The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-15

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summer to scatter their deadly poison in
the community. and it calls upon the
authorities to take timely measures to
prevent the evil. We fear there are
other communities threatened with q
similar danger, and if so what will your
quarantine laws amount TO? Shall the
outside be a whitened sepulchres, and the
inside full of uncleanness and dead mems
| bones?
GOVERNOR PoRTER of Tennessee, in
his late message, says:
| During the prevalence of the late cpl
demic the Treasurer of the State under my
/ advice exp nded forty nine thousand and
seyenty-seven dollars of the public m cney
| in the purchase of supplies for the sick at
various points in the infected districts
Vouchers for the expenditure are in the
hands of the Treasurer. and | respectfully
ask for an appropriation covering the
amount of it.
And ii will be voted with t hanks to
the Governor for his timely action in the
great and exceptional emergency.
AT the Conference of the Methodist
E. Church South at Hazlehurst. an or
ganization of the Mississippi Conference
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
was effected, with the following officers
President. Mrs. Charles B Galloway,
VickSburg, Miss: Vice Presidents. Mrs. w.
+ NJ. Linfi-ld, HaZlehurSt, Miss. Mis- o. il
Wa5kins, J ck>on. Miss Miss NHnnie
Heart, Brook haven, Mis- Mrs. r. :. w cd
ward, \ ItchcZ. Miss; CORES poudlng seq
Rotary, Mrs " l.. {. Huunicutt; Recording
Secretary Miss Annie Linfie!d, Haziehurst
Treasurer, Mrs. Annie DeMos>, Vicksburg.
THE Supreme Court of Iowa having de-
cided that the owner of a dog is liable Tor
the barking of his dog if thereby damage
is done. has also established the rule of pro-
perry In dog toy giving man $50 whose
dog was malIciously killed by neighbor,
the animal being proven valuable one
Elk.
We once knew of suit in Louisiana
against Railroad Company for $3.50
for running over dog that had under
taken TO impede the progress of the train
by Selling the COW catcher.
WOULD it not be good policy for
Congress to pass bill, making
silver dollars exchangeable for gold at
the Sub-Treasury in fixed sums and
requiring the Treasury to coin silver
dollars as fast as the public demands
them, and without maximum or mini
mum imit-so that the people would be
able to get silver or small bills as they
might prefer.
silver Against Gold.
From the New York Graphical
Now let us see whether the people really
prefer silver or gold as pocket money. We
will back the white coin for prec edence
nine times out of ten.
Nevertheless, let them go hand in
hand, each as the equal of the other,
performing the functions of money, as
our forefathers intended.
Elk Gov. HENRY 5. FooTE has entered
upon the discharge of his duties as Su-
perintendent of the New Orleans Mint
Lanman's Dictionary Of Congress and
other authorities have stated that he was
born in 1900. He expects to practice
his profession in New Orleans besides
attending to his Mint duties.
SENATOR EDMUNDs of Vermont, the
MephistophiIes of the Senate, in Ian
guage soft and smooth as Oily Cannon,
has essayed to revive sectional agitation
by the Introduction of resolutions aimed
at the South, implying that the Con-
gressional amendments are not respected.
there no resi- for the weary
The Kosciusko Star has an account of
the exodus of forty odd colored men,
and children from Chocta
county ostensibIy for Liberia, under
charge of Rev. Marshall, colored, of
Holmes county. We suspect they will
wake up to find themselves on some fine
plantation in the river bottom.
DURING the late cold spell a report
from the British Northwest Territory |
gave the temperature at Battle Ford,
The capital of that hyperborean region,
1t 800 below zero, and we presume that
place would take the prize, as the cold
,st place in North America.
GREENBACKs redeemed in coin are to
re re-issued and kept in circulation to !
Mitigate as far as possible, the evils of
contraction. A wise measure which lad |
he support of the Democratic party, and
vas resisted by the agents and tools of
he money power.
Our amiable friend of the Vicksburg
Commercial is concerned about having
ackson supplied with "a live paper"
f we remember right he undertook to
upply that need himself once upon a
ime.
Col. ID. B. ROBINSON, Superintendent
f the Mobile and New Orleans Railroad,
estifed before The Yellow Fever Com
mission that the loss of the Company by
he quarantine amounted to from $780,
100 to $500, O0O
Don't you like the way Senator Voor-
ees talks to the country, and throws de-
lance in the face of the money power, on
he financial question? Don't fail to read
is speech, if you wish to imbibe really
patriotic inspiration.
THE numerous friends of the Hon. A