The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
This world is full Of beauty
As other worlds above,
And if We did our duty.
1t might Ia fuIforlo.-.

papers published in the State Of Kansas
Twenty-six are published daily.
An Irishman being asked why he left his
country for America, replied, " IL wasn't
for want ! had plenty Of that at home.
Score another State for Tiiden-Califoruia
yesterday elected delegates 10 ST Louis IA
2 vorable TO the nomination of the New York
statesman.-St. Louis Republican.
J. V. Wintrode, well-knowu and esteem
ed citizen of Topeka, Kansas, went 10 the
: Black hills some time ago. Last week nd
was killed and scalped by the Indians.
t Miss Mary Divore, a young lady Of Tone
ka, was assailed on the street "a few evenings
ago, as she was returning from church, and
severely choked by an unknown negro
man.
miner on Indian creek, Montana, re-
Gently dug up chunk of gold which he sold
IN Helena for the sum of - 500 another had
four hundred-dollar chunk from the same
locality.
The inside history Of corpct-bag rule I'M
the South, as brought 10 light by the Louis
lana investigation, will not tend 90 convince
the country that Senator Morton is the sort
OF President we need.-St. Louis Rcpubli-
can.
When brisk breeze is blowing about tho
coat-tails of pedestrians it is rarely a man
has sufficient nerve TO preserve au uucou-
| cerned air under the consciousness that
new half sole has lately been put on the seat
OF his pantaloons.'
The little daughter Of Republican can
didate for Office was told 70 run and tell her
aunt that Mr.. Young has got the nomiua-
ton, whereupon the little one cried out
Oh, mamma, do they ever die Of it"'
The Bristow men and the Morton men arc
! charging each other with intending 20 uucE
the galleries Of the Cincinnati convention
with mob in the interest Of these gentle
men, for the purpose of creating an outside
| Pressure.-St. Louis Republican.
The Alabama Planter complains that IFS
| little garden patch was Improbable last
season: "Ihe snails ate up the cucumbers;
the chickens ate up the snails the neighbor's
cats ate up the chickens and we are now ina
search Of something that will eat up the
cats :"
GLOW had you theaudacity, John" said
Scottish laird to his servant " & 20 and tell
some people that l was a mean fellow anduo
gentleman? Ma, ma sir, ~ was tho cam
did answer you'll no catch me at the like
self"
Ma, does pa kiss the cat {? " Why.
no, my son. What in the name of goodness
put that into your head 2" "Cas when
pa came down stairs this morning he kissed
Sarah in the hallway and said, That's better
chan kissing that old cat up stairs, amt IL.
Sarah2"
We frequently hear Of hailstones as large
as marbles, or even hens eggs, but report
of hail-storm at Whalon, Mimi, ON the
line Of the Southern Minnesota railroad, says
stones fell as large "a base balls. and " lett
holes in the ground as large as cot-tracks"
One Of the Whalen stones weighed ono
pound and six ounces.
Virginia is excited over an elopement to-
day. The wife Of prominent rcstauratcur
ran off with a straightforward performer
named Zumloch, whom for weeks the woman
had represented to her husband MS q brother.
The husband attempted suicide with strych-
nine, but will probably recover,
Maj. Thomas Butler aud Gen. William O.
Butler, the only two living members ofGeu.
Jackson's staff who were present at the bat
tie OF New Orleans, live near Carrollton,
ny. The first is more than eighty-scven
years and the second is in his eighty-sixth
year, and both of them have good health,
A cool young gent all ofthe modern days,
entered menagerie with cisor 3D. ia.
mouth, when the proprietor politely request
ed the visitor not to teach the other monkeys
bad habits, The young man proved him
self equal to the occasion by producing his
cigar-case and saying, Try one
A centennial accident: " An how far
might q square be ?' said patriot stauger
to "A patriot driver on a Market street car.
" Sure, and If ye was "a Philadelphan like
myself, We would know it was to the next
corner" An is it, thin" said the patriot
stranger, fwhat we New Harkcrs call a
block p (" An it is"
During the Mexican war ono of the gem
erals came up to Captain Bragg and
said, " Captain, theorists has arrived fire w
Whcreupon Captain Bragg said 10 his lieu-
tenant, You hear what the General says
irel" The lieutenant said, But Captain,
don't see anything to fire at' "FIre at
the crisis! !" said Captain Bragg.
Ruskin observes that as rule women
have no eye for color This explains why
woman is obliged to spend three-quartcrs
Of day in getting the exact shade Of rib
bon to trim "A dress, while when il comes tD
mending her husbands pantaloons she seems
to think that a yellow patch is just the
thing to match black broadcloth"
Col Jack Jones, late treasurer Of Georgia,
was arrested Tuesday by virtue Of an iudict-
ment found against him Monday by the
grand jury of Fulton county for the offence
of Withholding public money. The amount
of bond required was fixed Mt $4,000. We
learned last evening that the bond had been
arranged and would be perfected this morn
ing
The Peay murder at San Antonio, Texas.
is still invOled in mystery. After much
laboriOus investigation the grand jury has
not found any bill Of indictment. MH.
Peay is slowly recovering, and will probably
be as well as ever 1t appears now, with
out much doubt, that the victims were shot
simultaneously by different persOus with
different weapons.
Some old fraud says, "Get up with tho
sun if you want 10 be healthy and wise" 10
is easy enough to follow this advice in tho
winter, when the sun acts sen-ibly, and
doesn't get up until seven o'clock, but when
he commences 10 get up az four O'Clock we
have observed that the wisest men give him
about two hours start, and let their wives
accumulate health and wisdom.
A lady Of intelligence and refinement.
who has been under treatment at the Balti-
more hospital for a disease which has bafled
the skill Of several prominent physicians,
has drawn a will, in which she requests
| that her body may be subjected 10 n post
norton examination for the benefit Of science
and possible relief Of persons who shall be
likewise afflicted in the future.
The Vallejo, Cal, Chronicle Of the 18th
says: Twenty or thirty well-known citizens
ofVallejo received postal cards through the
post office each containing the following.
| ''You are hereby notified 10 Discharge YOUR
Chinaman at an Early Day for your own
Safety" This precious missiye bears no
signature. 1t is written in a feminine
looking hand, and is apparently disguised.
young lady, in a class studying physiol-
ogy, made answer 10 a question put, that iu
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