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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-10
GEN. SHEER IAN--EHIS FAMILY
HIS CIRCUMSTANCES
HIrS. sherman KDOesnt't Want to
Go Back to Washington.

,Gahi's" Washington Cor. in Chicago Tri-
bune.
Gen. Sherman is in this city looking
thin and pale.
It is a growing superstition that he
will be the nominee of one party or
the other, though he sturdily says nay to
both.
Still I know that his most intimate
friends, while they get no comfort from
him in the premises. have never aban-
doned the idea of bringing him forward,
in the extremity of one party or the other,
as an independent candidate, Democratic
by tradition, but in support of the
progress and liberalization already at
tanned
Sherman had to keep nine servants in
Washington. of whom he gets rid of one
half in St. Louis He sold his property
here for very small sum in cash, taking
for the rest unimproved real estate in a
more central part of the city. As he was
about to 90. the creditors of the cake
baker who supplied his daughters wedding
had so little delicacy that they garnished
the bill, and would have attached
the the property for it. had not his wife
been the negotiator and kept a separate
estate.
The Catholicism of the Sherman family
is confined to the female branch. The
general is not a sectarian, and was reared
In affinity with the Protestant church. If
he was Catholic with his temperament and
spontaneity there would be no concealment
about it.
have heard ladies say. who knew Mrs.
Sherman best, that she said that she would
not return to Washington while her chill
dren were young and their minds Inform
ed-s'not if they would make the general
president.
A gentleman told me to-day that Sher-
man said, when he reached St. Louis,
that his furniture was just finished to fur
nish his house. Gard" he added, ''if |
had been compelled to buy more, it would
have hampered me"
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Prof Tyndau on Typhoid Fever.

A letter Of the greatest importance
from Prof Tyndall, with reference TO the
origin and mode Of propagation of typhoid
fever, appears in the London Times Of
Nov 8. He adduces and powerfully
supports the arguments and evidence col
lected by DIR. Budd in his treatise on ty-
phoid fever in support of the theory that
the disease ifnot spontaneously generated
by the decomposition and putrefaction OF
animal and Vegetable substances, but is
propagated solely through the medium Of
matter which has already been in contact
with a typhoid patient. The living hui
man body is the soil in which the specific
poison Of typhoid fever breeds and multi
plies" Prof Tyndall relates the history
of typical case Of typhoid outbreak orig
mating in the village Of North Tawton,
and shows, by the series of events which
1t exhibits, that the disease is of purely
contagious nature, that the worst drained
country villages in the surrounding dis
trict escaped so long as the specific poison
kept away, and were attacked only when,
bv some means or Other, that poison was
conveyed to them. cash pits fail to de-
velop it, putrescence fails TO develop it,.
stencil fails to develop it even the open
privy spOwerless 50 long as it is kept free
from the discharges of those already at
tackled" The sanitary measures adopted
by DIR. Budd are these: Cd Flooding
all the drains of the place with disinfec-
tants, with a view to destroy, as far as pos
sible, the poison already cast off % the
reception Of all discharges from the sick
Immediately on their issue from the body
into vessels charged with disinfectants (;
(3) the instant-immersiOn of all bed and
body linnen used by the sick into disin-
fecting liquid before its removal from the
ward a. scrupulous ablution and disln-
lection of the hands Of the nurses, and
lastly, the burning or disinfection Of all
beds occupied by the sick as sooD as yaca-
ted by death, convalescence, or otherwise.
By these means, adopted on this occasion.
at may be said that the plague was in
stantly STAYED" We do not, however,
remarks the Pail Mall Gazette, which
publishes this summary, gather from Prof.
TyndalPs arguments that the adoption
of similar measures in cases of typhoid
outbreak ought 10 supercede the sanitary
improvements already 50 urgently de.
manded in such places as Over Darwen.
If the sewer be, as DIR. Budd graphically
describes it, ga direct continuation of the
diseased intestine" and only in that ca
pacity propagation of disease, it is all the
more necessary to prevent the infltratioE
of its contents into the drinking water OF
a district.
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LexingIOn's Old Age.

From Scribner's Monthly for December.l
Nine miles from Frankfort, on the
road to Lexington, stands one Of the
finest and richest farms in Kentucky
that owned by Mr.. Alexander. On this
suberb stock farm we saw three hundred
blooded horses, ranging in rank from old
Lexington, the monarch of the turf, to
the kittenish and risky yearlng. Here
also Mr. Alexander has collected $1,000.
600 worth of cattle We saw one dimin-
utive heifer worth S27 900, and variety
of foreign creatures whose value seemed
almost fabulous. On this farm are bred
the great majority of fine trotting and
running horses which appear in our parks
during the racing season. Mr.. Alexan-
ders estate, which is admirably stocked
with fine farm-houses, barnes and stables,
and which is more like ducal manor
than the ordinary American farm, extends
over 5000 acres.
Near by is old John Harper's modest
farm of 1000 acres. The roads, the stone
walls, and the fine lawns covered with
massage shade trees, make series of de-
lightful pictures. The annual sale Of
horses on the Alexander farm occurs in
June. Only yearling colts are sold.
Hundreds of people from all the country
around, and from every State in the
Union, flock to the sale. An immense
barbecue is held, and high wassail marks
the conclusion of the occasion.
We paid respectful visit to old Lex
ington, the mighty sire of a mightier
equine family. He is blind veteran Of
twenty-five, afflicted with goitre, and
stood gazing in the direction from which
our voices came, a melancholy wreck of
his former greatness. The princes Of
the race course of the present gdlloped by
neighing aud paving the ground, as if
annoyed at our presence. One of them,
named Asteroid, so far forgot his prince
ly dignity as to charge incontinently
upon the fence where we were seated.
The negro men who manage these err
ratio brutes undergo all sorts Of perilOus
adventures, but they seem to possess as
many lives as a cat, and, like thatanimal,
always land on their feet, no matter how
far the plunging and rearing horses may
throw them.
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E6OScimSISo Esrnuch.
GENERAL READING.
Brig hann NoWn='~ First wife True
10 NOmsIn'~ Nature.
From Salt Lake Tribune. !

FROM Salt Lake Tribune
1t will be remembered that in his now
Celebrated ''answer" in the Ann Eliza
divorce case, Brigham Young made oath
mat ne had but one wifc-Mary Ann
;A.ngeil-who was lawfully married to
MIN on the 10th of January, 1884 This
venerable woman whose relation to the
prophet and his Celestial concubines'
nas been that of a drudge and social out
east Tor quarter of a century, first saw
we legal document recognizing her posi-
aon recently. BY the kindness of a
Hnpathizing sister in misery n copy of
ne Tribune containing the important
o'lIesslon OF her faithless husband was
paced IN her hands, when, with tears
Meamlng down her sad, wan cheeks, this
- spie ana only wife of a cruel tyrant read
uie instrument over and over again, until
I S"l at last the hand Of righteousness
i Iau sent bis consoling sage. After many
~ ana weary years of desolation, in
re- sr''n n no love- no sympathy cheered her
.''e' the deserted wife finds the law of her
glouhtry Il end she never hoped for in
uie world, and looking up toward the
over OF all blessings, thanked Him that
~ name was vindieated among men
torgvlng the Unreasonable wrongs and
1sart-ournings of her best years, this
! ''n'il' true to woman's nature. kissed
IL words which declared her the wife of
s ST. own husband, and wept with JOY on
lollg that though deserted, she was vet
c Caalued to the highest dignity which
~ sariIstlanIty and Christian civilization
40 bestow on her sex.
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The Baltimore Gazette SAYS: " Nc
people enjoy themselves more in Europe
than the Americans. And now that the
shoddy, so plentiful during and immedi-
ately after the war, has had somewhat of
its coarseness worn off, the American
tourist is popular; especially the fresh
young girls, alive to all new impressions,
! are very open in showing their delight.
1t is not all pleasure, however. At home
girl looks after her own affairs, she re-
ceives her own visitors; and even the
strictest of American parents permit a
certain latitude in the choice of her asso-
ciates. If she is grown up out she is
ruling power in society. For her are
parties given and balls gotten up. Half
the entertainments of the winter are hers
by right, and no married person may in
wade the hallowed precincts over which
she and hers have asserted their sway
This is what happens abroad: If she is
very young a thousand petty restrictions,
annoying as We're the bonds wherewith
the Lilliputians fettered CULVER, ham
pered her every movement. She must
not walk out unattended for fear of the
marked attentions of the undisciplined
foreigners, who may see in youth and
helplessness a fair object for impairment
annoyance. Ii che goes TO ball, she is
tied as closely to her chaperon as is
lapdog in leash to the side of his mistress.
Nobody cares anything about her unless
she is dazzlingly beautiful or, better than
that, is reported to be immensely wealthy.
She is no longer power, she is merely
an adjunct, an ornament to the ball
room, like its garlands, and just about as
necessary to the progress of the entertain
ment. A dance is a solemn performance
followed by no pleasant strolls in dim
lighted Conservatives, or on cool balloon
les, and with no nice little Irritation to
fill up the intervals. If she receives the |
visits of her foreign male acquaintance
in the frank, free way in which she per-
mits her own countrymen to call upon
her, she lays herself open to harshest re-
mark and cruelist misconstruchon. =
Thinking no evil and intending none,
she runs counter hundred times day
to the customs and prejudices Of her new
associates. Finally she learns to feel,
after protracted sojourn in foreign
land, that everything is improper save
improperly, everything indicate save
immodesty, everything wrong save wick
edness itself.
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A Club for Ladies and GcntIe-
men.

The Pail Mall Gazette of Nov. II has
the following 1.-The idea of opening a
club for both ladies and gentlemen begins
to assume very practical shape. 1t IS
rumored that the committee propose IN
take house in one of the streets OFT
Grosvenor square, and that the club will
be actually in existence with the new
year. Some people 90 so far as to say IT
is to be called the Grosvenor club, and
casuists are busy with the questions which
will have to be settled Examples are
drawn from the sad experiences of archery
and croquet clubs, and stories such as
this are afloat 4 gentleman who is very
popular in society was lately black baiied
at a skating ground, and after some time
is turned out that his wife, who was al
ready member, had persuaded friend
upon the committee to compass his exclu-
sion. 1t is further stated that simple
minded young lady who had been asked
to join the new club, inquired in modern
English: Isit place where one can take
their mothers p The question remains
unanswered, but we suspect a good deal
of the success of the scheme will turn on
whether the club is q place where
n member can take their mother.
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Sorrows are shadows of past joys.
Better is portion in wife than with
wife.
A near lantern is better than a distant
star.
/ Quarrel with dead men and you won't
get hurt.
4 Wherever fire has been you will find
ashes.
Much corn lies under the straw that is
not seen.
You will not find deep fox in a shall
low burrow.
An unpleasant sort of arithmetic
Division among families.
Prosperity is the thing in the world we
we ought to trust the least
Where there is much light the shadow
is deep.-Goethe.
What is only gossip about a man, is
scandal against woman.
Many are discontented with the name
of idler, who are, nevertheless, content to
do worse than nothing.
A man may be great by chance, but
never wise and good without taking pains
for it.
After the study of folly has made men
wise. they find it too hard to consider
that Others can be as foolish as they
have been.
Wisdom and virtue make the poor rich
and the rich honorable.
Upon men of small understanding
nothing makes so deep an impression as
what they do not understand.
What vast deal of time and ease that
man gains who is not troubled with an
impairment curiosity about others
Air is a meal of which we are constant
ly partaking; hence it should always
be pure.
Selfmade men are very apt to worship
their maker.
A mans own breeding is the~ best Sc
curity against other peoples i'll manners.
"The difficulty in life" saws Arthur
Helps, ''is the same as the difficulty in
grammer-to know when to make the
exceptions to the rule"
The only true courage is the courage
which is founded on conscience, and it is
unconquerable.
There is Joy in conflict, when the end
of conflict is believed to be desirable.
There is species of excitement in wrest-
ling against difficulties which, in itself,
is no trivial source of pleasure
It is singular that mineral waters are
only beneficial to the wealthy. We never
knew physician to advise poor man to
go TO any watering-place.
That man only is truly educated who
has been so trained in his youth that his
body is the ready servant Of his will, and
performs with ease and pleasure all the
work that, as mechanism, it is capable
Of doing.
We like boys who trv to help them
selves. Every one ought to be friendly
To them. The BOYS of energy and ambi-
ton. who make n manly effort to do
something for themselves, are the bone
of the country.
1t is an exquisite and beautiful thing
in our nature, that when the heart is
touched and softened by some tranquil
happiness or affectionate feeling, the
memory of the dead comes over it most
powerfully and irresistibly.
Happy are they whose intercoure with
the world has not changed the tone of
their holer feelings, nor broken those
musical chords of the heart whose vibra-
tions are so melodious, so tender and
touching in the evening of age.
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ThesIEead Of the Household

Women sometimes do not value their
husbands as they ought. They not
unfrequently learn the value of a good
husband for the first time by the loss Of
him. Yet the husband is the very roof
tree of the house, the cornerstone of the
edi6ce, the keystone of the arch called
home. He is the bread-winner of the
family, its defence and its glory-the
beginning and ending of the golden chain
of life which surrounds Tits consider,
its lawgiver. and its King. And yet we
see how frail is that life on which so much
depends. When he is taken away, who
shall fill his place. When he is taken ill,
what clouds hover over the house When
he is dead, what darkness, what weeping,
what agony Then poverty, ike the
murderous assassin, breaks in at the
windows starvation, like the furnishing
wolf. bowls at the door. Widowhood is
too often an associate of sackcloth and
ashes Orphanhood, too, means desOlation
and woe.
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EszFEEGE2 ALTON.
letter from Hon. Abr:auE
NzsarUOcl<.

From the Column bus Index
LIVERPOOL, Nov. Z, 1874.
Hon. Jas. Harrison and Gen. s. ID. Lee,
Columbus, Mss.
GENTs.-I leave this evening, per
steamer estate of Alabama" direct
for New Orleans and take with me two
men to look at our county. One is of the
Executive Committee of the National
Laborers' Union of England" and sent
out with me by that body to look. They
represent Sc, 900 laborers, few, if any, of
whom have the means to pay even pas
sage to America, but would engage as
farm laborers to our planters, if means
can be advanced for passage. The rep
resentative | bring is himself a laborer,
and plain, practical and sensible man.
This society can, if the report of the
Agent is favorable, send US such laborers
as they can recommend for sobriety and
industry. The point for our planters
then is the furnishing of necessary means
to take them out, which will be about
thirty-five dollars in gold, / write just to
give YOU an idea of the man who is COM
ing to look that you may be prepared to
aid me in talking and to canvass among
planters before l reach home, as we shall
have a month longer voyage than by the
New York steamers. If we can strike
this thing right we shall have opened the
way to all the laborers we want and that
of a more reliable character than the or
binary emigrant. am aware that mon
ey is scarce in our range and yet hope to
make an arrangement with steamers to
take time drafts Of planters upon the
factor for passage of immigrants.
Yours truly,
4. MURDOCH.
z. ST presume you are aware that
NJ. q O. r. r. furnish free transporta-
ton to immigrants and their luggage.
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A Republican Congressman EIect
KilHs His Competitor.
III. L. EDwARDs.
Dec. 7th, 1874.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. 1.-The Courier
Journals Mount Sterling special says :
'sIt was reported there to-day that John
D. White, Republican Congressman
elect. from the Ninth Kentucky District,
shot and killed Harrison Cockerill,
Democratic competitor in the late election
in Estelle county, yesterday.
The canvass between the two men was
very bitter and personal, and a few days
since CockeriH published card, making
very severe structures upon White. Il i
probable that this card precipitated the
difficulty. Estelle county is mote from
the telegraph, and the mails are very ir.
regular Impossible to get further par
ticulars.
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h. OMITTED TO BALL.. l.. Traube,
Isla under charge Of murder in killing
poi;1i Young man, A. 4. Smedes, at Mag
va IA, IN this county, on the goth inst. ],
pno NJ Drought to Summit on Monday last,
Smr q writ Of habeus corpus, before Judge
oraa Of the Circuit Court, and al
Ts @su u oall IN IN the sum of $4,000, which
on promptly given--that is to say, 49,
500 upon upon ms own recognizance, and ST.
Vsro eaGh Tor two sureties. The latter
tsIIe an John Rist, of Chatawa, and our
Sa.OUtM;-eiItlzen, Sol. Lyman. - Summit
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81 have come for my umbrella" said
a lender of it on q rainy day to friend.
Cant help that" said the borrower,
ssdon't you see that am going out with
it?o ssWeIl, yes" replied the lender,
astonished at such outrageous impotence;
yves. hut--but-what am / to dor
ssDoln said the other, as he opened the
umbrella and walked of, do as ! did
borrow one.
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Poor CelestiaIs They are to learn
French after Ollendorff"s system and so
now, no doubt, the young MongoIians are
studying ntheir OLendorfs such passages
as this: ''Have you the old horse OF
your dead grandmother 2" 'fNo, | have
not the old horse of my dead grandmoth-
err, but / have the small squirrel of my
old step-father."
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A man went into butchers shop, and
finding the owners wife in attendance, in
the absence of her husband. thought he
would have joke at her expense, and
said: Madame, can you supply me with
a yard of pork ?" eyes, sir" she said ;
and then turning to boy, she added
James, give that gentleman three pigs
feet"
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H.. ~ " was generally understood last night
oba s gov. Kellogg, together with several
,Aa prominent characters, had left on
h6a,aa se train for Washington. Specu-
S;aS Sn as to the causes Of this sudden
IA !; q course ran high, but the majority
iDvsa.: mat summons from the Durell
tom - sspgatlng committee was at the bot
y sne trouble.-N. o. Picayune.
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A Georgia Homicide.

4 correspondent of the Americas ga. J
Republicans gives the particulars of a
homicide at Leesburg on the 10Th ult.
At moon on that day Minis met the two
Lees. He abused old man Lee, and, as
the latter was walking off, gave him one
or two kicks from the rear. Young Lee
became enraged, obtained pistol, and
approached Minis, when some sharp
words passed between them, each holding
his hand on his pistol. The Sheriff in
terfered and stopped the impending fight.
Ed Lee then told Minis that he would
drop the matter, but, if attacked again,
would defend himself. Afterwards,
while Ed was at dinner at Browns board
ing house, his father came into the di-
ning-room and asked for his pistol, telling
him that Minis was following him with a
pistol, abusing him. Young Lee sprang
up and rushed past his father, saying
that it was his fight and he would settle
it. At the front door he met Minis and
Immediately commenced firing upon him.
Minis retreated towards the gate. Lee
followed, firing upon him with remarka-
bic accuracy. inst before Minis reached
the gate he fell forward on his face heav-
ed a few gasps, and was dead Lee fired
four shots in all, each ball passing through
Minis right lung. After the shooting
Lee went back and finished his dinner.
He surrendered to the Sheriff in the
dining-room, and is now in jail.
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you've sowed the wind, and now you
reap the whirlwind, said the school
teacher, as he brought his cane down in
a hurry on the back of rebellious boy.
'sYes, and its regular hurry too,
sobbed the youngster, between the
whacks.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. 1903
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A confidential clerk in Chicago cattle
yard has just skipped out with several
thousand dollars. The New York Com
mercial thinks he has probably taken pas
sage for Cowes.
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INDIAN ATROCITIES

Terrible Fate OF the GOrmIan
Family. from Georgia.
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A Vermont singer is said to have a
gold mine In her voice. Her notes ought to
be good.
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a NHan, IEIs Wife and Three Chill
dren KILLED and MutIIated.
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Mississippi Valley nd ship leland
RS=HiIrO.ASs.

rain leaves Vicksburg ................. 400 p NJ
Train arrives at Goodrum s............ 800 p. NJ
Train leaves G0odrum s.................. $50 A. NJ
Train arrives at Vicksburg ............ $50 A. NJ
Trains will run daily, SUNDAYS excepted
commencing Monday February D. 1874.
J. |. HARPER, Manager.
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North Louisiana and Texas Rail
road.

Mail train leaves Delta ................I2:25 P NJ
Arrives at Delta go p NJ
Monroe aud Shreveport stages connect daily
Tor Shreveport. Tri-weekly stage line from
Monroe to Bastrop, Louisiana, and Hamburg
Arkansas
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2. ST presume you are aware that
NJ. d O. r. r. furnish free Transports
ton to immigrants and their luggage.
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Mrs. Goodale, Of pelnunic. Conn
is 100 years old. Good ale koDp w...
An Iowa Justice the other das ac...
ed two bushels Of the pungent onion d. a
marriage fee