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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

From the Sioux City journal.

HIOtu tue CiohA NtlA 5Uili itdl'
Maj. Bingham, of Cheyenne, has got
himself in trouble with an Indian preach
er. This red reverend father started Il
report among the Indians at that agency,
to the effect that Maj. Bingham, the
agent, had case of revolvers which the
great father had sent out to them. When
the Indians were called up to receive
their annuities the other day, they de-
handed the revolvers, and acted very
hostile because they were not forthcom-
ing. They would not believe their agent
for sometime. But he was equal TO the
emergency. He requested to know who
told them that the great father had sent
them firearms The preacher was
pointed out as their authority, when the
Major went straight to the reverend liar
and kicked him out of the room. The
Indian offered no resistance, but went to
his wigwam, took off his ministerial suit,
donned the treech clout, and declared
war against the agent. He swore that he
would kill Maj. Bingham upon the first
opportunity, and he danced all night and
sang war songs. 1t is feared that the In
dian will carry his threat into execution,
and extra precautions have been adopted
by the agent
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16
The Salary Grab.

The Congressional salary-grab day comes
around again, and with it the monthly dis
bursement of $235 900 in checks or green
backs. The account TO this date stands
thus:
United States to sa airy grabbers
Paid under protest. March 4. in
excess at wages TO Forty
Second Congress ..........-. Sl1G3 900
Paid under protest, since March
4 in advance of wages to the
Forty-SecOnd Congress .... $4,000
Total to this date. Oct. 50 sos. 900
Less by refunded sums. 235,5l5
Balance to be accou nted for S2,572, Ass
The British sovereigns now on their
way to this country will, it is reported,
be naturalized by melting them down and
recoining them in United States coinage
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16
Employees Discharged from IA
jackson Railroad.

a large number of hands have been dis
charged from the employ of the Jack
son Railroad Company, owing, as il is al
legged. TO duliness of business and the scare
itN of currency. Considering the fact that
the business of the road is not less than II
has been for the last few months, We pre-
sumo the discharge of these men Is owing
10 a scarcity of money wherewith to pay
them.-N. . IIeTa q.
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Fitzhugh Lee sends to the Alex

Fitzhugh Lee sends to the Alex
andria Gazette the following letter from
George Washington, written over 12O
years ago, and addressed, to ''Wm. Faunt-
leroy, Sr, in Richmond" the brother of
"Miss Betsy" referred to:
MAY 20, 1852. SIR: | should have
been down long before this, but my bust
ness in Frederick detained me somewhat
longer than expected, and Immediately
upon my return from thence was taken
with a violent pleurisy, which has re-
duced me very low; but purpose as soon
as recover my strength, to wait on Miss
Betsy, in hopes of revocation of the
former cruel sentence, and see if can
meet with any alteration in my favor. |
have inclosed a letter to her, which
should be much obliged to you for the
delivery of it. l have nothing to add
but my best respects to your good lady
and family, and that am, sir, your most
obedient humble servant
@. WASHINGTON.
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a Good Thing ON A. It. Morgan
An Old Negro saw him and
went One IBetter-A. Il.
Didn't Call.

A Grenada correspondent of the Vieks-
burg Times is responsible for this:
| heard good one on Morgan In MAX
ing speech he said he was entitled to an
Office at the hands of the colored people, as
he had married a colored woman. An old
man and brother in the crowd rose to eX-
plain, that if that was so, he was entitled to
two, as he had married two negro women.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

New COTTON AND HAY Pass
A machine for pressing cotton and hay is
said to have been recently invented, the
power of which is such that bales of cot
ton already once pressed, and averaging
thirty-three inches in width, were put
through it, and as they came out, hoped
and tied, were reduced to eighteen inches
in width
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The British Government, in India,
have projected various canals and irriga-
ton works, which, it is estimated, will
cost s101, 625, 900.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The society editor of a New York pa
per states that pumps and black silk
stockings, with scarlet cloakss are now
the proper things for gentlsmens fun
dress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

Nor N Posi- HASTE. "A youth
full letter-carrler Of Ashton-under-
Lyme, England, who furnishes Us
an example Of laziness that it would
do the soul of SanchO PanZa good
to know, lives yet in the sunlight.
He was arrested with nearly five
hundred letters in his possession
not opened not even feloniously
detained, simply not delivered, be-
cause it was too much trouble, and
it was so much easier to lounge
home with them in his pocket. He
was convicted of "carelessness and
misconduct" and fined one guinea
"A light punishment-and dis
missed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The st. Georges Cricket Club, of New
York are trying to arrange q match with
the Germaptown Club.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

ufe> - fntiuNSs
L. l~16 there MAS a deiici sncv appropri A.
ton Iionc fnr repairs, etc ~ $9G 600. and
the appropriations for 1870 II amounted iu
the aggregate u more than SIS 600 exclu
sive Of clerk hire. and rot including ga.
winch : pat into general appropriation
Tor the p4hlic grounds. OF this an unt
over $31.ia0 We're for repairs aud rcfurui-h-
ing the executive Establishments: aud owe
SO 900 We're spent in addition 10 nj.
amount, which was provided for the next
year by deficiency bill. Toe amount
spent in that year upon the White House
and grounds was over $4,000.
The appropriations for lS7l-12 were less
amounting, exclusive of clerk hire and gas.
10 something over SIS coo. For lS72-13 ap-
Propfiations for the - me purpose amounted
10 over $4,000.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16
Number of Oranges In the SOuth.
ern States.

Alabama, % Arkansas, 20; Georgia,
IS; Louisiana, II; Mississippi, 202 /;
North Carolina, IL South Carolina, 1873;
Tennessee, &c. Texas, 81 Virgins, 3.
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be found, IN detail, The appro-

AIIt- FHdhto q ~ al UI UNFT VI ,UUVt tTiII+
the addition of the Presidents salary. IN ake>
tue expense OF the executive establishment
over Si27 900 for this year. 1t is we'll noVn.
also, that many items of expense which an
ordinary household would be subjected To-
are provided for in other appropriations.
appearing only, as the gas used at the T.
ecutiVe Mansion apptars, in some general
appropriation.
IL should be added that no President has
heretofore complained of the inadeQuacy
the former salary and provision made BY law
for that office; indeed, it has always been
understoo that Presidents, prior TO 1871,
have been able to live upon their salaries H.
stvle satisfactory to the public and to
themselves. aud have besides saved some
thing out of II as an addition to their for
tUGes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The richest man in Denver, Colorado,
is said to be Mexican, and bis wife is
an Indian, s
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

OLD SARDTSE Boxes MADE
UsEFuL.-Belleville, near Paris,
has had sufficient celebrity in its
time; it has now taken to the use
tul arts, and discovered Il new or
der, or lamp, Of architecture. What
becomes OF the empty sardine-
boxes? In Paris they are gathered
up by the rag picker and sold for a
song to builders, who lill them with
mortar, pile them in the form of
four watson no mans ground, COW
er the walls with a few planks, and
thus a house appears, hired or
bought by those who complain Of
high rents or dislike the sky for a
canopy These shanties are quite
an article de Paris.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

CosT OF A PET DoG.-The ad-
ministrator Of a New York estate
received, among other bills, one
from a man who had undertaken
the care of a dead mans pet dog.
For this arduous duty he presented
a bill Of five dollars for dog tax,
twenty-five dollars for training the
dog, and two hundred and forty dol
lars for boarding the animal, max
ing a total of two hundred and sew
enty dollars expenses Of the dog.
The case went to law, and the tax
payer, trainer, and boarder receiv-
ed judgment for one hundred and
thirty-fve dollars. The chief les
son seems to be that all persons
about dying should kill their pet
dogs first. And in this connection
it might be well to recoilect that we
are all mortals, and that, as far as
dogs are concerned, there is no
time like the present.
-:o:-
Black bass are now plentiful IN
the Susquehanna.
England has exported -, d34,-
465 worth ofsteam engines thisye
A Farmers Motto. -"None but
live stock should be watered."
The total area of British India
is officially stated to be $50, 9lS
square miles.
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50 90 PER YEAR.
Curious ssuns

The Baltimore American. sneak.
!ns OF collection Of gun, in q store
m that city. says
Two OF these are UNIQUE at,,irs
Drought home recently hv one Of
our worthy citizens, Mr. i. II. OH.
yer, who spent twelve wears travel
ing in all parts OF Europe. Asia AM
Africa They ar- of great leprtb
and OF the most antique construc.
ton. One Of them has barrel i've
feet long, made Of the finest steel
carved and inlaid with
gold and platina. The inlaving is
deliberately and beautifully done
Ihe stock Of this gun is of ebony.
.nlaid with silver, pearl and ivory
he flint lock of antique pattern.
with springs and works all outside
he plate, Is finely inlaid with pla- /
ina. The barrel and stock are |
pound together with six solid, elab. |
'rately wrought silver bands, and |
III the mountings are of silver and 1
odd. To the stock is affixed a but.
'Iate of ivory, very handsomely in |
aid. The bore Of the gun is FIVE
lghths of an inch. On its side is
n elegantly written Arabic inscrip
ion, that nobody has been able to
eclpher. The gun WIS made in
lorocco, where there are twenty
ve guu.makers, who. with the
RI lest implements, turn out guns
nat have great reputation in all
'orthern Africa. Such n gun as
MS one could not be had in this
)untry for less than 81 900. The |
Their Of the two guns was made in
lglers, has Il similar immensely
ing barrel, flint lock inlaid with
latina and ivory, steel but-plate.
nd stock inlaid with silver and CO.
Il. This gun is not so fine a- the
her. ltIt u very gurf.rf-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

The olive harvest IN the south Of Europe
is reported 70 have been very plentiful.
Salmon have been introduced into the
New Zealand rivers With great success
An Irish bishop recently prohibited tho
dancing Of all round dances Wtthlh hlA CLOS
cese.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16

ANTIQUITY or UMBRELLAs.-
DR.. Morrison, the missionary TO
China, states there is mention made
of umbrellas and parasols in books
printed in China more than
one thousand five hundred wears
ago, an that Layard relates that
he discovered on the ruins of Nine
yah, il bas-r.lct, representation
Of It King in his chariot, with an
attendant holding an umbrella over
his head. In India we also find the
umbrella has been used in remote
ages, and principally as an emblem
Of royalty, in shape differing very
little from those in modern use
In Burmah the princes use n very
large umbrella, and it requires
separate attendant to carry il, and
his position is a recognized one in
the royal household. One of the
titles of the king is King of the
White Elepant and Lord of the
Twenty-four Umbrellas" The En-
peror Of China, who never does any
thing on a small scale if he can help
it, has no fewer than twenty-four
umbrellas carried before him when
he goes out hunting. The umbrel-
In j. used in that country as de-
Tense against rain as well as sun, and
is principally made Of glazed silk
or paper, beautifully plinted.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-16


HE DANGER OF WET COAL. -
People who prefer wetting the win
ter's store of coal to the dust ON
putting it in their cellars, do not.
perhaps, generally know that they
are laying up for themselves a store
Of sore Threats and other evils con.
sequent upon the practice. Even
the fire damp which escapes from
coal mines arises from the slow de
composition of coal ut temperatures
of but little above that OF the at
mosphere, but under augmented
pressure. BY wetting a mass of
freshly broken coal and putting it
into warm cellar, the mass is heat
ed to such degree that carburetted
and sulPhuretted hydrogen are Civ
en- off for long periods Of time, and
pervade the whole house. The liza
bility of wet coal to mischievous re-
suits under such circumstances
may be appreciated from the fact
that there are several instances on
record Of spontaneous combustion
of wet coal when slowed into the
bunkers or holds Of vessels. And
from this cause, doubtless, may
missing coal vessels have persisted.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18

WAGES IN EURoPE.-After reading
such statements as the following, the
wonder is, not that emigration is not more
rapid, but that SO many people in Euro
pean countries manage to scrape enough
money together with which to seek more
profitable labor: "Sixty cents a day is
considered good wages for working man
in any Of the European countries, except
Great Britain, where the wages are some-
what higher. In the Tyrol silk region
and in Italy, they often do not get more
than ten cents. In the country in Ger
many ten cents is but common pay.
Women there often get but five cents.
In Sweden men often work from four
O'Clock in the morning till nine in the
evening ana do not get any more. Dur
ing the late war many poor women in
Berlin knit stockings for five cents. The
profits of the poor who keep petty shops,
sell trinkets in the streets, or act as suit
lers, do not average more than three or
four per cent. BARRIERS in Berlin, since
the raising Of their prices, get five cents
for hair cutting and two and half cents
for shaving. Servants at hotels get from
three to eight dollars a month. Servant
girls in private families often get but ten
dollars year. Sometimes these classes
cannot get work at any price,"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18

THE Pulaski Citizen unblushingly re-
lates the following, which is declared to
be vouched for by responsible parties {:
" Mr.. James Palsey, who lives near
Pleasant Hill, in Giles county, has hen
that has been upon the place twelve or
fourteen years. She laid eggs, hatched
and scratched for chickens, and attended
to all the business that usually falls to
the lot Of hens, during all this time up to
a few weeks ago, when she suddenly quit
all these habits and commenced to be a
rooster. She dropped the cackle and
commenced to crow, her comb grew up
bright and red, and her tail sprouted
magnificent suit of dropping variegated
feathers and she now goes through the
whole routine Of business that ROSTERS
generally attend to. She has likewise
become young again, and struts about
with the alacrity and vim of young
rooster not out Of his teens"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18

ONE Of the most pleasant and noblest
duties of the head Of the family, is to fur
nish good reading. Let good reading go
into house and the very atmosphere of
that home gradually but surely changes.
The boys begin to grow ambitious, to
talk about men, books, the past and the
future. The girls begin to feel a new
life opening before them in knowledge,
duty and love. To see new fields of use
fulness and pleasure ; and SO the family
changes, and out from its number will
grow intelligent men and women, to fill
honorable places and become useful mem
bers Of society. Let the torch of intelli-
gence be lit in every household. Let the
old and young vie with each other in in
Producing new and useful topics of inves-
tigation, and in cherishing a love of read
ing, study and improvement.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18

ANTS IN ZANzIBAR.-A traveller in
Zanzibar describes the red and black
ants as one of the greatest scourges with
which Eastern Africa is afflicted. These
insects he says move along the roads, in
masses so dense that beasts Of burden re-
fuse to step among them. If the travel
er should fail to see them coming in time
TO make his escape, he soon finds them
swarming about his person. Sometimes,
too, they ascend the trees, and drop on
the wayfarer, The natives call them ma
dtnodo,, that is boiling water, to signify
the scalding sensation produced by their
bite. These ants are of great size, and
burrow so deep in the flesh that 1t is not
easy to pick them out. In certain for
ests they are said TO exist in such num-
bers Gs to be able to destroy rats and liz
ards.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1878.

KEEPING FAITH.-Sir William Napier
was one day taking long walk, when he
met little girl about five years old sob
bing over broken bowl. She had drop
ped and broken it in bringing it back
from the field to which she had taken her
fathers dinner, and said that she would
be beaten on her return home for having
broken it. As she said this, sudden
CLEAN Of hope seem to cheer her. She
said: "But you can mend it, can'tyou?"
He explained that he could not mend the
bowl, but the trouble he could overcome
by the gift of sixpence to buy another.
However on opening his purse, it was
empty of silver, and he promised to meet
his little friend on the same spot at the
same hour next day, and to bring six
pence with him bidding her meanwhile
to tell her mother she had met gentle
man who would bring her the money for
the bowl the next day. The child, entire
ly trusting him, went on her way COM
forted. On his return he found an invi-
tation awaiting him to dine at Bath the
following evening, to meet some one
whom he especially wished to see. He
hesitated for some little time, trying to
calculate the possibility of giving the
meeting to his little friend Of the broken
bowl and still being in time for the
dinner party at Bath, but finding that this
could not be, he wrote to decline accept
ing the invitation, on the plea of previ-
GUS engagement, saying: 81 cannot
disappoint her; she trusted me. ."-Brook-
tyn Argus.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18
HOME, SWEET HOME.

The following poem by John G. SAKE was
cad at the unveiling of the statue of John
Toward Payne, author of Home, Sweet
Iome," at Prospect Park, Brooklyn:
To him who sang of "Home, sweet home,"
In strains so sweet the simple lay
Has thrilled million hearts, we come
A nations grateful debt to pay.
Yet, not for him the bust we raise;
All, no ! can lifeless lips prolong
Fame's trumpet voice? The poets praise
Lives in the music of his song
The noble dead we fondly seek
To honor with applauding breath;
Unheeded fall the words we speak,
Upon the dull, cold ear of DEATH
Yet, not in vain the spoken word
Nor vain the monument we raise;
With quicker throbs our hearts are still,
To catch the nobleness we praise
Columbia's sons--we share his fame;
IT'S for ourselves the bust we rear,
That they who mark the craven name
May know the name to us is dear;
Dear as the home the exile sees-
The fairest spot beneath the sky
Where first-upon mothers knees
He slept, and whe.e he yearns to die.
But not alone the lyric fire
Was his the Dramas muse can tell
His genius could Kean inspire
A kemble owned his magic spell;
A Kean, to " Brutus," self so true
CAS- true to Art and Natures laws),
He seemed the man the poet drew,
And shared with him the towns applause
Kind hearts and brave, with truth severe
He drew, unconscious, from his own;
Oh nature rare! But pilgrims here
Will oft'nest say in pensivo tone,
With reverent face and lifted hand,
"'Twas he-by Fortune forced to roam
Who, homeless in a foreign land,
So sweetly sang the joys of home !"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18
NUMBER AZ.

and the Kingdom Of Borneo. Audncy
died of disease and privation. The 9TH
ers returned home, but Clapperton few
months afterwards died while exploring
the Niger, and his faithful follower,
Richard Lander, perished by the hands
Of the natives. Major Alexander o.
Laing met like fate in 1926. In 1s49,
Sir John Franklin started on his fatal
Arctic voyage, and he and all his COM
panions were lost, their tate was not as
certained until 1859. The lamented mis-
sionary, Allan Gardener, died of starva-
ton, on Pictou Island, in 1851. The Ger
man Asiatic traveller, Adolph Schlagen-
woit, was murdered in 1857 by native
cheftain. The bodies of Burke and Wills
and four other explorers, were found in
the wilds of Australia in 1861. With them
our present list closes but is not exhaust
Philadelphia Ledger.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18

A GooD WORD FOR COUNTRY NEWS
PAPERs.--The Cleveland Herald makes
the following truthful observations con-
cerning country newspapers
The local paper is an absolute necessity
to the community where it is published.
All the city papers cannot supply the
place of the home paper. That should be
the first love of every man and woman,
for with the paper is the locality identified.
The paper gives the county and town
where printed much more prominence
and Importance in the world, and gives
in detail more local news than can be
gained by any other source. Every days
issue of the paper is so much local history
and the rise, growth and development Of
the town and county can be measured
and recorded only by the local newspa-
per that is constantly gathering its items.
People do not properly appreciate their
home newspaper. They measure the
value of paper too much by the number
of columns it contains. The home paper
at any price is the cheapest paper one can
take, for in it is found the information to
be obtained from no other source.
Another thing to be taken into consid-
Grafton. Every county has one or more
newspapers. Hence, circulation Of each
paper must be limited. There is there
fore the greatest need of activity and in
terest on the part of the people to give
their own good paper vigorous and sub
stantial support.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18
THERE were fifteen travellers who halt.

THERE were fifteen travellers who halt
ed at public house, and called for din
ner. 1t was served up and placed upon
a three-cornered table, five sitting on each
side. They invited the landlord TO dine
with them. After they had finished their
meal, they proposed to to count, COM
mencing at some one and count five, and
whoever counted five was TO leave the
table, or in other words, every fifth man
was to step out. They further agreed
that The last man left was to pay the bill.
They so counted as to have it fall upon
the landlord, Now what seat did the
man occupy who began to count?
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-10-18

GooD ADvIcE.--Don Pyatt writes about
popping the question on horseback as
though he had been there: "Don't do
it; it's the most internally awkward place
to pop in the world. If you're rejected
you can't get away if YOU'RE accepted
you can't embrace. Horses don't under
stand that, and by the time you get your
arms round her the cussed animals pull
you apart; and if you attempt to kiss you
are joggled up and down, all over the
whole countenance, kissing the nose and
chin more than any other place."