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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
THE NATCHEz AND JACKSON
RAILROAD
Extract of Letter of Chief Engineer
Merriwether.

On the 9Th and 9th OF last August the coun-
ty of Kinds, casting 6 go votes, under new
and special registration, was carried by vote
OF more than two-thirds for $500, 900 OF bonds
in aid of its construction through the county.
With this aid and new first mortgage per
cent bonds, based on the 9Sl miles TO jackson,
the company are sanguine OF being able TO COM
plete the remaining 65i miles during the pres
ent year, if successful in their negotiations.
The character of the work on this part is gem
orally light and favorable for rapid construc-
ton, the grading averaging only about 300
cubic yards per mile. There are only two
large streams to bridge the Little and big Ba-
YOU Pierre, and it is proposed to span them
with permanent iron structures on hrst-class
masonry. 1t Is also the intention of the COM
pany all things being favorable) to lay the
remainder of the road with thirty pound steel
rail and angle joint cross ties 6x7 inches,
feet long.
With the present data and information it is
believed that the entire work of grading bridg-
ing cross-ties. track laying, depots, iron, etc,
with a fair equipment of engines and cars, will
not exceed 81 800 per mile OF road.
The line to Jackson passes through a supe-
rior country for general farming cotton, grain
and grass growing, and for stock and sheep
raising-it being well watered by springs and
small streams, with beautiful valleys. As
fruit and grape growing section, it is surpassed
no where in the South. The climate is mild
and genial one, and compares most favorably
with any part of the State. The annual cotton
crop or the five counties thro' which this line
passed to Jackson approximates $4,000 or
1905 900 bales-45,000 to So 900 of which it may
be said produced along the line of the road.
The building OF this road Will open up one of the
finest sections of the State and give outlet
and connection with the central system Of roads
north, south, east and west-an outlet and
connection which Natchez has sought and felt
the need of for many wears
Thus far the work has been carried forward
alone, by private enterprise with the aid given
by Adams county. But in the hands of its
present able management-Gen. VIM. T. Mar
tin, President, supported by Directory able,
prudent and determined-its final, and we
trust, early completion cannot be long defer
red
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
The Clock Struck One "A Singular
Coincidence.

Port Gibson Revielle.]
The old familiar sound of the town
clock is again heard. Though not
wound up nor running, during the cpl
demie, it took some. strange freaks on
more than one occasion. At the funer-
al of Robert McClinton, our noble, faith
full, soldier-printer, the clock struck
one, though known not have been run
ming or striking for weeks before.
A gentleman, whose family including
himself, numbered eight, while sitting
by the bedside of his son, who was
writhing in the hot grasp of yellow fever,
was startled one night-far in the depths
of the night, while surrounded by the
solitude and silence of pestilence and
death, by this curious clock which slowly
and distinctly struck seven. He started
from his sad reverie and exclaimed,
there, one must die-we shall be
only seven" And one died.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
SONGS UHsuHe.

Let no poet great or small,
Saw that he viii sing a song:
For song cometh if at all,
Not because we WOO it long.
But because il suits its will.
Tired AT last Of being still
Every song that has been sung
Was, before it took voice.
Waiting since the world was Young.
For the poet Of its choice.
Oh, if any waiting be,
May they come to-day to mel
/ am ready to repeat
Whatsoever they impart;
Sorrows sent by them are sweet
They know how to heal the heart:
Ay, and in the lightest strain
Something serious doth remain.
What are my white hairs, forsooth,
And the wrinkles on my brow?
] have still the soul of youth
Try me, merry MUSES., now,
] can still with numbers feet
Fill the world with dancing feet.
No, / am no longer young;
Old am / this many a year;
But my songs viii yet be sung,
Though | shall not live to hear.
Oh my son, that is to be,
Sing my songs, and think Of me
r.. II. Stoddard.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
A Strange People.

From Scientific Notes.
DR.. E. r. Heath, in q paper on Z" Pc
ruvian Antiquities, describes strange
people living in town called Eten, in
seven degrees, south latitude, and about
two miles from the sea. They number
about 1000, and they speak, besides the
Spanish, a language which some of the
recently brought over Chinese laborers
understand. But there is no similarity
between the two peoples. They inter-
marry uncles, nieces, brothers and sis
tiers, nephews and aunts, that is, promis-
cuously, with no apparent curse of con-
sanguinity; but they will not permit
any intermarriage into their number or
with the outside world They have laws,
customs and dress of their own, and live
by braiding hats and mats and weaving
clothes. They will give no account of
the place whence they came, or of the
time they settled at Eten History does
not mention their existence before the
Spaniards arrived. Among them there
are no sick or deformed persons, their
custom being to send committee to
each sick or old person, and those who
are reported past recovery or past use
fulness are promptly destroyed by the
public exeeutioner. Eten orders it, they
say, and with Eten's orders there is no
interference
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
Pope Leo speaks English.

| Pope Leo speaks English.
Sturgeon has preached ! ,452 SER
mons.
Jem Mace is giving exhibitions in
Australia
Nine. Grevy is an invalid and lives
in seclusion.
Senator Logan is a member of the
Methodist Church.
David Davis sleeps in bed made Of
corrugated iron.
| Leprere succeeds De Marcere as Min
lister of the Interior.
Princess Metternich attends many
skating carnivals in Vienna.
Simon Cameron will complete his
eigthtieth year next Saturday.
The Princess Louise, it is said, will
not remain long in Canada.
Sir Julius Benedict is a slender old
gent with a closely shorn chin.
General Shields shows his age. He
walks with a cane and his step is totter.
/ ing.
The Khedive of Egypt has just or.
dered splendid set of harness from this
country.
President Crews daughter once made
an Intellectual attempt to elope with
Capoul.
The report that Henry Ward Beeche1
is about to write an autobiography is
denied.
The British Commissioner, Sir P.
Cunlife Owen, won an omnibus in the
Paris lottery.
Mr.. Darwin, the naturalist and evo
lutionist, has just celebrated his seven
tieth birthday.
Assistant Postmaster General and
Mrs. Tyner viii go the Pacific Coast
next month.
Pau Boyton is twenty-six years old
weighs 100 pounds, and is about five
feet nine inches in height.
John A. Van Nostrand, Mark Twain's
Jack in i" Innocence Abroad, dice
recently in Jacksonville, Fla.
The Princess of Wales and the Duke
VI 1ISyA are uHucT promise 10 WISH
Canada during the vice regal residence
David Swing says that Joseph Cooks
talks are more remarkable for what ht
forgets than for what he remembers.
Mary Louise Andre GreIlier, kins
woman of Major Andre, recently died Al
Clapton, near London. Major Andre
was native of that place.
/
Ole Bull, who is rusticating at hi
home in Madison, Wis, recently fddleC
at the marriage of q poor Norwegian
much TO the delight of the company.
The Prince of Wales is celebrated fol
his thoughtfnlness as to his friends. Ht
has expressed his pleasure to be the pat
ron of the Asylum for Idiots, and ha.
subscribed ESQ.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
LENT.

1.-The Poet Herrick has written some We
PIT lines upon how to keep true Lent, viii
re quoted here for the benefit of those VI
aay have failed to conceive the correct idea
+" Is this fast to keep
The larder leane
And cleane
From fat of veales and sheep7
Is it to quit the dish
OF flesh, yet still
To fill
The platter high with fish?
Is it to taste an hour,
Or rag'd TO go
Or show
A downcast look and sowre?
No; It's fast to dole
Thy sheaf OF wheat
And meat
Unto the hungry soule.
1t is to fast from strife,
From old debate
And hate;
To circumcise thy life;
To show heart grief-rent,
To starve thy sin,
Not bin;
And that's to keep tiny Lent.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
WEDNESDAY, MARCH IL, 1879
nan, woman and child in the North believed

Jefferson Davis to be a double dyed traitor.
Mr.. Coke said Mr.. Davis was not worse than
he was, and very many others of the Southern
people who selected him a. a. leader. He was
not ashamed TO vote for Mr. Davis any more
than he was to vote for any other man or any
other subject / was said Mr.. Coke as much
of Rebel as Jefferson Davis
The Senate voted on the amendment of Mr..
Hoar to exclude Jefferson Davis from pen
sion a Mexican veteran, and it was agreed
to-23 TO %
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
The Kentucky Giants Baby,

A few weeks ago the wife of Capt. M.
V. Bates, the famous Kentucky giant,
who lives on a farm about half mile
east of this town, gave birth to child;
the second since her union of marriage
with her present husband, and in both
instances the child was still-born. 1t is
to be greatly regretted by all that life
should have been extinct from this child
body, which is nothing less than a Won
derful prodigy of nature for its remark
able size. If the child should have lived
and grown up to maturity, we would
have beheld being beside which we
would be nothing but mere dwarfs. The
child, fully developed in every feature
on the day of its birth, measured Sd
inches, length which many children of
normal growth have not attained after
two or three years of age. 1t weighed
% pounds; its chest measure was Is
inches, and its feet inches long. To
the sorrow of all, and more particularly
its parents, the child came into the world
dead, and ne er saw the light of day.
Seville, o., Letter in Cleaveland Leader
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12

Within the past twenty years there
has been great extension Of the Gull
ture Of fgs under glass. and many
landed propfiet0rs now pluck fresh iigz
for desert ii their own greenhouses.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12

An American, domiciIed in Perugia,
lately desired to place two Of his child
rem in the college of the town, but was
refused on the ground that the rules
forbade q mixture of Protestant and
Catholic youths.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12

Victoria Woodruff i said to have be-
come q Sund school teacher II London.
If this il true, says the Chicago Tribune,
we nhudder to think what her Sunday.
school scholars viii grow up to b.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
When There Seems Nothing Left tc
Live For.
Boston Transcript

When the Philistine goes to the church
fair and sees the minister draw the
Shakespeare, the misister's wife the set
of furs, his daughter the piano, the SEN
ior deacon the horse and carriage, and
the sexton barrel of -four, he comes
away sadly confident that he knows why
the heathen 80 furiously rage together.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
Hon. Jefferson Davis's seaahore Resi-.
dence.

Hon. Jefferson Davis has bought Mrs. s. A.
D0rsey's orange orchard at Beauvoir We
learn the price paid was $500. This Is one
of the most beautiful Is well e. valuable oran-
giea on the Mississippi seaeoast, and We would
think Col Davis secured . bargain il this
property.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
"a ROMANCE OF RAscALITY"
The Richest Thing in the Literature
of Carpet Baggery.
From the Nation.]

From the Natlon-
The New York Times, on the day after
Christmas, devoted seven columns of
of loaded type to biographical sketch
of Franklin j. Moses, the late Governor
of South Caralina, under the taking title
of g A Romance of rascality" It traces
the hero's career from before the war
down to our own time, in four chapters,
three of which are entitled respectively,
q Speaker (of the Assembly, and Thief, ]"
g Governor and Wholesale Robber,
Downfall -Beggar and Criminal
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
MIR. Kerpan's Tribute the Boy rtar
and Poet.

Tupelo Journal
There appeared III the Jackson CHf
week, poem By Mr.. w. ii. Kenar
ma in memory 81 Jno W. k5bb, Of ere
dale, Miss, journals who died rec
pneumonia, that far sqrpass any
have ever seen from Alr. ksraan's pen Il
We rarely ever read q more Emo1ih
melody.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12

The neweas gloves for evening wear
lace down the hacks with cords and
taaas
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

Brandon Record.
Hon. ]. NJ. Jayne, Jr. we regret to learn, is
soon to move to Greenville, Miss, where he
viii practice his profession.
Okolona Messenger.
When Charles Sims (col) mules, ETC.,
were seized by the officers of the law under a
deed OF trust he produced the following docu-
ment which had been given him by Radical
and ex-sherif of Calhoun County. This Is to
Gritty that ] Now that Charles Sims Colard
has Bankrupted I@Caired his Papers to Sullivan
q Sullivan Attorneys and as Agent for Said
Sims Imploied Said Sullivan & Sullivan to Put
him thrue Bankruptcy and father Now that
Said Sims Paid ten dollaas and he Said Chair
les Sims Is In Bankruptcy and l Cauld for
his SurtifCate of Protection and Judge Hill
Ishued one GENERAL Order of Protection which
Covers the Hole Groundes the oil deeds of trust
and rents Must be Paid Given under My hand
and Seele on this the 9th day of January 1879.
c.. L. MURPHREE.,
Asseenee
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
A RACE OF BRoBD1GNAGIANs.

THE MIGHTY PEOPLE CAPT. SMITH FOUND
RACE OF POLAR GIANTs-ARE THEY THE
ORIGINAL POLE EVILS.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A Malignant Assault Upon Him by
the Radical Leaders in the u. s.
Senate.

HE Is CALAMITY DEFENDED BY SENATORS
THURMAN, LAMAR, HARRIS (oF TENN, AND
r,rN-aroN-
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-12
Columbus Independent. ]

Mr. James Shaw, one of our oldest citizens,
died Yesterday in Macon. His remains were
brought home to-day for interment.
The New York herald., 1879-02-15
A MUNICIPAL STORM.

The Newark, N. j.. Common Council met last even
ing and had another exciting time" The lobbies
and galleries we're crowded with citizens who cx-
pcctcd "circus." The Mayors veto of the salary
ordinance, which proposed to cut down the small pay
of the police aud rcmen, well other city ofi-
GERS. and which has excited storm of popular oppo-
sition during the last month"; was taken up and
sustained. The vote was II To TO- three rcpub-
licaus-Mossrs Theberatto, Gcdicko and Feind--
voting with the democrats and thus preventing the
twothirds vote necessary to override the veto.
Another ordnance was introduced providing for -
reduction of salaries. but not interfering with the
police aud hremen--eithcr their pay num-
bers. lively breeze raised over a mo-
ton made by Alderman Theberatto, providing that
hcnccforth moneys shall only be paid out 10y the city
treasurer, none TO pass through the hands of the
heads of departments. is now the case. A
warm discussion was prccipitatcd. Alderman
Thcbcrattos remarks loudly applauded.
Alderman Wilson hoped ''the rabble would be driven
out IL they applauded again. Finally the motion
was voted down by the republicans, all but Mr..
Thebcrato. Atterward resolution, offered by
Alderman Fielder, was passed providing for q com
mittee of tye to investigate certain charges against
Major Morris, the street Commissioner.
The New York herald., 1879-02-15
.OOFTY GOOFTS" ASSAILANT.

Augustus Phillips better known "Oofty Gooft"
who is still patient at the New York Hospital, ap-
peared before Justice Flammer in the Jefferson
Market Police Court yesterday to formally make his
statement of the affray between himself and Mary
d. Hooper the morning of January "a, and which
resulted in his receiving bullet in the left side AL
though the wound is rapidly healing. the ball has
not been extracted. In his statement the narrator
says he shot with self-cocking pistol held by
Mary d. Hooper; that the affair grew out of quar-
REL when he took pistol out of bureau drawer and
handed it to her, at the time telling her to
shoot him. He had no idea that she would do so,
and believes had intention of doing
so. After the doctors had attended to his
wound the woman trying to administer
to his comfort when he repulsed her and
under the influence of ether and morphine; that he
her to Captain Williams of assault with intent to
kill. and wishes it distinctly understood that if he
had been in his right mind and not under the in
huence Of the opiates above mentioned he would
not have made such charge and that he totally ex
onerates the woman from any wilful attempt to do
him bodily injury.
Mary d. Hooper, on being sworn, said, in her own
behaf"I am twenty nine years of age. and was born
in Philadelphia. am not guilty. don't remember
much about the affair, having been in frightened
and nervous state, almost mad with fear"
On the affidavit of Officer Terpenning she COM
mitted for trial in default of $4,000 bail. The
wounded man offered to become her bondsman, but
Justice Flammer declined to accept him such.
The New York herald., 1879-02-15
FIFTY YEARS OLD.

st. Andrews Protestant Episcopal Church. at the
of Fourth and l2sth street. was
throngcd last evening by large aud brilliant
audience assembled to honor the iftieth an
nivcrsary OF the church's existence. The altar
handsomely decorated with choice floral
offerings. while overhead appeared the SEN
tcnce in gilt letters, ''rhou shalt hsllow the
fifteth year. 1s29-1s7g." The platform occupied
by the following divipes Rev. X. NJ. Abercronbie
ID. d., of Jersey City; Bishop seymour OF Illinois,
Rev. Dr. IL. NJ. Hayden, Rev. Dr. g. T. Woodruff,
Rev. DR.. Blanchard. Rev. DR.. Holden Rev. DR..
Holmes Rev. Dr. Davenport; Bishop stevens. of
Long 1sland Rev. Drs. Athoe. Lechtner and Gull
bert and Rev. Samuel Earp the rector of st. Andrews
lengthy programme was executed by the choir con-
sisting of Mr. A. ID. Woodruff. Mr.. l.. X. Almy, Mrs.
Brewer and Miss Finch. Rev. DR.. Abercrombie.
sermon.
The first cdifce completed juno T. $780, ON.
larged in 1866 and destroyed by fire November TX,
1871 The present handsome house of worship was
opened in 1874.
The New York herald., 1879-02-15
THE CHAUTAUQUA SCANDAL.

STRANGE STORY OF AN ELOPEMENT IN HIGH
LIFE ON THE BANKS OF LAKE CHAUTAuQUA.
The sensation Of Western New York is the Silver
Creek elopement. The village is beautiful one in
Chautauqua county, the Lake Shore and Michi-
gan Southern Railway Gideon Hines, the villain in
the case. lies in the Mayvie Jail awaiting suit for
$4,000 damages. The lady in the drama is Mrs.
Mary Nagle, wife of Mr. Rudolph II. Nagle q promi-
nent business of Silver Creek. For two years
Gideon Hines was Ii eryman and proprietor of the
omnibus line running to the railroad station. He
drove good horses and fine carriages. and always
ready to act the gallant when the ladies wished to
drive. Early last Hines and Mrs. Nagle began
to take rides together many Of them continuing until
long after midnight. These reunions along the
mantle drives which abound in the vicinity of Silver
Creek kept up for time until neighbors and
friends began to investigate the matter For time
the rides abandoned The Romeo became in
volved in debt Four weeks ago Hines left after
noon train, he said to sell his horses. Mrs. Nagle
took the train. she said to visit relatives In
days the village curious because of their alb
sence, but in o week they both returned
smiling, she by "rail and he in a "livery
rig" In two days they were off again but at
the end of the week returned again. BY this time
Hines property had been sold to satisfy mortgage
On the following week they departed again. but
followed by the lady's husband and officers of
the law. She finally captured in wayside inn
o'clock in the morning Hines turned
On their return tar and feathers threatened
then suit for $4,000 damages was brought and In de-
fault of $4,000 Hines lodged in ail,while she
allowed her freedom. Mrs Nagle is handsome
man, of excellent address, refined manners and
first class family. her people being not only wealthy
but eminently respectable and aristocratc. Thirteen
years ago she married Mr.. Nagle. and, far
be learned. their life has always been happy one.
lie has INDUCED her In all that she desired and al
lowed her TO go and come she pleased. The Buff
fslo Courier says that Hines is married to a patient
and has lived in Silver Creek two years.
in his habits and instincts and brutal
in his nature. He has small eyes, set
diagonally in his head. and of them crossed at
that A bushy red mustache clothes his lip. He is
about thirty eight forty years of age, and when
sixteen years old he murdered Indian who gave
him some trouble at Versailles. He sentenced to
State Prison. IL having been pretty well established
that the murder accidental, the killing having
been done with club. The war broke out after he
had served one year, and he allowed TO go free
IL he would enlist which he did. and served term
soldier instead of u prisoner. A divorce suit is
talked Of. Some singular facts In connection with
the scandal said TO be yet covered, which the
witness stand may divulge.
The New York herald., 1879-02-15

FAREWELL. RECEPTION AT ITS OLD QUARTERS IN
WEST FOURTEENTH STREET.-THE REMOVAL TO
CENTRAL PARK.
With the closing Of the doors of the old Douglass
mansion in West Fourteenth street. for several years
the home of the metropolitan Museum of Art, the
public last night lost the opportunity of viewing the
treasures therein deposited for months to
come The occasion was appropriately sig
nazed by farewell reception. for which
the spacious building brilliantly lighted
until nearly eleven o'clock. Hardly horse passed
without leaving its quota of visitors. and line of
carriages extended along the sidewalk for several
hundred feet in the direction of Seventh avenue.
Nearly two thousand invitations had been sent to
that number were welcomed by the President, Mr..
John Taylor Johnston. who stood receive them In
the centre of the main hall. Ladies and gentlemen
interested in art, either patrons professors,
continued to pour In through the door and scatter
throughout the many rooms of the museum until
few minutes before tho hour of closing,
and gazcd IL tor the last time, ut
Story's Cleopatra, ibis Medea the Indian and the
Squaw, Latona and her 'twin-born progeny" sir
Walter Scott sumner and the shrewd, benevolent
head OF wise Ben Franklin. Every expressed
regret at tho proposed removal to Central Park and
one more than Mr.. Johnston himself. But the
building there is ready, and pccunary considerations
make It's immediate occupation necessary. Among
others present last evening General ID Cesnola
Richard Grant White. Joseph Choatc, Hiram Hitch
cock, Frederick II. Church. s. H. clifford, s. L. Avery
and L. Addison Richards.
HISTORY MUSEUM.
The idea of the metropolitan Museum of Art
originated with the Art Committee of the Union
League Club, OF which the late Mr.. George Y. Put
nam was chairman at the time. In November, 1869,
public meeting was held " consider the question,