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The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13
: JACKSON. MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY. JUNE 49, 1865


1hefe was rush, tumult. a hustle.
was first on the platform, but it
was deserted and empty, save by a
frozen brakeman, who seemed horror
stricken.
ohe swept past me like shadow,
and jumped off the tra;n," he said.
We'll" said the cor ductor, shrng
ging his shoulders, "she must have
been Instantly killed. What mad folly"
"It's $500 out of my pocket" said
the detective, ruefalIy. "I didn't want
row before we got to Bayswater, but
l wa, a confounded fool. A woman
cornered W II do anything"
"What!" calculated, you surely
don't mean that-that child"
IL mean, sir" said the detective.
calmly, that that child, as you call
her, is A'illy Burton, married woman,
twenty-five years old, who last night
murdered four persons in c. Id blood,
and was trying to escape to Canada.
That's what I mean"
The train was STOPPED, and party of
US, headed by the conductor and the
detective, went back to search for any
'race of the beautiful yuung creature
whose lovliness and apparent limo
cence had appealed to my S mpathies
SO earnestly. Nor was it long before
we found her, lying quite dead by the
side of the track, frightfu|ly mangled
by the force of the fall. and mutilated
almost beyond recognition.
"Well, she escaped justice in this
world, if not in the next" said the de-
tcctive, gloomily, as he stood looking
down upon her remains.
do you suppose she expected to
he able to spring from the moving
train without irjury?'
Without injury-yes; women are
unreasonable creatures. But | never
dreamed of sach folly, or | should
have taken prompt measures to pre-
vent IT,"
They lifted the fair dead thing, and
carried it to the nearest place of
refuge-a lonely farm house among
the frozen hills, and we returned to the
train, reaching Bayswater only a few
minutes behind our regular time.
And when in the mornings paper l
read the account Of the murder, and
the tragic end of the murderess. 1
thought of the slender creatures blue
eyes and rosebud mouth, with a
strange, plying thrill at me heart.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13
rom the Texas Christian Advocate
SABBATH EVENING.
BY L. H.sc.

The shades of eve are round us closing,
Another Sabbath day has gone;
Our thoughts and words are now in heaven.
To bless Us or to make us mourn;
In letters bright they will reward us
place of bliss in that fair home
Or. with q laundering voice proclaim us
Forever given to hell's dark gloom.
Another Sabbath day has ended,
On, God forgive US for all sin,
And grant us in the coming hours
Religious hearts. and pure within;
Make us to love this day, and serve Thee,
To bless Thy great and glorions power,
So that when death demands our bodies,
We can with joy approach that hour.
Another Sabbath day has left rs,
The autumn breezes softly sigh,
Sweet church bells chime the evening worship
Receive our prayers, oh Lord, on high;
And let us have taste of heaven,
OF that great bliss Thou shalt bestow;
Grant us to all that grace be given,
To love and worship Thee below.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13

The Love OF BEAUTIFUL.-Place q
young girl under the care of kind
hearted, graceful woman and she uh-
consciously to herself grows into
graceful lady. Place a boy in the es-
tablishment of a thorough going, strait
forward business man and the boy be-
comes a self reliant, practical business
man. Children are susceptible crea-
lures, and circumst tances, scenes, ac-
tions always impress As you infu.
ence them, not by arbitrary rules, nor
by stern example, but in a thousand
other ways that speak through bright
scenes, soft utterance and pretty pic
lures SO will they grow Teach your
children then to love the beautiful.
Give them corner in the garden for
flowers, encourage them to put in shape
hanging baskets, allow them to have
their favorite trees, lead them to wan
der in the prettiest woodlets, show
hem where they can best view the
sunsets, rouse them in the morningsnct
with the stern time to work but with
the enthusiastic see the beautiful sun.
rise;" buy them pretty pictures, and
encourage them to decorate their
rooms each in his or her childish way.
The instinct is in them. Give them an
inch and they will go mile. Allow
them the privilege and they will make
your home beautiful.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13
"YOur Hook is too Large.1

A young minister had been preach
ing very learned, scientific and elo-
quent sermons to his congregation for
long time, but no one was convicted
or converted. He became very much
discouraged at the harrenness Of his
ministry. In this state of mind, he
dreamed that he was fishing where
there were plenty of fish, but he caught
none At length little man sp-
preached whom he knew to be John
Wesley, who asked him ''what Duck?p
"No luck but i'll luck;" he replied II
have not caught sirgle one." "Let
me see you: hook said Mr.. Wesley,
"O," He exclaimed, | see how it is,
your hook is too large" "H.re," said
he, "try this little hook"
The young preacher tried the little
hook, and 50 he caught feh success
fully. Thus he awoke with the impress
sion made upon his mind that his SER
m rs we're too large, lofty, too bulky
to be comprehended by his hearers.
What lesson this incident teaches
our spread-eagle preachers. Our
preachers ought to know that the mem
tai mouths of the common people have
not been sufficiently expended TO take
in these large hook sermons. They
can only nible one side of them, but
can't swallow them so as to be hook. d
and drawn out of the muddy waters of
sin. Fishing with such hotks is worse
than waste of time.
Those star-trowned sermons with
rainbows d lncing to the music of
thunder, blazing ia the cloud regions
like fiery comet may astonish hearers,
but they never lead perishing souls to
| Christ.
Hang the fruits of the Gospel on the
low limbs of simplicity, then the lambs
as we'll as the taller sheep can reach it,
and be nour'shed up into eternal life.
Ye fishers of men, use small hooks. and
Won will be sure to catch some
TRai, gh Episcopal Methodist.
/ NEWSPAPERS Decisions Any person
I who takes a paper regulirly from the
post office-whe,her directed to his
name or another, or whether he has
| described or not--is responsible fot
the pay. If person orders bis paper
discontinued, he must pay all arrear
ages, or the Publishers may continue tc
send it until payment Is made, and
G II ct the whole amonnt, whether y
is taken from the offi,'e or not. The
conrts have decided tat refusing t6
take newspape RS and periodicals from
the post-offi e, or removing and leaving
them uncalled for. is primG facae evi
dence of intentional fraud.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13

In a wosewood cradle baby lay;
Its mother was stitching. stitching away
On a little robe of white;
One foot on the rocker she hoped to keep
Her frolicksome baby fast asleep,
To finish her work that night.
In every sticth of the garment she wrought
That loving mother fastened thought
Hopes for that little onel-
And smiled on her baby in happy pride,
And it slept in its cradle by her side
Till the little robe was done.
Then she folded up the cambria and the lace,
And kissed her little ones chubby face,
That smiled in it's infant gleei
She tossed it up and down in the air:
'"How pretty you'll look, little babe when you
That new little robe" said she.
In rosewood coffin the baby lay;
Its mother had wept the night away
Watching its dying breath;
With it pressed to her bosom she prayed to keep
Her darling baby from going to sleep
Inthe cold. cold arms Of death
They buried the babe in the garment just wrought
Whose every stitch held q hopeful thought,
From that loving mothers sight;
On marble stone she wrote with tear,
"How many hopes are buried here,
In that little robe of whitep'
In the saviour's arms baby lay,
From its rosewood coffin far away,
IN the realms of love and light;
The angels garment had folded about
Its little form which viii never wear out ass
A seamless robe Of white. ~ -
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THE OLD BOOK-KEEPER.
BY GEORGE COOPER.

1t was an ancient book keeper,
And he was tall and slim;
Though his face was mild, he rarely smiled
His clothes were dark and prim;
And everything about his desk
He kept exceeding trim.
He always hung his hat and coat
Upon the self-same hooks,
And laid his ruler, pen, and ink
In their respective hooks,
And the only exercise he had
Was footing up his books.
Each day, upon the self-same hour,
He took his lofty seat.
And bent his body and his mind
His labors to complete;
And blots were neither on his fame
Nor on his ledger-sheet.
The music of his pen was heard
From morn till eventide;
Up columns vast his eyes were cast,
Then down again with pride:
Quite pleased was he, though he saw his work
increased and multiplied.
The'cash that o'er his fingers came
Each day was aJnIng grand:
And yet no scnemes pear it off
By him were ever planned;
Although you saw with half an eye
That he wrote ''slOping" hand.
He had no wife, he made no friends,
His joys and cares were few;
And his dearest hope from day to day
Was to keep his bal ance true:
good world this if every man
The latter thing would do.
He never sighed when little ills
His way of life would cross;s
And Ger the errors of his youth
tie showed no vain remOrse;
But set down all that came along
To profit or to loss
One day the creditor of all
Dropped in for his amount;
He found the old man at his post,
Though low ran Natures fount;
The books were closed, and he was borne
UD to his last account
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MEEKN ESS.
-. some little insult given

,-ssn for some little insult given,
Nv angry passions rise,
ri mink how W., Jesus 3"3sr,sn esm' from heaven.
uas insulted every day,
Tbough all His words were kind;
a. nothing men could do or say
nisturbed His heavenly mind.
not all the wicked SCOTS He heard
Against the truths He taught.
r.cited one reviling word,
Or one revengeful thought.
And when upon the cross He bled,
With all His foes In view,
,Father forgive them" Jesus said,
,They know not what they do.''
nsar Saviour, may learn of Thee
NV temper to amend;
But speak that pardoning word for me
whenever l offend.
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More Light! More Light!*
BY r. LEACH,

o God more lighti more light
That we may see how right
And just are all Thy ways;
Thy name to praise.
Though clouds encompass Thee,
We would Thy Glory see;
Till faith be lost in sight
We seek more light
More light to see the way,
Lest from Thy paths we stray;
More light, to danger shun,
o, Holy Onei
one stars pure light see,
It's glimmering comforts me;
o, free me from sins blight;
Give light more light
The star shines from Thy Word
Hope can alone afford
Joy to the sorrowing one
Light through the gloom.
Then clouds of darkness, fiyi
The Day-Star from on high,
Shall cheer our souls with sight,
OF morning light.
o let the Day-Star rise,
In brighter, purer skies;
Reveal the wondrous sight,
OF Haeven's own light:
Then shall the morning break;
''The dead in Christi shall wake,
And as they wing their fight,
See light more light
Then blessings now untold,
shall to the soul unfold,
In realms of gladness, bright,
And glorious shall it be,
Redeemed through Christ and free
Throughout eternity,
Dwelling in light.
tSuch words were the dying exclamation
,ethe, the German poet and philosopher.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13

For BOYS HAVING NO Work -"Sir,"
said boy, stopping before man on
his cart, "do you want boy to work
for you?"
NO" answered the man, II have no
such want" The boy looked disap-
pointed; at least the man thought so,
and he asked: Don't you succeed in
getting placer"
Il have asked at good many
places" said the boy. "a woman told
me you had been after boy; but it is
not SO, l ind."
"Don't be discouraged" said the
man, in a friendly tone.
ooh no SIR" said the boy, cheeriully,
because this is very big world, and
| feel certain God has something for
me to do in It. am only trying to
6nd it"
"Just so, just So" said a gentleman
who overheard the talk. "Come with
me my boy, am in want of somebody
just like you." 1t was the doctor, and
the doctor thought any boy so anxious
to find work, would be likely TO do il
faithfully when he found it.
If every body had the spirit of this
little lad there would be no idlers in
the world, standing on the corners, sit
ting in the shops, waiting for wolk to
come to them. Work does not often
come so. Almost everything worth
having, like the ore in the mine, must
be sought for.-Arthur's Magazine.
The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-13
KIND WORDS.

Oh, Withhold not kind words flowing
Great their power;
Like as sunbeams softly glowing
On the flower:
As the dew drops sweetly falling
On the bud.
Or as angels voices calling
Unto God.
Little worth at first though seeming,
Small their cost,
While we breathe them, little dreaming
None are lost
They may still, though few their number,
Comfort shed,
When the lips that breathed them slumber
With the dead.
How else? By telling others what
you learn at the Sabbath School. AS
thus:
On beautiful morning in June, lit
tie Tommy Wilson took his hat and his
Bible after he had neatly dressed him
self, aud set out for the Sunday School.
He had a long wax across the fields
TO the schoolhouse, and he studied his
lesson as he walked along He had
just entered Farmer Harris's field
when he saw the farmer himself and
two of his men, with their scythes
ready to commence work. why"
said Tommy, briskly, as he stepped up
to them, "it is Sunday; have you for
gotten? What are you going TO work
for?"
''Got to get all this grain in before
it's spoiled" returned the farmer,
gruffly. II cannot help your Sundays;
| can't lose my grain"
"But the Bible says, Remember the
Sabbath Day to keep it holy" replied
Tommy, boldly. "'Six days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work, but the sew
enth is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God; in it thou shalt not do any work
1t is here in my Bible," and he opened
it and showed Them the words
But Farmer Harris turned away, say
ing, 81 know all that, but if man
can't get all his work done in six days
it stands to reason he must work on
the seventh. Come, Bill" and he be-
gan to work One of the men joined
him, but the other stood still, looking
at Tommy. At last lie said, II remem-
her those words; | learned them when
| was little boy. The little boy is
right; won't work on Sunday" He
threw down his scythe and turned
after Tommy.
Tommy talked to him as they walk
ed along. He persuaded him to go to
church with him, and hear the good
minister's sermon. 1t was long since
John Sykes had heard such words, but
they fell upon his heart ballowed with
the recollections of childhood As he
listened, he wept, and resolved hence
forth tc keep rearer to God than he
had done.
A year later, and Farmer Harris's
barns, filled with grain, we're burned
down, and his gains were lost, and he a
poor, miserable man The other man,
who had stayed and worked with him.
was fast descending the bill of drunk
enness; while John Sykes was in COM
Portable circumstances, and regular
attendant at church-still striving to
keep Gods commandments. Tommy
Wilson still went to the Sunday Schoo',
happy, because good-so true is it. as
God has said, "Those that honor Me, |
will honor
Also yon can do good by rebuking
sin. A young man went to work in a
mill. At the end of the week he said
be must quit.
"Why?" asked the miller, "you are
a good hand. | want you to stay.
What do you go for?"
Because" said the young man, 81
cannot live with a swearel p "l am
afraid to live in any spot where Gods
curses are every moment called down
upon our heads"
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10y u'u hOe OACSou udll mln-
nte. altogether too short time for re.
plenishing the boilers; and where On
earth was the water to come from in
that desolate stretch of woods?
Five minutes afterward the conduc-
tor entered the car; 1 made room for
him at my side.
''Sit down, conductor, you've moth
ing to do just now"
He obeyed.
what did you mean by telling me
such lie just now?"
J spoke under my breath; be replied
in the same tone.
''About what?"
"About the reason you stopped
while ago.
He smiled.
"To tell the truth, stopped to take
on single passenger-a gentleman
who came down from Bayswaler."
'For the PRIV lege of travelling once
more over the same route?'
Exactly so-for the purpose of
travelling it in certain society. Don't
be alarmed for your own safety; it's
detective policeman-that is all"
was about to repeat the words in
astonishment, when he mentioned for
me to keep silent.
"And who is the offendeI?"
II don't know myself, yet He don't
wish to te seen until the moment of
the arrest. We are safe enough until
we r. ach Bayswater"
"Where is hep
"The detective? He sits by the door
yonder with a ragged fur cup pulled
over his eyes"
81 smiled, could hardly help it.
"What is the case?"
"a murder-a man ard his wife and
two children-their throats cut last
nIght-the house set on fire afterward."
"Great Heavensl what a monsterW
We had continued the conversation
in a whisper throughout, scarcely
above our breath, and now the con-
ductor rose and left me to study the
faces of my fellow passengers with
curious dread a nd horror.
Somehow, as often as | revolved
the matter in my mind, my fancy
would settle on a coarse, cross-looklDg
man opposite, with a bushy beard and
coat of shaggy wool, with the collar
turned up to his ears. l felt convin-
ced that tn s man, with brutal eyes
and heavy, hanging jaws was the Cain;
and as | looked furtively across, |
caught the w1de-open orbs of the fair
little girl.
Obeying the instantaneous impulse
tf my heart, I arose and went to her
"You heard what we were saying,
my child.
eyes: a murder-O, how horribleP
"Do not be frightened; no one shall
hurt you"
She smiled up in my face with a
sweet, confident innocence.
Our ST at Exmouth was but brief'
but during the delay could see that
The watchful detective had changed
his seat to one nearer the british man
in the shaggy overcoat.
"See,' falter d the girl, "they-they
locked the ear doors at Exmouth;
they've unlocked thtm now.
She was right.
"Probably they were fearful lest the
! criminal should escape" / remarked
| in an undertone.
"Will you-may / trouble you to
bring me glass of wa'erf
! rose and made my way toward the
ice-cooler by the door, but with olm'
e,l,v for the train was again unoei
= MD motion. To my disappointment
/ ,he Goblet was chained to the shelf
.Never mind" said she, with win
.;,r smile. "I will come myself'
""o a. .tar and held The cup
II h., instead of taking it as she sp
roacbed she brushed suddenly pas
7, no on,ned the car door, and fusnee
!, upon the platform ~,
astop herl stop herl' shouted i, ,n' !
detective, spri, girg to his feet. ons
will be killed; conductor-Drakehan
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s~ Tobacco should not be cheRed
but eschewed
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-01-04
In .lged Nan.
From the Wooster tOhio) DcaocrG we take
the following interesting account

From the Wooster (Ohio) D,rocra' We take
the following interesting account
There is residing at ihi. time in the village
OF jefferson. Plain Township Wayne County,
Ohio five miles west Of Wooster. the oldest man
IN the State oi Ohio, aud probably in the United
States His name is John folgatr ile was born
in Lebanon County, Pa. 10 the month Of Febru.
AIRY, 1859, making him lOs years old. lie cmi-
grated 10 Ohio 10 ls2a, aud has lived since that
time an industrious, quiet. unObtrusiyc life IN
Jefferson. lie Was seventy years OF aye when he
settled In that village. having already attained
the period IN life drsie In Holy Writ as the
usual limit OF human rxislenrr. aud Al which
most men, under the burden of many years, die,
phS sically, h. Il rather small, probably under
the medium si2e, but exhibits a compact frame
and a wcll-consirucied body, which, no doubt,
eighty yeats ago, was Gus Of ph! siral excellencr
| and muscular Perfection. lie vas married at
the aye Ui Thirty to Mis-. Elizabeth Wolgam0it-
the very nrpiion OF ah0a nanic starts bitter
tears In these old eyes that have led him upward
through the darkness aud lab, rinihs Of ceniu.
~. Ills wife was botn ~ Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, three years bgiore the battle OF
Lexington, aud three yeats after the birth Of the
gtca, llonapatc, She had ofen seen aud spoke
10 Washington. Her death occurred January
10Th, la41, la her sevenly .eghih year. An only
child Was their wodled inheritance, aud the old
man who carries upon his back the weigh, oi
well nigh million hours, wccps aud wonders
that the son aged iity years, should be- dead
aud the ialhrT here. lie was ,camsier ~ bis
early years, aboui baltimore, Nd. aud IN Penn
sylvnnia, bat ior the last sixty or seventy years
has hecn engaged In mechanical labor. lie Was
drafted IN the war oi lsls, shouldcfcd his mus.
k,t, but MAS h,cddsy,i On account of he I'D ~,
So that iiny-fSe years ago hc was too far nd-
vahccd IN lie 10 be- q soldier AZ the time h,
was drafted he was keeping tavern nj a plac,
called "Sporling llill, hear baltimore In poli.
tics he was always an old.linr whig but Ia 20.
liiical ~ well ~ social life, while be bad stern
convictions, he had hut few pfrludi,ts
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-01-04

uYsrER TAAng % Tng CngsArEAhE --Ilg.t ia...
lion eight hundred thousand bushels ot os -',f.
are annually brought TO the baliimcrc nlrLr'
from tie Chesapeake, of which iNO .ni,l.ou cr .;
hundred and sixiy.fye thousand tgsalls af, ilk-
en- from Maryland waters, nine huu '..l agl .iN
~ hve thousand in Virginia water, NcAt GO
baltimore the largest number ofoys,prs are taken
10 New lotk, that city receiving ouc million all
hiiy thousand bushels. Fair Haven Coau,,i
cut, receives seven million bushels. uuc thousand
boats OF an average Of hfiy tons each. arc cuci.
ed in dredging tor oysters for the Baltimore mar
kci, aud supplying vessels for other MAJ bets IL,
average quantity, dFeigcd BY these boat, llriu,
thr oyster season of six months was four ihoa-lul
four hundred aud reveniy-siX bushels which ai
iOri! five cents per bushel, would be- TOT "a
boat two thousand one hundred aud twtm;,
eight dollars aud seventy cents la addition g..
thtsc sailing vessels, there arc one thousand fv,
bundled canoes engaged IN longing oysters IA H.,
inlcis OF Chesapeake Bay aud it, ,flbu'as.,
ThcIe ate thirty oyster packing h0ases 10 Bali
more rMrlo, ing four thousand five hgulu! ui,
ners OF shuckers, OF whon the larger number az.
colorrd incn asd women. uf the thr,r nl,liu,
eigh, hundred and sixty thousand bushels u.
oystcfS brought 10 the city, one million ,ifii
hundred aud seveniy-tive thousand aiv i'ackci
raw, one million three hundred aud siNi, ihou
and bushels preserved by slcamiue aui la,.-.i
and siX hundred aud tweniy five ,housiudbu.hr
used for city consumption. The largest paci iul
house in the city employs three hundred ani
niuei. shockcrs, who open about one 'hou-lni
bushels daily During the busiest l'ati 81! ,..
scason II Is estimated that foriy.iVr u u D. .
bushgs arr opened daily, the greater par u WI 3
aIe distributed through the large towns and 81,
ii,s oi the West the trade extending a Dl ..
DeHur Ciiy aud Santa Fe.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-01-04

Hfs- A FTcnchman who had purchased coun.
Try sea, was complaining Of the vast OF birds Ia
bis garden. set some iFaIs," replied an old
officer, "and they'll come. ! was onoe Ia Afri.
ca aud there wasn't SUPPOSED 10 be a woman
within two bundled inilts. ! hung u l,aif Of
earrings and eollar upon n tree, and tie next
morning I found two woinrn under the branches. !"
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