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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05
IOWA DEMOCRATIC PLAT
kOseNH.
Ring Of the True Metal.

CEDAR RAPIDS. May 29.-The Iowa Dem
ocratic Convention re-asSembled at 2 O'clock
today. The Committee on Credentials re-
ported 42l delegates present with no con-
tests.
The Committee on Permanent Organfza-
ton reported Judge Edward johnson, of
Lee county, as permanent President.
The Committee on Resolutions not being
ready to report, the Convention lister ed to
speeches from ID. .. Finch, ID. +. Miller l.
Il. Kline and J. b. Preston
Tue Committee on Resolutions then re
ported the following platform which was
unanimously adopted:
We, the Democrats OF Iowa, in convention
assem- blpd, congratulate the country on the
restoration OF home rule TO the South and
the era OF peace brought about in reSponsc
to the demands of the National Demo-
cracy. and make this declaration OF princi-
pies:
l. Tariff for revenues only; honest and
economical home rule; supremacy of the
civil over the military power; the separa-
ton o. Church and State; the equality of
all citizens before the law opposition to the
granting of subsidies to any corporation
whatever.
, The financial system of the Republican
party has been one Of foster to the money
ed monopOlies; of unequal tay alton of eX
empiars of class, and of remorselesS con
traction that has destroyed every enterprise
which gave employment to labor, and there
fore we deuOunce it, its measures and its
men as re- lblt iOI Ilc IilaitlHl uiSLFeSSs
misery and want which now allict the ma
tor.
3. Labor and capital have equal demand
on and equal responsibility before the law
I The public officers should be held to "A
strict accountability; defaulters to be Sc
verelY punished; riot and disorder be
promptly suppressed.
). We deprecata the funding of our non
interest bearing debt and insist that the
bonded debC be refunded at rate not ex
ceedng per cent.
6. We favor equal recognition of gold
silver and United States notes; in the dis
charge of public aud privat- obligations,
except when otherwise provided by contract
and to the end that the same be secured,
favor the unconditional repeal OF the re-
mption act and coinage of silver on equal
conditions with gold. We oppose any lur-
Their retirem ent of United States notes now
in circulation and favor substituting United
safes Treasury notes for national bank
bills.
7. It is the duty of the Government to
take Immediate steps to improve our great
Western rivers. and the means provided
should be commensurate with the impor
lance and magnitude of the work.
; Thorough investigation into the cleo
ton frauds OF 1876 should be made. Fraud
should be exposed, truth vindicated aud
criminals punished in accordance with law
whenever found.
We accept and reafiirm the doctrine of
Mr.. Tilden's letter upon the war claims a
proper adjustment OF the national policy
concerning that class of claims on the pub
lie Treasury.
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From Puck

rom TUCK
The scene was Niagara. She stood
gazing at the angry waters, as they dash
ed over the falls. She had come all the
way from Omaha, and this was the cause
of it.
Her husband, in fit of anger, had
declared that she wasn't halt as smart as
his wife in Germany.
GA wife in the fatherlandl Snakes,
frizzes and scorpions" she cried as she
fell against the side Of the house.
Upon recovering, she Immediately con-
templated suicide. She thought Of pis-
toll, rope, carving-knife, arsenic, etc, but
they were all too common.
She would end her life upon a grand
scale. She would do it up in a romantic
style, furnishing food for the brain of the
writer of a yellow-backed gem of litera-
ture.
She boarded the first train for Niaga-
ra, and there she stood, looking sorrow
fully at the foaming pillows She took
down her back hair, threw away her
teeth, upper and under set, and was get
ting the proper expression of counte-
nance preparatory to making the fatal
plunge, when hackman tapped her upon
the shoulder and demanded his pay for
carrying her over the Suspension bridge.
Picking up her teeth and putting them
back into her mouth, she impatiently
asked his price.
Ten dollars, madam" replied the
Jehu, with demoniac grin.
"Ten dollarsl You agreed to carry me
over for so cents, you sooundrel. Heark-
en- yel was about 70 end my miserable
life, but you have raised my spunk. /
will live to show you, and all others of
the male persuasion, that it is useless to
try to take advantage ola weak woman"
And she at onoe struck out for Buffalo
TO interview the authorities in regard to
carriage fees, etc.
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n. !. Tribune
The pioneers of the Lake Victoria
Nvanza Mission have been butchered. 1t
was started by can Improbable servant"
Of the Anglican Church, who anonymous
ly offered S25 900 to the Church Mission
arv Society if it would organize per-
manent settlement on the shores of the
lake Shergold Smith, naval officer
who served with distinction in the Ash
antee campaign, set out from England
in little steam yacht, the "Highland
Lassie," which was intended for coast
service in connection with the Mombas
mission.
At Zanzibar he was joined by O'Neill,
an engineer and architect, and three or
four other Europeans and, engaging
the service Of an escort of natives, they
started for Nyan2a last August twelve
month Here they were to have been
ioined by the Rev c. I. Wilson, B. A,
of St. Mary's Hall, Oxon, who was the
spiritual leader of the expedition, to
gether with the surgeon, J. Smith, and
four other Europeans, who reached Alden
in June, 1876.
The Zanzibar explorers landed on an
island in Lake Victoria NYanza, where
the people were known to be friendly.
As soon, however, as the news of their
arrival was bruited abroad, a large gang
of natives, belonging to tribe against
whom Stanley had conducted campaign,
attacked them. The expedition seems to
have made no defense, and it is known
that their ammunition was scantY.
Late in the past winter the whole party
were brutality murdered as they stood,
only one or two natives. escaping to tell
the tale They had resolved to make
any sacrifice of time and distance rather
than stain their sacred mission with
single drop of blood. Undeterred by the
fate of those who had gone before, and
by the suferings and hardships of those
few who have managed to cross the great
continent, the Able Debaize has under
taken the passage from Zanzibar to the
Atlantic. He has been commissioned by
the French Government, and expects 10
be absent three years. Nine missionaries
from Algiers accompany him as far as
Zanzibar, their object being to establish
Roman Catholic missions at Lakes Vic
toria and TanganYika.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05
The hustle of Modern Life.

The extreme hurry ana constant bus
tie of modern life are radically hostile TO
the cultivation or even the retention of
fine manners. the manners require
calm grace; and calm grace is not ankle
ty Of the existence of day. Fine man
ners require time; indeed, they take no
note Of time. a person of fine manners
may himself always be punctual but
he can scarcely preserve his fine man
ners while laborlng to compel other peo-
pie to be so. Fine manners are absolute
ly incompatible with fussiuesS. Fine
manners take their time over everything.
That is not to say that they are incon
sistent with eXerIion, or even with great
energy. But the exertion must be
equable; the energy must be uniform,
not spasmodic or hysterical. Watch diff
ferent orders of persons proceeding TO
take the train from one place to another.
Persons of an inferior condition of life
appear to be deeply tormented with the
idea that they will fail to catch it. They
arrive out of breath, though they are ten
minutes before the time fixed for start
ing. They hustle over the taking Of
their tickets; they scramble for place in
SDi1t Cdl II6t2C VI OtilCI tAAC NAIOIC bdoA
ness is with them one of haste and dis
quietude. People Of a higher grade, bat
still what is ordinarily termed middle
condition of life, do not manifest so much
incohereut soIicitude as all this. But
they are fidgety and uncertain. They
trouble themselves and their neighbors,
instead of taking the matter quietly as
matter Of course. People of fine man
ners do not exhibit these symptoms of
gratutious distress. They take all rea
sonable care to be at the station in time,
but as they cherish an immovable belief
that five minutes are always and lnvarI-
ably of the same length, and that the
hour hand moves no faster even if their
own pulse does, they are content to abide
by the law of cause and consequence,
and entertain no doubt that having given
themselves an abundant interval for
traversinga well ascertained distance, 1t
will be accomplished in the period duly
allotted to it. There is perfect respose
in the taking of their tickets, in the dis
patch of their baggage, in the selection
of their places. Persons who do not I'M
derstand that this method is a second
nature with many, and a first nature
with some, half playfully denominafe
those they see practising it is as ''cool
hands" But where in the world is
there any necessity for heat, or for
the feverish trepidation which accom-
panies the smaller movements of PEG
pie who have not learned to use a not
inapt phrase to be met with in a modern
poem, that there is nothing SO tedious as
haste?-Cornhill.
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mother and housekeeper. Much of her
time at present is occupied AS one of the
editors of Demorest's Monthly Magazine
Her most important literary productions
are The PhysicalLife Of Woman" "Wo-
man in the Household, Letters to my
Daughter" and woman i'm Professions
and Societies, all Of which are character
lied by the earnest, vigorous common
sense which Mrs. Croly applies to every
subject TO which she devotes her consid
Grafton
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Mutual Friends
From the Danbury News.

From the Danbury News.
Human nature is tne same the world
over, as the following incident will help
to show. A Danbury insurance agent
called on two Of his customers, whose
premises adjoin, for a renewal Of their
policies. The first one is a grocer. The
agent said to him:
81 suppose, Mr.. --, that you Will
renew your policy which expires next
week? 1 have called 20 sec about &c.
"Well, / suppose I'll have to" said
the grocer Gas far AS Pm concerned
there IL no need whatever that 7 should
insure. / am here all day To- look after
things, and there amt bit of danger ID
fire from my place. But there's no tell
ing what the fellow next door will do.
&nd as long as he's there I've got to keep
insured. The agent called 90 the Gus.
toner next door, who is a baker Tie
could not help reasoning that if che dam.
ger in that establishment was s1 great.
there was a possibility of having tine
amount Of its policy doubled az least
He told the baker why he called, aud
limited thai there might be "A probabil-
ity or a desire 10 increase the policy.
"No," said the baker, scratching his
head thoughtfully, Il don't believe Tu
add any to it, 1 wouldn't insure at all
ii / wasn't where l am. You see I'm un
all night baking, and car watch thiugs.
so there's no danger here, but there's mo-
telling what the chap next door win be
up to. If it wasn't for him 4 wouldn't
insure a sent; but as It is, I've got 10 DO
it"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05
OBITUARY POETRY

Oh brother. art thou gone TO rest.
| cannot believe but what Ills true:
| know the love has left THY breast
That existed between me and you.
But the only God above will hear thy fer
vent prayer
lie that Is above and always is there;
But the nights will pass and the day will
come
When our meeting viii be heavenly one.
\ nd now, dear brother, for the last,
L cannot believe that our brothcrlv love
j. past;
1t will not be long before we meet
To cheer the love that once did greet.
- Baltimore Sun Death Column.
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TmE nEsPOVsIvE CuOnD.
a Aforementioned Hmcidpmf OF
the War aBctWepn uhc States.

Rev. J. William Jones, in am address
before the National Sunday School Con
vention, Atlanta, Ga, related the follow
ing incideF'P In the early spring OFF
1868, when the Confederate and Federal
armies were confronting each other 0u
the opposite hills Of Stafford and SpotI
sylvania, two bands CHANGED one even
ing, az the same hour, 30 begin % disc
course sweet music ON either bank of
the river, A large crowd of the soldiers
of both armies gathered 10 listen % tho
music, the friendly pickct- not interior.
ing and soon the bands began t0 answer
each other First the band ou fho
northern bank would play Star SpangIod
Banner Hail Columbia or some other
national air, aud at III, conclusion thg
boys in blue would cheer most Justify.
And then the band on the southern bmk
would respond with Dixie or Bonnie
Blue Flag or some other Southern moio.
DIV, and the boys in gray would uuc.t
their appreciation with am 'Old Confedor.
ate YELL But presently ono Of The band
struck up i'm sweet pluintive notes which
were waited across the beautiful Kappa
hammock, were caught up at once by
the other band and swellcd into
grand anthem which touched every heart
Home, Sweet Home !! At the cJuc.u.
sion Of this piece there went up stimuli
taneous shout from both sides of the river
cheer followed cheer and those hills.
which had SO recently resOuudcd With
hostile guns, echoed and reechoed tho
glad acclaim. chord bad been struck
responsive 10 which the hearts of enemies
enemies then-could beat iu unison
and, on both sides Of the river
Something down the soldier chrr.
Washed OH the stuins Of powder.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05
FoREBoDINe

do not dread a. altered heart.
Or that long tine uf land on -.l
should sruarafe ms love from mr
dread thtt drifting slow apnrt-
All uuresistei. uurestrHlned-
Which comes Co some when they have
gained
The dear endeavor OF their soul.
A two light skifls that sailed together,
Through days and nights oitrauquN wealth
er,
Adown some inland stream, might Dee
Driited asuudrr. each from each,
When floating with the Tide. thgY reach
The hoped for end, fhc promised goal,
The sudden glory oft thc sea
Violet Fame in london World.
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Very Strong Plaster.
Elko New Post.I

EXC (Nev.) Post
A young physician was recently call
ed to see a lady in White Pine. He
concluded she was bilious; gave her a
simple remedy, and ordered that light
mustard plaster should be applied to her
feet. Something happened in that house
little later, and when the doctor was
told of it he was little nonplussed for a
moment, but rallying, he assumed an air
of dignity and said; ''SOme men will
never learn anything. told her lout of
a husband to put soeak mustard plaster
to her feet, but he has totally disregarded
my instructions and applied strong one,
and see the result i
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05
Cincinnati wants thc Army Iu-
creased

CGNcrNNArI May 2a.--The board of
trade 10 day adopted resolutions pro
testing against further reduction uf
the United States army, declaring th1t
the army is now unable to perform tho
duties required OF IL, and urging Cou-
gress TO enact law providing for w iu
crease of the army. Among the dnDH
rations in the preamble Is one that Il
spirit OF communism is rite among COS,
and unless ehectual measures are taken
to oyerawe the lawlcss portion 0f tho
population the terrible lessons 0t last
summer will bee repeated.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05

The City Of Texarkana is built at the
junction of Texas, Arkansas and LouisI-
ana. 1t received its name IN 1919, when
an enthusiastic surveyor, while run
ming the lines. blazed the three frag-
ments Of the names Of the new State on
tree, and predicted that q great city
would be built there. Three years ago.
when the town was founded, the name.
still to be seen on the old tree, was adop.
ted, and the prediction seems is "a Cair
way TO be verified, as the town now has
1000 inhabitants, and is an important
railroad crossing.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05

The "currant,' so called in domestic
cookery, is really a small species of
grape. Nine tenths of this fruit ex-
ported from Greece, is taken by the
United States and Great Britain. Plum
buildings and fruit cake account for this
demand.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05

AN English writer says: .sWhite hair
is so becoming to the face that many wo-
men are never pretty till they are old
the long reign of hair powder which
lasted through century is an immortal
tribute to the beauty Of old age
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05

EUGENE JOHNSON and Angelina Nc
Query eloped from Cincinnati. He was
Is years old, and she 16. Their married
life lasted just year. Then johnson
sent his wife back to her parents, bearing
a letter announcing his intention to kill
himself because she did not love him.
He kept his word
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sspidn't you guarantee that horse
wouldn't shy before the discharge of q
canncn?" said cavrlry officer to horse
dealer, Eyes, did, and I'll stick to it, =
replied that dealer. 'sHe never SHES I'M
ill after the cannon is fred.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-06-05

Sufferers are compelled to take life
easily whether they will or not. Two
men thus afflicted were at work at forge
The iron was Fed-hOt aud S.i,aced on the
anvil, when the Ff.rst one said: John, s.
s-strika - naId The other answered:
Jim, wh-wh- wherere shall l hi-hit2"
"No-m-m-matter now, its got coco cold, I
was the reply, and the bar was put into
the forge again.
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VERY ElNE NOVEL.
The Romantic story OF Esed Dog
and Dropping Cypress.

A WHITE Boy STOLEN BY APACHEs SUISSE
QUENTLY MARRIEs A PRINCEss. Has Two
CHILDREN, Is REcAPTURED AND REsToR-
ED TO HIS FAMILY.
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mURDEHuN wE>r rENNus>ru
Two Farmers, while on Their
Way Home, Fall Out-Oue or
Ihem A. ShOt Dead by thr Other.
Jackson Tenn. WING, 2smI

Jackson lTennl Wing, 2Sth.
On Saturday evening last, Mr.. j. d.
Cash and a Mr. Gardner, both cjUlgus
of the sixteenth civil district boo this
county, left Milan i'm company, ou their
way home. They were seen travelling
together by various parties living along
the road, Cash having single barre.
shot gun on his shoulder, The report OF
IA gun was heard short distance from a
farmhouse by the occupants of tine
house, when, in few minutes cash WAS
seen riding up the road from the dircc
ton of the shooting, followed hy % rider
less mule, whose saddle was covered
with blood. Suspicion was aroused uud
the farmer, in company with some neigh
bors who, hearing the report had us.
sembled, started down the road t1 cN-
plore the mystery. They had gone but
"A short distance when they came across
the dead body Of Gardner, lying BOP tho
road. Cash was arrested, aud ou ~atur-
day Il. j. Hays, Esq, lct thi- city ta
attend the trial as counsel for Cash, who,
at last accounts, protested hisiuuocaucc
The trial WAS To- come OH in Gibson
county, the murder being committed
just across the Madison line We wth-
hold further particulars that have
reached Us until Judge Hays return,
who will reach the city to-day.
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COUCH says sickness has got him by
the throat this time, and if 1t keeps on so
he CAN'T lecture he don't know what he
shall do. Poor man, with all his work
he has managed to save only about $780,
600.
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She certainly is no true woman for
whom every man may not find it in his
heart to have a certain gracious and holy
and honorable love; she is not a woman
who returns no love, and asks no pro-
lection. -Bartol.
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Cincinnati Saturday Night
The female gate-keeper on the Nation
al pike has been removed for dead head
ing her sweetheart. She never tolPd her
love.
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California used to produce fine pota-
toes, but for several years the blight has
almost ruined the crop. This years
crop is said 10 be affected worse than
eyer
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WOMAN JOURNALS -.
Female Quill Drivers Who Have
Acquired Distinction.

WHAT Is SAID OF THE NKw YORK WOMAN
" RITtRs = How TIE THREE LEADING
DAILY NEWSPAPERS ARE OFFICERED-
WOMEN as EDITORS, PRoPRIEToRs AND
CoRREsPoN DENTS.
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The difference between a boy study
ing his lesson and a farmer hminding
the cows is that one is stocking his
mind and the other is minding his
stock.
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SLEEP, thou respose of all things; sleep.
thou gentlest Of the deities; thou peace
of the mind, from which care flies; who
dost soothe the hearts Of men weariod
with the tolls ofday, and refttest them
for lab6r.-Ovid.
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Correspondence Of the Globe-Democrat.l
New BRAUNFELs, TEX.-One of the
most noted instances of captivity among
the wild, rowing tribes of the Southwest
has just come to light, and might well
serve as the groundwork of another fresh,
racy and interesting yellow covered
novel on the Car Southwest" Ned
Buntline widest romances have been
lately thrown in the shade by the real
adventures of
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h1or OF Congress, meant only To do fl ting
houor TO his distin guished cotempDrary. bv
showing him t. be wise, prudent and eau
ouS, as Wei as possessed of thos- more
bri ant qualities which even his fnyatera-e
"aeInies cannot fail To accord him
have long known Mr.. jefferson Davis
Mt. Singleton an yourself, aud recog lize
IN each a pure patriotism and a single
hearted devotion to the interest Of our once
prosperous but now unfortunate country
Full OF honors, each desires fresh glory for
that OF the other, and God forbid that either
should despoil his own chaplet bv seeking
TO pluck leaf from that of friend and com
rade.
Sir, | have the 10 lor to b.,
Very respectfully yours
REUBEN DAVIS.
y. b. Since writing the above. [ have re-
ceived letter from Mr. Singleton, req "a, s.
ing my statement of the eyen-s refe, red to
in his speech He viii find in your columns
n 5 desire has been antici pated, and accept
this as j response to it ia all friemdliuess
r. d.
But it shows, however, that before the
State Qf South Cdr0kiRa passed her ordi-
nance Of secession. Mr.. Davis coucurred
with other trusted Southern leaders in the
belief the argument was exhausted that
there was no hope OF ''uew guIrantea-'-or
OF an ''amicable settlement that .'separate
state secession and ''Speedy and absolute
States'--was the proper remedy. For this
step, Mr.. Davis had long before prepared
the public mird ia his own State, whenever
the North by a sectional vote had elected a
President committed t" 4 policy of hostility
TO her equality in the niOu. He has never
dl>avowed this course, but on the contrary.
has persistently maintained il in adversely
as well as in pros perty. and so far from
putting in ''penitential plea" to proptiare
the lanaticism and malic: of enemies, in
his own behalf, he has solemuly warned
his countrymen of the South against it
EDITORS CLARION.
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Birds are entitled to justice. When
man is indulging ia q frolic, 10 Hny DIS BID
''out on a lark" is a libel on that h'r
He is really out on q swallow
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The question, Whats In 3 name?"
may find an answer by putting 1t at the
bottom Of q pr0missorY note.