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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

Stories from the Indian country are so
numerous and remarkable as rather to
tax civilized credulity. The following
has touch of nature in it which recon-
mends it, whether true or false A year
and half ago an Ogallala squaw, the
Splendid looking" daughter Of CHIEF,
fell in love with young medicine man
among the Arapahoes. Her father had
determined to give her to the chief of
band of Sioux. As they journeyed
northward to meet the favored lover, she
fell sick and wasted away day by day
until she appeared to be dying. The
rest of the story can be best given in the
words of the correspondent who tells it:
zone evening while in this condition she
told the old squaw, her mother, to place
some food by her whever they would
place her when dead. The Indians
here do not bury the dead, but lay the
bodies on raised scafolds, leaving sup
ply of food, ammunition and pony by
the scaffold- for the deceased to enter the
happy hunting-grounds with. 1t so
happened the same night after the in
terview with the mother relative to grub
the girl died. OF course the body was
disposed of in due Indian fashion, box
and scaffold were prepared for its recep-
ton, and with all due ceremony and
mourning the young squaw was conveyed
to her last resting-place. That evening
the camp was scene of hustle in taking
down the tents or wigwanls, for it is the
custom when an Indian dies for the bal
ance of the tribe to move away quickly
to another locality. Everything was made
ready to be moved by daylight next morn
ing, and all we'll started, when the old
chief thought he would have IA parting
cry beside the scaffold wherein his dead
daughter lay. For this purpose the chief
and his squaw went to the top of the hill
where they had planted the body; but
when they reached there the box was
empty and the provisions gone. -
''Why," says Nick, yelling and enjoying
it as a good joke, ''the gal wasn't dead,
but eloped with the young medicine man
who had followed her right down from
the Missouri to here. Now" says he,
concluding, ''they are up North, where
seed them few months ago, and doing
well"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

n. Y. Tribune.
A general informal convocation of the
leaders of the large sect known as Camp
bellites or Disciples of Christ took place
last week in Bethany, West Virginia,
the motive being the unwilling of stat
ue of their founder, Alexander Camp
bell, and discourse upon his life and
work by Judge Jeremiah Black, of
Pennsylvania. The selection of the ora
tor was wise one, Judge Black and
Bishop Campbell being alike prominent
types of class of Western men which
unfortunately is fast dying out; men of
exceptional size and endurance in both
body and mind of shrewd insight and
stern integrity: who made bold grasps
at truth and then forever after defended
their opinions with an obstinate, down
right force which belongs to their Scotch
Irish blood and Western training.
Alexander Campbell had all the in
stincfs and qualities of military leader;
fate made him scholar, and d polemic-
al scholar, and the result may be easily
guessed. He became, as many such
men in the church, the founder of a new
sect; and not satisfied with the executive
work and contests which this position en-
tailed upon him, he necessarily sought
occasion to defend orthodox Christianity,
or Professionalism against all corners.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

A London correspondent writes to
Nature 'In the recently published edi-
ton of the Descent of Man there is
some additional matter concerning the
sense of humor in brutes, and as the fol-
lowing illustrative cases fell under my
own observation, | think it worth while
to publish them as supplemental to those
adduced by Mr.. Darwin:
Several years ago | used to watch
carefully the young Orang-Outang at the
Geological garden, and 1 am quite sure
that she manifested a sense of the
ludicrous. One example will suffice
Her feeding-tin was of a somewhat pecu-
liar shape, and when it was empty she
used to sometimes invert it upon her
head. The tin then presented comical
resemblance to a bonnet, and, as its wear
er would generally favor the spectators
with broad grin at the time of putting
it on, she never failed to raise laugh
from them. Her success in this respect
was evidently attended with no small
Qualification on her part.
81 once had Skye terrier, which, like
all of his kind, was very intelligent.
When in good humor he had several
tricks, which 1 know to have been self
taught, and the sole object of which was
evidently to excite laughter. For in
stance, while lying upon one side and
violently grinning, he would hold one leg
in his mouth. Under such circumstan-
ces, nothing pleased him so much as hav-
ing his joke duly appreciated, while if
no notice was taken of him he would be-
come sulky. On the other hand, moth
ing that could happen displeased him so
much as being laughed at when he did
not intend to be ridiculous. Mr.. Darwin
says ''Several observers have stated
that monkeys certainly dislike being
laughed at There can be little or no
doubt that this is true of monkeys; but
never knew of really good case among
dogs save this one, and here the signs of
dislike we're unequivocal. To give one
instance He used to be very fond of
catching flies upon the window-panes,
and, if ridiculed when unsuccessful, was
evidently much annoyed. On one Occa-
sion, in order to see what he would do, /
purposely laughed immoderately every
time he failed. 1t so happened that he
did so several times In succession-partly,
| believe, in consequence of my laughing
and eventually he became so distressed
that he positively pretended to catch the
fly, going through all the appropriate
actions with his lips and tongue, and
afterwards rubbing the ground with his
neck as if to kill the victim he then
looked up at me with triumphant air
of success. So we'll was the whole pro-
cess simulated, that should have been
quite deceived had l not seen that the
Ay was still on the window. Accord
ingly drew his attention to this fact, as
well as to the absence of anything upon
the floor: and when he saw that his by
pocrisy had been detected, he SUNK away
under some furniture evidently very
much ashamed of himself.
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A Battle With Snakes.
Paris (MO.) Appeal

Paris MOI Appeal
A few days since, while a young man
of the vicinity of Middle Grove, whom
we shall designate as Jeemes, was shrub
bling in the field, he ran upon a black
snake in cluster of bushes, and, call
ing his dog Zip, set him after the snake.
While he was intently watching the pro-
gress of the fight between his snakeship
and his favorite canine, something from
behind took him "whack" upon the seat
Of his trousers, and, turning quickly, he
discovered to his horror a tremendous
horse-racer, full six feet in length, with
head erect, kissing tongue and glaring
eyes, curling himself in the fullest atti-
tude of battle, and before Jeemes could
comprehend the terrible character of the
situation, "whack' the snake took him
again. He then looked for a tree, but
there was none to climb-fOr a stick, but
there was none at hand. He then drew
his jack-knife with the determination of
selling his life as dearly as possible, and
the most terrible battle between man and
snake, then occurred that has ever trans
pired in the history of Monroe county.
The snake was very strong and active,
and curling himself around one of his
victims legs, he struck his terrible fangs
into him with marvellous rapidity-tight-
ening his hold and crawling up all the
time, while Jeemes piled his jack-knife
with a rapidity never equalled by the
savage Modoc. The snake was getting
the best of it, and had twisted himself
up nearly to Jeemes' face, and was about
to coil his Shiny length about his sue
cumbing antagonists swan-like throat,
when Zip, the faithful servant, having
finished snake No. 1, came yelping to
rescue, and taking in at glance the
hazardous position of the master, he
sprang and grappled the monster by the
neck, and held on with a vice-like grip
until Jeemes, by the use of his knife,
extricated himself from his terrible pre-
dicament, and from an untimely and
premature grave. The snake was killed,
and the trusty dog was the life-preserver
of his master.
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Recent MoI, Lnnd Di-co,erre..

Lieutenant Condor of the English PaI.
estine party is confident that hc has iIuu-
tilted the Site Of the city of AduIum.
with David's famous cave, some four
miles from Bethlehem. AT this rate ul
discoyery-siN or seven important BibI-
cal places having already been definitely
located-our maps of sacred Palestine
will have 20 be entirely remodelcd These
announcements appear 20 be made only
after careful comparison between the
localities and historical data. and may hr
accepted as correct. In the case uf
Adullman, for example, the topography
answers 10 the recorded facts, and tha
name, moreover, survives, the modern
place being called AVID el Aiieu. which
preserves all the essential letters of Adult
lum. Prof Paiue's claim, i'm the latest
statement Of the American society for
the exploration of Palestine, 90 have dis
covered in Jebel Siaghnh, "a lower peak 0f
Nebo, the ancient Pisgah, is quoted by
the Athenwum and other English jour
mails, with the remarks that as yet tho
proposed identification rests solely ON the
grounds that this summit is the only spot
whence Moses could have seen the whole
of the Promised Land, and that tine
name Of Pisgah fingers i'm the word STAG
bah and that so far Mr. Paine s rc-
sponsible for both assertions. He ccr-
tainly claims 10 be responsible
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CONFEDERATE MONEY.
Supreme Court DecisfOn...Ifs VAL
idfty i'm the Settlements of
Debts During the
War.

Baltimore Gazette.
The Supreme Court, in the case OF
Catherine Fretz, survivor, ETC., against
| Ralph Slower, executor of Charles Slower
ct al, an appeal from the Circuit Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia, has
rendered decision as follows:
The controversy in this case grows out
of bond executed by Charles Slower tu
Fretz and wife, on the 9Th day of April,
1861, for s., 800. Is, payable on or before
the 1st day of March, 1853. This bond
was executed in Fauquier county, Virginia,
where Slower lived, and was secured BY a
| deed of trust on land In that county, both
of which were delivered to Samuel Chill
ton by Slower, on the day of their date
The execution and delivery of these obi
cations were in pursuance of settlement
made in the preceding month of Febru-
airy at Warrenton, Virginia, by Fretz
and Slower of long pending litigation.
The war of the rebellion ensued soon af-
ter the settlement, and all communications
ceased, and, indeed, became unlawful
between Pennsylvania and Virginia.
After the war had closed, on inquiry it
was found that Slower, short time before
the bond was matured and in satisfaction
of it, had paid to Chiffon Virginia bank
notes and Confederate paper at their
nominal or par value, and got possession
of the bond or deed of trust Naturally
Fretz and wife were dissatisfied with
these proceedings, and in Reputation of
them they filed their bill in chancery to
set up the deed of trust and have it en-
forced, on the ground that Chiffon had no
authority to receive payment in such pa
per, nor Slower the right to make it.
The bill charges actual fraud between
Chiffon and Slower, in this, that Slower,
taking advantage of Chilton's great Pc
cuniary necessities, induced him to receive
the paper at par In payment and discharge
of the bond.
Slower filed his answer denying that
these payments were the result of an I'M
lawful and fraudulent combination be-
tween the respondent and Chiffon. He
insists, however, that they were in full
discharge and satisfaction of the debt and
trust deed but, if this were not so, that,
to the extent of compensation due by
Fretz and wife to Chiffon for professional
services, he should not be compelled to
pay a second time.
We are brought directly to the question
whether the payments by Charles Slower
to Samuel Chiffon were, under the cir
cumstances surrounding the parties, of
any validity. The decision is that the
instructions given to Chiffon by his client
were not applicable to state of war, and
that his settlement for money current in
the Confederacy was void, and that Slower
had no right to discharge the debt in
anything but legal money of the United
States.
Mr. Justice Davis delivered the opinion
of the court.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21
what Men need wives For.

1t is not to sweep the house, make the
bed, darn the socks and cook the meals,
chiefly that a man wants a wife If this
is all he needs, hired help can do it cheap
er than a wife. If this is all, when "A
young man calls to see a lady, serd
him into the pantry to taste the bread
and cake she has made, send him to in
sPect the needle-work and bed-making
or, put broom in her hand, and send
him TO witness its use. Such things are
important, and the wise young men will
quickly look after them; but what the
true man wants with a wife is her COM
partnership, sympathy and love. The
way OF life has many dreary places in it
and man needs a companion to go with
him. A man is sometimes overtaken
by misfortune; he meets with failure and
defeat; trials and temptations beset him,
and he needs one to stand by and sympa-
thize. He has some hard battles to fight
with poverty, enemies, and with sin;
and he needs a woman that, when he
puts his arm around her, he feels he has
something to fight for, she will help him
to fight; that she will put her lips to his
ear and whisper words of counsel, and
her hand to his heart and impart inspira-
ton. All through life, through storms
and through sunshine, conflict and victo-
rry; through adverse and through favor
ing winds, man needs a woman's love
The heart yearns for it. A sisters or n
mothers love will hardly supply the need
Yet many seek for something further
than success in homework. Justly
enough, half of these get nothing more
the other half, surprised.beyond measure,
have gotten more than they sought |
Their wives surprise them by bringing
out noble idea in marriage, and disclo-
sing treasury OF courage, sympathy and
love,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21
Zen Rules for Fnrmer-.

!. Take good papers and read them.
2. Keep an account Of farm operations.
3. Do not leave implements scattered
over the farm, exposed ~ snow rain and
heat
4. Repair tools and buildings at prop
or time, and do not suffer subsequent
three-fold expenditure Of time and money.
>. Use money judiciously, and do not
attend auction sales to purchase all kinds
Of trumpery because il is cheap.
6. See that fences are we'll repaired,
and cattle not grazing in the meadows,
or grain fields, or orchards.
Z. Do not refuse 30 make correct exc
periments, in a small way, Of many new
things.
g. Plant fruit trees well, care for them,
and of course get good crops.
9. Practice economy by giving stock
shelter in winter; also good food, taking
out all that Is unsound half rotten, or
moldy.
10 Do not keep a tribe Of cats and
snarling dogs around the premises, who
eat more in month than they are worth
in a lifetime.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21
Short snyings.

We ought not TO quit our post without
the permission of Him who commands
the post Of man in lifc.-Pythagoras.
In the treatment of nervous cases, Doe
is the best physician who is the most
ingenious inspirer of hope.-Colcrdgc
Friendship is the medicine for an
fortune but iugratitude dries mp tho
fountain ofall goodness. Richelicu.
There are few defects in our uaturo 800
glaring rs not TO be yelled from ohsoryu-
ton by politencss and good breeding
Stanislaus.
Obedience is not truly performed by
the body Of him whose heart is dissatisfied.
The she'll without kernal is not iit for
store. -Saadi
Neither human applause nor human
censure is TO be taken az test of the
truth; but either should set us upon
testing ourselves. Bishop WhatcIy.
There is not the least flower but seems
to hold up its head, and 10 look pleasant
~, in the secret sense Of the goodness of
its Heavenly Maker South
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21
THE SEASON OF LOVE.

/. bre-eved springtime's balmy breatI
~. .ott enchantment from above,
- rwirtering songsters seek their mates
I'm youths and maidens think of love.
), blaek-eyed summers fiery heats
HI tender buds Of spring unfold,
ksn palms are moist and lips are red,
e. trembling tale of love is told.
On oray-eycd autumn's fruits are ripe,
ID birds inconstant fly away
finishing virgin decks herself,
balf fearing the desired day.
an cold white winter stands without,
fove's work is by the warm hearthstone /;
Iera prsttling babies to the round,
H. sweetest joys of love are known.
"a Knows no season Of the year,
II curve of lip, 10 hue of eye;
Ii. not learned, cannot see,
gnt knows it, love, nor asks you Why 2"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

Since the tornado Detroit women make
Decline for home the moment the sun
goes behind cloud.
Lots Of women condemn these "pull-
back dresses, but somehow they are all
women Of ugly form.
A Richmond paper advises Anna Dick
inson to make shirts rather than 90 upon
the stage.
Death seems to have agreed with Mrs.
Bartlette of Vermont. She was buried
twelve years ago and now she weighs 500
pounds.
BrignolTs sister keeps clearinghouse
in Paris. Think OF it, We dear creatures
who, a generation back, went wild over
him.
Susan VI. Hollowell Of Bangor, Me, is
to be the professor Of natural history ~
Wellesley college, Mass, at salary OF
81, 800.
A Milwaukee woman, hearing Of the
victory of the American riiiemen, flung
up her bonnet ard cheered until the police
interfcred.
If ANYTHING may be judged from the
opportunities afforded by the pull-back
style OF dress, the garter Is DOW worn above
the knee
"There remarked Mrs. Furguson
yesterday, E" I've gone aud used my new
bonnet for a postage stamp, and those
stupid postofice clerks will never know
the difference"
A correspondent says the crown princess
of Germany looked like "a snOw-droP
just burst into beauty" which, of a wo-
man fat, fair and forty, is a highly inn
aeinative and forid description.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

GRAHAM MUFFNs. Three pints of
-four, half teacup Of sugar, the same of
shortening, a teaspoonful OF saleratus,
two teaspoonsful cream tartar salt 90
taste rub all together with the hands,
moisten with cold water bake in muffin
rings half an hour in hot oven.
CORN CAKEs.-Three cups butter
milk, three Of corn-meal, one of wheat
-four, one tablespoonful Of salt, two ~
sugar, one level Of soda dissolve the
last three ingredients in water stir ail
together; if the meal swells too much Co
sPread;nicely, add more water,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

When the million applaud you, seri-
ously ask yourself what harm you have
done; when they censure you, what good
Cotton.
As no roads are so rough as those that
have been mended, 90 no sinners are so
intolerant as those that have just turned
saints.-Colton,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

Speaking much il sign of vanity,
for he that il lavish in words il a mig
gard in deeds.~-Sir Walter Raleigh.
Life, like some cities, is full of blind
alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is
10 keep outof them.-Bovee.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

Faults of the head are punished in this
world those of the heart in another; but
as most of our vices are compound, 90
also is their punishment.-Colton.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

The pride Of the heart is the attribute
of honest men pride Of manners Is that
of fools; the pride of birth and rank Is
often the pride Of duPes.-Ducios.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-07-21

H.. i no young man ever permit it to
- MS mind that economy is meanness,
II rA s II Is to be despised. 1t is he
4 = SaVes can afford to give; and moth
IL e = mean which is honest, and which
r to establish ones independence.
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= Is a secret well known to all great
Iev 1aAt by comforting an obligation
oa 10 not always procure a friend, but
Eeld; dan OF creating many enemies
erv - oe seldom repent of saying little;
III . oa1eh OF saying too much a vulgar
49,, rue maxim, but which all the world
Fs" ss, out which all the world does moi
scace' --Bruyere.
Middletown transcript., 1875-08-21

The OLD CLOCK. An aged man
stood before the famous old clock in the
cathedral at Strasburg. Three master
artists had made it life-work; :; and
there it was. wonderfully complete. able
even to give the movement of the stars
and planets. On each day Of the week
different figure appeared, and sat the
end Of every hour an angel raised his
sceptre, as if to give the signal for
striking, while another turned an hour
glass, then lion began to roar, cock
to crow, tapping his wings at the same
time. -Four figures. representing the
four ages of man. struck upon four
bells, indicating the quarters Of the
hour and after them appear the figure
Of Death, to strike the funeral knell to
the hour gone by, never to return" the
old man sighed. "It is indeed an alle-
CORY. designed as warning picture of
the aeeting hours of man." cried he.
"By and BY mighty angel will come
down from heaven and with his right
foot on the sea. and his left foot on the
earth, declare that time shall be no
longer" The old man was thinking
of what st. John saw in the Revelation.
He sighed again. and even wept to
think how the years of his life had
slipped away unimproved.
Middletown transcript., 1875-08-21
Pluqky Children.

There are some pluoky little girls on
the north side. A circumstance tha,
happened on Wednesday morning shows
that two of them at least have more
than ordinary courage for their years.
They are the children of q well-known
business man who resides on Pierson
street, and their ages are seven and ten
respectively. Their father had left the
house on the morning in question for
his place Of business about 8 s'clock,
leaving the children together, the old
est being in her teens. This latter was
in the rear part of the house somewhere,
when the two young ones went into the
parlor, and came upon a man who was
stealthily walking across the floor to-
wards the mantel, evidently searching
for somthing. The older Of the two at
once, nothing daunted, went up to him
and, taking him by the arm, asked him
what he wanted. The man grufly NUT
tered that hs wanted 'gold," where
upon the child said they had none for
him and told him to leave. He said
then that if he couldn't get gold that he
wanted girl, and. without showing an
inclination to leave, sat down on the
sofa. The smaller child ran into the
rear part Of the house. seiaed broom,
and came in with it psll nell, while the
other child ran to the hallway and
called to her father, pretending he was
in the house. The intruder, fearing he
wsuld be elected rather forcibly, if not
arrested, at once made his way out Of
the house, the children running after
him, and the little one in particular
giving him a parting tap with her
broomstick. The man had found the
front door open, and had gone in to help
himself without any ceremony probably
also knowing that the head Of the fam
ily was absent. Chicago Times