The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-10-06
BREVHTHES.

Cotton dull.
Weather delightful.
A bad policy-one that runs out.
The track at the Fair Ground is splendid.
special premium of So for the best look
ing baby.
Fall and winter costumes gradually make
their appearance.
Eleven deaths from yellow fever in New
orleans on Sunday.
The work of repairing the Capitol is rap
idly progressing.
Dr.C. X. Marshall deliveries the opening
address at the Mississippi State Fair.
Twenty-six years is the maximum age of
unmarried ladies-so the census men report.
Ladies are proverbially excellent gram
marians. yet there are few who can decline
matrimOny.
We learn that negro was killed by the
cars on Saturday night, about four miles
west oftown.
A special premium is offered tor the sec
ond best Young lady equestrienne, at State
Fair. see first page.
Cooks and house servants are scarce
God servants may find ready employment
moor ones not wanted.
col. F. Stafford and Capt. ii. Barksdale
lefr on sunday night to attend the CONNER
cial Convention at Cincinnati.
Mr.. Jno J. Rohrbacher offers Five Dol
lars premium for the largest and best
Pumpkin at next State Fair
The total number of deaths from yellow
fever in New Orleans this season from Au-
rust 9th to Oct. Bird, only seventy-three.
Counting is the poetry of life and mar
rage il the prose, and the practical part is
not TO let the poetry spoil ones appetite for
the prose.
The magnificent Special Premium by Bal
ley & Co, Philadelphia. is to be awarded at
OUR state Fair for the best Mississippi raised
colt one year old or under.
we have the authority of Mr.. James
Compton for stating that Telegraph Office
will be established at the Fair Grounds for
the convenience of visitors,
l.. NJ. Hall, Alcorn's chief of the secret
service fund, chief of Vicksburg police, ct
a.. was arrested ut WinODa last week on
charge of kidnapping two prisoners.
The Secretary of State Fair received no.
tice this morning of the shipment OF sixteen |
thousand pounds of machinery, from one |
establishment in Ohio.
The one hundred dollar premium for the
best Mississippi raised Mich Cow at State
Fair has been mrde up. Judge VIM. Yer
ger adds S25, add the Fair Association
makes up the balance.
Coy. Alcorn was heard to remark to a
friend the other day chat he had ''lost con-
siderably in flesh since he had been govern
ing this peoplel" The friend replied,
Governor, is that all that you have lOst?'
The Synod of Mississippi will meet in this
city on the first Wednesday in November.
About one hundred ministers, including Dr..
Palmer and others of note, will be among
the delegates. 1t has been sixteen years
since the synod last met in jackson. We
have no doubt they will receive a cordial
Christian welcome on the coming occasion.
An exchange thus defines the slanderer:
The tongue assassin; the indirect liar; the
impeacher ofyirtue; the traducer of homes
"; the hinter ofsusp icions; and the retailer
of reports. The slanderer may fairly be
compared TO the venomous serpent that lies
hid in the grass and strikes and wounds
when least expected. L hey Says" of
society are those who
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil
leer:
And, without sneering, teach the rest to
sheer;
Willing to wound. yet afraid to strike
Just hint scult and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserved to blame or to commend,
\ timOrous foe, and suspicious friend.