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Horses and the Horse Trade.

The number of horses in the United
States is estimated at 5000, 1000, Illinois
ranking first in number; New York next
with over half million; then Ohio,
Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas, Iowa,
Indiana and Kentucky. The number OF
horses in the New England States is
estimated at SOC, 900, Maine having the
largest number, and Massachusetts next.
The farm or workhorses of Maine and
Vermont are noted throughout the land.
The farmer who breeds horses knows
his own interest well enough to study
the tastes of the community, and to
breed up to them. Speed Is, to be sure,
only one of the many qualities whicrare
essential to a good roadster, and size,
style, action, temper, form, constitution,
and enduring qualities are equally i'm
portant in making a general estimate
of the character of horses. The horses
raised in Maine are, generally speak
ing, fine specimens of the equine race.
So are those imported from Vermont
and Canada, the latter having peculi-
arities of their own quite distinct from
the thorough New England animal.
The weight of a good roadster may vary
from $50 to 1,000pounds. For ordinary
purposes on the road and for general
work an old horse dealer tells us that
1000 pounds is heavy enough. A
larger sized horse would not be found
serviceable in horse-cars, Omnibuses, or
hacks, and certainly net in the buggy
or light carriage. A heavy horse will
not last so long over the hard pavements
of the city as a medium-size one. The
practice now conforms to this rule, we
believe, as strangers especially will no.
tice in all large cities Tin the East, at
least, small, quick, tough horses for
most kinds of work. A medium-seized
horse will range from 144 to 154 hands
in height.-Dunton'S Spirit.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07

Rhode Islanders are endeavoring to
establish State educational home for
the support and education of a large
and cOnstantlEincreaSing class of chill
dren left without natural protectors
through the poverty, intemperance,
crime, or death of their parents. A bill
providing fer such home and placing
it nearly on the footing of free public
school was adopted during the recent
session of the Senate, but was defeated
in the House.
Peter Cooper's proposed free insti-
tute for girls in South Carolina is to be
on very much the same plan as Cooper
Institute in New York. Mr.. Cooper has
purchased a property known as Lime
stone Springs near Spartenburg, on
which are a number of buildings, one
of which was a girls school before the
war. Tuition and every thing except
board will be free to any girl over II.
The old philanthropist hopes that Sc il
might do something toward ending old
feuds and cementing the Union"
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Jacob Il. Freese, late President Of the
State Savings Bank Of Trenton, n. j., found
guilty of embezzling the funds of the bank
has been sentenced to five years in the State
prison. His sons, Louis X. and Harry c..
who were implicated with the father, get
six months each in the County Jail.
Gustavus Wilcox and Richard Walker
two wealthy young farmers of Charles City
County, Va, fought a duel with pistols,
without seconds, on the 9th. The terms OF
agreement were that they should commence
firing together and continue until one was
disabled. After several shots had been ex-
changed, Walker fell, shot through the face.
The duel grew out Of an old family feud.
Both were arrested after the fight.
William Shelburne was married to Ada
McCloy, in Clay County, n. c., on the LIST.
They were both Of the best families Of the
county, and the marriage was the consum-
nation Of a two years. engagement, larger
portion Of which time had been spent by the
gentleman in New Orleans, where he had a
position as clerk in a cotton house. On the
night Of the marriage the young bride dis
closed to her Mortified husband a truth
which she could no longer conceal-that she
was about TO become a mother, and named
Simpson Foster, neighboring young farm
er, as her seducer. Frenzied by the intelli-
gence, the husband left the bridal chamber,
seized double barreled shotgun, and
riding to the home of Foster he called
him to the door and shot him without a
word of explanation. The unhappy bride
was entirely Frustrated by the result of her
criminal folly, and few hours afterward
died in giving premature birth to her lille
Ultimate babe. Fosters wound was not
fatal, and itw expected that the injured
husband would return and complete his I'M
flashed work.
Charles S. Whittier, Town Clerk and
Treasurer of Methuen, Mass, has absconded
with all the available public funds, between
$4,000 and $4,000. He was a man of high
social and business standing in the commu-
nifty.
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Acquiring q Handicraft.


So II anpears to me that what YOU
lhant is pretty much what / want; and
!. !. exactical question is, How you are
get what you need, under the ae'lai
limitations and conditions OF life OF
handicraftsmen in this country?
| think shall have the assent both OF
the employers of labor and the employ
ed as to one of these limitations; which
is, that no scheme of technical educa-
ton is likely to be seriously entertained
which will delay the entrance of boys
into working-life, or prevent them from
contributing toward their own support,
as early as they do at present Not on
/ ly do / believe that any such scheme
/ could not be carried out, but doubt its
/ desirableness,e even if it were practicable.
The period between childhood and
manhood is full of difficulties and dan
I gers, under the most favorable circum-
/ stances; and even among the well-to-
do, who can afford to surround their
/ children with the most favorable condi-
tons, examples of career ruined, be-
fore it has well begun, are but too fire.
quent. Moreover, those who have to
live by labor must be shaped to labor
early. The colt that is left at grass too
long makes but sorry draughthorse,
though his way of life does not bring him
within the reach of artificial temptations.
Perhaps the most valuable result OF ali
education is the ability to make your
self do the thing you have to do, when
it ought to be done, whether you like it
or not; it is the first lesson that ought
to be learned; and, however early a
mans training begins, it is prObablf the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
There is another reason to which L
have already adverted, and which | would
reiterate, why any extention of the time
devoted to ordinary school-work is un-
desirable. In the newly awakened zeal
for education, we run some risk of for
getting the truth that, while under-in-
struction is bad thing, over-instruction
may possibly be worse.
Success in any kind of practical life
is not dependent solely, or indeed chiefly,
upon knowledge. Even in the learned
professions knowledge, alone, is of less
consequence than people are apt to sup
pose And, if much expenditure of
bodily energy is involved in the days
work, mere knowledge is of still less
Importance when weighed against the
probable cost of its requirement. To
do fair days work with his hands, a
man needs, above all things, health,
strength and the patience and cheerful
ness which, if they do not always ac-
company these blessings, can hardly in
the nature of things exist without
them; to which we must add honesty
of purpose and pride in doing what is
done well.-Prof. HURLEY, in Popular
| Science Monthly.
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In one of our sundav-scbools lat

I'm one of our Sunday-schools lately
ateacher was instructing a juvenile class
about the word glutton. "Suppose, -
said she, 'a man should sit down to
dinner and eat as much as four persons
then get up and 60 to restaurant and
eat lot more-then fill his pockets with
crackers and cheese, and keep eating.
What would you call such a person?
The boy who can answer please hold up
his hand" Up went the hand of a six
year-old boy. Swell, what would Won
call such a man?'' asked the teacher
4" a burned hogi" rang out with a clear
and well italicized reply Whstehau
Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07

The new King of Italy has put his
sign manual to the virtual abolition of
capital punishment. His first official
exercise Of sovereign authority was to
sign the communication of 50 death sem
fences. He said he was happy to begin
his reign by the virtual Communication of
capital punishment.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-07

The only daughter of Jenny Lind
is to marry William War; Maude, Wis
counts grandson.
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THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, MARCH 4, lN7s.
alive Steers. sS.25 "a $3.50
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17
The Wealth of hob.

"This nan vas the greatest of all the
men of the East. JOB 1, 2.
AT this distance of time, supposed to
be 8, 900 years since he existed, it is diff
foult to estimate Jobs wealth; but as
some items are given it may be attempt
ed, although the relative value of money
at the extremes of 5000 years leaves US
at a loss to calculate the precise amount.
/. The extent of land he owned NAV
be found from the support his stock
needed; 1000 sheep would require a
range of as many acres; 300 camels
would need five acres each; 1000 yoke
OF o1en, an equal range Of five acres with
the canIels; 500 asses about two acres
each; and his household, which was Every
great" 1000; in all, 10000 acres. The
valve of this amout, at s. per acre, $780,
900.
2. The cost of Jobs CATTLE, 900
sheep at 81 each; 5000 camels at prob
ably $50; 1000 oxen at $40 each, and
500 asses at the same price. This would
equal about $4,000.
3. To tend such vast herds, according
to the custom of the East, the number
of laborers must have been large. Alb
Fahan, contemporary with Job, could
muster in his own family retinue 31S
trained men at arms. As many more
must have remained at home to attend
to his focks, etc, when the patriarch
went in pursuit of the invaders of Lots
territory. Job may haYe had 1900,
their pay and support $40, 900.
4. The necessary houses for living and
shelter and the folds could not be less
than $50, 900.
The whole value of the above would
be $4,000.
All this wealth seems incredible, were
it not declared SO by the voice of inspi-
ration. At the close of the book We are
told that even this amount was duplicated,
br $4,000.
When we compare this with the rela-
tive present value Of money and that Of
Jobs day, his wealth was enormous.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17
Prophecies for the Photograph.

We shall have old songs by phonogTaph
directly, and a hundred years from now
there shall be resurrected the merry
laughter of to day, and signs and tears,
and patches of sunlight and day dreams,
and the tinkling music of sheep bells and
the ripping of brooks, and the plunging
of waterfalls, and moonlight of a winters
night, with perhaps the first kiss of the
girl who, by some unhappy accident you
left behind you. Gray beard at that Pc
Rod will but have to look into some slight
machine to see himself d child again,
fishing with bent .pin or stealing water
melons after the careless habit of youth;
and grandmother will look through her
spectacles into some manufactured sun
light and see herself in the sunbonnet
which belonged to her mother, on her
merry way to school or picking black
berries from the hillside which has
doomed up in her minds eye through all
the many years. Perhaps the singing
schools and tallow candles and things of
the old days will be brought back by
this more than electricity, and exc the
venerable person will occasionally suffer
from the very spanking which made her
youth uncomfortable, and, having put
the bent pin in the teachers chair in the
old way, feel the old pull at the ear which
induced him to think himself blasted
nut-that is to say, a blighted bud.
When the impaipable voice can be re-
produced in this marvellous manner,
what is there in light or darkness, in
love or other absurdity, in storm or sun
shine, in good nature or its opposite, or
in anything else which may not smite us
in the wrinkled countenance at any
moment There shall be dead leaves
and ghosts without end, and if the Witch
of Endor doesn't return it will be because
she has reached an Endor something else
not given to her kind. We shall see
Lots wife, perhaps, and if Job isn't
made to suffer from those old b0ils again
it will be because of some new cure ahead
of our inventions. There is no end to
the miracle of this phonograph. 1t will
be discounting the future next possibly
with the result that there shall be no end
to us.-Buffalo Express.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17
spring styles for the Ladies.

The shaded blue Madras ginghams are
very popular, but great care is required
in washing them.
Very fine colored embroideriess are
seen on many of the newest styles of
pocket handkerehiefs.
Many of our store windows, with their
beautiful spring goods and novelties, are
as pretty as pictures.
Parasols and sunshades differ in
shape from those of last year, being
bell shaped instead of canopied.
Organizes with plain tinted ground s
and flowers, aud borders of fern leaves,
grasses, etc., will be much worn.
The jauntiest of spring wraps is coat
that fastens over the chest With one but
ton and shows waiscoat below
1t is above all things out of place to
wear a CAV bonnet in the street, or one
strikingly in contrast with the rest of the
toilet.
Dressy costumes for watering places
are made of damask of light quality,
combined with plain silk Of a contrasting
color.
1t will be fashionable to sew the new
style large collars and cuffs of white
lace on the dark silk dresses that will be
worn this summer.
Dali, unpublished ebony handles, quite
massive, with bar at the end, or hook
inlaid with pearl of ivory, are the most
stylish for parasols.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17
For TUE CLARIoN.l
DON'T SPEAK so HARsHLY.
MAGGIE A. DOWNING.

Don't speak so harshIy, Mary, to your poor
old mother. now.
For she's old and feeble, Mary, with
wrinkled cheek and brow,
Her step, though once elastic, only totters
now with age,
And soon her race be ended here, upon this
dreary stage.
Ny eyes were once a bright as yours, my
hands as soft and fair,
My hairin curling masses hung. rich, beau
tiful and rare;
My voice re-echoed in its tones the glad
ness ofmy heart,
And felt that from the lovely world l
never could depart.
But oh how times have changed, Mary,
since we e young aud gay,
Poor John lies in the cold, cold ground, aud
ami am Turning gray,
My poor Old heart is sad and lone, the tears
are falling fast,
As think ofhappy days gone by, all num-
bered with The pass.
l do not ask you to give up your fashions,
for me, dear,
queerest OF the queer,
But can't you come SOME time and stroke
this poor old weary head,
Whose bosom has with many cares, for you
been often bIed?
Don't leave your poor old mother so, to
ilirelin2s alone,
Her heart is aching for word spoke in
loving tone,
Oh, Mary, don't neglect me so, and give
your smiles To others,
Don't speak so harshly, Mary, to your poor
old weary mother.
l know how old fashioned folks are looked
on by the world.
And how the lip of many at the sight of
them is curled,
But Mary, I'm your truest friend, your
mother all the same,
As if Gid not dress SO odd, or bear an hum
BILE name.
DO speak to me in gentle tones, smile on
me once again,
With slender fingers gently press, my brow
tull of pain,
Oh kiss my withered, furrowed cheek,
with wrinkles deeply plOwed,
Don't speak so harshly, Mary, to your poor
old mother now.
[ soon will rest me in the grave, beside |
dear honest John,
And oh you'll miss your mother then on |
whom you often frown,
No one can take a mothers place, a gift |
from him above,
Don't speak so harshly, Mary oh rene N Der |
mothers love.
TERRY, April ..
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Process of the Telephone.

Foreign journals are rife with details
of new experiments and tests of the tele-
phone. 1t seems to furnish measure of
very delicate electric currents, and may
prove a more sensitive instrument than
the galvanometer. Its use IN estimat-
ing electrical resistance upon ocean ca
bles is predicted by some experimenters.
Tho Chinese have chosen the telephone
in preference to the telegraph, as the
latter has not been adapted to their Ian
guage, and perhaps can not be directly.
since they have practically no alphabet |;
or (what amounts to the same thing).
several thousand words constitute the
alphabet, and are not divisible into let
ters. It is said that speech has been
transmitted 500 miles by telephone in
China. The instrument has also crossed
the Caucasus, and was recently used for
song and conversation between Tits,
Georgia, and Tabreez, Persia, distance
Of more than go miles
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17
The Little People.

At bed time little Willie was saying
the usual prayer at his mothers knee, and
having got as far as eff / should die be-
fore wake" hesitated. "Well, what's
next" asked his mother. "Well," /
s'pose the next thing would be fu-
neral"
"Where was Bishop Latimer burned
to death?' asked teacher, in com
handing voice. .'Joshua knows" said a
little girl at the bottom of the class.
"Well," said the teacher, eff Joshua
knows, he may tell" "In the fire." re
piled Joshua, looking very grave and
wise.
A 6-year old child, who was in the
habit of saying the Lords prayer only in
the morning, said the other evening:
"Mamma, think I'll say the Lords
prayer tonight too. l can just leave out
Give us this day our daily Bread and
instead, 'Pll say, what the ministers
say, Keep US, 0 Lord, from the pre-
vailing diseases"
A large wholesale iron monger from
Sheffield was at Huxton short time ago
and, walking over the field with his lit
tie boy, the following conversation oc
Cured: Son-How big is hell, father
as big as this field? Father-Yes, I'm
afraid bigger than this field. SONS it
as big as these two fields together, IA
Their? Father-Yes, dear, as big as these
two fields. and l am afraid as all these
three (pointing to another.) SOM say,
father, would you not like the order for
the fender?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17

Talking of gentlemen's fashions, an
Eastern paper says: Evening costumes
vary but little in general. Nevertheless,
there are some details to be noted. Blue
frock coat, but without metal buttons,
white vest, and black satin craVats
for rather infornal dinners. For full
dress are worn the black pantaloons,
white cravat and vest, black silk stock
ings, and low shoes, more pointed than
those worn during the day. Watch
chains are no longer worn in ip the eEen:
ing, nor any jewelry. The watch is
slipped into the pantaloons pocket. Mas
culine lingerie admits of no ornament
whatever-neither embroidery, be 1t un-
derstood, nor pleated bosoms, nor any
thing else-all the elegance consisting in
the perfection of of its cut The abso-
lutely straight collar has dethroned the
rolled one. The turned-down collar is
not etiquette for the evening. In Ger
tain extremely elegant circles there has
been adopted for weddings the English
fashion of the blue frock coat, with
light pantaloons, white vest, and fancy
craVat.
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LINES
m the Death of Mrs Mary w. Walpole, o
KOsoiusko, Mississippi, Died Feb
ruary 18th, 1873.

.waitIng for Jesus - said the dying,
Iroou her husbands bosom lying;
This is the way, but must wait
TIL Jesus come To ope the gate.
Re patient, children-husband smile,
And learn to wait little while;
~, have prayed and waited you>
And must wait for Jesus, toe"
whiting. The school OF life had taught
lesson more than others fraught
with hopes aud fears that come and go,
Wbjl. waiting for the loved below;
Tt faith and patience Dlest at last,
Dismiss the memories Of the past,
And -et tine future all aGIow
WIN Homes bright sunshine here below.
waiting, A mothers care had lent
t,'s aid. a. DER the couch she bent
Giving her life for these She bore
waiung. and trusting God for more
r., be dispensed with loving caro-.
wf,a- holy sunshine settles there,
Wber, ,hc could wa'ch and wait AMI die,
Nursing her sick So patiently.
Waiting, The path Of life is trod!
Nearing the city OF her God
one river only lay before.
And heaven upon the other shore!
Vet feared she not the gloomy vale,
Nor .huddcred at the spectre pale
That stared upon her from the tom b.
she said. ~ wait till Jesus comes! -
aHerp. husband, children. we must part,
Though streams the eye, though breaks the
heart.
This is the way the Savior trod-
This Is the road that leads to God"
Then ate the bread, and drank the cup.
FoIdel her hands, and looking up,
She said. in tones from terror free,
Jesus. my Lord, wait for Thee"
Waiting for Jesus there she lay!
Dark night crept Ger the gloomy day
Nearer now seemed the gurgling wave
Deeper the darkness Of the grave
When quietly she oped her eyes,
That caught the CLEAN of Paradise,
While clear from out the darkenIng gloom
Otdeath. she cried, ''The Lord is come"
Still il that voice on earth for aye,
But deaths dark vail is torn away;
There shines a star DER darkest skies
To gid the tear drops In our eyes.
.Jesu, is come, and we are left
Awhile oil one most dear be reft
But while we wait around the tomb
An angel sings, The Lord Is comet"
L. A. 5. ADAMS.
March, 1875
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HER FOOT

Radient with light and love and grl.r.
A. white a- Ctnthia's snowy aCr,
y ct colorcd 81 ith the tibge tbat llugpr.
Upon Aurora rosy fingers,
80 shouc her naked foot.
! would now give up lifg and glory,
Erase my name from song or story,
~ could only Kiss thc brightness
OF that sweet ioot's delightful whIfgue-#.
And give the world go boot.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17
Tae Power Of the Lobby.


OIUUt-DtLnNcTaL.I
a great struggle is taking place in the
United States Senate between the ligisla-
tive power and the railway lobby, and it
seems by no means improbable that the
latter will triumph. This will be nothing
new. In the end the lobby always wins
There is a mistaken notion abroad that
our laws are made by our representatives.
1t is true concerning matters of small
Importance, but whenever there is money
at stake the lobby rules.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17

Maine has law to punish by fine and i'm
prisonmenr whoever "blasphemes the holy
name of God by denying. Cursing, or con-
tinually reproachinR God, his creation,
government, final judgement of the
world, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, or the
Holy Scriptures, or by exposing them to
contempt or ridicule." Bob Ingersoll il
threatened with prosecution if he lectures
in Portland.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17

AS freight train was passing around
the foot of Lookout Mountain in Chat
tanooga, one of the brakemen discovered
a tramp in car load of mules. The
tramp was astride one of the animals,
and was asked what he was doing there.
"Driving mules to Chattanooga" was
the lacOnic respone, as he yelled out
iswhoa" to the animal.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-04-17

A well-known Oxford man, who was
at the same time fellow of his college and
head master of prosperous grammar
school, was once detected by an old pupil
skating on a Sunday afternoon. 81
think, Doctor" was the not unnatural OBJ
seFva1On. .'You once logged me for boat
ing on Sunday Eyes, my dear boy"
was the reply; ''and I did quite right.
If man really likes boating, one day is
as good as another. Skating is entirely
different. 1t may freeze hard ON the
Saturday night and then thaw again be-
fore daYbresk On Monday morning"