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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-16
Sleeping Mnrderers.
SOME INTERESTING ILLUSTRATIONS OF
HOMICIDAL soNAMBULIsM.

SOME INTERESTING ILLUSTRATIONS OF
HoMIcIDAL soNAMBULIsM.
From the London Solicitors Journal
According to the daily papers a pris-
oner was recently convicted at EdInburg
of having, while in state of sonambu-
lism, murdered his child, and has since
been set at liberty. Cases of this kind
are very rare, but, assuming the sonam-
bulism to be clearly proved, there can
be little question of the correctness of the
course thus adopted.
Dornbluth, the German Psychologist,
tells of young woman who, in conse-
quence of fright occasioned by an at
tack of robbers, was seized with epilepsy
and became subject to sonambulism.
While in that condition she was in the
habit of stealing articles and was charged
with theft, but on the advice of Dorm
bluth was released and eventually cured
Steltzer (cited in Wharton and Stille)
gives an account of a sonambulist who
clambered out of a garnet window, de-
scended into the next house, and killed a
young girl who was asleep there. And
the same learned writer's quote from Sar-
varin an account of a sonambulist monk
(related to Sarvarin by the prior of the
convent where the incident happened J
The sonambulist entered the chamber
of the prior; his eyes were open, but
fixed; the light of two lamps made no
impression upon him; his features were
contracted, and he carried In his hand
large knife. Going straight to the bed,
he had first the appearance of examining
if the prior was there. He then struck
three blows which pierced the coverings
and even a mat which served the purpose
of mattress. In returning, his coun.
tenance was unbent and was marked by
an air of satisfaction. The next day the
prior asked the sonambulist what he had
dreamt the preceding night, and the lat
ter answered that he had dreamt that his
mother had been killed by the prior, and
that her ghost had appeared to him de-
handing vengeance; that at this sight
he was so transported by rage that he
had Immediately ran to stab the assassin
of his mother" Sarvarin adds that if
the prior had been killed the monk could
not possibly, under these circumstances,
have been punished.
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ATerrible Pestrrence In Brazil.

A terrible story of famine and pesti-
lence in Brazil is told by a correspondent
at Rio de Janeiro. There has been no
rain for two years in a district as large
as New England, the Middle Atlantic
States, West Virginia, Ohio and Indi-
ana combined, so that the wells and
water courses are dry, and the cattle,
which the herdsmen and planters of that
region keep in vast herds, have died OF
thirst Worse than that, the people
perishing for lack of food and water,
have fled into the streets of the oities for
scanty Government rations, quinluplying
their population. There they have rot
ted in bestial immortality on the streets,
small pox, yellow fever AID dysenterry
sweeping them off by thousands. Vile
spectators have proited by the woes OF
these wretches, and the police and sol
diers have abused them, and they have
been transformed from peaceful tillers of
the soil into outcasts so brutalized by
want and abuse that they have eaten
each other and accepted death as a well
come relief from their degradation and
suffering.
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Female Doctors in Russia.

Women doctors in Russia are in
trouble. They are forbidden to practise,
and connection with Nihilism is given
as the excuse From the military school
of surgery in St. Petersburg a number of
women have been graduated, after pass
ing through the whole course OF neces-
sary study, and this edict, it is feared,
will be likely to check and discourage
women in their highest aspirations,
not only as regards medicine, but in all
departments as regards useful knowledge.
The Russian government openly gives an
explanation of its action. Women doc
tors, it says, withdrawing at st. Peters
burg, are naturally brought into contact
with the young male students and thus
infected with the socialist doctrines which
prevail among them. 1t seems to sup
pose that under the guise of the study of
medicine regularly organ zed propa-
ganda would be carried on with female
influence. 1t is well known that medical
schools have been in France and Ger
many, centres of political discomfort, and
that those of the Sarbonne in Paris have
been almost since their foundation the
hot beds of discussion and terment.
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The True story UC tha sHEuIIer.
SaWn OAK Ot Ihe bloody Angle

The AbbeviIle Press and Banner, in
noticing Gen. McGowaus report N the
battles Of the Wilderness and Spottsyl.
vania Court House, says
OF all the fierce struggles Of the war,
fruitful in glory and fearful in bloodshcd,
those battles are unsurpassed. "The
Bloody Angle then described by lines
of death dealing fire stands out unique
picture in the gallery of war
We are informed that the stump Of
the tree cut down by myriuds Of musket
balls, referred to by Gen. MCGOWAN, has
been uprooted, removed 10 Washington.
and is now on exhibition there al the
War Department. 1t was displayed at
the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia
rs a remarkable evidence Of bravery and
endurance Of soldiers in battle. III GER
tainly affords the highest evidence posi-
BILE Of the intensity and duration of n
musketry fire, and the devotion of the
soldiers who could stand such a fire. But
it must not be forgotten that it was not
the Foderals, but the Confederate sol
diers who received that fire. The tree
stood within 'the Bloody Angle i few
steps in rear Of the Confederate trenches,
and every ball which struck il was dis
charged from Federal ride, and passed
over the "boy5 in gray and struck the
tree in their rear.
Col. A. z. Butler, now the honorable
Senator from Akin county, then COM
manded the First South Carolina Regi-
ment, was very near the tree, witnessed
the whole process Of sealing and saw
it when ii fell upon aud injured some Of
his men. The diameter Of the tree was
measured by the sword Of Gen. Wilcox
and found to be twenty inches The
incident il perfectly we'll authenticated
and is certainly one Of the most interest
ing in the annals of war. There are
many famous trees, but not one that we
wot of--not the Royal Oak Of England,
nor the Charter Oak of America, can vie
in historical interest with the bullet.saWn
oak Of the Bloody Angle, Let the
Federal Government give II an honored
place among the spoils Of that bloody war,
let be preserved az proof OF the terrific
power and concentration Of the firing Of
the Northern soldiers. But it would be
a strange reversion Of title 10 glory If
the pierced and jagged stem Of that sd
cresi tree should be regarded as rebound
ing to the honor Of the Federal instead
OF a signal proofo Confederate bravery
unmatched i'm warlke story,
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From the Memphis Appeal

From the Memphis Appeal.
A wedding took place on Adams
street yesterday afternoon under circum-
stances surrounded by coolies of romance.
Several weeks ago DIR. w. f. Besancny,
young physician hailing from Jones
town, Miss, offered his services to Medi-
cal Director Mitchell His credentials
were perfect, and coming at a time when
physicians were most needed, were read
lily accepted. just as all prelimiuaries
had been settled satisfactorily, a messen-
ger entered the office in great haste in
search of a physician to attend Miss d.
T Rutter, young lady who had been
stricken with the fever, at her residence
on Adams street. DR.. Mitchell turned
to the gallant young physician. aud re-
marked that he could Immediately be
plsced on duty if he so felt disposed.
DIR. Besancny unhesitatingly accepted
the call, and at once accompanied the
messenger to the young lady's residence,
where he found her PROSTATE with bad
case of the fever. 1t is unnecessary to
go through the details of the lingering
illness, but only to say that the young
DOCTOR attention was close and faithful,
finally resulting in the young lady's re
covery. Soon afterward the doctor was
stricken down. True to the instincts of
her womanIy nature, doubly intensified
by her self-acknoYledged Indebtedness to
him for having saved her life, she went
to his bedside, and there remained, Civ
ing such attention as only woman can
bestow upon the sick, until the glad It'd
ings was announced that he had passed
the crisis, and bid fair to recover. He
passed through the tedious hours of con
valescence until entirely recovered
Nothing more was known or thought of
the matter by the few intimate friends of
the young lady until yesterday afternoon,
when the doctor accompanied by Es-
quire Qugley and few friends, drove
up to the residence, and in less time than
it takes us to write this paragraph, the
two were Joined together in the holy
bonds of wedlock. Such a union, con-
summated under such circumstances,
cannot fail to abound with happiness,
and, being somwhat superstitious ourself,
we know of good luck.
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arieties.

A lady who has been hunting lodgings
found one almost to suit her, talking the
owner about them, she asked "What
sort of staircase have you?" "The
staircase? Why, Madame, it is so easy
of ascent that when you go up it, you'd
think you were going down."
When a man and his wife are out
walking, and see ''love of a bonnet" in
a show window, they are both of one
mind. She wants to go buy it. and he
wants to go by it too.-[ Norristown Her
ald
The Russian government has forbidden
several ladies, who have gained medical
diplomas, to practice in the province OF
Novogorod Russian women doctors are
usually very advanced in political ideas.
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Ugly But Good
KIND WORD FOR WOMEN VINO ARE NOT
HANDSOME.

A KIND WORD FOR WOMEN VINO ARE Nor
HANDSOME.
From tl!a Baltimore Every Saturday.
Beauty gets plenty of praise. Poets
sing Of it, romaucers furnish il IN album
dance to their herOines, dramatists use
it as the motives Of their most stirring
| plays, painters and sculptors delight 70
portray it; all the world worships IL ;
and yet there is much 10 be said about
the noble qualities Of ugly little women.
| There is often more charm ia the vitality,
energy, unseItishness and gaiety Of an
ugly little woman than in a half a dozen
tall, queenly beauties, who have 10 be on
! the watch All the time 10 pose well and
make their points effective. There have
been men in the world who thought il a
fine thing to say that "an ugly woman
has no place in the economy Of nature.
But ii the records Of the world were
intelligibly written il would be found
that ugly little women have been tho
heroines, the helpmeets of the heroes.
II is the function OF beauty TO get men
into trouble. Helen Of Troy, Cleopatra.
Mary Queen Of Scots, and hundreds of
others, where ever they came they
brought calamity. Beauty and anguish
have walked hand in hand the down
ward slope 10 death, and whenever the
poet dreams of fair women he Is sure To
dream something doleful. If he we're ID
have a dream Of ugly little women il
would be full of brightness, loyalty, de-
volion, sincerity, fortitude and al those
other lovable female qualities that make
some happy. Tall Beauty is epic
Little Ugly is lyric, homeiike. Just
think Of what a deep-seated compliment
is involved in calling irregularity of
feature homeliness 1t means that she
is not for the ballroom, bat for tho
home, for the friendships that cluster
around the hearth, for the merry little
sociahle, the picnic or off hand game, or
for the darkened sick-room, where she
brings rest and comfort. pretty il as
pretty does" Is an old maxim whose
truth is only half appreciated. For in
the plainness Of feature and insignia
canoe of person of homely women there
is often an earnestness, a whole souled
sweetness and sympathetic expression
that win love Gar quicker than mere
beauty. The world could far more
easily afford to lose its supplies Of beauty
than to give up its precious stores q
ugly little women. The beauties wait
to Be loved the others delight IN loving.
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L: KEENAN,, app )inted to a place in
the New Orleans custom-house, 5000.
Napoleon l.. Lastrapes appointed to a
place III the New Orleans custom house.
5000.
Paul Trevigne, appointed to place in
the Orleans custom house, 81 900
H. NJ. Twitchell, appointed U. S. con-
sui at Kingston. 81, 900.
A. b. Sloanaker, appointed to a place
in the internal revenue, 81 200.
Mr.. Phel ps, appointed commissioner
to Paris.
Mr.. Varnum, appointed receiver in
the land office, 81, 800.
Mr.. Taylor, provided for in the land
Office, $1,000
Bowles Of Leon, appointed to a place
In the treasury department, 1920.
Total amount per annum, exclusive of
fees, not estimated S199, $50
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The Only Apostle of GOOD Family

A genteel young lady, member of one
of New York's ''old families" and teach
er in Sunday-school there, lately went
to the Superintendent with sadness in
her face and air, saying: "In my study
of these lessons | find that Saint Paul was
the only Apostle who came of a good
family" Desperately striking out for
some grain of consolation, the Superin-
tendent replied: "Yes, but you remem-
Der that our Saviour himself was the
son of a carpenter" 81 know" said the
still disconsolate maiden; 'sbut then,
away back, He belonged to the royal fam
lily of David" Whether she will still
countenance those slow people," by
teaching their doctrines, remains to be
seen.-Co ngregationalist.
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LOVE AND 81 MINER.

qI me south wind huns and sighs,
n ~ ocean smiles, and wild birds sing
Az dland ways meath eIoudless skies,
I MI care anu gloom take hasty wing,
W;.IN 81 you, and every thought
'oFe and joy and hope is fraught.
4n5 9 Ste5ah means and north winds Shrek
And inter lowers and birds are fled,
Az poland ways and skies are bleak,
thfS,ln nope and joy and song are dead,
TN OF you, and thinking, sigh,
'oFe with thee and Summer die.
An5 your eyes brightness lives,
All ~. "a your voice song is heard,
OF S@ eu TO Winter something gives
And @Nuliner sun and Summer bird;
Nv M, ~ thlaking still of you
is bright, my skies are blue.
AM Y. when that brightness fades,
lkno,vw ,h that song has died away,
And me we gloom of Winters shades
All. sdr ,is > the Summers Joyous lay.
keen{ NJ from me for while
inter with your song and smile!
London Society.
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Strange and Terrible Disease i'm
Lee County, Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution

Atlanta constitutional
DR.. Rose, while talking to this reporter
the other day, mentioned that there was
a great deal of sickness in and around
Lee county. He says that the people
are dying with a peFnicious mala rial
fever, that they have always called the
'yellow disease" 1t is characterized by
high fever, nausea, and turns the patient
yellow. 1t usually ends in black vomit,
and is terribly fatal. In some Of the
neighborhoods it has assumed the shape
of an epidemic. In Arlington, in one
store, the three clerks are sick, and bust
ness is almost suspended. A former
resident of that section, and a most
intelligent man, tells US that on several
occasions, sometimes every alternate
summer, this disease has visited Lee
county, and that it is very fatal, and
usually prevails a. an epidemic through
the various neighborhoods. He says it
is called the "yellow disease" and is very
much like yellow fever. We hope that
the present attack will amount 70 nothing
serious, as Georgia is elsewhere perfectly
healthy, and is likely to remain so.
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CIaiborne'- History OF mississippi.

No Tines
From the perusal Of a private letter
from Hon. j. T. H Claiborne of Natchez,
Miss, the information is afforded that the
history he is now writing, Mississippi as
s Province, as q Territory and as a
State, will be completed by the first of
March, and will make two volumes about
the size Of Sherman's memoirs" The
slt5or couremplates having the work in
jae printers hands by the first of May.
The history will embrace a great
zeal Of romance, of political vicissitude
ana Of war-frst, the colonization by the
french, the transfer to the Spaniards,
'aen by treaty to the English, then the
conquest by Spain, the transfer to Napo-
5oa' and the sale by him to the United
States
40 living pen can do better with the
.-.7e.. The family history of the au-
'4'F is part of the history of Missis
S@ippr Ills kinsman was the first
Governor Of Mississippi Terri tory, and
'@' Of the Territory of New Or
7'as afterwards State of Louisiana,
--A the author has in his possession
ll'teen manuscript folio volumes of
- private papers and official cores
Il4ence Of Gov. Claiborne The au
fs maternal grandf ather, Col. An
~s1E Hutchins, was the most prominent
-Sl ID the province. He was captain
.ae bOth regiment of foot, retired on
=. III lay, man of remarkable talents
~ courage, who rebelled against the
s'a'ards, stormed theeir forts, but sub
,s4lsGtIy had to fly. He lived to see the
,HII I. dominion established, and un
4s death was the leader of the Jefer
w party in Mississippi.
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woman Love for the beautiful

Virginia New Chronicle.l
a woman went into BARRIERS shop on
G. street some weeks ago and wanted to
know how much it would cost to dye a
mans hair and mustache. The price
was named, and she then asked the bar
Der to get his dye and follow her.
"Why can't the man come here" asked
the b.. or.
"He's dead" replied the woman, ''and
the last thing he said when he was pass.
ing away was: "Sally, fix me up pretty
for the funeral His hair curled beau
tifully, but was little gray. 1t won't
look well to see a woman crying round a
coffin with an old gray bearded man in
it. So want him fixed up little. He
was always a beauty when he had his
hair dyed. / know I'd want mine fixed
that way if [ was gray and dead"
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SECRE EFT LOVE.
HEw ArNsLIE.

A secret love, a hidden love,
A love must shun the light,
Like miser's gold, is often told
In the watches of the night
RecountinG DER the secret store,
The grasp, the clasp, the kiss,
That worked the mingling o. the minds,
The oneness G the wish,
Built from this sacred treasury
The heart enshrines saint,
Gifted wi a. the loneliness
Loves partial eye can paint.
life's wants aud wishes, hopes and fears.
May crowd and cloud the brain,
But everm0rein thy hearts core,
That image must remain.
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stand Back and Give Him Room
Knoxville Tribune.]


A young lady in a neighboring town
has sent us a basket of luscious fruit
She was once one of our accomplished
girls who commanded respect and admi-
ration wherever she went. Though many
sands have fallen from the hour glass Of
the silent Angel since she moved from
our midst, and all things, save Gods own
holy fires that sentinel nightly in burn
ing beauty the hill of heaven, are marked
and marred with the shocks of doom,
still cheerful welcome is extended to
her by all, with the hope that her skies
may always glow with supernal-tinted
rainbows, aud that the hereafter which
looms up before us all, may be garlanded,
not with thorns, but roses bright as those
which erst did bloom on Judean hills.
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Species of Black VOmit i'm Hart
ford.
Springfield Republican. !

Springfield Republican,
Sickness has increased to an alarming
extent within two or three days, in that
part of the city supplied with water from
the Connecticut river, the symptoms in
most cases being cramp in the stomach,
vomiting black matter, and severe dys
EMERY. The disorder is attributed to
the water, and apparently with good rea-
son, for near the pipe which draws the
supply from the river, a drive of logs has
accumulated large amount of slime and
filth brought down the stream. An
analysis of the liquid also shows that it
contains large amount Of organic mat
ter.
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One woman Life.
\. NJ MorLLL

n. \. Worlll
People who cross City Hall square al
night have noticed a little ola yyou,an
dressed in an odd brown gown. tirbt
sacque, and a white nilled can scrupu.
lousy clean. She walks the square from
. p. NJ. u!l past midnight b. and fro.
scanning every mans face, aud after
many disaPpoutwents every night goes
slowly, very late, mp TO her home in
Mulberry street. About four years ago
John Reilly, her husband, was employed
in the pressroom OF the Herald. About
. o'clock every night he met his wife,
who brought down his lunch and carried
back the dishes. One cold dark night
he did not meet her, and as She did not
know the way to the press-room she
waited some time and then Went home.
In her room she found his dead body
upon the bed. She did not die, though
she was near dying, and she still waits
every night 10 meet her husband. Win
ter and summer are alike 10 her, and mo
weather delays her, though She il sixty
years Of age
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me Letter to Hagerhill Bulletin.

Home Letter to Haserhill Bulletin.l
I heard a little political talk few
days ago, in the course of which one of
our prominent citizens said he should be
obliged TO vote for Talbot. On being
asked Why he felt obliged to vote for
Talbot, he replied why, how can I
help it He stood up with me when /
was married
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TEARS.

aiming, little FlowerY
Too -, Be glad Of rainf
IRA ram would wither thee
The eloaIw Twill shine again.
Bot jlst I has are very black, It's true.
Oenlnd them shines the blue.
D. afy, tender heart?
In sorra.ee glad Of pain;
n. A. 'sseetest things viii grow,
SSod Rafea,a mowers Ia rain.
nhel elenas, mo thou wilt have sun
Their perfect work haye do
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d LATE GARDEN.
In my autumn garden | was fam

In my autumn garden was fam
To mourn among my scattered roses;
Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses
To autumn's languid sun and rain,
When all the world is on the wane!
Which has not felt the sweet constraint OF
June,
Nor heard the nightingale in tune.
Broadfaced asters by my garden-walk,
You are but coarse compared with roses
More choice, more dear that rosebud
which unclOseS
Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk,
That least and last which cold winds balk
A rose it is, though least and last of all,
A rose to me, though at the fall.
Christina @. Rossetti,
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Charles lplayfullyl -" How much
really did that hat cost, Jennie = Jen-
nie-stH you really want to inspect the
bills for my dry goods. Charles. there il
q way to do it. And what else could
Charles do but propose on the spot?
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EtH A'EsDH tNHaS-

- -ta Mobile Begjster.I
las. tafara our readers a rare treat to-
rf4H wpiri strain. fresh from the
t@ ra.-a sad refrain from master~
-which sweeps along,
ar,uEe-t uctaves Of the heart"
rl.- uris-r sings the best sings of
81. fu+ fg-e-prpt- best the hearts OF the
.1fE., lin thafr woe When the Con
p''t. H.gnrr'' was furled in glory. he
9-stola If iu q song which will keep
eA fumortclies. And now when tie
i5..- .- comes. and spreads over US its
fe, .r:rr-. from the dark shadows he
.ts- I.Henrarion which points as all to
.a- Eythe wants
-no name, no other fame
Fl.s,, -his--A Priest Of Gcd.'