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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-21
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Mr. TAYLOR was recognized as one
Of The best newspaper writers In the
West, aud under his management the
La Crosse Leaoier took high rank among
the leading literary papers Of the coun-
try. Many Of his productions we're OK
tensively copied, not only by the news
paper press generally, but by the most
scholarly and critical literary journals
The news Of his death will be read
with regret 10 ten thousand homes, aud
bring pang OF personal sorrow to the
hearts Of thousands of those who had
never seen his face. Few writers, con.
fined 10 a sphere no wider than his,
have received such high commentators
for their yigor aud purity ofstyle, beau
ty and fertility Of imagination, aud
truthful aud lofty sentiment. Ills gen.
Jus was versatile aud practical His
sympathics with the Good, the True
and the Beautiful, were as great as his
abilities 10 forcibly and charmingly por
tray them. His Heart was as biz a.
his Brain, aud In bis richest moods he
gave utterance to thoughts, combining
with wonderful power aud beauty, the
fsncies Of the Poet, the logic Of the
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
Must Such Things Be?

A girl who all day turns out of her way
to avoid stepping into a tub of cold soap
suds which ought to have been emptied out
the day the washing was finished, cannot
be recommended as good housekeeper.
Moreover, il she enpties, eleanses and
sets the tub away at the proper time, but
leaves knife in the butter crock. a spoon
in the apple jar. and a ten-inch plat
ter with mouthful of meat and a spoon
on it on shelf behind the pantry door; or
if you find in the bread bowl an old towel
and piece of table cloth, both mildewed
with bits of mouldy bread of all sizes, from
crumbs to half loaves, dumped in with a
fresh batch, she cannot be called tidy.
Or, If the water pitchers on the wash
stands through the house are black with
dust in the bottom, or the soap dishes make
good suds without any application of soap
other than that which has been clinging to
them for month or two; or if there are a
lot of dust and feathers under the bed, and
the pillows are hard for want of airing, and
the windows are so dirty that a sunny day
looks dark and cloudy through them, and
young spiders are practicing the art of
spinning by running down before your
nose on nice little fringes of cobwebs; be
sure the girl in charge has been disappoinC-
ed in love, or is a poor stick of a thing natu-
rally.
All this is bad enough. but think of eat
ing after her cooking! No doubt she wipes
up the floor with the dish cloth. washes tea
cups and saucers after greasy plates and
uses the frying pan from day
to day without washing. substitutes her
apron or dress for holder, or dish towel
mixes up pancakes with her fingers. after
her hair. and pounds beefsteak on
a table, where she has been securing knives.
The only guard against starvation. if you
must submit to such state of things. is
never TO 90 near the kitchen. Even then
there is danger of being poisoned or of dy-
ing from eating your peck of dirt in too
much of a hurry.-Elm Orlou.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

Governor Hart. of Florida refuses to de
| liver General Littlefield up to Governor
Caldwell. ct North Carolina, on the grounC
that the allegations accom- panying the de-
mand are insufficient to justify him in
turning the General over to the tender
mereies of that functionary.
The expectation of moss is becoming an
extensive branch of business in New Or
leans. One moss factory, with 4 capacity
thousand bales, has just taken an order for
two hundred and fifty bales to be shipped
to Hamburg by steam.
The Griffin (Ga.) Press says: Some of
our farming friends tell US that they had to
pillow up and replant their crop of cotton,
and that they now have a beautiful stand.
This crop has come out wonderfully in the
past few days, and with favorable seasons
we shall have a very large crop this year.
and get about twelve cents for iI next sea-
son.
Governor Smith. of Georgia. says that
the four States of Georgia, Alabama Flori-
da and South Carolina use every year 50,-
100000 bushels more of grain than they
produce. They must look to the Western
farmers to supply this deficiency; any at
tempt to raise corn for themselves would
be at the expense of their cotton crops and
would cause them d loss of $50000,000
year.
A colored preacher at Sparta. Georgia,
some time ago was heard TO say i'm a funeral
sermon of a deceased brother of his church
He ruminates no longer among us he
nave eXonerated from the syllogiSm Of this !
worlds DETERMINATIONS and when he gifts
% the cold, dry stream of the Ribber Jar
lin. the kerosenes and the Perfeens will !
meet hin dar and row him over on dry /
and TO the silver sterling city
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
A JOKE ON MARRIAGE
Eli Perkins Say on the Subject.

ITO the Editor of the Daily Graphie.l
young to get married, and an old man
knows too much" Still, notwithstand-
in.s Diogenes, people will get married.
They will insist on being happy if it half
kill 'em.
The other day, old Mr.. Thompson
Baldheaded Thompson the fellows call
him-of Lexington, took his third wife.
He was just as happy when he led this
last lamb to the slaughter as when he led
the first apparently. After the cere-
mony he started on the proverbial bridal
trip to Philadelphia, by way of jersey
City / say this because he might have
gone by way of Niagara Falls. He took
his bride with him. That was kind and
considerate of Thompson. The most
heart-rending thing in the world is to see
man go off on his wedding tour and
spend his entire honey moon, leaving his
young wife at home. No honeymoon is
complete without bride.
Well, when when old Mr.. Thompson
got to the city of Brotherly and Loverly
Love, he took his wife up to her room,
and then went down to show people how
Hdpp1 HC ndS. AHOuIpcOu ICLtdLHIY uIu
look happy. As he turned over the
leaves of the arrivals he fairly laughed
to himself.
You look very happy about some
thing, Mr.-Mr.-let's us see, Mr. (look-
ing at the register MFR. Thompson, OBJ
served the clerk
"O-ah, yes, ought to look happy. |
was married only yesterday"
Yesterday? Why / was married
yesterday myself" replied the clerk.
What, you! You married yester-
day, too2 Well, that is remarkmark-
able-r-e-m-a-rkab What a coinci-
dence. Both married yesterday What
do you say to drink a bottle of cham
pagne with me on that p continued Mr.
Thompson, shaking the clerks hand.
All right" said the clerk, and they
went into the restaurant to do it.
Yes, Mr.. Brown" commenced the
happy Thompson, as he slipped his wine,
| was married yesterday at exactly six
O'Clock IN
So was l. Just my time exactly, !"
exactly" said Mr.. Brown.
Wonderful coincidenceP T. exclaimed
MIR. Thompson, and calling for q second
HI
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
GENERAL LAW. No. 229.l

AN ACT supplemental to an Act entitled
an Act to incorporate the Canton and
Vicksburg Railroad Company, and the
several Acts amendatOry thereof and sup
plental thereto.
SECTION I. Be it enacted bv the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
Vicksburg, Canton and YaZoO City Rail-
road Company be. and they are hereby, au-
th0riZed and empowered to construct and
thereafter to run, use and maintain as
part and continuation of the main trunk
line of their railroad, a railroad from the
city OF Canton, the present northeastern
terminus of their located line, to point on
the line dividing the State of Mississippi
from the State of Alabama, the route of
the said road. thus extended, to be To-
Gated in Il northeasterly direction from the
said city of Canton. and as nearly an air
line as the nature of the country will admit.
SEC. , Be it further enacted. That all
the rights. privileges. powers and immuni-
ties now conferred by the original Act of
and the several Acts supple
nlOnuaI tHeFeLO ana amen6afnry thereof.
upon the said Vicksburg, Canton and Ya-
zoo City Railroad Company be, and thev
are hereby, extended and continued to the
said company over the line of their railroad
as extended by section of this Act.
SEC 3 Be it further enacted. That all
acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.
be, and the same are hereby repealed and
that this act take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved A pril 10, 1873
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
GENERAL LAWS
OF THE
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
GENERAL LAW. No. 225- /

GENERAL LAW, No. 225.
AN ACT explanatory of an Act to author
ize the consolidation of the New Orleans,
Jackson and Great Northern and the Mis-
sissippi Central Railroad Companies, and
for other purposes, passed the Senate
APRIL II, 1873, passed the House April IL,
1873.
WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to the
trse construction of an Act entitled an Act
to authorize the consolidation of The New
Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern and
Mississippi Central Railroad Companies and
foI other purposes, as to the power of the
State hereafter TO levy taxes on the COM
panies mentioned in said Act; now, there
fore, for explanation of the same
SECTION l. Be il enaered by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That the
Act entitled an Act TO authorize the con-
sohdation Of the New Orleans, Jackson and
Gpat Northern and Mississippi Central
shall be construed that tile taxing pow
poratinAs therein mentioned shall be unaf-
fected by said Act, but shall be and remain
the same as if said Act had not been passed.
SIC. :. Be it further enacted. That it
i the iutention of this Legislature that this
Act. hing explanatory of the Act alluded
To in the first sec ion of this Act, shall be
in connection with said Act. and
ta ke effect ana be in force at any time that
II sha'l be necessary for such joint con-
struetion to be effected, and these several
Acts shall not be construed separately.
Approved April 10, 1873.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12

Livery lace machine employing two
men requires twenty to thirty women TO
wind the silk or cotton first, and to dress,
finish, clip and seallop, and card or fold
and pack up the goods ut last The above
Is a moderate estimate of the proportion
o. girls over sixteen years old required
Pattern girls, who make up pattern
books, and post up and prepare, ticket
and number little packets of patterns to
go abroad, and who, therefore. must
have some education, or at least write
fairly, get about 81 week. From three
or four to thirty or forty of these smart
girls are employed in each warehouse
They must be dressed well, and some
times rather smartly, because they are
constantly in and out of the salesrooms.
and seen by the buyers. ''Jenniers. .
who wind the lace on the cards oct
about 81 a week, and fnishers generally
Us. TO 81. 5s. These are f'warehouse
superior to factory hands, though thew
do not, should think, get on an average
higher wages, if so much for a clever
frame clipper or winder in factory can
earn from 18s. to 25s. week. DRESS
ing is dirty work, done in intensely hot
rooms in enormously large buildings, but
girls wages are very high. The immense
demand for female labor the town, OF
course, cannot supply. The work is SO
lucrative, and so light and agreeable, es
peclally the warehouse work, that young
girls are attracted from all the towns anC
villages round, and even from a consid
erable distance. These girls live remote
from their friends, in lodgings. Some
times several join and rent a house, and
Live together.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
The Rising Tide.

The formation of farmers oranges goes
on with a rapidity that astnnIshes their best
friends; while, at the same time, this great
movement bewilders those who have been
Indifferent to it, and startles to the quick
the railroad mOnopolists over the whole
eountry Such an uprising against the
m monopolists of the land was never dreamed
of three months ago by the horde who raw
age and impoverish the people bv their
combinations of capital, their wholesale
speculatiOns in food, and by their rapacity
and avarice in the matter of carrying the
produce of the country. They now see
there is earnestness in the movement which
is destined to check their raDacitV. and that
almost the whole body of the people, east
and west, are in sympathy with it; and
further, that by a united effort they are re-
solved that the power of monopoly to ruin
and destroy US shall be curbed and checked.
1t is all idle talk on the part of the railroad
monopolists and their associates in specula-
tion. to urge extraneous reasons for the high
price charged for carrying produce from
the west to the east. 1t will not do to urge
as reason the cost to them OF this or that.
If they choose TO make the palace cars "a
source of great expense to them; if they.
in their rxtravagaBce, can afford TO pen sion
railroad presidents at the rate of $25,O00
year, or more; If they find in an easy mat
ter to eXpend $50O00 To 100000 per annum
upon useless snpernnmeraries- ALI well.
That is their affair. But when they come
to tax The producing and consuming
classes of the east and west TO make up for
the waste aud extravaganza of their own
house, then it becomes another matter
other parties interested. Why should
the people of this country pay for the fol-
lies. the extravagances and useless eXpen-
ditures of our monopoly lords? That is just
the question which is now about to receive
a solution, and if it is not successful one so
far as the people are concerned, and one
that will bring the monopolists to speedy
repentance, then the signs of the times are
deceptive to an extent hitherto unknown at
any former period.-Carrollton Record.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
SNAP aBHJDGNs EMF.
How a w 's~i~@iPpi Ring are Cob
bling Fine Lands for "a
Mere Song.

EDITOR AVALANCHE A trip to Boli-
var county, Mississippi, from which [
have just returned, discloses some inter
esting matters to land owners in that
county.
Under recent act of the Legislature
Of Mississippi, passed for the purpose of
perfecting and quieting tax titles, the
President of the Ten-Cent Levee Board
filed a bill in the Chancery Court of
Bolivar county subjecting the lands for
feited to that Board since 1867. Publ
cation was made in a paper scarcely ever
seen in the county, and the whole matter
50 handsomely conducted by the q ring,
that few outside had any knowledge of
the proceedings. At the April term of
the court decree was had for the sale of
all land thus forfeited, and owing to the
many kinds of taxes for the same fiscal
year, collected at different times during
the year, few even of the business men
of the county escaped and the result is,
that nearly every landowner, even resi-
dent landowners, have some, perhaps all
their lands, embraced in this Decree of
which they had no knowledge until the
sale was in progress, and perhaps the
nfst information or anything wrong
came from the land-shark who had pur-
chased his land, paying in bonds or scrip
at from thirty-fve cents to eighty cents
on the dollar, and demanding as many
thousands as it cost him hundreds, and
compromises have already been r1ade
upon this basis There is considerable
excitement and bad blood in consequence
The crop prospects are indeed prom
Using. Stands of both cotton and corn are
excellent. Labor doing well, and the
farmers hopeful. A greater area is in
cultivation than for any year since the
war-corn as we'll as cotton.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12

The Chief Leader of the Grant
Parish Mob i'm LOufsiana.
From Pomoroy,s Democrat.

The parsh of Grant was organized by the
Legislature of 1868 at the instigation of
one William Calhoun, a hideous huneh-
back. whose family was once one of the
wealthiest and most respectable in all the
State. 1t is now reduced to Calhoun and
sister, who refuses to own relationship to
this depraved and vile wretch. After the
war his low and vicious instincts led him
to associate with the negroes. with whom
he mingled terms of perfect social
equality. Becoming Radical of the most
blatant character he did everything in his
power to curry favor with the negro
masses. On visit to New Orleans he be-
come attracted by a handsome mulatto
girl and sought to marry her. This he
finally did upon the payment of five thou
sand dollars to her mother. About this
time his sister returned from Europe. and
was so incensed at his conduct that she re-
fused to speak to him, whereupon he show
ed his gentle instincts by sapping her
face. She is now refugee in a Northern
city. Notwithstanding the groveling ma
ture of this ghoul, he did not seem to be a
success in politics; his vast plantations
were morIgaged for all they were worth,
and he was succeeded as a boss among the
negroes by the notorious outlaw Ward.
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
rhe Mobile aud Ohio.
From the Chicago Tribune.
O Directors of the Mobile and Ohio

From the Chicago Tribune.
The Directors of the Mobile and Ohio
railroad have just held their twenty-ffth
annual meeting 1t was half jubilee and
wholly congratulatory. They fellcitated
themselves that a road five hundred and
sixteen miles in length, crossing seven
degrees of latitude, and opening up a
comparative wilderness, had been con-
structed by their energy, for the de
mon of war had presided over It's birth,
and during four bloody years 1t was the
sport Of contending armies. The close
Of the war left the road an extensive
wreck, and, as sixty-five per cent. OF It's
original cost had been lost, the Company
we're bankrupt They offered to sell out
insignificantIy cheap to the Illinois Cen
tral, but the latter were not polite enough
to buy. The eight intervening years
have witnessed its severe struggles to
keep above water, but it now stands on a
firm basis, and shows a net revenue of
81, 022, $50 40 for the last fiscal year.
In 1868 the earnings were 81 $50, ,6O1 80,
and, in 1872, 81, ,952, ,507 50, an increase
OF ID per cent. per annum. The pro-
perty of the Company Is varlously estI-
mated at from S22 900, 600 TO SO, ,000,
000 As the excess of earnings have in
yariably been expended in repairs and
improvements, the Directors felt justified
in recommending ali increase of stock,
giving a new share to the present stock
holders for each share held by them-25
per cent. to be paid, and the remaining
10 per cent to be as dividend, and re- |
presented by property acquired by the |
Company. The vote on this proposition |
was, 29, ,982 for and 816 against. 1t will |
yield 81, 1861 SO, to be applied in inn
provements and equipments.
The Mobile and Ohio is the great cot
ton road of the South. During the year
ending April /, 1873, it moved 184, ,619 /
bales of cotton. OF this amount 165, ,824
bales went South for transhipment at
Mobile. Only 49, ,819 bales were moved
North How much greater proportion
5he opportunity to control this line in the
interest of Chicago been seized, it Is,
perhaps, not profitable to calculate; but,
IS it remains the leading railway in the
south, it is certainly matter Of regret
hat lack of enterprise and sagacity
hould force it to seek close connection
With St. Louis to our comparative ex- /
lusion.
One remarkable feature is, that for
wenty years the road has enjoyed an
from serious accident. No ,
Dad in the country, Of the same length, {
as been in operation so long time, and {
as much business, with this t
ecord: that no passenger has been kill
d by causes beyond his own control. ,
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12

B. n. Butler Reported 10 be COum.
sci for the BOmd.HOIders.
From the Natehez Democrat.


That there is such scheme on TOO, we'll
organized. we cannot doubt. because we
were made aware of its existence nearly
three years ago, when quite liberal offers
were intimated, in a very delicate way, to
the Nathez Democrat, the Vicksburg Her
aid, and one or two others of our influential
State papers, to procure their influence in
favor of tie bond-holders. or at least to
buy off their hostility while the scheme
was pushing through. 1t was then well
understood that certain parties in Mem
phiS. and their agents in Jackson, had sew
eral hundred thousand dollars furnished by
the Philadelphia and Amsterdam bond
holders, to be placed where it would do
the most good.n But it was then found
that public sentiment was not ripe for the
venture, so it was Indefinitely deferred but
not entirely abandoned. Another faint
effort was made to revive the scheme for
payment during the last session of the
Legislature, but it too failed TO meet such
encouragement as warranted Its being then
pushed. 1t was then that the jackson Pilot,
the leading organ of the ruling party in
the State, published this very significant
utterance, and so far as it could speak for
the Republican party, placed it on record
for bond payment: That this debt (Union
Bank and Planters Bank will nltima mately
be paid by the State, provided the Repub-
lican party remains In power, there cannot
exist the shadow eff Doubt" As this ex-
preston has never been expressly repudi-
ated ito our knowledge) by any of the Re-
publican leaders in the State, it may be
taken as true that that party is committed
TO the payment Of this immense debt,
which now amounts 60 nearly thirty mil
lions of dollars, or AS much As twenty per
cent. of the valuation of all the real and
personal property in the State. @ffts3
1t is also well to know, in view of the
pending State election, that it has bean
stated in certain quarters with how much
of truth we are not prepared TO sayl, that
Benz. r. Butler. of Massachusetts,, Il one of
the counsel tor the holders of the repudis
ated bonds. and that the proposed elevation
of his sOn-in-iaw. Senator ATnee, TO the
'Governorship of the State, has in view, anl
is part OF . wel-lafd plan. to bring about
the early assumption by the State OF this
debt. and ita ultimate payment principal
and interest in full. .s--
The weekly clarion., 1873-06-12
Lord Lytton.

Lord Lytton added 10 the inspiration
of nature almost almost everything that
experience could give him. 1t was
equally easy for him to place upon his
canvass the Nestor of society, the wise
man of the world, learned and skilfal in
all emergencies, and the noble vagabond
incapable of any wisdom at all but that
taught by generosity and love; the
statesman, heavily weighted, and full of
the responsibilities of Government, and
the light-hearted youth of fashion, ac-
knowledging no responsibility the duke
and the cobbler; the book-worm and the
rural squire. This wide range gave him
an extent of power which we think no
other writer of the day has reached. He
is the most brilliant of story-tellers, the
most comprehensive of social phIloso-
pliers. His glance takes in all society,
not to find out its defects, not to repre-
sent its hufnors only, with no speciality
of class or purpose, but with a large and
extended vision, less intense, perhaps,
than that of some writer's IN a more linn
tied circle, but broader and fuller than
any. His was not the faculty which
breaches or criticises, which takes public
grievances or individual hardships as
foundation for fiction, OF works in Illus
tration of principle. Lord Lytton's art
was of broader, older, more primitive
description-it was the ait which repre-
sents. Human creatures acting upon no
given standard, working out no foregone
conclusion, appear to US in his brilliant
pages. He neither selects the odd and
eccentric, like one of his great rivals, nor
sets himself forth as an anatomist of hui
man motive, like another but, while
giving its corner to eccenricity and q
due importance to the unseen workings
of the mind, lays in the lines of his
broader landscape, his larger outlines of
form, with humanity which ontreaches
and transcends the specialties of pur-
pose. II In characteristic Of this breadth