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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-22
THE SOLID SOUTH.
BY EMMETT L. ROSS.

Awake, awake, o sluggish Muse!
Ii only for awhile,
And tune my harp TO Homer's Tyre
Blind bard OF Scio's Isle
That l may sing in II ting words
Songs 81 enduring praise
To willing hands and noble hearts
Who, in atfiicJion's da-s.
Poured out upon our sunny land
Their stores OF We aud wealth
That brought surceaSe to pestilence,
And wooed back joyous health.
solid South pours out her heart this
bright, this glad New Year,
And sends ssage to all men, all nations
far and near;
mtssagr draped with willow leaves, be
dewed with holy tears
OF widowed wife and orphaned child, sad
youth and lettering years;
A message from her palaces. from cottage,
hill and glade,
From council halls, from field and farm and
busy m1rts OF trade;
message treighted down with love, with
gratitude aS great
As ever woke a soul to arms, or barred a
A love that thro b in every heart, graft
tude that thrills,
Aud breaks its bounds like waves that rush
To sea from swelling riIlS.
Some mother bending DER the tomb that
holds her cherished boy.
rests her girIhood's joy,
Some maiden weeping DER the mound
where troth and lover lie,
Press back their sobS and in their prayers
cali blessings from on high,
Down on the heads, the hearts, the homes
of those whose helping hand
Brought saccor TO our stricken ones, and
saved our suffering land.
The Southron's hand that erstwhile drew
his SATIRE from lis sheath
And dipped its blade in brothers blood to
win the patriots wreath,
Now presses on a throDbing breast in pledge
to self and God.
That Peace and Love shall ever reign where
hostile armies trod
The Tres of hate that lit his soul, nor sword
nor gun could quelI,
These yield To Loves beWitching wiles, 10
Loves all-eonquering spell:
Deep in his heart is writ the name, the pure,
unStfi>h zeal
OF him whu dared the Saffron Foe, to con-
quer woe with veal.
More holy task was ntyer borne than that
brave Benuer tried,
No loss more great, no grief more deep,
than when brave Benner died;
No gilt in all the bounty sent, more rich,
more rare in price,
No words can compensate the boon-our
y atoms sacrifice.
Ten million grateful hearts enshrine his
memory in their breast,
Ten million tongues his deed eXUol, invoke
his spirits rest;
A solid south reveres his name, his valor
und- fled
One common country's love will shield the
Martyrs wife and child.
o, Great Jehovah, King of Kings.
Whose mighty hands control
The fate of worlds, the wo- KS of men,
and Times unceasing roll
Let blessings follow in the path
OF sorrows fading tread;
Let comfort come TO those who mourn
And weep above their dead;
Pour down unmeasurea blessings, Lord,
Thy choicest and thy best
To crown our brothers Of the North
AND tar-rtf East a III West;
Blot out the lines that would divide
And de-ecrate our sod,
Bind close our States, give us one Law,
One L niou, ami one God.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-01-22
CONNTREALITGES.
A bosom friend-the baby.
The tied of life-the married on

A bosom friend-the baby.
The tied of life-the married ones.
Mrs. Kane presented her husband
with gold headed Kane, on New Y ears
morning. 1t is a girl and has golden
hair.
A man who bought a box of cigars,
when asked what they were, replied,
''Tickets for course of lectures from
my wife,
James w. Sivret aud his wife of Bos
ton, who have been married 80 years,
celebrated their 80th birthdays on Sat
urday.
Spikes is under the impression that
the reason Noah's wife was not named
Ann was for fear it might lead to Ann
arky.
Young housewife tWhat miserable
little eggs again You really must tell
them, Jane, to let the hens sit on them
a little longer y
A Missouri woman keeps up a bar in
her house for her husband to patronize,
and in this way keeps him at home, BE-
sides getting all his money.
A new way has been derived by a
Walnut Hills man to keep his wife at
home. He has horrid mouse on top of
the box containing her latest bonnet.
The affections of the year old baby for
its maternal ancestor is second only to
its ecstatic admiration for the fathomless
depths of the kitchen coal bod.
Coaehmen in the employ of million
naires have not been doug very well this
year in marrying the rich and romantic
young daughters of the family, and wa
ges will probably go up.-Free Press.
Zone kind of ship 1 always steer
clear of" said an old bachelor sea cap
tain, land that is onurtship !; cause on
that ship there is always two mates and
no csp'n
An old lady recently directed the at
tention of her husband to pair of twins,
remarking as she did SO, How much
these two children do look alike, especi
ally the one this way"
s'Isnt my photograph excellent" said
a young wife to her husband I? "WelI,
my dear" replied he, there's little
too much repose about the mouth for it
to be natural"
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GLEANINGs.

In Paris the rage is for old buttons,
great prices being paid.
California has eight national banks
representing about 50, 600, 600, capital
and surplus.
At a charade party at ST. Matthews,
5. c., mad dog rushed in and bit three
young women.
Philadelphia lost sI,J345Is worth of
property by fire last year, the number of
fires being 139.
Pittsburgh is to try the experiment of
communication between the station
houses by telephone.
4 resident of Washington, ID. c..
was escorted to the almshouse by his six
teen faithful dogs
a Connecticut Judge decides that 10
is unlawful to sell cigars ON Sunday, but
perfectly proper TO buy them.
The Oil City Derrick has heard the
small boy remark that there are three
kinds of pie-"cross barred, opeu.,0p.
ped and kivered."
The Established Church of England
is solemnlzing fewer marriages than be
used to do; aad the marriages before
the civil magistrates are pruporuonateIy
increasing.
A case originally, involving $50, but
which has swallowed up the estates of
both litigants, besides costing the coun-
try large sum, has been 'settled ami
cably' ut Bath, Maine.
An enormous bat. of unknown species.
was recently shot near Irvine Ky. The
wings of the animal measured Two feet
from tip to tip, and its claws were long
and strong.
The potato crop of the United States
is set down as amounting 10 2OO,-
600, 600 bushels. Three million bushels
are consumed annually in the mauuiac-
ture Of starch in the Eastern States
The Kanaka iusurrcction in New CAL
edonia proves blessing 10 twenty four
Communistic convicts, who, for their
faithful services against the savugcs,
have secured pardon and Liberation.
The custom in Texas of carrying re-
volvers was illustrated in San Antonio,
when a chained Mexican lion in u show
seized little girl. Fou. teen reyoivers
were quickly emptiel into the brute.
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sUNssE Aus.
A cool reply-Ay ice, sir,
Stern necessity--the rudder.

A cool reply-Ay ice, sir.
Stern necessity--the rudder.
a strapping fellow-rhe barber.
The first fall Of man--Down stairs,
A speaking likeness--Your twin
brother.
The LATEST place in Germany--'Eidel-
berg.
Ode to money lender-"Meet me "a
loan
A regular attendant at the CIub--A
policeman.
Oughta baker to drive a thorough
bread horse.
The cucumber does it best fighting nf
ter it is down.
A button is a small event which is all
ways coming off.
A lady need not be athletic though She
Jumps at on offer.
Why is a rosebud like a promissoy
note? 1t natures by falling due.
A man who owes more than he can
pay is naturally more ose.
Lunch fiends are called ''coloneI" bee
cause they are always strapped,
An elevated railway conductor-ono
that is little thigh. oil City Der
rick.
Always glad to leave home, and yet
mighty glad to get back-a base ball
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DESERTED.

4 brj-ry lane, where - iid-birds sing
All through the summrr dav.
a befcH-trse old. whose branches fling
Long shadows DER the way.
4 nest. built up in lie rustling bnughs.
Lined soft "a ia moss, 80 green,
4 TINY dWeIl'u g-a Woodland house.
With leaves tor sheitering screen.
Three delicate egg, that pcarl-iike lie
B-reath two breeding wings,
A mate rhat hov~r- all watchfui by,
Or sits beside, and sings.
A careless boy. with pitiles- heart,
That cares rot tor lovely things,
A biri thar rises win rimil start
on sacred and fldttering wings.
sorrow al note of plant and woe,
Rings Out on the quirr air,
Aud the pearl like 'gg- lie crushed below,
o. the bsech-root-, old and bare.
And still, in the boughs OF tie old beech
tree.
Mid it= rushing -prsvs Of green.
TIE deserted nest, you -tIll may -re
Peep out from it, yerdant screen.
Blu the bril- on its gay AMI gIaIsOme wing
Return % the nest no more:
And the mate that would sit on tie bOughs
aud sing.
His summer songs sire DER.
And uougbt can bring from tbc happy past
WHcu J. gHtand love have fled
fTh1u4u thu walls Ct the de At old home may
But mem Dries of tn" de ID.
Cha nb~r'- Journal.
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Social Problems in Washington
Society.
ondence Hartford Times.

CORES pondence Hartford Times.
One of the tive social questions that arose
sometime since has been settled. The
question that has ben settled was what
should be done with Mrs. Bruce, the wife OF
the colored Senator from Mississippi. 1t
has been tried and decided hV sciety-and
the thing called society in Washington
always Ioadies to wealth or official position,
whether right or wrong-that Mrs. Bruce
j. just - good to call on or To receive calls
from as il she was painted up as white, or a.
handsome As any other Senator'S Vile
Shoddy society. aud most Oft here Is shod-
uy, accepts the verdict and governs itself
accordingly. As n result, Mrs. Bruce has
already received calls from the wives OF
some OF the judges of the supreme court, OF
many senator's representatives and Others
holding official position. The senator Is a
man OF veal, h. aud has taken fine house in
the most fashionable part of the city, on NJ
street. Mrs. Bruce, who is about as fine
looking colored lady as an ordinary person
could desire to see, Is "a body OF. taste aud
refinement, and she has made hsr home as
ecmIorta BILE in all OF It's appoihtm ents as any
in the city.
The other question is. what must be done
with the handsome aud youthful Acklen.
whose idlosy Icrasies nave caused 50 much
commotion in Louisiana? His perlorman-
ces here last winter, with the hanusome
widow, AT WelokeT's, are also Gsed against
him, though it seems To- be forgotten That he
French waiter who. served vine 10 them OF
that occasion acquitted them IN an atfidavit
as thoroughly As did his Congressional
frieAds recently in connection with the
Louisiona episode. Some argue that the
Beecher case should be taken as precedent
And that he should be received in the open
arms as Kind of prodigal son, while 9th
ers Whe are lrss forgiFing contend that he
il not a good enough man tn assemble wi b
respectable ladies' What the verdict will
be in his case cannot even b. gaessed At, Al
the present writing lie has plenty az
moae., and il may be that he. viii pull
through all right.
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The Silver Question.
SKETCH OF SENATOR YoOHEEs, RINGING
SPEECH.
[. 5. SENATE JAN. 8th.l

L, ). SENATE JAN. Sth.
He argued that silver money was not re-
ceiviug tair play at the hands of the present
Administration aud those who draw their
Inspirations from it. He reviewed the
course OF Secretary Sherman, and said the
execution Of this popular law was in the
hands of It's most conspicuous and prOnounc
ed enemy. The hard specie dollar of our
fathers had been pronounced a dishonest
dollar, and ihe Secretary OF the Treasury
had lent his offic" TO conspiracy TO destroy
it. The Secretary admit ed, in his answer
tn the recent resolution of the Senator from
Kentucky (Beck), that he allowed the bond
holder 10 say what Kind of coin he would
receive in payment OF interest on his bonds.
Ii was the plain duty of the Secretary TO
use both gold ard silver in propotion To the
am cunts ct each which he bad under his
c"utrol. He referred to the action of the
Ma ional banks of the city OF New I ork last
November, aud said that they promedtated
rebellion against the lawfully constituted
authorities of the Government. Their doc
umentS in regard to specie resumption was
addressed 10 HE Secretary OF the Treasury
The Boston banks Endorsed it; but he (Voor-
hees) believed that the rebellion had gone
no further. He had seen bill. the passage
of which he was assured would 6e urged
before the New York Legislature WHICH
virtually demonetized silver in that State :;
but no such unconstitutional act Guild
stand. In spite OF all adverse circumstances,
he predicted the final triumph OF the silver
dollar.
The country had just entered on the crude
eX Experiment of the forced resumption OF
specie payments, leaving behind five years
OF bankruptcy and ruin. An appalling pen
atty had been paid tor the bare proclamation
ofepecie resumption. In his judgement the
results 10 follow specie resumption would
be full of disasters ard hardships TO the peo-
pie of this country The people OF whom
he had the honor in part to represent de-
msnded thar resumption should not rest on
gold alone, but should rest on basis as
strong as the unlimited coinage OF silver as
we'll as gold could make it. Ibis was not a
mere party issue. The producing CLASSES
plead for finance reform, for justice, relief
aud honesty Our whole financial system
was the work OF the Republican party, and
on the leaders of thar party rested the de-
Tense of the system, ii any defense could De
mabe OF it, after having brought such sur
10 he
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Colonel Forney, in his Anecdotes OF pub
lie Men, ~Fiting'in December. 1871, says of
Mr. Gushing: 81 have heard him at a din
ner table converSing In French, spanish,
English and German. His style OF speaking
is exceedingly fascinating. Some eighteen
wears ago ! was pr. sent at an Oratorical
com bat between him and Jefferson Davis,
at He : ark. \. j., where President Pierce
halted on his way to the opening of the
CT, stall Palace, at New York. They were
we'll matched. Davi> had the reputation OF
being one of the most graceful of the South
eru debaters, bur he found more than an
equal in the Massachusetts dialeetieian- AZ
A newspaper ritter he is unsurpassed. He
was at home on finance, on law. aud ea"e"-
la4iy on IoreIgn questions In ociety he is
delightful. Excelling in conversation, his
reminiseenees are original and gfaphics a
man oe large w ealth,a inherited and self
earn d /; a widewer, without children: fond
Of labor. OF natehless excellence as a prac-
titioner in the Supreme Court of the United
States, he Is also great MISUNDERSTANDING
every new book as it comes OUT. novels in
elusive, aud remembering everything he
reads,
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Fleeing Thing.

DIR. Talmage. From my observations
learn also that worldly greatness is very
transitory, and a very unsatisfactory
thing. A vast majority of those men
- we're nanoFed, are
either in their graves OF politically dis
gFaeed. How rapidly the wheel turns
Call the roll of Jeferson's Cabinet?
Dead, Madison's Cabinet? Dead. Mon
roe's Cabinet Dead Pierce's Cabinet?
Dead. Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet?
If remember right all are dead bur one,
and he Is as good as dead Call the roll
of Grants Cabinet. One or more OF
them are worse than dead.
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SONG

Listen. listen, listen while I sing
There's mirih iu everything!
In laughing eyes quick glance,
La dashug through Il dance,
Airth does my charmed soul entrance!
Listen. lister, lissen, while / sing
There's joy. JOY in everything,
In bubbliHg 81 fresh streams,
In flashing sunlight beams,
Joy spArkes through my peusive dreams q
listen. listen, listen while I sing
There's hope, hone in everything
Ia gloom aud chill and uigh-,
W hen lost the guiding lgst,
Hope rises ever bright!
Listen, listen, listen while / sing
There's love. love in everything!
IL mlrth and hope must die.
Sttlt can upward hy.
Love lifts ne 20 thr sky.
ST. Nicholas for January.
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SELECTED SIIsCELLANY.

To know how to wait is the great secret
of success.-De Muistre.
The greatest misfortune Of all is not to
be able to bear misfortune.
All philosophy lies in two words,
Sustain" and abstain ."-Epicteius
There is a German proverb which says
that Take It-Easy and Live Long are
brothers.
Unhappy is the man for whom bis own
mother has not made all mothers veuera-
ble.-Richter.
Men show their character in nothing
more clearly than by what they think
Imaginable. Goethe.
The wise and prudent conquer difficult
ties by daring to attempt them.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes,
they love train; they tread each others
heels.
Discomfort is vitat element Of civil
ization; without it there would be no pro
gres2.
Nothing can constitute good breading
that has not good nature for its founda-
ton.
A true knight is fuller of gay bravery
in the midst than in tho beginning of
danger.
The old pFoverb about too many irons
in the fire is abominably false. Have aIl
in, shovel, tongs and POker.--Adam
Clark.
Ifever this free people, if this Govern
ment, is ever utterly demoralized, it will
come from this human wriggle and strug
gle for ofice-that is, way to live with
out work. Lincoln.
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Serenity ia EaeaIh.

Perfect serenity IN regard to death is
not to be attained by any effort Of the
will or by any mere process of reasoning;
it is rather the result of a happy combi-
nation of bodily and mental conditions.
The chief of these conditions, the assured
hope Of a future beyond the grave, in
comparison Of which the brightest earth
ly visions fade like a candle before the
dawn, is not given to all; and in these
days especially, it Is for many overshad-
owed, if not altogether blotted out, by
doubts and questioning which can no
longer be hidden from the multitude
Even to those who most earnestly cling
to the hope of immortality, it would seem
that our troublous Inheritance Of sympa
thy must cast many distressing side
faithful were able to take undisturbed
delight. However this may be, the mere
prospect of prolonged existence beyond
the grave, apirt from other reasons for
joyful confidence, must be taken rather
as enlarging the scope OF our hopes and
of our tears than as necessarily altering
the balance between them. Habitual
hopefuness may color the prospect be
yond the grave with the same glowing
tints which it throws Cvor this world. so
that in some cases the same cag.e which
makes life delightful makes death not
unwelcome. such a state of mind,
though rare. is not unknown But per-
haps perfect balance of feeling is more
readily to be found at lower level of
exPectation.-Cornhill Magazine
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Effect Of the Cold Weather on Our
SeashOre Orange Orchards.

Hon. J. F. II. Claiborne IN n. o. Picayune.
We are all trembling for our orange
trees. | am told that Mr. Whitfield, the
wel[known orchardist of Shelly Nurse
ries, thinks that many of them are lost
Il was only week or two since l visited
the beautiful and extensive orangeries of
Mrs, ]. j. Seal, Capt. Junius Poitevent
and Hon. ID. b. Seal, in this vicinity
The young trees had been planted with
great care, and with an eye to cold
weather, and from their sheltered posi-
ton have probably escaped. These par
ties viii each, probably, set out 10000
trees, planting peach, plum and dwarf
pear trees between, They have the cap
ital, the taste and the perseverance to
succeed. The locality is peculiarly IA
verable to the orange. There are some
notable trees here that never have been
killed, bearing from 2500 to 1000
oranges each.
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Words NOt 90 ESe Found in the
Bible.
From the Troy Times. |

ETUul IIt Troy 1IWts.
The words Immortal soul, deathless
soul, ''deathless spirit, "undying soy. P"
"disembodied soul, 'di4eabooied spir
1t, "ete;psi torment, eternal suffering
IN conscious misery, Everlasting woe, .
@unending torment" tendless woe, =
never-dying soul, - and all their kindred
words are words that never in a single
iEstanee are found in the Bible. But
from the copious manner in which these
words are passed to US from the pulpit,
and through the press, one would think
without examining the Bible that it was
full of them The word Immortal"
occurs but once in the whole Bible.
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Extract from the Proceedings of
the SGh &DaGal Session of Ghe
STAG Grange of mississippi Dec.
10th. 1925.

"Resolved, That Subordinate Oranges
be and are hereby empowered to remit
the dues of members who are in arrears
more than twelve months. upon their
making apPlicatiap for re instatement
and paying one quarters dues; and pro-
vided further; That such application is
made within twelve months from this
meeting of the State Grange
certify that the above is a correct
copy of the resolution now on file in nv
office. w. L. WILLIAMS,
Secretary Of the State Grange Of Missis-
siDDi.
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The happiness of life is made up OF
minute fractions-the little, soon forgot
ten charities OF q kiss. smile, a kind
look, heartfelt compliment in the dis
gniss of playful raillery, and the count
less other inflnitesimals of pleasant
thought and feeling.
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The ocean tries feebIy 70 emulate the
profounder tragedies of the shore. In the
crowded halls of gay hotels see wrecks
drifting hopelessly, dismasted and rud-
derless, 10 be stranded on hearts harder
and more cruel than Benton's Reef, yet
hid in smiles falser than Its heecy foam.
-Hinninson.
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Mr.. VOORHEES, called up the resolution
heretofore submitted by him, to inquire in
u the eXpedieney of making the trade dol
lar legal tender for ali dues, pubiic and
private. and 10 provide for its recoinage in
to the standard dollar; arragning the Sec
rotary of the Treasury for his endcaVor to,
eud his ENCOURAGEMENT OF, the National
B INKS in their etfprIs to suppress the trade
dollar. He advocated the calling in OF that
issue OF silver and converting it into a cur
rent silver dollar.
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We smile at the ignorance of the saw
age who cuts down the tree in order to
reach It's fruits; but the fact is that a
blunder of this description is made by
every person who is over eager aud impa-
tient in the pursuit Of pleasure.-Chan-
ming,
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From the Baltimore Gazette. !

EIUIH Tue DaILILUUTt UdACILe.I
Mr.. Teller's committee has a valuable
contingent in its secretary, Mr.. James Red
path. He Is the most successful manuiac-
turer OF southern ontrages in existence.
His skill and ingenuity in inventing and
dishing up human wickedness in the South
causes the reputation Of Titus Oates to
shrivel up like potatO-skin on = hot stove.
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A MasSa ch usetGs Woman Takes
an Unfair Adv. Esa1e 81 the Old
Man, -
KILLED BY HIS WIFE WHILE AT PRAYER.

KILLED BY HIS WIFE WHILE AT PRAYER.
NEwBURYPoRr. Mass, January H.
Last night at South Bayfield,. six miles
from here, John H. Caldwell while
kneeling in family prayer was instantly
killed by his wife, who split his head
open with an axe. The attack was un-
perceived by Mrs. CaldwelPs sister, who
was present and kneeling at the time.
Caldwell was an intelligent farmer in
easy circumstances. His age was forty
| Ave.