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The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12

Clarion.
WANrED-50 good farm hands
% families for Mississippi.-Gorman
Scotch, English and Scandinavians.
Free transportation.
WANTED.-Scotch, English and
scandinavian farmers arc invited to
see f, Barksbale, Agent for the
Mississippi Emigration Society, at
jackson, at Swedish Emigration
Association, II, North Clark st., at
, o'clock, p. m. to-day
WANTED.-100 families for the
South to work on plantations on
shares. Everything found and get
half the crop. For full particulars
call and see Col. Allen, at % East
Randolph st.
WANTED Immediately 200
men and families to go South on
share system, and wages. Call at
30 South Water ST., room s.
WANTED.--English Scotch, Welsh
Scandinavian, Germans and Amer
leans, for farms in Mississippi, on
shares or wages. Free t~ransporta-
ton. Call at 3 Arcade court.
Barks
dale, of jackson, Miss, is in the city,
and will be pleased to see persons
who wish employment as farm hands
at 3 Arcade court. lie will explain
the inducements to settle in tina,
State. Call from IL to / o'clock
to-day,
WANTED.-150 laborers for the
South-Gcrmau, Swede, Norwegian
d or Danes preferred. Good wages
I paid and transportation furnished
Room I, l04 Madison st.
WANrEp.--100 families, so farm
hands, and 25 servant girls, for Val
den Miss. Every thing furnished
necessary for farming. Highest
wages paid for girls. Free trans,
portation.
: There are a great many Other
j., advertisements of the same charac.
. ter in the Chicago papers.
Tho"Small sowingmachiuo" which
some rascal in New York sends tc
7 those people who respond to his ad.
: vertisemcnt by inclosing him 81, i:
a shoemaker's awl, worth about Il
cents.--Dehd.
!. We suppose ,our exchange "tried
the thing on" as he seems to speak
from experience.
: The st. Louis Republican of the
oath ult., denies the report that the
J bridge eros the Mississippi at that
point is a failure, but that the work
is going on finely and satisfactorily
; This will be the longest bridge in
America when completed, butt will
atleast be one or two years before
the work will be accomplished OF
spanning the "Fathcr ofWaters."
TO kEEP CATTLE FREE FROM LIeE.
= Water in which potatoes have
been boiled possesses a poison fatal
to lice. Dip into It a large sponge
or wooden cloth, and wash the cat
tie freely, choosing a sunny, warm
day for the operation, and as their
hides dry, comb them with a curry
comb, and see for ycurselfthc effects
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12


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The FdLonidR comes to us this
week with a full account Of the rail
road disaster at Buckner's Trestle
three miles south of Oxford, on the
28th of February, with the affidavit
of Col. Sam Tate and other officers
of the road, showing the accident to
have been caused by the breaking
Off pedestal of one of the trucks Of
the Express car, thereby dropping
the axle down and forcing the wheel
upon the cros-ties. This seems tc
be the correct opinion of the cause
of the fatal accident, for the engine
and tender passed over safely and
was not drawn into the fall will
the balance of the ears.
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The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12

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sale Il pahlie saeiioa 10 The highest bidder, %
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following laad IN sald toahsy, ts.wIA Ths
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wssi. Bond with GOOD security viii be fsans.
red u he purchaser
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Commissioner.
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The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12

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lebi9.5t solicitors fvr compisiusn,s.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12

cur readers will form some idea
Of decomposition at Chicago among
Southern planters in the employ
ment business. from the following
advertisements which we copy from
one Of the dailics Of that city
Clarion.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12

SAVING OF INSURANCE..
Through bills Of lading at GUARANTEED
RATES may be procured at all principal r.. n.
Offices in Eastern Cities.
ALBERT rfNK,
General Superintendent.
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-03-12
Trustees Sale.

Freeman Randolph, Solicitor. feb5-5i
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
Chinese SuperstiIiOns.

The Pekin Gazette, Of July, contains
some interesting matter, i'll connection
with Chinese civilization generally, and
more particularly with the treatment
of diseases by means of portions of the
human body cut off for the purpose
This, YOU will see, has some bearing on
the Tient-sin affair, the immediate
cause of which was the belief that the
missionaries used children's eyes as a
medicine. Ma-kain-yi, the Governor
General of the two klang tklang-naD
and Klang-sel memoralizes the throne
to the effect that a young girl Of klang-
ning-fu cut off two joints OF eoi her
fingers, and put it into the medicine
which her mother was taking for dis
ease which the physicians had pro-
nounccd incurable. The traditional
and orthodox Chinese custom, for which
las the memorial says there are nu-
merous precedents even in recent years,
is TO cut off a portion of the flesh of the
thigh. This, the young girl, aged only
fifteen, at first actually attempted to
do, but had not either strength or cour-
age enough to complete the operation.
Tie Governor General indulges in
boundless laudations of this most COM
mendable act of filial piety, which had
of course its reward in the immediate
recovery of the mother. He begs that
the Emperor will bestow some exem-
plary reward upon the child, such as
the erection of a triumphal arch III the
neighborhOOd, TO commemorate the
act. By this means, he says, filial pie
ty all over the world will receive en-
couragement. The Emperor, in his re-
ply, refers the matter to the Li-Pu for
consideration. The family of the girl
are respectable, her father being an eX-
pectant Taotai. 1t is to be hoped an
abstract of this interesting memorial
will appear as part of the precis of the
Pekin Gazette in the next Cycle; and
surely the editor cannot allow such a
touching instance of Chinese filial piety
and such a convincing proof of Chinese
civilization to pass without its NEED of
praise.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
Longevity In Man and the Lower
animals.

The duration of life of Iarva in closely
allied forms, varies from four wears and
more to a week. Fleas are said to live
as long as nine months. Fish have
great tenaeity OF life. The carp is stat
Ell to have reached one hundred and
fifty years. A pike which was taken
ut Halibrun i'm Snabia, i'm 1877, weigh
ing $50 pounds, and measuring 10 feet,
had ring attached to it, bearing an
inscription which, if genuine, would
warrant us believing the age of the fish
to be at least two hundred and sixty
seven years. The toad lives thirty-six
years, the frog from twelve TO sixteen
years, and various tortoises must have
seen many years if we may judge from
the size to which they attain.- Parrots
and geese reach an age between one
hundred and one hundred and twenty
years, and falcons and ravens outlive
one hundred and fifty years, but the
little wrens live only two or three
years. of mammals, the whale and
the elephant have the longest term of
existence, living, as they do, over one
hundred, perhaps to two hundred years
The horse lives twenty-five, but some
times reaches forty years; the sheen
and goat twelve years; the lion from
twenty to fifty years. Man, there is
no reason to doubt, has lived long past
the Psalmist's limit of three-score anil
ten, there being well-authenticated in
stances of his living over one hundred
years; but it is only among highly civ
ilized nations and satisfactory data can
be obtained regarding his longevity.3A
minute investigation of the conditions
that conduce to length of life, goes to
support the theory that the longevity
of animals is influenced by their amount
of provocative power, and their ability
to sustain wear and tear. ID
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11

In my youth had friend who had.
a monkey which he valued at high
price. We always took him out on
our chestnut parties. lie shook all
our chestnuts for Us, and when he
could not shake thcm oil. he would 90
To the very end of the limb and knock
them OIL with his list. One day We
stopped at tavern and gave Jack
about half glass of whisky. Jack
took the glass and drank lis contents,
the effects ofwhich soon brought him
into full Opcration-skippily, hop
ping and dancing most entcrtaininsly.
Jack was drunk. We agreed 10 cone
to the tavern next day and see ifJack
would drink again.
called in the morning at my
friends house, who went after jack.
But instead of being rs usual on his
box, he was not to be seen. VIC look
ed inside, and there hc vas, crouched
up III heap "Come out here said
his master. Jack came out OIL three
legs, applying his fore paw to hi,
head. Jack had the headache. lie
was sick and couldn't go. so VIC put
il off three days. We then met again
at the tavern, and provided glass for
Jack. But where was he. Skulking
behind chairs. "Come here, jack"
said his master, holding the glass out
to him. Jack retrcated. aud as the
door opened he slipped ont, and in y
moment was on the top OF the house.
His master went and called him
down. lie, however, refused TO obey.
Ny friend got a cowskin and shookit
at him, which the monkey disregard
ed, and continued OH the ridge-polc.
still obStinately disobedicnL His
master got gun and pointed il at
him, but unsuccessfully. Jackslippcd
over to the back of the building. Tie
then got two guns, and had one point
ed OH each side of the house, when
the monkey, seeing his bad case, whip
ped upon the chimney, and got down
i'm one of the fues, and held on by his
fore PAWS. Ny friend kept that mon-
key twelve years afterwards, but
could never prevail on him TO taste
WoJ6oro NerS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
THE SWORD OF LEE.
Bl HEN. A. j. RYAN.

Forth from its scabbard pure and bright,
Flashed the sword of Lee;
Far i'll the front of the deadly fight,
High DER the brave i'm the cause of right,
Its stainless sheen, like beacon light,
Led us TO victory.
Out of its scabbard, where full long
Ii slumbered peacefully
Roused from its rest by the battlc-song
the feeble, shifting the strong
the right, avenging the wrong
Cleaned the sword OF Lee!
Forth from its scabbard, high in air.
Beneath Virginia's SKY :
And they who saw ii cleaning there
And knew who bore il knelt to swear
That where that sword led, they would dare
To follow and to die.
Out of its scabbarl, never hand
Waved sword from stain as free;
Nor purer sword led braver band,
Nor braver bled for a brighter land,
Nor brighter land had a cause as grand,
Nor cause q chief like Lee!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
HUMORS OF TIRE DAT.

How to Build a House for nothing
Use free stonc.-PuNch.
In Maryland, after October ~, yo,
may catch patridges III traps--if you
can.
Napoleon, after visiting Nancy,
went to Sedan. but unfortunately he
saw William.
Abiding to chignons, Mrs. Clever
said: 4" A girl now seems all head.
"Yes, till you talk to her." growle,l
Clever.
The man who threatened. on Tues.
day night, to "eat up" a certain shoe
maker, compromised by drinking a
cobbler. @ aaf
An Irishnan, writing sketch Of
his life, says that he carly ran away
from his father, because he discovered
it was his uncle.
L. is remarked that the Princess of
Prussia makes her own bonnets, and
even King William has lately put Il
feathc: in his cap.
The wise men are considering the
question, how il feels to be under
fire." The verdict will probably be
that il feels hot. 5- ---. r.
The attempt, says paper, TO start
an asylum for useless young mcn fail
cd, as no building could DC consiruc-
ted large enough.
II is exceeding bad husbandry to
harrow up the feelings of your wife,
to rake up old quaTcls, TO hoe a
grudge, and 10 SOW discord. f.. -.
They tell of a man out West whose
hair is SO rcd that Inc has 10 wear ily
nets over his cars to keep the candle
moths from flying in. a .a-
Josh Billings says that one ov tie
hardest things for enny man TO do is
tew fall down on tho ice when il IL
wei, and then set up and prazC The
Lord" t
What did TIC Israclitcs do after
they crossed tho Red Sea! p asked Il
superintendent of a Sunday school.
"Thcy dried themselves" said q
shrill-vo iced little girl.
n oluUClit 1T NGtIOii tHlFCiSAis' III
rendering an account 10 his father of
his last terms expenses, entered as an
item: Charity, $50" His father
wrote back: g fear that charity COW
crs IL multitude of sins.
a professor, giving lecture 10
some boys, was explaining how one
could not live without air. lie then
said Iou have all heard of Il man
drowning--how docs that happen =
The ready answer was: "Cause he
can't SWIM
Out i'm Galcsburg, ILL.,, a Young lady
was approached the other evening in
one OF the city churches by sympa-
thizing friend. who asked, "Do you
not wish to get religion - "Yes,"
she replied, "but not until the I'd OF
January. want TO go to the grand
ball first"
"Do you believe i'll the rod as an in
strumcnt of discipline 2" asked a
mother of school teacher in Nevada,
10 whom she had taken her unruly
SON. . No, madam "Oh, I'm 50
glad. What do you substitute for
IT," "Tbc revolver, madam = Exit
mother and uBruly son. --4s
One Doctor Duncan received "a Sc
we're injury from something in the
shape of COW skin, somewhere i'm the
neighborhood ofCincinnati. Where
were you hurt, tlcctOr:' said a friend
"was it near the vcrtcbre = No,
no." said the disciple of Galen; at
was near the race-coursc.' =
A boy at DesMoircs, Iowa, was re-
Gently excused from school TO attend
u funeral: but a truant officer found
him soon after, witnessing a game of
base ball, and asked why he did not
20 the funeral. With the utmost cool
ness the boy replied: Il went down
10 the house to attend it, but the man
isr't dead vet.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11

BN HARNLr PRESCOTT SPOTTORD.
Ii was nothing bui n rose gave her,
Nothing but rose
Amy wind might rob of halfits SAVIOR.
Any wind that blows.
When she took il from my trembling fingers
With a hand as chill
Alb, the flying touch upon them fingers,
Stays, and thrills them still.
Withered, faded, pressed between the pages,
Crumpled fold On fold
Once il lay upon her breast, and ages
Cannot make IL old
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11


" ! am the door GONE in, come in,
And leave without thy load OF sin;
The night is dark, the storm Is wild;
y, venture in thou stranger child.
" am the door," come, gently knock,
And | will loose the heavy lock
That guards thy Fathers precious fold;
Come in from darkness and from cold.
" am the door; :" no longer roam;
Here are thy treasures, here thy home;
He purchased them for thee and thine,
And paid the price in love divine.
"a am the door" my father waits
To make thee hcir of rich estates;
Nme, dwell with Him and dwell with III L
And thou my Fathers child shalt be.
I" am the door," come in, come in,
Aud everlasting treasures win;
Ny Fathers house was built for thCc.
And thou shalt share that home with me-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
Story Of a Lunatic.

One of the earliest inmates under re-
straint as lunatic was a man in ad.
vance of his time as an inventor. This
was Solomon de Caus, to whom the
idea of economizing steam as moving
force had presented itself before the
MARQUIS of Worcester entertained IT.
Solomon was q distinguished archl-
tect, painter and sculptor, and having
executed commissions for the Prince OF
Wales, son of Charles ]. and the Elec-
tor of Bavaria, he repaired to Paris to
interest Cardinal Richelieu in the Uses
TO which steam might bc turned. The
Superintendent of the Finances, Mich
el Particelli, willing to construct a little
palace for the beautiful but unprinci-
pied Marion DelOrme, gave the COM
mission to Solomon, who exhausted all
his skill OH the little paradise, having
become deeply cnthralled by the beau
tiful sorceresS who was TO lnhabit Il.
He was anxious to make her his wife,
but Marion loved liberty too well TO
consent. Becoming tired of her seri-
Gus and cxacting admirer, she request
ed one of her influential patrons TO
have him sent away, OF free her from
his presence in some manner. Au III
terview of poor Solomon with the great
man was followed by his imprisonment
in the Bicetrc, where Punishment from
the presence of his enchantress, and
the evil treatment of the place, cffec-
tually deprived him of reason. Cardi-
Richelieu, i'm consigning him TO that
terrible asylum, really believed him TO
be insane.
Some years later Lord Edward SOM
erset, MARQUIS of Worcester, being in
Paris, Cinq- Mars, his friend, absent at
the time from the city, requested Ma
rion, with whom he was at the time in
favor, to do the honors of the city to the
English nobleman. One day she took
it into her head TO brig the guest to the
Bicetre, but was thunderstruck to hear
/. herself called on by name from behind
the bars of a cell, and anNiously i'm
plored to get liberty for the voices
master. Poor Solomon, for he was the
unhappy prisoner, enlarged Oh his dis
covery and boasted of the riches and
splendor il would procure for her and
him if he were only set at liberty. She
was for the moment finely shocked,
| for she had till then supposed that her
| hapless lover had been merely sent out
of the country. She induced the En-
glishman to leave the place, but the
answers she returned TO his inquiries
made him anxious for an uninterrupted
conversation with the poor mailman.
He spent some hours in his cell, aud OH
his return to the little court of Marion,
he exclaimed: "Instead of this man
being imprisoned, he would have been
distinguished by honors and rewards i'm
NV country. He is now, however,
thoroughly mad. Despairand confine.
ment have made him so. In casting
this man into captivity, you have as
sassinated the greatest genius of the
age.n Who can say but that the COM
munications of the poor lunatic gave
the man of science the first idea of the
capabilities of the steam of boiling wa
ter:-OJd Prisons Of Paris and their
/ Inmates.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11
s,l.ths, 5epag,iIst.
Y \. II. -foE-

The little pres are ready,
Ill set them In row;
The children will be hungry
from riding out, you knoy. -
And Ill get plate OF doughnuls,
They'll surely ask for some;
It's ten O'Clock and after
Don't you think they'll come.
] see its rather cloudy,
But I hardly think twill RAM
Isn't there something movIus
Awayup IN the lane:
| really think the hOrSeS
Look like Jack and tiray:
But no, it's only some one
Going the other way.
Hark the Wheels OF the carrl;tge.
And a merry, merry shout,
Here they are, my darlingS,-
And hadn't found IL out;
Bennic, and Ioe, and baby.
Nobody's Jeff at home;
Bless your little hearts.
Grandma know you'd coiuc.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11

\ THoUGHTrUL WIFE.-A friend
says he has dear, loving little wife,
and an excellent housckeeper. On
her birthday she moved her low rock.
ing-chair close to his side. He was
reading. She placed her dear little
hand lovingly ON his arm, and moved
il along softly towards his coat col.
lar. lie felt nice all over. lie GER.
tainly expected a kiss. Dear. sweet,
loving creaturc!-an angel. She
moved her hand up and down his coat
sleeve. Husband" said she. "What,
my dcarF "Iwas just thinking-7
"Was you, my lover" "I was Just
thinking how nicely this suit of clothes
you have on would work into a rag
carpet He says he felt cross all day,
the disappointment was so very great.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11

NJ. Roedcrer, the lately deceased
champagne manufacturer, received,
one day, communication as follows (:
+" Sir: / have not cent in the world,
and l dote upon champagne. BE good
enogh to send me q case Of your large
bottles. With their aid shall forget
my misery" To which the wine
merchant replied, without acceding
to the modest request: .Sir: Your
mode of forgetting your poverty is a
bad one, for the incessant and tire
some presentation of my wares would
recall at every moment your sad po-
sition.-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11

HALLS Journal says: "If q man can
sleep soundly, has 2 good appetite, with
no unpleasant reminders alter meals,
the bodily habits being regular every
day, he had better let himself alone,
whether he Is as big as bogshead, or
as thin and dry as fence-rail.n
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-11

\ late Cambridge Professor was ask
ell TO call on a friend in London, an ad-
dress being given him in a, certain
square. Sometime afterwards the Pro-
fessor was asked by his friend why he
had not been to see him, and his an
swer was, +" did come, but there was
some mistake; yod told me you lived
in a square, and ] found myself in a
paralelogram, and so | went away
again"