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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
How to Buy Al H"rse---AdVicf from
sSAdIrOnda Murray"

From the advance sheets Of the Rev.
w. ii. Murray's new book on ''The
Horse, we extract the following
''Be sure that the horse you purchase
has symmetry, viz is we'll proportioned
throughout. Never purchase a horse
because he has a splendid development of
one part of his organization, if he be
lacking in any other. Above all, keep
well in mind what you are buying for,
and buy the horse best adapted to the
work you will require of him; and when
such an animal is yours, be content.
Never Jockey An occasional exchange
may be allowable; but this daily ''swap-
PIN" of horses advertises q mans incom-
potency for anything higher. Another
caution is this !: Never purchase a horse
until you have seen him move, and under
the same conditions TO which he will be
exposed in the service you will expect of
him. If for draft, see him draw, back,
and turn round in both directions if for
the road, see how he handles himsef, not
merely on level ground, but going up
sharp declivities and, above all, in des
cending them. In this way you will as
certain the faults or excellences of both
his temper and structure.
Gin these exercises drive him Yourself
The reins in a skillful hand, aided by the
whip or mouth, can be made to conceal
grave defects. Let him move with
loose rein, so that he may take his natu-
raj gait, and not his artificial; for by so
doing you will detect any mistakes Of
judgment you may have made when
looking him over in state Of activity.
Many a time unsoundness will appear in
motion, which no inspection of the eye
and finger, however, close, can ascertain.
When you have walked him and logged
him, if he is to serve any other than mere
draft purposes, put him to his speed, and
keep him at it for sufficient distance to
test his breathing capacity then pull
him up; jump from the wagon and look
at his TANKS; inspect his nostrils, and
put your ear close to the side of his chest,
in order to ascertain if the action Of the
heart is normal If this exercise has
caused him to perspire freely, ali the
better; for you can then see, when you
take him back to the stable, whether he
dries Oft" quickly, as all horses do in
perfect health.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
Rive for Pa.IurnSe and Hay.

From long experience in growing it, l
can assure your readers that rye, when
properly cultivated, is one of the most
valuable and probably the most reliable
of all our forage crops. The reason OF
its beinp the most reliable is that it
makes its growth in Autumn and Spring,
when the temperature Is congenlai, and
there is almost invariably aslfhcIency OF
rain, which is more than can be said for
the Summer crops.
Rye, on moderately dry soil, can be
pastured by sheep and young cattle late
in Autumn and early again in Spring
without injury to it when cultivated IN
the following manner: Enrich the soil
and prepare it as carefully as if for wheat.
Sow early in September, and put in the
seed twice as thick as is usually done.
By such preparation a quick rank
growth is insured, and the stalks being
so much closer together on the ground
they grow up smaller, more tender, and
more 0alatable TO the animals consuming
it.
Early in Nav rye begins to head, and
it is then fit for soiling. Later in the
month or early in June, when full-head-
| ed, but before the grain begins to form,
it can he cut for hay. After doing this,
we dry it in the sun from seven to ten
| hours according to the heat, then bind
it in sheayes of about six inches in diam
eter. shock them in the field for few
days until there is no danger of heat.
then stack or store in the barn. 1t is
very important not to dry the rye too
rapidly nor too much, for IN this case II
loses a good share of its fragrance, and
| becomes more difficult of mastication and
less palatable to the animals consuming
it.
Nv horses and cattle seem to relish
rye thus grown and cured as well as they
do the best of timothy and so far as
can Judge, l think it does them as much
good as average hay, and should GER
tainly prefer it to much hay that Is moi
cut until after the seed is formed.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
Statistics of the COIOred POPuIa-
ton.

The total colored population Of the United
States in 1870. according to the last census,
was 49S0,000; in 1860 il was 4, AL, $50; in
1859 il was 3, 63S. S0S, and in 1910 il was 2.S73
648. The increase during the decade end
ing with 1870 was 49, 79, or less than 10
per cent. The Increase for the decade end
ing with 1860 was S03,022, or p per cent. !;
and the increase for the decade endiRg with
lS60 was 765, 100, or q per cent. There is
something surprising in these figures. They
show that the colored population increased
less than halt as much from 1860 to 1870, a.
from 1850 to 1860; and that it increased five
per cent. faster from 1910 TO 1880 than from
1850 to 1860. The increase for the decade
ending with 1870 was less than per cent.
per year: for the decade ending with 1860
IL was 2. 2 per cent. year; and for the de-
cade ending with 1856 it was 2 per cent.
year. What Is more strange still. the ac-
tual increase from 1850 10 1850 (S03022) was
nearly twice a. great the actual increase
from 1880 tO1S70 (438 1872. It is true there
was war during the last decade; but it is
not easy to see how that can account for the
low rate of increase, for the periO1, as its
rayages were almost exclusively among the
whites. the negroes having comparatively
little TO do with the fighting on either side
If an explanation IS to be found ia the I'M
settled condition of the colnred people after
the war from 1865 TO 1870 the paraiy zing
effects of that transition state upon them
were far more serious than has been conjec-
tured.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

From the Danbury News.
Mr. O'Clarence purchased a new pair
p4nts Saturday. When he got home his
wife was mixing bread. She wiped her
hands on her apron and made IA careful
examination of the pants. First she
pinched one leg of them and asked him
what he paid for them, and then pinched
the other and asked him if he didn't
think it was too much. After that she
stood off aways so she could get look at
the lit, so as to form a right opinion of
it. Then she asked him if he couldn't
draw them up higher. as they touched
the floor. He said he couldn't without
splitting himself in two, which there APP
peared 40 urgent necessity for his doing.
She pinched them again, taking his leg
up and ewing it thoughtfully, while he
clutched the table with his hand and
hoped around on the other leg to rest
himself. She was not quite confident
that they were not all cotton-those
clothing people do lie so-but she was not
quite sure. However. she could better see
at tire window, and drew him over there
to the imminent danger of tipping him
over and breaking his spine. She rub
bed them again, and turned up the leg,
so as TO see the other side, and all the
while her mind gathered doubts and
forebodings If he had only said he was
going to buy pair of pants, she would
have went with him herself and picked
them out. But tailOrs know that a man
cannot tell one kind of goods from an
other, and will put off anything on him.
Then she abruptly dropped his leg, and
went back to the door an called Mrs.
Mugent. Mrs. Mugent came in, and be-
ing made acquainted with the particulars
pinched Mr.. Occurrences legs herself,
and asked him why he didn't buy the
cloth and have his pants made at home.
Mr.. O'CIarence didn't like the bother,
and Mrs O'Clarence explained that he
always would have his own way. Mrs.
Mugent said an uncle of Mr. Mugent.
who lived in Bridgeport, got a pair of
all wool pants last April for 50, and you
Mr. and Mrs. OClarence) would have
thought they cost ten dollars if cent;
the cloth was just as fine and firm as
anything could be. Mr.. Mugent would
sometimes get the impression that he
must get his pants ready made, but he
always got cheated. She was positive
there was not bit of wool in these
pants, and if they were Mr.. Mugent's
she wonld have them taken back. That
is exactly what Mrs O'Clarence thought,
and in spite of Mr.. O'CIarence's protest
ations she took them back and got an
other pair. The other pair was little
too short in one leg, and pinched his
stomach, but there was wool in them,
Mrs Mugent said
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
VA X GETEES.

A female school teacher in Waterfowl,
Mass, is on traitor cruelty to one Of her
scholars.
A bibliophile in Hermitage, Mo-,
| claims to possess a copy of Magma Charta
700 years old.
Oregon has produced a man insane
enough to suppose that he has discovered
the secret of perpetual motion.
A reunion of the Page family took
place at Bedford, Mass, on the 25th
inst, There was a volume of 200 Pages
present.
A new and smaller pneumatic tube is
to be laid between the Capitol and the
Government printing office, in Washing
ton.
Chinese merchants in San Francisco
are sending home the women brought
over by the infamous Hip Yee Tong As
ISOLATION.
A Maine farmer was recently detected
selling Jumps of tallow. thinly coated
with butter, as the genuine product OF
his dairy.
The first regular meeting of the recent
lv organized Southern Historical Society
will be held in Richmond on the 29th OF
October.
Sing Sing, n. Y, now contains 1910
male and lie female prisoners, but, as
escapes are of such frequent occurrence,
the number fuctuates greatly.
Some Alexandria boys recently OBJ
tanned free admission to the circus by
stealing the cats in the neighborhood, and
throwing them to feed the animals.
The folly of giving opiates to children
was exemplifed recently at Sanbury,
when mother gave her infant a few
drops of laudanum, and the child sank
into deep sleep, from which it never
awoke.
The operation of taking the census in
Bengal, India, met with many difficult
ties. The people thought the govern
ment was about to impose some new tax,
and hid their children that they might
not be assessed.
a proposition is before the Constitu-
tional Commission of Michigan, by which
every railroad company operating in the
State shall be assessed $500 for every
life sacrificed by the negligence of its en-
ployes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
A Haven for DueIist.

The Rue du Jour, Paris, an obscure
thoroughfare now in process of widening,
contains an old house which has a curious
history. The Hotel de Royaumont,
which was built two hundred years ago,
was occupied in the time of Louis XIV.
by the Comte de Butteville, who made
his property the rendezvous of all the
duelists in Paris. All the aristoeratic
quarrels of the day were settled there,
and the only title to the Comics hospi-
tally was an engagement on the part of
one guest to meet another in mortal COM
bat. A table was laid every morning in
one of the rooms OF this mansion, at
which the duelists breakfasted before pro-
ceeding to business, and the Comte,
with delicate thoughfulness, even provi-
ded foiIs for those who came without.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
WRATH OF TIE gLANENrs
II wIE LIAM cULLFN BRYANT.


Tier have teen holy men who hid them
selves
D-ep in .n. woody wilderness. and gave
Tho. We 20 ih0uyht add pEayer. tiiI tiley
ua Hf.&
= r..-.#tias 6oTu y / Il tIein nor seemed
= L -aa the tupary tres aud rocks
Ar.a"t .Hf.a aad tiiere have been hots
DO d-rtn 4 it werc not wei to pas life
tbs.
Elut let me often to these solitudes
R-tirr. and In thy presence reissure
Hy feeble virtue. Here its enemies,
1he pa ii rs. at thy palmer footsteps shrink
And lrciubie. anu are stlli. y Cot! when
tigu
Dost scare th" world with tempests, set on
Thc heavens with falling thunder bolts. or
With ali the waters OF the ornament
he "ift, dark whirIWind that uProots tie
woods
INC dro Nn. the Villages; when at thy call
5pris.- The great deep. aud throws himself
ypoH the continent. aud Overwhelns
IS Ciri who forgets nor. at the sight
% these tremendous tokens of thy power,
is Pride, and lays his sJriies and foIIies by
u from Jue-e sterner aspects of thy face
8pare m and mine, nor let II need the
wrath
81 :hc mad unclaimed elements to teach
Tho rules the m. But il ours To mediate
ii In, - calm shades, thy milder majesty,
And 90 the beautiful order of thy works
Eearr 10 conform the order of our lives.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
YSOnlans Congress.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From The Chicago Tribune.
A number of progressive ladies have
started project for holding what they
call Congress of Women" the pur-
pose of which is announced to be an in
terchange of thought and harmony Of
action among women who have interested
themselves in the advancement OF their
sex Mrs Charlotte B. Wilbour and Miss
Alic G. Fletcher are respectfully the Pres
ident and Secretary ofthe movement, and
a number of the foremost thinking women
of the country are said to have been en-
listed in it. From the announcement of
the subjects to be discussed at the Con
gress, and the tone of the circular set
ting forth the purposes of the movement,
we should say that the leading object
was to antagonize the incubus of Wood
hullism that has fastened itself sue
cessfully upon Woman-Suffrage and
Spirituqlism. Any effort on the part of
women occupying a position before the
public to rid themselves of this contami-
nation ought certainly to be encouraged.
A Preliminary meeting is called for Oct.
IA, when the time for holding the Con-
gress will probably be fixed. Among
the subjects announced for discussion
are: The Household; Equitable Monetary
Division Between Husband and Wife
The Relation of Woman to her Dress;
Co-Education of the Sexes Woman in
Literature; Prison Reform; Woman's
Work in Philanthropy, and generally the
relations of woman to the several profess
sions.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

We have repeatedly asked whether it
sill pay to buy grain to teed to cattle,
lows or hogs. In true Yankee fashion,
ee must answer with another question,
kiz. Does it pay to feed grain to cat
he, cows or hogs? If it pays to feed it
but of our own crib or garner, then it
bays to buy to feed, for our own grain is
worth no more nor less than the market
brice at which we buy from q neighbor.
Il is high time that farmers were getting
lid Of the idea that their own grain can
be replaced by that grown somewhere else.
The fact is that it costs too near the value
BIZ bushel of corn to make its produc.
ion in our Eastern States profitable. If
bur farmers would only devote their at
sention to some other crop, they would
boon find that the product of an acre of
some more perishable crop would buy the
produce of two or three acres of corn
faised on the much lower priced land Of
The West. The economical feeding of
grain, in addition to that produced on
khe farm, is one of the true secrets of in
ereasing the productions and value of the
land. Ii a farmer can make the feeding
pay for the cost of the grain, he makes a
very safe investment, for be can look for
his interest and pay for work in the IN.
FFeased value Of bis land.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
C0Rfiscaded Property Restored TO
Jzrs. jefferson Davis

During the war Federal soldier from
this county took from the house of Gen.
Joe Davis, in Mississippi, an elegant al
bum of paintings, which was the proper
ty of Mrs. Jefferson Davis The book
was very elegant one, the paintings
being illustrate MS of Chinese life, and
were executed III that country 1t was
presented to Mrs. Davis by the American
Minister to China, during the time that
Dir. Davis was Secretary Of War. An
ex-Federal officer learning these facts
concerning the Album, recently obtained
possession OF it, and at once forwarded
it to its owner. IF there is any other
property in this section held by similar
tenure, it is high time it was restored.
The confscstiOn of private property for
participation in the war, even by Gov
eminent, has become odious, and where
1t is unlawfully held by individuals with
cut shadow Of right or title thereto, it
is worse still.-LaGrange (Mo.) Demo
crat
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
EBPublisEaed Letter OF John
Stuart Will

The following letter, written By Mr.
Mill, in 1863, in reply TO one from Mrs.
Hooker, of Hartford, complimenting the
great English author on his book on the
'Subiection of Women" Is printed by
Mrs. Hooker in a little work entitled
'Womanhood, which is soon to appear
from the publishing house of Lee d
Shepard, Of Boston. The drift Of Mrs.
Hooker's letter will be seen from the re-
ply of Dir. Mill, and it viii be observed
that the letter, although the ablest and
most philosophical of the advocates Of
equal suffrage, was not misled by any
theory that women are inherently better
than men, or that they would Bear the
possession Of power any better. The
moderation of his views on this point is,
no doubt, shared by the most intelligent
friends of the suffrage movement here;
and, in fact. will tend to impress the
reader more and more with the value of
his speculations on the general subject:
AyIGNoN, Sept. IL: 1869.
DEAR MADAM: I beg to acknowl-
edge with many thanks your letter OF
August 8.
" You have perceived, what | should
wish every one who reads my little book
to know, that whatever there is in it
which shows any unusual insight into
nature or life was learned also from wo-
men-from my wife, and subsequently
also from my daughter.
{" What you SO Justly say respecting
the infinitely closer relationship of a child
to its mother than its father, l have
learned from the same source to regard
as full Of important consequences with |
to the future legal positions of
parents and children. This, however, is |
a portion of the truth for which the hu
man mind will not, for some time, be
prepared to make its discus |
sion useful.
But do not perceive that this close
gives any ground for attrib-
uting natural superiority in capacity of |
moral excellence to women over men. l |
believe moral excellence to be always the |
fruit of education and cultivation, and / /
see no reason to doubt that both sexes
are equally capable of that description of |
d" But the position Of irresponsible
power in which men have hitherto lived |
IS, | need hardly say, most untavorable |
to every kind Of moral excellence. So |
far az women have been in possession OF
power, they, too, have by
no means escaped its baleful conse
1uences.
- With hearty congratulations on tho
progress OF the cause Of women in both |
pur countries, aad in most other parts of
he civilized world.
q am, dear madam,
Yours very truly,
j S. MILL.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
Hymen and Hygiene.

1t is gratifying to learn that, from d
sanitary and vital-statIstical point OF
view, matrimony Possesses advantages
which may he regarded as almost COM
pensatiug FIR milliners bills and mothers
in-law and these advantages are set
forth by DIR. Drysdale, of London IN an
analysis of extensive tables compiled by
M. Bertillion from data gathered III
France, Belgium, and Holland. From
these it appears that between the ages Of
twenty-five and thirty the permilage of
mortality among bachelors is 10, whilst
among benedicts it is only g.; but as if TO
show that in marriage, a. IN all other
games of chance, the prospect of great
gain is counter balanced BY proper
tionate risk of ruinous loss, the death
rate among widowers during the same
lustrum rises to the appalling figure OF
l71 per thousand. Some reinsurance,
however, is given 10 the connubiaIly IN
clined in the statement that women,
after the age OF twenty-five, died less
rapidly when married than when single,
in the proportion Of ID 10 70, DOUBTLESS
acquiring as their bridal portion an III
heritance of longevity from their dear
mammas, whose exceeding tenacity OF
life is painfully familiar 10 most sonsin-
law. For these latter also it is "A mock
ingly superfiuous piece of information to
add that widows of fo-tyfv are less
sickly than spinsters of that age" But
the promise Of a long life, if not happy
one, in the married state Is not held out /
to the callow youth of twenty who is most |
apt to dasiderate an immediate invest |
lnppf in cha allowed houdS " for we are /
told that whilst the deaths Of l, 900 UNI |
married young men were only Z annually |
the mortality rose to 80 in the unmarried.
After the age of twenty members Of eth
er Sex may confidently expect from mat
rimony an increased longevity of at least
Eve years and a diminished proclivity to
crime and insanity, whilst celibacy is
unsafe, especially for unprotected males
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

From the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
The great contest of the Rome Fair
has been that between the girls for a
cooking stove as premium for the best
dinner. The result of the contest has
been looked for with great interest, and
the awards were delivered amid great ex-
element. The best cook among these
contending charmers was decided to be
Miss Hattie j. johnson, to whom was
awarded the first premium in the shape
of John B. Gordon cooking stove. To
Miss Octavia Shropshire was given the
second premium. This second premium.
was the r. E. Lee stove offered by Seay
& Walker. The committe found it hard
to decide. They recommended that 500
be given to Miss Alice Camp. a twelve
year old girl, for the very excellent dinner
She concocted. They also recommended
SOTO MissE. j .Shropshire. The award
ing of the premiums was very exciting.
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The Uprising Of Ghe Farmer.'
Against MOmOPOIists.

The farmers and laboring men will
move forward 10 certain victory IN a
cause that is founded upon eternal justice
and right, a cause that must succeed, or
they go down to bankruptcy and ruin. ~
Ford County (Ill.) Journal
The spirit Of Mammon has fearfully
demoralized American politics and i
know of no influence that can more sue
cessfully check and hedge this spirit than
the success Of this new and almost great
National movement.-James Shaw 20
Carroll County ILL., Grangers.
This movement was not organized by
politicians to advance personal interests,
but was inaugurated by a class Of people
who, more than all other classes, trades,
and professions, have been Disseminated
against by the capitalists legislation Of
Legislatures controlled by railroads and
monopolies. Rensselaer, (Ind) Union.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

From the Cincinnati Commercial

+ rom the CINCINNATI OOu1mefcl2f.
We presume that at the close of Grants
Presidency be will be the richest man
that ever left the White House. Both
the Adamses had small fortune at the
time of their election; Van Buren, and
Polk were well of; Taylor had a planta-
ton; Pierce had a bit of land Buch-
anan had some productive investments;
Lincoln and johnson had but small show
of worldly goods. Grant is already
richer than the richest of them, and very
much richer than most of them His
houses, lands, horses, personal property,
stocks, bonds, and so forth, represent a
great deal of money. There is not a
doubt that in 1879 he viii be very much
richer than he is now. At the beginning
of the rebellion he hadn't dollar In the
world, and couldn't pay his debts in
Galena