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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-04
srnUG@EI~G vvz,HAAANaAU
Told 40 Take a Choice ERetNxeea
Being Drowned or Shot
From the Erie Dip ,tch ]

From the Erie Dip atch
a story thrilling enough in its detail,
to be woven into fiction mas just come e
Us from Fair Point, Chautauqua lake
On Saturday last "a finely dressed and
we'll appearing man landed at Fair Point
Chautauqua lake, and eng igeai boari for
a fortnight at the Palace hotel There
was nothing unnatural in his appear
ance, nor dill it seen at ali remarkable
when he attended church on Sunday
morning and bowed in fervent PRAYER
near the altar. People noting his con
spicuous position looked with admiring
wonder upon the man who, regardless OF
the scrutinizing vision of the whole con
I gregatlon, manifested his religious zeal
F In the most emphatic manner Ga Mon
day morning the stranger strolled out
near the lake and there met GeO'ge If
win, a somewhat noted duck hunter, who
had just come 10 with his dog aud his gun
The finely dressed stranger affably greet
ed Mr. Irwin, and asked to be allowed
to examine his gun. Mr. Irwin unsus
pectedly handed over the weapon, when
the stranger carefully examined it, then
cooked 1t and holding it toward Mr. If
wiz 0SFAIt MN hOW iS 6OQth runner ale
would he prefer being drowned or be
ing shot? Even then the man seemed
perfectly natural Mr.. Irwin regarded
the question as joke, replied that if it
was necessary for him to die right there
and then, he preferred taking a turn in
the water. 1t was then that the strangers
eyes glared with the maniacal frenzy.
He grappled with the now terrified Irwin
The struggle was a desperate one
The maniac was a powerful man, and
with an iron dragged the sportsman to
the waters edge, when the struggle for
life aud death became even more despar-
ate. Finally they both fell into the
water, and while laundering there some
men who stood at short distance ran to
the rescue and were scarcely able t. re
lease the victim from the mauiac's clutch.
His clothes were nearly all torn from his
body, and Qe was terribly bruised by the
brief but fearful encounter. Just about
that time a small steamer came up to
the dock Il required four strong men to
put the wild maniac on board He was
taken to Mayville and lodged in Jail. He
presistently refused to the last to give his
name, declaring as reason for his con
duct that it was necessary to sacrifice
some life to the conservation of the sun
day school ground at that place; that he
had been chosen as the instrument of
death He seemed to talk saneIv about
the matter, and regarded Mr.. Irwin as
an unappreciative man, because, as he
said, it was clearly in his power to shoot
IRWIN upon the spot, whereas he had
given him his choice of death, and when
about to yield preference four worldly
friends appeared upon the sceOe and in
terferred
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GOV. HoustOn's Tribute.

In his message to the Legislature of
Alabama, Gov. Houston says: ''While
we have been sadly afflicted at some
points in our State, by sudden vista
ton of the dreadful scourge, yellow fe-
yer, and have been and are now deeply
grieved at its severe results wherever 1t
prevailed, we sympathize, not only with
our tellow-citizens, because of their
troubles and bereavements, but also with
those of our sister States whose affiic
tons were greater than our own. In
this connection | return my sincere
thanks, and yours, and those of our con
stituents, to those noble and generous
people everywhere, not alone in the
States of our Union, but those in for
eign lands. who so freely contributed 70
the relief and comfort of our afflicted
and dying people We should also In
the true spirit of Christian resignation
return our heartfelt thanks to the Great
Ruler of the Universe that it was no
worse, and that it has been abated and
removed from among us
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Rules for Spoiiing "A Child.

l. Begin young by giving him what,
ever he cries for.
2 Talk freely before the child about
his smartness as incompatible.
3. Tell him that he is too much for
you, that you can do nothing with him.
4. Have divided counsels, as between
father and mother.
3. Let him learn to regard his father
as a creature of unlimited power, capri
cious and tyrannical or as mere whip
ping machine.
6. Let him learn (from his father
example) to despise his mother.
z. Do not know or care who his COM
panions may be.
8. Let him read whatever he likes.
g. Let the child, whether boy or girl
rove the streets in the EVENING" good
school for both sexes.
10. Devote yourself to making money
remembering always that wealth is a bet
ter legacy for your child than principles
in the heart and habits in the life; and
let him have plenty of money to spend.
IL. Be not with him in the hours OF
recreation.
L. Strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel; chastise severely for foible, and
laugh at vice.
- Let him run about from church
to church. Eclecticism in religion is the
order of the day.
IA. Whatever burdens of virtuous re
quirements you lay on his shoulders,
touch not one with one of your fingers
Preach gold, and practice irredeemabl'
greenbacks,
The rules are not untried. Many
parents have tried them, with substan
tial uniformity of results. If q faith
full observance of them does not spoi
your child, you will at least have thu
comfortable reflection that you have don
| what YOU could.
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VARIETIES.
MEMBERS of the bar-gymnasts.

MEMBERS of the bar-gymnasts.
AN odd looking inkstand is in tn,
form of pug's head.
ELEVEN out of twelve women seen II
a Memphis street car few DAYS 40,
were IN mourning
A BosToN paper says: Goldfish have
struck in along Cape Cod bay and shore
and IN some localities the fishermen are
getting from 10 to 100 dory daily and
Of large size In other localities fish are
reported plenty, but of small size.
Mrs. TENNYsoN, the wife of Abe poet
Is and has long been an invalid. a
great part of the time, it is said, she re-
cllnes on sofa in her drawing room.
where she receives their guests and de-
lights all by the wit, grace and clever
ness of her talk
a WOMAN in Coatesville, Pa, who
was fearful of tramps, and who wished
to leave the house for a while the other
day, placed her husbands gold watch in
TO the stove. During her absence the
cook built fire, and the watch was
cooked to ruin.
The cultivation of celery is being
brought to great perfection in Clear6eld
66l ies having Jay established a regular exposi
ton, where specimens of the crop are ex
hibited, and prizes awarded for superior
stocks.
WESTERN, Conn, has an aged couple
named Sturges, who, if they live lit
tie more than a year longer, will be able
to celebrate their diamond wedding
The husband is 81 and the wife "a Yeas
of age, and they have been married over
73 years.
INFoRMATIoN.-Scene-On board of
the steamer Clansman off Gleneig Pier;
ferry boat alongside. Captain <sternly)-
lis there nae cargo for that boat?"
Seaman-"Yes, sir" Captain Then,
what is it waiting for?' Seaman-"The
cargo, sir."-Judy.
AT Gospel Hall in the Trocadero, in
Paris, the Princess of Wales expressed
great interest in the evangelical work
pursued there, and left handsome sum
behind her. A microscopic Bible in such
clear point as to bear the test of mag
Nifty ing glass and almost to fit into a sig
net ring, beautifully bound, was present
ed to her, French ladies call this the
Amulet edition. 1t is a thing to be set
in reliquaire and worn as a charm.
A SEA captain, just returned from a
whaling voyage to New Bedford, Mass,
went ashore at a nearer port so as to get
home day earlier to give his wife sur
prise. She, hearing ofthe ships arrival,
had meanwhile rushed to New Bedford
to give him a greeting a day earlier than
he expected. The result was that she
found the ship but no captain, and he
found his house but no wife. Surprises
have been abolished hereafter in that
family.
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Rev IA III. Snmdusky Deserts HIS
VVife mmd Children sand EIOpeB
with Another Mans wife.

with Another Mans wife.
Bowling Green ky. Democrat
The neighborhood of Bristow has in
few days past given rise to a social scan
dial of no dimiuutive proportions, as the
result of which two families are broken
up ami two households are Swallowed, the
one by the lecherous villainy of a seduc-
ing husband, and the other by the shame
less infdelity Of an Ascending wife. The
families referred to are that of VIM.
Davenport Of Butler county, and that Of
Rev. III. II. Sandusky, Of the NJ. b.
Church North, being the pastor at
Green river Union, in the neighborhood.
The cause of the excitement Is the
elopemont of the latter with the wife Of
the former. MIR. Davenport is a young
man of quiet demeanor whose married life
has covered the period Of five years, dur
ing which two beautiful children have
come to his household, and domestic
tranquility, so far as we know, has reign
ed in his home. His wife, younger than
himself, the daughter Of a Methodist
minister, is a woman who can justly lay
claim to something Of physical beauty
and grace, and until quite lately has
seemed to be happy in the love Of her
lawful husband. But the detouenent
of last week would indicate that things
have not been wholly as they seemed;
for then it suddenly appears that the
affections of this wife and mother have
been transferred to the husband Of an
other woman. the father of another wO-
mans children, and they, too, the wife
of William Davenport, and the Rev. H.
Fl. Sanduskv, Join hand without cere-
mony and depart together The crime
of the clerical scoundrel Is one which the
human language cannot paint to black
Possessing the love and confidence OF one
good woman, who is left behind hi m with
four helpless children, without m cans OF
support, he used the robes Of sacred pro-
fession to cover the lustful appeutes,
which, proving successful, have desOla-
ted his own household, and darkened the
home of his neighbor with incurable
sorrow. The double desertiOn, it seems,
was the result Of no sudden impulse-lt
was deliberately planned. short time
preceding the runaway, Sandusky had
been stopping in this city, where he made
purchase Of pistol. and where he left
borrowed horse behind him when be
took his departure. On Wednesday
morning, meeting by appointment at the
landing, the guilty pair took the boat for
Evansville, travelling together as man
and wife, and registering as Mr.. and
Mrs. Taylor From Evansville they
iourneyed on to Nashville, where they
arrived Saturday, aud where they have
made at least temporary resting place.
In her flight the faithless woman took
the Youngest Of her children with her,
leaving the other in the yard Of a neigh
Dor; but as baser passions found their
qualification, even the remnant Of her
maternal affections left her, and with
shameless effrontery she came back to this
city on Monday last and left her baby
girl, a beautiful two year old, with
friends, to be delivered to its father, after
which she took the first train for Nash
vile.
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THE GIRL OF THE CRISIS.

t From the Edinburgh Scotsman.J
Broken and crushed and sad,
/, Father comes home now az night;
Rogues have stript him of all that he had
And his hair Is thin and white
BraFely ne tolls all theday,
And thinks that we do not see
his heart in his mouth, when he looks Il
way
or Mother and Winnie and me-
Work with the hand or the head,
with needle or broom or quill,
Daily work for my daily bread
work. must have, and / will.
nave youth and health and brains
They said L was clever al school;
+ Others are earning their honest gains
! Ana why should sit here. and pule?
kn W that he does not care
70 the coat that is no more new
/ Ut q dlngv house or the scantv fare,
II ne could but pay all men their due;
bnf u pains him TO think that we
Way not lounge in our easy chairs,
ith music and novel ana afternoon tea,
Ana gossip OF others affairs.
O. II he only just knew
How weary l was of all that,
no" l longed for life that was earnest ant
And some useful work to be at.
need not what people may say,
All the bondage of fashion | scorn;
10 bring girls up in that idiot way
Ii were better they never were born.
But what can do? | could teach:
But scores will be eager to try.
win their music and German mud I'-e.naI.l
and each
Far ADLER to do it than :
| had nice, nlmhle. fingers of old
For trimming bonnet or gown;
BIT now folk win find better use for their
gold
Than to Haunt in gay dress about town.
| know | could tidy room,
And give it a lady-like look
And I'm almost sure l could handle a broom,
And iron little and cook;
But | must be at home every night
To kiss him and plague him while
And comb the old hair that is thin now, and
white.
And send h i'm to bed with smile
Work. o dear, what can I do?
hurt my soft hand, and it bled,
And | wished it were roughened and Bills
tered too,
Ii IL would only win me my bread;
Yet shrink from the girls n rhe mill;
| watched them last night in the dark
Coming out, aud it smote my weak heart
with a chill;
Bu | could be a telegraph clerk.
Sick l am weary aud sick,
Ever fretting tor something to do;
o. wouldn't | work my nails 10 the quick,
Father and mother, for you?
Ye are dearer than ever 10 me-
Someek and gentle and brave,
But your shadows grow long and | seem to
Them creeping out close to a grave.
Work with hand or with head.
With broom or needle or Quill,
Daily work for my daily bread.
AIRY true work that Won will.
Q, just for week to have toiIed,
And to give him my wage and his kiss,
Saying, father, dear father, my hands may
be soilrd.
But my heart is the purer for this.
WALTER SMITH.
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" WOULDN'T YOU o

de told me my face ~ Is the sweetest
And faireSt he ever had known,
The bObolink ehviRd NV singing.
Aud the nightingale mimtcked its tone /;
NY dimples they quar-, led with cherries,
Just under eyes tender and blue:
n tresses they angere the >unbeAms.
smi'ed on then, wouldn't YOU p
ne toiu me my fingers were dainty,
NJ lips only moulded TO kiss.
And wouldn't give one OF the sweetest
For such poor bauble as thisy"
May be ought not to We done IL.
But he looked so heseeching aud true.
Aud the ring was So pretty / took it.
Aud give him kiss, Wouldn't YOU ~
he told me there was a dear cottage
just down nelr the rocks bv the sea.
mere the sweet roses nodded welcome.
Ana the LIocking-birds waited for me.
IN himself, Of course for q MASTER
Twas made plenty large for u> two.
forgot what | said, bur I'm thinking.
l kissed him again, wouldn't yous"
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"YOu Promised We First.''
$50 ON, SQUIRE, WE ARE HALF-MARRIEl
NOW FINISH UP THE JOB"

''GO ON, SQUIRE, WE ARE HALFMARRIED
NOW FINISH UP THE JOB"
From the Cincinnati Commercially
A special from Vincennes, Indiana,
says that johnson township, in that
county, was the scene Of funny at
tempt at wedding last Wednesday,
which has just been developed this
morning. In that locality lives Melissa
Underwood, the fair daughter OF an
honest aud respectable old farmer. Two
young men, one P. H. DoEavan, a far
mer, the other William Ayres, miller,
were paying court to the fair Melissa.
She could not decide which one to favor,
having promised each one to marry him,
but finally being woed more ardently by
Ayres, she consented to take him if ii
could be kept secret from Donovan.
Ayres came to this city, secured license
aud the necessary outfit, and on We'd
nesday, in company with VIM. Seller,
Justice of the Peace of this place,
proceeded to the Underwood farm. The
bridal party were on the floor and the
| Squire had nearly finished the job, when
Donovan, to the surprise OF every one.
rushed in and declared that the ceremo
ny should proceed no further. Donovan
grabbed the girl by the waist and ex
claimed. in piteous accents, "Oh, Meliss,
don't you consent, for you promised me
first" Ayres had her around the neck,
and yelled In stentorian tones, go on,
Squire, we are halfmarried now finish
up the job" The Magistrate, under
the circumstances, refused to proceed
and Ayres, although half married, is NJ
better off than before, and Donovan il
disconsolate.
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About Female Beauty.

The Chicago Times has sent out cor
respondent to write up the female beauty
as shown in the various large cities of
the republic The correspondent has
oommedced operations in Washington
and will probably reserve st. Louis for
the last The wrath of Don Piatt is
lngton were treated, and ne goes Tor the
Times, viz: ''The expressions anent
female beauty in Washington, as publish
ed in the Chicago Times, come, we think,
from the female occasional correspond
ent of that journal The criticism of
Was hington beauty as contained in the
article could come from none other than
an antiquated maiden or grass widow,
who finds the sole solace of her life in
easing a dyspeptic soul of thin-sound
ing untruths anent her fellow and more
favored sex. The entire bent of the
correspondent is to prove that the women
of this section of the country are hideous
and homely Had Mark Twain been
the author of such a preposterous affair
we could have understood and have APP
preciated the joke As it stonds, the
affair, taken on the whole, reminds one
very pertinently of the story of
of the inhabitants of a portion of
Switzerland where, from the lime
stone condition of the water, all are
afflicted with goitre. 4 tall, handsome
English tourist was riding through one Of
the villages, and a little double barreled
throat child seeing him, rushed to its
mother with the melancholy howl, and
with choking utterance and sincere tears
cried Ma! ma look at that poor
man; he hasn't any goitre' The ideas
of beauty in the intellect OF this feeble
correspondent-supposing an intellect
are built after the fashion and in the
mould of this ignorant, innocent little
| Swiss boy."
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Fascinating Woman.

Washington POst.1
One of the ladies who have enjoyed a
more universal reputation as an Ameri-
can belle, Mrs. Sallie Ward Armstrong,
is about to marry for the fourth time.
No heroine of romance had ever had a
more varied career than this lady, whose
beauty, though great in her youth, was
always second to her powers of fascina-
ton, which she still retains to so great
degree that no sooner is she free than a
claimant for her hand seeks to win her.
Her first husband was Bigelow Lawrence
of Boston, from whom she was divorced
in less than a year by special act of the
Kentucky legislature. Her married life
with Dr. Hunt, her second husband, was
very happy, but he fell from window
of hotel in Chicago and was killed, soon
after the close of the war, during which
he had served in the Confederate army,
After several years of widowhCod, Mrs.
| Hunt married Mr.. Armstrong, little
more than two years ago. This, also,
was happy marriage, but lasted only
about a year, being dissolved by his
death. The gentleman whom she il
soon to wed is Major Downs, Louisville
Merchant, of suitable age and fortune.
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New Dresses, Etc.

AT the modistes' openings basques and
overskirts prevail in the new dresses, but
not to the exclusion of pOlonaises, though
it is remarked that the latter are usually
accompanied by demi-trains instead of
short skirts. A stylish effect is given
to these by having the fronts turned
back in reyers, or by putting in plastron
vest the length of the whole garment,
and by making the black drapery higher,
or else having the black very short, and
filing out the skirt with hounces in the
demi train still others have a wide
scarf draped like an apron, and stopping
abruptly in the side seams. The ar
engagements of two materials in polo
naises are very original. Thus black
cashmere polonaise has the vest and the
entire back OF brocaded silk in quaint
pattern of cherries and leaves; the silk
vest extends quite low down, and lis end
is concealed by an apron of cashmere
that is edged with the new chenille fringe,
which has no heading, and is Of finer
strands than that in general use. Down
the sides, where the apron stops, are
straight pieces. fringed, tied in a knot
and left to ha g down from the waist.
The brocaded back is straight and short,
like long ba que, and the demi-trAined
skirt Is tover~ti with Il 'nnces. Still an
other fashion is tiIat Of using Scotch
plaid satin binds for trimming black
cashmere polonaises. These pass straight
down the front, and two bands are pu
around the skirt, quite tar apart, anc
| separated by bands or rouleaux of plush,
either moss green or deep garnet.
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Bnrlington Hawk-Eye.I

1t took three men, two boys and a
hrindle dog an hour and half to drive
a sandy pig a distance of two blocks
down to the ferry boat yesterday after
noon. When the wearisome drive was
ended the dog was bit in three places, the
boy had sprained his ankle, broken two
windows BY throwing stones at the pig,
one of the men was tired to death and
the ocher two were drunk, and the pig
was two mites back from the river. going
west
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StnFTanclsco News Letter.
& My darling, says Mr.. Sadrake, who
has been ostensibly duck shooting at San
Mateo all the day and night previous,
did the Office boy bring you those ducks
| shot, as told him ?' ssNo, sir, he did
not" replied Mrs S, in an icy and ap
pailIng manner; ''but the butchers boy
has been here TO say that, as he canno,
fill your order for Wild ducks to day, he
sends you half dozen tame ones in
stead" Tableau
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GOV. COIquiGt, of Georgia.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, has ad
dressed the following special message to
the Legislature of that State:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
ATEANlrA L NnN O 1919

dressed lhe IollO"lhS special message TO
the Legislature of that State:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 8. 1876 :
To the General Assembly:
A grievOus necessity has been imposed
upon me to demand at your hands a thor
ough investigation of my motive and con-
duet. as the Executive of Georgia, in plac-
ing the states Endorsement upon the bonds
OF the Northwestern Railroad. This neces-
sla 1derS and inuendOes, vile and malignant,
and so mendacioHs and wicked as to make
all comment and paraphrase upon them ut
tcrly futile. Nothing but thorough sift-
ing OF my every olive and act In regard
TO these bonds, as far as human insight and
iudgmr mt can reach these, can satisfy az
grieved honor. or give such entire assurance
to the people OF Georgia as they have right
10 demand in the premises. To "A man who
values his good name far more than life II
would be an act of supremeSt injustice tC
deny the most plenary VindicatlOn, rendered
in the most august aud authoritative form
known TO the laws or To public opinion To
tue people of this greatCOm nweali h il Is o
the lus5 consequence that they should know
beyond all peradventure, that the man who
ii ut their call the chief seat OF authority
is above reproach or SuS pcion. My deuun
citation of an awful and stupendous SANDER
forged and uttered 70 diShonor me, will mo-
be enough The General Assembly of this
State. coordinate power, is appealed tC
for that Justice. which, while it will, know
full well, eXhonorate me as man, will also
vindicate the fair fame of Georgia, assaulted
by cruel ISLANDERS on her Chief Executive