The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-12-09
CLIPPINGS.

i, The '.bump of destructiveness'-- A-ail-
? way collision.
Absinthe aud Hyacinthe are casing
: much excitement in Paris at present.
, lis said that the. potato disease is cIsed
by the rot-ator-y motion of the earth.
Hope-A sentiment exhibited in theTae
! of dogs tail when he's waiting for one
: Wherever the Spanish language isspken.
there Il chronic insurrectiou and ciyiEar.
Talents are nurtured best in solitud but
character in life's tempestous sea.-Gethe
Flirting with High school girls in Fston
has been stopped by the chief of pollce-hoW
ism stated.
The way to gain good reputatio Is to
endeavOr TO be what you desire 10 apear
Socrates.
Very few of the Southern traders cone to
Boston now. New York and Baltimore
gobble this immense trade between thu.
franklin Pierce was the I4th President,
Z and there are fourteen letters in his anne
his Iuitlais-F. P.-stand for fourtenth
President.
My son." said a man of doubtful Drals.
putting his hand on the head OF Oung
urchin, Il believe Satan has got hold OF GU
Il believe so. too" was the reply.
At the wedding of Colonel Walter [ Cut
ting and Miss Marie c. Pomeroy, at Pitts
field. Mass, MR.. John {. Colby. OF thatown
blazed out in $50 900 worth OF diamorls.
Chicago Germans are to build an $4,000
theatre
Illinois has five thousand practicing ply
| sIcIans. This accounts for the prosperity ol
| the marble works in the state.
Wisconsin is covered with two ret OF
.
the telegraph lines are all down.
Weston. the champion slow Wake, has
been beaten in Iowa by farmer fiItyseve
years old. Now quit.
1t is believed that many people ommi'
| suicide nowadays i'll order to get thlr last
letter in print.
South Boston is having one of thegreat-
est revivals of the age,
! The button mania is 'on" at Eldn, H..
and young female has collected 36S, ali
| different.
A Cincinnati tailor has been dismissed for
making DIR. Mary Walkers Plantations to,.
short at the top or bottom, the papG don't
say which.
Putting coa-oil lamp in TN basin
when retiring is said u be preventive T.
explosions. We know a trick wO'th two
of that-chuck it out the window.
Hartford is enjoying ..Uucle Toms Cabin.
just as though there had been no war, il,
which the colored troops fought 'bly.
The new opera-hOuse at Charleston, 5. C..
will be opened on December LIST. L is saiu
10 have no superior outside of New York.
The last thing out is religious paper III
Chicago using the slang expressiul, .How
is that for high?' Well, how is it, or high
st. Louis is in debt $l4OOOOOO. We don't
see what they want to get trusted so much
for when the national capital is sonear theiI
property.
1t takes $3.50 of Haytien money to buy a
cigar.
a first class Chinese wife in San Francisco
is valued at $780,
The boys are already skating in the
Northwest and New England.
Chicago wants 10000 Chinese for house
servants, and New York $4,000.
An Italian paper states that the Pore has
sent letter to Father Hyacinthe.
The Suez Canal is said 10 be the most stri
KING passage in the Egyptian history.
There is papier-mache church at Bergen.
Germany, capable OF holding 1000 people.
Over 2O.OOO,OOO people rode in the London
A London paper wants criminals, as al
additional punishment, to be fed on horse
flesh.
Punch discovers that the sea is better
housek eper than the earth, because the sea
is more tidy.
The New York Express thinks trapeze
performances quite as brutal and barbarous
as bull fights.
Six Oxen drew the Cardiff giant to SYRIA
cuse. and he in return draws Two Thousand
spectators daily.
A young lady of Scdalia. Mo. recently
killed herself because her lover took her sis
Ter to party.
Boston was unhappy Thanksgiving Day
because the price OF turkeys rose to thi
five cents a pound.
The Prussians complain that the distller-
les OF tina country consume more potatoes
than the people cat.
The MethoGists of Vermont are to hav : a
seminary. for which $50OO0 are to be raised
Oy weekly ten cent subscription.
George Fl. Halsey, of Newark. Nj l.
said to be selected As Mr.. GTinnrlrs success
sor as Collector of Customs at New York.
Louisville, by vote of II to ), in the
School Board. has refused To exclude the
reading the Bible from the Public Schools.
France has 20 O59 miles of telegraph. all
of ii. excepting 1000 miles, having been con
structed during the present Emperors reign.
From London-breach of promise-ser-
want woman of So against equity old man of
T-promise given 10 years ago-damages
$256.
Queen Victorias eldest doughter, the
crown Princess of Prussia. is said TO BE-
showing signs of insanity, caused by domes-
tic trouble.
The North German merchant navy con-
sists of $40 ships, with united tonnage Of
I.299.9S4 tons, If which l56, with 102, l49
tons snd steamers.
Apropos of the proposed Dutch Atlantic
cable. the New York Telegram thinks the
bottom of the sea may be properly called the
Netherlands.
One of the most Iamentable circumstances
connected with the death ofGeorge Peabody
is the mass of poor poetry perpetrated there
over in the rural papeIs.
Three Santee Indians in Nebraska have
been ordained ministers in the Episcopal
church by Bishop Clarkson- They are TO be
missionaries among the Indians.
British Columbia. not to be behind in ag-
ricultural productions. mentions. as an or
binary achievement peas weighing pound
and three quarters apiece.
MISSISSIPPI
An obstreporous negro was shot on Thurs
daY last AT EnterDriSe. The Meridian Mer-