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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-12-28

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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-12-28

The attention of all persons Is hereby called
10 Article 3, Section /, General Election law.
which is required 10 be Published with clec-
ton notices, to-wit:
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-12-28
THEY WERE SHOT DEAD.

At least fifty balls were poured into the
body of each of the unfort innate men. To
finish their hellsh deed with the proper
eclat, the murderers then took the bodies
back TO the Jail and refused any of their
friends admittance to them until the next
day.
Several gentlemen residing in the town
took refuge i'll flight. as the negro mob did
not disband. but declared their intention OF
getting even" with all white people. Sat
urday and Sunday the mob still kept pos
session of the town.
In some instances where white people re-
fused the demands of these devils. they
were brought TO r proper appreciation OF
the : tuatiOn by the presentation of guns
and pistols.
The three victims of the mob were well
known and respected citizens. They all
leave families. who. with Others have been
compelled TO flee for their lives.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-12-28
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08
Story of q French Wife.

Philip c. Hamerton, in his delightful
book, The Unknown River describing
the villages on the banks of the Arroux,
with their patriarchal life, and their Ian
guage, religion and customs, that have re-
NAMED almost unchanged from the middle
ages, tells the following story
[ was greatly astonished at the little
hamlet to hear man Of saddened aspect
speak of Boston. What Boston
asked, wondering how he should know of
any Boston unless there were such place
quite near him in France. 1t is of B9s-
ton in the United States of America that
| am speaking, sir, answered the man
Of the sad countenance, astonishing me
more and more, for what French peasant
knows that the United States exist, or the
Atlantic ocean either ? So then he told
me his tale, and as it is both pretty tale
and q true one, l repeat it here for
the reader. 1t Is simple and short
enough. He and his wife were very poor,
indeed almost destitute, and so, though
they loved each other much, she went as
q nurse to Paris. In Paris she entered the
service Of some rich Americans, who, when
they returned to their own country, offered
her terms so tempting that she crossed the
Atlantic with them. Year after year she
sent her earnings to her husband, and
year after year he laid by the hard won gold
until there was enough of it to buy the cot
tage he lived IN, and a little field or two
enough to keep them in independence all
their lives He took me into the cottage ,and
showed me his wife's portrait blessings on
photography, that enables poor man to
have a portrait of the absent or dead ,
and kissed it tenderly in my presence, and
said how hard the long separation was, and
said how he looked for her return. As he
said this the tears ran down his cheeks
and he showed me the bright, good walnut
furniture in the cottage, and the fields by
the riverside, and said that all this com.
fort was her doing, all this wealth her
winning. She had learned to write on
purpose that she might write to him, and
month after month her kindly letters came
cheering him under the trial of her long
absence. 1t was four years since she had
left the cottage, and for these four lonely
years the father had been like widower,
and the children had grown around him.
And now the months went even more and
more slowly, as it seemed, when he wanted
them to 90 faster, for this very autumn
she was to sail and come to enjoy the
peace she had created. May the ship that
brings her, paddle prosperously across the
wide Atlantic, and the good woman find
her way in safety to her own cottage, and
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

PLANTING FOREST TREEs.-We ere glad to
record any examples of artificial forest
planting, 60 replace the enormous consump
ton of wood and timber that is now going
on all over the country, which must, in less
than half century, leave the whole country
denuded, unless something is done TO restore
the waste. 4 late number of the Pr9irie
furaHer has an account Of the extensive
planting OF s. 7. Kelsey, of Ottawa, Kansas,
who ut first set out twenty acres, fifteen OF
which was with black walnut, and the re-
naming five with several other sorts. They
were planted in rows twelve feet apart, and
about eighteen inches in the row, with
view. we suppose, of thinning the rows as
they become older. The ground is kept as
well cultivated as a nursery, and the young
trees are growing with great vigor. Among
the trees under experiment are American
ArbOr Vitae, European Larch, and Red Cedar
the latter under good care ent en- rich soil,
we are informed, with growth that would
be surprising TO any one that had only seen
the native scrubby appearance. Mr.. Kelsey
has lately purchased IN connection with j.
II. MILESTONE, y 900 acres, which thev have
inclOsed with a wire fence, at cost OF sew
enty-fve cents rod, and with No. s wire.
Usage hedges will supersede much Of the
wire barrier. and the ground is ready for 100
miles of hedge TO be set next spring. The
tract is to be divided into forty-acre lots by
hedges Several miles Of forest trees are to
twenty acres already mentioned, were planted
in 1867, and the present measurements are
given az follows
Black Walnut, ) 10 Il. high, 70 in. diam.
soft Maple, to L fl. high, H.. ~, Of r., 75ar,
Cottonwood, u TO is II. high,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

INrENPERANCE.-In connection with
dinner parties arises a subject which ought
not to be lightly passed by-we mean the
introduction of liquor and wines on such
occasions, and the use of them in other
entertainments. We have been shocked
at some parties pretending to elegance, to
see arrangements made in halls and ante
rooms, 10 smooth the path Of needless
youth toward madness, and lead them
gradually but surely into the evils which
spring from inebriation. If women would
but use Alright the powers which God has
endowed them with, and by a beautiful ex-
ample and gentle acts, restrain the constant
tendency to vice now so prevalent, how
many sons, husbands. and brothers would
ultimately rise up and call them blessed. 50
Alas too often women become tempters
instead Of guardian angels.
Have you never read of men, young and
promising men, too, who feeling a craving
for the spark ling poison, have determined
to avoid it, but by the bantering Jest or
winning smile of some fair one, have been
tempted to taste it but once again-and
that one cup taken, they have plunged
headlong into ruin? The annals of life
would doubtless disclose many true histo-
ries of like nature. Let woman
then be true to herself and to those
linked to her by the nearest ties, AMI re-
sist the growing evil steadily, firmly aud
gently.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08
0nr 4luuns folks,
Curious Attachment.

Messrs. Editors-I am reminded by
your article of last week, entitled Curl
our Associations among Animals of an
incident in my boyhood's experience more
remarkable and more inexpicable than
anything | have heard or read, which, If
YOU think it worth the while, you may give
to Jour readers.
My boy brothers and myself were one
day roaming over the fields with little
dog-our inseparable companion in such
rambles-and amusing ourselves by turn
ing over logs, fat stones, etc, to give the
dog a chance at the field mice or meadow
moles, as we called them, so frequently TO
be found in moist meadows and pastures.
Boys and dog were having rare sport
bagging lots Of game, when on turning
over a log we found one Of those round
soft. skillfully constructed nests with which
every country boy Is so familiar, and upon
tearing it open discovered FIVE little bare,
helpless mice not yet able TO crawl. We
concluded to take nest and mice TO the
house as a feast for our favorite cat. Upon
placing the little creatures on the floor be-
fore her, expecting 10 see them consecu-
lively gobbled with all that gusto which
cats from time immemorial have manifest
ed for that specie Of delicacy-imagine our
establishment at the result. Instead Of de-
vouring them, pussy, with that peculiar
caressing purrlng usually heard only from
the feline mother when calling her young,
commenced licking and petting the little
things. lay down on her side and pushed
them up to her body with her paws exact
ly after the manner Of cats with their young
kittens. The whole family were called to
witness the strange performance.
We had read in our juvenile treatises
on natural history Of the curious freaks Of
cats which had lost their kittens, and should
not have been much surprised if our cat
had been subjected to any such bereave-
ment, but our cat had never had any kittens,
and became a mother for the first time, ten
days or a fortnight after the occurrence in
question After watching them for time,
we were told 70 take them away, and car
rid them to the barn a short distance from
the house, the cat following and calling a
to kittens, The infantile mice being de-
posted IN the barn, the cat continued 70
caress, and far as she could to care for
them. After little time we left them,
and returned to the house to dinner. Pus-
sy availed herself Of the opportunities thus
offered to bring every one Of her newly
adopted proteges into the house again, and
to place them on a bed to which she had
access, where they we're found about an
hour afterward.
The performance was becoming some
thing of a nuisance, to get rid Of which,
as well as to save the little creatures from
lingering death, we destroyed them. l DO
not recollect that the cat manifested any
particular regret, or that her subsequent
conduct was at all peculiar, and as | have
said, few days after she had a family OF
( her own.
Let those who attribute all the acts Of
animals to unerring instinct = account
for these facts. give them as they -oc-
CURED, and give you my word that they
are exactly as stated.-Cor. Scientific
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08
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The Brave Old Pillow.

song 10 Tie pillow, the brave old pillow,
Tha, hath ruled the wide world DER,
sor life and good fare on his strong teel share
shall depend for eyermore;
There Is strength in his beam, the telling team
Turns the fuTTow so long AID deep,
" hiie il mellows the sod, We have trust IN God
That His promise lie VIII surely keep.
TheR 6 health TO the plow, to the brave old pillow,
Who hath FED al the nations gone;
And glory Is now to the brave old pillow
when thousand years have dowP
Thou hast seen the time when no pealins Chime
Was heard the wide verdi through;
When the Kings broad FaIl and the cottage small
OF Christmas never knew,
And many day along the highway
Have hundreds starving lain.
They are dead. they are gone 10 earth'- bos3I
borne,
iiut the pIow it -tiu doth reign.
Then God speed tile pillow, the brave Old pIow.
Who hath fed AL the nations gone.
And glory a. now 70 the brave old pillow
When d thousand wears have flown.
Thov hast seen the time, in many a CLINE,
when the bread was hard 20 win,
when both great and small at hunger'- call,
Were zen into deadly sin;
But thou ue'er can'st say thou hast seen the day.
When want bowed the strong mans head.
The righteous mans seed, In his greatest need,
Ever begged for his daily bread.
Then God speed the pillow, the brave Oh plow,
Who hath fed al the nations gone;
And may glorv as now eucircle the pIow
when a thousand years have flown.
Songs for tie grange.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08
PreDare for Spring.

At this. the winter season OF the year,
much can be done toward helping on the
labor that will food the farmer and gardener
10 spring. Many pleasant days will shine
out through the face Of old winter, and dur
ing such times fences can be repaired, build
ings altered and fixed up; the manure and
compost heap added to trees, vines and
plants trimmed, mulched and cleaned out
generally stakes for vines and raspberries
got out and hauled and painted and put IN
der shelter. In fact, the farmer and gar
dener need hardly be idle a single day. and
the long nights are sufficient for reading and
recreation. Every farmer and gardener
should have workshop with a stove in it.
and a loft overhead where he can put timber
t. season, which Is suitable to make swivel
and double trees, hoe, rake, spade, and fork
handles, axle trees, holsters, sliders. tongues
&c, etc He should have a tool-chest with
the ordinary tools for such work, such as
drawing knife, Ratchet, chisels, augers.
brace and bits, saws, mallet, etc, and have
a supply of bolts and taps, nails and other
things which may be needed from time to
time a farm. Such a workshop would
afford a comfortable and inviting retreat for
the farmer and gardener and their boys and
no matter how cold wet, no matter how
fercely the storm RACES without, all would
be snug and safe, and much could be done
toward helping on the press Of work wher
active operations come on IN the busy DAYS
Of spring.
Besides this, il would afford pleasant al
well as useful recreation to the male member
Of the family, and thus many dollar would
be saved, TO say nothing Of the loss of time
consequent upon running to the village Oh
CROSSROADS shop, to have trifing little lob
Of work done. The custom INDUCED in b,
many farmers and their sons, visiting tn,
mills, shops, stores, and other . loafng ,
places in their neigbbOrhood, during tn
winter season, and spending many valuable
hours, both day and night, is. to say tn
least of it, quite improper. Habits of idle
ness are engendered, and too frequently
habits of dissipation, all of which could b
prevented if such plans for home occupation
were prepared as herein suggested Max,
home attractive, is a maxim which cannot b
too often urged upon all. Let it becom
dearer to every member of the family, NAL
and female, than any other place on earth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

HINTS on DRAUCHT HORSES AND Harness.
Whenever Z horse is employed for the
purpose of drawing any vehicle or load, it
Is of the utmost Importance that he should
be able to employ all his strength 10 advan-
tage. Every one who considers at all must
acknowledge that If horse do his work in a
cramped and confined condition, or when he
is inconveniently placed as regards the load,
he cannot exert his full power, which Is so
much loss to his master or, If forced TO
perform q certain amount, then he is obliged
to waste a great deal more Of his strength
than is required, to his own great pain and
injury.
The act of pulling is performed by lean
ing forward with the weight of the body
against the resistance Of the opposing force,
and then, by strong movements Of the limbs,
keeping up and increasing the pressure, the
weight Of the body being Of the utmost in
portance. Muscular movements exhaust the
strength. whereas the body weight is easily
employed without consuming the vital en-
ergies.
First, and unfortunately, in too many
cases. the collar is quite unfit for the animal
horse collar II, we are sorry To say, fire.
quently looked upon merely as a ring for the
neck, u which the traces are to be affixed .
whereas there Is no part of the harness
which is 50 important, and which ought 70
fit so accurately.
Second The horse Il often prevented
from throwing his weight into the collar by
a check-rein-a useless and painful encum-
brance, introduced by vanity and retained by
thoughtlessncss amounting to cruelty. Ask
horse-keepers why they use it, and hardly
any two viii give the same answer. although
it Is generally supposed by them to be great
safeguard in case Of stumbling. The real
object with which it was introduced, was To
make every horse to which it was applied
however weak, or old, or poor, assume the
lofty carriage Of the thoroughbred horse.
Fortunately, this vitiated taste is going out
of fashion as better information Is diffused.-
Rural CGr0hnian
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

DREssISG LEArHER-A firm in Cheshire,
England, has recently invented and patented
machine for dressing leather, which Is
highly spoken of by our foreign exchanges,
and which is said to greatly reduce the cost
Of the process. The prominent feature Of
the invention is the dispensing with the
operation known as " striking" and substi-
tuting for it the action of a series of knives
arranged in a drum in a peculiar manner, 80
as To operate on all parts of the leather
uniformly. The knives are made Of steel
bell-metal, glass or porcelain, and are placed
diagonally in the drum, in two series, and
in such a manner that before any knife
ceases its action, another Is brought 70 bear
upon the skin. The skin Is moved over a
table having a surface of metal or other hard
material, and adjustable in height so as to
regulate the pressure Of the knives upon the
skin. The action Of the knives gives slow
motion to the skin on the table, by which all
the parts are brought under them success
sively. The cost of the new method is claimed
to be only one twelfth Of the old process
Mercantile Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

\ FINE LITTLE FELLow.-The Boston Ad-
rertiser records this satisfactory incident in
some observations on a windy Sunday:
If the wind whisks off a man g hat and
gives him long chase for its recovery, does
lie expect or get any sympathy? Of course
not. He expects TO see a smile on every
face, and is not astonished if, while running
his course, he hears the shouts and ieers of
all the little boys in sight. Bnt, after all,
the little boys hearts are in the right place,
as the following incident will serve to show
Yesterday morning, as an old colored
man was coming down town. the wind. in a
frolicksome mood. blew his hat high in ali
and deposited il Inside Of the high iron pick
ct fence of the old Franklin school house.
The gate was locked, the fence was high
with sharp pickets on the top, and the old
man. having in vain tried to reach his hat
through the fence, had exhausted his re-
sources, and, with his head powdered with
dust, was evidently almost in despair Of re-
gaining it. Rut before leaving his uncom-
Portable walk before the fence, bright little
boy on his way to Sunday School, came
along, and, seeing at a glance the position OF
affairs, did not stop 10 laugh, but scaled the
fence at once, recovered the hat, and depart
cd on his way, with the hearty thankso Of the
old man.
That boys lessons have done him good,
whether he obtained them at Sunday school
or at home.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

WHEN TO Dry 4 HEIFER.-lt is generally
conceded nowadays that, to raise a COW which
will give the most milk in proportion to the
amount Of feed she gets, the heifer should
come in at two years old, or earlier; that
for months previous 20 her calying her udder
should be frequently manipulated, SO as TO
cause a tendency Of blood to it, and its larger
development: that she should calve fat /:
that after calving she should be MIXED three
times day. as near eight hours apart as
possible that this should be kept up as
long as her udder fills. and after this twice a
day that she should be MIXED close up to
her second calving, which should IA Ike place
at the end Of year All this is to develop
to as high degree as possible the milk-pr0-
ducing tendency. Of course the growing.
young-bearlng and milk-Producins animal
should be fed with nutritious food in abund-
ance, and be warmly stabbed in winter.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

The Oldest rosc-bush is said to be one
which Is trained upon one side Of the cathe-
dral Of Hildesheim, in Germany. Its age Is
unknown. but documents exist which prove
that Bishop Hello, nearly a thousand
years ago, protected it by a stone roof, which
is still extant. The largest rose-bush is a
white Banksia, in the Marine garden at
London, which was sent there, the first Of
its kind, in 1873, by Boupland. Its numer-
Gus branches, some of which measure eighteen
inches in circumference, cover an immense
wall to width of nearly sixty feet, and at
times, in early spring, as many as fifty
thousand flowers have been counted on this
queen of all roses.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

MARBLE Of any kind, alabaster, any hard
stone, or glass may be repolished by rub
bling it with a linen cloth dressed with
oxide Of tin sold under the name of putty
powder For this purpose couple or
more folds of linen should be fastened
tight over piece of wood, fiat or other
wise according to the form Of the stone.
To repo.ish a mantlepiece, it should be
first perfectly cleaned. This is best done
by making a paste of lime, .soda, and
water, well wetting the marble, and ap-
plying the paste. Then let it remain for
day or SO, keeping it moist during the
interval When this paste has been re
moved the polishing may begin. Chips
IN the marble should be rubbed out first
with emery and water At every stage
Of polishing, the linen and putty powder
must be constantly wet. Glass, such as
jewelers. show-counter cases, which be-
come scratched, may be polished in the
Same way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

USCoLoRED CHEEsE-TAc demand for
white or uncolored cheese is said 70 be steadi-
II increasing. 1t is stated upon reliable au-
thority that the use of annoJto for colorng
cheese and butter has been discarded in some
of the cheese factories. 4 number of the
Herkimer q fancy factories " $50 Mr.. vii
lard reports) made uncolored cheese all
through the past season, and the sales of
such cheese were at the highest rates re-
ceiEcd at the Little Falls market. From the
fact that much of the annOtto used for color
ing butter and cheese j. aluiterated with
poisons. its use should BE discountenanccd.
1t adds nothing t. the palatable qualities OF
cheese, and if it were not for the require
ments of the English market for high-c0lore1
cheese, it Is probable that there would be
little difficulty in excluding anuotto from the
manufacture Of cheese. For american use,
it might be dispensed with az once.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-02-08

: iayorite cat in Pike county, Illinois, was
lately left in sitting room, after all the
family had retired, and was not heard OF IN
til l. clock at night, when it set up most
outrageous caterwaUling. - The noise, says
one 5t the family, :. was continued for sew
crai minutes after he awoke and "a family
council was then and there held a. % what
was e matter with the cat. Twas bitter
cold night, and it was decided if the cat
could stand il we coald-for awhile at least.
just then the ca. came directly u our bed
room door, and, with renewed and terrific
power. sent forth her yawls, accompanied by
u scratching on the door, ana thereupon our
better-half declared that she would arise and
see what the ca. wanted. Opening the door
size found the stove door wide open, guam
tity Of coal fallen out upon the zinc beneath
the stove, the stove pipe red hot. and the
chimney On fire. Immediately on her com
ing out the eat became quiet, and had moth
ing more to say. Proper measures were
taken 70 avert the danger Of the FIRE, which.
We think but for the cats alarm, would
have occurred Can a cat reason? We say
yes, and our boy Dan cat can outreason
any other eat in tho state.