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Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-04

No INSANITY is more violent or unrea-
sonable than that which sometimes
overpowers people in a sudden panic
A singular instance of the effect of
yielding to the excitement of sudden
fright recently occurred in the Roman
Catholic cathedral at Dublin. Dur ng
q crowded service some globes of the gas
brackets were knocked off. The crash
of the falling glass led the people to
believe that the windows were being
broken, and cry was raised that the
cathedral was attacked from outside.
An alarm of "Fire p was also raised,
and serious panic ensued. The clergy
men present managed to allay the ex-
element to certain extent, but not
before large numbers had rushed from
the cathedral, tumbling over each
other, and had scaled the wall of 6
neighhoring garden in which the owner
happened to be walking. One would
suppose that the panicstricken crowe
! might here have paused; but with in
sane violence they rushed upon the un
fortunate gentleman, who was takin
, exercise in his own grounds, shouting
"Hang him p "Down him!n And bu
for the interference Of the priests VIII
i had followed them, they probably woul
2 have carried their threats into execution
NOTHING makes parlor more attrac
y i've than tasteful pictures on the wall
Costly carpets, curtains, and furnltul
d there may be in profusion, but the roo
n looks desolate if the walls are bare.
er great show of wealth does not make
&c pleasant parlor, unless artistic taste b
e. been exercised. But the furniture OF
a. room may be of the very simplest kin
and if pleasing pictures adorn Il
MS walls, few ornaments are appropriate
as placed, and some entertaining books
p in sight, there is comfortable a.
of cozy atmosphere about the room. 2
ew lures of various kinds-engravings a
le- chromos, crayons or water-co
=" sketches-are now so cheap that th
ng are within the reach of almost eve
nts one.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-04

A PROMINENT lawyer was hailed while
passing jewelry store, by the proprie-
tor, with General, come in here mo-
ment, we have something for you to
solve. If man brings his watch to me
to be fixed, and it costs me ten cents
to do it, and keep it week and charge
him six dollars, what per cent. do
make? We have been figuring, and
make it 900 per cent, and have only goi
up to one dollar. How much do YOU
say it would be at six dollars?' "Well,
replied the General, ~ do not wonder
at your perplexity, for it is well known
and the celebrated calculating machin
has demonstrated, that at certain point
in progressive numbers the law govern
ing them changes. In this case the LAY
would change, and long before it woul
reach the six dollars, it would run ou
of per cent. and into what is known a
| arcepy,n
Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-04

THE savings banks of the country
have acquired, by their earnings and by
unclaimed deposits, large surplus funds,
amounting, in some cases, to millions OF
dollars beyond their authorized capital.
Since 1864, the right of the Government
to tax these extra resources has been dls-
puted. Three Commissioners OF In
ternal Revenue (Rawlins, Delano, and
Pleasonton) have decided against it.
and one (Douglass) in its favor. Finally
a test case was made up and argued
before the United States Circuit Court
at Pittsburgh. Judge McKennan ha'
just given his decision, which makes tn
banks liable to the tax. Its collector
will insure an addition of several nall
lions to the revenue of the next fsca
year.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-04

AN old topper was brought before the
Omaha Police Court few days since to
answer to the charge of drunkenness,
and pleaded the constitutional provision
that he ought not to be tried twice for
the same offense, asking the Judge if
there wasn't something of that kind in
the law. The Judge said there was.
.sThen,n said the inebriate, =" if you'll
send down to Lincoln and bring Gov.
Butler up here, can prove by him that
| I haven't been sober in fifteen years.
It's the same old drunk, Judge-it's the
same old drunk"
Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-04

PURE WATER.-The English papers
give us an instance of the deadly effects
of want of pure water. Previously to
1865, the city of Bombay, in Hindostan;
was annually visited with cholera, and
lost each year several thousand IN
habitants. Since 1865, a supply OF pure
water has been furnished, and there mas
been no case of cholera. In the city OF
Calcutta, exactly the. same experience
has been had.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-07-04

THE New York Herald has succeeded
in getting itself into play in handsome
stvie. The drama is entitled "The
Swamp Angels" and brought out at the
Bowery Theater. The scene is located
in North Carolina and New York, the
hero being the dashing Herald CORE
snondent. This individual has a series
Of escapes among the Lowerys, but
finally discovers that the famous Rhoda
Lowery is his long-lost sister. He
brings her back to New York, enters
the Herald Office, and is congratulated
bv several hundred attaches of that en-
terprising journal, who appear on the
stage in full force.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
Disclosures of Carpet
bag MfsruIe I'm south Carolina.

COLUMBIA, Dec. 27.-The report of the
Legislative Joint Investigating Committee,
which has been sitting in New York dur
ing the summer, with b +. Whittemore as
chxirman, as appeared, makes nearly three
hundred printed pages. and gives an elabor-
ate review of the financial administration of
the States finonces since the installation of
the present government.
Regarding the State debt, the committee
declare they cannot believe other than the
fearful truths that stare us in the face, that
the bonds and stocks printed by the Ameri-
can Note Company. amounting to 22.540,000
represent the liabilities OF the State, for
which the. faith and credit of the State,
however uniawfnlly presented, has been
pledged for payment.
I The contingent liability incurred by rail-
road ENDORSEMENTS swells the total up TO
nearly $29, 100000.
In conclusion. the report says, the commit
tee, in view of the atrocity of these disclo-
sures,t the work of the present administers
ton, or rather ring composed of leading
officers of the State. ui1hesitatingly say.
that the Republican party, which elevated
them TO power. must show its condemnation
Of such treachery and knavery, by an inn
mediate and united effort, by the legislative
enaetments, IS well as Dy every other
deliberate measure, to bring to justice those
who have pr0stitnted the authority with
which they have been clothed, and so flag
rantly and criminally imperilled the trusts
to them confided-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04

The following is the so-called Labor
Bill, which recently passed the U. S.
House of Representatives. 1t is in keep
ing with the centralizing, meddling Radi-
cal system of government which aims to
circumscribe the rights of citizens, and the
powers of communities and TO invest the
Federal head with supreme authority in
all matters, whether appertaining to the
public or to individuals:
A bill TO provide for the appointment of a
comm issioner on the question of wages and
hours OF labor and division Of profits be-
tween labor and capital i'm the United States
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. that there
shall be appointed by the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate.a
committee of three persons, of whom one
shall be practically identified with the la
boring interests of the country, and who
shall be selected from civil life, solely with
reference to their character and capacity
FOR an honest and impartial investigation.
who shall hold Office for a period of one
year from the date of appointment, unless.
their duties shall have been sooner accom-
plished, who shall investigate the su beet of
wages and hours of labor, and of a division
of the joint profits of labor and ca pital be-
tween the laborer and capt talist, and the
social education of all, and the sanitary con-
dition of the laboring classes of the United
States, and how the same are affected by tile
existing laws regulating commerce. finance
and currency; provided, that said commits
sioners shall be appointed irrespective of
political or partisan considerations and
from civil life.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall re-
ceive an annual salary of $4,000 each, shall
be authorized to employ clerk, and shall
report the result OF their vestigation to
the President, 10 be by him transmitted to
Congress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
The Claims Com I'M issiOmers Go
Back ON n TrOOEy Loyal
southern Lady.
From the N. Y. Herald.

From the ". Y. Herald.
The Commissioners of Southern Claims
have sent a supplement report to Congress,
saving the day after they had transmitted
their general report they received certain
papers from the Treasury Department,
from which it appears that the claimant,
whose name formerly was Eugene Bass,
purchased OF the Confederate government
in 1868 seven per cent. coupon bonds OF the
so-ealled Confederate States to the amount
of $500. This wis furnishing m aterial aid
directly to the rebel cause, and was, there
fore, a disloyal act.
Notwithstanding the very strong and sat
isfactory evidence previously furnished the
Commissioners of the loyalty of Madame
Bertinetti and the recognition of her loyalty
by the government, and the payment OF
sic, 200 for her cotton, this newly discovered
evidence is so clearly proof of her dislOyalty
that the Commissioners feel obliged to re-
port the same at once, and to find her dis
ioyal and to disall0w the whole of her claim.
Instead, therefore,, of allowing her the sum
of $1I,S60. al stated in the summary report
upon her claim, they reject it entirely.
Madame Bertinettl is the wife of the former
Italian Minister to Washington.
The lady here mentioned was formerly
Mrs. Bass, whose husband at one time
represented Washington county in the
Mississippi Legislature. She is native
of Tennessee, and a very beautiful lady,
whose personal attractions won the hand
of wealthy bachelor of that name. Be
coming widow, and a belle in Wash
ington society, she subsequently mar
ried to the dappcr little Count, the
ex-Minister, whose name she row bears.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
The Three GOYernOrs-A Stri-
king Concurrence liza
Sentiment.

In another column we have inserted
kracts from the messages of three Gov
Fnors who represent the grand divisions
1heh constitute the allied opposition OF
g country to the rule eff the Radical
frv-Governor Walker, pure Conserv-
fre, of Virginia Governor Leslie,
taight-Out Democrat formerly an Old
Tne Whig), of Kentucky; and Cover
p Brown, Reform Republican, of Mis-
|r.
twill be seen that these distinguished
Fen, though calling themselves by diff
rent names, all unite in principle; and
la' their voices harmonic in protesting
salnst the usurpations of the Grant Ad-
AlstratiOn, as destructive of the hber-
: q the country. The logical result
'nis concurrent sentiment should be a
O'Ough and complete union of the
Oes they represent, in the pending
's'laenhal election. The highest states
'aaAlp and the loftiest patriotism will
displayed by contamination of this
a@ 10 this end the ambition of indi-
aas-the feuds of faction-the rival
q Partisans-the prejudices of sec
" VI should ha a,,ho-I;ro@o1
lne Paramount question is, how are
elements tc be brought into full
Operaton and harmonious accord in
s'ectlon? Upon its solution depends
,eult Of the greatest civic conflict of
[I.a aules' Inprinciple there is harmony.
~ there be union in action?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
From the Carrollton COnscrvati
Dfstressfnp Accident

On last Thursday, the Dist instant,
Messrs. w. w. Cowan, Peter Ryan and
Fred Prince left Carrollton in a double
buggy for Winona. The evening was
intensely cold and the horses lively.
when near old Middleton, they took
fright, ran away and dashed the buggy
against fence at Mr. Gillian Doyleis
hurting the three riders against it with
terrible force. Mr.. Cowan's skull was
broken and a shoulder literally smashed;
the unfortunate gentleman fingered about
thirty hours and died. Mr.. Prince and
Mr.. Ryan were considerably bruised, but
had no bonAs broken. Mr. Cowan was
much esteemed as a citizen, neighbor and
member of the Church. He had, by
persevering industry and economy, &C.
cumulated considerable property. Vino
ma loses in him one of her most valuable
business men, and most useful and clever
citizens. His family has the sympathy
of the whole community.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
Whaf Horace G. reeAey Says Abou
the Political Situation.

The Caucasian, published in Mis-
souri,, contains the following letter, adj
dressed to its editor by Mr.. Greeley. 1t
is characteristicaIIy frank in defining his
own position and in the indication of his
want of confidence in General Grant:
"NKw YORK. October Is, 1871.
9P. DoNAN, Eco, Lexington, Missouri
Dear Sir: / have yours Of the l4th Instant
have no doubt that the policy which you
suggest is that which your party ought TO
adopt. They should have run Salmon +.
Chase in 1868. Then, as the result Of that
contest, the return Of genHiae peace aud thrill
,oossEd hare 5eef promoted. That policy gov
erned Tou last year In the State Of Missouri
aud more than party 4riumph was
achieved. You only err as 70 the proper
candidate. I am not the man you need
Your party is mostly free trade. and am
ferocious protectionist / have no doubt
that Z might be nominated and elected by
vour helm. but it would place US In false
nogition. lii II. who am adversely interesteos
can see this, lam cure your good sense win /,
on reflection, realize t. You muse tale
some man like Crate Brown TrunabuII or
General Cox. late Secretary Of the Inferior.
ana thns-help 10 pac1v and rtsHlite oar countfv
dnefr. Yours
TSfrnedl HORACE GRzKLEx.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04

THE REFORM AUGMENTATION is
what correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says of the reform movement of
Schurz and Trumbull. The Gazette is a
leading Western Republican paper and
the intimation as to the indications in the
Republican camp are significant, coming
from that quarter. His opinions as to the
course of the Democracy are the merest
vagaries; but we believe he is not far
amiss in the intimation that they Will be
ready to strike hands on terms that are
honorable with all the true friends of re-
form and the enemies of tyrany, without
reference to mere party names and other
non-essentials:
Il tell you, Mr.. Editor, it is a fact that the
people see il, politicians do not-and /
think they do-that new party will be or
ganiZed during the next four months, and
believe il will develop strength that will
surprise some people. 1t is folly to suppose
that the Democratic party, as party, will
make another nomination, but it will throw
its whole strength into the new movement,
and at the head of this movement will be
found such men as Sumner, Trumbull Lo-
gan. Scl1urz, and their iIk. and such papers
as the Chicago Tribune, Cincinnati CONNER
cial and New York Post. =
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
\ western Lady, Accomplish
nnInnaI.-

The sort Of women DEVELOPED nd the
West Is tpifed in the Au Sable lady
the word is written advisodly-w thus
reports her feats for a year. "Whou our
colony reached here there were few car
penters or smechanics of any sort 10 be-
had. Seeing they were fully employed,
rather than wait for them, ] revived
hankering for tools, which 1 used 90 in-
dulgc al my fathers workbench when a
girl, / lathed five rooms and vet the stud-
ding for three. i made tho doors and
window-casngs, planning and joining an
myself, and hung the doors, besides set
ting the glass IN the window-immcs.
Made the pantry shelves, "A table for the
kitchen, and cupboard, besides painting
all the woodwork. Did my own house
work, cut and made all my boys clothes
and made a garden, besides caring for a
sick ncighbor." Addsd 70 these accom-
plishments, the woman who speaks of
them is a perfect book-keeper, writing a
hand like copperplate, turning ont as
fair set Of books as any man In New
York tints miniature and models in clay
with delicate skill, if not with absolute
genius; her housekeeping and sewing
are faultless, and she can patch four
pairs Of trousers in an hour. That is
the kind Of woman ..the world Is 10th 10
lose.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
Ramfe Culture i'm California,

The ramie plant, whose fiber seems
so well adapted to the loom, and whose
culture is becoming very general in Cali
fornia: is native of Java and other parts
of the East Indies, and the bark has
usually been dressed by hand by the
natives. 1t was not until 1874 that the
attention. of European manufacturers
was called to the new textile. 1t may be
intermixed with such fine fabrics as silk,
cotton or other staples, with the greatest
ease. The Louisianians began to culti-
vate it in 1867. 1t grows admirably on
the cotton lands, and it is said to be
much more easily produced. 1t is pro-
phesied that it will in few years become
very formidable rival to cotton.
Louisiana and Mississippi had 1880
acres of it under cultivation in 1870.
The first attempts at its culture in Cali
fornia were made in Alameda county.
Two farmers risked few hundred dol
lars on the experiment, and the growth
of the plant was so rapid and luxuriant
that the agriculturalists in all the sur
rounding counties at once took up the
ramie. In Tulare county the plant has
grown with immense and astonishing
rapidity. The Pacific Ramie Company"
is now organized, in Los Angeles county
with Ramie, as soon as the rains will
permit. European manufacturers have
guaranteed constant demand in excess
of the supply. New machinery have
been invented for cleaning and cutting
the plant, which must be cut when about
five feet high. The machines have not
yet succeeded in thoroughly replacing
the haed labor, in removing the outer
husk from the bark, and separating the
bark from the wood. An enterprising
Englishman, a member of the British
East India Commissioners, has offered
$50, 900 prize for a machine that will do
this work properly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04

A WELL KNOWN ACTOR JOINS THE
CHTRcH.-Sol. Smith Russell was bap-
tised in the Episcopal Church at this
place, by Bishop Green, last Monday.
We understand he contemplates studying
for the ministry. He is evidently a man
of considerable talent and would be an
acquisition. If he abandons the profes-
sion to which he has been devoted, and
gives up his wages of two hundred dol
lars month, for the hard fate of minis
ter, he will be carrying out the spirit of
the injunction of our Savior to the rich
man. Canton Mail.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04

RETURSED.-The delegation from the
several companies Of the Fire Department,
who went to Broskhaven upon the invita-
ton Of Vigilanty No. /, Of shat place, to
participate In their annual celebration, re-
turned yesterday morning. They bring
glowing accounts OF the cordial reception
they met with, and Of the splendid time
they had during the parade and at the ball
They say that VIgilnn1 No. l. cannot be
beaten In making their guests enjoy fhern-
selves and that there Is no finer engine in
the state than the one that Company has
just received
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04

The truth i. at last confessed IN quar-
tiers whence it was least expected to come,
that Radical rule in the South hm been
the SYNONYMS of strife, plumber and
oppression. The recent declaration OF
Kellogg, one of the bayonet Senator's
from Louisiana, that +" the taxes of the
Southern people are piled mountain
thigh-that they are prey to loafers,
thieves and adventures, who 60 down
there to put money in their pockets, and
who have no permanent interest with
the people of the South, is testimony
which cannot be disregarded. And it is
significant that his language is endorsed
by the New Orleans National Republican
and Citizens Guard newspaper, pro-
nounced Republican sheet In an arti-
Gle headed Those who Prey" that pa
per describes the treatment of the South
by the Carpet-bag rulers as Great
Southern grievance" and it excuses, If
it does not actually justify, the worst ex-
~OS VIII HA0AdOO VI sittseAtuSt ucI pCOpAC
under the hacknied title of g Ku-klux
outrages, which, by the way, exist only
in the inventive faculties Of the partizahs
who pretend to depict them.
The language of the Republican is per-
tinent to the subject and fully corrobera-
tive of all that has been said by the
Democratic press concerning the Carpet
bag vultures. We copy as follows:
Because a herd of ,olunderers announce
every angry criticism upon their courses as
a token of rebel impenitence and ergo. Of
the need that the present political disabili-
ties should continue to be imposed, Senator
Kellogg does not intend the South shall be
SO libeled longer. That turbulent combina-
lions exist in some quarters of our section,
we insist. but they are trivial erus compared
aotth the citliGHies projected from official places
and against Republican, Democrat. white
and colored. These riHdnies hare e1egendered
tdnaentdote disputes and mis- faith and pre-
Guided the amity and progress that would
have ensued the reconstruction scheme as
its legitimate results, but for the men, whom
the Senator so Indignantly denonnces.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
Paris and Her shameless Fash-
IONS.

From the London Telegraph
Paris has learned nothing, forgotten
nothing, and she sends out to-day sfylos
Of attire in their immodesty, vanity,
prodigality and defiance of true feminio
grace as anything which soandalizcd the
last days Of the empire. She avengos
herself on the modest German women
with a book Of fashions which = calculat
ed 70 ruin all moderate revenues, 20 put
chastity and sobriety 10 scom, and %
drive even queens into courts Of law.
Those prodigiOus trains, those scnselcm
appendices, that huge sham mass Of
dead hair, which no longer 30 much ag
affects to be natural the countless noun-
ces and furbel0ws, sc0lls and ruchos.
which are the negation and death OF
draperY; the hats and bonncts which
have ceased 10 be more than a ludicrous
caprice the piled-up pesemenlerio and
costly inartistic trimmings-all these,
with high heels, breeding corns and bun
ions; black lead under the eyes, causing
early blindness and tout clseHblg
which would make modest women blush.
IL pOudre De peries allowed it-are what
we get from Paris, where 90 little has ap-
parently survived, except the eurc
which every honest heart prayed to eco
die.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-01-04
Important Judicial Decision.

Judge Blatchford, of New York, in
BE United States Circuit Court ON the
be 22d inst, delivered decision in IA
Ior Of the executors of G. w. Goodman,
Alabama, against the New York Life
|'urance Company. They refused to
BY policy Of $4,000 on the ground that
|Feral payments of premium were due
|e company at the time of Goodman's
Path. Claimants contended that the
Enpany, by Withdrawing agencies from
laOama during the war, prevented
I'odman from paying the premiums as
|ey became due. Judge Blatchford de-
Ped for claimants with costs, the com
|pny to be credited for unpaid annual
Hynents due by Goodman at the time
IBIS death.