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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30
Am Insane NEoney-NEaker.

The New York correspondent of the
Troy Times writes of insanity, and saws:
[ may here refer to the death of an ac-
dale Asylum. He was of slender build,
but disease had reduced him to extreme
emaciation. He had not lived much
more than forty years, and yet he was
the image of idiotic old age. Such was
the last scene in the life of one who was
once highly gifted and eminently success
full. When first l knew him he was
fne-built young man, with brilliant
countenance and easy manner. He hired
loft in warehouse, and began trade on
a capital which could not have exceeded
$500; but from that beginning sprung
one of the greatest houses in the CITY,
His course was one of wonderful success,
but it taxed his system beyond its strength.
He was SO excited that he could not
sleep. He became delirious on the sub
ject of making money. 1t was the sole
theme of his conversation, and at last it
was feared that this talk was but a form
of insanity. He would call on his friends
to show them chow to make money"
And this, with other vagaries, compelled
his friends to place him in the asylum
Here he became a lunatic money-maker.
He would spend the day in calculation,
and at night tell how many millions he
had made. At last his brain wore out
and he sank into idiocy, which only ter
minated with his life. The concern
which he built up is one of great wealth,
and he left his family half million, but
it was small price for which to sell his
reason.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

For the benefit of our lady readers we
give what woman says concerning the
GrecIan knot, a croifure now coming
into favor:
About one woman out of twenty-five
has head and features of the shape ne
cessary to make this style becoming
given broad half-nigh, white forehead,
rather straight nose, well rounded face
and throat, and the careless knot Of hair
low in the nape of the neck, with pure
white part in the centre of the head, from
which the hair ripples naturally over the
temples and ears, is beautiful, making the
wearer Greek goddess at once, or, what
is better now -a-days, a charming Amerl-
can woman. But take the remaining
twenty-four women, who have all kinds
of foreheads and features, and who are
stately with the hair massed on the very
tops of their heads, or braided and band
ed smoothly neither high nor low, or be-
witchingly coquettish and girlish with n
chatelaine braid with curl or two, finger
puffs above the forehead and little rings
falling over it; put the severe Greek knot
low down on these heads, draw the hair
over the pretty pink ears, narrow the
temples and cheeks by nearly obscuring
them, and what is the result? The state
ly woman looks prim and belittled; the
bright, coquettish one is ten years older,
and in many cases startling defects Of
features or odd expressions never before
noticed by those who knew them best,
and to whom they were once pretty, are
developed by the change.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

The man who grunts and gaps as h
gobbles up his soup, and at every othe
mouthful seems threatened with a chok
ing fit.
The man who, having by an acciden
been thrown once in your company, make
bold to bawl your name out, and to shak,
your hand profusely when you pass hin
In the street.
The man who, pleading old school-fel
lowship, which you have quite forgotten
never meets you without trying to extort &
FIVE pound note.
The man who volunteers his criticism
on your new play or picture and points
out its worst faults in presence of your
wife.
The man who artfully provokes you to
play game of billiards with him, and
though he feigns to be.a novice, produces
his own chalk.
The man who can't sit at your table on
any set occasion without getting on his legs
TO propose some stupid toast
The man who, thinking you are
musical, bores you with his notions
of the music of the future, of which you
know as little as the music of the spheres.
The man who wears a white hat in
winter, and smokes pipe when walking,
and accOsts you as g old fell Just As YOU
are hoping to make good impression on
some well-dressed lady friend.
The man who, with look of urgent
business, when you are in hurry, takes
you by the button-hole to tell you bad
joke.
The man who, sitting just behind you
at the opera, destroys half your enjoy
ment by humming in all the airs.
The man who makes remarks on yodr
personal adornment, asks you where you
buy your waistcoats, and what you paid
for your dress goods.
The man who lards his talk with little
scraps of French and German after his
return from a Continental tour.
The man who spois your pleasure in
seeing new play by applauding in wrong
places and muttering in stage whispers his
comments on the plot.
And, to finish with, the man who,
when you draw back slightly to appreciate
a picture, coolly comes and stands in
front of you, and then receding also,
treads upon your toes.-Punch.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

Before Turk gets married he asks al
good men to pray for him.
A wooden-legged Lothario in the
hately, Mass, poor-house, has eloped
with the poor-master's wife,
| Propositions of marriage in Nevada are
written on postal cards, and the answer
comes by return mail: "Come on with
your preacher |"
1t doesn't look very we'll for a Green
Bay paper to rise up and remark that
Green Bay never had an elopement. A
word-a look-may set a woman to think
ing and planning.
A Cleveland young man has scrap
book containing the marriage notices of
all the women he has loved, and he sits
out in the moonlight and reads it and
| cries.
The London Post has an advertisement
inviting proposals from ladies of char
ter and suitable fortune, for the hand of
an English baronet of the earliest crea-
ton"
A girl covered her face with both her
hands when she thought he was about
to kiss her; then she complained: go
my hands are too small there is room
for five hundred yet between them"
Mr.. A. d. Stewart of California and
Miss Ida Meyer of Cairo, Ills, were
married in Evansville, Ind, last week,
after a courtship of four years by letter
They had never seen each other until
few days before their marriage.
press preachers in any way, but particu-
larry as to sermons on events in their
lives. One dear creature having solicited
an exhortation appropriate to her mar
riage, was puzzled at the text: "And |
there shall be abundance of peace-while |
the moon endureth.
The number of innocent young girls |
who marry man believing they can
break him of his bad habits and lug him |
off to church twice every Sunday does not |
diminish in the least, and the divorce |
courts grind and grind.
A Leavenworth lightning-rod agent |
proposed to Susan B. Anthony last Friday |
night, and although she told him she was |
not on the marry, it tiekled her so that |
she hung over the garden gate with him
till half-past eleven and the moon came
up.
Unselfish Reasons. Edward Qanguish-
ingly): [ feel as if | could sit here forever,
so long as you were with me. Angelina
And SO could |, love, if those nasty, odius
people wouldn't get in the way and pre-
vent US seeing the race. Their selfish |
ways quite annoy me! Besides if l
don't bet gloves, | shall have to buy some
as I'm right out of them-so come along.
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Odds and Ends.

:" We don't advertise religion" said a
minister to Carlyle. What do you ring
your bells for them" was the reply.
The Cardiff giant is to be sold to San
Francisco Chinaman for an idol, though
he has been idle for long time.
The glass eye of his deceased grand
mother is among the charms on the watch
guard of distinguished Partisan swell.
Be careful of your diet A Georgian
held a strawberry in his teeth for young
lady to bite at, and she bit half his nose
off.
Even a country preacher doesn't con-
slider it lying to tell you his town has 10,
600 inhabitants when the census only
makes it 6,781.
A Boston paper condemns the practice
of yelling "whoa !" at runaway horses.
Yes, it is mean. The better way is to
jab at 'em with fence rail.
The negroes around Louisville no long
er seek nights rest under freight cars
standing on a switch. 1t got so that the
depot yard was numbered up with heads
and legs.
Do tight boots have anything to do
with corn exchange? ALBANY Argus,
Why, no; they are in the literary bust
ness, issuing Bunion's Works.
One of Tennyson's friends quoted one
of Tennyson's lines, in the poets pres
ence, as happy instance of the natural
expression of spontaneous thought, and
| the poet said: g / smoked dozen cigars
! over that line"
/, A Boston paper says: No human
being was ever burned in New England
for witchcraft or sorcery." Then we say:
mo human being was ever lynched west
of the Mississippi for horse-stealing." Oh,
no!
A man left bony steed in the street,
and on coming back discovered that 9
wag had placed a card against the flesh.
less ribs bearing the notice, Oats wan
ted. Inquire within"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

The Blackfeet Indians cannot divorce
wife, but they can lead her out Oh the
priarie and club her to death.
A mourning widower declares that
nothing brings him such affecting memo.
ries of his dear, dead wife as to stumble
over fatiron.
Once, when he was very drunk, old
Podgres remarked "Tve got one of the
sweetest and bestest wives in the world
and that was the only time he was ever
known to say so.
A Milwaukee wife says that before
marriageit was, "My darling angel Lucy,
heaven above knows my love for you, y
but after marriage she found bottom very
quickly.
A Wisconsin man may not be related
to his wife, as per recent decision, but
she'd like to catch him trying to be a
brother to any other woman.
Who can sound the depths of woman's
love? A New Hampshire wife says OF
her husband ellis kick is an inspira-
ton, and when he knocks me down feel
that my measure of human happiness is
full to OVERLOOKING"
A clergyman being much pressed by q
lady of his acquaintance to preach a SER
mon the first Sunday after her marriage,
complied, and chose the following passage
in the Psalms as his text: EfAnd there
shall be abundance of peace-while the
moon endureth."
1t is always so in this world. The Cir
that James Felker, of Terre Haute, used
to lean over the garden-gate with and call
his trailing arbutus broke his arm last
week with stove-handle. He's married
to her.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30
COnSanguimeOus Marriages.

The work of Ribot on "Heredity" has
been translated from the French, and
published in London. This author takes
the view in regard to consanguineous
marriages that as the tendency Of hered-
ity is to reproduce the whole being of the
parent, such marriages will not be harm
full if the parents enjoy perfect health.
But if the parents have morbid predis-
positions of a similar kind, and such pre-
dispositions, if present, would be likely to
be similar in persons nearly related by
blood, the result upon the offspring will
be the production of an intensified dis
position of this sort. He therefore agrees
with Quatrefages in thinking that the
union of blood relations is not necessarily
hurtful, but it often becomes so, and
should, on that account, be avoided
Like all writer's on the subject, he per
ceives the possibility of improving the
human race by proper selection of pa
rents; but, like all others, too, he cannot
imagine way to bring it about.-Scien.
tifc Miscellany, in the Galaxy.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

Our landlady's daughter is young
lady of some pretensions to gentility.
She wears her bonnet we'll back upon her
head, which is known by all to be mark
of high breeding. She wears her trains
very long, as the great ladies do in Eu-
rope. To be sure their dresses are so
made only to sweep the tapestried floors
of chateaux and palaces, as those odious
aristocrats of the other side do not go
dragging through the mud in silks and
satins, but, forsooth, must ride in coaches
when they are in full dress. It is true,
that, considering various habits of the
American people, also the little accidents
which the best kept sidewalks are liable
to lady who has swept mile of them
is not exactly in such condition that one
would care to be her neighbor. But con-
fou I'D the make-believe women We have
turned loose in our streets Where do
they come from? Not out of Boston par
Tors, / trust. Why, there isn't beast or
bird that would drag its tail through
the dirt in the way these creatures do
their dresses. Because a queen or a
duchess wears long robes on great occa-
sions, a maid of all work or a factory
girl LINKS she must make l6rSe1I uuI-
sance by trailinglahout with her-pahl
that's what | call getting vulgarity into
your bones and marrow. Making be-
lieve what you are not, is the essence of
vulgarity. Show over dirt is the one at
tribute of vulgar people. IF any man
can walk behind one of these women and
see what she takes up as she goes, and
not feel squeamish, he has got tough
stomach. l shouldn't let one of 'em into
my room without serving them as David
served Saul at the cave in the wilderness
cut off his skirts, sir, cut of his skirts.
Don't tell me that a true lady ever sacri.
fees the duty of keeping all about hel
sweet and clean to the wish of making q
vulgar show. I won't believe it of lady.
There are some things that no fashion
has right to touch, and cleanliness il
one of those things. If q woman wishes
to show that her husband or father hal
got money, which she wants and mean.
to spend, but doesn't know how, let hel
buy yard or two Of silk and pin it t.
her dress when she goes out 70 walk bu
/ let her unpin it before she goes into the
house--The Professor Of the Breaktas
Table.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30
FADING.
FADING.
The Past is fading, fading,
Never TO come back again
The cypress tree is shading
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The Past is fading, fading,
Never TO come back again;
The cypress tree is shading
Halfthe sunny plain.
,snoed. [ wot, is each well-knowT
I branch shows new in the hedgero ",
.a The lark from the meadow sprung,
II, life and alike were young;
II ~ the prim rose heed'd to light.
Vet. Natures self pervading,
Il the sense Of something gone;
The Past is fading, fading,
And the wheel of Time rolls on.
The Past il fading, fading,
And gathered in its hold,
Its mighty pinions laden,
rs much we priced of old.
crass grows rank DER many a grave
Il Young ana joyous and gay and brave !;
a weli-loved voice is hushed,
a ! golden hope is crushed,
II Happy dream is DER,
N q smile of kindred, friend and lover.
The Past is fading, fading,
The blood runs cold and slow;
II Harsh wisdom is degrading
The creeds of long ago.
The Past is fading, fading,
We cling and pray in vain,
Where the cypress tree is shading
The tombs of all the slain.
nv the years and put aside,
kaflings of love, the idols of pride.
IN one the trail links part,
II drops from hand and heart from
A heart;
BIZ one the sweet things given
Tighten earth go back from Heaven,
Till love and life, pervading,
Signs the sense ofsomething gone;
And the past is fading, fading,
And the wheel of Time rolls on.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

No POOR man can afford to buy goods
on credit, for if he does, he usually pays
more for the same article than he would
if he paid cash he is more liable to buy
goods he does not need, and is liable to
incur debts which he may not be able To
nav. and which NAV involve him in finan-
ciaI trouble and ruin. A man who ha-
bitually buys goods on credit is like
man who. in an open boat, risks the cur
rent of the Niagara the current of debts
gets stronger, and it carries bin down.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30
OPINION, BY HON. X. A. HILL, DISTRICT
JUDGE.

OPINION, BY HON. X. A. HILL, DISTRICT
JUDGE.
AS the pleadings, proceedings and
proofs were presented to me in the Dis
trict Court, ! was then and am still of
the opinion that Libellant was entitled
to a decree for the amount then decreed,
$40, 900, with execution against the slip
ulator. But the case, as now presented
by the documents found in the archives
Of the Confederate States, presents alto
gether a different defence. These dOcu-
ments upon their face evidently show
that the libellant received from the Con-
federate States compensation for the
steamer Natchez at the time she was
burned in consequence Of her having
been impressed by, and then in the em-
ployment Of, the Confederate service,
without any reservation Of any interest
in that which remained Of the boat.
These documents were not then ia evil
dence. On that trial the libellant testi-
fed, as now, that he did receive the
amount stated, but that it was for the
use Of the boat and his services, and that
the wreck, or that portion Of the boat
and machinery not destroyed, remained
his property. / did not then, nor do j
now, doubt the sincerity Of the state
ments, but il would be unsafe at this
length Of time, 10 allow the parol state
ment Of a single witness 10 vary trans
action and conclusion Of an agreement
reduced to writing at the timo Of its oc-
currence.
Giving, therefore, to these documents
the effect which they evidently impart
upon their face, we can arrive at but
one conclusion, and that is, that Libel
liant received the assessed or agreed value
of the boat before she was burned. This
had the effect Of divesting Libellant of
all title or interest in that which remained
of the boat, and vested the same in the
| Confederate States, which, upon the sur
render of General Taylor, became vested
in the United States. Such being the
case, the lbellant had no more right 20
appropriate any portion Of the remainder
which had escaped the conhagration'
than had one who never had any interest
in the boat. 1t was, therefore, a matter
of no importance to him what disposition
was made of this remainder.
This being the case, any consideration
of the other testimony in the case, on
questions raised, becomes unnecessary.
Therefore, for the reasons stated, i
must concur with the presiding Justice,
that the libel must be dismissed.
r. A. HILL, Judge.
A true copy.
Attest: GEO. t. SWAMI, Clerk.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

In Boston the other day a vain young
fellow, dressed in . new spring suit,
called at the house of lady acquaintance
and asked her how she thought he looked.
you remind me of early green peas, I"
was the answer. he was obliged to de-
part without . solution of this conun-
drum, but understood it afterwards when
he heard . marketman say that early
peas looked nice, but were very insipid.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

A gentleman was endeavoring to enjoy
an evening in the company Of young
lady upon whom he called, but found a
serious obstacle in the person of stern
father, who at length very plainly init
mated that the hour for retiring had ar
rived. 81 think you are correct, my
dear sir" returned the unabashed young
man. "We have been waiting to have you
90 to bed for over an hour"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

''Kill i'm Kill i'm !" shouted crowd
in Virginia City, as they gathered around
q hotel. ''What for inquired a stran-
ger. "He's got on alligator boots and o
velvet coat. Mash i'm
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

INEVITABLE Instead of beating inn
patiently against the inevitable, compose
your over taxed faculties 10 see and be
able to gather the real benefits that arise
from slow examinations. From this are
wisdom and power derived. For these ben
efts are experience.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

To an ordinary Massachusetts man,
his honor is now nothing unless he has
hanging behind the stove ''the 'riglnal
flint-lock that grandfather fred the tirst
shot O. the Revolution with
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

'Do you know who / am ?" asked a
policeman of a fellow whom he had
seized by the throat. mot exactly,
sir; but fancy you are the malignant
naIIarar
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

What is the difference between the
Pawner bank and and German city
None one is loan Co. and the other Co
logne, and they both charge per cent.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

Arguments, like children. should be
like the subject that begets them.-ThOs.
Decker
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

Be calm in arguing for fercenesa
makes error a fault, and truth discour-
tesy.-Hebert.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-06-30

Peace in this life springs from ncquies-
cence even in disagreeablo things, not
in an exemption from suffering. -Fene'
Ion,
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-1DVERTIsING AGENTS.

No,e others are authorized to solicit
hes for IHE CLAhloA'
IA MclSrYRE' $1,000 --'''''''''Ne" D1leans-
NILES -------' - '- --''' y n Ion
PErTTsG ILL 20. Boston
II PETTIS6ILL co. ..''.'--. :; ...--NeW Iork.
II SHARPE & Cor .-.-.Hew ork City.
RowELL g. Co, ..---....--.-New York.
k.t LOCKE, ,.............-...... New York
FvTr6ERfLL & Philadelphia
r-paLE K Co-,......-...............L Louisville
YaRcHAsD * Co, Louisville
p.pv4y. ...-..... ......... Cincinnati
E-vrR & RICHEN, ...-..-...---...-. Cincinnati
7 If,aRAP .-.........-...New Haven, Conn.
WALKER Co., .-'-'. -. pant! ore
H. CsEsAAN' .-.-.'..'.-.-.'-'ot. LOUIS Mo-
L.;ttances should be by registered letter,
4 : ,r3er. draft, or by express. When 9TH
"a he Office cannot be responsible.
/ tasiness communications should be adj
4 "a to Power y barksdale, JACKSON MISS.
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A true copy.
Attest: GEO. L. SWAMI, Clerk.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-05-21
~ INGENIOUS PRISONER.

Adolph Lawrence, in the Maryland
penitentiary, whose term Of sentence for
horse stealing expirednot long since, and
who IS now serving an additional three
months for an adroitly planned and sac
co~ssfully carried out escape from the
prison III 1870, haspr0ved himself q MAJ
Of 10 ordinary talent. When the keeper
came to his cell one morning in that
year, the figure of a man with out
stretched hands presented the customary
check with which each prisoner is desig-
mated, and it was not for sometime after
The prisoner was gone, thathed discovered
tho figure was q dummy made of cloth
ing, and that the hand was an excellent
imitation in plaster paris. He was
shortly after r~ecaptUred, and has since
been one of the best Of men, and at the
same time has turned his excellent abili-
ties in a direction which is likely to prove
remunerative, Mt the same time that an
honorable and useful life in the future is
open to him. He is employed in the
shoe department, and some time since
invented an attachment to shOe-stiching
machines, which is very simple and fills
a want long felt. Through the Board of
Directors the invention was patented and
Il sale Of the right for New York made to
a large manufacturing housei in New York
city for 5000. The invention has gained
the good opinion of many in the trade,
and it is believed that when the man is mt
liberty he will ut INC secure a sale of
rights to use and the royalty upon his in
stated to be strongly seconded by the
Board of Directors.