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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-07


TENHE design of this work, which has been
L very carefully prepared by Judge L. o.
Br;dewelt. of Copiah county, and which will
supersede the FoRM Book heretofore issued
by the undersigned is TO impart TO novices,
ge lemen not Learned in the Jaw above their
fellows" the routine of business required of
won when they assume the responsible and
then important office of Justice of the Peace.
Under the prest mt Constitution of Mississlp-
pi, the jurisdiction of Justices OF the Feace IN
Civil Suits is raised to one hundred and fifty
dollars, and in all criminal matters their Ju-
risdiction is concurrent with that of the Cir
cult Courts in IL cases where the punishment
prescribed by the laws does not extend beyond
a fine ami Imprisonment in the county Jail.
The Office is certain ly one of great dignity, and
the main design of this work IS to be of some
assistance TO the unlearnCd Justice of the
Peace by placing the law relating to his Jurls-
diction before him ia compact form, with forms
and preCe dents, covering almost, If not every
case which can come before him. Notes are
added to many of the forms for the guidance
and Information OF the Justice, endcaVorlng
thereby toexplain the law and use of the form,
that none, however ignorant of the law
generally, can go ar wrong.
The Law, found in the Code of 1871, and
in the pamphlet Acts since, far it is dis
tincty applicable to the Justice of the Peace, or
the practice in his Court, will be given full in
arranged under appropriate leads. The whole
will be carefully and fully indexed. Alto
gether, we hazard nothing in saying that ii
will be the most complete Manual for Justices
of the Peace ever published in this, or, per
haps, any other State, and will he useful to
every attorney. every public officer every
merchant, and indeed every citizen. As the
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ton viii be limited 20 the probable demand,
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EDUCATIONAL.
PARAMOUNT.
TlHIs INSTITUTION for the Education
YOUNG LADIES,

is situated on Sewanee Mountain on the
Tennessee Coal s r X. Co.'S Road seven miles
from the UNIVERSITY OF THE SoUTH.
Special Advantages are offered to those de-
string to spend the Summer upon the noun
tain, and to pursue the FRENCH or GERMAN
Through the kindness of Southern Rail-
roads, return tickets, free of charge. have
been granted to all pupils leaving Fairmount
in December, and returning in March.
For further information, address the Prin-
cipals,
MRS. H. B. KELLS.
Me1FIT, Tenn.
Sept 6, 'z6-tf.
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ROBERT CARROLL.
MOULD respectfully inform the public,
w that be is still engaged in the BARBER
BUSINESS a his old stand, next door to the
EMPIRE SALOON, where those seeking a clean
Shave, fr5t-class Haircut, a real Sham
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A NICE DWELLING HOU Sc WITH TEN
"A acres ground attacked, situated on the
Canton Road half mile north of Street Rail-
road, and known as the " PErRIEH place The
house has eight rooms, and is in good repair.
For terms apply on premises to W S. HAMIL-
TON, or IN Jackson TO the undersigned
L. WATKINS
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State Law or Mob Law 4?
Lafayette Advertiser.l

We have had occasion before, to
allude to and condemn certain acts
and excesses of so-called vigilant
committees in this parish. In times
past, during the reign of ignorance
and corruption, there may have been
some excuse for such committees in
certain portions of the State. But in
this parish no such necessity existed,
for our officers have always been
prompt, honest and efficient in the
discharge of their duties. Righting
wrongs, real or imaginary, outside of
the law and by committing greater
ones, if tolerated, will prove disgrace
ful and disastrous to the community.
1t is, therefore, with extreme regret
that as publisher of a journal, we are
called upon to notice another of these
shameful outrages. A short time
since, one Baptiste Celestin, colored
man, was arrested and brought be-
fore Justice of the Peace by about
thirty armed men and an affidavit
was made against him for lar
ceny. Due proceedings were bad and
all the witnesses summoned, ma
iority of whom were members of the
vigilant committee. After full ipves-
tigation before the Parish Judge, the
accused was discharged without hesi-
tation. That lawless band of men,
calling themselves vigilant commit
tee, have since taken jurisdiction oi
the case and convicted and sentenced
the poor man to exile from the State
for twenty years.
If the constituted authorities fail to
put a stop to such gross and shame
full outrages against law and order, il
will be necessary very soon to appeal
to Gov. Nichols to know if we have
laws and Il State government. orif wt
are to become the victims of mob law
aud violence.
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THE WEDDING FEE.
BY B. NJ. sTREETER.


One morning, fifty years ago,
When apple trees were white as snow
With fragrant blossoms, and the air
Was spell-bound with the perfume rare,
Upon farm horse, large and lean,
And lazy with its double load,
A sun-browned youth and maid were seen
Jogging along the winding road.
Blue were the arches of the skies,
But bluer were that maiden's eyes,
The dew drops on the grass were bright,
But brighter was the loving light
That sparkled meath the long-fringed lid,
Where those bright eyes of blue were hid.
Adown the shoulders brown and bare
Rolled the soft waves of golden hair;
Where, almost strangled by the spray,
The sun, willing sufferer, lay.
1t was the fairest sight, ween,
That the young man had ever seen;
And with his features all aglow,
The happy fellow told her SO !
And she without the least surprise
Looked on him with those heavenly eyes,
Saw underneath that shade of tan
The handsome features of a man;
And with a joy but rarely known
She drew that dear face to her own,
And by her bridal bonnet hid
| can not tell you what she did
So, on they rode until, among
The newborn leaves with dew drops hung,
The parsonage, arrayed in white,
Peer'd out--a more than welcome sight.
Then, with a cloud upon his face,
what shall we do, he turned to say
"Should he refuse to take his pay
From what is in the pillow case +"
And glancing down his eye surveyed
The pillow-case before him laid,
Whose contents, reaching to its hem,
Might purchase endless joy for them.
The maiden answers, q Let us wait;
To borrow trouble where's the need
| Then at the parsons squeaking gate
| Halted the more than willing steed.
Down from the horse tho bridegroom sprung;
| The latchless gate behind him swung;
| The knocker of that startled door,
| Struck as it never was before,
Brought the whole household pale with fright
| And there with bushes on his cheek,
SO bashful he could hardly speak.
| The farmer met their wondering sight.
The groom goes in, his GRAND tells,
And as the parson mods, he leans
Far DER the window-sill and yells
Come in! He says he'll take the beans
Lord! How she jumped With one glad
bound,
/ She and the bean bag reached the gronnd,
| Then, clasping with each dimpled arm
| The precious product of the farm,
She bears it through the open door;
And, down upon the parlor floor,
! Dumps the best beans vines ever bore.
/ All! happy were their songs that day
When man and wife they rode away
/ But happier this chorus still
Which echoed through those woodland
| scenes;
God bless the priest of Whitinsville!
God bless the man who took the beans =
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The JETrIEs.-The New Orleans

The JETTIEs.-The New Orleans
State Register is still pegging away
at the jetty question in its own
independent, eaustic style, and in op-
position to the views of all the other
city papers. The Registers latest
ebullition on the subject is as fol-
lows
The Jetties are failure. We do
not write this hastily-neither does
it give us any comfort to make the
announcement. We are aware that in
the North and West, and even in this
city, the belief is somewhat general,
that there is a deep, safe, reliable
channel through the jetties. This as
sumption is backed up by assertions
and promises, that do a great deal to
convince people that the .jetties are a
success, when tile truth is, there is
not now aud never has been a chan
mel 200 feet wide ard 20 feet deep
from the river to the gulf, although
Mr.. Eads has been paid u half mill
ion of dollars for obtaining such a
channel. This statement will not be
denied for it is the truth, and we
have often published it in these col
umns, without eliciting any reply
from any of the papers that support
the jetties. The government has
ceased dredging at the Southwest
Pass, because the appropriation foi
that purpose is not available when
there is a channel Is feet deep
| through the South Pass. Now WI
predict that by January there vii
not be Is feet of water to the sea b,
way of the jetties, without dredgin:
a channel, which will BE a virtna
abandonment of the entire ietty theo
! ry.
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Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.

Harvest reports from North Scot
land are discouraging.
Cannonading between Rustchuk and
Giurgevo is continued.
A Spanish steamer lan,led 1000 fresh
troops at Havana last week.
A strike of cotton operatives COM
menced at Bolton, England, Saturday.
Steamer Montreal, running across
Lake Champlain, burned; no lives
lost.
October Goth is the probable date
to be fixed upon for the French cleo
tion.
The main Montenegrin army has
withdrawn from before Nicsics, leav
ing only one corps ofobservation.
Turks under Mehemet Ali anu
Prince Hassan defeated the Russians
in an extensive battle near Rasgrad.
F.E. Field & Co., bankers of Frank
fort, have suspended payment. Their
liabilities are estimated at 81 ,000, 900.
Owing to the remonstrance of Eng
ianu GFeece mas assured tie TOfl0
that no overt act of rebellion will be
attempted.
The Bosnian insurrection is about
to end The insurgents are without
means and obtain no encouragement
from either Servia or Russia.
Gambetta's trial is proceeding at
Paris. It is now stated the main
charge against him is that of exciting
mutual hatred between citizens.
Prince Charles Of Roumania has
been made commander of the Russian
and Roumanian forces comprising the
Western department in Bulgaria.
Attempts to dislodge the Russians
from Schipka Pass have been aban-
doned. A loss of 1000 men in the
pass is acknowledged by the Turks.
The Journal des 4lpes has been
summoned before the correctional
tribunal at Paris for publishing an in
sulting remark relative to Gen. Grant.
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Our Washington Letter.
Washing Dirty Department
Linen---NEexican and Indian
Aff:lirs---A Sitting Ball Conn
missioner Wanted, etc.

WASHINGTON, D. e., August 80, 1877.
EDITOR CHIEF:
About June Mr.. Kane fled charges
in Mr.. Schurz's department against
Gen. Baker, showing that as Com
missioner of Pensions he received a
large bribe for passing a pension
claim amounting to over $1,000, know
ing it to be fraudulent; that the
present Commissioner C knew of Bakers
guilt, had covered it up, and sought
to shield the criminal; that to do this
he had dismissed subortlinates who
had tiled to bring him to justice (in-
Guiding the complainant) and had re-
placed them with Bakers friends and
advisers in the matter, Mr.. Lanston
among them; and that Baker is now
Surveyor General of Minnesota. Mr..
Sclurz has urged the large number of
investigations in his Department in
explanation of any seeming reluctance
on his part to look into the matter.
Lanston was made to appear in very
bad light by Kane. His reply con-
sisted principally of counter charges,
without proof, against Kane, ex-
pressed in rather lofty and abusive
way, and hence is without any might.
In Kane's lejoinder yesterday he gives
what purport to be copies of several
vouchers on file in the Department,
showing that Lanston while in receipt
of $50 month as regular salary, has
spent a good deal of his time junket-
ing about the country and at fashion
able watering places with bis family,
on pretext of public business, receiy-
ing in addition to regular salary, a
per diem of Sd, and ten cents mileage,
both ways. Two of the shortest are
given as illustrations: Voucher
No. 112, Aug. 25, 1873. Washington
to Boston ass miles. Boston to Lowell
26 miles. Lowell toBoston 26 miles.
Boston to Washington 458 miles,
Total 96S miles. At 10 cents pei
mile, $50. Per diem 3 days at "a pei
day sI2. Total $108." Voucher
No. IA, Sept. 5, 1873. Washington
to Philadelphia 139 miles. Philadel-
phia to Cape May So miles. Cape
May to Philadelphia 90 miles. Phil,
adelphia to Washington l39 miles
Total 442 miles. At 10 cents per mile
s44 20. Per diem at 81 per day tive
days) s.. Total So 90" These
vouchers, with many others similar
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DONALDsONyLIE La SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1877.

would send it in, and that he would
at once be elevated to the place of a
leader of the laboring people, and
possibly get to Congress on the
strength of that hobby. For be it
known that Mr.. Donahue, like nearly
all the leaders of great movements, is
a most consummate demagogue, and
there is nothing that he will not do to
advance himself. He is still languish-
ing in the Jail of Steuben county, and
as the workingmen are too smart to
advance any thing to let him out, he
is likely to stay there some time. The
labor movementin the city is hanging
fire. The managers are anxious to
have strike, but the operatives are
waiting. Those who have work are
ayerse to letting go their hold, and
those who have not, have no money
to put up to put the thing through.
And Swinton, Sclwab and Thompson,
the orators of the communists, have
nothing to contribute but talk, and
that won't buy bread and butter for
hungry men and women. The prob
ability now is that there will be no
general strike here, this fall.
Did urge last week that the gov
ernment should take hold of the tele-
graph Z If did not, want to do it
now. While the Atlantic and Pacific
aud the Western Uuion were com
peting, we had decent rates, and a
man could afford to use tile tele-
graph. You could send ten words
from New York to Chicago, or any
intermediate point, for twenty-five
cents, and everybody used the tele
graph instead of the mails. But now
that Jay Gould, the worst man in
America, has consolidated the two
companies, and they have gone I'M
der one management, the rates will
go back to the old figure, one dollar,
and the people will be swindled just
that amount. 1t is an outrage that
a communication just as important as
the mail should be made the property
of one man, who can raise or lower
the tariff to suit his convenience.
| The government should control the
telegraph the same as it does the
! ma1fs, ana f1x tne rates on dispatches
as it does on letters. There ought to
be petitions sent to Congress this fall
signed by every man and woman in
the country, demanding that the gov
ernment take the telegraph, which it
has a perfect right to do. A dispatch
of ten words should be sent for ten
cents, instead of a dollar or two dol
lars, which Mr.. Jay Gould will
charge. And then, dear people, take
a shy at the express business. Is there
any earthly reason why goods fit to
be sent through the mails should not
go through them, at rate of postage
that will pay the government for
doing it 2 Is there any reason why
two express companies should mo-
nopolize tho carrying trade of the
| country, and compel the people to
pay whatever they choose to exact
The post office is thelfemedy for this
extortion. The law of three years
ago should be re- enacted, and all
matter that can be safely carried
through the mails should be SO car
ried. 1t was repealed by the effortr
of the express companies, who had
altogether too much influence in Con
gress. As this is an era of reform lei
US have reform in these important
matters. PIETRO.
-s-o@0-ap
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AGENTS FoR TIE CHIEF.
LOUISIANA NEWS.


James parish this year is $l,7I2, 900
as compared with 81 ,446,75l in 1876.
- Lafayette MeridiondI: Cotton
worms have made their appearance
and in countless numbers are ravag
ing the fields.
y Pointe Coupee Pelican The
.caterpillars are all over the parish
and are doing much mischief, except
ing few places where Paris green
aias been used.
U Tensas Journal: Virgin Whit
,more, colored, was shot and killed by
IA COnstable's posse while seeking to
avoid arrest. He was charged with
assault and battery.
~ Carroll Conservative Alex.
Tins, cofored, deliberately shot his
wife's head off on August II. He is
in prison at Rayville. The shooting
was done on the Mann plantation,
West Carroll.
U Lafayette AdreltiSer: The
caterpillars have played havoc with
the cotton in this parish and it is
estimated that the yield will be cut
short one-half or two-thirds. A few
fields were saved by the timely use
of Paris green.
sU Ter1ebonne Progress Two
burglars entered the residence of Mr..
Alexis joliet, Sr., and carried off $500
in currency, a trunk, two mosquito
bars, two bolts of cot ton, gun, sheet
ings, and nearly all of the ladies'
wearing apparel.
" E. Feliciana Pat.-Den..: Sew
eral cases of. cerebo spinal meningitis
have appeared in this parish = ;
OI3 bales. of cotton were shipped over
the Clinton and Port Hudson railroad
during the year ending Aug. 81, 1877,
against 10, ,0S3 the year previous.
T Iberia Sugar Bowl: Henry Dy-
mond. the Irishman who killed the
cOlored man, john Baptiste, III the
swamp near Grand Lake, about three
years ago, and has ever since been at
large in that vicinity, was last Satnr-
day arrested ut Centreville, but again
escaped.
U st. Mary Enterprise On the
plantation of Messrs. Walker o.
Thompson a cofored man was cutting
down Il tree in the woods, and as the
tree fell one of its largest limbs sEruck
him and crushed him to DEATH IA
woman murdered her husband on
Grand Woods plantation.
E st. John Mesehacebe: Coy
Nichols has appointed Mr.. james Y
Chenet Parish Judge for st. John the
l,aptist, TO fill the vacancy caused BY
the death of Mr.. Numa Trepagnier
-. Mr. L. D. Martin has discharged
his gang of Chinese laborers-aboui
80 i'm pumber. The sons of the Celes.
tial Empire make but a poor show IL
the cane fields of Louisiana.
~ Baton Rouge Adrocate /: Johf
Eckles, aged %, accidentally fell int
the river, eight miles above town ant
was drowned. The body was reeov'
cred. While tearing the weather
boarding from an old house in tins
city the workmen found the skeleton
of a baby. 1t is evident the body o
the child had been placed between tht
ceiling of the wall and the weather
boarding long while ago,