absolutely necessary. But, as a general rule is less valuable than a par­ ticular one, it may be well to specify, by adding: 2. Do not mortgage to build a fine house. By so doing you will have to pay money for an invest­ ment which does not bring money. 3. Do not mortgage the farm to buy more land. Where there is absolute certainty that more can be made out of the land than the cost of the mortgage this rule might not apply. But absolute cer­ tainty is rare, mistaken c ilculation is common. 4. Do not mortgage the farm unless you are sure of the continued fertility of its soil. Many persons bor­ row with an expectation of repayment based on an experience of the land's virginity only, which, on failing, may leave the land less productive, and the means of repayment thus removed. In this trouble begins which may result in the loss of the farm Keep very clear of mortgages. THE DIFFKSEKV^ N BBSKDS --"THE difference in the original cost of a six­ teen pound butter-cow and the common grade is very great, but so is the differ­ ence in yield. About $300 is asked for a first-class Jersey or Guernsey. This sum seems large to an observer of figures when applied to the cost of a cow, but when it is considered that Jer­ seys, and even grade Jerseys, return an income, clear of all expenses, of $100 annually, the price may be said to be low. Not only is the yield of butter much greater, but the market price of such known as "gilt-edged" is higher. In the face of this fact does it not be­ come the duty of farmers to invest in the direction of fine breeds? If farm­ ing or dairying is to be successful it must be conducted in a manner that brings into use only the best material. A cow is a machine. She converts cer­ tain kinds of food into milk, and ac­ cording to her nature and adaptation, she prominently changes the character of the milk. A Jersey appropriates the greater portion of the carrion, which is changed in the system into fat, stearine or cream. But the tendency on her {>art is strongly in favor of the latter, and in that respect she fulfils her pur­ poses. The Ayrshire, on the contrary, appropriates a more nitrogenous ele­ ment from the food, and her natural characteristic is in yielding a quality of milk containing cascine, which we iind in cheese. As animals are thus adapted for certain purposes, being bred to such perfection by the genius of man, is it not essential that the farmer, in order to be successful, should take advantage of the privileges before him for im­ provement ?--Farm ers' Magazine. LARGE FARMS.--Because most kinds of manufacturing are economically and efficiently conducted in large establish­ ments, we are apt to assume that the tillage of the earth can best be man­ aged on the same wholesale plan. The tendency toward this experiment has been strongly marked at the West, where large tracts of fertile land await occupation. But nobody seems to suc­ ceed in keeping such overgrown estates together. If they are not broken up after awlule for business reasons, they are sure to be divided by the interfer­ ence of death. There are* land owners now in California who are fully aware of the dangers of undue concentration, and are cutting up. their estates as a matter of policy, believing that one of the greatest injuries they could do their children would be to leave them too much land. The farm laborer in this country has universally the ambition to become a farm owner. He is not con­ tent to work permanently for wages; he will not look on patiently while a few rich men absorb all the available land, and ask him to do for them the work which cannot be done by machin­ ery ; and if the bonanza system should ever be carried so far as to make a real division between the lal>orer and the land-owner--one class holding the prop­ erty, while the other had the numbers and the votes--we should see some startling social distufbances and some wild legislation. The small farin has been the great safeguard of our civili­ zation. If we have never had any se­ rious and prolonged conflicts between labor and capital; if the people have always been order-lovirg, just, and in the best sense of the word, conservative; if we have been able to receive millions of the poor and discontented from for­ eign countries and convert them with­ out the least friction into thrifty and use­ ful citizens, it is because we have made it our National policy to give every man who wants it a stake in the country. The typical American farmer is laborer and capitalist at once; and wherever the two great forces of society are thus united there must be prosperity and peace.--New York Tribaine. t S * . r ft**: HOUSEKEEPERS}' HELPS, * ~ OATMEAL cookies combine many good qualities, and will be relished by children. Make them just like any ordinary sugar oooky, using two- Iittte Dovbt that theTroaMe Ww PvpomlyCuMed bj Whites. with nutmegs, and pnt in a large spoonful of molasses to give it a rich brown color. CRANBERRY pudding is made by pouring boiling water on a pint of dried bread crumbs; melt a tablespoon­ ful of butter and stir in. When the bread is Boftened add two eggs,' and beat thoroughly with the bread. Then put in a pint of the stewed fruit and sweeten to your taste. Bake in a hot oven for half an hour. Ffosh fruit may be used in place of the oranber­ ries. Slices of peaches put in in layers make a delicious variation. HERE is a recipe for a lemon pudding that requires no sauce. One cup of butter; two cups of sugar; mix very smooth, adding then the grated rind of two lemons, the yolks of six eggs, six small Boston crackers, dissolved in one pint of sweet milk. Bake, and use the whites of the eggs to make a meringue for the top of the pudding; when the whites are beaten stiff add six table- spoonfuls of powdered sugar; mix Well, spread on the top of the pudding and brown nicely. BY some persons mackerel is not found easy of digestion, and it sometimes has a bittertaste, which makes it disagree­ able to a delicate palate; but if proper­ ly cooked it is in reality as wholesome as any other fish. Fishmongers rarely clean it sufficiently, and a great deal de­ pends upon t he thoroughness with which it is done by the cook. The brown sub­ stance whieli clings to the backbone is the cause of the bitter flavor, and this should be entirely removed. Open the fish, remove the backbone and thor­ oughly wipe out all the brown sub­ stance ; then divide the fish down the middle, sprinkle it with pepper, flour and sa\t, place a piece of toe roe on each half, roll it up tightly and place it in a baking dish. Mix a dessertspoon­ ful of flour in a teaspoonful of cold wa­ ter,stir in it a half pint of bci iag water and a teaspoonful of essence of shrimps, and pour it over the filleted fish. Lay a lump of butter on each fillet and bake for three-quarters of an hour in a mod­ erate oven. (tr _ muiaer. delayed. HE was AIM fall of buekahot by Barksdate ai he was paasla* aloof en the op­ posite sMeot the street, and Bat gotten far .t tVOBd Barksdale to be a perfectly safe target in the back from a convenient disti The ft Minimi ion ofDicfcien by Baitadale --Frse8peechan OUcOstePriTikge Investigation Demandgj. {Tamo Letter in Chicago Tribane.l torn recent bloody deeds here have struck with horror the whole country. That a state of things exists here bordering upon savagery is apparent to every one. Colored men, like bleeding stags, have turned on thefr op­ pressors and rsoded them. White men, turned to fiendish brute*, hare glutted them­ selves with deeds that make the blood run oold. ne aooounts whte)i have so far been permittee to reach the public are evidently so garbled and untruthful that no credence whatever is to be placed la them. When a community places a restriction upon all news and euCers no dispatches to go forth, only sucb as are supervised by a " committee of citizens," it is time for the public to with­ hold its judgment until impartial facts can be known. Christmas ere, at about 9 o'clock, a terrible affray took place, resulting In the killing-of three white men and the wounding of two others, and the killing was dene by colored men, who have since been shot or hanged by the infuriated mob in the meat ooM-blooded and fiendish manner. To persons who are unfamiliar with the state of affairs that has existed in Yasoo City since July, 1876, it might appear that these ookwed men were murderers and have suffered a just retribu tiOD, but it strikes one quite differently who is conversant with Yasoo City history for eight years past. It is evident that the Poseys and their friends were the aggressors, and that they brought about their own destruction. It would seem that sotne fancied offense was given by John James, colored, to one of the Poseys. Some of the aooounts say that , fire-cracker was thrown down in front of His crime is his leading passport for political The assassination of Dixon ended the only attempt whioh has been made heretor eight years aealnst Demosratio domination. Even free speech Is a forgotten privilege. If a Re­ publican vote Is oast it is in solemn aaookery of the rights of the Republican majority. Occasionally a negro is taken out in deri­ sion and whipped and made to vote either a Republican or Democratic ticket to amuse his persecutors. The Republican major.ty of about 8.U0I is regularly counted for the Democracy whenever needed la aOoo«re»- slonai or Legislative contest. The denial of political freedom extends as well to white men as colored when It threatens Democratic ascendency. The Oreenbaokers are bull- dosed, and cheated, and refused the right to canvass just as absolutely as the Republicans. When the Hon. Mr. Yellowly, of Madifpn county, vieited Yazoo, two years ago, toad- dress the people, he was hooted from the ros­ trum and not permitted to go on with his speech, owing to the turbulence of the mob, which, by preconcert, filled the bouse. Mr. Yellowiy's offense was that he was a Green­ back candidate for the Legislature or Con­ gress in thardistrict. Mr. Tellowly, person­ ally, is one of the Ueprescntative young- men of Mississippi, a man of large wealth highest family connection, and at one time a very popular and influential Dem­ ocrat. Free discussion U not toler­ ated here on the part of anybody, and political debate is among the lost arts. Republicans speak of politics with bated breath, and whisper their sentiments as if assassination hung on every accent. The people have become so Inured to deeds of blood and outrage that they look upon murder for opinion's sake with Indifference, if not delight. The man who assassinated Dixon was elected Cflauoery Cleric for two terms, and is now a member of the Legis­ lature. He was never arrested nor indicted. T-** t i'i' n ' ' h** " - The King of Counterfcitrrn. Tom Ballard is beyond question the king of all counterfeiters. When the Canadian bankers were shown the notes which he had engraved for their banks they fairly trembled. There ia .no known means of detecting these coun­ terfeits. They were perfect. Tom was a great chemist, as well as being one of the most skillful engravers who ever lived. Besides this, lie was the instiga.- tor of each new action, the designer and executor of each fresh counterfeit, and the means of producing it Most of these engravers are useless in the other branches of the trade, but Tom was the expeYt leader in all thjtes with his gang. He succeeded in nbDs a coun­ terfeit fibre paper (tta^EMnaery for and the secret of manufacturing whioh cost the Government $200,000) which experts declare defies detection. When Tom was captured he offered to disclose to the United States Government the secret of making a paper which it would be impossible for any otie to counterfeit if it would repeal his sentence. He is a pleasant, gentlemanly, kind, polite and attractive man to meet, but is mis­ erably morbid at times. Twice since his imprisonment he has attempted sui­ cide. Once, shortly after hi8 incarcer­ ation, he disemboweled himself with some blunt-pointed weapon, but the doctor brought him out of it all right. Five years later, while working at the shoemaker's trade in prison, he cut his throat from ear to ear with a small knife. Both these attempts at self-de­ struction were caused by morbid feel­ ings. After the second attempt, a beautiful little bas-relief of his home, with its flowers about, its hanging vines, its green trees, and his wife and family walking down the pathway to meet him, was found on the wall of his cell. He had cut it out with a sharp stick or some other equally primitive tool. He ia an exceptionally talented man in a dozen different ways. He is very popular among the prison officials on account of his gentlemanly and considerate action and speech. ^These ofiicials daro not show Tom any partiality, but they; to­ gether with a number of New York bankers and other influential people are doing all they can to get his sentence commuted.--Chicago News. T' Bough en Poets. « A literary young man went to the boarding house of the Widow Flapjack, on Austin avenue, and asked the land­ lady what a certain room would cost per month with board. "Ten dollars without board, and twenty with board." "Ah, well! Ill take the room, board and all," replied the literary gent: and at night, madam, I'll read over my composition tp you." "In that case I'll not charge von Any­ thing for board," said the Widow Flap­ jack. "Ah, you appreciate poetry." "That's not it. The satisfaction 111 have in knowing that you cant spout poetry while you are chewing your grub is cheap at $10 a month."--Texas Siftings. * flow te Train • Bey. The modern prejudice against cor­ poral puifishment docs not seem to have penetrated to India. A magistrate of the cantonment of Secunderabad received the following petition from a parent: "I moat humbly and respectfully beg to bring to your Honor's kind notice that my son, aged about 15 years, instead of going to school, joins bad company, goes to the tank to catch fish, and loses his time vainly wandering here and there. The schoolmaster warned him and flogged him several times;he never careS to. I request your H6nor to per­ mit me to have a chain for one of his legs, with a log of wood attached to the same, in order that he may feel ashamed, and leave his bad actions, for which act of grace he shall ever pray." A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was //yester­ day.--Pope. Posey by James, whereupon Posey got Into an altercation with James, which was the commencement of the trouble. Another account says that two colored men were fighting in a saloon and that Posey undertook to have them arrested, aud this started the difficulty; but all accounts agree that no shooting occurred until some time later- John Posey then went off, assembled his friends, and returned armed to the secne of the difficulty. That the white men who. were killed, and pronably many others who were not killed, sought the difficulty with the negroes 1B shown by the fact that the Poseys and their friends re­ turned to the butcher-shop. This shows (dearly enough who provoked the diffloulty, and what party was acting strictly on the de­ fensive. The negroes evidently apprehended attack and prepared for it. Negroes In Yaxoo City do not carry guns, and do not use them except when driven to the wall. Since the bloody scenes of 1875 every white man has been armed against the colored man. For a colored man to shoot a white man, or even to Insult one, was to court certain and speedy death, and every black man has well Known It. The men who fired on the Poeeys and their associates Christmas Eve knew as well that their own lives would pay th? penalty as we know It now. Why, then did they thus offer up their lives, regardless of conse­ quences? It can be acoounted for on no other ground than dernier resort. The col­ ored people of Yasoo City and Yaioo county have suffered such a long list of atrocities and oppressions that they at last turned on their oppressors and resisted. A few leaders among the people saw that there was intend­ ed to be a repetition of 1875 and 187V, andtle- terminel to defend themselves. They knew that their people was singled out for some outrageous attack that very night. It is quite likely that the Poseys and their gang went back to the butcher-shop to take John James out to hang him.. Hangings of this sort have been common in Yasoo coun­ ty for the last eight years. Many cololed man has been hanged or whipped there because be has happened to displease a white man and for no offense whatever. Hanging and whipping have been the short cuts to "law and order" in Yazoo for many years. Where negroes were concerned these things have been every-day occurrence s, and they have been frequent enough to keep upa wholesome state of white supremacy and negro subjugation. A Lur raou HISTORY. In August, 187S, a Republican meeting was held in Yasoo City for the purpose of open­ ing the canvass of that year lor legislative officers and Congressmen. For preferment. While Dixon was hanging and murdering- innocent and defenseless Repub­ licans he wan the hero of the hour, and the ladies of Yazoo wore Dixon badges In his honor. Nor was this sentiment the out­ growth of tiny wrong on the part of HepubUo- an?. No political corruption or embezzlement was ever traced home to the skirts of Repub­ lican officials. When the Republicans turned over the affairs of the county to the Demo­ crats, the Republican County Treasurer, an honest and capable black man, turned over to his successor over 180,000 In money and securities. Every dime was faithfully ac­ counted for aud honestly paid over, and the county was out of debt. These funds had not t een in the hands of the Democratic Treasurer twenty-four hours when the treas­ ury was robbed and the whole amountstolen. It is said to be writ known in Yasgo where this money went, and what parties committed the robbery. The money went to Democratic bulldozers. The robbery waa committed In the interest of the Democratic party. Demo­ cratic villainy had to be paid for with public funds. Such is a plain, unvarnished statement of the condition of things In Yaaoo eouaty, only it is but a half-told tale--Democratic su­ premacy secured and maintained by blood and outrage, and resulting In an absolute denial of all the rights of American citizen­ ship. The recent killing of the Poeeys must be the county had been under Republican con­ trol, and had been, as no one could deny, well and honestly governed. There was no par­ ticular occasion for riot and bloodshed, and peace and prosperity should have been per­ mitted to reign. But race hatred and Demo­ cratic malice opened here the Shotgun policy. A gang of armed ruffians intruded them­ selves into the peaceable and unsuspecting Republican meeting. At a given signal pis­ tols were drawn by these ruffians, who com­ menced firing indiscriminately into the as­ semblage. Several unoffending and unarmed persons were ruthlessly shot down, The meeting was afterward broken up, and uni­ versal dismay ensued. As if by magic sev­ eral hundred white men in Yazoo City were under arm?. The city was in the hands of a mob which drove out all the lawfully consti­ tuted officials and assumed complete control. During that campaign a gang of banditti took possession of the county, and rode night and day, with ropes adjusted to their saddles, significant of their purposes. They not only committed murder, but robbery and every other crime. They took $1,000 from one of their victims, which he Implored them to Bend to his mother and sister in Ohio, but which wag appropriated as a Democratic campaign fund. From those days to the present the colored people of Yazoo county have groaned under the heel of intolerable oppression. Their rights, political and personal, as human be­ ings and American citizens, have been ruth­ lessly denied them. The white man has dom­ inated YH/.OO, and the glorious Democratic flag, as the Yazoo Herald telegraphed the day Dixon was assassinated, has floated triumph antly. Yazoo has been dubbed the banner Democratic county of Mississippi. Whenever a Congwss.'onal district needed to be assured to the Democracy Yazoo county has been tacked on to it. Yazoo is good for 1,01)0,3,000 or 3,000 majority, just in proportion to the necessity of the case. In an emergency they oould count it 6,000 majority, for they were only limited by the total voting population, and even this was no great drawback. For one brief period only did a little light ; gleam in upon the unhappy colored people of ; Yazoo, and that, went out into utter darkness and deeper gloom. In 1879 Henry Dixon, who, in 1876, had been the chief oppressor of the negroes, and who was called the "bravest of the brave" for his bloody services, be­ came disgusted with the miserable tyranny which he had been the chiet Instrument in setting up. He told the colored men that he had been guilty of great wrongs against them, but he was sorry for it, and he was tired of seeing them oppressed. He an­ nounced himself an independent candidate for Sheriff, and appealed to the colored peo­ ple and Independent white voters to support him. Strange to say, the colored men of Yazoo saw even in Dixon a liberator, and rallied to his support as one man. This fact even more than any other ought to convince mankind of the intolerable opp<-ess'on under which they were groaning. Here was a man who had committed numberless outrages against them, who had hanged, and shot, and slaughtered them, who had been a very flend incarnate in his persecution and cruelties-- alt committed in the servioe of the De n- oct atic party and for no cauce but Democratic ascendency. And yet they accepted this man s leadership in order to esca e from under the yoke. They lebked upon him as a St. Paul who had persecuted the Chr stians, but who had become converted and wo-ild lead 'them into enjoyment of their rights What must have been the condition cn' free men when they would rally to the suppo-t of their most relentless enemy for solvation.' But this gleam of hope was short-lived. The Uemo irajy res > ved that Dixon must be "re­ moved." They first notified him that he must withdraw from the canvass, and they backed this up with a show of lorce that would have persuaded most ordinary men. The cry was started that the "negroes were ris­ ing" and for the white men to assemble in Yazor> City fully armed. From Benton and Fatartia, and all the Democratic strongholds of the county, armed men poured into tte city. A meeting was heid and a committee appointed to wait upon Dixon to exact a written pledge from him that he woul > not run for Sueri r. This eommit'e? was backed up by K0J armed men who were prepared to hang Dixon in case he re used toco i.e down D xon was a bra e man end gave them s.nue plain tal <, but the end was that Db o:i signed a paper that he would not run ior sheriff, and the mob dispersed, liut l i' on hid no idea of bein? thus bulldozed, and the ne t day he issued a card that he had signed the abdica­ tion to ke jp from bein rh'ii ,e 1, but ha j he would oontinue his eanva -s for She rid" the as ever. Dixou's as^asluatiun was then taken in connection with the state of affairs that I have portrayed. No sane man can be* lleve that ftoote and his fellow colored men would have lifted a hand against those white men except in self-defense. It was at the peril of their lives even for them to defend themselves. But there is a point when brave men will die sooner than submit to accumu­ lated outrage. There Is a point when col­ ored men must strike back, even though their lives pay the forfeit, and this point was reached Christmas eve. It ia the duty of the Northern press to investigate these oc­ currences and give the world the facta. When a Chicago Journal sent its own corre­ spondent here to Investigate the Dixon tragedy it conferred a boon on mankind. The lying dispatches sent out to the world are not worthy or a moment's credence. They are in the interest of the murderers ana as­ sassins, and penned by them or their ald­ ers and abettors. The men who commit these dseds never hesitated yet to perjure themselves to cover them up. The only way to get at the truth Is to send truthful men here to ferret out the facta, and even these must be very guarded or they will be de* celved as to the facts. The colored neoplt are so Intimidated that they dare not ipeak. Kven the few white Republicans find It to their Interest to be reticent. The mouths of Poote and Swase, and all the other accused persons, have been forever closed. No public trial can vindicate the truth with sworn tes­ timony. But, nevertheless, enough can be ascertained to satisfy the whole world, ex­ cept Bourbon Democracy, whether these victims of Democratic wrath and malioe really died as martyrs in self-defense and de­ fense of their rights, or whether they were the murderers that the white people of Yasoo would have us believe. w. H. Foote has always been a sort of pet with the white men'of Yazoo, and at times has not been fully trusted by Ms own odor. in UN, about 2,080 more than the pseatijiy ^ year. ; At Pana one druggist has been and another flOO for selling liquor in unli#" ful quantities. Gaootmhas been broken for anew I Une between -Beileviite as Clinton county. Lucr. MTSM H. Buum% Pnitsi Matsa navy, has been ordered to, special duty as ̂ an instructor at the nuhols college, MekSts- ville. A. K. Whmwt, an olddtisen of WoodhuU* who was a Lieutenant Colonel of ihuffluiiiaih Pennsylvania volunteer* in the Mexican war, is dead. Jons Srn.iVAN, who In April last sMeatpt- edto kill Rstella Andrews, at Barritt, was sentenced at Free port to ten years ia the peni­ tentiary. Jons BitsT, 80 years old, aWeipSei •aft'- cide at Maroa, and swore at the doctor, what by the aid of a stomach pump, isatorsd him to life. JVMK MotJLToy, Democratic member OI Congress from the Seventh Illinois diatriefc : is out in a card declining to be a candidate for re-election, WABHKR ». WHZTS, State's Attorney ef* J Jefferson county, and, a prominent young . Democratic politician, died at liontet Vernon,.% * fffj* of consumption. •• ' «•• •. • '.$ ConmssioKKR CIUCGIKB, of Chicago, is ^ " down on the Baptists. He says that hereafter the churches must all pay for- their waters like anybody else. ; COOPKH, a colored man who was ejected ^ r from a Chicago omnibus ten years ago on no- - :V»;| count of his race, got a verdict against the • company for $2,600. * \ COL. WOOD, who was proprietor of Wood's museum, Chicago, before the fire, is nego­ tiating for the old site with a view to re­ establishing the old place. THE lust will and testament of Brlgkan Young is said to be In the possession of B. Lightoap, or Havana. He secured it, e»he says, while on a visit to Salt Lake City. Rav. Ma. COOK, residing in the vicinity of Cairo, saw Mrs. Joseph Glasgow mixing for his sick wife something which he believed te be poison, and he therefore fatally shot her. W. c. Do WOT, a prominent Democratic politician, committed suicide by himself in the head with n pistol. In 4 of Wilmington, Greene county. Ha l for a number of years Ttown THB Illinois Bar association. In aonvsntion at Springfield, elected Hon. David Davis Pres­ ident. Two hundred members and the sur­ vivors of the constitutional convention of 1847 participated in the annual banquet. Hasav WIIXIAMS, of Decatur, gave a bog aged 13 years a bottle of whisky. Ike lad became beastly drank. The hay' wallowing to the street, and he waa pnt in • ^ jail. Williams was indicted' aad placed be-H hind the bars. tilt;#/ "mm it h i > a / 7,. AunutT WiMim a youthful indicted four times by a Jasper county grand jury for attempt at criminal assaalt, waa found guilty and sentenced to fire yearn la the. Illinois penetintlary. The evidence showed that the young tend would lis la am* bush near a railroad and await the coming of : little girls on their way to school. ^ Own of the pleasantest social areata at the season In Chicago was the reception givea by the Hon. John Wentworth aad Ma daughter to the members of the Calumet cinb aa* their ladles and a large number of Invited >aeits. Mr. Wentwortfc's object is explained hy hi* remark: "We must bring the old settlers aad the new settlers and their families li^slhrt They must know each other better." Btxair B. RKBD, of Chicago, aecurcd a dl. voroe from Charles H. Reed, formerly Stale's Attorney for Cook county, later oouassl for the assassin Guiteau, add now a resident ol New York city, where he has a law office. The husband and wife were married ia 1881, and lived together twenty years, two daughters in their teens, and! lses to pay t&00 a year toward their Or tbe twenty Illinois representattffcs ia the lower house of Congress, ten are Repub­ licans, nine are Democrats, and One (Flnerty) * Sp?1, ' be borne years Into full harmony with his own raoe. He served in the Confederate army. He was a very brave man, well educated, and prided himself on having the best Southern white blood in his veins. His tragic fate will en­ dear his memory to the colored people, and he will take his place among the army of martyrs whose graves dot the pathway of reconstruction. „ The North aad Seafk Contrast* The aolid South «nd the divided North are two distinct and widely dif- 'time a good deal of pressure lyp been brought ferent civilizations. The Southern po- are journalists, one is a manufacturer, aad one has devoted himself to literature wjbea not engaged in the diplomatic service. Itau, of tbe Republicans and two of the Democrat) served in .the'Union army; si*.of the Repub-' 1 loans and four of the Democrats were mem­ bers of the last Bouse. JUDOS GAUV, of Chicago, baa settled the much-mooted question about MM final depo­ sition of prisoners convicted In CbQk oonnty for committing misdemeanors. Ibr litical leaders and their followers reoog ̂ nize this, and act upon it; why should tbe Northern people affect to be blind to it? One is the system of political liberty, equal political rights, and a humanity which is especially careful of the workers of the community and the poor and helpless. The other is the system of a political aristocracy^k^ep- ing the despotic ascendency by force, and recognizing no rights in thb work- . ers and humble classes, save toWpport I the upper by their labor, and to obey in fear their political rule. The divided North represents political freedom, the natural diversity of minds, and the di­ vision into parties whioh is the natural working of government by elections. The solid South represents the aboh- to bear upon the Judges of the fVlnifaal Court by attorneys to have their disrate sentenced to the County Jail Imlssit of ihfrfliMii wiill. while Sheriff Hanchett has been trylagtn got the County Commissioners to paas an order giving him authority to make prisoners serv­ ing jail sentences work about that institu­ tion. The Judge decided that prisoners eon- victed of misdemeanors should be sentenced to terms in the Bridewell, where they shall be compelled to work, in preference to remand­ ing them to the jail. A iHBiuiso adventure took place recent, ly on the night Rock Island pawsur train. Just before reaching Jollet, in which a little 4-year-old girl in a state of somnambulta was the central figure. Mrs. Wealey Sim­ mons, of Fairbury, Neb., aoeampanied ly her two daughters, Mabel and Grace, ths farmer 8 and the latter 4 years old, was on tion of all real elections bj a reign ̂train <*, route to Joliet to spend New of force.--Cincinnati Commercial-Ga­ zette. Iferthera Teaijrisa. ASifthe days before the war, muy of the Northern Democrats are prepared to take their old plaoe and gather the orumbe from the table of the Southern brother. Of course the haughty South­ ron is pleased to see the spirit of vas­ salage and toadyism of the well-bred Northern Democrat. What the South lost at Oettysburg and Appomattox she may regain with the judicious use of the shotgun at the South and the potent power of the murder-mills called sa­ loons at the North. The tiuhoiv alii- | bosom and then fain^d with joy ance is in the field; only patriotism, 1 recovered, and listened to "" prudence, and eternal vigilance--which count of finding the little is the prica of liberty--can defeat it.-- - * ~ Liberty Herald. The Democratic Tiger Showing tta Teeth. The Democratic party is not able to restrain itself. Its programme for the next Presideutial election ia defined. The shotgun comes first, with 151 electoral votes. Then the tariff is to be borne up in a revolutionary way by the cranks. The revenue will be reduced and expenses increased. The remedy is to print more mohey--make it plenty and cheap. T'>at is the mean­ ing of the Illinois and Kentucky com­ mittees on the tariff and Missouri on finance.--Logansport Journal. Year's with relatives. They had retired ts their berth in the sleepiag^ar on leaving home, and were soon asleep. Shortly after mltelght the mother awok* «d' ttM stricken to find that littleGraoo - wild with iiaM of possible frightened mother alarmed the rest of the passengers, who kindly aided la inarching the car.fUit the moat faithful naarch foiled to dlr cover the missing girl. She waa not la tbe car. Just as hope sank in the heart of the grief-stricken mother, the conductor entered the oar. The train was withla a few ssilee o< the end of their journey. little Grace was clinging to one of his anus and crying piti­ fully. The mother clasped the child to her She sooa recovered, and listened to the conductor's ae- nambutist. la her sleep little Grace had got up and goae out of the car door, crossed into the next aad on into the third car. When the conductor met her. He asked her where she was goiaff. Receiving no reply, the foct dawned upon him that ths was asleep. He caught her by the arm and woke her up, when she gJHd about in astonishment, inquired for her mother, and began to cry. Hie conductor conveyed her to the sleeper, and the Jay which came to that mother's heart when the daughter, whose little form She had imagined lay mangled somewhere on the Icy track, may better be Imagined than expressed. How the little sleeper crossed over the slippery plat­ forms without fall Jig between the earn la a mystery. DR. J. W. KUHTIOAI, one of the j cyoaia died of Bright'* < • ; • J-