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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

c ,tton for market. They are generally
sheds 10 the gin house, One-third proper
width and length, aud only high enough 90
admit the passage Of the lint, causing thou
sands OF long tags 70 be suspended nom tne
roof, tull OF dust and dirt, % fan and mix
up with the fresh lint causing tho bale
when packed 70 be regarded COS mixed cot-
ton. Tear down such q fixture. get fresh
lumber, plane aud cell The inside ~ Che
room. extend the lcneth 90 tuirfy -hye feet,
thar the lint may Dee blown 10 the utmost
capacity OF The brush. disiptrgrarng every
h6er of the cotton a. FAR practicable Erect
fue 10 the tuli capacity of the brush. if
twenty feet long so much the better. This
Is 70 be made perfectly air t'ght, % lerw ise
the propul~ive power ~ the blush is Loot.
These are made by hrldiug -lafs uass-
versely 20 two bars running the length ut
the box, usually n foot deep Too IiUf
passes over the slats. and lu its passage
>ili ana Leaf being h"lEl'r thfn t1r llut
iaii IN the b"N- For The convenience Of tur
ginner two pocket sbauld b.. ou fh. side rf
The box. through which hr remove. Htru-
mulattnns every TWO or thrnp duNs. Ir--
pockets should b. CLOSED ou side With
screw The top ~ tie box a. weii a. the
Stats must he polished "a smolthly as glass.
where the lint CONES in contact, o.hcrwlas
u will choke mp AMI prevent the passag' OF
the lint. Another Improvement 10 thp pick
room Il an Idea borrowed from a friend
which regard "a practical; that "a IN crN-
lnR the roum omit space two tn three
teet below The plg'es. and substitute IA lrr
netting iu front aud on t1c two .IIts. tn Der
Tie dust escape. a pick room uir sight, or
approXiu4tirg Or, WON q nor II.s. a. tl,. lInt
would fall naCs Cu thv nua H.a -.ru Obj, aI-
Grafton OF tlr gin. ]. Wire rs.'f h.. haI
conveniently, WOO .cH -la'- WNNl1 An. proc
'iaei the i.trr-'ic were -u lIu# usI tn
'f .t1st s.'..c ,-cl....
Before the r#I-.r i.v af ..-.
rated Il" 10 10 tu. t'c.t. ..
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A Southern paper-the Staunton Vim
dicator-has secured patent on the
following; ga man is SO much more po-
lite in church. He is on dress parade,
as it were. Nobody was surprised to see
that young man last Sunday dive sudden
ly into the bottom of the pew to pick up
her parasol While he was at the bot
tom he saw the embroidered edge of her
ocket-handkerchief sticking from under
the edge of her dress. He commenced
Juggling at it, when there was fierce
scuffle, and little hand darted down.
He came up without it. There were two
red faces in the sanctuary to which the
calm of the blessed Sabbath seemed to
bring no relief But he was a young man
that meant we'll"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
CONNGfsSz AE-KTKES.

Upon ane stormy Sunday,
Coming adoou the lane
Were score ct bonhy ltSsies--
And the sweetest maintain,
Was Caddie.
That took beneath NV pIafdie
To shield her from the rain.
She said the daisies blu,hed
For the kiss that ! ta'en;
/ wadnap haze thought the ilsSie
Wad sa of a kiss EN- niain:
Now, laddie!
i winnie stay under YOUR pladdie,
IT | gang home in the rain ~
But on anp after Sunday.
When cloud there was not ane,
This self-same winsome laddie
| CHANGED TO meet in the lane.
Said Caddie.
''Why dinna ye wear your plaldie?
Who knows but it may rain:''
"You are as ugly as Cain" said a man
to his wife. "Well," she replied, "you
are certainly Abel to bear it"
We are told that there is nothing made
in vain. But how about pretty young
girl? Isn't she maiden vain?
A bridal procession in Milwaukee was
four hours in passing given point. The
1t is said that the Louisville authori-
ties find it more speedy cure to send
married drunkards home instead of to
the lookup.
Why is young lady like bill of ex-
change? Because she ought to be settled
when she arrives at maturity.
An absent minded friend of ours once
kissed the pet kitten and slapped his
wife. The mice have had good time
at his house ever since.
A Denver m mister was marrying a
couple, when a dog fight interru' ted and
the bride called out, "Drive ahead, the
yaller pup has got him by the fore paw. F"
Twas night. y warm couple stood in
the pale, cool moonbeams. Their lips
and there was a sound like a
COW hauling her hoof out of the mud
A woman with seven children and a
drunken husband to support does the
whole thing handsomely by selling cigars
and soda water at Vicksburg.
A Danbury woman shot at burglar
about midnight last week, and lodged a
load of buckshot in her husband, whom
she was not expecting till morning.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A young lady of Lafayette, Ind, an
accumulated musician, charmed recent
social gathering by her vocalism. The
company broke up about 1 o'clock, and at
the Young lady retired. In about an
hour music was heard proceeding from
her room. It continued SO long that one
of the members of the family arose, and,
upon entering the apartment of the young
lady, found her asleep and singing with
all her power. She tried to awaken her,
the effort was unavailing. She continued
to sing, going from one song to another,
for upwards of an hour, when nature
seemed to be exhausted, and the SOM
nambulist sank into a real sleep.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09
A PARIsIAN STORY.
,P Count and E5is Four Hand.
~0sste ChariOas.

One morning in June, 1872, the Count
DbonJwski entered the establishment of
lie most celebrated carriage manufactu-
II Paris
4 have come to order some chariots
knild them according to your own taste.
ut nothing upon the panels. Build
khem III such Il way that they shall be
|fhe hand,.,mest chariots in Paris / shall
not return until November Then let
D. rriages lie ready"
q They shall be ready, " le- Comte. :"
3 In November he came.
Il he four chariots.
u "Ihey are ready"
The Count inspected them, and was
aati~fed. Two of the chariots were paint
ca blue, one III maroon, and one green
Tie Count said:
"A lady viii come tomorrow. You
Eill snow her these four chariots. Sac
Hll make choice.
The lady came The manufacturer
Recognized her as one Of the friskiest act
6esses Of the Varieties
Il shall take this one, she said 1t
Eas one of the blue ones. ''Put my in
ftials, :. c., upon it,
u The next day the Count arrived.
s The lady came p
- ! Is, Monsieur lie Comte. .
(Which of them 2"
Zone of the blue ones.
Good. Another lady will come to-
morrow. She will make a choice. 1t is
Unnecessary to tell this lady that there
Rere four chariots."
Next dav came the other lady-a no.
ability of the demi-monde lie showed
Der the three chariots.
80. the blue, said She Il shall take
D. blue, You will put my initials on
Dc panels-L. b"
The next day the Count-the CONVEX
alton the same.
''The lady came-she took a chariot
the blue-verv good-another lady
vii come to-morrow-you Will show her
be the two chariots-it is unnecessary
o tell her, etc.
The next day the third lady. The
4wo others were very quiet in their man
ners-but the thirl
Il am come to see the two carriages
ordered by Count OblonowskiG
She puts little pair of gold specta-
cles across her nose; then she uttered
cries of horror when she saw the green
ehariot
"Oh green l abhor green. The
other one-where Is the other? Maroon
nhy maroon? Ny livery is blue. What
i to become of me between this green
md this maroon?'
Blue and maroon so very well to-
eether"
"Do you think so? Edward, get up
On the seat
Edward, the valet, dressed in blue,
sprang up on the seat and folded his arms.
The lady studied the effect.
~ es, that may do. However, l would
much prefer blue one. Put my arms
upon the panels.
She gave her name and her address
the Machioness de Garlane. 1t was the
Daughter Of the Count Oblonowski.
The next day the Count paid his last
gisit to the carriage-maker. The same
Conversation ensued: The lady came
he took carriage" etc Tomorrow
mother lady will come. 1t is unneces
airy" etc
The fourth lady came. Her manners
Sere simple-modest An air of exquis
ske sweetness and refinement seemed to
eoat softly around her. The carriage
baker showed her the unlucky green
ehariot, whic!- nobody would have. She
Bought it charming.
You will send it to me tomorrow,
he said. my name? The Countess
Dblonowski.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

Warner, in his Backlog Studies, Z"
says there are still attempts made to
bring up family round register" but
you might just as well try to bring it up
by hand as without the rallying-point of
a hearthstone
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

How different Is the bias of mems
mindsf What opposite tendencies they
exhibit in their investigation of the phe-
nomena of mental science! For example,
the lawyer inclines to the abstract, the
builder 70 tho ccnrgsts.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A man who was discovered asleep
among lot of tombstones in stonecut-
ter's yard, said, on being awakened, that
he had come in to buy monument for
himself, and having picked out one,
made up his mind he would try it one
night before purchasing.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

"Who dat hit me? Where's dat Ian
tern ?" were the ordinations of an aston
ished Elmira darkey after being thrown
something like hundred feet by loco
motive.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

An orphan, under age, married bic
female guardian in Illinois, the other
day, and was compelled 70 get her writ
ten consent to his marriage before the
wedding could take place.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

Planters thought that a multitude Of
black Immigrants would save them after
the var. They got the immigrants, but
these did not save the planter. Instead
of saving the plantations, they have
nearly destroyed the State. Col Den
nett in the n .. Picayune.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A band of treasure seekers are busy at
work excavating on the shores of Penob-
scot Bay in search Of some gold tradition
ally supposed to have been hidden there
BY the crew Of pirate vessel.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

The price of speckled trout just now is
twenty-five cents speck. Purchasers
who do not count the specks are liable to
be cheated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

No matter how amiable lady may be,
saws the New York Mail, fashion de-
mands that she shall appear rufied in
public.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A Pennsylvania aronaut took his wife
up in balloon with him. For some
reason or other which he cannot explain,
tha air-ship landed her safely after Pc
rilous YpTage,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

No actor has yet been able TO counter
felt that expression of JOY which man
shows when discovering 10-cent ttamp
In his paper Of tobacco
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

In butter, New York siandsat the head
of the list; Pennsylvania second Ohio
third and Indiana fourth.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A lady hearing that tunnel cost 5000
francs yard. importuned her husband
70 buy Der dress Of that material.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-09

A lady IN New York had several hum
dred dollars worth Of point lace clipped
of her clothing by an adroit thief, while
she was at church singing, strip noe OF
the robe Of pride, elothe ne 10 humanity
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-02-06

THE Mss QUADRILLE. - 1t is re-
ported that one OF the features of
Washington society during the pres
ent winter is the Kiss, Quadrille. The
distinguishing characteristic of this
movement is that, at the command
"dla maia left" each gentleman kisses
his partner. 1t is presumed that the
quadrillc is one of that complicated
Kind in which each gentleman takes
each lady in turn as partner during
some portion of tho dance, in which
case everybody would have an oppor-
tunity of kissing everybody else be-
fore the quadrille should be finished.
! 1t is safe to conclude, under these cir
cumstances, that the dance will hence
forth be more may than ever. An
opinion is expressed in certain quar-
ters that the kiss Qsadrille" will
contribute a new element TO "the era
of good feeling" which has been dis
covered in Washington. There may
be gentlemen who will object TO hav-
ing their wives, daughters, sisters or
lsweethcarts miscellaneously aud pro-
miscuously kissed; and it is possible
that these objections might interrupt
the harmonious state of things which
Is now supposed TO exist,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-02-06
ing, his wife into France, and she was

ing his wife into France, and she was
left in England. She never saw her
husband after that. The Emperor de-
clared the marriage void, and Jerome
was soon afterwards married to the
daughter of>the King of Wnrtemberg,
and placed on the throne of Westpha-
liza. His first wife returned to Balti-
more with her son, who had been
born i'm England. qIIe died in 1870,
leaving two. children, Colonel Jer-
ONE Bonaparte, who graduated at
West Point. but subsequently became
an officer in the French army, being
treated by Louis Napoleon as a near
relative of the Imperial family; and
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, at present
a, law student at Harvard College.
Their grapdmother,w who is now in her
ninetietlf year.. has at all times watch
ed the political condition of France
with intense interest, freely declaring
the right of the eldest to. the throne in
the event of the death of the Emperor
and the Prince Imperial; and she now
expresses her confident belief of the
success, in the not distant future, of
the, dreams and aspirations to which
she has petsistently clung for . peri
cd of seventy years. 1t is strange
story, with more elements of pathos
in it than would seem to lie upon the
surface. . 4.a ~ I'D.
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Tor the Democrats Press
TO ISABELLA r.
81 cassAxpaA ALlc. rHonxprk..


Through the little frosted window,
Creeps the twilight dim and gray,
Filling all the place with shadows,
Of the closing winter day
And sit beside the hearthstone,
With my eyelids dropping low.
Building castles in the firelight.
As we used 70 long ago sfs
Soon feel your presence near me,
See you smiling through the gloom
Hear the rustling OF your garments,
As you gently cross the room.
And stretch my arms to greet you.
- AZ you pause beside my chair; E
But alasi the charm is broken
ForI clasp the empty air,
-rs1 ms @gs3re sg2zE
All, how oft in dreams we ponder.
ON the cherished days of yore,
List'nina sadly for the footsteps ft
That perchance we hear no more.
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; Contributed to the DEEocoAT1c PRESS.
Hind0o Translations.


OF allsthe lamps lighted in honor Of
Buddha, one only, brought by poor
woman, lasted through the night.
Hard it is for rich man to know
the way. easy for poor one.
A poor man filled his scrip with a
handful of flowers; but the rich man
poured in thousands of bushels in
vain.
Forsake all evil, bring forth good,
master thy own thought; such is Bud
sdha's path to end all pain. syst
Overcome evil with good, the ava
lricious with generosity, the false with
truth. -r ssst, ,. :. -
One day Of endeavor is worth a
more than a hundred years of sloth.
Give, if thou art asked, from the lit
tie thou hast, and thou shalt'go near
the gods. II a..tg.-35 II
Haste to do good 8 the slothful in
virtue learn to do evil. Rouse thyself: {:
be not idle. Follow the law of vir-
tue. {s4t- s@l'sJl-J A'- 49,
Mean Is the scent of sandal wood !:
best TO the gods is the fragrance that
rises from the good.
When the, just man goes from this
world to another, his good deeds re-
ceive him, as friend greets friend.
If a traveller does not meet with
one who.is his better or his equal, who
is wise and sober, let him walk alone,
like lonely elephant, like a king.
Friends are pleasant pleasant is mu-
tual enjoyment; good work is pleas
ant in the hour of DEATH 1919
Have for friends the best of men,
men of pure life, who are not slothful.
All that we ARE is the issue of our
thought, Poison affects not one who
has no wound nor is there evil for
one who does no evil.
Better than ruling the world, better
thangoing TO heaven, is the reward Of
the first. step in in virtues The fields
are. damaged by weeds, and man by
wishing. 90 -i.i.-
p The scent of flowers travels not
against the wind, but the fragrance of
goodness travels . even against the
wind. A ;good man pervades every
place.
The taiht, worse than all others, is
ignorance When good man is re-
preached he is to think within him
self: .'These are certainly good peo-
pie since they do not beat me-" If
they begin to beat him with fists, he
will say, "Theya are mild and good,
because they do not beat me with
Clubs" Ii they proceed to this, he
says, ''They are excellent, for they do
not strike me dead" If they kill him,
he dies saying, How good theysare
in freeing me from this miserable
body" E.
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Hard Times The Complaint
--t- 80 ,a1e General. L1

We never knew n time when there
was SO much dullness in the real es-
tate market as now. A few years ago
our places of public resort were lined
with announcements of sales of farms
and other real estate, and our adver-
tising columns were filled to over
flowing with the same class of ad-
vertisemeniS. Auctioneers were bu-
sy crying from one end of the coun-
try to the other, purchasers were
plenty, and so was the money where
with to close the bargains. The doz-
ems of bills of real estate have dwin-
died to q beggarly three or four, and
the greater part of these are signed by
executors, administrators, etc. A
glance at our colunlns further attcsts
the duliness which now exists. But
forced sales by the Sheriff are plenty
enuugh. These tell their own tale.
Intelligent farmers tell us that, to do
their best, be as economical as they
possibly can, work like slaves, they
can. make but from three to five per
cent. on the capital invested in their
land; and how farmers can pay seven
per cent. interest they cannot see.
They predict no change for the better
in the immediate future, but on the
contrary indulge iu gloomy forebod-
ing of increasing dullness and more
forced sales. Judging from the poll
cy pursued by the present and prece-
ding Congresses, we should say the
eyiliis right there. 1t is we'll known
that the majority has continually kept
in view and legisl lted for the money
ed corporations and manufacturers of
the country, scarcely giving the farm
ers and their interests an Incidental
thought. The farmer is cut off from
a market for his products by increas-
ing the cost of transportation, and by
the legislation which has driven our
merchant marine from the ocean and
closed up our ship yards. The price
of everything the farmer buys has
been enhanced, his tools and utensils,
his wearing apparel. etc., and this
of course has caused his laborers to
demand higher wages, while he gets
no corresponding increase in price for
his products. - eeliiiania
The stock and gold gamblers in
Wall street, New York, also derange
business, and they have the counten-
ance of the Federal Treasury. Taxes
are arranged SO that they fall heaviest
on the farmers, while the bond-hold-
ers escape paying their share. We
see 40 prospect of a change, unless it
be tor the worse. The present Con-
gress, being nearly evenly divided in
politics in the lower branch, has paid
more attention to the farmer than
some ofits predecessors. but the new
lY elected house contains a two-thlrds
republican majority, and the good
work begun by the present Congress
will probably be updone and worse
Legislature enacted III its stead. The
same stagnation in the real estate mar
ket exists throughout the country
East, West, North and Southland as
the farmers are oppfessiveIy loaded
down and stagger under their burdens,
so do other branches of business di-
rectly and indirectly dependent upon
the farmers for support, feel the infiu-
ence. Nothing but change OF pOli-
cy OH the part of Congress toward the
farming community will better their
condition.-Netc Jersey Herald.
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Niagara Falls without water.

|, On the 29th of March, 184S, the riv-
er presented remarkable phenome-
non. There is no record of a similar
1one, nor has it been observed since.
The winter had been intensely cold,
and the ice formed on Lake Erie was
very thick. rfsxef .ads,l,q 49,,
+ The ice was foosened around the
shores by the warm days of early
spring. = During the day a stiff easter
ycwind moved the whole field up the
lake. About sundown the wind chop
ped suddenly around, and blew a gale
from the west! This brought the vast
tract of ice down again with .such tre-
mendous force that it filed the neck
of the lake and the outlet, so that the
outflow of the water was very great
ly impeded. Of course it only needed
8 very short space of time for the falls
too drain of thel water below Black
Rock. egsz Dae aGj 10 tsHlNQ --''-t =
!, The consequence was, that when we
arose in the morning at Niagara we
found that our river was nearly half
Comet il5HThe American channel had
dwindledJ into a respectable creek.
The British channel looked as though
it had been smitten with quick con-
sumption, and was fast passing away.
Far up from the head of Goat Island,
and out into. dhe- Canadian rapids,
the water was gone, as it was from
the lower end of Goat Island, out be-
yond+ the tower. The rocks were
bare, black and forbidding. The roar
of Niagara had subsidized almost to a
moan. The scene was desolate, and
but for its novelty and the certainty
that it would change before many
hours, would have been gloomy and
saddening. Every person who has
visited Niagara will remembera beau
tiful Jet of water which shoots up out
of the water about forty rods south OF
the outer sister in the great rapids,
called, with singular contradiction
ofterms, the "Leaping Rock"
|, The writer drove a buggy from near
the end of Goat Island out to point
above and near that Jet. With log
cart and four horses he had drawn
from the outside of the outer island a
stick of pine timber, hewn twelve
inches square and forty feet long.
From the top of the middle island
was drawn o still larger stick, hewn
ION one side and sixty feet long. There
are few places on the globe where a
person would be less likely to go lum-
bering than in the rapids of Niagara.
just above the brink of the Horse
shoe Fall. All the people of the neigh
borhood were abroad exploring re-
cesses and cavities that, had never be-
fore been exposed to mortal eyes.
The writer went some distance up the
shore of the river. Large fields at the
muddy bottom lay bare. ,.
The singular syncope ofthe waters
lasted all day, and closed over the
strange scene. But in the morning
our river was restored in all its
strength, beauty and majesty, and we
were glad to welcome its swelling
tide once more. s-17
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is One day Mr.. Curran said to Father
O'Leary, the well known Roman Cath
olic priest: h zsf b9HHU
".Iievered Father, l wish that you
were st. Peter"
q "And why, Counsellor, do you wish
that / was st. Peter ?" asked the rev.
,erend, gentleman, 1870 taI
Because, Reverend Father, in that
case you would have the keys of heav-
en- and could let me in"
sdisBy my honor and conscience,
Counsellor, 81 replied the divine, "it
would be better for you that l had the
Keys of the other place, for then
could let you OUT