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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
whats High Farming :

An American farmer Of note, after visit
ing England and examining with tho
critical eye of practical and experienced
agriculturist, the system pursued there,
says
l am thoroughly confirmed la my old
faith that the only good farmer of our
future is to be the "high farmer There
is widely prevailing antpathy among
the common farmers OF ourcountry against
the not only the practice OF high farming,
but against the uso of the phrase by ag-
ricultural writers This Is all wrong, and
should be at once corrected. Through
some misconception of the meaning of tho
phrase, aud also of its application, they
have 10 believe IL synonymous with thoU-
retecal " book farming "ncw tangled
notions" boosted progress, followed by
disappointment and final failure. Thisis
all an error. High farming simply means
thorough cultivation, liberal manurng,
bountiiul crops, good feed, and paying
profits thercfrOm. IL is not strange that
misconceptions have arisen in the minds
of doubling farmers who have been eye
witnesses To some of the spcad-oagle oXpc-
riments Of enthusiastic farmers, better
supplied with money obtained la busi-
ness they knew how 10 manage than with
practical experience on the farm. Boun-
tiful crops and paying profits, Of course,
are what all farmers who are depending
upon the farm for an income, are striving
To obtain and every year as IT, passes is
re-confrming the opinion that profits arc
small, and will grow beautifully less
where high farming is not practlccd.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
THE ROBRER CLANS.
They Must be Defeated "a Glae Polls
and Started Out.

Kinds County Gazette.l
Our correspondent " D." speaks out
very plainly on the tax question, and his
views are entitled to weight If the car
pet-baggers and their ignoramus negro
allies cannot be beaten at the polls, they
can certainly be beaten-and very
badly beaten-by refusal on the part of
the taxpayers to pay taxes. Every car
pet-bagger in the State is a candidate for
othee-a standing candidate for some Office
better than the one he now holds. The
negroes, too, are all expectants, having
had promises from the robber Glars. The
carpet-baggers are here to hold office, and
for the money that there is in holding of
flee at this time in Mississippi. Shut of
the supplies-stop paying tax money into
the county and State Treasuries-and
the inducement that now keeps them in
Mississippi will no longer exist, and soon
the last one of them will return to their
northern home, and the negro, released
from his present bondage, will become a
free and an intelligent voter, under the
counsels of our own people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
Autobiography OF GOV. Allen.

As Gov. Allen, of Ohio, is now hold
ing one of the most important positions
won By the Democratic hosts in either
hand to hand fight with Radicalism, the
following autobiography as related to a
reporter of the St. Louis Republican
will interest the reader:
After brief and desultory chat about
the condition of crops and the prospect
IT the season, led the venerable states
man slap into the medids res of an inter
view with this inquiry
Gov. Allen, great deal has been
said and written about your age, but /
have never vel seen anything from you
on the subject. Have any objection 10
settling all this sort of nonsense by stating
exactly how old you are?"
None in the world, replied our I'm
Gle William, good humoredly. 81 was
born in the little village of Edenton,
North Carolina. ON the 9th day Of Janu-
airy, 1906, and am siXtv-nine years old.
When | was an infant my parents re-
moved to Lynchburg, Va, whence |
emgrated TO Ohio ut an early
period of young manhood. | have been
amused at most of the stories regarding
my age; and | may say not only amused
but gratifed, because it is pleasant to
reflect that the only crime which the
bitterest of my opponents can find to al
lege against me is the fact that my hair
is white now and that | was senator of
the United States nearly forty years
ago"
"You began life quite early, govern
orr"
Eyes, sir; | began life pretty early
but don't intend to quit it until quite
late"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
Who IL 'he He-' Farmer =

The best farmer + d. who raises the
best and largest crops Oh the smallest SURF
face of land al the least expense, and at
the same time annually improves his soils
who understands bis business and attends
to it whose manure heap is very large
and always increasing whose corn crib
and smoke house are at home who is
surrounded by all the necessanes and
comforts Of life who studies his profess
sion and strives to reach perfection in 90 :
who keeps strict account OF hi55 OUT
goes as we'll as his incomes, and knows
how he stand at the end Of the season.
Such farmer, in nine times out OF ten'
will succeed and not only make farming FL
pleasant but profitable occupation. Try
it and see how it is yourself, reader.
Farmers indicator.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
A Three.MinuIe Horse Thirty
Four Years Old.

Geneva Lake Correspondence Chicago Post.
There is a horse here who is a subject
of interest, on account of his age; he is
thirty-four, and sprightly as kitten
he belongs to Col. Richardson, of the
Geneva Bank, who has owned him for
ten years, and can trace his genealogy
back to his Morgan sire. He is a bright
bay, pretty as picture, intelligent, gen
tie, and as particular about his oats as he
ever was. His eye is bright and his
teeth good. He was the leading spirit
in one livery stable for ten years, and
there is work in the old horse yet. Mr..
Buell., the Postmaster here, and son-in-
law of Mr.. Richardson, took us for a
ride after him, and he gave us a good
three-minute gait without any coaxing.
He will go just as faithfully with a child
driving him, and if the lines are dropped,
he will turn out, as if guided, TO his
side of the road.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
Trial by Jury.

Sharon Turner speaks of the trial
by jury as "a tree so beautiful and so
venerable" Go into almost any conrt
room in which lawyer is addressing a
jury, and you will hear him speak of
"the palladium of our liberties" If you
choose to inquire what the learned advo-
cate means by these words, you will learn
that he is describing the twelve gentle
men, learned in the law, who are sitting
in the box before him, and that the idea
he wishes to convey is that they are to
decide in his favor. You may also hear
him, in the language Of Sergeant Buzfuz,
congratulating his client on having APP
pealed to can enlightened, a highmind-
ed, right-feeling, a conscientious, a dis
passionate, sympathizing, a contempla-
tive jury of his civilized countrymen. -
Dickens Sergeant Buzfuz is not the only
one of the family, nor has he an exclu-
sive right to the use Of those truthful
and significant epithets. His brethren
have employed them before him, and
they will employ them after him, with all
the candor Of Sergeant Buzfuz. To a
lawyer i'll court the jury system in gener-
al is the palladium of our liberties, and
the particular jury he is addressing is the
palladium of palladiums, being composed
Of the most intelligent, most high-minded,
and most impartial gentleman that a
jury-box is capable of holding. Gully
Home and School.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
The Tnxcs-VViII the People Pay
Them!

Kinds Co. Gazette:
That most immaculate sheet, the Pilot,
appears t. be greatly exercised over a
certain caption that has made an occa-
sional appearance III the Gazette, and ~
THE CLARION too, and hopes to get rid OF
it at a single wipe by calling tia bugaboo.
1.-THE taxes-will the people pay them 2
a bugaboo is it? Well, we hate to do
ANYTHING that the Pilot does not like;
but, to be candid, we have taken such
a fancy to that caption, as TO be thinking
seriously, of adopting it as IA sort OF stand,
ing advertisement, for such time, at
least, as to secure to every taxpayer IN
the county, and State too, sure oppor-
tunitv to notice it, Get used to this
fancy of ours, Mr.. Pilot, as fast as you
can, and preserve your equanimity
little better for you were sadly of your
foot when you indited that column on
fhe bugaboo. Get used to it, and learn
that this question, like all others, admits
of more answers than one ; although the
one answer, ''we will not pay" now
hangs on the lips of thousands Of oul
people, as you too well know: aG.'
YOU know too, that this feeling is not
likely to weaken, but, on the contrary TO
grow, and grow, and grow. until the four
little monosyllables fwe will not paw"
shall come up from the insuIted and out
ragged and plundered people of Mississippi
as the voice If one man.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

Few women famous In literature are
less known to the outside world than the
author of adam Bede, 8" The Mill on
the Floss" and :" Middlemarch." Mrs.
Lewis lives in London, near Regents
Park, where the great city losses Its urban
character and the houses stand apart in
yards, surrounded by trees and flowers.
Here in a square house, two stories high,
hidden by wall which shuts out Earring
sights and sounds, lives and writes the
greatest of living English women. With
IN and without everything has an air of
refined simplicity. The appearance Of
the lady herself is remarkable Her large
head covered with a mass of rich auburn
hair, makes the visitor think, at first
sight, that she must be tall, for surely
such a head could not rest on other
than large body. But when she rises,
her figure appears of but medium height
Her manners are very sweet and simple,
and entirely free from affectation. She
neither talks about herself, nor seems to
desire to lead in the conversation. She
has the delicate tact to make others talk,
and the art of drawing out all that is best
and most elevated in them. In her pres
ence the ordinary small talk of society
would seem an impertinence. There is
great earnestness about her. Looking into
her mild eyes, the visitor feels that they
have looked deep into the sad and awful
truths of existence, and that, to the wo-
man whose soul gazes out through them,
and gift Of genius is great responsible
",
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
sheep ana Dogs.

A Missouri farmer, after a long calcu-
lation, presents the following facts con-
corning dogs 'In thrirty-two counties
10, 6O2 sheep have been killed by dogs.
He estimates the number Of dogs in these
thirty-two counties to be 462, OOO that d
hog will thrive on the food necessary 10
support an able bodied dog, and at the
end of the year weigh 200 pounds; there
fore, if the food for these 462, 900 went
to the hogs, it would make 90, 900, 600
pounds of pork, worth, at six cents a
pound, S4,250, 000-nearly twice the
value of all the school houses in the State,
aud more than twice the amount used By
the State for school purposes
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

McComb City Intelligencer.l

McCOmb City Intelligencer.l
We find this heading to innumerable
articles in our Northern exchanges. 1t
does not refer to our crops-nor 10 our
health-nOr to any Of the other material
comforts we enjoy. But to the peace which
prevails and the spirit of sectional frater-
nization which is abroad in the hearts OF
the people. Vice-President Wilson, after
an extended tour through the South went
back to report this condition of affairs,
and when Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virgin
la, and the South Carolina and Maryland
veterans went to Boston, to join in the
Centennial celebration of the battle of
Bunker Hill, they were perfectly deluged
with kindness. The bloody chasm is
bridged. There is no use shaking hands
across it. There is nothing to do now but
to walk over. The dead pastis buried. The
living future, with its glorious promises, is
before Us.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
General LOnSsIreeI.

The Charlotte On. c. Observer, of
July 23d, says: General Longstreet ar
rived in this city yesterday morning on
the North Carolina train, and spent the
day at the Central Hotel 1t was an
nounced IN the Associated Press tele-
grams some days ago that General Long
street was in Washington, and had called
upon Secretary Bristow for access to the
rebel archives, from which to maze up
his personal record at Gettysburg. He
is Just now returning home, and stopped
here to see General ID. H. Hill concerning
the same matter, he thinking that Jones
LATE OF Lee does him injustice in the re-
ports 1t gives of his conduct in several
battles. The two Generals were in con-
ference tor several hours at the residence
OF General Hill. Longstreet was very
gallant soldier, and his soldierly qualities
challenge the admiration of ali men, but
his course since the war has shown ANYTHING
else than devotion to the land for which
he fought SO we'll. General Longstreet's
beard is now gray. Soldiers who knew
him during the war say that then it was
black and very long, extending almost
to his waist. He now wears the Burn
side whiskers, mustache, and side beard.
lie Is said not to be so large as he was
during the war, and is represented as
being very much changed otherwise in
his personal appearance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
Mr. Davis Wanted i'm North Caro-,
lima

The Morning Star, an able paper pub
lished at Wilmington, North Carolina,
says "Now that Mr.. Jefferson Davis
has declined the presidency of the Bryan
Agricultural college, in Texas, with its
small salary of four thousand dollars
year, the University of North Carolina
should tender him its presidency with
salary of least double that sum and large
liberty of suggestion and control of the
institution. Perhaps he would accept
the position. 1t would not at all interfere
with the prosecution Of the historical work
on which, it is said, he is at present en-
gagged, but on the contrary, would, by
locat and association, materially assist
him in his patriotic purpose. Governor
Graham and Mr.. George Davis, Of North
Carolina, will not accept the position for
satisfactory reasons. Ex-President Davis
is the one man out of the State who
could infuse new life into the sluggish
veins of old Chapel Hill indeed he is
perhaps the one man who can give the
University of North Carolina at the start,
guaranteed career of brilliant success
on basis promising permanently"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

shelves, got out every bag there was I'M
der the bed and behind the doors, and in
ten minutes that bureau was SO full you
couldn't shut a drawer Then | took
them all out and fixed them over again.
. It's ours, Jim says and then |
just sat down and cried.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

MEN of the South, 1t is for you TO say
whether your magnanimity is equal to
your valor-whether you are reasonable
as you are brave, and whether, like your
old chief, you accept that definite and
irreversible result of the war which makes
you and yours forever members Of the
great American nation with US. Let us
see to it, North and South, that the Gen.
tennial heals all old wounds; reconciles all
the old differences, and furnishes the oc-
casion for such a reunion of the great
American nationality, as shall make our
celebration an expression of fraternal
goodwill among all sections and all States.
DIR. Holland in Scribner.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
49, 10000


Before the war when the property
basis was six hundred millions instead Of
one hundred and fifty millions as it now
is, and when the negroes were taxable
property-the whole cost of the Stale and
county governments did not exceede nine
hundred thousand dollars. The increase
of taxes, the property valuation CON
sidered, amounts to not less than fifteen
hundred per cent. And it all comes
from the party of theft ana plumber
now in power the State, and sustained by
the carpet-baggers and their negro al
| lies. -Hinds County Gazette.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

The community at Enterprise have
sustained a loss in the death of Mr.. d.
&. Thompson, a well-known and highly
respected citizen of that town. The
Columbus Democrat says Mr.. ThOmp.
son was at one time a resident of Column
bus, and was brother of Scott ThomP-
son, of Noxubee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

In Wisconsin every woman at the age
of twenty-one years and upward, residing
in the district within which the duties OF
the offices are to be performed, Is eligible
to the following school offices: Director,
treasurer and clerk of school districts,
director and secretary of town boards,
under the township system of school
government, member of board of edu.
cation in cities, and county superintend
ent of schools.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

SENATOR MoRToN's speech is received
with pretty general favor by the Repub-
lican press Of the country. tt notice
able that very little attention is paid to
his threadLare harangue on the rebelIious
sentiment of the South. The bloody
shirt has ceased to be useful a a flag to
fire the popular heart
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

AT the Primary Election on Saturday,
our old friend James Moore, who has
heretofore been afiliating with the Radi-
Gals, came forward and cast Democrat
ic ticket, and at the same time announced
his determination to hereafter act in the
concert with the great Democratic party.
-Meridian Mercury.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
Why SHE NEVER TOLD HER LOVE.
{ Tristan Union ]

Christain Union.
Gould 10 be virgin bashfulness
That still concealed the tender thought ?
or fear she might perchance confess
A love that was not sought?
Was il mere w0manly caprice
or pride? or maidenly reserve?
Was it respect tor mental peace?
or merely want of nerve?
She could not choose but understand,
He thought, his little game of signs,
Slow parting pressures of the hand,
Soft words, and speaking eyes"
The reason why (ttis was above
Ten years ago. he now knows well;
She simply never told her love,
Because-She'd none TO tell
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

India now manufactures great deal
of cotton. Eighteen steam spinning and
weaving mills ut work in the Bomby
Presidency alone, employ $500 looms,
400, 900 spindles, and 10, 000 hands turn
ing out daily 1000 pounds of yarn.
The weekly consumption of cotton rs de-
scribed as l 800 bales, and likely to in
crease largely. There are also many
cotton manufactures in other parts of
India.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
How we are Taxed.

The amount of money raised by taxa
ton for county purposes, i'll Mississippi,
for the year ending June 30, 1879, Is
stated at two millions Of dollars. For
State purposes alone the appropriations
made by the Legislature for the year will
reach the sum of eight hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. While the amount
raised for school purposes will probably
exceed six hundred thousand dollars. 80
we have a total for the year, without
counting city and town taxes,) as fol-
lows:
For county purposes. 900, 0OC
For State purposes. ............ $50, 0OO
For School purposes. 600, OOC
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

THE por trait of jefferson Davis, Sec
rotary of War under President Pierce,
has been added to the War Department
collection.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18

The Japan persimmon is being cultiva-
ted in California.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-18
ADVERTISING AGENTS.

aze- None others are authorized to solicit
S..sluess for The CLARION.
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Remittances should be by registered letter.
h oney order, draft, or by express. When 9th
srwise, the Office cannot be responsible
All business communications should be ad-
4 ressed to Power 4 Barksdale. jackson, Miss
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TWO SIDES TO A BUREAU.
One side.

BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRD.
, 1875-03-14
pened to be knot-hoIa, 1t which one OF the
men exclaimed.

pened to be . knot-hole, At which one Of the
men exclaimed.
''Halos! This un's got windy to look out
Of"
The people thought this was the joke Of the
season. There was one exception, however,
the little, crippled, pale-fased girl. She burst
out crying. turned to 4 woman standing near,
and sobbed:
"oh, Jennie! il die, don't let those awful
men men come o' ns.f me! Don't let me be buried
Tia woman appeared greatly Affected, and led
her away.
Having got our passengers all aboard, the pro
oesslon formed in line, and started towards sne
OF the ox-tearn, with hia long whip in hand,
which he cracked over the beads OF the An1mals'
accompanying each motion with 7octter-
Gus remarks not alwaYs elegant. Alter
the oxen, Of course Ca Game =. r;is eus
ef esg roesn iss sos.. Fs. Prs
brought up tho rear, and thus We PASSED out OF
the backyard, followed by hundreds OF eyes. 1
noticed that nv companions held up their heads,
and stepped with an alr OF coosc'ous pride and
importance. 80.
Some dlstanc. back OF the county buildings,
on = bleak, open prairie, unprotected from the
sun Of summer and tho stees Of winter. there is
LITTLE PLAT or GROUND,
called bv name that is familiar to every En-
EI.sh-sreaking tonguo in both heu1sphcrcs.
Several long humuoc6s ct earth alone broke the
dead larel. Tness appeared to be for1ned by the
loose earth thrown ln trenches, as indeed they
zero paus,ng at tie end OF these
elongated hillocks We found ditch
recently d3s. Without further cereu,ony We APP
Piled ourselves 10 the task Of letting the boxes
down side by side BY means Of ropes. AZ soon
a. the sleigh WAS uuloaded the driver turned hia
oxen honeward. leaving us to complete The job.
We ehoveled the earth and snow into the trench
90 until they vera nearly full when we, too,
shouldered our tools and marcaed merrily back
to the Poor-House. The days task was over.
4 few more panpefs were buried and out OF the
way. Out Of world OF misery and wnnt,--A
world Of toll, vexatiou, und heaviuess.-a world
which had greeted youth with stare, had frowu-
ed upoa marhood, aid had persecuted and ha-
rassed old age down into the gloom OF the Valley
Of the Shadow Of DEATH.