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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

MEASURES have been taken to protect
American interests liable to suffer by the
Russian Turkey war; Rear Admiral
Worden, commanding our squadron in
Europeon waters, has ordered the vessels
of that squadron to assemble at Nice, and
sail fer Constantinople and other Eastern
ports. The vessels on that station are
the Trenton, Alliance, Vandalia and
Marion. They viii be reinforced by the
Gettysburg, now on special surveying
duty in the Mediterranean, and by the
Despatch, which will sail from Washing
ton next week.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25
Death of Robert J. Hall. of LeaLe
County.

Our Leake and Alfalfa contemporaries
announce the death of Robert J. Hall.
an old, respected and useful citizen of
I.eake county. He was native of Will
son county, Tennessee, and son of the
late John Hall, lawyer of learning and
ability. lie was public, spirited, good
man, and his death is loss to his coun-
ty, as well as 20 bis immediate flmily
and large circle of friends.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

THE Postmaster General has issued an
order providing that all appointments of
railway postoffice clerks, route agents,
mail route messengers, or local agents,
shall be made only for a probationary
term of six months, and that, at the ex-
piration of this probationary period, no
re appointment shall be made unless the
appointee shall have shown himself COM
petent, and passed satisfactory exami-
nation upon the duties of his position.
8 No subsequent action, however meri-
torious, can wash away the letters of that
racorI - cav, Chorlas E-o,o;s A L.,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

A NATIONAL CONGESTION of civil
engineers Is in session at New Orleans.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

Gov. NICHOLS has made a publ
cation in which he lays down the follow
ing rule ofaction for the guidance of his
Administration:
l. A vigorous and efficient enforcement
of the laws. so that all persons and pro perty
will be fully and equally protected. and
should occasion require it, l will proceed
in person where any disc ders may men
ace the public peace or the political rights
of any citizen. The establishment of IA
system of pu bile educ Ition, To be supported
by equal and uniform taxation upon prop
erty, so that all without regard TO race or
color may secure equal advantages there
under.
3. The fostering OF immigration in order
to hasten the development of the great nat
ural resources of the 5 ate.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

THERE are manifest indications of di
vision in the Republican party over the
policy of the new Administration. The
Democracy will act wisely if they stand
aloOf from both 81 les and keep their own
organization compact. Both cheated
them, and if they quarrel among them
selves in the disposal of the stolen goods
no matter. "A plague o both your
houses"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

The Handsboro' Democrat records the
death of DR.. c. B. New, an eminent
physician and citizen Of Pass Christian,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

Ex-cARPET-BAG member of Congress
from Mississippi, G. Wiley Wells, has
been appointed by Mr.. Hayes to the re-
sponsible officeof Solicitor of the Treas
ury. "CiyiI Service Reform" with a
vengeance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

THE Jackson CLARION credits War
rem county with two candidates for Gov
ernor She hasn't one. so far as we
know. OF those mentioned by The
CLARION, one lives in Le1ore and the
other in Lowndes. -Vicksburg CONNER
ciaI
A mistake. 1t was not THE CLARION.
We have not undertaken to enumerate,
nor to locate the candidates. We will
say this much for Warren, however,
though she may not furnish the candi-
date, she will help elect him.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

y atchcZ Democrat
In New York every fa| m1a...
spasmolic complaint ol Imn
House frauds, and silks auA ".''
articles are en- tde o. alprl tI'
thirty or forty per cent. prom. Va
nivnnce OF the officials. ltwih I.t
more nerve on the part OF ,hs Ii.
attack these harpies than irdi1 ''
to South Carolina and Louisiana
McComb City Intelligence
The Louisiana trouble wo1.l Wv.
long ago II the President Dad '.'.
dered the troops 70 She blrrl.N' NJ"
structions not to interfere boo cog '
the State. Meantime 70 serious I''
springing up in the Republican I'
reference to tile policy of Mr. H-
that is family quarrel with "h..'
the South can have nothing 70 I'.
I'D. A. H." In Wiuonl Free Pfe.+.
No true Democrat can endorse h.n
party principles. Democracy anI "'
ism are utterly inconsistent an.'-
and incom patable ia their aims ue''
ends aud not for a nom ut cu' we
and destructive cFgor t'r .r".
~ peace aud deceptive prosperity.
Grenada Sentinel
We are going to win, and ga onf '.
for the State ticket we Intend the n IN.
shall be greater for tho succcs'i1. e'''r
mnsi 'g ~ 80 90 Great 70 chat cyea O.
nresit ~ ."n cs. o oS.il NJ increased. l"a
honor the man who wins.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21
A Family Journal.

In q certain farm-hOus twenty years
ago great blank book was kept, and
labeled Home Journal. Every night some
one made an entry in it. Father sat down
the sale of the calves, or mother the cut
of the baby's eye tooth; or, perhaps,
Jenny wrote full account Of tine sleigh
ing party last night; or Bob the proceed
ings of the Phi Beta Club; or Tom
scrawled, "tried my new gun. Bully.
Shot into the fence and hit Johnson's old
cat"
On toward the middle of the book there
was the entry Of Jenny's marriage, and
one of the younger girls had added . de-
scription Of the bridesmaids dresses, and
long afterward there was written, q this
day father died." In Bob's trembling
hand. There was blank of many months
after that.
But nothing could have served better
10 bind that family of headstrong boys and
girls together than the keeping of this
book. They come back to the old home
stead now, men and women with grizzled
hair. to see their mother who is still liv-
ing, and turn over its pages reverently
with many hearty laugh, or tears COM
ing into their eyeI It Is their childhood
come bek agsin in visible shape.-Sri0.
ner's Monthly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21

the ruins of what five minutes before had
been the finest and most substantial bust.
ness block in the town, verified the alarm.
This was the time for heroes 10 come to
the front. End they responded. Men,
bleeding and wounded, hurried to the
scene. One man, cooler than the rest, Ne.
membering that Mount Carmel was with
out fire.extinguishing apparatus, ran to
the depot. He telegraphed to Vincennes !:
"Our town is in ruins and in flames.
Send rs aid" Within ten minutes from
the receipt of the telegram the Vincennes
steam fire-enginc was at the Vincennes
depot. A special train over the Cairo &
Vincennes Road was hastily contributed.
The distance to the luckless town was
twenty four miles. A ride Of thirty-sev
wild, excited minutes brought the firemen
and their engine to the scene, and there
they worked as only brave men can.
Three large brick buildings had been
wrecked by the cyclone. Oombustible
material had started the fire. There are
men under these fiery ruins" said the
Mayor of Mount Carmel, who was on the
ground. The men redoubled their exer.
tons, and succeeded in combining aud re-
ducing the flames. In dozen other To-
calities men with axes and bars
were cutting and hauling away the
ruins of buildings, recovering bod.
les and rescuing the injured. It was
q terrible night, and the rain con-
tinued to fall. Torches and bonfires were
lighted, and in their glare the search for
tue dead and the buried living was con-
tinued through the night. When exhaus-
ton at a late hour babe cessation of la
Dor, the grimed and sooty men told each
other in lowered tones that the death roll
footed up twelve, and that it would be in.
creased when the ruins of the wrecked
town were more fully explored.
The gray and gloomy morning broke
upon q scene of desolation and destruc.
tion. A hundred dwellings were wrecked
and battered, eloquent evidences of the
force of the visitation; twelve homes were
in mourning, and in fifty more friends
waited upon the injured and wounded
and prayed that they might be spared.
Mount Carmel, one of the bright, cheer.
full little towns peculiar to Illinois, has q
population of about 5000 orderly, we'll
conducted people; is located on the west
bank of the Wabash River, on high
bluff, is forty-ivc miles from the mouth
of the Wabash, and is reached by the
Cairo & Vincennes Railroad and the St
Louis, New Albany & Louisville Air Line
Railroad.-Mount Carmel May - Cor. St
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21

such entertainments, he is just as temper
ate a. we are, but everybody, has wine ut
parties, and people would talk if he did
not.
% we might 60 on for quires of paper,
and bring up instances where people are
infirienced to do what their consciehces
condemn, from the fear of what will be
said.
There are some persons, in every COM
munity, whose life business it is to 20
about aud tell everybody what everybody
else saws about them.
Just as soon as one of these human YER
min hears anything said derogatory to
you, sne will give you call, and, after q
few preliminaries. will open something
like this:
"Oh. Mrs. Brown, heard something
yesterday which made me SO indignant
I'd tell it to you, if it wasn't for hurting
your feelings. / do 20 hate to hurt your
feelingsl But, there! you needn't care
of course it's nothing but scandal
though, on the whole, I'd better not tell it.
And then she signs, and speaks of the
weather, and, of course, you insist on her
telling you and, after host of excuses,
she informs you that Mrs. p. said that she
heard, over to the corner, that you and
Brown quarreled like cats and dogs, ana
that you thought of getting divorced from
him, and going home to your mothers.
Then you become indignant, and say
something hard about Mrs. p, and your
disinterested { y friend treasures it up, and
tells it to Mrs. p. the first opportunity.
Now, whenever anybody comes to vi
with the remark, II heard something
about you," or " Do you know what they
are saying about your we put on oul
dignity, and reply to them:
I'VE never listen to idle stories of wha
people say of us-and we consider nc
person our frien1 who comes to us with
such tales
1t shuts the mouth of the COMPOUNDED
old gossip, and after that she gives us 9
wide berth.
In the matter of what people say of us
we would dare to do right, in spite Of
they say"
If we act according to our best judg
ment of what is just and proper, we car
afford to leave the result and whateve
people say of us can matter but it'll,
when the final accounts are made up
Kate Thorn, in N. Y. Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.

ONE DOLLAR a day saved will, in the
course of an ordinary lifetime, amount,
at compound interest, to over $1OO, 600.
STATISTICS recently compiled in New
York show that, out of over 1900 chill
dren in that city below five years Of age,
1900 die every year.
THE total value OF the church property
in New York City is $37, 600 600, and the
amount of money expended for drinks in
that metropolis in year amounts to $780,
600, 600.
ACCORDING to returns to the United
States Bureau Of Statistics, six hundred
emigrants sailed from this port for Sgd
ney, New South Wales, between Fe6ru-
airy and April IA, 18TH. Y. Paper.
In Italy there are sixty-five elementary
schools of agriculture and twelve normal
schools. During 1875, there were held
among agriculturists 6O1 conference meet
ings, or !" Institutes" as we term them,
with an attendance of $500 persons.
Coon authorities estimated the last cot
ton crop in the United States at 4, 1OO, 900
bales 1t turns out u be 500, 600. The
crop in Egypt and India was larger than
expected, and there is enough of the raw
product to last until the beginning of the
new crop year.
SOME interesting statistics are furnished
by the European press respecting the
draining of the Zuyder Zee. A dam forty
kilometers twenty -four and three.quar-
ter miies) long, fifty meters broad at its
base and one and one-half meters above
the usual level of high water, is to be
carried across the gulf. Upon this will
be erected pumping engines capable of
discharging 1, III, 200, 600 gallons a day.
Estimating the average depth of the gulf
al about four and One-half meters, It will
take steady pumping for sixteen years to
empty the Enclosure. The cost of &c.
claiming the 5OO,O coo acres now under
water is estimated at about $67 ,O00, 900.
It is confidentally expected that about
43O, 900 acres will be suitable for agricul-
ture, and can be sold at an average price
of $500 an acre.
The 28th of April marked the close Of
what may roughly be called the first one.
third of the present year. That one.third
embraced some of the coolest weather of
the twelvemonth, the most trying winds
for cOnsumptive invalids, and the sudden
changes and treacherous storms which in.
duce diphtheria and its kindred diseases;
it may be fairly taken, therefore, as
representative period in the preparation
of mortality statistics. Reports received
| for the seventeen weeks Immediately pre-
ceding that date give to some of the lead
ing cities Of the world the following DEATH
rofoo roonocfivo1v.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21
The Largest Breech-Loading Cannon
In the World.

HERR KRUPP, the celebrated Prussian
artillerist, is about completing monster
piece of ordnance, with the evident in.
tentiOn of proving that guns of cast-steel
can be produced on q scale to vie with the
wrought-ir iron ordnance of England. The
weight of the new gun is eighty tons, the
same as the great Fraser gun at Shoebury-
ness, which has recently excited SO much at
tention, and though it falls short of the
huge proportions of the 1O0-ton Armstrong
guns, it is still marvellous work, as being
made of steel, and, unlike the English
monster guns, loading at the breech. The
caliber of the gun is about sixteen inches,
the projectile weighs 1850 pounds and
the powder charge 1876 pounds. The gun
is built on the same model as other Krupp
guns, consisting of central core OF
steel, overlapped by concentric steel rings,
which increase in thickness toward the
breech until they reach total diameter Of
five feet ten inches, or two inches less
than the Fraser gun. The cost of the
gun, exclusive Of the carriage, which
weighs forty-five tons, is 100000, OF
double that of the eighty ton wrought iron
guns produced at WoOlwich. The initial
velocity anticipated from the projectile OF
this gun is $50 feet per second, produc'
ing an energy of ~ ,543 tons, which is equal
to $50 foot tons per inch of the shots cir.
conference. The nearest approach hither'
to attempted to this enormous gun is tho
fifty-six ton breach loader exhibited las,
year at Philadelphia, which has beenp
chased by Russia, and has just been de
livercd at Cronstadt. Herr Krupp has
constructed this last proof of his skill
solely at his own instance, though it is no
likely that it will long remain on hi.
hands, despite its great cost. Not salts
fed with this achievement, however, h.
has constructed plans for a 124-ton stee
breech-loader. with caliber of ovcl
eighteen inches, and throwing sho
weighing round ton with charge o
500 pounds of powder. The cost of thi
gun is estimated at $167, 500, exclusive o
the carriage, which would weigh sixty
two tons. Herr Krupp is also buildin,
for Turkey duplicate fifty-six ton gun o
that exhibited at the Centennial and jus
sold to the Russian Governmcnt.-Bosto1
Journal
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so spasmodically that the snake lost It's
hold and was left on the ground. 1t is
possible that the serpent was trying TO fas-
cinate her; but her deafness barred out its'
low musical sound. As the Judge and
his neighbor ran up the path, she stood
trembling with terror, on the point OF "
faint.
"She's bitr' said the neighbor in allow
tone.
He didn't bite me-" she retortcJ,
without, however, hearing what he had
She's bitp' the neighbor repeated,
but she was 30 skeert she didn't feel it.''
Are you sure he didn't bite you, Ma
ry ?? asked the Judge. -
No, he didn't bite me-" she replied,
II know he didn't"
And she was right. She plead for the
life of the snake because it had spared her;
but the Judge killed 1t.
The enemies of the rattlesnake include
the hog, the deer and the eagle. The hog
thrusts his fat chops into the snakes face,
meekly receives its bite, scizes the reptile
by the neck, places its hoofs on its body,
and tears it asunder. No blood is draw n,
the poison is harmless in the fat, and the
porker gets fair meal. A drove of hogs
will clear the widest country of rattle
snakes. When q buck sees RATHER, he
springs upon it like lightning, bringing
his feet together upon its head and body,
thus cutting it to pieces; for the hoofs of
| Floridian deer are as hard and sharp as
a razor. An eagle kills the snake while it
is summing itself. The bird descends
with the velocity of an arrow, striking the
reptile with such force as to sever the YER
tebre.
But the deadliest foe of the RATHER is the
common black snake. He is q public
benefactor, and ought to be protected by
the State Legislature, even if he does
pick up q chicken or two occasionally
He grows very long, and, unlike his'
Northern compeer, never assails human,
being. The rattler fears and shuns him :;
and well he may, for the black snake is
as agile and quick as the handspring of
q watch, and as full Of fight as bulldog.
Meeting his antagonist, he attacks with
out delay. After coiling and sounding an
alarm, the RATHER keenly watches its as
sailant. At first the black snake slowly
glides around its spiral enemy, as though
studying its weak points. He frequently
Kisses and increases his speed with EACH
cycle, ever keeping an eye on the rattler.
The latter twists its head with every revo.
luton of its assailant Swifter sweeps
the black snake around the circle. At
the full bent of his speed the RATHER grows
dizzy. In twinkling it is caught by the
throat, and the coils Of the two snakes are
intermingled. The contest is decided by
main strength. As they writhe in the
grass the superior prowess of the black
snake is manifest. The rattler is slowly
strangled. Sometimes its body is swa1-
lowed, but this does not always follow.
The coach. whip, long, clean-c snake,
frequently assists the black snake, and in
stances are given in which dozen coach
whips and black snakes joined forces and
killed small regiment Of rattlers.
Vultures and buzzards, with all their
thing bitten by q rattlesnake; but when
his snakeship himself is killed, they de.
YOUR him with the greatest relish.-Cor.
NJ Y SIM
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21
How Miss MulOck Became Mrs. Craik.

ADMIRERS of "JOhn Halifax" and its
companion novels will be interested in
knowing that their authoress has quite
romantic history of her own. She was
born at StOke.upon- Trent, Staffordshire,
in the year 1926, and was engaged to be
married in her youth to a gentleman whose
business made it necessary for him to
leave England. On his return. from the
voyage they were to he united. All
promised we'll, and when news came that
the ship was returning in safety, with
joyful heart Miss Mulock and her mother
went to the wharf to welcome, as in T" NV
Mother and l." the successful merchant.
The vessel came into sight, and on the
deck stood the young man, who appeared
overjoyed to see awaiting him the beloved
of his heart. They exchanged greetings,
and, mingling with the crowd, he hurried
to be the first to land-but as he was on
the plank, his foot slipped and he fell
into the water ana was drowned before
her very eyes. For long time Miss Mu-
lock could not occupy herself with any
thing, but at last her friends induced her
tn write for consolation in her great sor-
row, and she sent out John Halifax"
which established her reputation and alb
sOrbed her thoughts. Time passed on,
but she never swcrved in her allegiance to
her drowned love; but after years had
elapsed there was terrible railroad acct
dent in her neighbOrhOOd, and she was
active in ministering to the wounded, and
one young man was brought to her house,
and for months he nursed him, and he
recovered, but lost one of his limbs, and
also his heart to his kind friend. All his
entreaties made no impression, as Miss
Mul0ck said she should never marry; but
be replied that if she waited ten years she
should be his wife; SO after q year, she, in
1865, became Mrs. George Lille Craik,
and happy wife she is, although twenty
years older than her husband. They have
no children of their own, but one morning
Mrs. Craik was walking out and found q
little baby lying in the roadside forsaken
by its mother. A basket of linen was tie.
side it, which indicated that it was not of
poor parentage. She stopped to look at
it and then began to long to have it for
her own. She ran home to her husband
and told him, and made him, though re-
luctantly, accompany her back, to where
it still lay smiling and crowing-and his
heart was touched by the helpless little
child, and he was as eager as his wife to
take it. As founding babies are not gen.
orally the most coveted of possessions,
there was no opposition to their wishes,
and they carried the wee daughter home
and christened her Theodore. Mrs. Craik
10 devoted to her; and no party of pleasure
is 90 DELIGHTFUL that she does not see her
treasure safe in bed after saying her pray
ers before she goes, and she seems to think
that in the crowd that surrounded the
little stranger, the mother was looking to
see who would take her little one.-N. II.