The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-07-09
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Germany is cutting down expenses in
| It's diplomatic service.
Eightv-two cities Of Germany are now
able to boast Of cremation societies.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
been in session nearly six months.
At Coburg, in Canada, a military camp
Of instruction has been opened.
Cod fishing in Boston Bay is just now
a favorite amusement at the hub.
San Francisco claims to have exported
81 ,034, 537, 245 in gold and silver in TWEEN
ty-fve years.
Advices from New England and the
Northwestern States predict an unusually
large apple crop.
A man in Jersey City convinced the
inmates of a house that the gag leaked,
by investigating with a lighted match.
A lot having 2,210 feet, in the midst
of the business portion of London was
recently sold at the rate of So 30 gold
per foot.
How violently do rumors blow the sails
of popular Judgment How few there are
that can discern between truth and
truth-likeness, between shows and sub
stance Sir ?. Sidney.
The reason an urcbin gave for being
late at school was that the boy in the
next house was going to have a dressing
down with bed cord, and he waited to
hear him howl.
The Senate bill, removing the political
disabilities of JAS L. Pugh, Of Alabama
was on motion of Caldwell, Of Alabama,
passed This was the last legislative act
of the session.
Mr.. BEECHER recommends as remedy
for somnolency in church sitting down at
home in a rocking chair, about the time
the second bell rings, and taking a nap
there.
Last year the farmers of Guthrie eoun-
tv, Iowa, burned their corn because they
couldn't sell it. Now they travel miles
to purchase it, and pay half q dollar a
bushel for it to feed their horses.
Depend uponit, ifaman talks of his mis-
fortunes there is something in them that
is not disagreeable to him; for where there
is nothing but pure misery there never is
any recourse to the mention oft John
son.
WHILE Texas is sending the West
droves of beef the West is returning the
compliment in the shape Of fine tiocks of
sheep, which, says the San Antonio
Herald, are arriving from Illinois in con-
siderable numbers.
THE Domestic REALM.-Home is the
realm of which the wife is sovereign, and
her sovereignty will bring her honor and
love according as her rule over the matters
committed to her trust is wisely and ben
efcently ordered.
Says the New York SUP: ''Gen. Sher-
man hasn't been a favorite at the White
II ouse since he declined to give Lieut..
Fred. Grant undsserved promotion and
merely loafing duty at Washington, by
appointing him as Colonel on his staff
Music once admitted to the soul be-
comes sort of spirit and never dies. 1t
wanders perpetually through the halls
and galleries of the memory, and is often
heard again, distinct and living as when
it first displaced the wavelets Of the air
Bulwer Lytton.
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the
II
orally to those of the strongest constitu-
tons. But there is a sort Of puny, siekly
reputation, that Is always ailing, yet will
wither the robuster characters OF hun
dred prudes. - Sheridan.
In Lebanon county, recently Catha-
rine Whitmoyer, an old woman 81 years
ofage, was burned to death through hav-
ing laid down with lighted pipe in her
mouth, which, falling on the bed, set it
on fire, and caused the destruction of the
house.
Governor Moses, of South Carolina.
has pardoned another lot of thieves, who
boosted while on their way TO the peni-
tertiary that he would do so. Moses ex-
poets to be reelected Governor, and is
organizing his forces-and such forces
Washington Chronicle, Grants pa
per-
The school census of Richmond coun-
ty, Va, shows 3,217 white and 1902 ne
gro children, between six and eighteen
years of age 1919 white and l, 012 negro
children, between ten and eighteen years
of age, unable to read and 1853 whites
and 5, 069 negroes, over eighteen, Unable
to read. In the same county there are PA
Confederate soldiers under thirty years of
age.
CREAM CHEESE TO make this, take
one quart of fresh cream, not scalded.
If not desired very rich, add one pint of
new milk; warm it by letting itstand in hot
water until it is about the heat of milk
from the cow Add tablespoonful of
rennet; let it stand until it is thick. then
break 1t slightly with spoon and place
it IN frame eight inches square and four
inches deep, IN which previously place
a fine canvass cloth. Press it slight
" with weight on loose board, to Sin
inside the frame. Let it stand twelve
hours, then puta finer cloth in the frame.
A little powdered salt should be put over
the cloth leave it without the weight.
1t will be fit for use In day or two.