The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-01

great causes OF education and religion.
Within half mile of the Female College
is Blue Mountain Academy, ga country
High School for young men and boys"
Prof. T. B. Winston, is Principal, assisted
/ by Mr.. n. Luther Marmon About thirty
young men are now in attendance; the fifth
! session having just opened. The tuition is
from 81 90 to 81 90 per month board,
/ fuel, lights and washing, only IS 90 per
school month. The Academy cannot fail to
attract an unusually increasing patronage
On the day of our visit to Blue Mountain,
POLITICAL DISCUSSION
took place between the opposing candidates
for the Senate and House. J. II. Dalton,
Esq, of Union county, and a candidate for
the District embracing Tippah, Benton and
Union, ably represented the Democratic
cause, in a speech which showed great
familiarity with the leading questions now
in issue. He was replied to by Rev. w. A.
Crum, one of the great lights of the Green
hackers and who failed to give the Party of
Reform a crumb of comfort during his last
Legislative experience. He is a well posted
ingenious debater. Capt. Francis A. Wolff,
for the Democracy, and J. E. Jordan for
the Greenbackers, followed. Capt. Wolff
represented Tippah, as member of the
House, in 1851, and as a member of the
Senate, in 1865, and will be again elected
by an overwhelming majority. His oppo-
nent, if elected, would not reflect credit
even on the Greenback party. Old Tippah
and the Twenty-third District will be O. K
on election day.
Having heard much of the
PIRACANTH, OR WHITE THORN HEDGE,
and having learned that it was being sue
cessfully cultivated by l. G. Kendrick, Esq,
on his farm three miles south of Ripley, |
visited his place, on Friday afternoon, in
company with DIR. hurry. We received a
hearty farmers welcome, and saw there
another exemplication of what well-directed
energy can accomplish even on Indifferent
soil. Thrift and prosperity were everywhere
apparent. Such men as Mr.. Kendrick
never belong to the merchant, but they sit
under their own vine and fig-tree, with no
mortgages or deeds of trust to modest or to
children bless his home, and the fields and
the hocks compensate him for his thrift and
care. He has been cultivating the Pira-
canth for four years, and all his fields will
ere long be enclosed with hedge that will
not only be pleasant to the eye, but will
exclude stock, and be even rabbit proof.
Those who may have DIR. Phillips Southern
Farmer, of January, 1871, will find full
description of the Piracanth. Cuttings
can be set out any time after a good frost
and during the winter. They should be a
foot apart, and even if one-half of them
should not come up, the hedge when fully
grown, will be strong and thick enough.
Mr.. Kendrick will furnish cuttings at s.
per thousand, and roots at $40 per thousand
1t is said that variety is the spice of
life" and l have had a full demonstration
of this during the past two days. On Sat
urday, went with a party of ladies and
gentlemen to White Spring, five miles
distant, the water of which is said to possess
excellent medica! qualities. A runaway
team opened the programme; which was
followed by two of the younger ones of the
party getting lost i'll the woods-Etter
Murray aud Matte Thurman. After sew
eral hours search, by Capt. Thurman, DIR.
Murray, and the writer, we found the child
rem about three miles distant. They knew
that they were lost, and had become
frightened. Fortunately, they kept the path
ways, and we traced them without much
difficulty. 1t was a happy meeting when
we found them, and on our return to the
spring we enjoyed the good dinner which
the anxious mother ofthe party had there
in waiting for US.
Yesterday afternoon, on the return of Mr.
and Mrs. Rogan, DR.. hurry and lady, Mrs
Buchanan and this writer from the Blue
Mountain Sunday School, the horse of the
first named, becoming frightened, backed
on DR.. Murry's horse, which took fright
also, turned over the buggy, throwing Mrs.
hurry and babe into the road, and dragged
the buggy, with DIR. hurry in it for some
distince before he could extricate himself.
The horse proceeded on his way towards
Ripley, leaving fearful wreck behind him.
While Mrs. hurry and child were still on
the ground, Mr. Rogan's horse was in close
proximity, and how they escaped injury
seems like miracle. DR.. hurry sustained
a few, but not serious injuries. Thanks
to Mrs. Buchanan's presence of mind, and
her skill in the use of the reins and not to
my genius in Workmanship our steed was
kept under control. Well, SO many mis-
haps have attended the well-meant-plans of
my friends to make my stay pleasant have
concluded to leave before any serious disas-
ter occurs. So good bye, Ripley, until a
more favorable. opportunity for another
visit.
Col. Manning speaks to-day, and Mr..
Barksdale next Saturday, and both viii
have a''cordial greeting from large audiences
OXFORD, SEPTEMBER %.
The University has opened with nearly
three h,tndrad students The attendance