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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
The Hanging of n Negro Ravish-
err by the Hnfari6ted Citizens
of Columbia, Tennessee.


Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.l
COLUMBIA, Tenn, Nov. 27.-Large
crowds, Notwithstanding the agreement to
let Roper, alias McGhee, rest till morn
ing, fingered all night on the streets.
Rumors were current that the officers
would attempt to release him, and several
times the mob were about to attack the
jail. Numbers remained In the neighbor
hood. watching to see that he was not Sc
cretly removed. By daybreak to day
the crowds began to increase, and soon
fully $500 men were gathered in the
square, clamoring angrily for the negro
scoundrel. Mayor Williamson made
long address imploring them to reflect,
and leave Roper to the law. Other prom.
inent citizens followed in q like strain,
but without avail. The crowds increased,
and as a last resort the Mayor appointed
q committee of twenty-five, on which
were two negroes, to take Roper from
the Jail to Miss Templeton's house for
Identification. The committee did so,
followed by an immense crowd. When
the negro was brought in the presence of
the lady she said, fercely, 'tyou are the
wretch I" Meanwhile the crowd in the
square had thrown from the Court House
window a banner with the inscription, in
black, ssthe will of the people Under
meath were skull and erosshones A
tackle block had been attached to one Of
the windows of the third story, on the
south side, from which hung long rope,
each end touching the ground. When
Miss Templeton had identified him, Roper
was snatched from the officers, surround
\ -. L.. II -
and soon brought to the square.
The committee called the crowd to order,
and they unanimously give verdict that
Roper should die immediately. The.
rope WAS placed around his neck, and he
was hoisted slowly up thirty feet Or 81.
Some of bis clothes soon dropped, lie vas
lowered to the ground. and, his raimenE
being pinned On, be VA pulled up agair.
The body writhea IN learfiI con ioi lions,
the hands graspinn nc tile sif. Thu face
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was entirely uncovered, the muscles con-
tracted, the eyes aud tongue Protfua e
making most horrible spee AIIer
hanging three quarters of nour, the
body was lowered and car1sied 70 the
court room, where it still lies. Inc moo
wore no masks, and was compoA ed OF the
most prominent citizens of the ctmmunl'
ty. The officers of the law weiS com
pIetely powerless. There is no doGtbt OF
Roper's guilt. There was blood on his
shirt, and two buttons torn off during
the struggle conceded with those on b Is
vest. Some time ago he committed
a similar crime in Mobile, and for his cap-S
ture 81 900 reward is standing. The
business of the courts and everything has
been suspended entirely for the last three
days. Nothing for years has created so
much excitement as Roper's attempt to
ravish Miss Templeton. She is the
daughter of the Rev. Mr.. Templeton,
pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian
in her nineteenth year, very |
pretty, and a general favorite in the
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
a kentucky Love story.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
A very sweet story of love comes from
cincinnati, whence very few sweet things
ever come, and probably we never should
have had this enchanting tale had not the
hero and the heroine been imported for
the occasion from Kentucky, a State
which is abandoned to the raising of he
roes and Democratic maiorities, and he
rones and superior whisky. Prof. Pie
has taught school across the river from
Cincinnati for many years, and devoted
his evenings and Saturdays and Sundays,
and much other time, to Huldah, who
WAS school marin, and this pleasant
thing went on till the Professor was fifty
and Huldah was forty FIVE. After ten or
eleven years, Huldah's folks beginning to
think they were going to altogether too
much expense for fre-wood and coal oil
feeling that there never would be any
wedding after all, began to tell naughty
stories about the Professor. This
made Huldah cry and love him the mora,
and the strategy failing, he was forbidden
the house. Then be climbed in the par
hr windows, and the boys pounded him
with fenee-boards as he went through.
And then they fred blank cartridges at
him in the still darkness of the night,
and finally loaded their guns with beans
and afterWard with bird shot. The Pro-
fessor endured this exciting amusement q
few weeks and then he got mad, stole
Hulhah out of the house, ran away with
her to Cincinnati, and they were mar
ned Young Kentucky strategy has
succeeded, with the Invaluable aid of
iense-boards and sh0tgnns, in bringing
: belonged and weary courtship to 4 hap.
liz termination. The Professor was
Ilrglyen and invited back with his bride.
ne affair was little novel and sensation
!, even for Kentucky. but il spite Of its
announced success, { would hardly Be
ss.raole, perhaps, for every lady with !
s-lssslng lover to start out lot Of ms
nl.ed nephaWs 10 the war-path with
n0lgnns and fence. boaEds.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
WATCHING AND PRAYING.

BIZ the watch tower, grim and gray,
Ia III above the rock bound bay,
Where the sea birds scream and soar,
Ehere the storm dashed pillows roar,
n, lie with tear maiden stands,
Peering DER the foam-fiaked sands.
rbere. where clouds loom black as night,
Md the crested waves CLEAN white,
IFaiIing for the flowing tide,
raeks yacht from side to side;
Ba4ting bravely 'gainst the gale,
With lowered mast and shortened sail.
Nv Ills the tide above the bar,
peeIs the white sail from afar;
Zee il from the surges spring,
Like a sea bird on the wing;
Nhile from haven and from shore,
Shouts of welcome ring and roar.
Down the watch-tOwer's rugged stair
Trips gentle maiden fair;
o more tears are in her eyes,
70 her lovers arms she flies,
low, my prayers for thee
We're stronger than the mighty sea-"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

/
"AhaI 'tis cold. IND year he. said,
my over-coat this m0aa
His wife turned pale and then gr,N e9
At this the note OF warning.
In tears she bent; he, stern aud cold,
Snspectlngly repulsed her
Forgive" so6bed she sLast June L sold
An image-man your uisteri"
A lady complained of the present male
style that there was too much collar and
too little gentleman.
There is DIR. Mary Walker in the Rus-
sian army. She was detected through
the reckless ease with which she threw
herself into the breaches
What next? Before the war the fash
ionable styles in ladies' dresses reminded
us of an umbrella hoisted. Now thew re-
mind of an umbrella let down and but
toned.
The scientific expedition around the
world may perhaps be able to tell us when
1t returns why man always takes of his
boots first, while woman begins at her
hair pins.
What agonies must the poet have en-
dured, who, writing of his love, asserted
that he "kissed her under the silent stars, ["
and found the composition had made him
delare that he clicked her under the cell
lar stars"
At the recent baby show ia Boston the
nearest approach to the line between baby
hood and nothingness was exemplifed ia
an infant which weighed only pound and
a half. This infantile prodigy was exhi-
bited by a South Acton mother, and when
it squalls she has to spank it with a tack
hammer.
Some men are completely unnerved BY
the sight Of a woman's tears, and would
rather miss base ball game than see them
weeP-before they're married but after
ward, a woman may cry till the tubs
float in the cellar, while she tugs q
heavy bod of coal up dark and narrow
fight of stairs, and the man remains
as calm and immobile as a cigar store
sign.
The saying that when ignorance is
bliss it is folly to wise, is certainly true.
More than one young man has walked
the public streets, the cynosure Of every
female eye, the gentle wings of a 6at-
tered vanity meanwhile tanning his
soul to cOmplacent repose, only 10 learn,
on arriving home, that his necktie had
drifted from its moOrings, and anchored
Immediately under its left ear.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
True LOVES TINE OF DAY.
By BAYARD TAYLOR.

When shall / find you, sweetheart.
That shall be and must be mine?
seek, though the world divides us.
And send sou the secret sign?
There's blood in the veins of morning.
30 fresh IL may well deceive,
Wnen ulan goes forth as Adam.
Aud woman awaits him as Eve.
There's an elvish spell in twilight
When the bats of Fancy fly,
And sense is bound by 3 question,
And Fate by the quick reply.
1 md the moon is an old enchantress
With her snares OF glimmer and shade,
'hsE have ever been false and fatal
ToNthe dreams of man and maid.
sut I'll meet you at MONDAY, sweetheart
In the billowy fields of grain,
When the sun is hot for harvest,
And roses athirst for rain,
With the daylight's truth on your forehead
And the daylight's love in your eye,
III kiss you without a question,
And you'll kiss me without a reply.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
GanIight BeautIes.

San Francisco letter to the Saorau'anto
Union: If you could see the cosf1mss
at the opera nowadayst A ladv Al seem
now, seems, it is true, very mucAdressed.
but she is conspicuous by the very light
ness and hufiness of her appearance.
Somehow the they look like feathers or
balls and punches of soft tints and snow
fakes, somewhere among which is set
eyes and pair Of red lips (very red they
make 'em) and from which protrude long
gloves, holding librettO or lorgnette--a
handkerchief it may be-and a plumy fan.
The other night at the singing of ''The
Bohemian Girl" there was one raging
blonde set off with pink. A "raging
blonde" is red-haired creature, and
think of that with pink Not infre-
quently, when lady steps out upon the
sidewalk after the performance she has
a white wrap draped over her shoulders.
a veil of illusion drawn nun wise across
her brow to save her crimps, and her
face, CHASTITY with wash and powder,
looks not unlike a face fit for a coffin.
But under the shine of the chandeliers
her hair is over her forehead, her brows
are penciled to a perfect arch, her eyes
are large and lustrous from the brush
that has drawn two telling lines beneath
their lower lid, her jewels fash, her fan
vibrates, her lips part, the thought Of
shroud and coffin lid were furthest from
ones thought.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

New York World.
With wlstful eyes she looks
Ger fields and fuuuiuU brooke
And blooming clover.
~ where, meath western eklea,
Alamo with gorgeous dyes
An unknown kingdom lies
Where rciRns her lover.
Above days closing gates
a light cloud swings aud waits,
AS for some rover,
who'd sail for distant lands.
The far-oH Indian strands.
Where he, her king. commands.
Her king. her lover.
The gazing eyes grow dam
AZ thoughts OF flight 10 him,
The far-OH rover;
Her pulse Is thrilling now
With thrOb and beat and glow:
The bushes on her brow
are for her foyer.
The summer days again
Have come with sun aud rain
And scented clover;
The sOtt, still nlgats have come,
Like birds returning home,
But where, alasi doth roam
Her ioOked-for lover.
o gathering. heavy cloud
Mayhap with windy STROUD
Thou'lt shield aud cover
Her grave beneath the trees:
For, an no western breeze
VIII bring DER sunny seas
Her dead, slain l0Verl
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

The Almighty would not have put so
many women into the world if there had
not been work for them to do. He
knows they cannot all marry. Shall it
be thought that that was the only destiny
for which they? IF men think SO, hap
ply women do not. Many young
maiden's soul has risen to something far
higher than matrimony. And when she
has set her affections above the things of
this world, and won St. PauPs glorious
praise of virginity, shall men presume to
sheer at her as .sfailure,p or speak of a
wasted lifes
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

DREADFUL limits are set In nature 10
the powers Of Discrimination. Truth
tyrannizes over the unwilling members
of the body. Faces never lie, IL is said.
No man need be deceived who will study
the changes of expression. When a
man speaks the truth in the spirit Of
truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens.
When he has base ends, and speaks
falsely, his eye is muddy, and sometimes
asquint. have heard an experienced
counsellor say that he never feared the
effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does
not believe in his heart that his client
ought TO have q verdict.-Emerson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

The cliffs and rocks on the beach at
Grey Sands were shroRded in the gold
tinted purple haze Of a glorious Indian
dian summer, as Clair Cornell made his
second advent there in obedience to a
summons from India Crawford.
81 have just learned your address, :"
she wrote, land hasten to tell you that /
am free. If you love me, GOMEZ
He went. And standing upon the
white shelI-strewn beach, Clair looked
once more into the beautiful dreamy
eyes, while India plighted TO him her
troth as the tide came in
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

Curiosity in children is but an aFPe-
tite after knowledge. / doubt not but
one great reason why children abandon
themselves wholly to silly pursuits. and
trife away al their time insipidly, =
because they f1nd their curiosity banked,
and their inquiries neglected. = Locke.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

Years ago, before the Indians had got
hold of much whisky, they could smell
FIRE a mile away. Now, when they think
they smell FIRE it turns out 20 be only each
others red noses.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

Goodwin Smith says: 1T Is che faah.
ion to accuse the Americans Of unlimited
voracity, but they seem really 10 be about
the only people that look at thing be-
fore they swallow Il.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

If there is a talented author now med.
itating His Great Uncle on hio Wffa
Side,p or "Helen's Stepmoihare Foust
Cousin, we warn him "a daaisi aid w
his attention 70 the iari
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

we do not remember Of having read
any important announcement with less
agitation than we experienced upon
reading the following: ga $500 green
back is 10 circulation"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

Over in New Jersey when a man has
chills and fever, he shakes 80 hard that
the mosquitoes cannot catch him long
enough 70 bite him. They 60 of singing
''tra-la la, di-dum-do.'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

"Does this corn belong 10 your "a
ther? asked stranger driving BY q
cornfield, of q yOungster standing by the
roadside. eyes, sir, that's popcorn. "
was the prompt reply.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

Evan Evan Evans Is student
Wisconsin college. -FhiladeIntr Ir
rer. iii four generation moIa M
family keeps GA will Is
wlll raach ttH seventh ~
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Yale and Harvard a,e limiting ct de-
cisive regatta next year which shall e.
nallp and forever pnt their respective
nlmimb to crhW.aheA ast,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05

The dummies in front Of the ready
made clothing stores, which have been
shivering in airy busters for the last few
daYus are now clothed in fnll OVER coatn
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
LINCOLN AND
GEN. LEE.
The Offer 10 Gen. Lee of the Conn
mand Of the United States
Army.

Hon. A. B. Magruder in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times.I
In 1S6S-several years after the war
Senator in Congress had the tenn erity
30 make the charge that Gen. Lee had
applied to President Lincoln for the COM
hand of the Federal army destined to
invade and subdue the Southern States,
Md that, being refused, from pique and
Resentment he turned and offered his
sword in aid of the Southern cause,
Ind thus was raised to the chief
Command of the rebel forces. On
The instant, Mr.. Reverdy johnson,
BIZ Maryland, himself Union man, de
bounced the statement as untrue, by say
ing that although he had the authority of
! he accused to deny it, Gen. Lees lofty
character and unstained honor alone suf
iced to repel the charge. This furnished
The occasion for Gen. Lee to give,
Through Mr. johnson, not alone conclu-
bive proof of the incorrectness of the
eharge, but the clear evidence that he
bad himself declined, from stern sense
pf duty and honor, the very preferment
be was a falsely accused of coveting.
None can tell the extraordinary story in
better terms than Gen. Lee himself, as
contained in the following modest and
characteristic letter addressed by him at
\ he time to the Hon. Revedy johnson,
who not long before his death, avouched
10 the contributor its entire authenticity:
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LEXINGTON. VA

LEXINGTON, VA, Feb. %, 1858.
Hon. Revedy johnson, United States Senate
Washington;
Ny DEAR SIR-My attention has been
called to the official report of the debate
i'm the Senate of the United States of the
10Th inst, in which you did me the kind
hess to doubt the Hon. Simerou Came
ron in regard to myself | desire that
you may feel certain of my conduct on
/ the occasion referred to, so far as my in
hividIal statement can make you so.
never inundated to any one that l
hesired the command of the United
States army, nor did [ ever have a con-
Versation hut with one gentleman Mr.
F. aneia- F%r-ston Bt4ir1 on the subject,
which was at his invitation, and, as
Understood, at the instance of President
Lincoln. After listening to his remarks,
u declined the offer he made me to take
command of the army that was to be
brought into the field, stating as candid
" and courteously as [ could that, though
opposed 20 secession and deprecating
war, could take no part in the invasion
bf the Southern States.
| went directly from the interview with
NJ. Blair to the office of Gen. Scott and
bold him of the proposition that had been
made to me and my decision. Upon re
Election, after returning to my home, l
concluded that ought no longer to re-
ain the commission | held in the United
States army, and on the second morning
hereafter forwarded my resignation to
Gen. Scott.
At the time 1 hoped that peace would
have been preserved, that some way
you'd have been found to save the cOun-
ry from the calamites of war, and then
had no other intention than to pass
Bhe remainder of my life as private cit
zen. Two days afterward, upon the in
Fitation of the Governor of Virginia, |
Repaired to Richmond, found the con-
Fention then in session had passed the or
Finance Withdrawing the State from the
Union, and accepted the commission of
commander of its forces which was ten
lered me-
These are the simple facts of the case,
hnd they show that Mr.. Cameron has
been misinformed.
Your obedient servant,
r. E. LEE.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-12-05
Unmnrried women.

Executive Committee of Pensacola
Timber and Lumber Exchange.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-04
EDITORS SHOULD BE PRAYED For

From discourse by the Rev. DR..
Pritchard, of Raleigh. North Carolina.
we take the following extract, as some
thing of no little interest to the fra
ternity.
Who prays for editorsi They are
just as necessary, just as useful, Just
as indispensable as any class of men in
all our society; and who, | ask again,
ever thinks of praying for themi We
all know the power of the press, the
great bulwark of civil and religious
liberty yet few. if any, remember
in their prayers the editors. who stand
like the minister, on the public watch
towers, TO warn, to reprove, to COM
mend and to conference.-the mighty con-
SENATORS of the nations liberties and
morals. Many people are ever ready
to abuse them, but how few ever raise
petition TO Heaven for them. Breth-
rem. they need our prayers. They la
Dor day and night tor the public en-
hghtment, the public good and the
Christians Of our community and of
the whole land should esteem it a duty
and privilege to pray for them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-04

The Dippo Block at Hudson, in which
was the st. Nicholas Hotel, kept by
Mrs. James Kelly, the store of A. ID.
Richardson and Mrs. Dippo's millinery
store, was consumed by fire last Friday
night. There was no insurance on the
building. The goods in the stores
were nearly all saved. Mrs. Kelly had
an insurance of $500 which will not
cover her loss. The origin of the fire
is unknown.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-04
RI. B. FIELDS
HEAT SAVING DRUM

lst. Saves the heat from the stoye-pipe
which before went to the chimney and was
wasted.
I'd. It is impossible for a chimney TO take
fire wien one Of these Drums is used.
3D. If one is put in the stovepipe running
through the chamber floor, it throws out heat
enough to warm the upper room.
4th. II the pipe does NOT go through the
floor, but enters the chimney below, the
heat can be carried to q register in the floor
above by one OF these Drmas.
9th. If you do not Sc sufficient heat In
any of the rooms now containing stove, you
can increase the heat by putting one Of these
Drums in your stovepipe.
9th They save fuel, do not scatter ashes
or dirt need no attention, andsave heat that
is otherwise wasted.
18th. These Drums being built with ten or
more flues which are open at both ends,
give from 20 to 40 square feet Of heating CUR
face.
8sh. These Drums can be made to take
the heat from smoke stacks for kiins, work.
shous or factories.
For further information inquire at the
JornraL OyFEE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-01-04
WEEK OF PRAYER.

The annexed programme, rs issued
by the Evangelical Alliance, will be
observed next week throughout the
world as the annual Week of Prayer.
Monday, Jan. s-Thanksgiving and con-
feasion, in the review of the past year.
Tuesday, Jan. 9-Prayer: For the Holy
Spirit ON the Universal Church, Joel III 28, fo-
its deliverance from error and corruption,
and its increase sffaith, activity, holiness and
Christian charity.
"Wednesday. Jan. i0-Prayer for families:
for the unconverted; for sons and daughters
at school and college and for those abroad;
for any in sickness, trouble or temptation;
and for those who have been recently "add-
ed to the church"
Thursday, Jan. l1-Prayer for tbs nations:
for rulers, magistrates and statesmen: Tor
philanthropio and benevolent institutions;
tor pure literature, the spread Of sound ed
ucation among the people, and the mainten-
ance Of peace.
Friday, Jan. l2-Prayer for Christian mis-
sions to the Jews and Gentiles, Luke xiv:
AZ; for Sunday schools; and for the coSyER-
SION OF THE WHOLE WORLD TO CHRIST.
Saturday, Jan. l3-Prayer for the observ-
ance of the Christian Sabbath; for the pro-
motion Of temperance; and tor the safety of
those 'who 60 down to the sea in ships, that
do business in great Taters."
For the subjects OF prayer above
specified daily meetings will be held
at 2:30, P. NJ, in the Congregational
Church, and at I, P. NJ, in the Baptist
Church.
The evening meetings will be con-
Quoted in turn by the different minis
tiers.
The afternoon meetings are intended
for all who are not able to come in the
evening, or who may have the time
and inclination to attend two services
daily. All such Of any or of no de-
nomination are cordially invited to be
present in the afternoon at the Con-
gregational Church. But any who
cannot go twice daily and who are
able to choose which time they will
60, please come in the evening to the
Baptist Church.
The sick or crippled or aged who
cannot go at all, and all souls who pray
in River Falls are heartily requested
to unite at home, the week through,
with all the Christian world in petit
ton for the objects daily specified.
THEo. G. JEROME.