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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-07
BARNBURNERS HANGED.
Excitement at Starkville,-A Negro
Barnburner Arrested. Confessed
and Hanged by a Crowd Consisting
in Part of his Own Color-Other r.
Irregularities.
Special to the Appeal.

Special to the Appeal
Starkville, Miss, April 28-Mr. Jordan
Moore, highly respected, quiet and molten
sive man. living five miles south of Starkville,
aged sixty years, has been the victim Of NAL
ice or the devil for some two months past
Unknown parties have been stealing his chick
ems, hogs corn, etc. stole his keys and pilfered
his house not long since. When he went to
his barn at daybreak he was shot at by some
one within, the ball passed through his hat,
his suspicious were too meager to bear inves-
tigation. On the morning of the twenty fourth
he was aroused just at the break OF day by
the merciless cry of Fire ~ and reached the
scene Just in time TO save his horses and mules
and see his large barn crumble to ashes. Cir
cumstances led to the suspicion of a negro in
in Mr. Moore's employ, johnson Spencer, who
was arrested and is now undergoing investiga-
ton before Justice 3. A. Bardwell, charged
with arson. The evidence yet adduced is
wholly circumstantiaI, and would doubtless
have resulted in his acquittal, but the State
did not get through with her witnesses yester-
day and the examination was continued until
to-day. Mr.. Moore returned home last night,
thinking all was well, only to be again arous-
ed by the brands Of the fend. At daylight
this morning his other mammoth barn, con-
tanning wagons, provender, implements OF ag-
riculture etc. was discovered in flames, but
this time suspicion was left in the reserve
The fiend was caught a negro by the name Of
plicated his aecomplices, including johnson
Spencer, and others. Developments showed a
combination that had matured plans for the
prosecution Of many repetitions Of their hellish
crimes. Nevlin Porter says that the burning
of the last barn was done more particularly to
direct suspicion from Spencer, now in custody.
To-day Judge Lynch summoned his court,
about hundred of whom were present (prin-
| cipaIly negroes, heard his confession asked
| Gods mercy on him and hung him amid the
ieers and cheers of the populace. 1t is feared,
owing to the present state OF indignation, that
| Spencer will be dealt with in the same manner
tonight. Ii he should escape this, his trial
| will proceed tomorrow. 1t is said that the
mob consisted almost entirely of negroes.
| This is said to be Judge Lynch's first court in
| this county. Mr.. Moores loss at this writing
| is not known.
The mutilated and decomposed remains Of
a negro were found a few days since in a swamp
ten miles north of this place. They sup
| posed TO be those of Bill Gilmer, the negro
who shot Attorney tt. Wood, though decom-
position was so far advanced that identity was
| impossible. 1t was discovered to have beer
shot in the breast and head with pistol-balIs.
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WHAT WEDDINGS OFFER.
" An Eligible Opportunity of Getting
Up a Good Quarrel
Saturday Review.

Saturday Review.
Weddings offer an eligible opportuni-
" Of getting up family quarrel All
the ladies Of their connection are in 4
fiutter of excitement, and are from be-
ing mistresses of themselves. Yin the
inevitable confusion of large hospitali-
/ ties, some distant aunt or near COUSIN
is certain, like the cross fairy who was
not invited TO the christening, To take
| offense. The aimless excitement and
flutter now find something TO work
upon, and settle down into good steady
animosities. Marriage, and death,
and DIVISION says the poet, rather
cvnically, make barren our lives.
Marriages generally beget division, or
rather, in the general excitement, some
slow old grudge is brought out ahead
and bursts. When the happy pair re-
turn after the honeymoon they
are lucky if they do not find that they
have to take side in a feud, and
range themselves under the banner Of
Aunt Jane or Aunt Matilda. All this
Is the result of the curious ineNplicable
passion with which people who sdo not
care a pin for a man or woman throw
themselves into their matrimonial affairs.
Ones birth does not disturb society one
may be christened and confirmed and
the world is calm. Our great achieve
ments, if We ever perform any, interest
every one more than our kinsfolk. We
may even commit crimes, and find that
scanty notice is taken of the offence,
relations confirming themselves To saving
that ''they always looked for as much.
We die and our intimates are unmOVed.
Why, then, can We not marry IN peace
Why do people seem to become a new
and strange sort of beings, Of interest to
all men, as soon a they are engaged TO
be married There must be some
mysterious reason for these things, and
philosophers may seek it in the remote
history of the race. There, however, they
probably viii find it, rs weddings in the re-
mote history of the race were an unre-
garded episode, in which the lady was
hit on the head and dragged quietly out
Of the camp Nor will the philosopher
be more happy if he clocks within his
own bosom, and listens for the whispers
of consciousness. His consciousness
has nothing to say on the subject. If he
be married philosopher, he knows that
he always forgets all about it when he
is told that any of his friends are about
to enter the state of matrimony He
knows that he looks on that as entirely
their own affair, and neither history nor
nor experience can inform why his fell
low-creatures put themselves in such
futter. Mankind has always been SO
constituted that many things which are
natural remain inexplicable TO the phil
oSODher We do not think that even
Mr. Herbert Spencer has tried to solve
the problem connected with the popular
interest in weddings.
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Inconnecton with the admirable sketch of
this distinguished brother, by our correspon-
don't Wilton, which viii Lo fo',ud alaa,rhors
on this page, we place on record few notes of
his Masonic history which we had laid aside
for use as occasion might demand. Bro. JAS.
NJ. Howry was born in Boteout county, Nir-
ginia, on the 4th OF August, 1904, and isthere-
fore in his 10Th year. He was made Mason
in 1928 in Oyerton Lodge, No. 3, Tennessee
was elected it, Secretary in November 1928;
Junior Deacon, the next year, Senior Warden,
in 1927. We find him, in the Grand Lodge, In
1927 rs the representative of his Lodge, and
was elected one Of the Grand Deacous. Iu
1928 was elected Master OF his Lodge again
represented she Lodge, in 1881 and again
elected Grand Deacon. He was the first
Master Of Oxford Lodge, in this State, which
was organized in February 1887, and was
elected Master, under the Charter In 1888, aud
was many times reelected. lie was the first
High Priest OF Lafayette Chapter, organized i'm
1851; established b. Springer Council, and
presided over il for many year.. Was made
Knight Templar, nj Nicksburg in 1sj2, and
we believe is 80 Of the Scottish Rite. Iu
1852, he was elected Grand Master Of the Grand
Lodge Of Mississippi; in 1857, Grand High
Priest Of the Grand Chapter; in 1866, Most
Puissant Of the Grand Council. His frequent
services on the Masonic Law and other impor-
tant Committees, are well known and apprc-
eiated by the craft He is now chairman of
the Foreign Correspondence Committee Of
the Grand Lodge, and the two reports prepar-
ed by him have elected the highest praise
from the talented corps of reviewers represent
ing other jurisdictions. He is one of the old
and honored landmarks that we trust Will Doe
spared to us for many years 10 come.
CHE unprecedented decentralization OF the
Grand Council Of Mississippi has been
blindly followed by nine other Grand
Councils
Is the mild way in which Comp Meyer OF
Pennsylvania refers TO the merging Of Chapter
and Council degrees. The companions of such
States as Arkansas, California, Illinois Iowa,
Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carroll
ma and Wisconsin, are not in the habit of do
ing things "blindly;" and we have no doubt
that Comp. Meyer will yet see his way clear %
follow the example OF such illustrious lights
in the craft.
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THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what tbev ,,.a..
leare irom the depth OF some divine despair
RISE IN the heart, and gather In the ewes.
Ia looking on the happy Autumn fields
And thinking Of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail
mat brings our friends up from the under
world,
sud as the last, which reddens over one
That sinks with all We love below the veroa
So sad, 50 fresh, the days that are no more
All, sad and strange, as in dark Summer dawn
Tue earliest pipes OF half-awakened birds
ITO dying ears, when unto dying ewes
The easement slowly grows "a glimmerina soe,are
% sad 50 strange, the days that no more
Dear as remembered kisses after death
Ana sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigu'd
On lips that are Tor others deep a, love
Deep as FIRST love, and wild with all regret.
Oh, death in line. the days that are no more.
Alfred Tennysou
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SOLDIERS OF PEACE.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR,
Is the brave that first forget,

+ II Is the brave that first forget.
And noble foes that first unite
Not they who strife and passion whet.
Then sink when comes the need TO smire.
lis mutual courage that forgives,
I And unanswerIng homer that outlives
The onseT's hour, the battles dav:
Ihe hearts thai dare are quick to feel;
The hands that wound are soft 10 heel:
/ The blood that dims a hero's steel
/ His proud tears wash away!
One hoIier sun awakes at last
For North and South the blithe, bright hours
No more upon our dead are east
The once divided gift Of flowers
But where the live-oak, hides in moss,
And where the plumy larches toss
Their arms above the Mayflower's bed,
And where wide waves of prairie crawl
10 meet tar West, their mountain wall,
The peoples voice says. peace to all?
We honor equal dead"
Oh, never from our elm-tree shades
So sweetIy piped the thrush now,
Nor, mid the lonely Everglades,
The mocking-bird cypress-boughi
| Nor wild grass woye by meadow riIls,
Nor clover on the happy hills
So soft a carpet Tor the spring,
Bound is each hand that fain would spoil,
The truce of God upon our soil
Descends, ike Sabbath after toll,
His benson to bring,
They most are soldiers. who shall keep
That climax of their manhood vet
Who stand on guard when others sleep,
And bear in mind what all forget:
Not in the clash of steel is found,
For them, the only battle-ground;
Equipped and armed, through life they 60
Their hearts best blood resolved TO spend.
Where honor shows some grander end
For whom each true man i a friend,
And each false man a foe
If knaves beguile by felon art
The shifting favor of the hour:
If civic rule from right depart,
And brazen impudence has power;
If low ambition buy his place
While merit waits in half disgrace,
Still undecided sways the fight;
The bugle still To charge commands;
There Is no truce of tongues or hands,
No quarter, while one foeman stands
To mock eternal Right
The idle blade is gnawed with rust
Though meteor of a hundred fields;
The lance, unhandled, falls to dust,
That proved its grain on shivered shields
And Manhood, that has learned to dare,
Should as a sword his courage wear,
His honor as flag defend;
Should stand, amid the needless host
y lifelong sentry at his post,
His sole device and l1nightly boast
To break, but not to bend!
Soldiers of peace! In war began
Your service-and it must not cease
Until the soldier through the man
Has conquered and ennobled peace?
Frank ewes of youth grow bright TO trace
\ spell on each historic face
That sets your lives their own above;
And WOmanS homage, sweet and shy,
Not womans pride shall dare deny,
Since he who readiest is to die
Is truest in his love!
This soldiers, be your chosen fate,
Your fame that longest shall endure!
lis noble thus to State,
But nobler yet to make it pure
For all whose swords were bravely crossed,
There is no true cause that was lost
Defeat uniteS with victory
To win for each grander aim
One fatherland redeemed from blame;
One past, of sadder, prouder fame;
One future, just and free
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CONNUBIALITIES,
Over-production Twins.


Hudibras calls matrimonv a perverse
fever, beginning with heat and ending
with frost.
A Washington bride wore a wreath
at her wedding the other day.
Laugh when you can" says one
Joker eve shall make note of it,
and remind our wife at the next cannin, :"
says another.
"That's the long and the short of it, "
as the street Arab remarked on passing
tall wife and little husband
A Cleveland man, being asked by his
wife to buy for her the latest pattern
sheet, called for ''the latest pattern for
sheet"
The man who married a deaf and
dumb girl said he had got new Domes-
tic Noiseless sewing machine.-Elmira
Advertiser.
1t is said that Henry VIII. never
popped the question. He married his
wives first and axed them afterwards.
Boston Bulletin.
This advertisement we have transla-
ted from the Paris Charivari ''Atten-
ton, young husbands: Bargains in re
volvers and poniards. Comments un-
necessary.
The pedestrian mania has proved that
women can walk. Married men will
remember this when their wives ask
them to carry the baby.-Philadelphia
Chronicle.
+ a Connecticut man has refused for
fourteen long years to let his wife speak
to neighbor, for fear some of them
would become friendly enough to want
to borrow a drawing of tea.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-07
NEW POST ROUTES IN MISSIS-
SIPPI.
The Following New Post Routes were
Established in this State under the
Act of Congress approved March 3,
1879

From Ashland 70 Lamar
From Ashland TO Ripley.
From Faisonia, via Simond's Store, to Lehl-
ton.
From New Albany via Davis Mills and Oar
dens Store to Cornersville.
From Buens Vista to Cum berland.
From Daleville to Jacksonville.
From Shubuta. via Beaver Dam and Shady
Grove, 10 Claiborne.
From Ellsvillc to Columbia.
From Goodman, via Richland, Ebenezer, La
Grange and Swavzes to Benton.
From Franklin to Prices Mill.
From Brookhaven to Caseyville.
From Red Lick via Brandywine, Hargrave ;,
Beauregard McGee's Mill, and Smiths Fer
~, to Densons Store.
Faom CORONA to Hazleton.
From Elsie to Edgewood.
From Brooksville, Mississippi, via Bigbee
Valley, to Pickensville, Alabama.
From Pennington, via English Lookout Sta
ton, to Gainesville.
From Charleston to Swan Lake.
From Kosciusko, via Conlv's, to Louisville.
From Laurel Hill to Watkinsville.
From Nicksburg, via Anthony's Ferry, to Roll
ing Fork
From Carson's Landing to Holmes Lake.
From Rosedale, via Talladera, to Jones Bay
From GreenviIle to Jacksonville.
From CORTLAND, via e. o. Reynolds and j.
B. Orrs, to Taylors Depot.
From Nicksburg, via Warrenton, to Rocky
Springs
From Port Gibson, via Bethel, Rodney, and
Church HILL to Jefferson.
From Edwards Depot, via Cayuga, to Port
Gibson.
From Raymond, via Auburn aund Utica, to
Natchez
FROM Walthall, via Hohenlinden, to Atlanta.
From Luxapalila, Mississippi, to Fayette c,
II. Alabama.
From Hazlehurst, via Dentville, Green's Store
and Burtonton
FROM Okalona, via Meals Store, 10 Houston
From Okalona to Tallebonela.
FROM Nlcksburg, via Oak Ridge and Dover, e
Yazoo City.
From kiyerton, via Talledora, Sporum, Hull
mans Ferry and Shannon & Porter s Bayou
TO Fasonia.
From Hazlehurst, via Martin, tol Port Glib
son.
From Fearn's Springs, via Chatham and Rush,
to Philadelphia
from Grenada, via Redding, to WalthalI.
FROM Walthall, via Hohenlinden, to Sparta
From Lafayette, via SneedviIle. to Walton.
From Watson to Byhalia.
From Carthage to Watkinsville.
From Ashland, via Shawnee, TO Laca luchee
From Walden, via Cameron Store, to PopIal
Greek.
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BACK FROM THE WEST.
THE LIVELY EXPERIENCE OF A MISSISSIPPI
BOY.


A reporter Of the Times met yester-
day Mr.. 5. K Mayers, who, not quite
two years, since, left New Orleans with
a few dollars in his pocket to try bis
luck in some Of the territories Tired of
waiting for something to turn up in
New Orleans he determined to seek
''fresh fields and pastures new" Since
then he has had many and varied ex-
periences.
As newspaper reporter in Oregon
and then as an Indian scout, enduring
all the hardships of a frontier life, he
PLAYED against Dame Fortune and made
money He relates some thrilling sto-
ries as a scout, and tells how for days
he was kept lying in a brush, within
sight of a band Of hostiles who had shot
his horse from under him, afraid even
to smoke a cigarette, lest the curling of
the smoke might betray him, and forced
to eat too much raw bacon.
Some Of his accounts of fights with
Indians, while an attachee Of General
Howard's, are very interesting and por-
tions af apparel, head-dresses, etc, of
chiefs, which he has with him as relies,
are curious for their Otdre appearance
and intricate workmanship.
Mr.. Mayors has returned on visit TO
! his family and speaks glowingly Of pros
poets in the far West for energeticyoung
men.-N o. Times.
'sSam is a son of Captain P. K. May
ers of the Pascagonla Demotrat Star
and was raised on the Mississippi coast
We,are glad to learn Of his safe return
home from his adventures with scalp in-
tact.-Mobile News.
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QUIPs AND SENTENCES.

The sound Of boy being boot-jacked
travels at the rate of $50 feet per sec
ond.
You can't catch the diphtheria kissing
girl Is years old.-Syracuse Sunday
Times.
Julia Smith married when she was 81
for fear people would begin to think her
an old maid.
IF the robbins would only purchase
ready-made cast-iron nests it would save
them heap of work.
Over twenty manufacturers of stom-
ach bitters have become bankrupt during
the last year.
If We are to believe the Atlanta
Constitution it is the late frosts that
have toughened spring chickens.
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STRANGE FREAKS OF LUNAcY
A Maryland Farmer Believing in His
Power to Restore His Wife to Life,
Disinters Her Remains and Places
Them in His Parlor.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

BALTIMORE. = Lauraville, Baltimore
county, has for several days past been
greatly excited over an almost eXtraor-
binary case Frederick Eckert, farmer
in good circumstances, but of unsound
mind, on Tuesday disinterred the remains
of his wife, who died some two years
ago, and brought them to his house.
The corpse was black, shriveled and de
composed The coffin containing the re-
mains was placed in the cellar with the
design, as he said, of restoring them to
life. On Saturday the facts became
known to Mr.. Eckert's neighbors, and it
was decided to institute proceedings to
decide as to his Iunacy Eckert is about
sixty years of age and native of Ger
many He has conceived the idea that
about this time there was to be a general
resurrection of the dead, but was es-
pecially impressed with the belief that
special powers had been conferred upon
him to raise his wife from the dead.
Acting under this singular hallucination
he had dug up his wife's body and invi-
ted some of his neighbors to be present
on the occasion.
Before and since the death of his wife
Echert has been close reader of the
Bible. He also had an idea that he
could be of use TO Emperor William of
Germany, and has written him several
letters. Last fall he concluded he would
60 to Germany and have a personal
consultation with the Emperor, and
started for Europe, getting as far as
Hoboken, n. j., where his insanity be-
came apparent and he was sent back
home. Eckert's religious notions are
very singular. He says that there is
no Christ as stated in the Bible, but that
Christ is Moses.
When the officers went to the house
Yesterday to arrest him he made consid-
cradle resistance His sister, who lives
with him, ran in, closed and fastened
the door of the small shed on the side
of the house, and screamed. The Off
GERS rushed in and handcuffed Eckert,
who was In his shirt sleeves, and strug
gled violently at first, his sister in the
meantime screaming and abusing the
officers. The Sheriff took him to Jail
from whence he was sent to an insane
asylum to-day. The coffin was found
standing in the parlor with the lid of
and the silver plate removed, w s
Storm, clerk to the Sheriff, searched
Eckert's hosse for arms that he was sup
posed to have concealed, and founC
$1,000 In money. Eckert's sister is sup
posed to be insane The remains were
buried this afternoon.
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VOLUME XIII.

rom on conway, via WI Croxton'- AMI w. r
:, 1rayes's 70 Edenburg.
+ + ON ocean SPRING II Bluff Creek.
T rom Mount Zion, to Mount Carmel.
+ I, rom Mount Zion, to Old Hickory.
From New Albany 10 Oxford
From Water Valley to Paris.
from Pm jackson, via Clinton, Raymond and
Utica, TO Martins Depot.
From New Albany to Waterford
rom W althall to Spring Valley
rom Horn Lake to Poplar Corner.
rom Pass Christian, via Alfred V. Davis's
ferry, Poplar Head, Baxter Settlement. and
6raham's Mil, 10 WILLIAMSBURG.
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Comp. Chas f. Meyer, who does the Foreign
Correspondence for the Grand Council of
Pennsylvania has been much disturbed hy
the mississippi Plan" of consolidating the
Chapter and Council The Grand Council of
Mississippi led of in this matter, and her
Plan has been adopted, sor far, by the Grand
Councils OF Arkansas, California, Illinois,
Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, North
Carolina and Wisconsin, with their aggregate
membership OF more than six Thousand.
Comp Meyer concludes his report with ID
Memorial Tablet to the deceased Grand
Councilz,-"her sisters, who, while laboring
under an hallucination of the mind, fell VIC
Tins to the suicidal epidemic, are now
resignedly sleeping in the bosom of those
who never knew nor cared for them
The "Tableau" of subordiatc Councils off
Pennsylvania, as prcpared'by Comp. Meyer,
would indicate that Pennsylvania can soon be-
inscribed on the Tablet OF the % councils
"at work" ten failed 10 make returns for
1873; loss in membership for three years, 355.
For this sickly condition of cryptic Masonry
in Pennsylvania, we fratcrnally prescribe the
mississippi Plan" as the only way of saving
the patient.
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In enriching the ground it is no I'M
common practice to spread manure to
the depth of ? or 3 inches over the
surface before spading the soil. The
month of April is better time for
planting than in May, though / have
often received good reports from plants
that I have sent through the mails
during the latter month. Make the
rows either 2 or 3 feet apart, placing
the plants every II or 10 inches along
in the rows. Cut off all runners thai
may appear at least every two weeks, il
the largest sized berries are desired
Keep the ground free from weeds, and
hoed or cultivated occasionally, and the
rich crops that viii be obtained will g
far towards making amends for any
time or expense employed.
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Suffering of the Negro Emigrants in
Kansas.

St. Louis, April 25.-Dr Mcdowell, prom
inent Republican, Just returned from Wyan-
dotte, Kansas, tells pitiful tale of the suffer-
ings of the colored emigrants in Kansas He
says they are in a miserable condition, insult
ficiently fed, sheltered and docfored. Ten per
cent of them have died from their trip and the
exposure and hunger It Is said their bedding
and furniture, which has come in a great de-
gree from the yellow fever hospitals in Vicks-
burg, is an element of danger which the citi-
zens of the above State are seriously consider
ing.
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The Prince of Wales is stickler for
etiquette; but he is very good natured,
and he is popular among his friends.
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