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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-16

Trains connect ut Reading with trains to ami
from Philadelphia, POttsville, Harrisburg, Al
lentOwn and New York. At Columbia with
trains to AMI from York, Hanover, Gettysburg,
Frederick and Baltimore.
A. M. WILSON. sum
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A lightning rod is attractive in its way.
y. .. Picayune.
Tanner 10 making the fastest time on
record.-N Q. Picayune.
Boston has an inspector of vinegar whose
salary Is 81 800 year
Cen. Greenhaek Weaver has inflated
ideas 6 h5s chances Of election.
1t requires but little genius to make a
suggestion.-New Orleans Picayune
Strangely enough when lawyer gets a
bad case IL wants it continued as long a.
possible
CDR. Tanner took a square meal here be-
fore beginning his fast Is the announce
ment at New York restaurant.
The French revenue Of $600,000000 is
asserted to be the largest ever received from
population of thirty-six millions.
All Of the bishops, judges and other dig
nitaries who assisted at the coronation of
queen Victoria, forty-two years ago, are
dead.
It is not known whether Ben Butler j.
III the hands of his friends this year or not.
Ben. doesn't glance at the grapery now a.
often a. in former days.
The Philadelphia Times says that Weav-
er, the Greenback candidate for President,
is either a born fool or says things that
are not 50 most outrageously and unneces-
sarily."
At a misunderstanding mamma to
her marriageble daughter: Virginia, dear,
don't lose sight Of that gentleman in
mourning He may be widower.' Paris
Paper
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
FOR THE LADIES.

! young girl always looks we'll in a sins
pie toilet with a small tunic formed by a
scarf.
Fancy ornaments, such as gold pins, dag
gers and arrows, are worn in the hair for
evening.
The newest French polka dotted goods
have mere specks of white, instead Of those
that look like good sized waters.
Revived point d'4ngleterre and Ragusa
(machine woven bid fair to take the place
of Languedoc and Breton laces.
When floral tablier is worn the couture
and corsage bouquet flowers must cores
pond with those sewn on the tablier.
The Philadelphia Mirror thinks th5t the
bathing dress of 1850 is good thing for
some other fellows sister to wear.
Genuine sun bonnets with capes, mob
crowns and shirred fronts are worn in Eng
land by little girls and are called the granny.
Ivory white Grape shirred and having sa-
tin ribbons drawn through its alternate
puffs makes a pretty waist for basque.
The gloves that have a series of openings
for a ribbon a. tie top are far prettler than
those which have alternate bands of lace and
kid.
Carnation stalks is a new tint of green
that only blondes can wear, and is intend
ed to console them for not being able to
dress III yellow.
The introduction of a roll of wadding
just above the top of dress sleeve is new
freak, the effect of which is little short of
hideous.
Fans of very yellow straw, lined with
trimming silk, are meant for those young
women who wear Tuscan hats and wild
roses, and very pretty they are
White plaitings inserted in short dresses,
even when they have the little plating of
colnred Surah set are around the lower edge,
produces an effect anything but good.
The ambers and other translucent yellows
found in stained glass are now used for dress
goods, and very elegant they are, although
not particularly becoming.
Flower aprons of hollyhocks are little
too much. Draw the line somewhere, ladies,
and leave the peony, the hollyhock and the
great big sunflower to the decorators.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
A Word to Young Ladies.

Bracelets are much worn.
Twelve-button gloves are in order.
A new shade in velvet is salmon red
DAngleterre and Raguse are the new
point lacez.
Heavy checked glnghams are made
up for wash dresses.
Yellow satin ribbon brocaded with
palm leaves IS shown.
Uverskirts are rounded in front, and
are plain and smooth over the hips, in
ste ID of being boutfant
Alpaca underskirts for out-oftown
wear have three plaitings, two Of alpaca
and one of bright-eolored satin
Linen ticking is used By ladies who
like a cool costume, and tallyho cloth
by those who want something new.
The straw cuffs that are made into
hanging baskets furnish good patterns
for the stiff cuffs worn with tight
sleeves.
Ginghams in narrow blue and white
stripes are piped with solid red calico,
and trimmed with open-worked Ham
burg embroidery.
Riding habits are made with basque
at the back and point in front High
stiff hats are worn in the city, but melon
shaped hats and wells in the country.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
Egyptian Harems.

Forced economy and want OF money nave
reduced most of the harems Of Egypt, 70
"peace footing" a. it were. Nevertneless'
l could point out harems which contain pc
tween three and four hundred young ana
bloomin. slaves. The ladies all owe a!Iegl
ance to a single lord, and often to a single
mistress For harem is usually KEPT up
as a deer park or pheasant preserve IN Eng
land-merely Is an expensive and useless
ornament imposed by fashion upon persons
of high rank. At least two Processes IN
Cairo own large harems, whose thresnolu Is
never crossed by any male being with the
exception of the dentist md the apothecaryi
who, when called to the kRrem, are never
allowed TO get out of sight of the eunuchs
that watch with jealous gaze all their pro-
fessional operations. Recently | was ena-
bed to examine the statistics compiled our
ing the last three years by the project OF
police in Cairo, under the supervision oil the
British consulate. These figures showed that
no less than 81 per cent of the Clreasslah
female slaves set free, and 81 per cent OF the
coIored female slaves set free, have become
inmates of houses of iil-fame. The result Is
not encouraging, but it should not be for
gotten that an Incredibly large proportion
Of free-born females in Egypt adopt also q
memorial life
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
WIT AND HUMOR.

1n-cents-eopper
Sets things right-The hen.
The ties that bind-Adver-tise
Free of charge-An empty gun.
Champagne frappe is called frozen
smile.
Clear grit-Cheap sugar.-Meriden Re
corder.
Bad buy words Charge it to me. Ma.
rathon Independent.
No, a prisoner can't possibly be sea-sick,
because he is sea>cured.
Clam, still nights are very rare at Coney
Island-N. o. Picayune.
s. lis sweet to lie re membered,' as til
man said when he got cork leg.
In making wills, some are left out and
Others are left tin.-Whitehall Times.
please pass the butter, as man remark
ed when he sent his goat by rail,
Fly time-when you hear her fathers
heavy cane humping along the hall.-N. Y.
Truth.
Why is fashionable society like warming
pan Because il is highly polished, but
very hollow.
Goethe says a man must be either an
anvil or hammer; yet how many are moth
ing but bellows.
Sparkling across q garden fence admits of
good deal being said on both sides,-Cin-
cinnati Saturday Night
People VINO never barrow trouble some
times have a good deal of it stored away in
the house.-New York Herald
The Omaha Herald SAYS drink of Coun-
Gil Bluffs whiskey will make man 90 off to
some secluded place and rob himself.
The old maid who exclaimed, '.Ny life
has been a deserted waist can readily be
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
THE FASHIONS.
Overskirts Abandoned.

Jennie June
Overskirta have disappeared entirely
only fragments of them are seen in oc-
casional short aprons, side paniers and
the like. The short, straight skirt, full
al the back, which Is certainly not pref
" or graceful, is a reaction from the
"draperied" designs which HAYS neen
worn so long and become 80 excessively
tiTezome. Something ugly IS positively
refreshing and makes the faces prettier
by contrast. There is nothing more
wearisome than this eternal strain liter
''prettiness," which means nothing and
Is common to everything use, honesty,
suitability, unconscious grace, mere tidi-
ness, Is better than eternal pTettiness.
Thank heaven that we have even
partly got rid of the cyelsknt, Doubt
less ii wlll come to the surface again
perhaps we may even be glad to see it
again for a change; but at present we
have had enough Of it, and we fee
quite like saying what q GOOD natured
kind hearted old lady said to her unwel-
come visitor, when she left promising a
speedy return: "Good-bye, dear, and
don't hurry back.
Talk about fashion being changeable,
was there ever harder work than to get
rid OF one when it once obtains a
vogue ?" You might as well try to
dislodge the moon In fact it is very
like the moon-it only disappear t. r.
appear, if not complete, IN halves or
quarters which, before you known it,
blossom out into full moon as before
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
W. Il. Erelish's Anti.BelIam Anteeedents.

Cincinnati Commercial, Republican.
Before the war he was known As pro
slavery Democrat, with strong sympathies
for tine National DemJcrdtie-tha it 50 say,
Southeru-po,ey of making slavery a
National institution. In the Kansas con-
trover5v it was English who submitted a
bill in Congress Offering the citizens Of Kan
sas q public bride 70 vote for the iniquitous
LecompJon Constitution. and threatening
them with the punishment Of indefinite
Territorial Government if they rejected IT.
lie gloried In the fact that there was no
faint of Free ~oiIism about him. lie
didn't believe in free soil. He wanted the
National domain dedicated to slavery. We
suspect. if it had been in his power, Indiana
would have been q slave State He was one
Of those Northern men with Southern prin-
ciples. and gloricd in auction blocks and
slave-pens, and probably believed that the
descendants Of Ham had been toreordained
to be the hewers OF wood and drawers of
water for the white race. Nothing prevent
ed English from being 4 rebel in arms
against the Government of the United
States but his geographical position and
the strong hand OF Iuliauas War Governor.
\ few degrees south, and English would
have either become a QQartermaster Gen
eral in the Confederate service, or a men,
Ter of the Richmond Congress.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
IN DREAMS.

She comes TO me in dreams.
Just as of Old
With form OF fragile grace,
The sweet remembered face.
Even her garment : fold
: just the same
In dreams she comes to me
Only in dreams.
She comes TO me in dreams,
No change is there,
No gathering shade Of gloom.
No hint of coming doom.
Is on her face so fair
In dreams she comes TO me
Only IN dreams.
She comes To me in dreams.
When ghtterIng light
Shall drive earth ; clouds away,
And with its welcome ray
Bring the long looked for day,
Heavens morning bright
Then viii she come 10 me;
Or must ii ever be
That her face shall see
Only in dreams ?
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
GODS LOVE.

cod said, 4 am tired OF kings
| suffer them no more:
Up 70 my ear the morning brings
The outrage Of the poor.
Think We I made this hall
A field OF havoc and war.
Where tyrants great ana tyrants small
Might harry The weak and poor
Lo | uncover the land.
Which | hid Of old time in the west
As the salptor uncovers his statute
When he has wrought his best.
| will divide N goods
Call in he wretch and slave.
None shall rule but the humble.
And none but toIl shall have.
| will have never a noble:
No lineage counted great:
Fishers, and choppers. and plowmen
Shall constitute Statein
Emerson.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

IT appears from Les Petites Afieaes that
the trade of blind man is not bad one after
all. We translate the following from re-
cent number: Wanted by poor blind man
an infrm woman, unable to work, who would
guide him she would have two francs day
without her board, or he would divide his
days earnings with her; or else little boy
suffering from some affection, ten or twelve
years of age, and able to read" Application
is to be made to Mr.. Pierre, rue-or boule-
vard-his stations or beats.-The Partisan.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
Republican Judgment on Garfield and His
Credit Mobilier COnfederates.

New York Tribune, lRep.) Feb. 10, 1921
James A Garfield, of Ohio had ten
shares; he never paid q dollar; received
1929, which after the investigation began,
he was anxious to have considered as a loan
from Cakes Ames to himself.
These men betrayed the trust of the peo-
pie, deceived their constituents, and by
their evasions and falsehoods confessed the
transactions to be disGraceful Pass no res
olution. Drop il where it is. Remand the
whole business To the people.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

THE Boston Herald has learned in ten
minutes BY perusing its exchanges that
General Hancock is an Episoopalian and
his wife Catholic that General Hancock
and his wife are both Catholics, that General
Hancock and his wife are both Unitarians,
that General Hancock has no preference and
his wife is an Episcopalian, and that Gen
eral Hancock had father who was a Bap-
list fthis story ignoring the wife). There
are probably several more lies in circulation,
but these viii do for samples
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

A HARSH REToRT.-During the last po-
litical campaign in Michigan a we'll
known lawyer of that State was adj
dressing an audience composed principally
of farmers, in Gratiot county. In order to
win the confidence Of his hearers, he said,
my friends, my sympathies have always
been with the tillers of the soil Mvfather
was a practical farmer, and 50 was my
grandfather before him. / was myself rear
ed on farm, and was, so to speak, born be-
tween two stalks of corn"
Here the speaker was rudely interrupted
by some one in the audience, who exclaim-
ed, a Pasnakin, BY lingo Editors
Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for August
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
Shocking Death Caused by Vicious
Cow.

In northeast Scott, near Damascus. Mrs.
Underwood aud her daughter went to drive a
favorite milch cow home. that had been laying
away from her calf and finding her drove her
verv nearly home, when she refused to 20
further and attacked the young lady with
deadly intent, but Mrs. Underwood perceiv-
ing'the danger TO which her daughter was ex-
posed. fel to her relief whereupon, the furious
COW turned upon her, aud after knocking her
down with her head. being muley headed }
she jumped upon her with her feet, and in
hicted fatal injuries, from which she died i
about five minutes. The daughter vac so
much hurt that she could render 10 assistance
whatever to her mother, and witnessed the
scene Of death without even the power 10
sooshe the dying mother
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

The wife of Norman peasant Is i'll. A
physician is called in. 'sWill you pay me ?'''
asks the mistrustful doctor, ooh monsieur"
saws the husband, holding up five louis,
kill her or cure her, these are yours The
patient dies and the doctor demands the five
louis pardon - says the widower; "did
YOU kill my wife ?" No" did you cure
her p, ono, alasl' every well, since you
neither killed her nor cured her, you did
not stand by our agreement, and owe you
nothing French.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
A Demoeratic slogan.
waahinoton Postl

ashlnRtOn TVst.I
No troops to overawe the people st the polls,
no corps of rufaaniy bull dozers, no more
stealing of States, huta free and fair election
and Quiet &C ouieseence ia the result thereof,
his Is the Democratic creed, and for these
great principles the Democracy will not
Cease to contend so long as they are men
aced.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

The Parisians say that dandy is not
merely fnely-dressed puppet or an efem-
mate man, but person who devotes a SUI
perhuous amount of thought not only to
the cut of his clothes, but also TO his atti-
tudes, the rapidity of slowness of his pro-
nunciation and the style of his gestures
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
Mixed Piety.

An old farmer on Hudson river train
this morning was heard exeiaim to friend :
oft was id hot last night, bat corn was
growing all the time, thank God."-From
The New York Commercial Advertiser
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

The child learns more by his fourth
year than the philosopher by any subse-
quent period of his life he learns to fix
an Ineligible sign to every outward
object and inward emotion, by a gentle
imuplse impaired by his lips to the air.
e. Everett.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

The straw and velvet bonnets are said to
be the result OF Partisan compromise with
the weather. There ought to be some good
excuse for their existence, for they are very
funny in their appearance.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

The only way to bring up a child is to
show him what good life is BY living it
yourself The old Scotchman was right
when he said: ''Trpt feyther, trot mither |;
how can foal amble?'
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

Crafty men condemn studies; simple
men admire them; wise men use them.
Bacon,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

A sensitive reporter il the wrong man in
the write place.-Hackensack Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
MARRIAGE IN ITALY.
4 Land Where Women Are Ciphers:

MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STARVATION OF
lIRL.-IOxG YEARS OF CONVENT LIFE
-WRETCHED EFFECT OF THE PRES
ENT NODE OP EDUCATING
THE DAUGHTERS OF
ITALY.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

"a woman murdered I'M Ma--achu-
setts"-is the startling headline If the
day. 1t Is a luxury that l. ofteutimes
enjoyed in the Cody city that sets her
self up as a pattern Of virtue and good
ness for all the world and the balance Of
mankind.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

It is not the man with double chin who
talks too much.-N, .. Picayune,
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

There is a fresh agitation at Rome on the
subject of suppressing brigandage in Italy,
and it is proposed if need be, 20 aeud the
whole army into Calabria and Sicily.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

Most gorgeous Of the flowers Of earth.
Like love, thou waitest want and shame
To call thy beauties into birth
q, teach me, wise and noble flowers,
To train my simple heart to meet
Nisfortune's dark aud friendle less hour,
With smiles like gbinq, serene and sweet
christian Statesman.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
POPULAR EDUCATION.

can hardly he overestjmated. Although its
Interests must. of necessity. be chiefly confined
TO the voluntary effort and Individual action
Of the several States, they should be encourage
ed so far as the constitution permits, by the
generous cooperation Ct The national govern
maut The interests of the " hole country de-
mand that the advantages of our Coiamoa
school svstem should be brought within the
reach Of every citizen, and that no revenue OF
the nation or OF Tie States should be devoted
20 the support Of seetaFI8u schools. Such
changes should be made in the present.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28

NEW YOEK, July 19.-The following is
the text Of General Arthur's letter ct ac-
cePtance as promulgated to-day for pubiic4-
ton
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-07-28
r.nlrr ANn sYsrEM oF rAXArIoN

as viii relieve an oyerburdened industry or
clsss sud enable our manufacturers are art-
sans - compete successfully with those 81
,,fber lands. The governments RnSuld AID
vro.es of internal Improvement. natiousl in
their eA sracter and should promote the deveE
aptneut % our water courses and hafporS
wherever the genera! interests OF commerce
require 1t. Four yesrs ago, as now the natioh
stood at the threshold OF Presidential elect
ion and the Republican parry IN solcltlng
continuance Of its ascendaney, founded us
hope Of success not upon ITS promises pul
upon its history. Its subsequent course mas
been such as 80 strengthen the claims which
il then made to the confidence and support OF
the country. On the other hand, sGpsldera-
lions more urgent tha n have ever before eX!%ts
ed forbid the accession of its opponents TO
power. Their success, il success attends
tnem must chiefly come from the united sup
port of that section which sought foreibie
disruption Of the L MON, and which, according
to all teachings OF our past history, will de-
mand the ascendency in the councils OF the
party TO hose triumph ii will have made by
far the largest contribution. There Is the
GRAvEsr REASON FOR APPREHENSION
that exhorbitant claims upon the public treas
ury, by no means limited b hundreds OF mil
lions already covered by bills introduced IN
Congress within the past four years, would De
successfully urged If the Democratic party
should succeed in supplementing its preseht
. control Of the national legislature by the etec-
ton of the executive also There is danger
in intrusting the control Of the whole law
making power of the government to party
which has almost in every Southern state
repudiatsd obligations quite as sacred as
| these to which The faith Of the nation now
stands pledged | do not doubt that success
/ awaits the Republican party, and thst Us
4 trump will assure just, economical snu
patriotic administration. l am, respeeIlulis'
To Hon. George F. HOar, President OF the Ma
tional Republican Convention.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-07-20
dr. Torl1inSon7s
DENTAL OFFICE,
CORNER OF CHARLES AND LIBERTY STREETS,
d laaI'lestOyyNs

SLEErLEssSEss, NERVOUSNESS, CAssor Rrsr
WELL at night, tired in the morning on ri.n p.
usg1sh, pain in the back, which arises from tbe
kidney. with highly coIorcd urine If allowed to
stand 20 be thick, attended with burning when
Votded. Ihayer's Liver Powders will cure YOU.
son, Charlestown w Va
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-07-20

The CAUSE DIscovEaEp Most Of the readers
whose eyes scan these pages KAYE suffered from
headache, lassitude, nausea or mama in III. back
put We doubt If they know what the cause we
10 nine csses out of ten il was some trouble with
JUST become known. and tho resuit which War
ners sale Kidney and Liver Cure has accom-
phsned. he above named troubles re cau.ed
by disordered kidneys and liver, and The remedy
winch cures the cause banlshes the pains which
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-07-20

hEtoAcHE, Nervousness. CosTlvrSEss or Chol-
era N'orbus arc cured with Tha v.rs Liver Pow d.
and only cost IS cts. Sold by druggist every
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-07-20

HAMILTON FEMALE CotlEGE whose announce.
ment appears in another column, ranks anon o
the foremost in the United States. Under the
Patterson { who has been the President of a Fe-
male School for twenty seven year.) its prosper
ity 10 without precedent. Its elegant rooms ,
largo grounds. and faithful and eficie Mt corps Of
ts"eher' entitle it to the patrons &c of the best
families n the land.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-07-20

Loss OF APPETITE. LOSS OF ESgsGy, sometime,
attended with dry hacking cough, sometime,
c"stlve, a looseness of the ho~es pain near tho
region of the heart, cured with Tbave1,s Ii,a,
Powder. % eta. is not much.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1880-07-20

Use BEsT Liver kidney ReGrLATo7 md
gentte turgatvr known, Is Tharer's Liver Pow.
GERS. Sold by N. F. Henderson,, Charlestown.