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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-11-26
Fancy Work with Autumn
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The bright tints of autumn leaves are
very lovely for ornamenting our parlors,
boudoirs, and dining-tables Bracelets
and picture-fr frames can also be adorned
with them, and they add greatly to the
beauty OF ones surroundings. Collect a
large quantity, combining every hue,
from crimson ID scarlet, from scarlet to
yellow. and from yellow to green. The
red beech and the beautiful variagated
sumach are very desirable, as also are
the oaks and ferns, but the maple exceeds
them AL iii the great variety OF tints, and
various sizes Of its leaves. Smooth every
leaf Oh the wrong side with a moderately
warm iron, holding it upon the leaf only
A minute. Then take camels hair pen
ell, and little olive oil, and
carefully brush over every part of the
leaf, Place tilem on tiat surface to
dry, and let them remain until the next
lay. For wiring these leaves iat0 gar
lands, &c, or for preparing them for bo-
quets, take the fine green covered reel
wire, such % is always used in manufac-
turing wax flowers. And attach it around
the stem, first laying 1t 50 that it will ex-
tend the entire length of the leaf to sup
port it. Afterwards wind around each
stem to conceal the wire, either narrow
strips Of green tissue-paper, or brown
Berlin worsted, and join the leaves to-
gether in sprays; of course the individual
leaves on each spray must he oftbe same
species Prepare 4 large number Of these
sprays mounted on wires and then arrange
them in vases, about pieture-frames, over
mirrors, aud as ornaments to lace curtains,
and your apartments will present a fes-
tive appearance, although the dreary
winter weather has Drowned the face of
nature. Oak leaves, acorps, and brightly
colored beans, gummed upon card
board frame, will make handsome corner
brackets, or wall pockets and vases to
your beautiful leaves. The acorns and
beans ought first to be cat in half. when
used for this purpose.
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''Hafe Won got some of dot kind Of
oysters fwhat hafe been shpiled ?"
"Spiled oysters Yes, we have few
cans left over from last week that think
will fit you"
How you solt EN- a dozen?'
go, I'll sell EN- right; you may have
all you want for nickel. +"
well, den, mine goot trent, will YOU
be so kind to pring me four dozen fon dot
damaged lot?"
The oysters were brought and the Gus
toner put them quietly down into the pit
of his stomach, and having finished the
job, he said TO the ristaurateur:
"Now, my very kind trent, you have
got some good oysters, aind it p
"YOu are mighty right have"
"Vell, | takes a half dozen raw und
some pickles"
These were in turn served and quietly
put down on top of those gone before.
But the restaurateur was troubled, and
when the patron came to settle the bill,
said to him
"Look here, psrd, don't like to be too
inquisitive, but bowed Of / wouldn't
like to know why you have took fancy
to so many spilled oysters and 50 few good
ones ?"
Vel" replied the man. you hafe
peen goot trent to me, and SO I tole you
something. You see, il vas dis way. Nov,
hafe got a tapeworm, my kint trent,
you understand, unit efry time dot ish de
way hafe TO do. You see. dot last half
dozen vas for miaesa,f; but dot
damaged lot, dem vas for de tape-worm.
You know | amt don kint of a Commo-
dore Vanderbilt fwhat | can afford it to
preah up NINE whole peesness TO feed one
tam tape-worm on goot oystors John
GIades' Scrap Book
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Hon nets.

From Haper's Bazar.l
/ Since the beginning of the opera season
/ there has been a revival of light bonnets
for evening wear. Ladies who do not
appear IN full dress at the opera wear any
handsome dark suit, and brighten il by a
light blue or rose bonnet and the long
b inished white bonnets are also seen again.
At late autumn opening of fashionable
millinery evening bonnets were shown
made Of the richest gros grain, trimmed
with TILL and ostrich plumes OF exactly
the same shade as the gros grain. For
instance, delicate Sevres blue bonnet of
gros grain has a soft pulled crown, with
brim turned outward all around, and
pointed higher just on the left of the
middle blue tulls of the same shade is
drape9 closely over The crown; twisted
roll Of the silk is under the brim, and Is
knotted on the highest part two demi-
long plumes are placed diagoHally and
parallel on the crown, the first beginning
at the point of the brim. This exquisite
bonnet preserves a single tone through
out, without contrast Of flowers or lace.
This exquisite bonnet preserves a single
tone throughout, without contrast of
flowers or lace. Another is of pale rose
gros grain and velvet precisely matched
in tint an irregular putting of silk is
under the brim as face trimming, and
the two pink plumes exquisitely curled.
The greatest novelty, however, is a white
gros grain bonnet, with its soft high crown
yelled with white tulle, and roll of
black velvet under the brm cluster
OF dark exotic leaves is Oh the left side,
and long white ostrich feather sweeps
over the crown and curls under the
back.
The approved shape for velvet bonnets
turns up IN front and back, flares on the
sides, and has a very ample crown. The
latest idea is to put the velvet smoothly
on the frame, and dispense with band,
scarf, or any trimming around the crown
that viii conceal its shape. Thus a black
velvet OF this large shape has all its trim
ming masaed IL front and back, without
the usual folds or twist of gros grain.
Two erect loops of velvet are in front,
from which springs long black Mercutio
plume that passes straight down the
middle OF the crown lattieed galloon
of jet is laid on the outside of the brim,
bat not as binding; and ten roses-some
pink, others crimson, some folly brown,
Others only pouting buds-are showered
on the front and back.
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Two Dollars a Year.
Ren RutIer'a Successor.


From the n. Y. Trihure.l
Mr.. Charles p Thompson, the man
who has made himself immortal bv de-
feating Butler, seems to be most desira-
DE kind of man TO have in Congress.
he made speech at jubilati0n meeting
in Gloucester on Wednesday night, and
in i uttered these unmistakably sound
ideas Il stand now as 10 partisan. lam
rot the servant OF the Democratic Marty;
l am not the servant OF the Republican
party. | shall advocate those measures,
and only those measures that | believe 10
be for the common good. [ shall never
advocate principle upon party grounds.
l shall be unworthy OF the confidence that
has been placed in me il understand
what the Democratic party meant when
they put me in nomination, which was
that should carry out those principles
which believed 10 be right-that should
serve my country first, and by serving
my country | know can best serve my
party. In this canvass there are some
important questions. One OF them is the
financial question. l know that my Re
publican friends who voted for me, did SO
because l was sound on that question.
You may ask me if | am in favor of the
col0red man. Ianswer, yes; / am in favor
of the white man and the colored man. I
before they are both entitled 70 equal riei
1uder he Constitution. believe in equal
ity of rights and equality Of duties. l
would not 90 for law that would dis
criminate in favor Of white man or a
black man want the same law for all.
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Beauty, No a ge.

A writer says: History is full of the
accounts of the fluctuations of women who
we're no longer young. Thus, Helen of
Troy was over forty when she perpetrated
the most famous elopement on record,
and as the siege of Troy lasted decade
she could not have been very juvenile
when the III fortune of Paris restored her
to her husband, who is reported to have
received her with unquestioning love and
gratitude. Pericles welded the courtesan
Aspasia when she was thirtY-siX, and vet
she afterwards, for thirty wears or more,
welded an undiminished reputation for
beauty. Cleopatra was past thirty when
Anthony fell under her spell, which never
lessened until her death, nearly ten years
after, and Liva was thirty three when
she won the heart of Augustus, over
whom she maintained her ascendency to
the last. Turning to more modern his
tory, where it is p ssible to verify dates
more accurately we have the eXtraordi
nary Diane de Poltiers, who was thirty
six when Henry ri then Duke Of Orleans
and lust halfher age became attached 70
her; and she was held as the first lady
and most beautiful woman at court, up to
the period Of the monaTch's death, and
of the accession to power Of Catherine Of
Ma3icis Anne Of Austria was thirty
eight when she WIS des crihed as the hand
soonest Queen of Europe, and when
Buckingham and Richelieu were her
Jealous admirers Ninon lie rEnclos, the
most celebrated wit and beauty of her
day, was the idol of three generations Of
the golden youth of France. and she was
L ~ l. ! 1 p,lI
in love with her True it is that in the
cese Of this lady rare combination of
culture, talents and personal attractions
endowed their posseSsor seemingly with
the gifts of internal youth. Bianco Ca
peIlo was thirty-eight when the Grand
Duke Francisco of Florence fell captive
TO her charms aud made her his wife,
though he was five years her JUNIOR.
Louis XIV welded Nine. de Naintenon
when she was forty-three years of age.
Catherine II of Russia YVES thirtv-three
when she seized the Empire of Russia,
and capiivated the dashing young Genar-
al Orlofr Up to the time Of her death
Cat sixty-seven) she seems to have re-
tanned the same hewitching powers, for
the Nominations were heartfelt among all
those who had ever known her personally.
Nile. Mars, the celebrated French TRACE
dienne. only attained the zenith of her
beauty and power between forty and forty
FIVE. At that period the lOveliness of her
haads and arms especially were celebrated
throughout Europe. The famous Nine.
Recamier was thirtv-eight when Barras
was ousted from power, and she was,
without dispute, declared to be the most
beautiful woman in Europe, which rank
she held for fifteen years
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1t IS natural that every woman should
ike to look well; It'll commendable that
she should aim at taste and beauty in her
attire; aud it is astonishing how cheaply
those objects can be obtained by a little
observation and judgment But neither
taste nor beauty has any connection with
the present intoxication, wherein the
fashion Is not 50 much followed as carica-
tured the tail and the short, the thin
and the fat, the fair and the dark, indis-
criminately adopting the same forms and
the same colors, while the roundface has
the same head dress as the elongated.
We depart so far from nature, and from
art, as to render the human form ALSO
lutely deformad-to make the fairest or
nament and crown Of womanhood, her
hair, rough and course, and lustreless,
like the stubble Of the field, and the pres
ent permanently gray. There can be no
beauty IN mingling lncongruous colOrs !;
In cutting the lustre of rich silk, that
seems TO have sunshine in its sheen, with
rows Of gimps and fringes ; in overlooking
skirts with such heavy trimmings as to
impede the walk; in wearing the bonnet
which falls over the nose, or on the nape
Of the neck, or IS placed on the top OF a
tower Of false hair, cut from the heads OF
dead women, and is trimmed at once and
the same time with lace and ribbon, and
flowers, and feathers, and beads, and
brooches It Is curious fact that the
really elegant and artistic fashions adop-
ted BY the respectable classes in Paris,
when they reach England, travelling so
short distance, become ridiculous and
grotesque-as much like the original de-
sign as caricature in Punch is like
true portrait There Is ~ taste in con-
slant change Of rsiment, no disgrace in
wearing the same dress, it neatly and
carefully kept, Is long Is it is credtable
in appearance; but there is a great beauty
in becoming clothing, in well assorted
colors, in avoiding the awkward and gro
tesque in attire IN an excessively tail
woman not making herself look Ike a
maypole, or a very short one dwariing
her stature. Ii IS doubles womanly
duty to look as pleasant as she possibly
can bnt more bathing and well brushed
bair, constant supply through our own
Industry Of snowy collars and cuffs, and
caps, too, when we cease to be young,
would effect this object, while the intoxi-
cation OF dress defeats the aim. = Mrs.
kortwright.
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The place which jute now occupies
among raw materials wrought into useful
articles in Great Britain, may be inferred
from the fact that the quantity annually
imported nearly equals that of fax. 1t is
used not only for the production of vari-
Gus kinds of course textile fabrics, but also
for hats, paper, carpets, and to a very
great extent for women's chignons. Ac-
cording to DIR. Hodges, the difficulties
hitherto experienced IN bleaching jute
may be removed, by passing the raw ma
terial successfully through baths, of aka
line solutions and of hypochlorite of mag
nesia and soda. In practice jute may be
distinguished from hemp by its striking a
deep golden yellow with analine sulphate.
-Ex.
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aEgS5E -

An energetic lady in OWEN, iowa
laments her inability to vote. "Why, if
were a man, she said, recently, "Pd 60
70 the polls Il hitl to be laid on feather
he'd, placed on stone boat, and hauled
by a blind OK with one leg broken but I'd
vote But what's the use of talking !?
Men are men, when they amt swine, and
can't he drivers
The advocates Of woman suffrage will
be gratifad lo know that there are $50
Post Aiistresses in the United States,
and net one of them has proved to be a
defaulter.
The defeat Of prohibition in Massachu-
sets has had the effect to quiet Boston,
clamor about a water famine.
There is a family of eight children
living near Webster City, Iowa, the
youngest OF which is eighty years old.
New Orleans may rightly be called the
American Paris" for she's never with
out excitement or gaiety Of some kind or
another. The coming reunion of knights
Templar there will probably be the most
brilliant Masonic gathering ever convened
in America
And 50 the ladies Of Kansas aspire 10
the ballot The Leavenworth Times Of
Wednesday last (the day after election)
remarks +: The votes of Mrs. Calkins
and Mrs. Williams were challenged at the
Third Ward polls yesterday, but we be
lieve the votes were received under protest
Of the judges"
The Princeton (Indiana) Clarion is
authority for the statement that family
in Pike county has ten children, who are
called by the following nicknames: Buck,
Squirrel, Yankee, Diddle, Daddle. Tint,
Pitipan, Poss, Funny and Button, while
the children call their parent Boardy Pink
and Skid
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As the peasants believe that departed
soul must cxpiate any evil done in this
life on the spot where the sin was commit
ted, the whole country is supposed to be
peopled with these ghostly vlsitants. AL
most every lone wood or gloomy spot has
It's own ghost At holy seasons a blue
light IS visible Gu the meadows, fiery
form hovers over the mashes, and weird
animals approach the frightened wanderer
in desolate places these are all ''poor
souls who must thus atone for their mis-
deeds, far from human habitat;ons. The
reason for this is that if the peasant per
ceives anything uncannY in his house or
stables, he at oace fetches a priest, who
forthwith besses the whole house and
banishes the apparition to some solitary
woodland nook, where it can no longer
disturb people However, the exercising
may also be performed by the peasant
himself, by collecting al ths KEYS IL s
house, and chinking them together. He
can thus drive the spirit to the borders of
his domain, but he must be very careful
not to set foot beyond his own boundaries,
or he vii! inevitably be torn to pieces. A
common crime seems to have been remov-
ing the landmarks, for which the hearing
ii red hot store on his shoulder and crying
in wailing accents, "Where shall | place
it ?" If any passer-by has the courage to
reply, 'Putit back in the spot whence
YOU took it, the spirit is enabled to re-
place the landmark in its rightful position,
and is Immediately relieved from his
penance. The Hottinger Case, at Inns
bruck, is haunted by fiery milk women,
who have watered the milk during their
life time.
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Hon. James 7. Harrison and Gen. S. D.

lion. James 4. ddTTts0h ana OsR >. ~.
lee:
GENTS: In pursuing the objects of my
mission to this country, one of which, as
you are aware, was to induce immigration
to our section, | find that the class of
immigrants most likely to go first are those
called farm laborers" These men are
such as the farmer hires by the day. week
OF month, at a given price per day, fur
nishing them only with houses in which
to live. | have explained TO them that
our planters viii not hire in that way and
cannot, because they must have an assur-
ance that those who make the crop will
remain to gather it. All that this class
of immigrants can do is to raise the means
to defray the expences of reaching Amer
lea, and of course must be provided by
the employer with the necessary provis-
ions upon which to suhsist until the crop
is made. | am telling them that they
will get a portion of the crop, say one-
fourth or one-third. according to circum-
stances. This plan seems 10 strike them,
at least the better portion of them, and
Just the class we want [ am offering TO
take out a representative man from among
them, free Of cost, for the purpose Of
looking at and examing the country. ]
have leetured at FIVE different points and
have my advertisements all over the
country andin every paner Of Importance,
and in addition to (Which, | am issuing
n pamphlet upon the subject. Inquiries
are now coming in both BIZ letter and in
person. and I shall have the satisfaction
Of knowing that some attention is excited
in regard TO our region, even if it fails
to accomplish the desired end. / I'm
telling these men that | can get employ
ment for any reasonable number of them,
and nv object in writing is to advise you,
and, through you, others as to what | am
doing, so if succeed in getting the hands
you will aid me in placing them.
am pleased with the looks of these
English farm lahorers. They are strong
and healthy men accustomed to labor
harder than our negroes. Their mode Of
living, while simple; is not as rough re-
the negro. and the houses for them should
be clean and comfortable think they
will make us not only good laborers, but
good citizens.
may write YOU again if any results are
reached and address this to both Of you,
hoping it NAV reach one Of you promptly.
[ am aware that planters want to know
early what they are to depend upon for
the coming year
Yours truly,
4. MURDOCH.
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The Government claims that Titus did
not file formal paper, giving the facts
in detail, and for that reason he should
be excluded from participation. It was
also averred that the title to the land was
in the United States as captors, indepen-
IDENTIFY of the proceedings in confscation,
and that therefore the claimant could have
no title.
The judgment in the District Court
recognized the claim of the informer, but
the Circuit Court excluded it for the
reasons stated. 1t is here insisted that
as the proceedings were instituted upon
the information given by Titus, his claim
is good, notwithstanding the want of a
formal statement of the facts within his
knowledge, in detail, and it is argued that
even if the Government did have a valid
title as captor, it was barred by the title
it chose to stand upon, which was the one
based upon the proceedingsin confscation.
John A. Wills for claimant; the Attorney
General and Solicitor General for the
Government.
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Work for Women.

There are thousands Of households in
this country in which educated persons
would be gladly hired as domestic ser
wants. and there are thousands of educa-
ted women wanting work. There is q
demand and source of supply, but that
is all. Pride oyerpowers political ee0no-
my. The law of supply and demand
does not work, because the average
woman who has had Il so-called education
considers herself above her most natural
occupation. She prefers shirt making 10
bed-making, and starves for the sake of
an empty prejudice. There are unpleas-
ant things, no doubt, about going out TO
service. Mrs. Livermore exemplified
one of them when she told Of the young
lady who went from q theological semi
nary 20 a kitchen and was instantly "cut"
by nearly sll her friends This loss of
social position is not, however, an IN
bearable thing. The possible unkiud
treatment BY the mistress of the house is
a more serious objection. Women are
sometimes ineffabIy mean to women, and
so wonderfully genious in devising petty
fortunes for them that a sensitive lady
might perhaps shrink with reason from
subjecting herself to the caprices Of a fem
mime employer. Still such subsection is
better than starvation. The work is per-
fectly honorable. II is usually light
Where two or three servants are employ
ed, each of them has some spare time
every day. The board and lodging pro-
vided are both far better, As rule. than
n seamstress can afford. The wages are
quite high. Yet a foolish pride keeps
American born women out of this employ
Tribune
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Distressing Family Calamity.

Mrs. Ann I. Nasby, wife of Col Rob
ert Montgomery Mosby, Of Louisville,
committed suicide on the 28th ult., a;
Anchorage. Ky, By suddenly jumping
in front Of a Short Line train. The issiy
was a sister in law Of Judge Bland Bal
lard, and granddaughter of Governor
Develing, OF Nirgiuia She married Mr..
Mosbv ten days ago, and something that
has occurred between them since probably
caused her to commit self destrustion.
All sorts Of rumors are atioat. The Lou
isviile Courier Journal says "Msny OF
our readers will recognize in the unfortu-
nate subject Of this notice the once fscln-
ating Miss Ann Mcdowell. who. some
thirty odd years ago, was one of the
reigriing bellies in the society of Louisville.
Her first husband was the late Cyrus ii.
Bent, a respected, prosperous and sue
cessful merchant, who died about nine
teen years ago. Her last husband, Mr..
Mosby, is we'll known citizen of Louis
vile. Besides her husband, her imme-
diate family consists of two daugk ters
and one son, all of whom are grown.
Her family relations and connections are
numerous and among our most respected
citizens.
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4 Family Poisoned by Diseased
Pork.

\ famLy named Punt, living near
Sa.zburg, are suffering terribly from
triehina. The facts in the case, rs we
learned them from Dr. Marks, are as fol
lows
In possession Of the family was q
SOW which gave birth to eight pigs The
pigs lived but few days after their birth
and then Mrs Punt decided TO fat the
old one to kill for family use. She would
not respond very satisfactorily TO a gen
erous feeding, and the attempt TO make
her as tat as desirable was given up, and
she was slaughtered. A portion OF the
family ate of it. One boy, aged about
fifteen, was taken sick His joints became
stiff and swollen, and after few days of
the most eXcruciating agony, died on
Monday last The four other children
were almost Immediately stricken down,
and the same symptoms were apparent rs
were shown in the case Cf their dead
brother. Neighhors wondered some
thought it typhoi fever. Finally the
meat was thought Of, and portion Of it
examined by gentleman living in the
vicinity, with a microscope. The exam
inatlon revealed The fact that the meat
was literally alive with the poisonous
parasites. The four children were still
alive when we received the Information
yesterday, but their joints were stiff and
terribly swollen. Their agony, the doctor
tells us, is terrible to behold. 1t is thought
that they must all die.-Bay City Mich }
Chronicle.