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The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19
The Press.

Rev. Robert COllyer recently delivered
a discourse upon the subject of Ameri-
can journalism, in which he evinced a
much more liberal view and far more
correct comprehension of the character
played by a majority of clergymen when
dealing with this subject. While point
ing out with unsparing hand the many
faults and imperfections of American
newspapers, he at the same time declared
that he found in the fearless, independ-
ent press much more of good than of
evil. Nor did he fail to properly distn-
guish between those papers that regulate
their couse by the chart of morality and
deeency, and those which unscrupulously
pander to the baser instincts of human
nature, and which are too frequently ac-
cepted by ministers as representatives of
American journalism.
The great power for good or evil, not
only in America but in Europe, said
Mr.. Collyer, is the newspaper. Rulers
have come to look to the newspaper for
inspiration, as few of them, he feared
ever look to the Lord. The newspaper,
indeed, is the most remarkable out
growth of modern civilization. No one
instrumentality beside has appropriated
so largely the essence of the inventions
and discoveries which have made this
age peerless over all ages preceding. No
one agency besides employs to-day so
much that is best in the power, thought
and life of man. In no sphere does the
steam engine do work so marvellous in
result as that which it accomplishes in
the press-room no message of such i'm
port are flashed along the telegraph
wire as those that are addressed to the
newspaper, and no express train bears
freight so consequential as the latest
edition.
Not only, observed the speaker, does
the newspaper make tributary to its pur-
pose the highest results of science, but it
captures, as we'll, the finest power OF
current thought Many years ago it was
said by Chalmers that the best thinking
and writing of the day were to be found
in the newspapers. He marveled con,
stantly how its ablest and most pertinent
productions could frequently be evolved
| on the spur of the moment and In the
clash Of the worlds intensent strife
when the questions that came up for dis
cussion and decision were so often sprung
upon the writer. But the average news
paper article of to day, said Mr.. Collyer
is better than the average newspaper ar
ticle of Chalmers day; and the whole i!
the result of consuming energy, fed by
ample means, which searches every
corner of the land for men adapted to tn,
purpose, and each in his place con
tributes to the muliform requirements o
the modern journal. 1t is characterized
by the keenest enterprise. Nothing es
capes its ever-present eye. 1t is the alb
stract and brief chronicle of the time
showing virtue her own features, scorr
her own image, and the very age anC
body of the time his form and presence
No wonder then, said the preacher, tha
the newspaper has come to be the mos
potent power we know of among thing
outward and visible; nor should we fai
to be proud of it when it is held sacrec
to virtue and truth.
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VARIETIES.

The potato bug has made its appear
ance in the western part of the State.
| Oranges of the Order of the Patrons
of Husbandry are to be formed in Mas
chusetts.
Grasshopper short cakes are in season
among the Chinese restaurants in San
Francisco.
Ignatius Donnelley is named as the
agriculturist candidate for Governor OF
| Minnesota.
The recent death of an Illinois woman
is attributed to the too liberal use of a
hair restorative.
Louis Riel, the ex-rebel, is candidate
for the seat in the Canadian Parliament,
made vacant by the death of the Hon.
Geo. Cartier.
The Rhode Island Railroad Commits
sioner recommends that all passenger
cars be compelled to carry fire extinguish-
ers, axes and buckets.
According to the local papers, the
caterpillers in Tennessee, have COM
menced their annual amusement of block
i1.g up the railroads
Anniversary week is thought by
thoughtful observers-both takers and
listeners-to be on its last legs. When
May training and our yearly theolo-
gicaI militia muster vanish, and the Fast
Day is abolished, what will be left us of
the past? We shall be in the blighted
condition of England when Tom Hughes
has beaten the Derby boston Tran
script.
A candidate in Adams county, Penna
makes the following liberal offer to the
voters of that section: 81 have obtained
an exclusive right from the President of
the United States for an Improvement on
the washing machine-if / am elected,
this [ give to the county of Adams, for
every one to make, use and sell as they
see proper. 1 ask for this your votes"
Summer visitors at ST. Augustine, Fla,
are entertained by bull fights.
Lewistown, Me-, is to have ice water
tanks at the corners of the principal
streets during the hot season.
An Iowa Judge sentenced man to six
months imprisonment for splitting tobac-
co juice IN horses eye.
The Marmot, little animal, some
thing like woodchuck, has recently be-
come in great demand among Partisan
epicures.
The annual amount of whisky frauds
in new Orleans is estimated at 81, 900
barrels, upon which the tax would be up
wards of $500, 900.
An Union Pacific Railroad train which
recently arrived at Omaha, had on board
two corpses, had one passenger die on the
train, and another fall off the back plat
form of car and get killed.
A prodigy of domestic accomplish
ments advertises as follows in a Vienna
paper: Gamma Agrikol, sick nurse,
watches dead bodies, repairs straw chairs,
applies leeches, and makes pastries, des-
serts and delicacies."
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Education for Girls.

We take the following excellent sug-
gestions from the New York Times:
Our remarks on the excessive brain
work of children in our public and pri-
vate schools have called forth much COM
ment from those interested in education.
But there is one aspect of the subject
which has not received the attention it
deserves; we mean the kind of educa-
ton which is given to the girls of the
middle and upper classes. There seems
to us to be radical mistake among
people of means in the general theory Of
female education. The public schools
do not, perhaps, so much fall into it, but
the majority of private academies,
schools and colleges for young girls are
constantly committing it.
What we allude to is the examining
system in teaching girls. A Young lady
leaves one of the childrens' schools. and
after fifteen or sixteen, enters fashion.
able city school or institute, or college.
She has but three years of study, for al
eighteen, or at least nineteen, she must
tcome out" When her brother enters
college, or the university, she finishes.
She has but three short years; and then
she must cram French, Latin, algebra.
geometry, rhetoric, natural philosophy
chemistry, logic, mental philosophy, his
tory, composition, music, drawing anC
embroidery. She has not at those year,
the solid bodily vigor of a young man.
She is weighted" moreover, with hel
accomplishments.
The lad has no two or three hours
work in practicing, and probably n,
drawing, and certainly no embroidery o.
fine needle work to do. Yet abe under
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Gossip About the Sex.

A young and happy widow in Paris re-
Gently remarked to friend :T1 am now
in the honeymoon of my widowhood.
The proper way for ladies to get the
right tangle on their hair is to fill it full
of corn meal and let the chickens scratch
it out
A good-looking female doctor has set
tied in Charlotte, Mich, and every man
in town is taking pills by the quart-as
ten cents per pill.
Football, according to the newspapers,
is becoming popular game all over the
country. Boston girls claim TO be the
most skillful.
Twenty students of the Pittsburg Fe-
male College having become converted,
declare their determination to firt with
none but young divinity students here
after.
A young lady student of startling geni-
us, who attends Ripon College, lately de-
clined the Latin pronoun, hic, in the fol
lowing manner: 'Hic, haec, hoe. hug-us
hug-us, hug-us.
A Boston paper tells this: "a lady
called at drug store and breathlessly
remarked, sTbereI / have serenaded al
the way down here to get a recipe pre-
scribed, and disremember the combus
tibles r.
An Iowa Justice of the Peace refused
to fine man for kissing girl against he
will, because when the lass came int
court he was obliged to hold on to tn,
arms of his chair to keep from kissing
her himself.
An Ohio Postmaster has received let
ter wherein the writer profers curiou
request as follows: '1s you car. q vii
ascertain the names of Some rich olC
maid or widow worth from thousand, t.
50, 900 or more let me know BY return
mail and i VIII pitch in and if / make !
tie the Knot, it Is hundred dollars il
your pocket. Keep this q profoun.
secret between Us two if it gets out all j
spoiled ! am pour but want 70 MARI,
: rich.
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takes to'finish in three years what he
only half accomplishes in six. The pro
granme before her is something alarm
| ing. Yet she deyotes herself heroically
to carry it out. She attempts one after
another of these half-dozen difficult and
exaeting studies. Being quick In facili-
ties, and especially in memorizing, she
manages to make good show at recita-
ton. She passes creditable examlna-
ton, and after three years of this undl-
gested swallowing of all sorts Of studies
receives her diploma and graduates. But
what has she for it all? In all ikeli-
hood a broken constitution, and almost
certainly head confusedly filled with
fragments of knowledge, and no healthy
solid mental habits.
1t is in such training that the misti-
ness of wOmen's mind is acquired. SO
many seem deficient in clear conceptions.
Their progress, outside of their own
sphere, is so often deficient. Their cul-
ture is superficial. Such large numbers
of them have not, in many cases, that
pleasant faculty of cultivated women
Of appreciating. These crammed stu
dents are not found afterward leading
society. They have not the indefinite
charm of real culture. They cannot
even teach or guide the teaching thor
oughly Of their own children. Their
school does not in the least fit them for
practical life. They are not trained in
the thoroughness and exactness which
make a woman suited for many of the
heavy duties of the world. If called
upon to support themselves, they are not
found to have a careful education for
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

The New York World closes a late
article on the Judiciary election in Illinois
as follows:
Out of our -, 500, 900 workers of every
sort, 1000, 900 till the soil. While sub
jected to a debased and fuctuating paper
currency, these 100000 get and will
get no more return for all they sell than
they got thirteen years ago. While sub
jected to the protectionists' plundering
tariff these 100000 will pay much
more for all they buy than they paid
thirteen years ago. Our unjust tariff
and our irredeemable currency are the
two wheels that have crushed beneath
them the interests of the American
Farmer.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19


The following expression in reference
10 sundry infamies with which the Grant
Administration is identified, are from
leading Republican papers Of the West :
The Republican party don't want any
Credit Mobilier or back pay plastered upon
it, in any way. shape or manner. The APP
pointment Of Mr.. Bingham. after the action
of the Republican state Convention. might
better have been Indefinitely postponed
Toledo Blade.
The Republicans will not thank Grant for
this appointment. Next 70 Butler himself
Bingham is especially responsible for al
the iniquity of the salary-grab, and this !,
not time to reward his unfaithfulness with
promOtion.-Akron (O.) Beacon.
In view of the salary-grab, and Mr.
Bingham's connection with it, and the we'll
known sentiment of the country on that
subject, we are very clear in the opinion
that his appointment as minister TO japan
was mistake. Every time the President
I appoints a man who voted for the salary
steal TO any position. he will hy in the fac,
of the people--Cineinnati Gazette.
The Bank of England covers five acres o
/ ground, and mploys five hundred clerks
! Light is admitted through open courts; nc
mon could take the bank, therefore, with
| out the aid of cannon TO batter the immens,
| walls. Large cisterns are sunk In tn
| court. ard engines, in perfect order, are nj
WAYS in readiness In case Of fire.
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NIusic-LOving Bovfnes.

A Florida correspondent of the New
York sun is responsible for this story:
noticed dozen cows standing belly
deep in the river in front of Mrs. Stowe 5
place, with their heads under water.
They were feeding upon water grass. |
have found but one place in East Flori-
da where [ could procure a glass of fresh
milk. That is in the residence of Judge
Paine, in this place. His COWS roam the
savannas and pine wilderness, and eat
stiff wire grass that grows upon the bOr-
ders of the swamps. The cattle are
wild, but are susceptible to the charm of
music. They are only got to the house
by singing to them. Morning and night
young Tom Paine, the Judges son, rides
to the woods on a marsh pony, and rolls
out over the wet prairie the notes Of some
mournful song, like
''Way down the Mississippi floating"
The cows listen, and begin to gather
about the musician. Toms voice is
sweet and powerful. When the kline are
in line he begins to urge them home, but
there are no roads and fences, and he
must keep up his singing, for the instant
he stops the cows break like New York
audience at the close Of an opera. The
cattle appear to have acquired taste for
music, as it requires good singer to
drive them home from the pasture in
lower Florida.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

The most perfect home 4 ever saw was
in a little house into the sweet incense of
whose fires went no costly thing A
thousand dollars served for q years Iy-
inc Of father, mother and three children.
But the mother was a creator of home
her relations with her children We're the
most beautiful / have ever seen even %
dull and commonplace man was lifted up
and enabled 10 do work for souls Boy the
atmosphere which this woman created
every inmate Of her house Involuntary
looked into her face for the keynote ui
the day; and it always rang clear From
the rosebud or clover leaf which, iu spite.
Of her hard hOuscwork she always found
time to put by our plates at breakfast
down TO the essay or story she has ou
hand 10 be read or discussed IN the cve-
ming, there was DO intermission of her iu-
/ huence. She has always been and ulway-
will be my ideal Of a mother, wife, home
maker If TO her quick brain, loving
/ heart, and exquisite tact had been added
/ the appliance Of wealth and the enlarge
ments of wider culture, here would have
/ been absolutely the ideal home. As ID
was. il is the best ! have seen.
Ii is more than twenty years since
crossed its threshold | do not know
whether she is living or not But as
see house after house in which fathers and
mothers and children are dragging out
their lives in a haphazard alter notion of
listless routine and unpleasant collision,
] always think with a sigh of that poor
little cottage by the sea shore, and of the
1 woman who was the 'light thereof
and find in the faces Of many men and
children, as plaiRly written and as sad to
80 see, as in the newspaper columns of
Personals" Wanted - home. ~
From Bits Of Talk about Home Mat
ters."
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The Farmers' anEeS-EaIuc of
Ihe Organization
From the 81. 81. World.

From the y. \. World.
1t might be supposed. if experience did
not teach the contrary, that victory ought
to be easy in a struggle of large masses of
people against a limited number of mOnop-
0lists. But the mOnOpolists are like gar
risOn in a strong fortress, where few bat
talions can withstand for a long time the
assaults of vast armies. Their advantage
lies in a great concentration Of wealth and
influence in few hands, and in their iacili-
ties for acting in com bination. The small
ness of their numbers and their Opportuni-
ties for confidential intercourse enable
them to veil their plans until they are
ready for execution. The people, who are
their victims. possess no corresponding adj
vantages. The mOnopolists can support
lobbies, give dinners. cultivate intimacies
with legislators. grant loans or other favors
to the wire -pullers who pack nominating
conventions; whereas the mass Of small
cultivators on their farms, and mechanics
who go to their daily toll, live quite out OF
the Spheres of busy intrigue. They are
powerless 10 foil unjust legislation while
the yoke is being fastened upon their necks.
This balance of facilities on the side OF the
monopolists increases year by year. 1t Is
only by com bination and discipline on
the part of the people that they can be sue
cessfully resisted.
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The Farmers Movement.

The Detroit Tribune, leading Ad-
ministration paper in Michigan, says of
this movement:
1t viii revolutionize the politics OF the
Northwest. Almost all of the abuses which
characterize the existing systems of admin
istration aud of legislation bear with great
heaviness upon the producing CLASSES Re-
form In the civil service. reform in the pre-
sent tariff, which which has in so many re-
spects ceased to be protective and become
oppressive, and reform in the prevalent
methods Of dealing with powerful corpora
tions--an these are issues in which the agri-
cultural and other producing elements of
our population have the most vital interest.
Their triumphant establishment is also es-
sential to the future prosperity and we'll
being Of the Government II the tsfaRmeFs
movement makes its platform of the
| planks, 1t win enter into political trade with
ample capital. a
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

The young ladies of Vassar College in
clude horseback riding and rowing among
their many other accomplishments. On
the bosom of the little lake at the foot of
the college hill there is quite cluster of
boats, and the fair-browed, saucy-eyed
girls make themselves much at home on
the water. They pull an easy oar, and
in the boats look the pictures of grace
and beauty. There is common sense in
the management of Vassar. In teaching
the girls to take an interest in physical
pastimes, the professors do much to coun-
teract the effects of tight laeing and close
confinc nent in the study room. The
girls who practice rowing will make
stronger, better and purer women than
those who are reared after the fashion of
hOt-house plants.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

Beyond all doubt the Congressman who
voted to increase their pay are amazed at
the intense and universal Indignation ofthe
people thereat. The meaning of this cyclone
of popular anger is this: The essential fun
damental principles underlying our Gov
ernment having been fixed finally and be-
yond peradventure, the people have COM
mehced in earnest TO correct and purify the
modes of administration. 1t is a good sign.
-Laporte Ind.) Herald.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

The friends of Senator Mitchell. of Ore
gon, say that he admits the fact that he Is
now living under an alias. 1t is not
thought. however, by them that this will
imperil his seat in the Senate. II Is claim
ed that a long time ago the United States
senate made precedent which will apply
TO his case. by refusing TO eXpeE Senator
elected under an assumed name. The
ground taken was that the election could
not be invalidated when there was no mis-
take as to the individual elected by the
I,erislatIlre.
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snORT PARAGRAPms.

Ladies wearing apparel can bo rendered
uniniammable by solution of sulphatc o.
potash aud alum.
II is said that hereafter "a band of music
will be the correct thing at all our fashion
able weddings.
Hans Won Bulow. who, after Liszt is tlc
7 only living rival of Bubinstciu as % pianist,
/ is playing in London.
The mania for old LAGOS agaiu ueg..
| Cold coffee produces the desirable tut .f
/ age quickly aud effectively.
We arc getting back Ga fashion further
than ever. Ruts are now worn .n large
that they have to Doe stlencd with wire.
The relincotc has fairly taken tbc town
hy storm. The ladies, one uuI llI. HTr ler
lighted with 30. 10 is stylish. handsome tul
becoming.
The Blpust- propose to prepare for tHg.r
centennial bon lssG, by raising money tH
complete The endowment of all their educ
cutioual Institutions.
There Is talk of moving thc Index from
Toledo To Boston. The Radical club may
save it, unless indeed 90 shall prove too
heavy for the club. But Radical scUt-
mcnts flourish in Boston when they willie
elsewhere.
Experiments with 70 new rifle have bees
made at Ninceunes. The rifles are charged
with metallic cartridges, and Do l- claimed
that OF the new system, fourteen sH.I. I
minute can bc delivered. or fUrtN-tHT.e
shots iu three minutes.
The Methodist women started % foreign
society four years ago, Il.t
year Co. receipts amounted t0 over HNN
thousand dollars. lt supports lady mIs-
,iouers, teachers, AN orphan asylum uul
home iu India,
At O. recent sale iu London there was off
fcrcd "a large and WCll-pHiutcd portrait tH
which uo name was attached. ~ Was pure
chased hy MIR Graves, ot Pan Malls who,
lu examination. found 10 ta hc portrait Ul
Sir 4. Wren, painted by MeudcrweL
4 now style OF bracelet ba- lately come
INTO great favor. Iti- made ot a very huu
hrpal OF gold, which, hy "a sort OF knitting
machine, Is knitted into "a cube. This I-
afterwards crushed hat, forming "a band.
These are oruamcntcd iu every imaginable
le-igu
Amongst the Curiositip- Of criticism tlH
,e included the following from the London
standard, appropo~ ol French plays aud tHn
of the actress " The words ut
hese long TRADES which it is such secret
% deliver issue from her lips, each Instinct
Win Ii separate life and expression of their
wu, aud might almost Dee likcncd to hvr-
aaviug the c1lyN of "a flower each charged
With its burden of pollen aud honey y-syu-r
nd sweetness
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

Track laying on the Natchez, Jackson
and Columbus Railroad progresses at the
rate of third of mile per day. and the
track is now laid four and half miles out
from the city. Col. Cooley win begin with
lot of hands to-day the grading of the
road from SeltzertOwn out il the direction
of Fayette.-Natchez Democrat.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

Morgan. the recently elected Chancery
Clerk of Xazo0, has made a first-rate official
bond. with Judge Hudson. DR.. Gadberry
and 10. Pervis, As s0Feties. We understand
that these gentlemen signed. with the
understanding that that accomplished office
man, n. 7. Pugh, should have charge of the
busiDess.--LexingtonA Advertiser.
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SIGNS RIGHT IN OLD JASPER. -Sayt
the E,nternrise Courier

The political outlook in Jasper. though
little il as vet spoken upon the subject
seems highly promising for the Democracy.
The old officers. it is thought, will be re-
nominated. Capt. Brame is an excellent
has a 4 ore efficient chancery clerk than Mr..
Parker. Mr.. Sheely understands and at
tends to his duties a circuit clerk; and no
more efficient treasurer than Mr.. Mcneil
could be found.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 10. is

hadn't been there to throw her off the
track. Let's go and divide. | ought to
have the biggest share, as | had the hard
est part of the work"
1t is thus that patriotism and virtue
are rewarded.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

The counties of DuPage. Kane and Ken
dali composing the fourth circuit of Illinois.
voted last November: Grant, 7.949; Gree
lev, 1872. The Republican party managers
nominated Charles Wheaton for Judge, and
bid high for the farmers vote. The farm
ers nominated Wilcox, and elected him.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-19

The work of extending the Mississippi
Central Railroad northward from Jackson,
Tenn, Is now progressing rapidly. The
track was laid 20 Milan, the junction of the
road with the Memphis ano Louisville road
about 3 week ago.-Water Valley Courier.