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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-26

Why will men "take the name of God
in vain?' What possible advantage is to
be gained by it? And yet this wantOn,
vulgar sin of profanity is evidently on the
increase. Oaths fall upon the ears in
the ears, and at the corners of the street.
There are among US few who feel a
simple assertion or plain statement of OBJ
vious facts will pass for nothing, unless
they swear to It's truth by all the names of
the Deity, and blister their lips with every
variety OF hot and sulphurous oaths. If
we observe such persons closely, we shall
generally find that the ierceness al their
profanity is in inverse ratio to the afiu-
ence of their ideas.
We venture to affirm that the profanest
men within the circles of your knowledge,
are all afflicted with chronic weakness of
the intellect. The utterance of an oath,
though it may prevent vacuum in sound,
is no indication of sense. 1t requires no
genius to swear. The reckless taking of
sacred names in vain, is as little charac-
teristic of true Independence of thought
as it is of high moral culture. In this
breathing and beautiful world, filed as it
were, with the presence of the Deity, and
fragrant with its incense from q thousand
alters of praise, it would be no servility
should we catch the spirit Of reverent
worshippers, and illustrate in ourselves
the sentiment that the christian is the
highest state of man. $50
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Col neI q. - Frost.

The greate,t railroad achievement Of
the times is The completion of the extern
sion of the Mississippi Central to Cairo
and the business connections there formed
with the Illinois Central road by which
passengers may now go from Chicago to
New Orleans-a distance Of nearly one
thousand miles-without changing cars.
What a glorious contamination Of the
grand idea advanced over two years ago,
and before the work was begun, by the
indefatigable General Superintendent,
Col. E. ID. Frost, who then said that ii
the Southern Railroad Association would
furnish the means he would have this
wondrous task executed in less than a
year from the time the first lick was struck
at Jackson, Tenn. Col. McComb, Presi
dent of the Association, furnished the
money, and the prediction of Col. Frost
il realized. We have known and observ-
ed Col. Frost for several years. and al
ways predicted for him a glorious future,
and we now see the rapid realization OF
our prediction. IL is too often the case
that many men get credit for work and
achievements accomplished, by Others
but such 10 not Lha case, With E.-D.FrOst.
He has been the executive spirit of this
great enterprise all the way through. aud
but for his well known modesty and retir-
ing opposition, he to-day would enjoy a
world wide-reputation as a railroad man
aQer.
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IDenrh OrIohn Wesley.

He rose in the morning the first Of Bis
household. Once he relates, he was up
at halfpa five, went 10 the chapel but
found no one Of his assistant preachers
there or three or four in the house an
were asleep. II preached myself" write
the old man Of 81 When he complained,
his assistants urged that they we're up
late the night before. He made 10 a rule
that every one in the house should retire
at nine, in order 20 attend the morning
service at five. AT eighty-six Wesley adj
mitted the weight of years. His eyes, be-
said, we're dim, his voice was iaiuts he
could no longer keep his accounts or bis
journal He Travelled almost 10 the last,
and was followed by the thrOngs who new
er deserted him. In the spring Of 1891
he was brought 70 his house I'D City Road,
stricken with a fever On the "a of
March be died, surrounded by a group of
friends. When he was dead they broke
into psalm Of praise. His funeral, at
D o'clock IN the morning, was attended by
vast thrOng. and a sermon was preached
in memory Of bis good deeds 10 City
Road Chapel, when the church was hung
with mourning, and every member of the
great audience, except one, who took the
blue ribbon from her hat when she saw
her error, was clothed in black City
Road Chapel is Wesley's monument.
There are the building and charitable Ia-
bors be planned; there the room in. which
he died his house, his church, his tomb.
He desired at bis funeral, he said no
pomp, but only the tears Of those who
loved him.
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'Old Adam slept, and from hls side
/ A woman IN her magic heauty roses
Dazzled aud charmed he called her bride.
| And his first slerp became his last -eu8se q
Lots wife got into a pretty pickle.
Mr.. Windsora wives we're said Do bt
merry.
KING ArthuFs wife loved him ltdo.
and Launce lot.
Mrs. MaeSduger would have made
Captain Cutie a spicy spouse.
Did Anne, Of Austria marry MazarinP
( Is the great conundrum.
Jack Spratt could not have married
better if he bad read "C0uuteruarsH
Tne trouble with Blue Beard. ast wife
was that she dropped the key 60 the
situation.
There IL no record Of SATAN marriage
which makes Us blush 10 mention chat le..
the father OF Lies
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, presented
his wife with snug residence. It'll uu-
derstood the situation
Buckingham called Millions wife rose
Yes, said the poet, sadly "uud YOU
can't get your nose in between the tbaru.l"
Alder Durer couldn't endure hef. s8
he ran away. But she fetched him back.
and made him make her bed every morn
ing
Socrates antpathy 10 Xanuppe the
ologiEed him. (Ihe reader will please
observe the play on words, for there was
no other play about tit was business
Ulysses wife came near running away
from him duriung his twenty wears a6.
-ence, from which she was called Pene-
IoPe (from peue, almost, and olape. 30
run away.)
Solomon the Wise married seven hum.
tred times. IL Is asserted that CHS was
carrying the thing 10 am extreme, but the
example OF his father and Bthshe5a was
before him. Cincinnati Gazette.
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TAKEN FROM his PARLIAMENTARY
gPEEHEq

| TAKEN FROM his PARLIAMENTARY
sPEEHEs
When pushed 20 extremes I prefer my
shirt 20 my coat. - Jan. 22 1854.
A question Of right can be settled only
with the bayonet in our European quar-.
rels.- Jan. y, 1864.
Parties and castles are mutlbIe-thry
perish, and new ones arise - Jan 22.
1864
The Kings Of Prussia have been pre-
eminently the kings Of the rich r.. Feb.
10, 1865.
Whoever makes the most promises f.
apt TO carry the election; - june i. 1865.
All classes do little smuggling.
especially the women june I. 1868.
\ great country can not be govern
ed by partisaus. - Jan. ID, 1867
Put Germany M the saddle aud you
will find that she knows how 20 ride
- March IL, 1867
Governments are like women the
youngest please the most December .,
1868
1t is not possible 70 hasten tho ripou-
ing Of fruit by holding lamp underneath
Il April TO- 1869
Capitalization is tyranny, more or less
Il April 49, 1869.
Whoever carries the money bag Is The
peoples master Abril 26, 1869.
Every country knows that pelce and
security rest in the sword May 22,
1869.
Liberty is a luxury which every one
can afford. n May p, 1899
People are "a great deal more lavish
when they pay out Of a common treasury
than when they pay out of their own
pockets. Sune 2, 1871.
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A Georgia letter in the New York Sun
SAYS: 'sCol. ID. B. Graham, of Tember-
ance. Telfair County, in this State, ia
probably the most remarkable school
teacher in the world. He was admitted
70 the Bar as lawyer in 1882 Soon
after he was stricken down with acute
rheumatism. He then bee tme paralyzed.
his whole body being helpless, except his
hand aud arms up TO his elbows. For a
long time he has taught school while
lying on his back. His school is in a
Aouri.hing condition. and he is making
money. Many distinguished persons
have graduated from Col. Graham's
school. The Colonel was never married.
He is about 81 years old.
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A New style in VVonen's Dress.

! From the Springfield Republican,
| Long white trousers for ladies are very
much worn on the Continent. These
trousers should be quite plain for wearing
in the day-time and in the streets, but those
! for evening wear should be made of fine
cambria or muslin, ornamented with en-
brOidery, lace insertion or heavy rich lace
| frills or flounces, according to the taste or
means of the lady herself What could
look prettier or more modest than to see Il
pretty, small-trousered foot in silk stock
ings and a neat sandalled shoe appearing
under the skirt of muslin dress, the
ankles buried, as 1t We're, in several rows
Of the lace irills or hounces of fine cam
bIic or muslin trousers? Surely, also,
when a Young lady of eighteen or nine
teen is dancing, il is more modest, as it in
certainly very becoming, to see the limbs
hidden in lace-frilled trousers of cambria
than the present fashion. As | said, this
mode is very much seen on the Continent
among French, Spaniards, and especially
Russians When at Barcelona, few
years ago. remarked that every lady wore
trousers, some plain, some richly trimmed
with lace frills or fiounces. Two or four
inches of the trousers were visible, set
ting off the small Spanish foot to perfec-
ton. knew very pretty French lady
who used to wear most becoming trousers
in the evening, which were made of very
fine cambria or muslin, with rich lace
frlIs up to the calf of her leg and inser-
ton between each frill. The lace frills
Of her trousers just touched the instep,
but the rest Of the trousers was visible
under and through the transparent skirt
of white muslin.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-26

woven of fine but heavy black silk Il
comes remarkably cheap for a silk lace
-75c to IS "A yard, jobbers' price. For
English pillow-thread laceS, both black
and white, there is an increasing demand
by city as we'll as country buyers; prices
steady at from 12e TO 81 per yard for
white, and lie TO SIS for black.
The Irish crochet laces made by school
girls IN the eoavents in Ireland find rapid
sales at from Toe to Use per yard. They
are the most durable of all trimming on
undergarments, pillow slips and chiidren's
clothing. Real and imitation Valen-
ciennes meet with steady sales at old
prices.
TRIMMINGS.
Trade in trimmings of all kinds was
dull last fall. Consequently large stocks
are left over, and the importions this sea-
son ae comparatively small Hence
producers are not bringing out many
novelties. To meet the demand for but
tons they are exercising their ingenuity
on variety of oxidzed steel, oxidized
silver, amt plain steel, and dead
and bright silver buttons. A plain
button of dark blue steel is the
latest novelty Another is of plain, fine
jet, with concave surface. Jet with a
silver edge is a ravorite combination.
Two sizes of all kinds of buttons are
brought out for each garment; the larger
IS eight lines, the SMALLER twelve lines in
size, or one inch and a-half in diane
ter.
Beaded Jet passementerie gimps and |
beaded crochet buttons are shown for |
fine silk dresses and cashmere, |
six, and velvet jackets and sacques for
.pring wear. Jobbers' prices, 81 to s12 |
md $40 for buttons, and 81 to $50 and |
500 for passementeries.
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Aass EGc CE-aNG AGENTS
TIE ohas. OLD STORY.

bad.hi,n g.ol-hve
INCOME .,;-i.-7,.., -.
90. -,,......l 49,.
r. t,n.4
n bru<s,4i a. of
II email fI ... p4 lbs u In-,A.n
y b .c~uid Mt but know,
Er ltr tu~u-.d - 90
arl.tg l3 liza kirl [ had been.
II c','i NOT hut know
4 N-4rH rb- Z Hn.-r IT hi- dark-hlue eye;
Bus bal D" ny heart,
FL 40 Nh nc ~ would start.
y ,. pressed the F"oel ~igh.
"'''Flei 8to'g
/ ''-7 ; Il hi''itt-N 'iitiH2
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-26
4 MILLION IN LACES.

The earliest importation Of the New
York market every spring is OF lace. This
is 10 meet the growing demand Tor that
costly textile for the bali season, not only
in this ciry hut the great cities Of the West
Duden Freres, the largest manufacturers,
producers, and importers OF lace III the
world. SAYS that within the last twelve
days they have sold more large and costly
pieces Of lace tn al in any twelve DAYS at
the same time of the year for years past
One 5f their largest orders was from Gin
cinnati, and one dress alone sold to that
city brought =. 500 1t was of real round
point. and consisted Of skirt, basque,
bertha, two sets of sleeves and a sash.
At the same house is shown the proba-
bly, most magnificent chantilly lace dress
that has ever been produced. 1t is in one
piece, corsage and shirt united in the
princesse style, Two pairs ST sleeves and
"A sash accompany the dress 1t is Ofcourse
entirely of hand work, and would have
taken a rapid and expert lace worker eight
years to make it. 1t was completed in a
few months BY twenty FIVE experts ID the
mandatory Of the house of Duden Freres
in Brussels for the Paris exposition 1t
was sent to this country as better mar
ket than Europe for such q wonder of art
and industry. The price originally at
tached 10 it was 50, 900, "but," said the
salesman, though We might take less, it
is like fine diamonds-it is priceless. y
This triumph of the lace artists skill is
kept, with other pieces of priceless
value, in large fire. prof safe. In that
and another on the same floor are laces
worth million of dollars.
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The sIamese Twins.

Chang and Eng are shown by theautnp-
sy in Philadelphia to have been so vitality
united that death would have followed
any attempt to seperate them during life.
The membrane which lines the abdomen
was one in both. extending through the
mysterious ligament that bound them to-
gether: This -ligament was also con-
nected with the liver and the heart of
each.
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THE REALM OF FASHION.
Striking Changes in Spring Styles Of
Ladies Dresses.
The COstIiesI Dress Worn ia Ame.-
ica.-CimciunaGi EcIiP.inE MUIR
ray EziII.--A Million i'm
H-ace--..H.eI the Women
Attend 10 1'hf
[ From the n. Y. Sun.

From the y. Y. Sun.
Our wholesale dry-goods merchants say
that IN spite OF the depression in financial
circles they anticipate a moderately brisk
market for the coming season. Their i'm
porters have not come in with the new
goods, and the sample cards are too meagre
10 show precisely what fabrics will be worn
in early spring or what tn fashionable
colors viii be. Our correspondents in
Paris say that a marked, indeed, start
ling change in ladies' dresses will be at
tempted at an early day. The skirts of
these new costumes are to be short enough
to c ear the ground all round. Nopolonaise
nor tunic, but three or four h0unces on
the front breadths and one very wide in
the back will give the required dr-ssinesS.
Over the back breadths will tall full,
perpendicularly plated demi-skirt as a
substitute for the pouf now SO fashionable.
This will extend only to the hips, leaving
the front breadths uncovered save by a
long pointed corsage. To the back of this
cors ,ge will be attached square plated
basque. This striking change, discarding
all the forms that have been SO popular
for several years past as to require only
slight alterations TO render them accepta-
bic each season, will not probably be gen
orally adopted.
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ARTICLE x1u.-AMENDMENTs.

The Constitution can be altered OF
amended 10y two-thirds vote of the Ma
tional Grange, at any annual meeting;
and when such alteration or amendment
shall have been ratified by three-fourths
Of the State Oranges. and the samereport-
Ell To the Secretary OF the National
Grunge, it shall be of full force.
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CHANGES IN GARMENTS.

OF late years the tendency has been to
change the prevailing forms SO gradually
and more in details than in gar rents as a
whole, that it takes practiced eye to tell
what is new and what is old in style. This
is great advantage to those ladies who
study the economies of dress and are will
ling TO take the time and trouble TO remoiel
their garments. A few yards Of gymp or
passementerie, change III the shape, size
and position of the pockets, the addition
of Il collar IN the place of a fraise or fraise
instead of collar, and new cuffs, convert
an old redingote of good material into
new style polonaise. A change in the
fringes or plaitings or lace on a tunic, and
the slightest alteration in the loopings
which form the pouf or back draperies,
will be sufficient to give the air of fashion
to a toilet.
OF one thing we are assured-for walk
ing dresses, whether making new ones OF
rem0deling old, we cannot err on the side
Of giving them a masculine effect. All
ladies' garments are becoming more and
more masculine. Cloth jackets have revers
Just like those Of gentleman'5 coat.
Square cuts and square effects are given
to wraps, sleeves, and all parts OF the dress.
Even for balls and evening parties vests,
corsages and parures are fashioned with
masculine revers, and at one Of the
grand academy balls few nights since
lady was seen with a low square weston of
rose-coIored silk buttoned up with rose
buds instead of buttons, passing through
large button holes piped with black velvet.
The skirt was OF rose-colored silk, trimmed
with black chantilly, lace founces and
broad revers down the side, fastened down
with thesame kink of rose-buds, and large
buttor-holes that impaired originality TO
the weston. \ short black velvet jacket,
postilioned, fell over the voluminous pOuf
in the back.
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THE DEMAND FOR LACEs.

This season Is unusually brisk on ac-
count Of 50 much money having changed
hands during the past three months.
Those Who have become suddenly en-
riched have an inordinate desire for dis
play, and what they do not invest in dia-
monds they put in fine laces. The &C
counts from the West are that merchants
in the large cities have let their sto k
run low, and the prognosis is that there
will be an active demand for real and
fine laces from that section where wealth
an d luxury are rapidly fostering a taste
for this costly textile.
The empress style OF collars is most in
demand. This Is on account of the ease
with which it can be converted into Il
tichu by adding fraise of crepe lisse or
tulle in the neck, and few bows of rib
bons coquettishly placed at regular or
irregular intervals in the fraise and at the
ends OF the points.
Fishus of every kind of material are
very fashionable They are admirable
additions to iady's stock of toilet acces-
series. Two or three dresses of good ma
terial and color or one black and one col
cred silk can, by the use of half dozen
fchus, vestons and parures, be made to do
duty as dinner, evening and party dresses
for whole season.
The newest style of round point collars
is square In the back in sailor style, but
added To the front are long square eccle-
siastical ends resembling a clergyman's
band. More laces are sold for fraises
and sleeve ruffies than formerly but there
ia still fair demand for collars
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-02-26

That intemperance is on the increase Ia
the United States everywhere cannot be-
disputed; and, worst Of all, the vice has
begun to make marked ravages upon the
women, especially at the North. New
York statistics show that the number Of
men committed to the workhouse from
January, 1870, to January 1874, elk
times for drunkenness was lO8; number
of women committed six times, o,lu1i
number committed ten times-men, lbl,
women, 1857; number committed one
hundred times-men, !; women, 30 total
number committed in four years--meni
$50; women, 9,006; or Is females 70 one
male. q CpmnierciaA.
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HOUSE.
FRIDAY. Feb. 20, 1874.


HoUsE BILLS.
J. A.. ertir.rf aa tcr t. authorize the
"A g, Of 5 tp-ryi~,r- OF Kemper eountv 10
u rT'riHe fuol, belonging 10 said county.
"a d At Chi Jbe relief Of d. Werles, jr.
a. A.r Oh reduce he numher OF ChanceI-
- ma t. rrarLautz- tHc Chaucery Dis
= loJhi> ~late. Matte the sp ci;d ORDER
III Fi H,r next,
"a bin q, De entitled an Act te repeal an
81 t.' regulate J'te sale OF Spibi uou~ liquors
~ trIgE approved April II, 1873 In
"a ,l.t '.s l'u-. i.aut'i.
y Act t3 extend the several statutes OF
- Hu 800 rrWariied wonen. Passed.
~ Act 5o relieve Overseers Of publ"
"a S. Pass, 4.
- Arr toam nd the r,t,cs of pleading and
q .-'-. lu suits against estates of deeedents.
hssed.
- Act Hthorizing au additional justice
lle p acc, ia the Fit u Supervisors Dis
F. ll s,e con ,ty oi Fate. Passed.
An Act 10 repeal the proitih torN liqnor
Tvs tetailpg e. Tie codaty vf Uktibot Ia.
Az Act . an, r,,d section 2442, Of the Re
/ u Code nt ASH Pass, d.
d Acf in rela, ton 40 appeals aud wits OF
r I'D, from ,iutg u-uf~ avd 'iecrees- Passed.
AIN A-- t.r th- rrIi..f at VIM. T. R'Ss- and
"s E- r -o. minor children 81 Mrs r.
aet, H. MIDI on county, Mississippi.
An Act in r,1a.ioa to repairs on the Gov
I p sf- In1p~ien Was couSid' red at length
r. passed.
MESSAGE FROM THE GnvERSoR.
~rArS oF NIssts IPPI
LNECurVa DETACHMENT
Miss. Febraasy -. lS74N
D. estHFg: r,tura II. j. Re. y. ],
-.Hr Htt SIG ID are.
I.tr .r~r par graph OF that resolution ata-
o. two s,iaittostai clerks at ceTtlin
E4peu ~atioH: tire second Paragraph au-
L IT. :. TOR united time. Nh indefinite
#imoer VI CLERKS with indefinite conpe 1sa-
Ii there he an error in its earollmeat, il
hn"id uHt b ~ig trd but it, on the other
- Il a. e9rrrctiS eRr.'lied | cannot sign
as l NnnW 81 uo public A. Cess t. Whic.,
NJ IN 5 an iudelinite Der of clerks for
ny period OF time.
NJ. Street moved to rr-ter tue messsge and
D. resolutions "a the Com uittee on Cnin-
Rhed Business. CaFris d
SENATE BILLS.
An Act to provide tors change of venue
e Chaneery courts. Passed.
INTRoDUCIIoN or BILLS.
The following oills were introduced aad
pa~.rtf:
By Mr. Glover-An Act to authorize the
IS s,uI-ut of land- in the county OF Lin
'oln fIr tile wear 1874
BY Mr. Trueh irt.-An Act to eonatrue and
lmrnd section 2446 OF the Revised Code of
81. IN reta n to insurance deposits.
Tue following bills we're introduced and
'e,rrred:
BY Mr.. Martin.-tn Act to amend Sec
.lon 4 OF an Act entitled an Act TO receive
Hcurt) The payment for wages and habili-
ties Tor supplies, approved April, 1874.
, BY Mr.. Lauders.-An Act for The ~
1T of l.. K Blrb-r. n. Z
BY Mr.. >treet-An Act for the relief Of
srediLots aid employees OF the Mobile and
ohio Railroad. Adjourned.
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ARTICLE ".
ARTICLE v.-MEMRERsHIP.


Any person interested in agricultural
pursuits, Of the age of sixteen years, (fe-
male, and eighteen years, (mhe.) duly
proposed, elected, and eompl ying with
the rules and regulations of the Order, is
entitled TO mem bership. and the bensftof
the degrees -taken.s-s@EseEy application
must be accompanied By the fee Of MEM
bership. IF rejected. the money viii be
refunded. Applicati0nsm must be certified to
by members, and balloted for at subse-
quent meeting. It shall require three
negative votes to reject an applicant.
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ANOTHER NOVELTY.

In the line is a small, square, reverb
b 9 shawl, or point, in black ChantilIy
lace. It can be worn as veil, in Span
eh msntilla style, over the head in the
evening, as a shoulder covering over a
velvet or silk jacket, or looped up N form
a fchu. A new trimming lace, silk yak,
makes its appearance among the impor-
tatons. II Is In the yak patterns, but